Chapter 111. Yanzhou Crisis (4)
After the assembly, Hou Guoxing gave a simple encouragement to the soldiers in the garrison camp, after all, the soldiers' families were in Yanzhou City, although they were afraid, they also quickly began to pack up their supplies.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Hou Guoxing sat on the handsome seat, looking at the map near Yanzhou City. Yanzhou garrison Liu Qiangong clenched his fists on the side and anxiously asked his insider:
"Cuilian! Where is your cousin Wang Qianjun now, is Chen Dashan from Chenjiazhuang him? ”
"It's not! How can a cousin of a concubine be a thief! Cuilian, the daughter-in-law of the garrison, was crying and trembling.
"And where is he now?" Liu Qiangong asked again with red eyes.
Cuilian didn't answer, just howled and cried, looking at that pitiful appearance, it seemed that she was frightened.
Say! Liu Qiangong slapped Cuilian and shouted:
"You stupid woman, tell me quickly, do you want him to kill our whole family!"
Liu Qiangong is really anxious, he can't find this so-called cousin, and explain to Lord Qincha, he may be suspected of being a thief, and even if Hou Guoxing lets him go, the civil and military officials of Yanzhou City will crush him to ashes.
What's more, judging from the style of this demon king, he will not let him go at all, and it is estimated that he will have to divide his Liu Qiangong's five horses.
Cuilian, who was still crying, covered her face after Liu Qiangong slapped her to the ground, stopped crying, got up, stared at Liu Qiangong coldly, and pointed at him after a while and scolded:
"Beat me, you know how to beat me, I am a family of incense, my father is also a Qipin county order, I was blind at the beginning, I have followed you for so many years, what do I want to ......?"
This Wang Cuilian's father was originally a Jinshi in the Wanli period, due to the endless war in Liaodong, Wang Jinshi, who was originally a candidate at home, gritted his teeth and took his whole family to Liaodong to serve as a county magistrate.
Later, by chance, I met Liu Qiangong, who was on duty in Liaodong at the time, a battlefield athlete, and a girl Huaichun, and soon the two met each other.
But in the era of the Ming Dynasty, when the nobles and martial arts were cheap, although the Wang County Order, who was born in Jinshi, was only a mere seven-grade, he couldn't look down on Liu Qiangong, who was a five-grade thousand-household.
Later, it was naturally a bloody drama staged, and the daughter was forced to die, and the father, who was the county commander, refused in cold blood. In desperation, the two made a private decision for life. went back to force marriage with this big belly, and the final outcome is, of course, that the lover will eventually become a family.
But the romance before marriage returned to the pre-marriage, the life after the marriage returned to the marriage, and after the two got married, they naturally began to quarrel frequently in the face of trivial life.
Wang Cuilian yearns for the kind of life before the moon and under the moon, reciting poems, Liu Qiangong, as a thousand generals, daily life is the barracks, and the barracks are in the barracks. So even if Liu Qiangong quickly mixed into the position of the Yanzhou garrison, he would be a big boss in Wang Cuilian's eyes.
And Liu Qiangong felt that according to Wang Cuilian's appearance and conditions back then, he could at least find a jinshi or something, so he was tolerant and tolerant of insiders many times on weekdays.
This slap is really painful, but it is just a matter of life, Liu Qiangong can't take care of that much, took Wang Cuilian's hand, and said loudly:
"Don't make a fuss, this time it's about the lives of the whole family, and you are also deceived by your cousin, no wonder you. Hurry up and tell your husband what you know......"
"I don't know! My cousin heard that he has returned to Liaodong? If you want to look for him, go to Liaodong to find him. What anger is here from me. You are a heartless person, you have no interest, you are angry outside, you come back to take me out, what did I plan to do! You fight! Kill me! ……”
"That's it!" Hou Guoxin frowned and got up and said, "The matter has come to this, go back to the city first!" ”
After speaking, he turned to Yang Wu and said:
"You go outside and urge you, get ready to go back to the city!"
As soon as Hou Guoxing's words fell, Wang Cuilian's face changed, and after saluting Hou Guoxing, she said:
"Lord Qincha, do you want to go to Shandong?"
After finishing speaking, he turned around and pulled Liu Qiangong's collection and continued:
"I'm afraid! The rebels are about to attack the city, I'm afraid! I want to go to Shandong! ”
Liu Qiangong's face changed slightly, looking at Wang Cuilian's pitiful appearance, he frowned and said:
"Don't mess around, the sergeants of the entire garrison battalion are going to deal with the rebels, for the husband as the Yanzhou garrison, how can he escape from the battle and go to Shandong with you!"
Wang Cuilian didn't look at Liu Qiangong's unhappy face, as if she was extremely scared, looked at Liu Qiangong and said:
"The concubine is afraid! It's okay for the concubine to go alone, sir, you find someone to send the concubine to Shandong, and when the war subsides, you go to Shandong to pick up the concubine back. ”
Liu Qiangong stared at Wang Cuilian, his body trembled slightly, he sighed for a long time, turned to Hou Guoxin and bowed deeply:
My lord, I am also confused by others, and I hope that my lord will bear with me. The humble duty wants to send someone to send the cheap to Shandong first, and then to the adult. Speaking of this, Liu Qiangong paused, sorted out his words, and continued:
"Humble swear to defend Yanzhou City, defend the city tomorrow, if there is a thief stepping on the city, humble and willing to die."
Hou Guoxing's brows furrowed deeply, and when he stared at Liu Qiangong and was about to speak, Wang Cuilian on the side suddenly hugged Liu Qiangong and cried:
"What kind of foolish words does the lord say, the lord will definitely not have an accident, the concubine is waiting for the lord to come over to pick up the concubine in Shandong!"
Liu Qiangong looked at the painful Wang Cuilian, stroked her hair, sighed again, and gently pushed it away, then turned around and knelt down in front of Hou Guoxing, and said:
"My lord, I have a worry-free life and a full reading of poetry and books, but I don't dislike lowly positions, and I marry lowly people. Now that the rebels are attacking the city, the humble position really can't bear to let them worry and be afraid in the city, and they hope that the adults will be successful. ”
After speaking, he kowtowed deeply to Hou Guoxing, and Wang Cuilian on the side also knelt down crying.
"Lord Liu, it's not that the official is unwilling, but now that the military situation is urgent, as the chief general of the army, if you send your family away, how can the official serve the public?" Hou Guoxin stared at Liu Qiangong and frowned and said:
"This official can only promise you, if he guards the city every day, when it is really impossible to do anything, this official asks Mrs. Zun to find a way to break through. As for the rest, there is nothing the official can do. ”
Liu Qiangong was stunned for a moment, looked at Hou Guoxing's forbearant face, and turned his head to Wang Cuilian, who was crying behind him.
"Yang Liu, prepare the carriage for Mrs. Liu!" After Hou Guoxin finished speaking, he didn't pay attention to Wang Cuilian, who was pleading bitterly, and turned around and left the big tent.
Soon, the entire garrison battalion was ready. Hou Guoxing gave an order, and war horses, ordnance, grain and grass and other materials began to move towards Yanzhou City one after another. And other trivial materials, under a fire, along with the entire barracks burned.
"Adults take a step to speak?" Halfway through, Yang Wu rode to Hou Guoxing's side and whispered, and then glanced at Liu Qiangong, who was bowing his head and contemplating behind him.
Hou Guoxing nodded, urged the war horse to walk a few steps quickly, and came to a secluded place.
"My lord, Liu Qiangong's mother-in-law has a problem!" Yang Liu's face was red and he said softly:
"It's not that blind man Liu Qiangong can't see it."
As a big man, he said behind his back that other people's parents were short, but it was not what Yang Liu wanted, but now that Yanzhou City is in crisis, Yang Liu can only remind Hou Guoxin.
"Back in town, keep an eye on her for me!" Hou Guoxing looked at Liu Qiangong, who was uncertain not far away, and sighed in his heart.
Back in Yanzhou City, thousands of torches have been lit in the entire city, and at the city gate, the victims are entering the city one after another, and there are hundreds of people who look like small servants on the edge of the city, and the guards guarding the city are exploring something.
Seeing Hou Guoxing return to the city, the victims naturally knelt down one after another, thanking Lord Qincha for moving them into the city.
Time was urgent, Hou Guoxing didn't care about making any tirade, and after a brief reassurance of the victims, he entered the city to check the preparations for the victims to enter the city.
When I entered the city, I saw that there were hundreds of cauldrons on both sides of the official road in Yanzhou, and the men did not help but put the white rice into the pot, which seemed to be prepared for the victims who had just moved in.
Hou Guoxing nodded, it seems that the few heads he had just now scared the officials of Yanzhou, and in addition to the rebel siege, everyone was damaged. So in terms of disaster relief, officials have made great efforts.
The thieves are only a few, and most of the people who attack the city are disaster victims, and the victims of Chenjiazhuang are homeless and have no food to eat, so they will be used by the White Lotus Sect.
If the hundreds of thousands of victims of the military household are not properly settled, there is no need to let the rebels carry them together and increase the strength of the rebels.
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"As long as you treat them with sincerity and give them food and shelter, you will naturally not be in trouble. You must know that if the small people have a bite to eat and can live, they will not take risks. ”
Hou Guoxin stood by the pot and said to Xie You'an, the governor of Yanzhou beside him:
"Lord Xie has done a good job, wait for the official to draft another notice, and post it to the whole city, so that the people will know about it."
"The subordinate obeys." Xie You'an bowed down and replied.
"Remember, the porridge given must not be perfunctory, the official will personally supervise, and the chopsticks inserted into it must not float. If anyone dares to take the opportunity to fill his own pockets and ruin the official's plan to defend the city, the official will kill his whole family! ”
Note: Let's have an anti-theft chapter, in an hour, it's time to come over! ~ The origin of the Donglin Party, which was a political group of bureaucrats in collusion with the chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang represented by Jiangnan Shi Dafu in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. The "party" of the "Donglin Party" is a friend party rather than a modern political party. [1]
In 1604 A.D. (the thirty-second year of Wanli), Gu Xiancheng and others repaired the Donglin Academy where Yang Shi lectured in the Song Dynasty, and lectured with Gao Panlong and Qian Yiyi. Donglin's lecture coincided with the intensification of social contradictions at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Donglin people ridiculed the government and commented on the officials, and they demanded honesty and integrity, revitalized the rule of officials, opened up the way of speech, eliminated the accumulated evils of the government and the opposition, and opposed the corruption and perversion of the law by the powerful. These ideas of the current government were widely sympathized and supported by the society at that time, but at the same time, they were fiercely opposed by the eunuchs and their dependent forces. Due to differences in political views, the two developed and evolved into a fierce party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty. The opposition refers to the lectures at Donglin Academy and the government and opposition figures who are related to it or who support sympathetic lectures.