Ming Zuo

Chapter 215 Receiving
It's time to set off.

Xu Ruolin helped Zuo Menggeng pack up and fiddled with her, her eyes suddenly turned red.

Zuo Menggeng was very nervous.

"what happened?"

Xu Ruolin sat down slowly, but raised her head, always looking at the person in front of her.

"Poor bone beside the Wuding River, still a person in a girl's dream in spring. In the past, when I read poems, I only sighed softly. Only now do I know that it is the torment of my heart."

Only then did Zuo Menggeng understand, and he couldn't help smiling wryly.

"My sister, it's not as serious as you think. This expedition is not dangerous, just like traveling."

Xu Ruolin just thought he was coaxing herself.

"Nonsense, swords and guns have no eyes on the battlefield. You...you have to be careful, don't..."

When you travel far, someone cares about you, and this feeling is really heartwarming.

Zuo Menggeng didn't explain any more, just said softly: "Wait for me to come back."

Xu Ruolin couldn't bear it anymore, she saved his head suddenly, and offered her cherry lips.

This kiss was almost forever.

The girl didn't let go until the kissed Zuo Menggeng's lips hurt.

Zuo Menggeng touched her hair, turned around and walked out.

In the barracks, more than [-] soldiers had already been fully equipped. When Zuo Menggeng appeared, the whole army set off.

The atmosphere of this expedition was completely different from the previous ones.

The Bailian sect bandits who caused chaos in Shandong caused great headaches for the court.But in the eyes of the new army, it was really nothing.

Zuo Menggeng told Xu Ruolin that this was a trip, but he was not wrong.

Sun Yuanhua was also in the starting team, watching the neat line of people winding forward with four people in a row, deep in his heart, there was another turmoil.

This kind of army has never been seen in the imperial court.

Even the strong army of Guan Ning he saw in Liaodong was far from it.

The reality is so cruel.

Just by looking at a marching column, you can see whether an army is strong or not.

In the past few days, Sun Yuanhua has been struggling with whether he should tell the court everything about this place.

If you don't tell, as a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, you are deceiving the sage, protecting and plotting rebellion, what is the difference between rebellion and rebellion?

But if the report is made, under the thunder of the court, not only Zuo Menggeng will be unlucky, but so many friends he has known will also die.

Especially the respected teacher Xu Guangqi will also be implicated, and blood will flow like rivers.

But seeing the power of the "Dongchang Association" today, Sun Yuanhua's thoughts were immediately wiped out.

How many court soldiers and horses are needed to destroy such a powerful army?
If Zuo Menggeng was provoked and chose to join forces with the White Lotus Sect and the Shanxi bandits, the northern land would immediately fall and there would be no more peace.

Irony?
The reason why he didn't dare to report after seeing someone conspired was because he was afraid that the court would not be able to defeat him.

Under this state of mind, Sun Yuanhua had no choice but to choose to turn a blind eye.

Just muddle along, sit and see what happens next.

What Zuo Menggeng didn't know was that Sun Yuanhua's idea was actually to find a way for himself.

Because of this governor of Denglai, Sun Yuanhua didn't want to be the governor.

When the imperial court appointed him, he offered to resign.The excuse used is also very simple, poor health.

In the memorial, Sun Yuanhua also elaborated on the issue of Denglai.

However, Chongzhen refused to allow it, so Sun Yuanhua had no choice but to take office.

The army went out, and information was sent in a steady stream immediately.

When resting in Gaotang that night, Zuo Menggeng held the first combat meeting.

As governor of Denglai, Sun Yuanhua attended the meeting.

This is also Zuo Menggeng's intention, to let him experience the difference of the new army.

"This time, we will go to Yucheng, along the Tuhe River to Qingcheng, and then to Denglai via Le'an. It is expected to take about five days. In various places along the way, if we encounter Bailian rebels, we will wipe them out on the spot."

The officers received the order and immediately marked it on the map.

The map of Shandong, before and after Houying went north to Gyeonggi, has never stopped surveying and mapping, and now it has been more than half completed. It can be regarded as a relatively complete regional map mastered by the new army.

Sun Yuanhua stood aside, looked at it for a while, and found that he couldn't understand it at all.

However, he questioned Zuo Menggeng's marching route.

"We can go to Jinan first, it's better to break the siege of the provincial capital."

Zuo Menggeng shook his head and informed him of a situation.

"Received information, bandit leader Li Mengming's [-] men are already besieging Laiyang. There is no magistrate in Laiyang now, and there is only one county magistrate with a squire guarding the city. If we delay, Laiyang will be destroyed. Once Laiyang is lost, Laixi Dengzhou, Zhaoyuan, and Huang counties are all hard to survive. Once the connection between Dengzhou and Laizhou is cut off, Dengzhou will become an isolated city, and it will be difficult to protect itself.”

Sun Yuanhua was taken aback. He didn't expect that Dengzhou Mansion would be lost before he took office as the governor.

Originally out of good intentions, he felt that borrowing Shandong's soldiers and horses, it would be better to go to solve the crisis of Jinan Mansion first, so as to repay the favor of Shandong Governor Shen Xun.

But now there is no other way, my hometown will be gone, so I can't care about these.

At noon the next day, the army rushed to Yucheng.

This place was breached by the White Lotus Sect before, but when they heard that the Ming army from Dongchang Mansion was coming, the White Lotus Sect disciples fled.

Zuo Menggeng called some people to discuss the matter.

"I brought you out this time to let you exercise your administrative ability. Starting from Yucheng, you will take over. I will leave one hundred soldiers for each of you. Your task is to ensure the stability of the recovered county. At the same time Take this opportunity to grasp the local population yellow book, land and people's conditions, the distinction between rich and poor, mineral hydrology, understand?"

The difference in the new army's expedition this time is that they brought more than [-] administrative personnel.

These people were drawn from Zuozhuang and various factories.

These people had already received preliminary administrative training from Li Banghua, at least they understood the things that need to be paid attention to in order to control a place.

In ancient times, it was not very difficult to be a local official. You only need to master two things.

One is the yellow book and the other is tax collection.

It doesn't matter whether the county magistrate's order can go out of the county, after all, the imperial power doesn't go to the countryside.

The yellow book is the population, and the tax collection is money and food.

If these two things are done well, according to the standards of the imperial court, it is obviously a good official.

According to Zuo Menggeng's standards, these people are certainly not enough to govern the local area.But this time it's not really occupying the territory, it's just taking advantage of the opportunity of suppressing bandits to understand the real situation in various places, so it doesn't matter.

"You guarantee the safety of all the counties and cities, and you can withdraw after the order of the imperial court arrives."

It is not yet time for the new army to attack the city, Zuo Menggeng does not want to stimulate the nerves of the court.But it's okay to maintain local law and order while the newly appointed local officials have not arrived, right?
Basically, in the counties that were captured by the Bailian bandits, the officials were either killed or ran away.

After the recovery of the new army, there was no one to make decisions in the local area, and it was a mess. It was just a good time for these administrators to practice their hands.

"Yin Rongkang, you are in charge of Yucheng."

Zuo Menggeng started ordering.

Yin Rongkang was also one of those scholars at the beginning, and later he assisted in the management of Zuozhuang under Chen Zhi.Zuo Menggeng saw all his abilities, he was diligent and down-to-earth, and he was very good at mediating disputes, so he was brought out for training this time.

Yin Rongkang was very happy and quickly accepted the order.

He was originally a scholar, but after his family was destroyed, he wandered around.Not to mention fame and fortune, I don't even know if I can survive.

I didn't expect to be able to manage a county now.

Although it was only temporary, since Zuo Menggeng made this arrangement, I'm afraid it might become a reality in the future.

Looking at the more than one hundred new army soldiers left to him, Yin Rongkang was full of courage.

"Let's go, go and count the yellow books first, and then punish the youngsters who commit crimes."

The new army marched and fought in this mode.

When they arrived in Qingcheng County, the bandits entrenched here did not run away.Seeing the officers and soldiers, they immediately closed the city gates and prepared to defend to the death.

After Zuo Menggeng got to know it, he realized that the bandits here were not from the Bailian sect, but the habitual bandits from the nearby mountains.

When the White Lotus Sect rebelled, they waved the flag and shouted.Later, the White Lotus Sect went to attack other places, and this group of people stayed behind and ran amok in the county town, taking advantage of the common people.

For such a person, Zuo Menggeng didn't have any good feelings for him, so he directly ordered to attack the city.

The army blocked the four city gates, regardless of priority, and directly besieged.

Sun Yuanhua originally thought that Zuo Menggeng's actions were a little underestimating the enemy, but when he saw the soldiers of the new army beating to death the bandits who were about to shoot arrows at the top of the city a hundred steps away, his eyeballs almost fell out.

These days, he has been in a mess, so he didn't notice any difference in the weapons of the new army.

A gun that can accurately kill enemies from a hundred paces away...

Sun Yuanhua couldn't help feeling thankful that he suppressed the idea of ​​reporting.

"Look, uncle, this is my new army musket."

Zuo Menggeng took the musket from a soldier and handed it to Sun Yuanhua for appreciation.

As for the siege battle...

Well, the new army has entered the city.

It took less than half an hour to conquer Qingcheng County.The more than [-] bandits entrenched in the city were all wiped out, not even taking prisoners.

Anyway, looking at the tragic situation in the city, you can see that none of these people is innocent.

outside the city.

Sun Yuanhua could not calm down for a long time watching the new army muskets.

Especially after seeing Zuo Menggeng give him a demonstration, he felt more and more that the Ming Dynasty seemed to be drifting away.

(End of this chapter)