"Under the official Jining Zhizhou Lin Deqin led the officials of the state to greet the big Sima." A team of officials from Jining Prefecture, under the leadership of Zhizhou, came to the dock to meet Yu Zilian.

"Good work!" Yu Zilian nodded and put on his official prestige.

"The lower officials have prepared thin wine in the city to wash the dust for the great Sima and the generals. Wangda Sima deigned to his party. That Lin Zhizhou said politely.

"No need. This official is just passing by, and the military situation is urgent, so I won't trouble you. Yu Zilian said unhurriedly.

Then, Lin Zhizhou sincerely invited him a few times, but seeing that Yu Zilian's attitude was really resolute, he no longer insisted.

The current position of Yu Zilian in the officialdom is actually quite embarrassing. His Nanjing Military Department Shangshu is a leader, but it is a false title. And the only real job he barely said was to recruit soldiers on his own.

In other words, the imperial court gave Yu Zilian a holy decree, and asked him to find a way to conjure up 20,000 troops by himself, and there was no policy or food, and he definitely regarded Yu Zilian as Sun Wukong. Therefore, Yu Zilian, a 10,000-year-old substitute, has indeed done quite aggrieved.

If it weren't for Yu Zilian's fight for his life, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, which was indeed in danger, without the neutrality of Nanjing officialdom, let alone 20,000, Yu Zilian would not have recruited 200 in the year of the monkey. Therefore, no matter how high the rank of an official is, as long as he has no real power, he is just a character who does not fart loudly.

And of course, Lin Zhizhou also knows the true situation of Yu Zilian, so today's welcome at the dock is just a routine officialdom greeting and sending, and Lin Zhizhou doesn't need to be too stammered.

But Lin Zhizhou didn't stutter, he still had to ask for what Yu Zilian should want: "This official was in a hurry when he set off from Jinling, and the army he carried was not much, so he still needed Lin Zhizhou's help." ”

"This ......!" Lin Zhizhou showed a look of embarrassment, "This year, there is also a drought in the state. There is not much food in the warehouse after the disaster. However, the military of Da Sima is also very important, and Benzhou is willing to give 500 stone of grain. ”

According to Yu Zilian's official appointment, there was no task for him to lead the army. Of course, if Yu Zilian completes the recruitment of troops against the sky, and then stupidly takes the initiative to lead troops to the front, the imperial court will definitely not object.

Therefore, the imperial court was also a little surprised that Yu Zilian completed such a very small probability event, so it was impossible to issue any official documents for the state governments along the way to raise food and salaries.

And without official documents, Lin Zhizhou of course can give less. If it weren't for Yu Zilian, he would be really young. There may be a future, and Lin Zhizhou may not even be willing to give these grains. On the contrary, he gave Yu Zilian a private gift, and Lin Zhizhou would not hesitate to give one or two thousand taels (this is worth far more than five hundred stone grain), and this is also a unique "clear distinction between public and private" in officialdom.

Yu Zilian has been in the Ming officialdom for so many years, and of course he also understands Lin Zhizhou's thoughts. But he only smiled slightly, and didn't move.

All the soldiers on board had disembarked. Now the generals of each team are organizing the manual handling of the weight. Suddenly. There was a commotion at the dock, and after a while, Yu Zilian's personal army escorted three soldiers over.

"My lord! These three were found by us when we searched the cabin, and they wanted to hide and escape! The leader of the soldiers said.

"Oh? Then gather the generals of the battalions and deal with this matter first. Yu Zilian said unhurriedly.

Seeing this situation, Lin Zhizhou, these Jining officials, couldn't leave immediately. They always have to wait for Yu Zilian to finish sorting out. to be able to resign. After a while, the generals of the battalions gathered in front of Yu Zilian.

"What battalion are you from?" Yu Zilian asked.

The two battalion commanders came out of the queue with ugly faces.

"The people of the squad hid and did not report, and the camp management band did not know. All are guilty. Yu Zilian said tepidly, "Forget it." If you commit it for the first time, let's deal with it lightly! The pipe band and the people in the squad are all guilty of meritorious service. This man also left a whole corpse, and instead of beheading it for public display, it was changed to hanging. The next is not an example. ”

After listening to Yu Zilian's disposition, Lin Zhizhou secretly thought in his heart: "This Yu Benbing seems to be a tolerant person. ”

Unexpectedly, Yu Zilian said: "If there is such a matter in the future, all ten members of this team will be beheaded, and the battalion officer who led the team will also be deprived of their official positions." Then summoned back to Jinling, the families of these three people are of the three clans. ”

That Lin Zhizhou trembled all over, and looked at Yu Zilian in surprise, he didn't expect that this high-ranking official of the six ministries who was less than forty would be so ruthless.

Then Yu Zilian looked at Lin Zhizhou with a smile on his face, and said to Lin Zhizhou without doubt: "Lord Lin, this official has written a note that is needed, and you can prepare it for this official within three days." ”

Zuo Yin on the side immediately handed a piece of paper to Lin Zhizhou, Lin Zhizhou opened it and saw that more than a dozen lines were neatly written on the paper, and the first line was: grain - five thousand stones.

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After Lin Zhizhou and the others left, Zuo Yin smiled at Yu Zilian and said, "Dong Weng! This method is very wonderful, and Lin Zhizhou is speechless. However, the students today learned why Dong Weng did not choose those who were strong and innocent first, but those who had families. ”

Yu Zilian also smiled bitterly and said, "There is no other way, the time is too tight." This army can only practice roughness, and if it really goes into battle, it can only be relied on with the word 'brave'. The southerners are actually no less robust than the northerners, and they don't need to be conditioned at all, and their weakness is that they have no guts. It is much better to tie up his family than to flee without care! ”

In the Ming Dynasty, because the nutrition of the Jiangnan region was better, its physical personality was not much worse than that of the northerners. Therefore, Qi Jiguang's Qi family army also used Yiwu soldiers in the south. Of course, the will to fight and the degree of courage are much worse than those in the northerners, so Yu Zilian used the method of joining the family and the whole team to arouse the courage of these recruits, and let the soldiers monitor each other and help each other.

"Dong Weng! This new army, you can give it a good name! Zuo Yin said.

"It's called...... Let's call it the Black Cloud Army! Looking at the black clouds in the sky, Yu Zilian blurted out.

"Good ......" Zuo Yin just spit out half a note, and felt that this name was actually not very auspicious. He saw Yu Zilian looking at the sky again, and thought of the word "black clouds rolling", and Zuo Yin's mood also became heavy.

"Then pass the order, open smoothly, and reward each person with a tael of silver. It will be handed over to the families of the soldiers. Yu Zilian commanded.

"Yes!"

This is also Yu Zilian's beating and feeding a date. After all, the psychology of those recruits is still very fragile, and if they blindly adopt a coercive policy, Yu Zilian is afraid that these recruits will be crushed by their own psychological pressure.

Regarding Yu Zilian's dispatch of troops, the praiser said that he was loyal and patriotic, and sighed that he was not self-sufficient. There were only 20,000 newly established troops, and they wanted to break the siege of Kaifeng City and face the million peasant army. But everyone doesn't know what to do, in fact, Yu Zilian has his own ideas.

In the few years that he was idle in Nanjing, Yu Zilian was actually reflecting, and he felt that the main reason why the imperial court was idle for him was that he no longer had the Ruzhou Army he created.

But Yu Zilian didn't want to sink like this. If you want to turn to the Ming officialdom, Yu Zilian can be said to have no foundation. And if he wants to show his strengths, then he must have an army under his own control.

So as soon as he waited for the holy decree of recruitment, Yu Zilian dared to gamble his life to forcibly form an army; As soon as he heard that Kaifeng City was in danger, he was going to take this new army to the battlefield. It is to break away from Nanjing officialdom and firmly control this force in his own hands.

And Yu Zilian also has a lot of experience in how to train this new army. After all, the Ruzhou Army he trained back then was also a new army, and Yu Zilian just wanted to sharpen his troops in battle and build them into an elite division.

Moreover, the quality of the soldiers of this new army is also very good, at least they are well nourished, they all have physical strength, and they can be pulled to the battlefield immediately. When the Ruzhou Army was formed, in order to regulate those recruits who lacked nutrition, Yu Zilian spent a full month to feed them and feed them, and then he could train and fight. As for the guts of the recruits in the Black Cloud Army, there are strains and companies anyway.

As for the equipment of the Black Cloud Army, it is even better. In this matter, Lu Jiude, the eunuch guarding Nanjing Town, did not pay any attention to Yu Zilian, but gave him the best equipment. If there is any regret, it is only that the supply of war horses is less!

In fact, there was no shortage of war horses in Nanjing Jingying, and there were many mules and horses among the people. However, those Jiangnan wealthy merchants who had a huge investment in Runing bought war horses, mules and horses in the market and in the army, so as to support and befriend the Runing army. And after learning of this situation, Yu Zilian could only smile bitterly.

Of course, Yu Zilian will definitely not confront the peasant army head-on. He also wanted to constantly fight on the periphery of the peasant army's encirclement, and reduce the pressure on the defense of Kaifeng City through constant harassment.

At this time, Yu Zilian has actually understood that now is the situation in which all parties are competing for the world. And as long as Yu Zilian has this elite division, no matter which force finally comes to power, there will always be a place for Yu Zilian at the end.

In the final analysis, Yu Zilian is an ambitious, capable, intelligent and gambling person.

After obtaining supplies from Jining Prefecture, Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army passed through Xuzhou. Later, Yu Zilian repeated the old trick in Xuzhou, obtained a batch of food and salary, and forcibly requisitioned more than 1,000 Xuzhou Weijun households and more than 3,000 people in Xuzhou. As for the complaints of the government along the way, the current Yu Zilian has ignored them.

When the Heiyun army marched to the border of Xuzhou, they happened to encounter 7,000 men and horses led by Yang Wenyue, the governor of Zhili, who were circling around the Li and Luo coalition forces. At this time, Yang Wenyue did not dare to return north, nor did he dare to attack the Li and Luo coalition forces, so they could only draw a circle and curse Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai. (To be continued......)