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Chapter 262 Addicted to sports, it's no wonder you're not tired!
The terrain of Chi Castle to the north is narrow and fragmented. Zhang Cheng and others escorted the carriage and traveled northward for nearly forty miles along the road west of the Baihe River, and they could already see Yunzhou Castle.

It is recorded in "Reading History and Fangyu Minutes" that "Yunzhoubao Town is [-] miles northeast. Originally Wangyunchuan, Khitan was often a place for hunting. Liao Lord Xianchu built Qiandi here, and later it was named Yuzhuang. Look for Wangyun County, which belongs to Fengsheng Prefecture. Jin Yinzhi. In Yuan Dynasty, Yunzhou was governed. In the second year of Yuan Dynasty, the county was abolished and kept in the state.

In the early Ming Dynasty, it was changed to Yunzhou Station.In the fifth year of Xuande, a city was built on Hexi Road.At the end of orthodoxy, it fell.At the beginning of Jingtai, it was recovered.In five years, new army cadre households were added.

In the second year of Longqing, the castle was built, and there was something strange on Wednesday.Fort is the thoroughfare from north to south.Five miles north of the fort, Rilong Gate, Qilu West Zhimaying, Northeast Zhidushi, and Zhen'an are the key points.Today, Yunzhoubao City is set up to guard the camp. "

Yunzhou Fort was first built in the fifth year of Xuande, with a circumference of three miles and 150 eight steps. The city has two gates, the east gate is called Zhenqing Gate, and the south gate is called Jinghe Gate.

Yunzhoubao City is a rectangle that is long from east to west and short from north to south. Because Yunzhoubao City is located in the north-south thoroughfare, many merchants gather to form a Guanxiang area outside the south gate, and an earthen wall is built to enclose it. Pack bricks.

Like other castles in Ming Dynasty, there are many temples in Yunzhou Fort, including Bodhisattva Temple, Huoshen Temple, Caishen Temple, Sansheng Temple, Dragon King Temple, Erlang Temple, Zhenwu Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Horse Temple and so on.

The curtain of the carriage was raised, and a delicate voice came: "Is this Yunzhou Fort?"

Zhang Cheng rode his horse and replied from the side of the car: "Exactly, there is a new army thousand households here, and there is a garrison who is in charge of guarding this castle."

"Ah, will the lord guard send two more beauties to the general?"

A slightly immature exclamation came from inside the carriage, and Zhang Cheng couldn't help laughing when he heard it, but he said provocatively: "Then I will try the fourth daughter of Ye Yu, hehe...hehe... ..."

After he finished speaking, he laughed wickedly, and there was no sound in the carriage.

At this time, Li Changsheng led dozens of cavalry towards the west of Yunzhou Fort, and when he looked closer, it was Wu Zhizhong who was riding the horse with one hand, accompanied by Chen Zheng and Wei Zhice.

When they came to Zhang Cheng's horse, they rolled off their saddles one after another, fell to the ground one by one, and bowed to Zhang Cheng. It was only then that he saw that the second commander of the right wing who had stayed in the capital at the beginning was also here.

After the salute, everyone looked at the carriage behind Zhang Cheng. They guessed whether Zhang Cheng had brought the old lady along, but after careful consideration, they felt that something was wrong.

If the old lady comes, it can't be just a carriage, and there must be many servants and servant girls, how can they not see any of them?
When everyone was thinking about whether to go forward and salute, Wu Zhizhong asked, "General, in this carriage..."

"Haha, in this car are my two pink beauties!" Zhang Cheng said without hesitation.

Everyone also laughed, but Wei Zhice hurried forward, took Zhang Cheng's arm, dragged him to the side, and then whispered: "General, how can Meng Lang be like this? The matter of Miss Ji from the old school is only a little bit now, and you have two concubines here.

If this matter spreads to the middle of the capital and is heard by the Miss Ji family, what will she think of the general, and if the master of Hanlin Ji hears about it, how will she think of the general? "

Zhang Cheng was taken aback when he heard the words, he enjoyed the singing and dancing all the way, but he forgot about this Miss Ji in the capital!
He didn't know how to answer Wei Zhice's question for a moment. At this moment, Chi Yuan, the garrison of Yunzhou Fort, led a group of subordinate officers and galloped towards him. Now, if Miss Ji's family is the general's food, no one else can take him away."

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In the post house of Yunzhou Castle, Zhang Cheng and all the generals were sitting in the hall. Apart from Yunzhou's garrison Chi Yuan, there were Zhang Cheng's thousands of household officials Wu Zhizhong, Chen Zheng, Wei Zhice and others.

Chen Zhong still didn't want to take his seat, he still stood behind Zhang Cheng with his hand on his waist knife, protecting Zhang Cheng like a guardian angel.

"General, Qianhutian Zhenshang has been notified to Cangshangbao. I guess he will arrive in less than an hour. I want to hold a banquet in the Chunfeng Tower in the castle to clean up the dust for the general. I wonder if the general will allow it?" road.

"I'm going to be on the road for days, and I'm very tired. Why don't I just prepare some food and wine in this post house, so that you and my colleagues can gather together, and there is no need to find another place."

Zhang Cheng directly declined Chi Yuan's invitation. He was indeed really tired. He was addicted to exercising at night and had a long day's journey during the day. It's no wonder he wasn't tired!
"Okay, I'd like to follow the general's wishes, I'll make arrangements for my humble position, and call the cook from the Spring Breeze Tower to take over the cooking. It's indeed much better than the chef in this post house." Chi Yuan is indeed a quick-talking person, Without wasting much time, he got up and went out to arrange the arrangement after finishing speaking.

Here, Zhang Cheng asked Chen Zheng again: "Chen Zheng, where are all the people in your department stationed now?"

"Returning to the general, the last general's cavalry has been dispatched. In the past month, they have explored the northern road almost all over the place. Now, there are still more than a hundred cavalry wandering outside." Chen Zheng replied.

Zhang Cheng nodded, and asked again: "Let's listen, what do you know about the situation?"

"General, there are many mountains on the North Road, and there is not much arable land, but the valley corridor along the Baihe River is easy to cultivate, but it is located at the border with many mountain passes, especially when the Tartars invaded the border in the ninth year of Chongzhen, so is the North Road. bear the brunt,
Nowadays, most of the high-class farmlands everywhere are occupied by the officers and generals, and the military households have no land to grow. Even if they work hard for the officials and generals, they can barely survive. After a year of hard work, they can't even fill their stomachs. Belly, and sell children, or throw themselves into slavery,

The military households in the forts of the guards fled seriously, and many cultivated lands were barren. Even those farmlands occupied by the officials and generals were lack of people to cultivate. , or dozens of servants, and some combat power. "

"Well, it's about the same as what I estimated. Old Wu, how is your situation?" Zhang Cheng asked Wu Zhizhong again.

"Return to the general, we are now stationed in the big school field in the west of Yunzhou Fort. The barracks there are seriously damaged. Fortunately, some craftsmen came with us, and some military households were recruited from the fort. Now they have been repaired. ,
Not to mention the current 1000 people, the empty space is very wide, even if another 1000 people are stationed, it is nothing more than building some new camps and defenses.

For these new troops, we practiced twice a day according to the general's instructions. We usually asked them to dig and fill holes in the school grounds, and we also made some wooden stakes for the children to move around. In the past month, everyone has become much stronger. "

(End of this chapter)