After hearing about Princess Kunxing's recent situation, Chen Yuexin let go. For some reason, he always had the slightest concern for this lovely princess. It may be that the pitiful experience of Princess Kunxing that he knew in his previous life, as well as the legend of the one-armed god and nun, deeply affected him, making him unconsciously feel a lot more strange about this lovely and poor princess.

According to the development of history, in a few months, the Dashun army will capture Beijing, and Princess Kunxing will also be cut off by the desperate Chongzhen, and her miserable life will begin. No matter what, Chen Yue didn't want to see this happen again, and he didn't want that lovely princess to be hurt in the slightest from the bottom of his heart.

We must pack up as soon as possible, clean up the army, and set off for Tianjin as soon as possible, Chen Yue said to himself.

The main general became nervous, and the people below were naturally efficient, and it only took three or four days to determine the list of people who stayed behind and followed them to Tianjin.

Qingshankou should not come back to this place in the future, so those who were left behind were all family members here, as well as some old and weak soldiers, and the young and strong elites were all incorporated into three battalions. Yang Zhengping's left battalion and Iron Lion's right battalion have now expanded to more than 1,200 people, and his subordinates are mixed with chariots and infantry.

Of course, the nominal commander of the guard battalion was Chen Yan, who had returned from injury, and there were five teams under the guard battalion, with Wei Yang, Liu Neng, Yu Feng, Ma Chuang, and Li Yulin as the team commanders, each commanding a cavalry.

If we add the Ordnance Department and the Baggage Battalion, the total number of troops who followed to Tianjin reached 5,000. With so many people, plus a large number of tools and materials in the Ordnance Division, it is impossible to relocate and count them in a few days.

In the past few months, the Ordnance Department has built 300 guns for the army, transformed more than 500 crossbows, and hundreds of firearms such as gunpowder shells and flying dragons. So for them, Chen Yue has an extraordinary patience. Even if you are worried, you have to wait for all the tools and materials to be counted and loaded on the cart before leading the team to set off.

Looking back at the place where they have lived for months, many people have mixed feelings.

The soldiers and civilians who were left behind also watched the departure of the army with their eyes, without Chen Yue and without the Xishan Army, it is conceivable that this place will decline rapidly. Maybe the imperial court will send a new Qingshikou garrison, but how can he love the people like Chen Yue like a son, and he will not commit any crimes in autumn!

Before leaving, in order to compensate these people who stayed, Chen Yue ordered to give them all the cattle that were plundered from the Khalkha tribe and sold them.

In this way, each family has a ploughing ox, and there is a tuntian left by Chen Yue, these military households will not go hungry, and they will have hope of living here. As for the changes in the situation in the world, whether the army will break into the army or the Manchu Qing will occupy this place in the future, Chen Yue will not be able to control it.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, on February 2, Chen Yue commanded an army of 5,000 people, left Qingshikou, stepped on the snow that had not yet melted, and headed towards Tianjin.

The army traveled seven or eight miles, stayed overnight, and arrived in Tianjin Wei eight days later.

Tianjin Wei, formerly known as Zhigu, when Emperor Yongle led the army to cross the river from here, after taking the world from his nephew Emperor Jianwen, in order to commemorate this place of Longxing, he was given the name Tianjin.

Tianjin, east of the sea, west of the river, south of Caosu, north near Shangdu, military equipment can not be relaxed in one day, Yongle Emperor then ordered to build a city here, set up Tianjin three guards, and allocated more than 16,000 guards to guard here.

However, the Ming Dynasty was founded for more than 200 years, and the peace has been maintained for a long time, and the seashore is Yan'an, and the armament is gradually becoming deserted. The elite soldiers of the past have been reduced to farmers who only know how to hoe and scythe, and there is no longer any combat power.

Tianjin Wei has been defending for a long time, but it exists in name only!

At the same time, because Tianjin is located at the hub of the canal, ships come and go endlessly, and business is very prosperous.

Due to the existence of Changlu Salt Farm in the territory, the Changlu Salt Transportation Division set up a wholesale inspection office in Zhigu, and a large number of salt merchants bought land and built warehouses on the east bank of the Haihe River outside the Acropolis, hoarding salt and trafficking it to various places.

What's more, because Tianjin is a place where the grain is specialized, a large number of grain merchants also gather here. Then it led to the great prosperity of this place, and countless businesses gathered here, with a wide range of business.

Merchants, Cao Ding, Weisu military households, plus other people who migrated, the population living in Tianjin is more than 100,000!

Because the huge reputation of Tianjin Sanwei has been attached importance to this southern acropolis by the imperial court, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has entered the customs and looted, robbed Hebei and Shandong, but has never been here. This also caused a lot of erosion in the north, while Tianjin Wei had a deformed prosperity.

Accompanied by Cao Youyi and Lou Guangxian, the commanders of the former Yu Zongwei of the military preparation road, Chen Yue left the army to camp outside the city, and he took his own guards into the acropolis to hand over to the former governor Feng Yuanyang. However, until he entered the gate of the Acropolis Urn City, he did not see Feng Yuanyang's face. Yuan Kewang, who was accompanying the army, already had anger on his face.

According to the management, when the new official takes office, the original official will generally be welcomed out of the city, but Feng Yuanyang refuses to show his face, which is obviously a contempt for Chen Yue.

Yuan Yuzong and the others followed behind Chen Yue with embarrassed faces, for fear that the new governor would be dissatisfied. They already know the details of Chen Yue, a fierce man who can resist the Manchurians, if they launch a surge, they will definitely not be able to deal with it.

However, Chen Yue ignored these, and instead watched the scenery in the city with ease.

Compared with the large number of merchants outside the city and the stacked buildings, the acropolis is depressed and half of the roof is desolate.

Within the walls of the tall acropolis, there were low, dilapidated thatched huts, sewage flowed in the streets, and military households passing by were dressed in tatters and covered with vegetables.

"It's just a city wall, why is there such a big difference between inside and outside the city?" Chen Yue asked puzzled.

Everyone glanced at each other, and Yuan Yuzong replied, "Lord Zhongcheng, according to the military system, people other than guards are not allowed to live in this acropolis, so merchants can only build shops and residences outside the city. The guards' predicament has been a long time, and it is no better than the nine-sided border army, and it has never taken a penny of silver from the imperial court, not only that, but it also has to pay the imperial court grain tax every year, and the annual grain is as much as 10,000 stones and 10,000 taels of silver, where is the money to renovate the houses and streets?

Don't hide it from you, the draft of the soldiers in this city used to be drawn from the river outside the city, and when the former governor Li Jizhen and Li Zhongcheng were in office, they led people into the city, so that the soldiers and civilians could eat water in the city......"

Yuan Yuzong chattered along the way, telling Chen Yue about the hardships of the guards in the city.