As the number of enemy cavalry he eliminated increased from two or three to a dozen, he saved more and more mercenaries around him, some of them were timid and still ran away and hid, some veterans who had combat experience, or some soldiers who trusted him, or other Han civilians who were sent to the mercenaries gathered one after another, and then he gathered eighty mercenaries, and with continuous firepower, all the surrounding enemies were killed, or wounded, or driven to a distance.

Twenty cavalry also returned, but not all of them came back, only four came back, six were slightly wounded, two were seriously wounded, and the rest were dead, the cavalry fell to the ground exhausted, several mercenaries in charge of loading pounced one after another, dragged them down and placed them aside, and a cavalryman led a dozen equally wounded war horses to hide on the side of the hill, restraining the war horses hard.

The enemy cavalry saw that they could no longer break through the mercenary's defense line, and after going around in a circle, they ran away, and sent a few mercenaries who were agile to chase them five or six miles away, knowing that the enemy was far away, Li Ya lay on the ground tiredly, Wu Kejing on the side beat his legs and rubbed his arms, and several cavalrymen who still had strength were packing up their things while forming a team, the guns fell, and the escaped mercenaries also ran back tentatively.

After Li Ya recovered for a while, he sent cavalry to guard the surroundings, and at the same time collected the horses and weapons left by the enemy, and the mercenaries were equipped with mercenaries who still had the strength to search for horses and escapees, and the remaining men were on guard while taking care of the wounded, while eating and recovering their strength.

A middle-aged man staggered over and hugged his fist towards Li Ya, "Thank you for the leader's care, thank you for the leader for leading the soldiers to repel the enemy's attack, I thank the leader on behalf of those old and weak people, pity us people, don't know how to fight the enemy, always make the leader tired, if it weren't for our slow speed, we wouldn't have been caught up by the enemy, we hurt everyone." ”

Li Ya twisted his neck, which was a little overexerted and very uncomfortable, saluted him, hugged his fists, and said very sadly: "Lord Wen, this is what I should do, since everyone elected me as the leader, I should take on the responsibility of protecting everyone, but I didn't expect that the Hungarian cavalry would sneak attack in this kind of weather at this time, I didn't think about it, and caused everyone's deaths and injuries, I am the one who should thank everyone and ask everyone for their guilt." ”

This person is Wen Anzhi's great-grandson, named Wen Ruxin, but his great-grandson is not the main branch, but Wen Anzhi's fourth son, but his fourth son also has five or six sons, daughter, this is the third grandson, when he was born, the Wen family has declined, and later in his uncle's generation, only to do the prefect, his old son is just an immigrant family in the countryside who was forced to migrate to East Siberia, of course, there is no development in East Siberia, fortunately he was admitted to the state agricultural department, but one step further to the central Taixue, the Royal Academy, He didn't get in, so he was sent to Central Asia to open up wasteland, and he was another person who was harmed by the immigration policy.

After a few years of desertification, he was promoted from an agricultural technician to a county school teacher, and then entered the Advisory Bureau as a councilor, and later promoted to the Provincial Advisory Bureau as a reserve member, and then transferred to Dongberia as the deputy director of the Advisory Bureau of a county, and then served as the head of the county school, and later transferred to the county yamen as the head of the household, the assistant of the criminal room, after serving as the assistant of the county order for a period of time, he was about to be promoted to the county Cheng, but he was squeezed out, and then thrown into the prison of the torture room, this time he was sent to the mercenary, became a person who should be wiped out against the Chinese Empire.

This is Li Ya from other people, as well as his mouth to hear about his life experience, the Wen family is not prominent in the history of the Chinese Empire, but once entered the cabinet, served as a Shangshu, and later was influenced by You Haibo and others, Rong Yang returned home, and then after the death of Wen An, his sons came out again to seek officials, but most of the people who were found were some idle members of the county advisory bureau, at that time it was not as beautiful as it is now, in charge, the members were just idle people.

It wasn't until his grandsons came out to be officials that one of his sons served as the prefect of a governor's district, which was still a frontier area.

The grandsons were much higher than his uncle, and after twenty years of hard work, most of them entered the prefect and the cabinet of the prefect and the prefect of the imperial government at the level of the middle and lower bureaucrats.

If compared with other dynasties, the prefect is a seven-rank prefect, and the prefect is only a fifth-grade, sixth-grade, and the highest official position of the fourth and a half grades, a prefect is equivalent to the regional management of the armed forces militia, the logistics materials of the regional troops, the payment of wages, and the officials who can participate in the management of the entire prefect are less than the third-in-command, and are higher than the fourth-in-command.

Because there are also deputy governors, governors, commanders of the garrison regiments of governors, etc., who exceed his official level, not grades, there are many officials in a grade, but the size of the official position and power represents your status in this grade, just like the regional book, the first leader, the commissioner's second-in-command, and the commissioner's book third-in-command, and the deputy commissioner's fourth-in-command, he is equivalent to the status of the commissioner's book, but compared to the commissioner's book, the rights and personnel, and the handling of things is much less, but compared to the deputy commissioner, his status is higher, But the rights are not as good as others.

It is such a family of people, because of the Chinese Empire's decentralization of power, immigration policy, and crackdown on family policy, his family can't take care of him, and they are scattered all over the place, who is not the officials above, the territory is large, even if there are officials above, officials with grades in the third and fourth grades, it is impossible to reach out to East Siberia.

In Eastern Siberia, Xuanyuan Longfei operates like an iron bucket.

Because of the indulgence of the old courtiers like Xuanyuan Longfei, Zhang Qiang didn't care about some problems, and it was his son's business in the future, he was also waiting for his son to take care of it, and the new prime minister would take care of it, so he wouldn't worry about that.

This has caused the immigration policy to be a little out of shape when it is implemented below, and the immigration policy has been less manageable over time, so it is a little slack, the population flow of the Chinese Empire is not as fast and frequent as before, and most of them have been precipitated for more than ten years, which inevitably makes some family forces rise, after all, they have been operating and developing locally for more than ten years.

So there are a lot of encounters like Wen Ruxin, and the Chinese Empire has not corrected it in time, and there are things like Li Ya who were forced to go by the second generation of the empire, Zhang Qiang has no mood to deal with and investigate, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has been handed over to the eldest son, the prince has managed it, and the Ministry of Supervision is almost controlled by the cabinet, and the Ministry of Military Intelligence knows that the emperor is going to be changed, although it is still Zhang Qiang's henchman, but it is not very manageable, because they are all old.

There is no way, once the son of heaven is a courtier, they also have to leave a way back for their children and grandchildren, so as not to anger the new emperor, although due to Zhang Qiang's arrangement, the power of the new emperor is actually not so big, and the power of the prime minister of the cabinet is much greater than that of some low-level prime ministers in ancient times, and it is almost the same as not to the point of being a minister, in addition to not being able to manage the army, they can manage a lot.

After setting up obstacles and dividing some rights equally, Zhang Qiang could only watch the empire go down the old path of the civilian clique.

(End of chapter)