General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 108 Living in Jiajing for 28 Years
Lu Bing, who was still steadfast just now, made a 180-degree turn when he saw Zhu Zaiyan galloping out of the camp.

Urgently order all ministries to chase after him.

Without any hesitation, Ma Fang and the others led the team of family soldiers under their command to follow Zhu Zaiyu's footsteps and chased in the direction of Li Tongyuandun.

Sudden drastic change, Lu Bing's hands and feet became cold, and he was a little panicked for a while, giving several orders in succession.

There was chaos in this battalion right away, and it was not until Zhou Shangwen led the army that the battalion calmed down a little.

Zhou Shangwen suddenly spoke with a stern expression on his face.

"Wenfu, the land of death and life, the way of life and death, don't move blindly!"

Years of fighting, the more critical the moment, the more instinctively Zhou Shangwen forced his brain to calm down.

After being scolded by Zhou Shangwen, Lu Bing calmed down a little.

"Go back to the Chinese army first, and make a long-term plan."

A group of people hurried back to the Chinese army.

"Take the map. No one is allowed to enter the Chinese army."

"Here!"

Zhou Shangwen made some simple arrangements, and then led Lu Bing and others into the Chinese army.

"Zhou Taibao, why don't you go after him?"

Zhou Shangwen slapped the table.

"Wenfu, calm down!"

"It's true that the imperial court has 20 troops, but these 20 people can travel sixty miles a day at most, and there will be big troubles soon!"

Lu Bing kept pace in the army.

Ning Jue said, "Captain Lu, old general, I'll go after him."

"The prince is determined to get rid of this serious trouble. If others chase him, he will not be able to stop the prince, and he will not dare to return without authorization. Naturally, he can only follow the prince to kill the thief."

Lu Bing and Zhou Shangwen looked at each other, and the situation was indeed the same as what Ning Jue said.Others have gone, so what if Zhu Zaixun doesn't come back?Ning Jue is the only one who can persuade Zhu Zaiyu to come back.

Lu Bing was still hesitating, but Zhou Shangwen said directly: "Ke finally take Bao Zhuzi, his people should be barely available."

"Thank you old hero."

As soon as Ning Jue left, Lu Bing also stood up and wanted to leave the camp.

"Wenfu, don't worry, your Jinyiwei will not be as useful as my 20 troops."

Lu Bing looked at Zhou Shangwen suspiciously.

"Old general, that's Li Tong, it's a big deal!"

Zhou Shangwen's complexion did not change.

"You mean Aries, right?"

Hearing Zhou Shangwen say the word "Baiyangkou", Lu Bing couldn't help being surprised.

"Zhou Taibao, how did you know?"

Zhou Shangwen snorted coldly: "The Ministry of War has desperately urged you and me to advance to the northwest, and we will even calculate where we go every day. Apart from Baiyangkou, where else is there in the northwest of the capital?"

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, although Zhou Shangwen doesn't know what kind of medicine is sold in Yan Song's gourd.

But Yan Song's intention of wanting Zhou Shangwen to visit Baiyangkou is impossible to hide from Zhou Shangwen.

Zhou Shangwen drew out the saber at his waist and began to draw on the map in front of him.

"You know Baiyangkou, I know Baiyangkou, that old thief Yan Song also knows Baiyangkou, does Wen Fu think I can't know?"

"You people always think that this is a big deal, and this is a big deal."

"But no one has thought about why it is Baiyangkou?"

Lu Bing just remembered.

This expedition is calling me to answer!
Zhou Shangwen stuck his knife in the position of Baiyangkou on the map.

"At Baiyangkou, if the court loses, I will be able to re-enter the customs. If he loses, he can leave the Great Wall directly! This Baiyangkou is clearly a trick I gave to the court!"

Cold sweat immediately oozes from Lu Bing's forehead.

"This... Zhou Taibao, if this is the case, how should the court respond?"

"That's all you guys are good at. Your eyesight is much better than that group of people."

Looking at the map in front of him, Zhou Shangwen let out a long breath.

"I Da threw a bait at Daming, if the crown prince insists on not answering, then let's throw a bait at I Da too."

"The four towns of Datong, Jinyang, Liaoyang, and Liaodong have already moved towards Gubeikou and Baiyangkou. If Ke finally didn't bring the prince back, then as long as I'm right, our bait will move forward. One arch."

"When the time comes, I'll tell you he's the bastard in the urn!"

Zhou Shangwen said a lot, but Lu Bing heard a meaning.

"Zhou Shangwen! Are you too confused?! You want to use the prince as bait?!"

"I am the commander-in-chief of the three armies, and I only make perfect preparations for the three armies!"

Lu Bing gritted his teeth and stared at Zhou Shangwen.

"What if I took the bait and ran away?"

"Then you and I will bind our hands and feet to see His Majesty, but we will die!"

"If these 18 people can't be kept, you and I take the prince, how many gates can the three of us guard when we escape back to the capital?!"

"Wait to die, why not die country?"

Lu Bing sat down on the chair and panted heavily.

"Zhou Taibao, give the order."

With the issuance of Zhou Shangwen's general order, the soldiers and horses of each battalion also began to be frequently mobilized.

Bao Zhuzi followed Ning Jue with his family soldiers and rode north all the way, but after walking four or five miles, Ning Jue and Zhu Xizhong stopped.

There is no other reason.

It was so pitch black that no one could be seen, only the panting of their hundred and ten horses could be heard.

"Bingxian, I was in a hurry just now, I haven't changed horses yet, our horses can't catch up even if killed!"

Bao Zhuzi had been in the middle army before, and Ma Fang was in the front army, so Ma Fang had changed horses long ago, but Bao Zhuzi and others had not had time to change.

Ning Jue, who was riding on the horse, took a deep breath and looked around.

"Where are we?"

Bao Zhuzi blurted out, "We've already left the Zhili border, and further on is Ma Fengzi's hometown, Yu County."

Hearing this, Ning Jue's brows gradually frowned. The horse was not fast at first, and there was someone beside Zhu Zaixun who knew the way, and he might not be able to catch up even if he was exhausted.

Ning Jue carefully recalled the records in the history books.

Since the 27th year of Jiajing, I Dao has entered the bandits several times. Although the places where he broke through the customs are different, but every time he exits the customs, he must pass through the mouth of Baiyang. In the end, Ning Jue decided to take a gamble.

"How far is Baiyangkou from here?"

"Continue to the northwest."

"Let's go directly to Baiyangkou."

Without further ado, Bao Zhuzi led the way and galloped towards Baiyangkou.

Fortunately, although Bao Zhuzi is not a local, but Baiyangkou is a big pass, they go along the official road.

Ning Jue and his party did not make too many entanglements on the road, and went straight to Baiyangkou, saving a lot of time, and arrived at Tiancheng County near Baiyangkou in the early morning of the next day.

At this time, Tiancheng County was mainly occupied by military households of Tiancheng and Zhenlu Erwei, and there were not many civilians.

When he came to a fork in the road where he could vaguely see the Great Wall at Baiyangkou, he happened to bump into three Tartars who were rushing towards Baiyangkou. She turned over, Bao Zhuzi was about to continue walking towards Baiyangkou, but was stopped by Ning Jue.

"Pillar, right here."

"Going to Baiyangkou must pass through this place, and I'm afraid we will bump into the main force of the Tartars."

There are horseshoe prints everywhere on the ground. It is obvious that a large army has just marched not long ago. If you go any further, you will enter the detection range of Alda's scouts.

Bao Zhuzi seemed to want to wait for Zhu Zaiyu to come here, without any hesitation.

"It's all stopped!"

The soldiers of that team got off their horses one after another, and then Bao Zhuzi set up a sentry post before walking towards Ning Jue.

"Bingxian, don't you take a break? Let's just keep an eye on it."

"It's okay, I can't sleep either."

Ning Jue casually took out a pack of jerky and handed it to Bao Zhuzi.

"Try it, your chief town will dry it yourself."

There was a slight smile on Bao Zhuzi's face.

"Hahaha, when we first joined the army, we marched in front, and the main town dried meat in the shade. It has been so many years."

"Your boss treats you well, right?"

"They get 18 taels a year, and I can get 35 taels a year, so I am content!"

Bao Zhuzi chewed the jerky in his mouth and took a sip of water from time to time.

"It's okay, buy some land in a few years, and enjoy your old age in peace."

Ning Jue had also roughly heard before that the land price in Zhili prefectures and counties was nearly 40 taels per mu.

"I also bought some land properties, but I joined the army when I was young, and I don't know how to farm at all." Bao Zhuzi became more and more excited when he mentioned this: "But those three little boys in my family didn't embarrass us at all. It’s clear at a glance that those ten acres of land are better than the whole village! If things go on like this, within a few generations, my family might be able to produce a master.”

Bao Zhuzi is Zhou Shangwen's family soldier, and the head of the village didn't dare to make a fuss. The more Bao Zhuzi talked, the more excited he became, but his voice changed in the end.

"Bingxian, do you still remember the question I asked at your door when our captains went to the Ministry of War to fight for pay and were brought back?"

"Who are you fighting for?"

Bao Zhuzi nodded.

"I figured it out, I'm fighting for these three children! My whole family is in Datong, and if I don't go, do I see the tartars come and trample on my family's seedlings?"

Ning Jue sighed thoughtfully.

"But have you ever thought that in a few hundred years, we will become a family with any tartars or barbarians."

Bao Zhuzi thought for a while, but the answer he gave was beyond Ning Jue's expectation.

"What's the matter?"

"What will happen hundreds of years later have anything to do with us?"

Ning Jue looked up suspiciously, and looked at Bao Zhuzi.

"Why doesn't it matter?"

"When I kill Tartars, I don't kill Tartars for the sake of killing Tartars, but because Tartars don't let me live a peaceful life."

"Hundreds of years from now, if our children and grandchildren don't have to fight anymore, we will become a family with the Tartars, which means that our descendants have already lived a peaceful life. Why do we still have to kill them?"

Ning Jue suddenly felt that Bao Zhuzi looked like a wise and foolish sage at this time, and Bao Zhuzi seemed to have opened up a chatterbox.

"My family and I can only live in Jiajing for 28 years."

"The Tartars have entered the pass and destroyed the city. My family, my wife and children, will never see a peaceful life, so I will fight them to the end to live a peaceful life."

"Hundreds of years later, the descendants of the Central Plains of the Grassland became a family, and they must have done different things to live a peaceful life, but aren't we all to live a peaceful life?"

It wasn't until this moment that Ning Jue realized the logical difference between himself and Bao Zhuzi.

Is too narrow.

People in this era are not pursuing the narrow so-called "peace" of their own era.

But "Taiping".

In that small country with few people and constant disputes in the Western language, the word "Taiping" does not exist.

Only the peoples of East Asia can understand what is "Taiping".

Because Western languages ​​have never experienced a historical period that fits the meaning of the word "Taiping" when they were formed, so they can only understand "Taiping" simply and crudely as peace and tranquility.

Yes, but not entirely.

Because there is nothing in peace in ancient times, it is all stained with the blood of heroes.

(End of this chapter)