stubborn thief

Chapter 523 Approval
Liu Chengzong led his army across the Yellow River and entered Lanzhou.

After entering Su Wang's Mansion, Liu Shizi had only one feeling in his heart when he watched the teacher Yang Dingrui bring a mountain of documents from Xincheng for his approval.

Compared with dealing with the huge amount of official documents of the Marshal's Mansion, the battle to collect Gansu was simply an extremely simple armed parade.

In fact, the Battle of Gansu was indeed a particularly hard and high-intensity armed parade for most of the expeditionary forces of the Marshal's Mansion. Although there were many enemies, the will to fight was generally not firm enough. Most of the Ming troops defending Gansu did not know why He fought Liu Chengzong, so he didn't encounter any tough battles.

On the contrary, the difficulty of marching is much greater than that of fighting. In less than seven months, he marched more than [-] miles without stopping, and took more than half a year to circle the entire Qilian Mountains.

In fact, not to mention that important officials of the imperial court or outsiders like Zhang Xianzhong did not have a clear understanding of the territory of the Marshal's Mansion, even Liu Chengzong himself had not felt his unparalleled power in the northwest for a long time.

Because he always led his troops to fight here and there, wandering on the edge of his own power.

Only when the mountains of official documents were waiting for his approval page by page, and all matters big and small were resolved with one word, did Liu Chengzong really realize that he was the real ruler of this land.

In the Chengyun Hall with seven beams and double slopes hanging on the top of the mountain, Liu Chengzong looked at the countless official documents on the table in distress, and looked helplessly at Yang Dingrui standing beside him: "Sir, why are there so many?"

However, I haven't seen him for half a year, and Yang Dingrui is still full of energy, but the wrinkles around his eyes and the slightly swollen bags under his eyes still show a tired expression. He first smiled, and then said: "Although the commander-in-chief's mansion has established six yamen, the six yamen have no division of authority. The number of personnel is uncertain, and all official documents from various places are sent to the new city. If you are here, brother Xiang Yu can still approve them for you; if you are not here, no one can approve these things."

Liu Chengzong spread his hands and said, "Then sir approve it."

Yang Dingrui laughed and said, "You want to exhaust your husband to death."

In fact, they all knew that this was just an obedient sentence. Yang Dingrui's official position was the prefect of Xining, so he couldn't approve it.

He has an extraordinary relationship with Liu Chengzong. He is not only the teacher of Liu Chengzu and Liu Chengzong brothers, but also the adoptive father of Fan Sanlang, Bai Liuxi, and Yun Jiaoyue, that is, the father-in-law who is even closer.

But it was for this reason that Liu Chengzong did not set up a prime minister before he set off for the expedition.

Their relationship is very good, everyone is safe and sound, and there is no possibility of causing conflicts, even if the price is a little chaos in the Marshal's Mansion; Liu Chengzong thought about it, the Marshal's Mansion is not afraid of chaos.

The Marshal's Mansion is not stable, but there are soldiers suppressing it. As long as he doesn't send the army away in a wave, the hearts of various chieftains and old nobles will not dare to rebel... In other words, even if all the establishments of the Marshal's Mansion are withdrawn If it is lost, the people living on this land will be able to live in peace within three to five years.

And if the army is sent away by Liu Shizi in one wave, the Marshal's Mansion will collapse even if it is as stable as Mount Tai.

So it's a no-brainer to him, as long as he goes from victory to victory, nothing will happen.

The two chatted without a word, Liu Chengzong looked through the official documents, and approved letters and newspapers from all over the place, while Yang Dingrui explained what happened during these days.

From the top of the snow-capped mountain in Uzang to the Yili River at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains; from the desolate pastures in Golmud to the prosperous Guozhuang in Dajianlu, there is no place in the land he ruled that is not free from war.

Batur Huntaiji of Oirat prepared his army for war when he returned home. According to the agreement, the caravan transporting fur goods had already set off, and he wanted to go to Hehuang to purchase armaments to arm a battalion.

But in Dajianlu, the Changhexi Chieftain's territory over there is more lively, and every neighbor of Muya is scary.

In Shenbian and Lengbian, where he had blood feuds against his father in the northeast, there was Chieftain Tianquan, who was very powerful; Chieftain Jinchuan in the north had a small territory, but he was a small expert in building watchtowers.

The west and south are even scarier. They are the territory of Lijiang Chieftain Mu Tianwang, and they are huge monsters that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the entire Kangning Mansion. The most important thing is that these people like to rob.

Precisely to avoid this situation, Liu Chengzong rented more than 7000 mu of cultivated land on the border of Changhe West Chieftain from Muya. At that time, Kangning Mansion was in short supply of cultivated land for raising soldiers. It is necessary to provide military support for Chang Hexi to ensure the security of the territory.

In fact, originally, Muya's idea was to use Liu Shishi to frighten Mu Tianwang, but Liu Chengzong was a person who was fearless and managed extensively.

He left only one instruction to the army stationed in the west of Hexi: If you take one stone of food from me, you will take back ten stones; if you take one person from me, you will bring back ten.

In this situation, it is strange that the two sides can live in peace. The border between Changhexi and Litang has directly become a paradise for the southwestern bandits and northern Shaanxi rogues to further their professional skills.

Luo Rucai and Li Laozhen were fine when they were in Kangning Mansion. Although there were small frictions on the border, there were two battalions of regular troops guarding them, and no major conflicts occurred after all.

To be honest, when Liu Chengzong saw the official document mentioning the conflict between Litang chieftain and Changhexi chieftain, just two months after Luo Rucai and Li Laozhen were transferred back to Xining, he understood very well that Litang chieftain was arrested. Long suppressed anger.

The head chieftain of Litang is not a local, but the leader appointed by King Mu Tian after he conquered Litang. The Mu family fought all the way, and the meritorious general was awarded the territory. However, they were suppressed by Liu Chengzong, who went south from the north for so long. Everyone will be angry Had a cerebral hemorrhage.

Therefore, when the Marshal's army moved forward, Litang Tusi raised his troops and rushed across the Yalong River on the back. This is understandable, and of course the ending is also understandable for Liu Chengzong.

The Litang chief under the command of Mu Tianwang came and went quickly. He was buried last autumn. If the reincarnation goes well, this party should be almost one year old.

Although the two battalions guarding Kangning Mansion were transferred away, there was no Marshal Army and Marshal Min in Changhexi.

People are lazy, and only in the entrepreneurial stage can they have enough enthusiasm. For nomadic people, starting a business is to break grass; for farming people, starting a business is to expand the foundation.

There happened to be a group of such people in the west of Changhe. They were from Songpanwei, and they had been military households for generations. The long peace allowed the chief to occupy the land that originally belonged to them. Cheap serfs with enough food.

They still mastered the battle skills, but the treatment that they did not have enough food and clothing made their bodies unable to wear heavy armor, draw hard bows, or dance with long knives.

The guard that was born in glory has become a shackle, as if it has lost the meaning of existence. After years of wielding a hoe, the gloomy life cannot be free.

They set up a foundation in Xifan for the sake of the Generalissimo, and they waited for them to benefit from it. They rushed across the grass with their families, and what awaited them was the most bizarre life in the world.

A piece of land, a family, farming and raising horses, studying and practicing martial arts.

The Grand Marshal's Mansion just divides land and gives cattle and sheep to these ruthless characters who don't accept their fate, but the Banner Army knows that these lands are not easy to get, because this is the same bizarre life as the ancestors of the Songpan Guard Banner Army at the beginning of the establishment of the Guard.

The ancestors used two generations to clean up the 400-year-old mountains and rivers.

They also followed the most familiar way of life, and moved the Songpan Guards who had lost their officers to Changhexi, Luhuo, and Makang, and established 36 villages named after a certain hundred household guards and a certain general banner guard.

At this juncture, a group of people suddenly rushed to rob... For the Songpan Guard Banner Army, being robbed by the Baicao Fan is a common memory that will never be forgotten in this life. When they hear this word, they will feel stress reaction.

The flag soldiers asked wildly in a panic—is there any law of the king? This place is different from Songpanwei. There is no law of the king?

36 Wei Qijun's brows were filled with joy, and his smile gradually became abnormal as he drew his waist knife.

When the new magistrates of the Marshal's Mansion, Shang Tianhou Liu Jiusi and Kangning's fellow magistrate Liu Guoneng, arrived, they were surprised to find that the map of Kangning Mansion sent to them by the Marshal's Mansion was incomplete, and a Litang was missing.

In Liu Jiusi's report to Liu Chengzong, he described in detail the battle process of the 36 Guards Banner Army fighting for Litang. After discussion, the leaders of the 36 villages felt that they were short of troops. The Litang of Wuqianhu Village.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to mobilize military households to sell all the grain grown, exchanged it with Gama, the magistrate of Nangqian County, for silver, and sent people to various guards in Sichuan to hire people.

Some of them used rhetoric like Liu Chengzong recruited the Songpan Guard Banner Army, and some simply bought people from the chief of the guard of the Sichuan Xingdu Division. In the end, every household hired two or three Sichuan soldiers, and then asked Muya to borrow weapons and armor.

In this way, although the troops are slightly inferior and the combat effectiveness is slightly worse, the military quality of the Banner Army is better than that of the native soldiers who are good at looting houses.

They first fought a defensive battle in the west of Changhe... The chieftains in the southwest have a fragmented territory, and they have always fought small battles. The chieftains are all neighbors, and the wars are often caused by their own food and other people's guns, and there is no food. It's not fair.

As a result, Mu Tianwang's Litang chief was ambushed, and the plundering local troops were surrounded and eaten away. They wanted to retreat, and the iron chain bridge on the Yalong River was guarded again.

36 Wei took advantage of the situation to attack Litang, and Muya from the west of Changhe also mobilized the army to go out. He wanted to follow the banner army to pick a peach. The Mu Tianwang is an outsider.

The people in the 36th guard are easy for Mu Ya to deal with. After all, they all rent and plant his land. Speaking of which, we are also a family, so we can't discuss anything.

But the hired Sichuan army's desire for land is too strong, not to mention that he Muya wants to expand the territory, I am afraid that even if Liu Chengzong will come to Litang in person and want to take this land as his own, these Sichuan military households Neither agree.

Fortunately, Mu Ya was also open-minded. Seeing the situation, he simply didn't mention his own thoughts. He just helped the 36th guard stabilize the people in Litang, sorted out household registration, land and other things, and sent them directly to the Marshal's Mansion.

He comforted himself: You are the owner of the homestay, whoever is here is not doing business, you should stay out of your business, but this group of people still has to be managed by Liu Chengzong, so as not to drive away Mu Tianwang and another Tianwang.

When Liu Chengzong's perspective returned to Hehuang, his father got him a Yulin army.

In fact, it was the Haier camp he established in Xincheng. Liu Chengzong had no idea of ​​forming a special army for the war orphans in the Haier camp.

After all, when the Haierying was established, the Marshal's Mansion fought two big battles in Hehuang and Oirat in a short period of time, and reached the peak in terms of military strength and wealth in a short period of time. Too many can't afford it.

He originally intended to use Haierying as a talent pool for grassroots officials.

However, for those older children who have already entered the camp at the age of [-] or [-], in the center of the Marshal's Mansion where the generals dominate, all they see when they go in and out are military officers riding tall horses and holding wild goose swords. It is difficult for them not to yearn for this identity .

So when their enlightenment ended, even though Liu Chengzong gave Xincheng Academy seven subjects: law, literature, agriculture, engineering, commerce, medicine, and military, the children generally chose to enter the academy to study military affairs.

This is not surprising, after all, the military department of Xincheng Academy, the faculty is second to none in the world, the three former generals of the Ming Dynasty taught the lectures in person, the general who defeated them personally edited the textbooks, and the teachers who experienced the war took them to the On-site lectures on the battlefields of Hehuang and Heka Grasslands.

At present, the first batch of war orphans in the Xincheng Haier Camp has grown up, a total of 130 or four. Among them, 63 have entered the Baigong Bureau, Juerwan Market, and township security. Most of them are girls. military.

Their study time was only two years, but they also learned a lot of things that military officers should know. Being an official in the countryside has nowhere to show their abilities, so Liu Xiangyu planned to organize them into a Habayashi army, and each of them was awarded the Huben Soldier Order. , Put it next to Liu Chengzong.

I wrote this letter this time to ask Liu Chengzong if Huben's military honor is appropriate, because according to the regulations of the Marshal's Mansion, even the lowest third-class Huben military honor needs to serve for four years if he has not made any military exploits.

Liu Shizi raised his hand and replied: "Li Yu Linlang, yes; Huben Bingbing, no, it should be given to a first-class officer, and he will be taken to the Huben camp for use."

He knew what his father meant, to give the baby battalion a good start and cultivate a sense of honor, but on the one hand, the rules and regulations are the rules and regulations, and on the other hand, these people are obviously not good enough to require him to break the rules and break the rules.

Indeed, orphans are like blank paper. The Marshal's Mansion is the only place they can rely on, and Liu Chengzong is the only person they can rely on. There is a high probability that they will be very loyal.

But Liu Shizi felt that they were not the orphans of the Lion Camp. To put it bluntly, when he established the Haier Camp, he saw that the Hehuang War had caused great damage to the local area.

He is a warrior who came out to fight for the world, because the people who died of him are full of people, and the people who rely on him to live are also everywhere. He killed more people and saved more people. The stage where I owe someone, or who owes him.

In a military government, the treatment of soldiers is the top priority, and honors related to the soldiers' sense of honor are naturally the top priority.

A blank sheet of paper, which bankrupt farmers who ran out of northern Shaanxi was not a blank sheet of paper, even if they were in their prime, who followed him from northern Shaanxi to Qinghai, who was not loyal?
They have been bathed in blood several times on the battlefield. Except for some people with superior skills and luck who became generals, most of them are now generally serving as the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, and the Xiaoqi and Huben of the team. Those who made mistakes in the middle may still be What about the material officer?

Others followed him and left their hometowns as rebels. Why did he let a few children step on these people's heads, just because they had studied for two years?
Since the time of the Lion Camp, there have been special teachers in the battalion. Among the veterans at the level of Huben in the Marshal's Mansion, which one has not studied for two years?
Liu Chengzong prefers to give them a slightly lower military honor, and stay by his side to observe slowly. Among them, it will not be too late to promote those who are really talented in the future.

However, Liu Shizi never expected that when he finished writing the reply letter and opened the next official document, his eyes would be widened.

What the old man wanted was the honor of the soldiers, and the master of this official document was even more powerful, so he directly asked him for the throne.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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