Zhu Dadian tried his best to impose the impeachment memorial for Liu Jun's twelve crimes. Finally, it was like a wind, gently brushing past the capital, only a little ripples were blown, and then calmed down without causing any strong winds and waves that Zhu Dadian had expected.

No one in the capital and court seemed to have ever received the ceremony from Zhu Dadian, nor had he heard of Liu Jun's domineering things, nor did he know that there had been such a memorial.

Fu Shan spent a lot of money on silver, and in exchange for the praise from all officials of the capital to Liu Jun. After Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen each received 50,000 taels of silver, they quickly made arrangements for Fu Shan, giving him a special opportunity to enter the palace to meet the emperor.

Fu Shan was nervous when he followed the eunuch in the Forbidden City. As a Confucian child, the emperor's status was still extremely high in his heart. Heaven, earth, king, family, and teachers, the emperor was only under heaven, earth, and above his father.

The eunuch who was led to the way was taken outside the Ganqing Palace. Fu Shan smiled at the little eunuch and secretly reached out to hand over a gold ingot. The eunuch took the gold over the sleeve skillfully. He quickly knew the value of the gift from the feel and weight. He had already smiled and said to him with a smile, "General Fu, you are here first. Your Majesty is reviewing the memorials. The younger one will report it first." After that, he turned around with satisfaction and stepped over the high threshold of the palace gate and went into the palace to report.

After waiting for a while, another eunuch came to lead him into the temple to meet the emperor.

Fu Shan stepped into the hall and didn't even dare to raise his head. He just stared at the carpet under his feet, for fear of offending Tianyan. He jumped up nervously, his back was covered in sweat. Then he saw a pair of bright yellow satin boots and knew that this was the emperor.

He knelt down quickly, "I am the general of Yunyang Town, and I am the general of the camp, Fu Shan, and I will bow to my emperor."

Chongzhen stood in front of the imperial case at this time and looked at Fu Shan seriously.

He had read Fu Shan's archives before and knew that Fu Shan had a family of eunuchs and scholars, and his family originated from his family. His ancestors had seven or eight generations of generations in a row. He became a family member. His great-grandfather Fu Chaoxuan was a Yibin of Ninghua Prefecture and Chengwulang. His grandfather Fu Lin was appointed as a Shandong Senator. He was a military officer in Liaohai. He had great achievements. His father Fu Zimo never served in his entire life. He was proficient in academic research. When Fu Shan was young, he received strict family education, knowledgeable and memorable. He could recite it after reading several times. He was a doctoral disciple at the age of 15. He was admitted to the senior scholar at the age of 2. Later, he studied at Sanli Academy and was guided and taught by Yuan Jixian from Shanxi. He was one of the disciples who were very popular among Yuan.

When he saw this file, Chongzhen was very surprised. He thought Fu Shan was just a military general in Yunyang Town, but he unexpectedly turned out to be an excellent scholar. After reading that file, Chongzhen was very curious about Fu Shan. He did not expect that a child of eunuchs like Fu Shan, an excellent scholar, would eventually join the army.

Now I see you in person. I like it even more when I see Fu Shan tall and strong, handsome and handsome.

"When did you join the Nine-Headed Bird?"

Fu Shan did not expect that the emperor knew about the nine-headed bird and did not dare to neglect it at the moment. "I went south to Huguang by Mr. Sui. Once an opportunity happened, Mr. Sui saw Zhennan Hou who had just won the Hutoubao victory. Because he talked about speculation with Zhennan Hou, Mr. Yuan recommended me to Zhennan Hou to serve under Zhennan Hou."

Chongzhen heard what he said clearly and nodded slowly. "Well, it is quite rare to abandon his pen and join the army. Mr. Yuan is the current governor of Huguang Yuan Jixian."

"Return to Your Majesty. Yes, at that time, the gentleman had just transferred from Huguang to guard Wuchang Road to guard Xiajiangfang Road."

The more Chongzhen saw Fu Shan, the more he liked him. He even reached out and pulled Fu Shan up, and then asked him, "I heard that you performed extraordinaryly after following Liu Jun. He led troops to fight and made great contributions when he pacified Shu in Sichuan."

"Your Majesty is a mistake. It's all the governors Mei, Li, and Yuan, who are well-planned, and Liu and Qin are in good command. They dare not take credit if they have no generals."

"I heard that there are many scholars under Liu Jiye's command, like Fu Qing."

"Yes, your majesty, at that time, the first student of Zhennan Hou Ben Yiwu, and Li Chunjiang, a juren from Huguang Macheng, jointly built the Nine-Headed Bird Horse Team. At that time, there were more than 20 students among the more than 100 people. Later, the team expanded and many civil and military students who were determined to protect the country and safeguard the country were recruited. Now there are no less than 300 martial artists from Jiutiao, among which there are more than ten Juren."

Chongzhen was very surprised when he heard this. Although he knew that the literary style in Huguang and eastern Hubei was very popular, he had a large number of academies and schools, and was still a hometown of Jinshi, he did not expect that there were so many scholars in Liu Jun's military camp who joined forces to serve.

"Liu Jiye has a good start." He sighed, "I have heard of the name Li Chunjiang many times. The Nine-Headed Bird was originally established with Liu Jun. He is also the nephew of Li Changgeng, the governor of five provinces including Nanji, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, Li Gongji is very talented and famous. He was once the Xie Yuan of the Huguang Provincial Examination. He will participate in the current examination."

Chongzhen recently heard a lot of praise about Liu Jun. He was still very concerned about Liu Jun, the model he personally named Zhennan Marquis. He also urgently hoped that younger generations like Liu Jun and Wu Sangui could do more and get rid of the old bureaucrats of the court that only care about party struggles but ignore the interests of the court.

"How is the Yunyang New Army training now?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, the Marquis of Zhennan has been devoted to Yunyang's training a 50,000 new army. Zhennan Hou abolished the old and weak soldiers and horses that were originally unbearable to use in Yunyang, cleared up empty wages, and then recruited a group of simple and hard-working new recruits in Chongqing Shizhu, Huguang Yunyang, Qihuang and other places, and attracted many young and promising civil and military students to join the army to better spread the idea of ​​loyalty to the king and the country."

"To now, the 50,000 new army has been recruited and is divided into training by the governor, general, deputy general, general and other commanders. Zhennan Hou knew that the court is in financial difficulties now, so he did not wait for the court's food and money. Instead, he raised funds from multiple sources, and raised funds from multiple sources by opening salt farms, issuing donation tickets, etc., and raised funds from multiple sources by building a salt farm, purchasing village materials by themselves, and hiring craftsmen to build their own weapons to save as much as possible and ensure the quality of the new army's weapons."

"Now, everything in the training of the new army is going on in an orderly manner. It is expected that in early October, Zhennan Hou will lead troops to Jiangbei to cooperate with the governor of Mei, Governor Li and others to encircle the bandits of the Left Five Camp."

The 100,000 taels of silver given to Chongzhen by Fu Shan was escorted to Beijing, and then directly delivered to Chongzhen by Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen. Without exploitation by other officials, 100,000 taels per cent was a lot.

Chongzhen was extremely surprised when he received the money. He asked Liu Jun to train 50,000 new troops, but he had never paid any money. Liu Jun not only recruited 50,000 new troops according to the order, but now he has sent him 100,000 taels of silver. How could he not be surprised? In the thirteen years of Chongzhen's reign, he has only seen officials and generals from all over the country asking for money and urged him. He has never seen generals not only not only fail to ask for money, but also send money to him.

At first, he suspected that Liu Jun exploited the people in the local area, blackmailed the wealthy people, plundered property and sent silver to Beijing to please him. He asked the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang to send people to inquire, and the results reported by the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei made him even more shocked. Liu Jun neither extorted nor exploited the people, nor sent troops to rob the property. Liu Jun magically raised food and money, and even got a sum of silver to hand it over to him.

One hundred thousand taels of silver were originally not much for an emperor who owned the world, but for Chongzhen now, it was a considerable amount. The normal income of the imperial court was only about 2 million taels a year, and then through various additional payments, it was only tens of million taels, but only one outside the pass was Liaodong. The silver, grain, and weapons sent every year were spent on a huge amount of silver.

Not to mention, there are also huge costs for other border troops, and there are also expenses for suppressing bandits and horses from all over the country.

Yesterday, Chongzhen went to the inner warehouse in person, but the eunuch guarding the inner warehouse stammered and said that the key was gone. Finally, he was furious and the eunuch opened the warehouse door. Then he saw the empty warehouse. There were only a few boxes left inside.

His treasury was left with only more than 10,000 taels of gold and less than 200,000 taels of silver.

The situation of the treasury was not much better, and they were urging money everywhere to ask for money, but the court had not been able to make ends meet. After returning yesterday, he was very heavy, and then he heard that when the prince was rewarding the palace servants in the palace, he had no money to pay and had to keep the account. The reason why the prince had no money was because the prince had used all his money to him as a reward for the bandits and soldiers.

Now the 100,000 taels of silver that Liu Jun gave him made Chongzhen very happy. This was a rare investment for the emperor who was almost insane.

More importantly, Liu Jun submitted his letter to Yinzi and said that if everything goes well, then the 50,000 troops in Yunyang will no longer need the court to withdraw food, pay and equipment. Yunyang Town can find a way to solve it by itself, share the worries of the court and His Majesty. Even if the situation is good, he can continue to pay the surplus silver to the court in the future.

Chongzhen was not only happy to have invested 100,000 taels of silver, but even more happy that he might no longer have to pay food and wages from Yunyang in the future, 50,000 Yunyang soldiers and horses, at least 2 million in food and wages a year.

In the letter, Liu Jun also clearly stated the source of the money and grain in Yunyang Town. The Yingcheng Salt Farm, which was established with the Huguang merchants, attracted a lot of funds from merchants. As long as the emperor could order Yunzhen to open the Yingcheng Salt Farm and give a certain amount of salt intake, Yingcheng Salt Farm will obtain a lot of funds every year in the future, and even use the salt farm to borrow money from merchants at critical moments.

In addition, Liu Jun also explained his new initiative to raise funds by issuing lottery tickets. Liu Jun told the emperor that this kind of lottery can greatly increase the enthusiasm of the people to assist and donate money, breaking the previous dilemma of difficulty in raising funds. By running a self-organized ordnance workshop, it can not only save a lot of military ordnance procurement fees, but also make the quality of military ordnance more guaranteed.

In short, Liu Jun assured the emperor that as long as the emperor could provide sufficient support, Yunyang would raise the military salary of 50,000 troops in Yunyang in the future, without spending a penny on the court, and could support 50,000 elite troops in the court.

This proposal made Chongzhen feel excited.

All he wanted to give was a few decrees, without spending a treasury, which would allow Liu Jun to raise military expenses for the military. Although this approach was unprecedented and set a precedent, it would likely bring unpredictable consequences. However, Chongzhen was really worried about the dilemma of the court's finances. Yunzhen could save 2 million taels of silver a year, and even hundreds of thousands of taels of investment. This difference between in and out really made Chongzhen excited.

Of course, most importantly, Liu Jun also made a promise to Chongzhen in the letter that after pacifying the bandits in Huaixi, he asked to lead the Xin army in Yunzhen to the north to Liaodong to fight the enemy.

This sentence alone made Chongzhen's uncontrollable concerns about the future of Yunzhen.

Chongzhen thought that by the end of the year, he would destroy the bandits in Jiangbei, and then transfer Mei Zhihuan, Liu Jun and other generals to the north, then go out of the pass, pacify the enemy and restore Liao, and recover lost territory.

In addition, Liu Jun finally asked the emperor to send his most trusted eunuchs to Yunyang Director Yunzhen, and supervise the salt field and the military yard respectively.

Liu Jun knew that he would not mention this himself. The emperor would definitely send officials to supervise it. Instead of passively asking the emperor to send someone, he would take the initiative to ask. Although the final result did not change, it was completely different in the emperor's heart.

Sure enough, Chongzhen was really happy with Liu Jun's request. Liu Jun was open-minded and even asked to send the director to supervise the troops, and also asked to send eunuchs to supervise the salt field and the military equipment workshop. It seemed that he was open-minded and was not afraid of anyone's supervision at all.

"This Liu Jiye can always share my worries. He is both capable and loyal. If all the ministers in the world are like Liu Jiye, why should I worry about the injustice of the bandits, the undestructed enemy, and the Ming Dynasty will not be revived?" Chongzhen said excitedly. Fu Shan hurriedly lowered his head. If these words were heard, then Liu Jun would not be able to become a public enemy of the world's officials.

Chongzhen was the kind of emperor who was more impulsive. Once he was moved, he really wanted to be heartless. Once he felt cheated, he wanted to throw the other party into the eighteenth level of hell. Now he felt that a minister like Liu Jun was really too loyal. He wanted to reward Liu Jun heavily, but he had no money, so he couldn't give the money he sent back.

"Wang Cheng'en, go and bring my golden armored military uniform, the peacock fur that the foreign countries paid tribute, and the cloak that the Queen of Zhou sewed for me personally. The belt that Concubine Yuan woven and the pair of boots that Concubine Tian took, and I want to give them to the Marquis of Zhennan."

"Your Majesty. This was done by the Queen and the others for Your Majesty himself."

"I know that these things contain the hearts of the queen and the two concubines, and are very precious. It is because of their preciousness that I want to give it to the Marquis of Zhennan to show my wishes."

Fu Shan was also quite amazed while on the side. Chongzhen gave Fu Shan two imperial horses and left Fu Shan to eat in the palace.

This meal was not easy. I accompanied the emperor to have a meal with caution, strictly abide by etiquette, and dare not make any mistakes, and the food was not very good. Although this meal was more than ten taels of food.

In the palace, it is also considered the emperor's imperial meal, and it is also considered money. Chongzhen's daily royal meal was 36 taels, and the palace had to provide meals of more than 15,000 people every day. There were tens of thousands of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, but many eunuchs were in Nanjing, imperial tombs and other places. There were no less than ten thousand eunuchs in the palace, and the palace maids also reached the scale of thousands.

Chongzhen's emperor's meal was 36 taels a day, 146 taels a month, 11 taels a day, 15 taels a day, 335 taels a month, 160 taels a month, and 154 taels a month, 190 taels a month, and 120 taels a month.

The Forbidden City pays 300 taels a day for food and 9,000 taels a month.

Although the cost is very high, the food is not good. Many dishes are ordered very high, and the food is purchased many times more expensive than outside. The emperor's family and their servants actually eat high-priced food. The eunuchs responsible for purchasing and cooking have embezzled a lot of them.

After carefully following the emperor for dinner, Fu Shan retired from the palace after he followed some of the training of Yunyang soldiers and local people's conditions.

The next morning court, the emperor issued an order that Liu Jun, the general of Yunyang, would be given the title of Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War, and the title of Right Assistant Chief, and would be fully responsible for the commander and training of the 50,000 new troops in Yunyang.

This order was released, shocking countless people. Liu Jun was just a military general. At the age of 20, he was already shocked. But after all, he was just a military general. Now the emperor actually awarded Liu Jun the right assistant minister and the right assistant censor. Although these two were given additional titles, they were both given additional titles to the governor.

In other words, under normal circumstances, only the governor or the governor can get such a rank. It is impossible to add these two ranks.

Now the emperor actually added a general's title that only governors can get, which is simply a mess.

But in the shock, few people came out to object, and in the end only a few people came out to object, but no one responded and finally passed.

All the officials in the court were secretly amazed by this appointment. Liu Jun's dark horse suddenly rose up and had made too many exceptions in the court. He was appointed as the general at the age of 20 and had his seals on him. He was granted the title of marquis for his merits at the age of 20. Now he has also been given the title of the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the right assistant censor of the Right Censor of the Ministry of War.

The emperor's favor for the Zhennan Hou was greater than that of Yuan Chonghuan and Yang Sichang back then. This dynasty was unprecedented and probably wouldn't have it in the future.

On that day, the emperor issued several appointments, but they did not go through the court meeting. The emperor sent eunuch Wang Kun as the director of Yunyang, who was responsible for meritorious deeds, and sent eunuch Lu Weining as the governor and eunuch to supervise grain and pay. Eunuch Bian Yongqing, Xu Jinzhong and Xie Wenju were also sent as eunuchs to be the sub-guard eunuch, responsible for supervising Macheng Arsenal, Yingcheng Salt Field, and other affairs.

After hearing the news that Liu Jun had added his rank, Zhu Dadian's master quickly packed his luggage and prepared to leave Beijing.

"Where do you want to go?"

The door was suddenly pushed open, and several Jinyiwei, wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring swords, broke in.

Master Shaoxing's face turned green all of a sudden and he said tremblingly, "Go back to his hometown."

"Let's go with us first."

"Why"

"Someone reported you to spread rumors and attack the minister." Jinyiwei sneered a few times, then put the bag on his head and took the master away. To be continued. ~Search the basket color and you can read the following chapters in full text
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