"Brother, are you really planning to go back to Beijing?"

At night, in the temporary headquarters of Haizhou City, Chief of Staff Wang Qian asked Liu Jun, inside the house, there were Fu Shan, general of the Eighth Town, Zhang Shan, general of the Ninth Town, Cai Yuan, deputy general of the First Division, Zhang Guodong, deputy general of the Second Division, Cao Duan, chief of staff of the Eighth Town, and Zhao Guoliang, general of the Four Assistant Generals, Zhang Guodong, and other generals from the ** towns of Haizhou. △,

"Your Majesty's imperial edict has been read out. Can I still disobey orders?" Liu Jun smiled slightly, "Don't think about it anymore. The emperor will transfer me back to the capital. It is up to the emperor's consideration. We just need to follow the orders of the ministers."

"But this order really makes people feel frustrated. It is said that it is an award promotion. Who can't tell that this is guarding against the elder brother everywhere, and it is a depriving of power. Originally, from the two lakes to Liaodong, there was nothing, and the elder brother had also cut off the military power in the town, but what did the elder brother say? We started from scratch from the nine-headed birds, all of which were made by ourselves, and we never spent a share of the court's salary to quell the Central Plains Rebellion. In Liaodong, there was no territory, and we captured the two prefectures of Zhenjiang and Lushun. But now, we have to transfer our elder brother to Beijing, which is to seize the military power of the nine-headed birds. The brothers are not convinced."

"What are you not convinced? Although the Nine-Headed Bird was created by me and the Gong Ji, this soldier is also a soldier of the court." Liu Jun scolded. But in his heart, he was still very happy. He deserved to be his sworn brother. He has been following him in recent years. Even though he is still a senior general with the deputy general of the general, he still cares about himself.

But Liu Jun knew that it was not the time yet.

He turned to Fu Shan, who had been silent after coming in, and said, "Lord Qing, you have always been steady and generous, and you are not as chaotic as them. When I am not in Liaodong in the future, remember to watch them more for me and don't make any trouble."

Fu Shan was not the one who followed Liu Jun at the beginning, nor was he a veteran of the Nine-Headed Bird. He never became a brother with Liu Jun. But Liu Jun has always trusted him and relied on him. Now, as the general of the Eighth Town, he is Liu Jun's right-hand man. But after all, Liu Jun is still a little worried about his loyalty.

"Don't worry, I will take care of the Eighth Town," Fu Shan said, and then he hesitated and said, "Duke Chu, I have always had a plan. I just didn't dare to take the liberty to mention it. Today, I plan to formally submit it, and I hope Mr. Chu can agree."

"Oh, just say something, you can just say it. We should be so polite."

Fu Shan said, "Mr. Chu knew that I had married a wife, but later she was poor and had a short life. She had passed away for several years. I am in my thirties now. I have never renewed my marriage since she has not yet married her. I have met the fourth lady Lingmei. I have a good impression of it and I know that I have not yet been married to her. Today I take the liberty to propose marriage to Mr. Chu. I wonder if Mr. Chu can fulfill it?"

Liu Jun was greatly surprised.

He was indeed clear about Fu Shan’s situation. He was from Taiyuan, Shanxi, and had a family of scholars and eunuchs for generations. When Fu Shan studied with Yuan Jixian, he had a status as a scholar and a supervisor. Fu Shan was ten years older than Liu Jun. He had a wife before and had a child, but his wife had long died and Fu Shan had never married him.

Liu Jun's family has two sisters who have not been married, the fourth and fifth sisters. Both sisters were born to their aunts and are about the same age as marriage. In the past two years, many families have come to propose marriage, but Liu Dad has not yet chosen it. Liu Jun never thought that Fu Shan would fall in love with the fourth sister.

However, what surprised him most was that Fu Shan proposed marriage in public at this time.

Liu Jun's thoughts changed and he immediately understood. Fu Shan was showing his loyalty to Liu Jun in disguise. Fu Shan was no better than Zhang Shan, Wang Qian and others were Liu Jun's sworn brothers, but now as long as he marrys Liu Jun's sister, he will naturally be Liu Jun's family.

"Hahaha, of course I do." Liu Jun laughed, "I will write a letter to my father immediately to report this to him. Don't worry, this is just a process. Children, marriage and parents make decisions. I believe they will agree. It is hard to find a good husband like Brother Fu."

Zhang Shan and others also laughed beside each other.

"Lord Qing, I can't tell it. It turns out that you have stared at Miss Four."

"I really know people but not my heart. I honestly tell you when did you start to fall in love with Miss Four?"

Everyone laughed and immediately got closer.

"I can return to Beijing with peace of mind after leaving the towns to you." Liu Jun said after laughing. The emperor's meaning was very obvious. This is to prevent the generals from gaining troops. Liu Jun could not refuse to obey the order now, and it was not that time. Moreover, returning to Beijing now does not mean that the emperor really wants to attack him.

As long as the Later Jin Dynasty has not yet been destroyed, Liu Jun does not have to worry about his safety, but the emperor will definitely carefully deprive his power.

With a group of brothers such as Fu Zong and Zhang Shan here, Liu Jun doesn't have to worry that the Nine-Headed Bird will break away from his control for the time being. As for the long time, Liu Jun also believes that there must be a way.

Follow the emperor's wishes first, there is no need to resist the order for the time being.

The next morning, Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan couldn't wait to come over and hand over the military power with Liu Jun. Fu Zonglong's attitude was fine, and he expressed regret for Liu Jun's transfer back to the capital to serve, and he was sincere. He felt that Liu Jun was still very successful in commanding troops in Liaodong.

Fan Zhiwan's attitude changed a little. When he first came, he wanted to win over Liu Jun and came with the task of his teacher Zhou Yanru. But Liu Jun did not pay much attention to Fan Zhiwan's win over. Fan Zhiwan reported all these truthfully to Zhou Yanru. Now, Liu Jun was indeed transferred, and Fan Zhiwan also breathed a sigh of relief.

He was a dignified governor, Liu Jun, a military general, didn't take him seriously at all, and even did not notify him when convening military discussions.

"Congratulations to Duke Chu for his success, his success was successful." Fan Zhiwan bowed to Liu Jun with a smile on his face.

Liu Jun just smiled.

Fan Zhiwan said again, "Duke Chu was promoted to Beijing, and now all the troops, horses, food, pay and equipment in Liaodong have been transferred to the management of his own officials. Duke Chu handed over all the accounts and inventory of food, weapons, etc."

"What is Fan Futai talking about? When did the imperial court withdraw the food and equipment from the three towns in Liaodong? They were all self-financing."

Fan Zhiwan asked, "Where are the food and food equipment that were raised?"

“It’s all used up.”

“All used up?”

Liu Jun smiled, "Yes, it's all used up. From now on, the food, salary and equipment issues of 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers in the three towns will be planned by Fan Futai. I was relieved. To be honest, the monthly food and salary of each town exceeds 200,000 silver dollars. I have been working hard to raise these money and grain."

Fan Zhiwan didn't believe what Liu Jun said at all. He also knew a little about the source of the Chu army's food and salary. He knew that it was raised by issuing prize tickets, as well as the salt factory and firearms workshop and multiple channels for seizure. Moreover, the Chu army never lacked money. On the contrary, the Chu army's food and equipment were very sufficient, and the Chu soldiers had more money than other towns and better equipment.

But it was obvious that Liu Jun was not going to hand over these to him.

"Duke Chu. I remember that the emperor had an order at that time, including the salt field in Yingcheng, Hubei, the firearms yard in Hutoubao, and the lottery tickets for the two lakes, as well as the rented part of the military farm in Hubei, are all used to supply the Chu army's food and wages? Just give those accounts to my official."

Liu Jun sneered, "The salt field, firearm factory, lottery tickets and the income from Hubei military camps was indeed ordered to be provided to the Chu army. However, now our three towns in Liaodong are the Liaodong soldiers, not the two lakes. Why do you think that the two lakes will supply Liaodong soldiers again?"

Fan Zhiwan was anxious, "But aren't these soldiers and horses transferred from the two lakes? And they have always been supplied from the two lakes?"

"Oh, is that true? I don't remember it. Maybe you remember it wrong. Anyway, I don't have any accounts here. Fan Futai wants to continue supplying the two lakes. That's your business. You can go to Governor Yuan of Lianghu by yourself and ask him to supply the three towns in Liaodong. Sorry, Fan Futai, if you have nothing else to do, I will take a step first, and there are some handover matters, I want to discuss with Governor Fu."

Fan Zhiwan watched Liu Jun turn around and walk, and the blue veins on his forehead were so angry that he burst into pieces. As soon as Liu Jun left, the three towns in Liaodong would be under the jurisdiction of the governor and the governor. However, now, the food and salary issues of 70,000 to 80,000 troops in these three towns were all on his head.

Where did he go to raise the food and wages for the three towns?

The entire handover process is very simple and there is not much to hand over. Originally, the governor was the highest official in Liaodong. Now that Liu Jun has left, he is just to truly get the actual control that they could not get before.

A simple ceremony was considered a formal handover. Then, Liu Jun was no longer the Admiral of Liaodong, and Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan officially controlled the two prefectures and three towns in Liaodong.

Fu Zonglong immediately convened a meeting and announced that he would take advantage of the victory to attack Liaoyang, and decided to draw two more troops from Zhenjiang and Lushun to strengthen it.

Liu Jun also attended this meeting, but he no longer had the decision-making power at the meeting. Liu Jun even just sat aside without saying a word.

Halfway through the meeting, an angel came outside.

"Duke Zhu Ciye of Chu received the order!"

The incense table was placed to welcome the imperial edict. Only one day later, another imperial edict arrived, and Liu Jun was a little confused.

Fu Shan stood beside Liu Jun and whispered, "Maybe the emperor has received the news of our Gaizhou victory, so he issued this order again to recover the previous imperial edict and not to redirect the general back to Beijing."

Zhang Shan also hurriedly said, "It must be that."

However, Liu Jun would be like this continuously. Sure enough, the decree was read out. The emperor ordered Liu Jun to set off and return to Beijing immediately after seeing the decree, and must arrive in the capital within 15 days to take office.

Wang Qian couldn't help but ask the eunuch to pass the imperial eunuch, "Does the emperor know about the great victory in Gaizhou?"

"I know that before our family left the capital, all the Duke of Chu had already broken into Gaizhou and captured more than 50,000 rebels such as Kong Youde. I was very happy. Now, the emperor also had an oral order. When the Duke of Chu returned to the capital, he would take all the officers of more than 100 people from the rebels captured by Gaizhou City back to the capital for treatment. As for the other rebel soldiers, they would be taken to Taiwan for farming according to the previous report from the Duke of Chu."

Wang Qian sighed in disappointment and asked again, "Does the emperor know that we have broken more than ten castles of Haizhou and other sizes?"

"I probably don't know this yet. Our family arrived in Gaizhou first and then did not see Duke Chu, so we arrived in Haizhou."

Liu Jun stopped Wang Qian, "Stop talking, I will set off soon and try to rush back to the capital as soon as possible to take office."

"Report!"

As soon as he galloped, the horse rushed to the scene. Before the horse was reached, the knights had already shouted loudly, "The military situation in western Liaoning, Yizhou was defeated, Liaoxi Admiral Wu Sangui led 120,000 troops from five towns to defeat the city of Yizhou. The governor of Ji Liao, Lord Hong, and the governor of Shaanxi, Lord Sun, and the generals of Shaanxi, were besieged Jinzhou" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!