Chapter 135: Leaving Beijing
At night, Wei Zhongxian's mansion
"My lord, here is a list of soldiers recruited today." Commander Liang Qiming handed the roster to Qin Du and said.
Tomorrow morning, everyone will take the army to the northwest, and tonight all the officers of the army above the centurion level will gather together for a military meeting.
Attending the meeting this time were, Zhu Yongqing, Li Dadang, Liu Xiaoshan, Deng Dashan, Mi Dahuan, Ding Daniu, the officers in the original army, as well as Lihua, as well as Qin Du's house slaves, Liu Wu and Liu San, the current captains and deputy captains of the pro-guard army, plus Xiao Cherry, Yulan, Crazy Dream, and Xiaoyu, a total of about 20 people.
This was the first military conference of the late Qin Dynasty, and it was also the first military conference of great significance in the military history of the Chinese Empire, which was recognized by historians of the Great Chinese Empire.
Each of the people who participated in this meeting left a strong mark in the history of the Great Chinese Empire, and these people basically later became the founding fathers of the Great Chinese Empire.
"Yes, I didn't expect to recruit fifteen hundred recruits in one day." Qin Du flipped through the roster and said happily.
"Yes, we didn't expect it, it's just that adults, these people are untrained recruits, and they can't go to the battlefield." Liang Qiming said with some concern.
"I know this, but now that the time is so tight, we can only train while rushing, and we will have to work hard for you in the future." Qin Duan thought for a while and said, now everyone is chasing ducks to the shelves, and if it doesn't work, it has to be done.
"Yes." All the officers stood up and said.
"Alright, let's all sit down. Is there anything else to work out besides these recruit training matters? Qin Duan asked.
"My lord, how do you compile these thousand people?" Liang Qiming asked.
"Now let each centurion take dozens of veterans to take charge of three hundred. You have experience in this matter, you have arranged it, and after we leave the capital, we will organize the army. Qin Du thought for a while and said.
"Yes." Liang Qiming responded.
"What else is the problem?" Qin Duan asked.
"My lord, isn't the grain and grass of this thousand people a decimal number?" Zhu Youqing said with some concern.
"Later, you will go to Yulan and get a million taels of silver, and immediately go overnight to purchase three months' food for the 2,000 people, and the climate in the northwest is similar to that in the capital. There are a lot of uninsulated clothes among the people we recruited, and you can buy them together, right. There are also medicines, as well as other necessary equipment for the march, which must be purchased, and you are fully responsible for this. Qin Du thought for a while and said, there is not much time now. He could only prepare overnight.
"Your Excellency. What about the weapons of the army? Liang Qiming asked.
"This weapon, we can go to the military department tomorrow to get some of it, and the Wei Gong Guild will help us solve the rest." Qin Du said.
"Any questions?" Qin Duan asked.
"My lord, what should we female soldiers do?" Rika asked.
"How many female soldiers do you have now?"
Qin Duan asked curiously, just now he just had a cursory look at the roster, knowing how many people there were, as for how many female soldiers there were. Qin Duan really didn't pay attention.
"My lord, there are not a few of our female soldiers. There are more than 500 people. Rika said proudly.
"More than five hundred?"
Qin Duan was dumbfounded, among the 1,500 recruits he recruited by himself, one-third of them were female soldiers, this proportion was too large.
"That's right, my lord, I'm amazing, I've recruited so many people." Rika said with merit.
"You are powerful, those female soldiers, you take care of it first, and then reorganize it together when you get out of the capital." Qin Duan said with a little headache.
"Yes." Rika happily replied.
"What else is the problem?" Qin Duan asked.
"Nope."
Everyone thought about it and said, even if there are some small problems, these officers can solve them by themselves, so they don't dare to bother Qin Duan, after all, everything has to be solved by the superiors, what is the use of asking them officers.
"You don't, then I'll explain one thing, that is, when you set off tomorrow, all the clothes will be as worn as possible, preferably like Hanako, and weapons and other things will be as worn as possible." Qin Duan explained.
"My lord, why is that?" Rika asked curiously.
"You don't have to ask about this, just implement it tomorrow." Qin Du said.
"Yes." Pear blossom responded.
"Okay, that's all for today's meeting, everyone go back and prepare, you're going to work hard tonight." Qin Duan stood up and said.
"Yes."
Everyone stood up and went back to their work.
"Sir, tonight?" After all the soldiers had gone out, Magnolia asked.
"Tonight, let Crazy Dream and Xiaoyu accompany the master." Qin Du said with a smile after looking at the delusional dream and the light rain.
"Yes, sir."
Crazy Dream and Xiaoyu replied with red faces, for them, this is a matter of time or time, they have already prepared their minds, and there is nothing that they can't let go.
This is the woman who grew up in the green ~ building, and the difference between those ladies and women, there is not so much exquisiteness, and there is nothing twisted and pinched.
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Early the next morning, Qin Duan began to put on the red official robe, tied the clothes belt, straightened the corners of the clothes, and watched the lark on his chest reflected in the bronze mirror.
The black gauze hat on the head is also very handsome, low in front and high in the back, and there is an oblong oval wing on the left and right of the head, and there is a net scarf in the hat to tie the hair.
Under the service of a few maids, Qin Duan dressed neatly, put on this official uniform, Qin Duan looked in the mirror, and he felt more and more like a "well-dressed bird ~ beast".
In fact, the word "well-dressed beast" comes from this, which originally referred to the court officials of the Great Qin Empire.
I don't know how much the founding emperor of the Great Qin Empire hated the officials of the previous dynasty, the official uniform of the Great Qin Empire has changed the style of the previous dynasties, and it is embroidered birds and painted beasts, which is so lively and lively, fancy and romantic, which is not like the surname of the founding emperor of the Great Qin Empire who has always been diligent and thrifty.
It is very likely that at the beginning he gave such official uniforms to the officials, so as to remind himself that he was dealing with a group of "beasts" every day, and that he had to be careful and cautious, and that he must not be careless and never forget the class struggle.
However, Zhao Gao, the founding emperor of the Great Qin Empire, was scheming, even if he really had this meaning, it would definitely not be revealed, and we could only guess from the sky.
After going to the palace to meet the emperor, he went to various ministries to go through the relevant procedures, and Qin Duan got into the broken car that he didn't know where the people below came from, and set off on the streets of the capital with more than 1,000 officers and soldiers dressed in tatters.
Along the way, it caused passers-by to point and point, and no one in the capital had ever seen a soldier dressed like a flower child, not one, but more than a thousand people, and the sensation caused could be imagined, and the curious people in the capital came around to see the excitement.
Qin Duan bought a knife, hired a broken car, brought a few sets of clothes, and embarked on the "official career".
Qin Duan adheres to the principle of being a low-key person and doing things in a high-profile manner, and he naturally has ulterior motives in doing this.
The broken car he was riding in squeaked and squeaked, and it looked like it could lie down at any time, or even fall apart, and the officials in the capital who were asked by the emperor to come to see him off saw this situation, and they couldn't help but sweat for him, can this broken car go to the northwest?
And where are the clothes worn by the soldiers he brought, on heavy snowy days, the clothes are either broken in the front with a few big holes, or there are a few big holes in the back, and even the ones called Hanako are better than them, especially the few officers inside, who also wear this kind of torn clothes, where is this army that went out of the imperial capital, it is simply an army that asks for food.
If this Qin Duan just took such an army all the way through the city to the northwest to take up his post, would this be a disgrace to the officials in the capital and a discredit to my empire, what kind of system would this become? If you don't come to eat, it's just that, if you don't send some Chengyi when you come, you will be pointed at by others in the future.
So, in Qin Duan's "desperate resignation" and "very helpless" accepted a copy of Cheng Yi. And I have repeatedly said that if you come to Tokugawa Prefecture, I will definitely welcome you and receive you warmly.
He didn't say that it was okay, but the person who saw him off couldn't help but smile bitterly, just your broken place, bandits are rampant, who is full and runs there, isn't it that the birthday star hanged himself for a long time?
In fact, many people sent Cheng Yi to Qin Duan, but it was because of the face of Wei Zhongxian in Dongchang, Wei Zhongxian, as the commander of Dongchang, and the big celebrity in front of the emperor today, he sent it all, if you don't send it, it will be a bit "out of line".
On the other hand, Qin Duan's reputation has been resounding all over the world recently, a few hundred taels of silver is not a lot of money for these people, and one more friend in the officialdom has one more way, and he can't tell when he will use it.
In short, when Qin Duan came out of the west gate of the capital, he had millions of taels of silver tickets in his arms. There is no way, who let there be many officials in the capital, especially high-grade officials, you said that a seven-grade Hanlin has given a hundred taels of silver, and you are a first-grade or second-grade official who is embarrassed to send a few hundred taels of silver, and it is not a thousand, tens of thousands of taels of silver, did you not see Gonggong Wei sent 300,000 taels of silver in front of everyone, no matter how little you are, you can't be outrageous.
Qin Du felt that his trip to the capital was not only a little official, but also a little wealthy, so that he also wanted to enter the capital from the west gate again and say goodbye again.
After leaving the capital for more than 20 miles, the army rested on the spot and prepared lunch, of course, everyone changed their clothes again, such a cold and snowy day, wearing torn clothes with big holes, who could stand it after a long time.
After lunch, the army continued to march westward, of course, the broken carriage that Qin Du was sitting in was also changed, replaced with a new carriage, the broken carriage did not dare to sit for a long time, who knows when it will fall apart.
Qin Dui has no problem, if he falls his precious women with fine skin and tender meat, Qin Dui will be distressed. (To be continued......)