"Rejoice! In such a treacherous and evil world, it is really rare that our generation can be promoted by killing the enemy to serve the country and make meritorious contributions in a dignified manner. ”

"This dangerous place in Huangzhou is a hundred times cleaner than the prosperous places such as Liangjing and Suzhou! Drink! If you don't get drunk tonight, you won't go home! ”

On the night when he received the will to be promoted, in the yamen of the Huangzhou prefect, Shen Shuren inevitably drank with Zhang Huangyan and Gu Yanwu to celebrate.

Zhang and Gu, who had long been dissatisfied with the world, spewed out some cynical complaints while drinking, and the more they talked, the larger the scale.

Thinking that the promotion of civil officials in the outside world now depends on bribing officials and spending money to buy officials to dredge their joints, they actually regard a war-torn place like Huangzhou as a happy land to save the country and the people with real skills.

At least kill the thieves with real skills! It's useless to give Shangguan a benefit if you can pat yourself again! Incompetent sycophants must die when they get here!

Shen Shuren seems to be much calmer than Zhang and Gu, he always drinks and thinks about things silently there, and he doesn't complain.

Zhang Huangyan felt strange, and after another pot of good wine was in his stomach, he asked with concern: "What?" Is it something on your mind? On such a joyous day today, I will not brag about it. ”

Shen Shuren smiled politely and picked up the cup: "I may have to go to Nanjing in a few days, and I have some things to deal with." Of course, I will also go back to Suzhou for the New Year by the way, and come back before the spring ploughing in February.

The mountain here is a remote and dangerous road, anyway, the mountain will be closed by snow in winter, we have the advantage of the water army, and we are not afraid of He Jin and Lin Cheng taking risks. Therefore, in the winter farming, as long as you do some work of water conservancy repair, rectification of new fields, and training of soldiers, it is good.

At that time, there will be Lao 'Zhang Tongju' to help me act as an agent for a month and a half. Anyway, water conservancy and conscription are the duty of the general judgment. ”

Zhang Huangyan was immediately unhappy when he heard this, and complained without seeing any other places: "Wow, you are embarrassed to be embarrassed by the fact that your new prefect has just taken office and has just taken office!" I am not afraid of the court's accountability! ”

Shen Shuren smiled confidently: "The court law, the new official takes office, and there is already a three-month deadline to take up the post and hand over. Although I handed over to myself by myself, it only took a month and a half, not too much. ”

In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and officials would be given a deadline when they went to work in other places, and it was normal for them to arrive in three months.

If the former magistrate is in a hurry to leave his post, as long as the money, food, and accounts of all parties are clearly handed over, and the Tongzhi and Tongju are willing to take over the custody, as long as it does not exceed three months, it is completely fine.

Shen Shuren is completely taking advantage of the legal loophole this time, and he will take a big vacation to hand over to himself.

Fortunately, both parties are cousins, and it is also appropriate to help with part-time work. After Zhang Huangyan complained, he became serious: "Do you have any joints to dredge when you go to Nanjing?" ”

Shen Shuren nodded: "You also saw it just afternoon, not only the will of the imperial court has arrived, but also the letter from my father." The things in the family letter are more troublesome.

I didn't even know that I was impeached by Zuo Liangyu at a higher level, and there was a Governor Fang Kongzhi in the middle to protect me, but in the end, it was so complicated.

When my father was in the capital, he heard about Zuo Liangyu's recital, and in order to find out the news and help cover it up, he told His Majesty about the 'Li Jin' that I casually talked to him about in my previous family letter, which was an excuse to ask for directions.

Who knows, Your Majesty is interested in 'Li Jin', and it is estimated that he is also short of money. But if this method is to be implemented, there are many obstacles.

Even if the obstacle can be removed and forcibly pushed forward, it will inevitably be criticized by vested interests in the future, and "those who make this decision ignore the law of the separation of powers of the ancestors, and have sinister intentions, which will inevitably lead to the division of feudal towns in the future."

I believe that with His Majesty's temper, as long as someone speaks conclusively, he will definitely 'severely punish the officials who came up with the idea in the first place, but half-push and half-push will protect the new law that can accumulate wealth' and try to calm the situation.

If I don't prepare, even if the implementation of the gold is successful in the future, my father may be unloaded and killed as a donkey, and he will be pushed out as a scapegoat. Therefore, I have to go to Nanjing to lay out some relationships first, and then I can really promote Li Jin next year. ”

Shen Shuren is too aware of Chongzhen's style, and Chongzhen is essentially willing to use those changes that can give him practical benefits, but will damage the laws of the ancestors and the principles of the imperial court.

But after using it, if the official pointed out these points of destruction of the principle, he would push out the person who suggested the change of the law and cut it down, to show that "the destruction of the principle is not out of the emperor's original intention, but a traitorous minister", and then the emperor only takes benefits, but does not betray the pot of destroying the principle.

To use the most well-known analogy, before Li Zicheng arrived in Beijing in history, Chongzhen actually tried many times to get the elders to play a suggestion to abandon Beijing and move the capital to the south.

However, abandoning Beijing is obviously contrary to the ancestral principle of "the Son of Heaven guarding the country", and it is also an unprincipled confession of cowardice, and he cannot get over his face, so he cannot say it in person.

Someone must say that he can pretend to be deceived for a while, and when the real raw rice is cooked and arrived in Nanjing, he will pretend to "wake up" and kill the traitorous ministers who persuaded him to give up Beijing - and the ministers who can live until that day know him too well, so they grit their teeth and don't say anything about it.

Today's centigold policy can accumulate wealth, but it also has the hidden danger of causing local centrifugation to be inconvenient to control. In terms of behavioral patterns, it is exactly the same as the persuasion to move two years later in history. If you don't leave some hands first, even if you persuade it, you will be killed by Chongzhen.

Zhang Huangyan had never seen the emperor, and he was still a little dissatisfied with his cousin talking about the emperor.

But his family has dirty work to deal with, so he can only help with the daily work first, and ask less about other things that he shouldn't know.

"That's it, I don't care what you do when you go to Nanjing, just help you for a month and a half, remember to bring some thank-you gifts when you come back! Say, when will you leave? ”

Shen Shuren: "In four or five days, let's go back to Suzhou for the New Year first, anyway, there is no one in the Nanjing Yamen during the New Year." It is always after the Lantern Festival that the relationship is good. ”

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After making a plan to return to his hometown to operate, the remaining few days will be precious, and Shen Shuren has to hurry up and plan the civil affairs and training work to be arranged for the winter farming.

The crops that should be planted in the winter have already been secured, so there is nothing to be done to persuade the farmers. The main thing to worry about is the integration and training of new recruits, as well as the building of armaments.

Early the next morning, Shen Shuren recruited Zuo Zixiong and other military attachés to re-approve the future troop establishment.

After being promoted yesterday, the official and military establishment on Shen Shuren's side has also been improved.

In addition to the fact that there is a guard in Huangzhou, Yang Sichang also assigned him the guard post in Suizhou Mansion, which is still mostly in the occupied area - in fact, Shen Shuren has only recovered one Xiaogan County in Suizhou so far, so the Suizhou Wei station is temporarily placed in Xiaogan.

The officers of Suizhou Wei, who were not appointed by the imperial court, actually gave Shen Shuren great discretion.

The strength of a guard house is three thousand five hundred.

Previously, Shen Shuren had 3,050 regular troops, 1,000 families, and 5,000 or 6,000 troops recruited from Liu Xiyao.

Now that we are reorganizing, we will select people with relatively reliable physical strength and discipline, pull out about 3,000 people, combine them with the old units, remove the previous battle damage and disability and permanently retire them, and organize and train a unit of 7,000 people.

The 1,000 families, which were originally separately compiled, are now also mixed into the two guards, so as to ensure the loyalty of the troops, and not be half-hearted because of too many capricious thieves and veterans.

The vast majority of the officers at all levels in the new Suizhou Weili were also transferred from the Huangzhou Weili and the officers and soldiers who had performed well in meritorious service. Only a very small number of former thieves who had made meritorious contributions when they surrendered anyway would be retained.

After the re-arrangement, Huangzhou Wei was commanded by Zuo Zixiong, and Suizhou Wei was commanded by Zhang Huangyan.

Zuo Zixiong has several thousands of presidents such as Lu Datou and Liu Sandao, as well as some old descendants he brought out.

Zhang Huangyan has several thousand presidents such as Shen Fu and Shen Lian. The rest of the grass-roots officers at the general level are needless to mention.

After the establishment is completed, the remaining difficulties are the ordnance and arms.

When Shen Shuren first came, it was a set of grass platform teams, and the weapons were all obtained by spending money, and he did not build his own military production.

The firearms that have been purchased from outside are only about 1,200 guns, and there are no cannons. After eliminating Liu Xiyao, two or three hundred firearms were seized, but the quality was much worse than what Shen Shuren bought, only bird guns and old-fashioned firearms, even Lu Mi guns were rare, and there was not a single Western turtledove gun.

After inspection, there were dozens of old-fashioned firecrackers that were confirmed to be unreliable, and the walls of the chamber were all worn to a thin level, and the chamber could be exploded at any time, and they were directly abandoned and eliminated by Shen Shuren and returned to the furnace to make iron.

After some selection, the whole army made up a total of 1,400 firearms.

Compared with the establishment of 7,000 troops, this number of igniters can only ensure the establishment of 20% of the musketeers, and the construction of ordnance must be put on the agenda.

"This time, when I go back to Nanjing and Suzhou, I will take the opportunity to recruit a group of skilled blacksmiths to come over, starting with the imitation of the Lumi Gun and the Turtledove Gun, as for the old-fashioned bird gun and fire gun, our army will not build it in the future.

It is necessary to avoid too many and too many types of firearms and ammunition supply. In the future, the ratio of firearms in our army's elite units will also be increased to one-third, or even fifty-percent.

However, in the two months of winter, before the firearms craftsman is recruited, let the local craftsman create some knives and guns that are used with the existing firearms, which are relatively low and can be done by ordinary blacksmiths. ”

After Shen Shuren determined the size of each army, he first got to his cousin to the bottom, so that he could have a clear direction of efforts in the next two months, so as not to waste time.

Zhang Huangyan was very curious, with his traditional military thinking, he felt that the formation of the combination of firearms and melee weapons retained by Qi Jiguang and Qi Shao was already very perfect, and what special melee weapons were there for ordinary musketeers to be equipped with? Isn't it good to use ready-made ones?

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PS: If nothing else, this book should be on the shelves on August 1st...... I hope you will keep chasing more in the last few days, and after it is put on the shelves, it will be pitiful and pitiful to give a first order. I also know that the situation is not good now, so I won't say anything else.