New Empire at the End of Ming Dynasty

After leaving Shandong for 12 days, Liu Bu returned to Shandong again. When he went north to the capital, he was only a thousand officials of Fushan office, but they handed a large sum of money to the military department. Now he is the garrison commander of Jimo camp.

Although he is still at the same level and an official of thousands of families, he has changed from a miscellaneous soldier to a regular army.

Of course, Jimo camp has been greatly weakened by the Wuqiao mutiny, and most soldiers have not been recruited. In this case, the so-called regular army is no different from the miscellaneous army.

But Liu Bu wanted this site and this brand. He didn't think he would win a battalion of elite soldiers if he took Jimo camp. If Jimo camp had so many elite soldiers, the other party couldn't sell it to him for 10000 Liang silver.

Now Liu Bu has changed into the garrison commander of Jimo camp, which is under the control of Shandong Japanese preparation company in Dengzhou. His top boss is the commander in chief of Dengzhou. The older boss is Chen YingYuan in the East and Liu Zeqing in the West. The two sides are not under the control of each other.

After returning to Jimo camp, Liu Bu immediately entered the camp city of Jimo camp, announced the appointment, and then let their servants take over the camp city. He decided to regard it as one of his new nests.

Although Jimo camp is known as one of the three major camps of Shandong Japanese preparation company, and is responsible for the contact between the local health office and the capital company, they have been completely broken up, which has hurt their vitality. Many official positions are not available. Liu Buhe came to arrange Dianmao. Only more than 200 people can come, but they are basically disabled or disabled.

Liu Bu shook his head when he saw this tragic situation. Even if it was the Mao point of Fushan, they could gather people together and eat an empty salary or an empty amount. However, in Jimo camp, the other party was unwilling to even give a name and point Mao. All 100 households were killed in battle, and the highest level was the general flag.

This is also related to the above withholding of military salaries. Although the imperial court intends to restore the organizational system of Jimo camp, it still has not appointed a chief officer and has not recruited enough soldiers. It can be seen that you haven't recruited enough soldiers. If you don't start recruiting or give them money, you can't recruit soldiers without money and food. It's impossible to talk about the reconstruction of Jimo camp.

It is only in Liu bu that local tyrants are willing to spend money to buy officials, that is, to let thousands of other officials do it. They are unwilling.

Liu Yu, Liu Bu's cousin, has always been around here. If he is much more familiar with Jimo than Liu Bu, he said: "Sir, if you want to recruit more soldiers, you'd better use our servants. If you don't need servants and want to ask for money from the top, you have to go to Dengzhou to visit Governor Chen YingYuan and ask him to arrange the distribution of money and food and let us recruit troops and horses."

Liu Bu said: "Chen YingYuan himself is so poor that he still expects him to pay money? This is impossible. I estimate that the reconstruction of Jimo camp is to let them embezzle money and food. Now it is impossible to ask him for money. However, you still formally send me a letter and officially inform me that I have been directly appointed as the garrison commander of Jimo camp by the Ministry of military and am preparing to re-establish Jimo camp, please give us more support. "

It's just an official article. They all know that they can't get the support from the above. Jimo camp, the Third Battalion of Shandong peiwusi, was crippled, but the other two battalions, Dengzhou camp and Wendeng camp, were even worse. They were directly scrapped and their names were gone. They are also rebuilding. It's said that they finally put up the shelf, and they can't become an army because of the problem of food noise, It is also in the midst of difficult recovery, even in important border towns, not to mention Jimo camp, which is located in the hinterland. In the plan of Governor Chen YingYuan, Jimo camp also began to recover at last.

When Liu Buhe returned to Jimo, he took charge of the garrison of Jimo camp. Liu Zhongyong, one of his deputies, led a elite army. This time they planned to rebuild Jimo camp, they directly filled it with Liu's family members, so that they could quickly form combat effectiveness. Moreover, this may be the front line against Liu Zeqing or others, so they must use their family members As for their hometown, Liu family mansion, Tibetan army Valley and Jufeng mountain, they decided to recruit again.

This time, Liu Bu had a quota. He decided to expand their Taiping army to 2000 people, of which 1000 were deployed in the front line of Fushan. These were the new recruits. They were allowed to train here. All the more than 1000 Ding troops they had previously refined were transferred to Jimo camp and stationed here.

Liu Zhongyong said, "Sir, you have decided. Our Liu family will recruit again this time. You should know that if we recruit again, we should spend almost the money we get from Jimo."

Liu Buhe said, "what's the problem? Money is meant to be spent. What's the point of not spending money? Now I'm officially authorized to recruit 1000 more people. Of course, there are too many people, but the quality of specifications and products can't be reduced. You have to strictly control it for me. I want good soldiers who can fight, not guard soldiers who come to live like these.

Liu Zhongyong said, "no problem. I'll do it right away. Last time we went to recruit, there were many good seedlings. They all worked in the nearby area. If they heard that our Liu family recruits, they must be attracted by the name. Now the most important thing here is people."

In fact, after the Wuqiao mutiny, the population of Shandong Peninsula should have withered. But now, because of the war, local drought and waterlogging, natural and man-made disasters, and excessive taxes, people in many places can't live. Now there are signs that a large number of people begin to flee from famine in many places. Coupled with the continuous Liao people who fled across the sea from the other side of Liaodong, it is said that the rich Dongsan government is not short of people, but full of refugees everywhere.

They can't stay in the countryside. They have no food to eat. They can't starve to death in one place. They can only help the old and the young with crutches. They go to Linqing, Jining and Dezhou to see if there is a way to live.

When they returned from the capital, they crossed the canal and passed through these places in Dezhou, Jining. They also found that the city was full of refugees everywhere, and the streets were all wandering and begging. This is the essence of the canal. If it's a remote place, it will not know what it is like. Liu bu he is lamenting that this is the essence of Daming. Even so, the remote place is a complete collapse, because there are many refugees in the area. Therefore, Liu Fu has to recruit his family to recruit people, and it becomes very easy. Liu Jia Ding's treatment is particularly good, welfare is good, and countless people rush through their heads and want to enter the Liu family.

When they heard that they had changed their name to Taiping army, they were angry at the name. Now everyone knows what it is better to be a Taiping dog than a man in troubled times. Now the place is completely chaotic. Local officials are domineering, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and charge everything. Local people basically can't live.

Many people either devote themselves to the houses of dignitaries, sell themselves as slaves, find a place to live, or escape from famine.

In fact, many people know that the so-called escape from famine and go out to eat. This is a very humble thing. Fate is not under control. Life and death are not under control. They can only go with the tide and take one step at a time.

The Chinese people always pay attention to leaving their hometown cheap. When people leave their native land, they are fish out of water. They have no relatives and no one to rely on. They live in the wilderness and are not allowed to starve to death in a deserted corner at any time. This is a very tragic thing. Therefore, many people would rather sell themselves to a rich family than escape from famine.

Now there are chaos everywhere, but when rich families like the Liu family get rich, buy fields, recruit soldiers and horses, and recruit more domestic slaves, Liu Zhongyong told them that they are not only recruiting refugees, just like the prince Lu's residence in Shandong and the Confucius residence in gunzhou. Now their potential is expanding rapidly, but the other party recruits domestic slaves, It is said that there are more than ten thousand slaves in the Confucius house. As for those who rely on the Lord Lu's house to eat, they don't know who they are.

It can be said that the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong has begun to falter, but these local officials and dignitaries have a great opportunity to clear their warehouses, buy land, buy domestic slaves and expand their fields.

Jimo county is originally a first-class rich county, but after the last robbery by the giant thieves, it is much worse than before. The current magistrate, master Zhou Wentong, thinks he has great control ability, has a good relationship with the local government, and has the ability to control everything. However, since the giant thieves robbed here once, he has offended the local gentry miserably.

In the past, his most powerful supporters have become opponents of him. Now Zhou Wentong feels like sitting on the fire every day. He is very sad and embarrassed.

When he heard that Liu Bu, the eldest son of the Liu family in Fushan, was transferred from the thousands of households in Fushan to the garrison commander of Jimo camp, he was very happy. The Liu family has plenty of money. Can we think of a way from him? Moreover, it is said that the Liu family has hundreds of servants, so he can order the Liu family to send hundreds of servants to denounce the Jufeng thief.

In the past, he might not have been in charge of the other party in Fushan, but now Liu Bu is the garrison commander of Jimo camp. He is responsible for guarding the place. Since the place has been harmed by the giant thieves, as a local army, one of their tasks is to eliminate the bandits and mountain thieves.

So when Zhou Wentong heard that Liu Bu led hundreds of family members from Fushan to garrison here, he immediately asked someone to carry his official sedan chair out of Jimo county and come to Jimo camp.