Chapter 181: Running up the mountain and sending charcoal in the snow
Chapter 181: Running up the mountain and sending charcoal in the snow
To be honest, Jiang Feng's first notice was not the young man, but the wooden wheelchair he was sitting in. This is really something new that I have seen since I came to this era. After carefully browsing around, this is the time to turn his gaze to the young man sitting on the chair.
This young man's face and Liu Shisan's face have a lot of imagination when they look closely, after all, one twelve, one thirteen, and the biological brother will naturally be like this, but in fact, it is more different. Liu Shisan has a violent aura all over his body, which is also the temperament that the bandits need.
And this Liu Twelve looked like a lot of Sven, wearing a cyan Confucian robe, his face was relatively pale, but his expression was very gentle, he kept looking at Jiang Feng and smiling, not caring at all that Jiang Feng looked at his legs and wooden wheelchair unscrupulously.
"When I was a child, I suffered from military disasters, and my legs and feet were not very convenient, so I couldn't get up to salute, so I ask Lord Jiang for forgiveness."
At this time, Jiang Feng could be regarded as reacting, in order to hide his embarrassment, he still laughed a few times there, and Zhao Xiucai hurriedly introduced on the side:
"Three days after you went down the mountain, this nephew of mine came to the mountain with a dozen people."
Speaking of this, Zhao Xiucai said proudly:
"Unlike his reckless brother Thirteen, Liu Twelve has been well-read since he was a child, and his brain is very useful, with more than 2,000 people on Weishan Island, although he is the leader of Thirteen. But he has to make up his mind about everything, alas, if it weren't for his background, my nephew would be a showman and a person, even if he was a jinshi! ”
Hearing Zhao Xiucai's praise, Liu Twelve smiled gently and did not make a sound, but Jiang Feng suddenly remembered something there, and couldn't help asking:
"Liu Shisan, who left a few days ago, looked down on me, a thousand households, and said that he wanted to go back to discuss with his brother several times, why did you come to me?"
Hearing this, Zhao Xiucai immediately became quite embarrassed and nervous, he had followed Jiang Feng for so long, naturally he knew that Jiang Feng liked face, and what he was most tired of was that others looked down on him. When Liu Shisan was on the mountain, although he treated Zhao Xiucai and Jiang Feng as a junior courtesy, he was polite. But no matter how Zhao Xiucai persuaded him, he was unwilling to merge his forces into the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households.
And also privately invited Zhao Xiucai to go to Weishan Island, the implication is that there is no future on this mountain, in fact, there is another point that is quite important, a thousand households are in charge of the army is 1,125 people, and now there are more than 100 iron dings on the mountain, and there are more than 1,000 recruits under the mountain.
What else is there for the horse bandits on Weishan Island to leave, first, they look down on Jiang Feng's future, and second, they feel that Qianhu has no place of their own.
Although he had his own considerations, but what Liu Shisan said to Zhao Xiucai, Zhao Xiucai would definitely convey it to Jiang Feng, at that time, there was still the matter of Heng Wangfu involved, although Jiang Feng was reluctant to have such a big force. But there is a priority in the matter, and I just said lightly there:
"Everyone has their own ambitions, don't force them!"
Although the words were plain, according to Zhao Xiucai's understanding, Jiang Feng must have been a little angry in his heart, he thought that Liu Twelve would come to the mountain to defect, Jiang Feng would not mention this matter, who would have thought that Jiang Feng had always been a person who was a little aggrieved and unwilling to eat, so he naturally said it at this time.
Liu Twelve bowed slightly on the wheelchair, which was polite before speaking, and then explained with a smile on his face:
"There are more than 2,000 people on Weishan Island, and it is not a long-term solution to fall into the grass like this, and I have always wanted to find a place to shelter, and I don't care if I am a slave or a maid, I just want to have a background in broad daylight. I'm here to say a word that I'm not afraid of being offended by adults, and I listen to the words of my subordinates who go back first, so I decided to go on the road to Yantai Mountain to see, the meaning of coming here at the beginning, that is, I want to meet my uncle who I haven't seen for many years. On the way, I met my younger brother who went back, and he said that the adult was just a rough man who was greedy for money and liked force......"
As soon as he heard that it was so direct, Zhao Xiucai suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly glanced at him, but Liu Twelve didn't pay attention to it, and when Zhao Xiucai was about to stop it, he saw that Jiang Feng was listening there with great interest, so he was relieved and listened to Liu Twelve continue to speak:
"The words that Thirteen said made me more determined to come to Yantai Mountain to see the thousand households, although the things that the adults did seemed to be out of order, but the result was a big victory, this is enough, no matter how things in the world are done, how to do it, if it can't be done, then there is no need to mention anything.
Coming to Yantai Mountain, the method of training recruits under the mountain is not the system of any military household in the Ming Dynasty, but the advance and retreat of recruits are well-founded, and there is an awe-inspiring atmosphere between their actions, and there is already a prototype of a strong army. The pro-soldier of the Lord on the mountain has excellent armor and is the best in the world! All these villains are a little puzzled, so they want to spend more time in the mountains and understand all this, I don't know if the adults are willing to take them in? ”
Jiang Feng was a little confused by the other party's tirade, but when he heard it, he understood a little that the Liu Twelve in front of him wanted to go to the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain and take refuge here. Not only was I a little annoyed in my heart, I thought that I had taken a fancy to the hundreds of people and horses on your Weishan Island, what are you doing here as a cripple!
Perhaps seeing what Jiang Feng was thinking, Liu Twelve said with a smile there:
"More than 2,000 people on Weishan Island are reluctant to be here, so naturally they want to move to Dengzhou together, and please take them in!"
Jiang Feng didn't expect that the matter of Weishan Island, which he wanted to annex, would be such a happy situation, but as for the resettlement of more than 2,000 people, it was very simple, after the Dong family was exterminated, the vast fields and wasteland around Yantai Mountain were all assigned to his own hands.
The only way to say is to give these people a legal identity, and it is too eye-catching to pop up hundreds of households out of thin air, after Liu Twelve came to the mountain, he began to intermittently come to the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain in small batches of people from Weishan Island pretending to be caravans or the like, but after more than 30 families came, it stopped.
It turned out that when the Liu family was on Weishan Island, they also obtained some identity certificates through various means, but the number was really limited, and Liu Shisan felt that there were too few people around his brother on Yantai Mountain, so he sent some people over first.
There was another batch of strength under his command, but Jiang Feng was worried there. How thousands of people can find a legitimate explanation to come to the small Qianhu House is indeed a headache. In fact, it stands to reason that his father-in-law, Liu Shunhua, is now the right political envoy of Shandong.
Shandong's civil affairs are basically run by him now, not to mention hundreds of households, even if it is a few thousand households, a piece of paper also gave him his background, and the manors of the rich and noble people in the Ming Dynasty always have a number of displaced people every disaster year, all of which are official documents issued by the local government and become tenants of the manor.
But now the relationship between Jiang Feng and Liu Shunhua is really difficult to say, when the trustee sent Liu Fangrui and the Su family sisters to Liu's mansion, Jiang Feng's cheap father-in-law Liu Shunhua did not express his position, but just accepted it silently, but then there was no intention of sending it back.
According to Zhao Xiucai, the queue to pick up people in Jinan Mansion was closed, and Jiang Feng couldn't rashly ask for such a situation, so as not to be disgraced.
On the fifth day of Jiang Feng's return to the mountain, that is, when he was worried about the resettlement of these people on Weishan Island, suddenly everything was solved, and an officer was sent by the Beijing Division Military Department and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the task of this officer was to convey the official document, which was the document of appointment.
Jiang Feng because of the extermination of the Dong family, who had been entrenched in Dengzhou for many years, was the commander of the Dengzhou Left Guard, and temporarily took the post of commander, and the Dengzhou Left Guard commanded more than 3,000 soldiers, and the shortage was huge, and the guard was ordered to make up for the shortage.
It turned out that Jiang Feng, who was blessed by Zhang Yong, really had no connections in the capital, and Lu Bing was not good at expressing any opinions on such a military appointment, but the great merit of exterminating the Dong family was real, and it was unreasonable to say that there was no reward for military merits. So this appointment was proposed.
If this is put on other people, it will definitely be called unlucky, the matter of eating empty quotas in the guard center is a common practice, plus the reproduction of children, the fields set by Hongwu are simply not enough to cultivate, and there is no land where the difference between military households will be made up, and the military households are insufficient, if they are not investigated, it is a trivial matter, and if they are investigated, it is not impossible to become a big crime of losing their heads. What's more, it is specifically stated in the official document that it is to fill the vacancy.
It seems that from the hundred households of the fifth grade, he suddenly rose to the commander of the fourth grade, and the ranks of more than 5,000 senior military attachés under his command. But in essence, it is a dangerous work with only face and no inside.
When the officer sent to deliver the official document conveyed the order, although there was schadenfreude in his eyes, he did not dare to show it on his face, and the person in front of him was a fierce beast and could not afford to offend. Jiang Feng sat there with his head bowed, and after listening to the order, his shoulders twitched uncontrollably, could it be that he was crying in fright.
"Hahahaha"
Jiang Feng couldn't hold back, laughed wildly there, and was so frightened that the officer in front of him got up from the chair and took a few steps back, thinking to himself if the person in front of him was crazy!
"Give this brother fifty taels of carriage and horse fare, arrange the jade building in Dengzhou Mansion City, and entertain him well, thank you, thank you!"
The officer who gave the order was already stunned by this unreasonable performance in front of him, and he dared to stay there and run out.