Chapter 722: Xuanfu
In November of the second year of Tianwu, Xuanfu Town.
Xuanfu Nanping Beijing, the rear control of the desert, the left strangles the danger of the mediocrity, the right embraces the solid in the clouds, it has always been a place for soldiers to fight, and it is also the throat of the Ming Dynasty to defend against the Mongols to the south.
A young man with messy hair stood outside the noisy Tunpu, listening to the familiar and unfamiliar local sound, and his nose was sour.
With tears in his eyes, he said to himself, "Father, mother, I'm finally back!" â
The young man is Cui Xiang, the lucky one who has escaped death from the battlefield in Liaodong many times.
After the Liaodong War in the first year of Tianwu, Cui Xiang went to Fushun Laozhai to find his father, but his father Cui Yingtai had been dead for two years.
The perennial escape experience on the battlefield made Cui Xiang touch the pockets of many "comrades-in-arms" lying on the ground and made a small fortune.
Cui Xiang, who was tired of his military career, reburied his parents, decisively left Liaodong, and wandered around the Great Wall, hoping to return to his hometown Xuanfu along the Great Wall.
Along the way, the fields on both sides of the official road are staggered, and although the crops in the fields are not very strong, the growth is also verdant and lovely, and they are uniform.
At a glance, it looked like the cavalry camp of the Tianwu Army that Cui Xiang had watched from afar.
Cui Xiang stood at the head of the field and asked the farmers working in the field: "Laojia, is this the boundary of Xuanfu Town, big brother?" â
The farmer who was working stood up, wiped the beads of sweat on his face, and said: "Young man, this is the boundary of Xuanfu Town, and you will reach the town by walking more than 20 miles. â
Cui Xiang said: "Back to the eldest brother, I am indeed from our Xuanfu, when I was seven years old, the whole family was taken captive by the Tartars and walked to Liaodong to make a coat, and the new emperor recovered Liaodong, so I was able to get out, thinking about returning to my hometown and returning to my roots in the future." â
The man sighed for a while after hearing this, and secretly said that this child is really pitiful, when Jiannu entered the customs from Xuanfu and took away too many Han people.
He glanced back at the green crops and looked up at the sun: "If you don't dislike it, if you don't dislike it, you can go to my house at noon to have a bite, and it is estimated that your sister-in-law will be ready at this time, go and rest, and finish the rest of the way." â
Feeling the simplicity of his hometown, Cui Xiang was a little moved: "Then bother the eldest brother." â
The meal was eaten quickly, but it gave Cui Xiang a great shock, what he didn't expect was that the current croppers had such a hearty lunch, with meat, noodles, side dishes, or the taste in memory, which made people feel down-to-earth.
When he arrived in the town, Cui Xiang was even more like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking east and west, how many times did he come back to this familiar place in a midnight dream, but he had already changed.
An appearance he couldn't even imagine, smooth roads, forest buildings, bustling crowds, people dressed plainly but clean and tidy, no longer have the appearance of a poor place.
People walked through the streets in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the crowd was more crowded than he remembered to be in the market.
From time to time, the storytellers on the street also talked about the heroic deeds of Yang Guozhu, the general of Zhenshuo, and the fact that Miss Yang was named a concubine.
Just as Cui Xiang was immersed in the beauty of his hometown, a rapid bell rang from the bell tower, warning people that an enemy was approaching.
Cui Xiang's face sank, and he habitually lay on the ground, only to hear the ground tremble slightly, and a large number of cavalry rushed in the distance.
Cui Xiang jumped up from the ground as if he had been pricked by a needle, and shouted: "Enemy attack!" â
The originally noisy street instantly fell silent, and after a while, the crowd dispersed and fled in all directions.
Cui Xiang, who had nowhere to go, found a corner to hide, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and one by one the fierce Mongols shouted excitedly and slaughtered into the town.
The afterglow of the sunset is no longer beautiful at this time, and the blood-soaked road is particularly strange against the backdrop of the sunset, as if it has come to the eighteenth layer of hell, mixed with crying and screaming, extracting Cui Xiang's memories of ten years of dust.
He didn't know why this group of Mongols, who were frightened by the Ming army, suddenly went south again, and he couldn't think much about it at this time.
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves approached, and life and death were in an instant, Cui Xiang saw the opportunity and pushed away the debris in front of him.
The Mongol in front of him was obviously taken aback, and his horse was also frightened, and he swooped forward, throwing off the cavalry on his back.
Cui Xiang grabbed a sharp wooden stick and pounced on it, riding on the man's body and stabbing it hard......
On the same day, the castles in Xuanfu Town were full of wolf smoke, and the various units of the Tianxiong Army of the Northern Army Governor Mansion stationed in Xuanda were frequently mobilized to encircle, suppress, and hunt down the Mongols who dared to go south to plunder.
When the Tang newspaper reached Nanjing, it caused Zhu Cihong's anger, and he really didn't understand, where did the Mongols in Guihua City get the courage to go south?
Guihua City is a city built by Altan Khan, the leader of the Mongol tribe stationed in Tumochuan, imitating the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, located in the yin of Daqing Mountain and the bank of the Yellow River, and is large-scale.
After the completion of the city, the Ming court gave her the name "Naturalization City", and the local Mongolians gave her a beautiful name, called "Kuku and Tun", which was also translated as "Hohhot".
Guihua City is located in the Tumochuan Plain, also called the Qiantao Plain, the late Ming Dynasty emperors DìDū wanted to recover this place, Chongzhen was still in a palace examination when he was the emperor, how to recover the Hetao?
How to recover? Spanking fucking, of course!
Don't talk nonsense if you can do it, after simply collecting the logistics budget of the cabinet, Zhu Cihong immediately issued an order, ordering the Northern Army Governor's Mansion to go out of Xuanfu and Datong Two Towns, attack from the eastern front, and the Western Army Governor's Mansion to go northeast of Shaanxi, lay down the Naturalization City, and recover the Hetao.
At this time, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, sent a secret report, saying that a large number of gentry had recently secretly colluded with the rebellion and resisted the new policy.
In the recital, Sun Chuanting asked for instructions to prepare a large-scale purge of the Shaanxi gentry.
Zhu Cihong carefully read the report, Shaanxi and other places are still small-scale homeless people in rebellion, mainly under the secret control of some gentry, disrupting social order, and some are the remnants of the Shun army who occupy the mountains as kings.
Some places in Shaanxi have been affected by disasters for more than 10 years, and the civil unrest is the most serious, and Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and others all ran out of here.
In addition to the homeless, the gentry also had deep roots, and these people could do anything in order to consolidate their own interests.
Even the Wanli Dynasty's city patrol imperial history adhered to the system set by Taizu to prohibit the killing of cattle, and was beaten into that appearance, what else could not be done in the face of interests?
Some peasants have never read a book and are the most likely to be fooled.
Based on the situation in Shaanxi and Shanxi, Zhu Cihong faintly felt that there seemed to be some connection between them.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Cihong criticized the red, and ordered Sun Chuanting to just let go and kill! Carry out a big cleanup, as long as you participate in the chaos, you will be killed!
Disobedience to the law, looting, and direct sentencing for hitting the board, starting in three years!
Those sentenced to three years were directly sentenced to 10 years, and sentenced to 10 years of exile to Dongfan.
Zhu Cihong just wanted to build the Guangxing Prison, get hundreds of thousands of millions of people, immigrate to the east, and forcibly renovate and build, and the remote areas relied on these people to build.