Chapter 28: Missing

At the same time that Niu Shiqun and others mobilized the guards and horses of various provinces in Shaanxi to gather in Xi'an Mansion, they sent two batches of fast horses before and after, and sent the anger and orders of the provincial capital to Yulinwei under the pretense of Qingyang Mansion.

Of course, there must also be an explanation from the imperial court, so in the first paragraph of the Chi Jingshi Chapter, he first fed the Holy Son of Heaven a reassuring pill: this is a rout, and he was lucky enough to succeed in a sneak attack, and he has transferred a large number of troops to recruit and suppress it, and he will be able to play Kai in a few days. The middle paragraph of the recital proves each other with reasonable evidence, in fact, everyone has long invariably seen that some officials are "getting worse in the twilight", just because they "think of their old age", they can't bear to participate in the performance for a while, and finally cause this catastrophe, and they are terrified-well, not only is the loss of a government not because of poor management, but it is not even "negligence": everyone has clearly seen it, how can it be said that it is overlooked? Alas, it's all because the heart is too soft-hearted to cause the trouble - respecting the old and loving the young is a virtue that the sages have repeatedly emphasized, but it can't be considered a big sin, right? At the end of the article, the three dignitaries said bitterly that they were worthy of the expectations of the imperial court and could not escape their crimes. However, the bandits and thieves, jumping off the beam and the ugly kind, after all, it is the problem of ringworm and scabies, the Holy Son of Heaven is the pastor of Kyushu, and the emperor is blessed, and it is easy to destroy this dynasty as easy as a backhand. If you don't play Kai in the future, please wait for the good news!

Guan Shengyun of Yan'an Mansion is also in full swing here.

His "uprising" was simply to avenge his father-in-law Lu Yong at the beginning, and then he couldn't help himself, and he originally had the idea of where to die, and he took one step at a time and left it to fate, but he didn't expect it to gradually become the climate. Now, Guan Shengyun must seriously think about the future: for himself, but also for the thousands of brothers who follow him.

Master Luo's plan is to go south.

There are two reasons for this. First, Shaanxi is too poor. It's easy to pull a team, but it's never a good place to raise tens of thousands of mouths. It is a pure dream to divide one side and cultivate and fight: if this place can be self-sufficient, why should even the imperial court's dignified border army rely on the salt and rice transported by the Beijing division to barely starve to death? Isn't it because I don't have to eat that I can gather this big group of people?

Second, several core generals knew in their hearts that if there was really a field to plant, these people would be scattered in the blink of an eye, and they would immediately be beaten back to their original form and become the commander of the light pole - and then they would be arrested and cut with a thousand knives!

Therefore, Master Luo resolutely advocated going south and going to Huguang. "The lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full". Moreover, when you go to a place where you are unfamiliar with life, you will be recognized as soon as you open your mouth, and leaving the crowd is a dead end, so that you can catch everyone. The generals once again unanimously supported Master Luo's foresight.

Once the policy of going south has been decided, how to proceed has become an issue that needs to be seriously studied. In this era, long marches of large armies were heavily dependent on waterways.

First of all, the human body should be replenished with water at all times: not eating for two or three days is not a big problem, but without drinking water, any army will collapse. There is a saying that one of the magic weapons of Qin's victory in the destruction of the Six Kingdoms was actually the pot helmet, that is, the dry noodle cake - the long shelf life, which greatly reduced the logistical pressure, and as long as there was a river nearby, the troops could maintain combat effectiveness for a long time. Secondly, the river is a free capacity, which can carry a much heavier task than any ox or horse, and the raft does not have to eat like a man, and the water never needs to rest like a mule and a horse.

Based on this, Guan Shengyun has two choices in two directions. One is to go south to Ganquan and then go down the Luoshui. The advantage of taking this road is that Luoshui is relatively gentle, the difficulty coefficient of transportation is small, and the disadvantage is that it penetrates directly into the heart of Shaanxi Province and threatens Xi'an Prefecture - everyone has no chance to explain to the political envoys and other officials: we are just passing by, in fact, we are going to harm Huguang...... Of course, they won't believe it. Therefore, along the way, it is bound to encounter the siege of the entire Shaanxi Metropolitan Government and block it with all its might; Another option is to follow the water eastward and then stick to the Yellow River to the south. This section is the east side of the Yellow River's zigzag-shaped channel, which runs almost straight from north to south. However, the difficulties are obvious: the Yellow River is dangerous, the water is turbulent, and the difficulties in transportation are not a little bit higher, but of course the benefits are not small. At the junction of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the military pressure will certainly be much lighter. The two provinces will be cautiously vigilant, and they will not really play with their lives: if there is a war, it is better to go to the other party's territory! Whether it is Guan Shengyun, who was born in the border army, or Luo Yonghao, who was born as an official in the imperial court, they are very clear about this.

Guan Shengyun didn't know which way to go, and Luo Yonghao couldn't make up his mind for a while. However, one thing is necessary: lay down the extension first, and solve the worries. Master Luo has heard of the stubborn old man Yu Shengliang's behavior, and Chang Wenping has also confirmed this, if this threat is not completely solved, the old man Yu, who is full of tendons and loyal to the country, will definitely make trouble behind his back, and the army will be overwhelmed.

Chang Wenping has already told Master Luo that he must not "follow the thief", and Luo Yonghao cannot force his friends to take the lives of more than 100 members of the family. The plan discussed by the two was that Chang Wenping would live in a simple house for the time being, and wait for the right time, that is, when Guan Shengyun led the crowd to leave, go back to "recover" Ansai County, and then "rescue" Yan Wenlong and Mo Hantao from the prison. Such a great achievement, not only can it save the life of Changzhi County, but it is estimated that the official position may also be promoted to a higher level - Yan Wenlong and a few other heads, Guan Shengyun is not of much use, there is no deep hatred, it is not necessary to cut it, it is better to sell personal favors to the master's friend, and it can also leave a way back. In this move, Guan and Luo made an excellent move, and they reaped great rewards after a long time. Of course, that's a story for later.

It was decided to lay down Yanchang first, and Guan Shengyun asked the auxiliary team to go all over the mountains to cut down trees and build boats and rafts - according to the scout's report, the walls of Yanchang County were very broken. However, no matter how broken the earthen wall is, it is also an obstacle, and Guan Shengyun at this time is really ruthless to let the people of Yan'an, who have been ravaged, be the siege cannon fodder. Having said that, breaking through along the Yanshui can not only greatly reduce the difficulty of the attack, but also accumulate some experience for the next long-distance march by the waterway.

Although he is only in his twenties, Guo Qinglin, the leader of the auxiliary team, can be regarded as an old man who follows Guan Shengyun. The captain of the country was originally an outcast, and was picked up by a lonely old man locksmith in Wei Yuanwei of Datong Mansion. Twelve or thirteen years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the craft has been learned quite well. Later, Wei Yuanwei had a robbery case, which coincided with the year of the imperial court's "big plan", and the master was anxious: this was obviously to add chaos to the official's career! So an order was issued: three days and one "comparison", and the case was solved within ten days! The so-called "comparison" means that every few days, if no prisoners are caught, they will slap the officials on the buttocks (there are also places to sob) to supervise their enthusiasm for work. The poor men don't want to be punished, and of course they don't bother to find any clues to really solve the case - how long will it take? So on the third day, the locksmith who could pick the lock, the old country and the small country, were both taken to the errand.

The men of the six doors know that as long as they work hard under their hands during the trial, if the person is gone, there will be no evidence, and the case will be ironclad. Sure enough, Lao Guo didn't carry the board of the ascending hall - the last few boards were "crooked", not on the buttocks and thighs, but on the lower back. I was incontinent and urinated with blood on the spot, and then I was on death row that night. Of course, the case file received by the Criminal Department said that "the main culprit died of a violent illness." Twelve or thirteen-year-old Guo Qinglin was malnourished, and he looked like he was in his teens, and he could neither shoot to death together nor chase any stolen goods, so Xiao Guo, a half-grown child who didn't know anything, was kicked out. The old locksmith's house has been divided into only four walls by the poor masters, and the small country is left on the streets.

However, the lock will be unlocked that year is definitely a high-tech talent, since the lock repair is not a living, then have to play the specialty of unlocking. Soon, Xiaoguo gained a firm foothold in a small team of "heroes" who were both stealing and robbing. Later, the "heroes" collectively voted for Guan Shengyun, who had just picked up the 100th person. Guan Dashuai felt that the hand that could pick the lock was much more expensive than the hand that could only pick the knife, so the small country was taken care of. The half-grown children gradually became young people, and the small country also took up the title of general and took the post of auxiliary officer.

The total is also called the total hundred. Because there was no Chinese Pinyin Mandarin in the old days, many of the soldiers were from all over the world and all the accents of the army, and the literacy rate in the army was ridiculously low. Guan Shengyun is not like Hong Xiuquan in later generations, he had to make up a set of messy official titles to confuse everyone, and directly followed the official rank in the Ming army.

It is always the seventh grade of the military position, and it belongs to the county and department-level cadres today, of course, the civil officials do not recognize this. Theoretically, there are 440 soldiers under his jurisdiction, which is very powerful in the early stage of the Ming Dynasty. However, in the middle and late periods, the value was rapidly and sharply depreciated, and the administrative status was similar to that of platoon-level cadres, but in fact it was more like a squad leader, and it was good to have more than a dozen subordinates. This is the Central Plains area, because there are many wars, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life are very mixed, and the appointment is very chaotic. The Fujian and Guangdong areas are relatively quiet, and he is still a very important and valuable military attaché.

That evening, a logging team of seven or eight people did not return to the city. At first, the generals didn't take it too seriously: maybe because of some delay or too far, they camped outside the city in the evening, and when the day dawned they would come back—generally speaking, absconding would not be, in this era, far from the city was the barren mountains and mountains, and the transportation was all on two legs, and at best each person was given two miscellaneous grain buns when he set off, not to mention encountering wild beast officers and soldiers, if he wanted to escape, he would starve to death for a few days. I thought that when they came back, I would have to whip a few whips to make the guys remember for a long time, but the next day until the evening, not only did the team not come back, but another group of people were missing.

The general of the country always found that something was wrong, so he immediately reported to Guan Shengyun.

Speaking from his heart, Guan Shengyun didn't care at all that a few auxiliary soldiers were missing, and he snorted casually to deal with it. Even when he was in the official army, the auxiliaries were consumables among the consumables, whether they ran away or died, they just went back and arrested some people.

It just so happened that Luo Yonghao was not there, if it weren't for Master Luo who happened to be talking to Guan Jianlin and listening, this matter would have passed. Luo Shifan is not strong and full of ghost ideas, Guan Jianlin is not stingy, he is not afraid of anything, but he has no brains, but these two people are good friends, Xiao Luo likes to listen to everything Guan Jianlin says.

Master Xiao Luo tilted his head and listened for a while, but he didn't alarm Guan Shengyun, and pulled Guan Jianlin to find Gu Baihua. Gu Baihua listened to Xiao Luo's analysis and was very unimpressed, he felt that those guys should have just run away. Haha laughed and said Isn't it just some coolies, as long as Guo Qinglin gets him some wine, he will send people to each house to catch it, as much as he wants. However, in the end, he was persuaded by Xiao Luo to pick a dozen brothers with good skills to ride out of the city to find out.

After lunch, Guan Shengyun took a copy of "Mysterious Strange Records" on the bookshelf of Shengliang to pass the time. After watching it for a while, I came up sleepy and began to nap in my chair. I vaguely dreamed of passing the green hairpin wine order with a few fairy girls, and a white-clothed beautiful woman was stuck like a flower, and everyone shouted to punish "one incense", and the blow bomb with a blushing face and slightly open lips was just closer, and was suddenly woken up by a noise outside. When he opened his eyes, Hua Rongyue's appearance was gone, and it was replaced by Gu Baihua's round black face, almost touching the tip of his nose and shouting loudly: "Dashuai, enemy attack!" ”

The spittle stars sprayed Guan Shengyun's face all over his face.

This knowledge point:

1. The requirements for water sources in ancient marches were very high, and in order to prevent the enemy from poisoning or unclean drinking water that led to a large number of non-combat attrition, the water source must be living water.

2. In ancient times, the sentence of the death penalty was very formal, and the process was cumbersome, and even the emperor himself needed to be executed (generally in the autumn when the grass and trees were killed, so it was called "beheaded after the autumn"). For example, if he is sentenced to "beheading in prison", theoretically he is waiting for a suspended death: waiting for the criminal department to report the list to the emperor, and the royal pen will cut whom. If it is a senior official known to the emperor, there is a high probability that he will not be able to die - if he really wants to kill you, he will be sentenced to death directly. It's just a scare, and even after a while, there are many people who are brought out of prison and reinstated, showing the emperor's grace and making you die from the bottom of your heart. However, from high to high suddenly became a prisoner, a huge gap, and I was afraid that the emperor would not be happy to draw a name one day...... It's also like a year. Of course, the things that provoked were out of control, or the emperor was in a bad mood, and the more he thought about it, the more he hated it, and one day he simply hooked it up. If it's a grass folk that the emperor doesn't know, then it's fate...... There are also people with particularly good lives, who have been in prison for decades (well, decades in prison, and it's not much better), and they didn't get it every time, and finally the emperor looked at the name and looked familiar, and he missed the net for decades when he asked, and he pondered that his life should not be extinguished, and he was pardoned, and there were also. On the contrary, if there is an "accidental death", the court will not pursue it. For example, if you are a county official, you are convicted of "standing cage", and you have been exposed to the sun for more than ten days and dried meat, which is an "accident" - who knows why he is so unsunning! So, it's fine. In other prisons, he starved to death, had a heart attack from a large board, and died of wound infection...... It's all the same, just report a "vicious disease" or "violent disease".