Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 155 - 153

The army is a place where the strong are worshipped.

It is also a place to believe in miracles.

In the past few years in the entire Beiping Metropolitan Division, few people have climbed from a small general banner to the position of a thousand households, so anyone who can do it must have something unique.

Late at night, Mengju looked out at the bright moon through the window.

He sighed softly.

Pity.

No matter how unique it is, it is useless to stand in the wrong team and go against the trend. How could Duke Liang forgive him lightly if he killed Chahan and Zhang Quan.

Now I can rely on Zhu Di's protection to be safe and sound, but what about in the future?

What's more, there is no need to wait for the future, Liang Guogong is not so patient.

The protection of the royal family is often the cheapest, as long as this protective shell is destroyed, Zhen Wu is not at their mercy? !
It's just a bit risky to stir up the wind and rain like this, but isn't that the meaning of his stay in Beiping.

In the middle of the night, Mengju sighed again.

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In the early morning, with the smoke rising from every house, Xiaoling Village quickly gained a bit of movement and vitality.

The sergeants who returned home got up early, and everyone wanted to take advantage of the rest to go to the fields to weed and weed more, or to cut more firewood for the family, so that after they left again, the women and children in the family could save some energy.

The sergeants who have unloaded their swords and guns are not special in this small village. Just like ordinary people, they live peacefully and ordinaryly for three meals a day.

Zhen Wu took his family and drove the carriage straight to Xiaoling Village.

There are more than 200 households in Xiaolingzhuang, all of which are military households under Zhen Wu. For Zhen Wu, this can be called his base camp.

The group of them stopped at the outermost house of Zhuangzi. This family was Li Erniu's family. Zhen Wu was still an old team member of Zongqi. Li Erniu was chopping firewood at this time. When he saw Zhen Wu, he ran away. Come out and push open the Chapman.

Zhen Wu waved his hand, and didn't exchange greetings with Li Erniu. He just asked Li Erniu to take a look at the carriage tied outside while he was chopping firewood. Then Zhen Wu led his family to the north of Zhuangzi.

There is a small hill in the north of Zhuangzi, on which all the people who died in the battle in Xiaolingzhuang are buried, including Zhen Wu's father. This place has been scattered with a few graves before, but now it is densely packed.

There is only one small road to get here, but because there are few people walking all year round, not only there are lush weeds poking out on both sides of the road, but there are also some strong grasses growing in the middle of the road.

Heavy dew in the morning.

Holding Xiao Qi in his arms, Zhen Wu swept the weeds while walking, and after a while, his trouser legs were wet.

For things like going to the grave, usually the men in the family need to come, and the girls don't have so many demands, so this time out, among the few younger sisters in the family, only Xiao Liu is playful and followed.

Xiao Liu didn't think it was too heavy, he ran around in the grass, looking energetic, and the third child, who was carrying the sacrifices to the grave, reprimanded Xiao Liu from time to time when he was dissatisfied.

And Zhang Yuqing walked in the front, not saying a word, with a bit of sadness.

After arriving at the small hillside, Zhen Wu found his father's grave and walked over it. It took only two years for the grass to settle on the grave. Zhen Wu pulled it out and threw it aside. Follow Zhang Yuqing and say.

"Mother, I want to engrave a stele for my father. While the old people in the village are still here, ask about my father's past deeds, and find someone to write an inscription on it, so that future generations can know about their ancestors."

My family used to be poor and couldn't afford a stele, and I thought it was completely unnecessary for an ordinary family, so I just erected a wooden board, but after two years of wind and rain, the handwriting has begun to blur.

Zhang Yuqing's eyes lit up immediately, and he couldn't hide his excitement, but he said without confidence: "Is this appropriate? Isn't it too ostentatious? No one else has it. If we just fix this, will it cause people to gossip? "

"What are you talking about? The other family is not a thousand households." Zhen Wu said indifferently.

Zhang Yuqing was always confused about the fact that his family was already a high-ranking official. Hearing Zhen Wu's embarrassment, he couldn't help but glared at Zhen Wu. Move, but still a little embarrassed to say.

"Your father never likes to show off in the past, will your father not like it?"

"I'm in charge of the house, I'm the one to decide this matter."

Zhang Yuqing swept away the sadness just now, with excitement in his eyes, sat in front of the grave, and began to mutter: "Father, have you heard that our boss is going to carve a monument for you? You didn't expect that, the boss is getting more and more serious now." The more promising you are, the more you used to worry about suffering me, but now I don’t suffer at all, I eat well, I wear good clothes, and there are people who take care of me, it’s just that you left a little early, and you can’t see how the boss is now promising... "

Seeing Zhang Yuqing's gratified look, Zhen Wu couldn't help sighing, and he didn't expect that just erecting a monument for his father would make his mother so happy, so he suddenly thought in his heart that when the head-turning officer grows older, what will he do for him? My father tidied up a tomb and gave my father a big house to live in.

Zhang Yuqing's rambling words seemed to be sent to the underworld with the morning wind.

Zhen Wu's third son and the others knelt aside and placed the sacrifices, and slowly began to burn some paper and ingots.

After staying for more than half an hour, Zhen Wu pulled Zhang Yuqing up and returned.

There is an old house of his family in Xiaolingzhuang, but it has been abandoned for many years. Zhen Wu has almost no memory of it, but Zhang Yuqing and his father lived here, and now it is hard to come here, and I want to see it .

Zhen Wu also let Zhang Yuqing follow his mother to see old things and recall the past, because Zhen Wu also saw that Zhang Yuqing probably wanted to come to Xiaoling Village for a long time, but these thoughts were not good to talk to the elders and sages, I have been waiting for Zhen Wu to come back.

Xiaoling Village was already bustling at this time, those who went to the ground, those who carried water, Zhen Wu and the others walked for a while, and Zhen Wu was surrounded. Zhen Wu had no choice but to let the third child take Zhang Yuqing to see Wu Si People, I chatted with the dealers.

While chatting, I suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance.

"Yo, this is developed. You don't look down on me as a cousin anymore. What's the matter? Have you forgotten how my family helped your family in the past?"

"Talk, why are you dumb? Can't you tell what's wrong?"

Immediately afterwards, several women's voices rang out. It sounded like they were all complaining, both old and young, and their voices were raised deliberately, as if they were afraid that the neighbors would not hear them.

Zhen Wu was curious, looked in the direction of the voice, and then frowned. If he remembered correctly, the source of the voice should be Cao Xiaoman's house.

"What's going on over there?" Zhen Wu asked aloud.

The others looked at each other, wondering whether they should speak or not.

Zhen Wu raised his eyebrows and said, "Li Erniu, tell me."

Li Erniu didn't expect that he would be named, and his face was a bit embarrassed, but under Zhen Wu's gaze, he gritted his teeth and said, "You let Cao Xiaoman choose your own soldiers. Everyone knows that soldiers are a good job. It’s easy to get promoted, so many people run to Cao Xiaoman’s house these days, and the one who was talking just now was Cousin Cao Xiaoman, especially because he runs frequently.”

Zhen Wu nodded, without moving his face: "How did Cao Xiaoman do it?"

Li Erniu shook his head and said, "I don't know. Anyway, it seems that no one has been confirmed yet."

Ah.

So much ink.

Zhen Wu knows that as his position gets higher and higher, more and more people will appear behind him and benefit from him, whether it is future or profit, more and more people will share the cake on him .

Just like he followed Zhu Di.

Zhen Wu doesn't like this structure very much, but I have to say that the loyalty of this structure is very high, and it is also a structure that is more applicable in this era. They will not let Zhen Wu fall because of their interests, and Zhen Wu will not He will try his best to assist Zhu Di because of his title.

Therefore, Zhen Wu also knew that the cake should be divided generously.

Since he asked Cao Xiaoman to choose someone, he was giving Cao Xiaoman a cake. This is the benefit Cao Xiaoman got from protecting his family back then, and it is also Zhen Wu's trust in him.

Cao Xiaoman can confidently choose people close to him, there is no need to avoid suspicion, after all, they are all from Xiaolingzhuang, and the whole family is here, so there is no need to say loyalty.

But there is one thing, Cao Xiaoman needs to understand, the premise is that he can suppress the person he chooses.

Because the personal guards involved protecting Zhen Wu's family members, they had a heavy responsibility, and Cao Xiaoman's lack of prestige should not cause someone to be negligent.

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