Li Zhi captured a large number of military horses in An0qing this time, and there was not only one person or one horse in the army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Li Zhi gave the extra military horses to the heavy people, and the troops walked very quickly on the return journey, and they could walk 80 miles a day. Departing from An0qing on August 20, Li Zhi only took a month, and returned to Tian0jin Fanjiazhuang on September 23.

Walking to a place a hundred miles away from Fanjiazhuang, Li Zhi first asked the herald to go to Fanjiazhuang to report the news. When Li Zhi's army arrived at Fanjiazhuang the next day, Fanjiazhuang was already empty. The people who did not go to work and did not go to work all flocked to the south gate, waiting to see the guerrilla generals returning in triumph.

The general has made great contributions again, and he can't say that he will be promoted soon, and then he will not only be a guerrilla general. The general is the benefactor of the people of Fanjiazhuang, and the promotion of the general is a happy event for all the people of Fanjiazhuang.

Li Xing, Li Dao, Zheng Yuan and other officials also stood in the crowd to greet Li Zhi's triumph.

As soon as Li Zhi's army of horsemen arrived outside the south gate, the onlookers became noisy. The people looked at the mighty horse team and cheered one by one. The general's troops did not have so many horses when they set out, and the capture in this battle was really rich. The people who had good deeds hung firecrackers on the city gates, making the scene very lively. There was also a generous restaurant owner who brought out more than a dozen jars of rice wine, and sent them to the soldiers for them to drink.

Li Zhi also drank a glass of rice wine and bowed to the people.

The crowd suddenly burst into applause, and the people saluted the general.

Li Zhi asked the officers to return to the camp with the troops, and he took Li Xing and others back to the official hall. When I walked into the official hall, I saw that my mother and Cui He were already waiting there.

When Cui He saw Li Zhi coming back, he trotted up with his son in his arms, and said with tears in his eyes: "Husband, you are back!" I'm so scared of you fighting outside! ”

"Don't be afraid, isn't this safe and sound?"

Li Zhi helped Cui He wipe his tears, took his son over and hugged him.

The son has not yet taken a big name, and the small name is called Stone. In these years, the medical conditions were not good, and the rate of infant mortality was very high, so it was said that it was easy to feed with a cheap name. Li Zhi held the stone in his arms and said with a smile: "Son, call Daddy to listen." ”

The stone is only four and a half months old, where can it speak. He looked at Li Zhi, and suddenly laughed, kicking his feet one by one.

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Five days after Li Zhi arrived home, Governor Cha Dengbei sent someone to deliver a message: The military department has an order for Li Zhi and a number of meritorious generals under his command to go to the capital, and the Son of Heaven will promote Li Zhi to the official position in person.

Ming practice: the military attache below the general level will be promoted by the local military hall by the local governor and commander, and the military department will review it. The generals and above must be submitted to the Ministry of War for approval, and after the approval of the cabinet, they must be issued by holy decree. If it is a great achievement and there are many rewards, the military attache needs to go to Beijing to the court meeting and the Son of Heaven will personally announce the reward.

Li Zhi's promotion belongs to the latter.

Li Zhi didn't dare to slack off and rushed to the capital. Not only did the regiment commander, battalion commander, and company commander who participated in the battle report their merits, but also his younger brother Li Xing, who did not participate in the war, was also divided into some heads. Li Zhi even assigned some heads to Li Yousheng, Li Dao, Zheng Yuan and Zheng Hui, who were in charge of Fanjiazhuang, so that they could also be promoted.

Li Zhi took the generals and managers of Fanjiazhuang, and more than 70 people rushed to the capital.

When he arrived in the capital, Li Zhi found the store he had set up in the capital and settled down in the courtyard behind the storefront. After resting for a while, Li Zhi led his subordinates to the thousand-step corridor in front of the imperial city and behind the Daming Gate.

The thousand-step corridor is the office of the Ming government organs, mainly six ministries, five government offices. Li Zhi found the official office of the Ministry of War on the west side of the Thousand Steps Corridor, and saw that there were four department signboards hanging in the Ministry of War: the Division of Selecting Officials, the Division of Clearing Officials, the Division of Cleaning Officials, and the Department of Clearing Officials of the Arsenal.

Li Zhi is here to get the new official uniform and the seal letter, and the Car Driving Division and the Arsenal Division have nothing to do with Li Zhi's promotion, so he is naturally looking for one of the Martial Arts Division and the Staff Division. In the Ming Dynasty, the division of duties and responsibilities between the military selection and the second division of the military department in addition to the military attache and the inspection was as follows: the military positions of the guard were mostly under the jurisdiction of the military selection department, and the generals of the town and the Beijing camp were basically in charge of the department. Li Zhi is now a general under the battalion system, and he should find a division.

Li Zhi found the official office of the staff, went in and reported his name, and someone brought Li Zhi to Lang Zhong, the manager of the staff.

Seeing Lang Zhong, Li Zhi arched his hand and said: "Fanjiazhuang guerrilla Li Zhi was ordered to come to Beijing to accept the reward!" ”

The clerk Shi Langzhong glanced up at Li Zhi, sighed, and lowered his head again to busy with his official documents.

Na Langzhong is a civil official of the fifth grade, and he is not much worse than Li Zhi from the second grade. But this Lang Zhong is in charge of the department, and he has jurisdiction over the military attaché of the world's battalions, and he is quite powerful, so he naturally has a faction. Na Langzhong sat behind the copywriter and was busy processing the official documents, and Ren Li Zhi stood there and waited for a stick of incense, but he didn't look up to talk to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi knew what the problem was, so he went up and stuffed a silver ticket of fifty taels.

Na Langzhong looked at the amount of the silver ticket, looked up at Li Zhi, and still didn't speak.

Li Zhi was helpless, and added a silver ticket of fifty taels and stuffed it over.

At this moment, Na Langzhong finally smiled and said slowly: "The guerrilla general has come to receive the reward?" That's a big deal! I'll report for the general! Na Langzhong walked to the back bookshelf and rummaged through it, found out the official documents about Li Zhi and Li Zhi's subordinates, looked at it and said: "The morning after tomorrow, the general led eight officers from more than 100 households to the court, and they were rewarded by the Son of Heaven. After the meeting, come to me again to receive the official uniform and seal the letter. ”

Na Langzhong flipped through the bookshelf again, found nine more early dynasty tooth cards, and handed them to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi took the tooth card, looked at it, and saw that the front side was written "Official Character No. 5137", and the reverse side was written "The official carries this card with the suspension, and it is not allowed to borrow it. The palace prohibits violators of the crime! ”

Li Zhi arched his hand and said, "Thank you Lang for your advice!" This official retires! ”

Na Langzhong said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to leave, go to the outer hall to find the chief Di Bei, and let him teach you the etiquette of the court!" ”

Li Zhi replied: "Thank you Langzhong! ”

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After stuffing some silver with Di Bei, the head of the military department, and learning the etiquette of the court for an hour, Li Zhi went back to the courtyard.

Early in the morning of the third day, Li Zhi wore court clothes, took Li Xing and eight others, and waited at the noon gate outside the imperial city before dawn. Li Zhi arrived there and waited for a while, and more than a hundred civil and military officials arrived one after another, all waiting. When dawn broke, a drum was beaten upstairs, the left and right doors were opened, and the personnel walked in. Then after waiting for a while, the bell rang again at the noon gate, and the civil and military officials entered from the left and right doors.

Li Zhi took his subordinates, lined up in the ranks of military attachés according to their ranks, and followed everyone into the imperial city. (To be continued.) )