On the first day of the ninth month of the fifth year of Yongli, when Chen Guobao led his team to intercept and kill the rout army fleeing from Dongyang County, after this whole night of busyness, the various warehouses in the city also completed the basic check.

Chen Wen is too lazy to go through the account books, and this kind of thing should still be handed over to more professional people to do. However, from the mouth of the more professional Sun Yu, these warehouses have extremely common inventory inconsistencies with account books, and the number of missing is still very large, and even accounts for a large proportion of the total inventory.

Although Chen Wen is not very clear how many of them were stolen by the treasurer's officials and Kuding when the city was broken, the proportion of people who were greedy for ink by the county magistrate who had hanged himself and the officials at all levels in Dongyang County must not be in the minority.

Chen Wen handed over the investigation to Sun Yu without hesitation, which was one of the powers of the civil official, and the specific disposal plan would have to wait for Wang Jiang to arrive before discussing. As for Chen Wen, the most important thing at the moment is to straighten out the troops and horses and continue to regain lost territory. Of course, before that, there were more important things for him to do.

Since yesterday afternoon, the advance troops of the Nantang Battalion have captured the county seat of Dongyang County, and the disturbance of the people or the massacre of the city that the gentry and people of Dongyang County are worried about have not happened. In one night, under the condition of announcing a curfew, the Ming army stationed various points of defense, and arranged for the army to patrol on the main road to prevent disturbance of the people, which also saw in the eyes of the gentry and people of Dongyang County.

By this morning, An Min's notices had been posted at the county offices, markets, city gates, and city god temples in the county seat, where there were many people in the county. Even another "Letter to the Gentry of Jinhua" was drafted by Sun Yu, posted together with the notice of An Min, and sent people to the villages and towns near Dongyang County.

As soon as the notice of Anmin came out, the nervousness of the gentry and people in Dongyang County who couldn't sleep all night was suddenly relaxed. In this era, as long as the notice of Anmin came out, the large-scale massacre basically would not happen, and the performance of the Ming army since the capture of the city also won a lot of favor from the local people.

After the notice was posted for more than an hour, the county government ushered in waves of seekers, and these people were not only village elders representing ordinary people, but also some children of families, and even the six clans in Dongyang County also sent people to send gifts, and by the way, they inquired about the news.

The so-called six ethnic groups, the people of the time called them: Nancen Wu, Da Xian Xidu, Dongjun Wei, Muxiang Li, Tuotang Zhang and Shuangquan Xu, are the six most prestigious clans in Dongyang County during the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China.

These six ethnic groups are distributed in the county, and there are many clansmen who are divided into the countryside, and their influence spreads throughout Dongyang County. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the magistrate first arrived, he would visit the dignitaries of the six ethnic groups. Once a major dispute occurs among the people, it will be handled by the six ethnic groups first, and taking legal means is actually the method that will be chosen only after all negotiations cannot be resolved.

It's just that the people who came to the county government at this time were actually the children of some side branches, although the Ming army captured Dongyang County, but it was in the absence of Ma Jinbao, who had already brutalized the local area too much. For this Ming army, which they had only heard of in rumors before, they didn't dare to report much hope for a while, so the interaction between them was just a good fate.

Chen Wen and Sun Yu couldn't be clearer about their thoughts. After meeting with the representatives of these six clans, Chen Wen put forward a request to go to the Zhang family in Tuotang with Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua, but the reason he put forward was something that this family could not refuse.

Tuotang Zhang's is commonly known as "Tuotang Zhang". Its ancestor is called Zhang Chao, who is the alchemy dun of Kaifeng Xiangfu County, Henan Province of Tang Province five generations later, and the Qianning Jinshi of Tang Zhaozong, when the rebellion of the five seasons came out of Dongyang. In the second year of Kaiyun in the Later Jin Dynasty, Shi Jilong attacked Dongyang County, and Zhang Chao led his eldest son Zhang Tianxian to fight in Guanqingling, and his father and son were martyred on the same day. The second son, Zhang Tianyou, hid in the lotus pond in the west of the city, and took care of his life, and later ordered the village to be "Tuotang".

Tuotang Zhang produced many well-known local officials in the Ming Dynasty, among which the most famous and the highest official position was the crown prince and the prince of Lu Jianguo, the secretary of the military department, and the scholar Zhang Guowei. And Chen Wen's reason is to pay homage to this former minister of the Lu Jian Dynasty who resisted the Qing Dynasty and was martyred.

In An Min's proclamation and the words he came to visit, everyone knew that Chen Wen was actually the general appointed by Lu Jianguo to go west to recover Jinhua Mansion by the military affairs of Zhejiang Province, the left squire of the military department and the left deputy governor of Yushi Wang Yi, and he was also the commander of the Ming army who was ordered by Wang Jiang, the current governor of Zhejiang, to go west to recover Jinhua Mansion. And Sun Yu, who traveled with Chen Wen, was the prefect of Jinhua appointed by Wang Jiang, and he was still a local of Jinhua Mansion and a talented man who was once well-known in the city.

Such a combination of identities, as well as the request of the former ministers of the Lu Prison Dynasty on this trip, the Zhang family's visitors really couldn't refuse, but if they came by force, it would not be in line with the purpose of their trip. Seeing that Chen Wen and Sun Yu had decided to set off in an hour, they had to send someone to inform the patriarch and patriarch of their family to prepare in advance.

The Tuotang Zhang family lived in the northwest of the city in Dongyang County, and was divided into Lito and Waituo according to the old city wall in later generations, and the destination of his trip was the former residence of Zhang Guowei in the later Lito - "Jiurutang"

"Jiurutang" is taken from the "Jiuru" in the "Book of Songs, Xiaoya, Tianbao", "such as mountains such as Fu, such as the wind such as the tomb, such as the square of the river, such as the constant moon, such as the rise of the sun, such as the longevity of Nanshan, such as the lush of pines and cypresses". It is a house built by Zhang Guowei in his hometown to celebrate his mother's 80th birthday during his tenure as the imperial history of Zuo Du, also known as "Da Sima Di". And this plaque of Jiurutang is the champion of Zhang Guowei in the same year, and the inscription of Wenzhen Meng, a scholar of Dongge University in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

When Chen Wen and Sun Yu arrived, the patriarch and clan elders of the Zhang family had been waiting at the door for a long time. Seeing this, Chen Wen and Sun Yu also showed a pro-people attitude and praised the family style of the Zhang family before entering Zhang Guowei's former residence.

Walking in Zhang Guowei's former residence, Chen Wen recalled that he had been to Zhang Guowei's former residence when he traveled in his early years, and always had a vague feeling of familiarity in the strangeness, and it was not until he entered the back hall that he completely walked out of this feeling, because there was a pair missing by Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan, who was called like raising a dog.

Well, Mr. Ji, you probably don't have much of a chance.

Soon, Chen Wen and Sun Yu arrived at Fangtang, where Zhang Guowei was martyred, and the altar containing the tribute and Zhang Guowei's tablet had been placed.

"In September Yihai of the sixth year of Wei Daming's supervision of Guolu, Chen Wen, the chief military officer of Dalan, led Wang Shi to return to Dongyang County, and I would like to sacrifice my university scholar Zhang Gong in the place of martyrdom with the ceremony of sacrifice:"

"Woohoo! The public ambition is noble, generous, and has not been established in the past, and he has ascended to the dynasty and the first. At the beginning of Panyu, the school of agriculture was cultivated, and the education was 100 miles; Following the Fu Shifu, build the two cities of Tai and the canal in the east of the river, so that the trouble of silting up for many years will no longer harm the farmers. ”

"The public is a state affair, dry all day long, and if you are vigilant at night, you must not be confused, and you must be white. After the completion of hydraulic engineering, he rewrote the "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Book" to posterity. Zuo Taishi's words, virtue, and merit stand side by side, which can be described as immortal. ”

"If all the ministers are like the public, how can there be anything about Jiashen? What a pity! ”

“…… But God didn't get it. Jiashen changed the country, broke through the vicious, stole Shenjing, and sowed poison to the world. And the princes of the southern capital do not say anything about the war, and they are good at talking. As soon as Hu rode to, the civil and military forces or the rate of begging to surrender, or the name of the self-killing, what is the use of the country! ”

So Anzong hunted in the north with dust, King Lu descended before Zuo, Chixian fell into decline, and Sheji was mourned. When this board swings, the public strikes the middle stream, and supports the high emperor and Miao descendants to revolt in eastern Zhejiang, which is to let the world know that the artifact has the master, and the emperor and the Ming will succeed ......"

"Unfortunately, in June of the first year of the prison state, Jiang Shangshi collapsed. Although the public fought to the death, it was difficult to defeat the outnumbered. The public retreated to this point, not intending to chase the horse, fearing that the thieves would anger the people, and he threw himself into the pool. This benevolence and this loyalty, full of the sun and the moon. However, the society is unfair, and it is a loss of heavenly stones! What a pain! ”

"Today, I am under the order of the prison state to recover Dongyang. Only the beggar protects the king, and on the day of success, he will be sacrificed to the head of the chieftain, and he will still feast! ”

After the recitation of a piece of sacrificial text, there were already whimpering voices in the Zhang family crowd accompanying the worship. Zhang Guowei was really a rare capable minister in the era of the late Ming Dynasty. Aside from the rest, it is only said that the achievements in water conservancy can be left to future generations, and the local people and future generations will also benefit from their hard work, so that they can feed more Chinese people during the tyranny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years.

It's just that such a capable minister was born in the era when the Ming Dynasty was difficult to return, and the emerging Han dynasty was unable to take over the artifact, so that the world was stolen by the Tartars. But in such an era, Zhang Guowei chose to stick to the defense of Yixia, swore to fight the Tartars to the death, and finally died in the family where he was born and raised, which can be described as a hero.

After Chen Wen completed the ceremony, he politely refused the banquet of the Zhang family and returned to the barracks with the generals and sergeants who followed. After Sun Yu left the Zhang family, he went to the house where one of the houses of the Da Xi Du family was gathered in the center of West Street to pay respects. Because in his early years in the Zhu Dadian curtain, he befriended a Du family disciple named Du Xueshen who was also in the curtain, and this Du family disciple was martyred in Jinhua Mansion with Zhu Dadian......

The news that Chen Wen paid tribute to Zhang Guowei's martyrdom on the second day after the capture of the city soon spread throughout Dongyang County, and even had a tendency to spread farther away.

Over the years, Dongyang County has passed through a lot of troops, the Ming army, the Qing army, the righteous army, abound, but whether it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty's beast army, or the Ming army banner, or even the Ming army without the banner of the Ming army, it is inevitable to disturb the people.

However, since this Ming army entered the city, it has actually only been one day, but it is precisely on this day that the Ming army has not committed any crimes against the people, even if it is really patrolling the main roads, it has never driven the people, let alone disturbed the people.

None of the gentry and people in Dongyang County are stupid, and it is not difficult to see whether it is deliberate, but the Ming army they see is a royal division that believes from the bottom of their bones that the army should protect the territory and the people. There were even rumors that the commander of this army was the son-in-law of the Qi family in Penglai who rebuilt the Qi family's army, which also deepened the local gentry's preference for the Ming army.

And this memorial written by Sun Yu also resonated with the gentry and people of Dongyang County at a very fast speed, which made them further believe that this Ming army was completely different from the Manchu Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, and other Ming and righteous armies that also plundered the people, and that it was a real royal army.

And this is exactly what they have been longing for for a long time!

On the second day of the memorial to Zhang Guowei, the patriarchs of the Tuotang Zhang clan and the Da Xi Du clan rushed to the county government with the elders of the clan to ask for a meeting with Chen Wen and Sun Yu, promising to do their best to support Wang Shi's battle to recover Jinhua. When these two families chose to fall to the Ming army, the other four families also quickly completed the tandem, and also rushed to the county government in the afternoon of the same day, to ensure that Chen Wen and Sun Yu would vigorously promote the existence of the Ming army in the villages and towns they could reach, in order to win more support.

At the same time, the attitude of the six clans in Dongyang County also affected other families who were waiting. In the days that followed, almost every day Chen Wen and Sun Yu had to meet with representatives of the big clan and the common people, and the local people began to join the army enthusiastically.

The strength of the Ming army was increasing almost every day, but at this moment, Chen Wen received a letter, which made him a little unexpected.

PS: Thank you to Brother Yu Shizhong for sacrificing his rest time to help me polish and polish the memorial text, and I would like to thank you.

PS: At the same time, I would also like to thank all the book friends who have always supported and forgiven the author, who were supposed to have a good New Year's meeting and still owed debts, but this year was really speechless, surrounded by worries every day, and I can only try to keep it updated, I'm very sorry. In the days to come, I will try my best to repay the debt.