Of course, they left after notifying Jiang Wan, which made Xu Renzhi's journey back to Beijing safer and faster than when they came.
Jiang Wan directly arranged a boat for him to depart from Pidao, arrive directly at Tianjin and then transfer back to Beijing. If nothing unexpected happened, Jiang Wan would be able to see Xu Renzhi returning from the capital in half a month.
For Jiang Wan, he also needed a positive answer from the emperor, which would have a great impact on his next development plan.
After Xu Renzhi left, Xu Yongzhen became a little idle in Zhenjiang Fort. His status as a state official meant that Jiang Wan would not casually send someone to accompany him, and Jiang Wan herself was too busy to do anything else, so this
Naturally, Jiang Wan could only leave everything to Gao Xingsheng to handle.
And similarly, the current Gao Xingsheng is also very busy. The matter of accompanying the Duke of Guo does not seem to be particularly important, especially compared with the things he is doing at hand. It is obviously not worth it for him to put down everything and focus on
Come and accompany the Duke.
In the end, the job went to Zhou Jue, the head of the civil affairs yamen. Zhou Jue was born in Juren and became the prefect of a prefecture. Then he was coaxed and half-led by Jiang Wan to come to Zhenjiang Fort. This person has some abilities and can be considered loyal.
Reliable, but not very good at all. This person is considered an official fan.
In other words, his utilitarianism is still quite strong.
The biggest official Zhou Jue had ever seen in his life was the chief envoy of the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Department. When the chief envoy only said a few words to him, he was so excited that he went home and tormented his concubine all night.
, now that he heard that he was asked to entertain and accompany Ding Guogong, he was extremely happy.
Of course, he also made his concubine happy for a long time.
Nowadays, although there are many things in the civil affairs yamen, each level of yamen performs its own duties. There are not many things that he, the premier of the yamen, should deal with personally. After arranging his own affairs, he can't wait to be with the Duke of Guo all day long, or
It was to accompany the Duke of Guo around and let the Duke of Guo see him with his own eyes. Although Zhou Jue was just a civil servant, he still had a gap in his heart.
What made this errand even more enjoyable for him was that after he received the errand, he went to see Marshal Jiang in person. After all, there were certain things to be learned about how to accompany the Duke of the country, and what to say and what not to say.
, which places can be shown by the Duke of Guo, and which places should not be shown by the Duke of Guo, Marshal Jiang must come and tell him personally what to do.
Marshal Jiang's answer was simple, just treat Duke Ding as one of your own, don't treat him as an official of the court, just treat him as a relative of Jiang Wan.
With Jiang Wan's instructions, Zhou Jue suddenly felt at ease. These days, he has really answered every question and done everything in front of Xu Yongzhen. No matter what Xu Yongzhen asked, he tried his best to satisfy the other party. Except
Except for the fact that Xu Yongzhen wanted to go to the front line of Gushan Fort, which was directly rejected by Jiang Wan, Xu Yongzhen was very satisfied with everything else.
Of course, Liaodong Dusi basically opened his mind to Xu Yongzhen and no longer covered up the matter at all.
Jiang Wan's thoughts are very clear. He is honest and has nothing to hide in front of Xu Yongzhen. If he can't even convince Xu Yongzhen to win his trust, then he can't even hope to win the trust of other officials of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor in the Jinluan Palace.
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Xu Yongzhen's daily whereabouts were reported to Jiang Wan. He originally thought that Xu Yongzhen would be more interested in martial arts based on his background. This could be seen from the other party's request to go to the front line of Gushan Fort.
So, while waiting for Xu Renzhi, Xu Yongzhen should be most interested in the military and armaments supporting the Liaodong Dusi.
How these cannons and muskets were manufactured in Tieshan City, and what new tactics were used by Liaodong Dusi's cannons and muskets? He felt that Xu Yongzhen should be most concerned about this.
However, what surprised him was that although Xu Yongzhen expressed a certain interest in these things, these days, he had always asked Zhou Jue to accompany him, looking around and asking questions within Zhou Jue's scope of authority.
The people he inquired were all matters that Zhou Jue knew about the Civil Affairs Office. He even led a group of people to several farms outside the city, and almost reached the edge of Kaizhou.
This is very interesting.
Xu Yongzhen was born with a golden key in his mouth. He did not seem to be a person who knew the sufferings of the people. He was so concerned about the civil affairs of Zhenjiang Fort. Jiang Wan even wondered if it was because Zhou Jue was by his side.
If Mei Xiaofei was by his side, the Duke would probably be forging iron in the workshop of Tieshan City at this moment!
Of course Xu Yongzhen didn't know about Jiang Wan's little doubt. At this time, Xu Yongzhen was happily talking to Zhou Jue.
The two had just returned from a Qing military yamen below the civil affairs yamen. Xu Yongzhen took a special look at how Zhenjiang Fort placed the disabled soldiers, and by the way asked about Zhenjiang Fort's pension situation for the fallen soldiers.
"So, every farm and village registered with the civil affairs yamen has some retired soldiers who have been injured and resettled. Can these soldiers still get money from the civil affairs yamen every month?"
"Yes, this is a strict rule set by our commander!" Zhou Jue said: "Now everyone in our Liaodong Dusi knows that if you can become a soldier, you don't have to worry about anything. If you die, your family will
There is a government office to take care of them. If they are injured or disabled, there is a government office to take care of them for the rest of their lives!"
"But even with half the salary of a normal soldier, it's not a small sum. If we just feed them for nothing, isn't this Yamen going to lose money?"
"Not in vain, not in vain!" Zhou Jue said with a smile: "In every village or farm, these disabled old soldiers will train the local young men and teach them some basic soldier drills in their spare time.
In this way, these villages and fortresses will have a certain ability to protect themselves. It is no problem to resist the robbery of small groups of bandits and refugees. Of course, if a large group of enemies really comes, they will not be able to resist it.
However, they can ask the Yamen for help!"
Zhou Juekankan said: "At this time, the Yamen will mobilize young men from nearby villages to rescue them based on the size of the enemy. These young men who have been trained also have some simple weapons that have been purchased. It is no problem to fight against the bandits.
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Xu Yongzhen had a smile on his face and asked with great interest: "Does every village or city have such disabled old soldiers to train these young and strong men?"
"There must be!" Zhou Jue said matter-of-factly: "Liaodong is not a peaceful place!"
"Then there must be a lot of these people together!" Xu Yongzhen blinked: "If there is an emergency, gather them together and give them clothes, armor and weapons. Isn't this an army? There are even officers.
Those disabled and old soldiers can become officers directly!"
"The Duke of Guo is really wise, our commander-in-chief said so at the time!" Zhou Jue slapped his thigh: "I think this is just a group training, but our commander-in-chief said it was called reserve force, but it all means the same thing. We don't have much money in the yamen.