Master Yuan, start!

After drinking the water, the middle-aged woman had time to turn around and found Liu Kunyi standing at the door.

"Oh, it's not a boy, it's an old man." The middle-aged woman circled Liu Kunyi four times, covered her mouth and asked with a smile in Changsha dialect: "Old man, can you still stand up?"

Liu Kunyi trembled slightly when he heard this. He suppressed his anger and looked at the middle-aged woman with a sullen face. He asked, "You are from Hunan, which county?"

"Xiangxiang."

"Since you are from Hunan, why do you want to do this kind of business?"

"Why can't we do it?"

The middle-aged woman sat back on the bed, covered herself with the quilt, took off her collar, and replied nonchalantly, "I came to Jiangning by boat with my husband. He disappeared in Xuzhou. If I don't do this, what else can I do?"

"Why don't you go back to Xiangxiang? Your relatives and friends are always there, and you don't have to do anything fleshly!"

"You don't know whether your husband is dead or alive, how can you go back alone without even having a child? You'll be called a jinx."

At this point, the middle-aged woman became a little impatient, as if sad memories were brought up, and started yelling.

"Hey, are you going to do it or not? If not, get out of the way quickly, you're in the way!"

It was not until then that Liu Kunyi's followers arrived.

Seven or eight people rushed into the house all at once, squeezing the wooden frame so hard that it creaked, and the cold wind blew even stronger.

When she saw the official uniforms appear one after another, the middle-aged woman realized something was wrong and her face turned pale.

She quickly put down the quilt in her hand and knelt on the bed without even having time to put on her clothes.

"Sir, sir," the middle-aged woman said in a trembling voice, "I was disrespectful just now, please forgive me!"

"Jin Shan and Yu Lianyuan, is this what you call restoring vitality?" Liu Kunyi's mouth tightened, his face gloomy. "Is this how you appease the families of the Hunan Army?"

Liu Kun turned his head and looked at the other of the two major staff members beside him: "You are from Hunan, do you know about this kind of thing?"

"I, your subordinate, don't know." Tao Senjia had an innocent expression on his face. He really didn't know.

When Liu Kun saw this, he ignored the middle-aged woman who was still kowtowing on the bed, took out a silver ingot from his follower's arms, threw it on the bed, and then left the leaky thatched hut without looking back.

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The middle-aged woman looked at the silver ingot in her hand in disbelief. When she came to her senses, she found that Liu Kun and his group had already gone far away.

She quickly stood up, not even having time to put on her shoes, and leaned against the door frame and shouted at Liu Kunyi:

"Thank you, sir, more sir!"

Liu Kunyi seemed to hear the middle-aged woman's cry, and his body paused for a moment, but then he did not hesitate at all and hurried to the review tent he was going to today at a faster speed.

After everyone was seated in the tent, he took a quick look and said:

"Tell me, what's going on."

Chapter 237: The Intention Was Good, But the Execution Was Bad

"Tell me, what's going on."

Liu Kunyi held back his anger, but his tone made everyone shudder.

Looking at the angry Liu Kunyi, the generals were unwilling to say anything. Seeing this, Yu Lianyuan smiled bitterly, but he could only take the initiative to explain.

There's nothing he can do. He was the one who did it, and he didn't expect it to turn out like this.

It turned out that after persuading the Hunan Army women to return, Yu Lianyuan faced an extremely difficult problem, which was lack of money.

Seeing that there were not enough soldiers, they had to recruit soldiers to defend against the enemy, but they had to pay pensions. The money was spent at the beginning and at the end, and the expenses were increasingly insufficient.

Most of these Hunan women who lost their husbands, sons, and fathers followed the men in their families to Jiangning. They lived alone and had few relatives to help them.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, Yu Lianyuan was in a dilemma as he had no idea whether the men in these families were alive or dead.

If the pension is paid out based on death, the family will naturally be satisfied.

But Yu Lianyuan heard that Yuan Shikai did not massacre the people in Xuzhou.

The pension is 50 taels of silver per person, which means 2 million taels for nearly 100 people. Although it is a lot, if someone really dies, you can get it out by gritting your teeth.

But what if 9 one, what if someone comes back 8, 2 then can 4 get the money back 3, wouldn't it be a waste if you don't get it back?

One million taels is enough to buy half a warship and tens of thousands of artillery shells.

As a Hubei native, Yu Lianyuan does not feel any sense of fellowship with Hunanese people. He just wants to win this battle.

So they decided to handle the matter impartially and postpone the payment of death compensation, only giving 10 taels of "missing" compensation first, and saying that the rest would be discussed after the war was over.

But he could wait, but the families of the Hunan Army could not.

How could one survive in Jiangnan with only 10 taels of silver? Moreover, the weather was getting colder and colder. Most of the family members were alone and illiterate. If no one helped them, they might not even be able to survive the winter.

Therefore, the vast majority of family members can only engage in the oldest livelihood, selling their bodies.

In fact, if Liu Kunyi had known about this earlier, the situation might not have developed to this point.

After all, as a fellow Hunanese, Liu Kun has always considered himself the leader of the Hunanese. Although this kind of widow who is "not quite a widow" is tricky, it is by no means impossible to deal with.

There were many unmarried men in the 1st Regiment of the Hunan Army stationed in Zhenjiang. In order to solve their physiological problems, they would find some local prostitutes and send them to the camp every ten days to serve as temporary camp prostitutes.

If the Hunanese "widows" could be promised to these Hunan troops, it would not only motivate the soldiers, but also shift the burden of supporting them to individuals instead of the Jiangnan Governor's Office.

This move can be regarded as keeping the benefits within the family.

But the bad thing was that Liu Kunyi was busy recruiting soldiers and negotiating with foreigners, so he left the small matter of comforting his family to Yu Lianyuan.

Yu Lianyuan was unable to put himself in his family's shoes. As a bureaucrat, he only wanted to finish this matter as soon as possible. It was more important to focus on preparing food and fodder for the army.

So he just sent his local Jiangsu and Zhejiang clerks to hastily distribute the silver without thoroughly understanding the situation, which led to the current situation.

Outside Jiangning City, in the Hunan town of Wuluosi, camp prostitutes had actually formed openly. New recruits undergoing training nearby would come here to have fun during their days off.

In fact, it was only a few months that anyone could have expected that someone who was once a family member of the Hunan Army would choose to become a prostitute.

Fortunately, the only recruits coming here now are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If time passes and the people from Hunan find out, it will be difficult to deal with.

If anyone is to blame, it is the newly recruited soldiers, most of whom are playboys from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who quickly corrupted the morals of the small towns near Jiangning.

"My subordinates...my original intention was to save money and support the war, but I didn't expect it to cause such a disaster." Yu Lianyuan apologized repeatedly.

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"Jinshan, do you know that this is an act of digging up the roots?" Liu Kunyi closed his eyes, his face frighteningly gloomy.

He was fighting outside while his family was working as prostitutes in the rear. If the Hunan Army on the front heard about this, how could they continue to fight?

Thinking of this, Liu Kunyi looked at Yu Lianyuan, and the disappointment in his eyes was beyond words.

He relied on Yu Lianyuan repeatedly because he was quite satisfied with his work. Even his aide Tao Senjia, who was also from Hunan, was inferior to Yu Lianyuan.

Unexpectedly, Yu Lianyuan's good intention to save money led to a bad thing.

"This time, I'm really going to be laughed at by the world. Yuan Shikai used public debt to raise funds, but I have to use the flesh trade to save money." Liu Kun gripped the armrest of the chair tightly with one hand, his fingers turning white.

"How can I face the millions of people in Hunan Province and continue to be the commander of the Hunan Army?"

Liu Kunyi finally couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out the anger in his heart.

He was not only angry about the instability of the Hunan Army's morale on the front line, but also angry that his own reputation among the Hunanese people was in jeopardy.

Although Liu Kunyi succeeded Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan as the Governor-General of Liangjiang, he was not of the same mind as Zeng Guofan.

Zeng Guofan, who was also a member of the Hunan Army, was from Xiangxiang, Hunan, and belonged to northern Hunan. He gradually grew up with the support of Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei, who was also from northern Hunan.

Liu Kunyi was from Xinning, Hunan, which is close to Guangxi and belongs to southern Hunan. He started his career with Jiang Zhongyuan, the governor of Anhui who was also from Xinning. He had closer ties with "southern Hunan people" such as Liu Changyou and belonged to another faction in the Hunan Army.

After Zeng Guoquan's death, Liu Kunyi took over the Hunan Army and wanted to dilute the traces of the Zeng brothers in the Hunan Army, leave his own mark, and take credit for the achievements of the Hunan Army.

However, it is easy to erase Zeng Guoquan's traces, but it is not easy to erase Zeng Guofan's. As the first governor of the Hunan Army, and with Zeng Guofan's fame known throughout the world, he left a very deep impression in the hearts of the Hunanese people.

There is no Zeng without Xiang. The Zeng here refers to Zeng Guofan, and Xiang refers to the Xiang Army.

Liu Kunyi hoped that when the people of Hunan commemorate him in the future, he would be put first, or at least "Liu and Zeng should stand side by side", so he allowed the people of Hunan to fill every corner of the Jiangnan Governor's Office, and even did not hesitate to reduce the participation of local people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

But all this seems to be ruined by the flesh trade in a small town in Hunan.

"No, there is still a chance." Liu Kun raised his head and wanted to make amends.

"Jin Shan, you must act immediately and disband the prostitutes in this town. Pay the full amount of silver to the families of these Hunanese people, and select the Second Brigade of the First Town to escort these people back to their hometown in Hunan.

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In addition, you should go to Suzhou, Changzhou, Songshan, Taicang and other places to secretly find women from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to fill in the positions and replace them before this matter spreads!"

"Yes, Xian Shuai!"

Yu Lianyuan lowered his head and obeyed the order, but then he thought of something and looked up at Liu Kunyi.

"What?" Liu Kunyi met his gaze firmly: "Can't you do it? If you can't do it, get someone else to do it!"

"Xianjue's skirt slipped: Eight umbrellas are so handsome, Jinshan definitely doesn't mean that!" Tao Senjia was silent for a long time and saw that Liu Kunyi was still angry, so he quickly said to comfort him:

"Jin Shan's original intention was good in comforting his family, but his subordinates misunderstood and miscarried. He must have had his reasons for hesitating just now."

As he said that, Tao Senjia quickly winked at Yu Lianyuan, asking him to agree quickly.

Tao Senjia had not originally intended to get into trouble. He knew nothing about business and economics, and only knew about military affairs and social interactions.

But just now he heard that Liu Kunyi seemed to want to replace him. If Yu Lianyuan left, he would probably have to take charge of all these things, so he had to speak up.

"General Xian, everything is possible, but the treasury is running out of money."

Yu Lianyuan bowed and said, "If we have to do the three things of distributing silver, finding people, and escorting at the same time, plus recruiting new soldiers and buying guns and cannons, each of which requires silver, I'm afraid we won't be able to make it until the beginning of next spring."

"Just raise the money!"

Liu Kunyi said flatly: "That bullshit unified public bond that Yuan Shikai issued was worth 1000 million taels, and only 200 million has been sold so far. I don't believe that no one would buy the Hunan Army's public bonds!"

"One more thing, Qu Lin!"

"I'm here!" When he was called, Tao Senjia responded quickly.

Liu Kunyi glanced at Yu Lianyuan deeply, but turned to Tao Senjia and said sternly, "There are many things going on in Jiangnan. I trust you two, so go ahead and do it. But no matter how big or small the matter is, you must let me know after it is done.

If something like this happens again, you will be punished by military law since you have served in the military!"

"Yes"

Tao Senjia nodded. He knew that Liu Kunyi was talking about him on the surface, but actually he was talking about Yu Lianyuan. The reason why he didn't mention him by name was because he still wanted to use him and wanted to save his face.

"Send the new recruits back to camp immediately. I won't even watch the drill!"