If you don't understand, you don't understand, the holy order is difficult to disobey, Pei Shaokuan is no longer dissatisfied, and he doesn't dare to disobey the order, so he waits for the Liao army who came from Beijing in Xianghe according to the order.

The military situation was urgent, and after the Jinzhou army set off from Beijing, it passed through Tongzhou without stopping, and drove straight to the Xianghe River.

To the territory of Xianghe, the population gradually became scarce, and all the graves seen along the way were new graves that were only two years old.

It is the winter solstice, and people can be seen going to the grave from time to time, but unlike usual, most of the people who go to the grave are lonely, widowed, old and weak, and it is rare to be strong.

When they saw the officers and soldiers, some old people sneered at them and glared angrily, and when the Jinzhou soldiers and generals saw them, they were all heartbroken and did not dare to come forward to reprimand.

The five hundred Changping children are particularly painful, and the new graves here are not caused by the entry of the East Captives into the Kou two years ago.

At that time, the people of the capital were rare, and there were few who did not suffer from military disasters. This scene that happened in Xianghe, why didn't it happen in its prefecture?

It's just that Xianghe was the hardest hit, and the adult men were either slaughtered or taken captive to slavery, leaving only these immovable old and weak widows to wail in front of this grave every year.

That's what I've seen along the way. Jinzhou was silent, and Shi Dayong sat on the horse, which was also heartbroken.

When I arrived in Xianghe County, it was already 19 afternoon. Compared with Tongzhou, Xianghe County is very dilapidated.

Broken walls and ruins can be seen everywhere, the city is not like a city, and the town is not like a town. If it weren't for the reminder of Xianghe County hanging on the dilapidated city gate, it would be hard for Shi Dayong to imagine that this was the county seat near Gyeonggi.

Historically, the land of Gyeonggi has been where Jinghua is located in the world, and ordinary counties and other places are all prefectures, but now, this county town is only a few dozen miles away from the capital, but it can't even compare with a town, which shows how much damage was caused to the Ming Dynasty by the Eastern Captives two years ago.

If you do this twice, won't Da Ming be hollowed out by the East Captives?

With a deep sigh, Shi Dayong was even more determined to escort the Ming Dynasty, and would never allow Manchuria to harm the Ming Dynasty again

Zhao Qiwen, the commander of Xianghe County, was born in the third year of the Apocalypse, and he had never been a Jinshi, and he was originally the master of Xianghe County. {.

When Xianghe fell in the second year of Chongzhen, he and three small officials hid in a dry well and were not found by the Jin soldiers, so they picked up a life. After the Jin army withdrew, Fang crawled out of the well. After coming out, the bustling Xianghe county in front of him became a hell, with dead bodies everywhere, thick smoke everywhere, and the streets and alleys were in shambles.

Zhao Qiwen, who was stunned by the tragic scene in front of him, crawled to the county government and found that Lord Lin of the county had hanged himself in the back office, and all the family members and children committed suicide.

After the incident, it took six days to bury the bodies of the victims in Xianghe County. With the burial of the body, Xianghe County no longer has the prosperity of Ri. It's been two years, and the city is still dead, only the long flags outside the two restaurants tell outsiders who have just come here that there is still a trace of business in the city, and there is still a sip of wine to drink.

The people are gone, the county magistrate is gone, and Zhao Wenqi, the master of the people's background, has become the new county lord of Xianghe County. In the past, I couldn't think of it, because Xianghe County was a first-class county with 100,000 stones, and such a big county was not born as a jinshi to make this county order, and it was absolutely impossible.

However, today's Xianghe County no longer has such confidence, so that when the officials elected the new Xianghe County Commander, none of those candidates were willing. They are not stupid, what is the point of doing a county order that has no oil and water at all? It's better to spend some silver and ask the ministry to send other people, yourself, and wait for the next batch. In this way, the candidate for this county order fell on Zhao Wenqi, who was born as a person.

Almost overnight, it changed from the main book to the county order, and it cannot but be said that it was a pie that fell from the sky, but Zhao Wenqi was never excited and happy about it. What lingers in his mind is the nightmare of two years ago, and in the middle of the night, he is always awakened by the corpses on the street.

The heavy task of post-disaster reconstruction was on Zhao Wenqi's shoulders, but apart from asking the imperial court for tax reduction and grain reduction, he Zhao no longer had the ability to restore Xianghe County to the high-class county of the past.

The people were really frightened by the Dongyu, and the rich people who survived the disaster moved their families to the south, or moved to the capital, where did the poor people who had no money have the ability to participate in the reconstruction of the county?

It is already a great kindness for the imperial court to be able to exempt Xianghe County from taxes, so how could it allocate money to help Zhao Wenqi rebuild Xianghe County. Today's imperial court, I'm afraid it's not much better than Xianghe County, the silver is eager to be one son as two flowers, where is the excess silver pasted to Xianghe County.

Zhao County, who has no money and no people, can only pursue the rule of Huang Lao's inaction, and he can no longer apportionment to the surviving poor people, in that case, what is the difference between forcing the people to die, he can't be ruthless. If you can't rebuild the county, you won't have any political achievements, but fortunately, the officials also know the situation in Xianghe County, and they didn't replace Zhao Wenqi.

After two years as a county magistrate, the son of Ri had a dull life, and the pain in Lord Zhao's heart was not erased by time. He hates Donglu more than anyone else, and the thing he cares about most every day is whether there is a house report from the imperial court, and whether there is a war outside the customs on the house report.

There was a war in Liaodong in the house newspaper, but none of them were what Zhao County Ling wanted to see. The Daling River was besieged, the imperial court reinforcements were annihilated, and Zu Dashou was demoted

One defeat after another made Zhao County's order numb, until the news of Jinzhou's victory suddenly appeared in the house newspaper. When he was convinced that he was not mistaken, the excited Zhao Xianling drank a jar of good wine that he had been reluctant to drink for several years. I was drunk and vomited, but I couldn't hide my joy.

Therefore, when the news that the Liao army outside the imperial court went south to Shandong to suppress the rebellion of Kong Youde was transmitted by the Tang newspaper, Zhao Wenqi thought that the Liao army was going to Shandong to quell the rebellion, and it must have passed through the Xianghe, so he pondered it, and the Liao army hit the Dongyu outside the pass, avenging the people who died in Xianghe.

As he thought, the Liao army did pass through the Xianghe River when it went south, but there was another army and horses that also moved to the Xianghe, which was the 1,000 Beijing battalion led by Pei Shaokuan, the hereditary commander who was supposed to be transferred to Tianjinwei.

The arrival of the Beijing camp soldiers made Zhao Wenqi instantly bitter, because these young masters and soldiers of the Beijing camp are not good at fighting, but they are very good at drinking wine and eating meat to find women. As soon as they entered the county seat, they wandered around the city in groups of three or five. The only two restaurants in the city were also occupied by the Beijing soldiers in an instant, and they were guessing at the wine. If this is the case, it is good, but the hateful thing is that most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp are looking for Sister Yao all over the city, and if they can't find it, they will smash the door of Liang's house, which shocks the people to come to the yamen to complain.

I thought that the soldiers were bastards, and the general who led the troops would always be the governor. How could I have thought that the commander Master Pei was even more undesirable than his subordinates, and openly asked Xianghe County to gather a hundred female labor troops, but he couldn't find it, so he was the only one who asked Xianghe County.

In the past two years, there has been no skin and meat business in Xianghe County, and the only thing in the city is that some village girls who have lost their husbands in the countryside have secretly done some skin and meat business in the alleys, so as to support their parents and immature children in the countryside. In this regard, Zhao Wenqi also turned a blind eye, they are all hard-working people, why should the yamen embarrass them.

But the virtue of the Beijing battalion soldiers, Zhao Wenqi had heard of it a long time ago. Not to mention that the number of those village girls is small, and they can't accept guests from Beijing. is that he is the commander of Xianghe County, but he openly pulls the skin for the soldiers of the imperial court. How to face the elders of Xianghe, and how to face the dead people of Xianghe!

But no matter how he pleaded, no matter how he explained, Commander Pei didn't pay attention to him, and if Xianghe County didn't send Ji Nu at night, then the soldiers would do something bad in Xianghe County under the drastic changes, but he couldn't blame him Pei Shaokuan.

Robbers, shameless! What kind of officer and soldier is this, it is clearly a thief!

Zhao Wen angrily stomped his feet and scolded angrily in the yamen, but after scolding, he squatted on the ground with his head in front of a group of yacha officials, not caring about the decency of the county lord at all.

The clerks also sighed, they didn't know the pain of the county lord, but if this matter was not resolved, those Beijing soldiers really made trouble in the city, and it was not the people of Xianghe who were harmed.

Master Deng Tai couldn't think of a better way to think about it, so he could only step forward and whisper: "Adult, if it really doesn't work, the little ones will ask them to go to the nearby village to recruit some women to come and save the emergency?"

Hearing this, Zhao Wen jumped up in anger, shook his hand and gave Deng Tai a slap, and scolded angrily: Bastard idea! This county is an official of the imperial court, how can he do such nonsense!

Lord Deng Tai covered half of his face, and was so frightened by the anger of the county magistrate that he didn't dare to speak anymore. The servants and servants were too frightened to move.

After scolding, Zhao Wenqi seemed to be ten years old, and sat down on the ground weakly, with a long sigh on his face.

The nearest county is also more than 30 miles away, and it is nearly 60 miles away from each other, so it is too late to find a girl in a neighboring county. Jingying has spoken, and if you can't see a woman at night, Xianghe County will have to bear the consequences. What those who were soldiers could do, everyone in the hall didn't dare to think about it.

How this is good, how this is good.

Zhao Wenqi frowned a few times in a hurry, Suo Xing thought, take off this official uniform, it is not appropriate for this Xianghe County order. But he can pick and choose, what will the people in the city do? Or, I'll go and kowtow to Commander Pei to intercede?

Just thinking about it, a messenger rushed in in a panic and shouted: My lord, the Liao army has arrived at our Xianghe!

Yes?! Zhao Wenqi was stunned, and then waved his hand to his subordinates with some excitement, and quickly followed the county to greet him!

Seeing that the county lord was going to welcome the Liao army, Deng Tai was in a hurry, and stepped forward to stop him: My lord, what should I do here in Jingying?

Zhao Wenqi was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and sighed: Let's go to meet the soldiers of the Liao army first, and then I will think of a way to do this later.

Adults have a way? Deng Tai was a little unconvinced.

Zhao Wen was annoyed and said: This county says that there is a way, there is a way, and whatever you say, you will go to the city gate with this county!

Seeing that the county lord was annoyed again, Deng Tai didn't dare to say anything more, so he had to nod and say: Yes, my lord.

At that moment, under the leadership of Zhao Wenqi, the county commander, a cadre of Xianghe County went to the city gate to meet the Liao army outside the pass who went south to level the thieves. Outside the yamen, there were soldiers from the Beijing camp who saw the county order leading a group of people to the city gate, thinking that something big had happened, and hurriedly went to report to the commander Pei Shaokuan.

On this side of the city gate, Shi Dayong had no intention of entering the city.