Chen Xin looked at the quartermaster in front of him, this person was one of the Liao people who were bought, black and thin, according to him, he was originally a showman, and he had worked as an account in a shop in Fuzhou after his family was backward, and he could write and calculate, but after fleeing to Dengzhou, he couldn't hand over the eighteen taels of silver, and was arrested by Yang Guodong and used as a coolie.

"Your name is Dong Yu?"

Dong Yu quickly stood up, "Yes, my lord." The villain is short of water, so his parents gave the villain this name, both water and food. ”

"Get good." Chen Xin smiled kindly, waved his hand to sit down, this person is a Liao Min, and the original slender man and Yanggu are not involved, the quartermaster is considered to have some power, Chen Xin grasped the financial power in his own hands at the beginning, now there are more people, and he needs to be managed by a special person, and after separating the conscription power this time, the structure of the army will be more perfect.

"I selected you from the recruit information, since you are also well assessed and qualified, I plan to arrange for you to be a quartermaster, and the treatment is according to the captain."

Dong Yu knelt down and said, "Lord Xie appreciates, and the villain will definitely do his best." ”

Chen Xin said dissatisfiedly: "The training of recruits has passed, and there is only military salute in our army. ”

Dong Yu hurriedly stood up and changed to a military salute. Chen Xin then said to him: "In the future, you will need to handle the affairs of the army, money, food, equipment, and barracks, and I will choose a few literate people to assist you." The affairs are complicated, and they need to be done well. ”

Dong Yu reluctantly agreed, Chen Xin saw that he was a little restrained, and said with a smile: "You sit down and talk, since you have set your position, do you have any plans?" ”

The villain's plan is to classify and make a book of military salaries, arsenals, grain and grass, and the real thing will be according to the original inventory book, one in and one out, and the form used by the adult will be done. The military salary is first registered every month, and it is handed over to the adult for verification and then distributed. The barracks were only built at the beginning, and the villain's plan was to follow the barracks in Weihai, but slightly modified according to the new establishment, still one for each team, eight rooms for each game, one row for each game, a well at each end, two toilets and a bathhouse. ”

"Remember to make the game bigger. How is military pay paid? ”

"Well, it will be collected by the chief officers of each bureau, and then the sergeants will be issued."

Chen Xin shook his head and said: "This matter is not appropriate, it is still directly sent to the hands of the soldiers, if it is not distributed in one day, you will set the first few days of the month, and a certain bureau will come to collect it every day, and you can receive it for a few more days." But it must be sent into the hands of the soldiers. ”

"Yes, sir."

"How to handle the procurement?"

"Purchasing is also like buying goods in a store, asking the price to three companies each time, and the bulk purchase will be decided by the master."

This person is quite interesting, Chen Xin nodded and said: "Then you go and set the regulations, and the equipment and materials in the army, including those that have been distributed, as large as artillery and war horses, as small as kettles, waist cards, and titles, must be recorded, and set on the heads of each soldier. The accounts also need to be clear, and someone else will come to check the accounts at the end of the year. ”

Dong Yu replied more cautiously: "Yes, my lord." But he still asked, "My lord, where do you get the money you need?" ”

"If you have a fixed amount every day, go to Mr. Liu to receive it once every three months, and after three months, go to Mr. Liu for reimbursement and verification, and receive the silver grain for the next three months.

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In the following month, Liu Minyou took the new quartermaster Dong Yu to build a military camp outside the Wendeng camp, the new military camp was built according to the scale of 1,100 people, the field was much larger than Weihai, Chen Xin divided the playground into many pieces, and also designed a football field, a craftsman used a pig's bladder as the inner capsule, filled the inside with hair, and covered with eight pieces of skin on the outside, made the football that Chen Xin requested, and a team was a football team. Since then, the football field has been very tight, and Chen Xin finally found a way for these soldiers to vent.

Chen Xin planned to wait for the new military camp to be built, and only one flag team would be left among the soldiers in Weihai, and all the rest would be transferred to the Wendeng camp. The second batch of 500 recruits was also in place one after another, and basic training began.

The number of Chen Xin's army reached more than 1,200 people, more than dozens of soldiers in the Wendeng battalion, and the more than 700 people who were first integrated were organized into a larger bureau, each bureau was still two flag teams, but the number of squads of each flag team became four, so that when encountering cavalry, they quickly formed a hollow phalanx according to the bureau, and each killer flag team was equipped with a tiger squat cannon, plus the sum of the flag bearers, the number of people in each bureau was 100 people. There are still two flags in each game, and Chen Xin promoted two generals again.

Lu Chuanzong, Wang Changfu, and Dai Zhenggang were each promoted to one level and became the new general manager, Lu Chuanzong and Dai Zhenggang were also deputy general managers, Zhu Guobin was also deputy general manager, Dong Yu bought eighty horses and continued to train his cavalry, and most of the original more than 60 veterans were also promoted to non-commissioned officers and became captains. Chen Xin himself was appointed as the general manager of Qian, and this establishment was stabilized. The subsequent increase in the number of people will only increase the number of bureaus, or the number of divisions will be increased above the bureaus.

There are many mountains near Wendeng County, and there are many bandits, and there are seven or eight bandits and bandits in Kunlun Mountain in the west alone, and the intelligence collection will be handed over to Zhu Guobin, and the cavalry of the Wendeng battalion will go out to investigate for a while.

Chen Xin also went to Wendeng County to visit Zheng Dianshi, who he knew when he exterminated Tongtianliang, and he led the line to meet Yu Zhi County in Wendeng County, and it was easy to talk to each other in the system, Chen Xin was also a little powerful in Wendeng at the moment, so after giving a gift of two hundred taels of silver, Yu Zhixian let him rest assured that he would occupy the wasteland, ensuring that those who came back had no way to denounce, and also promised to collect only a thousand acres of taxes.

So Xu Yuanhua ran to stake the land, first occupied more than 10,000 acres of wasteland in Wendeng Camp, this is military land, no one to fight, plan to build the first tunbao first, and gather 300 displaced households to cultivate.

There are many people, Chen Xin, who spreads out everywhere, looks at the silver flowing out, he has 90,000 taels of silver in his hand, but next year the sea trade will have to pay the capital, at least 60,000 taels of silver will be left, and the remaining 30,000 taels will support the cost of this year, and the only other thing that can be counted on is the copper coin workshop, and it can also earn 10,000 taels, after Tian Hongyu's road is opened, Chen Xin also plans to make this workshop long-term, buy copper in Tianjin when the copper is used up, and transport it back to Weihai to make money and then ship it back, so that the profit is less than doubled. And the amount of copper that can be bought will not be large, and there may be overcapacity.

After Zhou Hongmo saw Chen Xin's strong horse, he felt that his waist was much stiffer, and set up a card for Chen Xinjian to collect business tax on the road, Chen Xin inspected it, there are only official roads to Weihai and Chengshan near Wendeng Camp, and the inspection department has already set up a card to collect taxes, and the county magistrate himself has also set up one, and there are not many merchants looking at it, so he gave up this plan. Zhou Hongmo made one by himself and sent a few family members to guard it, but many of the goods were from the officials of the guards and local officials, and he did not dare to collect them, so he collected some taxes from small traders, and he could get about twenty or thirty taels of silver a month.

Chen Xin still looked at the big head, let the army out to make money, and began to arrange three bureaus to crack down on bandits in October, breaking several bandit cottages in a row, grabbing more than 210,000 taels of silver and more than 2,000 stones of grain, slightly relieving his pressure, killing bandits is a good thing for anyone, Yu Zhixian took it as his own political achievement, and the gentry and people of Wendeng County began to look at Wendeng Camp with admiration.

The profits of the fake money business were recovered one after another, leaving 5,000 taels of working capital for copper coins, and the rest were handed over to Liu Minyou for preservation.

With the experience of Weihai, Xu Yuanhua quickly gathered more than 200 displaced households, first began to develop the military fields of the Wendeng camp, dug the canal that diverted water from the Baolong River, and drilled irrigation wells, and with the assistance of the new soldiers, he sowed 3,000 mu of winter wheat before the end of October. Zhou Hongmo got the silver, and he didn't fight Chen Xinjuntian's idea.

These homeless people have no place to live for the time being, so they built their own shacks outside the barracks area, Weihai has built houses several times, there are many skilled workers, Liu Minyou brought some people here to assist, the labor used is these new homeless people and recruits, can save a lot of wages.

At the beginning of November, the barracks began to take shape, followed by a heavy snowfall, the earth was covered in silver, Chen Xin looked at the new barracks by the window of his official room, the school field with snow left on the slogan shook the sky, everywhere was the soldiers trained according to the team, the west side of the school field was a row of barracks, surrounded by a circle of walls. In a year and a half, from a black household with no clothes, he has become a petty official in the system, with thousands of people, and the future is also very bright, much bigger than the original stage in the company. The only drawback is that the economic pressure is still very high, his business network, the scale of the workshop and the talent are insufficient, and he does not want to make a fuss like dresses, and the original planned new products have to be postponed indefinitely, and the silver in his hands cannot flow, so he can only rely on bandits to steal money.

Chen Xin put his hands on the teacup, and quietly looked at the soldiers by the window, when the door knocked lightly twice, and Chen Xin replied: "Come in." ”

Nie Hong pushed open the door and said, "My lord, Mr. Song is here, he was stopped at the camp gate, and the guards came to ask if the villain wrote a warrant for people to pick him up." ”

"Huh!? No, I'll pick it up myself. Chen Xin took a sip of tea, put it down and opened the door to go out, it was already very cold in October, he put on a long cotton armor outside, and went out with Nie Hong to the camp gate, Nie Hong was followed by two personal soldiers, Zhou Shifa has been appointed as the new military judge, and Nie Hong led Chen Xin's personal soldiers. Military judges are also very powerful positions in the army, Chen Xin set up a magistrate in each flag team, in charge of military law, the suppression is not subject to the jurisdiction of the flag captain, independent exercise of military law power, the flag team and above have a pacification, one level up to Zhou Shifa, the chief military judge.

Chen Xin exhaled white air, and when he walked to the camp gate, he saw Song Wenxian, an old rascal, constantly stepping on his feet in the snow, and the captain on duty at the camp gate stood straight in front of him.

Seeing Chen Xin coming, the sentry at the camp gate immediately stood up and saluted, Chen Xin followed Song Wenxian to salute, Song Wenxian hummed two sentences dissatisfiedly, and did not talk to Chen Xin, but still kept stepping on his feet.

Chen Xin went to the sentry booth by himself, signed the entry and exit book, and then went over and said to Song Wenxian: "Don't blame Mr. Song, the army has its own laws and disciplines, even if the younger brother enters and exits, he must also take the waist card, not for Mr. alone." ”

Song Wenxian didn't believe it, he stared at the captain on duty, the captain still stood straight and looked ahead, Song Wenxian retracted his gaze and smiled at Chen Xin: "It's no wonder, Lord Chen is a big official, and of course the official authority must be bigger to be worthy." It doesn't hurt for the villain to wait an hour. ”

Chen Xin smiled slightly and invited Song Wenxian to enter the camp together, Song Wenxian stepped on the snow on the ground, and sighed: "There have been several heavy snowfalls this year, and it may be very dry next year." ”

The climate of the Xiaoice period is cold, the temperature is getting lower and lower, the snow is early in winter, even Fujian and Guangdong in the south have had heavy snowfall, the temperature is still low after spring, the moisture content in the air is reduced, so the rainfall will be less and less. However, it was useless to tell Song Wenxian about these things, Chen Xin just said a few perfunctory sentences.

Song Wenxian followed Chen Xin to the official room, looked at the weather of the barracks all the way, listened to the slogans on the school field, and kept admiring, "Lord Chen, if you want to say that the Dengzhou standard camp and the main barracks are good, whether they can beat your soldiers, I can't say, but this momentum is not half a star." ”

Chen Xin replied with a smile: "My soldiers practice for five or six hours every day, and the other places practice once every five days to be considered a strong army, I am afraid that they can be beaten, but Mr. Song does not like to go to Wenrou Township now, and likes to go to the barracks." ”

"It's not like it's all day without harm."

When Chen Xin heard him say this, he knew that he hadn't taken the Wang Ting test yet, so he didn't ask carefully, and when he arrived at the official room, he asked the guards to light the stove and light the charcoal.

After Chen Xin waved off his personal guards, Song Wenxian said to Chen Xin: "Let me tell you something far away first, Zheng Yiguan has been recruited, and he was appointed as a coastal defense guerrilla in the Zhongzuo Institute in September, and I don't know if it is a real job, but according to his financial resources, it is not a problem to control the Fujian officialdom and the imperial court, it depends on what Cheng Dù you say that person can contain him." Otherwise, Li Guozhu is worried, and our way to make money is also worried. ”

What Song Wenxian said was what Chen Xin was most afraid of, Li Guozhu was the biggest pillar of his economy, and although Zheng Yiguan was far away in Fujian, he affected Chen Xin's money.

However, Zheng Yiguan is about to have a civil war with pirates, and Li Guozhu should not be able to move for the time being, and Chen Xin did not explain to Song Wenxian, but only asked Song Wenxian: "How is Wen Tiren?" ”

"I don't know." Song Wenxian replied simply, and then continued: "I'll tell you about it again, Yang Guodong has served as a Shandong commander-in-chief, or in Dengzhou, I heard that he has recently been running officials in Guanning, Zhang Keda is still Denglai's commander-in-chief, we still have to fight at both ends." ”

As long as he doesn't go out of the expedition, whether he is the Shandong General Soldier or the Denglai General Soldier, he can't control Chen Xin's head, Song Wenxian said something that is not very important, Chen Xin said with a little curiosity: "The dot is, we have to dot more places every year, many of them, compared with these two general soldiers, I am more curious about Mr. Song, is there a good new owner now?" ”

Song Wenxian took a sip of tea with a smile and said, "This is not here to find it." ”

Chen Xindao: "Mr. Song can look at the small temple, the little brother is welcome, isn't it that Wang Tingtry heard that the two of us conspired to pit Zhongdaotai and did not accept Mr.?" After finishing speaking, he suddenly bowed his hand to Song Wenxian and said, "No matter whether Mr. Song is fake or true just now, as long as Mr. is willing to come, there will always be a place for Mr. here." ”

Song Wenxian smiled, stood up and agreed, and shook his head after sitting down: "At present, the reverse case is not closed, Wang Tingtry is cautious, none of Li Song and Sun Guozhen's staff have accepted it before, but he has not fallen well, and now he is not even the governor of Denglai, and he is also empty." ”

"The governor's position is gone?"

Song Wenxian snorted: "Then Yuan Chonghuan and the emperor were sparse and removed the governor of Denglai, which was purely harmful to others and not beneficial to himself, and the governor of Denglai was also under his control, so why bother to reduce his official position and block the official career of others." I think he is like Yang Weiyuan, once he gains power, he gets carried away. ”

Chen Xin was stunned for a while before scolding: "It's a shame that I still sent Zhang Dahui to wait for news in Beijing, damn it, don't Denglai Governor, can he manage it." ”

"Who knows, first Liaodong withdrew the governor, and then Denglai, see which day he will also withdraw the governor of Shuntian, it is said that he will be in Guanning Jizhen to eliminate the army, who does not eliminate whom, he has the final say, so the number of troops must change, you know the number of soldiers, the profits of the generals are in it, now they all know that he is a saint, there is a salary in his hands, and from time to time he can take some internal money, and he has to go to other places, and he is not sure what he wants to do later, I want to say, let's go to Shanhaiguan to walk around, I can't see the superintendent, It's okay to win over the people around him, at least don't embarrass us Wen Dengying, and Wang Tingtry is now also in charge of Dengzhou Haiphong Road, so he also has to go there. ”

Chen Xin stood up and walked back and forth in the room, the new official came to power, and it was normal to find a name to establish authority, this time the elimination of soldiers was the same as the new leadership of the company to carry out institutional reform, but it was also normal to redistribute power in the name of finding a name, but what he knew was that Yuan Chonghuan estimated that he would be in prison at this time next year, there was no need to invest too much, at most it was what others were like themselves, Wang Tingqian should be serious there, because he didn't know how long Wang Tingqian could be in office, and the officials at the end of the Ming Dynasty were too diligent. The money is thrown into it, and there is really no score in the heart. Fortunately, I know that I am a warm body, and it will work in the future.

He walked around a few times, and finally stopped and said to Song Wenxian: "Then you can also go to the Governor's Mansion, but we don't send too much, according to the general rules, we will give more here, but don't go too far beyond others, too much will provoke their greed." ”

Song Wenxian agreed, Chen Xin remembered something, and then asked him: "Mr. Song, is there any news from Shaanxi?" ”

"Shaanxi?" Song Wenxian didn't seem to expect Chen Xin to ask about such a distant matter, and recalled: "It's nothing, the usual drought, cannibalism is not unusual, it seems that the newspaper of the mansion is written that there are a few grass cowards, in September, there was a Wang Er who killed an official in Baishui, and ran to a thief of Wang or something, and he couldn't make any movement." ”

After Song Wenxian finished speaking, he turned his head to drink tea, Chen Xin thought about the situation in Shaanxi, the origin of this Liukou in the late Ming Dynasty is like a dry pyre that has put a few sparks, which may become a fire at any time, and the emperor Taiji of Liaodong defeated Chahar again in September, half of the original Duoyan Sanwei has taken refuge in Houjin, and the gate to the border pass of Jizhen is opening. The chaos is about to begin.