Liu Jun came back from the welcome banquet of the new governor and governor, stepped into the backyard with some alcohol, and Li Hui stepped forward to greet him.∷∷, she walked around behind Liu Jun and took off the cloak outside for him.

"I have prepared sobering soup for my husband."

"Thanks!"

Liu Jun responded and walked into the flower hall outside. Li Hui immediately brought the still hot sober tea soup, put it in front of Liu Jun, and tried the temperature with his hands.

"The court sent a governor and a governor over here. Will it be a hindrance to your husband in the future?"

"It doesn't have much impact, you don't have to worry about these things."

Liu Jun sat down and took the sober tea soup, took a sip. The sober soup was a little sour and bitter. He frowned and still drank it in one sip. At today's welcoming banquet, Liu Jun still drank a lot of wine. No matter what, Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan were both governors and civil officials. Even if the actual military power could not be handed over to them, the appearance of face still had to be given.

Fan Zhiwan had already made a secret statement to Liu Jun at the banquet, mentioning Zhou Yanru, and also proposed that he would support Liu Jun in the future. But he did not say the remaining half of the sentence, and Liu Jun also understood that this support was not unconditional. Fan Zhiwan was a disciple of Zhou Yanru, and Zhou Yanru promoted him to the governor of Liaodong and sent him to Liaodong. Since he was calling for the title of supporting Liu Jun, the meaning of this is to hope that Liu Jun can support Zhou Yanru.

On the contrary, Fu Zonglong, who was also a minister who knew the military, sank the rebellion of Yunnan, Guizhou and She'an, then drove Li Zicheng, who entered Sichuan, out of Sichuan. There were many remarkable manifestations in the fight against the rebellion of the chieftains and the fight against the bandits in the Central Plains.

Fu Zonglong was a Jinshi from two lists. He was a county magistrate. Later, he went to Beijing to serve as the head of the Ministry of Revenue and then became the censor. He was originally not in line with the leadership of the army, but he was extremely brave. In the first year of Tianqi, Liaoyang fell, and Fu Zonglong volunteered to go and quickly recruited 5,000 troops. The southwest chieftain made a rebellion, and Fu Zonglong asked himself to lead his troops to suppress the rebellion.

Not only is he brave and knowledgeable, he can also suppress and relieve chaos. He is a good player in leading troops to manage government affairs.

At this time, the court asked him to leave the position of Minister of War. Although he had different opinions from the current strategic direction of Liaodong, he was indeed a very capable person. He sent a civil minister to Liaodong and could not play a role in supervision at all. Fu Zonglong served as the governor of Liaodong as the title of Minister of War. He was of noble status and had the ability to lead troops. The emperor hoped that the governor could not only strengthen the court's control over the powerful combat power of the Chu army, but also hoped that there would be no impact on weakening the combat power of the Chu army, nor did he hope that the dispute between the governor of Liaodong and the admiral.

After spending a long time with Fu Zonglong, Liu Jun realized that Fu Zonglong was not an ordinary official. He was an ambition and ideal official like Mei Li and the other two. Fu Zonglong came to Liaodong to do something. It can be seen from the time he arrived in Lushun that he announced that the Chu army would launch an attack immediately.

"I'm going to send troops again soon. Are you willing to stay in Lushun or go to Hubei?"

Li Hui, who was rubbing a towel in a hot water basin, stopped and said, "Do you want to send troops to fight again? Do you need to lead troops yourself? From North Korea to Zhenjiang, from Zhenjiang to Lushun, since we got married in Seoul, I have no chance to get along well with my husband. I am willing to stay in Lushun." Li Hui's words were a little worried and reluctant.

"There is no other way. After a while, I will accompany you." Liu Jun had no objection to the wife of the Korean princess who was willing to stay in Lushun. This was a political marriage, but after getting married, Liu Jun found that there was not much gap between the two. North Korea was a country that had been sinicized, especially the upper class. They were proficient in Chinese, familiar with Chinese characters, and understood Chinese etiquette and culture. Li Hui liked Tang and Song lyrics the most, especially the Huajian School poets in the late Tang Dynasty.

She even knows how to write poems and lyrics, and in addition, she knows everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. What is particularly rare is that the daughter of the Korean king is very gentle when facing Liu Jun. She doesn't say that she is just a good person, but the idea that a husband is a god is indeed solid.

Fu Zonglong asked the three towns in Liaodong to launch a new round of offensive immediately to cover the attack of the Liaoxi Army. If Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan had not arrived, Liu Jun might have probably raised objections to the emperor's request, or even just do some training and deal with it.

But now the emperor has just cut off his military power and sent new governors and chiefs. At this time, the emperor and the court must be staring at his reaction. If he fooled him casually and refused to make any efforts, he was afraid that this behavior would be interpreted separately.

Liu Jun doesn't want to cause any misunderstandings now.

This time, he would send troops no matter what, and he would have to make a grand momentum.

Songshan, western Liaoning.

Wu Sangui is now full of energy and proud. He is less than 30 years old, and he has become an admiral. The imperial envoy is the military affairs of the three towns of Ningjin outside the pass. Among the military generals, there are only two predecessors of Liu Jun and Zheng Zhilong, who are the admirals of the military. Now Wu Sangui is the third one.

He was also promoted to the right governor of the Shangyou. Even his father, who had been in prison after the defeat of Dalinghe, was released from prison for his contributions and was restored to his official position.

"It's worthy of the cavalry gun I used to exchange for ten thousand war horses from Liu Jun's hand. One war horse and another cavalry gun are expensive, but the benefits are also extremely high." Wu Sangui played with the cavalry gun in his hand and sighed with satisfaction. "Can our craftsmen imitate these cavalry guns and flying dragon guns?"

"Can imitate it." Wu Sangui's younger brother Wu Sanfu answered his second brother, but he frowned. "Second brother, our craftsmen have seen the firearms brought back from Hubei, and carefully removed them, and then imitated them. It took a lot of effort to achieve it, but I don't think it's necessary."

While wiping his cavalry gun, Wu Sangui shook his head and sighed, "Is it a matter of quality or something?"

"The quality of our craftsmen's imitation is indeed not as good as that of the Chu army. According to the craftsmen, firstly, the iron used by the Chu army's muskets is good, and they obviously have better methods to purify pig iron. Secondly, their muskets are made very standard, with hundreds of thousands of them, and they are all unified standards. In this regard, ordinary craftsmen cannot do it at all. In addition, their muskets are far from imitation by ordinary craftsmen, and the walls of the muskets are smoother, and there is also a standardization problem."

Wu Sanfu organized Ningyuan's craftsmen to imitate the Chu army's muskets. After a long time of struggle, he found a lot of problems. That is, they could imitate the cavalry gun, the flying dragon gun, and even the flintlock gun, but the imitated guns were far behind the Chu gun.

The quality varies greatly, especially the components cannot be standardized, and the diameter of the gun barrel is very different, which makes it impossible to install fixed-loading bullets if you build your own musket, and the bullets must be equipped with additional bullets. The range, accuracy and life of the imitation musket are far inferior to that of the Chu gun.

"There is another most troublesome thing. Our construction speed is very slow. We organize all the firearm craftsmen in Ningyuan to make about 500 cavalry guns in a month."

Wu Sangui shook his head, very disappointed.

If the manufacturing cost is higher, he can still accept it. The performance of the musket is worse and can barely accept it, but he can only shoot 500 shots a month, and they are all remnants of imitations that are far inferior to Chu Gun. So what can I do?

Wu Sangui died of imitation and said to Sanfu, "Stop imitation of Chu guns, and keep those craftsmen, just keep them and help repair some Chu guns."

Wu Sangui spent a high price of 10,000 war horses last time, and got 10,000 cavalry guns from Liu Jun and gave him five thousand elite cavalry. It was precisely with the equipped cavalry guns, as well as the flying dragon guns and cannons of infantry, and in the Battle of Songshan that Wu Sangui led 20,000 Ningyuan Army to defeat more than 3,000 Qing cavalry and achieved the great victory in Songshan.

Although horses are very precious materials, Wu Sangui can still get horses. The ancestors of the Wu family have always been great merchants in Liaodong, especially those who sell horses. Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang was a horse seller in his early years. Later, when Nurhaci hated Han people in Liaodong, Wu Xiang sold his property in anger and recruited young and strong people to fight against the Jurchens. His behavior was praised by the people and commended by the court. Later, the court granted Wu Xiang a military position and was recruited by the Liaodong General Li Chengliang.

After that, Wu Xiang became a Jinshi of Wu and promoted his official position all the way. Finally, he became the general of Ningyuan regiment. Later, he married the general Zu of Liaoxi. Wu Sangui married his sister to Zu Dashou to fill the house, and then married Zu Dashou's sister to fill the house, and then promoted him to the general of Jinzhou.

The Wu family started from Wu Xiang and changed from a merchant to a general. However, although Wu Xiang later became more and more officials, after he married his ancestors in the Liaoxi generals, Wu Xiang was still responsible for commercial transactions in western Liaoning. Among them, Wu Xiang was responsible for the smuggling. As for the Wu family's old business dealers, the Wu family has always been in charge of horse trafficking.

It may be difficult for others to get a tens of thousands of horses to reach the top. But for Wu Sangui, this is really not a big deal. Spending more time will make tens of thousands of horses no problem at all.

The Chu army's muskets are really good, especially this cavalry gun. Ningyuan cavalry equipped with Chu cavalry guns and red barbarian cannons, which is really sharp. Unfortunately, it was finally difficult to exchange 10,000 war horses for 10,000 cavalry guns last time, and only equipped 5,000 elite cavalry. If you want more, it is basically impossible for the time being.

"How did Liu Jiye do this? He actually built such an amazing firearm industry. From smelting iron to smelting copper, to making gunpowder and leading ammunition, it has been one-stop." Wu Sangui said with envy.

Wu Sanfu said unconvincedly, "So what if the guns and cannons are made well?"

Wu Sangui smiled at his brothers, "Liu Jiye is not only good at making guns and cannons, but also better at using guns and cannons. Our 200,000 troops gathered in western Liaoning, but we have only won a great victory in Songzhou and killed more than a thousand Tartars. However, Liu Jiye has used giant ships, cannons and sharp guns to capture the two prefectures of Lushun and Zhenjiang, and opened another Liaodong town. He and I are both admirals, but this power is not as great as him."

"Why should my second brother be more ambitious and destroy his own prestige?"

"I'm not trying to make others ambitious and destroy my majesty, I'm just telling a few truths." Wu Sangui smiled, "Third brother, have the team gathered?"

"Everything is ready!" Wu Sanfu said loudly.

"Okay, I'll send the order to make meals at the fourth update and set off at the fifth update!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!