In the following days, Ma Mingfeng gave Gao Yong an important task to the military manager, the military office manager, which was to recruit soldiers, and the recruited soldiers were divided into two categories.

The first type of soldiers was 3,500. All of them entered Xuanwu Guard and received strict training. These soldiers did not need to farm or pay taxes. The weapons and equipment were provided by the official and enjoyed the same military pay as the soldiers of Xuanwu Guard. These soldiers were carefully selected from the trained civilians and brave people. They were all big-shouldered and round-waisted and strong.

The second type of soldiers are the strong civilians, that is, the militias of later generations. They are mainly selected from strong refugees and voluntarily registered servants and the people. Although these soldiers are not as good as the first type of soldiers, they lack training and have no experience in combat, but because there is no limit on the number of people, they are an important supplement to the guards.

After more than ten days of busyness, the first round of recruitment completed the task successfully. Ma Mingfeng ordered Gao Yong to transport these soldiers to Xuanwuwei, and allocated 20,000 taels of silver and 100,000 stones of food to Xuanwuwei to meet the weapons and equipment and food needs of the new soldiers.

Then Ma Mingfeng handed over the task of recruiting Minzhuang to Gao Yong.

Gao Yong is very busy these days, almost every day, from morning to night, and has to sort out the files at night. However, Gao Yong did not complain at all. Instead, he was very excited. Kaifeng Prefecture has not attached so much importance to conscription for many years. Although with his ability, it is impossible to judge that the thieves are about to invade Henan, he knows that the thieves are now extremely arrogant and seriously threatening the security of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the thieves do not invade Henan, these troops are not useless and can go to support Yangge's troops and contribute to the encirclement and suppression of the thieves.

The prefect used his big moves and courage to devote most of his energy to the conscription, which led to the opinions of officials from other departments.

However, the prefect still firmly supports him. What kind of trust is this?

So Gao Yong was like injecting chicken blood, and he worked in a full-hearted job every day.

After a month, Gao Yong recruited 10,000 Ding Zhuang. Of course, the treatment of these Ding Zhuang was different from that of the guards. They usually stayed at home and participated in military training after the busy farming. However, unlike the soldiers and farmers in history who combined the soldiers and farmers in history, the government was responsible for food during training, and all the weapons and equipment were provided by the government.

In this way, Ding Zhuang's enthusiasm for participating in training has greatly improved. He is ready for all the training and is waiting for the training period to arrive.

Seeing the recruitment work going so smoothly, Ma Mingfeng was also very happy. He knew that these soldiers would be an effective guarantee for the crisis. In the next time, we must try our best to train the recruited soldiers and do our best to improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. At the same time, we must find ways to save money and prepare for the food and salary in the future.

The training period has also been set, and the Chenshi period will officially begin three days later.

However, on the next day, some officials came to the prefect's office and told Ma Mingfeng that he had been secretly reported that Ma Mingfeng had extorted and embezzled public funds. The inspector asked him to go for investigation.

Ma Mingfeng frowned immediately after hearing this. He knew that the person who was sure that the secret security was an official in Kaifeng Prefecture and an official who was dissatisfied with him. However, there were also limited people who knew that he had "blackblacking" and it was easy to circle the scope.

However, at the beginning, Ma Mingfeng had already planned to be reported secretly, and he was devoted to the public, so he didn't care. Anyway, the preliminary preparations for dealing with the battle were already made, and it didn't matter even if he was demoted.

As for the secret whistleblower, Ma Mingfeng is not in a hurry to deal with it now. It is actually not difficult to find out such a thing. Everything will be handled first by the inspector's interrogation.

Because he was just called to talk, Ma Mingfeng's position was still there, so Ma Mingfeng dressed neatly and went to see the inspector. Before leaving, he gave instructions to Gao Yong and others. No matter whether he came back or not, the military training will continue two days later.

Then, Ma Mingfeng, accompanied by the official who went to inform him, came to the patrol palace to visit the patrol.

The official name of the inspector is the inspector, which is the inspector, the supervisor, and is a seventh-rank official rank. However, it is a typical example of low-ranking and heavyweight. It is known as "the emperor's inspection tour, the big things are reported, small things are decided, and the power is very great."

The current inspector of Henan is Gao Mingheng. He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen. If he was in terms of qualifications, he was much older than Ma Mingfeng. However, he had never been to the Hanlin Academy. After passing the Jinshi, he was directly sent to the county magistrate. After nearly eight years of hard work, he was finally elected as the Henan Supervisory Censor last year, that is, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

However, Gao Mingheng was an upright person. During his tenure as the inspector, he impeached corrupt officials and earnestly achieved great achievements. It is said that the prefect of Kaifeng and Tongzhi were dismissed from office because of his impeachment. The previous Tongzhi of Kaifeng Prefecture was impeached by him for less than two months in office, which led to the vacancies of Tongzhi of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Of course, because Gao Mingheng took office for a short time, he had not had time to deal with many things about the government office and Xuanwuwei. At this time, Ma Mingfeng took office and then wiped out the criminal matters with thunder and rectified the work style and discipline. These matters were approved by Gao Mingheng.

However, as a righteous official, Gao Mingheng still cannot tolerate extortion and greed.

At the Inspector Office, Ma Mingfeng met the Jinshi who was given three subjects, the Inspector Censor who was frightened by officials at all levels in Henan.

"I've seen the inspector." Although Ma Mingfeng's grade is sixth higher than the other party, because the other party has great power in his hands, Ma Mingfeng can only salute him.

Gao Mingheng stood up and nodded politely. This was not because he was too arrogant, but because he was the case handler and the other party was the object of his need to be interrogated.

It has to be said that the Ming system has a very good attitude towards officials of higher ranks. During the interrogation, Ma Mingfeng was able to sit down.

After Ma Mingfeng sat down, Gao Mingheng said straight to the point: "Someone secretly reported to the prefect for extortion and greed for public funds. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

Ma Mingfeng was not angry either and said with certainty: "There is absolutely no such thing. Please check with the patrol."

"I will check clearly. Let me ask you, someone accused you of forcing the landlords and gentry to donate money and food. Is this true?"

"Sir, please understand," Ma Mingfeng bowed to Gao Mingheng and said, "These are all donations by the landlords and gentry, and there is no forced matter. If the adults do not believe it, they can question them one by one. In addition, there are records of donations by officials here. These landlords and gentry clearly wrote on it that this is donated by voluntarily."
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