Li Changgeng and Sun Chuanting also received letters sent by Liu Jun one after another. After reading the letter, Li Changgeng was very pleased. Liu Jun is indeed capable. Not only does he not need the court to pay the money and be self-sufficient, but he can also take out 30,000 stones of grain to supply to himself. This disciple did not receive it in vain. +◆,

He had no doubt about the 30,000 stones of grain given to Liu Jun. Liu Jun always had such unique skills, and he had long been used to it.

However, when Sun Chuanting, who was in charge of pursuing bandits in Tongguan, received a letter from Liu Jun, he was skeptical. Liu Jun actually wanted to give him 20,000 shi of grain? 20,000 shi, not 2,000 shi. Where did Liu Jun get so much food? And even if he had so much food, why didn't he keep it himself? Why did he give it to him?

Although he also supervised Huguang and was Liu Jun's boss, they were not familiar with each other. The most important thing is that Liu Jun really has 20,000 shi of grain, or is it just a joke?

"Military gate, why not send someone to Yunyang." At this time, an aide persuaded.

"Do you believe this?" Sun Chuanting asked.

The staff member nodded, "I think it's possible that this Zhennan Hou is indeed different from ordinary people. The military should know that the money has been issued recently?"

"Don't you?"

"Yes, this is the lottery ticket, which was created by Zhennan Hou. It turned out that the imperial government often raised donations from gentry and merchants, but there were only a few responders, but Liu Jun brought the donation and the lottery together, which immediately attracted countless rich people to pay for it. I heard that this first period sold 50,000 tickets and earned 100,000 taels of silver. If it were something that I could not think of before. Therefore, now Liu Jun wrote to him that he would give 20,000 stones of grain, which I didn't find strange."

"This Liu Jun is really hard to see through, but he is very generous in his actions. No wonder he can be a marquis and seals at such an age. Then I have to go to Yunyang for a trip. If Liu Jun really prepared 20,000 stones of grain for someone, you can transport him back. If there are 20,000 stones of grain, it will solve his urgent problem." Sun Chuanting said with a caress.

Capital.

Yao Minggong, a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, recently submitted a new memorial. In the memorial, he requested that Huguang be divided into two, and the Hubei Chengxuan Government Envoy Department and Hunan Chengxuan Government Envoy Department will be divided into Xing'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, Shangzhou, Sichuan, Kuizhou, Henan, and Nanyang Prefecture in Henan be relegated to the Hubei Administration Office. The former Huguang area was bounded by the Yangtze River, with the Yangtze River as the boundary, and the Jiangbei was Hubei and the Jiangnan was Hunan. Wuchang Prefecture and Shizhou south of the Yangtze River were also assigned to Hubei.

After Huguang was divided into Hubei and Hunan, Yunyang was removed from the peacekeeping mission, and Yunyang no longer had a governor. Yunyang was changed to Hubei Governor, and Yunyang General was changed to Hubei Governor.

The former governor of Huguang, general and other officials were replaced by governor of Hunan and general of Hunan.

The fundamental reason for Yao Minggong to submit this memorial was that the current Huguang administration envoy's jurisdiction was too large, and the Yunyang set up in the territory also spans four provinces, which made the jurisdiction and functions overlap a lot, which was not conducive to management. In particular, sometimes local military and political affairs are not involved in all parties, so it is better to divide Huguang into two and withdraw Yunyang to manage.

As soon as this memorial was released, some people supported and some opposed it.

Yunyang Fuzhi itself is a very special existence. It was established during the Chenghua period. It spanned Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Henan. Especially in recent years, bandits have spread everywhere, and Yunyang is even more important.

Now Yao Minggong proposes to simply change Yunyang into a provincial governor, and this suggestion makes some sense.

Just at this moment, the joint memorial of the General and the Supervisor arrived.

The Yunyang Vatican Station cleared out more than 800,000 mu of military farmland and retrieved hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and a large amount of money from the homes of the greedy Vatican Officers, which shocked Chongzhen.

In particular, officials from Yunyang reported to him that the cleaned military fields had been granted to more than 16,000 treasury farming. From now on, one stone will be collected per mu of rent every year, which will be as much as 800,000 treasurys a year. If the other guards of the Huguang Xingdu Division can be cleared out, one million mu of military farmland can be collected, and one million more rent will be collected in a year. If the cleaning scope can be expanded to the entire Huguang Dushi and Xingdu Liudu Division, then the cleared military fields can be estimated to reach 100,000 hectares.

Ten thousand hectares, Chongzhen couldn't help but feel his heart thumped when he thought of this number. Ten thousand hectares are ten million acres. If he could really rent one acre of one stone, it would be ten million stones. Even if there were disasters, floods and other things, the part that had to be reduced would still be as many as millions of stones.

If the cleaning can be completed, at least there will be no need to extract additional food in the fight against bandits and disaster relief in the Central Plains in the future.

Chongzhen didn't care at all about the harsh punishments of the officials of Yunyang's military officers. If these greedy guys could do it, he would rather kill them all and then use all their property to recharge.

After 100,000 taels of silver, Liu Jun sent another 100,000 taels of silver. Chongzhen was full of emotion. The generals of Yunyang Town were so good at doing things, and they were loyal to the emperor and officials.

Chongzhen had no objection to Liu Jun's distribution of hundreds of thousands of stones of grain confiscated. Liu Jun left him 300,000 stones, but also 100,000 stones for the other three governors, which was quite good. After all, the 300,000 stones left by Liu Jun was also the military ration for 50,000 troops in Yunyang.

Liu Jun's 100,000 taels of silver once again moved Chongzhen. Who among the court officials like Liu Jun, who suppressed the bandits and bandits for him, and even raised all the money and money, without waiting or relying on them, and could also move so much from the money and money raised to the capital to the emperor.

A loyal minister, a great loyal minister is not only a loyal minister, but also a capable minister, and a cadre official.

Look at Liu Jun. In just half a year, he had put down tens of thousands of bandits and captured Zhang Xianzhong. While training the new army, he could also rectify the garrison and clean up the military farms. He could also find ways to open a salt field, issue tickets, raise food and wages by himself, and squeeze out 200,000 taels from it and send them to Beijing.

If there were a few more Liu Jun, the bandits of the Ming Dynasty would have been pacified long ago, and the Jianlu outside the pass would dare to be so arrogant?

"Cao Dalian!" Chongzhen was moved and said to Cao Huachun, who was beside him, "You are the admiral of the East Factory, I asked you to send a fan to Yunyang last time. Is there any reward?"

Cao Huachun hurriedly replied, "Long live, the Dongchang man has already received a reward. After Liu Jun was appointed as the general of the Yunyang regiment, he was determined to recruit soldiers and train troops. Now there are more than 50,000 troops in Yunyang Town, and there is no empty quota. Below the general, deputy general, guerrilla, and chief commander, and the guards command the troops and horses, and train hard."

"Yun Town originally had more than 10,000 troops, but because of the large amount of empty space, many of them were not good at training and could not stand the battle, so they were cut off by Liu Jun. Before the abolition, Liu Jun not only paid the salary to these soldiers, but also reimbursed the salary they had owed and the salary they had been deducted earlier. Each of them was given two taels of severance silver. The soldiers were cut off, but none of them were resentful and were grateful to the court."

Cao Huachun took Liu Jun's money and naturally said good things for Liu Jun. Although what he said was actually the truth, it was not easy.

"The Yunyang New Army has been practicing constantly in the morning and evening every day, and has trained hard. Among them, the six battalions have begun to have elite momentum, and the other battalions are also very strict."

"Liu Jun's new army has excellent military discipline, and there is no noise in the local area. Although the lottery tickets he issued raised a lot of silver, it was not forced."

Chongzhen was very surprised when he heard this. He had such a good reputation. Over the years, he sent eunuchs to supervise the army. The rewards he heard were mostly the domineering generals and the military discipline of soldiers. He disturbed the people very much. He even often mutinized and fled and looted local people, and even directly rebeled and robbed villages and towns to attack county towns.

"There is no bad news?"

“There are some too.”

Chongzhen suddenly felt energetic, "Tell me quickly."

"It was Liu Jun who discovered a salt mine in Huguang before. He then raised shares and set up Yingcheng Salt Field, and many people opposed this matter."

"Who is it against it? Why?"

Cao Huachun replied, "They are all against Yangzhou salt merchants. There are also officials and stove households in Huai Salt Field. Because Yingcheng Salt Field is large after its completion, the annual salt production will reach hundreds of thousands of dan, which will reduce the amount of salt sold to Huguang by Huai Salt Field, and many Yangzhou salt merchants will also be damaged."

When Chongzhen heard that the salt merchants and salt farm officials were all opposed, he lost interest. He had no good feelings for the luxurious Yangzhou salt merchants. These people were rich, but rarely made any contributions to the court.

But soon, Chongzhen felt relieved again, and Liu Jun did not disappoint him.

He reconsidered Yao Minggong's memorial. If the Hubei Provincial Administration Department was established, the Yunyang Fuzhuan was abolished, and then Liu Jun and other officials continued to organize sanitation offices and manage military farms throughout Hubei, the less hindrance would be Liu Jun. In the future, Hubei, as a newly separated province, would no longer have to deal with other provinces.

"Liu Jun and Fu, how did the military supervisor get along? Are there any domineering and bullying actions?"

"Liu Jun cooperated well with the governor of Yunyang Zhu Dadian, and cooperated well with the inspector Huang Daozhou and the supervisor Yang Tinglin. They cooperated well this time to rectify the affairs of Yunyang garrison."

Hearing this, Chongzhen felt even more relieved. This Liu Jun is very good, very good.

At the court meeting the next day, the monarch and ministers of the court decided to divide the Huguang Administrative Office into the Hubei Administrative Office and the Hunan Administrative Office, and abolish the Yunyang Administrative Office. The former Huguang Administrative Office, the general and the officials of the three departments were re-elected to Hunan and Hunan's three departments stationed in Changsha.

The former Yunyang Fu, the general and other officials were re-elected in Hubei, and the Hubei three departments were established to select officials.

The prefectures and counties in Huguang were bounded by the Yangtze River, and the north of the Yangtze River was generally Hubei, and the south of the Yangtze River was Hunan. Only Wuchang Prefecture and Shizhou in the south of the Yangtze River were affiliated to Hubei. In addition, Shangzhou, Xing'an Prefecture, Sichuan, Kuizhou in Sichuan, and Nanyang in Henan were all changed to Hubei. Chongqing, which was originally under Yunyang, was still affiliated to Sichuan.

Zhu Dadian was renamed as governor of Hubei, Yuan Jixian was renamed as governor of Hunan, Huang Daozhou was renamed as governor of Hubei, Liu Jun was also renamed as general of Hubei, and Zuo Liangyu was renamed as general of Hunan.

However, Liu Jun was not just a general in Hubei.

Liu Jun was promoted again. His current official position was the imperial envoy to the military affairs of Hubei, Hunan, and the Prime Minister. He also handled military affairs in the two provinces, and also managed food and money. He guarded Hubei. He held the seal of the general of the bandits and served as the general officer. He served as the left governor of the left military governor, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, the right deputy imperial official, the crown prince Shaobao, the young tutor, the cavalry general, the Zhuguo, and the Zhennan Hou Liu Jun, stationed in Yunyang and controlled the two towns.

Chongzhen gave a generous reward for his loyalty to Liu Jun. His Wu rank was promoted from the Governor General to the first-rank left governor. At the same time, in addition to the title of the crown prince's tutor, he was awarded a first-rank young tutor. At the same time, the title of the Crown Prince's tutor was still retained and promoted to the right deputy censor. The Wu rank was the second-rank general of the cavalry, and Wu Xun was the Zhuguo.

Of course, those who were just some martial arts officials added the title of military officials, what really made the court officials secretly amazed the most was that Liu Jun added the title of general and the rank of governors. This time, he added the three responsibilities of military affairs and the Prime Minister's training, and both the food and money. The Prime Minister's training is still a military general's job, but the military affairs and the food and money are generally the dispatch power of governors from all over the country. It is precisely because the governors added the rank of military affairs that he had the military command to dispatch military generals, train troops, and command operations. Only by adding the rank of food and money, the governors have the right to govern the military ration and money of the army. Food and money are also an important means for the governors to control the generals of the army.

Now, after Liu Jun, a general, was appointed as the Ministry of War, the Governor and the Ministry of Censorate, he obtained three important powers: the admiral military affairs, the prime minister trained troops, and the management of food and wages.

What shocked the court officials even more was that Liu Jun’s admiral was not only military affairs in one province, but also managed the food and money of one province. Liu Jun was admiral of the military affairs in Hunan and Hubei, and also trained the military affairs of two provinces, and also managed the wages of two provinces.

In addition to being unable to manage civil affairs and govern officials, Liu Jun is now almost equivalent to a governor or even a governor of two provinces.

To control the two towns, Zuo Liangyu, the former general of Huguang, is still pursuing and suppressing bandits under Sun Chuanting. This powerful general in the official army, with the seal of the general of the general of the bandits, was once the general of the bandits chosen by Yang Sichang to be recommended by him. He turned out to be Liu Jun's boss, but now he is under Liu Jun.

Both were generals, Zuo Liangyu, the general of Hunan, had to be controlled by Liu Jun, the general of Hubei.

The general of one town is restrained by the general of another town. It seems that only Qi Nantang had this power when he was training in Ji Town. When Qi Nantang was just the prime minister in the three towns to train troops, Liu Jun still has the power to supervise military affairs and manage food and money.

No one can stand out from the emperor's favor for the young general.

Especially this young general, he was still a marquis.

From now on, everyone can call Liu Jun the Admiral Liu. Many ministers even wondered whether Liu Jun would be considered a military general or a civil servant in the future? Just like Chen Xueren used to serve as the general of Henan as a civil servant, it was unprecedented. Now, Liu Jun, a military general, was appointed as an admiral and was appointed as a department chief, which was unprecedented.

A general controls two towns.

With the intention of promotion, Liu Jun was also sent to the capital to immediately send troops to suppress the fifth camp of the left of Huainan. Chongzhen could no longer wait to pacify the last large-scale bandit in the Central Plains.
Chapter completed!