Gorge River.

On the streets of the county in the afternoon.

Yu Qi, the new magistrate of Xiajiang, was walking on horseback.

"So in such an important place, there is only one imperial court guarding a thousand households?"

He looked at Sun En, the brocade-clothed guard beside him, with some shock.

Of course, both of them are now in civilian clothes, followed by a carriage, and in the carriage is Yu Zhixian's newlywed wife.

The latter was looking curiously at the shops outside, although she was wearing Ming women's clothes, her appearance was obviously exotic.

This is Ambassador Yang's daughter-in-law.

It is said that it was a city in the Western Regions, and the whole city was slaughtered by Timur, and after Ambassador Yang recovered it, he saw that she was pitiful and accepted as a righteous daughter.

There are many more like her in Wutai Mountain, and Ambassador Yang's righteous daughter is sufficient.

It is estimated that this expedition to the west can bring back more, after all, Ambassador Yang's reputation for being kind-hearted is well known to the world.

And for the students of Wutai Mountain, after graduation, they are admitted to the Jinshi and lead the beauties, which can be described as the title of the gold list of the cave house, that life is also very rushing, and Ambassador Yang, these righteous girls learn no less than them, you must know that the school in Wutai Mountain was actually taught to them at first, but this new education made the emperor take a fancy to it, so he began to select bachelors from the Wei Institute.

Even in the beginning, many righteous daughters were teachers of these new bachelors......

Ambassador Yang has limited time, and there are no other teachers for many things, these righteous girls have at least studied systematically, so in the original schools in Wutai Mountain, little girls gave lectures, and a group of male students older than her studied seriously.

As for Yu Zhixian, of course, he graduated from Wutai Mountain, but he is a scholar of agricultural science, because the current Xiajiang Zhixian has resigned, so he was directly selected as the Zhixian by the Ministry of Officials, and then under the protection of Sun En and other ten Jinyi guards, he rushed here from the capital to replace the original Zhixian. It is said that he should first go to the county government to be a county magistrate or something, but I don't know why he was directly elected as the magistrate, but of course it is a good thing for him, and now he is gradually replacing the old imperial examination officials with a new imperial examination jinshi. Therefore, many of the latter are discouraged, knowing that they do not have much future in their positions, and the current imperial court is becoming more and more perverse, and various policies that make Confucianism beat their chests are constantly being implemented, and the old officials are also quite reluctant to go along with it.

Of course, the key is that there is no future, after all, this posture can be understood at a glance, and even if you are promoted in the future, you will be promoted first.

Including the original magistrate of Xiajiang, he had also left three days ago.

"It's to build a new fort upstream, and transfer the original Yuanzhou to guard thousands of households, but it's not a big deal, the south is just self-preservation, how can you have the ability to attack the capital?

Don't say it's here, even Nanchang is actually still the two guards.

The elites of the imperial court are all in the north, the new army is in the capital, and although there is a puppet dynasty in the south, it is nothing more than self-preservation, and it is enough to have these guards.

Just wait for the day when the army goes south and sweeps it away. ”

Sun En said.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement in itself.

Everyone knows Jianwen's strength, even if Wang Bi is added, it is impossible to take the initiative to attack the imperial court......

The two sides are not at all at the same level.

The Guangjing battalion of the imperial court has six new armies, and these are almost 100,000, which is a new army, and the Jianwen Dynasty has only trained 30,000 so far.

And in the north controlled by the imperial court, there are almost countless camel cavalry, not to mention the old-style infantry, it can be said that with an order from the imperial court, a million troops can go south, even if it is the naval division with the smallest gap between the Jianwen Dynasty and the imperial court, it is at least twice the gap. Among them, the Fujian Naval Division led by Zheng He is single-handed, and it can also fight a decisive battle with He Di, and there is also Qi Bin's Beiyang Naval Division in the north, and the north of the Yangtze River Estuary is counted as the latter, but it is only resident in the Wa Kingdom.

However, because they are stationed in Wakoku, they can quickly move south at any time, because their base is in Nagasaki.

In Sasebo Military Port to be exact.

Such a comparison of strength made the people in the area controlled by the imperial court almost convinced that the Jianwen Dynasty did not have the courage to attack north.

They're just protecting themselves.

So don't talk about Jiangxi, even Huguang is still the old guard, but it is slightly stronger than here, after all, there are many Huguang guards, and there are also Guizhou's guards next to it.

"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if!"

Yu Qi sighed.

And then......

"Wang Shi, Wang Shi, Wang Shi Beiding, Wang Shi Beiding!"

A mad scream suddenly rang out behind him.

He and Sun En turned their heads in astonishment and looked at the city gate cave behind them, where an old squire-like was standing there and howling like a convulsion.

Also holding their hands up.

Then because he was too emotional, he shouted a little lack of oxygen, and immediately shook it, and then coughed violently.

The passers-by on the road also looked at him in amazement.

There was silence all around.

However, the next moment was like a muffled thunder, and everyone raised their heads and looked at the clear sky overhead.

"Wang Shi, Wang Shi Beiding, Xu Qianhu has already surrendered, and the battleship of Wang Shi's army is Saijiang, and it is almost at the dock!"

Behind the old squire, a slightly smaller man than him, panted and howled with the same agitation.

Yu Qi and Sun En looked at each other, and then Yu Zhixian raised his body......

"Close the city gate immediately, I'm the new magistrate!"

He yelled.

And Sun En and the others pulled out the short gun.

Before those people could react, they turned their horses and rushed straight to the city gate, at this time the mighty fleet could already be seen on the Gan River outside the city, and the two old squires had not yet reacted, because they were too excited and they didn't hear Yu Qi's words clearly. The cough finally finished coughing, just as the servants behind arrived, saying that he ran faster than the servants is really amazing, this is obviously a very prestigious old guy in the local area, and he didn't realize that Yu Qi was closing the city gate, in fact, because Yu Qi's official language is quite different from the local area, the common people don't understand much.

"What are you looking at, quickly prepare gongs, drums, firecrackers, incense, candles, wine and meat, and go to the dock to meet Wang Shi, Wang Shi is here, and the sky of Daming will be blue!"

The old squire shouted in a posture of a talker.

Then Yu Qi suddenly appeared in his field of vision, he was startled and quickly dodged, but because of his age and a little exhausted, he tripped over the stone slab under his feet and fell directly to the ground.

Yu Qi, who couldn't dodge, stepped directly on him.

"Ahh

In his convulsions and screams, Yu Zhixian was also startled.

At the same time, Sun En and the others arrived, the latter had a short gun in one hand and a brocade guard in the other, and the other squire obviously knew this thing, so he turned around and ran out in fright.

"Master Wang, Master Wang, there are Jinyi guards in the city, go to other doors!"

He shouted as he ran.

The servants looked at each other in confusion.

Sun En aimed at his back and pulled the trigger.

The squire fell down in the gunshot, and Yu Qi, who had dismounted, was already closing the city gate, and at this time, on the riverside dock, the first warship had docked, and the soldiers wearing half-body armor on the ship began to land, Yu Qi and Sun En closed the city gate without hesitation, and then looked back at the dazed people together......

"Quick, go and close all the city gates, I am the new magistrate of the county, and I have come to divide the land by order."

Yu Qi shouted.

Although there are some differences in language, there are still a lot of people who understand Mandarin.

"Soon, the new county has arrived, let's listen to the county."

Immediately someone shouted.

Then accompanied by the chaotic shouts, those people finally reacted, although at this time it is said that the land is a little far away, but the rebellion is definitely not good, they don't understand anything else, but at least the rebellion is not right, the court in the past two years all kinds of benevolent people also understand, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are getting fewer and fewer, although mainly because the officials are getting fewer and fewer, but the tax of the court is indeed getting less and less, especially like Jiangxi, there is plenty of food and clothing, after all, they have a high grain yield, plus the new fertilizer is higher.

As long as there are few taxes and less exploitation by the gentry, it is inevitable that there will be plenty of food and clothing.

This is not after the population skyrocketed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and now there are more than 60 million people in the country, and the people do not have to reclaim those thin lands.

It's all good land.

Even now that even forced labor has been abolished, this alone is enough for the people to be grateful to Dade.

For this court, although Confucianism and landlords gritted their teeth with hatred, the common people really regarded themselves as the holy lord Mingjun.

Although the Holy Lord Mingjun has just been able to walk, he still has to carry diapers.

"I can't keep it."

Looking at the people in the chaos, Sun En said very simply.

"Just drag it out for half a day, there must be a ship to Nanchang to report the news at this time, we only need to delay it for half a day to make Nanchang prepare in advance."

Yu Qi said.

After saying that, he rushed directly to the city wall, and then Sun En and the others also went up to the city wall with short guns, and the lady of the county magistrate walked out of the carriage with a flint hair and a half-long spear, holding a skirt in one hand and a spear to follow, and carrying a small bag next to her. At this time, the soldiers outside had already approached the city gate, and the previous gunfire did not affect them much, after all, they knew very well that there were no defenders here, and the only garrison was the one guarding the Senho, but the latter had surrendered directly under the leadership of Chino.

"Hit!"

Yu Qi, who was lying on the female wall, shouted.

Immediately after that, he, Sun En and others pulled the trigger, and the two enemy soldiers immediately fell.

The rest immediately sobered up, and all of them searched for concealment as fast as they could, while the county magistrate was lying on the female wall holding the half-long spear and aiming outward.

Outside, an enemy officer was yelling at his men to attack.

Mrs. Zhixian simply pulled the trigger, and with the sound of gunfire, the officers who were more than 100 paces away fell in response.

After the fight, she quickly retracted back to the women's wall, and in Sun En's stunned gaze, she took out the bullets wrapped in deerskin and began to reload slowly.

Well, she's a branch rifled gun.

Yu Qi and Sun En hurriedly continued to fire outside.

However, they had a total of a dozen short guns, and they certainly couldn't stop the enemy, who was only a striker, but they were well-armed, and while they shot at the city wall with their magic guns, a large number of soldiers quickly rushed to the city gate, throwing hooks at the city wall and preparing to climb up. And Mrs. Zhixian, who had completed the loading, carried her rifled gun, hunched over quietly, and then took out a grenade from her small bag, skillfully pulled out the safe, stretched her hand out of the women's wall, and then let go of her hand......

"Boom!"

In the explosion of the grenade, the enemy troops, who had already climbed halfway, fell one after another.

Then she pulled out another one, stood up abruptly, and watched as the enemy troops outside were throwing directly at the enemy who were terrorizing backwards.

Several people fell in the explosion of the grenade.

She retracted as fast as she could, then lay down at the perforation and took aim at another officer and pulled the trigger.

At this time in the city, some young people have already rushed to the city wall with various weapons, especially bows and crossbows, there are many civilian weapons, plus the local mountain people have hunting habits, so it is easy to form an arm in a short time.

Outside the city on the Gan River.

"I just know, I know that Huang Zicheng's words can't be believed, and he still eats pot pulp, and some people resist before he leaves the Xiajiang."

Hua Rong said melancholy on the deck holding the binocular.

"What can these literati understand, they don't look at the situation today, Yang Feng and King Yan have already gone on an expedition thousands of miles away to foreign lands, don't people have the ability to fight Guangzhou? People are too lazy to fight, how good is it to rob money and women from the Western Regions, which one didn't come back last time ride a high-headed horse, hugging the beauties of the Western Regions, and carrying bags of gold and silver? After all, it is his own family affair to fight Guangzhou, Yang Feng still has to ask for face, and he can't burn, kill and loot, and it is also the Zhu family's country to fight down, so there is no need to worry about this kind of thing.

They literati deceive themselves.

Still the king of the north?

30,000 imperial camps to fight the capital?

Even if Yang Feng takes away two armies, there are still four armies in the capital!

Even if Wang Bi can get there, he may not be able to fight, not to mention that Wang Bi doesn't know if he can pass Wuchang. ”

Said a cronie beside him.

In fact, these generals are very clear about the gap between the two sides, these are all guards, and the generals of the guards in the area controlled by the imperial court are all relatives and friends, and the imperial court does not restrict exchanges, and the letters between each other and even the movement of female relatives are still the same, what is the area controlled by the imperial court, and what is the area controlled by the imperial court in Guangzhou is actually clear. The Jianwen Dynasty is nothing more than three and a half provinces, and this bit of territory and population still wants to fight back to the capital, it is really a joke, even if those gentry from all over the country who boast about it eat pot pulp?

Could it be that the local Confucian scholars and gentry could still decide who would be the emperor?

If they have this ability, they won't be trampled and rubbed by Emperor Taizu Gao.

They are just some people who call the mouth, but they are all scum in fact, when will it be their turn to call the shots?

"No matter what, they can do whatever they want, let's not be too profound, do what they say honestly, and don't do those things that provoke hatred, no matter what, in the future, there is a room, quickly send someone to report to our governor's military affairs, and then go directly to Nanchang, or stay and continue the attack?"

Hua Rong said.

They followed the Jianwen Dynasty because of the wealth of overseas trade, and they did not have any loyalty to Jianwen.

The civil officials danced in front of the joy, they made a fortune in the back, and after the defeat, the civil officials were guilty, so they honestly let the civil officials call the shots.

"What will happen to him, of course, he will stay and continue to attack.

This mouth has said that the gentry all over the country eat pot pulp, and the army drum marches down, and now they are slapped in the face by a small county town, even if it is for face, they have to be beaten down first, otherwise the army will be humiliated before the first pass, how can they brag about the pot pulp in the future? ”

The cronies said with a smile.

Hua Rong couldn't help but smile too.

(End of chapter)