At the time of the second watch, Wei Zhongxian and Xu Xianchun both took people away.

The officials of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department gathered together, and what they got tonight was really beyond their imagination.

"This Father-in-law Wei is really righteous, and after receiving our gold, he plans to do things for us."

"If the food sent by the imperial court is three times as much as it is now, then your income will also be more than three times that of now."

"In troubled times, grain is hard currency, and you can triple your money cellar."

The officials were naturally happy when they heard this, and after continuing to express their loyalty to Li Changzhou several times, they left in twos and threes.

But this Li Changzhou left Hong Chengchou behind.

At this time, Hong Chengchou's face was a little worried, Li Changzhou glanced at him and asked, "What do you think of tonight's events?" ”

This Hong Chengchou was a little hesitant, and only said after a while: "Futai, I don't understand today's things." ”

"They accepted all the hospitality we arranged for them today, and they accepted all the money we gave them."

"It seems that these two people simply came to Shaanxi to exterminate the rebel army, and there is no sign of wanting to deal with us at all."

Li Changzhou nodded and said, "For now, this is indeed the case. ”

"It's just that I'm always a little worried, your majesty is not easy to deceive now, especially when he has an aura of divine providence from heaven, and he can predict the occurrence of wind disasters and floods."

"If this is really the case, I am afraid they already know what kind of situation our Shaanxi political envoy is."

When Hong Chengchou heard this, his heart was even more lost, if Zhu Youxiao wanted to know what happened to the Shaanxi Political Envoy, and where did Zhu Yuanzhang need to dream.

Just relying on the people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, they can already clearly know what happened to their Shaanxi political envoys.

The officials of the Shaanxi Political Envoy Department worked together to divide up and clean up all the grain for disaster relief.

They even ordered Zhu Youxiao to come up with something similar to begging for thieves' salaries and donations after Zhu Youxiao's order, in addition to the taxes of the Shaanxi Political Envoys.

If you count it, these harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are higher than the orthodox taxes set by the original imperial court.

The problem is that the imperial court has already allocated the salaries of the Shaanxi political envoys to exterminate the rebel army, where does it come from to apportionment such a large amount of money to the people.

Forget about these, if the imperial court really sends someone to check at that time, his army will also be a bubble of cow dung.

The army of thieves under Hong Chengchou's command is said to have nearly 20,000 people, but in fact, if there are more than 3,000 soldiers who can really be used to fight in battle, it will be considered to be up to the sky.

In today's situation, many of the guards themselves have become homeless people, and Li Changzhou and they have also eaten a lot of these people's empty salaries.

No further down, Hong Chengchou didn't dare to continue thinking.

Zhu Youxiao has seen it, and from Hong Chengchou's point of view, this majesty is probably more powerful than Li Changzhou and others imagined.

Hong Chengchou felt that the other party's eyes seemed to be able to see through him at once, and he could see all the thoughts in his heart.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou was also a little unconvinced, how could the army of the Ming Dynasty not eat empty salaries.

Except that Zhu Youxiao's guards may not have this situation now, aren't the other Ming armies like him?

What's more, the other Ming armies are not as good as him to fight, he is also a capable general, and he has defeated a lot of exile troops, but now the situation has changed.

In some aspects, Zhu Youxiao doesn't need them very much, and he doesn't believe them.

It seems that Zhu Youxiao has put all his thoughts on his own guards, not only expanding his army to more than 200,000 people, but also desperately making muskets and artillery for them.

As for the muskets and artillery of the guards, as well as the armor on these armies, and some other configurations, Hong Chengchou was itching to see it.

If he could, he even wanted to write directly to Colonel Zhu You and ask him to be transferred to the Guards.

However, he studied the generals of the Guards, and soon found that Zhu Youxiao's requirements for the Guards were very simple.

That is absolute faithfulness.

A person like Xu Xianchun didn't show much ability, but he could command 30,000 horses, just because he was born in Jinyiwei and was loyal to His Majesty.

At least from the perspective of Hong Chengchou's own talent, he definitely can't look down on Xu Xianchun's ability.

It's just that this Xu Xianchun is a bastard, but the combat ability of the army under Xu Xianchun's command should not be underestimated.

He looked at Li Changzhou next to him a little worriedly, and asked, "Futai, if you look at the situation now, I always feel a little worried. ”

"If we did something like that, will they find out?"

The two leaders of the exile army, Wang Er and Wang Daliang, who had wandered in the Shaanxi Political Envoy Division before, have almost been completely wiped out by Hong Chengchou.

But at the last moment, Li Changzhou actually put forward a suggestion to Hong Chengchou, which he had no way to refuse.

That is to raise his own dignity and let him let go of the leaders of the two rebels.

Not only that, but in the past half a year, Li Changzhou and Hong Chengchou have transported a large amount of armor and food to Wang Er and Wang Daliang, the two leaders of the rebels, through secret means and various methods, what kind of means is this?

As far as this matter goes, if it reaches Zhu Youxiao's ears, the officials under Li Changzhou and Hong Chengchou will all be small if they are punished by the Nine Clans.

Who knows that Li Changzhou smiled, "What is that?" ”

"Still. In less than half a year, the number of Wang Er and Wang Daliang's subordinates has expanded to more than 70,000. ”

"These two dogs have been able to expand their number of people tenfold in less than a year, and they have their own ability."

"Speaking of which, there are seven or eight thousand people in the hands of Wang Er and Wang Daliang, and the number is even more than those strong men under your command."

"No matter how powerful Xu Xianchun is, there are only 30,000 people, although his army doesn't look easy to mess with, but ants bite and kill elephants."

"In addition, we sent so much armor, grain and grass to Wang Er and Wang Daliang, and also sent so many fire guns, are they all eating?"

"When the time comes, we will arrange this Xu Xianchun's march and report all of it to Wang Er and Wang Daliang, won't they take this opportunity to find a way to set up an ambush for Xu Xian?"

Hong Chengchou sighed, although he didn't agree with it.

Li Changzhou has never led troops to fight, so it is naturally difficult to understand that the number of troops is not the only means that really determines the victory or defeat of the war.

A large number of people is a good thing, but combat capability is also a major issue.

This Xu Xianchun's 30,000 people are really 30,000, although some of them may be responsible for transporting grain and grass, and some are engineers, but the combat personnel are definitely more than 20,000, in this case, Wang Er and Wang Daliang can really win?

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.