Chapter 393: In front of Zheng Xuan's Mansion
Those noble families, landlords and wealthy families in Beihai City, etc., they actually have no choice.
In such a world, if you still want to live a peaceful and happy life, you must have a certain ability to protect yourself.
But where does their ability to protect themselves come from?
They have also seen it, the Yellow Turban Army will not care about you, they must really let them break through Beihai City, that is not to say that even if they rob your money and food, even if the woman robs you, it is really possible to slaughter the city.
How many places have been plagued by the Yellow Turbans since the Yellow Turban Riots the previous year? How many people were slaughtered?
This kind of world is really not a reasonable world.
Of course, or will say, we have money and food, can we form our own people to protect ourselves?
Okay, of course this is possible, but now is not the time of the year ago, when the imperial court lifted the ban, no longer the party, and ordered the righteous people of the world to fight against the Yellow Turban Army.
The so-called birds are good and the bows are hidden, and the foxes and rabbits are cooked by dead lackeys. The Yellow Turban Army has been defeated, and the Rebels have been disbanded. Everyone knows what the imperial court is afraid of.
Who dares to recruit privately now? Dare, of course there are many people who dare, such as Liu Xian?
In fact, there are really many people who dare, but those people are either the remnants of the Yellow Turban, bandits and robbers in some places, or some people who openly rebel. In addition, there are some people with certain excuses who are secretly recruiting.
For example, Dong Zhuo, who was originally a general of the imperial court, had an excuse to recruit soldiers and horses, and the court gave money and grain to recruit soldiers and horses.
Liu Xian himself also had an upright excuse to form a caravan escort in the name of the Liu Mansion caravan. With these excuses, the imperial court had no way to attack Liu Xian.
But these warrior families in Beihai City, etc., what kind of private use do they use to recruit military horses? Naturally, they originally owned a lot of caretakers, and they could be regarded as private soldiers who belonged to them. However, the strength of such a private soldier is limited.
What if you have one or two thousand centaurs? Can you fight against tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans? Well, so many noble families, landlords and wealthy households, can unite and form more military horses to resist the Yellow Turban Army.
But is such a union reliable? Who will be in command when the time comes? And if they do this, will the government allow it? It is okay if the government does not pursue them, or that the local government does not report their situation to the imperial court. If once it is reported, the court asks for guilt, so what will happen to them?
Therefore, they really have no choice, and they can only follow the advice of the government, that is, Liu Xian. Keep the reserve army defending the city, and then they will pay for the food to train and equip the reserve army.
After all, even if they recruit their own troops to protect themselves, they will have to pay for their own food. Now it's just that the government is unified to lead these horses, and in the end it is all to protect Beihai and protect them. It is obviously more convenient for the government to do something, and it is easier to get more support from the people.
The most important thing is Liu Xian's promise to them, if they are willing to follow the orders of the government and cooperate with the government to defend the city, then Liu Xian promised to save them Beihai. That's the main thing.
Unconsciously, Liu Xian has indeed become their backbone and the savior in their minds.
There is no way to do this, because Liu Xian has such the ability to rescue them, and he can find those Yellow Turban Army who are defeated.
Even the Beihai County Taishou Liu Jie had to obey Liu Xian's orders, so they had no problem at all with the money and food to support this Beihai garrison reserve army according to Liu Xian's request.
The government came forward, or in the name of the government, to recruit the children of the people into an army to resist the invading Yellow Turban Army, defend Beihai and protect their homeland. This, even the imperial court has nothing to say. If you want to be charged with forming an army without permission, then please send troops to clear the Yellow Turban Army of Mount Tai and send more court officers and soldiers to protect Beihai, right?
All of this is reasonable, and it is also the fundamental difference between forming an army in the name of the government and forming an army on their own.
These, according to Liu Xian's request, will mobilize the people of the whole city in each county under Beihai County, and select suitable children from those landlords and tyrants and ordinary people to form an army. For the time being, the garrison reserve army of each county will temporarily focus on the guards of each county, and first use this method to strengthen the garrison force of each county.
Of course, the government will also give orders to the counties, and these orders are real. If there are any more officers and soldiers in the counties who abandoned the city without a fight and fled in the face of the Yellow Turban Army's attack, Beihai should hold the officials and officers and soldiers of each county accountable. When the time comes, they will even be arrested and beheaded.
In short, the government of the county town must assume the responsibility of being an official government, and there are thieves and yellow turban thieves. What they have to do is to defend the city first, and report to Beihai County as soon as possible, so that Beihai County will send troops to rescue.
Liu Xian hoped that Sima Zhengqing of the Northern Navy would be able to use the recent time to train the reserve army.
In order to train these reserve troops, Liu Xian also left some of his caravan guards behind and asked them to assist Zheng Qing in training his army.
Liu Xian has already learned that this Zheng Qing is a talent, he is familiar with military books, and knows some battle formations and training methods.
Liu Xian originally lacked such talents.
It can be said that under normal circumstances, Zheng Qing should be such a relatively conventional military training talent in ancient times. For example, how the officers and soldiers of the imperial court trained their troops were quite familiar to Zheng Qing.
He served as a military commander in Beihai, in fact, he trained military horses according to the regular military drills of the imperial court officers and soldiers.
Decent way.
But this is no longer possible for Liu Xian.
Through his own exploration, Liu Xian has synthesized the past and the present, and has come up with a set of military training methods that he thinks are more scientific and more suitable.
The physical training of soldiers, the training of killing skills, the coordination of troops, etc., are all different. However, what Liu Xian wants to strengthen is the training of battle formations.
Liu Xian combined his own set with Zheng Qing's familiarity, Liu Xian felt that maybe this would be more scientific and more suitable for this era, and it was very likely to train a truly strong army that was invincible in the world.
Liu Xian said to Zheng Qing that many of the methods of training soldiers, Zheng Qing really had never heard of, and the more he listened, the more he felt that it made sense, and he studied it like a treasure.
After this time, Liu Xian presided over the defense of Beihai and defeated the invading Yellow Turban Army, plus these training methods that Liu Xian said to Zheng Qing. This made Zheng Qing admire Liu Xian very much, and he almost didn't officially worship Liu Xian.
But in front of Liu Xian, Zheng Qing really regarded himself as a subordinate.
Under such circumstances, Liu Xian proposed to let Zheng Qing introduce his uncle Zheng Xuan to him, and Zheng Qing naturally would not refuse.
On this day, Liu Xian appeased Kong Xue and Cai Yan, let the two daughters stay in Beihai City, and then went to Gaomi County, Beihai County, with Wang Yue and Zheng Bo, with two or three hundred guards.
In the evening of the same day, the group arrived at Zheng Xuan's mansion.
There is a way that it is better to come early than to come by chance.
When Liu Xian and his entourage came to Zheng Xuan's Mansion with Zheng Qing, they found that something was wrong, because there were many officers and soldiers outside Zheng Xuan's Mansion.
This is Beihai County, and Zheng Qing is the Sima of Beihai County, commanding the officers and soldiers of the county. Zheng Qing was familiar with the officers and soldiers of the government in the following counties.
Of course, this does not mean that they are familiar with every ordinary officer and soldier, but at least, they have met and understood the county lieutenants, tun chiefs, and even the uncles below who are in charge of the officers and soldiers in each county. At least they will all know Zheng Qing, the military horse.
However, Zheng Qing felt a little strange with these officers and soldiers outside Zheng Xuan's mansion now, and those officers and soldiers didn't even recognize him as a military horse.
Moreover, not to mention Zheng Qing, even Liu Xian can see that there seems to be something wrong with these officers and soldiers, because they look more refined and more arrogant in spirit. In particular, their weapons and equipment, and the clothes and helmets on their bodies are relatively fine and neat.
In addition, the number of these officers and soldiers is quite large, and it is estimated that there will be about 500 people.
Zheng Qing was strange at this moment, why did he appear in his uncle's mansion for officers and soldiers?
He immediately stepped forward and asked, "Where are you waiting for the officers and soldiers?" Why did you come to my uncle's house? ”
"Who are you? Our court officers and soldiers are doing business here, and idle people are avoiding! ”
A big man in armor shouted.
In fact, when Liu Xian and his party came, they naturally saw that these more than 300 people carrying ordnance were not vigilant, so at this time, they also gathered a lot of officers and soldiers to wait in front of Zheng Xuanfu.
"Officers and soldiers of the imperial court?" Zheng Qing frowned.
Under normal circumstances, if the imperial court sends officers and soldiers to the local government to do business, it will definitely not be able to bypass the county government. As a county military commander, he would definitely be the first to know, but he didn't know that the imperial court had sent officers and soldiers to his county.
"I am Zheng Qing, the military commander of Beihai County, and this Zheng Mansion is my uncle's home. You came to Beihai, why didn't you report to Beihai County? What happened when you bypassed the county government and came to my uncle's house? ”
"It turned out to be the military Sima of Beihai County. We are also just here, and we really need to report to Beihai County, but when we arrived in Beihai County, we found that you were besieged by the Yellow Turban Army again, so we directly bypassed Beihai County and came to do business. ”
"Errands?"
"This general is the lieutenant of General He Jin's subordinates, Jiang Bin. On the order of General He Jin, he came to escort Mr. Zheng Xuan into Beijing as an official. ”
This general turned out to be a lieutenant in the imperial army.
The lieutenant in the imperial army is actually equivalent to the military status of the same level as Zheng Qing, a county army Sima. The general commander of the general army of the county, also known as the county captain.
Jiang Bin hugged his fists at Zheng Qing at this time and said, "Zheng Jun Sima, you came just in time, Mr. Zheng Xuan is your uncle?" This is also too coincidental, and I also asked Zheng Junsima to help say that I said Xiang, and asked Mr. Zheng Xuan to agree to enter Beijing. That's a great thing, isn't it? In this Han world, how many people want to enter the court as officials but can't? And how many people spend money to buy officials? Now General He Jin heard that Mr. Zheng Xuan was a scholar and full of talent, and he loved talent, thinking that such a talent could not contribute to the Han court, which was really too regrettable and condescending. Therefore, I was specially ordered to come to Beihai to escort Mr. Zheng Xuan into Beijing. ”
Jiang Bin gave an explanation of the intention.
After Zheng Qing heard this, he didn't say anything, nodded and said, "So you have already talked to Zheng's uncle, right?" What did Zheng's uncle say? He doesn't want to? ”
"Ahem...... Mr. Zheng Xuan really did not agree to enter Beijing, so he also asked Zheng Jun's Sima to help say that Xiang Xiang, you know, there are people in the court who are good officials. Zheng Jun Sima is now a county military Sima, if Mr. Zheng Xuan enters the court as an official, it will definitely be helpful to Zheng Jun Sima's career in the future, maybe, it won't be long before Zheng Jun Sima can also enter the court as an official. ”
Jiang Bin pretended to be familiar with Zheng Qing at this time, and said to Zheng Qing as if he was extremely close.
"Hehe, let's talk about it when Zheng sees his uncle. This is the son of Liu Xian, the young master of the Liu Mansion in Julu Liulin Village, well, that is, Liu Xian, the young master of the Plains Palace. Zheng specially accompanied him to see his uncle today. Please give way. ”
These officers and soldiers have already guarded the gate of the Zheng Mansion, Zheng Qing smiled talkatively, and while introducing Liu Xian, let them get out of the way.
Liu Xian's name has indeed spread to Beijing. Perhaps the ordinary people in Luoyang Jingzhong may not know. But officials in the imperial court, as well as people in the military, have basically heard of it.
As long as you are a caring person, you will hear that the nobles of the Plains Mansion have accepted a righteous son.
Although Jiang Bin is only a lieutenant colonel, he can be regarded as the number one person in the army. Especially when He Jin sent him to invite Zheng Xuan into Beijing, then he is naturally a person He Jin can trust, and he is the person next to He Jin.
Therefore, as soon as Jiang Bin heard Zheng Qing's introduction, he couldn't help but look at Liu Xian, and looked at Liu Xian with some curiosity.
"You are Liu Wei of Liulin Village? The captain of this school has heard of you, but, hehe, the young master of the Plains Palace? Forget it. ”
Jiang Bin looked at Liu Xian twice, and said with a bit of yin and yang weirdness.
Obviously, he would not admit that Liu Xian was the young master of the Plains Palace. As for the young master of Liulin Village Liu Mansion, what is this title?
Officials or generals in Beijing look at local people and naturally have a domineering arrogance.
If Zheng Qing hadn't revealed that he was Zheng Xuan's nephew, then he wouldn't have been polite to Zheng Qing.
If Zheng Xuan agrees to enter Beijing, it is okay, if they don't agree, then they will forcibly take Zheng Xuan to Beijing to meet He Jin.
Liu Xian didn't bother to pay attention to him at this time, because at this time, Liu Xian's mind went out to the sea, triggering some records about Zheng Xuan that Liu Xian had read, and he could read some news related to Zheng Xuan.
After reading this, Liu Xian already knew what was going on, and thought that it was really too coincidental to come this time.
You must know that if you come late, Liu Xian may not be able to see Zheng Xuan for the time being.
And if you come earlier, it may not be too easy for you to ask Zheng Xuanzhu to help yourself.
Now...... Liu Xian felt that he could invite Zheng Xuan for his own use.