In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Pu was ready to set off to return to Datong, and he had already stayed enough in Yanjing.

Outside the Guangqu Gate, Wang Puzheng said goodbye to Chang Yanling and Li Zushu.

"Big brother." Chang Yanling said with some reluctance, "I don't know when we will be able to meet again if we say goodbye today." ”

Li Zu said: "Big brother, why don't we go to Datong with you?" ”

"It's nonsense." Wang Pu smiled, "What are you doing with me in Datong?" ”

Li Zu said: "Of course I killed Jiannu. ”

"I don't need to." Wang Pu said, "Let you go and kill Jiannu, that's overkill." ”

Li Zushu said embarrassedly: "The eldest brother is making fun of the younger brother again." ”

Wang Pu smiled slightly, suddenly turned around and beckoned, "Bring everything up." ”

Under an order, Xiao Qi had already led the family to carry up the two large boxes, and opened them in front of Chang Yanling and Li Zushu, Chang Yanling was stunned and asked, "Big brother, what are you ......?"

"The two brothers escorted the younger brother from Jinshanwei into Beijing, and the journey was very tiring, and they also lost hundreds of soldiers in Jining." Wang Pu paused, and then said, "There are 200,000 taels of silver in this box, even if it is the hardship fee for the Jinyi guards, and the pension for the fallen soldiers." ”

Li Zushu hurriedly said: "Big brother, this is not good. ”

Wang Pu said: "In addition, there are some jewelry, which are special thank you gifts from the little brother, and the two brothers must laugh at it." ”

"No, it's absolutely not going to work." Chang Yanling also excused himself, "We escorted the eldest brother into Beijing to run an errand for the imperial court, and the soldiers who died in battle will also receive a pension from the household department in Nanjing, where can we get your silver from the eldest brother?" Besides, eldest brother, your silver was snatched from Jiannu by the brothers with their desperate lives, and we really can't reach out to it. ”

"You must take this money." Wang Pu said in an unquestioning tone, "The hard-earned money of the brothers has not been touched, this is my personal thank you gift to the two brothers, if you don't accept it, you don't want to recognize me as a big brother, and you don't want to have any more friendship with me in the future." ”

"This ......" Chang Yanling and Li Zushu smiled bitterly, "So we have to accept this silver?" ”

Wang Pu smiled and said: "You have to feel embarrassed, if the eldest brother has the opportunity to come to Jiangnan to be an official in the future, you can help more." ”

"It goes without saying." Li Zushu shouted, "Big brother, you really want to come to Jiangnan, as long as you say a word, no matter what is big, the younger brother can come forward to settle it for you, hehe, the younger brother in Beijing has no weight to speak, but in the one acre and three points of land in Jiangnan, the little brother and Chang brother talk is still very effective." ”

"Okay." Wang Pu hugged his fists and said, "Then don't leave it here." ”

Chang Yanling and Li Zushu hugged their fists together and said, "Big brother, take care." ”

Seeing Chang Yanling and Li Zushu lead the army away, before leaving, Wang Pu took one last look back at the majestic outline of Yanjing City, and secretly thought in his heart: "When the period expires, Lao Tzu will never return to Beijing, but one day I will come back, but at that time, no one will be able to control his life and death Wang Pu, and something like this will never happen again......"

Wang Pu turned around and waved his hand, shouting, "Brothers, let's go......"

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There was nothing to say all the way, and a few days later, Wang Pu and his entourage of more than 200 people had arrived at Wuhuling at the junction of Shuntian Mansion and Datong Mansion.

Although Wang Pu is the general soldier of Datong, he is actually the first time to come to Datong, because the real Wang Pu has already fallen to death in Liaoxi, and the current Wang Pu is actually Wang Pu, who is a traveler.

Here it is necessary to talk about Datong Town first.

After Yongle Emperor Zhu Di moved the capital to Yanjing, he set up nine towns of Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhou, Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu, Shanxi and Guyuan, and Datong Town is one of the nine sides. In the middle of Wanli, the total number of regular troops in each town on the nine sides once reached 600,000, and these 600,000 people were elite divisions that could fight well.

Wanli year, Liaodong Jiannu raised troops, and the Ming Dynasty continued to fight, shortly thereafter, the Shanxi thieves swarmed, for the disaster of the Central Plains, the Ming Empire had to draw troops from the towns of the nine sides of the two fronts of the army, to the last years of Chongzhen, hundreds of thousands of elite border troops in the towns of the nine sides of the army has been left.

Not long ago, the Battle of Songshan buried the only elite of the border army of the Ming Empire.

In October of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, on the eve of Wang Pu's return to Datong, the rule of the Ming Empire in the Central Plains was already in jeopardy, on the one hand, the situation in Liaodong did not change much because of Wang Pu's surprise attack, on the other hand, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other thieves army intensified in the Central Plains.

In order to suppress the thieves, the imperial court had to transfer troops from all over the country, but the army needed food and salaries, and the imperial court could not provide it, what should I do? The leading generals can only condone the soldiers to rob! The people of the Central Plains, who were washed by the official army, were displaced, and they had no choice but to join the army of thieves.

This has formed a vicious cycle, with the officers and soldiers getting weaker and weaker, and the thieves getting more and more.

Since the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the officials and soldiers who pursued and suppressed the thieves in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Shandong have begun to openly rob, but the military discipline of Li Zicheng's army has begun to become stricter, and the people of the Central Plains have become more and more hated the officials and soldiers, and have begun to support King Chuang.

The folk song of "Open the gate to meet the king, and the king will not pay for food when he comes" soon spread throughout the Central Plains.

It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, the Central Plains region had been completely eroded, the administrative functions of the local political axe institutions were completely paralyzed, the official army looked more like thieves, and the thieves looked more like "official soldiers", and in the entire area north of the Yangtze River, the imperial decrees could only be transmitted to the Gyeonggi region and the towns of the nine borders.

However, the situation in the towns of the Nine Sides is not optimistic.

The towns on the nine sides had to resist the attacks of the Jiannu and the Mongol cavalry externally, and internally they had to eliminate large and small horse thieves, bandits and bandits, and they had to block a large number of thieves from entering the territory.

As a traverser and a history lover, Wang Pu is of course clear about the current situation of the Ming Empire, so he knows very well that there is no way to survive trapped in Datong!

On the one hand, the power of Jiannu and Mongolia has not been damaged by the actual surname, but on the other hand, the two rebel armies of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the Central Plains have become the climate, and Datong is sandwiched between the Mongols and the rebel army, and has to be constrained by the imperial court from time to time, and the difficult situation can be imagined.

But now, Wang Pu has nowhere else to go, he can only go back to Datong.

Wang Pu was thinking about something, Zhen Youcai rode up and asked, "General, this mountain in front is so steep, I don't know what mountain it is?" ”

Wang Pu looked back at Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi hurriedly responded: "Mr. Zhen, the mountain in front is called Wuhui Mountain, also called Wuhu Ridge, the mountain is steep, there is only a back and forth twists and turns of the sheep intestine bird road can pass through the main peak, so it is called Wuhui Mountain, the floating Tuyu under the ridge is a pass, there is a hundred households stationed in the tun, from Beijing to Datong here is the only way." ”

Wang Pu looked up at the gray sky in front of him and shouted, "Send the order to go down, let the brothers hurry up, and rush to Futuyu to settle down before dark." ”

"Yes."

Xiao Qi agreed, and galloped away.

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