Chapter Eighty-Eight: Change of Guard
"Your Majesty, today, the army of the three customs officers who returned to Beijing to change their guards has arrived at the camp outside the city, will the new army of the Beijing division set off in the near future?" Sun Chengzong stepped forward and asked. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Aiqing doesn't say it, I won't forget it, the holy decree of the transfer of troops has been prepared, and tomorrow there will be a person from the celebrant who will go to the camp with the holy decree" Chongzhen understands that a real strong army is not something that can be trained by training, only the army that fights on the battlefield is the real strong army, and the army is all recruits. Therefore, after Qin Liangyu and Lu Xiangsheng took over the Jinning Defense Line and Jiangdong Town, Chongzhen has always sent recruits from the Beijing Division to the front line to constantly replace the veterans of the front line and return to Beijing to change the defense.
Taking advantage of the fact that the situation is still calm now, every once in a while, an army composed of veterans ranging in number of several thousand will go to the Beijing division to station, and at the same time, the new army of the Beijing division will continue to go to the Jinning defense line or Jiangdong town to see the blood, and participate in some small-scale conflicts at the border pass to gain actual combat experience.
For the original fire that burned down the city of Beijing and forced Huang Taiji to retreat, Chongzhen has always been angry, he has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng These famous generals do not dare to fight with Huang Taiji in the city because of various constraints, if there is a choice, which emperor is willing to order the burning of his own capital. Helplessly, the soldiers in their hands are a group of recruits, and the ministers of the court and the central government are not of the same mind as themselves, and they really dare not let out this little capital of their own and consume each other with the experienced Jurchens.
At that time, the order of Yuan Chonghuan, the supervisor of the Jinning defense line at the border pass, was more effective than his own emperor's order, Wei Zhongxian had just arrived, and he had not had time to help Wang Chengen take over Wei Zhongxian's position, and the Donglin Party that covered the sky with one hand had no one to govern, and the royal family's pro-soldier Beijing camp had already been controlled by the major meritorious aristocratic families, and his only capital was the hundreds of thousands of recruits, even if he was released to win, it would only be a miserable victory, if there was no new army, For a long time in the future, the emperor will not have the capital to argue with the ministers of the court, and he will not dare to play the trick of the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky.
For the army Chongzhen is more important than anything else, everything is bullshit in this troubled world, only the army tries to support the only pillar of their imperial power, with the army itself is the holy decree, an edict is handed out, who dares to say no in this huge world, he can no longer bear to be forced to arrange the aftermath and let the queen take the edict to escape from Beijing, how can he be so persecuted as the emperor of the most powerful empire in the world.
"It's nothing, Aiqing, just go down" Chongzhen began to drive this group of people away when he dealt with government affairs, and the pile of twists and turns on his dragon case was still waiting for him to deal with it, and he was delaying, and he didn't know how long he would stay up late.
On the official road from Shanhaiguan to Funing, 2 little donkeys chased the radish hanging in front of them, pulling a four-wheeled carriage behind them to gallop on the official road, the sky did not know when it became gloomy, except for this carriage on the official road, there was no one on the official road, and a stormy momentum was coming.
"Brother Zhang, it seems to be raining this day, how far is it from the next post station" Looking at the dark sky, Zhao Gang asked with some concern.
"In another quarter of an hour, we can rush to the post station in Funing City, you come to drive, I'll go to the carriage to clean up, don't let the letters in the car get wet with the rain," he said, handing over the rope of the car to Zhao Gang.
These four-wheeled carriages used for transportation are all roofed, the general wind and rain can not get in, even the driver in front has a roof to cover, there are doors that can be opened on the left and right sides of the carriage, but this is used to pull goods and there is no curtain, there is a small window behind the driver to observe the situation in the carriage, but this window is generally used by the driver to enter the carriage in the driving shortcut, Zhang lame climbed into the carriage along the window,
"Okay, no problem, I just hope to get to the post station before the rain, otherwise these two stupid donkeys will have to suffer" After a while, Zhang Cripple crawled out of the window again.
"Brother, I saw your daughter that day, quite beautiful, how can you be willing to let her go to work in the post station, not afraid of being taken advantage of by those drunk bosses" Now the army's military salary has been paid on time after the new emperor came to power, and the matter of deducting military salaries, under the management of the supervising army, who has not been eradicated but it has been much better, after retiring, most of the soldiers have been exempted from all taxes, and life should be better, why Lao Zhang is still willing to let his daughter come out and show up.
"This is her own request, I am already old, the girl said that the money is reserved for me to prevent old age, her dowry to earn her own, if other places I will definitely disagree, but the post station is different, you may not know that the stewards of the post station are a group of eunuchs, I have nothing to worry about, drunk reckless men are not a problem, I have not seen a bad guy dare to flirt with a good woman in the eunuch's territory, so I followed her" Speaking of his daughter, Lao Zhang's face was full of relief.
"Haha, that's what I'm saying, who dares to stimulate that group of eunuchs in this regard, you say that, I found that it's not bad for the emperor to use eunuchs to manage things, at least don't worry about any incidents of robbing people's daughters" After speaking, he raised the wine jug and handed it to the other party.
"No, I'll be at the post station soon, your injury is still good, there is no harm in drinking less wine in the future" Zhang Cripple returned, and Zhao Gang handed over the wine jug.
"Lao Zhang, you said that our new emperor, how is this emperor doing" and then the alcohol, Zhao Gang began to control his mouth again, and his big mouth could say anything.
"You said the emperor, I don't know what the big truth is, but I just rushed him to pay us enough military salaries, and let the prison army quarrel with the family of the bastards who deducted our military salaries, and I think he is a good emperor for this." It is simple for people at the bottom to distinguish between right and wrong, and whoever is good to him is a good person.
"That's right, but I heard that our emperor is only nineteen years old, and he became an emperor at the age of nineteen, and he did a very good job, I really want to go to the capital that day to see what this little emperor looks like" For Chongzhen to sit on the emperor's throne at a young age, Zhao Gang was very curious, what the other party was like.
"The emperor is not something that ordinary people can see, the throne is done well, it should be, after all, people can be emperors, can they be ordinary people, and ah, you are looking for a scolding and calling me Lao Zhang, no big or small" For this young man's temper, Zhang Cripple was also a little helpless.
"Lao Zhang, isn't this kind," Zhao Gang stepped forward, and his face was grim.
"It's up to you, you can talk to me about the emperor or something in a place where no one is there, when you get to the post station, don't talk nonsense, the emperor is not something we can discuss casually, be careful of causing trouble to yourself" Zhang Cripple had a good impression of this young man, so he opened his mouth to remind.
"Got it...........
The dark sky finally couldn't bear so much moisture, and the rain began to fall in mid-air.