Yinchuan has been an important border town of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times.

The Ming court stationed a total of about 30,000 border troops here, which sounds like a lot, but they were scattered among ten cities and hundred forts, and each fort could only be divided into a few hundred people.

The Yanchi area is the most famous place in Yinchuan to raise horses and sheep.

There are a total of ten military forts here, scattered like stars in the Yanchi area, guarding this vast land.

The caravan sent by Liu Maopao arrived at Yinchuan Yanchi in the dust.

With them, there is also a mass-produced Tianzun who came to travel.

Li Daoxuan, as you know, Yanchitan sheep is a famous delicacy. As soon as he heard that Liu Maopao was going to send a caravan to Yinchuan Yanchi, he immediately came uninvited.

In order to eat a bite of Tan sheep, there is no need for embroidery, no puppets, no puppets, but the mass-produced Tianzun is here, because only the mass-produced Tianzun can "eat" things.

Originally, this caravan should have been led by a steward hired by Liu Maopao with a lot of money, but with the addition of Li Daoxuan, this caravan became Li Daoxuan's final say, and the steward was completely reduced to the role of running errands. But this steward is not depressed at all, but very excited, to be able to move together with Tianzun so close and for so long, in the future, maybe "Jane in the heart of the immortal".

"Tianzun, in front of you is the southeasternmost military fort in Yinchuan, called Dingbian Fort."

The steward said: "I just asked the locals, there are 400 border soldiers stationed in this Dingbian Fort, which is a very fierce kind. ”

Li Daoxuan nodded: "Show them the warrant that Shi Jian got for us, speak with good words, don't rely on our relationship with Shi Jian, just fly and don't give face to the soldiers." ”

The steward nodded: "My subordinates understand!" My subordinates have also watched the movie "A Little Soldier in the Daling River Border Army", and my subordinates know that every soldier guarding the frontier is worthy of respect. ”

Li Daoxuan smiled: "It's good to understand this truth." ”

The steward hurriedly went to do something, and came back after a while, and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”

The caravan continued onwards and soon came to the foot of Dingbian Fort.

The border troops in the fort had already experienced the warrant, and knew that they were the relationship between Shi Jian, the general soldier of Yansui, and they were quite respectful.

Over the years, Shi Jian has been quelling the chaos in northern Shaanxi and cleaning up many rogues. Coupled with his "meritorious service" in the battle against the Mongols, he had already earned the respect of most of the border troops.

Because of Shi Jian, Yinchuan has not been harassed by the Mongols for a long time, and the soldiers are grateful for his kindness, and they will naturally have a good attitude towards Shi Jian's people.

The border soldiers were all waving and smiling at the caravan.

But Li Daoxuan didn't see joy on their faces, but more tiredness. These border soldiers were all skinny, their armor and equipment were also tattered, and they looked quite miserable.

Li Daoxuan couldn't help frowning, and said to the general leader: "General, you are here...... It seems that there is a bit of a shortage of supplies? ”

The general looked embarrassed: "Alas! Our military salary has not been paid for more than a year. ”

In the early years of Chongzhen, Lao Nanfeng and their border army rebelled because they were owed three years of military salaries. Later, Hong Chengchou took office as the governor of the three sides, and tried his best to get them military salaries and pacify the border army.

Unexpectedly, these seemingly peaceful years passed, and in the ninth year of Chongzhen, he began to be in arrears again.

Li Daoxuan frowned: "Lord Hong doesn't have any money to send to you?" ”

The general sighed: "Lord Hong is working hard to help us raise military salaries, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice." The court doesn't give him money, so where will he get money for us? ”

Li Daoxuan instructed the caravan steward beside him: "Take out some of the food in our team, at least so that the border soldiers in this fort can have a full meal." ”

The steward said in a low voice: "The food carried in our caravan is used to exchange for wool, and if it is eaten by the border army, there is no way to exchange wool." ”

Li Daoxuan frowned, brushed the ground and returned to the village of Gaojia Village, on the embroidery on the chest of Tan Liwen, the second steward, and quickly ordered: "Immediately organize a transport team to distribute a large number of materials to Yinchuan border town, and send more grain and cloth." Part of it was handed over to the caravan that was so warm that it was sleepy, and it was regarded as the village treasury to replenish their supplies. ”

Tan Liwen: "Obey!" ”

Li Daoxuan came back again and said to the steward: "Don't worry about the bold grain, the shortage of grain will be transported by the village treasury soon." ”

Steward: "Yes." ”

The people of the caravan immediately took action, carried down the grain on the wagon, bag by bag, and handed it over to the soldiers of Dingbian Fort.

These soldiers were owed military salaries for a year, and their lives were extremely miserable, and they often did not have enough to eat, and they lived by selling their sons and daughters, and now suddenly a caravan came and sent them food directly for some reason......

Moved to tears!

The news immediately spread throughout the fort.

Not to mention the soldiers who were on duty in shifts in the fort, and those soldiers who happened to be not on duty but resting at home, he all rushed over when he heard the news.

There were also the wives and children of the border soldiers, and a large crowd of people flocked to Dingbian Fort.

"There's a caravan coming!"

"The caravan has delivered us food."

"Oh my God, what a good man."

"I've never seen anyone so nice."

"I heard it's a caravan of General Shi Jianshi's neighbor."

"It turned out to be General Shi's person, no wonder it's so good."

Under Dingbian Fort, pots were erected everywhere, and cooking began everywhere......

The tired faces of the border soldiers finally saw a smile.

Li Daoxuan felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, this Ming Court is really too infamous, if you don't have money, you can owe the salaries of high-ranking officials, and the military salary of the border army is simply self-defeating.

Alas!

However, he also knew that this kind of thinking could not be done.

Since ancient times, when the economy is bad, the imperial court will never use the income of high-ranking officials to cut the knife, but will only scrape two more layers of oil on the low-level bodies......

He was thinking about what he didn't have here, and suddenly, on the official road in the northwest, a fast horse came running, and the knight on the horse seemed to be in a hurry to summon the interrogation, he knew that he would inevitably be interrogated after passing through the border fort, and in order to save time, he began to shout from a long distance: "Emergency military situation, don't stop me at Dingbian Fort, urgent military situation...... Mutiny occurred in seven border forts in Yinchuan...... Mutinous soldiers are attacking Ningxia Mansion...... Emergency MI......... Dingbian Fort don't stop me......"

As soon as he shouts this, who will stop him?

The soldiers hurriedly opened the wooden door and made way of the way.

The messenger galloped past and in a moment was far away.

The wingers of Dingbian Fort looked at each other, and they all turned their heads to look at their commanders.

The general manager also froze, and after a few seconds he sighed: "A few days ago, Mr. Zhao of Dashabao sneaked over to me for a drink, and scolded the court while drinking, saying that the officials above owed him military salaries, and he was very unhappy. I didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now I realize that he was testing me, and if I had scolded him at the time, he would have invited me to join in the mutiny. ”