A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 198
After Lu Xiangsheng's memorial, Emperor Chongzhen rejected Lu Xiangsheng's requests one after another, ignored the objections of the officials, and took him away from his feelings. He was not allowed to go home for the funeral, and kept mourning for his deceased father for three years.

Around the 11th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen had dealt with situations such as Lu Xiangsheng many times. This was the case with Yang Sichang, and the same with Chen Xinjia.Not only that, Emperor Chongzhen also decided to transfer Lu Xiangsheng to be Minister of the Ministry of War based on Yang Sichang's recommendation, and Chen Xinjia, the former governor of Xuanfu Town, took over Lu Xiangsheng's post as governor.

Since Chen Xinjia returned to his hometown in Sichuan for the funeral at the beginning of the year, Lu Yuan was too late to take over as governor, so Lu Xiangsheng continued to serve as governor of Xuanda.Not being able to go home for the funeral, Lu Xiangsheng felt very sad, but the country was troubled, so he could only endure the grief in his heart and continue to serve the country.

After Chen Xinjia went home for the funeral, Liu Yongzuo used to do the government affairs of Xuanfu Town. Now that Chen Xinjia has been promoted to governor, it is a question of who will take the position of governor he vacated.During the court push, there was a fierce battle, and finally Mr. Ji Shiwei, the Huailong soldier of Xuanfu Town, won the post of governor of Xuanfu Town.

Ji Shiwei is backed by Lu Xiangsheng, and he also has outstanding political achievements. In the seventh and ninth years of Chongzhen, his soldiers and horses on the East Road have won, and they are all hard-working real slave leaders. Compared with other candidates, Of course, there are many advantages, and the Holy Majesty also pays attention to him, so it is not surprising that he won.

After returning from the capital, Governor Ji's family moved to Xuanfu Town and lived in a wider governor's yamen. After several days of welcoming and seeing off, his subordinates picked up the wind and washed away the dust, making Governor Ji full of ambition and proud of the spring breeze.

After the day's discussion, Ji Shiwei turned back to the backyard of the governor's yamen, where he and his family lived.

When he came to the backyard, Ji Shiwei took off his official uniform and hat, and changed into a set of casual clothes, with a scarf on his head, a royal blue straight gown, and red shoes on his feet.Ji Shiwei was already refined and elegant, with a long beard and long hair. In addition, after he became the governor, he paid more attention to official appearance and decency, and he was also gentle to his servants, making him feel like a spring breeze.

After changing his clothes, Ji Shiwei went straight to the back garden. The weather was hot at this time, but the governor's mansion had been managed by successive governors. The pavilions, pavilions, rockeries and small ponds inside had the flavor of a garden in the south of the Yangtze River.It is midsummer, and the back garden is also breezy, which is a wonderful place to live at home.

Under an old locust tree, Ji Shiwei saw his wife was sitting under the tree listening to music, and a few servant girls were fanning her, looking very happy.

Seeing Ji Shiwei approaching, his wife stood up and said, "Master."

Ji Shiwei smiled and said, "Madam, where is your daughter?"

His wife, Mrs. Chu, said with a smile: "In Xiulou, our daughter has stayed in Xiulou since returning home last year. I just said, my daughter is the most well-behaved and sensible, old man Wu Zhi Rude, it's a pity for that child Wu Lue, the concubine is quite pleasing to his eyes."

Ji Shiwei said unhappily: "What happened in the past, why are you still talking about him?"

Wu Zhi, the magistrate of Yanqing Prefecture, blatantly resigned, which greatly discredited Ji Shiwei. Even if Wu Zhi sent his son Wu Lue to apologize afterwards, the marriage would be ruined.

Chu said with a smile: "Yes."

She said: "Fortunately, this family is also good. The second young master of Weizhou Zhizhou has both good looks and good looks. He passed the provincial examination last year, so he is worthy of our Jiaoer."

She sighed: "Thank God, Jiao'er is finally getting married, and it also puts an end to my mother's worries."

Ji Junjiao is 19 years old this year, and she was considered an old lady in the Ming Dynasty. Although she was picky, she still hadn't made a decision.But at this point, no matter what Ji Junjiao thinks, Ji Shiwei and the Chu family can't stand her anymore. They have chosen a marriage for her, which is Yang Guanbi, the second son of Yang Zhizhou in Weizhou, who is scheduled to get married on the ninth day of July this year.

Chu was emotional for a while, and said to a servant girl beside her, "Go, go and call the miss."

The servant girl responded respectfully, and then went to Ji Junjiao's embroidered building.

Not long after, the servant girl rushed over in a panic and shouted: "Master, madam, something is wrong, something is wrong..."

She was out of breath, seeing Ji Shiwei and Chu frowned, Chu yelled, "Why are you yelling, miss?"

The maid said: "Little... the little lady is gone."

"what?"

Ji Shiwei and the Chu family were taken aback and stood up.

Indeed, her daughter disappeared again, and she left with her two personal maids, Butterfly and Dragonfly, as well as four guards from the house.

Looking at the empty embroidered building and the handwriting left by his daughter, even if Ji Shiwei paid attention to official appearance, he was furious at this time: "Unfilial daughter!"

The Chu family cried loudly: "The war is in chaos, my daughter is away, will something happen to me..."

Chickens and dogs jumped around in Ji's mansion, turning into a mess.

……

In June of the 11th year of Chongzhen, wheat harvesting began in various places in Baoan Prefecture.

Although the weather was hot and the soldiers were sweating profusely when harvesting, everyone’s faces were filled with joy. With the cattle and waterwheels, despite the severe drought, the crops grew well this year, with about one stone per mu. harvest.

In particular, these newly reclaimed fields are free of grain this year, and all the harvest is their own. Each of them has [-] acres of land and dozens of shi of grain and rice to take home. Seeing that the rice tanks in the house are full for the first time, The crowd couldn't contain their joy.

There were laughter and laughter everywhere in Baoan Prefecture, and voices of gratitude were everywhere.Wang Dou's prestige reached its peak in Baoan Prefecture.

During these hours, Wang Dou was even more busy running around. Seeing that the battle was not far away, everything had to be fully prepared.

The workshops of Shunxiang Fort worked overtime to produce firecrackers and iron armor, and the craftsmen in the woodware factory were also working hard to build chariots. Zhao Xuan had already brought all the gunners from Zhoucheng to Shunxiang Fort for training, and selected sergeants from various ministries to supplement the cannons. team to go.Li Guangheng is also working hard to train his cavalry.

The development of the matter was fairly smooth, and everything went according to Wang Dou's plan.

Wang Dou's three generals, except for one who stayed in Baoanzhou City and Shunxiangbao in turn, took the rest to Baoding Mansion and Zhending Mansion to suppress bandits. Outside of Bao'an Prefecture, most of the rest were stored in selected reliable places in Yizhou, Laishui, and Xingtai to store grain and grass for this year's war.

The two teams in Baoan Prefecture basically dispatched at night. Under the leadership of Wen Daxing and others, they traveled around Yizhou, Baoding Prefecture, and Zhending Prefecture to collect information and map.Although these Yebushou didn't understand why the lord of the guard sent them so far away, but they obeyed the lord's order, and carried out the order without hesitation.

That night, Wang Dou looked at a piece of information in disbelief. According to Yeburei's investigation and the news from the Han Dynasty, Xu Yue'e and others, who fled from Shunxiangbao in the tenth year of Chongzhen, appeared in Zanhuang County of Zhending Prefecture .

In the Taihang Mountains where Zanhuang County of Zhending Prefecture intersects with Leping County of Shanxi Province, Xu Yuee and others occupied a stockade. It was heard that there were thousands of horse thieves under her command, who robbed houses and houses everywhere, and they were called Mrs. Xu.

Wang Dou was stunned by this news for a long time, when suddenly a personal guard came to report, saying that it was the young wife of Zhizhou Mansion asking to see her.

(End of this chapter)