On the first day of the eighth year of Erzhen, all the months of the solar calendar in later generations have entered the next year, there has been no heavy snow in various parts of Baoan Prefecture, but the light snow is constant, the streets and alleys in the state city are full of frozen ice made of residual snow, which is extremely slippery, and the merchants and residents are busy sprinkling fine sand in front of their doors to prevent them from falling down! ”

Zhang Gui laughed and stepped forward to help Wang Dou up: "You and my brother, why be polite? ”

Wang Dou still saluted without hesitation, and he said with a smile: "The elder brother seems to have been promoted, and the junior brother is here to congratulate!" ”

Zhang Gui's face was full of spring breeze. He said meaningfully: "Brother, you are not bad! ”

He saw that Wang Dou and the others were all blue from the cold, and his lips were purple, and said: "It's a cold day, come into the house quickly, you and my brother meet today, and drink a few cups." ”

Wang Dou followed him into the courtyard, and Fu Chao and others followed behind him with several huge gift boxes.

Wang Dou saw that the mansion was quite luxurious, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Brother, this residence is very good!" ”

Zhang Gui said proudly: "A merchant gave it, with the old brother's silver, how can you afford this mansion?" ”

When everyone entered the hall, there was a fire burning inside, and a warmth came from inside, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Dou took the gift slip from Fu Chao's hand. He handed it over with both hands and said with a smile: "My brother is promoted and happy" My brother has not had time to congratulate. This point of mind. Don't dislike it, Brother Wanwang! ”

Zhang Gui took the gift list and looked at it, and saw that the various gifts added up to no less than fifteen taels, so he laughed and said, "Brother." You're good at everything. It's just not good at all, it's just that you're too careful. Anyway, brother, you have a heart, and brother is welcome! ”

He instructed Zhang Tanggong to accept the gift, Wang Dou nodded at Zhang Tanggong with a smile, and Zhang Tanggong went down with a smile.

Wang Dou and Zhang Gui made another gesture to each other. The guest sat down and offered tea, Zhang Gui said: "Brother, let's talk about it, what is the matter with coming to the state city this time, my brother knows that you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace!" ”

Wang Dou gave a thumbs up: "The elder brother will go to understand the younger brother!" ”

Wang Dou smiled slightly, and did not break the spoon

Everyone followed Yang Dongmin into the mansion, and the pavilions and courtyards that seemed to be endless came to the front of the living room in the backyard. In the courtyard of this living room, there is a leafy old tree, the village. In this cold winter, the trees are still full of greenery.

Inside the living room, it is as warm as spring. I saw that Xu Zucheng, the integrity officer, was wearing a casual fur coat. He was lying in a soft chair with his eyes closed.

The soft chairs are upholstered with silk cotton of brocade. The two girls were tapping Xu Zucheng's body bones. Around the living room, there are girls and mothers who have abandoned their services. The living room is also mostly Huanghuali official hat chairs. Huanghuali household utensils, the atmosphere of wealth and wealth, is coming.

It seems that this state city is different, and the lives of the upper-level officers and the lower-level officers are also very different.

Being able to come to the backyard of this integrity officer is also a sign that Wang Dou and others have become Xu Zucheng's henchmen. Seeing that Xu Zucheng was closing his eyes and recuperating, Zhang Gui and Wang Dou did not dare to move. This kind of rich and solemn style also makes Han Chao and others dare not come out.

Yang Dongmin motioned for Wang Dou and a few people to wait, and he came to Xu Zucheng's side lightly and called softly: "My lord, Lord Zhang and Lord Wang are here." ”

"Oh?"

Yang Dongmin called a few times, Xu Zucheng opened his eyes, and saw Zhang Gui and Wang Dou standing respectfully beside him with their hands down, he turned over and sat up, and said, "You are here?" ”

He patted his head again and sighed: "The years are unforgiving, I didn't expect to fall asleep like this." ”

Zhang Gui said with a smile: "How old are you?" Your spirit is sold. At that time, the collection of grain will be a great achievement for himself.

The garrison of the Acropolis, Lord Li Yi'an, is fifty-five years old this year, and he will not be able to do it for a few years. There will be fierce competition. If you have Wang Dou at that time, you will have the help of your political achievements, and your grasp will be greatly strengthened.

Now the levy of grain is killing chickens and eggs. Xu Zucheng is not a short-sighted person, and he is not in a hurry.

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Xu Zucheng smiled at Wang Dou and said: "Wang Dou, in September, my security guards will suppress the bandits and drive away the thieves, and Wang Dou, you will attack and kill the thief camp." More than 200 bandits were killed, more than 500 bandits were captured, and the seizure was not counted, and it was recorded as merit! In addition, you made meritorious contributions to the extermination of the Four Liang Dumping Bandits last year, and you made several meritorious contributions, and recommended that Master Ji Shiwei of the military department decided that the reward of the Ministry of War had come down, and this official wanted to congratulate Lord Xiwang, and you have been promoted to the post of a thousand households."

Wang Dou was stunned. Then I was overjoyed, I didn't expect that I jumped from the general flag to a thousand households, and I jumped a few levels in the middle, which was really unexpected.

It turned out that after the military merit was reported, the list of meritorious services went to the hands of Ji Shiwei of Huailong Bingbeidao, and Ji Shiwei had always been deeply impressed by Wang Dou. Last year, he was exempted from Emperor Chongzhen's punishment because of the military exploits of Wang Dou and others. Unexpectedly, this Wang Dou has made great contributions this year, and it seems that he is a talent that can be created, and Ji Shiwei has the idea of promoting Wang Dou in his heart. After highlighting Wang Dou in the list, he happily let his favorite youngest daughter Ji Junjiao play the flute and stroke the piano for fun.

With the unintentional help of all parties, Wang Dou has the current result.

Of course, the harvest is not Wang Dou alone, as the integrity officer of Baozhou City, Xu Zucheng is also meritorious, after the Ministry of War rewarded him, he was promoted to the commander of the security guard, and still served as the integrity officer of Baozhou City. Because of this promotion, Xu Zucheng had the idea of competing for the position of garrison in the future.

Similarly, Zhang Gui was also stained with light, and officially became a thousand households, although he and Wang Dou are both thousands of households, but he is the governor of the state city, and this power position is naturally much stronger than Wang Dou. There is still a piece of people who are rewarded, and Wang Dou can't finish asking for a while.

Originally, according to the Ming Dynasty's guard, Wang Dou was promoted to the queen of a thousand households.

Accompanying him were Yang Dongmin and Zhang Gui, in addition, there were a number of miscellaneous military service in Baozhou City. They were carrying a batch of ploughing cattle, rice, wheat and other things, but they were just walking together.

Wang Dou had a rich harvest on this trip, and he asked for a total of 50 ploughing oxen, 60 plough tools, more than 200 hoes, and more than 300 stones of grain and rice from the state city.

I heard that Wang Dou returned with a full load, especially the reward of the military department this time. Everyone in Shunxiang Fort was elated, and only walked to the south gate of Shunxiang Fort to greet them.

It's not like in front of Wang Dou. In front of everyone in Shunxiang Fort, Zhang Gui and Yang Dongmin were very arrogant, especially Zhang Gui, who used to come to Shunxiang Fort and nod to anyone. With a smile, now that he has been promoted to the official of the state city, who sees him, don't be polite?

For a time, he had a sense of glory in returning home.

The officers and officials in the fort saw the mighty grain and rice trucks. There are also strong ploughing cattle that are called by the foreigners, etc., everyone admires Wang Dou's methods, so they go to the second state city. It's about to come to cry so much that there are many materials that have tattooed this ploughing cattle farming tool, and next year's "famine" will increase the chances of winning. The more than 300 stone grains and rice also made everyone's hearts feel at ease, and this year's festival was better.

Lin Daofu was in charge of the fort and couldn't stop laughing. He personally ordered these cattle and farm tools to be put into storage.

In the group of people who greeted them. Wang Dou deliberately glanced at that Wen Fangliang, this year's light and handsome officer was still smiling, just standing in the crowd looking at those ploughing cattle and rice wheat, with a surprised look on his face. Seeing Wang Dou's opinion, he smiled at Wang Dou, which had the taste of a sunny youth.

After Wang Dou and others surrounded Zhang Gui and Yang Dongmin into the fort, they saw the inside of Shunxiang Fort. Both of them were a little surprised.

Zhang Gui sighed: "My brother is really talented, he hasn't seen him for a short time. This Shunbao has changed, tsk

He was amazed, and Yang Dongmin also nodded again and again.

Wang Dou smiled and said: "The two old brothers have a good reputation"

All the officers entered the hall of the thousand households, gathered together, and sat down as guests. Even if they can't get promoted, why are everyone's official fortunes so different? Fortunately, the new defender Lord Wang still values himself, and Lin Daofu has already made up his mind, and he will hug Wang Dou's thick thighs in the future.

Only Han Chao and Han Zhong in the hall were very excited, happy and proud of Wang Dou.

Yang Dongmin also glanced at Wang Dou with a sigh. This kid, luck is too good, Wu Xun, but it's extremely difficult to get. But he was got it by this kid, does this kid have anything to do with the military department? Thinking of this, Yang Dongmin even had the idea of befriending Wang Dou.

He smiled and said, "Wang Qianhu, take over!" ”

Wang Dou agreed loudly, and took the official uniform seal handed over by Yang Dongmin one by one, and the waist card was told to the body. Then he confessed, went in and changed into official clothes and came out, and when he came out, he was already wearing the Xionghei Qianhu official uniform embroidered with the five-rank military attaché, wearing the exquisite unicorn bronze medal of the Xiao cavalry captain on his waist, and wearing official boots under his feet, this momentum is different.

At present, Wang Dou, as a guard of thousands of households, and the defense officer of Shunxiang Fort, is already qualified to be included in the imperial review post selected by the Ministry of War, so I don't know what his two sentences on the post are.

After Wang Dou came out. Everyone in Shunxiang Fort saluted him again, and now Wang Dou served as the defense officer of Shunxiang Fort with the position of a thousand households, which was justified and no one dared to disobey him.

Next, it was Wang Dou who replaced Yang Dongmin and read out the announcement of the Shangguan reward to everyone in Shunxiang Fort.

Han Chao and Han Zhong originally signed the general flag, but this time they were meritorious, and both of them were awarded 100 households.

Zhong Tiaoyang, the general flag.

Gao Shiyin was originally a small banner, but this time he was meritorious and promoted to a hundred households.

Yang Tong, the general flag of the department.

These are Wang Dou's descendants in the past, except for the two brothers of the Han Dynasty, the rest of them have to inform them to come to Shunxiang Fort to receive their confessions. Especially Gao Shiyin and Yang Tong, Wang Dou originally asked the two to serve as the team officer and team officer of Dongjiazhuang, but it is inevitable that many people will not be convinced, and there are many people who discuss it in private.

Han Chao and Han Zhong were very happy to receive their official uniforms and say goodbye, thinking that following adults would have a bright future. There are also some officers in Shunxiang Fort, who participated in the battle to suppress bandits last time, and everyone was rewarded. However, it is mostly a few words of verbal praise, or a few people add some rice, which has no real benefit.

Lin Daofu is like this, the notice document praised him to the sky, but he didn't add a grain of rice, which made his face full of bitterness.

There are only 100 households in Shunxiang Fort, Wen Fangliang, the officer of Shunxiang Fort, and the woman is already light. was promoted to deputy thousand households, and sure enough, there was someone above.

After the reward, some people are happy and some are worried.

Wang Dou set up a banquet to entertain Yang Dongmin, Zhang Gui and his party who came to Shunxiang Fort. Banquet. The people who toasted to the two continued, especially the several officers of the old army of Shunxiangbao, who took turns to fight, Zhang Gui was full of red face, and those who came did not refuse, only Yang Dongmin looked proud, and most of the toasts to each person were superficial.

However, when Wang Dou toasted him, Yang Dongmin toasted a few glasses in a row, and the people below were red-eyed.

The next day, after Yang Dongmin and Zhang Gui and his party went back, the news of Wang Dou's promotion to Zhengqianhu was about to spread, and everyone in the military households in Shunxiang Fort and Jingbian Fort was happy.

When Zhong Tiaoyang came from Jingbian Fort, he brought a good news, Xie Xiuniang was happy, and now the military households in Jingbian Fort are celebrating.

Wang Dou is also very happy, he is really happy this time.

remembered that he and his wife got together less and separated more, and separated after seven days of marriage. Now that he has a firm foothold in Shunxiang Fort, his wife is now happy again. It's time to take Xie Xiuniang and her mother to live in Shunxiangbao, so that I can take care of them nearby.