Chapter 128: Inspecting the Qi Clan

After Zhu Houhuang made a decision, he immediately began his own inspection trip, and the first stop of his inspection was not Penghu, but Qi's. Zhu Houhuang made this decision because of the different environments faced by the two sides.

Generally speaking, the area of the Qi family is still very large, the Qi family is dozens of miles east of Dayuan, although there are many Han people in the territory of the Qi family, but there are also a lot of them. Moreover, the Qi family, as the barrier of the big members, replaced Wang Jialou and became the tentacles of Yongguo to penetrate into Dongyong.

He faced barbarian harassment on three sides. To the north is the Potbelly Kingdom, and to the east is the headhunters in the mountains and forests, which is a little better in the south.

In Zhu Houhuang's view, the tribes in the south can be regarded as familiar.

They were able to communicate with the Han Chinese and had fewer conflicts with each other.

Not long after Zhu Houhuang left the staff, he passed by Wang's house.

As soon as I passed the Wang family building, I saw hundreds of people standing on the side of the road, led by Qi Jingtong.

Qi Jingtong saw Zhu Houhuang's guard of honor, and immediately knelt down and said, "Meet His Royal Highness King Yong, His Royal Highness is a thousand years old." ”

There are not many people who Zhu Houhuang came out to bring with him, but there are more than 300 honor guards around him. He sat on his horse, waved his hand, and said, "Everyone, flat." Then he said to Wang Zhi: "Give up a horse and let General Qi follow." ”

"Yes," Wang Zhi agreed, and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Horses are still a rarity in Dongyong, after all, across the strait. Horses are not easy to transport, and the south is already a place where there is a shortage of horses, so there are naturally fewer horses.

Of these dozen horses, Yang Shen tried his best to buy some big livestock from the north, such as cattle and donkeys, among which there were more than a dozen horses.

And from Zhu Houhuang's point of view, these dozen or so horses are just to the point where they can be ridden, and they are not war horses at all. Therefore, only a dozen or so guards around Zhu Houhuang are qualified to ride horses.

Qi Jingtong followed behind his welcoming centaurs, and Qi Jingtong rode a horse and followed behind Zhu Houhuang, one head behind Zhu Houhuang.

Qi Jingtong has not ridden a horse for more than ten years, and he has a feeling of embarrassment at the moment. Zhu Houhuang smiled: "What's wrong? Qi Qing, hasn't you ridden a horse for a long time, can't you ride? ”

Qi Jingtong said: "Your Highness said that he laughed, since he was seven years old, he has been practicing riding hard, and he has never stopped, how can he forget how to ride a horse, but he hasn't ridden a horse for a long time. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Remember, put the horse of General Qi under the name of General Qi." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the grace of the horse." Qi Jingtong hurriedly dismounted and thanked him.

Zhu Houhuang said: "General Qi is exempt. Only then did Qi Jingtong reappear on the horse and follow behind Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Gu knows that General Qi is a meritorious man. Ping Liu Liuliu and Liu Qi's rebellion, the general's contribution is not small. ”

"The minister has a slight name, which makes His Highness smile." Although Qi Jingtong was on horseback, he was still respectful, his hands were clenched into fists, his upper body was straight as if it was an iron gun, and he relied on his feet to control the horse.

Although Zhu Houhuang felt that Qi Jingtong was a little polite, such a respectful appearance did make Zhu Houhuang feel comfortable. Zhu Houhuang said: "With the talent of a general, it is indeed a talent to deal with the military affairs of the little Qi army. ”

Qi Jingtong was about to say something, but was interrupted by Zhu Houhuang with a wave of his hand. said: "In the previous battle of Yongxi, the general was rewarded with a thousand acres of fertile land, can the general send someone to accept it?" ”

Qi Jingtong said: "The minister has sent a letter to the scholar, asking the minister's brother Qi Jinghuan to lead people south. ”

In fact, Qi Jingtong doesn't care much about thousands of acres of fertile land, without him, for Qi Jingtong, his family is a hereditary commander. The family said that there are 10,000 acres of fertile land, which is probably a lot. But there are thousands of acres of fertile land, there are definitely them, and the fertile land occupied by the Qi family in Shandong is fundamentally different from the fertile land in Dongyong.

Dongyong's fertile land is just rough cultivation, and it must be planted for two or three years before it can be truly ripe. Compared with the fertile fields cultivated in Shandong that I don't know how many years ago, there is no way to compare.

But no matter what, a thousand acres of land is also a foundation, and Qi Jingtong will not want it. Anyway, the Qi family is also a big family, and it is not bad to have a family here.

Zhu Houhuang said: "This is just a reward for the battle of Yongxi, and it is also for the general to settle down, the general has been guarding the Qi family for a few months, when he knows that there is no strong enemy on this Dongyong Island, as long as we persevere, a few years, we can pacify the whole island, when the time comes, Qi Qing will not be less than a reward of 10,000 acres, the more merits, the more acres of land will be rewarded, and please make persistent efforts for Qi Qing." After the whole island is pacified, there will be no so acres of land and rewards. ”

Qi Jingtong secretly said in his heart: "His Royal Highness King Yong is so generous. "It's basically a freshly reclaimed life, a number of tens of thousands of acres, and it is also a heart-warming number.

It's basically raised raw, which is a bit troublesome. But in any case, this is the inheritance of the descendants who can pass it on. Qi Jingtong said: "The minister will definitely make persistent efforts to live up to His Highness's trust." ”

Zhu Houhuang said to the people around him: "Then it's the same. After pacifying the whole island, how much land you can get depends on your merits. ”

Li Liangqin was already silent as if it were a stone, but Wang Zhi, Yu Dayou and other young people all shouted loudly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward." ”

After encouraging them, Zhu Houhuang began to get down to business, and said, "General Qi, how is the Qi army recently?" ”

"According to His Royal Highness's instructions, the Qi army has 1,200 soldiers, and it has become an army, and it can be a battle.

As he spoke, a village appeared in Zhu Houhuang's field of vision, and Qi Jingtong pointed to this village and said, "According to His Highness's instructions, the implementation of tulou here has begun." However, because the manpower and material resources required to build the tulou are relatively large, the ministers take the outside first and then the inside, and take the center outside the Qi military camp, the more peripheral the villages, the places where it is difficult for our army to support in time, the more the tulou is built first. ”

Zhu Houhuang looked at the half-built earth building, stopped and looked, although he didn't know how to build a civil building, but he had to let the people below know how much he valued.

After Zhu Houhuang saw it, he walked along a dirt road in the direction of Qi's army, and Zhu Houhuang asked, "Is this road specially built by you?" ”

Qi Jingtong said: "Your Highness doesn't know, this road is the path that the ministers often train their soldiers to take, and after a long time, it has become like this." ”

There is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road. Zhu Houhuang is very satisfied, at least he is more satisfied with Qi Jingtong, without him, because the training method of running is what Zhu Houhuang particularly emphasized. The drills of the general generals in the Ming Dynasty would only practice the formation here. There is little emphasis on running.

Qi Jingtong is not pretending, at least Qi Jingtong is very good at being an official.

After about half a day, I finally saw the station of Qi's army.

At this moment, the station of the Qi army is no longer what it used to be. In the past few months, it has been repeatedly reinforced, and the barracks of the Qi army have long been as solid as a rock, as if it is a wooden city.

The vicinity of the Qi army is attached to the vicinity of the military camp, and it is not that there are no people, but a large area of vegetation has been burned out, and it seems that a large area of land will be opened up.

In the past few months, there have been prisoners who have been assigned one after another, and these prisoners are working near the barracks, and some immigrants have formed a large settlement near the Qi army.

Zhu Houhuang looked at the past from a high ground, and suddenly pointed to an open space and said, "What's going on there?" ”

Qi Jingtong said: "That is the address of Qi's county town prepared by the minister, and I would like to ask His Highness to see if it is suitable." ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "It's rare that General Qi can think so far. Let's go and have a look. ”

Zhu Houhuang and his entourage walked towards the Qi military camp. Zhu Houhuang looked at the past along the way and felt that a year or two later, after the completion of Qi's county seat, there would be another Qi's county under his command. Every time he had an administrative unit under his command, he felt a sense of satisfaction from the bottom of his heart.

"The military commander of the Chen Qi clan, Wang Yuanhe, meet King Yong Chitose."

Although Qi Jingtong is the number one in the Qi army, it does not mean that Qi Jingtong can cover the sky with one hand, this Wang Yuanhe was sent by Yang Shen to preside over civil affairs, once the Qi family establishes a county, Wang Yuanhe is the first Qi county commander.