Zhu Xieyuan has no ability to fight, so he will only command indiscriminately, and then follow Qin Liangyu's white pole soldier ass to pick up credit. But after several years of participation, he has also accumulated corresponding experience.

    For example, Zhu Xieyuan clearly knew that if he wanted to quell the rebellion and fight, he had to have these few things in his hands. The first is silver, the second is food, the third is weapons, and the fourth is soldiers.

    The military system of the Ming Dynasty has long since changed from compulsory soldiers to mercenaries. After the collapse of the guard system, if you want to have a few soldiers who can fight, you have to spend your own money to recruit them, and then put in your own efforts to train.

    Originally, the reason why Zhu Xieyuan dared to take over Wei Zhongxian's task of quelling the rebellion was because he knew that it was Qin Liangyu and the white pole soldiers who were in charge of the war. But after receiving the latest will from the imperial court, Zhu Xieyuan had to seriously think about how to solve this Wuchang rebellion.

    From 1621 to 1625, Zhu Xieyuan said that Lai also participated in military affairs for five or six years. Compared with Cheng Shao and Yao Zongwen, who are pure civilian officials who have no military experience, Zhu Xieyuan's military cultivation is definitely much higher than them. For example, he knew that he didn't have the sign of the military department and the governor of the five provinces on his head, and he still had the sword of Shang Fang in his hand, but the civil and military officials of the provinces really did not necessarily cooperate with his work wholeheartedly.

    Zhu Xieyuan knew that even the provincial officials really cooperated with his work wholeheartedly, and the state of the tattered armies in the provinces could not provide him with qualified soldiers. Therefore, if he wants to fight, he has to recruit and train troops by himself.

    Zhu Xieyuan has been in the southwest for many years, and unlike Cheng Shao and Yao Zongwen, he has good connections in the army. Unlike Cheng Shao and Yao Zongwen, who were unavailable, when Zhu Xieyuan arrived in Xiangyang, he already had two generals under his command, and there was also a relatively reliable governor's military camp with a total number of about 2,000 people.

     The two generals who led the troops were both figures with military exploits. One is Liu Zeqing, a pioneer general and guerrilla general who once followed Guizhou governor Wang Sanshan to quell the rebellion. One is Huang Yunqing, the former Guizhou Metropolitan Division, who was once impeached and imprisoned, but was saved by Zhu Xieyuan.

    In Zhu Xieyuan's eyes, one of these two generals is good at fighting and the other is good at training. As long as you have such two people in your hands, it will be relatively simple to form a force that can fight.

    Zhu Xieyuan immediately asked Wei Zhongxian for food and salary after receiving the will of the imperial court.

    Wei Zhongxian has been doing well in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and the north has to provide food and salary for the army on the nine sides.

    Wei Zhongxian also knew that the emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, so he still allocated corresponding food and military salaries to Zhu Xieyuan according to the scale of 10,000 people.

     In addition to food and military salaries, military recruitment and training also require ordnance. Wei Zhongxian is not stingy at all in this regard. He directly ordered the eunuchs guarding Nanjing to distribute armor and equipment to Zhu Xieyuan.

    Originally, Zhu Xieyuan wanted to use the ordnance stored by the guards in the Xiangyang area on the spot. But I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it. Because of the need for Yao Zongwen, the governor of Huguang, to form his own troops, the ordnance in the Xiangyang area has long been looted. No, Zhu Xieyuan asked Wei Zhongxian for ordnance.

    Speaking of which, the reason for his reluctance to use the Nanjing ordnance is also very simple.

    Using local ordnance, the quality is almost poor, but it doesn't cost money. The ordnance on the Nanjing side is far away and difficult to transport, and it costs a lot of extra money. After all, a large number of eunuchs and civil officials at all levels in Nanjing also pay attention to "water over wet ground". If you don't give them benefits, you won't see the ordnance.

    Zhu Xieyuan saw that the weapons used by the soldiers of the Governor Standard Battalion formed by Yao Zongwen for the second time were relatively neat, and he originally thought about whether he could use other people's weapons first. However, Zhu Xieyuan also knew that he, the governor of the five provinces, did not have the face of Yao Zongwen, the governor of Huguang, in front of Wei Zhongxian. Although he has the right to do this, from the perspective of officialdom rules and self-preservation, he still does not do it.

    After getting in his hands the grain and military salaries allocated by the imperial court, which had shrunk by 40 percent, Zhu Xieyuan was rare this time, and did not keep the money, but took out a large sum of money from it, and signed a contract with the Hanshui Shipping Company and the Yangtze River Shipping Company, which had recently become famous in Xiangyang City, and hired the Hanshui Shipping Company and the Yangtze River Shipping Company to help the new army transport ordnance from Nanjing to Xiangyang.

    Zhu Xieyuan didn't know that the Hanshui and Yangtze River Shipping Companies, which had made a name for themselves in Xiangyang because they had successfully helped the new Huguang Governor Yamen safely complete the work of transporting the province's taxes and silver, were actually enterprises under the Fuxing Association.

    It is for this reason that not only the entire Huguang Governor's Yamen in Xiangyang, but even the Yamen of the Governors of the Five Provinces, which has just been established, has been fully infiltrated by the intelligence agencies of the Fuxing Society.

    Speaking of which, the Hanshui Shipping Company stationed in Xiangyang can be said to have done Yao Zongwen, the governor of Huguang, a great favor. Cheng Shao, who wiped his neck and hanged himself, left a huge mess for Yao Zongwen. Cheng Shao closed his eyes and kicked his leg to death, but the more than 4,000 Henan beggar soldiers were directly thrown in Xiangyang Mansion.

    After Cheng Shao's death, all the civil and military officials at all levels of the Henan soldiers fled. The more than 4,000 Henan soldiers who had completely lost their organization were really wreaking havoc in the Xiangyang area. The people in Xiangyang Mansion and the surrounding areas are miserable.

    In the end, the Hanshui Shipping Company, which suddenly appeared, came forward to gather more than 4,000 Henan soldiers and organized these more than 4,000 people into a labor force to build wharves and warehouses on the banks of the Han River outside Xiangyang Prefecture. It is precisely because of this reason, very sensible, and the "Nanyang merchants" who gave Yao Zongwen a lot of Franc machine silver coins, were able to successfully set up a shipping company in Xiangyang Mansion and contracted the tax and silver transportation business in the entire Huguang area.

    The officials of the feudal era were not lacking in heart. Although Yao Zongwen is not one of the local officials who have the task of attracting investment in modern times, he also knows that large enterprises like the Hanshui Shipping Company, which can promote local employment, increase local tax revenue, and increase gray and black income for officials at the top and bottom of the Huguang Governor's Yamen, must be supported.

    So, the Hanshui Shipping Company bought a large piece of land on the edge of the Han River outside Xiangyang Prefecture at a very low price. In addition to the construction of a large (in the eyes of the ancients) water transport wharf, textile mills, cement factories, brick and tile factories, glass factories and grain processing enterprises were also established in the vicinity of the wharf.

    For a time, the employment situation in the entire Xiangyang area has been greatly improved. Not only were the Henan soldiers who had been ravaging the area transformed into dock workers and factory workers, but the Hanshui shipping industry also absorbed a large amount of surplus labor from the surrounding areas of Xiangyang.

    This situation has greatly improved the economic environment of the entire Xiangyang area. So much so that in recent times, Yao Zongwen, the new governor of Huguang, has won the praise of some capable ministers in the government and the opposition.

    Yao Zongwen was proud because he had a way to govern the locality, but Zhu Xieyuan, who needed to recruit soldiers, was not happy.