Chapter 186: Resurgence

Geng Libin, Shangshui Zhixian County, can really be described as a bumpy half of his life. My father was in charge of the main and guest department of the Ministry of Rites, and it was rare to see him once that the official was not big, and he was in the middle of the five brothers and sisters in the family. The main memory of my teenage years is that my family has to hold a funeral from time to time: Zhong Xiucai died of his sister that year, and his brother died a few days after Zhongju, and he was easy to get into the top three in Beijing to catch the exam, and he was trying to send someone to send someone to spread good news to the family, but the servants of the family came to report the funeral first, saying that his younger brother caught the dragonfly standing on the lotus leaf, but he didn't expect that his feet slipped in the pond, and his sister reached out to pull the ...... Then both siblings drowned!

Fortunately, it is in the Ming Dynasty, the grandfather is obsessed with money, and everyone on the earth knows that they think that the officials have to pay tribute to the court at home all day long - don't you think the grandfather is losing money and taking paid leave? There is no door! In the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Taizu issued a decree stipulating: "In the future, except for those who are burden-bearing by their parents and grandparents, they are not allowed to run for funeral." "Otherwise, if it is in the Great Song Dynasty, if the brothers and sisters die, they will have to go home for a year. After the exam* was waiting for the county to be released to the county for a few days, he had been worried about living like a year, and sure enough, the front and back feet of the officials who sent the letter and the family came to report the death of their grandfather! Now it's okay, let's go home honestly and keep filial piety. Of course, the rumors in his hometown have long been spread that the third young master of the Geng family is a nuisance, and as long as he has something good, the family will definitely have to kill one.

I don't know if it's a prophecy or fate is like this, it took less than a year to re-release the county to my grandfather's observance period...... Grandma died. Don't say anything, pack your things and go home. Kankan has been staying up for more than two years and seeing that he can return to Beijing to report, but someone came first in Beijing: Dad died in office! Well, let's do it for another twenty-seven months.

During those days at home, I always felt that the old lady looked at her eyes strangely: sometimes what I read was hatred, hating who this son would arrest; Sometimes what I read is love, Ba hopes that he is dying soon, let his son finish it in one breath, hurry up and become an official, raise his eyebrows and exhale. But God obviously doesn't want the third young master Geng to take a shortcut, the old lady has been sick and crooked for the past three years, but it's fine. Wait for the vacant child to come out again, this time it's been a little longer, and the old lady will die two years later, so go home and squat for three years! The left three years and the right three years twisted the neck and twisted the buttocks and deepened the breathing of the circle to guard down, a lot of age is still a county, and the three sons also joined in the fun and died one after another, and the one who is alive is even more worry-free. Mrs. Geng - this honorific title is worthy of the name, but shouldn't I be called Mrs. Geng when his beard is white--Mrs. Geng's heart is full of grievances. I spent a lot of money to find a master to show myself, and the master said that the ancestral tomb did not choose a good place and had to find a way quickly, if you don't move it, the unlucky thing will not be over.

And then ......

And then it's going to be a disaster.

They didn't agree to buy land with the Wen family, and they wanted to come to the forced demolition, and tens of thousands of people wanted to play with their lives! I had to go to the public to compensate again. Not to mention stealing chickens, not only did he lose face, but the news spread in the officialdom of Henan Province and caused a commotion for himself. Hearing the news that Yingchuan Wei burned the Wen family ancestral hall to the ground, Mrs. Geng was not only overjoyed, but he was afraid of death - he knew in his heart that the adults of the three divisions of the provincial government had no intention of coming out for themselves in such a show, just to deter the Diao people, but nine times out of ten, the Wen family would count this account on their own heads!

How can this be done? That piece of land can't be asked for alive or dead, and tens of thousands of people in the whole clan are red-eyed and want to kill the enemy, can they still send it to the door themselves? No matter how good the feng shui plot is, it is also buried in the ancestors, and when he is still alive, he takes his son to lie down with him. After thinking about it, Mrs. Geng invited back a few soap officials surnamed Wen who had been blown away a while ago, and invited them to a big banquet out of his own pocket. During the banquet, Mrs. Geng almost burst into tears and complained bitterly, swearing that the burning of the ancestral hall had nothing to do with him, and also said that the county could allocate five hundred taels of silver to help rebuild it - go back and let the master draft a report on the "Restoration of Shangshui Religious Attractions", and the county will allocate funds.

In fact, Geng Libin also knew that the Wen family was not short of these five hundred taels. He had already heard that when he was going to draw a dead soldier to kill his whole family a while ago, the Wen family's clansmen who couldn't come back from other provinces pooled money, totaling more than 60,000 taels, and said that this was a settling-in fee for the dead brothers, wives and children - where would people care about just five hundred taels. But there is only so much of Master Geng's ability to pretend to be public and private, mainly to show an attitude.

Several people surnamed Wen responded without saltiness, and Geng Libin's heart has been hanging. Especially when I heard that the giant who was defeated in Kaifeng Mansion took Xihua without much effort, Mrs. Geng was afraid to die. The four doors were closed, and the houses against the walls were all demolished inside and outside the city, and everything that could be smashed down, whether it was the beams or the clumsy furniture of the water tank, was piled up on the wall, and all the people who could move were bombarded on the walls to defend day and night, and their hearts still did not fall to the ground.

So I wrote the letter.

Shangshui belongs to Kaifeng Mansion, of course, you must first ask for help from Fucheng. However, Geng Libin knew that it would not be of much use: a city was in the north, and the thieves were separated from it, and the messenger made a big circle from afar, maybe the thieves had already been killed before they arrived in Kaifeng Mansion; Second, Fucheng has just fought a bloody battle with the thieves for a long time, and he has to rest and recuperate from his injuries, and he must also prevent the thieves from killing the horse pistol. Can the nature of losing a county seat be compared with losing a provincial town? What's more, there is also a King of Zhou there - Shangshui is a Qipinzhi County that almost wiped out the whole family, and on the other side is the Taizu Clan, which one can be figured out with his toes! Therefore, Kaifeng Mansion will definitely not send any reinforcements.

Yingchuanwei's garrison was not far away, and they did it to burn the Wen family ancestral hall. Although the Ming Dynasty used Wen to control the martial arts, Wen Qipin Zhixian was able to clean up the guerrillas of Wu Sanpin to cry without tears, but that was usual! According to the conventions and customs, in the event of thieves, the corresponding armed institutions of each administrative department are: Chengxuan Political Envoy Department - Command Envoy Division, Prefecture - Guard, Prefecture - Thousand Households, County - Hundred Households! A seven-rank magistrate called a three-rank guard commander to come over and fight for himself? What do you think, I usually don't have any friendship at all, can people take care of themselves?

Hope can only be pinned on the two adults in the neighboring provinces, especially the Runing Mansion to the south. Guide Mansion in the northeast is not much of a threat: next to Kaifeng Prefecture, the thieves are unlikely to turn back, so don't expect too much. Geng Libin's letter of request for help to Runing Mansion was written with tears in his eyes, what kind of lips and teeth are cold, what is the relationship, the fire at the city gate and the fish in the pond...... However, a few days passed, and there was no reply at all, just like there was no such thing!

There was really no recruitment, so Geng Zhixian had to go to the wall a few times a day, personally command, and personally deploy. Another unexpectedly: there was no movement for several days, and the thieves seemed reluctant to leave and wanted to settle in Xihua.

The most unexpected thing for Geng Zhixian happened. On this day, he just came down from the wall and returned to the Yali, and Wen Fan, the leader of the team who had been found for a few days, came in to tell him that the Wen family in Nanton had sent a thousand people to assist in the defense, and he had already entered the city from the south gate! This news moved Mrs. Geng to tears. What does it mean to understand righteousness? That's it! Geng Zhixian would never suspect him - the crime of the clan being a thief is too big, and the Wen family will never have the courage to do so! No matter how loud the thief is, he is also a thief, and sooner or later he will be exterminated by the imperial court, as the saying goes, a monk can't run away from the temple, the Wen family has been rooted here for generations, even if the strong man can be a thief, can those women, children, old and young leave their homes and businesses to run with the thief?

Early in the morning, Mrs. Geng was woken up by the noise of magpies outside the window. After washing up and putting on the official uniform, he was about to go to the wall to take a look, Wen Fan led a few people in to report that a large number of thieves had appeared five miles outside the city, and it would not be long before they came to Shangshui City. "It's finally here", Geng Libin exhaled heavily, faintly feeling that the few people in front of him seemed to be a little weird, but the enemy didn't think much about it at the moment, and was about to be ordered to go to the north wall, Wen Fan spoke first: "Escort the master to the wall to watch the enemy." Then several people gathered around him and hugged him and walked out.

"Why are you so close, are you afraid that the official will be too scared to walk?" When he was about to walk to the road under the wall, the people on both sides leaned over, each of them grabbed one of Geng Libin's arms, Mrs. Geng's mouth was still joking, his neck was tight, and a rope came from behind to strangle his throat, and Mrs. Geng's pretended heroic laughter was strangled back into his stomach, followed by a press on his shoulder, and his arms were pulled back at the same time - between two breaths, Mrs. Geng was tied up by Wuhuada!

"Good skillful technique". This thought flew through Mrs. Geng's mind. Turning his head to look left and right...... Isn't it, tying yourself up is the soap official in the yali!

"What will you do, that you will be a thief? Aren't you afraid of extermination? After struggling twice, the rope on his throat loosened a little, and Geng Libin shouted with all his might.

"Don't bother, you old dog! Haven't you been harmed by your old dog? Wen Fan's eyes lit up with hatred.

was pushed against the wall, Geng Libin finally understood what was wrong in his heart just now: Wen Fan had a strip of blue cloth on his body, or wrapped around his arm or tied to his belt - there were hundreds of people on the wall, and each of them had a piece of blue cloth on his body!

After seeing about a stick of incense, the thieves outside the city got closer and closer, and stopped at twenty or thirty feet outside the trench. Several thieves rode their horses out of the crowd, the suspension bridge at the north gate was lowered, and Wen Fan pushed Geng Libin to welcome him outside the city.

Now Geng Libin saw it clearly, among the several thieves, there was Wen Huangci! I didn't think this guy could ride a horse...... Seeing Geng Libin glaring at him, Wen Junshi took a few steps forward with his legs between the horse's belly: "Geng Xianzun, you didn't think there would be today, right?" ”

"Wen Xiao...... The surname is Wen, you dare to vote...... In this way," Geng Libin glanced at the fierce gods behind Wen Junshi, and replaced the word "thief" on his lips with "so", "Aren't you afraid of the Wen family's extermination?" ”

"Hahahaha," Wen Huangci laughed angrily, "Wen has been removed from the clan!" The Wen family ancestral hall is gone, and there will be no more Wen's tablet when it is rebuilt, and Wen will thank you! As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Wen Fan and the others, "As for those who want to follow Wen Mou, they are all martyrs of our clan who died in this battle, and the court will give them a pension, so don't bother Lord Geng." Our clan has gathered tens of thousands of taels of silver, do you think this is a matter of spilling a lot of silver? ”

"You, you, you ......" Geng Libin stammered and couldn't speak. Yes, what virtue is the Ming court, of course Geng Libin knows. Tens of thousands of taels of silver are sent out, don't say that you draw a circle on the list, you will stare at the coal and say that the coal is white, and there will be a large group of officials to help you find evidence by citing scriptures!

……

Because of the Wen family, Zhang Hu just took the people of Shangshui away, and this is the only city where Zhang Hu has not killed people and set fire to it so far. As for Nanton, there was no crime in the autumn, the war battalion and the auxiliary battalion encircled the captured Xihua and Shangshui people far away, Zhang Hu and several other generals were warmly welcomed by the Wen clan, and the banquet lasted for three whole days. At the ceremony of laying the foundation of the ancestral hall, Geng Libin's family and the county master of the county were all sacrificed, and in less than a year, a more magnificent ancestral hall rose from the ground. There is a plaque hanging high at the main entrance of the ancestral hall, on which four golden characters shine in the sun: "Loyal and martyrless"! It's the royal pen of today's saints. It is said that when the saint heard that the Wen family had "gone" to more than 1,000 men, he was so moved that he had to write it himself. Of course, that's an afterthought.

There is no need to worry about who will leak any news - most of the people were taken away by Zhang Hu with the army, and the rest of the people with foreign surnames are relatives and friends of the Wen family, besides, whether it is Yu Province or Jingshi, so many adults have accepted the benefits of the Wen family, even if there is any small trouble, they will definitely do everything they can to help cover it up in order to protect themselves: of course, it will be more troublesome to solve the problem, but ...... Isn't it simple to solve a few problems that Diao Min?

After a lively reorganization, Zhang Hu had a full 20 war battalions, the number of auxiliary soldiers reached more than 40,000, plus nearly 200,000 people, this almost extinguished wildfire rekindled again, and burned more fiercely than before, murderously from Henan Province to the unsuspecting Nanzhili Yingzhou.

* Knock on the blackboard and review. In the imperial examination, the jinshi is divided into three grades. The first is the champion list we are familiar with, which is called "Jinshi and the first", the number of the second class varies, the first is called "Chuanlu" (one shows that the first place in the third class is also called Chuanlu), which is called "Jinshi origin", and the third class is other candidates, which is called "Tongjinshi origin".

In addition to the first three people and Chuanyu who directly entered the Hanlin Academy, the others had to take another exam, which was called the court exam. Those who did well in the exam also entered the Hanlin Academy, and those who did not do well in the examination were assigned to the six departments and localities of the Beijing Division. Generally speaking, the people who stayed in the yamen of the Beijing Division were all second-class people, and most of the people who were released were those who were "born in the same jinshi" in the third-class.