On July 1st, it rained in Dengzhou, although Dengletun Fort has perfect water conservancy facilities, but it is not always a happy thing to carry water by manpower, and it is still a happy thing to make the sky beautiful, which can save a lot of body lì of Tun households.

Chen Xin was lying on the chair in the study and looked out the window with some distraction, the dense sound of raindrops hitting the tiles came from the roof, and strings of water droplets dripped from the eaves, as if a bead curtain was hung outside the window.

"My lord, Friend Tang's place has gone down, and everything has been accepted, he is a subordinate official who met in private, and his attitude is quite kind."

Chen Xin retracted his gaze and turned to Song Wenxian opposite, this old guy was full of dust, this year he ran a trip to Ningyuan at the beginning of the year, and went to various places in Shandong when he came back, this time he just came back from Jinan, and walked around the state capitals around Qingzhou, and he was indeed tired enough.

He just returned to Dengzhou and met the arrival of the new governor and the supervising army, he was the most suitable candidate to visit, Yang Wenyue's attitude was clear, but the attitude of the supervising army was not clear, Chen Xin asked him to test the attitude of Tang's friends.

Chen Xin opened his mouth and asked, "Did Friend Tang mention Lu Zhi's matter?" ”

"I didn't mention it, but my subordinates thought that Tang Friend must make an appearance, otherwise it will be difficult for Dongchang and the celebrant to explain."

Chen Xin turned to Zhou Shifa beside Song Wenxian, "How is the intelligence bureau's investigation of the new prison army?" Is this Tang friend really acting, or is he acting like a paralyzed person? ”

Zhou Shifa said respectfully: "Back to my lord's words, in the past few days, Tang friends have not checked the grain depot, the inventory of the arsenal, and the soldiers and horses of each battalion. lit the red-coated cannon once, and didn't even count the number of boats in the water camp, the only thing he was doing was to send people to find Lu Zhi in Dengzhou with great fanfare, and the officials of the yamen who had supervised the army in the past were also retained. This person was previously in the Imperial Warden. Zhang Dahui has dealt with him many times, this person is very greedy for money, do things cautiously, quite the emperor's favor, the palace owed us a lot of money for the southern goods, a considerable part of it into his pocket, after summing up, it seems that the analysis department does not intend to do it with us. ”

Chen Xin smiled and said: "If you are cautious, it is appropriate to be in charge of the imperial prison, what is the matter of being a prisoner." The emperor really has a set of people. However, time is still short. The Intelligence Agency must not be sloppy. Be sure to keep an eye on him, as well as those fans who came with him, there may be Cao Huachun and the people installed by the emperor. Don't miss it. ”

"When I arrived, Zhang Dahui pretended to be a soldier and identified those fans, half of them were from Dongchang, and two of them were people who Zhang Dahui had dealt with before, and they had been bribed, and their whereabouts were now in the hands of the Intelligence Bureau."

Chen Xin nodded and said: "If you don't make trouble, you can give more benefits, if there is any change, you can deal with it in any way, in short, we can't let Jingshi pay too much attention to us in the past few months, but we can't let these people come nonsense." ”

Song Wenxian and Zhou Shifa should be in unison. The recent mobilization of the Dengzhou army knew that the restoration of Liaodong would not only bring enough land to Dengzhou Town to settle the displaced people, but also obtain the best strategic form and gain the prestige of the day. As long as Liaodong is won, Dengzhou Town will take the most important step to win the world. For Song Wenxian and Zhou Shifa, the two people who followed Chen Xin at the earliest, it meant greater power and interests, so both of them have been doubly diligent recently, and they have been more careful in dealing with the imperial court.

The governor and the supervisor army exchanged by the emperor this time are also people who have been in this officialdom for a long time, and their habits are the same as most officials at this time, and the emperor is also naïve to ask them to work hard to deal with Dengzhou Town. Dengzhou Town's Foreign Affairs Department and Intelligence Bureau are bright and dark, plus there are examples of Sun Yuanhua and Jiang Yuegui in front, these officials will not take their lives seriously, and it is a matter of time before they deceive the emperor with Dengzhou Town, which has been reflected in Liao Zhen, starting from Qiu Hejia, Liao Town's civil and military affairs are communication and deception.

After the formation of the local de facto feudal town, it was impossible to achieve the use of civil and military control, and the imperial court did not find a new way, so in the last few years of Chongzhen, more and more warlords appeared, such as Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, He Renlong, etc., the imperial court did not give money and food, they went to rob themselves, relying on violence to achieve logistical self-sufficiency, thus completely breaking away from the control of the imperial court.

In the later period of Chongzhen, even the superintendent and the military department could not transfer the army, and could only deceive the emperor with the warlords, originally Chongzhen nine years later, the Jin soldiers entered the Kou, the military department Shangshu Zhang Fengyi and the resurrected Liang Tingdong partnered to deceive, and sent good news to the emperor every day, the result was to hide from the Jin soldiers after the appointment, and finally was exposed by Luo, Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong had to eat rhubarb every day to commit suicide, Chongzhen later wanted to mobilize Zuo Liangyu to fight the Liukou, and had to ask Hou Xun to come forward to impress Zuo Liangyu by the old feelings. In the era of war, the status of civil and military forces has been reversed.

Although it is still the eighth year of Chongzhen, the strength of the Dengzhou Town Army is far from being comparable to Zuo Liangyu Liu Zeqing and others, the nine-sided army has experienced many Houjin blows, and it has been constantly lost and scattered in the pursuit of the Liukou, no military town can compete with Denglai, Nanzhili and the Canal Army are even worse, and there is no strength around to effectively deal with Dengzhou Town, so Chen Xin has more capital to be a warlord.

Chen Xin thought of this and asked Song Wenxian, "Where is Lu Zhi placed now?" Is he satisfied? ”

"I went to Wendeng and arranged a secret residence in the old camp of Wendeng, guarded by the internal service team of the Intelligence Bureau."

"What did he ask for?"

"Not really, but I just asked a few times when I could help Lord Chen do things, and he said that he was familiar with the affairs of the palace, and Lord Chen would be able to use him in the future, and he also planned to donate tens of thousands of taels of silver to the lord, but his subordinates did not reply after receiving the report."

Chen Xin smiled dumbly, he left Lu Zhi and Wang Tingqian to show his attitude to the old bureaucrats, that is, cooperating with him Chen Xin will not be crossed the river and the bridge will be demolished, and Dengzhou Town will protect their integrity, at least they can get a rich man's ending, which can reduce the resistance in the future, which can be regarded as a political offensive by Chen Xin against the imperial court, not because these two people really have much ability.

As far as Wang Tingxuan and Lu Zhi are concerned, they are both good in the old bureaucracy, but they may not be suitable for the internal management system of Dengzhou Town, and they will not use eunuchs as internal officials in the future, Chen Xin can think of placing them. There is only the Department of Foreign Affairs, which deals with the outside world.

Zhou Shifa quipped: "Lu Zhipin has found a good position. ”

Chen Xin shook his head and said: "It's okay to do things, but this official doesn't need an internal official, and his donation is not needed, otherwise others will think that he can buy peace with silver." Dao Shi, you let him stay in Wendeng with peace of mind. Dengzhou Town will keep him safe, and he will be useful when the time is right. ”

Song Wenxian hurriedly said: "My lord, I see it." ”

"Recently, Daoshi went to Shandong, originally according to the work plan of the Department of Foreign Affairs for this year, you should have gone to Huguang, there is a place to occupy a place, and there is a lot of time to deal with the locality, but this year there is a big offensive in Liaodong, Dengzhou Town first ensures that the surrounding area of Denglai Qing Sanfu is stable, and Huguang has another deputy director, so that he can go there to be responsible. You put forward three candidates. Give them information to the officer. The decision will be made after the interview with the officials one by one. ”

"Subordinates obey." Song Wenxian replied respectfully.

Dengzhou's personnel system is relatively independent, decomposing the authority of the chief officials of each department, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs has a special personnel department. The director of the department is Wu Youdao, and the appointments of the civil system come from there, and the military comes from the military affairs department.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Bureau are under the direct leadership of Chen Xin, and the director level is appointed by Song Wenxian, but he must also be reviewed by the chamberlain, and he, the director, cannot appoint the deputy director, only the power to nominate candidates for the deputy director, and the deputy director is different from the deputy position of the imperial court. Generally, he will be in charge of a certain work, and he can also report directly to Chen Xin, which is a kind of check and balance for Chen Xin to the heads of various departments.

After Chen Xin finished arranging, he looked at the two of them and said: "Daoshi and Shifa will have to put more thought into it in the near future, this official will soon go to southern Liaoning, the scale of the autumn offensive is larger than ever, the military strength of Dengzhou will be concentrated in southern Liaoning, Denglai will be emptier than before, and the imperial court will get the news sooner or later." No matter what method is used, it is necessary to maintain the stability of Denglai, and the safety of Denglai depends on the two more, as long as this hurdle is crossed, Dengzhou Town will no longer be a military town............

Liu Minyou sat in the lobby to work, and some department directors and directors of trading companies around him also sat in the lobby, and a sign was hung outside the lobby that read "Provisional Liaohai Transportation Committee," and outsiders were completely confused.

For this autumn offensive, Dengzhou Town needed to transport more than 200,000 stone of grain, 30,000 stone of concentrate fodder, more than 20,000 troops and equipment, and more reservists and civilians to southern Liaoning.

This lobby is the temporary headquarters of this logistics plan, which gathers all the military and civilian institutions related to logistics, and the chief officers are all together, and even the seals are brought to this lobby, and there is no need to coordinate anything to find people back and forth, so as to achieve the highest efficiency.

"Lord Liu, the second batch of grain needs 500 sand ships, and the transportation plan will be completed this month, and the first operation of the guard has occupied the shippower of the trading company, and it is necessary to call in additional ships from other shipping companies."

Liu Min didn't raise his head and said, "All the ships of the two boat clubs in Chengshan." ”

"Lord Liu, the Quartermaster Department sent statistics on winter clothes, and the soldiers brought them by themselves, that is, about half of the people did not have them, and it was difficult for them to count them for a while, so they asked the Ministry of Civil Affairs to transport them according to 30,000 pieces."

"This matter can only be calculated according to the over, compared with human life, winter clothes can be worth a few dollars, the transportation plan is ranked after the grain, but it must be delivered before the beginning of September, and the shortage will be ordered from Changyi and Qingzhou cotton factories, so that they can deliver it early."

"Lord Liu, the transportation time of the Wendeng reserve has been changed again, and the ships of the Wendeng Water Battalion have to wait again."

Liu Minyou slapped the table and scolded: "Go, go and ask Liu Pojun of the Military Command Division, what are they going to do, and how many times will the plan of the Wendeng Reserve Army be changed?" They changed their plans as soon as they touched each other, knowing how many of our transportation plans we had to change because of this, you asked Liu Pojun to come over and say that their transfer plan could not be so arbitrary. ”

"Lord Mo, the day before yesterday, two ships of the Jinghai Boat Company sank on Nanchenghuang Island, and they were ships heading north, and the grain on them also fell into the sea."

After Mo Huaiwen asked his assistant to record, he directly found the Tun Affairs Department and began to deal with the aftermath.

"Lord Wu, all the Tunbao in Penglai have sent letters, saying that the Mobilization Department is mobilizing the Penglai reserve troops, which occupies a lot of manpower, and the Tunpu will not be able to complete the production of so many dry rice this month."

Wu Youdao turned around and went to the army liaison officers and asked them to provide the scope of mobilization, so that the Tun Affairs Department could mobilize the tun households from other places to Penglai to help.

There were all kinds of voices in the hall, and the chief officials of each department were constantly discussing, quickly dispatching the forces of Dengzhou Town, and when there was a dispute, they would find Liu Min to make a decision, he was the highest decision-maker of this temporary committee.

The busyness continued until lunchtime, when the last herald's subordinate was dispatched, and the lobby was a little quieter, and the chief officers were rubbing their cheeks tiredly, while some other low-ranking officials went to the courtyard to rest and smoke, waiting for the canteen to deliver food.

Mo Huaiwen sat next to Liu Minyou and said: "Lord Liu, there are so many ships in this shipment, ships from various ports in Denglai are coming and going, and the carriages transporting grain from warehouses around the country are blocked, and the imperial court is afraid that sooner or later it will know, and it can't help but be suspicious." ”

Liu Minyou took a puff of cigarette, checked the plan again and said: "When they know, our transportation is over, although the soldiers are not there, but most of our reserve soldiers are still there, if the imperial court wants to deal with us, it will not work if we don't mobilize seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses, we have deployed 40,000 people in southern Liaoning to be like this, as far as the imperial court is concerned, I am afraid that the soldiers have not yet been transferred to the position, and those border troops will be able to create a rebellion against the imperial court first." So it's okay for the court to know, Deng Laiqing should be safe, let's just work hard. ”

Mo Huaiwen said with concern: "What my lord said is that there were soldiers in the past, and everyone felt more steady." This time it is to recover Liaodong, no matter how hard we work, it is worth it, but you, Lord Liu, will take care of Liaodong in the future, but you will be even busier. ”

Liu Minyou smiled in his heart after hearing this, and Mo Huaiwen was inquiring about things again, but Dengzhou Town followed Chen Xinxue, no one thought that it was wrong to fight for power, but if they fought for it, they had to do things well, and Mo Huaiwen was a typical official of this kind.

After thinking about it, Liu Min planned to sue Mo Huaiwen first, "Huaiwen, I'm afraid you also have to prepare, if Liaodong is defeated, maybe you will be appointed as the civil official of Liaodong." ”

Mo Huaiwen arched his hand, and was about to pretend to excuse himself, but Liu Minyou had already waved his hand and said, "This matter has been discussed with Lord Chen, and you are the most suitable person." However, that was after the recovery of Liaodong, and before that, you had to temporarily station in Dengzhou and do a good job in the logistics of this campaign. ”

"My subordinates have thanked the two adults for their appreciation, as long as Lord Liu is in Dengzhou, the food and salary will naturally be good."

Liu Minyou rubbed his forehead and said: "The official is about to go to Fuzhou and Jinzhou, after the second stage of transportation, the logistics focus has been transferred to southern Liaoning, the grain, grass, people and horses are assembled there, the next important thing is the transportation from Fuzhou to Gaizhou, which involves civil, shipping companies, trading companies, money villages, people's husbands, etc., this offensive is very important, Lord Chen is not worried about other people, and he wants this official to go to Fuzhou to straighten out." ”

"Adults don't sit in Dengzhou? The subordinates felt that it was safer for Lord Liu to stay in Dengzhou. ”

"Dengzhou shape shì steady dìng, this official is only leaving for a short time, and he will come back soon, at least before the Liaohai freezes. During this time, Lord Chen will appoint Song Wenxian to take charge of Dengzhou affairs. ”

"Then when will Lord Liu go?"

Liu Minyou let out a long breath, "It's coming, it's coming." ”