The soldiers and civilians of the port waited on the dock early to greet the triumph of the Duke of Chu together.

After Liu Jun got off the ship, he had to make a speech on the wharf to celebrate the victory, and met with many representatives of businessmen and people. When he returned to his handsome mansion, Liu Jun fell asleep and slept until sunset, and then slowly woke up from the bed.

After waking up, Liu Jun sat on the bed and pondered alone for a long time, and he kept telling himself, "From now on, every next step is extremely critical." ”

After a while, the Korean princess Ri Hye knocked on the door outside, and she brought him a meal she had made herself. There are several meals full of Korean style, such as soaking rice, grilled pork belly, spicy cabbage, and kelp soup.

In the scorching summer of July, although these dishes were simple but very appetizing, Liu Jun ate three bowls of pickled rice in one go. Li Hui sat on the side and watched Liu Jun eat gently, Liu Jun ate three bowls, and she was very happy. The husband and wife parted for more than half a year soon after marriage, and she has been worried about him for most of the year.

When she was in Korea, she personally witnessed the ferocity and barbarism of the Jurchens, abducted hundreds of thousands of Koreans, and forced the Korean king to surrender. She didn't expect that her husband only took tens of thousands of horses to the Northern Expedition, and he fought all the way to the capital of the Qing Dynasty.

"Your craftsmanship is good, the dishes look ordinary, but they are delicious." Liu Jun put down the dishes and chopsticks, patted his belly, smiled at Li Hui, and praised.

Listening to Liu Jun's praise, Li Hui smiled and bowed his head, "It's good if the husband likes it." ”

"Pack your bags when you have time, and we'll be in Beijing in a few days."

"Yes, husband."

When leaving, Liu Jun kissed Li Hui on the face, making her blush. Liu Jun slept and ate enough, and went out satisfied.

Zhu Chenggong was already standing outside the door waiting.

"Father-in-law, the carriage and horses are ready."

"Well, go to the barracks."

Zhu Chenggong hurriedly went to transfer the guards to escort them. Liu Jun didn't take the car, he rode a horse directly, and he called Zhu Chenggong next to him.

In the evening, the Caspian Sea breeze of Jinshan Fortress was blowing slowly, it was very cool, Liu Jun rode on a horse and asked Yizi, "Success, the emperors of the past dynasties, who do you respect the most?" ”

Zhu Chenggong followed Liu Jun in northern Liaoning for half a year, and he grew up in Fujian after living in Japan since he was a child. Blown by the north wind, it has also become a little rougher, and it looks a lot older. Hearing Liu Jun's inquiry, he thought about it carefully.

"The son reveres the most is Emperor Guangwu of the Zhongxing Han Dynasty!"

Liu Jun smiled.

"Which emperor does my father-in-law respect the most?" Zhu Chenggong asked.

"Tang Taizong."

"Emperor Taizong created Zhenguan to rule the world, and was respected as the Khan of Heaven by all countries, and he was indeed a famous monarch for a generation." Zhu Chenggong nodded.

Liu Jun did not respect Li Shimin because he created Zhenguan to rule the world, or because he was respected as the Khan of Heaven. Li Shimin's Zhenguan was not a prosperous age, and the population at the time of Zhenguan was very small, far less rich and powerful than when the emperor was opened. As for the title of Tian Khan, the Turks were as early as the Sui Dynasty. He gave Emperor Wen of Sui the title of sage Khan.

It can be said that Zhenguan is far inferior to the opening of Emperor Wen of Sui in any aspect.

Liu Jun respects Li Shimin because he appreciates Li Shimin's decisiveness. Strike when it's time to strike, strike first and not later. The changes in Xuanwumen, the monarchs, ministers and historians of later generations often took this as a stain on Li Minmin. But Liu Jun appreciated Li Shimin's Xuanwumen change. Li Shimin made great contributions to Li Tangnan's expedition to the north, but he also made great achievements, affecting the status of the prince and even the emperor. When Li Jiancheng wanted to strike first, Li Shimin, who was completely vulnerable at the time, was able to decisively take the lead, and did not hesitate to kill his brother and kill his brother to put his father under house arrest and rob the country.

This is the true character of the emperor, there is nothing to hesitate about, when the time comes, seize it immediately.

In the barracks, the generals had been notified and rushed to wait.

"The Inspector has arrived!"

"Meet the Overseer!"

"Sit down." Liu Jun entered the big tent, sat down, and then waved to everyone.

Today's is a discussion in the army, Liu Jun failed to inform the governor, the governor, the supervising army and the imperial historians as usual, and all the people present in the account are senior officers above the association level.

"The pacification envoys of the township teachers' associations should report the list of military merits as soon as possible, and the military merits should be verified as soon as possible, and the rewards for military merits should be distributed as soon as possible. The promotion that should be promoted, the promotion that should be promoted, and the reward that should be rewarded, but it is still the same sentence, military merit must be open, transparent, fair and just. ”

"Yes." The envoys at all levels received their orders in unison.

"Next, the second matter is about the reorganization of the Black Flag Army."

As soon as Liu Jun's words came out, everyone was silent. The Black Flag Army is a special existence, after Gaizhou broke the city, Liu Jun originally planned to send those soldiers to Taiwan, but the imperial court ordered to escort the officers to Beijing for disposal, and the soldiers to Taiwan for labor reform. In the end, Liu Jun decided to recruit and reorganize these soldiers and let them fight together.

At the beginning, there were only four associations, and by the time the withdrawal came back, there were already eighteen associations. When the Black Flag Army was in Liaodong, it did not refuse to come, and took away most of the population of the captured area, and most of the young and strong among them were called as their auxiliaries.

Eighteen associations, which is the strength of three towns, is more than 90,000 people.

Now that the war in Liaodong is over, it is naturally impossible for this temporary co-subordinate army to continue to be retained. However, Liu Jun didn't want to disband them immediately.

The battle in Liaodong shows that these Black Flag Armies are still very good, even stronger than many armies of the Ming Dynasty, especially those old Black Flag Armies.

Everyone is waiting for Liu Jun's statement.

"In this Northern Expedition, we have also lost more than 4,000 nine-headed birds, so let's first select and transfer 5,000 outstanding people from the Black Flag Army to supplement the departments."

Liu Jun's confidential staff officer quickly wrote down the matter.

After a pause, Liu Jun continued, "The Beiyang Naval Division originally had more than 10,000 people in three fleets, and now that we control the Liaohai, the Beiyang Fleet needs to assist in guarding Zhenjiang and Lushun, and even in Dengzhou, responsible for the escort of the sea transport fleet to Tianjin and Liaoxi, and the strength is somewhat insufficient. ”

"The naval division will replenish a batch of troops on the same day, and each fleet will be the size of a division, 15,000 men. The three fleets are full of 45,000 men, and 30,000 men need to be replenished. In the future, each fleet of the Navy Division was organized into three associations, two of which were marines. For landing operations, the naval division must not only become a maritime force, but also be able to conduct landing operations. ”

The confidential staff officer recorded it again, and the Beiyang Naval Division was expanded by 30,000 people. The three-part fleet has a total of 45,000 troops in the Nine Associations, and the expanded number of troops is selected from the Black Flag Army.

Liu Jun immediately transferred 35,000 people from the Black Flag Army to supplement the Nine-headed Bird, and many generals felt a trace of unusual taste.

Fu Shan as Liaodong. The Admiral of the Denglai Military Region and the Chief Officer of Lushun, the Beiyang Naval Division was not subordinate to him, and the Beiyang Naval Division was nominally to support the guest army, and they were under the command of Admiral Zheng Zhilong. Fu Shan didn't care too much about the expansion of the Beiyang Naval Division, he was more concerned about the three towns under his command.

The three towns of Liaodong and Denglai, Fu Shan is actually only in charge of Lushun and Zhenjiang two towns now, and Denglai Town is not a Chu army now.

"Supervisor, Denglai Town is short of soldiers and horses. The subordinates requested that a group of soldiers and horses be transferred from the Black Flag Army to complete Denglai Town. Fu Shan said loudly.

"Yes, we will transfer one association from each of the two towns of Lushun and Zhenjiang, and then transfer 20,000 horses from the Black Flag Army to form 30,000 horses from the second division and six associations of Denglai Town."

Liu Jun doesn't treat the original soldiers and horses in Denglai Town as air at all, and draws two associations from Lushun and Zhenjiang, and four associations from the Black Flag Army, then it is already a reorganized town of the six associations, and Liu Jun, the original soldier of Denglai Town, is not going to use it.

However, there are actually not a few soldiers left in Denglai Town, and it turns out that Denglai Town is short of soldiers. In addition, a group of soldiers were transferred into Liaoxi, and the remaining part of this batch of soldiers in Liaoxi was absorbed by Wu Sangui, and then the imperial court reorganized the nine towns of Gyeonggi, and transferred a group of soldiers from Denglai to enrich the past.

What is left of the town of Denglai. That is, some old and weak.

In this way, the three towns of Liaodong and Denglai were fully established, plus the expansion of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the total number of soldiers and horses in the four towns was 135,000. The strength of the eleven associations should be drawn from the Black Flag Army.

"The three towns of Liaodong and the Beiyang Naval Division selected 55,000 people from the Black Flag Army to replenish it, and the remaining 35,000 people of the Black Flag Army were all disbanded. Send it to Tuntian, Taiwan. ”

The fate of the Black Flag Army was thus decided, and the strength of the eighteen associations was selected to supplement the four towns by selecting eleven alliances, and the remaining 35,000 were disbanded and sent to Tuntian, Taiwan.

In this way, in addition to Liu Jun's Huguang Town in Hubei and a Lianghu Regiment to train troops in two towns of 60,000 horses, there will also be four towns of 135,000 men and horses in Shandong and the Liaodong Peninsula.

This will be a strong army both in terms of quantity and quality.

Liu Jun expanded the four towns at this time, and directly replaced Denglai Town with his own people, which has revealed a lot of information. Many sensitive generals vaguely guessed something in their hearts and were secretly excited.

"From now on, Fu Shan will be appointed as the commander of the Liaodong and Denglai Military Regions and the chief military officer of Lushun Town, Wang Qian will be the chief military officer of Zhenjiang Town, Cai Yuan will be the chief military officer of Denglai Town, Liu Yun will be promoted to the chief of staff of the Beiyang Naval Division, and Zhang Guodong will take over as the chief of staff of the Liaodong and Denglai Military Regions."

Zhang Shan is now in charge of the Lianghu Regiment in Hubei, so his original position of Zhenjiang General Army, Liu Jun, let Wang Qian take over first.

"When you go back, you should hurry up and complete the replenishment and start training early."

After the military meeting, Fu Zonglong brought a group of civilian officials to pay a visit.

"When will the superintendent leave for Beijing?" Fu Zonglong asked.

After Liu Jun resigned from the post of governor of Liaodong last year, he was supposed to enter Beijing to take up the post of governor of Beijing and the governor of the Chinese army, but as a result, the army in western Liaoning was defeated, and Chongzhen had to let Liu Jun be ordered to be in danger, so that he could supervise the towns outside the Guanguan with the post of governor of the Beijing camp, and the governors of all towns in the world to aid the Liao soldiers and horses.

This is a temporary position, and now that the war in Liaodong is over and peace has been reached, Liu Jun, the supervisor, will naturally not be retained.

The imperial court has issued an edict to remove him from the post of superintendent, and now Liu Jun's official position is the governor of Beijing, and he is in charge of the affairs of the military capital. Officially, Liu Jun actually no longer has the right to command and command the three towns of Liaodong, Denglai and the Beiyang Naval Division.

However, as long as Liu Jun has not returned to Beijing for a day to hand over his duties, then he can barely be regarded as a one-day supervisor.

"When the aftermath is over, I will return to Beijing." Liu Jun replied, "Fu Dudang knows that this time he brought back more than 300,000 people from Liaoshen, including 90,000 people with black flags. There must be a beginning and an end to doing things, and I have to do things well before I can rest assured. ”

Regarding Liu Jun's reason, Fu Zonglong didn't have much to say. After drinking tea at Liu Jun's place, Fu Zonglong and the others went back.

After going back, Fu Zonglong immediately wrote a memo, explaining Liu Jun's meaning.

As soon as he sent the song out, a subordinate came to report that the Chu army was expanding its army.

"The two towns of Lushun and Zhenjiang each expanded by thousands of people to reach full strength. In addition, Beiyang Town expanded by 30,000 people at a time, and the Chu army also directly transferred 30,000 soldiers and horses from the Six Associations to form a new military town. ”

Fu Zonglong was surprised.

"As soon as the peace was reached and the war stopped, what did the Chu army mean by such a large-scale expansion? What does the Duke of Chu mean? ”

"Yes, it was decided at the military meeting that ended not long ago, and it was the will of the Duke of Chu."

Fu Zonglong frowned, he reached out to stroke his forehead, and kneaded it.

"Is it really what Chu Gong meant? The three towns in Liaodong, why did the Chu army make up a new town? ”

"The town of the new editor is Denglai Town."

Fu Zonglong was speechless, and Liu Jun's actions made him a little worried.

However, he did not immediately write a report to the emperor. He knew that if he wrote this matter into the recital and played it into the imperial court, he was afraid that it would set off a big wave and would definitely cause a lot of speculation.

From the bottom of his heart, Fu Zonglong still admires Liu Jun very much. Especially this time, the imperial court was defeated in Liaoxi, and the situation was as dangerous as an egg, and then it was Liu Jun who turned the tide and Fu Mansion collapsed. It is not an exaggeration to turn the situation around in one fell swoop, and even say that it saved the Ming Dynasty.

Although Liu Jun is also a little too strong and authoritarian, capable people will always have some character.

Liu Jun is still young, and Fu Zonglong doesn't want to ruin such a hero because of his own setbacks. He knows very well that although Liu Jun is now a world-class achievement, he is already on the cusp because of this world-class achievement, and if there are some sensitive things related to military power and the like at this time, I am afraid that it will become more and more unacceptable.

Fu Zonglong went to meet Liu Jun again, hoping to dissuade Liu Jun from expanding his troops and horses at this time. However, Liu Jun did not accept his kindness, and Liu Jun said that this move was to strengthen the defenses of Liaodong and prevent a possible counterattack by the Tartars.

Ren Fu Zonglong said that he was dry, and Liu Jun did not accept his kindness, and when he left, Fu Zonglong sighed again and again.

A few days later, another angel arrived.

The angel announced the decree, Liu Jun entered the Shaobao, the young master and the young master, and was promoted to the governor of Zhili, and the governor of the nine towns of Gyeonggi was soldiers and horses, so that Liu Jun immediately set off into Beijing after receiving the order.

"Zhu Ciye commands, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Liu Jun knelt in front of the incense case to receive the holy decree and thanked him.

The proclamator handed over the holy decree to Liu Jun, and bowed his hand with a smile, "Congratulations to Duke Chu on his ascension, and please return to Beijing as soon as possible after Duke Chu receives the decree, and don't let Your Majesty wait for a long time." (To be continued.) )