Although the prince lives in Wang's house, Master Qi is not even qualified to see the prince.

These days, there is only one Linqing person who can see the prince, and there is only one Linqing Zhizhou.

And Linqing Zhizhou has only seen one side.

After Yang Chao's army arrived in Linqing, Linqing Zhizhou, like other civilian officials, refused to allow soldiers to enter the city.

As a result, Yang Chao sent someone into the city, told him that the prince was here, and took out the emperor's secret decree.

Then he waited with him back and forth, and he could ask An three times a day, and instructed the Wang family to entertain the prince, not to be lazy, and to come early in the morning, and to go back to rest in the evening, and forget about political affairs to the side, at this time, the prince is the greatest political achievement, and the prince will succeed to the throne in the future, he is the hero of the dragon, although there is no merit, but there is also hard work, the emperor said that he turned over in this state.

Although Linqing is only a state, but it is a big canal city, the degree of wealth here can be compared with Huai'an, but the scale is smaller, known as: rich Jiaqi County, prosperous pressure two Beijing, the rich merchants here are also many cattle hair, according to the research of later generations, the famous book "Golden Vase Plum" was born here.

Linqing Zhizhou is named Jinbao, is a full official fan, self-proclaimed Qing Gao, in the mouth of the people is a clean official, but the money is not less, sitting on the same commercial and trade town as Huai'an, just the usual practice given by the businessman is enough for him to squander, can he deduct the money in the mouth of the people?

But there is also a civil official frame, Liu Zeqing is a general soldier in Shandong, with a high position, just because he is a military general, doing business in Linqing, he did not give him filial piety according to the rules, he often made things difficult, and was impeached by Liu Zeqing in a letter, and the courtiers forced Jinbao to resign in order to entrap Liu Zeqing.

Jin Bao's resignation documents have been handed in, and he is about to leave his post and go home, but Yang Chao comes. After all, Linqing is not a good place now, and Li Zicheng may call at any time, but Yang Chao came and brought the crown prince.

"Kim Chi Chau. Take care of it, and Ben Du will give you a drink! ”

Yang Chaoguan was full of arrogance, and generously showed his identity as the governor of Zuo at the banquet.

Jinbao was quite cramped, because at this time the crown prince Zhu Cihong was sitting as chairman, and Yang Chao was on the left. He was on the right, Yang Chao's hand was directly in front of the crown prince to honor him, Yang Chao didn't care, the crown prince didn't care, but Jin Bao felt that it was a little rude to pick him up directly.

He immediately left the table and made a detour behind Yang Chao, only to drink the wine glass in one gulp.

After fighting with a military attache like Liu Zeqing, Jin Bao realized the reversal of his civil and military status, and knew that he could not afford to offend a military general in the future, let alone a military general like Yang Chao. In the future, he will definitely be a marquis, and he can't afford to offend, so his attitude is extremely humble.

After drinking, Jinbao bowed his hands and bowed to Yang Chao and the prince.

Wang Youquan was at the end of the table, but he kept nodding his head and waist, and the smile on his face never stopped, but he didn't dare to say a word, just kept pouring wine for others.

The crown prince has a crown prince shelf. He sat upright and didn't speak, just listened, and nodded from time to time.

It was Yang Chao who was talking alone.

"Kim Chi Chau. I heard that King Fu of Nanjing is in charge of the country, what do you think? ”

When Yang Chao said this, the prince was also a little uneasy, his expression moved slightly, and he listened carefully to the civil official of Jinbao.

King Castle was stunned in his heart, knowing that it was time to take sides. Expressing his stance now means that he is tied to the crown prince, and it also means that he is an enemy of King Fu, who is already in charge of the country in Nanjing.

But he didn't have a chance to be tied to King Fu, so he could only be tied to the crown prince to soar into the sky.

People die for money, officials die for power, and when will it take to fight at this time.

Jin Bao immediately stood up and knelt on the ground: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Mingjian, Yang Du Governor Mingjian." It is an expedient measure for King Fu to supervise the country, and he does not know that His Royal Highness is heading south, and he is using power to supervise the country. The crown prince is fortunate to drive the south, and His Royal Highness King Fu will definitely welcome the prince! ”

The prince breathed a sigh of relief, he also knew the current situation, I heard that Nanjing Liudu made King Fu a prisoner, and the next step must be to ascend the throne, so how can he, the prince, deal with himself, the game of thrones can only go up, otherwise it is death, this truth They have understood since childhood, because each of them will continue to tell them about their lectures.

Now there is a small governor who has expressed his stance to prove that there are still people who support the crown prince among the civil officials.

Yang Chao nodded: "That's good." However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince traveled from Nanxing, Beijing, and was tired here and needed to rest for a few days. It is not possible to go south immediately, so His Royal Highness intends to send an important person to the south to announce his intention to Jiangnan. Would you like to be this consolation! ”

After hearing this, Jin Bao suddenly became excited, although it is very dangerous to go south, but going south is on behalf of the prince, and he went south to persuade Jiangnan Wenwu to welcome the prince to the throne, and the biggest credit is his, of course, he can only rank second, and the first must be Yang Chao's.

But the second is enough for him to ascend to the sky in one step, and he may be in a hurry to enter the cabinet, but there should be no problem in hanging a squire or a master in the sixth department.

Immediately kowtowed: "The minister will never give up!" ”

Only then did the prince raise his hand: "Aiqing is flat, Aiqing is loyal and brave, and the lonely king is very comforted." ”

Jin Bao stood up excitedly, and was invited down by Yang Chao to drink, but he couldn't sit still for a long time, and he couldn't wait to go south immediately to fight for power and profit under the banner of the prince.

After a wine banquet, the prince couldn't help but eat a few mouthfuls of food and drink a few sips of wine.

Yang Chao immediately instructed Master Qi to prepare another good wine and food to send to the prince.

Wang Youquan immediately went to prepare, for fear that the service would not be thoughtful, and the people who served the prince and princess in the past few days were not the Wang family, but Wang Youquan's daughters and concubines.

The next day, Yang Chao continued to listen to Lü Mo's report, and recruited a total of 1,200 scholars, and 300 scholars were willing to serve as soldiers, but they all had families, saying that as long as Yang Chao agreed to take their families south, they would be willing to serve as soldiers for Yang Chao.

Yang Chao agreed, those who have constant production have perseverance, these people seem to be responsible, I am afraid that the chaos in the north will not end so easily, according to the evolution of history, at this time, I am afraid that Li Zicheng is competing with Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui is fighting with Dolgon.

Soon Wu Sangui, Manchu Qing and Li Zicheng's Dashun will start a scuffle, and the great chaos in the north has just begun, and it is also a merit to be able to bring as many people as possible to the south.

Fifteen hundred readers can be regarded as a great gain.

Then the recruitment began.

It is much easier to recruit soldiers than to recruit scholars to serve as soldiers, Yang Chao decided to recruit 50,000 people, and expand 50,000 with 5,000 people, which is a tenfold expansion, which is also a limit. No matter how fast it is, there will be no veterans who have fought in the war to be officers.

Of the 5,000 people, only 500 people had fought in Haizhou, and even if all of them were officers, there were 100 people under no one. It is an official position of a hundred generals, and grassroots petty officials such as team leaders and army commanders can only be played by soldiers who have no actual combat experience, but fortunately, they go around Zhejiang for a turn, and they can be regarded as having experience in long-distance marching. After exercising, it is a good soldier to experience actual combat.

Erect the banner of recruitment, there is no shortage of food people, China has always been like this, not to mention troubled times, not to mention refugees.

As a result, the people who signed up for the army squeezed through the recruitment table.

Recruitment is very strict, the most burly person, at least more than five and a half feet (one meter seven), the most powerful, can lift a hundred pounds of grain bags. But on the first day, 20,000 people were recruited.

The soldiers have been recruited, and training is a problem, Lao Jin is still in Nanjing, and the instructors are also in Nanjing, and there are no professional instructors, so they can only let those grassroots officers who are not experienced enough train.

This is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome thing is how to ensure the combat effectiveness of the tenfold expansion of the army.

After diluting his own veterans, it is equivalent to all the eggs of new soldiers.

This is a serious matter. Li Zicheng's entry into Beijing meant that the biggest chaos had just begun, and Yang Chao needed to have a strong army in his hand that could fight immediately.

A meeting of the officers was convened to deliberate.

"Every thousand headquarters must draw officers! However, it is necessary to ensure that the headquarters of 1,000 units are basically immobile and maintain combat effectiveness. Discuss whose thousand headquarters to keep! ”

The solution that Yang Chao came up with is. Keep as many veterans as possible of a thousand headquarters, and all other ministries can be broken up and reorganized.

No one spoke, and no one wanted to break up their veterans.

Finally, Li Wuliu was the first to speak, and the righteousness of his words was awe-inspiring: "My lord, I am willing to break up the veterans of my subordinates!" ”

Yang Chao couldn't help glaring at Li Wuliu, this kid looked big and three thick. There are a lot of clever people, he knew that it was impossible to break up his people, but he took the initiative to ask for help.

Li Wuliu is now leading long-range troops, and his subordinates are all birdmen, archers and crossbowmen, and it is not easy to train, how can they be scattered, and it is meaningless to break up.

Wang Pu and many men don't care.

At this time, Yang Chao had five thousand under him.

There was an unexpected gain when I went to Zhejiang last time, when Yang Chao was ordered to set off with the whole army, of course, including the soldiers and ruffians on the left and right, but those officers were unwilling to give up their official positions, and they were even more reluctant to go to war.

So Yang Chao immediately organized and organized his troops into five thousand headquarters, Zhao Kang got the title of the left thousand general, but the right thousand general is still vacant, Yang Chao added this thousand general manager to the head of the old qualified Lu Mo, or hesitated between the two people who performed well Yu Jiye, and it has not been decided.

This time, there is no need to worry, expand the army tenfold, help the prince ascend the throne, Yang Chao will not be able to run away as a general soldier, and the official position he proposed will probably not be rejected by the Ministry of War, not to mention Lu Mo at this time, even a group of 100 generals may have to be promoted to 1000 generals.

And Wang Pu, the thousand presidents, will at least be promoted to deputy generals.

"Your Excellency, you decide, mark and receive the order."

Many men also expressed their position, he did not take the initiative to ask, nor did he refuse.

Wang Pu hesitated for a moment, and also expressed his position.

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, since that's the case, I'll decide." Many of the men's divisions are currently my Chinese army, so let's not move for now. Wang Pu was promoted to deputy general, and all officers and soldiers were scattered and reorganized, expanding to 30,000 people! ”

When Wang Pu heard it, this is not bad, although the veterans were scattered, but his subordinates were expanded to 30,000, he knew that he had already expressed his position, and he thought that he was going to withdraw his elite soldiers.

Yang Chao continued: "My own soldiers can't move!" Li Wuliu, your unit has expanded to 10,000 people, and you can choose the soldiers yourself, and I want you to train all these people for me within three months! ”

Li Wuliu received the order!

Yang Chao said again: "Hu Quan, your artillery also has to increase a group of manpower, and you can also choose from the recruits." There are just more than 1,000 scholars recruited, and you give priority to selecting and making up 1,000 people. Train them as soon as possible, even if they are scholars, you must also train them to have the courage to dare to drive cannons to the heads of the enemy. ”

Hu Quan takes the order!

Yang Chao said to Lu Mo again: "Lu Mo, you also lead 10,000 recruits, and you are also a deputy general." Yours hand over the team to Yu Jiye, and promote Yu Jiye to the rank of thousand. ”

Yu Jiye replaced Lu Mo, that is, many men are the head of the left division, and now they have a thousand general titles, so what should many men do?

Sure enough, Yang Chao continued to appoint: "Many men have the rank of deputy general!" Li Wuliu added the rank of deputy general! The rest of Zheng Yongwang and Sun Changfu were promoted to the general manager. Xie Fei gave the actual position of general manager. Song Kun Jiaqian is the general title, and he remains as the general manager of the right division in the central region! ……”

Then Yang Chao appointed a large number of middle and high-ranking officers.

The first batch of officers who followed him, many men, Wang Pu and Lu Mo were promoted to deputy generals, and Sun Changfu, Zheng Yongwang and Song Kun were the real commanders. The cutting-edge Li Wuliu is also a deputy general, Xie Fei is the general manager, Zhang Erstick is the general and so on.

As for Zhao Kang, he is no longer in Linqing, of course, a deputy general is also indispensable.

Yang Chao was promoted to five deputy generals at once, which was a little worse than Zuo Liangyu, but compared with Huang Degong, Gao Jie and other four towns, he was already evenly matched.

"From now on, give me hard to train the army! Within three months, I will see an elite soldier, and if anyone fails to train the soldiers, he will be demoted immediately, and his official will never discount his words. Do you understand? ”

All the officers stood up and replied: "Understood!" ”

Then came another frantic round of training.

Li Wuliu did not want to train the bird guns, etc., gunpowder continued to be produced from Linqing City, and then sent to the newly built military camp outside the city, Yang Chao told Li Wuliu not to worry about breaking the bird guns, just make as many bird guns.

Hu Quan also began to explain to the scholars how to fire, how to aim and other things.

The busiest is Wang Pu, his subordinates are scattered and reorganized, the expansion is too large, many officers are not very qualified, he needs to keep an eye on it every day, and every day he carries a stick in his hand, and he inspects the training of recruits like a fierce and vicious spirit.

Everything is on the right track, 50,000 soldiers will be recruited in three days, and the rest will depend on the operation of Huangfeng Mansion.

Seeing the boats and grain constantly being sent from Huai'an, Yang Chao felt that Huangfengfu should be able to convince the Huai'an government soon.

There is also Jinbao in the south, before Jinbao left, he called the master and all the officials of the state government together, telling them to listen to Yang Chao's orders, and Yang Chao's orders are his orders.

Therefore, Linqing tried its best to cooperate with Yang Chao, and the yamen mobilized the whole city to return to Yang Chao to cut off, and Yang Chao once again started the Haizhou model, although Linqing is a state like Haizhou, but it is a big city on the side of the canal, and it stands to reason that there are many more craftsmen and craftsmen than Haizhou!

So theoretically speaking, Linqing's productivity is much stronger than Haizhou's. (To be continued.) )