On this day, the department is interspersed with the front, everyone is hiding in a forest and is resting, the Ming Dynasty has a small population, just like the modern countryside is full of mountains and forests, which is very suitable for concealment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the distance, I saw a long procession about a mile away, the line was very long, ten miles away, and Ma Chao, who was hidden behind the mountain, spat out and was about to give up.

Staff officer Lou Yi pointed to a group of people and said, "Guerrilla general, you see, there are about 1,000 people there with their hands cut behind their backs, as if they were carrying silver.

As soon as he heard this horse tide, he picked up the binoculars and looked at it carefully again: "Damn, we did it, such a lot of snowflakes of silver, Lao Tzu will do it even if he dies." ”

Lou Yi looked a little surprised, looked at Ma Chao and said, "Guerrilla general, isn't this a bit risky?" You see, there are thousands of escorts on the other side. ”

Ma Chao shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, we can send two battalions of cavalry first, one battalion is responsible for rescuing people, and the other battalion is fighting back and forth to block each other."

Even if the rogues sent reinforcements, we had two battalions of cavalry in reserve. ”

Up to now, the cavalry has expanded to more than 800 people, and is currently organized into four cavalry battalions.

Ma Chao immediately called four generals, and when they were less than a few voices, these four generals were ordered to leave.

In a moment, I saw 3 cavalry brigades rushing over from Shanliangzi, killing the guards of the brigade, and suddenly being attacked by hundreds of cavalry, the other party panicked, under the command of a small leader, the guys, ready to counterattack.

At this moment, in the other direction, Lou Yi led 3 cavalry brigades, everyone pounced on the kidnapped crowd, raised their sabers, and slashed at the soldiers who were waving horsewhips and urging the crowd.

In order to intercept those chestnut trees, the soldiers who watched actually swung their knives and slashed at the people who were carrying the chestnut trees with their hands behind their backs.

This caused even more confusion in the ranks, and when Lou Yi saw this, he shouted to stop the atrocities of these soldiers, and rushed over to drive them away.

After two pillars of incense kung fu fighting, they finally repelled these atrocities and rescued more than 100 chestnut trees and more than 2,000 people.

Lou Yi announced loudly: "The political envoy has an order, and whoever carries away a chestnut tree will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver." ”

In a normal year, 10 taels of silver can be sold for 20 quintals of grain, and now the price of grain in the chaos has doubled, and 10 taels of silver can also be bought for 10 taels of grain.

Hearing such a huge reward, some of the people who were fleeing in all directions stopped, and then ran like the wind, carrying these chestnut trees in groups of threes and threes and escaping in both directions under the organization of the Loyal and Righteous Army.

During this period, some people spread the word that the chestnut tree contained white flowers and silver, and a few people who were greedy for money and fled along the path carrying the chestnut tree were shot by the soldiers who guarded them.

In this way, more than 200 chestnut trees and more than 3,000 people were finally rescued, and Ma Chaofang led his troops to escape, but there were many chasing soldiers along the way, and a total of three chasing soldiers were defeated before and after, and fifty or sixty chestnut trees were lost in the middle.

Chasing all the way to Guanghan County, more than 80 miles north of the city, Yang Xuan stopped the pursuit.

The Loyal and Righteous Army rescued more than 20,000 people who were coerced, rescued more than 1,000 chestnut trees, obtained more than 10 taels of gold, more than 100 taels of silver, and seized more than 2,000 quintals of grain, thus solving the problem of military supplies of the Loyal and Righteous Army in one fell swoop.

After seeing that the Liukou continued to strengthen the defense, the Ming army pursued for 4 days, and stopped at a place 30 miles north of Guanghan County, Yang Xuan on the one hand let people collect the corpses of soldiers and soldiers along the way for burial, and on the other hand, he sent more than 100 carriages to transport, and then Yang Xuan and Yang Zhan returned to Chengdu in a mighty way.

When I returned to Chengdu, I saw that although the Shu Wangfu and the Sansi Yamen (political envoys, patrol envoys, and commanders) were very badly damaged, due to the timely rescue, there were very few houses that were burned down.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Prince's Mansion was simply a microcosm of the Forbidden City, and Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the circumference of the Prince's Mansion was three miles, three hundred and nine steps, and five minutes.

The height of the city is two zhang and nine feet, the lower width is six zhang, and the upper width is two zhang.

Another rule is that it is 150 zhang 2 inches wide from east to west, and 197 zhang 2 inches and 5 minutes long from north to south.

According to today's conversion, it is almost 330,000 square meters (the Forbidden City is 720,000 square meters), nearly 500 acres.

The Prince's Mansion building is large-scale, majestic, splendid, surrounded by the same tall city wall and four city gates, the city tower is covered with blue glazed tiles, and the gate is decorated with red lacquer gold and copper nails, as if it is the epitome of the imperial capital Yingtian Forbidden City. The main gate of the four cities of the palace is called Duanli in the south, Guangzhi in the north, Tiren in the east, and Zunyi in the west.

The three main buildings of the Prince's Mansion are the three main halls, which are the Carrier Palace, the Circle Hall and the Preservation Palace.

The front hall carries the largest hall, with a width of 11 rooms, and is the main body of the entire palace building. Immediately followed by the Circle Hall and the Heart Palace, each with nine rooms.

All the palaces are arched and roofed, painted with pan cockroaches, decorated with gold edges, and painted with eight auspicious flowers. The seat in the hall is made of red lacquer gold cockroach, the red pin gold cockroach is used for hanging the account, and the back wall of the seat is painted with a cocktail and colored clouds.

The whole pattern is very similar to the three major halls of Taihe, Zhonghe and Baohe in the Forbidden City, which are the places where Gu Wang holds celebrations and exercises power.

The two halls of the carrier hall are the two halls on the left and right.

The main gate, the front and rear halls, and the four-gate city tower are decorated with green and gold. The palace gate and the city gate tower are covered with cyan glazed tiles. The prince's palace must be decorated with vermilion, big green, and green, and the other rooms should be decorated with Danbi.

Self-mind, carrier, back to the carrier door, for the house 138 rooms. Behind the palace are the front, middle and back three palaces, each with nine rooms. There are ninety-nine rooms on both sides of the palace gate. There were 800 rooms in such a prince's house.

Now most of the carrier hall has been damaged, and it can't live at all, and the back hall and the heart hall are also very badly damaged.

In addition, due to the increasing number of Shu royal clans, 1/3 of Chengdu City is occupied by the Shu royal clan, and there are not many other houses destroyed.

In addition, I feel that there is a lot of depression in the market, because Zhang Xianzhong has killed a lot in Chengdu Mansion in the past year, and when he fled north, he also intercepted 100,000 strong people to transport grain and transport silver taels (with chestnut trees), although Yang Xuan's rescue was timely, but even so, the population in Chengdu was only fifty or sixty percent in the past.

In this year, the Great Western Army plundered the people's grain for a living, and those who dared to resist were exterminated, so that basically every village was killed in dozens of miles outside the city of Chengdu, and the population near the Chengdu Plain decreased by about 2 percent.

Although the number of people killed by Zhang Xianzhong was not as large as the people advertised by the barbarian Qing Dynasty, on the other hand, the people fled one after another in order to escape the rebellion of the rogues, or did not farm, and in the rich Chengdu Plain, 4 or 5 barren fields appeared, and some even had waist-deep weeds.

Thinking of these, Yang Xuan not only lamented the great damage of the war, but also thought about how to restore production and restore the old appearance of the former country of abundance.

But at that time, there were many discussions, and there were too many rumors about the loyal army and Yang Xuan in the local army.

Some people brought up the old story again, and it was rumored that the second lady was an impostor, not the county lord Zhu Shuying at all, but one of his maids.

When Yang Xuan arrived, the county lord Zhu Shuying was already dying, and in order to hide people's eyes, Yang Xuan changed the tanuki to the prince, let the maid pretend to be the county lord, and then accept him as a concubine.

It is rumored that Yang Xuan wants to find a powerful ancestor to increase his prestige, and when he passed through Xindu, he was recommended by his staff to find the great-grandson of Yang Tinghe, the former cabinet chief assistant, and Yang Youren, the great-grandson of the former champion Yang Shen, ready to be recognized as a lost brother.

Yang Xuan originally wanted to repeat the old trick, but his behavior was revealed, and he had to recruit Yang Youren as a friend and give up such a practice.

The generals were quite annoyed, and many people were aggrieved by Yang Xuan, and some generals in the city of Chengdu on this day begged to enter the Shu King's Mansion as a guest of honor in the Shu Palace, so as to set the record straight.

Looking at the people who were causing chaos, Yang Xuan shook his head again and again, although the King of Shu is a famous Shu Xiucai (Zhu Yuanzhang), but after more than two hundred and sixty years of operation, in addition to the Prince's Mansion, there are 21 county palaces, and the general's mansions of large and small princes have exceeded one-third of Chengdu City, and the land it occupies has exceeded one or two percent of the Chengdu Plain (it is rumored that three percent).

Yang Xuan said frankly that a son-in-law is not equal to a son after all, so he must not be like this. Besides, the king of Shu has two sons, although the eldest son was killed, but there is still a son who lives among the people, as long as he can find it, he can also inherit the title of the king of Shu.

said a thousand ways and ten thousand, although the county lord Zhu Shuying lived in the Shu Wangfu with a few maids, his status was also to temporarily protect the palace, and then move out after finding the younger brother.

The other county king's mansions did not have any psychological burden, Yang Xuan led his troops to live in the Neijiang royal mansion, and distributed the mansions of other county kings and generals to the homeless people to live in.

Although rumors are still endless, those people who have been assigned to live in houses are still quite grateful to Yang Xuan and the loyal army.