Chapter 4: The Gun on the Shoulder (4)
Next year will be a good year, this sentence is not said by looking at Ruixue. Rather, it was the conclusion made by Du Ziteng's work report that the messenger had just brought. It is estimated that after the arrival of these messengers, Guangxi will be transported by sea and transported to the new instructors or weapons of the teaching team, which will be about the year later.
However, the things mentioned by Du Ziteng in the work report have made these things unimportant, because: the land reform work in Guangxi has been completed; In villages with more than 50 households, village committees and militia teams have been established; It is expected that after the autumn harvest next year, Guangxi can achieve self-sufficiency in grain; Twenty standing militia regiments have been formed, which, if necessary, can be converted into supplementary regiments after the adjustment period of the second month.
The so-called standing militia regiment is a militia regiment that maintains at least nine days of training every month. It's just that in the Ming Dynasty of this era, except for Guangxi and Anxi Governor's Mansions, there are no troops who don't drink the blood of soldiers at all, let alone do it every three days.
In fact, what Ding Yi values most is the first one, which seems to be the most inconsequential, land reform.
This shows that the landlords and gentry in Guangxi were either killed by "Hou Dagou", or they were "spontaneously" suppressed by the people, or they were clever enough to transfer their family property to the workshops themselves, and the land was distributed to the yeoman peasants, instead of being hung under the name of the Shilin, who had a meritorious name and did not need to pay taxes, and the taxes that should have been collected from the state treasury were fattened to the Shilin class.
With this foundation, village committees and militia units were formed. No one wants land, and they are dying of starvation, who cares about the village committee and the militia? Even if you participate. It's just to get enough to eat, where can you get any enlightenment? This is definitely not a trivial matter, otherwise Ding Yi was based in Wuzhou Mansion and Heping Le Mansion before, this is the truth, there is no way to govern it well, it is better not to take over. With the land reform, the broad masses of the people. Only then will there be a mass base in support of Ding from the mainland, and only then will there be 20 standing militia regiments.
"Sir. Someone has come to the palace, and at the head of the city, I will teach you to receive the decree. Li Yuncong came over with a gloomy face to report to Ding Yi.
Ding Yi smiled slightly and said to Li Yuncong: "Don't pay attention to him. You go and talk to him. I'm sick, so sick that I can't take orders. There is a kind of medicine in the grassland, called Snow Lotus, if it is not good in these two days, I am afraid that I will go to the grassland to find this Snow Lotus, and then use the heart of the blue wolf, slice it together, and fry some onions and garlic in hot oil. Stir-fry in a pan and serve with three bowls of white rice. He was cured. ”
Li Yuncong responded, got out of the tent, ran to the city of Xuanfu, and shouted Ding Yi's words to the eunuch who announced the decree.
Ding Yi didn't plan to go to Beijing for the New Year, the New Year was not so important to him, and after Li Yuncong came back, Ding Yi said to him: "Order the whole army, gear up, and prepare to go." Although Li Yuncong felt a little weird, he didn't ask even a single question, but immediately carried out Ding Yi's order.
When 2,000 soldiers and horses escorted more than 70 leaders on the grassland, when they were lined up outside the city of Xuanfu, the eunuch of Xuanzhi had not yet walked down the city wall, Li Yuncong galloped to the city under the signal of Ding Yi, and shouted to the defenders on the city wall: "Sir has an order, open the city gate!" ”
Originally, Li Yuncong thought that under the city of Xuanfu, he would order the members of the Heaven and Earth Society and the Zhongyi Society to gather for roll call, and then the stormtroopers of the Heaven and Earth Society and the Zhongyi Society in the defenders stood up and gathered, and then controlled the city gate, and then opened the door to welcome Ding Yi into the city. But what even Li Yuncong didn't expect was that he roared over in such a voice, and it didn't take long for him to slowly open the city gate after about a stick of incense, Ding Yi signaled to Zhang Mao, who showed off his riding skills and stood on the saddle: "It's all there!" Listen to the command, firecrackers, and move forward! ”
The snare drum beating, and in the sound of the drums, the firecrackers lined up in a neat queue and entered the gate of Xuanfu; Then Li Yuncong led a thousand cavalry, one man and three horses escorted those grassland heads into the city, and finally the command platoon of the Blade Brigade escorted Ding Yi, and Ding Yi, who rode on the white horse that definitely had the blood of Arab sweat and blood, calmly entered the city.
This horse, which has been fostered in the Duyin tribe for several years, is now more and more powerful, in the eyes of the eunuch at the head of the city, it is simply like a heavenly horse, and it is also set off Ding Yi in a Confucian shirt, plump and handsome, but the inadvertently revealed on the body, the murderous aura of the battlefield made the eunuch's legs tremble, and finally when Ding Yi approached the city gate, he couldn't help but kneel down on the city wall. People have a herd effect, he knelt, the guards accompanying him didn't know what was going on, just now Li Yuncong called the door, he sent someone to report to Sun Bo, and Sun Bo's personal soldiers came to order him to open the door, at this time I saw the eunuchs around him kneeling, thinking about Ding Zongxian's fame all over the world, and he was a very human minister, and he knelt down all of a sudden, and the defenders on the city wall saw the eunuchs kneeling, and their own generals also knelt, and they all bowed down.
All of a sudden, it was Ding and his entourage approaching, and the head of the city fell to its knees!
As soon as Ding entered the Xuanfu, where could he use the Heaven and Earth Society and the Zhongyi Society to assemble for roll call, and then use the stormtroopers to control the city gate? Whether to enter or not to enter is a question of whether Ding wants to enter or not! At this time, the chief military officer of the Xuanfu is Sun Bo, Sun Bo and Shi Heng's department are all people who participated in the constitutional secret covenant at the beginning.
The decree that they not open the city gate has not gone through the edict of the cabinet and the six ministries, but it just means that in order to prevent the Tatars from stealing the pass, now the Tartar Emperor, the Taishi, and the Privy Council are all in the custody of Ding Yi, what else is there to steal? It can be said that if you don't open the city gate, it is a favor for the emperor, but it is your duty to open the city gate!
This is why Ding Yi didn't enter from the iron gate, but from the Xuanfu, one is that the iron gate is too small, and he doesn't know how long it will take the 2,000 people to enter; One is Shi Jianqing of the Iron Gate Pass, how can that honest man dare to carry the emperor like Sun Bo, a marshal in the army? Besides, Shi Jianqing is not qualified to participate in the constitutional secret agreement, and it is a bit unreasonable to let the family open the door.
The eunuch stood up on the city wall, looked at the soldiers who were kneeling down all over the city, and couldn't help but stomp his feet and curse at the guards beside him: "What the hell are you doing? Why did you open the door and let Ding Rongcheng in? And bow down to him! ”
Who knew that the guard got up and replied to him: "I didn't receive an official document from General Ding Xian, who couldn't amplify the victory, to enter the city!" As for bowing down, isn't it your father-in-law who led the way? The little one saw that you bowed, thinking that Ding Zongxian had done all this great work, and it was indeed worth worshipping, so I followed you......"
The eunuch was so angry that he flicked his sleeves, and he didn't bother to say another word to the guard, so he hurriedly ran down the city.
"General Constitution, General Constitution!" The eunuch rushed to Ding Yi's side with his robe, but the accompanying soldiers and horses, the fire guns, were the Ming prisoners of war that Ding Yi sent Wang Yue to get back from the Ming army, and the Ming Dynasty left them in the grassland as prisoners, and then left them alone; The cavalry is the warrior who has fought for the rest of his life in the past few years of the Duyin tribe. They recognize Ding Yi, not to mention the eunuch, that is, the emperor, in their hearts, it is not the same thing.
So as soon as the eunuch and his servant approached, the war horse neighed, the knight raised his sword, and if it weren't for Ding Yi, he shouted: "Slow! "I'm afraid that if I go down with a knife, I will be cut off in two on the spot. Finally squeezed in front of Ding Yi, this eunuch knew the severity, but he didn't dare to be the same as on the city wall, shouting nonsense like the Holy Decree, and completely ignoring his identity as an angel, he quickly knelt down, and he knelt on the city wall once anyway: "Young Master Rujin!" You're going to take it! There's a purpose for this! ”
"The student is seriously ill and can't take the order." Ding Yi was on the white horse of the divine horse, with his eyes open and talking nonsense, "In this way, it just so happens that you are here, in this way, these seals and letters should be brought back by my father-in-law......" said and motioned to Zhang Mao, who handed over the pen and paper with knowledge and interest, poured water and adjusted the ink.
Ding took the pen and waved it, that is, one sentence: Shengshang Mingjian, the minister Ding is seriously ill and old, he really can't look at things, begs to return the bones, and has delivered the seal letter to the sender. Then there's the signature and date.
After writing, he didn't even dry it, so he handed it directly to the eunuch who was still kneeling on the ground, and when a white horse walked by, he also piggybacked: "Hurry up, it's such a cold day, and I don't know how to take care of my body, and when you are the same age as the student, you will know the bones of this body......"
The eunuch knelt on the ground, listening for a long time without understanding, and when the two thousand military horses had passed, and his servants came to pick him up, he said with a smile: "Ding Zongxian, can our family, our family live to your age?" Never mind! "He is a man in his forties and fifties, Ding Yi told him in an old-fashioned manner, when he reaches his own age, how can he live back to his twenties?
But let the servants rub their legs, this eunuch always feels that something is wrong? I thought about it and scratched my head, until someone asked, what is this in hand? The eunuch said: "Ding Zongxian is begging for bones again!" "Again, Ding Yi, who is in his twenties, this is the second time he has applied for retirement.
As soon as the words came out, the eunuch realized that something was wrong.
The black and white paper reads: The seal has been delivered to the sender, etc.
But Ding Yi is honest, he really didn't give him this thing!
So he couldn't care too much, beckoned the servant to lead the horse, hurriedly got on the horse, waved the horsewhip and rushed towards Ding Yi's team, this time he was a good learner, he didn't dare to get too close, and shouted fifty meters away: "Our family wants to see Young Master Rujin!" The villain wants to see Young Master Rujin! ”
Ding Yi didn't embarrass him, and after listening to the report, he taught him to bring him forward and ask him what was the matter?
"Young Master Rujin, you didn't give this seal to the little one!"
"Oh, I forgot about it." Ding Yi smiled and nodded, and was about to go to his waist to untie the seal.
The eunuch who announced the decree was also considered to be a blessing to the soul, and hurriedly got off the saddle of the horse, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed again and again: "Young Master Rujin, you are merciful!" You're a slave and a slave, let it go! (To be continued......)