The New Year's Festival has arrived, and under the cold wind, the curfew in Beijing has also been canceled according to the practice of previous years, which makes the prosperous Beijing finally present a festive atmosphere.

Zhou Huchen's hometown is not in Jingshi, it is these people in the family, for people in this era, family is undoubtedly the most important. Just experienced a battle, Zhou Yuji was completely idle, and the family had a reunion and warm New Year.

Not a single snowflake has fallen since the beginning of winter, and it looks like next year will be another year of great drought.

Several years of continuous disasters have emptied the finances of the Ming Dynasty, in the past 14 years of Chongzhen, Lianggi, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Suzhou, Zhejiang, Huguang and other areas of the drought, some places are locusts covering the sky, the granary of the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan and Huguang disasters, for the Ming Dynasty, the smoke is everywhere, is undoubtedly in the snow. The vicious circle has continued as a result of the lack of effective relief for local famines, and the people who have no way out of life can only choose to be thieves except to starve to death.

Zhou Yuji's Jingying soldiers have been running around in recent years, whether it is dealing with Jiannu in the north, or dealing with Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng and others, he has not stopped his own pace of conquest. Now, while recuperating in Beijing, he is facing many problems, the soldiers need to be replenished, and the food and salary and various weapons and equipment also need to be replenished. However, the imperial court was already in a hurry, except for symbolically replenishing Zhou Yuji with some food and weapons and equipment, it did not issue a tael of silver.

In the blink of an eye, in February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhou Yuji ran to the yamen of the military department all day long, and Zhou Huchen was already familiar with everything in the army, of course, he never stopped tossing his pace.

Zhou Yuji did not stop his son's indiscriminate tossing, he adopted a tacit attitude, because Zhou Huchen's tossing seemed to be very effective. It only took more than three months, although there was a lot of food loss, Zhou Yuji didn't care, because he still had food in stock. The soldiers had clearly made great strides in their mental outlook, and seemed to be becoming more aware of the obedience to the rules. The most important thing is that the son no longer goes out to cause trouble, which is already thankful.

It's been a sting, and the weather is a little abnormal, and there is no sign of warming.

On the ninth day of February, Zhou Yuji got the good news that his promotion paperwork was submitted to the military department.

With a beautiful mood, Zhou Yuji left the Yamen of the Ministry of War and returned to his barracks. Zhou Huchen is still carrying out his endless tossing, he is always full of tricks, after tossing the infantry will toss the cavalry, after tossing the cavalry, he will take fifty musketeers to practice firearms shooting with Lu Mi guns, when he is tired of firearms shooting, Zhou Huchen will be interested in taking a group of artillery to practice loading tiger squat guns. The cannon can be loaded, but unfortunately, Zhou Huchen can't come with a few cannons, this is the Beijing Division, he can fight, as for the cannon, Zhou Huchen doesn't have the guts.

After knowing that Zhou Yuji came to the barracks, Zhou Huchen ran over to Zhou Yuji's residence in a hurry.

As soon as he entered the room, before Zhou Huchen opened his mouth to greet him, Mo Xiancheng, the deputy general who saw it at a glance, was also in the room, and he gave the two of them a courtesy in a proper manner, and Zhou Huchen sat down steadily. Mo Xiancheng smiled, and only in front of Zhou Yuji would this little tiger be so quiet.

"Huzi, there has been no war recently, my uncle has taken leave, and I want to go back to my hometown Baoding Mansion, and by the way, I will take your aunt and Xiaohua to live for a while, and when the time comes, Xiaohua will be handed over to you!" Mo Xiancheng spoke first:

Hearing Mo Xiancheng's words, Zhou Huchen immediately took it: "I'll also go to Baoding Mansion!" It's time for our soldiers to replenish, we can recruit troops in Baoding Mansion by the way, and the soldiers recruited there are said to be very good! Zhou Huchen seemed to be talking to Mo Xiancheng, but his eyes looked at Zhou Yuji.

The soldiers in Baoding Mansion are good? In fact, there is no difference, what soldiers need is formal training and combat experience. The fundamental reason is that the soldiers in Zhou Yuji's camp have suffered heavy losses due to continuous battles, and Baoding Mansion has been suffering from disasters in the past two years.

Of course, Zhou Yuji understood what Zhou Huchen meant, this recruitment document is easy to say, and now the imperial court urgently needs soldiers with combat, and the officials of the military department are eager for Zhou Yuji to recruit soldiers quickly. However, this recruitment requires a lot of silver, and Zhou Yuji is shy in his pocket, where does he have silver. asked the court for silver, but the court owed him a lot of military salaries! There was no possibility of getting the money.

"Father can borrow some silver temporarily, and the court will make up for it sooner or later!" Seeing that Zhou Yuji frowned and didn't speak, Zhou Huchen continued to suggest:

"Isn't that right? The rules of the court must always be followed! ”

Jingying is the strongest liliang guarding the land of Gyeonggi, and if the household department has silver, Jingying will of course be the first to allocate it, but borrowing silver to recruit troops does not conform to the usual rules, and Zhou Yuji is too thin-skinned, how can he be embarrassed to borrow private silver.

"It's up to the kid to go for himself! Father, you only need to fix a book, and your uncle will never refute your face! Zhou Huchen hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, and continued to say:

Zhou Yuji fell into thought, Zhou Huchen's suggestion was good, but after all, it was not conventional, and he had to weigh the pros and cons.

Zhou Huchen's uncle's name is Liu Qing, who was born in Liaodong, and was disabled because he was injured in one leg when he was young and fighting with Jiannu, and he still has a false position as a guard commander. Due to the injury and disability, Liu Qing is equivalent to the elderly, as a generation of generals, Liu Qing is very familiar with the border town, using these relationships, through his own connections, Liu Qing, who is not satisfied with the old death, began to do business in the border town of Xuanfu.

Doing business on the border, with the convenience of being taken care of by the border army, and being more familiar with the situation of the grassland, in just a few years, Liu Qing did business and quickly became a wealthy businessman in Xuanfu. Liu Qing only did a large business, he mainly operated the best-selling tea, salt, cloth and other businesses, and Liu Qing also had one of the most important sources of wealth, he could bring back a large number of livestock, mainly horses, in the grassland. Therefore, Liu Qing was very popular in the border towns, and the generals of the border towns would always take care of him accordingly, and Liu Qing had always strictly adhered to the basic ethics of a Ming soldier, and he never sold military funds.

Seeing that Zhou Yuji was still hesitating, Zhou Huchen continued to persuade: "We will always pay back my uncle's silver, just for a temporary loan!" The court won't say anything, once there is a war, there is too much shortage of soldiers, how do we fight, father, you still have to think about it carefully! ”

If you don't borrow this ready-made silver, you don't know whose it will be in two years! Zhou Huchen knows best that there is not much time left for him, and if he doesn't take his uncle's money now, it is equivalent to not taking it in vain.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhou Yuji finally made a decision: "Why don't you let Uncle Cheng not return to his hometown for the time being, write a letter for his father, and Huzi go to Xuanfu"

"It's still your father, you take care of the overall situation! Take a long-term view! Now we need this, Jiannu is becoming more and more difficult to control, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are not at ease, time will not wait for me! Once the imperial court has war arrangements, it is always good to be prepared! ”

Zhou Huchen smiled, smiling very proudly, because he changed Zhou Yuji's stubborn character. On this trip to Xuanfu, Zhou Huchen was already well prepared, he not only wanted to ask his cheap uncle Liu Qing for silver, but also tried his best to get some more things; Zhou Huchen wanted to ask Liu Qing for the most important weapon of war-war horse.

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