Chen Xin took the secret letter sent back by Song Wenxian in the room to check, and the first few words indicated that it was a second-level encryption, which did not need to be deciphered by Chen Xin himself, and was translated by Wang Mafu.

Judging from what Song Wenxian learned in Beijing, the financial situation of the imperial court has improved, and more than 1.4 million silver has been added to the Liao salary after the increase of three percent, and the performance appraisal of the Liao salary is stricter than any other.

After the silver was sufficient, the war also improved greatly, and the Qin army led by Hong Chengchou of Shaanxi became stronger and stronger, and in October they exterminated a city, Xue Hongqi, and the king of one word, and in November they exterminated the stubborn Hao Lin'an and the lone wolf. Chongzhen killed more than 36,000 rogues in five years, and the large number of rogues and bandit leaders in Shaanxi were all defeated, and a group of civil and military officials who looked good appeared in the battle, the most conspicuous civil official was Chen Qiyu, and the military attaches were Cao Bianjiao, Ai Wannian, Wang Chengen, and so on.

Hong Chengchou is not as pedantic as Yang He, nor is he a completely bloodthirsty butcher, every time after blocking the thieves, he declares that the coercion will not be killed, and as soon as they surrender, he will pick out all the captured rogue stalwarts, at most 400 people will be beheaded at a time, which not only deters the remnants, but also removes the backbone, even if there are people who want to make trouble in the future, their combat power will be much worse than before.

In the first month of the sixth year after the pacification of Shaanxi, the Shaanxi army began to work together to suppress the Liukou in Shanxi. Hong Chengchou played his trump card, and the trump card was Chen Xin's old friend Cao Wenzhao during the Battle of the Four Cities, he is now the chief soldier of Lintao, but his position is not as high as Chen Xin's.

Cao Wenzhao led 3,500 troops across the Yellow River and into Shanxi, accompanied by generals Ma Ke and Cao Bianjiao, who came from Cao Wenzhao's old Guanning Army, as well as the elite of the border army selected in Shaanxi, and each soldier was selected by the generals one by one. And most of them are cavalry, not only strong in battle, but also not weaker than rogue in mobility. This team of men and horses is skilled in warfare and fierce in style, killing tens of thousands of rogues in successive years of battles, Cao Bianjiao is Cao Wenzhao's nephew, and he is also brave in battle, and is called the big and small Cao by the rogues, once he meets this uncle and nephew, the rogues generally flee from the wind.

The good days of the thieves in Shanxi are coming to an end. This will also speed up their escape towards the Central Plains and Beizhili. So Dengzhou Town should also start to prepare, after Song Wenxian's visit, the general army of the regimental training was basically set, and an additional battalion of 3,000 people was paid, and the people could be trained. In the name of this new battalion, Liang Tingdong also promised another 500 sets of chain mail and 300 pieces of iron armor, as well as 500 horses from Taifu Temple. This price is a little far from the requirements of the old one, but it is within the acceptable range.

In addition, Xiong Mingyu, the new Jiliao Governor, is going to come to Denglai to inspect, this person was originally the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and has always been known as the Zhibing, and he should have replaced Liang Tingdong as the secretary of the military department in history. Later, because of the Xuanfu's unauthorized peace, he helped Shen Qi, who was also from Zhou Yanru's faction, to speak, and was sprayed down by Yushi's saliva. Now Liang Tingdong not only did not collapse, but also persevered tenaciously. There is a lot of momentum to enter the cabinet. Chongzhen played with the balance and gave the position of Jiliao Governor to Zhou Yanru's people, which made Liang Tingdong and Wen Tirenkong happy.

Xiong Mingyu has been in power for several months, and his jurisdiction includes Jizhen, Liaozhen, Dengzhou, Dongjiang, and Tianjin. He chose the station in Shanhaiguan and went to Ningyuan to stay for a while. It can be seen that Liaoxi is still the place that the imperial court pays the most attention to. After the Chinese New Year, he planned to take a boat from Juehua Island to Dengzhou, and I heard that he would also go to Lushun to have a look.

Chen Xin is no longer as hard as he used to be, Wen Tiren, Liang Tingdong, and Cao Huachun are all close to him, and the emperor also values it very much, Xiong Mingyu looks like a majestic supervisor, but in fact, he is in Beijing, but Chen Xin can't help it.

Song Wenxian found two principals in the Ministry of War, and after taking the silver, he desperately recommended Zhu Wannian to go to Xuanfu as the governor, but it was more difficult than Chen Xin imagined.

Moreover, his competitor is very strong, although this person has an average reputation now, but later he is a famous person, even Chen Xin has heard of it in his previous life, that is Yang He Bingbei Dao Ma Shiying. Chen Xin's previous impression of Ma Shiying was that of a traitor, and most of this impression came from "Peach Blossom Fan". However, there are many officials and gentlemen who come to Da Ming, and they don't think Ma Shiying is particularly hateful, the collapse of Nanming is caused by the overall problems of society in the late Ming Dynasty, and Ma Shiying is just the last person among many typical official gentry. At least Ma Shiying did not take the initiative to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty like Qian Qianyi, the leader of Shilin, participated in the anti-Qing war many times after the fall of Nanjing, and after the defeat, he hid in the temple and became a monk, and he was caught and did not surrender, he was beheaded, but the positive characters in the peach blossom fan finally obeyed the shaved hair.

This Nanming traitor is advantageous and occupied, and Song Wenxian estimated that he would not be able to compete, so he took a step back and recommended Zhu Wannian as Yang and Bingbeidao, which has been basically implemented.

This is good news for Chen Xin, Zhu Wannian is strong by nature and has strong organizational skills, it just so happens that Wang Ting's attitude is ambiguous, he has become the backbone of the Laizhou gentry, and has been working against Dengzhou Town among the people, and now he can finally send it away.

After reading the news, Chen Xin squinted and pondered, the Liukou has entered the southeast region of Shanxi, and the Shaanxi army will continue to oppress the activity space of the Liukou in Shanxi after entering, and the Liukou will go to Henan and Zhili, as long as they break through the Taihang Mountain and enter the plain, they will be able to harvest more property and let their locust march continue.

According to Chen Xin's own estimates, the Ming army may have lost more men and horses in the Daling River than in history, because the Dengzhou Rebellion was extinguished, and the time of the Daling River was extended, and the people and horses in Changping, Tongzhou, Baoding and other places in the north of Zhili were successively rescued from the customs, and Changshan was completely defeated in the first battle. In other words, the military strength of the Northern Zhili may be weaker.

The people and horses that can be transferred to the court are the Guanning Army, the Sichuan Army and the Denglai Soldiers, the Sichuan Army has been a guest army for a long time, and the military spirit has been unstable.

The battle against the rogue is not a few days to complete, and the territory will be vast and the time will be very long, so you need to find a general who can lead the troops alone, and then cooperate with some suitable functional officers.

After thinking for a long time, Chen Xin opened his eyes and pulled a rope under the table, and a bell rang outside, and Wang Mafu pushed the door in.

"You draft an officer transfer order to the Military Affairs Department, and ask Zhu Daichun to designate a deputy director to be responsible for daily affairs. He himself reported to the Chinese army five days later. Wang Changfu and Zhao Xuan were transferred back to Dengzhou, and the cavalry battalion was transferred back to Dengzhou by two bureaus, and Lushun sent a boat to pick it up as soon as it was frozen, and he was transferred to Lushun to take over the first general of the second battalion, and the second general of the second battalion was also sent to southern Liaoning. ”

"Draw up another mobilization order to the Mobilization Division, let the Mobilization Division select the reserves, and the third battalion will be fully equipped by April."

"Yes, sir." Wang Mafu quickly jotted it down. Salute and retreat to the door.

"And." Chen Xin suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him, "And that Zhong Laosi, his full name is ...... This one. ”

"Zhong Caisheng."

"Yes, transfer him back to Dengzhou as well." ……

"Bang, bang" sounded, and Brother Guan drove the last two wooden wedges into the gap of the wooden frame.

Brother Guan shook it vigorously twice. The shelf was relatively sturdy, and he turned around and put a wooden box on the ground next to it, and then looked at a young man in the courtyard.

The man's eyebrows were a little similar to Brother Guan's, and he looked at a book in his hand for a while before he said: "Hanging more than three feet high, there can't be birds and birds in the courtyard, these two things are piled up." You get that strip up and try it. ”

Brother Guan obediently picked up a wooden frame and chose to insert it in the middle of the box, it seemed that the position was a little wrong, so he had to lift the box down. I inserted it twice and didn't get stuck in.

"How did you do it, who did it for, there is so much difference between the left and right positions, how can you insert it." The young man came and looked. The tone was full of unhappiness.

Brother Guan smiled and said: "It was made by the carpenter Wang of the third general armor, and he loves to make things by himself on weekdays." It looks good. It's okay to take a knife and cut it myself. ”

"No, let the carpenter return the money, we don't want this box. This craft still wants to make money, so beautiful that he will retreat. ”

The eldest lady of the Guan family heard the movement, and also came out of the main house, looked at it and said to the eldest brother Guan: "Listen to the younger brother, how can this broken thing be exchanged for silver." ”

Brother Guan was embarrassed: "Carpenter Wang only received one cent of silver, and he was originally cheap, so he will be good at once......"

"Half a penny of silver is not worth it, I will go to him to return it. Can you be a soldier and fight like this? The spear is not good for the future? Can the fire bolt buckshot not fit the mouth? You don't deserve to saddle a horse? This beekeeping manual is issued by the Agricultural Science Department, but this is written by Lord Liu, the beehive is designed by Lord Chen himself, and it is clearly written that there must be a neat interval, that is, a neat interval, you are so crooked, the top beam of the wooden frame is not protruding, the bees will build a nest in it, how to take honey at that time, how many bees will die to take honey, how to use this box? In our workshop, if those craftsmen do this, I will deduct all their monthly salaries. I told you that there is a beehive in the old camp that specializes in making this kind of beehive, and you have to go to the carpenter of the king to do it, how much work will be delayed, I am busy, why am I so uneasy. The more Brother Guan spoke, the more angry he became, and his face turned red with anger.

He is the younger brother of Brother Guan, after coming out of the science and technology class, he was transferred by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to help improve hydraulic machinery, and he received a reward after each acceptance, and saved his 100 taels of silver in a short time. After completing the mechanical transformation of the Zhaoyuan gold mine, he was transferred back to Wendeng by Liu Minyou, where he trained workers in the workshop to make the Zuò roll mill, and also took a mechanical class in the Wendeng University Hall, where he lived at home on weekdays.

This little brother is young and rich, he plans to build a big house, he is a real high-income person, and he is still very young, and the people who propose relatives are about to break the threshold. In the matter of getting married, Aunt Guan can't be his master at all, and she looks very satisfied, but this little brother just refuses, and I don't know what to choose.

Aunt Guan saw that he was angry, and hurriedly said to the boss: "Listen to the little brother, go and retreat." ”

Brother Guan said: "Lao Wang broke his leg last year while repairing the road, and the work in the field is all done by the sister-in-law of the Wang family, so he can only make some of these things to subsidize the family's ......."

With a snort, Brother Guan threw the beekeeping manual on the ground, strode away from the gate angrily, and Aunt Guan chased after her and shouted, "The rice is cooked, what is this for?" ”

A sentence came back from the alley, "If I don't eat it, I still have to go to the iron-making department to participate in the real yàn, and I don't have so much effort to delay." ”

Aunt Guan rubbed her hands on her apron, turned back and complained to Brother Guan: "You said you, you don't know how to let the younger brother as a brother, he asked you to go to the old camp to buy, you went to the old camp to buy it, you didn't have to make some things." ”

Brother Guan smiled wryly, picked up the manual from the ground, and patted the dirt off it.

He had only two months off this time, but Zhong Laosi didn't think about it when he gave him a holiday, Liaohai froze in November, and Brother Guan had nowhere to go in Dengzhou, so the Military Affairs Department had to keep him to help with things, and by the way he solved his room and board, and finally found that this non-commissioned officer couldn't recognize a few words, and his legs and feet were injured and not good, and it was not easy to run errands, so he extended his leave, and sent Brother Guan back to Wendeng, as a temporary instructor at Wendeng Vocational School, and asked him to rush back to Dengzhou to take a boat before the freeze in February.

"Mother, just now the little brother said that there is a queen bee bucket in Qingming, I can't wait for Qingming, you should be careful then, don't be stung."

The aunt of the Guan family was stunned for a moment, "Brother, are you leaving again?" ”

Brother Guan nodded, "I've been here for several months this time, and I'm going to curse." ”

Brother Guan went back to the house and dragged out a small bag from under the bed, came out and put it on the dining table in the main hall, inside was twenty taels of silver, which was his reward for the first-class White Blade Assault Medal.

"Mother, I'm here...... A little silver, you keep it to build a big house. But don't retreat from this bee bucket, the old Wang family is suffering, and he is sick. If it really can't be used, I'll go to the old camp and buy two more. ”

The eldest lady of the Guan family accepted the money, sighed in a low voice, and the eldest brother Guan went back to the house and put on a soft military hat, put on a military uniform and tied the belt, and then tied the line, and finally pinned the medal to his chest. When he came out again, he raised his head slightly, and felt that upright back on his body, as if he had changed from a farmer back to that combat hero in a blink of an eye.

Brother Guan knelt down to the aunt of the Guan family and said, "Mother, I'm gone, there are still many comrades-in-arms and brothers in Jinzhou waiting for me to kill the Tartars together." ”

"Hey." Aunt Guan didn't know what to say, so she responded.

Brother Guan picked up his backpack, paused slightly when he walked to the door, and then walked out of the alley with his head held high.

The aunt of the Guan family chased to the door, looked at the high-spirited back, and whispered with red eyes: "Don't die, don't die." ”

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