At the beginning of March, the general flag office of Dapanbao.

After returning from Wangjiazhuang, the news of Liu Yan's promotion to the officer of the 100 households in Wangjiazhuang spread completely, not only the lights inside and outside Dapanbao, more than 1,000 military households celebrated with singing and dancing, and all the fire piers and tunbao under Wangjiazhuang also exploded.

On the second day after Liu Yan returned to Dapanbao, the captains of the tunbao and Huoludun from all over the country rushed to Dapanbao and rushed here to meet Liu Yan, the new official.

Even Song Gongming, the 100 household official inspector of the Guzhen Inspection Division, also sent someone to send a congratulatory sticker, and the person who came was Song Gongming's nephew Song Guan, Liu Yan distinguished himself from others, and personally arranged a banquet to entertain Song Guan.

Liu Yan summoned everyone one by one in the General Flag Office, Liu Yan didn't pay much attention to these subordinates, among the armor chiefs in these places, except for Shen Tuo, the armor commander of Huangshan Dun, there was no one available, all of them were mediocre people who were greedy for money.

After seeing these people, Liu Yan looked at the flattering faces, and made up his mind to get rid of all these people.

Of course, when Liu Yan lays off these captains, he will definitely give enough severance pay to let these people go home and become a rich man. However, if these people are still doing things to be sorry for themselves behind their backs in the face of their own tolerant methods, Liu Yan will not mind using thunderous means to severely punish such people, lest everyone mistake them for being indiscriminate and merciful. Liu Yan will never allow anyone to betray him.

However, to Liu Yan's surprise, Shen Tuo, the head of the Huangshan Dunjia, did not come to see him. Liu Yan thought for a moment and smiled with relief, Shen Tuo was originally a cold-faced general, and he naturally disdained this kind of flattery of taking the initiative to meet Shangguan, and Liu Yan would not blame Shen Tuo for such a small thing, but felt that Shen Tuo was a good seedling who was impartial.

After those captains left one after another, Liu Yan had time to recruit a cadre from the fort to come over to discuss affairs.

At present, Liu Yan is the new manager of the team, and there are many affairs in Wangjiazhuang, Liu Yan can almost predict that outside of Wangjiazhuang, the rest of the places must be a mess. In addition, at this time, it was a chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and before the Jiannu army went south to Shandong, Wangjiazhuang was built into an iron bucket, how much time could he have? It's time to start arranging.

Soon all the subordinates rushed to the General Flag Official Hall, Liu Yan looked at the cadres in the room, Chen Xun, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, Xu Ming, Miao Shao and others were all beaming and high-spirited. This time, Liu Yan was promoted, and they also rose with it, as Liu Yan's descendants, it is needless to say that this flattery and patting people are like a tide.

However, Wang Yue, who was sitting next to him, had a bitter face, Liu Yan originally had six small flag officers, but now only he was left in the same place, and the remaining five people were all promoted to chief flag officers, so he was naturally very depressed in his heart.

On the other side, Wang Yunhe looked at Liu Yan with joy in his eyes, his eyes full of admiration. Chen Jiang looked at Chen Xun with a smile, as if to say: I also have to become the wife of the chief flag officer one day.

Tan Xiaoda, Xu Le, Chu Yunfei, Zhao Yan, Bao Xuezhen, Zhao Min, Qian Bo and others are also overjoyed, everyone can already show what they have learned in their lives when they are in Dapanbao, not only can they give full play to their respective strengths, but also can get rich rewards fairly. For more than a year, everyone has been lifted out of poverty and become rich, and everyone has accumulated a lot of silver in their hands, and they are even more desperate for Liu Yan.

Now that Liu Yan has been promoted to the official of 100 households, and he has been stationed in the official hall of 100 households as an officer of the management team, Tan Xiaoda and several people have naturally risen with the tide, and the platform for showing their ambitions in the future will definitely be broader, which naturally makes everyone happy.

Everyone greeted for a while, Liu Yan looked at the cadres present, and sighed secretly in his heart, there are still too few senior officers and orthodox literati under his command, either small flag officials or chief flag officials, or small officials, all of them are grassroots civil and military officials under the guard, and there are no real talented cadres.

Even if he has made meritorious contributions to suppressing bandits this time, the rewards for the meritorious service are limited, and the official positions are not available, and the positions of the people are not easy to arrange. At the moment, it seems that only a few people can be appointed as the first captains of various places, and it is just right to replace those mediocre talents.

So Liu Yan said in a deep voice: "After I went to Wangjiazhuang to take office, the chief flag officer Chen Xun succeeded as the first commander of Dapanbao, and the small flag officer Wang Yue was the deputy, leading the troops to garrison the salt field. Chen Jiang continued to stay in Dapanbao to preside over the soap workshop. ”

Chen Xun smiled when he heard this, Dapanbao is Liu Yan's base camp, and now Liu Yan has handed over Dapanbao to himself, which is to regard himself as his number one henchman, and immediately laughed and hugged his fists to take his life.

Chen Jiangshi is also happy, she will be the master mother of Dapanbao in the future, she is happy when she thinks about it, but she still secretly warns herself in her heart that she must do her official business well and must not delay Liu Yan's major affairs.

Only Wang Yue was a little unenergetic, and when he stood up and hugged his fists to receive his life, he didn't have much smile on his face.

Liu Yan couldn't help laughing when he saw this, and said to Wang Yue; "Although you are still a small flag officer, the men and horses you lead are the same as them, so don't relax in training sessions on weekdays. I can tell you and all of you, this year, until next year at the latest, we will definitely go on the expedition, and when the time comes, all of you will have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and then you, the little flag officer, must seize the opportunity! ”

Wang Yue smiled when he heard this, hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates must work hard and strive for meritorious service as soon as possible!" ”

"Well, that's right!"

Then Liu Yan continued to talk about his arrangement:

Miao Shao and Xu Ming must follow him, and if they want to rectify Wangjiazhuang, Liu Yan must bring enough soldiers and horses by his side to deter those officials in the hundred households.

Liu Yan said to Zhao Min again: "Director Zhao stayed in the castle and assisted Chen Xun and Wang Yue in handling the clerical affairs in the castle. ”

Zhao Min naturally knows the importance of Dapanbao, it can be said that for Liu Yan, the importance of Dapanbao is even higher than that of Wangjiazhuang, the production of sea salt, pot wine, and soap are all here, and there must be a talent who is proficient in arithmetic.

So Zhao Min stood up, bowed deeply, and said, "My subordinates obey the orders of the adults!" ”

Zhao Min's official position on the face is just a book, is the last rank of officials, according to the Ming Dynasty's official examination method, nine years three examinations, divided into competent, ordinary, incompetent three kinds. After the third test, the second test is competent, and the first test is normal, and you can be promoted to one level. All three exams are competent. You can upgrade two levels.

Although the comments of the small officials of the Wei Institute are evaluated by the seal officer of the Wei Institute, but the promotion is approved by the Ministry of Officials of the Wei Institute, Zhao Min wants to be promoted within a few years, which is too difficult, and the atmosphere of seniority in the Ming civil officials is too strong, Zhao Min wants to enter Wangjiazhuang as a senior scribe, which is obviously far from qualified.

In the future, if Liu Yan wanted to use literati, he had to look for officials from Wangjiazhuang or Dongjiazhuang, hoping to gather some useful talents. As for Zhao Min, Liu Yan is ready to let him train in Dapanbao for a while first, and then find a suitable opportunity to promote him again in the future.

Liu Yan said again: "Zhang Yi is the head of the wind volcano pier, Wang Bo is the head of the shagou pier, and Miao Shao and Xu Ming lead the troops to follow me into Wangjiazhuang!" ”

"As for the original armor commander of the Wind Volcano Pier and the Shagou Pier, after the two of you arrive, give each of them three hundred taels of silver, let them go home and live."

"Yes!"

Now Liu Yan's chief flag officers are these people, and they can only occupy two fire road piers first, as for the rest of the fire road pier armor commanders, they should beat it first, and use it if they can use it, and then find another way to replace it.

After listening to Liu Yan's words, Zhang Yi and Wang Bo both opened their mouths and laughed, and finally let it out, which is really good.

Then Liu Yan looked at the two of them and said, "After arriving at Wangjiazhuang, I will give an order, the two of you will reorganize the wind volcano pier and the sand ditch pier into a tunbao, and I will transfer a part of the military households from Dapan Fort." The two of you are to reclaim the wasteland as soon as possible, and train the Dun army. ”

Saying that, Liu Yan named Chen Xun, Zhang Yi, Wang Bo, and Wang Yue, and said: "You must continue to strictly train soldiers and horses in accordance with the "Infantry Drill Code" everywhere, if anyone neglects training, don't blame me for not being merciful when the time comes!" ”

Chen Xun and the four of them hurriedly clenched their fists to receive their lives, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

Miao Shao and Xu Ming also smiled when they looked at Chen Xun and the four of them, compared to everyone else, the two of them were more willing to follow Liu Yan, so that the future prospects were even more limitless.

In addition to Miao Shao and Xu Ming, Liu Yan decided to let Tan Xiaoda, Zhao Yan, Xu Le, and Bao Xuezhen continue to stay in Dapanbao to make weapons and study medicine, and Chu Yun naturally had to stay in the salt field.

At the same time, Liu Yan also promoted Qian Soap, the deputy director of the winery, to the main officer, and in the future, the winery will be handed over to Qian Soap to be responsible, after all, Wang Yunhe will follow him to Wangjiazhuang, and he will get married soon.

In the future, this place will be used as your rear base camp.

After everyone's affairs were arranged, Liu Yan's mind also drifted to Wangjiazhuang, and now that he has been promoted, his territory power has also expanded, but the number of military households to support is also more.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the hardship of the guard center was famous, and a hundred households and thousands of people had to rely on themselves to support themselves in the future, and this pressure can be imagined. And Liu Yan wants to gather the military and people's hearts of the entire hundred households, only by letting them all live a good life like Dapanbao, so that he can gather the strength of the entire Wangjiazhuang and win in the future crisis.

Perhaps Liu Yan's current confidence is backed by the support of the military households of Yibao, and the people's morale of Dapanbao is united.

After the meeting, Liu Yan was ready to leave Dapanbao and go to Wangjiazhuang to take up his post. For Liu Yan to go to Wangjiazhuang to take office, the military households in Dapan Fort were happy and sad, they were used to Liu Yan's days in the fort, and they were really not used to Liu Yan's going.

Fortunately, this Dapanbao is the foundation of Liu Yan, and Wangjiazhuang is not far from Dapanbao, and Liu Yan will often go home in the future.

On March 10, the 11th year of Chongzhen, Liu Yan led Miao Shao's central outpost and Xu Ming's cavalry outpost to leave Dapanbao and go to Wangjiazhuang to take up his post. Wang Yunhe also followed the team, this time Liu Yan went to Wangjiazhuang, and by the way, Wang Yunhe was sent back to Wanfu Oil Mill, and soon he was going to Wanfu Oil Mill to marry his sweetheart.

On the same day, the chief flag officers Wang Bo and Zhang Yi also left Dapanbao with their men and horses, and went to Fengshandun and Shagoudun respectively to take office. As for the appointment documents of the two, after Liu Yan arrived in Wangjiazhuang, he would send someone to send them to the two.

Although the officer in charge of the team is a low-level military attache in the guard, when Liu Yan travels, he still brings a five-party flag with the character of Liu, and there are also flag bearers such as golden drums in each outpost, which can be regarded as a clear banner and strong soldiers.

The cavalry sentry was in front and the middle outpost was in the rear, and the large group of men and horses marched slowly on the official road. Immediately, everyone and the pikemen in the middle post were still wearing iron armor, and this kind of military lineup was ranked first in the entire Qianhu in front of Xiahe Village. This proves that Liu Yan's strength is the best choice for the management officer in Wangjiazhuang.

At this time, the flag and banner opened the way, Liu Yan led his ironclad army to leave Dapanbao, and the iron hooves stepped on the stone streets of Dapanbao, with a neat roar.

The soldiers of Dapanbao went out to stand on the side of the road, and saw off Liu Yan and the others with proud eyes.