"By heaven's command!"

"Feng, heaven carrier, the emperor system said: the country is in the ministers of the auxiliary, and every friendship is always the same. When the northern captives entered the Kou, the original Hejian battalion garrison Zhang Shi was loyal, Rui Zhi Kuang, the garrison was meritorious, and he was promoted to the general of the Kaiping battalion, and was awarded the general of the five-grade martial arts, and he was ......"

On the fourth day of the fifth month of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, when a holy decree was issued, everyone was surprised that Qin Qi had two doors out of the three marquis and five uncles, but for Zhang Xianzhong, who was in Duolun County, he was even more excited about his promotion to general.

"Minister! Command, thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Zhang Xianzhong, who bowed his head and sang loudly, took the holy decree, and held the holy decree that made him a general of the fifth grade with both hands, and his heart was excited.

"Thank you, father-in-law, ......" At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's lieutenant hurriedly went up to make a dot and stuffed in a hundred taels of silver made up by the brothers of the whole post.

"Well......" Weighing the silver in hand, the eunuch smiled at this time, looked at the stupid Zhang Xianzhong and reminded:

"General Zhang, this Kaiping Mansion is a military powerhouse, I hope you will be as good as this time every day, and you will be on the defensive."

"Yes, yes...... Thank you father-in-law for reminding me, please ...... father-in-law today" Zhang Xianzhong reacted and prepared to leave the eunuch as a guest, but the eunuch refused with his hand:

"No need, there are still many holy decrees in our hands, so we will stay soon."

After that, he didn't give Zhang Xianzhong a chance to stay, so he turned around and took people out of the garrison mansion in Duolun County.

Zhang Xianzhong sent him all the way out of the city, and only after making sure that he was completely gone did he take a sip: "What's the matter!" After receiving Lao Tzu's silver, he is still so arrogant. ”

"General, no matter what, the brothers are promoted with you." Seeing this, the adjutant general couldn't help but laugh, and some of the chief flag officers who followed him also laughed.

Their grade was not enough, and they didn't need the holy decree, so they only sent someone from the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to issue documents, but in any case, most of them jumped two levels, and their salaries rose by a few hundred taels of silver.

For example, Zhang Xianzhong, who used to have a fixed garrison of 502 years, now jumped to the top five rank generals, plus the San-rank Wude general's salary, and the annual salary reached 1,600 taels of silver.

"I'm more or less an official at this time, if I change jobs in the future, I'm afraid I need to learn and learn, and I can be a five-grade prefect."

Zhang Xianzhong weighed the holy decree in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart.

This time, he can be said to have picked up a bargain.

Subudi did not storm Duolun County, and the reason why he was given credit was, to put it bluntly, that is, he did not do it this time, that is, he regained a little face for the emperor.

Of course, if there is no Duolun County, I am afraid that Subu Di will lead tens of thousands of cavalry with Lin Dan Khan to besiege Dading Palace.

Although there are not so many people on that mountain road, even if so many cavalry take other mountain roads, they will delay the kings of each battalion, so that Lin Dan Khan can attack Dading Palace more time, so Zhang Xianzhong can be regarded as crooked.

"I heard that a lot of people died in sweeping the north this time, and some soldiers and horses of the Shangzhi Gong Guard Battalion had to be filled into the Shangzhi Guard, so there was a matter of your promotion of the general."

The deputy general was well-informed, standing next to him and explaining to Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong also collected the holy decree and asked curiously:

"So where has General Li gone now? They weren't punished, were they? Didn't Banzai transfer them away? ”

The General Li in Zhang Xianzhong's mouth is their old superior who led the troops to the paddock to defend the emperor, but this time this General Li can be said to be unlucky to be implicated.

"I don't know the specifics, but I heard that the generals of the twenty battalions of Kaiping and Duoyan have been down."

"Although the official position is still retained, it is rumored that he will be sent overseas by His Highness, and the news has spread."

The adjutant general explained, and Zhang Xianzhong also shrugged his shoulders when he heard this: "Mind them, anyway, Lao Tzu is a general, if His Royal Highness fights a few more battles, maybe I will be promoted to the general army next time." ”

Twenty-six-year-old Zhang Xianzhong was ambitious, and hearing his words, the deputy general could only sigh helplessly in his heart.

It is much more difficult to be promoted from a general to a general than from a small soldier to a general.

However, his own generals have said so, and it is not easy for him to fight him.

Thinking so, the deputy general also left after chatting with Zhang Xianzhong for a few words, but when they separated, some promotion documents issued by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were also passed to the hands of the soldiers and horses of all parties.

Being in the three provinces outside the Guan, Zhu Fuju, who was withdrawn from Beishan, also got his own promotion edict.

In terms of promotion, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies gave him two options, one was to stay in the Shangzhi Guard, but he was promoted to the Eagle Yangwei, who had almost been completely wiped out, and became a general flag officer, which can be said to have jumped three levels in a row.

As for the second option, he was transferred to the Northern Army Governor's Mansion and became a quartermaster of the Ningxia battalion, jumping four levels in a row.

One is to stay in Shangzhi, where you can continue to fight and be promoted, and the other is to transfer to Ningxia, where there are not many wars, among the two choices, Zhu Fuju chose Ningxia, which is close to home.

In this way, he was suddenly promoted from an ordinary soldier with an annual salary of 15 taels to a quartermaster from the eighth rank with an annual salary of 80 taels.

Although he has lost his status as a straight man and may not be able to fight all year round, Zhu Fuju's needs have been satisfied.

After the Battle of Beishan, the imperial court also began to issue silver tickets to the soldiers and soldiers of the five armies, with which they could go to the banks where the governors of each province were located to exchange for rewards.

Although it can be exchanged, the bank has not been open to the people and officials for a long time, and currently only supports the exchange of reward silver, and does not support savings.

"Three hundred and fifty-seven taels ......"

At the gate of the barracks outside Taining County, Taining Prefecture, looking at the iron stamped silver ticket in his hand, Zhu Fuju, who was carrying his luggage, was very curious about how he got it.

"How did the imperial court print such a beautiful painting on such a thin piece of iron paper?"

Zhu Fuju looked at the silver ticket in his hand, which weighed less than two taels and was depicted with a beautiful picture, with three hundred and fifty-seven taels of silver written on it, less than the size of a palm, and was very curious.

It's just that he couldn't figure it out after turning it over, so in the end he could only hide the silver ticket in a place where it was easier to hide on his body, and then quietly waited for the quartermaster Sima to arrange for their group of transferred soldiers and horses to go home.

There were more than 2,000 people carrying luggage like Zhu Fuju, and they sat on the grass at the entrance of the military camp in Taining Province and waited.

Some people looked at the silver tickets worth hundreds of taels of silver in their hands with joy, some people smiled and held the transfer documents in their hands, and some people talked and laughed with their compatriots who survived the war.

"Beep-"

When the whistle sounded, more than 2,000 people got up almost instinctively, including Zhu Fuju.

They were obviously not guards, but they began to line up in a disorderly manner, and as they lined up, one carriage after another was driven out.

When the more than 2,000 of them successfully lined up, more than a hundred carriages were parked in front of them, and some carriages were still driving out of the barracks.

The number of convoys gradually increased, and finally there were no more horse-drawn carts, only mule carts and donkey carts.

More than 2,000 cars were placed in front of everyone, and Zhu Fuju in the crowd looked at the small wooden boxes sealed on the carriage and knew what was inside.

"This is the ashes of your comrades who died in battle, according to the distance of your hometown, you will be assigned the last task before you take a vacation."

"This time, the whole army will be on vacation for four months, and each of you will be given a columbarium cart to take your comrades home."

"Their hometown addresses have been written on the seal of the wooden box, what you have to do is not to open the seal and the wooden box, and send the things back to the hometown of your comrades."

"Now come up and say the name of the word!"

Cao Meng, who was standing in front of more than 2,000 soldiers, shouted his words, and no one else could hear them except for the soldiers in the front row, but the other commanders and Qianhu officials would continue to explain to them later.

Therefore, after saying what he had to say, Cao Meng sat on the horse on the side, and the dozens of commanders and thousands of household officials behind him began to pick people from the crowd according to the distance of their hometowns.

Their movements and steps were skillful, and apparently the previous batches of soldiers on leave also experienced such things.

"Hanyin County, Hanzhong Prefecture, Zhang Deyi! Wang tao! Liu Ju! ”

"Yes!"

"Come out, take your wagon and the ashes of your fellow countrymen, and bring them all safely to your home."

"Yes!"

"Wuyuan County, Shuofang Prefecture, Song Xinglong! He Jiang! Huang Qi! ”

"There is ......"

The shouts sounded one after another, and Zhu Fuju realized that they were all lined up according to their hometowns.

Today, more than 2,000 people are soldiers from Shaanxi, and they will also take the ashes of their fellow villagers and go home in the carriage provided by the army.

Such carriages were generally to be returned to the army, but the return date was often after returning to the camp.

In four months, with the carriage in hand, Zhu Fuju was basically able to rush back to Xi'an Mansion in one month.

"Lutai County, Xi'an Prefecture, Zhu Fuju!"

"Yes!"

When his hometown was reminded, Zhu Fuju instinctively responded, but when he walked out, he found that he was greeted by two carriages.

He stepped forward and looked around, and when he saw that the other counties were all in groups of people going home, and he was only one person, he couldn't help but be nervous:

"Qianhu, why is it just me?"

"The other brothers are unlucky, there were originally nine people in Lutai County who enlisted in the army, but except for you, the remaining eight people died in Beishan Fort." The thousand households calmly replied to Zhu Fuju, and explained to Zhu Fuju:

"This is the wooden box of those eight people, which contains their suicide notes and ashes, and their silver tickets."

"This silver ticket needs to be exchanged by their family members with the enlistment iron plate, including you also have to go home and get the enlistment iron card before you can go to the Chang'an County Bank in Xi'an Prefecture to exchange the reward."

"The urn cannot be opened, and once the seal is broken, you must notify the Jinyi Wei Supervision Division, and the Supervision Department will verify that it is not vandalized before you can go home."

"So protect the urn on the way back, and it's best not to open it again after pressing it with this cover."

As he spoke, Qianhu inserted a cover board into the back of the carriage, and the wooden board blocked the carriage tightly, and Zhu Fuju only needed to sit on this wooden board.

"You take the wooden boxes of these eight people and follow the brigade back to Shaanxi, and then go to the townships of Lutai County to return them to their families."

"The bean feed and straw bundles for departure will be collected at the side, and the horse feed on the road will be replenished at the post station and the railway station."

When all the things that should be explained were explained, Qianhu no longer looked at Zhu Fuju, but read the name of the next person aloud.

When Zhu Fuju heard this, he stepped forward and closed the cover of another carriage with four boxes, and then tied himself to the carriage with a rope, and then connected the two carriages together with the people, and used both horses to pull the carriage side by side.

After all this, he went to the gate of the barracks next to him, received fifty catties of beans and three hundred catties of hay, and waited quietly for the large army to set off.

"I don't know if there's anyone I know......"

"How can such a heavy person only have such a little weight at this time......"

Looking at the two covered carts behind him, Zhu Fuju muttered twice in his heart, and then continued to wait.

It was not until the afternoon that more than 2,000 soldiers from Shaanxi finally received the ashes of their fellow villagers, and the ashes of more than 4,600 people were loaded in carriages and transported south by them.

After they departed, a new group of men came out of the barracks, and there were thousands of wagons on the meadow.

Perhaps in that carriage were the ashes of thousands of people.

"I don't know how long I'll live......"

Before touching his neck and joining the army, his mother asked for a peace charm, and Zhu Fuju had mixed feelings.

His figure faded away from the convoy and eventually disappeared into the horizon.

At the same time as Zhu Fuju and the others left, the Yanshan County Yali at this moment was also silent, dead and silent.

Nearly 100 generals were crowded in and out of the courtyard of the county government, among which the leaders were Huang Long and Huang Fei, who came from Tianjin after receiving the edict of the king of Qi, and the remaining generals were the generals of the 30 Gongwei battalions who were responsible for guarding the three prefectures of Taining.

Facing them, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting in a high position, was wearing a stomach, and the meaning was self-evident.

"I don't want to pursue the matter of the northern captives, but if you don't defend the Son of Heaven effectively, it is hopeless to stay in Shangzhi again."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, and this opening made everyone's hearts sink.

Huang Long and Huang Fei were calm, because in their eyes, this matter had nothing to do with them.

Huang Long lowered his eyes, and Huang Fei looked at His Royal Highness the King of Qi from time to time.

In general, his first reaction when he saw Zhu Youzhen was that he was tall and not angry, and then he carefully observed his bearing and beauty.

It was hard for him to imagine that a person with the appearance of His Royal Highness King Qi would be a commander who would command hundreds of thousands of troops to launch the Northern Expedition at every turn.

This kind of appearance, in his imagination, is generally only found by civil officials and talents.

Putting figure and physiognomy together, the adjective that Huang Fei first thought of was "northerners and southerners".

However, appearance is a commendable soft power for people with hard power, and a burden for people without strength.

It just so happens that Zhu Youzhen's strength is so tough that hundreds of people don't dare to gasp......

"I didn't know before, but now I know......"

Feeling the sense of oppression brought by Zhu Youzhen, Huang Fei finally knew why his uncle would say that when he saw His Highness, he understood why he was so afraid of His Highness.

A guy who is tall, tough, has great military achievements, and is still beautiful, anyone will feel ashamed of himself in front of him.

Huang Fei also felt that he was the top young talent in the Ming Dynasty before, but as soon as he put it in front of Zhu Youzhen, he automatically felt that he had become a follower......

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen's eyes swept over, he hurriedly lowered his head weakly, and understood why his uncle kept his head down.

"The news of Qi Guo, I have let people out last month."

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the generals in the county office, everyone lowered their heads, listened carefully, and guessed what Zhu Youzhen was going to say next.

"Yellow Dragon!"

"The last general!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, Huang Long, a guy who was showing off his might in India and making a name for himself, immediately got up with a weak heart.

"You've already received the canonization decree of the Marquis of Liaodong, right?"

"The last general has received it, thank you, Your Highness, long live Longen, the last general is willing to die forever!."

Zhu Youzhen asked, and Huang Long immediately bowed down to express his gratitude, which made Huang Fei, who regarded his uncle as the first person to stand up to the sky, a little stunned.

"Navy Governor, you don't have to do it, let Huang Fei do it, as for you, you are responsible for leading the team and preparing to go to Qi at the end of the year, there is a battle for you over there, and you can just form a navy of Qi over there."

"You have seen the steam engine ship of the Armaments Institute, if you want to command it, you can command that kind of warship, and in the future, when the Armaments Institute can put iron armor on it, you will be able to command the ironclad warship, and there is nothing to command that kind of wooden warship."

Zhu Youzhen didn't give Huang Long any room for negotiation, which made Huang Long very aggrieved.

He has just returned to Daming, so he will be relieved of his duties and let him go to the Qi country, although he has seen the steam engine ship of the Armaments Institute, but it is also an experimental product, and it is also wooden, when did the iron armor appear?

It's just that in front of Zhu Youzhen, he didn't dare to show reluctance, so he could only act aggrievedly: "The last general will be ...... ordered"

"Huang Fei?"

"Here!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen call himself, Huang Fei instinctively stood up, and even shouted out the slogan during the training that year, making a lot of jokes, and he himself had a big red face.

"The Navy Governor's Mansion will be in charge of you in the future." Zhu Youzhen wanted Huang Fei, who was in his twenties, to become the naval governor in charge of one-sixth of a country's troops.

"But the end of the general ...... age"

"And so it was settled."

Huang Fei still wanted to be modest, but Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to let him take the position.

Needless to say, Huang Fei's strength and loyalty, he may be dissatisfied with his brother, but he has nothing to say about Daming.

Moreover, at Huang Fei's age, Zhu Youzhen would take Huang Fei away when he went to Qi State, not afraid of leaving hidden dangers for Daming.

As for the Ming navy, it is estimated that there will not be much war in the next few years, at most, it will cooperate with Hong Chengchou to attack Donghu.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen prepared to settle the affairs of Qi State, and then asked Huang Fei to go to the old port to prepare to cooperate with Hong Chengchou to fight.

"The Lone Association asked Jin Xuan to take two battalions of soldiers and horses to Qi to reclaim fields for the advance team, and the Armaments Institute has already made a tractor that can reclaim more than a dozen acres of wasteland a year."

"These two battalions of more than 6,000 soldiers and horses will go to Qi with tens of thousands of Yingzhou laborers and more than 3,000 steam engines, and Qi will have 30,000 or 40,000 acres of fertile land by this time next year."

"Layue, Huanglong, you will take another battalion of soldiers and horses to the Qi country, if you don't want to go and want to rest at home, let people arrange this matter."

"Lone knows very well, you are not willing to leave Daming, and you also want Lone to stay in Daming, but if you trust me, go to Qi Country first."

"Ten years later, the Qi State will be better than Jiangnan."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to ask Qi Guosheng Jiangnan, you must know that there was a person who said something similar, but he also said that five hundred years later, Yunnan-Guizhou Saijiangnan, and Zhu Youzhen only needs ten years.

This sounds a little arrogant, but considering the tractors and steam engine ships and other objects in Zhu Youzhen's mouth, everyone had to bow their heads.

"Around the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, I will move more than 300,000 people to the Qi State every year, and after arriving in the Qi State, Huanglong, you will be in charge of the military, and it will be enough for the government affairs to be handed over to Jin Xuan."

Zhu Youzhen explained, and said to the generals:

"The number of people who set off in June is limited to two battalions, which brothers in the army want to go to Qi country, let's count it as soon as possible."

"As for the second group of centaurs will set off in Layue, and every month after that, machinery, grain, and livestock will be transported to the Qi country, so you don't have to worry about being exiled."

"I don't dare to ......wait" Hearing that Zhu Youzhen had already strongly stated that he wanted them to go to Qi State, the generals were also very helpless.

It's very simple to get together 6,000 people, to put it bluntly, they can get together 6,000 people by calling a few people at will.

It's just that after going to Qi Country, I'm afraid that what I have to face is a barren......

Thinking of this, the generals were silent, but Zhu Youzhen explained Huang Fei:

"Hong Chengchou has already sent a message that he will crusade against Donghu in mid-October."

"I am ready for you to lead the six guards of the navy who are still in the small Western Ocean to launch an attack from the coast of Donghu in the winter moon (November), so that the territory of the Ming Dynasty borders the Mughals while bordering the vassals."

"The six guards are a little small, but I'll have the Ordnance Bureau issue rifles and bullets to one of the guards."

"You must have heard about the Battle of Beishan, and you also know how powerful the rifle is."

"In this way, the six guards and horses will be enough to sweep through the southern part of Donghu, but don't attack Siam for the time being."

Zhu Youzhen made a special confession, because he did not want to occupy Siam at present.

The Ming Dynasty is qualified to occupy Siam, but if it does, it will not be good for the Ming dynasty's vassal system.

Siam's current affairs are infighting, and if the Ming occupy it, it will not be good news for other vassal kings and vassal states, which means that when their vassals fight in the future, the Ming may also take action to occupy them.

At present, Siam's orthodox royal family, Song Mu Ticha, is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen is ready to use it to do some tricks, such as in order to prevent the Ming from encountering the threat of rebels again in Siam's Huangdian, so as to weaken the Siamese army, so that Siam, like Sulu and Bo Ni, only retains basic self-defense forces.

This can start a good start, so that in the future, vassal states such as Gan Xiaozhi and Korea will also slowly weaken their military power and increase their sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty.

For these places, Daming only needs their markets and allows them to integrate into the Daming economy.

Some things don't have to be done with war, but with economic and political means.

Moreover, at present, it is clear that Siam is a country with a population of more than 6 million, as well as its own culture and writing.

Northeast China and Cochin, as well as Myanmar in the future, are enough to make the Ming anxious, for the Ming Dynasty, Siam only needs to be a good exporter of agricultural products.

Because of this, Zhu Youzhen did not intend to trigger a full-scale war in Siam.

All he needed was to let Hong Chengchou attract Siamese troops to the north, and then let Huang Fei with a guard armed with rifles to break through the city of Ayutthaya, the royal capital of Siam, and then make Song Muticha the king of Siam.

This will be a good start, that is, if the vassals of the vassal state are in chaos, as long as a royal family escapes, the Ming will set things right for them, and they only need to maintain economic and trade with the Ming Dynasty.

This is a sure thing for the royal families of all countries, since they can't beat the Ming Dynasty, then join the Ming Dynasty completely.

At this point, Zhu Youzhen estimated that as long as the affairs in Siam stabilized, all countries would rush to send the heir of the king to the Ming Dynasty, and among them, North Korea, which prided itself as the "filial son of the Ming Dynasty", was the most ......