Time came to the end of Chongzhen's twenty-first year.

Today, it was finally Xiu Mu's turn, and Gao Qiqian entered the mansion in Qingshui Lane in the south of the city with a tired body.

Gao Qiqian's title is the Marquis of Loyalty, so the mansion is the same as other marquises, and a few rooms are exactly the same, and there must be no excesses.

Raise the dive car and enter the Hou Mansion from the gate.

Everywhere he passed along the way, the family members and maids greeted him one after another.

Gao Qiqian put his face behind his back, and occasionally hummed through his nostrils.

In front of Chongzhen, he was just a slave, but in this Hou Mansion he was the master.

All the way into the East Warm Pavilion in the upper room, Gao Qiqian asked the housekeeper, "Where is the son?" ”

"Jiaoyou went." The butler replied respectfully, "I said I won't be back until evening." ”

"Jiaoyou?" Gao Qiqian asked casually, "Who are you with him?" ”

"Back to the master, the little one has already inquired." The housekeeper hurriedly said, "One is the son of the Duke of Fujian, and the other seems to be the son of the Bingke Xu family, both of whom are the sons of the country." ”

Just three days ago, Guozijian had just finished its fourth phase of enrollment.

The fourth cohort enrolled a full 10,000 students, but the actual number of students in this cohort was not more than 10,000.

Because from the fourth period, there have been successive sons of honors and meritorious soldiers who have been sent to the national prison.

For example, Gao Qiqian's stepson Gao Quanquan, Wang Chengen's nephew Wang Rendu, and Huaxia's righteous son, Wang Chengzhi, the only son of Wang Poju, and other meritorious children, all entered the Guozijian to study.

In addition, Zhou Peigong was also admitted to this phase of Guozisheng.

"Xu to the children of the Jian family?" Gao Qiqian asked, "Xu Yingwei's family?" ”

"Exactly." The housekeeper replied respectfully, "It seems to be the third brother Xu Zhizhi." ”

"This kid is quite good at traveling." Gao Qiqian showed a look of relief.

Gao Qiqian's life, in addition to the obsession of the eunuch king, is also Gao Quanquan's stepson.

Gao Quanquan is not only his stepson, but also his own nephew, so Lao Gao is willing to use all his political resources to pave the way for this stepson, and the Gao family's family will have to rely on this kid to support him in the future.

Taking off his shoes and socks, Gao Qiqian was about to lie down on the couch when the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded outside.

After a while, the butler hurriedly walked in: "Master, the Holy Lord urgently summons you to the Guozijian. ”

"Is there something wrong?" Gao Qiqian muttered in his mouth, but the person had already sat up from the couch, put on his clothes under the service of Yahuan, and hurried out again.

When I came to the door, I noticed that the wind was blowing.

The northwest wind was blowing tightly.

……

In the Liaohe Plain, heavy snow has begun to fall.

In the heavy snow, more than a dozen cavalry were rushing forward.

The leader was Xu Wuniu, who had been promoted to the commander of the scout cavalry.

More than half a year ago, Gaizhou Wei changed guards, and most of the recruits of Xu Yingwei and Lao Dong returned to Nanjing, but Xu Wuniu insisted on staying in Liaodong and continued to serve as the captain of the scout cavalry.

Half a year has passed, and Xu Wuniu has been promoted to the head of the scout post.

It was another uneventful day, once again going deep into the Liaohe Plain to hunt Mongolian herders.

Every day, dozens of scouts would go out from Gaizhou Weisa to the Liaohe Plain and even further north to hunt lone Mongolian herders, sometimes robbing cattle and sheep, and in any case, all kinds of raids.

Of course, sometimes they were surrounded by the Mongol cavalry and counter-hunted.

But in general, the Mongols were at a general disadvantage and suffered much more losses.

"Stop!" Xu Wuniu raised his right hand, and the dozen or so riders following behind him immediately stopped.

Xu Wuniu turned his head sideways, listened from the wind and snow for a moment, and then roared: "Disperse!" ”

With Xu Wuniu's roar, more than a dozen cavalry scout cavalry immediately dispersed, forming a loose fan formation.

After a while, hundreds of Mongolian cavalry were killed in the wind and snow ahead, brandishing scimitars and screaming to kill this side.

Seeing this scene, Xu Wuniu was not afraid of anti-joy and came well.

"All of them, ready to fight!" Xu Wuniu took out the rifle that was covered in the placket of his cotton coat.

More than a dozen cavalry scout cavalry also followed and took out their rifles, because the climate in Liaodong was too cold, and they were worried that the plate machine would be frozen, so they were all covered in their clothes when they marched.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides were less than two hundred steps apart.

Xu Wuniu and a dozen cavalry scouts turned their horses and trotted in the direction they came.

The Ming scout cavalry was trotting, but the Mongol cavalry was galloping, so the distance between the two sides was quickly narrowed, and in a moment they were already less than a hundred paces away.

Xu Wuniu did not hesitate to turn around and pull the trigger.

A gunshot rang out, and a Mongolian cavalry a hundred paces away fell off his horse.

After a long period of hunting, Xu Wuniu's riding and archery has reached a very high level, even on the back of a galloping horse, he can basically hit a human target a hundred steps away.

Gunfire rang out continuously, and the other scout cavalry opened fire.

However, the marksmanship of the other scout cavalry was not as good as Xu Wuniu's, and only half of them hit.

After firing a shot, Xu Wuniu quickly took out a paper shell bullet from the bullet bag, stuffed it into the muzzle, and then pressed the paper shell bullet to the bottom of the gun chamber with a strip, and pressed it slightly.

Inserted back into the strip and took out another primer from the primer box.

This is the latest achievement of Gewuke's research and development specifically for cavalry.

The cavalry was on the back of a galloping horse, and it was quite difficult to reload ammunition.

In particular, it is extremely troublesome to pour primer into the primer room, and if you accidentally pour too much, the remaining gunpowder of the paper shell bullet will be insufficient, which will lead to insufficient killing, but if you pour less, it will cause a dumb fire.

Sometimes the primer will be blown away by the wind, which can also cause a dumb fire.

So most of the time, the cavalry will use up two rounds of paper shells.

One of the paper shells acts as an primer, and it is better to waste it than to ensure that the primer is sufficient.

In view of this characteristic of cavalry warfare, Gewuke specially developed a fire primer kit.

It is to wrap an appropriate amount of gunpowder in a very thin and oil-soaked cotton cloth and make it into small packets.

When it's time to use it, the cavalry only needs to grab a primer from the primer box and pack it into the primer room.

In this way, the time to reload the primer is greatly shortened, and there is no need to worry about the dumb fire caused by the lack of primer, which greatly improves the efficiency of reloading, and the mute fire rate is also sharply reduced.

After loading the primer, the primer cap that hit the anvil immediately popped back, firmly covering the primer room.

Xu Wuniu pulled the trigger away again, and here, the reloading was completed, and the total time was less than ten seconds, even faster than when the infantry was repeated, you must know that this was on the back of a flying horse.

Raising their guns and turning back, the Mongolian cavalry was still a hundred paces away, and the Mongols' war horses were still a little slower.

In the next moment, a continuous burst of gunfire rang out again on the snowfield, and several Mongolian cavalry fell off their horses.

Reloaded, shot again, and then several more Mongol cavalry fell off their horses, it was not a fair battle, and the Mongol cavalry did not even have a chance to fire their arrows.

Under such a heavy wind and snow, the arrows shot by the bow could only be shot fifty paces away.

The weapons were inferior to the Ming army, and even the war horses were inferior to the Ming army, and the Mongolian cavalry was very helpless.

After about half an hour of pursuit, the Mongol cavalry had already suffered forty or fifty casualties.

The remaining Mongol cavalry could only give up, because if they continued to chase like this, the more than 100 cavalry would have to die, and their small tribe really couldn't afford such a large casualty.

At the sound of a whistle, the Mongol cavalry immediately retreated.

"Want to run away? It's not that easy. Xu Wuniu sneered.

However, just as Xu Wuniu was about to give the order to chase and kill, a horse neighing sounded behind him.

Looking back in a hurry, I saw a fast horse rushing over from the snowstorm, which was the order of the Ming army.

"Whistle Chief!" Still far away, the messenger of the Ming army shouted loudly, "There is an order to admonish the admonition, all the scout teams immediately withdraw to the Gaizhou Guard, and the order is given to the admonition, and all the scout teams immediately withdraw to the Gaizhou Wei ......."

Xu Wuniu's eyes flashed, and he said sharply: "It's all there, go back!" ”

More than a dozen horsemen turned their horses' heads one after another.

……

At the foot of Tianmu Mountain, on the side of Wanmadu.

Xu Yingwei was holding his young son and riding a horse.

"Daddy, are those rocks really Pegasus?"

"Of course it's true, every stone is a Pegasus."

"But, why didn't the gods come back and drive them away?"

"Because Tianma has turned into stone, you will never be able to go back to Tianma, just like if you don't study hard, you will become an idle gentleman in the future, and you will never be able to become a national son like your third uncle."

"Then I have to study hard and read well, and when I grow up, I will be admitted to the National Prison."

"That's right, the children of our grandmother's Dongxu family have only one way to study."

When he came to the entrance of the village, Xu Yingwei first put his son down from the horse, then turned over and dismounted, and then led the horse with one hand and his son's little hand with the other to go home.

During the period, I passed through the entrance of the private school at the head of the village.

Seeing that Xu Yingwei's father and son were so intimate, the teacher couldn't help but shake his head again and again.

Xu Yingwei didn't care about this, if it was four years ago, Xu Yingwei would never be so close to his son, because Confucianism advocates a gentleman holding his grandson and not his son.

But now, Xu Yingwei no longer agrees that a gentleman hugs his grandson and does not hold his son.

As time went on, the debate between conservatives and reformists became more extensive and intense.

Under the fierce attack of the reformists, the embankment of feudal etiquette is gradually loosening, and the first thing to bear the brunt of is such unethical etiquette as "a gentleman hugging a grandson but not a son".

Xu Yingwei scoffed at this kind of etiquette.

What's so bad about being close to father and son? Isn't the relationship between the saint and the crown prince, the king of Ding, and the king of Yong also very close?

Xu Shiyi sat at the door smoking a cigarette, and when he saw his son leading his eldest grandson home, he couldn't help frowning slightly, but he didn't say anything after all, mainly because his son was an official and didn't dare to teach him a lesson like before.

But Xu Shiyi's heart was full of worries, and he felt that Daming was in danger.

In Xu Shiyi's view, the rules of monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons are all set.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, hasn't it been like this for two thousand years? What's so bad about that?

Why is it suddenly not working? What is the reform of feudal etiquette and religion, the reformists clearly want to rebel, not only to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, but also to rebel against the Confucian temple!

(End of chapter)