After attending the military information briefing meeting of civil and military officials in the fort in the morning, Chen Zhenhui returned to his official office. He said he was an office director, but there was nothing to do. He was the inspector of the Lushun Town, and he was originally of low power, but now in the wartime, he was under the city of Shenyang, and Liu Jun also had a strict control over the troops of the towns under his command. He was actually unable to intervene in the army.

When he entered the official court, some subordinates had boiled boiling water for him, and the tea had just been brewed. The house was cleaned very clean and the warm kang was burned.

Chen Zhenhui nodded with satisfaction, closed the thick curtains, then took off her shoes and went to the kang. He was from the south, and Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the dynasty, was his fellow villager. He was most afraid of the coldness of Liaobei. Fortunately, he had this warm kang, and now he was used to it. He didn't care about his superficial appearance and spent most of his time on the kang every day.

Anyway, there is a kang table on the kang, so you can solve it by reading and writing.

Sitting cross-legged, he suddenly felt warm and comfortable. Chen Zhenhui sighed with satisfaction. Who would have thought that this northern country could be so warm? After sitting down, he looked through the letters and documents placed on the kang table for him.

The inspector was originally just a temporary dispatcher, but later became a permanent member. Basically, there were governors. Although the governors were mostly ministers or deputy chief censors and second-rank officials, while the inspectors were seventh-rank officials, and the two were of different ranks, the inspectors had their own business and the governors could not interfere.

Even the governor is actually an object of inspection and assessment of the inspector, so the inspector has a transcendent status.

Originally, there were only a dozen inspectors in the court, but now after the new round of adjustments in the court, the northern border army established five major military regions and fifteen military towns. Therefore, there were five governors and fifteen governors, and naturally fifteen inspectors were established accordingly. One military town established one governor, one general, one inspector, one military supervisor and one civil servant supervisor.

The responsibilities of the inspectors are also clear. They inspected and hunted on behalf of the emperor. The civil and military officials in the town, from the governor and general to the prefectures and magistrates, were divided into guards and soldiers to prepare for the road. Deputy generals and generals, guerrilla garrisons, etc., were all his inspection and supervision objects. Major matters were requested to be made and small matters were handled immediately. There was great power.

The governor is the one who manages local civil affairs, controls general officers and supervises food and pays. The general officer is responsible for the military affairs of a town and trains troops to command troops. The inspector is the two civil and military teams in a town led by the governor and general. In particular, the inspector has a very important right. That is, the soldiers of the military and town have made merits, and he must check them personally before they can report them to merit.

Originally, if it were in the past, the inspector could even be above the general. When the general met the inspector, he had to kneel down and kowtow. However, in the Liaodong army, the inspector could not enjoy such treatment. In fact, the governor, the governor, and the chief minister of the internal affairs could not enjoy such treatment.

Not to mention that the generals would not kowtow to their civil servants, even the soldiers would not kowtow when they saw them.

Liu Jun commanded the troops. Many places were different from the old system of the imperial court. When greeting each level, he only treated the military salute, raised his chest and raised his head and stood at the right hand, clenched his fist and hit his left chest. No matter how big the officials he saw, he was in this way. Even the superiors had to return the salute, which was the same military salute.

Chen Zhenhui opened a document to ask for merit.

The official document states the battle record of the Liaoyang defenders, defeating Dorgon's army, Wuzhenchao Ha artillery camp, destroying thousands of large and large Tartar artillery guns, and annihilated more than 3,000 Tartar artillery guns.

Looking through another official document, it is still a memorandum of asking for merit.

The two companies of the Puhe City defenders had more than 500 soldiers. Yesterday, they defeated the Qing army again to attack the city. After repelling 3,000 Tartars and attacking the city. After fighting against more than 3,000 Tartars, the Puhe City defenders, led by acting battalion commander Nicholas Liu Jinzhong, failed again the siege of 20,000 Tartars personally led by Prince Ying Ajige of the Tartars. They killed more than 800 Tartars with guns and cannons, and suffered more than 30 casualties. A long list of rewards was attached to the back.

Chen Zhenhui was not surprised. Nicholas Liu Jinzhong was really capable. In fact, he had seen this man, and he spoke in Macheng dialect. If it weren't for the red-haired and red-bearded, he would have thought that this was a native of the Ming Dynasty. Who would have thought that the company coach of the Nine-Headed Bird, who is now the acting leader, could achieve such great results with a nine-Headed Bird and a black flag army company?

Even Prince Ajige of Ying had no choice but to do anything about him. Twenty thousand people had no choice but to take a small castle guarded by 500 people. In the past, when he was in the capital, he always heard about the Chu army's impressive record. At that time, like many people, he thought that although the Chu army could fight and Liu Jun could fight, there must be some moisture in this record.

But since he came to Liaodong, he was convinced and truly convinced. He saw with his own eyes how the Chu army fought, which was completely different from the war he knew in the past.

He had already personally written a memorial for him to ask for merit. After this war, this red-haired man would definitely be promoted to the general of the Chu army, and he was fully qualified.

He opened another official document and still asked for merit. This time it was the Black Flag Army's request for merit. Looking at the large list of articles above, Chen Zhenhui frowned. He had no favoritism for this Black Flag Army.

Just as he had no fondness for the black skull flag, he hated this rebel army in his heart.

The emperor once issued a clear order to capture Kong Youde and others and take the rebels to the capital for trial and disposal, and the rebels were also sent to Taiwan. However, this order was suppressed by Liu Jun. Liu Jun not only did not deal with the rebels such as Kong Youde and others on the grounds that the wartime needs in Liaodong, but also made the rebels such as Kong Youde and others become consultants of the Supervisor's Office. After a simple reorganization, the rebels were organized for four associations and allowed them to continue wearing armor and holding weapons.

Liu Jun even changed their equipment, gave them sharper muskets, better cotton armor, and even equipped them with many cannons.

These were all firmly opposed by Chen Zhenhui and others, but just like the civil servants who opposed many other military oppositions, they were completely useless.

In this regard, Chen Zhenhui was actually not very satisfied with Liu Jun. As a commander, Duke Chu was indeed very powerful in fighting, but often he couldn't control him at all.

Liu Jun used this surrendered army seriously, and Chen Zhenhui and others finally reluctantly accepted it. He told himself that this was for military needs. After all, Liaoxi was defeated and Liaodong became an isolated army.

But Liu Jun then scattered the troops alone, which made Chen Zhenhui and others frightened. These were all rebels. Although Liu Jun also sent many non-commissioned officers and officers, how many non-commissioned officers were sent to the 20,000 surrendered army?

What if this army was sent out and then turned to the Qing army?

But the confidence that Liu Jun showed made them very angry.

Liu Jun not only sent this army out, but also asked them to plunder everywhere, and even indulged them in rape and plunder, or even massacre. This made Chen Zhenhui difficult for him to accept.

Although the Qing barbarians were enemies, they could not do so.

But Liu Jun answered him in just one sentence: his kindness to his enemies is his cruelty to himself.

War is a means, so sometimes for the sake of the outcome, we don’t care whether the means are despicable or noble. As long as this means can achieve the goal.

Since the Black Flag Army was scattered, these rebels have been burned, killed and looted by these rebels. In fact, Chen Zhenhui is not allowed to secretly admit that Liu Jun is very bold with these rebels, but this move is also very good. At least until now, these rebels have swept around, not only collecting a large amount of food and supplies for the Liaodong Army, but also weakening the power of the Tartars very simply and roughly.

Between Liao and Shenyang, many castles and villages were turned into scorched earth, and the food and resources were all entered into castles controlled by the Chu army. Many young and strong people in Manchuria were also captured and sent to the castles of the Ming army and became prisoners of war and laborers.

The Black Flag Army even mobilized many Han troops and platoons who were the same as they used to be. According to some information disclosed to him by Liu Jun, the Black Flag Army had been active outside for so long, and had been sweeping continuously and fighting continuously, but their troops not only did not decrease, but were expanding.

Moreover, the expansion was very scary. When it was scattered, there were 20,000 people, but now it is said that there are 70,000 to 80,000. Originally, there were only four associations. Now there are eighteen associations with the black flag. This force can be organized into three reorganized towns.

Although Liu Jun only gave the equipment from four associations, the newly recruited and surrendered soldiers of the Black Flag Army were just following them to help carry things and grab things, and they often brought their own war horses, bows, arrows, swords and guns, but even so, it was very scary.

I heard that not only the Han army of the Qing Dynasty, but many Han people joined the Black Flag Army, but also many Jurchens joined the Black Skeleton Army, many of whom were not Jianzhou Jurchens. There were also many Haixi Jurchens and tribes in the northeastern region known as Jiangyi.

Many of the Jurchen tribes were not conquered by the Qing Dynasty until these few years. Therefore, when the Black Flag Army burned, killed and robbed, many other Jurchens simply turned against each other and joined the Black Flag Army.

"Seizing Jiefan City, Sarhu City"

Chen Zhenhui shook her head. These black flag troops broke a fort in three days, defeated a town in five days, and broke a city in ten days. There were good news every day and came to ask for me every day.

After taking some effort to read all the merit requests, Chen Zhenhui threw them aside. He basically would not carefully check these merit requests, and there was no need. He would have checked them carefully, and then found that the Chu army would not falsely report military merits.

Because it's not necessary.

No matter how many military achievements the Chu army received, the court would not have any real rewards. At most, it would be a reward for the empty title. The Chu army didn't care about these at all. The merits they sent were actually just a formality. The Chu army had its own set of military merit assessments and internal officers were specifically responsible for this system. For the assessed meritorious soldiers, they would give their own rewards and promote the soldiers themselves. Anyway, the court would never deny the promotions reported by the Chu army.

Being an inspector in the Chu army was really leisurely and boring.

Chen Zhenhui put all the documents for requesting merit aside, indicating that he had checked and agreed to pass.

After drinking a sip of tea, Chen Zhenhui took out a book and looked at it seriously. It was snowing outside, so he could only live in the house reading books. Anyway, he couldn't get involved in military affairs.

Thinking about it, this official position is really boring. The enthusiasm he was when he came to take office was gone without a trace.

"What books do you read early in the morning?"

When the curtain was opened, the voice of an old friend came, and the other three of the four young masters of Fushe came to visit.

"What else can I read? I'm bored and read the Song Book!" Chen Zhenhui lit up the book.

Mao Xiang smiled, "Let's see how Liu Jinu founded the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties? In fact, you don't have to read this book. Don't we have a living Liu Jinu? You can't read enough every day?"

As soon as these words came out, the room fell silent in an instant.

After a long time, Chen Zhenhui sighed, "Liu Jinu was also a hero of Jin State back then, but in the end he usurped the throne and relied on his own."
Chapter completed!