The Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party have been fighting for decades and now both have been defeated, although the Eunuch Party has been extinguished, but Donglin is not liked by Chongzhen. Now Xue Guoguan, the first assistant of the cabinet, is even a remnant of the eunuch party, Xue Guoguan is always hated by Donglin, and he is naturally quite disgusted with the self-proclaimed Xiao Donglin.

Wen Tiren, who stayed in the cabinet of Chongzhen for the longest time, was also a traitor who hated the Donglin Party. Many high-ranking officials known to Liu Jun, such as Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, Li Shuchu and others, were actually attacked and dismissed by Wen Tiren.

Xue Guoguan was recommended by Wen Tiren to join the cabinet after Wen Tiren's resignation, and after the resignation of Xu Yuliang, the first assistant at the beginning of the year, he became the first assistant of the cabinet. After Xue Guoguan became the first assistant, although Wen Tiren was dead, he still fully followed Wen Tiren's set of policies, guided Chongzhen to implement strict policies, and continued to vigorously squeeze out and suppress Donglin, as well as the now rising Restoration Society.

Therefore, the Restoration Society hated this new Shousuke very much, and wished to oust him from power as soon as possible. It just so happened that Wen Tiren's predecessor Zhou Yanru had also been seeking a double phase, and the two sides hit it off, and the resumption society raised money for Zhou Yanru, created public opinion, and attacked Xue Guoguan at the same time.

It is certainly not so easy to oust the current emperor as the first assistant or the first assistant whom the emperor trusts very much, and to send a former former chief assistant back to the position of first assistant. It is necessary to win over and unite more allies, and Liu Qiao, the governor of Jinyi in the central government, has naturally become the target of their wooing.

Because the Liu family has a great influence in the Jinyi family, and the Liu family has always had a very good relationship with Donglin, although the Jinyi family has always supported the Donglin Party, whether it was Liu Shouyou or Liu Qiao today, they have given incomparable support during the critical period of the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party.

Pulling the children of the Liu family into the Restoration Society is naturally an excellent way to win over Liu Qiao.

After some careful consideration. Liu Jun thought that he had grasped the plan to recruit them into the company. He calculated the gains and losses again, and it shouldn't be too bad for him to join the Restoration Society, after all, there are more than 10,000 members of the Restoration Society now. There are not many of them, and there are not many of them.

On the other hand, Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and others, whom he regarded as teachers, were all members of the Donglin Party, while Li Chunjiang, whom he regarded as his brother, was a member of the Fushe Society, and it was a very normal choice for him to join now.

Rejection will make people feel strange.

However, the real-name disclosure system of the members of the Fusha Society is public, and all the members of the Fusha will be recorded in the "National Table" with their real names and surnames.

Compared with the eventual defeat of the Donglin Party due to the lack of strict organization and unified leadership, the Fushe is obviously much stronger in this regard. Well organized. Each county has a person in charge, and there are even people who specialize in fundraising, and in addition, in the year of the township examination of each section, most of the members of the Fushe will gather in Jinling to hold an alliance meeting.

All show that the end is the embryonic period of capitalism, and if the Ming Dynasty does not die in the Qing Dynasty, maybe the Fushe will really develop into a modern righteous party.

"I don't dare to ask if I want to!"

Liu Jun got up and smiled. Compared with Liu Jun's calm performance, Liu Yunzhen and Fu Shan are very excited, and it is something that today's scholars are proud of to join the Restoration Society.

Because Li Chunjiang is the person in charge of Macheng, the Fushe. And this recruitment has obviously been agreed by the above, so although another Fu Shan has been added, the process is also very simple, Li Chunjiang took a pen to register the identity information of Liu Jun, Liu Ling, and Fu Shan. Then the three of them signed and put their fingerprints on their own, even if they joined the Restoration Society and became a member of the Restoration Society.

After the ceremony, Chen Zhenhui and the other four sons said with a smile. "Alright, now we're truly allies."

Chen Zhenhui, Fang Yizhi, Hou Fangyu, Mao Xiang, Li Chunjiang, Mei Lian, Liu Jun, Liu Yunzhen, and Fu Shan raised a glass and drank together to congratulate them.

Immediately afterwards, Hou Fangyu suddenly made a request to Liu Jun.

"We know that Brother Jiye is now a guerrilla by the emperor. The unified battalion has 3,000 soldiers and horses, and is recruiting troops. We have a request, and we don't know if Brother Jiye can help. ”

Liu Jun knew that Hou Fangyu, who was the son of the former household Shang, was good at strategy, and listened to his request at this time, and thought about it for a while, "But it doesn't hurt to say it, as long as you can help, Jiye will not shirk." ”

"That's right, there is a plan in the club to send a group of members into the nine-headed bird."

Hearing this, Liu Jun couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and his expression became solemn.

Could it be that the Restoration Society has understood the hard truth of politics and power in the barrel of a gun? Are they sending members of the Restoration Society into the Hydra Camp now, do they want to infiltrate and then seize power when the time comes, or do they just want to come here to get training?

But either way, it shows that his previous speculation that the idea of the Fushe wanting to infiltrate the army is not impossible.

Liu Jun's first thought was to refuse, his own soldiers and horses naturally couldn't let others infiltrate.

But when I think about it, I wonder if I'm overreacting. In the final analysis, although the current Fushe is full of people, it is mainly dominated by Jiangnan scholars, all of whom are talented people, and there are more than 600,000 talents in the Ming Dynasty alone.

Even if the talents enter the Nine-Headed Bird Camp, if they want to seize power, they are afraid that there are not many possibilities.

"What are the specific plans?" Liu Jun asked.

Mao Xiang said, "Nowadays, there are Jianlu who have repeatedly entered the prison outside, and there are bandits who are rampant in the world, and it is impossible for my generation of scholars to only read the books of sages and sages without hearing what is going on outside the window." Even if you enter the imperial examination in the future, you will have to face foreign thieves and internal thieves. We all admire the initiative of the previous public editor to establish the Hydra with you, so we plan to send some Fushe brothers into the Hydra Camp as well to become proficient in some military affairs. ”

This reason is not far-fetched and tenable.

Liu Jun nodded, "I don't know how many people you plan to send over." ”

"About one or two hundred. If the effect is good, maybe we can use the nine-headed bird as a place to teach in the future and send more members to come over for training. Chen Zhenhui said.

They chose the nine-headed bird, mainly because this army can fight, and in just a few months since its establishment, it has already had such a record. On the other hand, the Nine-headed Bird is also his own person, whether it is Li Chunjiang or Liu Jun, they are now brothers of the Restoration Alliance, and it is more reassuring to use the Nine-Headed Bird Camp as a training base.

Liu Jun quickly calculated in his heart, if it was only one or two hundred people, it would not have much impact. After all, he now has a total of nearly 7,000 people in the two battalions.

Perhaps, we can also make use of each other, and a large number of scholars will enter the camp. It can also help to share some of the burden temporarily. For example, a temporary cameo in an essay, literacy or something.

"No problem." Liu Jun agreed first, and then said, "I think it is completely possible to set up a teaching department in the Nine-Headed Bird Battalion to gather the soldiers who come together, and then select a group of the most elite Nine-headed Bird veterans to be mixed together to love training, and I will also take time out with the officers in the battalion to teach them some tactics alone, what do you think?" ”

Chen Zhenhui and the others glanced at each other, then nodded, "That's okay." Not bad. ”

At this time, Mei Zhihuan, who was the first seat in the hall, had already stood up.

"Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, listen to what Mei Zhihuan says here."

The hall was full of gentlemen and guests, and all fell silent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, here, Mei will first congratulate Mrs. Liu, the Liu family has virtuous sons and grandsons returning to the clan, congratulations." Mei Zhihuan raised his glass to Old Man Liu.

"Secondly, Mei also wants to congratulate Liu Jun, this young man is also the best young man I have met in recent years. With ideas and ability, this Hutou Fort victory will hit the bandits hard and defend my hometown. Attaboy. ”

There was a sound of admiration in the hall, no matter what, Liu Jun repelled the thieves this time, and indeed saved the lives and property of many people present.

Mei Zhihuan continued. "Liu Jun is our township party, and the nine-headed bird is our subordinate soldier, therefore. Liu Jun and the Nine-Headed Bird Battalion, we all have to support it, and we must vigorously support it. Now Liu Jun has been promoted to a guerrilla general, and the nine-headed bird has also been expanded into a battalion, which is a good thing, but everyone also knows that recruiting troops and buying horses requires food and salary, but these cannot be counted on the imperial court, and everyone also knows that the imperial court is also difficult. Therefore, today, the old man is here to advocate that everyone who has money donate money, and those who have food donate food, and raise money for the nine-headed bird together. ”

"Everyone who has money pays, and those who have food pay. Although we repelled the bandits last time, the bandits have not been destroyed, and they may come back to retaliate at any time, we need the nine-headed bird to be stronger, and then continue to defend the township and the people. ”

As soon as Mei Zhihuan's words fell, a person below shouted loudly, "I donate five thousand taels of silver." ”

Liu Jun followed the prestige, but found that it was an old acquaintance who spoke, it was his neighbor Zhang Butcher in Xiwan, and this guy also came here today. However, he didn't get a seat in the hall before, and when Mei Zhihuan spoke just now, he came to the door of the hall. Seize the opportunity and be the first to come out and donate money in response.

When Zhang Tuhu saw Liu Jun looking over, he hurriedly nodded at Liu Jun. Although he is just a butcher, but he is worth a lot of money, the most important thing is that his counterfeiting of silver is completely known to Liu Jun, and now seeing Liu Jun getting bigger and bigger day by day, he is already a famous guerrilla general in the blink of an eye, and he is getting worse and worse sleep at night, for fear that one day Liu Jun will find a reason to lock his house and swallow the belongings he has accumulated over the years.

Liu Jun looked at Zhang Tuhu's dumb eyes, smiled at him, and then raised his hand and clasped his fist and arched at him.

At this arch, Zhang Butcher shouted again, "I will donate another 5,000 taels, adding up to 10,000 taels of silver." ”

There was a burst of exclamation in the hall, some people who knew Zhang Butcher, and some who didn't know Zhang Butcher were still asking who this fat man was.

Liu Jun bowed his hand again and said loudly, "Liu Jun and the brothers of the nine-headed bird would like to thank Master Zhang of Xiwan for his strong support, thank you." ”

Liu Jun is indeed very grateful to Zhang Butcher, 10,000 taels of silver is not a decimal. However, Liu Jun knew that Zhang Tu's family had a lot of property, and he made a lot of money by making fake silver. Liu Jun did think about the idea of beating Zhang Tu's family, but the fat man has been performing well since then, and he is not easy to start.

Zhang Tu sent so much silver to Liu Jun before and after, and all kinds of festivals were offset, not to mention that he also had a son who was a lifter and a son-in-law who was a county magistrate, so Liu Jun had to be forgiving and forgiving.

With Zhang Butcher's hard work, this fundraising was a success.

Especially when Old Man Liu took out 100,000 taels of silver at once, it reached a high tide. In fact, these silvers were given to Liu Jun by the Liu family before, but they were pulled back and put out at today's fundraiser to increase the atmosphere. But these 100,000 taels, of which 20,000 taels were forcibly obtained by Liu Jun, 50,000 taels were borrowed, and the remaining 30,000 were donations raised by Liu Jiagongzhong and various houses to Liu Jun.

But these 30,000 taels are not unconditional, the Liu family gave Liu Jun 30,000 taels of silver, and Liu Jun had to arrange dozens of children from each room to go to the nine-headed bird camp, and it was not an ordinary arrangement, but to record the names of these children in the military merit book of the previous battle of Hutoubao, or everyone arranged a small official position such as team chief and flag chief.

With this military merit, they can easily be promoted to a seven, eight, or nine rank official according to their merits. After all, there are so many children of the Liu family, and not all of them can be selected in the imperial examination, and they can take a ride with the wind and take the opportunity to get an official position, even if they are military attachés. Anyway, these people don't really want to enter the Nine-Headed Bird Camp, as long as they get an official body, and then quit, they just want the identity of this official, and with an official body, they can enjoy a lot of privileges and preferential treatment. Whether you are a local owner or a businessman, you can benefit a lot.

The Liu family spent 30,000 taels of silver in exchange for these official bodies, which can be said to be a very cost-effective deal. Of course, Liu Jun has nothing to lose, everyone has their own place.

With Zhang Tu and the Liu family's generosity, Mei, Li, Zhouqiu and other families also took out a lot of money and food, and Liu Jun gave them a similar return, arranging for each family to have a few children into the military merit book of the nine-headed bird, and fraudulently received a military merit and was rewarded with an official position.

The nine-headed bird was just a group practice before, although it had also been made in the county, it was still easy to modify some rosters with the ability of Liu Jun and the various families. Although this is an illegal operation, in these years, there is corruption up and down, who cares about this, especially now that Liu Jun is being appreciated by the emperor and prime ministers.

As for the interests of the officers and men of the Hydra, they will not be harmed either.

Many merchants and shops in Qihuang also donated a lot of money and food, and they will have to rely on the protection of the nine-headed bird in the future, so they naturally have no determination to sacrifice their lives and money.

During this period, the four sons and others also donated 1,000 taels each, even Li Zhenli donated 1,000 taels, Li Xiangjun and Dong Wan'er each donated 500 taels, and Chen Yuanyuan's also donated 500 taels, but her silver was given by Dong Wan'er for her.

To Liu Jun's surprise, Mei Qing also donated 500 taels, and his father and brother donated 5,000 and 1,000 respectively.

raised more than 190,000 yuan, and in the end, Mrs. Liu took out more than 1,000 taels, which was enough for 200,000 taels. The fundraising meeting can be said to be very successful, but after deducting the 100,000 yuan of the Liu family, it is actually only 100,000. And nearly half of these 100,000 were obtained by Liu Jun from trading with the major powerful clans.

But no matter what, Liu Jun still got 200,000 taels of silver, and there were several thousands of stone grain and grass donated by several grain merchants and landlords.

With such money, Liu Jun no longer has to worry about the nine-headed bird's settlement silver and food for the time being, and even the money for the purchase of ordnance and materials for the firearms workshop is also available for a while. (To be continued......)

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