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The sunset in the west reflects half of the sky red. Mei Zhihuan and Lu Jinxi arrive with a large group of people under the golden sunset. In addition to the Baoshengbao Township Group, there are also many family members of the family.

Mei Zhihuan stepped off the horse in the stirrups, and smiled at Liu Jun who was standing there waiting for the welcome, "When we came, we were all thinking, when we came, we probably wouldn't be able to see you guys anymore. It's really surprising, Liu Jun, you surprised me again, but I didn't expect that you won unexpectedly again."

"Last time you took more than a hundred township heroes who had been training for more than a month to attack the Damazi gang at night, and the result was unexpectedly a complete victory. I still remember that at that time, we could not find traces of the Damazi gang everywhere. As a result, when we summoned various teams, some people reported that you had led the team to take the initiative to fight out. At that time, some people said that they must have escaped."

Mei Zhihuan looked at Liu Jun with full appreciation, and said slowly, "This time, the same is true. When Magistrate Lu knew that you said, after receiving a letter of help from Inspection Zhao, you and more than a dozen team members took 120 new team members who had just been recruited for more than three days to rescue Inspection Zhao without hesitation, many people said that you are crazy, arrogant and reckless. They all said that you are dead this time, and we can only collect the body for you when we come here."

"Haha, the boy just feels that he can't stand by death and refuses to save him, and the bandits are just a group of mobs." Liu Jun said with a smile.

"Whether you are lucky or brave, in short, I am really happy to see you not dead and standing in front of me alive. When I heard on the way that you not only didn't lose a single hair, but also defeated the bandits who were several times more than they had, and beheaded dozens of times, to be honest, I was both surprised and excited and proud. Good looks, I am enough. If there were more young people like you who are bloody and courageous in the Ming Dynasty, why worry about not being able to prosper in the prosperous era?"

The group entered the yamen official hall and sat down in separate seats.

Mei Zhihuan's expression became serious and he knocked on the table.

"Okay, let's discuss some important things now. Jiye, tell me what's going on with the thief?"

Liu Jun stood up and reported seriously.

Mei Zhihuan nodded from time to time and listened very seriously, "From you see, are these invading bandits just bandits or are they from the east returning to the Zuowu Camp?"

After the war, Liu Jun also carefully inspected the thieves' bodies, armor and weapons, and even interrogated several injured thieves. Therefore, he had already figured out the identity of the thief who fought with him.

"According to the results I have obtained, these thieves are from Dasu Mountain in Shangcheng County, Guangzhou, Henan Province. They are just a group of refugees gathered in Dasu Mountain. However, the thieves who were offended were not just those refugees. Among them, twenty cavalry were bandits who had been rebelling for many years. They were not the same group of refugees in Guangzhou."

"About a month ago, twenty thieves came to Dasu Mountain where the group of refugees were located. They brought a lot of grain and money, and finally recruited several refugees from Dasu Ce under their command. These horse thieves were actually Lao Huihui and others from Huo Yingshan District, Luzhou Prefecture, and returned to Zuowu Camp. It is said that during this period, the returning Zuowu Camp sent many such small elite bandits to Guangzhou, Henan, and used grain and money to gather those refugees."

The more Mei Zhihuan heard, the worse his face became. He suddenly heard a dangerous smell. Returning to the fifth camp at the Zuobao, he finally refused to curl up in the Huo Yingshan District in Dabie Shandong, and they began to make moves. He took food and silver to absorb refugees in the Guangzhou area of ​​Henan, which was close to the north of Yinghuo Mountain District. This was a very old-fashioned thief practice.

This is recruiting cannon fodder, which also means that Lao Huihui, a thief, will make big moves.

First recruit refugees in Guangzhou, and then let them invade to Huguang and Huangzhou in the west. The trend was very obvious. They were preparing to move westward. Maybe they were going to Xiangyang to meet with Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, or maybe they were preparing to invade the Qihuang area on a large scale.

This time, the Hutou Mountain Inspection Office encountered a tentative attack, and it was very likely that it would be a tentative attack or a forward battle, but the situation was getting worse and worse. The returning Zuo Fifth Battalion could be launched at any time through a mountain.

Although Mei Zhihuan has retired for many years, he cannot take care of the layout of the court, but he has the responsibility to protect the East Hubei area.

If Lao Huihui's Huizuo Fifth Camp had to go to Xiangyang and Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai would join forces, and it would be the most convenient to pass directly through East Hubei. However, although Lao Huihui and East Hubei are only separated by a Dabie Mountain, this mountain is not so easy to cross, especially if it is a large bandit team carrying the family, women, children and children of the old camp.

To the west of the Dabie Mountains are countless passes, guarding the connection with the southern Zhili area in the east and the Henan area in the north. If they can defend these passes, the old Hui Hui's Mazuo Fifth Camp was not so easy to attack Qihuang.

If we keep this line of mountain pass, Lao Huihui can only go north to Henan, then west to Nanyang, then south to Xiangyang and meet with Xianzhe.

They were not without any chance. Although they could not rely on local garrison troops and imperial courts to suppress bandits, if the gentry and villagers in Qihuang could unite, they would still have a chance to keep the thieves away. They might not be as movable as thieves in the field, but if they were guarding themselves, they still had a great chance.

After all, this is to defend one's own home. Whether it is an official, a gentry, a merchant or a farmer, everyone has the responsibility to do so.

However, if you want to defend, you have to mobilize some troops to strengthen these passes in the north. In addition to the five passes in Macheng, other border passes in other counties also have to mobilize people to strengthen defense.

There are sixteen inspection departments in Huangzhou Prefecture, each inspection department is almost set up at the junction with Henan or Nanzhili, all occupying the key pass of Guanjin and will also be the front line to block the bandits.

Among them, the Hutou Pass inspection is at the top of the list and is in an extremely important position. This time the thieves attacked, probably because this place is important. Although the Hutou Pass inspection archers are rescued by Liu Jun, they are also seriously injured. Moreover, the Hutou Pass inspection has only twenty archers, and there are too few people. Once the thieves attack in large numbers, they cannot stop them at all.

Mei Zhihuan glanced at Liu Jun again. This young man was good, young but brave, and he was not unwittingly wise. He performed remarkable in the two bandit suppression battles. Especially this time, he only brought more than a hundred new recruits to come to reinforce. He was so brave and he won. That was not only courage, but also ability.

Thinking of this, Mei Zhihuan suddenly made a decision in her heart.

He turned around and whispered a few words to the magistrate Lu Jinxi, but the magistrate Lu nodded.

"Is it now?" Lu Jinxi asked. He was still very cautious about Mei Zhihuan's words. He knew very well that if you want to be the magistrate in Macheng, you must first listen to Mei Zhihuan's words.

Mei Zhihuan nodded without delay.

Lu Jinxi stood up, coughed, attracted everyone's eyes, and then said loudly, "I announce something now, which was the dereliction of duty of Zhao Dagu, the Hutouguan inspector, which led to the major losses of the Hutouguan inspection department. I now announce that Zhao Dagu's position as Hutouguan inspector is temporarily removed from his post and wait for the final disposal from above. During this period before Zhao Dagu was dismissed from his post and was officially appointed to the new inspection, the Hutouguan inspection position was held by Captain Liu Jun of the Nine-Headed Bird Team."

The bureau stated that it was temporarily appointed to act as an agent for a certain official position. Lu Jinxi's intention was to let Liu Jun be temporarily appointed as an agent for the Hutouguan inspection.

Everyone was surprised when this appointment was made.

Zhao Dagu's face turned even more flushed, but in the end he just lowered his head and said nothing. This time he was indeed dereliction of duty, and before Magistrate Lu announced the order, he heard Mei Zhihuan's words, it was obvious that the order for dismissal was actually Mei Zhihuan's meaning. In Macheng, Mei Zhihuan is like the Supreme Emperor, and his words are more effective than the order of the county magistrate. Since he wants to exempt himself, he cannot object at all.

Liu Jun was also very surprised. He had never thought about acting for the Hutouguan inspection before. He felt a little sorry for the inspector Zhao. He kindly came to help rescue the siege, but he robbed the other person's official position. In addition, he was a little confused. The inspector was a ninth rank official, even if he was a ninth rank, he was an official. Magistrate Lu was a seventh rank county magistrate. He had the qualification to dismiss the inspector of a county?

Magistrate Lu announced the order directly, but no one objected.

Amidst the applause, Liu Jun turned from a deputy to a court inspector in a confused manner.

Liu Jun asked Li Chunjiang carefully, "Is this OK?"

"What's OK?"

"It's just that the inspector is appointed by the court. County Magistrate Lu is not qualified to be dismissed, right?" Liu Jun raised his own question.

Li Chunjiang chuckled, "You're thinking too much. Actually, this inspector is in fact. Although he has the title of ninth rank, he has become a miscellaneous official. Do you know a miscellaneous official?"

Liu Jun nodded, he still knew this. Miscellaneous officials were equivalent to being out of the air, which means they had no rank and were not among the ninth-rank officials. For example, before the Ming Dynasty, the county government office had a county lieutenant, which was responsible for arresting and public security. However, the Ming Dynasty canceled the position of county lieutenant, and the original position of county lieutenant was responsible for one county lieutenant, and some were subject to inspection. The divine historical was an assistant official, but there was no rank and was an out of the air.

The inspection was a rank official at the beginning. Once it was determined to set up a inspection department in a certain place, the Ministry of Works was responsible for building the yamen, the Ministry of Personnel was responsible for selecting officials, and the Ministry of Rites was responsible for the parallel transfer of seals. However, the inspection department was undecided. Later, it was actually no longer as good as in the early Ming Dynasty.

During the Hongwu period, the inspection was once the ninth rank. After thirty years of Hongwu, it was decided to go from the ninth rank, and later it was demoted to the miscellaneous position. The inspection department also transferred from the original local army to the local government.

The officials who served as inspectors also changed from early military officers to county yamen officials or Linsheng and civil and military students. Nowadays, thousands of chief and deputy chief inspectors from the ninth rank of the Ming Dynasty were inspectors, most of whom were inspectors from supervisors, followed by officials and civil and military students.

The inspector is once every three years. If you do well, you can be promoted to the ninth rank, but it is difficult to get a real promotion. The inspector can be promoted to county magistrate and county magistrate, but less than one thousand. Often, after working for many years, he is still a inspector, but he is transferred to the state government office to be an idle small official.

Most people are unwilling to be a inspector, and the intensive salary of work is low and there is no prospect of promotion. Nowadays, the appointment of inspections can even be appointed and removed by the county magistrate, far less than that of the assistant officials such as the county magistrate and chief clerk.

Now that Lu Jinxi dismissed Zhao Dagu in one sentence, it was actually a normal process. He only needed to go back and submit it to Huangzhou Prefecture and wait for approval to pass. Although he appointed Liu Jun as the agent for inspection, although it was a bit unruly, in this case, it was also a temporary measure to do extraordinary things at an extraordinary time and was also effective. If the prefect could approve the approval, Liu Jun could even go directly from an agent to a real inspection, without having to go through the third department of Huguang or a higher-level official department, so there was no need.

"Inheriting the business, when this is a matter of trouble, everyone should do their best. The more responsible the person is, the more responsible he should take the more responsibility. Inspection is just a miscellaneous position, and you don't have to care too much. Just do it first, just to facilitate your move to the station here. From today on, your Nine-Headed Horse Team will be moved to Hutou Pass. I heard that you have recruited more than 100 new recruits. From today on, your Nine-Headed Horse Team will be upgraded to Nine-Headed Bird Team." Mei Zhihuan said earnestly to Liu Junyu.

Liu Jun acted as an inspector of Hutou Pass, and later stationed at Hutou Pass. This yamen was his camp official hall. However, Mei Zhihuan transferred Liu Jun to the position because the remaining archers at Hutou Pass could not help, so he transferred the Nine-Headed Birds. Although Liu Jun was an inspector in the future, he actually could rely on his own Nine-Headed Birds.

The Nine-Headed Bird Group is Liu Jun’s private servant and does not account for the number of archers in the inspection department.

The archers in the imperial inspection department all have regular rules. The source of the archers must be the young and strong children of the family who pay a certain amount of grain in the county. Moreover, the salary of the archers is also paid by the county government, and only seven taels of food and silver are used every year. The members of the Nine-Headed Bird team are not assigned to be archers, which is also to facilitate Liu Jun's work.

Even in the end, Mei Zhihuan simply asked Lu Jinxi to give an order. Now the deputy inspectors, clerks, clerks, and archers of Hutou Pass were cleared out and asked them to go home. Hutou Pass no longer wanted the old men. After the Hutou Pass Inspection Department, Liu Jun and the Nine-Headed Bird were responsible. As for the salary and labor and food and money of the original archers, they were all allocated to Liu Jun as much as possible.

In short, the Hutou Pass Inspection Department's yamen was still there, but in fact it was instead stationed by the Jiutou Bird Group.

"Do you have any requests? I will try my best to satisfy you." Mei Zhihuan asked Liu Jun.

Liu Jun thought about it and now there are more than 200 new and old members of Jiutou. Now he is moved to Hutou Pass. He plans to recruit some more people to form a structure of one department and three bureaus. In addition to the Central Army Bureau, it is divided into one bureau on the left and right. One of the Cavalry Bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Three Flags and Nine Horse Teams, and the other of the Infantry Bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Three Flags and Nine Infantry Teams. In addition to the artillery fire support of the Central Army, the entire regiment will have eighteen standard combat troops.

The team will expand a lot at once. Originally, he didn't want to expand so quickly, but since he has moved to Hutou Pass and there will be a large number of thieves returning to the left fifth camp at any time, Liu Jun has to make more progress.

However, in this way, the team's equipment needs to be purchased. Nowadays, all Jiutou equipment is purchased outside, and she can only rely on Mei Zhihuan. While considering how to purchase the required military gunpowder, Liu Jun was also thinking that he had to start to find ways to prepare for the production and production of his own military gunpowder. He always relies on others, and this is not a long-term thing.

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