"Happy! It's rare for us to make contributions and advances in such a world of evil deeds in power."

"This dangerous and remote place in Huangzhou is a hundred times cleaner than the prosperous places where two capitals and Suzhou are tainted with dirt and dirt! Drink! Don't go home until you get drunk tonight!"

On the night when he received the promotion order, Chen Shuren was inevitably in the Huangzhou Prefectural Office, and Zhang Huangyan and Gu Yanwu were drinking and celebrating.

Zhang and Gu, who had long been quite dissatisfied with the world, blew out some cynical complaints as they drank, and the more they spoke, the bigger the scale.

When they think that the promotion of civil servants from outside the world now relies on bribing the Ministry of Personnel and spending money to buy officials to clear the joints, they regard war-torn places like Huangzhou as a paradise to save the country and the people with their true abilities.

At least it is a real skill to kill the thief! It is useless to flatter Shangguan if you flatter him again! The incompetent flattering minister will die when he arrives here!

Chen Shuren looked much calmer than Zhang, and Gu and the others. He always drank and thought about things silently, without complaining.

Zhang Huangyan felt strange. After drinking another pot of good wine, he asked with concern: "What? Are you worried about it? Today is such a happy day, I don't follow you."

Chen Shuren smiled politely and picked up the cup: "I may have to go to Nanjing in a few days, and some things need to be handled. Of course, I will also go back to Suzhou for the New Year and come back before the spring plowing in February.

The mountains here are remote and dangerous roads, and they will be blocked by snow in winter. We have the benefits of the navy, so we are not afraid of He Jin and Lin Cheng taking risks. Therefore, in winter, we only need to do some water conservancy repairs, new fields and the training of soldiers.

At that time, I will have to help me act for a month and a half. Anyway, water conservancy and corvee are the duties of the magistrate."

Zhang Huangyan was immediately dissatisfied when he heard this and complained without seeing any other people: "Okay, you, the new magistrate, just took office, and left the job to me. You are so embarrassed! You are not afraid of the court's accountability!"

Chen Shuren smiled confidently: "The court rules, the new officials have a three-month deadline to take office and hand over the handover. Although I only took one and a half months to hand over the handover, it would not be too much."

In ancient times, when transportation was inconvenient, officials would give a deadline for their posts in other places, and it would be normal to arrive in three months.

If the former local officials are in a hurry to resign, as long as the money and grain and accounts of all parties are handed over clearly, the Tongzhi and the Tongju are willing to take over the management, as long as it does not exceed three months, it is completely fine.

This time, Chen Shuren was taking advantage of the legal loopholes, and he even made a big vacation when he handed over the handover with him.

Fortunately, both sides are cousins, so it is appropriate to help work. After Zhang Huangyan complained, he became serious: "Where are any joints to clear when going to Nanjing?"

Chen Shuren nodded: "You saw it just afternoon. Not only did the imperial decree arrive, but also the father's letters. The matters in the letters are even more troublesome.

I don’t know that I was originally impeached by Zuo Liangyu, and there was also Governor Fang Kong and Fang who protected me in the middle, but it was so complicated in the end.

When my father was in the capital, he heard Zuo Liangyu's memorial. In order to find out the news and help cover it up, he told His Majesty about the "Lijin" I talked to him casually in my letter before. It was an excuse to ask the Lord to throw a stone to ask for directions.

Unexpectedly, Your Majesty was interested in "Lijin" and probably because he was short of money. But if this method was implemented, there were many obstacles.

Even if the obstacles can be moved away and forced to continue, they will inevitably be criticized by vested interests in the future. "Those who take this downside will ignore the decentralization of power and laws of ancestors and use their sinister intentions, which will inevitably lead to separatist rule in the future."

I believe that with Your Majesty's temper, as long as someone makes sure of it, he will definitely "severely punish the officials who came up with the idea, but he will half-reject and save the new law that can make money" and try to calm the situation.

If I don’t prepare for it, even if the Lijin is successfully promoted in the future, my father might be killed and brought out as a scapegoat. Therefore, I must go to Nanjing to set up some relationships first, so that I can really report to promote Lijin next year.”

Chen Shuren knew too well about Chongzhen's behavior. Chongzhen was essentially willing to use those reforms that could give him practical benefits but would damage the laws of the ancestors and the principles of the court.

But after using it, if the censor pointed out these points of destruction of the principles, he would push out the people who originally suggested reforms to show that "the destruction of the principles is not based on the emperor's original intention, but a treacherous minister." Then the emperor only takes advantage, but does not take the blame for the destruction of the principles.

For example, in history, before Li Zicheng came to Beijing soon, Chongzhen actually tried many times to ask the cabinet elders to submit a memorial suggestion to give up Beijing and move the capital south.

But giving up Beijing is obviously contrary to the ancestral principle of "the emperor guards the country's gates", and it is also an unprincipled admission of shame and cannot be overcome, so he cannot say it himself.

Someone must say that he can pretend to be blinded for a while, wait until the rice is cooked and arrives in Nanjing, and then pretend to "wake up" and kill the treacherous ministers who advised him to give up on Beijing - and the ministers who could live to that day also know him too well, so they gritted their teeth and didn't say anything but the blame.

Today's Lijin policy can make money and also lead to hidden dangers of local centrifugation inconvenience. In terms of behavioral patterns, it is exactly the same as the persuasion two years later in history. If you don't keep some help, even if you persuade them, you will be killed by Chongzhen.

Zhang Huangyan had never met the emperor before, so he was still a little dissatisfied with his cousin saying this to the emperor.

But if his family has dirty work to deal with, he can only help with his daily work first, and ask less questions about other things that he shouldn't know.

"Forget it, I don't care about what you do when you go to Nanjing. Just help you with a month and a half. Remember to bring some thank you when you come back! Tell me, when will you leave?"

Chen Shuren: "Let's go back to Suzhou for the New Year first. Anyway, no one in Nanjing yamen will do anything during the New Year. It's always time to ask for relationships after the Lantern Festival."

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After making a plan to return home to operate, the remaining few days will be more precious. Chen Shuren must hurry up and plan the civil affairs and training work that needs to be arranged in winter slack farming.

The crops planted in winter are already safe, so there is nothing to do in advising farmers. The main concern is the reorganization training of new recruits and the construction of arms.

The next morning, Chen Shuren recruited Zuo Zixiong and other military officers and re-approved the future military organization.

After being promoted yesterday, the organization of the government army on Chen Shuren's side was also improved.

In addition to the fact that there is a garrison in Huangzhou, Yang Sichang also assigned him the garrison in Suizhou Prefecture, which is still mostly in the occupied areas. In fact, Chen Shuren has only restored one Xiaogan County in Suizhou area so far, so the Suizhou garrison is temporarily placed in Xiaogan.

The officers of Suizhou Guards were not appointed by the imperial court, but actually gave Chen Shuren great discretion.

The organization of a garrison is 3,500.

Previously, Chen Shuren had 3,55 regular troops, 1,000 servants, and 5,000 troops collected from Liu Xiyao.

Now that we have reorganized it, we will select those with relatively reliable physical strength and discipline, and we will pull out about 3,000 people, combine it with our former subordinates, and then eliminate the previous war damage, permanently retire from the disability, and train a unit of 7,000 people.

The one thousand servants who were originally organized separately are now mixed into two garrisons, which can ensure the loyalty of the troops and avoid being distracted by too many capricious veterans.

Most of the officers at all levels in the new Suizhou Guard were moved from the officers and soldiers who had made good achievements in Huangzhou Guard. Only a very small number of old thieves who had made meritorious performance when surrendering were retained.

After the reorganization, the Huangzhou Guard was commanded by Zuo Zixiong and the Suizhou Guard was commanded by Zhang Huangyan.

Zuo Zixiong had Lu Datou, Liu Sandao and several other Qian Zhengs, as well as some old direct descendants he brought out.

Zhang Huangyan has several thousand generals under his command, including Chen Fu, Chen Lian, and others. There is no need to mention the other grassroots officers at the general level.

After the organization is completed, the remaining difficulties are the ordnance and arms.

When Chen Shuren first came, he was a team of grass-roots teams, and his weapons were all done by spending money, and he did not build his own military production.

The firearms that were purchased from outside were only about 1,200, and there were no cannons. After destroying Liu Xiyao, two or three hundred firearms were seized, but the quality was much worse than the ones bought by Shen Shuren. There were only bird guns and old-fashioned firearms. Even Lumi guns were rare, and there was not even a single Western turtle dove gun.

After inspection, there were dozens of old-fashioned muskets that were not very reliable. The walls of the chamber were thinned and could be blown up at any time. They were directly abandoned and eliminated by Shen Shuren and returned to the furnace to smelter.

After some selection, the entire army gathered a total of 1,400 firearms.

Compared with the 7,000 troops, the number of igniters can only ensure that 20% of the musketeers are organized, and the construction of weapons must be put on the agenda.

"This time I will go back to Nanjing and Suzhou, and I will take the opportunity to recruit more skilled blacksmiths to come here, starting with the creation of imitation Lumi guns and turtledove guns. As for the old bird guns and muskets, our army will not build them in the future.

To avoid too many firearm configurations and inconvenient ammunition supply. In the future, the firearm ratio of our elite troops will be increased to one-third, or even 50%.

However, in the past two months of winter, before the firearm craftsmen are recruited, they will first ask local blacksmiths to create some swords and gun weapons that are used in conjunction with existing firearms. These are relatively difficult and ordinary blacksmiths can do it."

After Chen Shuren determined the scale of the various military ranks, he first explained to his cousin, so that he could have a clear direction of efforts in the past two months, so as not to waste time.

Zhang Huangyan was very curious. With his traditional military thinking, he felt that the formation of firearms and melee weapons maintained by Qi Jiguang and Qi Shao was already very perfect. What special melee weapons should ordinary musketeers be equipped with? Isn't it good to use ready-made ones?

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