"The most urgent task is to train the new army.∮," Yang Tinglin said to Liu Jun. Yang Tinglin came from the capital. He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen. He was promoted to Shujishi and was appointed as an editor. He served as the prince's lecturer.

Later, because he offended Yang Sichang, he was transferred to the Ministry of War as the head of the Ministry of War, and then transferred to Lu Xiangsheng's army to Zanhua's staff. During the Battle of Zhuolu, Lu Xiangsheng sent him to Gao Qiqian's army for help, but Gao Qiqian ignored it. When Yang Tinglin rushed back to Lu Xiangsheng's army, Lu Xiangsheng's entire army had been wiped out. Later, Yang Sichang learned that Yang Tinglin was not dead, and demoted him to Jiangxi.

During this period of a drastic change in the court, Yang Sichang was abandoned by the emperor. Many officials who were attacked and suppressed by him were re-activated one after another. Yang Tinglin was also appointed as the deputy envoy of the Huguang Inspector and the military supervisor of Yunyang, becoming Liu Jun's military supervisor. Regarding this military supervisor, Liu Jun sent someone to carefully collect his background and learned that he was a talented and loyal, righteous and fair person, so he treated him very politely.

After receiving the order, Yang Yanlin hurried to the capital to meet him, and then hurried to Fengjie. Now he and Liu Jun are on a boat back to Huguang. When they were in the capital, the emperor once told Yang Tinglin very clearly that this time, he must take advantage of the situation to pacify the bandits in one fell swoop, and he must not give the bandits a chance to breathe, so Liu Jun was asked to train an elite new army in Yunyang first.

"The court gave 50,000 new troops a quota, and the emperor gave 10,000 servants a quota."

Yang Tinglin's words were very straightforward. The emperor knew that the generals from all over the country were routinely entitled to pay, so he gave Liu Jun some quotas, 10,000 entitles, which was the entitles. Liu Jun trained three to five thousand entitles or two to three thousand entitles. The remaining entitles were all considered the entitles he allowed to occupy.

Liu Jun shook his head. He hated the fact that he was a waste of money. He would never allow this situation to happen if he trained and led troops. Liu Jun's troops would not be short of the organization, but would only be full or even over-the-subscribe. "Your Majesty asked me to train 50,000 new troops, so I would train 50,000 new troops, and there would never be one person missing."

"Where will you teach?"

Yang Tinglin had known the truth in the army for a long time. He knew that the empty amount was not the main general, but the same was done at all levels. Eating the empty amount was a way for the generals to make money.

"Since I am a new army, I don't have to worry about such a problem. There are only three things to train elite soldiers, and sufficient soldiers and sufficient wages. If you can't even do the first one, then how can you train elite soldiers?" Liu Jun smiled, but there was a stern look in his eyes.

Yang Tinglin was a little surprised, but more surprised. This was the first time he met a general officer like Liu Jun. He was indeed an extraordinary general officer, young and energetic. But Yang Tinglin would not believe whether Liu Jun could do what he said, and he would continue to observe.

"Then how do you plan to train these 50,000 soldiers and horses?"

Liu Jun stood at the bow of the boat and stroked the side of the boat. "The first problem we face now is not how to train, but how to get so many soldiers."

"Isn't it difficult to draw tens of thousands of troops from the jurisdiction of Yunyang Town?"

"Those soldiers are under the jurisdiction of other towns, and I don't want to use these soldiers. On the one hand, it's very troublesome to get involved. On the other hand, those soldiers have already rotten to the point of training. It's better to recruit a group of new soldiers directly and start from scratch." There are no good soldiers available in the local area, either the rotten military guards or the local camps with sluts, which are simply useless. Those who can be used are all private soldiers of the generals.

"Will it be too slow to recruit new recruits to train and train again?" Yang Tinglin was shocked by Liu Jun's plan. He actually planned to start practicing again.

"Actually, it's not slow. The nine-headed soldiers and horses you see now have been practicing for only three months, and many of them have only one month in the past. But when you look at their battle formation performance, no one retreated and they fought bravely, I defeated tens of thousands of bandits with these new troops. Although these soldiers were new, they were all white cloth when recruiting them, and they were spotless and were not stained in those big soy jars. These people were best practiced." Liu Jun said the truth.

"Training troops is never a problem, and the source of troops is not a problem. For me, there are only two biggest troubles in training troops, one is the weapons and the other is the food and salary. As long as these two can be met, I can quickly train a brave and capable soldier for the court."

Yang Tinglin was silent.

"This time the emperor took out 500,000 taels of silver to reward and provide pensions. It was all the treasury of the inner government, and even the queen and the concubines donated a lot. In a short period of time, the emperor had no money to pull it out, and the court also had no money and food to pull it out. When I came, the emperor told me that the soldiers should be trained, but the food and money had to be found by himself. But the emperor gave you a special order to raise food and money by yourself."

Liu Jun was not surprised at all about this answer. The Ming Dynasty was so strange, with thousands of miles of country, but the emperor and the court were always poor. But how could such a big country in the Ming Dynasty be poor? In fact, all the money was earned by officials, gentry, landlords and merchants.

The richest people in the Ming Dynasty were the sea merchants, salt merchants, landlords, gentry officials, and then the emperor, the court and the people were all poor. The Ming Dynasty raised countless privileged classes and lay on the Ming Dynasty to suck blood, sucking round, but sucking the Ming Dynasty to death.

"Do you have to make a lot of money? Haha." Liu Jun smiled. In fact, he was very happy about this result. It is still a problem to get the emperor and the court to squeeze out the amount of money. What's more important is that you have to deduct it layer by layer in the end, and you can't get much.

It is better to give money directly than to give policies.

Only by asking for the emperor's words to raise food and money from multiple sources is actually better than drawing money. This means that Liu Jun can set up a card to charge fees, open donations, raise funds from merchants and gentry, and even do business by himself, open mining and workshops, etc. With this sentence, these can be done openly.

Without this concession, you, a general with military power, cannot raise food and money by yourself. The most effective way for the imperial court to control military power is to lead the troops, and the imperial court controls food and money. If you can raise food and money by yourself, how can the imperial court rest assured?

However, in this special period, the emperor has to relax in these aspects. If the generals can really find ways to get food and pay without the burden of the court, and do not directly encircle soldiers to loot, the emperor will be very happy to see it.

Liu Jun did not lead his troops to Yunyang directly, but took a boat to Huangzhou and returned to his hometown in Macheng first.

Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng also agreed to Liu Jun go back to Macheng first and give Jiutiao the entire army half a month off. Although the emperor ordered them to wipe out the fifth camp of the Yinghuoshan District in Yinghuoshan District by the end of the year, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng and Liu Jun have the same views and are not in a hurry to fight. Be prepared first and then launch a thunder strike.

This time, when he returned home, he was taking a vacation and letting the generals recruit soldiers. Liu Jun had already initially raised the arsenal of more than a dozen battalions under his command and selected the main generals and officers of each battalion. Next, Liu Jun was preparing to follow his original method. He asked the generals and schoolmen of each battalion to recruit soldiers and horses themselves. After recruiting troops, he then held a unified training camp. Finally, the generals of the camps themselves selected soldiers and completed the completion of the corpses.

Because the emperor asked them to take advantage of the situation to wipe out the bandits in the Central Plains, the emperor did not even let Liu Jun and other heroes come to Beijing to see the enemy. The emperor asked them to train troops and suppress bandits in the local area. After pacifying the bandits, they would enter the capital to report victory.

"Zhongzhen, do you know that now the capital is praising you everywhere, and some people have even compiled your story of suppressing bandits into storytelling and drum lyrics and rap everywhere. Some people call you and General Wu Sangui of Ningyuan, and praise you as the rising star in the imperial military and the best pair of young generals!"

When Liu Jun heard Yang Tinglin compare himself with Wu Sangui, he curled his lips. Wu Sangui was a traitor despised by thousands of people in later generations. A lackey of the Qing Dynasty.

However, at this time, Wu Sangui had a good reputation. He was from a good background and was descended from the Liaoxi Generals. His father Wu Xiang was the general of Liaodong, and his mother was a member of the Zu family of Liaoxi Generals. His uncle Zu Dashou was the general of Liaodong vanguard and the Zu family of Zu family. A large number of deputy generals and guerrillas were guerrillas. In western Liaoning outside the pass, the Zu family and Wu family had nowhere to reach.

What's more, Wu Sangui was young at this time. However, he had fought several battles in the Liaoxi Army and performed very well. The army praised him for his wisdom and courage. He was born with such a good background, and he also became the governor of Ji Liao, and the governor of Liaodong Fang Yizao as his teacher. He also recognized the director Gao Qiqian as his adoptive father. It can be said that Wu Sangui is the best among the young generation, regardless of his background or reputation.

However, Liu Jun suddenly started to run away like this, more legendary than Wu Sangui. Now, two young people have been appointed as general officers at the same time, so the people have called the two men in the army together. This is also a recognition of Liu Jun.

However, Liu Jun really doesn't like this recognition very much. Wu Sangui, the young hero at the forefront of the Ming Dynasty's anti-Qing Dynasty, who knows that he will become a traitor who will lead the Qing army into the pass in the future? Perhaps Wu Sangui is indeed loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but Liu Jun always finds it difficult to put aside those in his heart.

"When I entered the capital, I heard that Jianlu was building a road to Jinzhou. There were also news that Jianlu was preparing to build a city and farm in Yizhou north of Jinzhou. Alas." Yang Tinglin sighed, "Jianlu invaded last year and robbed countless people, money and food, and had a stronger strength. It seems that they were preparing to turn against the enemy and advance step by step, and might even surround Jinzhou again."

Liu Jun was not very clear about what happened in history in recent years. He only knew that the Ming Dynasty would perish in less than five years in history. And it seemed that before that, the Ming and Qing dynasties did indeed fight a decisive battle outside the pass, resulting in the loss of all elite troops, making the situation outside the pass, and the situation could no longer be saved. The bandits in the Central Plains took the opportunity to take the opportunity to become big, with internal and external troubles. The Ming Dynasty finally collapsed suddenly. Li Zicheng took the lead in attacking Beijing, and then the Qing Dynasty rushed into the pass, defeated Li Zicheng, and occupied the Central Plains.

Perhaps, Jianlu is indeed preparing to surround Jinzhou.

"I hope I can pacify the bandits in the Central Plains as soon as possible. At that time, a certain person followed the general to advance north to expel the Tartars!"

"Why don't you destroy the Tartars first and then eliminate the bandits?" Liu Jun asked.

Yang Tinglin said without hesitation, "We must first calm our country when fighting foreign countries."

Liu Jun smacked his lips and said nothing. It seemed that the entire Ming Dynasty now had the same view on external enemies and internal enemies, that is, to fight against foreign countries, we must first settle the country. From the emperor and the generals to the common people, when talking about this, they almost had the same heart.

Liu Jun couldn't say whether this sentence was right or wrong, but for the Ming Dynasty, internal and external troubles, first internal or external troubles, it was a major event at the national strategic level, and it was necessary to make a decision. Historically, although the court had a relatively unified consciousness, they believed that it should be settled first. But in fact, the court was always busy on both sides, even several times. When the official army concentrated all its strength to destroy the bandits, Jianlu invaded again, and then the official army had to draw troops to the north to enter the guards, and the bandits escaped and had the opportunity to recuperate.

This is the case with the Ming Dynasty now. Two great enemies, one inside and one outside, but the Ming Dynasty cannot solve any of them.

Maybe he is changing history, Zhang Xianzhong has been captured by him, and Luo Rucai has been defeated by him. In history, these two bandits have set off another round of rebellion. Li Zicheng seemed to have made a comeback at this time. Then the official army was exhausted, but it could not be curbed. In the end, the bandits were completely overwhelmed and the official army could no longer defeat the bandits.

Perhaps, history has changed! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!