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Chapter 1004 Zongbing Zhang is such a big shelf

In the winter of the 14th year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Xuanfu North Road and East Road were more lively than ever.

Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, the soldiers with a lot of money in their pockets will naturally want to buy a lot. After all, they have been away from home for several months, and how can they return home empty-handed?
When Yongningbo Zhang Cheng was in the capital, he had already issued a military order that all soldiers who went to Liaodong to return to Xuanfu's garrison would have a ten-day holiday, but they were not allowed to leave the garrison during this period.

After Zhang Cheng returned to Xuanfu to personally preside over the public memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers, the soldiers of the battalions who went to the expedition would have a one-month official holiday. At this time, they could leave the station and return to their respective homes to spend the new year with their relatives.

Zhang Fuzhen, Governor of Xuanda, also rushed from Yanghebao to Yanqing Prefecture City early. He had come to welcome Yongningbo's triumphant return, but Zhang Cheng had been stranded in Beijing, so he stayed in Yanqing Prefecture temporarily.

In addition to Zhang Fuzhen, Jiang Yuxu, Governor of the Xuanfu, Lin Dengyou, Deputy Commander, General Liu Guangwu and others also came from the town, and they have lived in Chi Castle for many days.

Because Zhang Cheng is now not only the general officer of Xuanfu Town, the general of Zhenshuo, but also the Yongning Bo of Daming, so even civil officials such as Huailong Military Equipment and Baoan Zhizhou gathered in Yongning City to wait for Zhang Cheng. 's return.

They got the news that Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng's convoy had passed Juyongguan two days ago, so all the officials gathered in the Yanqing prefectural office early in the morning.

As Sishi approached, all the officials left the government office under the leadership of Governor Zhang Fuzhen. They stepped on their horses one by one with the support of their own soldiers, and went straight to the Zhihe Gate in the east.

Thousands of people gathered outside the east gate of Yanqing Prefecture City, and almost all the merchants and common people in the city came to the east gate, wanting to see Yongningbo's heroic appearance.

Among the soldiers who returned triumphantly from Liaodong this time, there are indeed not many who came from the East Road. After all, the new army trained mainly by the soldiers from the East Road has not yet had a chance to fight.

However, Zhang Guodong's Chicheng camp and Chen Zheng's Dushi camp also had some descendants of the East Road, just like the three tigers of the Chicheng camp who had made military achievements in the previous aid campaign against Henan, they were from the Yanqing Prefecture of the East Road.

It's just that this time, the right part of the Chicheng camp he was in was stayed in Chicheng, and the Yongwei camp was reorganized, so he failed to participate in the battle to relieve the siege of Jinzhou.

But Cheng Sanhu has also grown from a blunderbuss soldier in the first division of the right division, the second team and the second division, to a qualified fire brigade officer, and Li Erdan, the cold soldier killer who was in the same division with him, has also grown into a team leader. The armor chief of a cold soldier killer.

The Xuanfu army led by Zhang Cheng is no different than other places. Although they also attach great importance to personal combat skills, personal bravery is not the only prerequisite for becoming an officer.

According to Zhang Cheng's regulations, no matter how outstanding personal combat skills are, it is only the basic quality of an officer, followed by loyalty, and of course the most important thing is literacy.

Li Erdan's personal combat ability is far superior to Cheng Sanhu's, but he suffered a big loss in the matter of literacy, so Cheng Sanhu is already a team officer, and he is still a leader.

Among the Xuanfu army, the sons of military households in the North Road are the most numerous. Others include the children of military households around the town, as well as the men of the common people's homes near the East Road and the capital.

Although there are not the most children from the East Road like Cheng Sanhu, there are more than a thousand people, more than the children of ordinary people from military households around the town and the capital.

Hundreds of people under the rule of Yanqing Prefecture alone participated in the battle to aid Liao. Of course, many families brought back the ashes of their sons and husbands this time, but the pensions and rewards they received, plus the The military salary during this period is also a lot of money.

Suddenly, a cloud of smoke and dust rose from the official road in the southeast, and more than ten riders galloped forward. One of them held a flag of recognition in his hand. It turned out to be the governor Zhang Fuzhen's personal soldiers who went to investigate the news.

"Report to the governor, the Yongningbo cavalry is less than one mile away."

Governor Zhang Fuzhen hadn't said anything yet, and Qi Yuchu, who was standing next to him, had already said, "General Zhang is so arrogant that he made Governor Zhang wait here for a long time, but he came late."

Zhang Fuzhen rolled his eyes at him, and said angrily: "Uncle Yongning has contributed to the country and is the pillar of the country. We can neither go to battle to kill slaves, nor provide them with food and grass. Waiting here for a while is nothing!"

Zhang Fuzhen is an outlier among scholars, he is not afraid of taking advantage of others, but also knows how to use soldiers. He once joined forces with Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, to suppress bandits in the northwest, and it was quite effective.

However, his character is rather stubborn and almost unreasonable. In the fifth year of Chongzhen, he was appointed as the imperial censor and governor of Yansui. In the collective resistance, he was dismissed by Chongzhen and replaced by Chen Qiyu.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered and plundered the customs, and Beijing was under martial law. Only then did Zhang Fuzhen be reappointed as the right servant of the Ministry of War, the governor of Jiliao Baoding, and then he was added the title of left servant. Soon, he resigned and returned home on the grounds of serving his old mother.

It was not used again until the 13th year of Chongzhen. This time he was appointed Governor Xuanda. Since he took office, he has painstakingly managed the military defense of Xuanda and has made many achievements.

With such a character, he looked down on what Huailong said about Qi Yuchu's military preparations, so he didn't have a good attitude towards him. On the contrary, he had the impression that he admired Zhang Cheng very much.

In his opinion, looking at the generals of the entire Ming Dynasty, there are only a few who can manage the army and fight with Zhang Cheng.

After reprimanding Qi Yuchu just now, Zhang Fuzhen got up and walked forward. With a strange light in Qi Yuchu's eyes, he followed Zhang Fuzhen cautiously, and also went east to meet him.

About a quarter of an hour later, a large puff of smoke and dust rose into the air from the official road in the east, flying all over, and then there was the sound of hurried and orderly trampling of horseshoes.

"Here we come, governor! It's Yongningbo's army coming." Li Yiming, the security commander, took a step forward and reminded in a slightly excited voice next to Governor Zhang Fuzhen.

He and Zhang Cheng had met several times before, and Zhang Cheng had already been the deputy chief of the Xuan Mansion, admiral of the North Road and East Road local military forces before aiding Henan, and he was also his old superior. make up.

I saw a cavalry team of hundreds of people coming slowly in the distance. They all had one person and two horses, and they were all dressed in uniform armor. The tiger gun, the tip of the gun was raised obliquely forward, with a chilling air.

The cavalry stopped about [-] or [-] steps away from Xuanda Governor Zhang Fuzhen, and they all retreated to both sides of the wide official road, each with their horses' heads facing the inside of the official road, and their spear points slanted relatively.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a young warrior wearing the fine armor bestowed by the emperor, riding on a chrysanthemum green war horse, walking forward slowly, he was really heroic and extraordinary.

There are two generals beside him, one is young and handsome, but lacks heroism, and the other looks like a veteran, and he looks very heroic on horseback, but he is no longer young hansome.

The people who came were Daming Xuanfu Town Chief Military Officer, Zhenshuo General, Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng, Datong Town Chief Military Officer Wang Pu, and Shanxi Town Chief Military Officer Li Fuming.

It turned out that most of the soldiers from the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi had already returned to their station, but Zhang Cheng specially ordered the left part of the chariots of Huwei Camp, Dengfeng Camp, and Che Camp to stay in Juyongguan for Zhang Cheng's arrival. After that, they returned to Xuanfu together.

This time, Zhang Cheng's concubine Tang Chunru, who caught up later, and the carriages of Wu's aunt and daughter were also accompanying them. Of course, their carriages were all behind, and there was no need for them to get out of the carriage to show up in Yanqing Prefecture.

Zhang Cheng rode his horse forward, came ten paces in front of Xuanda Governor Zhang Fuzhen, and then reined in his horse. After flying off his horse, he stepped forward and simply clasped his fists and said, "Zhang Cheng has seen the governor."

He went on to say: "How can Zhang Cheng have such virtue? He dares to have a labor governor come out of the city to meet him."

With a smile on his face, Zhang Fuzhen clasped his fists back and said: "Bo Yongning killed slaves for the country, relieved Jinzhou from suffering, and restored the decline of Liaodong. Fuzhen admires it very much. It is only natural that he leads the whole city officials and people to welcome Yongning Bo!"

At this time, Wang Pu and Li Fuming also got off their horses and stepped forward. They were no more titled than Zhang Cheng, so they could not pay homage to officials.

I saw the two of them walking in front of Governor Zhang Fuzhen, immediately knelt down on one knee, bowed down and said: "The last general Wang Pu and Li Fuming came to see the governor."

Zhang Fuzhen was not as polite to them as Zhang Cheng, but said lightly: "The two generals have worked hard for the country, so get up quickly."

But even so, it has already made the two of them feel warm in their hearts.

After they had seen the ceremony, it was the turn of the officials behind Zhang Fuzhen to see the ceremony. Zhang Cheng did not treat them as politely as he did to Zhang Fuzhen. He stood firmly beside Governor Zhang Fuzhen and received their visits one by one.

Originally, Zhang Cheng didn't plan to stay in Yanqing Prefecture, but Governor Zhang Fuzhen personally greeted him here, and even set up a welcome banquet in the city, but he couldn't refuse.

Zhang Fuzhen personally took Zhang Cheng's hand, and went with him to the Zhihe sect in front, Wang Pu and Li Fuming followed behind them, followed by other civil servants and generals.

Yanqingzhou City is located on the platform on the north bank of the Guichuan River, with Juyong in the south, Guanmao in the north, Gushui in the west, and water and land transportation are very convenient. This is what the ancients called "a place of great shape".

According to legend, in the 29th year of King Yanzhao, Yanqing and other places belonged to Shanggu County. After Qin unified the six kingdoms, there were 36 counties in the world. Yanqing still belonged to Shanggu County, and Juyong County and Shanglan County were set up in Yanqing area.

In the Tang Dynasty, a series of administrative or military institutions such as the Defense Army, Guizhou, Beijun City, Confucian Prefecture, and Longqing Prefecture were set up in Yanqing City.In the Yuan Dynasty, it was also the governing place of Zhenzhou.

Until the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in order to cut off the intrusion of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted a policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness, so he abandoned Longqing Prefecture and moved all the population in the Yanqing area to Yutian, Sanhe, Gu'an, and Changping in Shuntian Prefecture, Guannei. states and counties.

In March of the 12th year of Yongle, Chengzu Zhu Di passed through Yanqing when he conquered Mobei for the second time. He saw that the Yanqing area was located behind the newly selected imperial mausoleum, and the geographical location was important, and the land was very fertile. Set up Yongning County, please send criminal officials and immigrants from Shanxi and other places to enrich Longqing Prefecture and Yongning County.

In the first year of Longqing, the reign name of the newly succeeded Mu Zong and Zhu Zaiyi was "Longqing". To avoid the taboo of his reign name, Longqing Prefecture was renamed Yanqing Prefecture, which is the origin of the place name Yanqing.

The current city of Yanqingzhou was built on the site of the old city before the Yuan Dynasty. Its plane is an irregular quadrilateral. Its north city wall, east and west city walls are relatively straight, while the south city wall is built according to the terrain and is slightly irregular. curved shape.

The north wall of Yanqingzhou City is about 270 feet long, the east and west walls are about 220 feet long each, and the south wall is also about 250 feet long. The entire city is about 960 feet long.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was no south gate in Yanqing City. There were only three gates in the south, north and east. The south gate was called "Fengxuan Gate", the north gate was called "Jingyuan Gate", and the east gate was called "Zhihe Gate".

In the fifth year of Xuande, Xue Lu, Marquis of Yangwu, was ordered to repair it. In the second year of Jingtai, Hu Lian, the governor of Jingzhou, asked Ji Guang, the deputy general, to lead the army to build it again.

In the reign of Zhengde, the west city gate was opened, and the Nanguan and Xinbao brick walls were added in the 44th year of Wanli. So far, Yanqing City has become six city gates, one West Water Gate and one South Water Gate. Its north gate, east gate and south gate of the inner city are all built with Wengcheng.

After Zhang Cheng and Zhang Fuzhen entered the city from the east gate hand in hand, they mounted their war horses and rode towards the state government. Along the road were welcoming gentry and common people.

"Look... General Zhang is so young..."

"Yes, General Zhang is so tall..."

"Quickly don't call him a general, now he's Bole Yongning!"

"Hey, I heard that Bo Yongning defeated the Tatars in Liaodong. Now that we have Yongning Bo in Xuanfu, is it not afraid that the Tartars will come?"

From outside the east gate, various voices of discussion broke into Zhang Cheng's ears. He was already used to these, and only talked with Zhang Fuzhen all the way to the state office slowly.

"Wow, Uncle Yongning is so handsome..."

"Yeah, tall and handsome..."

Suddenly, several women's exclamations came, causing a group of men around to look sideways.

Zhang Cheng also heard the reputation and looked around, and saw a few gorgeous women in red and green standing at a corner of the street, pointing at him non-stop, it seemed that they were indeed pretty.

However, although Zhang Cheng hadn't tasted the flavors of these prostitutes in the fireworks alley since he came to this world, he didn't have much interest in them either.

In addition to all kinds of beauties around him who are fat, swallows and thin, there is no shortage of beauties, and from the beginning to live, to live better, and now for an obsession in his heart, he has been working hard , and have no time and energy to mess around in Huajie Liuxiang.

Soon, Zhang Cheng and Zhang Fuzhen arrived in front of the Yimen of the state government office. There were soldiers and government servants all over the place, and the crowd of onlookers became very sparse.

As the landlord, Huang Daozhong, the magistrate of Yanqing, rushed to catch up and waited for them in front of Yimen. Zhang Fuzhen ignored him and entered the prefectural office together, holding Zhang Cheng's hand.

(End of this chapter)