"Amazing, this method is well thought out, Pan Jinlian is finally out of the sea of suffering, and your English name must be simen."

Liu Minyou glanced at Chen Xin, who had a hippie smile on the other side, and said with a smile: "I don't have the surname Qing, so you can save it." ”

Chen Xin asked curiously, "Did she promise to marry you?" No, you bought it, so she can't help but agree. Do you remember to sign the deed of sale, now in this world, eighty taels of silver can buy seven or eight maids, and the Xiao family is only ten taels, tsk, you are good, buy a second crop, maybe three stubble. ”

Liu Minyou picked up the tea bowl on the stone table and made a gesture to splash it.

Chen Xin hurriedly changed his words and said: "Come on, you are a bowl of braised pork as a matchmaker's self-love, and you are a lifelong relationship developed at work, this is always okay, did she promise you?" ”

Liu Min took a sip of tea with a sullen head, spit out the tea dregs, and said: "The Xiao family is very good, don't always make fun of people, you are fighting, she has to go to the temple every few days to pray to God and Buddha to keep you safe." ”

"How do you know?"

"Wang Daixi said, she ran into it a few times."

"Oh, it's also a good person, don't talk about her yet, you haven't said Pan Jinlian yet."

Liu Minyou smiled and said: "I really didn't see it, she actually talked so much, yesterday afternoon Zhou Laifu and they went to deliver the goods, she kept talking to me, crying and laughing, it can be so bad." ”

"Did you promise to be your concubine?"

Liu Min said: "She said that she would only be a maid for me." ”

"That's fine, house-filler. However, when the maid is a little older, the maid is also the shopkeeper and the bookkeeper, and the salary is free, which is a good idea for Brother Liu. She said to be a maid, so what did you say? ”

"I, I said let her be the shopkeeper."

Chen Xin patted his leg and said, "Chickens and ducks talk about it." Then he rolled his eyes, "Go back to Weihai and talk about it." Zhao Xiang also knows her, and when the time comes, I will find Zhao Xiang to tell her, and the wife will definitely not work. Don't think about it, just be a concubine, and be treated with Pan Jinlian. ”

Liu Minyou said dryly: "Okay." ”

Chen Xin sighed and said, "Why don't you object? Don't insist on monogamy anymore? ”

Liu Minyou touched the teacup and looked at it blankly for a while: "I have to accept this era." If I had to, there would have been more gossip when I returned to Weihai, and they would all have gone to her. Miss Li herself didn't dare to be a wife, at most she was a concubine. ”

Chen Xin looked at him a little strangely: "The country has not changed, and the nature has changed, this is the power of love." He licked his lips and continued: "But these two crops are also good, especially Pan Jinlian's good nature. It turns out that the guy surnamed Wen in our company's sales department is tall and handsome, and he is still a rich second generation, and he doesn't want any little girls to look for him. Unless she was looking for a divorced person, the woman raised him like a son, really washed his feet, washed and cleaned, covered the heat and put on his slippers. Brother Liu, your happy days in the future will be long. ”

Liu Minyou smiled and didn't speak, and whatever words came to this friend's mouth were a different taste.

Chen Xin said mysteriously: "You are about to have a master of the famous grass, do you want my brother and I will take you to the Qinglou to have a look, in case Pan Jinlian goes from a slave to a general in the future, and you become a strict wife, you will have no chance." ”

"No, no." After Liu Minyou finished speaking, he looked at Chen Xindao and said, "I remember that you haven't been there either." Do you want to go yourself, pull me to be brave. ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "I really haven't been there, we are leaders, and we usually have to maintain our image, and Song Wenxian, this bastard, will not take me." Let's go back to Wendeng first, arrange things again, since Zuo Changhao said that Xu Xinsu will go to Nanjing at the end of July, I will go to meet him, let's go to Jiangnan by sea, go to Nanjing by land, where Qinglou is the best, and take the canal to Linqing on the way back, just buy the shops in Yangzhou and Linqing along the way, open up the joints, and then return to Weihai by land, ride a horse harder, faster than the sea road. ”

Liu Minyou hesitated and said: "It's okay to look at the shops, but it has been coming and going for at least two months, and the situation on the Dongjiang River is unstable, what if Jiannu makes trouble again." ”

"It's okay, the Dengzhou Navy Division is now guarding against Dongjiang Town, and it can't be transferred, the more than 1,000 slender men recruited last time haven't left, the Tianjin Zhenhai Battalion has run half of his mother, and the Wendeng Battalion will take two trips to finish, and it will take at least two months to return to Wendeng, and we can't delay things, let's take the ship back by sea trade first, arrange urgent and important things, and set off before July 10. Jiannu will be busy with farming in September, and they can't draw people, this year they are sleepy and tired, and they have to digest the fruits of looting, and nothing happens, let's leave in the next two days, remember to bring Pan Jinlian. ”

Chongzhen's three years did not realize that half of the time had passed, and the Houjin hook punched the Ming court into a daze, although they finally drove away the Houjin army, but the losses they caused were not short-term recovery, there were groups of beggars inside and outside the Beijing Division, the prosperity of the past around Gyeonggi disappeared without a trace, and the villages and villages where the Houjin army passed through were ruined, and all industries withered.

In addition, because of the mobilization of elite border troops in Shaanxi and other places, the local strength was empty, and the Liukou got the opportunity to grow and began to wander around, and later the collapse of several Qinwang armies also buried greater hidden dangers, the largest two rout armies are Shanxi Town and Gansu Governor Pacesetter Battalion, Wu Zimian Yansui Town also has a large number of deserters, these people do not dare to return to the army, and they do not want to beg for a living, a large part of the grass is a coward, these people with military skills are out of control, as if in the dry firewood in the north and sprinkled a handful of sparks.

After the mobilization of the border army, the governor of the three sides, Yang He, was unable to deal with it, and the Liukou really flowed, and this year it was still a big drought, and the Liukou had a sufficient mass base, and they absorbed the hungry people all the way, and grew like a snowball. Among the rogues in Shaanxi, Wang Zuogui, who was famous in the early days, has been killed by Hong Chengchou, but there are countless rising stars, and the names of Wang Jiayin, Lao Huihui, Lighting Lamp, Shen Yikui, Gao Yingxiang and others have appeared in the Di newspaper. Some of them had already crossed the Yellow River into Shanxi in February and March, and began to lead the fires from Shaanxi to Shanxi.

Although Chen Xin didn't see Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the newspaper, he estimated that these two people had already entered. It's just that it hasn't come to the fore yet, last year, the criminal department said that Liu Mao would rectify the post station, and as soon as it was rectified, the post guards were directly laid off, and the funds saved were only on paper, and they didn't really save much money, but they rectified Chongzhen's gravediggers.

These rogues are similar to the way they build slaves, like locusts to eat up one place at a time. For them, there is no such thing as a strategic place, and they never think about what they will eat next time. Where there is food, go there, eat and pull down, and destroy it again by the way. There is no consideration for resource recycling.

The momentum of the rogues has gradually increased, and although they are not yet able to compete head-on with the official army, they have already shown great destructive ability, and another enemy of the Ming Dynasty is showing his fangs.

After the Houjin was released, part of the Qin Wangjun gradually returned to their original station, and a new round of power distribution was beginning with the help of their own accountability and the merits of the great victory of Zunyong.

This time, Jiannu entered the customs to investigate responsibility, Wen Tiren, Liang Tingdong, Zhou Yanru and others seized the main line of Yuan Chonghuan, followed the vine, and pursued them relentlessly. Got the cabinet's Qian Longxi and Han Yi out of power, and the vacated position Zhou Yanru sat down, and now there is one left, although Liang Tingdong has the great merit of the battle of the four cities, he really rose too fast. Even he himself was not embarrassed to fight, and as a result, Wen Tiren became a scholar of Dongkaku University in early June and entered the cabinet of his dreams.

After the two divisions of the Wendeng battalion returned to Weihai, Wendeng was as stable as Mount Tai, with these victorious divisions that had undergone two actual combat tests, and there were no forces around them that were their opponents. Liu Xingzhi did not mean to hit Dengzhou or Wendeng. After hearing about Zunyong's victory, he returned to Phi Island from Changshan Island and expressed his willingness to accept the appeasement.

After he tossed it like this, the Dongjiang people's hearts were separated, it was difficult to clean up, the two major military towns of Guanning and Dongjiang made two bad examples, the imperial court was losing its binding force on the army, in this case, the Wendeng camp that can fight and be loyal is even more important, Chongzhen personally made the decision, and set the Wendeng battalion reinforcement battalion at 3,500 people, even more than most of the regular barracks, and the military salary was also paid from the most adequate Liao, this time from the Guanning army, the Guanning army directly regarded the Wendeng camp as an enemy, Chen Xin knew that Chongzhen had some thoughts of creating contradictions, anyway, he has already made up his mind to draw a line with Guan Ningjun. He was neither afraid of Guan Ningjun, nor did he count on them, silver was a must, and with military salaries, his annual income could be used to do more things.

The officials of the court and the central government knew that Chen Xinjian was in the emperor's heart, and they did not dare to oppose this proposal, but after several grinds, Wendeng Camp still failed to get Guanning's standard, Wen Tiren and Liang Tingdong helped Chen Xin fight for the minimum requirements, one tael per soldier, one or five family members, plus the annual military salary of the water camp is only sixty or seventy thousand taels, the Guanning army still maintains the highest military salary in the Ming Dynasty, one two five battalion soldiers, two two four family members, and five buckets of rice per soldier, and they keep calling poor, Liang Tingdong has been operating to increase the salary of Liao, adding three cents on the basis of the original six cents, This is the origin of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's nine cents of silver, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's so-called abolition of Liao, but the abolition of a name, after self-advocacy, became a major virtue for them.

Wendeng camp only folds color, no true color, Chen Xin does not care about the five buckets of rice in the true color, Wen Tiren for this reason, won a policy, Wendeng camp can develop wasteland in Wendeng, set up a military tun, Chen Xin has this banner, the space for operation is much larger.

Because of the discount in military salaries, Chongzhen also felt that he was a little disadvantaged to the Wendeng battalion, and restored the authority of the Wendeng battalion to the scope of the preparation of the Japanese capital division in that year, and took the performance appraisal of Weihai, Chengshan, and Jinghai Sanwei in his hands. Chen Xin was also officially promoted to the general of the Wendeng battalion, the commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Division, from the military attache of the second grade, the commander of the nine-sided guerrilla, Chen Xin's guard grade was lower than that of the nine-sided general, but he was promoted to four levels at one time, and he was already taken care of, in order to correspond to his staff and rank, the scattered rank was promoted to the second grade, and the hussar general was first awarded, and the other Yin Yizi was Jinyi Wei Qianhu.

Zhou Hongmo has Laiyang's military exploits of capturing the bandit leader of the Wenxiang Sect alive, and he has divided part of the military exploits of Luanzhou, plus he ruthlessly took all the gold and silver looted in Laiyang to dot up, and promoted two levels to become a general of Linqing, and finally found a position that he is very satisfied with, Linqing is on the Grand Canal, the trade route radiates to the south of North Zhili, the hinterland of Shandong and some places in Henan, the business is very prosperous, more than Jinan, it is a fat position, it is in the hinterland, and now there is no danger, which completely satisfies Zhou Hongmo's ambition to make money and not fight, As soon as he got the confession, he couldn't wait to go to Linqing to take office.

Wang Ting's performance of Wendeng Battalion was also a success. His psychological expectations slowly rose, and after some competition, he gave up the governor of Denglai and became the squire of the military department. Zhou Yanru, Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong all admired this Ningyuan military equipment who was proficient in Western firearms, and Chen Xin knew that this person would definitely be the governor of Denglai, and he also sent Song Wenxian to visit first. are all in accordance with the rules of officialdom.

Appointed in June, it was Sun Yuanhua who was appointed governor of Denglai, and he himself did not seem to be very interested in this position. Shangshu resigned, but Chongzhen did not allow it, forcing him to become an official. Sun Yuanhua was a little unsure about Dongjiang Town, which was under the jurisdiction of Denglai. Hoping to use someone he trusted to serve as the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, the candidate is Huang Long, who has been following him, Huang Long commanded the Hongyi artillery team of the Guanning Army in the Battle of Luanzhou, which was the first merit of the Battle of the Four Cities in the original history, because of the brilliant performance of the Wendeng battalion, his merits were greatly discounted, and many court officials thought that it would be difficult to convince the public to transfer people from the Guanning Army to Dongjiang as the chief soldier, and maybe those Dongjiang Qiuba would make some big trouble, so it has been controversial. It has not been decided for a long time.

Like Sun Yuanhua, who doesn't want to be an official, there are also his own families Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong. Sun Chengzong resigned three times in a row, saying that he was sick and that he was old, and he didn't want to go to Liaodong to supervise again. Chongzhen thought about it, only this old man could suppress Guan Ningjun, there was really no one available, and he was asked to take office, and every time he was relieved. In the end, he added a sentence of no, forcing the old grandson in his sixties to go to Guanning again. Ma Shilong is not that important, Liang Tingdong intended to let him be the chief soldier of Jizhen, but Ma Shilong resigned and returned to his hometown.

The officers under Chen Xin's subordinates also have their own promotions, the most important four thousand generals, all of whom have signed the command of the Shandong Metropolitan Headquarters, each shade and one son are the 100 households of the guard, and the other generals and 100 generals are the commanders, acquaintances, and servants of the three guards, these are all empty titles, regardless of the guards, the officials with the qualifications above the three guards have increased dramatically. No matter how worthless the guards were, it was a leap for these slender men and civilians, and everyone was happy with the officers of the Wenden battalion.

Ordinary soldiers are most concerned about the bonus, the Wendeng battalion internal credit is also closely carried out, this time the Wendeng battalion from Laiyang to calculate, captured more than 130,000 taels, the most in Luanzhou, the Wendeng battalion of the merit system to the importance of the task and the completion of the evaluation, this continuous operation, personnel and adjustments, more complicated, several thousand generals are trying their best to fight for their own department, although Dai Zhenggang and Wang Changfu returned to Wendeng first, but left the deputy general of the headquarters, plus Lu Chuanzong and Zhu Guobin, every day with Liu Pojun, Huang Side, Zhou Shifa, Dong Yu and others argued.

Zhou Shifa, who was in charge of nuclear power, was exhausted by them, Dong Yu, who was in charge of the silver, was also anxious, Chen Xin was not directly involved, and planned to let them toss by themselves first, and finally he came out to balance. After they finally discussed it, Chen Xin made a slight adjustment after the examination, and first issued half of the bonus, and ordinary soldiers also received more than ten taels, and the officers and soldiers were all elated.

Then Chen Xin summoned all the chief officers, let Zhu Guobin and Zhu Daichun return to the second batch, and led the newly recruited 1,500 slender men to return to Wendeng, and began recruit training as much as possible. The two gunners who had been dug up from the Furlong machine would also return with the second group. The third group was led by Lu Chuanzong, mainly the remaining veterans and wounded.

This year's sea trade is still carried out by two ships, Luanzhou grabbed a large number of satin and cotton cloth, this year's sea trade is basically enough, plus the return profit, more than the 130,000 taels of silver he robbed.

Wang Zugui and Qin Lufang, the original group of pirates, were left to prepare for the establishment of the water camp, and the water camp guerrilla was designated as a scar, but he had to go to the five islands to complete the trade before taking office.

When the two ships set off, Chen Xin and Liu Minyou took Song Wenxian, Zhou Laifu and others to return with the ship, accompanied by Li Ranzhu.

The two began to write their own work plans on the ship, and Chen Xin's plan prioritized pensions, resettlement of wounded soldiers, recruitment and training of new recruits, expansion of barracks, and preparation for the construction of water camps. According to Chen Xin's request, Liu Minyou compiled a plan for the civil affairs and the workshop in the near future, and the civil affairs department will also transfer manpower to four key areas to ensure the expansion of the army and the resettlement of the wounded and sick. More importantly, it began to clear all the wasteland in Wendeng and prepare a military plan.

This great change in the past year has made the Wendeng battalion from an obscure local army to a powerful army in the world, and a broader stage has been rolled out for them.

End of Volume 3 (To be continued......)