stubborn thief

Chapter 142 I can't see the mountain at a glance

Yonghe gatekeeper will not be replaced.

Last time Liu Chengzong took advantage of the night to sneak across, worried about the officers and soldiers behind, Yanshui closed several cannons and nailed the holes to push the Yellow River.

This time he wasn't afraid, he just crossed the pontoon bridge in broad daylight. Once he was familiar with it, the small wild gun and the heavy gun drove the mules and pushed the cannon cart and passed.

The guard general of Yonghe Gate was not that far-fetched, it was not the first time we saw each other, not to mention that he knew who it was when he saw the Liu character banner, so he was very obedient and sent a brave man out to ask about the situation and explain his own difficulties.

"There is a shortage of food in the pass, and the court has not closed the payment for more than a year. It is useless for the king to mount the cannon outside the pass. There is really nothing to show filial piety. There is a small road in the north that can pass the car. Liu Erye, go there .”

How should I put it, Liu Chengzong looked confused: "How do you know that I am ranked second?"

The pawn who came to show the way said that Li Bei sent someone to ask.

Liu Chengzong suddenly shouted: "Chengyun!"

Scared the pawns.

How did he know that Liu Chengzong was overjoyed.

Ask the number of guards at Yonghe Pass and the names of the guards, and ask someone to move the silver box.

According to the silver per person, five yuan per person was given to them for food, and 20 taels were specially distributed to the general.

Going out at once is nearly 200 taels, not a decimal.

The eight guards in the battalion couldn't understand what he meant, and the general on the top of the city was dumbfounded, and stuttered: "This, the king, I, Fu Renxi, have been guarding the border for four generations, and I can't go with you! You Take back the silver."

After talking about closing the city gate, there was a quarrel, and after a while, the general manager shouted again: "I won't go, my brother, whoever you think will take him away?"

How did he know that Liu Chengzong just rode the red flag around in front of the pass, and bowed his hands towards the pass.

Li Bei told Ren Quan'er that Li Bei marched very slowly in pursuit of King Gao Chuang all the way, and kept one of them in the rear to give them a chance to calmly deal with it in Yanchang County, all because of Fu Renxi from Yonghe Pass.

Li Bei sent someone to ask him if he had seen Liu Chengzong. He said he hadn't. He also said that Liu Chengzong was marching by the Yellow River in Shanxi, saying that he led the troops to scare Chuang Wang away.

Such dishonest, not brave, spies who create false information for the court and bring their own dry food should be well rewarded.

Hard work always pays off, and Fu Renxi in Chengguan has mixed feelings.

The imperial court owed more than a year's salary, so he insisted on giving it to the bandit leader.

The enemy knew to pity him, but his own people didn't, which made Fu Renxi feel a little ashamed of Liu Chengzong.

Then he sent someone out to tell Liu Chengzong the second information.

The drought in Shanxi has eased after the rain in autumn and snow in winter, but this year there is no drought, but it is worse than last year.

Because Shanxi's [-] elite Qin Wangjun rebelled in Liangxiang in the twelfth lunar month of last year, and then fled back to Shanxi.

Fu Renxi said that winter was better, but he didn't know if the frontier soldiers hid for the winter, or the transmission of news was slower in winter.

Anyway, he didn't realize the chaos until after the beginning of spring. Now eight thousand hungry frontier troops who have lost their establishment are running around in Shanxi, and the local civil and military officials are also unstable.

The reason for Shanxi King Qin's mutiny is very simple, it only took three days.

According to the old rule of the imperial court, on the day when the officers and soldiers arrived at the news site, the local area did not provide food and grass.

The [-] King Qin Army was composed of [-] Jin troops led by Chief Military Officer Zhang Honggong and [-] Governor's Standard Battalion led by Governor Geng Ruqi.

On the day when [-] Jin troops arrived in Beijing with Zhang Honggong, the Ministry of War sent an order to station in Tongzhou, east of the capital.

In the place of Tongzhou, during the battle of Houjin's entry into the pass, the civil and military generals of the court were treated equally, no matter whether it was the governor of Jiliao, the general officer, the minister of the Ministry of war, or the local governor, they would not open the door.

Except for attacking the city, only Huang Taiji did this when he was retreating, taking away food and grass.

So I had nothing to eat on the day I arrived in Beijing.

The next day, the Ministry of War issued an order to dispatch Zhang Honggong's troops to garrison in Changping, northwest of Beijing, 120 miles away. Naturally, there was no food the next day.

On the third day, Zhang Honggong was dispatched to garrison in Liangxiang, 120 miles away from Changping, but there was still no food.

Coincidentally, in these two days, Man Gui and Hou Shilu, who came from Xuan Da, also went on a five-day tour of the capital under the strategic command of the Ministry of War.

These general officers have never been useless in their own defense zone.

This Hou Shilu alone brought gifts to the emperor on King Qin Road. It was Qiu Fang, a Mongolian general who wore a gold armor and showed off his power in front of the battle, and asked him to kill the armor and horses and present them to the emperor.

But from the time he led the army into Juyongguan, the bad days never stopped.

I was still in Jizhou in the evening, and left the artillery unit to Tongzhou in the early morning. I was paid the full monthly salary in the twelfth lunar month. When I woke up, I was driven away by some troops to Shunyi. I wanted to go back to Huai to have a meal. Coincidentally, I met Man Gui and Huang Taiji .

Man Gui fought and retreated, and returned to Beijing; Hou Shilu's troops were defeated, and after gathering his men, he returned to his arms to have a meal, and then took his family to Beijing to participate in the battle of Guangqumen.

What happened to Hou Shilu spread to Shanxi Qin Wangjun's ears. Zhang Honggong couldn't restrain the soldiers, so the army robbed Liangxiang and ran back to Shanxi.

But if things only go so far, Shanxi Baqianqin Wang Jun still has [-] in the capital.

Lord Chongzhen was very angry, and took Zhang Honggong, and even the governor Geng Ruqi, and they were all thrown into prison.

Geng Ruqi is wronged, the governor received two edicts that he does not have to enter the guard. Zhang Honggong entered Juyongguan on November 26, and Geng Ruqi arrived in the capital on December [-]. He was imprisoned without doing anything.

Shanxi was shaken, and Liu Chengzong could understand it.

Geng Ruqi is repaying his kindness. He served as the deputy envoy of Zunhua military preparations in the Tianqi Dynasty.

Later, he was falsely accused of embezzling 300 taels and sentenced to beheaded.

Before execution, Emperor Tianqi died, Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, and saved Geng Ruqi.

Geng Ruqi said that he was locked up in the Zhenfu Department, and people were taken out and killed every day. He was quite scared. Fortunately, the emperor pardoned him, and he was in shock. Let me go home to recuperate.

The emperor didn't allow it, so he was promoted to be the censor of Youqian capital and governor of Shanxi.

The commander-in-chief's army mutinied, and it was fine to go to prison. The governor was full of enthusiasm and led the army to serve as the king, and directly sent himself to prison.

Will there be anyone who will be king after this?
Liu Chengzong was very complicated in his heart, and told his left and right after dinner that they overthrew Daming in the future, and they must leave a place in the official position for posthumous title.

Cao Yao hummed and laughed, "Pursuing Geng Ruqi?"

"Why are you chasing him? Chasing Zhu Youjian, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice..." The official position is quite difficult to get, Liu Chengzong slapped his thigh for the last time: "The criminal department is here! Don't laugh, I'm serious, at the Ministry of Criminal Justice Mao is especially suitable for the emperor's character of jealousy."

After half a year, Liu Chengzong returned to Yatou Mountain in Yonghe County, Shanxi.

Before coming here, he thought about what Shanxi would be like, but he never thought that Shanxi would be more chaotic than Fushi Ansai in Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi.

When the hungry people ran away and died, only those villages in the river valley remained. The Liu family re-established order and held the army in their hands. Order has been restored in the two counties of Fushi and Ansai.

Regardless of whether it is official order or underground order, order is better than no order.

But in Shanxi, the countryside has completely lost order.

Half a year ago there was only one family here, but now a cottage has been built and more than 70 thieves have occupied it.

Liu Chengzong's eight sentinels and three teams never dreamed that their first battle in Shanxi was to help the people of Yonghe County suppress bandits.

They are familiar with the terrain here, and there are not many thieves who are capable. They surrounded the mountain and surrendered before the rice was ready.

"I found out. The leader is three deserters who came back to rob houses. In three courtyards, twelve women, seven men, and more than a dozen corpses were imprisoned."

Cao Yao came out of the courtyard with a bad look on his face: "This group of people is not authentic, they don't want money or food when they are tied up, they torture for fun... what should we do?"

Liu Chengzong took the eight whistle chiefs around the yard and went back to vote with a show of hands.

Kill the thief leader and his accomplices, unanimous vote.

Release the mother-in-law and the man, seven votes.

Incorporate the remaining captives, six votes.

Kill the remaining captives, two votes.

Liu Chengzong summoned the women and men who had been robbed and kidnapped in the yard, and the situation was terrible.

The woman was tortured badly, and the man was not much better. When he entered the hospital, he knelt down and knelt down and cried.

A man who had one hand and four fingers cut off passed out from crying, and his wounds collapsed again.

Five women wanted to go home, so Liu Chengzong asked them to find clothes for them and let them go.

The remaining seven women cried one after another helplessly, making Liu Chengzong's head swell with anger, and he never thought about placing mother-in-law and aunt in the team.

They will inevitably have to fight the army along the way, and it will be very difficult to bring these women along.

The few women finally pushed out a fierce one, boldly stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty, our sisters are all wives and daughters of good people nearby, and were captured by thieves, all of us have corrupted our innocence."

"Then you won't go back?"

"Where there is any face to go home, going back is self-defeating."

In the end, after a temporary discussion, these women were left on the mountain and incorporated into the transportation camp.

The remaining three men were easy to talk about, like the woman who wanted to go home, they picked the commander to take them home, and recognized the door.

Liu Chengzong specially ordered the two commanding officers to inquire about the news from their mouths and look for the surrounding targets on the way.

Wei Qian'er's people were not idle either. Tang Bing dressed up a little and scattered around to inquire.

When they came here last year, it was still dry, but now it is full of vitality, and many people have returned.

In just two days, two of the five women who had gone home earlier came back.

They are the people of Chakou Mountain at the junction of Yonghe County and Shilou County in the north. In this era, ordinary women have few ways to survive when they encounter such a thing of innocence being murdered by thieves.

Even if he survived, he couldn't spare the gossip of the people in the village, and people would poke his back.

In the end, they often collapsed due to mental pressure, or hanged themselves, or filled wells.

The reason they dare to go home is because there are dolls waiting to be fed.

In fact, he is also full of death ambitions, thinking about raising the baby and then going to die.

It's just that I didn't expect that God didn't even give them this opportunity.

The officer in charge of the outpost reported: "Fenzhou Guard's Banner Army sent troops to suppress bandits, crossed the border and robbed the village, set fire to many houses, and dragged away the young women and aunts in the village to sleep."

A good Zhuangzi, first he was attacked by thieves and then by soldiers, and he was gone.

The two women had no other relatives to go to, so they had to come back to find the lion camp.

This world has become strange to a certain extent. Officials and soldiers burn down villages and rob women, while thieves destroy bandits and take in survivors.

In the next few days, Tang Qi, who was investigating the intelligence, returned one by one, bringing back a lot of information from Yonghe County.

Liu Chengzong and others also made a strategy to start with Yonghe County and completely control this land before leaving Shanxi.

This is related to their retreat to Shaanxi.

Then the troops were divided into eight posts.

Gaoxian stationed troops at Chakou Mountain in the northeast to defend against the direction of Fenzhou Prefecture.

Zhong Hu stationed troops at Sangbi Mountain in the south to defend the direction of Xizhou.

At the same time, the two sentries blocked Yonghe County along the Zhihe River, which runs through the valley from north to north, so as not to let the news leak out.

Shi Chengwo's work post and Liu Chengyun's supply post were stationed on Yatou Mountain. They were not in charge of fighting, but only needed to build camps, and at the same time strengthened ties with Fu Renxi, the general guard of Yonghe Gate.

The rest of the sentries demarcated territory, passing through the mountains from east to west in Yonghe County, and implementing equalization of land and free grain in all townships outside the city.

Liu Chengzong took Cao Yao to move to the west mountain of Yonghe County, and looked at the county surrounded by two mountains from a distance.

"We must occupy this city, and then we can consider whether to go north to Shilou or go east to Xizhou."

The former belongs to Fenzhou Prefecture and has Fenzhou Guard; the latter belongs to Pingyang Prefecture and has Pingyang Guard.

In fact, the reports from the various outposts in the past few days make people laugh. The villages in the mountains here don’t even have strong people, and they have become a paradise for bandits. All the outposts are busy suppressing the bandits wandering around.

Prior to this, Liu Chengzong never dreamed that his entry into Shanxi would start with the suppression of bandits.

"I think it is appropriate to enter Xizhou from the east. If you enter Xizhou from the east, you will go directly to the hinterland of Shanxi after crossing Luliang Mountain..."

Cao Yao suddenly asked a very awkward question: "Have you ever seen a lion on flat ground?"

Liu Chengzong gave him a blank look. Northern Shaanxi is indeed full of mountains. It is difficult to find a place where you can't see mountains, but he has been outside the Great Wall: "Outside the exit of Qiufang Burning Wasteland, tell me if I have seen flat land, no? Is it all sand, no one has seen it before."

"It's not sand, it's fields. You can't see the mountains at a glance. The flat ones are all fertile fields. Have you seen them?"

Liu Chengzong was questioned.

The mountain cannot be seen at a glance. This problem is too difficult for him from northern Shaanxi.

Another memory is that he knows the plains, but he has never seen the vast fields on the plains. The plains are just a concept in his head.

He just shook his head.

Cao Yao pointed to the east and said, "The land that you and the leaders have set aside is flat to the south of Taiyuan, but it's not big enough."

"My hometown in Henan is really flat and the fields can't be seen at a glance; and your sister-in-law's hometown in Beizhili has no mounds, no plateaus, and no beams. It's all a big plain, and the land under your feet can all grow grain."

Cao Yao stretched out his hand and ran forward, using a very exaggerated metaphor: "From the Daming Mansion by the Yellow River to the north, straight to Changping Prefecture, there is no need to turn a turn, it is as flat as a piece of paper."

Liu Chengzong was dumbfounded, how many fields would there be?
He suddenly understood where the name of Taiyuan came from, and it was a little older than Dayuan.

And Cao Yao said that Beizhili is bigger and more flat.

This suddenly gave him a huge impulse in his heart, I want to see it.

I must go and have a look, first to the plains south of Taiyuan, and then to the Great Plains in the north of Zhili.

"This time we will pass Luliang Mountain first, and next time we will pass Taihang Mountain."

　Good evening, sorry to keep you waiting

　　
　
(End of this chapter)