Chapter 14: Jiu'an
Chang'an Camp is the place name of later generations. The current Chang'an camp is surrounded by mountain peaks, hidden deep in the boudoir, and unknown.
Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty set up a Chang'an camp here, set up a garrison mansion, and guarded hundreds of miles in the southwest, completely quelling the rebellion of the mountain people in the southwest.
Moreover, due to the arrival of a large number of officers and soldiers and their families, the southern merchants and northern Jia followed one after another, and the poor and remote Chang'an camp became a prosperous town in the southwest.
Finally climbed to the position of the Chang'an camp, Zhu Shunming said to everyone with high spirits: "The small plain of nearly 10,000 acres here is the foundation for our future survival and development." ”
Zhu Shunming waved his hand and said, "I hope the world can be stable for a long time." From now on, this place will be called Jiu'an Town. ”
The town of Jiu'an is a very special place.
The town of Jiu'an, which is 1,300 meters above sea level, overlooks the surroundings. The terrain is high, but in the middle is a plateau flat land of nearly 10,000 acres. Streams crisscross the flat land, and water is abundant.
The precipice in the east of Jiu'an Town, the forest in the west is towering to the sky, there is the Wuchuan Pass in the south, and there is the Lantou Pass Xiongguan in the north, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is indeed a good place to lay a foundation.
In addition, it is located at the junction of the two provinces, and it is a mountainous area where border people gather, and the power of the imperial court is weak, as long as Zhu Shunming does not openly raise the anti-flag, he can completely let him do it.
Facing the wilderness, everyone's expressions are different.
Ruyu spoke quickly, and expressed the dissatisfaction in her heart without scruples: "Young master, this place is so desolate, is it a place where people live?" I wonder if there are wild wolves and tigers? Let's go to the county seat! ”
There are people in the family who have ugly faces, and there are a lot of people who think like jade, but they don't dare to express it so directly.
Li Cuiwei doesn't care. She grew up in fine clothes and food, and later followed Li Zicheng to wander around, and suffered a lot. Now marrying Zhu Shunming is in the newlywed love, and drinking water is sweet.
Old Man Zhu was very excited. Sure enough, there are a lot of fertile fields.
Although the wasteland in front of him is overgrown with weeds, in the eyes of Old Man Zhu, the wilderness with flat terrain and abundant water is the best fertile land!
No matter what everyone thought, they finally obeyed Zhu Shunming's arrangement and camped in the wilderness, preparing to live for a long time.
Zhu Shunming is very familiar with Jiu'an Town.
His first job after recovery was as the director of the Chang'an Yingxiang Police Station. He knows all the mountains and rivers near the current Jiu'an Town.
And what he values more is a place that has not been valued in later generations, but is very important in Daming - Nanshan Ranch.
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After settling down, Zhu Shunming began to take stock of his belongings and arrange everyone's affairs.
After selling Xixiang's family business and buying grain, clothing, cloth, ironware, gunpowder, carts and other materials, he had 5,000 taels of silver.
When the name was handed in, Zhu Shunming and others took advantage of the night to enter the county government, and emptied the belongings of the county officials and the county government's deposits, and obtained more than 100,000 taels of silver.
Li Zicheng married Cui Weixu to Zhu Shunming, and married a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, with a total value of no less than 500,000 taels.
All the way south, the personnel expenses, various entry tolls, tolls, taxes along the river, boat rental fees, etc., cost more than 10,000 taels of silver.
All in all, Zhu Shunming has more than 400,000 taels of silver, and he has plenty of cash.
In terms of material, Zhu Shunming had 16 carts, 6 horses, 20 donkeys and mules, 5 ploughing cattle, and a number of clothes and food.
In terms of personnel, Zhu Shunming's father and son, Zhu Shunming's wife and concubine, Zhu Shunming's two women, Zhu Shunming's half-sister Zhu Lin'er, He Laotou and his two sons, 16 maids, and a total of 28 people in the house.
Half of the family team consisted of 24 men and 98 soldiers from the original 9th team, a total of 122 people.
In addition, among the nine soldiers, there were more than two dozen disabled soldiers.
In the defensive battle of the Hancheng camp, more than half of the nine soldiers were killed or wounded. In the face of the wounded soldiers, Zhu Shunming tried his best to help, but still many wounded soldiers died. None of the remaining wounded soldiers, Zhu Shunming, were left behind, and all of them went south to Huguang with them.
For Zhu Shunming's refusal to give up or abandon, the soldiers saw it in their eyes and remembered it in their hearts, their morale was high, and their cohesion was greatly strengthened.
This is also the purpose of Zhu Shunming to buy more than a dozen girls under Luoyang City. It is better for a girl to serve the wounded soldiers than a big man with rough hands.
The first thing to do to settle down in Jiu'an Town is safety.
It is not impossible for the beast that Ruyu is worried about to hurt people.
Zhu Shunming and others entered the highlands of Jiu'an Town from Wuchuan Pass in the south.
Wuchuan Pass is a canyon. The rocky walls on both sides of the canyon are high, and the stream in the middle is turbulent, which is very conducive to defense.
Zhu Shunming chose to live in the south.
Leaving a team to defend and post in Wuchuan Pass, the rest of the men and horses went to build temporary residences, Li Cuiwei and the others were not idle, and were arranged to be in charge of food and logistics.
A flat land of about five acres, cleared of weeds and shrubs, slightly filled, as a temporary residence.
Dig a ditch before camping.
The housekeepers began to dig trenches and cut down trees to make walls. Arrow towers and watchtowers were also quickly erected.
The camp plan was also quickly drawn. In the middle is a square of about two acres, the south is the barracks, the school field, the lobby, the north is the residential area, the east is the industrial center planned by Zhu Shunming, and the west is the grain cloth finishing area.
Two vertical and two horizontal roads divide the small camp into nine blocks for each purpose.
Settlements are not built in a day. That night, the group still set up their tents and lived in a small circle surrounded by carts.
At some point, the cattle and horses and other livestock around the cart seemed to be restless, but soon returned to calm. Everyone felt like they had finally arrived home, and they slept very sweetly one by one.
It wasn't until dawn that I realized that something had happened.
Zhu Shunming stood in front of the livestock fence with a blue face, opposite Zhang Pan, who was trembling and pale.
Zhang Pan is a fierce player who stands out from the old nine team. Tough and adventurous, brave and sharp. In the defensive battle of the Hancheng camp, he was one of the four snipers who followed Zhu Shunming to sniper the guards.
During the renovation in Xinye, Zhu Shunming reorganized the old ninth team. In accordance with the practice of the Ming army, the establishment of squads, general flags, 100 households, 1,000 households, guard commanders, and capital commanders was established.
a squad of ten soldiers, plus the chief and deputy captains, a total of twelve people; The three small flags are a general flag, with an establishment of about 40 people; The three general flags are 100 households, and the establishment is 120 people; 500 households for 1,000 households, with 600 people; 3,000 households are commanded by a guard, with an establishment of 2,000 people; There is no fixed establishment for the commanders, depending on the situation.
In Zhu Shunming's thinking, the squad is equivalent to the squad of the modern army, the general flag is equivalent to the platoon, the hundred households are equivalent to the company, the thousand households are equivalent to the battalion, and the guard command is equivalent to the reinforced regiment.
The commander of the guard should have the ability to fight independently. As for the establishment of commanders (equivalent to divisions) and so on, it is necessary for group operations.
Twenty-four families and seventy-six soldiers of the nine teams (another 22 retired due to injuries) were combined into 100 households, and Zhu Shunming personally served as the head of 100 households.
The three general flags are Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Pan.
Each of the three flags has its own focus.
Li Dingguo's general flag training is upright and upright, and he is determined to forge ahead, and he is a regular soldier.
Liu Wenxiu's general flag is clumsy and calm, and his advance and retreat are well-founded, which can be defended.
Zhang's general banner is tough and sharp, treacherous and cruel, and Zhu Shunming intends to train him into a special force and become a sharp knife with blood.
Zhu Shunming also set up a direct team, the Military Intelligence Department, headed by Ding Shilei, a young but cold and calm family.
The Military Intelligence Department has two tasks: it is responsible for military discipline and military intelligence internally, and is responsible for collecting and sorting out enemy intelligence externally.
This cold-faced teenager who had just turned fourteen became the most annoying and feared person in the entire Zhu Shunming system.
Last night, Zhang Pan's Third Banner was in charge of patrolling and keeping vigil.
The number of the third flag is not enough. The soldiers who can be selected for the third banner are more or less unruly or ruthless or cold-blooded and violent, and most of them are thorns.
"Bright whistles, dark whistles, swimming whistles, all sleep well. You have no regard for the safety of the entire brigade. Do you really think you're home? Safe? Swords and guns into Kuma put Nanshan? Zhu Shunming was furious and scolded: "Do you have to find a woman for you, start a family and live a stable life?" ”
There was a large pool of blood in the fence, two cows were slaughtered, and the scene was divided into a mess, leaving only two morning glory ropes.
Zhang Pan trembled, and his face was ashamed. After traveling thousands of miles, it was not easy to reach the destination, and everyone was indeed a little lax.
If the enemy's target is not cattle but people...... Zhang Pan was even more in a cold sweat.
Zhu Shunming regained his composure and said coldly: "Take your people and find out the cattle thief immediately." I don't want people with bad behavior to be watching. "There was blood in the cold.
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Following the bloodstains, Zhang Pan pursued all the way to the west, and the clue actually extended into the dense forest.
I didn't expect to have a conflict with the mountain people so quickly.
Zhu Shunming is mentally prepared for this.
The area where Chengbu County is located is a mountainous area where Han, Miao, Yao, and Yi people live together. The Han people live in the county seat and nearby villages, and most of the others live in the mountains. National contradictions have never eased.
Although the rebellion subsided, the aftermath of it was far from stopping. The hostility of the Han people to the ethnic minorities, the wariness of the imperial court against the mountain people, the sorrow of the rabbits and foxes of the toasters, and the resentment of the Yi and Miao people against the Han people......
Historically, the Shapu Rebellion, which began in the fourth year of Chongzhen, lasted for more than ten years, and it was not completely quelled until Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army entered Yunnan.
Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty set up a military camp and a Tongzhi yamen in Chang'an Camp, also to deter ethnic minorities in the southwest.
Zhu Shunming went to Jiu'an Town to set up camp, it was the beginning of June of the fourth year of Chongzhen, and Sha Dingzhou was about to set off a large-scale rebellion in Yunnan.
Although Yunnan is nearly 3,000 miles away from Chengbu County, the dissatisfaction with the Han people and the imperial court among the mountain people has reached the point where it is about to explode. Just wait for the fuse.
Zhu Shunming was just on the cusp.
Thinking of "endless fun fighting with the sky, endless fun fighting with people", Zhu Shunming smiled cruelly: "If you eat me, you will vomit it for me sooner or later." ”
If you want to maintain long-term peace and stability, you must use thunderbolt means to show the heart of the Bodhisattva.