Chapter 19: The Banquet
The celebration banquet was held in the small hall of the inner house of the prefect's yamen, which made Pang Gang feel a little surprised, in ancient times, most of the people living in the inner houses of large families were female dependents, and the guests who could let the host set up a banquet in the inner courtyard were either relatives or noble status, and these two Pang Gang and others were not touched, which made Pang Gang feel a little surprised.
Although he saved Wei Tongnian's concubine, he was able to introduce himself to Song Xinghe and work hard to push himself to the position of a hundred households, so it can be said that he has repaid his favor, so what is the matter with him treating himself so hospifully? Pang Gang has been thinking about this question for a long time, but he still can't figure it out.
Pang Gang, who was sitting at the banquet at this time, was not the ordinary soldier wearing a rough mandarin duck jacket just now, he had already changed into a cyan flying bear military general's uniform, wearing a black gauze hat, a regimental collar shirt, a belt around his waist, and thick boots with white soles, the dress of a Ming Dynasty official. Pang Gang knew that this outfit had unmistakably told others that the owner of this dress was a military attache of the sixth rank in the Ming Dynasty, and it was an official who usually saw that he was going to kneel down and call himself an adult. At this moment, Pang Gang couldn't help but feel a sense of high spirits in his heart.
It turns out that the taste of holding power is so beautiful, no wonder so many talented people have joined this class one after another since ancient times. It's not because they know that if they join this class, they are already a member of the ruling class.
At this time, there were only five people from Wei Tongnian, Song Xinghe, Pang Gang and two thousand households accompanying Pang Gang at the wine table, and more than ten people such as Da Zhuang Gou were too small because their official positions were too small, and they were not qualified to drink at the same table with the prefect and the commander, so they could only open another table on the side, which also fully reflected the characteristics of the officialdom with clear hierarchies and insurmountable.
Everyone entered the table, with Song Xinghe, Wei Tongtong and other big officials present, everyone was a little cautious, not to mention that Da Zhuang, a rough man, did not dare to gobble up like usual, even Li Yuan, a young man with a somewhat impatient temper, was always careful, during the banquet, Song Xinghe occasionally praised him, and the young man's face was full of flattered joy.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Song Xinghe slowly asked about the government affairs of the Lingshan Guard, specifically the tuntian and grain of each fort.
Song Xinghe put down his wine glass, looked at Pang Gang and asked kindly: "Pang Baihu, you are now a Lingshan Wei Baihu, it stands to reason that you either want to play a soldier, or you want to be in charge of a fort and take on the role of Tuntian, what do you think?" ”
As soon as Song Xinghe asked, everyone in the banquet stopped their chopsticks and looked at Pang Gang together.
In addition to being strict and protecting the residents, their biggest function is to manage and collect the grain stored in the garrison. This is also the root of why Zhu Yuanzhang set the guard system, but unfortunately the guard system has completely collapsed, the tuntian of the guard has become the private property of the officers, and the more than two million tun troops in the country not only failed to pay the grain to the imperial court every year, but continued to reach out to the imperial court, which is also one of the important reasons for the financial collapse of the late Ming Dynasty.
And Lingshanwei said that he also governed three subordinate tunpu, namely Wanghai Fort, Qiu Hongbao, and Qianyue Fort. It is reasonable that each tunpu should have one hundred and twenty military households, but the actual tuntian effect of these three tunbao has long been lost, the flight of the military households is very serious, and many lands have been abandoned for a long time.
The atmosphere in the banquet was a little silent for a while, only Wei Tongtong had nothing to do with himself, and looked at the generals at this table with a smile.
Pang Gang thought for a while, and arched his hand and said: "The commander is an adult, he is not talented, and he is willing to ask for his life to be in charge of Tuntian Yibao, and share his worries for the adults and the court!" ”
"Yes!"
After hearing this, everyone looked at Pang Gang with strange eyes, the officer in charge of Tuntian in the Tun army has always done a thankless job, your grain is planted well, it should be, if you don't grow well, the official will punish you, so no one has ever been willing to do the work of Tuntian. Now Pang Gangyi proposed that he would be in charge of Tuntian, which couldn't help but make everyone feel strange.
Song Xinghe asked with some surprise: "Oh, Pang Baihu, why do you want to take on the position of Tuntian?" You must know that this is a chore, and others can't avoid it. ”
At this moment, there was silence in the side hall, facing everyone's eyes, Pang Gang's back couldn't help but ooze a thin layer of cold sweat, and he took the initiative to ask for Tuntian, who was in charge of a fort, naturally had his reasons. Since he made up his mind to make a big deal in the Ming Dynasty, he made a rough plan, and the first prerequisite for this plan was to have a base area of his own, that is, to have a place where he could provide food, supplies, and soldiers.
In later generations, Pang Gang also read some time-traveling novels, and the protagonists in the novels were all slaughtered as soon as they crossed over, or those who were local officials, and began to learn from the agrarian revolution of later generations, and launched a rebellion by military households dividing the land. But when he came to this era in person, he realized how stupid the person who wrote this kind of brainless essay was, he simply regarded all the officials of the Ming Dynasty as fools and rebelled? If the rebellion was so easy to build, the Ming Dynasty would have been destroyed many times, even Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were just taking advantage of the Ming Dynasty to focus on the Liaodong front line and unable to take care of the hinterland, and worked hard for nearly ten years to let them take advantage of the opportunity to develop and grow, and finally hit the capital and destroyed the Ming Dynasty.
Although in later generations, many "brick family called beasts" were scolding Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, saying that he was mean, impatient, suspicious, and had no knowledge of people, and buried the good Ming Dynasty, but Pang Gang had a different opinion. He thinks that no matter what, no matter how incompetent Chongzhen is, but when Li Zicheng was the most raging and rampant, even the thieves besieged the capital, and he never moved to resist the invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the most elite border troops of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Shanhaiguan were transferred back, nor did he think about escaping to Jinling to continue to survive, but chose to hang himself on the coal mountain. He fulfilled the oath of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty that "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies". Just by virtue of this, it is more than ten times stronger than those "brick family beasts" who can only look at money in later generations.
On the other hand, what about Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant rebel army, who was admired by some "elites" in later generations, and others, what did they do? History tells us that after the so-called peasant rebels entered Yanjing City, they wantonly robbed the people of their money, and the upper echelons only cared about enclosing land to make money and playing with women, so that when Li Zicheng ordered to go to Shanhaiguan to fight a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, those righteous "peasant rebel army" even took the stolen women to the front line to meet the enemy, so that the original four-day journey took them eight days to arrive. There is nothing more absurd in the world than this, and then Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing killed the last powerful armed force in China. It can be said that it was these rogues represented by Li Zicheng who buried the last trace of vitality of the entire Chinese nation. So much so that some people in later generations expressed the emotion that "there is no China after Yashan, and there is no China after the death of the Ming Dynasty".
Now that Pang Gang heard Song Xinghe's question, he actually arranged how to answer, he couldn't say: Oh, boss, I am asking Tuntian now to build a base for myself, and when the world is in chaos in a few years, buddy will stand up and do it alone.
But fortunately, Pang Gang suddenly thought of what Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang once said, and after thinking about it, Pang slowly said such a thing just now
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