In the Forbidden City, Princess Kunxing was dressed as a eunuch, and she was walking against the wall like a little mouse with the palace maid Que'er, who was also dressed as a eunuch, hoping to get out of the palace. How is the honeycomb coal business going, is that kid surnamed Chen lazy, if you dare to embezzle the silver of this palace, see how this palace will deal with you!

Suddenly, a tall and burly figure appeared in front of him, blocking the sky for half a day.

"Hehe, Uncle Wu," Princess Kunxing secretly stuck out her tongue and showed a bright smile to Wu Mengming.

"Alas, princess, what do you want me to say about you?" Wu Mengming sighed and said helplessly.

"Uncle Wu, I'm not going out to play around, I'm looking for Chen Yue to see my honeycomb coal business, can you just let me out once?" Princess Kunxing frowned and said pitifully.

"Your honeycomb coal business is very good, it is about to occupy half of the inner city, and many coal yards are about to be destroyed, so you should save your worries, princess." Wu Mengming coaxed Princess Kunxing with good words.

"Really, I really didn't misunderstand Chen Yue, he is really powerful!" Princess Kunxing shouted excitedly, admiring with a smile, very proud of her vision of knowing people.

"Uncle Wu, you just let me go and see Chen Yue, I, I'm going to check the accounts and see if he dares to embezzle my silver." Then, Princess Kunxing continued to plead pitifully.

"Alas, my princess, I just let you out of the palace, I'm afraid you won't be able to see Chen Yue again." Wu Mengming sighed.

"Ah, what's wrong, what's wrong with Chen Yue?" Princess Kunxing couldn't help but show an anxious look.

Wu Mengming only had to tell Princess Kunxing about Chen Yue's experience in the past few days, and finally said: "He has now been appointed as the inspector of the Xishan Inspection Department, and he will take office soon, and now the gate of Beijing is closed, and no one can open it without a holy decree, so even if you leave the palace, you won't be able to see Chen Yue outside the city." ”

"Ahh How so? Princess Kunxing was stunned all of a sudden, "There are so many Tartars outside the city, so dangerous, why don't you let him enter the city, but send some kind of inspection!" Besides, what kind of inspection does he go to, what will happen to my business! ”

"Don't worry, princess, Chen Yue is gone, and his father Chen Jianghe is here, and there is a wonderful woman in the Chen family, under her management, the honeycomb coal business has not declined at all because of Chen Yue's absence, but is thriving day by day. And I also secretly help the Chen family, so I won't let people steal your business. Wu Mengming persuaded that these days, for the honeycomb coal business of Laoshizi, he has worked hard, and secretly does not know how many people have been sent.

"Amazing woman? Who is that, I want to know. Princess Kunxing muttered.

After getting the inspection documents, Chen Yue stayed in the city for more than half a month and continued to train his subordinates. Beijing's gates have been tightly closed and have not been opened since the Qing soldiers broke through. However, a lot of food supplies can be sent down from the city every day, all of which are purchased by Wu Wan'er, and Chen Jianghe leads people to hang them from the city with hanging baskets.

On this day, with the provision under the hanging, Chen Yue also found a letter, thinking that Wu Wan'er had something to say to herself, but after opening it, it was from Zhou Gongzi.

"Chen Yue, I am very worried when I know that you will be going to inspect the Xishan Inspection Division. I heard that Xishan is a place where bandits are rampant, and there are Manchu Tartar cavalry in Gyeonggi to torture you, so you must pay attention to your own safety and do not be competitive. I will ask Uncle Wu to take care of the honeycomb coal business, you don't have to worry about it. Week. ”

Looking at the delicate handwriting, Chen Yue's innocent and beautiful little face appeared in front of his face, and he couldn't help but show a knowing smile.

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After more than 20 days of training, the family members have been reborn, the firecrackers have been able to skillfully load and launch firearms, and the speed of reloading is getting faster and faster, according to Chen Yue's calculations, they can already fire twice per minute, which is already good. The spearmen attacked together with long guns like a forest, and the momentum was extremely majestic, and when a group of three practiced the confrontation alone, even a good player like Yang Zhengping won very hard. The families who have experienced a bloody battle are growing up rapidly unconsciously. Chen Yue believes that even if he encounters the Qing soldiers again, the musketeers will never be as afraid as last time to reload ammunition, although it is far from the combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers, but in all aspects it is already stronger than most of the Ming army, of course, this refers to team combat, if you fight alone, the young man who has not yet grown up may not even be able to beat an ordinary soldier. However, it is certain that after a fierce battle, after more than 20 days of rigorous training, they are no longer recruits, but gradually grow into qualified soldiers.

For more than 20 days, people came from the south every day, and after being blocked by the city walls, they wandered among the wilderness. It was the people near Gyeonggi who had their homes destroyed by the Qing army and escaped death, and they chose to take refuge in Gyeongshi when they had nowhere to go, but the closed city gate cut off their hope. Under the severe cold, the refugees who had nowhere to go dug pits outside the city walls, built shacks to escape the cold, and lived a difficult life with the little food they brought, praying every day that the court would see them and open the city gates to allow them to take refuge in the city.

At first, Chen Yue also gave some food to the refugees, but as the refugees increased, he gradually found that he could not help at all, and there were many homeless young people who were eyeing the coal yard, but there was no change in the force of Chen Yue and others.

With so many people hanging outside Beijing, without food and clothing, a large number of people will definitely freeze to death and starve to death after a long time, Chen Yue does not want to see this tragic situation, although the family has not yet been trained, so he set off. He is going to take up his post in the Xishan Inspection Division and embark on his own journey.

There were more than 40 people, nine war horses, and two carriages drawn by horses, but they were owned by the original coal yard, carrying all kinds of grain and baggage.

The nine war horses Chen Yue and Yang Zhengping each rode one, and the remaining seven horses carried armor and luggage, pulling pots and spoons and various utensils on one carriage, and carrying all kinds of things from the coal yard onto the carriage, and the other carriage pulled more than a dozen stones of grain, enough for the group to eat for a month.

Chen Yue and Yang Zhengping were at both ends of the team, more than 40 families were divided into two columns, and the horses and carriages were protected in the middle.

On the city wall, Chen Jianghe looked at the team under the city with a worried face, and his mood was extremely complicated. Although it is not very far to go to Xishan, the prospect is unpredictable and extremely dangerous, I wonder if Ah Yue can hold it?

The team walked in the cold winter wilderness, and from time to time encountered fleeing people along the way, dragging their families in groups of three or five, all of them were full of sluggishness and misery. When they saw the procession approaching, most of the refugees hid on the side of the road, either envious or indifferent to the procession.

The sharp weapons in the hands of the family members, the bright armor worn by Chen Yue and others deterred these refugees, no one dared to come forward to disturb, many people tightly pulled the child's arm, protecting the only little property behind them, for fear of being taken away by these officers and soldiers. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the discipline of the army was extremely poor, and the seizure of people's property, plunder, and even killing of people to repay their merits occurred from time to time, and the people had no good impression of officers and soldiers.

Looking at the vigilant eyes of the refugees, Chen Yue couldn't explain the difference between his team and other officers and soldiers, so he could only silently lead the team on the main road.

The farther away from the capital, the more and more refugees were encountered, and dozens of people had been seen traveling together, Chen Yue sent someone to inquire, but it was the people of a village, afraid that the Qing army would be captured and enslaved outside the border, so he fled the village and fled to the city for refuge in the hope of fleeing to the city. Chen Yue wanted to tell them that even if he fled to Beijing, he would not be able to enter the city, but he could not say this. Anyway, the Qing soldiers will not attack the city of Beijing, as long as they can avoid the cold outside the city, and then return to the village in the spring next year. But in this extremely cold winter, it is difficult to say how many people will be saved from freezing to death in the unobstructed wilderness.

The more people fled, the more people in the countryside used their strength to run amok, or robbed some food and property, or bullied men and women. Chen Yue saw with his own eyes a strong man dragging a woman into the grass on the side of the road, the woman's three- or four-year-old son stood on the side of the road and cried, and the other refugees looked at her indifferently, and no one helped the poor woman.

Chen Yue pointed with his hand, and several family members pounced on the side of the road, punching and kicking, dragging the disheveled violent man over, but it was a man with leopard eyes and a bearded face, with a fierce face, who was pulled to Chen Yue's horse and was still struggling, and was pulled into the crook of his leg by Chen Yan's gun, so he knelt down unwillingly.

"Relying on force to bully women and children really deserves to be killed!" Chen Yue glanced at him in disgust, and was about to order him to be dragged down and executed.

"Which law did this official, the villain and his own lady Dunlun violate?" The man straightened his neck and yelled at Chen Yue.

Own lady? Chen Yuehu looked at the sad woman on the side suspiciously, her fair skin and delicate body were good, but looking at the situation, where they were husband and wife, it was obvious that this man was lying.

"Clever words, lie to your face, pull down and kill." Chen Yue frowned and commanded categorically.

A few family members stepped forward and dragged the struggling man and was about to drag him to the side of the road.

The woman's face changed, and she suddenly rushed out and knelt down in front of Chen Yue's horse.

"This official, please, don't kill my man!" She turned her face back and pleaded with Chen Yue.

Well? Chen Yue was stunned, could it be that they are really a family, but where is there a husband who his own woman on the side of the road?

"This sister-in-law, you don't have to be afraid, let alone lie for fear of lying, he will never be able to bully you in the future." Chen Yue comforted softly.

"No, no, no, this official, please don't kill him, with him, he can still protect our mother and son, if you kill him, our mother and daughter will be even more miserable in the future." The woman pleaded.

Listening to the woman's words, Chen Yue was silent for a moment, waved his hand fiercely, and the two family members struggled to stab out the spear and pierced it into the man's abdomen, and the man grabbed the gun and howled sharply, and soon lowered his head.

"Those who are remnants of the people, if I encounter Chen Yue, I will kill them!" Chen Yue's cold words spread out, and all the family members turned grim and agreed in unison.

"This sister-in-law, you don't have to worry about being bullied again, you can follow us with your son, and you can help us do some sewing and mending things in the future." Chen Yue spoke in harmony to the woman.

The woman's husband's surname is Feng, and he is twenty-three years old, but he is much younger than Chen Yue imagined. A native of Fengjia Village, 20 miles south of Beijing, her husband died of illness last year, and he is often referred to as Kefu by the villagers. That villain is also from Fengjia Village, and according to the relationship, he is her distant cousin, but he is a bachelor.

After the death of Feng's husband, the evil man started the idea of this little widow, and often came to harass her, but Feng refused many times. And this time the Qing soldiers entered the customs and robbed, Fengjia Village fled to the village, Feng's orphans and widows walked very slowly, and the evil man took the initiative to take care of him, Feng's alone was too difficult, and he could only reluctantly accept his kindness. Who knew that after walking for half a day, the wicked man gradually became dishonest, and without saying anything to Feng's hands, he even dragged her to the grass and violently assaulted her.

When Feng was about to accept his fate when he struggled desperately to no avail, Chen Yue passed by and rescued her. When Chen Yue wanted to kill the villain, he thought that if the villain was killed, she would no longer be able to gain a foothold in Fengjia Village, she was too difficult for a woman to take her son, and sooner or later she had to find someone to rely on, although the wicked man was evil, but he could also protect his mother and wife in this troubled world, plus the woman was soft-hearted, and she couldn't bear to watch the villain in the same village because she was killed, so she took the initiative to admit that he was her man, and begged Chen Yue to spare the villain's life. But now that Chen Yue has killed the villain, she has no choice but to follow Chen Yue.

The woman and child could not walk fast, so Chen Yue vacated a corner of one of the carriages and let her mother and son sit on it, and the procession continued towards the West Mountain.

The reason why Chen Yue saved the mother and son was not because he was soft-hearted and kind-hearted, there were so many refugees on the side of the road, and he had no ability to save everyone. His move was for his family members, who used to be refugees, and because they couldn't get by, they would be sold into slavery by their families, and their situation was similar to that of this mother and son, and saving the mother and son would inevitably resonate with them. Then Chen Yue wants to set a rule for the family members, and he must not do anything to hurt the people in the future. In the future, there may be more and more troops under his command, and there will be any kind of people under the mixture, but Chen Yue will definitely not allow his army to be like other armies, with corrupt discipline and remnants of the people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military discipline of the army of the Ming Dynasty was very corrupt, robbing people's property, plundering, and even killing good people and taking meritorious deeds happened from time to time, Chen Yue absolutely did not allow his army to become like that, so it was necessary to establish rules from the beginning.