For the next few days, there was no wind or rain or waves.

Wang Dachun inspected the following bureaus and departments every day, urging them to manufacture all kinds of military materials as soon as possible, not only for the Tachibana family, but also for their own family. After all, sending troops to exterminate the White Lotus rebel thief is only divided into early and late, and there is no reason not to send troops.

Batches of harnesses, bridles, bridle and other materials were produced and stacked in the warehouse of the logistics department to be issued.

Wu Yijun's flintlock pistols and large and small Franco cannons were enough to use, and there was no need to produce them on the basis of not expanding the army, but considering the problem of reporting losses in battle, Gonzalez began to produce a lot of 'spare tires', which had been distributed to hundreds of households at the grassroots level of artillery. The Ordnance Bureau devoted more manpower and material resources to the production of gunpowder and artillery shells, which would have to be consumed in large quantities in the event of war.

A large number of leather armor and cotton armor were produced, and they were directly allocated, and the priority equipment was the cavalry guards.

In previous battles, the spears, swords, waist knives, halberds and other weapons in the hands of many sergeants were also worn out quite badly, and they took advantage of this time to change their clothes.

With this source of money from the Tachibana family and Fuso Hizen Port, the amount of silver reserves in Zhenyuan Mansion has exceeded 11 million taels, and as for the grain reserves, counting the old grain accumulated in the 51st and 52nd years of Zhengde, it has reached 38.8 million stone of corn and 13 million stone of wheat millet, totaling 51.8 million stone!

With such a strong material reserve, even the Ming Center may not be able to catch it.

In fact, this is easy to understand, after all, the territory of Daming is big. There are many acres, but the yield is low. In addition, all kinds of concealment of land and property, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are up and down. The annual income is not very much, not to mention the extremely large expenses. And Wu Yijun is a fully transparent levy from top to bottom, with MI6 eyeing him, who dares to be greedy for ink in such matters?

Small has small benefits, big big difficulties.

With the clear division of the scope of authority of various departments, the powers and responsibilities have been more clearly defined, and Lian Zining has also done his best to avoid the existence of the phenomenon of people being superficial and passing the buck to each other.

With money and food in his hands, he didn't panic, and even Zining was rarely generous. With a stroke of the pen, dozens of projects that had been planned according to his intention and had already been reported but were pressed by him because of the large amount of money were launched.

Under their auspices, almost all the dozen or so counties under the jurisdiction of the Songhua River General began a large-scale construction of water conservancy, a large number of irrigation canals and ponds were dug up, and the abundant water resources in the northeast were introduced to strengthen agricultural irrigation. This is the growing season for corn. It is conceivable that this crop, which likes high temperature and humidity, will be able to increase its yield this year after receiving sufficient water for irrigation.

The construction of the outer city of Zhenyuan Mansion has officially begun, and farming is almost over at this time. There will be a buffer time of several months until the next harvest, and it will be a little more leisurely, and the recruitment of people during this time period will not have much impact on agriculture. The Senate ordered each county to recruit people. A total of 150,000 masters were recruited, plus the 100,000 Jurchen slave soldiers of the 10th Guard. Seventy percent of the 250,000 strong laborers are building the outer city of Zhenyuanfu, and the rest are building roads.

Concrete roads.

The abundant cement supply of the Mining Supervision Bureau and the daily truckload of sand from the riverside sand quarry also gave Shi Kai a very solid confidence. His initial plan was to build a 50-mile-long highway connecting Zhenyuanfu and Lingyidu.

Lingyidu is the best ferry port on the south bank of the Songjiang River within nearly 100 miles, all the Wu Yi army went north, the untouchables crossed the river to the north, and the Wu Yi army returned to the south in triumph, all of which crossed the river from Lingyidu.

It is already a large-scale market town river port.

In addition to these more popular and focused, the others have also been carried out one by one, and the Salt Mining Bureau has sent many mining envoys out to find salt wells and teach the workshop division...... The Financial Secretary ...... each has its own actions, and so on.

The Senate is in full swing, and Wu Yijun is not idle.

The high efficiency of Wu Yijun is always praised, almost within two days of Lian Zining giving the order, the newly built 24th to 35th guards are twelve main battle new guards have been formed, all the specifications are compared with the first guard and the second guard, which are the old strong guards, and the artillery flintlock pistol and other weapons have all been put in place. This batch of recruits is the remnant of the 150,000 recruits recruited by the Jurchen Mongol coalition army when they came to the city, and they have been trained in Zhenyuan Mansion for almost ten months.

And the 12 armies formed by the merger, after half a month of rest and training, replenished with new blood, have also been fully formed, and they are a good fighting division.

At present, the strength of the Wu Yi Army has reached a fairly large level - eight infantry corps, each with two guards, totaling 13,600 men. The 1st to 4th Cavalry Corps, each with two guards, totaled 12,000 men. The Fifth Cavalry Corps and the Sixth Cavalry Corps, each with two guards, totaled 11,200 men.

Coupled with the 9,000 iron cavalry and 1,000 artillery units of the pro-barracks, the scale of the main combat force of the Wuyi Army reached a full 190,000!

This is not counting the 100,000 Jurchen slave soldiers of the 10th Guard and the 68,000 troops of the 10th Guard guarding Tuntian in the north of the Songhua River.

If all of them are counted, the effective combat power of the Wu Yi Army has exceeded 300,000. And most of them are battle-hardened, experienced in combat, well-equipped, high-morale, and well-organized!

The revitalization of civil and military affairs goes hand in hand. The rich and vast Northeast is full of waste waiting to be rebuilt, and everything is high-spirited.

Lian Zining is like a painter holding a big pen like a rafter, splashing ink to paint a picturesque country on this high-quality painting paper in the Northeast!

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The envoy finally arrived.

On the first day of the fourth month of the fifty-third year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty Liang Wang sent envoys to Zhenyuan Mansion.

Lian Zining led people out of the city gate thirty miles to greet him.

Thirty miles outside the city. Next to the official road, more than 100 people are riding horses. It was Lian Zining and his party.

For this time, he deliberately made a low-key deal with it. After receiving the news, he only brought his senior officials at the level of a staff officer and commander over, and as for the ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, they didn't even know the news at all.

But it is still very formal, the knights are under the banner of the Wuyi Army, and the generals and commanders are wearing their own military attache uniforms from the second rank and the third grade, and at a glance, they are all fierce beasts.

Lian Zining is a python robe and jade belt. Dressed in a big hat, his hair is tied with a green hosta, and he wears a jade crown, just like a beautiful son in the turbid world.

Except for Chen Dakang, who led the army to defend the Black Wood Cliff, the other high-ranking members of the Wuyi Army all arrived.

Lian Zining looked at the southwest direction, and his face was a little cloudy.

After learning that the King of Liang was going to the northeast as a messenger. He has been planning something, after all, King Liang is different from the other Qincha, because of the damn brocade remnant whistleblower, he can be said to know his secrets very well. If it were someone else. Lian Zining can use all kinds of means to fool the past, but for King Liang, it can't be like this. How exactly do you want to get along, and what is the scale. It's a question that has to be taken care of.

After about two teas, there was still no trace of the Qincha team.

The team behind Lian Zining began to make some noise, and Zhao Nanjin said with a grin: "What kind of bird is this?" Let's wait for a while, why haven't we come? My lord. Why don't we go back to the house to eat meat and drink wine, and wait for them to come and see us!" ”

He's joking, of course. However, Zhao Nanjin is thick and detailed, and it is not excluded that after knowing the abacus in Lian Zining's heart, he came to express his loyalty and determination once.

The others were laughing along, Lian Zining glared at them, and said coldly: "You shut up for me, after all, it's the imperial court, take out some anger, what does it look like to be so lazy?" ”

Zhao Nanjin smiled, shrunk his neck, and stopped talking.

Lian Zining's face was solemn, but he was actually quite relieved in his heart, the attitude of these generals under his command towards the imperial court can already be said to be heart-wrenching, and they did not take the authority of the imperial court to heart at all.

If someone wants to go to the court, it will be a big trouble.

In fact, this is also related to Lian Zining's continuous efforts, on the one hand, he built a mansion in Zhenyuan Mansion, and the high-ranking officials treated him with kindness, and moved the families of these officers from Guannei to this place, so that they would not be worried; On the other hand, from time to time, through some means, the authority of the imperial court is diluted, so that they have become accustomed to the existence of no imperial court. And the court is indeed mean, so that the generals squeezed a lot of anger, if Lian Zining was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they naturally did not dare to show it in the slightest, and now the adult's mind is clear to everyone, and they are all released and exploded.

After waiting for about a cup of tea, I finally saw the yellow dragon flag appear in the distance in the sky, and then, the large army of Qincha slowly appeared.

At this time, the Qincha procession was naturally different from the one on the march, with more than 100 flag bearers in front, holding high the big flag in their hands and official signs with various words such as 'avoidance', and behind it was a luxurious carriage, with a dragon banner on the side of the carriage.

The team slowly stopped, and an officer of the forbidden army rode a horse and galloped over, came to the waiting Lian Zining and the others, raised his chin, and said with a proud face: "Qincha Angel, His Royal Highness King Liang, Wu Yibo and the generals under his command came forward to pay respects." ”

Seeing his face, Zhao Nanjin snorted coldly at the moment.

Lian Zining glanced at the forbidden army officer, his face was expressionless, and he slowly rode his horse, and the first-class Northeast war horse took small steps, just like participating in dressage, and strolled forward.

Behind him, the generals also did not dismount.

The officer of the forbidden army couldn't help but look pale, his face turned white, and he shouted with some annoyance: "The angel of the Qincha invites you to dismount and pay respects." ”

He deliberately accentuated his tone on the word dismounting, but even Zining ignored him, seeing the performance of his own adult, all the generals naturally had a bottom in their hearts. When Zhao Nanjin rode past the forbidden army officer, he suddenly reached out and patted his face gently, and said with contempt on his face: "Little rabbit cub, have you ever fought?" Have you ever seen blood? Dare to be presumptuous here, believe it or not, my Wu Yijun drowned you with a mouthful of spit? ”

This extremely contemptuous gesture made the young Praetorian officer's face turn bloody.

The forbidden army of the 26th Guards looked at Wu Yi's army a little unpleasantly, and the cause was quite absurd and nonsense -- Xu Pengju's army on the northern expedition was mainly composed of Jingwei. But it was beaten in the north of the Songhua River, but Wu Yijun stubbornly defended Xishenwei. and laid a big foundation in the Northeast, and even surrendered the Jurchens.

Chinese people have always been good at infighting. I can't do it, you do it better than me, and I hate you, and this kind of thing is very common.

And this forbidden army officer is from a family, he sat in the forbidden army at a young age, he has always been unscrupulous, arrogant and arrogant, how can he bear being humiliated by Zhao Nanjin like this time?

"Bang". The saber at his waist was half unsheathed, his hand was pressed on the hilt, he looked at Zhao Nanjin with a gloomy face, and shouted angrily: "You, do you have the courage to say Fang Cai's words again? ”

"You call me a cheap seed, and you dare to draw a knife with me? What kind of thing are you? ”

Zhao Nanjin poked his finger on the tip of the nose of the forbidden army officer, and the flying spit splashed his face, only to hear Zhao Nanjin roar angrily: "Since Lao Tzu joined the Wuyi Army, he has recruited Fusang with the adults. The Jurchens conquered Mongolia and made countless meritorious contributions and beheaded more than 1,000 people. The emperor admired this 'brave and good at fighting. Not afraid of strong enemies', give me a unicorn suit, and now Lao Tzu is a dignified second-class governor! ”

He shook the toner on his chest. roared: "Show Lao Tzu clearly!" What kind of thing are you? Dare to draw a knife with me, and dare to scold me? Lao Tzu will kill him now, do you believe it or not? ”

Say this. With a shake of his hand, he pulled out the saber at his waist. Wrapped around the neck of the Praetorian officer.

The bright blade made the hairs on his neck stand on end, and this naked death threat also made the vigorous anger in the young forbidden officer's heart disappear without a trace like a snow lion that has seen the sun. He looked at Zhao Nanjin with horror on his face, this big man's hideous eyes and the thick murderous aura that came to his face made him know in his heart that he really dared to kill himself!

There was a gurgling sound in his throat, and his heart was full of humiliation, but he didn't dare to move.

Wu Yijun's other high-ranking officials either turned a blind eye and looked indifferent, or they were sneering there with their arms crossed.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the forbidden army holding the banner were all stunned.

These Wu Yi Army, how dare they be so rampant? We are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, how dare they not take us seriously?

A wave of anger rushed up from everyone's hearts, a forbidden army Qianhu waved his hand, and led more than 100 knights under his command to surround Lian Zining and others in a semicircle, he gave an order, all the forbidden army soldiers are swords and guns out of the sheath, bows and arrows are on the string, this forbidden army Qianhu said coldly: "Wu Yibo, how do you discipline your subordinates?" Quickly release our people, and tell your subordinate to come and kowtow and apologize, and this matter will be over, and I will not bother with you miscellaneous people! ”

For them, who have always been arrogant and look down on the local army at all, this kind of handling is really lenient. Although Lian Zining is Wu Yibo, a general of Songhuajiang, and will be the commander of Nu'er Gandu later, they don't take Lian Zining to heart.

We are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven.

Lian Zining's eyes had narrowed, and the look on his face was faint, and those who were familiar with him knew that this was a precursor to the anger in his heart.

Originally, he just wanted to give these people a dismount, but he didn't expect them to be so arrogant and ignorant. Lian Zining sneered in his heart, since this is the case, let you see what is the real rebelliousness!

He raised his hand and waved it, and the more than 100 knights who stopped not far away rode over, forming a semicircle, protecting Lian Zining and the generals together.

The forbidden army Qianhu was stunned at first, with an incredible expression on his face, and looked at Lian Zining and shouted angrily: "Lian Zining, do you want to rebel?" How dare you coerce my Son of Heaven into pro-army? ”

Lian Zining said coldly: "This official is a super count of the national dynasty, general Songhuajiang, defending the country and defending the border, hard work and high achievements, you dare to lead people to coerce this official, do you want to rebel?" ”

Lian Zining almost returned the original words, and the thousands of households in the forbidden army couldn't help but stagnate, and they were actually poor in reasoning. Lian Zining is not bad at all, he is a general of the country, and it seems that he is indeed reckless to coerce him like this.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and the more than 1,000 dragoons who had been deliberately lagging behind galloped under the leadership of Shi Dazhu, forming a larger encirclement and surrounding all the forbidden troops. Shi Dazhu rode his horse to the side of the forbidden army Qianhu, and snorted lightly: "Xu Xun, dare to talk to my family like this, is it impatient to live?" ”

He has suffered a lot of white eyes along the way, so he naturally has to vent at this time.

"You!" Xu Xun's eyes swept around, and he already felt a little bad in his heart, he couldn't see a trace of panic, awe and worry on the faces of these Wu Yi soldiers, as if they didn't know that it was the Son of Heaven who was surrounded by them. It seems that these people are no different from the Jurchens, Mongols, and horse thieves who died under their hands.

Xu Xun swallowed his saliva, Fang Cai's anger turned into horror, and he yelled at Wu Yi's soldiers in anger: "You thieves, see clearly, we are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, just like the Son of Heaven coming, if you dare to besiege us, it is a rebellion!" This is a major crime of killing the head, and if you want to punish the nine clans, don't you all want to die? ”

He was answered by silence, boundless silence.

These Wu Yi sergeants had cold and hard faces, and they were not moved in the slightest.

The soldiers of the Forbidden Army couldn't help but panic a little, and they realized that they seemed to have provoked an opponent who should never be provoked.

Lian Zining untied the sword at his waist and threw it in front of Xu Xun.

Xu Xun was stunned.

I only heard Lian Zining swallow slowly: "The one who scolded the hundred households under the official should be damned." You led people to coerce the official, with bad intentions, the official is about to send troops to recruit the White Lotus Sect, and you act like this, the official concludes that you collude with the White Lotus rebels and deserve to exterminate the Nine Clans! ”

He sighed softly: "You cut yourself!" This official spares your family from dying. ”

Lian Zining's words were faint, obviously the content was to put people to death, and the tone was like telling the past. But the majesty, domineering, and domineering of the words rushed to the face like a stormy wave, making people breathless at all. It's like the solemn scales in front of the ancient Greek court, full of awe-inspiring and inviolable might, saying that if you die, you will die!

Say what you say.

Silence, boundless silence, everyone turned their eyes to Lian Zining and Xu Xun.

Xu Xun looked at Lian Zining in disbelief and stammered, "You? What did you say? You're going to kill me? ”

He swallowed heavily and laughed dryly: "Uncle, you are really good at joking. ”

Lian Zining frowned, and said impatiently: "Which one is joking with you, hurry up, is it self-cutting or let the official do it?" ”

Xu Xun's face turned pale, and his heart was even more indescribably cold, he realized that the young man in front of him was not joking, he was really going to kill himself!

Everything that happened not far away, Zhu Zaiyuan, the king of Liang, who was sitting in the carriage and looking out, naturally saw it clearly.

Wanrong was shocked and said: "How dare you let the forbidden army commit suicide? Is Lian Zining going to rebel? Who does he think he is? Is it the Holy One today? ”

The sudden change made the usually calm and steady woman also confused, and her voice became a little sharp because of nervousness.

"He's not going to rebel, he's going to give this king a dismount!"

King Liang looked at it with a calm face, and said with a solemn face.

"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Wanrong also reacted.

"That's right, he's telling this king something in this way." King Liang nodded and sighed: "This Wu Yibo is not a good match, this king still underestimates the heroes of the world." I thought I had a chance to subdue him, but now it seems, hehe......"

King Liang smiled: "I'm afraid it's a tiger skin!" ”

What King Liang said is not bad at all, Lian Zining has always been very forbearing, and he has endured it for several years, but now why can't he bear it in this minute? What he is doing today is premeditated.

He's showing his toughness to King Liang, he's telling King Liang that even if you know my secret? What if you take my handle? I don't care!

Of course, Lian Zining doesn't really don't care, he just uses this attitude to reduce the chips he has to pay.

This kind of comprehension is only known to a few people in the know, such as Lian Zining, Liang Wang, Wanrong, etc., and in the eyes of others, they will only think that Lian Zining is arrogant and arrogant. (To be continued.) )