"The top priority is to train the new army." Yang Tinglin said to Liu Jun that Yang Tinglin was newly brought from Beijing, he was a Jinshi of Chongzhen for four years, changed to a Jishi, awarded the editor, and served as the prince's attendant.

Later, because he offended Yang Sichang, he was transferred by Yang Sichang to the Ministry of War to serve as the head of the party, and then transferred to Lu Xiangsheng's army to praise the painting staff officer, during the battle of Zhuolu, Lu Xiangsheng sent him to Gao Qi to ask for help in the army, Gao Qi ignored it, Yang Tinglin rushed back to Lu Xiangsheng's army when Lu Xiangsheng had been wiped out, and then Yang Sichang learned that Yang Tinglin was not dead, and demoted him to Jiangxi.

In this drastic change in the DPRK and China, Yang Sichang was abandoned by the emperor, and many officials who were originally attacked and suppressed by him were reactivated, and Yang Tinglin was also awarded the deputy envoy of Huguang and the supervisor of Yunyang, and became Liu Jun's supervisor. For this prison army, Liu Jun sent someone to carefully collect his details, and learned that this was a talented, loyal and fair person, so he was very courteous to him.

After receiving the order, Yang Yanlin hurried to see His Majesty in Beijing, and then hurried to Fengjie. Now he and Liu Jun are back to Huguang by boat. When he was in Beijing, the emperor once made it very clear to Yang Tinglin that this time he must take advantage of the situation to pacify the bandits in one fell swoop, and he must not give the bandits a chance to breathe, so he asked Liu Jun to train an elite new army in Yunyang first.

"The imperial court gave 50,000 new soldiers, and the emperor gave 10,000 family members."

Yang Tinglin's words were very straightforward, and the emperor also knew the situation of the generals' usual salaries, so he also gave Liu Jun some quotas, 10,000 family dollars, that is, empty salaries, Liu Jun practiced three or five thousand family members or two or three thousand family dollars, and the remaining thousands of family dollars were all considered the vacancies he allowed to occupy.

Liu Jun shook his head, he hated such a thing as eating empty salaries, and he would never allow this situation to occur if he trained and led the troops by himself. Liu Jun's soldiers will not be short, but will only be full or even overstaffed. "Your Majesty asked me to train 50,000 new troops, then I will train 50,000 new troops, and there will never be one less."

"Then the general below?"

Yang Tinglin also knew the truth in the army for a long time. Knowing that eating empty quotas is not the main general alone, but at all levels, eating empty quotas is a means for generals to make a fortune.

"Since I am training the new army, there is no need to worry about such a problem. If you can't even do the first foot soldier, then how can you train elite soldiers. Liu Jun smiled, but there was a look of calm in his eyes.

Yang Tinglin was a little surprised, but more than that, he was pleasantly surprised. It was the first time he had met a chief military officer like Liu Jun, and he was really an unusual chief military officer, young and energetic. But whether Liu Jun can do what he says, Yang Tinglin will not believe it immediately, and he will continue to observe.

"Then how do these 50,000 soldiers and horses plan to be organized?"

Liu Jun stood at the bow of the ship, caressing the side of the ship, "The first problem we face now is not how to train, but how to get so many soldiers. ”

"It's not difficult to transfer tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the jurisdiction of Yunyang Town, right?"

"Those soldiers and horses are under the jurisdiction of the rest of the towns, and I don't want to use them. First, it is very troublesome to be unclear, and second, those soldiers have long been rotten to the roots, and pumping these soldiers for training will be half the effort. It's better to recruit a group of recruits directly. Start from scratch. "There are no good soldiers available in the local area at all, either the rotten guard army, or some ruffian local battalion soldiers, which are simply useless. It works. They are all the private soldiers of the generals.

"Isn't it too slow to recruit new recruits and train from scratch?" Yang Tinglin was shocked by Liu Jun's plan. I actually plan to start from scratch.

"Actually, it's not slow, these nine-headed birds and horses you see now. The longest training time is only three months, and many of them are only for a month, but if you look at their battle formations, no one flinched, and they fought bravely, and I defeated tens of thousands of bandits with these new troops. Although these soldiers are new, they are all a white cloth when they are recruited, spotless, and not dyed black in those big sauce jars, and these people are best practiced. "Liu Jun is telling the truth.

"Training is never a problem, nor is the source of soldiers, for me, there are only two biggest troubles in training, one is ordnance, and the other is food, as long as I can meet these two, I can quickly train a brave and capable soldier for the imperial court."

Yang Tinglin was silent.

"The emperor took out 500,000 taels of silver this time to reward the bereavement, all of which were the internal funds of the inner government, and even the queen and the concubines donated a lot. In a short period of time, the emperor has no money to pull it out again, and the court has no money and food to pull out. When I came, the emperor told me that the soldiers had to be trained, but they had to find their own way to pay for the food, but the emperor gave you a special decree to let you raise food and salary in various ways by yourself. ”

Liu Jun was not surprised by this answer at all, the Ming Dynasty is so peculiar, with thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, but the emperor and the court are always poor to death. But how could such a big country as the Ming Dynasty be poor, in fact, the money was given to those gentry, landlords and businessmen to make money.

The richest people in the Ming Dynasty were the maritime merchants, the salt merchants, then the landlords, the gentry, the officials, and then the emperor and the court, and the common people were all poor. Daming raised countless privileged classes to lie on Daming's body and suck blood, sucking round, but sucking Daming to death.

"Is it multi-funded? Hehe. Liu Jun smiled, in fact, he was very happy about this result, really let the emperor and the court give silver, how much can be squeezed out is still a problem, and more importantly, in the end, you have to deduct a little bit of silver, and you can't get much.

It is better to give the silver directly.

Only asking for the emperor's sentence that allows multiple sources to raise food and salaries is actually better than pulling out silver. This means that Liu Jun can set up cards to charge, donate fees, raise money from businessmen and gentry, and even do his own business, open mines and workshops, and so on. With this sentence, all of this can be done above board.

Without this decree, you, the commander-in-chief of the army, would not be able to raise your own rations. One of the most effective ways for the imperial court to control military power is for generals to lead the troops, while the imperial court controls food and wages. If your generals can raise food and pay themselves, then can the court rest assured?

However, in this special period, the emperor has to relax in these aspects. If the generals could really find a way to get food and salaries on their own without the burden of the imperial court, and instead of directly plundering the army, the emperor would be very happy to see it.

Liu Jun did not directly lead the troops to Yunyang, but took a boat straight down to Huangzhou and returned to his hometown in Macheng first.

Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng also agreed that Liu Jun would go back to Macheng first, and gave the whole army of the nine-headed bird half a month's vacation. Although the emperor ordered them to exterminate the Huizuo Fifth Battalion in the Yinghuo Mountains by the end of the year, Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and Liu Jun all had the same opinion, and they were not in a hurry to fight. Be prepared before unleashing a thunderous strike.

This return to his hometown is not only a vacation and recuperation, but also for the generals to recruit soldiers and horses. Liu Jun has already preliminarily pulled up the shelves of more than a dozen battalions under his command, selected the commanders and main officers of each battalion, and then Liu Jun is ready to follow his original method. Let the generals and colonels of each battalion recruit soldiers and horses by themselves, and after recruiting soldiers and horses, they will be unified for training, and finally the generals and colonels of each battalion will select their own soldiers to complete the formation of the army.

Because the emperor wanted them to take advantage of the situation to exterminate the bandits in the Central Plains, this time the emperor did not even let Liu Jun and other heroes enter Beijing to see them, and the emperor let them train and suppress bandits in the local area with peace of mind. After pacifying the bandits, he will enter Beijing and play a victory.

"Zongzhen, do you know, now the Jingshi is praising you everywhere, and some people have even compiled your deeds of suppressing bandits into a commentary and drum lyrics, and they are rapping everywhere. Some people also call you and Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan, the twin of the Ming army, and praise you as the rising star of the imperial court military circles, the best pair of young generals! ”

Liu Jun pursed his lips when he heard Yang Tinglin compare himself to Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui, a traitor who was spurned by thousands of people in later generations. Manchu lackeys.

However, at this time, Wu Sangui has a good reputation, he has a good background, and he is behind the generals of Liaoxi. His father, Wu Xiang, was the general soldier of Liaodong, and his mother was the ancestor of the Jiangmen family in Liaoxi, and his uncle Zu Dashou was the general soldier of the Liaodong Striker, and the ancestral family of the Jiangmen family. A large number of adjutant generals, staff generals, guerrillas, etc., in Liaoxi, outside the Guan, the status of the Zu family and the Wu family in the army is unmatched.

What's more, Wu Sangui was young at this time. But in the Liaoxi Army, he has fought several battles, and he has performed very well, and the army praises his wisdom and bravery. He came from such a good background, and he also worshipped Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, as his teachers, and also recognized the director Gao Qiqian as his father-in-law.

It's Liu Jun, who suddenly became like this, even more legendary than Wu Sangui. Now, the two young men have been crowned chief officers at the same time, so they are called the two in the army. This is also a recognition of Liu Jun, a kind of recognition.

But Liu Jun really doesn't like this kind of recognition very much, Wu Sangui, now a young hero at the forefront of the Ming Dynasty's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, who can know that he will become a traitor who leads the Qing army into the customs in the future? Maybe the current Wu Sangui is indeed loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but it is always difficult for Liu Jun to let go of those in his heart.

"When I entered Beijing, I heard that Jianyu was building a road to Jinzhou, and there was also news that Jianyu was preparing to build a city in Yizhou, north of Jinzhou. Yang Tinglin sighed and said, "Jianyu entered the prison last year, robbed countless people of money and food, and their strength is one step stronger, it seems that they are preparing to oppose the guest, step by step, and it is even possible to besiege Jinzhou again." ”

Liu Jun is not very clear about what happened in history over the years, he only knows that the Ming Dynasty in history will fall in less than five years, and it seems that before that, the Ming and Qing dynasties seem to have fought a decisive battle outside the Guan, resulting in the loss of the elite, making the situation outside the Guanxi can no longer be saved, and the bandits in the Central Plains also took the opportunity to sit big, internal and external troubles, the Ming Dynasty finally collapsed all at once, Li Zicheng took the lead in attacking Beijing, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Guannei, defeated Li Zicheng, and stole the Central Plains.

Perhaps, Jianyu is indeed preparing to besiege Jinzhou.

"I hope that the bandits in the Central Plains can be pacified as soon as possible, and at that time, a certain general will raise troops to the north to drive out the Tartars!"

"Why don't you kill the Tartars first, and then get rid of the bandits?" Liu Jun asked.

Yang Tinglin said without hesitation, "If you go outside, you must first settle inside." ”

Liu Jun smacked his mouth and didn't say anything. It seems that now the entire Ming Dynasty has the same view on both the foreign and the internal, that is, if you want to fight outside, you must first settle inside. From the emperor's first assistant to the common people, when it comes to this matter, it is almost the same heart.

Liu Jun can't say whether this sentence is right or wrong, but for the Ming Dynasty, internal and external troubles, whether it is internal or external is a major matter related to the national strategic level, and a decision must be made. Historically, although the imperial court said that its consciousness was relatively unified, it was believed that it should be settled first. But in fact, the imperial court is always tired on both sides, and even several times, when the officials and soldiers concentrated their efforts to destroy the bandits, but Jianyu entered the prison again, and then the officials and soldiers had to send troops and horses north to guard, and the bandits escaped again and got a chance to recuperate.

Daming's current situation is like this, one inside and one outside, but Daming can't solve either of them.

Maybe he is changing history, Zhang Xianzhong has been captured by him, Luo Ru was defeated by him, these two bandits in history have set off another round of rebellion - tide, Li Zicheng seems to be making a comeback at this time, and then the official army is exhausted, but it has never been able to contain, and finally the bandits are completely big, and the official army can no longer win the bandits.

Perhaps, history has changed! (To be continued......)

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