Chapter XII: Accountability
When Ning Yu was sleeping, Diao Wang's soldiers carried the body back to the camp, originally these people planned to throw away the corpse, and each of them divided the money, but after all, they were worried that it would be leaked, and they were afraid that they would go to the vegetable market when the time came, so they had to stiffen their necks to see Shangguan.
The seat of this De'an Mansion is in Anlu, so the Qing army in Yunmeng County is just a flood land, and the highest level is a Zhengliupin Qianzong, whose surname is Qian Mingying, and he is a close confidant of the garrison of De'an Mansion.
Qian Ying was not in the camp originally, but recently learned that the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry was in charge of the affairs of the governor of Huguang, and Man Pi was promoted to the left attendant, and the governor's office and the chief military officer of Huguang may be able to check the weapons of the barracks.
But Qian Ying's own family knows about his own affairs, and the ordinary swords and shields in this camp are fine, but there is a lot of shortage of shotguns and artillery, and most of the rest are unusable.
In the eyes of many people in later generations, the impression of the Qing Dynasty has always stayed at the level of "only heavy bow horse riding and shooting", in fact, in the Qing Dynasty of the Kangxi era, artillery is a leading position in the world in terms of technology and quantity.
Because Manchuria itself can take the world, in fact, it also relies on the benefits of artillery to conquer those fortified cities in Liaodong, and then in the Kangxi period, the three feudal domains to collect Taiwan, and even the pacification of Junggar have relied on muskets and artillery, in the words of Yongzheng later, artillery is "the most important weapon in the army".
Therefore, in today's green camp, there are four-foot-long "Golden Dragon Cannons", five-foot-long rear-loading "sub-mother cannons", and "strange cannons" fired from wooden tripods, all of which are fierce field cannons that can be easily carried on the grassland, as well as the "Shenwei Invincible General" cannon weighing 1,000 catties and the "Yonggu General Cannon" weighing 8,000 catties.
Of course, in Qian Ying's flood land, there were originally only some sub-cannons, but now these sub-cannons are also difficult to use, and they really can't be handed over.
At this time, Diao Wang's soldiers lifted Diao Wang's body up, which made Qian Ying's already unsightly face even darker, this Diao Wang had nothing to do with him, but after all, he was a subordinate in his own camp, and he also had a general shortage of foreign commissioners.
The general manager of the foreign commission is only a temporary establishment, and he is not an official "economic official", but he is also his subordinate, and now he has been killed, and he is also losing his own face.
Qian Ying asked with a dark face: "Shangguan was killed, why didn't you take down the thief, did you take the benefits of the thief?" These words almost scared these soldiers into peeing their pants.
A soldier took out the name card from his arms with the courage and said, "I heard that the murderer claimed to be the son of the Hanyang Ning family, and this is his name post." ”
Qian Ying took the name card, looked at it and threw it on the table, picked up the teacup and took a sip, but she didn't have the original anxiety, but a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and then asked the soldiers to call an old boy to come over.
This old boy is Qian Ying's clerk in the camp, and any written correspondence is to let this old boy be grassy, although this old boy is fifty or sixty years old, he has only been admitted to a child, and he has a ball of grass in his belly, but it is not difficult to write letters.
When the old boy spread out the letter, polished the ink, and pinched the brush in his hand, Qian Ying took it while thinking about it and dictated it and let the old boy write.
"Today, I order Gongzi to Yunmeng, and his subordinates put Diao Wang in a quarrel, and then beat each other to cause Diao Wang's death, and it is still necessary to properly solve the ....., I heard that the governor's yamen or checked the military affairs, and the artillery in the battalion is old and unbearable..."
Although Qian Ying didn't dare to bite wantonly, he didn't want to let go of this great opportunity, so he relied on this matter to write a letter to Ning Zhongyuan to ask for a cannon, but this is also because in today's Great Qing Dynasty, the commanders at all levels of the local green battalion are under the jurisdiction or control of the highest local civil officials, even if Ning Zhongyuan is a third-grade guerrilla general, he has no right to manage the thousand generals of Yunmeng County next door, and even the governor, the admiral, the chief soldier and the governor also have their own pacesetters, except for a few officers and soldiers who command their own standards, they do not directly control the other town association battalions.
This kind of messy and trivial military system makes the generals not subordinate to each other, and naturally cannot be controlled. Because of this, Qian Ying planned to knock Ning Zhongyuan on a sum of money, as for whether this Diao Wang was wronged, who would remember it now?
After a few days like this, Ning Yu saw that no one was looking for him to hold him accountable, and he knew in his heart that the matter had passed, and he thought that the family was working behind his back, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, in this era, Hugh said that ordinary people, this is a difficult boss in the eyes of many people, and in the eyes of some people, it is just an ant that can be trampled to death at any time.
However, in the hearts of the young people in the camp, waves were set off, and Ning Yu's status in their hearts changed a lot. If the original teenagers regarded Ning Yu as a father and a brother, now they have added a bit of awe.
Ning Qianqiu returned to the Eagle Camp from the Ning family, and then brought back a message to Ning Yu, and held a family meeting five days later, so that Ning Yu could prepare and go back quickly.
The Ning family holds a family meeting every year, but it is usually at the end of the year, and if there is a major event, a family meeting will be held temporarily to unify thoughts.
Ning Yu was also planning to communicate with his father Ning Zhongyuan, although it had been a few months since he was reborn, the father and son had very little time to really get along. Although Ning Zhongyuan knew what Ning Yu was doing now, after all, it was the moon in the water, the flowers in the fog, and there was a layer of sandpaper across it.
For Ning Yu, if he wants to do something in this era, he first needs to gather the strength of the family, if he just fights alone, then no matter how hard he tries, it will be difficult to change his situation.
Although the Ning family is not a wealthy nobleman, it is also a local powerful faction, and the strength gathered over the past hundred years is enough to do some things, such as the current Eagle Battalion, if there is no family support, Ning Yu will not be able to pull up a team of more than 200 people in a short period of time, not to mention that it is still a student soldier who is not in production.
Behind this, there are not only a lot of hard work of Ning Yu, but also the silent efforts of the Ning family, and those massive materials are proof, so the real primary task of Ning Yu in this era is not the Eagle Battalion, not the mineral salt, but to use the identity of the young master of the Ning family to gain the recognition of the clansmen and unite the greatest strength, which is his real foothold.
This is also why in the past few thousand years of history, no matter who became the emperor, the first thing to do was to cut off the power of the big family, because this kind of big family and big group itself is an unstable factor. In the event of turmoil, these big families are also the objects of confrontation with the imperial power, and the two have been fighting each other for thousands of years, and in the end, neither can help the other.
Whether it was the Qianhao clan in the Western Han Dynasty to enrich the Lingyi system in Guanzhong, or the imperial examination in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was itself a centralized suppression and differentiation of local powerful factions, and the family politics in the Wei and Jin dynasties and the big landlords and bureaucrats in the Song and Ming dynasties were a way for the family to resist.
In the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which is now known as the pinnacle of the feudal period, the local faction represented by Ning Yu still needs to go further.