Early the next morning, Liu Jun swore to send troops. ¤,

The chief eunuch Wang Kun and the governor Lu Weining also went out to the army. One of the two eunuchs was responsible for meritorious deeds and the other was responsible for food and money. The inspector Huang Daozhou and the deputy envoy of the army, Yang Tinglin, were both in charge of Yunyang and were responsible for continuing to rectify and clean up the military farming affairs of the garrison. Therefore, this time, in addition to the two eunuchs supervising the military funds, the emperor also sent a civil servant and military supervisor to come.

The newly appointed assistant to Hubei Army Supervisor Qu Shisi, a 50-year-old thin civil servant, was appointed as the military supervisor at the Hubei Army Supervisor. He was Yang Tinglin's deputy. This time, Yang Tinglin stayed behind and Qu Shisi followed the army. Yang Tinglin had carefully introduced the new military supervisor to Liu Jun at the reception last night.

This man is not young. He passed the Jinshi at the age of 26. He was from Changshu, Nanzhili. After he became an imperial examination, he served as the magistrate of Yongfeng, Jiangxi Province. He had great political achievements and a good official reputation. He was also a talented man with good poetry. Later, because his father was lost and was at home, he was said to have had contacts with Western priests, and was baptized into the church, with a foreign name Duom.

Ten years ago, Ding Yeman returned to the court and promoted the rank of the household ranks. He repeatedly impeached and deposed the treacherous ministers in power. The emperor read many of his words and became a famous fighter in the court. Of course, Qu Shisi also had another identity. Before he entered the foreign religion, he once appointed Qian Qianyi, the Donglin Party, as his teacher. Later, because of this identity, when Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru jointly fought Qian Qianyi, who was originally going to join the cabinet, he demoted Qu Shisi and returned home.

In short, after initial contact with him, Liu Jun had a strange impression of this person, one was a foreigner, one was a Donglin Party, and another was a Wei Zheng-style counselor.

Speaking of which, Qu Shizi was very kind to Liu Jun. Perhaps because Liu Jun himself was a member of Fushe and a disciple of Donglin Party Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and others, the two of them had a very talk when they came into contact. Especially although this man was a censor in the court, he often impeached this man and impeached that man at every turn, and he practiced iron teeth in the court. But when chatting with Liu Jun, he found that this man was actually very talented. Not only did he write good poems, but he also had a broad vision. He was actually very familiar with Western new things such as mathematics and physics.

In particular, he also has a very open concept, which makes Liu Jun feel very speculative and not too much barrier.

Zhu Dadian was also sent troops with the army. He himself did not want to go, but the emperor seemed to be very satisfied with Zhu Dadian recently. Therefore, he specifically pointed out in his oral order that Zhu Dadian was the deputy commander of Zhu Dadian. This is also an old example in the court. Even if Liu Jun is now the admiral, the court is still accustomed to setting up a higher-level civil servant above military generals, such as a governor, a governor, or even a supervisor.

However, in fact, when the Chu army went on an expedition this time, the full power of the military transfer was still under Liu Jun's hands. Now Zhu Dadian cooperated well with Liu Jun, and the military affairs, food and salary were also under Liu Jun's control. He only cared for the reception and holding a banquet.

If it weren't for the emperor's oral order, Zhu Dadian would not be willing to lead the troops. In fact, he was just a nominal commander. Even if he had given his own tutor to Liu Jun, who else could he be in command? Now Zhu Dadian is completely a hand-off manager. How much troops are sent, how to leave, how to supply food and salary, etc. Everything is decided by Liu Jun. Then he nodded and agreed and pressed another seal when he wanted to stamp it, without any objection.

Liu Jun transferred seven battalions to the south, with more than 20,000 troops, including two battalions in Zhenbiao, one cavalry battalion and one infantry battalion, one teaching battalion and one baggage battalion, and then the third battalion of Fubiao under Zhu Dadian's name. All the students of the martial arts lecture hall followed the army.

Liu Jun, the other soldiers were not transferred, and they asked them to continue training. Yunyang left two steps, one car and three battalions, and Liu Jun, the 4,000 soldiers from Yu Yiming in Kuizhou, was not transferred, and he did not plan to move the 20,000 new soldiers from Qihuang. The more soldiers were transferred, the heavier the task of transporting food, grass and equipment.

The soldiers of the seventh battalion bid farewell to the officials and businessmen who came to see him off at the Yunyang Wharf. Many of the people of Yunyang really were reluctant to leave. After these soldiers arrived, the order in Yunyang became much better, and these soldiers were relatively wealthy. They often went to the streets to buy something for dinner during vacation. Not only did they never have the bad habit of eating a king meal, but they would pay voluntarily every time.

As a result, there were fewer battles in the city and on the docks, and public security had improved a lot.

"Are you back?"

"Young man, take two eggs on the way!"

Qu Shisi stood on the deck of the ship leaning against the river and watched this scene with emotion.

"I have never seen it before. It's only a month since the nine-headed bird has entered Yunyang, and it has won such a reputation in the hearts of the local people. It's a pleasing to see the military gate really bringing out a good soldier."

"These are all our Chuxiang soldiers. As soldiers, they naturally want to defend their country. They just did what they should do."

Qu Shixi sighed, "With that being said, looking at the current Ming Dynasty, the only one who can do this is not disturbing the people and even gaining the soldiers and horses that are so popular with the people."

The two eunuchs in charge looked at the scenes on the dock and were also very surprised. They couldn't believe it for a long time. Is this true or a show?

Twenty thousand soldiers and horses sailed down the Han River on a boat, and thousands of sails competed.

From the downstream to the upper reaches of the Han River, especially after passing the Xiangyang section, there will be many dangerous shoals. If there is no good wind, the crew can only jump off the river and go to the shore to pull the boat and drag the boat across the beach. The fiber ropes are strangled year after year on the rocks on the dangerous shoals, forming many fiber marks, which are called boatman stones.

However, when you go down the river, it is much easier and more convenient. When you go down the river, it is also the most relaxed and pleasant time for boatmen to pull the sails and row the oars throughout the journey.

More than 20,000 people from Nine-headed Birds were riding hundreds of ships, carrying soldiers and cannons, which was faster and easier than taking the land route. Liu Jun and his team only carried a small amount of food on board. This time, they went to Huaixi to suppress bandits, and Liu Jun did not need to transport grain from Yunyang thousands of miles away.

Liu Jun had signed many grain purchase contracts with the grain farmers and paid the deposit in advance. Therefore, as soon as the grain harvest was harvested, Liu Jun asked someone to take the grain back in full with silver. Liu Jun deposited the recovered grain into the granaries of more than ten cities established by the Yangtze River and the Han River respectively.

Among them, Jiutoubi's granaries in each city in Hankou, Wuchang, Huangzhou and Qizhou have more than 100,000 stones of grain stored. This time, Jiutoubi only needs to send a few military officers to Qizhou in advance and ask them to prepare the food in advance.

From Yunyang to Hankou, the journey was smooth and smooth. In just eight days, Liu Jun had already arrived.

After the fleet arrived in Hankou, it took a larger river ship and prepared food, grass and ordnance in advance, and then continued to go down the Yangtze River. Two days later, the army of more than 20,000 people arrived at the Anqingfu Wharf north of Nanzhili.

When the nine-headed bird arrived at Anqing Wharf, Shi Kefa, the governor of the canal transportation and the governor of Jiangbei, looked forward to it.

Shi Kefa wore a black gauze hat and a big red official robe. A trace of white sesame material was exposed inside the official robe. He also valued filial piety and was mourning at home, but the emperor issued an order to seize the love and promoted him to governor of the grain transportation and governor Jiangbei.

This position was the original governor of the grain transport and governor of the four prefectures of Huai, Yang, Lu, Feng, Xu, He and Chu. This time the imperial court was changed to the governor of Jiangbei. Not only did the original four prefectures and three prefectures continue to be under the jurisdiction of Fengyang, but Anqing Prefecture was also added, and the entire Jiangbei and Huainan area was under its jurisdiction.

Although the authority has increased a lot, there is also a great dilemma facing Shi Kefa. With the defeat of bandits in various places, the Fifth Camp of the Giveuo in Jiangbei has become the last major bandit in the Ming Dynasty. If the bandits are not eliminated for a day, the governor of Jiangbei will be regarded as uneasy.

After this period of preparation, the emperor urged the governors and generals to launch a meeting to suppress the troops and earned their contributions in one battle. Shi Kefa was full of concern about launching the general attack at this time. The troops in Jiangbei were also unusable. After he took office, he cooperated with the commander Mei Zhihuan and the governor Li Changgeng to actively reorganize the troops and train the new army, but he was trapped in food and salary, and the progress was slow.

He did not think that the government army is now capable of destroying the bandits in one fell swoop. If it cannot be wiped out in one blow, then the hasty offensive counterattack may lead to failure, and even allow the bandits to break through and flee.

Shi Kefa once suggested to Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng that after another half a year, Jiangbei would have a war-capable army, and he would achieve his merits in one battle and wipe out the bandits in one fell swoop.

But the emperor couldn't wait, and Mei Zhihuan seemed to be very confident.

Later he heard that the confidence of Governor Mei and Governor Li came from the current general of Hubei. It is said that the general of Hubei general Liu Jun had a very good combat army under his command, named Jiutou, and had a great victory in Sichuan. It was said that this general led his troops to win. It was precisely because of that battle that Liu Jun was able to capture Zhang Xianzhong alive and finally be named Marquis.

But he found out carefully that it was said that Liu Jun was just a little martial artist half a year ago. His nine-headed birds were recruited by the village party, and it took only half a year for him to become an army.

Shi Kefa felt that Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng were too confident. For a new army like the Nine-Headed Bird, Sichuan's victory may be just luck. But how can one rely on luck in war? Even wars cannot rely on dangers all the time.

This time, the troops mobilized were mobilized. Mei Zhihuan reorganized 30,000, Li Changgeng reorganized 20,000, and Jiangbei had 50,000 soldiers. This time, the Chu army was transferred to the reorganized. Ke Shi Kefa has always insisted that war does not depend on more soldiers. On the contrary, the more soldiers, the more chaos it is.

But since the result of the conquering could not be changed, Shi Kefa asked to come to Liu Jun's army in Anqing.

He wanted to see what kind of person Liu Jun, the Marquis of Zhennan, was, and wanted to keep an eye on Liu Jun so that the young and proud marquis would not act recklessly at that time, and even supervise the Chu army to avoid harassing local people and looting property after the Chu army enters the country, especially such foreign tourists, who often harass the local area or even openly looting the local area after being dispatched to suppress the country.
Chapter completed!