As the saying goes, a dragon gives birth to nine sons, and the nine sons are different. Most of the Shu family are square, such as Shu Guoping is a typical example. But his cousin, Shu Guoxin, the eldest son of the Shu family, inherited some heterogeneous genes from nowhere, not only is he not square, but he also likes intrigue and trickery, and likes to go off the rails with swords.

Shu Guoxin called Lao Tan in the middle of the night because he met a few old friends in his house after dinner. After seeing it, he suddenly had an idea. For this idea to be realized, it must be supported by Tan Sigui, who is in charge of the army. But this idea is too bold, even too crazy, that even Lao Tan, who kills people without blinking, hesitates. However, the General Staff had a clear order that before Gao Dengtai arrived in Luzhou, he must obey Shu Guoxin's orders. So Tan Sigui hesitated again and again, so he had to grit his teeth and respond.

At noon on the third day after Shu Guoxin and Tan Sigui arrived in Luzhou, on the Ningguangmen Wharf outside Luzhou, gongs and drums were noisy and colorful flags were flying. The new Luzhou judge, Gao Dengtai, the second brother of Gao Jitai, the leader of Tianquan Tusi, wore a black veil on his head, and wore a new seven-grade green robe, and greeted Ma Yingjiao, Shu Guoxin and other Luzhou officials and local gentry with a spring breeze on his face. He has fair skin, elegant manners, decent conversation, and is full of authentic Chengdu official dialect, a typical image of a scholar. If it weren't for the one or two hundred Tusi officers and soldiers on the dock behind him, who would have thought that he was born in a Tusi family?

Civility and martial arts are cheap, this is the rule of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. Zhizhou and Tongzhi have no shadows, so this new judge is now the first person in Luzhou. Since hitting the hard nail, Ma Yingjiao has been much more restrained in the past few days, and even lowered his voice. The looted official and military ships on the river disappeared, and even the defense of Ningguangmen was handed over to the guards at Tan Sigui's request. Today, taking advantage of the opportunity of Gao Dengtai's new official taking office, Ma Yingjiao has done a full scene. He not only personally led his five sons and officials of Luzhou Wei out of the city to greet him, but also mobilized 300 soldiers of Weili and more than a dozen gentry in the city to stand in line at the wharf to support the scene.

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Gao Dengtai boarded the pier and looked up, feeling emotional. The ruined walls on the banks of the river stretched for miles along the river, and there was no end in sight.

In the Ming generation, the government set up general judgments and push officials, and the state set up judges, who were under the prefecture and Tongzhi, and were in charge of the criminal prisons of a state. Gao Dengtai originally wanted to take advantage of the recommendation of the royal government and the provincial and state levels to find a county in Sichuan. Who knew that the officials were in the paperwork, but they went to Luzhou to be a judge. Although the grade is half a level shorter than that of Zhixian, Luzhou, which is in dilapidation in front of him, has a lot more power.

Luzhou is no stranger to the Gao family. At the time of the Lu'an Rebellion, Luzhou was a hard-hit area. A hundred miles south of the state city is the boundary of Yongning (now Xuyong, Yunlian, Gulin County and other places), and Yongning is the nest of Yi Tusi Luxury Chongming.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court invited the extravagant Chongming to transfer Yongning troops to aid Liao. When the Yongning soldiers arrived in Chongqing, they launched a rebellion as planned, killing more than 20 officials of all sizes, including Xu Keqiu, the governor of Sichuan, and shocked the whole country. This was the beginning of the change of luxury.

Yu Chongming occupied Chongqing and did not stop. He led the army up the river, occupied the Hejiang River, broke Luzhou, and trapped Zunyi (which belonged to Sichuan at that time), and the founding name was "Daliang", blatant treason. Subsequently, luxury Chongming was invincible all the way and besieged Chengdu in October of that year. Chengdu was caught off guard, and the defenders were only 2,000 people. The new governor Zhu Xie (XIE) Yuan urgently transferred the armies of northern and eastern Sichuan, as well as Shi Yan, Xuanwei Si, Qin Liangyu and other Tusi to help. At the end of the first year of the second year of the Apocalypse, Extravagant Chongming was defeated and retreated, and the siege of Chengdu was resolved.

Subsequently, the tragic counterinsurgency war was repeatedly tug-of-war in the mountainous areas of Yongning, Jingxian, Yibin, and Zunyi, and both sides had their own victories and defeats. It wasn't until the summer of the third year of the Apocalypse that the father and son of Luxe Chongming were defeated and ran to seek refuge with An Bangyan. The imperial court took advantage of the situation to abolish the Yongning Tusi and set up the Xuyong Hall to govern its land.

Subsequently, the main battlefield of the Lu'an Rebellion changed from Sichuan, where Luxue Chongming was located, to Guizhou, where An Bangyan was located. In addition to the Sichuan army, the army of Chu was also involved. Many of the generals of the Chu army stationed in Sichuan today, such as Jia Denglian in Tongchuan, Mo Chongwen in Dazhou, and Zhang Zuokai in Baoning, were all in the army in the Rebellion of Lu'an, and they grew up in the war. The war in Guizhou was loose and tight, and it lasted until August of the second year of Chongzhen, when Yu Chongming was defeated and killed.

The change of luxury and peace has brought the once rich and peaceful Sichuan into a turbulent and troubled era.

In the Rebellion of Lu'an, Tianquan Tusi was also sent to quell the rebellion. As an important transit base on the battlefield, the Gao family has been in and out of Luzhou countless times, and they are very familiar with the geography and customs of the mountains and rivers in this place. It's a pity that Tianquan Tusi shed blood and made meritorious contributions in the Lu'an Rebellion, but he gained almost nothing. The Gao Yang family was furious, and released words to mutiny. Only then did the imperial court give a little mercy and reward the false title of General Wude.

Now that the prince is close to the sky, it is just a promise, and Gao Dengtai has become the master of this Luzhou City, how can this not make him have a lot of thoughts in his heart!

The ships approached the dock one after another, and a large group of Tusi soldiers jumped on land with joy. The noise is getting louder and louder.

The Gao and Yang families were originally Han soldiers on the border, and the Han family plot in their blood was deep-rooted. After staying in the bitter cold and remote place of Tianquan for 600 years, although he was a local emperor, many children with the surname Gao Yang were still attracted by the Han culture that was close at hand. There are many children with two surnames who study and do business in Chengdu, and the two brothers Gao Dengtai and Gao Antai are among the representatives. At the beginning of the year, 700 Tusi soldiers entered Shu with the son. Some of the injured Tusi soldiers who returned to their hometowns even brought all kinds of objects and anecdotes from the Han land back to Tianquan, so that those children who stayed in the local area are now uneasy.

Gao Dengtai went to the post this time, and many of his children asked to go with him, and the most fierce thing was his third brother Gao Antai's original attendant leader Gao Qingxi. Gao Qingxi replaced his third brother at the beginning of the year to guard the Feixian Pass, and once thought he had won the jackpot. A few months have passed, and he has watched his brothers and relatives seize Chen Village and fight Jiangkou, and his career is getting bigger and bigger, and he is no longer willing to work hard in a small city dozens of feet long for a lifetime. Gao Qingxi lost his duty, personally ran back to Tianquan to find the two leaders to say Xiang, and finally got his wish, and became the leader of Gao Dengtai's entourage and came to Luzhou in southern Sichuan.

It is the tradition of toast that children follow the expedition, and it is not a great event. But this time for the two brothers, Gao Jitai and Gao Dengtai, it is a nerve-wracking trouble. There is only one reason, and that is to levy money and food for the children.

In the past, it was transferred to quell the rebellion, and there was a clear order from the imperial court. As a guest army, they all eat the country and drink the country, and they don't need to bring money themselves.

When the Han family officials went to work in different places, they were accompanied by a few wives and concubines, one or two scholars, a few maids, and at most a master.

Why can't you bring more people? Because the official's wallet can't afford it.

To be an official in a different place, it takes two or three months on the way to work, and dozens of people eat, drink, and sleep, even if there are exemptions and subsidies from the imperial court post house, the money they have to pay is a lot of expenses. Besides, the people who come out with them are like the off-duty cadres of the Shu Wangfu, who do not produce, only consume. Rao is Tianquan has made a lot of money in the field recently, and he can't stand such long-term expenses. So the two brothers, who had previous successful experience, immediately started the idea of the rich N generation in Chengdu.

When they received the official letter from the imperial court, they were not in a hurry to take office, but instead wrote a sincere letter to Zhu Pingjin, and the reason for the twists and turns was a big push, the central meaning was to let Zhu Pingjin fulfill his promise and give them money to support them. Shizi was not ambiguous, and directly gave Tianquan Tusi the number of the Luzhou Independent Company of the Tusi Battalion of the Caravan, which means that I will help you raise one hundred and eighty people, but you have to do things for me and listen to my dispatch. In addition, Zhu Pingjin also specially gave Gao Deng Taizheng a five-grade monthly salary of sixteen stones, and a silver equivalent of twenty-four taels, which was the same as his third brother, much higher than the seven stones given by the imperial court.

Gao Dengtai learned from his third brother's letter that this was the treatment of the main regiment of the caravan. He understood that after taking this money, he would be the same as the third brother, clearly being the person of the palace and the caravan. He hesitated for two or three days, but looking at the horse gangs coming and going from outside the official village, and listening to the incessant complaints of the children in the village, he still accepted it ruthlessly.

According to the results discussed by the three brothers Gao Jitai, as long as the Shu Wangfu does not touch the red line of betraying the imperial court, as long as the Shu Wangfu does not do bad things that hurt heaven and reason, Zhu Pingjian's small actions and the Gao family will pretend not to see it.

After all, the real benefits are real. And more importantly, the son of the world shouted the slogan of "protecting the country and the people".

This gave rise to a sense of confidant in the heart of Gao Dengtai, who was deeply educated by Confucianism.

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"High Judge, please come here!" The conductor named Ma Yingxuan tried to put on the brightest smile on his face, and his voice was as sweet as honey. Gao Dengtai believed that if he had come on horseback instead of by boat today, this horse would have been a horse stool for him.

A deep disgust welled up in Golden's heart again.

The basic Confucian principles of "courtesy, virtue, courtesy, humility", "benevolence, righteousness, reason, wisdom, faith and courage" have been thrown to Java by the corrupt officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. Without these officialdom silverfish, without their extortion, Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan may not be opposed, and the rebellion of Xuan An does not necessarily last for eight or nine years!

"It's just that now, we have to stabilize this old dog for the time being." Gao Dengtai suppressed his emotions and thought, "Wait for half a pillar of incense, let Gao Qingxi's people all enter the city!" ”

Gao Qingxi stared at the red-robed official who nodded beside the second son, and the officials and gentry who followed behind them like tails, and his heart welled up with great disdain. These soldiers and guards will also be able to leap in front of the people! It's really on the killing field, and it's not a character who is a and pee!

With Mr. Shu and Company Commander Tan as internal responses, why should the second son be so cautious. According to my meaning, just on this pier, roar, draw your knife and slash and slash, and see who dares to talk nonsense!

Thinking of this, Gao Qingxi yelled at his subordinates who entered the state city for the first time and were new to everything:

"Fuck, don't hurry up! The second son is about to enter the city, and you are still grinding on the dock! ”

The scorching sun of southern Sichuan shrouded the city of Luzhou. On the tower of Ningguang Gate, Tan Sigui was in the scorching sun at noon, and salty sweat kept flowing down the gap between his skin and armor.

Before he was transferred to Luzhou, he did not expect that the climate in southern Sichuan would be so different from Chengdu and Ya'an. Chengdu's climate is characterized by cloudy winters and few days, sullen summers and sunny summers, and pleasant spring and autumn. The climate in Jacques is characterized by heavy rainfall. If you don't go down today, you will definitely go down tomorrow; If it doesn't fall in the morning, it will definitely fall in the evening. The mountain breeze blew out of the canyon and was very cool. Sleep at night in the summer and put on layers of clothes to prevent colds.

The climate in southern Sichuan is very different, especially in summer. The hot wind travels through the valley, absorbing a large amount of water vapor, and enveloping it in the valley, which will not disperse for a long time. The whole city is like a big steamer, and everything is stuffed in it to be steamed and steamed.

The High Judge and Ma Yingxuan were talking, slowly climbing the stairs along the steep pier, stopping to laugh with each other from time to time. The Tianquan Tusi soldiers on the dock had all disembarked from the ship and were fetching things in a hurry, not knowing when they would be able to catch up with the high judge.

Lao Tan scraped the beads of sweat from his forehead with his fingers and withdrew his gaze from a distance. He glanced around again, confirming his arrangement:

There is no urn city in Ningguang Gate. The walls on both sides of the city gate have been placed with double layers of horses and guards. It was not a matter of time for the guards to attack directly from the walls on both sides.

Half a row is arranged on the left and right sides of the inner side of the city gate hole; There is also a row on the castle tower, which can directly support the city wall, and can also directly go down to the castle tower to support the city gate hole.

It should work! Lao Tan stared at the group of people who were about to enter the city gate.

What he has to wait for now is that Luzhou lifted Shu Guoxin to fall the fan.