stubborn thief

Chapter 528 Eat and drink
In August of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

Liu Chengzong opened up territories according to the map, and appointed officials and generals in Lanzhou City.

The Marshal's Mansion established the Monan Governor's Mansion, with its administrative seat in Guihua City, and awarded the Ming army's surrendered general of Guyuan, Yang Qi, the Monan Governor's Mansion, with the palm seal of the Dudu Mansion, making him one of the most powerful officials in the Marshal's Mansion.

Later, he served as the Tongzhi of the Governor's Mansion of Monan under the Bo Tutu of Chahar County, Wang Chengen, the former Ming Army's Lintao Commander-in-Chief, and He Huchen, the Ningxia Commander-in-Chief, respectively served as the Governor of Monan.

At the same time, four military towns were set up in Monan, with He Huchen as the commander-in-chief of Shuofang Town, Wang Chengen as the commander-in-chief of Wuyuan Town, Yang Qi as the commander-in-chief of Yunzhong Town, and Chahal Boyutu as the commander-in-chief of Yanmen Town. Military officer.

Everyone is very happy, except Ji Tutaiji who came back from Gansu.

To be honest, as the clan of the Khan Court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, before accepting this appointment from Liu Chengzong, Pitutaiji had been very happy.

Even in the Battle of Gansu, Zhang Tianlin robbed his horse and made a bit of trouble. In fact, he didn't have any more complaints except that Zhang Tianlin didn't do things properly and didn't treat him as his own. Money and horses were nothing but possessions.

What's more, in the end Liu Chengzong cut Zhang Tianlin's combat achievements in half and distributed them to Pitutaiji. In fact, it doesn't matter to Pitu whether they divide or not.

What kind of person wants the attitude of others?The person who cannot, will not, and is unable to realize his personal value has his value in the attitude of others.

Zhang Tianlin doesn't need attitude, what Zhang Tianlin wants is value, he wants to realize his own value, acquiring armaments by any means, beating people invincible on the battlefield is the way he realizes value.

Ji Tu doesn't have any way to realize his personal value. As the Northern Yuan clan, his background doesn't support him to realize his personal value. As a subjugated person, his spiritual world is empty. Without respect, he has nothing.

But on the other hand, Ji Tutaiji doesn’t care too much about having nothing. He has long since looked away, like Mao Usuhai and Wu Lianghai used to belong to his elder brother, and his elder brother is rich all over the world. .

So people live, happiness is the most important thing.

Happy day is a day.

He is not Lin Danhan, the elder brother who is dedicated to realizing the great revival of the Yuan Empire. He receives a salary in the Marshal's Mansion. From Dulan Mountain to Golmud is the pasture land of the Chahar Camp, which is enough to raise horses and herd sheep.

I still have seven or eight hundred elite cavalry under my command, and if I want to go out to battle, I will go to Golmud, and if I don’t need to go to battle, I will go back to Golmud. Are you satisfied?

What the hell should you be the commander-in-chief of Yanmen Town?

Furthermore, even if he is illiterate compared to Yang Qi and Wang Chengen in terms of Sinology education, it can be seen that the commander-in-chief of the Marshal's Mansion is much lower than the commander-in-chief of the Nine Frontiers of Ming Dynasty. .

In fact, in comparison, only Yang Qi, the governor of Monan, looked like the commander-in-chief of the Nine Sides, and the remaining three of them were basically large generals.

Because Daming's hanging soldiers are not controlled by the governor, but they are obviously controlled by Yang Qi.

Another point is that the names of the towns that Liu Chengzong chose are quite nice, but Jitutaiji is a living map of Jiubian. He has personally walked from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan. It sounds good, and he knows where it is.

Shuofang and Wuyuan are actually Wanhu in Ordos. He is familiar with Ordos, south of the Yellow River and north of the side wall.

The Great Wall forms a concave inverted triangle in this area. The two high points are Helan Mountain in Ningxia Town and Hequ County in Yulin, which separates the flat Ordos Plateau and northern Shaanxi with thousands of ravines.

The Generalissimo put the map here to open up the territory, and the Batutaiji who wandered in those places was full of wry smiles, because on the one hand, he knew very well that the mighty army prepared by Liu Chengzong, as long as he did not follow Huang Taiji Opening the film, there is no problem at all to dominate Monan.

As far as these four towns are concerned, they can absolutely control them, because in Ordos, the only place that can compete with them is the desert.

The topography of Ordos is the reverse of the word "he". The bottom anti-human shape is the side wall of the Ming Dynasty. In this era, there is a huge T-shaped desert. The south bank of the Yellow River is its horizontal line, and the vertical line runs through the entire Ordos Plateau.

There is no forest on that piece of land, only a few small seasonal rivers for nomadic herding. Compared with it, Golmud is a good place for nomadic herding. At least there are forests and rivers, especially in northern Shaanxi where the tributaries of the Yellow River run through. Paradise on earth.

The impoverished and small Yan'an Mansion had a conservatively estimated population of 60 during the Chongzhen period, which is not counting the Yulin Frontier Army, which was not productive, and the area of ​​Ordos ten thousand households was four to five the size of Yan'an Mansion.

Even in the best era, that is, when Altan Khan developed Fengzhou Beach, the Ordos Plateau was not developed, and the land as large as northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong was only [-] yuan.

Therefore, in the three towns of Shuofang, Wuyuan, and Yunzhong, the biggest problem to be solved in the past was not war, but survival.

Wuyuan Town is under the greatest pressure here, because after seeing the map drawn by Liu Chengzong, Ji Tutaiji is very sure that the entire territory of Wuyuan Town has been allocated to the desert by Marshal Liu, and there is no way to beat rabbits there.

The conditions in He Huchen's Shuofang Town are relatively better, with grazing and rabbits to hunt, and it's next to Ningxia, so it's easier to find a way.

The best condition is Yunzhong Town, which is not in Ordos. Yang Qi's territory is actually the core area of ​​the Tumote Department, and it is also the front set of Hetao, which is a very good place.

Adding these three places together, short-term survival is not a big problem in the eyes of Yang Qi, He Huchen, and Wang Chengen, so they are very happy.

Jitutaiji is different. Yanmen Town is the largest town drawn by Liu Chengzong, and a place as big as Ordos is divided into two towns, and one Yanmen Town is about the same size as Ordos.

To the east of Guihua City, it used to be the territory of Chahar. It is a good place for nomads. Not only can you nomad, but you can also farm land. It is so good that there is no need to consider the issue of survival.

It is reasonable to say that Ji Tutaiji should be happy, but in fact this is what makes him most unhappy.

The various Mongolian tribes stationed there now, such as Harqin, Naiman, and Aohan, are all his enemies. They used to be followers of the Chahar tribe.

When internal disputes continued and foreign enemies came in, the Mongolian tribes under the command of the Jurchen Huang Taiji attacked their own emperor. They called for the battle of the city and offered a big gift of "making Lin Danhan lose [-] troops" to Houjin.

He hated those Mongolian nobles deeply, not because they surrendered or rebelled. Surrender was a helpless move to save one's life.

This move is not glorious, but it is not shameful.

But when they did not surrender, they reported Khan court military intelligence to Hou Jin, attacked Khan court while Lin Dan Khan was fighting against Ming, and attacked their own emperor under the command of Huang Taiji-it was shameful.

National hatred and family hatred, Liu Chengzong's appointment as the chief military officer of Yanmen Town undoubtedly cast a layer of artificially created sense of fate on Tutaiji.

Under this kind of mission, even though Ji Tutaiji was unwilling to go back to Monan to fight with the same room in his heart, he was forced to be impatient to send troops.

Fang Zhenghua, who temporarily lived in Lanzhou, was cautious, and asked Jinyi Fanzi to observe the military transfers in Lanzhou, and to inquire about all of them, whether there were some or not.

The fans put on makeup, changed their appearance, and ran around in Lanzhou. The mission was completed smoothly. The personnel arrangement, specific time, and where the soldiers from all walks of life are dispatched are clearer than some middle and low-level officers in the Marshal's Mansion. .

Several times, the fans gathered secretly, complaining to each other about the lax management of the Marshal's Mansion. Except that the barracks could not enter, the inside and outside of Lanzhou City were like a sieve, and there was no news that they couldn't hear.

Correspondingly, Liu Chengzong's Habayashi Qi is also very clear about what the Jinyi fans talk, eat, and play every day, because behind each fan has its own anti-smuggling soldiers.

Liu Chengzong didn't intend to hide Fang Zhenghua's fact about such a big issue of dispatching troops. Who knew that he had heard Yu Linqi's report that Jinyi Fanzi was running around in Lanzhou City before he sent someone to inform him, so he simply didn't notify him. Let him find out for himself.

Liu Chengzong would like to see what this group of people can inquire about. After they have summarized the information they inquired, they will know that they are also on the list of troops sent by the Marshal's Mansion. What kind of expression should they have then.

Green salt smugglers are smugglers, and information smugglers are smugglers. In our Marshal's Mansion, anyone who has anything to do with smuggling is a felony, and it all falls under the control of the anti-smuggling police in Xining Mansion. A sentence of exile is not too much.

In fact, as the most comfortable unit in the Marshal's Mansion, anti-smuggling soldiers are not easy. Although they work harder, they get more rewards, but all-powerful soldiers have the opportunity to become generals, and anti-smuggling soldiers can be a team leader who manages ten people.

It's not that I can't go up, but I don't want to go up, and it's too easy to die if I go up.

The punishment for smuggling in the Marshal's Mansion is divided into four grades, which are exile, prison, hard labor, and beheading.

Although the law of the Marshal's Mansion stipulates that the fourth-class penalties for smuggling range from low to high, sometimes the regulations are one thing, and the execution is another.

After all, I have to take care of the food.

The Xining Mansion is not willing to let criminals go to jail. Mr. Liu, who came out of the drought, is extremely stingy with the government's grain storage. He is flustered when he sees that the warehouse is less than half a foot away. Is it a smuggler who cuts off people's money by giving food to prisoners?Eat shit and go you!

The army is also not willing to accept convicts. When Hehuang went to Golmud, all Han and Mongolian natives were counted, and there were 30 people at full count. There were only less than five people who were suitable for serving as soldiers in terms of gender, age, physical condition and intelligence. Ten thousand.

The law of smuggling into the army was created by Liu Chengzong at that time, and he was busy fighting the war afterwards, so he didn't bother to change it.

But Daming sent Huoluochi away, Huoluochi sent it to Oirat, and Oirat sent it to Chahar. The phenomenon of redundant soldiers in the Marshal's Mansion was much more serious than that of Song Dynasty. All men, women and children were counted. From Hehuang to Golmud, Two of the three came from military families.

In the entire Marshal's Mansion, Liu Chengyun was the only one who wanted to establish a sound conscription mechanism in Hehuang. The others, including Liu Xiangyu, Liu Chengzong, Yang Dingrui, Cao Yao, etc., from top to bottom, were all thinking about how to make the army take the troops out of the army. Such an excellent person is kicked out.

Still in the army?
Pure waste of food!
And those generals and officials were unwilling to be this villain, so the captain of the anti-smuggling army brought the smugglers to court, and the county magistrate often asked them for their suggestions on the sentence.

What can the team leader suggest? If you suggest exile, you have to be accepted by the general; if you suggest imprisonment, you have to be nodded by the county magistrate.

Therefore, the first two sentences will basically be skipped. Those who need to be sent to the army are recommended to be educated and released; Let it go quickly.

Anyway, if you turn it off, you won't turn it off.

For the leader of the anti-smuggling squad, firstly, he had to do it, the prisoner was indeed smuggling, not to mention that part of the seized goods was the wages of his brothers;

As far as the current population distribution of the Marshal's Mansion is concerned, the Mongols and Westerners can't do smuggling. Unless they can't walk or can't walk, the young and middle-aged are all soldiers in the pasture camp. They have their own pasture land and there is no chaos. The reason for running, check it out.

And there are very few Han people in the Marshal's Mansion, eight out of ten men who run outside, if things go wrong, they can go to the heaven to listen.

Anyone who came from Shaanxi couldn't find Liu Chengzong; the natives of Hehuang didn't know Liu Chengyun.

Today, someone smuggled two bolts of cloth for violating the law. According to the law, he should be sent to the army, and he was thrown to do hard labor in the Silver Cave of Jingou in Riyue Mountain. Tomorrow, Yang Dingrui will receive the news, and a hot trial will be held in the government office. After the trial, the team leader His head swished up the city gate.

Why bother?
This is the basis for the Marshal's Mansion's anti-smuggling soldiers to be more capable than Jin Yiwei, because they actually treat the smugglers under the Marshal's rule in a state of self-respect, confiscating the stolen goods when they are caught, and letting them go after arguing. , When he goes back, he still commits the crime, and when he turns back, he still arrests, focusing on a long stream of water and repeated GDP.

But for outsiders, the smugglers and anti-smugglers from the east of Lanzhou don't have this concern. The inspections are very enthusiastic, and they are usually caught before they cross the Yellow River.

If you catch them, skip the army and the prison, and arrange all the places on the road. Good people go to Nanshanbao Salt Brick Farm, normal people go to Haibei Quarry, and especially bad people go to Jingou Silver Cave, Riyue Mountain, for interrogation by the county government. Just a process.

They have always had extraordinary enthusiasm for the objects of work other than the people under the generalissimo.

For the next few days, Fang Zhenghua lived happily in Lanzhou City. He read the information collected by the Jinyi Fanzi every day. Qinghai Lake came over, and after two days, they got the corrected information. The one who came from Qinghai Lake was a group of armed soldiers.

At first, Fang Zhenghua was very frightened by the gathering of these troops. Later, he learned that the four commanders who were sealed off by the Marshal's Mansion were actually three former Ming commanders and a Mongolian king's brother, which made him ecstatic.

This information is enough to turn the tide of the battle. When they gain a firm foothold in Monan, the imperial court prescribes the right medicine to instigate them to rebel. This will not only solve the urgent problem in the north, but also achieve the achievement of resetting!
With such a huge secret in mind, the joy in Fang Zhenghua's eyes couldn't go away. On August [-]th, the whole Lanzhou was decorated with lanterns and festoons. The whole army sent pigs, sheep, milk and wine to the soldiers, and matched them with pocket money of two silver coins per soldier.

On August [-]th, the jubilant atmosphere disintegrated in an instant, and the whole Lanzhou became murderous again under the roar of war drums. The Generalissimo held a parade on the west city wall of Lanzhou and awarded Monan Governor Yang Qi with a badge.

The sitting banner is one foot six feet high and one foot long. The flag is black and green satin as the base and white silk as the border. It is painted with Tai Chi, eight trigrams and stars, decorated with beads and tasseled heads, with five-color belts and long streamers with leopard tails.

Beneath this big flag, there are banners, banners, rebels, peasants, Han soldiers, Fan soldiers, and Mongolian soldiers, which symbolize each camp.

Fang Zhenghua was accompanying him at the top of the city, and he also had a good time watching it. After all, in his eyes, the generals of the Marshal's Mansion hoped to use this parade to awe the court, and in his eyes, this parade was the future. The advance review of the frontier army in Monan Town of Ming Dynasty...sooner or later, he will be instigated to rebel, he is just checking in advance for the emperor.

Unexpectedly, just as the parade was about to end, Liu Cheng called him, and then a Yubayashi rider came forward holding a helmet and a crown, and a letter of appointment was photographed in his arms.

Fang Zhenghua did not react at all, and looked at the letter of appointment with a bit of sluggishness. It is true that the name on it is his, but the official position on it is not eunuch, supervisor of ceremonies, but the governor's mansion of Monan, the Grand Marshal's Mansion. Superintendent of food and council.

"Marshal, we are about to ask you to resign and return to the capital, what do you mean?"

"You already know this army very well, so I don't need to introduce anything to you. There is no rush to go back to Beijing. Besides, it's also on the way. Going back from Zhangjiakou is much closer than going from Qinghai. The road is safe— — Make the best use of everything, and make the best use of people.”

Liu Shizixin said that at this juncture, he couldn't trust Hong Chengchou who was squatting in Ningxia. Yang Qi's army wanted to reach Monan safely through Helan Mountain, so how could they do without an angel in their pockets.

"Don't worry, I don't need you to do anything. You just stay in the army and Zongbing Yang will send you to Zhangjiakou... Zongbing Yang, you won't let the food supervisor starve, will you?"

As soon as Liu Chengzong finished speaking, Yang Qi, who was standing by the side, quickly reached out and took Fang Zhenghua's official seal from the lacquer plate containing the clothes and armor, put it into his arms, and immediately clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, the commander. Bianzhen will ensure that Eunuch Fang has food and drink every day!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)