Chapter 28: The Sorrowful Pawn
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Everyone was worried, this day arrived at Guangyuan's Baizhang Pass, Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhan led the troops to block the way, after a day of fierce fighting, the rebels attacked Baizhang Pass was frustrated, coupled with the officers and troops from all directions to round up, the rebels were in crisis. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's martial arts (national examination), Yang Zhan, the garrison of Guangyuan, first sent an envoy to appease him, and finally rushed to the camp in person.
The camp was full of wailing, and Liu Bao and others also knew that it was useless to resist, so they were forced to accept the conditions and lead more than a dozen cronies to escape from the barracks, and live incognito.
In late November of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Guangyuan garrison Yang Zhan successfully appeased, and the governor Chen Shiqi breathed a sigh of relief and made Yang Zhan a general to lead the rebels.
And Yang Xuan was also promoted to the chief military attache of Zhengliupinqian because of his meritorious service.
But also because of the mutiny of the royal department, the vigorous three-way suppression of bandits came to an abrupt end, and Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, was also extremely annoyed, and specially convened everyone in Shunqing Mansion to review the gains and losses of this crackdown on bandits.
Handed over the soldiers and horses to the assistant Fan Mingshan to command, Yang Xuan rode a yellow horse and rushed to Fucheng.
The first time he rode a horse was to win the deputy list in the township examination that day, and the horse was led by a servant in front, and the two officials next to him were protected, sitting on the horse and moving slowly, and the whole person felt frightened at that time.
After shooting and killing the celestial star Liang Si in the anti-night attack battle and capturing his yellow horse, Yang Xuan really began to practice horseback riding, sitting in the saddle, stepping on the horse pedal with two legs, and running on the flat road is nothing, but if it is on the mountain path, he grabs the horse's mane and reins with both hands, for fear of being thrown off by the war horse.
This is the first time to ride a horse out of the door, all the way to stop and stop, this day through a post station, the head of the squad saw the fully armed generals passing by, hurriedly greeted out, after the verification of the official is even more nodding and bowing, while instructing the messenger to feed the good forage, while welcoming everyone into the private room.
The head of the team nodded and asked the adults what they wanted to eat?
Seeing that these team leaders were so attentive and had been serving beside him, Yang Xuan was full of emotion, even if he was a waiter in a star-rated hotel in his previous life.
After thinking about it, he smiled and let him order two dishes casually, but he needed to hurry after eating, and the adults were too anxious to recruit.
The head of the class served four plates of stir-fried vegetables, and he kept trembling in his body, asking if he was satisfied?
In his previous life, he advocated N+1 for eating, that is, eating out, one dish per person plus a bowl of soup, I didn't expect this life to be so rich, Yang Xuan couldn't eat so much, I hope the team leader can remove two dishes.
The head of the team was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he quickly knelt down, claiming that he would fry two more dishes no matter what.
Seeing that it caused everyone to misunderstand, Yang Xuan helped him up and said with a smile: "He Bantou, I really don't mean anything else." Look, only me and the three of us can eat two dishes at most, isn't it a waste that you make so much?"
He Bantou shook his head again and again and said: "My lord, the small one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and a military attache like an adult like the sixth grade will kill chickens when they pass by, but some time ago there was a war, and the local economy withered, and the small one could only make such a thing for a while." ”
Yang Xuan was shocked in his heart, could it be that this is public money to eat and drink, doesn't he need to pay for these by himself?
Once inquired, it turned out that this was indeed the case, and the Ming Dynasty established post roads in the whole country, established post stations in various counties, and set up post posts to manage local post stations.
The post station not only facilitates the transportation of information, military food and baggage, but also provides accommodation convenience for the past gentry free of charge.
After the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in order to make friends with the gentry in the past, the local officials provided money and grain as a ritual, and even met hundreds of taels of high-ranking officials in the imperial court.
The son-in-law of Governor Hu Zongxian lobbied in all directions, and the county officials in various places all gave money and filial piety, and those who gave less money actually made the reception officials beat up.
Hai Rui, the magistrate of the county, pretended to be confused, did not recognize the identity of Hu Gongzi at all, and sent him to the governor Hu Zongxian after being beaten up, and finally made a fuss, so that he could not step down, and Hai Rui was named a clean official.
He Bantou was still hiding at first, but seeing that Yang Xuan was young and a military attaché, he slowly let go, and it could be said that he had a nose and a tear and told that this errand was not good.
Ushered in the send-off, on the surface looks very beautiful, but all are errands to serve people, meet a good temper, but also be able to say two words at the same table, but if you encounter some strange temper that can only be carefully served, a little careless, the light will be scolded, the heavy will be punished, this is a common thing.
In addition, the most important thing is the burden of the people, in order to ensure the normal operation of the national postal system, the local government often sets aside a certain number of households to be responsible for the reception, everyone not only provides errands, but also needs to provide money for the operation of the post station.
For example, the North Twenty Pu (post station is equivalent to the railway station under the Ministry of Railways in the past, and a large section includes a number of small railway stations. In feudal society, generally a county set up a post officer, including four or five small stations), the annual expenditure needs more than 400 taels, these post errands constantly need to bear heavy labor, each family also needs to pay 4 taels of silver every year.
This is a heavier burden than ordinary people, who have 10 acres of paddy fields and 20 acres of dry land, and they do not need to pay so much money and grain in a year.
Yang Xuan listened carefully, in addition to lamenting the good treatment of Chinese officials, he also lamented the unspoken rules and the amount of gray income.
From Yilong to Fucheng less than two hundred miles, the horse was whipped, and it took two days to arrive, handing over the yellow horse to Yang Fuquan, the chief of the guard, and escorting Niu Dayong to the prefect's yamen gatehouse.
After being promoted to the position of President Qian, Yang Xuante selected brave warriors from the army as his personal guards to surround and safe.
This Yang Fuquan is more than 30 years old, quite cautious, claiming to be a descendant of Yang Linggong Yang Ye of the Northern Song Dynasty, making a long spear, claiming to be the ancestral Yang family marksmanship, ordinary seven or eight people are not a problem, and now he is promoted to the chief of the guard.
That Niu Dayong is only more than 20 years old, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, whether it is under the horse, he is very good at kung fu immediately, and he once defeated the brave man with one enemy and ten, and was promoted to personal guard.
After the crossing, although Yang Xuan practiced martial arts every day, he was now able to ride a horse and release his guns, his skills were quite agile, and his fighting skills were no different from those of ordinary practitioners.
Although I knew some fitness methods in my previous life, and my body was better than ordinary people, it was impossible to practice hard all day and night like those practitioners, and I was helpless in the face of such a situation.
The concierge was a middle-aged scholar in his forties, not tall, thin, dressed as a scribe.
This waist card is a kind of identity certificate in ancient times, just like this copper waist card engraved with the name of the licensee, official position, and main physical features, as an official certificate, so as not to be falsely called.
The slight difference is that officials of different status have different material waist cards, like ordinary soldiers, the general officials mostly use iron waist cards, and officials below the fifth rank are just copper waist cards.
Business cards are no different from those used in modern times, which are generally held by literati, civil officials, and senior military attachés, and they indicate their identity and other information, which is far from being used indiscriminately like in modern times.
In ancient novels, you often see that some civil officials often instruct their subordinates to handle things with their business cards, which is probably the reason.
After checking it carefully, the porter smiled and said: "Mr. Yang Qian, please forgive me, in the past two days, everyone has said that Mr. Qian has abandoned his pen and followed Rong with the respect of the deputy leader, and he miraculously fell out on the battlefield and defeated the local tyrant in a row, which is a rare talent."
At first, I heard adults claim that he was such a big hero, and I couldn't believe it, so I just checked it carefully. ”
Yang Xuan laughed dryly twice, and said with a smile: "Brother Tai has a good reputation, what a miracle skill, it's really ashamed to say that the boss's corruption is rampant and provokes a mutiny, and he can't do anything about it."
Looking at Brother Tai below, he is cautious, his eyes are bright, he is really a wise and brave man, please forgive me for taking the liberty below, I really don't know the name of Brother Tai, and I look at Brother Tai Haihan. ”
The porter arched his hand and sighed: "In Xia Yin Chengqi, the mountains and fields are poor and talented, of course, not as young and talented as adults, just because they are dissatisfied with only the deputy list of people and make a big fuss in the tribute court, let alone like adults, with the respect of the deputy list of people, starting from the most humble little flag chief." ”
Yang Xuan laughed, and his heart was full of emotion, if this person was developed, those troubled things back then were also taken out, and after some processing and explanation, it proved how smart he was, how far-sighted, and how temperamental.
It was originally an extremely humiliating thing to faint on the spot after failing in the imperial examination, but now some people actually interpret it as dissatisfaction with the unfairness of the imperial examination and explain it as making a big fuss in the tribute court, which is really quite interesting.
Yang Xuan felt that his face was hot, and said with a smile: "Brother Yin smiled, I originally wanted to break the jar, but I didn't expect to throw out a new world."
The times create heroes, although Brother Yin is just a showman, but he can't run from time to time? If you need to trouble Brother Yin in the future, I hope Brother Tai will not refuse. ”
Yin Chengqi nodded again and again, personally introduced Yang Xuan into the hall, and only bent over to leave after the report.
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