Chapter 161 Ancient Fort

Li Shizhong reminded in a roundabout way that the Son of Heaven himself also found that something was wrong, which was the heavy rain that had been going on all day and day mentioned in Yan Minwang's military newspaper. Especially the sentence "According to the villagers, it has been like this for many years." Although it is beneficial to Nongsang, it is greatly hindered by the soldiers...... so that the Holy Son of Heaven "chuckles" in his heart: Hasn't Gansu Town been reporting the drought and looking for the imperial court for relief?

Gansu was originally a military town, in order to strengthen the management, Yingzong set up a governor's position, this Gansu governor Xi Junyu was originally the left deputy capital of the Imperial History. Soon after he took office, just like his predecessor, he repeatedly reported the disaster and asked the imperial court for relief.

Money is needed everywhere in the court, and even the side branch clans can't send out the money, where can there be so much spare money for disaster relief? However, the court also knows that the people in the area of Ganxi are fierce, and they have to give some points, otherwise if there is a civil uprising, it is not a joke, so they will allocate some every once in a while.

In Daming, the situation in various places can be roughly divided into three classes. The first class is naturally the land of fish and rice such as Huguang and Liangjiang, no matter what, both the government and the people, compared with other places, life will always be much better. The second class is Luyu and Guangzhou, which is more than enough than the top. The third class is the poor border fortress of Gansu Town. However, things cannot be absolute, and in some extremely poor places, the life of officials is better than that of their colleagues in many places: because they are too poor, the appropriation of the imperial court has become customized - there is an allocation, of course, there is oil and water to be fished, and the standards for the evaluation of the officials will be much more relaxed, and the completion rate of economic indicators must be assessed in other places.

In the impression of most people, mentioning Gansu is full of yellow sand.

It is no wonder that "the flat sand is reckless and yellow into the sky", "the wind and sand outside the plug are still cold", "the yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles", "the spring breeze does not pass the jade gate"...... From the Holy Son of Heaven to the hundred officials, they all grew up reading these famous poems, and subtly, of course, this kind of picture is in their minds. So every time the local governor asked for relief, he would always give some of it.

Until the year before last, Xi Junyu came up with a good idea.

Xi Junyu's idea was to open a "donation prison".

The dynasty is known as "the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together", and the scholars enjoy a lot of courtesy. For example, if you have the fame of showing off your talents, you can "see officials without worshipping", you can "study" everywhere without the need for guides, you can be exempt from taxes and labor, and so on.

The highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty is Guozijian, and the students in it are called "prison students". Governor Xi moved the idea of the prisoner.

In Daming, there are several sources of prisoners.

Lifting Supervisor: If you fail to pass the exam, you can go to Guozijian to study and tutor after being recommended by the Hanlin Academy.

Tribute Supervisor: The best local student (Xiucai) recommended by the magistrate of the prefecture, prefecture and county to enter the prison for further study.

Eunuch: The children of meritorious heroes specially approved by the Son of Heaven are imprisoned.

Shadow Prison: The children of officials above the third grade are imprisoned.

Donation to prison: also known as regular prison, the donation of property in exchange for prison qualifications.

To put it simply, if you are ten years old, you are Tian Shelang, you go to Tianzi Hall at dusk, and you directly enter the Ming system in one step, you are naturally virtuous ancestors. But most people don't have that good life. What to do? To continue their education. The best place for further study is naturally Qingbei, oh, Daming is called Guozijian. Who can get in? It's just the best of the best. However, when you go in, you find that many of your classmates seem to be completely different from you: some are local escort students (tribute supervisors), some are powerful fathers and mothers (shadow supervisors), some have money in the family (donate prisons), and many are international friends who can't even speak Chinese - Ryukyu, Annam (this guy is so dark-skinned), North Korea and other vassal countries have national prison quotas!

This scene seems a little familiar......

In fact, the so-called prison students are more of an identity qualification, and they don't necessarily need to really go to the country to study, what should they do. Xiucai already enjoys a lot of privileges, and the prisoners who are even better than Xiucai have more conveniences in life. In addition to those preferential treatments such as tax exemption and forced labor, they also include: theoretically have the qualifications to be officials - of course, for ordinary people, it is only theoretical, let's arrange slowly, and there may be hope for thirty or fifty years, but for those with deep family backgrounds, people are in line with the procedures, and they can enjoy publicly-funded medical treatment - the government will send people to treat illnesses, and all kinds of criminal nuisances will be exempted. In addition to tax exemption and exemption, the last item is also very affordable: one of the important means for the Ming Dynasty to make a fortune is to expand the case, whether you are guilty or not, but if you can get a little bit of it, you will be arrested! I'm in prison, of course you want to get out early, what should I do, don't you need me to teach you? And once they have the qualifications of prisoners, the tolerance officials will not dare to come nonsense.

Xi Junyu proposed a perfect solution to the imperial court: the rich family paid 100 stone wheat beans to the government, and you were specially granted the qualification of a prisoner. Mai Dou became an official, and when there was a disaster year, the government used these things to help the victims.

This method was praised by the courtiers: Gansu is a bitter cold land with a long drought and no rain, and the yellow sand is barren and the land is barren, which is clearly a move to benefit the people! So the proposal was easily approved. In the past few years, although Gansu Town has suffered from severe drought in most areas one after another, the imperial court has only allocated more than 500,000 taels in the past three years, and it has survived peacefully, which is more than twice as much as in the past.

But why did the military newspaper commanded by Yan mention that the locals said that it had been raining in this season for many years, and it was also beneficial to Nongsang?!

In fact, no one will really believe that things are 100% as Xi Junyu said, if he thinks like this, he will inevitably underestimate the imperial court's understanding of his own officials. Not only the holy patrol of the imperial history, but also the household department has also sent personnel to really check the granary in Gansu Town, and the conclusion reported back is that "the grain in the warehouse is indeed stored", so you can't believe it. For this reason, the Son of Heaven also specially rewarded Xi Junyu's son-in-law with the honorary title of a brocade guard envoy.

A few fast horses galloped out of the Beijing Division, all the way to the west, straight to Gansu Town. This is the minions of Dongchang sent by Li Shizhong's father-in-law.

Qin Taiping, who still had half a breath left, had been hanging in the air for most of the day.

Qin Taiping was a small leader of the auxiliary team of the Youwei Guzhai Fort (now Linze County, Gansu) in Ganzhou, and the boss of the Guzhai Fort was the Baihu Wei Dadao. As the saying goes, people are as their name suggests, but if you see Wei Baihu, you will never think of any mighty and majestic big sword, but will feel that there is a big ball of meat in front of you - like the surrounding Jing'an, Pingyu, Banqiao, and willow trees...... Like the other hundred households in each fort, Wei Baihu's military position is attacked, these officers who are listed in the dignified Ming military register, don't look at the names one by one, they are very capable of bluffing, and they have become small and medium-sized landlords two or three generations ago.

The Turgots near Yijinai were a branch of Warat. In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, there are Mongolian Tatars outside the border wall, and they themselves do not see it that way. For example, the Warats, who often refer to themselves as Oirat (another pronunciation of Warat) rather than, divide themselves broadly into two main groups: the sons of the steppe and the sons of the forest, which means forest in the Oirats. There are also tribes in the narrow sense. In the early years, he was scared by Chengzu, so he asked for tribute. Among the Mobei tribes, only Warat can ask for military supplies such as bows, knives, firearms, etc. in Daming, although the quantity is pitiful, it is also an obvious preferential treatment. When he arrived, he first fought with Yingzong's generation and fought several big battles: the Battle of Yiji Nai in the third year of orthodoxy, the Battle of Fengzhou in the sixth year of orthodoxy, the battle of Yikesu in the ninth year of orthodoxy, and the most famous civil engineering change in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy. It may be that the amount of wine is good and eloquent, after Yingzong was captured, he drank as a buddy first, and then he was sent back to Daming! Then, Nangong was restored and became a strange man who became an emperor twice in history*. It didn't take long for the relationship between the two families to reconcile again - in fact, even when there was a bad fight, most of the wars were not fought along the side walls here, so the countless fortresses in Xingdu Division and Gansu Town in Shaanxi only existed on the map of the Ming Army, in fact, they no longer had military significance. Qin Taiping's father gave him such a name, which is clearly a good hope for the future.

The heavy rain the other day didn't go wrong. Tomorrow will be clear, and Qin Taiping will release the sheep who are about to go crazy in the circle to eat grass and breathe. Unexpectedly, all of a sudden, dark clouds were thick, and a sudden explosion thunder frightened the sheep and fled, so Qin Taiping had to lead his men to look around. The torrential rain does not end, and the heavy rain comes and goes quickly, but there is still one that will never come back - the sheep ran too far, and when Qin Taiping came over, it had been eaten by the soldiers of Shaheyi on the fire and only half of the shelf was left.

It was already midnight when he touched it back with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and then early the next morning, Qin Taiping was ordered to be hung up and beaten by Wei Dadao, who was furious when he heard the news.

After a few hits, someone came to say something to Master Wei, and Master Wei was stunned, and then he didn't care about Qin Taiping, and disappeared. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Qin Taiping wouldn't have believed that this meat ball could run fast! Immediately, Master Wei and his family set up a car and hurriedly drove in the direction of the Northwest Gaotai Station, throwing all the half-human and half-ghost military household auxiliaries down.

The auxiliaries looked at it, and when they saw that Master Wei's convoy was out of sight, some people wanted to relieve Qin Taiping. But at this moment, there was a great chaos outside, there were cries and shouts everywhere, and everyone blew up their nests and fled in all directions, and no one cared about him anymore......

Qin Taiping was finally let go. A big face with an unkempt black and yellow beard leaned in front of him and said, "Your baby was hung like a donkey ball, what's the matter?" ”

Listening to the accent from Ningxia, Qin Taiping stammered and told what had happened. The bearded man asked again, "Where is the Shahe Station?" How many people are there? ”

Knowing that it was not far to the south, there were only about two dozen post guards, and the bearded man waved his hand, and there was a noisy sound of horses' hooves, and dozens of horsemen raised their whips and rushed straight over.

The bearded man threw another hand behind him, and a guard took out a piece of bread from his bosom and handed it over. "My surname is Zhang, you can call the king or call the handsome, follow me, let's go and kill the Wei Dadao of the donkey day!" Qin Taiping, who was gobbling up hard buns, nodded heavily.

Yan Minwang had already returned home with Taozhouwei's pursuers. Xi Junyu, the governor of Gansu, together with the senior officers of the Ganzhou Wuwei...... Oh, well, landlords, except for the retreat in a few strong strongholds such as Gansu Town, Suzhou Wei, and Zhenyi Institute, there is nothing to be done about it.

Zhang Hu rescued Qin Taiping, and Qin Taiping took Zhang Hu to find the grain hidden by Wei Dadao. Immediately, under the guidance and persuasion of Qin Taiping, Fuyi Fort, Pingchuan Fort, and 4567 Dam Fort...... Dozens of fortresses fell without a fight.

Zhang Hu heard what happened to Qin Taiping and decided not to kill indiscriminately, and the serf soldiers, who had long been unable to endure the bullying of military leaders at all levels, had no other way out, so they joined Zhang Hu's command in one go. In addition to the military households in the forts, the poor peasants in the civilian nationality joined more, and in the middle of ten months, Zhang Hu's group has expanded to nearly 100,000 people, of which there are seven or eight thousand people who can be soldiers. Although the gold and silver were not as abundant as in the Central Plains, the grain, cattle, sheep, mules, horses, and livestock were far surpassing.

Zhang Hu, who was blessed by misfortune, is no longer Wuxia Ameng, even if Sun Jie comes again, it is impossible to win in one battle.

* There is another person in history who has been emperor three times. Do you know who it is? Don't rush Baidu, think about it, you've definitely heard of the name - hint, don't go too far guessing ^_^