The turmoil in Hanzhong did not escape Hong Chengchou's eyes, and the entire Shaanxi Prefecture had Hong Chengchou's eyeliner, in order to exterminate all the bandits as soon as possible.

On the second day after Chen Wang led his troops to Hanzhong City, an urgent military order of 800 li had already been delivered to him.

"The banditry in Hanzhong has affected a lot of people...... Hanzhong City cannot afford to be lost, the safety of King Rui should be the first priority, and when the situation is stable, cooperate with Hanzhong guerrillas to clear out the ...... such as the Golden Winged Peng, the Black Killing Tiger, and the Sky Harrier."

Hong Chengchou, who was in charge of Sanyuan's overall command, had already received the news from Hanzhong Mansion, and the news he had learned was more detailed and clear than Chen Wang's.

"The military gate letter is ......"

Chen Wang took the military order from the messenger's hand with both hands, and then raised it and put it in front of his forehead, and said in a solemn voice.

"There will be no defeat!"

Chen Wang's face was solemn, and he respectfully raised the military order in his hand with both hands, but there was another thing in his heart.

At this moment, Chen Wang's heart was completely settled, because now, he could finally stay in Hanzhong justifiably.

The first shackles on him had been removed, and if he stayed in Hanzhong Mansion, he had actually been given the right to act cheaply.

Chen Wang knows very well that Hong Chengchou has no trust in him at all, and what Hong Chengchou thinks about in his heart is only his career, and all he thinks about is his status and identity.

In Hong Chengchou's eyes, these generals are just chess pieces that can be discarded at will to help them ascend to the throne.

The civil officials who can afford to be military generals may not even be able to make up the number of ten fingers in the entire court today.

Even if he really has faith, then he must be negative.

"You take someone to Hanzhong City to report to Governor Lin, just say that I have received a military order from the military gate, and I will do my best to protect the safety of Hanzhong City."

Chen Wang looked at the back of the messenger in the distance, turned his head, and commanded Chen Gong, who was sitting on the side.

"However, at that time, we followed the urgent order of the military gate and galloped all the way to Xi'an Mansion, without carrying much baggage, and the army was short of food and grass, if we fought for a long time, we had to ask Hanzhong City to prepare grain and grass for us."

Although there is still half a month's worth of military rations in the army, it is naturally better to be prepared and have more food.

"There is also the previous battle with the thieves Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan in Ningqiang Prefecture, and the loss of ordnance is quite serious, if you can, please allocate some ordnance as a supplement."

Chen Gong answered cleanly, turned around and walked out of the big tent.

Since Chen Wang gave up most of the plan and made a decision, Chen Gong has not hesitated, everything is based on Chen Wang's horse, and he has regained his former ability.

Seeing Chen Gong leave, Tang Shiping was the only one left in the tent.

Zhao Huailiang and Hu Zhiyi are reorganizing the army in the battalion, and Hu Zhili is now preparing for the construction of the supervision office.

"How much money is left in the army?"

Chen Wang's gaze moved to Tang Shiping's body.

In the army, it was Hu Zhiyi who was in charge of ordnance and grain and grass, while Tang Shiping was in charge of silver money.

Internal affairs in the army must be decentralized, and no matter how trustworthy they are, they cannot be handed over to one person at the same time.

"Yesterday's audit, there are still 4,600 taels of gold and 69,365 taels of silver in the army."

At the beginning, more than 7,000 taels of gold were seized in Chunhua, and some were exchanged in the state capital along the road, and later a lot of silver was exchanged in Chuxian, and now there is not much left.

More than 64,000 taels of silver were seized at the beginning, and more than 36,000 taels of gold were exchanged for gold, totaling 100,000 taels.

Liao cavalry needs nearly three taels of military salary per person a month, ordinary battalion soldiers are one or two halves, and those newly recruited soldiers are one tael.

The monthly expenditure is about 6,000 taels, and it has been more than three months since August, and the total expenditure on military salaries is nearly 20,000 taels, including the preparation of military rations.

Although the ordinary battalion soldiers and the Liao cavalry are all soldiers within the establishment, the imperial court is supposed to pay military salaries.

However, this journey, far away from Xi'an Mansion, actually received only one month's salary, and it was not enough, and the shortfall was paid by Chen Wang with captured military funds.

Not to mention the first level of military merit reported, many merits have not been discussed now, and the reward and silver plus are far away.

The delay in arrears of salaries is already the norm among the norms, and when the grain and grass for military salaries are allocated from the central government to the localities, they have already been stripped of their salaries and gone to 30 percent.

When it was distributed from the hands of the Shangguan to the hands of the battalions, it was a lot of them, and it was already a conscience to be able to leave half of it in the hands of the battalion commanders.

The Ming Dynasty's Jiading system was a deformed product of this situation of greed for ink.

After settling those displaced people, as well as dealing with officialdom up and down, sending some silver to Cao Wenzhao, etc., Chen Wang's treasury now has a lot less silver.

In the past few months, it has been a state of sitting on a mountain of empty food. The only income was more than 20,000 taels of gold and silver that were scavenged from Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan after they were exterminated.

However, the remaining silver money is still a huge amount of money, after all, this is an asset that Li Zicheng obtained only after plundering several states and counties.

"Only 1,000 taels of gold will be left, and the rest will be exchanged for silver as much as possible in Hanzhong City, but it can't be exchanged for less, at least if it is the price of Xi'an."

Chen Wang gently knocked on the armrest of the seat and said in a low voice.

In this era, silver is the universal currency, although gold is more valuable and important than silver, but it rarely appears in direct transactions, gold is mostly used as jewelry, private collections, sacrificial ritual utensils and other purposes.

Now what Chen Wang needs is silver in exchange for grain and grass and military salaries, and gold is naturally not suitable.

Leaving a thousand taels of gold is only for the future ushering in, opening up joints and other needs.

"That's right......"

Chen Wang raised his head and looked at Tang Shiping and said.

"This month's military salary will be paid in advance, and the news will be notified to the ministries ......"

Tang Shiping's body trembled slightly, and his expression was stunned, although he had been mentally prepared, he still made waves when he heard Chen Wang talk about it.

Among the military regulations formulated by Chen Wang, military salaries are generally paid on the first day of the first month of each month.

The early payment of military salaries occurred only when the Great War came.

Chen Wang waved his hand, and he didn't mean to stay with Tang Shiping anymore.

Tang Shiping respectfully agreed, and then slowly withdrew from the big tent.

Tang Shiping left the military tent, and the big tent was empty again, and Chen Wang did not maintain his usual appearance anymore.

Chen Wang stood up and slowly unfolded the scrolled map on the desktop.

Since coming to this era, Chen Wang's memory has always been very good, and he remembers the content of the history books he has read clearly.

It is now December 23 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, and there are less than ten days left, which is the ninth year of Chongzhen.

The first half of the ninth year of Chongzhen was not easy for the Ming Empire, and the Liukou was so powerful that it was difficult to contain, and the Later Jin was called the emperor outside.

Hong Chengchou will not have the energy to govern the chaos in Hanzhong at that time, and all his attention will be drawn by Li Zicheng and Shangluo's bandits.

The map on the desktop unfolded, Chen Wang looked at the Hanzhong Mansion on the map, combined with the time and the intelligence from various channels, the situation in the Hanzhong Mansion had been gradually sorted out by him.

In today's Hanzhong Mansion, the three largest thieves are Jinyinpeng, Black Killing Tiger, and Drilling Harrier, and the rest of the thieves are basically subordinate to the three as long as they are slightly more powerful.

The Golden Winged Peng has the largest number of people, with more than 60,000 people.

The Qunkou in the northern part of Hanzhong Mansion all joined his command after seeing the officers and soldiers of the Golden Winged Peng's successive victories, and the current Golden Winged Peng can be said to be the lord of the Qunkou in the northern part of Hanzhong Mansion.

Black Killing Tiger Zhang Yuan was slightly weaker, and his subordinates originally only had more than 20,000 people, but after successive victories, the team quickly expanded, and now the strength has exceeded 50,000 people.

A group of thieves in the central part of Hanzhong Mansion also flocked to serve under Zhang Yuan's command, and the entire southern bandits were worshiped by him.

Now the number of people connected by Jin Yinpeng and Zhang Yuan has exceeded 100,000, and these more than 100,000 people are now concentrated between Chenggu County and Bao County.

There are more than 30,000 people under the command of Wang Cheng, who was originally entrenched in the area of Ziyang, and he has long unified the bandits in the eastern part of Hanzhong Mansion.

Originally, when formulating the attack plan, Hong Chengchou ordered the Hanzhong Guards to be responsible for the attack and suppression of the relatively weak Black Killing Tiger Division, while the Hanzhong Battalion was responsible for the Drilling Harrier Department, which was relatively strong.

According to the information sent by Hong Chengchou, the Hanzhong battalion is currently confronting him in a fierce battle near Xing'an.

Hanzhong guerrilla named Zhou Yumao, Shandong Denglai, born in the Apocalypse Wujinshi, originally served as a garrison in Shandong, and then entered Shaanxi to suppress, Chongzhen set up camp in Hanzhong for seven years, and was promoted to Hanzhong guerrilla because of merit.

Zhou Yumao is still fighting against the Drilling Harrier in the Xing'an area, and the Drilling Harrier has no way to cross Zhou Yumao and rush to Hanzhong, and there will be no intersection between them for the time being.

Jin Yinpeng, Zhang Yuan, and Wang Cheng are now in charge of the bandits in the north, south, and east of Hanzhong Mansion respectively.

The power of the three departments has now expanded, and the total number of bandits and bandits combined has exceeded 150,000.

Chen Wang observed the map on the table with a solemn face, and remembered that the historical materials he had seen in Hanzhong Mansion had lasted for a long time, and most of the places in Hanzhong were still in turmoil until the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

It is recorded in the fourth volume of the "Hanzhong Mansion Chronicles":

"Between Chongzhen, the Rui Domain was changed to a guerrilla."

"In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, he changed to guerrilla and was set up as a deputy general."

Hanzhong originally only had a guard, followed by a guerrilla, and then a deputy general, and finally in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the town was formally established and served as the general soldier, the reason why it continued to be upgraded, the biggest reason is precisely because the situation in Hanzhong continues to deteriorate.

"Hanzhong guerrilla ......"

Chen Wang was thinking about the future plan, if he could become a guerrilla in Hanzhong, then he could completely get rid of Hong Chengchou's constraints.

Hong Chengchou was wary of him before, but because of Cao Wenzhao's reminder, Hong Chengchou is now much less suspicious of him.

After meeting Hong Chengchou last time, Hong Chengchou's attitude towards him has changed a lot.

Hong Chengchou is not now an obstacle to his becoming a guerrilla in Hanzhong.

Chen Wang's gaze continued to move to the right, until it finally stopped near Xing'an.

Now the person who hinders him from becoming a guerrilla in Hanzhong is Zhou Yumao......