At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the military guard station implemented the tuntian system. That is, the sergeants in the guard post and various localities had to carry out normal drills and military exercises while also cultivating and cultivating land. The imperial court provided cattle, farming tools, and seeds, while the soldiers were only responsible for sowing and guarding the seeds. In this way, the food needs of the soldiers are very abundant. From this point of view, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was much better to be a military household than an ordinary person.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, once boasted that he went to Haikou, "My Beijing teacher is sick for millions of people, and it will not cost the people a grain of rice." What he said was not bad, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Juntun played a positive role. But after arriving in Xuande, the role of grain storage became smaller and smaller, and most of the military salaries had to be supplied by the treasury of the household department.

As one of the important guards of the Ming Dynasty, the Qianhu Institute of the Fallen Maguan will naturally also implement the military tun. The Kou family has always been strict in governing the army, unlike other guards, the land of the army has been occupied by thousands of households and hundreds of households, and the soldiers have completely become tenants of thousands or hundreds of households, begging for a living from thousands of households.

Although the military tun is becoming less and less valued by the soldiers, Kou Dagang has always adhered to the practice of not relaxing the military tun on the one hand and asking for food and salary from the household department on the other. Kou Dagang has always been fair and selfless in governing the army, and he has never deducted the food and salary of the soldiers. In this way, the soldiers of the Thousand Households of the Fallen Horse Pass will live a much better life than the other guards. The soldiers are well fed and clothed.

Yes, although Kou Dagang is a martial artist, he has learned a lot from his father Kou Shen, and he knows a truth: only when the soldiers have no worries and live a stable life, can they train harder and become a very powerful army.

There is a small flag officer named Huang Ye in the Thousand Households of Downside Horse Pass, who practices martial arts well and is also very shrewd. has a pair of small eyes, always turning around, and looks like a lot of ghosts. But this person is usually a little lazy, especially in the military camp, and he is very reluctant to do farm work. He also has a wife in her sixties at home. When his wife was young, she went up the mountain to chop wood, and was bitten on her left leg by a wolf, and she limped when she walked, and she couldn't live.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Huang Ye's family has a worse life than other military households. Huang Ye is thirty years old, and he has not yet married a daughter-in-law.

The field allocated to Huang Ye by the guard is in the southwest of the Qianhu Institute in Baomaguan, which is almost seven or eight miles away from the guard. His eight-acre field is next to a small village called Bangziyu. Bangziyu, like other villages in the Ming Dynasty, is a very poor place.

At the time of last autumn's harvest, the yield of corn and rice in Huang Ye's field was naturally very small, and the entire eight acres of land could not receive much grain.

Damn! How do you spend your days? His grandmother's little food was not enough to eat until the winter. Do you want to drink the northwest wind with your wife in winter?

Hehe! Speaking of which, this Huang Ye is still a filial son.

Huang Ye suddenly had an idea, and he came up with the idea of those fields in Bangziyu, which was adjacent to him. After making up his mind, one night, Huang Ye secretly attacked. Usually this kid doesn't like to do farm work, but he is not afraid of laborious efforts to steal other people's things, just one night's work, Huang Ye stole more than ten acres of corn in Bangziyu.

Looking at this hill-like pile of corn, Huang Ye's heart was full of joy.

But on the same day, many villagers in Bangziyu came to the door. So at the door of Huang Ye's house, there was a lot of shouting, and many soldiers soon learned about the situation.

Li Lin, the little flag officer, quickly reported to the hundred households Koutong.

When encountering such a thing, it is natural to severely punish it. Kou Tong led several people to immediately order Huang Ye to return all the stolen grain, and then gave Huang Ye thirty military sticks.

According to the military regulations of the Thousand Households of the Fallen Horse Pass, it harms the villagers, and it is also theft, and it is light to beat 30 military sticks. If Kou Tong hadn't seen the pity of the old lady in Huang Ye, and he was facing wheat planting, it was estimated that Huang Ye's life would only be half left.

Who knows that after Huang Ye was beaten, he not only did not repent, but also held a grudge. On the first day of the lunar month a year ago, Huang Ye took his wife and ran away secretly and disappeared.

Kou Tong searched everywhere, but to no avail.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, there are still many things to deal with before the Thousand Households, Kou Tong has no choice but to put this matter on hold and prepare to continue looking for Huang Ye after the New Year.

But on the fourteenth day of the first month, a group of soldiers suddenly came to the capital, and the person headed by him was called Qian Ning, who seemed to be a hundred households in the Governor's Mansion of the Later Army. Although he is a hundred households, he has the order of Guo Liang, the right governor of the rear army. It was said that Kou Dagang had violated military regulations and was to be taken to the military governor's mansion after the capital to deal with it.

It was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Kou Dagang was originally going to be promoted and go to the capital as an official, but he didn't expect to be arrested in the capital, what a disaster fell from the sky!

That Qian Ning seemed to be a little kind, and said, "You can't blame anyone, you can only blame the Kou family for offending the villain, hehe!" Huang Ye, you still remember, he has now gone to Jinyiwei. Although he is also a small flag officer, his face is not small, that is, he sued Lord Kou! ”

After finishing speaking, Qian Ning took Kou Dagang back to the capital.

The Kou family suddenly became a mess.

Kou Tong is actively trying to find a way, but he doesn't know many people, and he is only a hundred households, who can give him face?

In the case that there was really no way, the old housekeeper Kou Zhong thought of Zhou Zhi. Although Zhou Zhi is just a talent now, he seems to have some connections, not to mention that he is a student of Chen Guangyao, the prefect of Qingdu, and he has a lot to do with Peng Ze, the prefect of Baoding. Kou Zhong even learned that Zhou Zhi was a student of Yang Yiqing, the great grandmaster's superintendent of the imperial history, and had some contacts with Wang Shu, a veteran of the previous dynasty.

Zhou Zhi listened to Kou Zhong's detailed explanation and took a deep breath of cold air. Thinking that what should come will always come, this matter is by no means instigated by a small flag official in Huang Ye. It must be that Guo Liang listened to his son Guo Xun and wanted to harm himself.

can harm himself, Guo Xun really couldn't find a reason, so he hit the idea on the head of his father-in-law.

Damn! This Guo Xun is really not a pity to die.

But Zhou Zhi thought about it, in the end, it was just some small flaws between himself and Guo Xun, is it necessary for Guo Xun to make such a black hand?

It doesn't seem to be that simple.

Kou Peihan's little face had already turned white, and he barely supported it without fainting, but his eyes were distracted, tears were shining, and he couldn't stop saying, "Daddy, Daddy is going to suffer!" ”

Seeing his wife look like this, Zhou Zhi was very distressed, barely calmed down, and comforted, "Han'er, don't panic, the old man has always acted above board, and I think that Guo Liang, the right governor of the rear army, will not necessarily treat him?" When there is no evidence, the old man will definitely be sent back safely. ”