Li Changgeng and Sun Chuanting also received the letter sent by Liu Jun successively, Li Changgeng read the letter, and was relieved, this Liu Jun really has the ability, not only does not need to be paid by the imperial court, self-sufficient, but also can actually take out 30,000 stone of grain to supply himself, this disciple really did not harvest in vain.

He didn't have the slightest doubt about the 30,000 stone of grain sent by Liu Jun. Liu Jun always has this kind of peculiar ability, and he has long been used to it.

And after Sun Chuanting, who was in Tongguan to chase and suppress bandits, received Liu Jun's letter, he was suspicious. Liu Jun actually wanted to give him 20,000 stone grain? Twenty thousand stones, not two thousand stones. Where did Liu Jun get so much food, and even if he had so much food, why didn't he keep it himself, why did he give it to him.

Although he is also the governor of Huguang and is Liu Jun's boss, they are not familiar with each other, the most important thing is that Liu Jun really has 20,000 stone grain, or is this just a joke?

"Junmen, you might as well send someone to Yunyang." At this time, a staff member was beside him and persuaded him.

"You believe that?" Sun Chuanting asked.

The staff nodded, "I think it's possible, this Zhennan Hou is indeed different from ordinary people, the military gate should know, the recent hot fortune coupons?" ”

"Raise money lottery tickets, right?"

"Yes, it's this lottery ticket, which was made by Zhennanhou. It turned out that the imperial court government also often solicited donations from the squires and merchants, but few responded, but Liu Jun put the fundraising salary together with the lottery, and the result immediately attracted countless rich people to pay for silver, and I heard that 50,000 lottery tickets were sold in the first phase, earning 100,000 taels of silver. If it was something that I couldn't have imagined before. Therefore, I don't think it's strange that Liu Jun is writing to say that he wants to send 20,000 stone of grain. ”

"This Liu Jun is really incomprehensible, but he acts very generously, no wonder he can be sealed at such an age. Then Master Lao will go to Yunyang for a trip, if Liu Junzhen prepares 20,000 stone grains for a certain person. You bring him back. There are really 20,000 stone grains, which can solve an urgent need. Sun Chuanting stroked his beard and said.

Capital.

Yao Minggong, a member of the Cabinet University, recently made a new move, in which he requested that Huguang be divided into two, and that the Hubei Chengxuan Political Envoy Department and the Hunan Chengxuan Political Envoy Department be set up, and that the Xing'an Prefecture and Shangzhou in Shaanxi, which are under the jurisdiction of Yunyang, and that Kuizhou in Sichuan, and Nanyang Prefecture in Henan, be subordinated to the Hubei Political Division, and that the original Huguang land be bounded by the Yangtze River, with Hubei in the north of the Yangtze River and Hunan in the south of the Yangtze River, and Wuchang Prefecture and Shizhou south of the Yangtze River will be assigned to Hubei.

After Huguang was divided into Hubei and Hunan. Then Yunyang Fuzhi was withdrawn, Yunyang no longer had a governor, the Yunyang governor was changed to the Hubei governor, and the Yunyang general army was changed to the Hubei general army.

The original Huguang governor, general soldier and other officials were reappointed as Hunan governor and Hunan general soldier.

The fundamental reason for Yao Minggong's twist and turn is that the current Huguang political authority has made the jurisdiction too large, and at the same time, Yunyang has been set up in the territory and spans four provinces, which makes there is a lot of overlap in the jurisdiction and functions, which is not conducive to management. In particular, in the local area, sometimes military and political affairs are not clearly involved in the incident, and it is better to divide Huguang into two. Withdraw Yunyang to care.

As soon as this recital came out, some people supported it, and some people opposed it.

Yunyang Fuzhi itself is a very special existence, which was established during the Chenghua period. The land spans Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Henan, especially in recent years, bandits have risen everywhere, and this place in Yunyang is quite important.

Now Yao Minggong proposed to simply change Yunyang into a political envoy, and this suggestion also has some truth.

Just at this time. Yunyang Fu, Press, General Soldier, and Supervisor Army have arrived.

The Yunyang Guard Station cleared out more than 800,000 acres of tuntian, and copied hundreds of thousands of stone grains and a large amount of money from the homes of the officers of the guard post who were greedy for ink, which shook Chongzhen.

In particular, the officials of Yunyang reported to him. The cleared tuntian fields have been granted to more than 16,000 tunding for cultivation, and in the future, one stone per mu will be collected in rent, and as much as 800,000 stone can be collected in a year. If you clean up the other guards of the Huguang Xingdu Division, you can also clear out millions of acres of military tun fields, and you can also collect an extra million stone tun rents a year. If the scope of clean-up can be expanded to the entire Huguang Metropolitan Division and the Xingdu Liudu Division's guards, then it is estimated that the cleared tuntian can reach 100,000 hectares.

100,000 hectares, Chongzhen's heart couldn't help but pound when he thought of this number. 100,000 hectares is 10 million acres, and if you can really collect one stone rent per acre, it will be 10 million stones. Even if there is a disaster or flooding, the reduction will still be millions of stones.

If the clean-up can really be completed, at least in the future, there will be no need to pull out additional food for bandits and disaster relief in the Central Plains.

Regarding the ruthless punishment of the Yunyang officials for the military attache of the Yunyang Guard, Chongzhen didn't care at all. These ink-greedy guys, if he could, he would have killed them all, and then used all their possessions to make up for it.

100,000 taels of silver, Liu Jun sent another 100,000 taels of silver, Chongzhen was full of emotion, Yunyang Town's general soldiers are too good at doing things, loyal to the monarch.

And Liu Jun will confiscate the distribution of hundreds of thousands of stone grain, Chongzhen has no opinion. Liu Jun left 300,000 stones for himself, but he also gave 100,000 stones to the other three governors, which is quite good. After all, the 300,000 stones left by Liu Jun are also the military rations for 50,000 soldiers and horses in Yunyang.

Liu Jun's 100,000 taels of silver once again moved Chongzhen very much, and the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, who like Liu Jun, fought for him, fought and attacked, and even raised all the money by himself, not waiting, not relying on, not urging or asking. And he was able to take out so much of the money he had to raise so much to send to the emperor in Beijing.

Loyal ministers, great loyal ministers, not only loyal ministers, but also capable ministers, and cadres.

Look at Liu Jun, in just half a year, he leveled tens of thousands of bandits for him, captured Zhang Xianzhong, trained the new army, and at the same time rectified the guard post and cleaned up the tuntian, and also found a way to raise food and salary by himself by opening a salt field and issuing lottery tickets, and squeezed out 200,000 taels from it to send it to Beijing.

If there were a few more Liu Jun, the thieves of the Ming Dynasty would have been pacified, and the Jianyu outside the gate would still dare to be so arrogant?

"Cao Daban!" Chongzhen was moved, and said to Cao Huachun on the side, "You are the commander of Dongchang, I asked you to send Fanzi to Yunyang last time, did it pay off?" ”

Cao Huachun hurriedly replied, "Back to Long Live Lord, Dongchang Fanzi has been rewarded, Liu Jun has been recruiting sergeants and training soldiers and horses since he was appointed as the chief military officer of the Yunyang Regiment, and now there are more than 50,000 soldiers in Yunyang Town, and there is no vacancy." Below the general corps, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, capital divisions, and garrison commanders and horses trained hard. ”

"Yunzhen originally had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, because there were many vacancies. He didn't practice a lot of drills, couldn't bear to fight, and was dismissed by Liu Jun. Before the dismissal, Liu Jun not only paid these soldiers, but also repaid the salaries owed before, as well as the salaries that had been deducted earlier, and each of them gave two taels of severance silver, and the soldiers were cut, but no one was resentful, and they were all grateful to the court. ”

Cao Huachun took Liu Jun's silver. Naturally, he said good things for Liu Jun, although he actually told the truth, but it was not easy.

"The Yunyang New Army has been practicing every morning and evening, training hard, and six battalions of soldiers and horses have begun to show elite momentum, and the rest of the battalions are also very strict."

"Liu Jun's new army has excellent military discipline, and there is no disturbance to the people in the locality. Although the lottery tickets issued by it raise a lot of money, it is not compulsory. ”

Chongzhen was very surprised when he heard it. It has such a good reputation. And over the years, he has sent eunuchs to supervise the army, and most of the rewards he heard are that the generals are domineering and the soldiers' military discipline is corrupt. The people were disturbed very much, and they even often mutinied, fled and plundered the local people, and there were also direct rebellions to seize villages and market towns and attack the county seats.

"There are no bad rumors?"

"There are some, too."

Chongzhen suddenly came to his senses, "Speak quickly." ”

"It was Liu Jun who had discovered salt mines in Huguang before. Then raise shares to open Yingcheng Salt Farm, which was opposed by many people. ”

"Who are they against? Why opposition? ”

Cao Huachun replied, "Those who oppose it are Yangzhou salt merchants. There are also officials and officials of the Huaiyan Salt Farm, because the Yingcheng Salt Farm is large in scale after completion, and the annual salt output will reach hundreds of thousands of quintals, which will reduce the salt sold by the Huaiyan Salt Farm to Huguang a lot, and many Yangzhou salt merchants will also be damaged. ”

As soon as Chongzhen heard that the original opposition was all salt merchants and officials of the salt works, he lost interest. He had little affection for the extravagant Yangzhou salt merchants, who were rich but had little to do to the court.

But soon, Chongzhen was relieved that Liu Jun did not disappoint him.

He reconsidered Yao Minggong's twist and turn, if the Hubei Political Department was established, the Yunyang Fuzhi was abolished, and then Liu Jun and other officials were allowed to continue to organize the guards and govern Tuntian throughout Hubei, then Liu Jun would be less constrained. Even in the future, Hubei, as a newly separated province, will no longer have to be involved in other provinces.

"How does Liu Jun get along with Fu, Press, and Prison Army? Is there any bullying? ”

"Liu Jun cooperated very well with Zhu Dadian, the governor of Yunyang, and also cooperated very well with the patrol Huang Daozhou and Yang Tinglin, the superintendent, and they cooperated very well in rectifying the affairs of the Yunyang Health Office."

Hearing this, Chongzhen felt more relieved. This Liu Jun is very good, very good.

At the court meeting the next day, the monarchs and ministers of the imperial court decided to divide the political envoys of Huguang into Hubei and Hunan, and abolish the Yunyang Fuzhi. The former Hu Guangbu political secretary Fu, press, general soldier and the officials of the three divisions were reappointed to Hunan, and the three divisions of Hunan were stationed in Changsha.

The former Yunyang Fu, Press, General Soldier and other officials were reappointed to Hubei, and the Hubei Third Division was established to select officials.

The original Huguang prefectures and counties are bounded by the Yangtze River, and the north of the Yangtze River is generally Hubei, and the south of the Yangtze River is Hunan, but the Wuchang Mansion and Shizhou in the south of the Yangtze River belong to Hubei, and the Shangzhou and Xing'an Prefectures of Shaanxi under the rule of the former Yunyang Fu, Kuizhou in Sichuan, and Nanyang in Henan are all subordinated to Hubei. Chongqing, formerly under the jurisdiction of Yunyang, is still under Sichuan.

Zhu Dadian was reappointed as the governor of Hubei, Yuan Jixian was reappointed as the governor of Hunan, Huang Daozhou was reappointed as the governor of Hubei, Liu Jun was also reappointed as the chief military officer of Hubei, and Zuo Liangyu was reappointed as the chief soldier of Hunan.

However, Liu Jun was not just reappointed as the chief soldier of Hubei.

Liu Jun has been promoted again, and his current official position is to supervise the military affairs of Hubei and Hunan, the military affairs of the two provinces of the prime minister, and also manage the food and salary, guarding Hubei, hanging the seal of General Kou, and serving as the chief military officer, the left governor of the military governor's office, the left governor of the military department, the right servant, the right deputy imperial official, the prince Shaobao, the young master, the hussar general, the Zhuguo, and the marquis of Zhennan, Liu Jun, stationed in Yunyang, and controlled the two towns.

Chongzhen's loyalty to Liu Jun was rewarded very richly, and his martial rank was promoted from the governor of Tongzhi to the governor of Zhengyipin, and at the same time, in addition to the honorary title of the prince and the prince, he was awarded a young master from the first rank, and at the same time, the title of the imperial court was still retained, and he was promoted to the right deputy capital imperial history. Wu Sanjie is a second-rank hussar general, and Wu Xun is a pillar country.

Of course, those are just the titles of military rank commanders, and what really amazes the courtiers the most is that Liu Jun has added the title of governor and governor last time, and this time he has added the three errands of the commander of military affairs and the prime minister's training of troops, and the management of food and salary. It is precisely with the military rank of admiral that the governors have the military command right to dispatch generals, train soldiers and horses, and command operations. With the addition of food and salary, the governor has the right to control the army's military rations and salaries, and the food and salary are also an important means for the governors to control the army generals.

Now, Liu Jun, a general soldier, has been given three important powers: supervising military affairs, training troops for the prime minister, and managing food and salaries after being added to the military department of the superintendent and the ministry of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

What made the courtiers even more shocked was that Admiral Liu Jun was not only in charge of the military affairs of a province, but also in charge of not only a province's food and salary. Liu Jun is the commander of the military affairs of Hunan and Hubei, and he also trains the soldiers of the two provinces, and he also manages the salaries of the two provinces.

In addition to not being able to govern civil affairs and officials, Liu Jun is now almost equivalent to a governor or even a governor of two provinces.

Controlling the two towns, Zuo Liangyu, the former chief military officer of Huguang, is still chasing and suppressing bandits under Sun Chuanting. This fierce general in the official army, with the seal of the general of the thief, was once the general of the president of the thief who was recommended and appointed by Yang Sichang, but he was originally Liu Jun's boss, but now he is under Liu Jun.

is also the chief soldier, Zuo Liangyu, the Hunan general soldier, but he has to be controlled by Liu Jun, the Hubei general soldier.

The general army of one town controls the general army of another town, and it seems that only Qi Nantang had this power when he was training troops in Jizhen back then. At that time, Qi Nantang was just the prime minister's training in three towns, but now Liu Jun still has the authority to supervise military affairs and manage food and salary.

The emperor's favor for this young general is no longer surpassed.

Especially this young chief soldier, who is still a marquis.

From now on, everyone can call Liu Jun Admiral Liu, and many ministers are even wondering whether Liu Jun will be regarded as a military general or a civil minister in the future? Just like Chen Xueren served as a civilian official in Henan, it was unprecedented. Now Liu Jun is a military general, but he is an official and a commander, and he is awarded the rank of ministry, which is also unprecedented.

A military general, but two towns.

With the will to increase the promotion of officials and go out of Beijing together, there is also the will to transfer Liu Jun to immediately send troops into the fifth battalion of the Huainan Revolution. Chongzhen couldn't wait to wipe out the last large-scale bandits in the Central Plains.

He even had a plan in his heart, after Liu Jun swept away the bandits in Huainan, after the spring of next year, he would transfer Liu Jun to the north, gather Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and other elite soldiers from all walks of life in the world to launch a counteroffensive against Jianyu, recapture the lost territory in Liaodong, drive out Jianguo, and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued......)