Zhu Dadian's painstaking efforts to draft the impeachment of Liu Jun's twelve cardinal sins, in the end, it was like a wind, gently blowing in Beijing, only blowing a little ripple, and then it returned to calm, without causing the slightest wind and waves expected by Zhu Dadian.

It seems that no one in the Jingshi court has ever received a gift from Zhu Dadian, and they have never heard of Liu Jun's dominance, let alone such a letter.

Fu Shan spent a large sum of money out, in exchange for a compliment from the hundreds of officials in Beijing for Liu Jun. And after Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen each took 50,000 taels of silver, they quickly arranged it for Fu Shan, so that he got a special opportunity to enter the palace to see the emperor.

Fu Shan walked with the eunuch in the Forbidden Palace, and his heart couldn't help but be nervous. As a Confucian child, the status of the emperor is still extremely high in his heart, the prince of heaven and earth, the emperor is only below heaven and earth, and above his father.

The eunuch who was leading the way was taken outside the Qianqing Palace, Fu Shan smiled at the little eunuch, and secretly reached out and handed over a gold ingot, the eunuch had sharp eyes, and skillfully took the gold and caged it in his sleeve, he quickly knew the value of this gift from the feel and weight, and had already smiled, and said to him with a smile, "General Fu, you wait here first, Your Majesty is reviewing the chapter, and the small one will report first." After speaking, he turned around and crossed the high threshold of the palace gate and entered the palace to report.

After waiting for a while, another eunuch came and led him into the palace to meet the emperor.

When Fu Shan stepped into the hall, he didn't even dare to raise his head, only staring at the carpet under his feet, for fear of offending Tianyan. His heart was nervous, his back was covered with sweat, and then he saw a pair of bright yellow cotton satin boots, and knew that this was the Son of Heaven.

He hurriedly knelt down, "The general of the general of Yunyang Town will sit in the camp official Fu Shan, and knock to see His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Chongzhen stood in front of the imperial case at this time, looking at Fu Shan seriously.

He had already read Fu Shan's archives before and knew that Fu Shan was born in the family of eunuchs and scholars. Family history, the ancestors have been governing the sons of the rulers for seven or eight consecutive generations or "Zuo Chuan" and "Han Shu", and they have become a family. Great-grandfather Fu Chaoxuan was a guest of honor and a contractor in Ninghua Mansion, and his grandfather Fu Lin was tired of being a senator in Shandong, Liaohai and the army, and had quite a lot of political achievements. When Fu Shan was young, he received strict family education, was well-read and memorized, and read several times. That is, they can recite it. At the age of 15, he was a disciple of the doctorate, and at the age of 20, he was admitted to higher education. Later, he studied at Sanli Academy, and was guided and taught by Yuan Jixian, a scholar in Shanxi, and was one of Yuan's favored disciples.

When he first saw this file, Chongzhen was surprised, he thought that Fu Shan was just a military general in Yunyang Town, but he didn't expect that he was an excellent scholar. After reading that file, Chongzhen was very curious about Fu Shan, he didn't expect a eunuch like Fu Shan. An excellent soldier, he finally joined the army.

Now that I see it in person, I see Fu Shan tall and sturdy, handsome. I like it even more.

"When did you join the Hydra?"

Fu Shan didn't expect that the emperor also knew about the nine-headed bird, so he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, "The minister went south to Huguang with Mr. at the beginning, and occasionally had a chance." When Mr. Sui saw the Hou of Zhennan, who had just won the victory of Hutou Fort, because of the speculation with the Hou of Zhennan, Mr. Yuan recommended me to the Hou of Zhennan to serve under the command of the Hou of Zhennan. ”

Chongzhen listened to him clearly. Nodding slowly, "Well, it's quite rare to abandon the pen and follow Rong, Mr. Yuan is the current governor of Huguang Yuan Jixian, right?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, at that time, Mr. had just been transferred from Huguang to guard Wuchang Road to guard Xiajiang Defense Road."

The more Chongzhen looked at Fu Shan, the more he liked it, and even personally stretched out his hand to pull Fu Shan up, and then asked him again, "I heard that after Aiqing followed Liu Jun, he performed extraordinary, commanded the troops to fight, and made great achievements in Pingshu in Sichuan." ”

"Your Majesty has praised it falsely, it is all the governors of Mei Inspector Li and Yuan who have a good plan, and the commanders of Liu and Qin are powerful, and they will not dare to take credit."

"I heard that under Liu Jiye, there are many scholars like Fu Aiqing?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, at the beginning, Hou Benyi of Zhennan was a member of the martial arts team, and Li Chunjiang, a person from Huguang Macheng, built a nine-headed bird and horse team, and there were more than 20 students among more than 100 people at that time. After that, the team expanded, and many civil and military students who were interested in protecting the territory and the people and serving the country were recruited. At present, there are no less than three hundred nine-headed bird Chinese martial artists, and there are more than ten of them. ”

Chongzhen was greatly surprised when he heard this, although he knew that the literary style in Huguang and eastern Hubei was extremely prosperous, there were a large number of academies and schools, and it was still the hometown of Jinshi, but he didn't expect that there were so many scholars in Liu Jun's military camp who joined the army.

"Liu Jiye has taken a good start." He sighed and said, "I have heard the name Li Chunjiang many times, the nine-headed bird was originally established by him and Liu Jun, and he is also the nephew of Li Changgeng, the governor of the five provinces of Nangi, right?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Li Gongji is extremely famous, he was Xie Yuan of the Huguang Township Examination, and he will participate in the examination of this department."

Chongzhen has heard a lot of praise about Liu Jun recently, and he is still very concerned about Liu Jun, the Zhennan Marquis he personally sealed, and he is still very concerned about the typical example set up by himself. He also desperately hopes that the younger generation like Liu Jun and Wu Sangui can do more and get rid of the situation of the old bureaucrats in the imperial court who only care about party disputes and ignore the interests of the imperial court.

"How is the Yunyang New Army training now?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the Marquis of Zhennan has devoted himself wholeheartedly to Yunyang since receiving His Majesty's order to let Yunyang train a new army of 50,000. The Marquis of Zhennan dismissed the old and weak soldiers and horses that were unusable in Yunyang, cleaned up the empty salaries, and then recruited a group of simple and hard-working recruits in Shizhu in Chongqing, Yunyang, Huguang, Qihuang and other places, and attracted many young and promising civil and military students to join the army, so as to better spread the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. ”

"Up to now, the 50,000 new troops have been fully recruited, and they are under the command and training of governors, general soldiers, deputy generals, and staff generals. The Marquis of Zhennan knew that the imperial court was now in financial difficulties, so he did not wait for the imperial court's food and salary, but did not wait or rely on it, and raised money in various ways, through the opening of salt farms, the issuance of fund-raising lottery tickets, etc., to raise food and salary for training soldiers in various ways, and through the construction of his own ordnance workshop, he purchased village materials by himself, and hired craftsmen to build ordnance by himself, so as to save costs as much as possible and ensure the quality assurance of the new army's ordnance. ”

"Now that the training of the new army is proceeding in an orderly manner, it is expected that in early October, the Marquis of Zhennan will be able to lead his troops to Jiangbei to cooperate with Governor Li of the Mei Governor's Division and join them to encircle the 5th Battalion of Gezuo and other bandits."

The 100,000 taels of silver that Liu Jun gave to Chongzhen were escorted into Beijing by Fu Shan, and then directly sent to Chongzhen through the hands of Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen.

Chongzhen was surprised when he received this silver. He asked Liu Jun to train 50,000 new troops, but he never paid a penny, and Liu Jun not only recruited and trained 50,000 new troops according to the order, but now he also sent him 100,000 taels of silver, how is this not surprising. In the thirteen years of Chongzhen's reign, he has only seen officials and generals begging for salaries from all over the country, and he has never seen generals who not only did not ask for salaries, but also sent silver to him.

At the beginning, he also suspected that Liu Jun was exploiting the people in the local area and extorting large households. He robbed the property and then sent silver to Beijing to please him, he asked Jinyiwei and Dongchang to send people to investigate, and the results reported by Dongchang and Jinyiwei shocked him even more. Liu Jun neither extorted generosity nor exploited the people, let alone sent troops to loot property, Liu Jun miraculously raised food and wages, and even got a sum of silver to hand over to him.

One hundred thousand taels of silver was originally not much for an emperor who owned the world, but for the current Chongzhen, this is also a lot of money. The normal income of the imperial court is only 2 million taels a year, and then through various additions. In the end, it only reached 10 million taels, but just one Liaodong outside the Guan, the silver, grain, and ordnance that were transported to the past every year cost a huge amount of silver.

Not to mention. There are also other border soldiers and horses, which also cost a lot of money, as well as the cost of suppressing bandits and horses in various places.

Yesterday, Chongzhen personally went to Neiku. But the eunuch who guarded the inner vault said that the key was missing, and in his last rage, the eunuch opened the door of the vault. Then he saw an empty storeroom with only a few boxes left.

There were only more than 10,000 taels of gold and less than 200,000 taels of silver left in his treasury.

The situation of the treasury is not much better, and there are urges for money everywhere, but the imperial court has long been unable to make ends meet. After coming back yesterday, he was very heavy, and then I heard that when the prince was rewarding the palace people in the palace now, he didn't have any money to reward, and he had to keep accounts. And the reason why the prince has no money is because the prince took out all his money and used it for him as a reward for the bandits.

Now the 100,000 taels of silver sent by Liu Jun made Chongzhen very happy, very happy, which was a rare entry for the emperor who was about to go crazy.

More importantly, Liu Jun said in the letter he submitted with the silver that if everything goes well, then in the future, Yunyang's 50,000 soldiers and horses will no longer need the imperial court to pay for food and equipment, and Yunyang Town can find a way to solve it by itself, share the worries of the imperial court for His Majesty, and even if the situation is good, he can continue to hand over the surplus silver taels to the imperial court in the future.

Chongzhen was not only happy to have received 100,000 taels of silver, but he was even happier that he might not have to pay food to Yunyang in the future, 50,000 Yunyang soldiers and horses, at least 2 million food and salary a year.

As long as the emperor can issue an edict to allow Yunzhen to open Yingcheng Salt Farm, and can give a certain amount of salt, then Yingcheng Salt Farm can obtain a lot of funds every year in the future, and even borrow money from merchants with salt farms at critical times.

In addition, Liu Jun also explained his new measures of raising money through the issuance of lottery tickets, Liu Jun told the emperor that through this kind of lottery and donation, it can greatly improve the enthusiasm of the people to donate money and break the dilemma of difficult fundraising in the past. By running their own ordnance workshop, they can not only save a large amount of ordnance procurement costs, but also make the quality of ordnance more guaranteed.

In short, Liu Jun assured the emperor that as long as the emperor could give enough support, Yunyang could raise the military salary of 50,000 soldiers and horses in Yunyang Town in the future, and he could raise 50,000 elites of the imperial court without spending a penny on the imperial court.

This proposal made Chongzhen's heart flutter.

All he wants to give is a few wills, and without spending a penny of money in the treasury, Liu Jun can raise funds for raising troops and soldiers. Although this practice is unprecedented, and a precedent is likely to bring unpredictable consequences, but Chongzhen is now facing the financial predicament of the imperial court, and he is indeed anxious, Yunzhen can save two million taels of silver a year, and there may even be hundreds of thousands of taels of input, this difference between one in and one out really makes Chongzhen's heart moved.

Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Jun also made a promise to Chongzhen in the letter, and after pacifying the bandits in Huaixi, he asked for orders to lead the new army of Yunzhen to Liaodong to resist the captives.

This sentence alone made Chongzhen's uncontrollable worries about Yunzhen's future gone.

Chongzhen thought that at the end of the year, he would wipe out the bandits in Jiangbei, and then transfer Mei Zhihuan, Liu Jun and other generals to the north, and then go out of the customs, recover Liao, and recover the lost territory.

And Liu Jun finally asked the emperor. Let the emperor send his most trusted eunuchs to Yunyang, the governor of Yunzhen, and supervise the salt works and armory workshops respectively.

Liu Jun knew that even if he didn't mention this himself, the emperor would definitely send an official eunuch to supervise, rather than passively let the emperor send someone, it was better for him to take the initiative to ask, so that although the final result did not change, it was completely different in the emperor's heart.

Sure enough, Chongzhen was really happy about Liu Jun's request. This Liu Jun is acting upright. He even took the initiative to ask for a director to supervise the soldiers and horses. Please also send a eunuch to supervise the salt works and armory workshops, it seems that he is open-minded and not afraid of being supervised at all.

"This Liu Jiye can always share worries for me, both capable and loyal, if the courtiers in the world are like Liu Jiye, why should I worry about the injustices of the bandits, the construction of the prisoners will not be destroyed, and the Ming Dynasty will not be prosperous?" Chongzhen said excitedly and loudly, and Fu Shan, who was listening, hurriedly lowered his head. If this word spreads, then Liu Jun must not become the public enemy of the world's officials?

Chongzhen is the kind of emperor who is relatively impulsive, and once he is moved, he really can't wait to dig out his heart and lungs. And once you feel cheated, you can't wait to send the other party into the eighteenth layer of hell. Now he feels that a courtier like Liu Jun is really too loyal. He wanted to reward Liu Jun again, but he didn't have the money. You can't take the silver sent by Liu Jun and reward it back.

"Wang Chengen, go and get my set of golden armor and clothes, as well as the peacock fur that the Fan Kingdom paid tribute to. There is also the cloak that Empress Zhou sewed for me personally, the belt woven by Concubine Yuan, and the pair of boots that Concubine Tian Na, all of which I brought here, and I want to give them to the Marquis of Zhennan. ”

"Your Majesty, this is what the queen did for Your Majesty."

"I know that these things contain a piece of the heart of the queen and the two concubines, and they are very precious. It is precisely because of its preciousness that I want to give it to the Marquis of Zhennan to show my heart. ”

Fu Shan also felt quite amazed on the side, and Chongzhen gave Fu Shan two more imperial horses, and left Fu Shan to eat in the palace.

This imperial meal was not easy, accompanying the emperor to eat, cautious, strictly observing etiquette, not daring to make a mistake, and the meal was not very good. Although this meal, the meal fee is more than ten taels.

In the palace, even if it is the emperor's imperial meal, it is also worth counting money. Chongzhen's daily imperial meal is thirty-six taels, and the palace has to provide meals for more than 15,000 people every day. There are tens of thousands of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, but there are many eunuchs in Nanjing, the imperial tombs and other places, there are no less than 10,000 eunuchs in the palace, and the scale of palace maids has reached thousands.

Chongzhen's emperor's meal is 36 taels a day, 146 taels a month, the queen's meal is 11 taels a day, 335 taels a month, the concubine is 160 taels a month, and the crown prince's meal is 154 taels a month. The two princes of King Ding and King Yong will receive one hundred and twenty taels of food per month.

The Forbidden Palace's food expenses are 300 taels a day, and 9,000 taels a month.

Although the cost is very high, the food is not good, the price of many dishes is very high, the procurement of ingredients is many times more expensive than outside, the emperor's family and their minions actually eat high-priced meals, and the eunuchs who are responsible for purchasing and cooking have embezzled a lot from it.

After carefully accompanying the emperor to finish eating, and accompanied him to look back about the training of Yunyang soldiers and the local people's feelings, Fu Shan withdrew from the palace.

In the early morning of the next day, the emperor decreed that Liu Jun, the chief military officer of Yunyang, would add the rank of the right attendant of the military department, and then the rank of the right imperial officer, and be fully responsible for the formation and training of the 50,000 new army in Yunyang.

As soon as this will came out, it shocked countless people. Liu Jun is just a military general, and at the age of twenty, he was promoted to the chief soldier of a town because of his merits, which is already shocking. But after all, he is still just a military general, and now the emperor actually gave Liu Jun the right squire of the military department and the right dushi of the imperial history, although these two are titles, but they are both governors.

That is to say, under normal circumstances, only the governor or the governor can get such an additional title, and the chief soldier, it is impossible to add these two ranks.

Now the emperor actually added the title of governor to a general soldier, which is simply a mess.

But in addition to being shocked, few people came out to oppose it, and in the end, only a few people came out to oppose it, but no one responded, and finally passed.

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty were secretly amazed by this appointment, Liu Jun, the dark horse, suddenly jumped up, and had made too many exceptions in the imperial court.

The emperor's favor for this Marquis of Zhennan has exceeded that of Yuan Chonghuan and the previous Yang Sichang, which is unprecedented in this dynasty, and it is estimated that there will be no more in the future.

On the same day, the emperor had several appointments issued, but not through the court. The emperor sent the eunuch Wang Kun as the chief eunuch of Yunyang, supervising the merits and discipline, and sent the eunuch Lu Weining as the governor and eunuch to supervise the grain and salary. He also sent eunuchs Bian Yongqing, Xu Jinzhong, and Xie Wenju as eunuchs to supervise the Macheng Armory Workshop, Yingcheng Salt Factory, and the payment of lottery tickets.

After Zhu Dadian's master heard the news of Liu Jun's promotion, he hurriedly packed his luggage and prepared to leave Beijing.

"Where do you want to go?"

The door was suddenly pushed open, and several brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and carrying embroidered spring knives broke in.

Master Shaoxing's face turned green all of a sudden, and he said tremblingly, "Go back to your hometown." ”

"Come with us first."

"Why?"

"Someone has reported you for spreading rumors and attacking the minister!" Jin Yiwei sneered a few times, and then the cloth bag pulled over his head and took the master away. (To be continued......)