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Along the border between Yulin Town and Qingyang Mansion, that is, the edge of the Taibai Mountains, after walking for four days, they entered Ningxia Town, and when they entered Yulin Town, Wang Tong and his party passed through a small village out of Yan'an Mansion, but there was an idler in the village who volunteered to be a guide. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There is nothing strange about this guide, but the idler wants to make some spare money to spend in winter, and the reward given to him by Wang Tong here is a horse, which is quite a generous reward.

However, because of this guide, it really saves a lot of time, at least you can enter Ningxia Town before Chinese New Year's Eve, and everyone can get a better rest.

From Shanxi to Yan'an Mansion, Wang Tong already felt the poverty and desolation of northern Shaanxi, waited for the security guards, and went all the way west to Ningxia Town, but what he saw on the way was even worse than that of Yan'an Mansion.

Accustomed to the prosperity of Beijing and Tianjin, accustomed to the beauty and wealth of the south of the Yangtze River, accustomed to the magnificent vastness of the grassland, Wang Tong and his team are very unaccustomed, in this northwest place, the eyes are all loess, and even the plants can not see much, to say that the idle man leads the way is also knowledgeable, walk along the Taibai Mountain, at least look comfortable.

There are also several small villages along the way, but these villages tend to spot their presence early on, and then the sound of gongs and whistles can be heard in the distance.

When the caravan passed through the village, the villages where some people could be seen just now were often quiet and uninhabited, and walking in the middle of the village or at the edge of the village, you could feel that someone was staring at the caravan, but they never came out.

If this is in Shanxi and Beizhili, such a horse team will pass through the village, and the people in the village will come out to see if they can make some pocket money, and the children will also come out to watch the excitement.

The northwest is completely different, what I just said is that the small village "a village of a certain size is expected to be built" After seeing Wang Tong's team coming, he immediately closed the gate of the village, and Wang Tong and others passed by "You can see the young man with knives and guns on the wall of the village, and even the archers, all of whom are cold and hostile."

"Don't be surprised, my place is very chaotic, if you are not careful, maybe it is the horse thief who kills in, and the whole family will suffer" Sometimes, in order to fight for water and land, the villages have to fight each other! The idle man was not surprised, and said it lightly, but Wang Tong frowned and asked, "Is the horse thief a Han or a Tartar outside?" ”

"The godson won't even touch us poor goods when he crosses the border, they are all outlaws, and some of them are run out of the guard" Some are gangsters from various families, and I heard that there are still people who make a fortune from this, and the little ones wonder, how can this make a fortune? After hearing this, Wang Tong felt even more bored, but these things can't be solved now, and they can only be slowly figured out.

"My lord, these places in our northwest are not as good as the east and south, and they are all unlucky in the last life to be born in this place" on weekdays to drink saliva to toss to death, and thank God for seeing an oily New Year, horse thieves in peacetime, and when something happens, please come to shoes, and the days are bitter! The idler is a lot of emotion, "This idler is a person who has seen the world, it is said that he has stayed in Xi'an for a few years, maybe because of the crime to return to this poor place, but everyone is too lazy to close, heart."

After entering Ningxia Town, the situation is no different from what I saw after passing the security, but it has intensified, and the villages with a slight scale are the appearance of fortresses, or they are in danger, and when passing through these villages, there will occasionally be young men riding horses from the village, and they will return after dozens of miles.

"These people are sneaky, and they are not among the horse thieves."

The idle man commented, Wang Tong heard this, but said to Ma Sanbiao in private: "With such the ability to fight for your life and eat knife-edged food, why don't you go to the grassland, but you are poor in this place where birds don't." ”

"These people have a sky above their heads, how do you know how big the world is, but when the time comes, if you want to find people to wander around the villages, you can recruit a lot." , Ma Sanbiao has followed Wang Tong all these years, and his knowledge is also extraordinary, and his views coincide with Wang Tong.

After looking at the poverty and desolation for a few days, I went deeper into Ningxia Town, but found that this place is better than northern Shaanxi, after all, this is the periphery of the Hetao area, and the fields are not bad.

According to the report given by Jinyiwei, the yield of the fields cultivated by each guard is extremely low, because the irrigation system on this side of the original Hetao has not been repaired and completely abandoned, and only some of them have been repaired privately by the people.

However, these fields are a good thing, but Ningxia Town has a big problem compared with northern Shaanxi, that is, it has to bear the double pressure of the Alta Tumut Department and the Hetao Department.

Since the fifteenth year of Jiajing, it was also the time when the military influence of Emperor Zhengde was almost eliminated, and fifty percent of the various urgent reports and war reports received by the imperial court were reported from Ningxia Town, from hundreds of religious captives to Ningxia Town to be burned and killed, to tens of thousands of horsemen crossing the border, and there were many large and small fields.

The only advantage in such a place is that it is easy to accumulate military merits, which is also the fact that Bibai took more than a dozen clansmen to the border town, but in the end, he was able to accumulate such a status and power, and there was no too clever means, and they were all fought with real knives and guns at the beginning.

All ethnic groups are mixed, and the people are fierce, which is also caused by the continuous war and the situation of constant combat readiness.

Wuzhong Fort, Tianshui Fort, Xiajia Fort, Li Jun Fort..., etc., with the word "fort", along the way ten counties and towns, eight have a "fort" word, and the rest are Qingshui Battalion, Yuquan Camp and other names, ten are related to military towns, and the building regulations are mainly for military purposes.

It is now approaching Chinese New Year's Eve, but I can't see any festive atmosphere, everywhere is guarded, the inventory is meticulous, and Wang Tong's side is an old man, and he can naturally understand the military-related matters, and the soldiers everywhere are fully guarded, without the slightest slackness.

"There's no way, the godson came over at this time, who can take care of the New Year, everyone is very relieved."

The idle man naturally has an explanation, but Wang Tong and the others know that this must be wrong, after the Ministry of Answers was destroyed, the pressure on Ningxia, Yulin, and Yansui was much less, and they actually had an advantage in the face of various tribes on the grassland, how could they still be like a great enemy.

This detail, the idler doesn't know, Ningxia Town is poor, Sanjiang Commercial Bank does not set up a semicolon here, where the general of the Dafan army is the mainstay, there is always a congenital aversion to the poor people of internal guards and spies, and the errand of Jinyiwei is also not going smoothly here, and it is not easy to get any news.

Everything can only go to Ningxia Town to talk about, relative to the local tension in Ningxia, Ningxia Town itself is very New Year's atmosphere, when Wang Tong and his people enter the city, they can hear the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums, and there are many rich and noble people who go in and out, all of them are dressed brand new.

Unlike other places in the Ming Dynasty that Wang Tong visited, not all Han people dressed in satin robes were rich and noble, often with white cloth wrapped around their heads, or wealthy merchants from the Western Regions with pointed felt hats, as for the poor, people of all ethnic groups were dressed like that, which was not unusual.

Unlike the strict inventory of various places along the way, the inspection of the city gate of Ningxia Town was very lax, and the soldiers at the city gate took a few umbrellas and let people in.

If you want to say that you are greedy for these few pennies, it is more like you don't bother to pay attention to it, and Wang Tong and others also noticed that these soldiers guarding the city had scars on their faces and hands.

Bumps and bumps in the barracks are common, and injuries are not unusual, but the scars of these soldiers are obviously left by street fights, which is a little strange, Wang Tong stared at the scars a few more times, but the soldiers who were stared at were a little annoyed and angry, and they didn't want to cause trouble here.

When passing through the security guard in northern Shaanxi, Wang Tong's caravan of hundreds of horses was targeted, because he thought it was a big caravan, but when he arrived in Ningxia Zhencheng, it was not uncommon.

From the Western Regions, from Shaanxi, from the grassland, there are a lot of caravans and caravans from all over the place, but Wang Tong also noticed that there is also a certain proportion of the four-** car in the style of the Huwei cart.

Ningxia town is very similar to Guihua City, Datong and Xuanfu places, although it is a border town and a big city, but it is a regional transportation hub, and businessmen from all walks of life gather, which is more prosperous than other places.

After the idle man came to Ningxia Zhencheng, he said goodbye to Wang Tong and his people, in addition to giving him the horse, because of his good guide along the way, Wang Tong had to give more than five taels of silver, and the idle man was very happy with a thousand thanks.

A group of people rode into the city gate and walked on the main street, like other cities, the road connecting the city gate is one of the widest streets in a city, the so-called main street is also.

Not long after the horse team entered the city, they found that there was a lot of chaos in front of them, Wang Tong and his people didn't know what to do, but a man on the street hurriedly walked out of the house and shouted: "This guest officer, let the horse team go to the side of the road first, the team of the old man's family is coming, and his family can't rush!" ”

Wang Tong exchanged glances with the people around him, Wang Tong waved his hand, and the people behind him led their horses to the side of the road, Wang Tong smiled at the man and nodded, thanked him, and the man replied with a smile and went home.

After all, the merchants who came to Ningxia on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month were a minority, and the people on the street were very conscious, and they all flashed to both sides of the street.

It didn't take long for dozens of horsemen to appear on the streets, all of them were fierce and sturdy knights, looking at the appearance of the Han and Mongolian tribes, talking and laughing loudly as if no one was around, galloping on horseback, swaggering past in front of everyone's eyes, looking at this direction should go out of the city.

Wang Tong and the others were just about to hurry, but they heard someone on the side talking and said: "Thanks to someone reminding you, the Hanzhong Mansion in Laba was not knocked down by these people with horses and trampled on the gizzard!" ~！