On February 19th, the third year of Yongli, Sun Family Inn, Guangning County, Zhaoqing Prefecture.

"It's dead!"

A shrill mixed with panic screams cut through the night sky and echoed in the yard of Sun Family Inn for a long time...

In the room at Sun's Inn, a man and a woman were entangled, and then she heard the girl's whisper, "Master, let's have another plate, let's have another plate."

The man said impatiently: "All one game, one game, do you think this is playing chess? It doesn't take any brains and physical strength. After sleeping for a while, I'm really sleepy."

"Hehe, my lord, don't you blow this time?" The woman laughed in a low voice.

"Um..., my master... it's not... blow..." Although the man was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, he refused to show weakness. As soon as he finished speaking, he felt extremely tired and was about to fall asleep.

Blow or not, honest body gave a good answer.

At this moment, the shrill cry came over, and then the door was opened and footsteps were heard.

"Is anyone dead?" the man asked, opening his tired eyes.

"Master, let's sleep with you, don't worry, someone will care." The woman felt distressed at this time and said softly.

"That's not possible. Life is at stake. I have to go and see it." The man refused to listen and struggled to get up.

The woman quickly helped him up and served him naked in small clothes and middle clothes. Just as she was about to wear shoes and socks, someone outside the door whispered: "Master, are you awake?"

"Wake up, what's going on?" the man replied.

"Sun Huaguo got up at night and found a corpse lying on his bed. The scream just now was made by him." The person outside replied.

"Sun Huaguo? This is a coincidence. Has Old Gu and Old Chen got up?" The man asked in a low voice with a frown.

"It's already up."

"Okay, I'll take a look." After the man said that, he asked the woman to serve him in his shoes and socks, put on his long gown, opened the door and came out. A strong man stood outside the door, leading him downstairs.

The one who calls himself the master is the current emperor Zhu Youlang. The woman in the room is Dai Yilan, who has just been named a virtuous concubine. She is a strong man outside the door. Bai Xing, the chief guard of the guard. Of course, there are also Lao Chen, who is called Lao Gu by Zhu Youlang, who is Gu Yanwu and Chen Jitai.

After the New Year in Guilin, Zhu Youlang sent off Li Dingguo who was heading north on the 16th day of the first lunar month. On the third day, the 19th day of the first lunar month, he drove back to Guangzhou.

After more than a month of rest and layoffs, Li Dingguo took only 35,000 soldiers left. Although the troops were reduced, the overall appearance was completely renewed, and Zhu Youlang was very satisfied.

Zhu Youlang did not forget Li Guo and others, and handed him over the 15,000 old subordinates captured by the Qing soldiers who had been collected in the whole province. Li Guo also imitated the elite soldiers of Li Dingguo and laid off some redundant soldiers. After selecting them, only 5,000 elite soldiers were left.

The military's combat effectiveness has been enhanced, but there are more than 23,000 veterans cut by Li Dingguo and Li Guo, and their destination has become a big problem. Because most of these people rebelled with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, their families are in the Qing dynasties in Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Shanxi, and they have homes that cannot be returned, and most of them have no homes.

Zhu Youlang treated these people according to circumstances. A small number of people who are willing to retire can receive a deposit of money, and the government will be responsible for delegating to the ownerless wasteland. Anyway, due to years of war and chaos, there are many ownerless wastelands, and there is a lack of male members, it should not be a problem to find a local wife to start a family and live a life in the future.

Most of them are unwilling to retire because they still think of their hometown and are unwilling to settle down in a foreign land, so they are unwilling to leave the army and fantasize about returning to their hometown one day.

The placement of these people has become a big problem.

This problem is a problem for others, but not for Zhu Youlang. He came up with an idea to ask these people to set up an engineering corps, whose main task is to engage in engineering construction, such as building roads, building houses, and repairing city walls. Of course, in Zhu Youlang's plan, the engineering corps will play a big role in the future.

As soon as this idea came out, the Grand Secretary applauded. First, it solved the problem of resettlement of these people, and second, although the court took out the money to support them, it saved the money for recruiting and relocating the servants. And which project did not cost huge amounts of money? Let these engineering soldiers who paid money to do the project actually saved a lot of money.

Moreover, the prisoners of the Qing soldiers could be organized into the company. Isn’t it a good idea to watch the prisoners work?

Therefore, the Engineering Corps of the People's Liberation Army of the Ming Dynasty was established. As an independent branch of the army, it was under the Ministry of War. The head of the army was the rank of general, and Zhang Tongchang was appointed as the first general.

In addition, Zhu Youlang accepted Lu Daqi's suggestion, and Li Dingguo repeatedly requested it, and considering that the Left Route Army would have the heaviest combat mission in the future, he assigned the mountain army to the left line army sequence. Li Yong was appointed as the censor of the Left Route Army Army. In addition to having supervisory responsibilities, he directly commanded the mountain army to fight.

This time, Li Yong, a great scholar in Shaanxi, has completely joined the army. There are too many military men and too few literati in the left army. His joining has made the left army more literary. No matter from any aspect, it is a good thing.

...

On the way back to the army, Zhu Youlang met his mother-in-law Qin Lanhua and sister-in-law Dai Yihua in Wuzhou who had been waiting there for a long time. The mother and mother wanted to settle in Guangzhou, so they waited specifically in Wuzhou.

Zhu Youlang remembered that Wu Bing had reported that Sun Huaguo, Guangning County, had no tax payment, so he had a private visit, so he ordered the car to continue traveling eastward, and he and Chen Jitai, Gu Yanwu, and Dai Yilan took the northeast and quietly went to Guangning.

Zhu Youlang was unwilling to make a big noise. All the eunuchs, including Li Hong, were not brought, and Dai Yilan personally served her food and daily life. Of course, it was necessary to guard her. On the surface, only Bai Xing pretended to be a chief and protected her. In fact, Wen Jin secretly brought a hundred guards to accompany her in clothes.

If Zhu Youlang's idea was to take these people, there would be no need to bring them. With Lin Hong, the Shadow Guard, there would be no one in this world who could hurt him. But Lu Daqi, Chen Zizhuang and Huang Zongxi were irresistible, saying that if Wen Jin and others were not allowed to accompany him, they would rather die than let the emperor condemn it.

Helplessly, Zhu Youlang had to follow.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhu Youlang and his friends left Wuzhou Prefecture, their sister-in-law Dai Yihua chased after him and wanted to follow him no matter how hard they were.

Zhu Youlang was very helpless with this tricky and weird sister-in-law, so he had to rely on her.

So, Zhu Youlang used his pseudonym "Huang Zhizhong" to pretend to be a rich businessman, Chen Jitai pretended to be a housekeeper, Gu Yanwu pretended to be a tent, Bai Xing pretended to be a Changsui, and Dai Yilan pretended to be a young man's wife. Dai Yihua said she didn't need to be specially dressed up, so she was naturally the young man's wife, but she insisted on pretending to be the young man's sister, saying that she looked so kind.

Zhu Youlang had no choice but to do so.
Chapter completed!