After the New Year, Zhang Jiayu, the governor of Guangxi, took office, and Jiang Rou, who had just emerged on the Huaiyang battlefield last year, accompanied him with 500 soldiers and horses, and served as a guerrilla general in Wuzhou, in charge of Wuzhou and Huaiji.

Zhang Jiayu asked the imperial court for the current Guangde garrison Li Yu to accompany him, and the Ministry of War changed it to the Guilin garrison.

Xu Yiyang made contributions to the imperial court, and Chen Youlong's general Liu Hubao was appointed as the garrison of Liuzhou.

At this point, the layout of the imperial court in Guangxi was completed.

Chen Bangbo was named the Marquis of Huaizhong, the chief soldier of Guangxi, and the rest of his meritorious subordinates also had their own rewards. Xu Yiyang was also promoted to one level and officially stepped into the pass of the general army.

At the same time as rewarding the generals of Guangxi, the imperial court officially announced to the world that Zheng Zhilong was renamed the king of Zhenhai, guarding Fujian and Guangdong for generations, and asked Zheng Zhilong to recommend the governors of Guangdong and Fujian and officials from various prefectures. With the imperial order, Zheng Zhilong was able to control Fujian and Guangdong as he wished. Governing the place requires literati and squires, Zheng Zhilong obtained wealth from the sea, and he used his hometown to control Fujian, but he has always been unaccustomed to the soil and water in Guangdong.

At the same time, Shi Fu, the general soldier of Ganzhou, led his troops to leave Jiangxi, Zhu Shouzhuang, the general soldier of Jiujiang, led his troops to Nanchang, and Wan Yuanji, the governor of Jiangxi, began to implement the new policy.

Xu Yiyang spent a very comfortable Spring Festival in Changsha. A few years ago, although his status was low, no official in Changsha could see that he had a bright future, but he was afraid that flattery would not find a way.

After the Lantern Festival, as soon as the order came out, he escaped from the happy days.

The General's Mansion and the Ministry of War jointly issued a document ordering Xu Yiyang to recruit troops in Huguang, give priority to the introduction of government soldiers, and gather 10,000 regular soldiers. After a certain amount of training, the original meaning of the government soldiers is the preparation of the regular soldiers, but not all the government soldiers are willing to turn into regular soldiers, and sometimes the general soldiers do not want the army to come from the government soldiers.

Xu Yiyang's army already has more than 1,000 soldiers, and more than 8,000 vacancies have to be filled. The military department transferred 3,000 people from the government soldiers in the Huaiyang battlefield this year to change them into regular soldiers, and ordered him to raise the remaining 5,000 people in Huguang.

Zhang Shoulu, the chief soldier who was originally stationed in Changsha, was transferred to Huizhou Mansion, and Changsha was only garrisoned by government soldiers. Xu Yiyang first found Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Huguang, and then negotiated with the Changsha garrison to transfer government troops from the locality.

Fortunately, Zhang Huangyan and he were fellow villagers in eastern Zhejiang, and selected 3,000 soldiers for him in Changsha, Yuezhou, Jingzhou and other places, and assisted him in raising 2,000 simple natives at the junction of Hunan and Miaoman.

The military headquarters was very efficient, and the military attaches drawn from the regular armies of Huguang and Huaiyang rushed to Changsha, and the cargo ships loaded with weapons and armor at the Nanjing dock were assigned to Huguang under the escort of the naval division.

It doesn't take long for a soldier with a three-tenth-percent veteran as a skeleton to have considerable combat effectiveness.

Xu Yiyang is busy and excited, he is the youngest general soldier in the Ming Dynasty, and the youngest general soldier in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Even a fool can see that the regent has deliberately cultivated him.

On the side of Xiangshui, he looked up to the sky and roared, and swore angrily: "He treats me as a countryman, and I should treat him as a countryman." ”

The Ming Dynasty never stopped strengthening its armaments, and almost all the soldiers under the age of twenty-five who could ride horses in the loyal battalion were withdrawn, and the cavalry of Xiao Zhiyan and Che Feng began to take shape

The imperial court repeatedly cleared the hidden land occupied in various places, as well as confiscated the land that had taken refuge in the Qing gentry, and the Ming court was able to support 300,000 to 400,000 regular soldiers.

The sailor warships from the Nanjing wharf not only sailed to Huguang, but also a larger fleet was escorted to Sichuan by household officials.

Zhang Huan traveled with the sailors, and he returned to Nanjing before the Spring Festival to present government affairs to the regent, and returned to Chengdu after the Spring Festival with the aura of the governor of Sichuan.

A middle-aged man who looked like a businessman accompanied him, and the two talked happily all the way.

Zhang Huan, the governor of Sichuan, came too easily. After Zheng Zhilong surrendered, the imperial court would symbolically appoint officials in Fujian and Guangdong, and Wu Sangui, as the king of Zhenxi, saw this situation and also asked the imperial court to appoint the governor of Sichuan.

Zhang Huan was originally the envoy of the imperial court in Chengdu, and he got along well with Wu Sangui, Zhai Zhe changed Zhang Huan's envoy to the governor out of the consideration of wooing Wu Sangui, of course, he was still a governor with no power and no soldiers, just to deceive the world.

The middle-aged man had a round belly, his eyes were slitted, and he never took off a smile on his face, flattering all the way.

Zhang Huan didn't dare to despise him, this person was Liu Quan's cronies, Liu Yuqian, one of the famous shopkeepers of Rishengchang, and a famous God of Wealth in Nanjing.

This time, there were more businessmen than officials and more officials than soldiers who accompanied Zhang Huan into Sichuan. In order not to arouse Wu Sangui's suspicion, Zhai Zhe acted very cautiously.

The naval warship docked at Jiangzhou, and Wu Sanrong led a group of soldiers to wait on the shore.

Liu Yuqian seized the last opportunity and said: "When the villain arrives in Chengdu, the things arranged by the household department must rely on the adults. ”

Zhang Huan replied with a pleasant face: "The king of Zhenxi looks strict, but he is very kind, your trip is for Shaanxi, but also to solve the difficulties of Sichuan, he will definitely do it conveniently." You and I are both working for the regent, and when we arrive in Sichuan, we don't distinguish between you and me, but there is a sentence I must say first, if you have any difficulties, you can find me, and I will find the king of Zhenxi, and you must not do something that should not be done without authorization. ”

Liu Yuqian said with a smile: "The villain knows what matters, if I don't do this well, I'm afraid I won't even be able to go back to Nanjing." He said it casually, and there was a sense of tranquility in it. Zhang Huan stayed in Nanjing for a month and got to know a little about the newly appointed court officials, which must have been the means of the Hubu Shangshu Zongmao.

The passenger ship docked, and the accompanying soldiers and men went ashore first to find coolies to carry the goods.

Zhang Huan peeked sideways when he got off the ship, and the cabin was full of neat boxes, and the seals were pasted on the seals, and he didn't know what was inside.

Wu Sanrong greeted him first, and Lao Yuan smiled slowly, deeply moved, and said: "Congratulations to Lord Zhang, Lord Zhang entered Shu on behalf of the imperial court, which is the blessing of the people of Shu and the blessing of the king of Zhenxi." ”

Zhang Huan hurriedly returned the salute: "Where, it is the regent's trust, the king of Zhenxi is in love, and after knowing that he will enter Sichuan as the governor, he has been panicking, for fear that he will not be able to conform to the will of the people of Shu." ”

"The prince is waiting in Chengdu, and I was specially ordered to come to Jiangzhou to greet him."

When the two were greeting, Li Baolai, who was not in the same boat as Zhang Huan, also got off the boat and came over. Before he could speak, Zhang Huan first turned around and pointed at him and introduced Wu Sanrong: "This is Li Baolai in Hubu Langzhong, this time I entered Sichuan mainly to supervise the delivery of supplies to Shaanxi, and the goods in these ships are to be sent to Shaanxi, and I also asked General Wu to say a few kind words in front of the prince, so as to make it convenient." ”

Wu Sanrong was busy meeting Li Baolai, but he was not enthusiastic about Li Baolai but not Zhang Huan.

Li Baolai stepped forward and clenched his fists and said, "General Wu"

Wu Sanrong snorted and said: "General Zuo has traveled thousands of miles and made great achievements, if it weren't for General Zuo to recover Xi'an, we wouldn't be able to recover Hanzhong." I'll leave this matter to me."

Li Baolai also came to Sichuan last year, but he did not deal with Wu Sangui's cronies.

The three of them made their way to the shore, and the neatly arranged soldiers on the shore retreated. Liu Yuqian did not leave the passenger ship, he kept watching the men hire labor to unload the cargo.

There is a huge difference between the identity of an official and a businessman, he is the God of Wealth in Nanjing, and no one cares about him in Sichuan.

Wu Sanrong really counts when he speaks. Half an hour later, a team of 200 soldiers came to the dock and found Liu Yuqian to help.

Liu Yuqian kept staring at the wooden box being loaded onto the carriage, and then followed the carriage all the way north.

The goods were stored in Chengdu Prefecture, and the business was looking for the help of the horse gangs who often traveled back and forth to the western mountain roads, and transported these things to Shaanxi through Longxi.

Wu Sanrong sent people to monitor the whole process, but he didn't care about the actions of Liu Yuqian and others, and he didn't wonder what was in these boxes. As long as the imperial court does not send troops and horses into Sichuan, Wu Sangui can make it convenient for the imperial court.

After the beginning of spring, patrolling cavalry can often be seen in the desolate land of Longxi, and the horse gangs who venture past can only see that those cavalry are Mongols when they are close.

Azig had Mongol cavalry under his command, but these Mongols were friends of the Ming Dynasty, and they had a Han commander.

After the caravan was unblocked, no matter how difficult the road in Longxi was, it could not stop the flow of materials to Shaanxi. It won't be any harder here than taking the road from the West Exit.

Li Baolai is in charge of material deployment in Chengdu. Those caravans transported grain, gunpowder and other goods to Shaanxi, and then took a reply letter with a seal from Zuo Ruo, the governor of Shaanxi, and they could receive money from him, and of course they could also go back to Nanjing to receive money. Rishengchang Qianzhuang has branches in Chengdu and Jiangzhou, and the household department needs silver, and only needs to find Liu Yuqian to open his mouth.

It is a long way to transport goods from Jiangnan to Sichuan, and the freight can even top the value of the goods. For example, grain, gunpowder and other materials, the household department directly entrusted the merchant to buy it in Shudi, and then found a horse gang to transport it.

But these wooden boxes brought by Liu Yuqian this time really made Wu Sangui full of curiosity. At one point, he wanted to forcibly open one and take a look, but in the end he restrained himself.

The box was very heavy, and when it was transported through Longxi, Li Hu stared at the marks left by the ruts of the carriage on the hard ground, and guessed what it contained.

It can only be iron, not a Qi knife, or an iron armor.

When the wooden box was moved to Xi'an, the seal on the mouth of the box was clearly written, and it was pasted in Nanjing two months ago.

Zuo Ruo ordered the soldiers to carry these boxes into the Daofu Office, his face was gloomy, and he took out the short knife on his waist to break the iron lock on the mouth of a box.

With a "click", the iron lock broke in half.

Zuo Ruo stretched out his hand and lifted the lid of the box, and there was a Qi knife about three feet long neatly placed inside. He opened the first batch of boxes in turn, in addition to Qi Dao and chain mail.

The craftsmanship of the three weapons workshops in the south of the Yangtze River to make weapons turned out to be more exquisite, and neither Shaanxi nor Sichuan could create such sophisticated weapons.

But Zuo Ruo didn't look excited. He had seventy or eighty thousand rebels under his command, many of whom had only rudimentary weapons, not to mention armor.

He roared unwillingly: "It's really a good thing, but why help the Mongols first"

This was the order of the regent, and the supplies from Jiangnan would be continuously transported into Shaanxi, but the first few batches of weapons were shipped to the Mongols. Because Ezhe has definite news, the Modong Mongol coalition army has been sent out and may arrive at naturalization in April and May.

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