Chongzhen's promotion of Liu Jun to a guerrilla general actually had high hopes for him. Xiong Wencan promoted Liu Jun to be the garrison of Macheng, and only divided into five counties including Macheng. The garrison is divided into one or several cities, and it is generally the main defense.

And Chongzhen takes a fancy to Liu Jun's momentum and courage, and is unwilling to let such a brave young player just sit in a corner and defend passively.

He hopes that Liu Jun can play a greater role and take the initiative to attack. even hopes that Liu Jun can become a positive example among the generals he has set up and play a more positive driving effect.

The guerrilla generals are one level higher than the garrison, and the battalion that commands them is also called the guerrillas, but they do not have a fixed defensive ground, but belong to the guerrilla warfare, and cooperate with the pacesetter battalion of the governor and the general army, the odd battalion of the adjutant general, and the reinforcement battalion of the general to assist in the battle.

Liu Jun was a Macheng garrison, but he was just sitting in a corner of eastern Hubei and defending five counties. However, if Liu Jun was a guerrilla general in Huguang, he could march and fight in the entire Huguang, and even be transferred to Huguang as a guest soldier to participate in the battle.

"Please dine on the emperor."

At this time, a palace maid with a delicate face came to Chongzhen and invited him to dinner. Chongzhen sighed, put down the red pen, stood up and walked out of the warm pavilion.

As usual, the emperor's meal is very rich, there are dozens of meat and vegetarian delicacies in front of him, so many dishes, most of the time he is the only one who eats alone, except for some special days, he summons the emperor or a certain concubine to accompany him. There were many palace maids and eunuchs standing next to them, and there were usually female musicians playing drums outside.

Chongzhen was a little bored eating, facing a table full of dishes, in fact, he only ate two or three dishes in front of him at each meal, and sometimes he also wanted to reduce this kind of support, but these are all etiquette rules handed down from the palace, and he can't help but like to change.

While eating this breakfast boringly, he thought that he had planned to reward Liu Jun with some gold and silver, but the treasury was like a wash. The same goes for your own inner library. The dignified Ming Dynasty, the Ming Emperor, is actually richer than those ministers.

"Specially give Liu Jun a flying fish suit, ten royal horses, and a thousand taels of silver."

In the end, Chongzhen was still a little distressed and took a thousand taels of silver from the inner library to reward, perhaps because he felt that the silver was too little, and finally rewarded ten royal horses, and another flying fish suit.

After Liu Qiao returned to the mansion, he immediately called his three sons, Yunsheng, Yunzhen, and Yunwen. All three of them are Liu Qiao's sisters-in-law. Compared with the concubine Liu Gang's unmotivated, these three sisters-in-law are still very good, the three brothers are old and martial arts, they are martial artists, the second is Wenju, and the third is a prisoner, if it weren't for Liu Qiao's relatively low-key attitude, he has been pressing his three sons, but he is afraid of his status. The three sons must all be civil and military jinshi.

"The boss will go back to Huguang's hometown immediately." Liu Qiao told his three sons about Liu Jun, and then asked the boss Yunsheng to return to Macheng. "Tell your grandfather and uncle about them, and immediately let Liu Jun recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and show favor to Liu Jun. This kid's name now goes straight to heaven. The Emperor is appreciating him. ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Qiao said to Yun Sheng again, "After you go back, you don't have to rush back." You just go to Liu Jun's army to do things. I'll write a letter to Liu Jun, give it to him when you arrive, and I'll ask him to arrange a military position for you. ”

Liu Yunsheng was very surprised. Unexpectedly, his father wanted to arrange for him to go to Liu Jun's camp. With his father's status, he really wants to be arranged to be an official, Beijing and border towns and even Jinyiwei, etc., where is it difficult to arrange an official errand, why do you have to arrange it to Liu Jun's camp.

Liu Qiao's arrangement has its own deep meaning, Liu Jun is now deeply favored, and arranging for his son to enter his camp naturally has a great chance to shine. He even thought about letting his son enter the camp and find a way to strengthen his influence on Liu Jun.

On the same day, Liu Yunsheng took a team of Ding Zema to Huguang and rushed back.

The emperor's decree soon arrived in Macheng through the post station, and when the eunuch announced the decree in front of Liu Jun in front of the newly recruited 3,000 recruits and hundreds of veterans in the Hutoubao military camp, Liu Jun was really surprised.

The emperor actually knew his name, and even personally ordered him to be rewarded again.

"Qinchahuguang guerrilla generals, all command the affairs of the hereditary brocade clothes and the guards of the hundred households, and give flying fish clothes!" A series of rewards almost made Liu Jun a little excited, it was indeed unbelievable and exciting. Even if Liu Jun was not so in awe of the emperor, he was also a great surprise to this reward.

As for the silver horses or something, he didn't care, a thousand taels of silver, and now he really didn't care about it.

"Minister Liu Jun received the order, thank you Lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Liu Jun didn't dare to be sloppy, so he solemnly bowed to thank him and received the holy decree.

"Congratulations to General Liu." The eunuch who announced the decree said with a smile. Liu Jun got up, took out a five-hundred-tael ticket from his sleeve and handed it over, "My father-in-law has worked hard all the way, it's a little meaning, it's not a tribute, please drink tea for my father-in-law." The eunuch glanced at it, and saw that it was five hundred taels, and accepted it very satisfied. Liu Jun took out another 100 taels of Zhuang tickets, "This is for the brothers who follow my father-in-law to drink tea, please ask my father-in-law to laugh on my behalf." ”

The eunuch nodded appreciatively to Liu Jun, Liu Jun is young, but he is very good at doing things.

After taking the silver, everyone made a few noises, and the father-in-law followed Liu Jun's personal soldiers to rest.

"Big brother, why isn't there a fish on this flying suit!" Zhang Shan looked at the python-patterned flying fish suit given by the emperor and asked strangely. The flying fish suit was no better than an ordinary official robe, but the embroidery on it was not the fish he imagined, but a python pattern.

Liu Jun didn't know much about these, but Liu Zhao was very familiar with them, and then he looked at the gift excitedly, and said to Liu Jun excitedly, "The flying fish python also has two horns." The so-called flying fish pattern is a python shape and the fish fin and tail are slightly different, not really a flying fish shape. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Overseas Western Longitude says that the Arowana Mausoleum lives in its north, like a raccoon dog. Because it can fly, so a flying fish, the head is like a dragon, a corner of the fish body, the flying fish suit style is connected to the upper and lower parts of the clothes, there are sub-slats, and there are folds on both sides. ”

"A bullfight is not a cow, and a flying fish is not a fish. The official uniforms of the officials of the Ming Dynasty are all made according to the grade of the officials, and the official uniforms of civil and military officials are prefixed with a round complement embroidered with bird and beast patterns to distinguish the grades, which is called the supplementary service. Literary birds and martial beasts, but in addition to these supplements, there are also special rewards from the emperor, such as python suits, flying fish suits, betta suits and unicorn suits. ”

"Giving clothes is a special favor given by the emperor to his subordinates, python suits, bullfighting suits, flying fish suits, unicorn suits, etc. are all python patterns. It is similar to the emperor's dragon pattern, so it is a great honor to be subdued. In the practice of this dynasty, the princes and uncles and horses can be given python suits, the first-grade minister's bullfighting suit, and the second-grade meritorious minister's flying fish suit to show special favor. ”

Liu Zhao said, staring at the flying fish suit with bright eyes.

Liu Jun was not too excited after hearing this, it turned out that this flying fish suit was only the third class in the service. To put it bluntly, it's just a piece of clothing, probably similar to the Yellow Horse Hexagram of the later Qing Dynasty.

That's when he also knew. It turns out that when later generations mention the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei, they all think of wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their waists, which is not accurate.

Jinyiwei does have flying fish suits, but not all Jinyiwei have flying fish suits to wear, and the flying fish suits of Jinyiwei are not the same as those given to the second-grade heroes. For example, the flying fish suit that Liu Jun got was a golden pattern, and it was generally only given to second-grade ministers. Liu Jun, a third-grade military attaché, was indeed quite honored to receive a special flying fish suit.

However, Liu Jun still felt that the guerrilla generals were really coming, and they were in charge of affairs. But the real Zhengsanpin, now his Wusan rank is already General Zhaoyi. Speaking of which, they are all in command, which is equivalent to the deputy commander of a provincial military district. Although this commander is not actually in charge of the affairs of the commander. It's just equivalent to a martial rank, but Liu Jun is still very happy. The guerrilla generals in Huguang have no defense area, which means that he will go to the entire Huguang. As long as you don't go out of Huguang, there is no such thing as crossing the line.

That's a lot of convenience.

Soon after the emperor's will was announced, Liu Yunsheng also arrived in Macheng. After conveying Liu Qiao's words to the Liu family, Old Lady Liu sighed.

"Grandfather. Is something going wrong? Liu Yunzhen asked.

Liu Chengqi sighed, "It's not your brother Lao Qi, once he came back to make trouble, he clashed with Mei Zhihuan last time, and people don't care." As a result, a few days ago, I asked your second uncle to go to Hutoubao, originally to get closer to Liu Jun, but Liu Gang also followed. went and went, but he just ran to the Qinglou to fight with people. ”

"Lao Qi is really messing around, but it's not a big deal, right?" Liu Yunsheng said. He is very clear about that younger brother, a gentleman, who only knows how to cause trouble all day long. But after all, he is a member of the Liu family, and a brawl is nothing.

"A brawl is nothing, but it depends on who you fight, but Lao Qi is the nephew of Yao Minggong, a cabinet scholar, this time."

"Yao Ge Lao's nephew?" Liu Yunsheng couldn't help but be surprised, this is death.

"How's this going?"

"That Yao Gongzi refuses to give up, and he has to investigate, but Liu Jun is helping to persuade him, and he hasn't made a big deal over there for the time being, but if it is not resolved for a day, this matter will always be a trouble."

Liu Chengqi called Liu Zhong and the other brothers back and asked him how he negotiated with Liu Jun.

"I offered to let Liu Jun return to the sect, but he didn't care, now I can't even find anyone else, and every time I go over, I am blocked by his own soldiers." Liu Zhong became angry as soon as he mentioned this matter, "If you want me to say, this Liu Jun is too carried away, but a small guard, do we still have to rush to beg him to return to the sect, it's better to forget it." ”

Liu Yunsheng said on the side, "Second uncle, the situation is different now, the emperor now knows Liu Jun, and he personally promoted Liu Jun to Huguang guerrilla general, rewarded him with a hereditary hundred households, and gave him a flying fish suit." ”

Liu Zhong opened his mouth wide, not knowing what to say.

"Second uncle, why does Liu Jun refuse to return to the sect, is there any contradiction with our Liu family?"

"There is no contradiction, in fact, he took the initiative to recognize his relatives, but your grandfather refused. Later, he seized smuggling salt and copied the 20,000 taels of Zhuang tickets that your third uncle gave him to the eldest brother of the three-room concubine room, Liu Jun took the Zhuang ticket to exchange money, but your third uncle refused. I made this clear to Liu Jun a few days ago, the 20,000 taels of silver belong to your third uncle, not Zhao Wu's. And I also offered to give Liu Jun 5,000 taels of silver, but he was not satisfied at all, and it seemed that he wanted to take the 20,000 taels of silver. ”

Liu Yunsheng nodded, and then said, "Then give him the 20,000 taels of silver." ”

"What? How can this work, the silver is originally the third child," Liu Zhong said dissatisfied.

Liu Yunsheng shook his head, "Second uncle, it's just 20,000 taels of silver, is our Liu family still lacking this money?" "For a Jinghu Ding clan like the Liu family, 20,000 taels of silver is really not in his eyes. It's just that Liu Chengqi and Liu Zhong were unwilling to take it out before. But Liu Yunsheng knew the priorities, but his father said that he must return Jun to the sect. Now the emperor knows that Liu Jun is the Liu family, but this end is unclear, what will be the result if this is passed on to the emperor?

What's more, Liu Jun's status is different now, the person he values in front of the emperor, of course such a person can't be resentful for 20,000 taels of silver, the best way is to let him return to the sect and become a help for the Liu family.

"Yes"

"If the third uncle refuses to pay, the money will be paid out of the clan's public account."

"But that Liu Jun doesn't see us at all now, and now that he has become a guerrilla again, I'm afraid that he will become more and more arrogant." Liu Zhong said.

"Liu Jun doesn't want to see us, then look for Liu Xiu, presumably Liu Xiu is definitely willing to return to the clan as soon as possible." Liu Chengqi also understood the situation at this time, and said immediately. (To be continued......)

PS: One more chapter, chapter six, desperately explode!