On the same day, the officials and gentlemen of Huangzhou Prefecture jointly sponsored a grand banquet to celebrate the triumph of the nine-headed bird. The banquet was very lively, and everyone wanted to have some relationship with the newly sealed Zhennan Hou, but Liu Jun had been staying with the generals of the nine-headed bird at the banquet and did not give them this opportunity.

Macheng garrison Zhang Shan has long been rushed from Macheng to Huangzhou Mansion to welcome Liu Jun, last time he stayed behind, so he was also promoted to Macheng garrison, at that time he was still happy, suddenly promoted to garrison, alone in command of a battalion of men. But turn around, it hasn't been a month yet, the brothers in Sichuan are killing all directions, good news after success, Wang Qian, who was still under him at the beginning, has now relied on his military merits in Sichuan, all the way to the deputy general of Huangzhou, deputy chief soldier, than his garrison can be separated by guerrillas, two major levels of generals.

Liu Jun also saw that Zhang Shan had been smiling a little reluctantly after seeing him, and the brothers all wanted to be promoted, which was normal and a good thing, indicating that everyone was enterprising.

"How's your battalion doing?" Liu Jun asked with a smile.

"Barely a little bit, there are too few old brothers." Zhang Shan smiled reluctantly, although he was training the Macheng garrison camp completely according to Liu Jun's training method, the effect was still not as good as the original effect of the nine-headed bird. Liu Jun smiled, he had expected this situation. The training of troops seems simple, but it is not simple, and the training of the garrison battalion is slow, and the most important point is that the garrison battalion only trains hard in the battalion and has not experienced actual combat.

"If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, don't be in a hurry, take your time." Liu Jun patted the shoulder of this righteous brother, and then said, "I have already guaranteed to Your Majesty that you will be stationed in Qizhou as the general of Xiajiang Road in Yunyang Town." ”

Although the general also commanded a battalion of 3,000 men, he divided the entire Xiajiang Road into a defensive area, and the Hanyang garrison was also under his command.

"What about the Macheng garrison?"

"Directly upgraded to the Xiajiang General Reinforcement Battalion."

"Will I be under the jurisdiction of Wang Qian in the future?"

Liu Jun nodded, the Ming Army's previous general generals at all levels, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrilla generals, etc., were actually relatively independent, and there was no direct relationship between the upper and lower levels, especially between the deputy generals and the general guards, each with its own jurisdiction. However, there have been many wars over the years. Gradually, the general army had the right to command the lieutenant generals, staff generals and other generals under the town.

However, the division of the guard deputy general and the division of the guard of the general, they are still relatively independent, they are all under the command of the general army, but the deputy general can not directly command the general, reasoning, the staff general can not directly command the garrison. But it's not absolute, especially nowadays, and the specific operation depends on the specific situation. If the general is stronger, then you can ignore the lieutenant. Again, if the lieutenant is stronger. The generals will certainly have to obey the dispatch.

"From the beginning of our Nine-Headed Bird Battalion, we have paid attention to clear order and clear up and down. I am the chief soldier, in charge of the whole town's soldiers and horses, there are two deputy generals below, divided into two associations on the left and right, two deputy generals are four generals, six garrisons, and two battalions of guerrillas. You are a general of Shimoe. and Xiangyang generals are both under the jurisdiction of the deputy general of Huangzhou of the Right Association. Liu Jun said it very clearly, he also knew that Zhang Shan had always been above Wang Qian, and now he was suddenly under him, and he must have some thoughts in his heart. But he must kill Zhang Shan's thinking now.

The nine-headed bird must not have such a situation where the command does not work.

"Do you understand?"

Zhang Shan nodded. "My subordinates understand."

"You and Wang Qian are my sworn brothers, and Cai Yuan and them, we were thirteen righteous at the beginning, and now we are both generals in the army together. I want us to be brothers and not jealous of each other. ”

"Think about it three months ago, we were just ordinary people. But now. I have to be a marquis in the general army, and you are all either adjutant generals, or staff generals, at least guerrilla generals. Think about it, did you dare to imagine three months ago? Think long-term! Liu Jun said soothingly.

Zhang Shan thought about it, it was true, if three months ago, someone said that he could become a general in three months, how could he not believe it and dare not believe it, but now he has indeed become a general. Thinking about it like this, the little unhappiness in my heart immediately disappeared.

"What my eldest brother taught me was that I was dizzy for a while."

"Don't talk about that." Liu Jun pulled Zhang Shan to the side, "How is the situation at home now?" ”

"Everything is fine in the Tiger Head Fort Workshop, Zhao Shun manages the workshop very well, and he manages the workshop in an orderly manner according to the reward system you set at the beginning. He rewarded a lot of craftsmen, and now the production capacity of the workshop has increased a lot, and the artillery workshop, the dragon gun workshop, the bird gun workshop, the gunpowder workshop, the buckshot workshop, and the assembly workshop are in full swing. When it came to the workshop, Zhang Shan was very amazed at Zhao Shun's ability.

Liu Jun has always been keeping an eye on the affairs of the workshop, and he knows that Zhao Shun strictly adheres to the reward plan he launched at the beginning, and rewards the craftsmen who can come up with process improvements and even new ideas. Several important processes have now been improved in the workshop, resulting in a significant increase in production capacity.

For example, one of the most troublesome processes for the production of firecrackers was drilled in one month, and then one was drilled in five days by improving the process and using three shifts of production. Now, with a hydraulic drilling machine in the drill workshop, coupled with the use of oil to cool down, a hydraulic drilling machine can drill a bore in two hours. The drill pipe link that used to restrict the production of firearms is now no longer restricting production.

There was also a lead bomb workshop, where a craftsman came up with a new method of production, which was to build a long sloping canal, which was then connected to the hot water from above, and the melted lead was leaked through a sieve into the hot water channel. The liquid lead is slowly cooled in the water, and then as it rolls in a hot water channel, it turns into a very standard round lead bullet.

Finally, after a simple grinding process, a large number of standardized firearms can be quickly made. Compared to the past, it was almost handmade with lead molds, which was fast and good.

The production of the gun workshop is very smooth, and now the monthly production capacity of the Feilong gun workshop has reached 10,000 pieces, as long as the supply of raw materials is on, the gun workshop will continue to produce and assemble a new gun in a steady stream.

"I'm relieved at the workshop, how did I go last time I told you about the investigation of illicit salt?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Shan frowned, "After the eldest brother released the rumor that he wanted to check the illegal salt last time, it also had some effect, and a few smuggled salt sellers came to give gifts, and then stopped. But there are quite a few that simply ignore us. I took my brothers to take a closer look. Then he started a few dens. But the end is only a small den, and the larger salt sellers are very keen, and every time I want to do it, they take precautions. ”

"These people are killing themselves, just right, this time I will take him first. You go back and summarize the situation of those people and make a detailed report to me. ”

Needless to say, Liu Jun also knew that these salt sellers must be the big and powerful people in those places, and they completely ignored Zhang Shan's garrison before. But now Liu Jun is the emperor's newly sealed Marquis of Zhennan. is still the general soldier of Yunyang, not to mention that he still has the cheap special purpose that the emperor raised for him, and he still has a Shang Fang sword in his hand.

No matter how arrogant and arrogant the place is, in Liu Jun's eyes, it is just some fat pigs, just killing and taking meat.

After the nine-headed bird camp returned to Macheng, Liu Jun gave them ten days off to return to their hometown. At the same time, let these newly promoted military attachés. Each of them recruited some new recruits in their hometowns to come back. According to Liu Jun's words, you are a new president, then you will recruit a thousand people back, if you are the president. Recruit 500 people back, and if you are a 100 president, you will recruit 100 people back. In short, as long as it is a strong guy with good conditions. Of course, the more the merrier.

Anyway, these soldiers recruited back don't mean that they can join the Hydra, they can only be regarded as candidates when they recruit back. In the end, they have to pass a unified recruitment assessment, and only those who pass will be admitted on the basis of merit.

After giving everyone a holiday, Liu Jun also rushed from Fucheng to his home in Xiwan, Macheng.

While Liu Jun rushed back to his home in Macheng, many people in Huguang couldn't sit still. The first ones who couldn't sit still were the original soldiers in Yunyang Town. Although Liu Jun always thought that Yunyang had no soldiers, in fact, Yunyang still had soldiers, Yunyang Town used to have 13,000 soldiers, 2,000 horses, these are the numbers on the military book, and the imperial court has to pay more than 200,000 taels of silver to the 13,000 people in Yunyang Town every year.

Now, the imperial court has promoted Yunyang to a general town, and Liu Jun is the chief military officer, which is a good thing, but as soon as Liu Jun took office, all kinds of actions have already revealed a very bad information. This newly sealed town Nanhou actually planned to dismantle all the original Yunyang men and horses, and then use his nine-headed bird battalion as the main one, recruit new soldiers, and establish the Yunyang New Army.

As soon as this news came out, the officers and soldiers in Yunyang were in an uproar, especially those generals who led the troops, Liu Jun was smashing their jobs.

Several guerrillas, garrisons, and thousands of generals quickly gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

"Liu Jun is not good!"

"We can't just watch him lay off all of us, 13,000 brothers, all of them will eat the northwest wind!" One of the guards shouted. There were 13,000 officers and soldiers in Yunyang and 2,000 horses, but in fact, this army had already rotted, 13,000 men and 2,000 horses, but they were all numbers on the roster.

The real situation is that a guerrilla battalion originally had 3,000 men, but in fact there were only 2,000 men, and 1,000 men were only on the roster, which was the empty salary that the guerrilla generals had been eating. Among the remaining 2,000 people, only 200 families can fight, and the 1,000 vacancies are used to support these 200 families, and the remaining 1,000 and 8 are also layers of deductions, with simple weapons, and low combat power. The other garrisons and thousands of generals are basically like this, with four layers of vacancies, and only one percent of the remaining sixty percent can fight.

In this crackdown on bandits, they followed Yang Sichang to fight, but they were defeated first in Dachang and then in Hanzhong, and they lost their troops and lost their generals. Those officers finally gathered the defeated soldiers and returned to Yunyang, but they heard that Liu Jun was going to lay off all of them.

Each of these officers was more useless than the other in fighting, but they all regarded leading soldiers as a lucrative business. made a fortune by eating empty amounts and deducting military salaries, if Liu Jun sanctioned their staff, then what would they do to make money.

Cutting off people's financial means is even more infuriating than killing parents!

A thousand general manager said in a gloomy voice, "Liu Jun can lay us off, but the court owes us more than four months of food, which is nearly 100,000 taels of silver, as long as Liu Jun can pay the 100,000 taels of silver now, we will let him carry it." ”

Another garrison continued, "100,000 taels is not enough, we have killed and injured a lot of brothers for the court this time, so we have to ask for this pension." In addition, if Liu Jun wants to dismiss us, he has to give some severance pay, and he doesn't count much, the pension and severance pay add up to 100,000 taels. ”

"Yes, that's it, let's ask Liu Jun for the 200,000 taels of silver, if we can't come up with the silver, don't want to dismiss us!"

(Thank you Nanying Yu for your monthly pass support, and everyone has a monthly pass for your support!) (To be continued......)