When the two of them rushed to Shi Kefa's mansion and entered the living room, they saw that Shi Kefa and Ren Minyu were already waiting.

"Xinghua, you're here, I'm waiting for you." Shi Kefa saw Luo Jian coming, and said anxiously.

"Brother Xian, is there any emergency? Why are you in such a hurry? ”

"It's not an emergency, someone came to report today, Li Chengdong's department in Gaoyou and Mrs. Xing from Taizhou came to Yangzhou with their own people, and they can arrive tomorrow. How to arrange these two groups of people after they arrive, don't you come to discuss this? ”

Since Gao Jie was killed by Xu Dingguo in Suizhou, the rest of the troops are nominally subordinate to Gao Jie's wife Xing, but in fact they have been divided into four parts, respectively, led by Gao Jie's nephew Li Benshen, Hu Maozhen of the Chinese army, Li Chengdong of Xuzhou and Mrs. Xing.

Historically, the Qing army surrendered in the past few days, and now the situation has changed, Li Benshen and Hu Maozhen led the army to surrender Duoduo, while Mrs. Xing and Li Chengdong led about 12,300 soldiers and horses to Yangzhou.

When Luo Jian heard this, he immediately became interested. This Mrs. Xing was originally Li Zicheng's little wife, and later had an affair with Gao Jie, and Gao Jie took her to surrender to the court.

I heard that this Mrs. Xing is not simple, she was able to be half of Gao Jie's family at the beginning, and she also has a certain prestige in Gao Jie's army.

Gao Jie corrupted Yangzhou at the beginning and refused to listen to the dispatch of the imperial court, Shi Kefa coordinated and did a lot of work, and this Mrs. Xing also played a big role, which made Gao Jie obey the dispatch and move to Xuzhou, but because of Gao Jie's own carelessness, he was killed by Cai Xu Dingguo.

Li Chengdong is the most complex figure in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and his evaluation of him until later generations is mixed. In real history, Li Chengdong has been acting as a pawn of the Qing soldiers after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, and the official to the Manchu Commander, the "Jiading Three Massacres" was created by him, and he was an out-and-out executioner for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

But he later raised an army against the Qing Dynasty, and played a key role in the process of fighting against the Manchus in the late Southern Ming Dynasty, and he was loyal to the later Yongli Emperor, abiding by the courtiers, and almost conquered half of the southern country, but later was drowned because of the resistance of the Qing army to attack Guangzhou.

"Alas, the silver and grain and grass of this court have not been able to arrive for a long time, and the number of soldiers and horses in Yangzhou will increase in the future, and the pressure on this grain and grass is very great. Besides, the military discipline of this Gao Jie department is extremely poor, and I am afraid that he will harm the people in Yangzhou. ”

Ren Minyu sighed, not happy about the increase in Yangzhou.

After the army in the city was trained by Luo Jian, the military discipline was good, and the defenders in the city all went out of the city for training, and the pressure in the city was greatly reduced.

"Shi Ze doesn't have to worry, with me, forgive them for not daring to make a mistake, but how to arrange it for us to discuss as soon as possible." Shi Kefa still has more confidence in Gao Jiejun.

"What I mean is that these two groups of people are still the same as the first division of Yangzhou, they are stationed outside Yangzhou for rest, please do a good job of the work of the two departments, and the military discipline must be strict, do not let it harm the people, if it happens, it will be severely punished, if an army can not protect the country and the people, but become a scourge to the people, such an army should not be not."

Luo Jian knew that Shi Kefa had no choice but to tolerate some of Gao Jiejun's looting in Yangzhou, but now the situation is different and can no longer be tolerated.

"As for the grain and grass, I will go to Ruan Shangshu in a while and ask him to urge the imperial court to quickly allocate it, and we must also actively find ways to raise it, and we can't let these two troops plunder the people under the pretext that they have no food, grass, and silver." Luo Jian continued.

Seeing that Shi Kefa and Ren Minyu both nodded yes, the three of them discussed carefully.

Finally, Luo Jian said: "Can the superintendent go with me outside the city to watch the training of the first division tomorrow morning?" When the two armies arrive, their lords will come to see the overseers, and let them see the training of the first division, so that they can be touched. ”

Ren Minyu nodded hurriedly, Shi Kefa also responded, and reminded that it might be better if Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department, could be present together, and Luo Jian promised to invite him to participate tomorrow when he went to Ruan Dacheng.

When Luo Jian saw that the three of them were discussing together, Wang Xiuchu was already recording on the side, and nodded secretly.

After the discussion was over, Luo Jian went to Ruan Dacheng non-stop and told him about the grain, grass and military salary, and Ruan Dacheng promised to send a message to the court as soon as possible. Luo Jian told Mrs. Xing and Li Chengdong about bringing troops to surrender again, and invited him to go out of the city together tomorrow, and Ruan Dacheng happily agreed.

Back at the house, Luo Jian sat down and slowly sorted things out, and then remembered that he had to write a letter to Song Yingxing, this old Song Dynasty had refused the appointment of the Southern Ming Dynasty several times in history, and had been living in seclusion in his hometown to do research.

When he returned to the study, he turned on the computer and wrote a letter to Song Yingxing, typed it out with a printer, and found a few more photos to print out and put them in the letter together, and then handed the letter to Wang Xiuchu and told him that if Sun Laiyue sent someone to come, he would hand it over to him.

The next day, Luo Jian had breakfast with Shi Kefa and Ruan Dacheng and came to the outside of Dongda Camp, and the tense scene on the training ground not only made Shi Kefa and Ruan Dacheng dumbfounded, but even Luo Jian was a little frightened when he saw it.

I don't know where Liu Zhaoji got so many wooden knives, guns and sticks in the past few days, and the non-commissioned officers were grouped to carry out actual combat exercises under the leadership of the officers.

Liu Zhaoji was lying on the ground practicing aiming with the rifle that Luo Jian gave him, and there was a bow and arrow next to him, as if he was looking for the feeling that Luo Jian said. Even though Luo Jian told him that there were enough bullets and asked him to practice more live ammunition, he still refused, saying that even if there were enough bullets, the gun would have to wear out.

It wasn't until the soldiers stepped forward to tell him that the three of them were coming, that Liu Zhaoji got up from the ground, took out the whistle given to him by Wang Qiang from his pocket and blew it vigorously, and shouted after blowing: "The whole division is determined!" ”

As the whistle sounded, there was a shout of "standing" from the training ground, and the training ground that was in full swing in an instant was silent. Liu Zhaoji ran in front of the three of them in a few steps, raised his hand and saluted a non-standard military salute, "Report to the Inspector, Qincha Ruan Shangshu, Yangzhou First Division is undergoing actual combat training, please instruct!" ”

After speaking, he glanced at Luo Jian, as if to say, I don't know what to call you, you just forget it.

Shi Kefa experienced it and said "continue training", but Ruan Dacheng stood in a daze, not knowing how to deal with it.

The three of them were all satisfied when they saw that the first division had ordered the ban, and it seemed that Liu Zhaoji had implemented Luo Jian's training ideas extremely thoroughly.

Ruan Dacheng said to Shi Kefa and Luo Jian with some emotion: "Xinghua's method of training troops is not trivial, this Yangzhou First Division has become a strong army. ”

Shi Kefa nodded yes, but Luo Jian said: "It's still early to be a strong soldier, the training has just begun, and only after the test of blood and fire can we truly become a strong army that cannot be defeated or dragged down." ”

After Luo Jian's silver from the glass factory and Shi Kefa's guarantee regardless of the cost, the food of the Yangzhou First Division has been greatly improved, and even Wang Qiang, who was reluctant to eat in the army before, is now willing to eat a big pot of dishes here.

The non-commissioned officers who can eat meat every day have burst out with great enthusiasm for military training, and the new military system has also made the officers feel unprecedented pressure, and in addition to the fact that Liu Zhaoji and the divisional and regimental-level officers have taken the lead, all this has directly contributed to the upsurge of large-scale military training on today's training ground.

In the distance, a horse galloped over, turned over and dismounted in front of Shi Kefa, raised his hand and saluted and reported that the imperial court had arrived.

Shi Kefa and the others were all shocked, thinking that the imperial court had only sent Ruan Dacheng over three days ago, and this time they sent someone again, could it be that there was a problem in Nanjing?

After a while, more than a dozen horses rushed directly towards the place where a few people were standing, and they turned over and dismounted one after another dozens of steps, and walked towards Luo Jian and the others at a gallop.

The leader is a civil official, and the level of dress is not too high.

Luo Jian has asked Wang Xiuchu a lot of rules in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty in the past few days, and he also has a preliminary understanding of the official uniforms of different grades, and the one in front of him is probably the fourth grade.

Luo Jian's estimate was right, the one who came was Li Zhan, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple of the Imperial Court.

The day before yesterday, after Ma Shiying saw the emperor, he told Emperor Hongguang about the proposed sealing of Luo Jian, and Zhu Youxiang was a little dissatisfied with Luo Jian's lack of coming to Nanjing in time to let him visit, but after Ma Shiying gave him an analysis of the current grim situation, he let go of this dissatisfaction, allowed Ma Shiying to play, and asked Ma Shiying to send someone to Yangzhou to pass the decree.

Now there are a lot of people who want to come to Yangzhou, Li Zhan knows this very well, he went out of Ma Shiying's house and did not go home, he has been waiting in the restaurant outside, and when Ma Shiying came back from the palace and went to Mafu again, he asked for this errand, and rushed all the way to Yangzhou.

Seeing that there was no panicked look on Li Zhan's faces, Shi Kefa and the others calmed down a little and knew that it was not Nanjing that had an accident.

Li Zhan's eyes swept through the crowd, and he quickly found Luo Jian, walked to Luo Jian in a few steps, took a yellow satin scroll from his entourage and opened it, and just said "Please Luo Angel to accept the order", and when he raised his eyes, he saw Luo Jian's brows furrowed.

Shi Kefa and the others heard that the holy decree had arrived, but they wondered why this Qincha didn't let people prepare incense cases, but they ran to this training ground and only announced the decree to Luo Jian alone.

Ruan Dacheng saw Luo Jian's brows frowning, he was shocked, and secretly scolded this Li Zhan in his heart, how dare he put a bad shelf in front of this Luo Angel, this matter is going to be troublesome.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Zhan quickly took two steps forward, knelt directly in front of Luo Jian, raised the yellow satin holy decree above his head with both hands, and said, "Please Luo Angel to accept the decree." ”

Li Zhan's action stunned the officers and men on the training ground, who had only heard of him kneeling to receive orders from Qin Cha before, but today he saw Qin Cha kneeling to deliver an edict to someone for the first time.

Liu Zhaoji quietly gave a thumbs up to Ma Yingkui beside him and said, "This is the Luo Xinghua I admire!" ”

In fact, as soon as Luo Jian heard about receiving the decree, he thought in his heart that according to the rules, he had to kneel down to receive the holy decree, but if he wanted to kneel down in front of others, even if Zhu Youxiang was in front of him, it would be impossible, so he was entangled in his heart about how to deal with it, and subconsciously frowned, and the result was the current situation.

Seeing Li Zhan kneeling in front of him and lifting the holy decree above his head, Luo Jian had no choice but to take it with his hand, and said in his mouth: "Qin Cha, please get up quickly." This Li Zhan took advantage of the situation to stand up.

Luo Jian opened the holy decree and looked at it, and secretly scolded in his heart for this lack of morality, this holy decree was all used in seal characters, and he couldn't recognize a few.

In desperation, he handed the holy decree to Shi Kefa and said, "Brother Xian, help me take a look, this is full of seal characters, I can't recognize it all." ”

Hearing Luo Jian say this, Ruan Dacheng and the others were all staring at each other, Ruan Dacheng already knew that what Luo Jian had learned was not here, but Li Zhan was secretly a little disdainful, thinking that this angel was also an unlearned and unskilled person.

Shi Kefa laughed in his heart and scolded Luo Jian for ignoring his physique, but he respectfully took the holy decree with both hands, opened it and looked at it, and when he finished reading it, he accepted the holy decree and handed it to Ruan Dacheng.

Turning around, he happily said to Luo Jian: "Congratulations Xinghua, the imperial court has crowned you as the Duke of Weiguo, and the military department has Shangshu Street, and you have been appointed as the governor of Huaiyang to lead the Huaiyang soldiers and horses." Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang were also awarded the General Soldier Street, and the positions are arranged by you. The imperial court also rewarded it with the grain and grass. ”

When Luo Jian heard it, why did he have so many titles, it sounded like this last one was real, so that he was about the same as the commander-in-chief of the Huaiyang Theater.

I don't know how the imperial court settled Shi Kefa, who was the governor of Huaiyang, and then ask Shi Kefa when he was free, it was best not to transfer him away, he could still help himself a lot in Yangzhou.

When everyone next to them heard this, they stepped forward to congratulate the "Duke of Weiguo", which made Luo Jian a little embarrassed.

"Li Zhan, the young secretary of the lowly Dali Temple, congratulates the Duke of Weiguo, the emperor and the Ma Ge Department have said, I hope that the Wei Guo Gong will defeat Duoduo as soon as possible, and it is good to go to Nanjing to see the emperor and the Ma Ge Ministry." This Li Zhan reported his position, for fear that Luo Jian would not remember him.

"Please report to the emperor after the Qin mission returns, and say that as long as I am with Luo Jian, I will ensure that Yangzhou and Nanjing will not be lost." Luo Jian felt that he had to cheer up the fat emperor and Ma Shiying in Nanjing, so that they would not run away secretly one day.

"When I go back, I will report to the emperor and the Ma Ge Department." Li Zhan said cautiously. After speaking, he turned his head and looked around, and saw a strange green car parked behind the left, knowing that this was the "magic car", at a glance, in addition to being a little weird, but he couldn't see any magic, and he had the heart to ask Luo Jian, and he was afraid that he would lose face.

Shi Kefa saw that Li Zhan's expression was a little unnatural after watching the warrior car, knowing that he was afraid that Luo Jian would not give him face, would not let him sit in this warrior car, and did not want Luo Jian to offend people in the imperial court, so he took the initiative to step forward and said: "Xinghua, this holy decree has been received, why don't we go and see how the stations of these two departments are placed, what do you think?" ”

If Shi Kefa didn't think he would have said these words before, but now for Luo Jian, he felt that it was natural to do it, which even he felt a little strange.

Luo Jianzheng didn't want to get entangled in this holy decree, and when he heard Shi Kefa say this, he naturally agreed.

Shi Kefa pulled Ruan Dacheng and Li Zhan to the front of the warrior car, and the guards stepped forward to open the door for a few people, and now they don't need Luo Jian to open the door himself, and the guards have already learned.

Li Zhan got into the magic car as he wished, and Luo Jian drove straight to the new garrison of the two armies, this road was already repaired by Liu Zhaoji yesterday, although it was still a little bumpy, but it was no longer enough to make people jump upside down.

Before Li Zhan could enjoy his seat, he had already arrived at the ground, Luo Jian stopped the car, and the guards who came over on horseback hurriedly stepped forward to open the car door and invited a few people to get out of the car.

As soon as a few people got out of the car, they saw dozens of horses galloping in front of them, and the leading horse ran quickly in front of several people, and reported to Shi Kefa that Mrs. Xing and General Li had arrived, and after speaking, he turned over and galloped towards the place where he came from, obviously a sentry sent by Liu Zhaoji.