During a break in the meeting, a group of officials took out cigarettes and distributed them, and the room was filled with a miasma of smoke, as if the musketeers had just finished firing a volley.

Chen Xin and Liu Min went to the rest room next door, leaving the sea dog to guard the door, and the two entered and smoked and smoked, Chen Xin asked curiously about Liu Min: "Brother Liu, that Mo Huaiwen is full of intrigues and tricks, did you teach him?" ”

Liu Minyou glanced at him and said impatiently: "How did I know that he has so many devils, he is quite gentle when he is in charge of civil affairs on weekdays, and he is very polite to his subordinates and colleagues. ”

Chen Xin lay back, "But I still don't plan to use soldiers, ask Geng Zhongming to suppress the formation, and the people can send knives and guns." It's Mo Huaiwen, this guy is good, with a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, it's better than the two of us came up with a method. How are you going to use this? ”

"Originally, I planned to use him as the deputy of civil affairs, equivalent to the second-in-command, but now it seems that he is quite ambitious, and he is very low-key on weekdays. Liu Min was a little hesitant, Mo Huaiwen's unusual appearance suddenly made him feel that this entry was unfathomable, and there had never been such an entry in civil affairs, and he was very worried that this entry would become Huang Side's second.

Liu Minyou sighed and said: "The first literacy class is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, have you noticed it, this Mo Huaiwen and Huang Side both have your style." ”

Chen Xin didn't mind and said with a smile: "But I'm more optimistic about Mo Huaiwen, Huang Side is not enough to lift Mo Huaiwen's shoes in terms of ability." Or if you train well, there are so many masters in the first period, and so many in the later periods, now it is only limited to qualifications, and it is not yet time to emerge. ”

Liu Min said, "Mo Huaiwen won't talk about him for the time being, do you know that your henchman Huang Side is very capable, and the literary and artistic team, the beautiful and handsome guy in Yishui, is it prepared for you?" ”

Chen Xin hurriedly denied, "It's used for propaganda, of course, you want beautiful women and handsome guys, try your best to get some crooked melons and cracked dates, who can love to watch them." What do you think I'm doing that? ”

Liu Minyou did not hesitate, "It's O, do you think I don't know the ...... you recruited when you were the director of the office?"

"Shh Chen Xin hurriedly interrupted him, "This is all a matter of the previous life, we haven't enjoyed this kind of treatment since we came to Daming, and there are a group of big bosses around us, don't mention it." ”

"Don't talk about you, Wang Changfu is all eyeing it, this propaganda team can't be put on Huang Side's side, it's better to put it on the civil affairs side."

Chen Xin spread his hands, "You can strengthen supervision, but this matter was prepared by Huang Side early in the morning, and he was transferred to civil affairs for no reason, and I can't convince the public." I can't say that I have the idea of joining the art team. ”

Liu Minyou said unwillingly: "I will keep an eye on Huang Side, if you engage in propaganda, you will engage in propaganda, don't go too far, you should take care of it." ”

Chen Xinshu breathed a sigh of relief, and after agreeing, he said tentatively to Liu Minyou: "What do you think of what Huang Side said just now about giving officers a part of the cultivated land first?" ”

Liu Minyou shook his head, "It's not the first time that Huang Side has said about this matter, soldiers have military salaries and pensions, and wounded retirees have land resettlement, if the officers' land is divided in advance, isn't the treatment too good?" Our white spoon land is not superfluous. Nearly 10,000 displaced people arrived in Pingdu Prefecture in March, and the civil administration will go to the canal to recruit people in the name of trading companies this year, at least more than 150,000 this year. If the land is given to the officers, they will not be allowed to cultivate, and they will recruit tenants, will these officers become the new gentry class? Is it considered a Songun mentality? ”

Chen Xin lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and asked Liu Minyou: "Minyou, is what you said in civil affairs?" ”

Liu Min was a little surprised and said: "Of course, it is passed, and it is not dared not to be implemented." ”

"In other words, your will will dare to resist in civil affairs, and I am the same in military politics, as long as the official order is issued, you dare to fight sloppily, so is this a kind of **power?"

Liu Min opened his mouth, but he never thought about it carefully, but he thought that his ideas were better for the people, and his methods were better than those of Gu Jin, which should be correct.

Chen Xin continued: "Then what is the source of our power? ”

Liu Minyou was dumbfounded: "What is it?" ”

"Violence, the power of any ** system comes from violence, so there is such a thing as the idea of the First Army. There is nothing wrong with the Xianjun thinking in this era, and there are no hostile forces around Denglai, so you can see how it is, we have been entangled with the people since Weihai, and the same is true with Wendeng Sanwei. When we take a step forward, we have to bite off a piece of meat from the surrounding forces, which is a deep hatred and hatred, which often requires a life-and-death struggle. For example, if you don't have that firecracker, the poor Wendeng Tun household on the earth will be killed by the Dengzhou household, and he will kill you next. ”

Liu Minyou listened blankly and did not say anything against it.

"Now we need to link the military and the government more closely with the people, and more bluntly, increase the cost of their rebellion and surrender, that is, the closer relationship of interests. At that time, they will not need us to mobilize anything, they will be able to defend Wenden's system to the death. There are some families in our White Spoon Army, and the purpose can be achieved by using Tunpu to control assets and family members, and there are a large number of singles, and I am afraid that there will be more and more singles when the homeless people arrive in the future, and it is not reliable to rely on pension alone. Huang Side's method also has merit, land has always been the best resource to bundle into. ”

Chen Xin dropped the cigarette butt and said seriously: "Not to mention that we now occupy Lushun, where there is a front line every day, and it is not excessive to improve the status of the army." In this troubled world, what we need is an army with a civil affairs system, not a civil affairs system with an army. Between the two of us, we need to reach an agreement on this point, and the rest of the matter can be easily handled. ”

After Chen Xin finished speaking, he looked at Liu Minyou, waiting for his opinion, from the beginning of Weihai, the army and civil affairs are two parallel lines, and there is no clear subordinate relationship between Chen Xin and Liu Minyou. Although because of Wendeng's successive victories, the influence of the army far exceeds that of civil affairs, but Chen Xin has always discussed civil affairs, and has not reached the point where the army orders are prohibited, Liu Minyou often will discount some objections, and now that the stalls are spreading, Chen Xin believes that it is necessary to determine the main body of the Wendeng system, so that the entire system has a unified policy.

Liu Minyou rubbed the filter in his hand and leaned back on the chair with squinted eyes. After several years of war, and now that Lushun is occupied, it is already the general trend for the army to become the main body, and it is also the driving force for Wendeng to annex the surrounding interests, but he has always been in charge of civil affairs, but he knows better the attraction of land to the displaced people, which is the fundamental reason for Wendeng's step-by-step growth.

Liu Min had countless thoughts in his mind, and finally met Chen Xin's gaze, "Of course, civil affairs can be under your jurisdiction, but it is by no means under the army, and you don't always think of yourself as a warlord, you should be the supreme leader of the system, only you are the hub connecting the military and the people, this is what I think, so I don't agree with Huang Side reaching out to civil affairs." Wenden should still be a complete civilian-military coordination system, not a deformed army. For the time being, I agree that the military should be the main body, but as soon as we have developed to the right level, we should immediately coordinate the development. ”

"The people have a reason." Chen Xin wanted this statement, and immediately asked: "Did the people agree to divide the land to the officers first?" ”

Liu Minyou waved his hand, "You want it."

Bundle the interests of the army, don't use the land, the land is also the best resource for us to absorb fresh blood, you don't want to see a group of landlords trained in the end. How about a different approach? ”

Chen Xin was stunned, "In what way?" ”

"Use the pension funds of all the soldiers of the army to occupy shares, invest in the four seas trading company, and build a joint-stock company!"

Chen Xin stared straight at the ground, touched his chin and muttered, "Retirement pension? Joint-stock company? ”

This time, Liu Min was waiting for his answer, Chen Xin frowned, and after a while, he suddenly clapped his hands with excitement and shouted, "What the hell Mo Huaiwen Xu Yuanhua is not even the light of rice grains compared to Mr. Liu, this is a great talent." ”……

Wendeng Tunbao of Anxiangbao, here was originally a wasteland, after more than 200 households of Wendeng came, they built a shack here, after the fight a few days ago, more than ten new graves were piled up around, and the family of the deceased was burning paper incense.

The funerals of the Ming Dynasty generally did not have a troupe, and most of them were considered to be disrespectful to the deceased, and the singing of the troupe was a gradual rise in the Qing Dynasty, and it was once considered by North Korea and other countries to be a table of ritual degradation.

There are many local people gathered around Tunpu, among them there are many people who look like they are agitating, there is no fort wall in Tunpu, and the young and strong Tunhu of Wendeng are guarding the periphery with farm tools in hand, and the whole Tunpu is a little worried about every death.

About a hundred paces away, there was a camp of soldiers, and there was a reserve battalion division stationed there, which was the storage of this division of soldiers, so that those natives did not dare to really seek revenge. However, the soldiers did not take the initiative to drive away the natives in the past few days, so that those who became more and more emboldened, gradually approached within fifty steps of the tunpu, and shouted and cursed at the families who were paying tribute.

The two sides soon began to attack from a distance with stones and mud, and the more they entered, the more they entered, and soon some of them wanted to come up for melee combat. As soon as the horn sounded in the barracks, all the natives retreated fifty paces away, and only stopped when they saw that no troops had left the camp.

Tunhu does not chase after them, the natives are more than 1,000 in the periphery, they are not opponents, these tunhu look at the barracks, they are quite complaining in their hearts, thinking that the army should have killed those natives a long time ago, now the land can not be obtained, the time for spring ploughing has passed, even if the land is obtained, this year only planting soybean fertilizer fields, or planting two vegetables according to the guidance manual of the Agricultural Research Institute, after all, there is no food to rest assured.

At this time, two horses came running in the direction of Dengzhou, followed by seven or eight carriages, and the things on the carriages were covered with oilcloths, and nothing could be seen.

The first two men wore the armbands of the mission department, and they dismounted at the entrance of the village, called the worried chief, and whispered to him for a while, and then the chief looked happy, and went to find a few general arrangements, and the young and strong tun households on the periphery were all withdrawn to the village, and several carriages followed into the village.

The two missionaries then went to the barracks, took out a piece of letterhead, handed it to the sentry, and quickly came out and whispered to the two. The mission department soon returned to Tunpu, and the natives on the periphery exchanged ears and talked about what these out-of-town people were in.

After only a moment, a dense group of shadows appeared on the official road in the distance, and there was a flag in front of it, and the natives were buzzing and noisy, and the students shouted to them to tell them not to be afraid.

The black slowly approached, and there were actually cavalrymen in front of him, with bright armor on their bodies, and the queue was full of sharp knives and guns. The general's flag at the front had a Geng character written on it, and as they approached, the soldiers began to spread out to the flanks.

The natives slowly moved back, and their hearts began to feel frightened, and these soldiers did not seem to be reasonable, because they had not been sent in to speak.

Some of the soldiers were commanded by officers to bypass the fort, while others approached directly on the official road, and soon reached a hundred paces away.

The local people looked at each other, their hearts were already empty, and a student shouted loudly to those households: "Don't be afraid, everyone is not afraid, the sun is clear, they still dare to fight and fail, there is always a king's law in the future." "The surrounding households are a little calm, Bi Jing and they are illiterate, and they are easy to be timid if they don't see much, but these gentry patriarchs are all knowledgeable, and sometimes the government can only back down when the big clan makes trouble.

This student was quite bold, he strode up to meet him, and soon met the other party. Although the soldiers on the opposite side were not as neat as the Wendeng soldiers in the barracks next to them, their eyes were fierce, and they looked as indifferent as looking at corpses, and the swords and guns in their hands were shining coldly.

The student's mouth was dry, he pretended to raise his hand, and shouted to a soldier who rushed with a spear on the opposite side: "Let your generals come out and speak, I am An Xiang's ......."

With a pop, the sharp spearhead involuntarily pierced into his lower abdomen, and the student took a step back with a tremble all over, and the spear was quickly withdrawn, and the student stared at his lower abdomen in disbelief. He raised his hand and pointed at the soldier, and before he could say something, the soldier kicked him down. A sharp pain in his abdomen hit, and the student lay on his back on the ground, unable to move anymore, and blood gushed out from his abdomen.

The soldier squatted down and groped on the student, and the jade pendant sachet and silver bag that he turned out were stuffed into his arms, and he scolded and scolded: "Lao Tzu doesn't care who you are, Lao Tzu tells you that Lao Tzu is a Liao army." ”

"Kill the Smell Fragrance Sect!" The Wenden Tun swarmed out from among the shacks, all of them tied strips of red cloth to their left arms, and in their hands they were no longer holding farm tools, but sharp waist knives and spears.

"Mom!" When the natives in the back saw this group of soldiers coming up, they killed them, and they didn't have the momentum of a group fight in the countryside at all, and they shouted in unison, and immediately scattered.

Wendeng Tunhu and they just made a feud, the most bitter and bitter hatred, in the back desperately chased after the one, caught up with one and cut down to the ground, and then a group of blood-red eyes of the tunhu came up to surround and chop and kill.

The natives had no power to fight back in the face of the organized army, and fled in all directions, while the Liao soldiers and tunhu did not give up, and pursued them closely, and followed them into their Baispoon village, and a small number of impulsive tunhu also began to burn their houses.

Chen Xin immediately looked at the surrounding situation with a telescope on the official road, and instructed Mo Huaiwen: "Let the tun chief and the chief of the first class go and warn those tun households, if the ordinary tenants have not entered, they will only be caught but not killed, and those who set fire to it will be disqualified from land division." ”

Mo Huaiwen agreed: "My subordinates understand that after arresting the troublemakers and patriarchs this time, it is time for the rest of the generals to stop." ”

Huang Side asked: "An Xiangbao is down, there are a lot of killings this time, and we may have to guard against it in the future." ”

Chen Xin smiled coldly, "There are knives and guns, it is different, in the future, each tunbao must form a cantonment protection team, and all young people except the peasant company must participate." Geng Zhongming is also good, he grabbed the things in the students' homes, and he didn't need to ask him anything. Arrest those who made trouble and those who entered last time back to Dengzhou, and let Tangzhi County show them in front of the county government and publicize them. The day after tomorrow, the purge will be stopped, Huang Side, you will take the missionary to appease those local tenants, and say that the Wendeng camp will come to mediate the dispute between the Liao soldiers and the tun people, and you will know what to do in the future. ”

The two entered at the same time: "The subordinates receive the order." ”

Chen Xin turned his head to look at Mo Huaiwen and said with a smile: "Mo Huaiwen, you look good, I have discussed it with Mr. Liu, you will be the deputy chief of civil affairs in the future, Mr. Liu is stationed in Dengzhou, and you will be stationed in Pingdu Prefecture to deal with local civil affairs, mainly in Tunbao and roads." In addition, you are given the power to join the Guards with a total of less than 2,000 units, and you can be transferred directly without reporting and do what you think you should do. ”