Huo Shun and Lin Qingwen's return was a great joy for the Huo family and the Lin family, and a major event for the Chuzhou army.

Especially Huo Shun, there was also news from outside the pass.

That night, Huo Wu held a banquet at the Taiwei's Mansion, and all the leaders of the Chuzhou army came.

Except for Xue Biao in Hangzhou and Monk Feng who was preparing for the war in Taiping Prefecture, everyone else arrived.

When they heard that Liaodong was in chaos, everyone looked at each other, but they didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow.

What I was happy about was that the backyard of Daning was in chaos, only Gyeonggi and Guangdong and Guangxi were still quiet, and the country was already in chaos.

"It's become a broken lantern, and I can't make up for it!"

Master Lin sighed a little.

However, Huo Wu looked at the Ma village leader, and both brothers were heavy.

"If you are not a person of my race, your heart will be different." For scholars, this sentence may be just a slogan, but for Huo Wu, Mazhaizhu and others, it has verified that this sentence is the truth.

Although the Daning royal family was also a foreign race, they were educated by Confucianism, which led to the overthrow of the previous dynasty decades ago, relying on the strength of cavalry, especially from north to south.

Will the Northern Barbarians rise in Liaodong become the second Daning?

You cannot give time to rise to the Northern Barbarians.

The two brothers and two have a tacit understanding and have plans in their hearts.

It seems that we cannot relax.

After the "Western Expedition", it is impossible to say that the "Northern Expedition" is necessary.

Huo Wu was prepared for the Northern Barbarians, so he temporarily put down the Northern Barbarians and asked about the war horses.

The two brought back eight hundred war horses, plus one hundred stallions.

More than 100 pieces were lost on the road, and more than 700 pieces were left.

What is precious is not only war horses, but also horse trading channels.

Huo Shundao: "When it comes to this, I have to thank Mr. Song. The horse farm in Liaodong is divided into Guanma Farm and private horse farm. Guanma Farm is divided into Taipu Temple Horse Farm. The horse farm in the Ministry of War is useless, and there are no horses in it. Even on the Taipu Temple Horse Farm, the actual number of stocks is several percent different from the number of horses recorded on the books... On the contrary, it is a private horse farm, with the powerful people in Beijing behind it, with a lot of stocks... Finally, the supervisor of Taipu Temple joined forces and ordered horses from the private horse farm. This is the first batch, and there are still 4,200 horses behind... But now the horses are expensive, ten taels of silver for war horses and eighteen taels of silver for stallions... The gold I brought was used as a deposit, and I agreed to make up the final payment when I went there this time..."

Huo Wu heard that something was wrong.

Before Song Lin retired, he was a minister of Taipu Temple. He had a normal relationship with his subordinates, but he was only a seventh-eighth-rank official in prison. He said that he was a normal match for the Chuzhou army, and he would not say anything else.

Huo Shun had a mission to go north to find a channel for horse sales, and he also brought a lot of gold and silver to accompany him, but the quantity was limited.

But the private horse farm only collected a deposit and allowed him to transport nine hundred horses out?

"But I'll find out which one is behind the horse farm?"

"It's Duke Fan's Mansion in the capital!"

"It's his family!"

Huo Wu was a little surprised and expected: "Do you know over there that you are from Chuzhou?"

Huo Shun couldn't help but be stunned: "The other party asked once, and his nephew said it was from Jinling."

Huo Shun set out from Chuzhou in June and arrived in Liaodong before the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, Jinling was still under the rule of the government.

It is already the end of the year when we contacted the Taipu Temple Horse Farm supervisor and found out that there was no chance of horses in the official horse farm.

Huo Wu shook his head and said, "You have taken Lord Song's letter of recommendation, and the other party should know it."

Song Lin was from Chuzhou and retired in Chuzhou.

In Chuzhou, May was occupied by the White-Shirted Army.

The master of Ma village touched his chin and said, "We captured Bu Jian, Pang Liang, and Duke Fan just pretended to be dead, but he sold us behind his back!"

Master Lin nodded and said, "Pang Guogong protects his shortcomings, otherwise he would not have taken his eldest daughter back after being treated too slowly, and then robbed his grandson and returned home. It is more humane than other powerful families..."

The Chuzhou Army also inquired about this and then captured Pang Liang, the commander of the Jinling Navy, and instead of killing him, he used him to restrain Bu Jian, the commander of the Yangzhou Navy.

The two of these cousins ​​grew up together and were like brothers and sisters.

Bu Jian really had his own concerns, so he was constrained when the Chuzhou army attacked Yangzhou and was defeated by the Chuzhou army and became brothers in distress with his cousin Pang Liang.

Huo Wu cherishes talents and knows that these two relatives are in the capital, so he does not force them to join the Chuzhou army. He just wants to wait for the chaos in the capital before hiring people.

Unexpectedly, there is such a reward now.

All the leaders of the Chuzhou army were present, and there were no outsiders, but Huo Wu still instructed: "The Liaodong affairs are confidential, so don't spread them in the future."

Everyone agreed in unison.

Whether Duke Fan showed goodwill to the Chuzhou Army because of his grandson and grandson's safety, or was disappointed and speculated with the court, it was a good thing for the Chuzhou Army.

This time, the two seaships transported nine hundred horses. When they turned back, the fleet could not say that the remaining more than 4,000 horses could be transported back to Jinling one or two times.

Even if 20% of the loss was lost, the Chuzhou army could still pull out a cavalry of four or five thousand people.

Cavalry, plus firearms, what else is there to be afraid of the Chuzhou Army?

Now, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, and Shouzhou and Shuzhou in the northwest are recruiting troops.

If a single Ding is not drawn, three Dings are drawn one, five Dings are drawn two.

When the soldiers were conquered, there were more than ten or twenty-hundred thousand new soldiers.

In addition to the more than 200,000 troops of the Chuzhou Army, there are 300,000 or 400,000 troops.

Everyone is full of confidence.

"Huo Shun and Mr. Song have made contributions to military affairs, and they need to be rewarded for their merits!"

Huo Wu said to the Ma Village Master.

The leader of the Ma village nodded and said, "It should be, especially Huo Shun, who traveled thousands of miles and finally achieved success. He was promoted to three levels in a row to thousands of households!"

The Chuzhou Army emphasizes "rewards for merits" and "rewards for merits". Last year, Hou Xiaoming and Li Yuan went to Changzhou Iron Mine to find out the news, and then chased them to Hangzhou and opened an ordnance transaction for the Chuzhou Army, both of which were upgraded to three levels in a row.

Huo Shun set out in June last year, after the Chuzhou Incident, Chuzhou had a total force of more than 20,000 troops.

Huo Shun is the deputy of the supervision team, with a position of hundreds of households. He was promoted to three levels in a row, which means he was crossing Qu Chang and Dai Qianhu, and directly became a thousand households.

Nowadays, Chuzhou's army has more than 200,000 troops, more than 2,000 households, and a thousand households are not really worth it.

However, the supervision team has now been changed to the Supervision Department, with only one thousand staff members in charge.

The old monk, the director, was only treated as a deputy general of five thousand people, and he had left and right deputy subordinates under his command, and now he was missing from both sides and right deputy subordinates, one of which was reserved for Huo Shun.

Everyone knew it, so they didn't look down on Ma's village leader, but they congratulated Huo Shun on the contrary.

As a witness in Liaodong, Lin Qingwen is also here.

Huo Wu thought for a while and said to Master Lin: "Brother Lin has been working hard. I will take a few days off first. How to resettle it later depends on the teacher's intention."

Master Lin said: "He was in the Hanlin Academy before, and I don't know if he has been abandoned in the past few years? If it is not abandoned, let him hang a document in the Taiwei Mansion first..."

Everyone was surprised when they heard this.

Lin Qingwen was born in the imperial examination and was born in the Sandingjia, and had a higher qualification than many surrendered ministers.

It is a good way out to release it as a state governor, or to give Song Lin first as his deputy.

However, Master Lin mentioned the Hanlin Academy and arranged for Lin Qingwen to be a clerk, which meant that he had no intention of taking real power.

Huo Wu sighed in his heart and said, "Don't worry, wait for two days to rest, see what the Qing Wen brother said, we are short of people everywhere now..."

This sentence is untrue.

The Chuzhou Army does not lack people, but the senior management is lacking.

Lin Qing has enough literature and knowledge, has become an official, and has a backer from the Lin family, so there is no need to start from the bottom.

However, Master Lin has many concerns. Lin Qingwen was no longer outstanding in his early years. Now he has been exiled in Liaodong for more than ten years and has not been thorough in his actions. If he is rashly at a high position, it would be bad except for mistakes.

Just like when I first met my father on the pier, I first explained the matter of supporting the spring cherry blossoms, which was a bit out of place.

It’s not that he is not worried about friendship and is slow to treat his wife who shares troubles, but that he is not put in this way.

In this way, how can Lin Jin, the son of Yuandi, who met his father for the first time, deal with him?

There were also members of the Huo family at that time, not relatives and friends of the Lin family. Among them, Huo Wu was the leader of the Chuzhou army, and there was a distinction between the master and the Lin family.
Chapter completed!