Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 75

The so-called "iron-made barracks" is best used to describe the Weisuo system of the Ming Dynasty.Guards were set up at key military passes, and camps were set up at Guanjin Ferry Pass, all of which had fixed barracks.David has a city wall, just like a city, such as Tianjin Wei near the sea, Weihai Wei and Taizhou Wei here.There are no common people in it, and all live in military households. Both officers and soldiers can marry wives and have children, and they can inherit their father's status and serve as soldiers for generations.Therefore, the term "flowing soldiers" did not apply in the Ming Dynasty.

During the battle in the southeast of Wenling, the Qi family army destroyed the most important lair of the Japanese pirates in the southeast of Zhejiang. Hu Zongxian seized the opportunity to deploy the next few battles, trying to wipe out the Japanese pirates who had plagued the coast of Zhejiang for many years.

This is the calm before the next battle.Apart from being on standby, the military households lived their lives with their wives and children as usual in the Acropolis. The sun was setting, and every house smoked, and children with bare buttocks chasing and running could be seen everywhere, and they would carry water and choose vegetables from time to time. A woman who scolds her own children.

Except for single soldiers, of course, they have no home, so they work together to eat big pot meals.The people brought by Qi Dazhu were all single and formed a team. At this moment, they were all squatting on the open-air lawn outside their barracks, each holding a bowl, surrounded by a big basin full of vegetables, eating while eating. Talk about women.

Qi Dazhu came out from a door of the barracks, walked straight to a circle of soldiers eating, picked up an empty bowl and a pair of chopsticks from the ground, and scooped up rice from the rice bucket.

The brothers who were eating looked at him.

A brother: "Hey! Brother, you don't want to eat your own food, so you came here to share our food."

Qi Dazhu scooped up his meal, and squatted down next to them: "I didn't marry her, and she didn't marry me, what kind of family?"

Another brother: "Having lived in the same house for several nights, isn't she your woman?"

"Shut your mouth." Qi Dazhu glared at that person angrily, "She slept in hers, and I slept outside."

Another brother: "Big brother doesn't like her?"

"Then give it to me." Another person immediately answered.

Qi Dazhu ignored them and ate his food.Just then the woman came out from the door and walked straight over.

Many pairs of eyes stared at her approaching with trepidation.

Her hair was combed clean, her clothes were washed clean, and the knife marks on her face were lessened. This woman looked more beautiful than the day she was rescued.

The woman walked to Qi Dazhu's side: "The meal is ready, let's go home and eat."

"You can eat yours. I will eat with my brothers." Qi Dazhu didn't look at her, and ate as usual.

The woman snatched his bowl and poured the rice into the bucket: "Go home and eat."

All the chopsticks stopped, looking at Qi Dazhu and then at the woman.

Qi Dazhu stood up slowly, also staring at the woman.

The woman's eyes were fixed just below his chin.

Qi Dazhu: "I told you, I don't want you to repay me any favors. I will send you away in a few days and leave a clean reputation."

The woman stood there stubbornly: "Go home and eat."

A soldier: "It doesn't matter if you want someone to talk about it for a meal."

"That's right." Another soldier said, "We won't be able to eat if you don't go." He said and put the bowl on the ground.

All the soldiers put their bowls on the ground.

"Okay. Force me." Qi Dazhu put down these strange words and walked towards that room.The woman followed him.

The soldiers immediately took up their bowls.

A soldier: "It's a bit strange, why can't this dry firewood burn?"

Another soldier: "I think the eldest brother still likes it in his heart, but he just hates that his family is looted by Japanese pirates."

Another soldier: "I don't read Confucius, my brother doesn't care about that."

A soldier: "I think so. Let's make a bet, I bet they will go to bed tonight." He took out a sling of copper coins from the skirt of his clothes and put them on the ground.

Immediately a soldier responded to him, and also took out a sling of copper coins and placed it next to his hanging copper coins: "I also bet they will go to bed tonight."

A soldier took out a sling of copper coins and put it in front of him: "I don't think I can go to bed tonight, so I'll bet you."

It was the military salary that had just been paid, and then many soldiers took out a sling of copper coins, some were placed on the bed side, and some were placed on the non-bed side.

As it was getting dark, the woman lit the lamp and put it on the table, then went to close the door, but she herself sat on a stool and watched Qi Dazhu eat.

"Ask me to eat, and you don't want to eat?" Qi Dazhu picked up the bowl and stopped there.

The woman just sat quietly on the side: "You eat first, and I will eat after you finish eating."

Qi Dazhu put the bowl back on the table: "I'll tell General Qi to ask him to arrange someone to take you away tomorrow morning."

The woman still sat calmly: "You can't drive me away."

Qi Dazhu: "I said, are you here to repay me or to torture me? I told you to leave but you didn't leave, I wanted to marry you but you didn't."

The woman: "I will follow you. One day you really want to marry me, I will marry you."

Qi Dazhu: "To marry is to marry, what's the truth?"

The woman: "I want you to truly believe that I have never been raped by Japanese pirates."

Qi Dazhu was silent.

The woman: "Let's eat."

Qi Dazhu: "To be honest, I'm a little blocked. Since you said no, I believe it is."

The woman: "This is not true faith."

Qi Dazhu: "Why do you really believe it? I just don't care."

The woman: "I care. I want you to be happy every day."

Qi Dazhu: "Then how can I make you believe that I am true?"

The woman: "You find a way to ask the Japanese pirates on that boat. The head of the Japanese pirates is called Inoue Shisanlang. He took a fancy to me and wanted to ruin me. I cut myself in the face. He then took other Japanese pirates to kill me. It was stolen away. None of the Japanese pirates left behind dared to touch me."

"No need to ask. I believe it all." Qi Dazhu picked up the bowl and started to gobble it up.

The woman's eyes were so bright seeing him like this.

He finished a bowl of rice in three or five mouthfuls, and the woman got up to take the bowl to serve him.Qi Dazhu put the bowl on the table, grabbed her hand and pulled her over: "I'll marry you now!" He picked her up and walked to the bed to put her down.

The woman looked at Qi Dazhu with shining eyes, and then looked at the door with a flash.

Qi Dazhu smiled, quickly untied his outer clothes, bare his upper body, strode to the door, and opened the door quickly.

Sure enough, there were quite a few people standing secretly by the door.

Qi Dazhu was shirtless and said loudly: "The one who bet on the bed wins, the one who doesn't bet on the bed loses. Get lost!"

Compared with Qi Dazhu's side, this place is too quiet.

All the people in the big tent withdrew, only Hu Zongxian sitting in front of the big case and Hai Rui sitting on the side were left.

Candlelight illuminated the tent, Hu Zongxian stared at Hai Rui, and Hai Rui also stared at him, silent for a moment.

Hu Zongxian: "Tan Zili has told me everything about you. To use a common saying, it is really 'I have heard a name for a long time, and it is like thunder'. You are not here today just to escort military supplies, are you?"

Hai Rui stood up: "Butang Mingjian, I have three things to ask Butang this time."

Hu Zongxian looked at him: "I heard that you came, I moved all the files and documents, and found a copy of "Tang Poetry" waiting for you here. After looking through it for an hour, I found one for you, give it to me I also found one myself. Haizhi County, listen to me read these two poems first, and then listen to you say those three things, okay?"

What Hai Rui hated most all his life was the word "false" in official circles. Seeing that Hu Zongxian didn't want to talk to him directly, but brought out some Tang poems, he immediately thought of Zhao Zhenji again.But after all, Hu Zongxian had a great reputation at that time, and he was supervising the battle at the front, not to mention that he had sent Tan Lun to help him at that time. Various reasons forced him to answer: "Please enlighten me."

"The poems of the ancients, what can I teach you?" Hu Zongxian stood up, picked up a book of Tang poems and opened the fold, "I found you a poem written by Gao Shi when he was the county magistrate. Gao Shi is a man who loves the people." Official, I’ll read it for you.” He picked up the book and began to read: “I’m a fisherman and woodcutter, Meng Zhuye, and I’ve been a leisurely person all my life. I’d rather be an official in the wind and dust than I can sing wildly in the grass. Xiaoyi has nothing to do, and everything in the public family is scheduled. It is heartbreaking to greet the officials, and it is sad to whip Lishu!"

After reading this poem, Hu Zongxian looked deeply at Hai Rui.

Hai Rui immediately felt from his sad tone and vicissitudes of life that this person was very different from what he had just imagined.In particular, he compared himself to Gao Shi, with the intention of "disgusting officials" and breaking the title on the word "love the people". Which poem did you find yourself?"

Hu Zongxian put down the book of Tang poems in his hand, picked up another book of Tang poems on the big case, and opened the folding page: "I like Cen Shen. He has a poem whose first four lines can express my will." He said and started to read : "Thousands of miles to serve the king's business, nothing to ask for. I also know the hardships of frontier fortresses, how can I seek for my wife!"

Only then did Hai Rui seem to understand Hu Zongxian's intention of reading poems to him first.Feeling emotional in his heart, he approached the question: "Can I ask the minister for those three things?"

Hu Zongxian smiled slightly: "You can ask, but I may not be able to 'teach'."

Hai Rui: "Listening to Butang's recitation of poems just now has made his heart clear. Can you understand that it is not the original intention of the Weaving Bureau and the Governor's Yamen to sell Shen Yishi's family property to Gui Xiangyi?"

Hu Zongxian nodded.

Hai Rui: "Why didn't the church stop it?"

Hu Zongxian: "I can't answer you."

This can no longer be asked.Hai Rui went on to ask the second question: "In May of this year, the sluice gates in nine counties burst, and the Ministry Hall executed Ma Ningyuan, Chang Boxi, Zhang Zhiliang, and Li Xuan on the charge of embezzlement of money for the construction of the river and caused the embankment to fall into disrepair. Have another secret?"

Hu Zongxian: "The case file of this matter has been handed over to the Ministry of Punishment. According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", if such a case needs to be investigated again, you must first ask the court for instructions and then go to the Ministry of Punishment to read the case file."

This is an unteachable teaching. Hai Rui was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Teach me."

Hu Zongxian: "What about the last one?"

Hai Rui: "May I ask the Ministry, Zheng Michang and He Maocai sentenced the Japanese Chief Shishiro Inoue and Qi Dazhu, a commoner in Chun'an, etc. for the crime of colluding with the Japanese, why did the Lord of the Ministry want to send someone from the governor's yamen to help me? rehabilitate the unjust prison?"

Hu Zongxian: "Since it is an unjust prison, it should be rehabilitated."

Hai Rui: "Since he has been rehabilitated, why not investigate to the end?"

Hu Zongxian: "Isn't Haizhi County investigating now?" At this point he changed the subject, "Those Li Shus who were rescued by you and "lashed by you" have now made meritorious service and have been incorporated into General Qi's barracks. Don't want to go see them?"

The reason why Hai Rui readily agreed to Zhao Zhenji's delivery of the military supplies was actually to gain a little understanding of the facts from Hu Zongxian.However, these three questions were asked like waves hitting empty walls. Hai Rui experienced the feeling of being enveloped by other people's aura for the first time, and was momentarily stunned.

"Come here." Hu Zongxian shouted out of the tent.

The captain of the bodyguard walked in.

Hu Zongxian: "Take a few people to Haizhi County to meet the officers and soldiers of Qi Dazhu's battalion."

"Yes." The captain of the bodyguard responded and turned to Hai Rui, "Hai Zhi County please."

The knocking sounded like a drum, accompanied by a loud roar:
"Open the door!"

"Open the door!"

The room was dark with the lights on.But the window paper had already been poked in the eyes by those soldiers, and the light from the barracks outside shone in through the hole, and it happened to shine on the bed again.Qi Dazhu hugged his woman on the bed, only pulled a sheet to cover his body, and ignored those knocking on doors and smashing houses and howling ghosts and wolves.

The woman pushed his arms from underneath and said softly, "Let them in?"

Qi Dazhu still straddled the woman's body: "You don't understand, they won't be hungry if you tell them."

"No." The woman supported him, "I am their sister-in-law, and I have to invite them on this day too. Get out of the way."

"That makes sense." Qi Dazhu still refused to leave, "But there is nothing, what should I invite them to eat?"

Woman: "Just go away."

Only then did Qi Dazhu slowly step away from her, put on his underwear, and pulled up the sheet to be blocked between the broken window and the bed.

The woman also got dressed on the other side of the sheet, and then lit the lamp.

Outside the door, I saw that the lights inside were on, the knock on the door became more urgent, and the roar became louder.

The woman brushed her hair again, and actually brought out a jar of wine and a basket of peanuts from under the bed and put them on the small table.

Qi Dazhu looked at her: "Where did you come from?"

Woman: "You paid for it. Let them in."

"Good lady!" Qi Dazhu praised before walking to the door.

The door knocked more and more urgently.Qi Dazhu stretched out his palm to resist the door with his dark force, pulled the latch suddenly, and immediately dodged his body.

Several soldiers fell into the door from the outside in an instant.

"Don't you want to see it? Let's see." Qi Dazhu looked at the few people who were climbing up on the ground, "I've never seen anything from a woman, come in!" After saying this, he looked out the door, unconsciously. turned pale.

Hai Rui stood among a group of soldiers!

"Master Hai!" Qi Dazhu knelt down, kowtowed once, stood up abruptly, and took a few steps to grab his woman, "This is Mr. Hai, my benefactor. Kowtow!" He said and pulled the woman Kneeling side by side, they kowtowed three times to Hai Rui, and pulled the woman to stand up again.

Hai Rui still stood by the door, looked at Qi Dazhu, and then at the woman.

Qi Dazhu: "Don't worry, benefactor, I, Qi Dazhu, will not do anything to embarrass you. This is a matchmaker made by General Qi, and the matchmaker is marrying!"

Only then did Hai Rui show a little smile, and Xu Bu walked in.

All the people were quiet, one by one quietly followed in.

The woman immediately brought over a stool, wiped the surface of the stool with her sleeves, and placed it on top of the table: "My lord, please sit down."

Standing by the stool, Hai Rui reached out his hand to dig in his sleeve for a while, but apparently there was nothing, then reached into the front of his shirt for a while, but obviously there was still nothing.Hai Rui, who was smiling at Huang Heqing, showed an embarrassed smile at this time: "I remember that there was a piece of silver on my body, why is it gone? Qi Dazhu, do you pay the salary?"

Qi Dazhu: "The salary was closed yesterday. How much does your lord want?"

Hai Rui: "Lend me two pennies."

"Yes! Yes!" Qi Dazhu immediately went to the bedside and lifted the mat, but there was only a penny on the bedside.He was also a little embarrassed, and looked at his wife: "Why is there only a penny?"

The woman: "You sent a total of two taels of money, don't you need money to buy these things?"

Hai Rui: "As long as you hang it, you can hang it. Give it to me."

Qi Dazhu presented the money to Hai Rui with both hands.

The other soldiers took out their money one after another:

"Master Hai wants money, we still have it."

"Take mine."

"Take mine."

Many hands stretched out towards Hai Rui with their respective slings of money.

Hai Rui: "I won't borrow yours." As he spoke, he took the hanging money from Qi Dazhu's hand and said to the woman, "This amount of money is not considered a congratulatory gift. You can tear a piece of cloth and make a dress. Qi Dazhu, I will Give it back to you."

Qi Dazhu lowered his head, the strong man had tears in his eyes.

The woman knelt down slowly and kowtowed to Hai Rui again.

Hai Rui couldn't help her, so he hurriedly said, "I kowtowed just now, don't kowtow anymore."

The woman kowtowed three more times, still kneeling there: "Dazhu is my benefactor, and your lord is Dazhu's benefactor. My lord, we will repay you for the rest of my life. Thank you for your congratulations." Pulled together and stretched up.

Hai Rui held the rope hanging from the money and gently placed the money in her palm.

At this moment, the room was extremely quiet, and no one made a sound. Some of those rescued by Hai Rui were in tears and hurried to wipe them off.

Hai Rui looked at Qi Dazhu, then at the soldiers in the room, and said, "On the day of great joy, you can't drink well even if I'm here. Work hard, kill the enemy and defend the country!" As he spoke, he walked straight out the door go.

The people in the room were stunned at first, but after saving themselves, they all rushed out.

In ten days, Yang Jinshui became a completely different person.Her black hair, which was normally combed shiny, was half white now, and was fluffy and messy. Both eye circles were dark and she kept her eyes wide open. She sat on the bed and refused to lie down.

As the saying goes, "There is no filial son before a long-term sick bed."The few godsons were tossed about by him for ten days and ten nights, and they were all exhausted at this time. No one was afraid to see him go crazy, but they had to wait for him because of their duties.Therefore, not only did they lose their usual hospitality, but they also showed their boss's impatience with cold faces. They stood there yawning and beating their backs, cursing him in their hearts for not dying soon.

(End of this chapter)