Zhao Hengti smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Okay, okay, brothers will talk about money when they meet, it's cheesy." ”

Wang Zhenyu listened to hahadaxiao: "Yes, yes, the younger brother is like him, so I will invite the eldest brother to dinner, and punish him with three glasses of wine, please be guilty."

Zhao Hengti felt much more relaxed: "You, you are still such a jumpy character, you are not in a hurry to eat, I have an appointment to read to you first."

Wang Zhenyu deliberately ridiculed: "Tan Dudu's order, who is that, Zhu Cihan, go and put the incense case on the table." ”

Zhao Hengti kicked Wang Zhenyu angrily: "Come on, don't come to this set, who doesn't know who you are?" ”

Wang Zhenyu sat down on the chair, Erlang's legs were on his feet, and he waited for Zhao Hengti to read the order.

Zhao Hengti shook his head helplessly: "I won't read more content, pick up the main thing and say, I hereby appoint Wang Zhenyu as the Xiangxi town guard, and the department will be reorganized into the Xiangxi garrison, and the military salary will be solved on the spot, and you will be given." ”

Wang Zhenyu took it with both hands, and then suddenly shouted: "Song Haomin, go, find a frame to frame and hang it on the wall, Lao Tzu is now the town guard, haha." ”

Then Wang Zhenyu grabbed Zhao Hengti, who was about to run away, and went to eat.

This meal is very rich, Wang Zhenyu actually does not advocate frugality in his private life, but he emphasizes the rules, that is, he can only consume as much as he wants, and more than part of it is out himself. Xu Yuanquan, Wan Yaohuang, Yang Wangui and other henchmen also accompanied, and Zhao Hengti drank high as soon as he was happy.

In fact, this trip to Xiangxi, Tan Yanmin has an explanation, mainly to see if he can pull Wang Zhenyu over, after all, the territory of Xiangxi is already in the hands of this kid.

But Zhao Hengti knew that although Wang Zhenyu had a good relationship with him, he would never distinguish between public and private. Even if he really persuaded himself, Wang Zhenyu turned to Tan Dudu in a dizzy mind, how reliable can this person who has been the emperor of the soil be?

So Zhao Hengti simply didn't speak, so as not to hurt his brother's feelings.

Halfway through the drink, Liu Xing was also called, and Wang Zhenyu immediately shouted: "Brother-in-law, this is my eldest brother Zhao Hengti, he helped to operate the pardon last time, you have to give him a cup." ”

Liu Xing hurriedly toasted Zhao Hengti, and Zhao Hengti hurriedly did: "My righteous brother, this is not good, a little thing that should be shared has to be mentioned at the wine table, and I haven't even been notified of my marriage, everyone says, should I be punished?" ”

Everyone immediately coaxed, and Wang Zhenyu also knew that he hadn't done everything he could, so he had to punish himself with three glasses, and he got drunk.

When the guards carried Wang Zhenyu back to the bedroom, Ye Ziwen was stunned by the smell of alcohol, and immediately became angry, and the eldest lady's temper attacked, and a scoop of cold water directly woke up Wang Zhenyu. Wang Zhenyu, who was embarrassed, had no choice but to run to the study to sleep honestly with the quilt, and shouted angrily as he walked: "Good men don't fight with women, don't think that your husband is afraid of you little girl." ”

As a result, a pillow flew out, and all the guards were snickering, and then collectively pretending to be blind......

In the first year of the Republic of China, on July 15, 1912, Wang Zhenyu officially took office as the town guard of Xiangxi, and Zhao Hengti issued the town guard seal to Wang Zhenyu in public on behalf of Tan Yanmin, the metropolitan governor.

Wang Zhenyu then announced the latest administrative divisions and administrative systems within the jurisdiction of the Xiangxi Town Guard:

Xiangxi town guard under the three prefectures and twelve counties; Chenyuan Mansion, the government of Phoenix, under the Phoenix Phoenix, Chenzhou, Xuzhou, Yuanzhou four counties; Qianyang Mansion, the government of Qiancheng, consists of Hongjiang, Luyang, Qiancheng, Anjiang four counties; Jingzhou Prefecture, the government of Jing County, under the Huitong, Jing County, channel, Suining four counties.

At the county level, self-government and the establishment of county councils.

The establishment of Chenyuan Administrative Office, Qiancheng Administrative Office, Jingzhou Administrative Office set up commissioner, mainly play the role of supervision, inspection, supervision, the office under the finance, justice, auditing, planning, culture and education, agriculture and forestry, industry and commerce seven supervision groups.

The county magistrates are elected by the county councils composed of representatives of the chambers of commerce, education, villages, and towns for a term of four years, and the clan and ethnic shili are allowed to continue to exist at the county and village levels, provided that they do not violate the law.

The town guard embassy consists of the Administrative Affairs Department (including the Transportation Department, the Culture and Education Department, the Health Department, the Construction Planning Department, the Agriculture and Forestry Department, and the Industry and Commerce Department), the Law Administration (including the Judicial Department, the Anti-Corruption Department, the Procuratorate, and the Audit Office), the Internal Affairs Department (including the Anti-Smoking Bureau, the Internal Security Department, the Investigation Department, and the Archives Department), and the Finance Department (including the Finance Department, the Taxation Department, the Inspection Department, and the Materials Department).

At the same time, the Xiangxi District Court and the local council were formed......

The latest orders were quickly issued in the name of the Xiangxi town guard, and Wang Zhenyu, who had just been promoted to the Xiangxi town guard, was busy stamping these orders. From this moment on, Wang Zhenyu, who sits in the land of Xiangxi, is already qualified to be called a handsome......

Wang Zhenyu became the envoy of Xiangxi Town, and before he had time to be happy, he saw the order sent back to him by the provincial government. It turned out that this town guard embassy was required to be placed in the phoenix, which made Wang Zhenyu very surprised, weishenme is a phoenix?

In fact, Tan Yanmin was careful here, because he knew that Phoenix was not under Wang Zhenyu's control at all, so he deliberately gave this order, and the idea was to cause a new round of chaos in Xiangxi.

And Wang Zhenyu also found that although he had been promoted to the next level, the territory he actually controlled was still Jingzhou and Qianyang.

It is absolutely impossible to allow the existence of independent shili within the scope of his own territory, Wang Zhenyu shouted loudly, completely ignoring that he is also an independent shili within the scope of Tan Yanmin's territory.

For Phoenix, Wang Zhenyu, who has traveled many times in later generations, still knows very well. This place in Phoenix is really not simple:

Phoenix was called Zhengan in ancient times, and it was basically an area controlled by the Miao people before the Tang and Song dynasties, and after the population swelled, the imperial court came here through conquest and military reclamation after the Song and Ming dynasties. Constant immigration and constant wars gradually formed the dividing line between Miao and Han. Hundreds of years of continuous Miao-Han conflicts and wars have made it have an army here all the year round, because of the name of the place town pole, so it is called "pole army".

In Phoenix, as long as it involves its history, you can't ignore the most classic expression of the honor of their ancestors by the residents of this city: no Hunan can not be an army, and no pole is not Hunan. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, in the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan, which suppressed the Taiping Rebellion, the "Huwei Battalion" of the Gan Army was led by the leader Tian Xingshu, and fought in more than a dozen provinces, and won more than 200 battles, and was invincible, and was named "Huwei Winning Army" by Zeng Guofan. When attacking the city, he often bare his left arm, waving a sword and jumping on a horse, and his family members echo each other to boost morale, and the enemy is frightened. During the attack on Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Tian Xingshu and fellow villager Zhang Wende took the lead in climbing the city wall as the siege soldiers. On the day of triumph, these people returned to their hometowns with the gold and silver silk and satin rewarded by the imperial court, and returned to their hometowns with the private clothes of the ancient players who were plundered from the Tianjing Palace. The soldiers who stayed in the isolated town to garrison the old camp were so envious of these brothers who had ascended to the sky in one step, and after thinking about it, they recognized that as long as they rushed out of the phoenix and went to fight with Shijie, Hua Ling, the commander and the governor, might also have a chance to go to the top. If you get an official and a half position with your life, and return to the field in your later years, and receive blessings at home, you can fish the Spring River with clothes and hats, and hunt in the autumn fields. Those unlucky officers and soldiers who are proud of the courage of their youth all their lives, if they have not died on the battlefield, nor have they exchanged their military exploits for wearing red and green flowers, and when they are old and decrepit, they are alone or even reduced to beggars, they still have to look for opportunities to shine the tattoo on their left arm, and show the children how heroic the glory of grandpa was when he killed "long hair".

This seemingly inspiring honor is actually linked to a tragic history, that is, the life of the Phoenix people under the deformed social form of "all the people are soldiers" caused by the "Tuntian Yangyong" system implemented in the late Qing Dynasty. After the uprising of the Qianjia and Miao people, the Qing government built 1,000 flood forts, tunka, watchtowers, forts, and gates along the damaged southern Great Wall, of which more than 800 were built in the territory of Fenghuang, and 60,000 acres of tuntian were acquired, 4,000 tundings, 1,000 warriors, and 2,000 Miao soldiers, totaling 7,000 people, plus the number of about 4,000 soldiers in the general town of the imperial court's green camp, and 10,000 people of about 10,000 people in Fenghuang at that time were serving in the military all year round, and the proportion was amazingly high. Tens of thousands of Phoenix people were thus tied to the chariots of the imperial court by the ropes of Tuntian, so that it became a generational tradition to be a soldier to eat grain. A small white wooden plaque is nailed to the door of the door of all those who have served in the military, and the name, age, and identity of the person who served are written in red letters. Looking all the way through the streets and alleys, almost every family has such a "glorious card", and they can go to the camp every month to receive a piece of silver and a ration. The situation of "all the land is tuntian, and the people are all soldiers" has cut off all the channels for the Phoenix people to have another industry, and there is only one way to go by exchanging flesh and blood for life.

In this way, it is not surprising that the Phoenix people are still martial arts. When the city was still a frontier fortress, the rugged temperament of the military affected generations of small town populations. Since childhood, children have been accustomed to watching the soldiers in the barracks wielding guns and sticks, watching adults hunt wild boars or leopards to be slaughtered to divide meat, watching people cut off their ears and hang them on the wall, and watching clan parents tie up young daughters-in-law who do not abide by women's morals and sink into the pool. They grew up in such an environment, and the only way they could think of to develop was to become a soldier and eat food, and they became an officer or even a big official by relying on their own fearlessness and not sparing their lives, and then returned to their hometown. Before they reached the height of the table, they were already in a childish game, proclaiming themselves generals, making the streets and alleys rush to kill and shout. These children enlisted before they could reach adulthood, there was an ignorant recruit in the army, and there was one less mouth at the dinner table at home that could never be filled. The young phoenix soldiers were coerced by the powerful tradition of advocating martial arts, with an infinite yearning for a splendid future, fighting to the death on the battlefield, and even spraying all their blood on a foreign land, without regrets.

However, the end of the Gan army was a bit tragic, after the liberation, they originally accepted our party's recruitment. But I don't know if there is a problem in that link, maybe it is really the Kuomintang spies who sow discord, maybe the work of the southbound cadres is too rough, and as a result, they tossed a vigorous Xiangxi bandits, which lasted for three years, smashed the entire Xiangxi, made the Gan Army history, and won the glorious title of Xiangxi bandits, while the real Xiangxi bandits were honorably laid off and unemployed......