When Jia Xu came to see Liu Ze, he had an angry look on his face, and broke in without waiting for the personal guards at the door to pass through. The guards were not easy to stop, so they had to look at Liu Ze and said apologetically: "Lord, he ...... when Jia joins the army."

Liu Ze put down his pen, looked at Jia Xu who was flushed, and waved his hand to signal the guards to retreat.

"Who made Wen He angry?" In Liu Ze's impression, Jia Xu has always been very easy-going and rarely angry.

"Is it the Lord who gave Pan Feng the right to kill innocents indiscriminately?"

"Indiscriminate killing of innocents?" Liu Ze was slightly stunned and said, "Why did Wen He say this?" ”

Jia Xu snorted heavily, and said: "Some time ago, Pan Feng was ordered by the lord to transfer a lot of soldiers from the battalions, and recruited a number of teenagers from the people. But just received the news that nearly half of the people were secretly executed by Pan Feng! Without the consent of the lord, Pan Feng was so bold and reckless to kill innocents, and asked the lord to order a thorough investigation of the matter. ”

Half of the people were secretly executed, and according to the number of people reported by Pan Feng before, there were thousands of people recruited by the Golden Eagle Guard this time, and those half could be at least five hundred. Liu Ze faintly sensed the severity of the situation, and ordered Pan Feng to be summoned for questioning.

Jia Xu was still angry, and he didn't even sit down on the chair that the guards had moved.

Pan Feng came over quickly, bowed his hand and said, "I've seen the lord." Seeing that Jia Xu was also beside him, Shi Li said, "Mr. Wenhe is also there." ”

Jia Xu snorted heavily. Ignored.

Liu Ze said with a stern expression: "Ziyi, what is the matter of Jinyingwei's expansion?" ”

"After the first stage of assessment, about 500 people have passed the test, and all of them have been sworn to join Jinyingwei."

"Five hundred? Remember the last time you reported that you had recruited more than 1,000 people, but what about the other 500 people? ”

"Another 500 people have been eliminated because they failed to pass the guò assessment."

"I'm asking you where are the five hundred?" Liu Ze's gaze became cold.

Pan Feng said unusually calmly: "Back to the lord, a small number of those who failed to pass the guò physical fitness test have been repatriated to their hometowns in advance, and the rest have failed to pass the guò loyalty test. All of his subordinates have been executed on the spot in accordance with the regulations of the Golden Eagle Guard Law. ”

"What?" Liu Ze slapped his palm heavily on the desk. He asked, "Five hundred lives were executed by you!" Pan Feng, you are so bold. Who gave you so much power? ”

Pan Feng held his head high. The complexion is as usual. He said calmly: "I am acting according to the orders of the lord. ”

Liu Ze said angrily: "Have I ever given the order to execute these five hundred people? ”

"In this recruitment, the main public commissar took Pan Feng's full authority to deal with it, and Pan Feng did not dare to slack off. Whether it is a promotion or an elimination of personnel, it will be implemented in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Jinying Guard, and they dare not have the slightest partiality. According to Article 13 of the Regulations of the Jinying Guards Law, anyone who collaborates with the enemy and surrenders and betrays the Jinying Guardian will be punished! These people failed to pass the guò assessment in the last level of loyalty assessment, and under the threat and temptation of the 'enemy', they turned their backs on the enemy and their subordinates executed them for treason. ”

Liu Ze was silent. This time the expansion and recruitment of Jinyingwei, Liu Ze did let Pan Feng be fully responsible, once he came to the military academy to start-up, he had to act in person, and he couldn't spare time to take care of Jinyingwei's affairs; Second, Jin Yingwei has always been taken care of by Pan Feng, Pan Feng is thoughtful, flexible, capable and calm, Liu Ze is very relieved to hand over Jin Yingwei to him. Moreover, the military laws and regulations of the Jinying Guard are different from the military laws of the troops, as the existence of a secret intelligence agency, its military laws and regulations are extremely strict, and the tolerance for betrayers is zero. There have also been incidents of betrayal and absconding by a very small number of Jinyingwei personnel in the past, but they were all dealt with by Pan Feng with vigorous and resolute means.

But this time, Pan Feng killed 500 people as soon as he made a move, although it was completely in accordance with the regulations, but the matter was too big.

Jia Xu snorted coldly and said: "Since it's just an assessment, it's not really a betrayal, isn't it a bit too much to deal with it like this?" ”

"These people can't even pass the most basic assessment, if they face a real enemy who is ten times more ruthless than this threat and temptation in the future, can Mr. Wenhe think that they will be loyal to the lord and loyal to the Jin Yingwei?" Pan Feng's face was calm from beginning to end.

Jia Xu was speechless, but he quickly added: "They are just ordinary soldiers of ordinary people, and they have not received the harsh training of Jinyingwei, and in the face of heavy money and torture, it is common sense that they can't hold on, Ziyi's treatment is too harsh?" You can repatriate them to their country of origin as if they had not passed the fitness test. ”

"If they fail to pass the physical fitness assessment, it proves that they are not qualified to be a member of the Golden Eagle Guard, and it is reasonable for them to be repatriated. Now that they have passed the physical fitness assessment, they are already a member of the Golden Eagle Guard, and for these weak-willed people, even if they are sent back to the barracks, who can guarantee that they will not be lured by the enemy's heavy money or the unfavorable situation of the war? Most of the personnel of the Golden Eagle Guard are lurking behind enemy lines, and they can't survive without a strong will, loyalty is far more important than ability, as long as one link goes wrong, the losses brought to the Golden Eagle Guard are huge. The Eagle Guard spares no effort to kill any betrayer, and it is also a deterrent to all those in office, who will also consider the consequences before they betray. I hope Mr. Wenhe can understand. ”

Jia Xu was silent. What kind of organization is Jin Yingwei, he knows very well, without iron discipline, without fierce loyalty, this organization will not survive, iron fist may be the most effective means to manage this organization, but Jia Xu is still faintly worried, things must be opposed, iron and blood means are not a good thing.

Liu Ze felt a little heavy, and said: "Although Ziyi's disposal this time is a little cruel, it does not violate the regulations, so let's do it, next time if there is a serious incident like this, it is better to report it first and discuss it before dealing with it." ”

"No!" Pan Feng respectfully accepted the order and retreated.

Liu Ze said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, Pan Feng executed five hundred people at a time, it is indeed a bit excessive, and I know that you have reservations, but the established regulations of Jin Yingwei do punish rebels quite harshly, and this time Pan Feng did not do anything wrong, I hope that similar tragedies will not be repeated in the future." ”

At this point, Jia Xu couldn't say anything, he said with a worried face: "Pan Feng is decisive and ruthless, although the Jinying Guard needs such a leader, but in the long run, if the lord repeatedly connives, it will inevitably make the Jinying Guard's power bigger, and in the end it will become difficult to control." ”

Liu Ze nodded silently, the intelligence agency is usually a double-edged sword, the so-called Cheng Ye agent, the defeated agent, the Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Wei East Factory and West Factory, the military command of later generations, without exception, these spy agencies serve the master and have made great contributions, but they have privileges, and they are the most likely to abuse power and mess with the government, Jia Xu can see the hidden worries of Jin Yingwei, and his vision is poisonous enough, it seems that the constraints on Pan Feng and Jin Yingwei cannot be relaxed.

At this time, Jian Yong came in. "Congratulations, my lord, the weaving mill has already woven the first batch of cotton cloth."

Liu Ze was overjoyed when he heard this, and said to Jia Xu: "Let's go, Wenhe, let's go and take a look." ”

In recent years, the cotton planting area has expanded to several thousand acres, and the cotton produced every year is piled up like a snow-white hill, Liu Ze imitated a new type of loom with reference to the loom of Huang Daopo in the Yuan Dynasty, and set up a weaving workshop and a dyeing workshop, and today the weaving workshop has woven the first batch of cloth.

Although Liu Ze was still not satisfied with the thickness of the cotton cloth, Jian Yong and Jia Xu were already amazed there. Compared with linen, cotton cloth is more soft and comfortable, I can't imagine that Liu Ze accidentally got the "ornamental flower" from the king of the plains can weave such a high-quality cloth, and compared with silk, cotton cloth is cheap and more suitable for civilian consumption, I believe that in the near future, cotton cloth will inevitably be popular in the world.

The winter in the north drips into ice, and before the advent of cotton, the cold winter is undoubtedly the most difficult day, and even when you go out to fight, you have to avoid the number of cold days. But now is different from the past, cotton clothes, cotton pants, cotton hats and cotton shoes sewn from cotton cloth and cotton can completely resist the invasion of winter, and both soldiers and ordinary people are no longer afraid of the cold.

Liu Ze couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the first person in the world to plant cotton - Liu Shuo, the king of the plains, could no longer see the true value of cotton, thinking that this brother surnamed Liu, who had the same ancestor and the same root, lived most of his life in the days of glory and wealth, but finally died in a foreign land in the troubled times. Whether it is a prince or a common people, in the war-torn world, they are also on the same path, and in the end they are just a mound of loess.

Liu Ze ordered that the planting area of cotton be doubled next year, and in addition to the expansion of the scale of the weaving mill and the printing and dyeing workshop, cotton should also be included in the strategic reserves of grain, iron ore, and oil.

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The second year of Chuping passed quickly, and although Liu Ze was in the plain, he always paid attention to the trend of the world. Near Luoyang, hundreds of miles of uninhabited, hundreds of thousands of allied troops stationed here, advancing and not advancing, retreating and not retreating, quickly exhausted the grain and grass. Because the Xiliang people and horses guarded Michi, Huayin, and Anyi, Luoyang had no strategic value plant, and the princes from all walks of life had eaten up the grain and grass, and it was difficult to continue, so they could only choose to retreat. Yuan Shao moved to Hanoi, and the princes from all walks of life also dispersed on their own.

Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, borrowed grain from Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Dongjun, but Qiao Mao did not give it. In fact, this is also a complaint against Qiao Mao, the princes from all walks of life have no food to eat, how can he have extra military food in his hands to help others. Liu Dai used this as an excuse to raid Qiao Mao's camp in the middle of the night, kill Qiao Mao, and surrender his subordinates. (To be continued......)