Chapter 7 Recruiting Troops Section 086 Rely on it and not leave

When Chen Wenzhao heard this, his face was cloudy, his right hand was tightly clenched into a fist, and then he opened it lightly, and said with a long sigh: "It's been so many years, the blood has long been washed away by the muddy river, what are you still doing with these rights and wrongs?" ”

Ji Qingwen waved his hand and said, "I don't agree with this." What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. Although sometimes, the difference between right and wrong cannot be clearly stated, but after ten or a hundred years, there will naturally be a fair opinion. ”

Chen Wenzhao sighed again: "That's it, there will be a public opinion after ten years and a hundred years." What's the use of us dwelling on the present? ”

"That's not right!" Ji Qingwen reprimanded again, "But now, maybe in the next few hundred years, people in the world will only think that the Qi family's army is not worthy of its name, and they can only deal with the Japanese along the coast, and they will be powerless in the face of the Jurchen Eight Banners." Right now, there is a great opportunity in front of General Chen, who can wash away the injustices of the Qi family's army, does General Chen just want to let him slip away? ”

Chen Wenzhao's nostrils were closed one by one, as if he was trying to calm the passion in his chest, but in the end, he said lightly: "It's naturally good to have a chance." It's a pity that I'm just a deserter on the battlefield, and I can't help the adults. ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he became angry again, slammed the table, and scolded: "You were ordered to ask for reinforcements, and you are not a deserter. However, now looking at your languishing appearance, the name of the Qi family army is buried in the red dust, where is there still the shadow of the Qi family army back then? That's a real deserter! ”

Chen Wenzhao heard this scolding, but he didn't take it to heart at all, and said: "Lord Ji is not wrong at all, I am a deserter. The Qi family army is a team formed by General Qi Jiguang, how can I, Chen Wenzhao, reinvigorate his old man's prestige? ”

Saying that, Chen Wenzhao added: "There is one more thing, let me remind you. After the Battle of the Hunhe River, the imperial court originally wanted to organize a Zhejiang army in Yiwu. However, after years of war, Yiwu men died seven or eight times out of ten, and it was unbearable to recruit any more men......"

After that, Chen Wenzhao stood up, made a gesture of "sending off guests", pointed to a pile of ore that was emitting smoke and dust, and said: "I still have to sort out these ores in the future, a few of them, please take a please." ”

Ji Qingwen touched a nail that was neither soft nor hard at Chen Wenzhao's place, left the mine in a huff, turned his head and asked Li Yandao: "It seems that this Chen Wenzhao is unwilling to help me, it seems that we can only find someone else." ”

Li Yan didn't answer, but asked Li Yuanyin on the other side: "Commander Li, there shouldn't be only Chen Wenzhao, a descendant of the Qi family's army, here in Yiwu, right?" ”

Li Yuanyin replied: "Yes, of course." However, they are all army commanders, hundreds of households, etc., and they may not know the words, and it is difficult to use them to reorganize the army. ”

Li Yan also echoed: "Although this Chen Wenzhao is a little dull, seeing that he has put this mine in such an orderly manner, and can go down to the mine with the miners to collect, he is also very organized to listen to him." It can be seen that he is a good general who is both civil and military, and can be used heavily, but it is a pity that the battle of Hunhe has worn out his sharpness, but it is a pity that he ...... It's a pity......"

Ji Qingwen listened carefully to the conversation between the two and said, "I can also see you, if you want to form a team with strong combat effectiveness, you have to use this Chen Wenzhao now." In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei begged Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain, and did not hesitate to visit the thatched house. Although this Chen Wenzhao does not have Zhuge Liang's talent, I am not as good as Uncle Liu Huang, so it is better to come to him to visit the silver mine three times, and I must invite Chen Wenzhao out of the mountain. ”

So Ji Qingwen immediately went down the mountain, went to Yiwu City, paid for craftsmen, and built a few simple houses in front of Chen Wenzhao's silver mine.

He hired a few cooks, and every day he went down to the mountains to buy rice, noodles, fish, meat, vegetables, and other things, and cooked them in the house at the mouth of the mine.

Although Ji Qingwen and the others only have four people, they cook hundreds of meals each time, and the big fish and meat are fragrant, and the fragrance wafts into the silver mine, causing the miners who usually eat bran to run out and beg for a bite to eat.

At the beginning, Chen Wenzhao also reprimanded those miners not to eat "food that comes from the mouth", but later saw that Ji Qingwen's attitude was also kind, and he couldn't see any malice, and he thought that the miners under him could take this opportunity to improve their food, so he didn't prohibit it.

During the conversation with these miners, Ji Qingwen also knew some things about Chen Wenzhao.

It turned out that after the Battle of the Hunhe River, Chen Wenzhao also kept writing to demand that the relevant people be held accountable. However, considering the overall situation of the imperial court, neither the ruling eunuch party nor the opposition Donglin party were willing to do this offending thing.

Later, the imperial court saw that Chen Wenzhao was indomitable, so he was promoted by half a rank, and squeezed 8,000 taels of silver out of the treasury to give him, which was regarded as a pension for the Zhejiang army who died in the Battle of Hunhe.

Chen Wenzhao didn't want to take this money, but he thought that after many of his companions died, only orphans and widows were left in the family, so he gritted his teeth and took the money back.

The so-called "short mouth for eating people and short hands for taking people", after taking this money, Chen Wenzhao naturally had no reason to continue to appeal, so he could only return to his hometown Yiwu.

He distributed half of the 8,000 taels of silver, and felt that when the silver was in his hands, it would be spent and spent, and it was not a long-term solution, so he used the remaining 4,000 taels to buy this mine, and specially hired the children of fallen soldiers to work in the mine, so as not to sit on the mountain.

In this way, Ji Qingwen and others lived outside the mine for five or six days, and the weather was getting colder and colder, but Ji Qingwen was unwilling to give up halfway, so he sent someone to strengthen the house, bought coal on the Chen Wenzhao mine, and lit an open fire at the door of the house to keep warm.

He was bored living in this barren mountain and wilderness, so he spent money to hire an opera troupe in Yiwu City and set up a stage to sing in front of the house. is not singing a miscellaneous drama such as children's love, specializing in singing martial arts dramas like Xiang Yu, Guan Gong, Yue Fei, and even Qi Jiguang, which amuses the young miners in the mine who are full of blood and strength to come over to watch the white opera every day after work.

After singing on stage for three days like this, even Chen Wenzhao himself couldn't help but come over to watch the excitement.

Ji Qingwen took this opportunity to talk with Chen Wenzhao lively, and the vigilance between each other slowly relaxed.

After a few more days, the weather became colder and colder, and the snow began to flutter and fall again.

Chen Wenzhao's mine is deep in the mountains, and it only communicates with the outside world by a small path. The heavy snow fell for a day and a night, and the mountain road was also blocked, even if Ji Qingwen wanted to go down the mountain, there was no way to go.

Fortunately, Ji Qingwen has a lot of stored grain, and the coal is ready-made, and it is not bitter, but the opera troupe under the mountain can't go up the mountain, except for drinking and chatting with Li Yan, Li Yuanyin and Huang Degong every day, there is nothing to do, and the life is a little boring.

After two days like this, everything that could be said was finished, Ji Qingwen looked at these old men, the indescribable greasy taste, got up and went back to his house after dinner, covered with a quilt and lay down.

At this time, Ji Qingwen regretted it - when he set off to Yiwu a few days ago, why didn't he think about bringing Xing'er with him, so that now the bed is empty, only his left foot rubs his right foot, and his right foot rubs his left foot......

In a daze, several women's figures slowly appeared in front of Ji Qingwen's eyes:

For a while, it was the White Lotus Sect Zhou Xiuying's charming and gorgeous appearance and bumpy figure; After a while, it was Shen Shenbi's somewhat childish face and petite and cute body; Suddenly, I thought about what kind of shape Liu Ru should have when she went to men's clothes and changed into women's clothes, and she was able to fascinate Jiangnan geniuses and forget the teachings of the sage.

While thinking wildly, Ji Qingwen suddenly heard a strange sound of "babbling" from the ceiling, and then Huang Degong's voice came from outside the house: "Dongjia, come out quickly!" The house is about to collapse under heavy snow! ”

Ji Qingwen was stunned when he heard this, he didn't have time to put on his clothes, so he grabbed the way from the house wrapped in the quilt and ran away.

He ran out of the house, but saw that Li Yan, Li Yuanyin, and Huang Degong were all dressed and waiting outside the house, only he was embarrassed, and when he turned his head, he saw that although his house had been dyed silver and white by the heavy snow, he was still standing upright, and he couldn't help but be a little indignant, and scolded: "Huang Degong, what are you fussing about?" Hurt me ......"

Before Ji Qingwen finished speaking, a loud "boom" suddenly sounded behind him, and his hut had been crushed into a pile of ruins by the heavy snow.