Lian Zining's status at this moment, Dong Laohu obviously knew that what he said was to win people's hearts, but he still couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, and he was quite moved, so he hurriedly responded.

Lian Zining explained a few more words to him.

Although there was only one eleventh guard left behind, Dong Laohu, and half of the eleventh guard was cutting wood in the mountains at this time, Lian Zining was not worried. Those who stayed in Zhenyuan Mansion, in addition to Dong Laohu, also Xie Deqing, 150,000 recruits, formed ten new guards plus supplemented the losses of each guard, only 80,000 people were used, and there were still 70,000 left under Xie Deqing's command at this time! These recruits have been training for several months, and their combat effectiveness is quite impressive, at least not inferior to the general border army of the Ming Dynasty. With these people guarding the city, Zhenyuan Mansion is as stable as Mount Tai.

Moreover, Xie Deqing also shoulders the responsibility of monitoring Dong Laohu, and Lian Zining naturally trusts his old brother who was in the official Liu Zhenchen character office.

Naturally, he wouldn't say that.

Sending Dong Laohu away, looking at the vast but orderly countless soldiers who were leaving the city, Lian Zining sighed and greeted Ye Nai on the side: "Let's go too!" ”

In these days in Zhenyuan Mansion, everything has been arranged properly, whether it is in the rectification of Wu Yijun or the layout of Beijing. The wounded soldiers recuperated, the soldiers recuperated, the recruits were replenished, the worn weapons were replaced, and the armor was repaired. And Lian Zining has added a lot of new things to his command, these things. At a critical moment, it can play a role in turning things around.

Lian Zining has been idle long enough, and it's time to lead the troops to the battle!

Yesterday I had a meal with Ye Nai and Amber as a family, but it was also a happy time, and this morning, I also said goodbye to Amber.

Amber is a very smart woman. Knowing Lian Zining's thoughts, he forced himself to calm down in front of him, and waited for Lian Zining to leave. But his eyes were swollen from crying.

Lian Zining got on the horse and slowly instigated, under the protection of Shi Dazhu's guards. Go in the direction of the city gate.

Ye Nai came to Lian Zining's side, thought about it, and seemed to have made a psychological struggle, and then said in a low voice: "My lord, yesterday Mrs. Ming'er asked me to bring you a message, saying that I wanted to meet you, but I can't see you?" ”

"Mrs. Ming'er? Oh, Yang Ming'er! Lian Zining paused before remembering this woman, and since she came back, she seemed to have only met once. On a whim that day, I wanted to go to her for one night, but I didn't expect to delay the affairs of Jingzhong, and I didn't have time to go again after that.

He glared at Nona and waved his hand: "That's it, there's nothing to see." Let's talk about it when we come back! ”

"Oh!" Ye Nai answered honestly, but she was happy in her careful thoughts, she had always liked Amber but hated Yang Ming'er, so Yang Ming'er asked her to bring the word yesterday afternoon, but she didn't tell Lian Zining until today, in order to make Lian Zining have no time to go.

She's a little bit of a calculus. Lian Zining naturally knows it in her heart, but she just spoils her, but she won't reveal it.

When the last armies marched out of the West Gate, the West Gate slammed shut.

Cut off a pair of sights.

These are very beautiful eyes.

In an oil-walled incense car, Bai Qiuyuan put down the bead curtain and thought thoughtfully.

When Lian Zining led the Wuyi army to the north for the second time, Emperor Zhengde's Qincha had just slowly swayed to Qileniwei.

It's still a long way from the town!

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North of the capital and south of Yanshan.

This is the northern edge of the Great Plain of North China, the world is sparse, and at a glance, it is boundless. …,

Especially in this autumn, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the sky is extraordinarily blue, as if washing, the four fields, has become a transparent crystal golden yellow, under the illumination of the bright sun in the afternoon, brilliant and magnificent, which makes people feel an unspeakable sense of awe in their hearts.

The weather is also exceptionally good today, a typical autumn day.

In this vast land, a wide official road, from south to north, the official road is straight, like a straight line, dividing this vast field into two halves.

The scale of this official road is quite large, with a width of more than 20 zhang, one zhang and nine feet in the Ming season is equal to three meters and four in later generations, and twenty zhang is sixty-eight meters in later generations, what kind of concept is this? The standard first-class highway of later generations, with four lanes in both directions and the shoulders on both sides, is only fifteen meters.

The 67-meter-wide official road will be an eighteen-lane super road in the future!

This road, the construction is also quite exquisite, the road surface is made of loess vigorously rammed, such a construction method, the hardness and durability of the road surface, is not much worse than the stone masonry, the straight road and the gallop road of the Qin Dynasty are built in this way. At the edges of each side of the road, a row of heavy stone slabs two feet deep and one foot thick were driven into the ground, firmly squeezed together with the rammed earth road. On both sides of the road, small saplings four or five feet tall were planted.

It is conceivable that in another ten years, it will be a scene of green shade, and pedestrians walking under the trees can also enjoy a touch of shade in the hot summer.

This kind of pavement, its specifications, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty is the first.

The construction of such a wide official road, especially in this boundary, looks a little unbelievable - this side further north, is to the outside of the Guan, sparsely populated, it seems that there is no need for such a wide road, as for the need for commercial trade, the Ming Dynasty's commercial trade is prosperous, but it is mostly concentrated in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River and these big cities in the north, from the Guannai to the northeast of the trade, in the proportion of trade in the country, accounted for only an insignificant proportion, although it is not nothing, But it will never be large enough to accommodate such a wide transportation facility.

It is not unreasonable to build in this way.

If you look closely, you will see that although the road was built quite sturdily and durable, and judging from the height of the saplings on both sides, it was not very long, but there were some roads on it. But there are already potholes, and they are accompanied by deep rut marks.

That's a little weird.

The Ming Dynasty did not have the existence of super overloaded trucks with a standard load of 15 tons and an actual load of more than 100 tons, and the road surface was worn to such an extent, which can only show one thing - there are many vehicles with a large load on this road, and it can even be said that they account for the vast majority.

And if you stop looking at it for a while. You will find that on this road, it can be said that people come and go. It's quite lively, and there are very few pedestrians alone, and basically they come by big cars.

On top of those freight trucks. There were all kinds of things, but the most important ones were two things - wood and stone.

Some of the big trees that are more than ten zhang long are tightly tied to the big cart with ropes, and dozens of bullocks are used to pull and transport them in front, but this extremely amazing weight makes those bullocks quite unbearable, and the speed of movement is very slow. And under the pressure of this weight, the wheels pressed the ground deep out of the rut marks, and the rammed earth ground could not withstand such heavy pressure.

There are also those who transport large trees and stones. It's not cars and cattle at all, it's people.

A large sour branch about ten zhang long, but it was not pulled by a cart, but hundreds of ropes were put on it, and the end of each rope was covered. They were all tightly tied around the waist of a servant. These hundreds of servants, all of them have yellow faces and thin muscles, and their faces are vegetable, and they don't know how many days they haven't eaten well. They were dressed in ragged clothes, bent over, and their feet in tattered straw sandals were stomped to the ground. It's like they're only fried in a frying pan, bent to ninety degrees, shouting the trumpet, hey But their strength is really insignificant compared to the weight of the big wood, which is pulled, just moving forward little by little, and the people are already tired to death, and the hard big wood has left a wide and deep mark on the road. …,

There were also some people in green clothes and soap boots, hats, and officials who were supervising, and they hung their waist knives and held whips in their hands, and from time to time threw out one or two whips in the air, and scolded loudly at those servants.

This kind of sour branch big wood, only produced in the two Guangzhou, Huguang, Sichuan, Guizhou deep mountains, after mining, transported out of the mountains, but can be along the general downstream, to Yangzhou, and then from Yangzhou along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the north, until Tongzhou. This road can be transported by boat, but from Tongzhou to the north, you have to rely on people to pull horses, here is already eighty miles north of the capital, from Tongzhou to this two hundred miles, transporting big wood, I don't know how much manpower and material resources are spent.

Looking around, the transportation team walking on this wide official road, the transportation of manpower and animal power, is roughly divided into fifty or five, and this large car team is afraid that there will be hundreds! And the livestock that transported the big wood and stone also exceeded thousands, and as for the manpower servants, they were even more afraid of more than 30,000!

The people who were pulled by the manpower were basically escorted by the local government and county officials, and the leather whips and sticks were naturally not a problem, and there were often servants who fell directly to the ground and could not get up again. The servants beat him up and threw him into the ditch by the side of the road, leaving him to fend for himself. The husband was thrown here, with no water to drink or food to eat, and the probability of dying here is almost 100 percent.

If you look closely, you will find that there are already a lot of white bones in the grass and ditches on the side of the road.

In fact, this official road leads directly to the Yanshan Palace!

The Yanshan Dynasty Hall is a great project that the Holy Lord attaches great importance to, and since the construction of Zhengde 49 years has begun, so far, it has been three years. On the construction site of the Great Dynasty Palace, there are more than 500,000 servants working here all the year round, and these servants are all requisitioned from Beizhili, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi Xingdusi and other places.

You must know that in the past three years, more than 150,000 servants have died on the construction site!

It's coming, and there's no going back.

And in order to build this unprecedented scale of the palace, the country's manpower and material resources are concentrated here, Emperor Zhengde issued an edict to all political envoys in the world, all the prefectures and counties of the country, all the prefectures and counties of the country, to pay tribute to the center of the big wood and beautiful stone, and it is the local state and county to bear the transportation costs, mining costs, manpower and animal power, etc., directly to the foot of Yanshan.

This order was not mandatory, but the local officials paid tribute one after another in order to cater to Emperor Zhengde.

Up and down the country. There are at least four or five million people who have worked hard because of this great palace project, which has also caused an extremely heavy burden and pressure on the local government. Just like the original tax of 30 taxes and 1 tax, when it is apportioned layer by layer at the bottom, it will become 5 taxes in 10 and 6 taxes in 10 when it falls on the peasants. For example, the construction of this Yanshan Great Dynasty Hall requires five million taels of silver and 500,000 manpower, and it will be on the ground. This number will be magnified several times, dozens of times!

The local officials took advantage of this incident. made a big fuss, had a showdown, and took advantage of this evil trend to get up and down his hands and fill his pockets. Even in many places, there is already a special tax in the tax category - the agent tax! What's the deal with this tax? It was from the project of this Yanshan Great Dynasty Palace.

You don't pay? All right! It's no problem if you don't pay the money, I tied you up and sent you to Yanshan to do coolies, but you have to hear clearly, three out of ten people who go there will have to die! Think about it, go or not! Pay if you don't want to go!

There are also prefectures and counties that are rich in large wood. It is to directly show down with those mountain people, limit the number of households, and hand over a big log. If you can't do it, you don't serve the emperor and despise the present. This is a felony of audacity! What else to say? They're all in jail! …,

Therefore, many mountain people are ruined and overwhelmed, either dead, and those who are not dead are thieves in the mountains, but they are not obedient people of the Ming court.

That's just all about it. They were all covered by the Xuan He and Glory of the Ming Dynasty, and no one noticed it except for the suffering people.

Especially those who are high in the temple.

The pedestrians on the road are noisy.

And at this moment, suddenly there was a cracking sound of horses' hooves from the south, and the earth trembled slightly, and then, as the sound of horses' hooves drew nearer, a group of knights in rotten silver plate armor appeared in front of everyone, and this team actually numbered about dozens of people, led by a general banner, which held a small pennant in his hand, and the order flag turned out to be golden - this was the sign of the king's flag!

Seeing the appearance of this team of knights who were obviously unprovoked characters, everyone on the official road got out of the way, and suddenly a crowd of people turned on their backs.

The general banner waved the command flag, and as he rode forward, he shouted loudly: "All the subjects and the people know that after half an hour, the holy car will pass by, and everyone will avoid it!" Avoid! ”

A group of knights went from south to north, and everywhere they passed, they shouted loudly, and after hearing it clearly, the servants and servants who were transporting large timbers and stones on the road were all terrified.

Oh my God! The emperor is coming?

Everyone hurriedly pulled things to the field on the side of the road to avoid waiting.

The emperor's chariot drove faster than the knights had predicted, and in less than half an hour, countless banners appeared on the official road in the south, thousands of soldiers from the Beijing camp, and the forbidden army of the 26th Guard rode north. The banner could almost obscure the day, the reflection of the weapons in the hands of the soldiers was dazzling, and countless war horses trampled on the ground, making people feel a clear vibration.

This is the team of Emperor Zhengde's northern tour.

There are more than 100,000 soldiers in the team alone, not to mention the accompanying hundreds of officials, the attachés of hundreds of officials, the office staff of the six departments, concubines, princes, eunuchs, palace people, etc. The team was huge, stretching for more than twenty miles.

The team of the Northern Hunt has been walking on the road for four days, but they have only walked eighty miles away, which is also a helpless thing, the emperor is old, and he can't afford to travel long distances, twenty miles a day, and he is already very tired.

Fortunately, from Beijing City to Yanshan Palace, there are many palaces along the way, which is enough to rest.

At the center of the procession is a large and beautiful team.

At the front are two columns of twenty eunuchs holding a clean whip basin in their hands to open the way, and the net whip throws out a crisp whip flower from time to time, crisp and pleasant, this is the so-called 'emperor travels, idlers retreat'. Behind them were eighteen elephants, all washed and clean, dressed in splendid silk and satin robes, and on their heads, crowns and jewels, covered with large and small gems, pearls and jade, which made a crisp sound as they moved.

These elephants are obviously specially trained, very docile and honest, and they are lined up in two rows, walking forward in a uniform pace, and they look a little cute.

In the back, four lions. The four lions are also washed with shiny fur, I don't know if they are dyed or born like this, the hair is golden, it looks like pure gold, these four lions, very docilely pulling a golden chariot, on top of the chariot. A guard in gold armor stood proudly with a golden gourd in his hand, tall as a javelin.

in the back. It was a four-headed tiger, also pulling a chariot, and then behind. It was four leopards, also pulling a chariot. …,

After them, there were fifteen limousine carriages, covered with flowers, and very beautiful.

Further back, there are 1,500 Jinyi Wei Han generals who hold honor guards, these Han generals are all of similar height, more than 1.8 meters tall, and they look very mighty. Behind them, there are countless palace maids. The eunuch was surrounded by a big yellow Luo Gai in the middle. Under the umbrella cover of Huang Luo, there is an extremely huge sedan chair, which is extremely huge, and it is three zhang square. It is made of high-quality small-leaved rosewood, with a height of about five feet.

There were sixty-four people under the sedan chair.

A 64-lift sedan chair.

On the periphery of the sedan chair, there is a viewing corridor, if you stay in the dumplings and are bored, you can also come here to look at the railing. If you are interested, you can also write two poems. At the top of the sedan chair, there is a rooftop existence, which is almost like a building.

This sedan chair is extremely luxurious, not only is it large enough, but the decoration inside is also amazing.

This sedan chair has a name, in the front of the sedan chair, there is a small door, there is a small plaque hanging on it, on which by the Ministry of Rites of the Dynasty, the book of poetry, Dong Qichang Dong Daren mentioned three words: "Ruyi Zhai!" ”

The outside is big, and the inside is not small, if it is converted into a unit in later generations, it is about sixty or seventy square meters, which is simply a mobile mansion. The sedan chair is divided into two parts: the bedroom and the reception room, the furnishings are exquisite, what is particularly amazing is that this sedan chair has a special place to go to the toilet, what is the matter, directly solved in it, it is very convenient.

This sedan chair, is the current Zhengde Emperor's car, is Zhengde forty-six years when the prefect of Zhending offered, at that time because it was too luxurious, was opposed by many ministers, Emperor Zhengde is the force of public opinion, in the end is to accept the sedan chair, that Zhending prefect since then is also all the way to the official fortune, now is already Henan political envoy Sibu political envoy, is the highest chief executive of a province.

Since then, every time Zhengde travels, he must take this sedan chair. The sedan chair is surrounded by yellow curtains, fluttering in the wind, but it is not really what it looks like inside.

After the sedan chair, there were hundreds of Han generals.

Even on this loess road, hundreds of thousands of people walked by, and the sky was full of smoke and dust, the clothes of these people were still quite gorgeous and clean, and they were obviously wiped and changed frequently.

Emperor Zhengde wanted to come and like pomp, so he was hunting in the north, and he also brought out all the belongings in the Forbidden City.

It's really royal!

Do you know that the price of doing this is the countless white bones?

However, the effect of this is also obvious, and those servants and servants on the roadside, seeing such a royal atmosphere, are really shaken by their hearts and galls, and their hearts are filled with extreme fear, respect and worship for the majesty of the royal majesty. They all lay on the ground one after another, their foreheads touching the ground, and reverently surrendered to the supreme in this world.

At this moment, in this sedan chair, which is undoubtedly the first in the world.

The house was about five or six meters long and wide, and the floor below was of the finest golden silk wood, and the walls were of sour wood, and there was a table, a few, a chair, a bookcase, and nothing else. Although the furnishings inside are simple, they reveal a thick and noble magnificence.

There are two windows on the wall, through the beaded curtains, and the small sunlight shines in, and the room is filled with warm yellow tones.

Emperor Zhengde wore a black civilian dress of Yanju, a Taiping crown, and his hair was simply tied, looking like an ordinary old man, but the momentum between his eyebrows that looked at the world could not be ignored by anyone.

This is the breath of the Son of Heaven. …,

At this moment, Emperor Zhengde was sitting behind a royal case made of rosewood, leaning obliquely on the comfortable sour branch wood official hat chair, and looking at the piece of paper in his hand with an indifferent face.

The sixty-four sedan chair was very stable, and it was like staying in the imperial study in the Forbidden City, and there was no shaking at all.

It's just that his mood is not as good as it appears on his face.

It can even be said that he is in a pretty bad mood at this time.

The chapter was presented by Jiang Bin, and it was only sent from the capital yesterday by a fast horse, and most of the civil and military officials accompanied him, but Jiang Bin did not come with him, and he still had a job to stay in the capital to investigate the source of the civil unrest and rumors in the capital some time ago.

The Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to this aspect, and Jinyiwei is also an expert in this aspect.

Sure enough, it was found out in a few days. A few days ago, because Emperor Zhengde vomited blood, rumors spread in the capital, and there was actually a cult mixed in it, and as for the elements of the cult, it was even more complicated, and the White Lotus Sect and the Maitreya Sect were all involved. Jiang Bin didn't dare to slack off, of course, it was also to praise the palace, so he hurriedly sent the chapter over.

Emperor Zhengde threw the piece on the imperial case, stretched out his hand and twisted his eyebrows, and a wave of irritability welled up in his heart.

A cult is a cult, and it is a cult, how can these traitors die unclean?

It's really damn damn it!

Speaking of which, the emperor of the old Zhu family also let these cults toss enough.

Needless to say, the White Lotus Sect is a rebellion against the professional household, and Tang Sai'er, the second female emperor of the White Lotus Sect in the land of China, dared to rebel when she was in the prosperous era of Yongle. Maitreya is not to be outdone, just in the Zhengde Dynasty, Maitreya has risen fifteen times, including a province, shaking the world once! In the 52 years since the Zhengde Dynasty, there have been no less than 50 rebellions in various places, almost once a year on average, and most of them have been secretly instigated by these cults since then.

Cults and cults are really haunting! As soon as the army was encircled and suppressed, the stars immediately dispersed, and as soon as the army withdrew, it immediately revived.

It is too difficult for such a sect with such deep roots in the people to be completely exterminated.

And this time, it also aroused the vigilance of Emperor Zhengde - in the 50th year of Zhengde, the four counties of Shandong rebelled, and the white-robed army swept through the land of Shandong Zhili, and Gyeonggi was shaken. Even if the white-robed rebel bandits Zhang Geng, Qi Jiguang and others were able to escape, it was the White Lotus Sect that was secretly intervening. Even these traitors controlled the guards of Jingcheng Pass, which made Emperor Zhengde extremely angry at that time, and then ordered the officials of the three provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan to be examined one by one.

He pondered for a moment, pulled a silk rope hanging from the wall next to him, and suddenly Liu Jixiang's respectful voice came from the hand-copying verandah outside: "Emperor, what do you command?" ”

Zhengde said in a deep voice: "You come in." ”

Liu Jixiang answered, pushed open the door and walked in lightly, standing respectfully on the side.

Zhengde said in a deep voice: "Intention! ”

Liu Jixiang hurriedly walked to the side and sat down behind the small table, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on it were all ready-made, he held the pen and listened attentively.

Then he listened to Zhengde's instructions: "Spread the edict, the thirteen political envoys in the world and the Shanxi Xingdu Division, the Liaodong Governor's Territory, the Nuergan Governor's Territory, and the large and small officials, all in one body, strictly investigate the White Lotus Sect, Maitreya Sect and other cults, and once it is found out, they will be immediately sent to Beijing and sent to prison pending trial." (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )