On July 20, Zhu Ping'an and his entourage arrived in Dengzhou. As an important military base along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, Dengzhou was originally stored as a guard, after the rebellion of the Japanese in the Jiajing period, Dengzhou was officially changed to the state capital, and the corresponding guard was revoked and the establishment of the capital Yamen. In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Wuqiao mutiny, Kong Youde united a group of Mao Wenlong's old troops to launch a rebellion, Dengzhou general soldier Zhang Ke died in battle, so far, the post of general soldier was vacant, until Zhu Ping'an took office as deputy chief soldier, it is equivalent to the actual Dengzhou capital division Yamen controller, but also the supreme commander of the Ming army in Dengzhou.

Zhao Guangluan, who arrived early, has taken office and become the new prefect of Dengzhou, with the official rank of four grades, which is also the result of Wang Chengen's operation. Yang Tinglin served as the governor of Dengzhou. These two people are both rising stars in the DPRK and China, known as capable people, Zhu Ping'an wants to show his strength in Dengzhou, and he can't do without the cooperation of these two. And Wang Chengen also deliberately blamed Zhu Ping'an for the reason why the two were not connected, and also to make these two people grateful to Dade and fully assist Zhu Ping'an.

Dengzhou Dusi Yamen has jurisdiction over Weihaiwei, Chengshanwei, Jinghaiwei, Dasongwei four guards, and there are more than 10 guards such as Qishan, Jinshanzuo, Baiqi Cliff, Xunshanhou, Ningjin, Haiyang, Dashan, etc., and there are more than 100 places in the rest of the military forts and piers.

During the Wuqiao Mutiny, Dengzhou and Laizhou, as the main battlefields of counterinsurgency, suffered from poisoning for about a year, and the Kong Youde rebels killed countless civilians, and the officials of Denglai and Laizhou were almost purged until now. The various departments and yamen in Dengzhou are still in a state of extreme shortage of officials. However, the new prefect Zhao Guangluan is indeed a talent, and he actually selected Confucian students with good moral integrity from the Dengzhou County School and various health centers to enter the government office, and in a short period of time, Dengzhou City was governed in an orderly manner.

As early as ten days ago, Yue Jinfeng, Hong Fatzi, Qiu Ze, Zhang Dagou and others had already led the people of Zhongdu and their relatives, as well as recruited people from the three prefectures of Hebei to arrive in Dengzhou.

In the first battle of Hebei, Zhu Ping'an's troops suffered huge losses, leaving only 500 old soldiers. After returning to Zhongdu, Yue Jinfeng and others made Zhu Ping'an's meaning clear to Duan Xinian and Wang Pinyu. Many of the families of the soldiers who died in the war were reluctant to leave their homeland. So to the end. In addition to the 500 veterans, only more than 300 families are willing to travel long distances to Shandong to start a new life. The rest of the family members are willing to continue to stay in Fengyang to farm after receiving the pension.

Wang Pin and Duan Xinian also said that they would treat the families of these soldiers who died in the war well. Let them continue to cultivate and run the original grange. And those granges are also private property purchased by Zhu Ping'an. It will be left to these family members to take care of.

Among the 300 families who came, Zhang Dagou's family was included. But when he saw Mrs. Zhang, who was still sad after losing her second son Zhang Ergou, Zhu Ping'an unexpectedly saw Sun Youniang, who was wearing a filial piety robe. I couldn't help but be surprised. This woman and Zhang Ergou are clearly not married, but they have a heavy filial piety, but they seem to have become the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family.

After asking Zhang Dagou, I learned that the news of Ergou's martyrdom came back to Fengyang. The first thing that came to Mrs. Zhang's mind under her grief was to cancel the marriage contract between Zhang Ergou and the Sun family. But I didn't expect that this Sun Youniang was extremely strong, and she said that she had already made a marriage contract with Ergou, and she was a member of the Zhang family. At this time, the young lady's mother finally died of serious illness, and her father was also ill under grief, and died in less than a month.

Although Mrs. Zhang couldn't bear to be widowed at a young age, she saw that the young lady was lonely and helpless, and she couldn't bear to live a lonely life, so she reluctantly agreed to keep her by her side, and said to the outside world that she would be accepted as a righteous daughter, so they came to Shandong together.

Hearing this, Zhu Ping'an was also embarrassed in his heart, fortunately, everyone finally arrived in Dengzhou safely, and the days of war and chaos have finally passed, and the next time is to show off their strengths.

Zhang Dagou and his entourage also transported a large sum of gold and silver to save Zài Fengyang, and Hong Fatzi had already prepared the accounts and waited for Zhu Ping'an to take a look.

Dengzhou, as a military town in Shandong, and even in the east of the entire Ming Dynasty, has a government office in Dengzhou City, but in order to act cheaply, Zhu Ping'an is even more reluctant to disturb the people, so he moved the Yamen of the capital division to Penglai County, which is close to Dengzhou.

Today's Penglai County is the predecessor of Dengzhou Wei, with all kinds of facilities. It is a large coastal defense castle built according to the requirements of the naval base. At the time of the Wuqiao Mutiny, there was little damage, only a few sections of the city wall were burned, and it only took two or three months to complete the construction and restoration of the city. The south of the city is the county seat, it is the place where the military households and the people gather, the north of the city is the high cliff by the sea, there is a seaside building, it is the commanding height of the whole city, there are forts all around, this is still built when Sun Yuanhua was in charge of Denglai, although it is not as good as in the past, and the artillery has long been seven or eight, but looking at the majestic momentum is still leisurely fascinating.

Especially when Sun Heding saw the qiē left by his father back then, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Chengbei Street was the original command office, and Zhu Ping'an simply changed the sign of his general army department to go up, and used it as his office. The government office has all the facilities, the lobby, the arsenal, the prison room, the duty room, etc. are lined up one after another, although the government office as the general army of the government is a little shabby, but the function is extremely complete.

Penglai County originally registered 1,000 military households, but in fact, there are only 200 people left, Zhu Ping'an also knows the trick of this, but he did not say anything, immediately ordered a new army composed of children of the three mansions and 500 elite soldiers to enter Penglai, there is no military camp, so set up a simple camp in the city, and allocate money to build a formal military camp.

In the Ming military system, 5,600 people were one guard, 1,120 people were 1,000 households, and 112 people were 100 households. Counting up, the military household garrison in Dengzhou has reached more than 20,000 people, which is really a staggering number. But Zhu Ping'an also knows that the 20,000 people in name are now two-thirds of them for officers at all levels to eat empty salaries. At present, the total strength of Dengzhou Prefecture can be 5,000 people, which is already amazing. Therefore, the first thing to do when we arrived in Deden Prefecture was to find out the situation and immediately start rectifying the military system.

When Zhu Ping'an's subordinates entered Penglai County, under his deliberate request, they deliberately put on a complete set of armor and weapons and even flags, and the armor of the team of 1,500 people was bright and murderous, which also opened the eyes of Penglai and the nearby people, and for a while, all kinds of rumors were noisy in the streets and alleys.

The commanders of the three guard posts of Chengshanwei, Jinghaiwei, and Dasongwei made the adults mutter first. The newly arrived deputy commander-in-chief heard that he was not very old. However, he made real achievements in Hebei and won the emperor's personal imperial seal to come to Dengzhou. This is the top boss of military attachés at all levels in Dengzhou, who has just arrived, although there are no new officials in office. But the crowd always had to inquire about his preferences. Get the right medicine. so that he can maintain his official position and wealth.

Even the officers of Weihaiwei couldn't sit still, and this deputy commander-in-chief was also the commander of Weihaiwei, which made the officers of Weihaiwei even more frightened. I don't know when. This deputy commander-in-chief will personally come to the defense of the place under the jurisdiction of parallax, what is this Weihaiwei like now, everyone knows in their hearts, in case this adult catches the shortcomings, it will be very inappropriate to kill chickens and monkeys.

As a result, the fast horses of the four Davids came out frequently, and they all went straight in one direction, that is, Jinan City, the location of the Yamen of the Shandong Commanding Envoy.

But to everyone's surprise, for several days, Zhu Ping'an, who was in Penglai, did not move, and it seemed that he had no intention of going deep into the grassroots to investigate and visit.

In this way, everyone's hearts are even more bottomless, go to Penglai to see the new chief, right? There is no news from Jinan, since the Wuqiao Mutiny, and later, Liu Zeqing took up the post of Shandong General Army. Although he is now leading the troops, the Jinan Metropolitan Yamen has his henchman Cai Liansheng sitting in the formation, and Lord Cai has not yet spoken, who dares to move.

As a result, the officers had to wait anxiously for news from Jinan, but they were secretly complaining in their hearts, and I am afraid that this matter of offending the officials will not end up well.

In the blink of an eye, the documents of the command of the envoy of the Dengzhou Prefecture were sent to the guards, stating that they asked the officers of more than 1,000 households in the guards to meet with everyone on July 26, and the new deputy commander-in-chief should meet with everyone.

A group of commanders, commanders, and commanders, including Qianhu, were dumbfounded, and when they were making a chaotic plan, news finally came from Jinan. The commander of the commander, Lord Cai Liansheng, will rush to Penglai on the same day, and ask all the officers to go and pay respects to the new deputy commander-in-chief.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, at this critical moment, there were finally big people who came out to bear it, which was better than the difficulty of being a subordinate to everyone! It seems that the silver taels that have been given to Jinan over the years have finally played an effective role at a critical time.

What they didn't know was that Zhu Ping'an summoned Guo Chai at this time, the brocade guard sent by Wang Chengen.

"What happened to that Tartar you caught?" Zhu Ping'an was very simple, he knew that it took a lot of twists and turns to talk to Guo Chai and others.

"Back to the adult, the villain is helping him to nourish his body these days?"

“？” Zhu Ping'an was stunned.

"That's what it means. In order to facilitate the interrogation, the villain took the initiative to help him raise his body first, and then he had the body to accept the villain's interrogation, so as not to lose his life as soon as he was tortured! ”

Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but roll his eyes, this brocade guard is really unique.

Zhu Ping'an coughed twice, "Actually, the official didn't come to you mainly for this matter!" ”

"Please give me orders!"

"This official wants to ask, are you familiar with the local Jinyi Guard?"

Guo Chai's cold face rarely smiled, "This is natural, Jinyi Wei is the Son of Heaven's pro-army, self-contained, although the villain does not know the local Jinyi Wei hundred households, but when the villain left Beijing, the prince deliberately handed over a token to the villain who was personally awarded by the commander of the Jinyi Guard, which is also to facilitate the adult's actions!" ”

Zhu Ping'an also smiled, "The prince is really thoughtful, so it will be easy to do!" (To be continued......)