Liu Jun returned from the reception banquet of the new governor and governor, and stepped into the backyard with some wine, and Li Hui stepped forward to greet him. She walked around behind Liu Jun and took off her cloak for him.

"The concubine prepared a sobering soup for her husband."

"Thank you!"

Liu Jun answered, walked into the flower hall outside, Li Hui immediately brought the still hot sobering tea soup, put it in front of Liu Jun, and tested the temperature with his hands.

"The imperial court has sent a governor and a governor over, will it hinder the husband in the future?"

"It doesn't make much of a difference, you don't have to worry about these things."

Liu Jun sat down and took the decanting tea soup, and took a sip, the decanting soup was a little sour and a little bitter. He frowned, but drank it in one gulp. At today's reception, Liu Jun still drank a lot of wine, no matter what, Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan are both governors and ministers, even if the actual military power cannot be handed over to them, but the face on the surface still has to be given.

Fan Zhiwan had already secretly expressed his stance to Liu Jun at the banquet, mentioned Zhou Yanru, and also proposed to support Liu Jun in the future. But he didn't say the rest of the sentence, and Liu Jun also understood that this support was not unconditional. Fan Zhiwan is Zhou Yanru's protégé, Zhou Yanru promoted him to the governor of Liaodong and sent him to Liaodong, since he shouted to support Liu Jun's name, in another sense, he hoped that Liu Jun could support Zhou Yanru.

However, Fu Zonglong, who is also a minister who is more knowledgeable among the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, drove Li Zicheng, who entered Sichuan out of Sichuan, and had a lot of commendable performances in the Pingtusi Rebellion and the battle to exterminate the bandits in the Central Plains.

Fu Zonglong was born in the two lists, worked as a magistrate, and later entered Beijing as the head of the household department, and then did the imperial history. Originally, he was out of step with leading the troops, but he was bold. In the first year of the Apocalypse, Liaoyang was lost, Fu Zonglong took the initiative to invite Ying to go, and soon recruited 5,000 soldiers and horses. The southwest Tusi made a rebellion, and Fu Zonglong invited himself to lead the troops to suppress the chaos.

Not only is he courageous and wise, but he can both suppress and soothe chaos. Leading troops and managing government are all good hands.

At this time, the imperial court asked him to leave the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, although he had different opinions from the current strategic direction of Liaodong, and because he was indeed a very capable person. Sending a civil servant to Liaodong at random will not play the role of supervision at all, and Fu Zonglong served as the governor of Liaodong with the title of secretary of the military department, with a noble status and the ability to lead troops, and the emperor hoped to use this governor to strengthen the imperial court's control over the powerful combat force of the Chu army. I also hope that there will be no things that will affect and weaken the combat strength of the Chu army, and I don't want discord between the governor and the admiral of Liaodong.

After spending a long time with Fu Zonglong, Liu Jun had already realized that Fu Zonglong was not an ordinary official, this was an official with the same ambitions and ideals as Mei and Li, Fu Zonglong came to Liaodong to do something about it. As soon as he arrived in Lushun, he announced that he wanted the Chu army to launch an attack immediately.

"I'm going to send troops again. Would you rather stay in Lushun or go to Hubei? ”

Lee Hye rubbing a towel in a hot tub. Stopped, "Are you going to send troops to fight again?" Do you need to lead the troops yourself? From North Korea to Zhenjiang, from Zhenjiang to Lushun, since we got married in Seoul, the concubine has not had the opportunity to get along with her husband, and the concubine is willing to stay in Lushun. Li Hui's words were full of worry and reluctance.

"There's no way around it. After a while, I'll accompany you. Liu Jun has no opinion on the wife of the North Korean princess who is willing to stay in Lushun. This is a political marriage, but after getting married, Liu Jun found that there was not much estrangement between the two. North Korea is a country that has been sinicized, especially the upper class. They are proficient in Chinese, familiar with Chinese characters, and understand Chinese etiquette and culture, and Li Hui likes Tang and Song poems the most, especially the poets of the Huajian School in the late Tang Dynasty.

She can even write poems and lyrics, in addition to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, everything. What is particularly rare is that this daughter of the king of North Korea is very gentle in the face of Liu Jun, and she doesn't talk about raising her eyebrows on weekdays, but the concept that the husband is heaven is really firm.

Fu Zonglong demanded that the three towns of Liaodong immediately launch a new offensive to cover the offensive of the Liaoxi army. If it weren't for the arrival of Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan, maybe Liu Jun would probably raise objections to the emperor's request, and even deal with it casually.

But now that the emperor has just cut him down on the military power of a town, and has sent a new superintendent, the emperor and the court must be watching his reaction at this time. If he fools around and refuses to really contribute, I'm afraid that this behavior will be interpreted differently.

Liu Jun doesn't want to cause any misunderstanding yet.

This time, he had to send troops no matter what, and he had to make a grand noise.

Liaoxi, Songshan.

Wu Sangui is now high-spirited and triumphant. Before he was thirty years old, he had already become a commander, and he was sent to supervise the military affairs of Guanwai Guanning Jinsan Town, among the military generals, only Liu Jun and Zheng Zhilong were military generals, and now he Wu Sangui is the third.

He was also promoted to the governor of Shangyou, and even his father, who had been in prison after the defeat of Da Linghe, was released from prison because of his merits and was restored to his official status.

"It's worthy of the riding gun I gritted my teeth and exchanged 10,000 war horses from Liu Jun's hands, a war horse for a riding gun, which is expensive, but the benefits are also extremely high." Wu Sangui played with the riding gun in his hand and sighed with satisfaction. "Can our craftsmen replicate these Riding Guns and Wyvern Guns?"

"I can imitate it." Wu Sangui's younger brother Wu Sanfu replied to the second brother, but he frowned. "Second brother, our craftsmen have seen the firearms brought back from Hubei, carefully dismantled them, and then imitated them, and it took a lot of effort to make it happen, but I don't think it's necessary."

Wu Sangui shook his head and sighed while wiping his riding gun, "Is it a quality problem or something?" ”

"The quality of our craftsmen's imitation is indeed not as good as that of the Chu army, according to the craftsmen, first, the iron used in the Chu army's guns is good, and they obviously have better methods for purifying pig iron, and second, their firearms are made of very standard, hundreds of thousands of roots, all of which are unified standards, in this regard, ordinary craftsmen can't do it at all. In addition, their firecracker pipes are far from being imitated by ordinary craftsmen, the bore wall is more sleek, and there is also a problem of standardization. ”

Wu Sanfu organized Ningyuan's craftsmen to imitate the Chu military guns, tossed for a long time, and found a lot of problems. That is, they can imitate the Riding Gun, they can also imitate the Flying Dragon Gun, and even the Flint Gun, but the imitation of the Gun is far behind Chu Gong.

The quality is very different, especially the parts cannot be standardized, and the caliber of the gun tube deviates greatly, which makes it impossible to build the gun yourself, then it is impossible to match the fixed ammunition, and the bullet has to be equipped with another one. The range, accuracy, and lifespan of the imitation firecracker are far inferior to those of Chu Gun.

"There is also one of the most troublesome places, our building speed is very slow, and if we organize all the firearms craftsmen in Ningyuan, we can probably make five hundred horsemen in a month."

Wu Sangui shook his head, very disappointed.

If the manufacturing cost is higher, he can still accept it. The performance of the firearm is a little worse, and it is barely acceptable, but it can only score 500 strokes in a month, and it is still some defective imitations that are far inferior to Chu Gong, so what is the effort to do?

Wu Sangui died of imitation heart, and said to Sanfu, "Stop copying Chu Gong, those craftsmen are also kept, just keep them to help repair some Chu Gong." ”

Wu Sangui spent a high price of 10,000 war horses last time, got 10,000 horsemen from Liu Jun, and equipped them with 5,000 elite horsemen. It was with the equipped cavalry, as well as the flying dragon guns and artillery of the infantry, that in the Battle of Songshan, Wu Sangui led 20,000 Ningyuan troops to break more than 3,000 Qing cavalry and won a great victory in Songshan.

Although horses are a very precious material, Wu Sangui can still get horses. The ancestors of the Wu family have always been big merchants in Liaodong, especially selling horses. At that time, Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang was a horse seller in his early years, and later saw that Nurhachi hated the Han people in Liaodong, Wu Xiang angrily sold his property and recruited young people to fight against the Jurchens. His behavior was praised by the people, and the imperial court rewarded him, and later the imperial court awarded Wu Xiang a military position, and was recruited by Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong.

After that, Wu Xiang also returned to the martial arts, and his official position was promoted all the way, and finally he was the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment, and then married the ancestor of the Liaoxi general, Wu Sangui married his sister to Zu Dashou to fill the house, and he married Zu Dashou's sister to fill the house, and then the official was promoted to the general soldier of Jinzhou.

The Wu family started from Wu Xiang and changed from businessmen to generals. However, although Wu Xiang became more and more official, in the Jiangmen of Liaoxi, after he married his ancestral family, he has always been responsible for the commercial transactions in Liaoxi, of which Wu Xiang is also responsible for smuggling.

Getting tens of thousands of horses may be difficult for others to climb to. But for Wu Sangui, this is really not a thing, with a little more time, tens of thousands of horses will not be a problem at all.

The fire gun of the Chu army is really a good thing, especially this cavalry, the Ningyuan cavalry is equipped with the Chu cavalry, plus the Hongyi artillery, it is really sharp. It's a pity that last time, I only used 10,000 war horses in exchange for 10,000 riding guns, and only equipped 5,000 elite horses.

"This Liu Jiye, how did he do it, he actually built such a great firearms industry, from iron-making to copper smelting, to making guns, and producing gunpowder and lead bullets, all of which have been achieved in one stop." Wu Sangui said with envy.

Wu Sanfu said unconvinced, "How good is the gun?" ”

Wu Sangui smiled at his brother, "Liu Jiye is not only good at making guns, but he also uses guns better." Our 200,000-strong army gathered in western Liaoning, and only now has we achieved a great victory in Songzhou, killing more than 1,000 Tartars. But Liu Jiye floated to the east of the sea, and in half a year, he had already used the giant ship cannon to defeat the two mansions of Lushun and Zhenjiang, and opened another big town in Liaodong. I am the same admiral as him, but this majesty is far inferior to his. ”

"Why should the second brother grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige?"

"I'm not trying to kill my own prestige, I'm just telling a few big truths." Wu Sangui smiled, "Third brother, has the team been assembled?" ”

"All set!" Wu Sanfu said loudly.

"Okay, pass the order, make food on the fourth watch, and set off on the fifth watch!" (To be continued.) )

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