Chapter Seventy-One: Full Preparations
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Qianhu separated everyone, looked at the child lying on the ground, and then looked at the woman's cry, the soldier stood there silently, just holding the silver and weeping and grieving, Qianhu didn't have a taste in his heart, waved his hand and said: "Bury it, bury it, fortunately, it is also a person who has eaten and died." ”
The lives of military households are like pigs and dogs, and it is a blessing to be able to eat something and die.
The man pulled away the crying mother-in-law, silently picked up the child's emaciated body, and walked towards the camp gate.
Qianhu looked at it and suddenly called out to the man.
"What else does the lord command?" The soldier had forgotten to call Qianhu a general, but the Qianhu did not think it was a pestle, and ordered: "You go to the military bibliography to report to the army, and your children should be compensated according to the rank of the small flag in the army." "Originally, as soon as I entered the military, I became a military household for generations, this is fate.
The man was stunned for a moment, and the thousand households said, "Someone is coming." ”
Behind him, he followed the family and stepped forward. "Wait for your lordship's orders."
"Take another five taels of silver, sell a coffin for the child, and bury it."
No longer go to see the grateful Junhan family, Qianhu turned around and arranged for others to buy people's hearts, this is the pass, together with the thieves, those who save their lives still rely on them, as for how to end up in the future, that is a matter for the future.
After the distribution of money and food, the barracks began to stabilize, and some military households who had gone out to beg for a living came back after hearing the news, and the long-lost cooking smoke rose from the chimney of the dilapidated barracks, and inside and outside the house, it was rare to hear the laughter of some children and women.
The soldiers also received the long-lost knives and guns in the county arsenal, put on the brand-new number that had just been prepared, and washed their heads and faces, although they had lost the military for a long time, and they were unfamiliar with the queue tactics, but the foundation left by their fathers was still there, although there was still no rank, but after all, they were full of food, and they had wine and meat at the bottom, and they still looked a little different from the people, so that Qianhu had a little confidence in his heart.
Qianhu took the generals and their own soldiers, shouted, and drove the soldiers who were already a little angry and began to renovate the barracks.
The original government office had collapsed and could no longer be used, so a tent was found in the arsenal as a temporary council and assigned various things.
The barracks have just been reorganized, the big war is imminent, and the things are complicated and complicated, which really keeps the feet of these generals from touching the ground.
Fortunately, there was an extremely shrewd shopkeeper Xue who came up with the means to rectify the guys' business, which made a mess of things come to an end.
The most urgent thing now is to clean up the armament.
The weapons of the Ming Dynasty are built and issued by the Imperial Court Tent Bureau, but those craftsmen are also exploited and miserable, so they can only use passive sabotage and shoddy production to vent their dissatisfaction, not to mention that the apocalypse trusts the eunuchs, and the nature of the eunuchs is very greedy, often a batch of ordnance needs a thousand catties of fine iron, and the silver is those silver, but it is only five hundred catties of silver, or slag iron, and then the craftsmen steal some lives during the period, then the rest can be imagined.
These knives, guns and armor are sent down, itself is a defective product, history records, there is a Qin sent in Liaodong to kill the cattle to sacrifice the flag, even three knives to kill the cattle without dying, the result is very faceless, so the Qin Cha shouted, pulled out the emperor's sword above to end this farce.
There is also a general general, when he went into battle to kill the enemy, he was hung up on the spot by an arrow piercing the helmet by Dongyu, not because of Dongyu's archery skills, but because the helmet was rotten like a piece of tissue paper, it was just a look, who knew that it was won the jackpot?
Who dares to wear such swords, guns and armor, and which one dares to use it? So, Qianhu mobilized the military and began to carefully select and polish, this is all life-saving things, just the so-called grinding guns in battle is not fast, isn't it? In the afternoon, there was another commotion outside the camp gate, and when thousands of households rushed out to see, it turned out that the county signatories were dragging their feet under the escort of a group of officials, and there were three or four thousand as far as the eye could see.
These signatories are all people in the city, where do they usually go through wars and killings? It's just that the government signed it, and it had to come in front of the wolf-like officials, but all of them were trembling and colorless, and there were also those who poured all their furniture and walked away, but this time the officials were all selfless Bao Zheng, for no other reason, the pole outside the city was powerful, and the county was already understaffed, once the city was broken, the first unlucky ones were these officials who usually worked for the tiger, and the people who were hurt could still spare them? Therefore, I don't want to have the slightest bit of favoritism, and now I can catch one of them, and one more will give you more power insurance.
But there are also those who are excited and eager to try, and there is no other reason. In the past, the signing Ding became a master, that was to prepare food by himself, but this time it was different from the past, the county was afraid that the signing Ding would make trouble when defending the city, and at the same time, he was also afraid that the idle people who were originally in the city would respond to the pole outside the city, if they really mutiny at a critical time, then everything would be over, so they took out the money and grain donated in the homes of the rich gentry, and provided these signs, one person was full of three meals a day, and there was wine and meat to entertain them, the most important thing is that the county respected the livelihood of everyone's family, and decided to defend the city for a day, give Mi Wudou, wound a thief, and give Mi Wudou, Kill one thief, give one or two pieces of silver, and never default on the cash, and wait until the end of the defense of the city, the thief is destroyed, and there is another reward.
Those homeless people along the streets, as well as the homeless people who poured into the city, immediately found a way to survive, so they joined one after another, as long as they could get a bite to eat, where did they care about working for the thieves or the government? As long as you don't die a day, you will eat enough every day, where will you care about tomorrow? But in case he doesn't die, the county honors his promise again, and it will be a good and easy life.
Followed by the master bookkeeper and brought the family Ding Nursing Home made up by the rich and powerful, these family Ding Nursing Home usually treat well, so the physical condition is remarkable, and it is indeed a shot, and at the same time, the usual habit of fighting and killing for the main family, the face is not much Zhang Huang is at a loss, but he is ready to show his skills by shouting, because of the addition of these people, the whole military camp began to become crowded and lively.
The chief bookkeeper threw these people in the school yard, and entered the camp tent of the thousand households with a big grin, frowned and looked at the dusty and leaky yamen lobby, and did not sit, but stood in the middle of the hall, and said to the thousand households who followed behind him with his hands behind him: "Lord Qianhu, now I have brought 4,100 signatories, and 1,000 of the rich gentry have been transferred from the nursing home, and they have been officially handed over to you. ”
"Serving the country and killing the enemy, that is the duty of the lower officials, the lower officials have to be distributed with grain and grass equipment, and those thieves no longer need to worry about the county respect."
"Okay, my lord's promise I will definitely bring it to the county and the people of the city, and I will not fail to live up to the donations of the people's fathers and elders."
"That's, that's, it's all duty."
"When the county lord came, he instructed the subordinate officials to tell the general that the city is defended, everyone is promoted and rich, and the city has a loss, so please ask the general to ask for more blessings for himself and his family."
The thousand households' faces turned pale, and they hurriedly nodded and swore solemnly: "I will live up to the county lord and all the villagers, I will wait-"
Without waiting for Qianhu to continue to express his determination, the master bookkeeper waved his hand impatiently and said, "The county government is busy, so I'll leave it to my lord here, and I'll go." ”
"Send it to your lord." Qianhu hurriedly bowed his hand again in a low voice.
"Not necessarily." The master fled the barracks in disgust.
"Bah." The Qianhu watched the master book walk away, then raised his body, and then spat at his back fiercely, "What's the matter, I'm a five-grade general, you dare to be a small official with five people and six people here, see how I repel the thieves, how to entertain you." ”
Then he said to the generals who followed him: "Come, generals, beat the drum and raise the tent, assign men, and follow me to the city to conquer the enemy." ”
In Mizhi County, the master of the 1,000 households was busy preparing offensive and defensive equipment, collecting rolling wood and stones, demolishing private houses, reorganizing the beams of large stone houses, reinforcing the crumbling city wall of the original dilapidated road, and at the same time lifting the treasured ten iron cannons and ten elm sprays of the pressure warehouse to the city for resettlement, as the protection of key areas. Bundles of arrows, oil, wood, ash bottles, cannons, boulders, and so on were piled up at the top of the city as much as possible.
At the same time, hundreds of people in and outside the city were requisitioned, driven by sticks and leather whips, each of them was rewarded with a bowl of gruel and two heads of mixed noodles, and began to dredge the moat day and night, digging up and widening the silted lots, and at the same time, in order to prevent the cold river water from freezing, the water in the moat was drained, and then the surrounding trees were cut into stakes, and the bottom of the ditch was forked.
More sent like a wolf like a tiger of the officials, accompanied by just full, restored to the army of the guard soldiers, with the strong wall to cut off the thief's capital, a fire around the county city wall outside the thatched houses of the people, and burned the fire far away to ten miles away, of course, set fire to drive people at the same time, but also made a bowl full of bowls, these officials and servants are happy to do this thing, if it is not far away is the Zhangjiabao pole boundary, everyone said that they can't burn all the way to Yan'an.
For those who have lost their homes, they are forcibly relocated to the city, and if they do not comply, they will be imprisoned or simply killed in the name of wanting to support the enemy.
For a while, the smoke outside the city was billowing into the sky, crying and screaming endlessly, the thieves had not arrived, and the rice fat had been turned into a white ground by the government, which was cleaner than the pole crossing.
In front of their lives and wealth, a cadre of officials and officials broke out with rare efficiency, and for a time the whole county shouted and neighed, and the flow of people was endless, day and night, just waiting for the thieves to send great wealth and great merit.
Zhang Xianling did not dare to leave the county seat at this time, if he dared to leave a step, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, then the superintendent of the imperial history could immediately deal with him for a crime of abandoning the land and dereliction of responsibility, and the governor could ask the sword to cut off his head at that time, so he rectified a lot of gold and silver treasures, and sent the eloquent Master Qian to hurry to Yan'an, the capital city, with his own letter of request for help.