On the sixth day of the third month of the thirteenth year of Yuan Heng, it was the twenty-third day of Wei Ruolan's arrival in Bukui. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After arriving here, I contacted the local garrison yamen, explained the intention, and presented the official document.

Previously, the garrison yamen had received a joint letter from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment, knowing that Jia Min's army would take over Bukui.

However, Wei Ruolan found that undisguised coldness in the other party's politeness. That was a clearly unwelcome attitude.

Last August, there was a riot in Bukui. Dozens of displaced people stormed the garrison yamen, killing twenty soldiers, and the previous garrison, Qian Delu, was also killed by the exiles in that riot.

Later, the riot was quelled by Zhao Dahai, the current acting garrison of Bukui, and killed 45 people who participated in the riot on the spot.

This incident was a major event in Bukui, and it also shocked the imperial court at that time. Strangely, there is hardly any talk of it in Bukui.

When Wei Ruolan wanted to know the details, no one was willing to talk to him about it.

Even when he went to the shops and taverns on the street, no one talked to him about it. As soon as he mentioned it, others quickly changed the topic. There seems to be a lot of secrecy about this.

This made Wei Ruolan faintly feel that this matter was a little unusual, maybe there was something hidden in it.

However, now he can't take care of these things, and it is the most important thing to do a good job of welcoming the government corps. As for other matters, we will have to wait for the arrival of the government corps.

Now that Qingming has passed, the harsh winter of Bukui has passed, and according to the season, it is now the last month of spring. In less than a month, it's summer.

The snow on the ground has melted away, and some of the weeds have sent out green leaves. The trees are also starting to bud and bloom with some greenery.

Only the top of Mount Winddura in the distance, and the snow and ice, under the reflection of the eye, emitted a dazzling light, proving that there was once a winter.

Judging from the scene in front of him, except that the wind is relatively strong here, it seems to be no different from the imperial capital and Zhili.

Of course, this is only about climate, and when it comes to other aspects, the difference is huge.

For example, the city walls around us are like this.

As soon as she mentioned the city wall, Wei Ruolan wanted to laugh, and then she wanted to cry.

This city wall in the local population is too strange and absurd.

The gates were two gates made of wood, each nine feet nine feet high and nine feet nine feet wide. Two thick wooden pillars next to it fixed the city gate.

The gates were made of logs, so rough that the bark of the trees was not scraped off.

On either side of the gate, there were no walls of bricks and stones. The so-called wall is nothing more than a number of logs buried in the ground and erected into rods. Each log is about three inches thick and about six feet high.

These wooden canes are the so-called walls of Bukui.

It's such a wall, it's not continuous. Extending about three zhang from both sides of the gate, it was not a rod, but every ten zhang away, another log was erected. This continued, and it continued, and it circled the entire Bukui.

There is nothing between these woods, and the line between the woods is the city wall.

It's just a virtual wall.

This wall is quite long, with four sides, east and west, north and south, and each side is three miles long. This is the "twelve-mile city wall" of Bukui City that Wei Ruolan saw in the documents of the Ministry of War.

Within the city walls is the city of Bukui.

Bukui is not so much a city as a town. Even if it's a town, it's all about lifting up Bukui.

There was only one street, and there were seven or eight hundred households on both sides, and the population of the whole town was less than 10,000 people.

Bu Kui said that there were tens of thousands of people, but in fact, most of these tens of thousands of people were distributed everywhere, and the farthest Guanzhuang was fifty or sixty miles away. The population lives very scattered.

Bukui City has east, west, north and south is a city gate, and where Wei Ruolan and Jia Qin are now located is the south gate.

Jia Qin arrived here last night, and he came to deliver the news.

At about 3 o'clock this afternoon, Jia Min will lead the government corps to escort 500 prisoners to Bukui.

The group of people standing on the east side of the city gate were the original officials of Bukui, who were also waiting here to welcome Jia Min's arrival.

The first one is Zhao Dahai, the former garrison of Bu Kui, and the deputy of Qian Delu, the former garrison of Bu Kui. After the death of Qian Delu, he acted as the garrison of Bu Kui.

According to the usual practice, when the position of garrison becomes vacant, he can be promoted to garrison. I don't know why, until now, he has not received an order for promotion.

Previously, Bukui City had rumored that he would be promoted to garrison after the New Year. Unexpectedly, I waited and waited, but Jia Min was waited.

Jia Min was changed from the capital division of Sanpin, Bu Kui's yamen, from the garrison yamen to the capital division yamen. The level has been increased by one level, but Zhao Dahai's position and level have not changed at all.

In the past, when he was acting for the garrison, he was the highest commander of Bukui, but now that Jia Min is here, he has changed back to the garrison office.

In the government corps, Feng Ziying, Chen Yejun, Wei Ruolan and the three battalion commanders are all garrisons of the fourth grade, and Zhao Dahai's level is one level worse than these people.

In such a comparison, I don't know how he feels.

Then there were the three leaders under Zhao Dahai.

The first leader Zhong Ding, the second leader Feng Kui, and the third leader Xu Mingtao.

Then there is the classic history Yang Lin.

Yang Lin was in charge of the Yamen's Registry, which was the central organ of the Yamen of the Metropolitan Division, and was regarded as the most powerful civil official in the Yamen.

The remaining old man in his sixties was Wu Minqiu, the representative of the Bukui gentry.

These six people were divided into two groups. Zhao Dahai, Zhong Ding, and Feng Kui are a group, and Xu Mingtao, Yang Lin and Wu Minqiu stand together and are considered a group.

Now it's such a division, and in normal times, the two groups are basically in this camp. In the upper echelons of Bukui, two circles were faintly formed.

"Brother Zhao, do you say that they really started from the imperial capital on the eighth day of the first lunar month? I don't believe it. Who has been here in two months for all these years? ”

After Jia Qin came yesterday, when they said that Jia Min and they set off on the eighth day of the first lunar month, they were about to arrive, but Zhao Dahai and a few of them didn't believe it. Until now, they are suspicious.

It is indeed unbelievable that more than 500 people can still walk so fast.

"It seems to be true, otherwise they can call us out to greet us? Even I can't believe that none of the 500 convicts and delinquents died. ”

Zhao Dahai said something weird, obviously in a complicated mood.

"I'm going to take a good look at how they do it. It is said that the head of the Jia regiment is Wu Tanhua, and he is only sixteen years old this year. Alas, in the end, it is the children of the family, and we people can't compare. ”

Feng Kui's words were a little jealous.

"It seems to be coming."

As Zhong Ding's words sounded, people saw a puff of dust rising on the official road in the distance, which was the dust raised by the horse team when they were running.

Sure enough, the dust was getting thicker and closer, and after a while, the silhouette of a team appeared. It was serpentine and wriggled in the direction of Bukui.

"Let's go, let's go up and greet us, no matter what, we have to do enough etiquette."

Zhao Dahai got off the horse, and seemed to be still not at ease, so he turned around and told Zhong Ding and Feng Kui.

"Jia Dusi is the queen of Rongguogong, the young man is ambitious, and he is a new official, you all give me a little care. Lately, you've been careful, don't let him catch you guys. ”

"Understood, Brother Zhao, we'll be careful."

As he spoke, several men marched forward on horseback.

"Chief Min has arrived, so let's go too."

Wei Ruolan got on the horse and rode on, and the others also got on the horse and followed.

Bukui was located on the plain, with a wide field of vision, and although he saw the team, the distance was still very far.

The two sides walked in the opposite direction, and they still ran for more than 20 minutes on horseback before they met.

After Wei Ruolan introduced the two sides, she exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then continued to rush in the direction of Bukui.

Zhong Ding and Feng Kui had met with the Fu Corps, and they were still a little suspicious. The two quietly counted the number of prisoners again, and Feng Kui even rolled up the sleeves of the two prisoners to check it, and then believed Jia Qin's statement that the five hundred prisoners were alive.

Prisoners are required to wear uniform clothing during the escort. Whether it is a top or a bottom, an inner garment, or a single cotton coat, it is all sewn with uniform red cloth.

Before and on the way, the prisoners were also given a shaved hair. Remove all the hair around your head, leaving only the middle handful.

At the same time, the prisoner must be tattooed. Some were stabbed in the face, some were stabbed in the arms. The specific position is above the wrist and below the elbow.

The size of the character is one inch and five squares, and the character is divided into two parts, one is the name of the crime and the other is the name of the place where the dispatch is sent.

An arsonist sent to Bukui was stabbed with the words "arson" and "Bukui".

The tattoos of these people were all tattooed on the arms.

These measures are designed to distinguish prisoners from ordinary people. Once a prisoner escapes, it is also easy to arrest.

When they saw that all the prisoners and their families were in carriages, they believed Jia Min's statement that they set off from the imperial capital on the eighth day of the first lunar month.

They were a little surprised by the fact that all the prisoners were in the car. But that's not all.

Under normal circumstances, after a long journey on the road, when they arrive at their destination, they are basically wilted and hungry, but the faces and spirits of these prisoners seem to be very good.

While feeling strange in their hearts, the two also decided in their hearts that this head Jia Minjia seemed to be really different.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the sixth day of the third month of the thirteenth year of Yuanheng, Jia Min led the army to escort 500 prisoners into the city gate of Bukuinan.

From the eighth day of the first lunar month, it lasted 57 days and traveled more than 4,100 miles. Of the 1,320 officers and men of the corps, not a single one was injured or left behind. All arrived.

Of the 500 prisoners escorted, not a single one was killed or injured, and none of them escaped, and all of them arrived safely. It created a miracle in the history of the large-scale escort of the exiles of the Dade Dynasty.

From this moment on, Bu Kui Cheng's original agent guarded Zhao Dahai, and he had a deep fear of Jia Min.

It was also from this moment that he had a sense of urgent crisis in his heart.

In his eyes, Jia Min is no longer just a sixteen-year-old child, and he is no longer just a son-in-law who relied on the Yu Yin of his ancestors to be promoted.

This is a strong opponent!

Zhao Dahai led the army and walked through the wide streets of Bukui.

This team, led by young officers, gave him a different feeling.

What is the difference, he can't say it yet, but the murderous aura coming from behind him can be felt.