Zhu Yuanzhang was looking at the army from a distance, and Ma Qianjiu in the front yard was actually looking at it. What was the purpose of this group of officers and soldiers who suddenly ran to the door of Ma's house?

I saw that there was a stirring in the middle of the army, and a military attache rode a yellow tall horse and walked to the gate of the horse mansion. He was not wearing an official uniform, but was wearing chain mail, with a sword hanging from his waist, and he couldn't see the rank, but Zhu Yuanzhang was sharp-eyed, and he saw a unicorn bronze medal hanging from his waist from a distance, it seemed that he was at least a military attache of the fifth grade, combined with the number of people in this army, Zhu Yuanzhang judged that this was a thousand households. He was supposed to have 1,120 soldiers, plus 10 hundred officials, but judging from the size of this group of only 500 people, he ate half of the empty salary......

The Ming Dynasty had guards in the locality, which were divided into 100 households and 1,000 households. There are ten hundred households under the jurisdiction of one thousand households, and the hundred households can be seen in each county where the hundred households are located, but the thousand households are often only found in important prefectures. The largest prefecture from Baishui is Xi'an Prefecture, which means that it is very likely that this Qianhu official has a surname from Xi'an Prefecture.

Qianhu is a military attache of the five grades, which is a very big official, and it should be very powerful, but in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang made a big mistake when he founded the country, once he drank with the founding heroes, drank happily, and said during the banquet: "You have protected me to lay down the Ming Dynasty, loyal to me, I also hope that my children and grandchildren will continue to be defended by your children and grandchildren, so that we will not share peace from generation to generation?" (excerpted from the first volume of "Ming Taizu Records") Then he established a hereditary system of military attachés, and the sons of military attachés inherited their father's official position.

After this rule was formulated, it was bad, the military attachés who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world were really powerful, but their children and grandchildren were ...... Then from generation to generation, generation after generation, generation is not as good as the generation. During the Hongwu period, when the son of a military attache wanted to inherit his father's position, he also needed to take an exam, at least in horseback riding and archery. However, with the benefit of the Ming Dynasty, the examination is becoming more and more relaxed, and the descendants of meritorious heroes can be directly hereditary and no longer need any skills.

Since it is so easy to become an official, who still practices martial arts? The descendants of the heroes are more and more unbearable, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the generals who can take charge on their own already have a rare hand.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been a bystander in the sky for hundreds of years, and he has deeply realized this mistake, and if he can still win the world in this life, he will never engage in this stupid hereditary system again.

The Qianhu official riding the yellow horse walked in front of the horse house, stopped at the horse, looked up carefully at the towering stone pole beside him, and it didn't take long for him to recognize that this was a jinshi pole, an honor bestowed by the Son of Heaven. Although he was a five-rank general, he didn't dare to be disrespectful to the Jinshi pole, turned over and dismounted, arched his hand at the Jinshi pole, and then walked to the door of the horse mansion and said loudly: "Which master lives here?" ”

Ma Qianjiu, who had already rushed to the door, hurriedly walked up, accompanied him carefully, and said: "This military master is polite, this is the mansion of the Baishui Ma family...... This Qianhu is obviously not a local, Ma Qianjiu was worried that he had not heard of Ma's name, so he quickly added: "Our old man was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of twenty-five, and at the age of thirty-two, he was the honor of a county, and now he is returning to his hometown and living at home......

When the thousand households heard this, the expression on their faces remained unchanged and said: "It turned out to be the Ma family, we heard of your family when we were in Xi'an Mansion, I don't know Master Ma, but the eldest young master of your family, Ma Zhixiong, is also a well-known number one person in Fucheng." ”

Ma Qianjiu was overjoyed, since people had heard of the name of the Ma family, it would be easy to speak, and they would not rush into the house to grab money like Leng Touqing. Such a big army stood in front of the door, to say that his heart was not false, it was false, he hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "I don't know what happened when the military master came to the mansion?" ”

Qianhu laughed and said, "The official's name is Yang Hong!" Xi'an Mansion hereditary thousand households, this time on the order of the governor, led the troops to Chengcheng to exterminate the Liukou Zheng Yanfu and his gang, passing by your house, hehe...... Look at my soldiers, all of them are hungry and thirsty, how can they suppress bandits like this? So I came to your house to ask for some food and water to drink...... Your Ma family should also contribute to the suppression of bandits, right? ”

When Ma Qianjiu heard this, he chuckled in his heart, it turned out that this guy was here to fight the autumn wind.

The army of the Ming Dynasty would not only rob the poor people, but also extort the rich gentry when they were marching, and the rich gentry would often pay some tolls to the army commanders in the name of "labor army" in order to calm the people, and this atmosphere contributed to the arrogance of the officers, so that the squires sometimes preferred to organize their own village warriors to deal with them when they encountered bandits, rather than invite officers and soldiers to help.

Ma Qianjiu knew that people had already come to the door, so he couldn't hide, and now it was not a question of whether to give it, but a question of how much to give. He made a gesture to invite Yang Hong into the door, and said in a low voice: "General Yang, please come into the mansion to rest for a while, and the villain will go to inform my master and young master." ”

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang standing not far away, Ma Qianjiu beckoned and said loudly: "Zhu Ba, you come over and beckon this military master to rest in the living room, and I will go to the inner courtyard to ask the second young master to come out." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart, and was very dissatisfied that the army he had established had become a bandit, but now he did not have the strength to deal with this unhealthy trend, so he had to temporarily make a mistake, and walked over to lead the way: "General Yang, please go here......"

Yang Hong turned around and instructed the soldiers: "Sit down here, and wait for me to ask for some military pay for you." ”

"Yes!" The soldiers laughed and replied.

Yang Hong ordered two hundred household officials and five pro-soldiers, and followed Zhu Yuanzhang into the Ma Mansion, walking all the way, several soldiers chatted casually, and there was a Zhu Yuanzhang next to him at all.

One of the hundred households whispered to the other: "Brother, have you read the recent Tang newspaper?" (Tang Bao is the military intelligence of the Ming Dynasty)

The latter shook his head and smiled: "Lao Tzu is illiterate, read a fart Tang newspaper." ”

The man before laughed and said, "You waste, you can't read and don't know how to find someone to read?" Lao Tzu is looking for someone to read. Tell you, there has been another big incident in Liaodong recently, on May 11, the Jiannu soldiers besieged Jinzhou...... Yuan Dashuai sent the three cities of Jinzhou, Zhongzuo, and Daling, and fought a few more battles with Jiannu. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his heart tightened, Yuan Dashuai is the Yuan Chonghuan he refers to, right? Liaodong is fighting? I can't remember this thing clearly, I have been a spectator in the sky for hundreds of years, and I don't remember many small things too carefully.

The faces of the hundred households in the back showed that they didn't care, and said with a smile: "Jiannu only knows how to make trouble, what method did Yuan Dashuai use to drive Jiannu away this time?" ”

The previous hundred households also laughed and said, "You guessed it again!" Yuan Dashuai and Liu Yingkun, deputy envoy Bi Zisu, climbed the city to defend the city, lined up in the camp, with artillery distance, and later Man Gui led You Shilu, Zu Dashou to the rescue, the two armies fought outside the city, there were mutual killings, General Man Gui was full of arrows...... Gee...... Later, Jiannu was repulsed. ”

"I knew that Jiannu was vulnerable, haha!" The hundred households in the back smiled and said: "The savages in the mountain village, they don't measure themselves, they dare to come to disturb our Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, let's go to the hometown of the savages sooner or later, and kill all those fools." ”

"Of course, hahaha......" The two hundred household officials laughed arrogantly together.

Yang Hong turned his head and glanced at his two subordinates, wanting to say something, but it was pressed back into his stomach. His official position is one level higher than that of the two hundred household officials, and he knows a little more, although Liaodong has won a defensive battle, but this victory is not very simple, several parties in the court and the central government began to pour each other again, although Yuan Chonghuan made meritorious contributions in this war, he was also caught by Wei Zhongxian A few small tails, saying that he refused to rescue Chao Xian, and committed a big crime. It is estimated that he will be dismissed in a short time...... In addition, even if Jiannu is a savage, he is also a very powerful savage, not as vulnerable as the mouths of these two hundred household officials. The situation in Liaodong is ...... I'm just afraid of it!

After the two hundred household officials finished talking about Liaodong, they began to talk about Guangxi again, it turned out that last year, there was a peasant rebel army in Longshan, Guangxi, which was already making trouble, and this peasant rebel army was led by Hu Fulong, and fought several battles with officers and soldiers, but it did not fall behind. The two hundred household officials smiled and said a few words about Guangxi, and one of them said: "This Zheng Yanfu is not as difficult as Hu Fulong." ”

The other immediately laughed and said: "Zheng Yanfu has only more than 400 people, how can he be as troublesome as Hu Fulong?" We brought a thousand people this time, as long as we catch Zheng Yanfu's tail, we can take him down in one day. ”

"What a thousand people, we only have five hundred ......"

"What's the matter, 500 officers and soldiers can't deal with 400 mud legs?"

Zhu Yuanzhang listened quietly to their "report" on the military situation, while leading them to the hall, please sit down on the guest seats, and let the family serve tea to the guests, and after a while, the second young master and Ma Qianjiu walked up to the hall.

Although the second young master is arrogant and stupid, but at the same time, he is also a bully who is afraid of the hard, he dares to fight with the Chengcheng * county order, but he does not dare to come with the soldiers, as soon as he goes to the court, he immediately accompanies Yang Hong and a few people to say hello carefully, and asks: "Are the military masters here for Zheng Yanfu on the cave cliff?" ”

Yang Hong snorted, and said with a very high posture: "That's right, this Zheng Yanfu and his gang didn't run away after killing Zhang Douyao, and they were hiding in the cave cliff to recruit troops, which was too arrogant, and this official wanted to wipe out his gang this time." Hey, Dongzi Cliff is not too far from here, and my act of suppressing bandits is also for the local people......"

The second young master knew that he was begging for money, and said bitterly: "Our Ma family is willing to contribute to the suppression of bandits, I am instructing the family to bring silver over, and two thousand taels of silver will be given to several generals in a while, please smile." ”

"Two thousand taels?" Yang Hong frowned, not very satisfied. He brought more than 500 people, and if one person divided two taels of silver, he had to remove more than 1,000 taels, and the remaining few officers would divide it, but he couldn't help but sneer: "How can this little silver be enough for my soldiers to eat?" If they don't have enough to eat, where will they have the strength to suppress the bandits? ”

The second young master had a bitter face: "My family is not rich......"

The two sides were about to argue about how much silver to give, when they suddenly saw the curtain on the side door of the hall being opened, and the second young grandmother rushed in and asked hurriedly: "A few military masters, are you going to clear out Zheng Yanfu's villain?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyes and saw that there were two lines of tears on the beautiful little round face of the second young grandmother...... She was followed by the bridal maids, as well as Akiba and a few other surviving maids from Zhang's Mansion, who struggled to carry a small box.

Yang Hong glanced at the group of women curiously, and said with a smile in his mouth: "Yes, clean up Zheng Yanfu, what is this lady asking for?" ”

"Great!" The second young grandmother waved her hand, and the maids threw the box they were carrying in front of Yang Hong with a "bump", and the lid of the box popped open, and the golden and silver light inside flashed wildly, all gold and silver ingots......

The second young grandmother said in an excited voice: "I am willing to take out all the dowry labor army, and I ask the military master to break the corpses of Zheng Yanfu and his group into ten thousand pieces!" ”