Wealth does not return to the hometown, just like a brocade at night. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Today is the day when Li Xiuwen is preparing to return to his hometown. Early in the morning, he went out of the house first and mobilized his people.

The three battalions of the Beijing Division were stationed in the four cities of Beijing. The camp of the Shenji Battalion is stationed in Nanyuan, with one battalion officer and two deputy generals. The battalion is organized into five armies: the Central Army, the Left Sentry, the Right Sentry, the Left Outpost, and the Right Outpost, with 6,627 officers and men in the battalion.

The battalion officer of the Shenji Battalion is only a fictitious position and has no right to participate in military affairs, and is generally held by the prince of Beijing. All affairs in the army are handled by the two adjutant generals.

The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp have always had admirals and ministers, that is, eunuchs in charge of the army.

After Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, he suppressed the power of eunuchs, and now the Shenji Battalion has not appointed ministers to take power.

Li Xiuwen was dressed in a python robe and jade belt, sitting on horseback, looking mighty.

On his side was Wang Chengen, who was also sitting upright on a horse and moving forward slowly, and he was serving as a supervisor this time. Behind them were chess and card officials holding the king's order banner and the sword of the Son of Heaven, as well as Xu Jiang and other personal soldiers.

As an official, what he desires most is to be able to return to his hometown. Zhu Youzhen took this into account and gave him a python robe and jade belt, so that he could return to his hometown in fine clothes and have a beautiful scenery.

Python robe, similar to dragon robe. The dragon has five toes and four claws for pythons. There are some differences between the python robe and the python robe, throughout the Ming Dynasty, only a few people can be given a python robe.

The python robe is different, in addition to the people in the royal family, many meritorious civil and military ministers, or favored eunuchs, also have precedents for being given python robes.

Dozens of horsemen slowly entered the gate, and thousands of people and horses stood in the school field, and it was the officers and soldiers of the entire battalion of the Shenji Battalion, who were waiting for the review of Lord Qincha.

Li Xiuwen raised his eyes and saw flags on the school field, and the officers and men of the whole army were clearly dressed and stood by solemnly. Peng Hai and Qin Muyun, the deputy generals of the Shenji Battalion, led the five Dusi to wait at the gate for a long time.

Seeing Lord Qincha coming, the generals turned over and dismounted, stepped forward to clasp their fists and saluted: "Peng Hai and Qin Muyun, the deputy generals of the Shenji Battalion, led their subordinates to see Lord Qincha!" ”

"Well, the two generals are well governed, and this Shenji Battalion is an elite division at first glance!"

Li Xiuwen nodded with satisfaction, but there were some doubts in his heart. The officers and soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in front of them look quite imposing, is this really the elite division of the Ming Dynasty?

His eyes slowly swept around, and he silently counted the number of people in the front row of the five phalanxes in his heart. Then, Li Xiuwen drove forward, from the front row to the back row of the line, and roughly estimated the total number of people in his heart.

The two lieutenants followed with a few commanders, and Peng Hai whispered to Qin Muyun on the back of the horse beside him: "Have you found it?" This Lord Chincha is so strange. ”

When Qin Muyun heard this, he nodded imperceptibly: "That's true!" I wonder what he's calculating. ”

The conversation between the two naturally fell on Li Xiuwen's ears, and he just pretended that he didn't hear it.

After walking to the back of the battle, Li Xiuwen's brows furrowed slightly, and he secretly thought to himself: "There are nearly 6,000 people, strange!" ”

In my memory, in the later period of the Ming Dynasty's military system, due to the corruption of generals and the encroachment of soldiers' fields, almost half of the deserters from the local guard posts were deserted. Then they concealed the number of soldiers and took empty salaries.

This god machine battalion, there is no such phenomenon?

Originally, he had made up his mind, and if he found that there was a serious shortage of soldiers, he would inform Zhu Youzhen of the situation, so that he could take this opportunity to meddle in the military affairs of the Shenji Battalion.

But now the number of people is almost the same, and there is only a small number of shortages, and the imperial court will not make up its mind to rectify it. It is common for deserters to appear in the army, and it is expected that Zhu Youzhen also knows something.

Li Xiuwen glanced at the two lieutenant generals, then turned his horse around and walked straight to his own personal army before giving the order -- the whole army was marched.

Li Xiuwen's family came to wait outside the city early.

Wang Bing waited a little impatiently, and complained to Yang Yuxuan: "Sister, it's almost an hour, why hasn't that nerd come yet?" ”

Yang Yuxuan smiled: "You, so many people are looking at it, why do you call it that?" ”

Wang Bing pursed his lips and said, "Isn't he a big official now, what's so great?" ”

Yang Yuxuan shook her head helplessly and said, "Don't worry, Xianggong should be almost there." ”

After a while, everyone saw a long queue in the distance. When they got closer, they saw Li Xiuwen sitting on a horse, with a majestic momentum.

This python robe, Li Xiuwen only put it on this morning. Although everyone had already seen it when they were at home, they still couldn't help but take a few more looks.

Li Xiuwen sat on a tall horse, and his eyes naturally saw farther, and he had already spotted them.

When he came to everyone, Li Xiuwen ordered his own soldiers to make way and put several of his cars in them, and then continued to move forward.

Due to the fact that there were many infantry among the accompanying soldiers, Li Xiuwen's itinerary was not fast, and it was only a few days from the capital to Kaifeng, but this time he had to walk for nearly ten days.

Nanyang is farther than Kaifeng, so Li Xiuwen plans to return to Kaifeng first, rest for a day and then rush to Nanyang.

Outside Kaifeng City, ten miles long pavilion.

Today's Henan Zuobu Zheng Sima Mingda, and Kaifeng prefect Zhao Xiong, leading the officials of their respective yamen, are waiting here early.

The news of Li Xiuwen's return, Zhu Shaoye naturally knew. However, now that he is the prince of the vassal king, his identity is too sensitive, and it is really inappropriate for him to openly show closeness to Li Xiuwen on such an occasion.

Li Xiuwen planned to surprise his father and sister, and did not write to them to inform them of the news of his return. It's just that these officials in Kaifeng City have made such a big battle today, can they really hide it from the Li family?

The six arts of a gentleman are: etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Among them, "royal" refers to the ability to control chariots and horses, and also implies the art of controlling people.

But the scholars of this era have mostly ignored their riding and archery abilities.

Li Xiuwen is like this, equestrianism is really flattering. On weekdays, he is used to riding in carriages, and this time he rode a horse, which really tossed him enough.

With so many people with him, he was embarrassed to change to the carriage for the sake of face, and the skin on his buttocks was already worn out. In this winter, I feel like a fire under my buttocks.

Seeing the waiting team in front of him from a distance, Li Xiuwen was not surprised at all.

At the beginning, he was only a small hundred households, and when he was in Jiangnan, he was warmly received by local officials. It can be seen that the name of this "Lord Qincha" is indeed extraordinary.

To put it bluntly, most of these officials in Kaifeng today are "their own people".

Li Xiuwen didn't say too much to them, simply exchanged a few words, and then continued to move forward.

At the gate of Kaifeng City, there were many people who heard the news and rushed to see the excitement.

It's no wonder that there is a big official in their hometown, and they all feel honored, so they naturally want to come and see this eldest master of the Li family.

Zhu Shaoye and Zhu Huaiyu were dressed in civilian clothes and mixed in the crowd.

Zhu Huaiyu said: "Big brother, this show is amazing, so many people came to see him." ”

Zhu Shaoye smiled when he heard this: "That's not it?" Hengzhi is now returning to his hometown and glorifying his hometown! ”

Zhu Huaiyu pursed his lips, a little disapproving. Suddenly, he pointed to the gate and shouted, "I see him!" ”

When Zhu Shaoye heard this, he raised his eyes and saw a Xuanhuang Tianzi Dragon Flag fluttering in the wind, and below it was the Qincha honor guard. Among the many guards, Li Xiuwen, who was wearing a python robe, drove his horse slowly.

Python robe jade belt!

Seeing this dress, Zhu Shaoye was surprised.

I heard earlier that Li Xiuwen was quite favored, but now it seems that it is true. He was actually very puzzled in his heart, why did the other party be so favored, why did he want to encourage himself and plan that rebellious thing?

Seeing so many people coming to watch, Li Xiuwen was also very excited. His face was very calm, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Hmph, so many people greeted him, and his heart must have been happy!"

When Zhu Huaiyu saw him pretending like this, he felt a little resentful in his heart. Her little hand was hidden under her, and with a sudden flick of her fingers, a stone flew through the gap in the crowd and flew to Li Xiuwen's horse's belly.

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PS: Thank you for the re-tipping of "The Snow Has Fallen on a Winter Night"! (To be continued.) )