Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 160 Deja Vu
After dealing with the prisoner problem, the next step is to let Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang lead the troops to herd the sheep.

Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang were also bad guys. During the day, they would stay twenty or thirty miles behind the bandits and slowly move forward. If the bandits went to rob the village, Ma Fang's cavalry would rush towards them with swords and swords flashing, blood flowing everywhere, and heads falling. Gungun, help the bandits correct their route and drive them to the big city.

Tens of thousands of bandits were driven towards Jinan Prefecture by Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang.That night, the White Lotus Sect planted hidden stakes in Jinan City, instigating the courageous people in the city who had a blood feud with King De and the government to open the gates of Jinan City, and tens of thousands of hungry bandits rushed in. To Jinan Prefecture.

At this time, Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang also took the time to watch the rebels attack the city. They played a night of offensive and defensive battles like ballroom dancing with the so-called rebel blocking troops.The bandits who entered the city were given one night to slaughter the men of the De Wang family and to talk to the women of the De Wang family over and over again.Then at dawn, they became ruthless, leading many to break through the resistance of the bandit army and head towards Jinan City.

When we arrived at the gates of Jinan City, we still followed the old rules, surrounding three and missing one, leaving only the direction facing Qingzhou for the rebels to escape.Then Qi Jiguang used firearms to attack the city and forced the rebels to abandon the city and flee. Ma Fang led the cavalry five miles away from the city, a distance where the rebels were definitely tired from fleeing for their lives. Those who fled for their lives were spared.Ma Fang's cavalry would make these people leave their money and lives behind if they were unwilling to leave their money and carry their bags on their backs to escape.

In this way, Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang drove away the bandits and went to Qingzhou to slaughter the men of Prince Heng's family and the women of Prince Heng's family again and again.In the end, these tens of thousands of bandits, who had no use value, were forced to the seaside of Laizhou, and the recruits were trained in combat, and went out in batches to see blood, with several lives on their hands.

Not to mention that Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang played cat and mouse with tens of thousands of bandits. After the bandits invaded Jinan City and slaughtered De Wang's family, the Shandong Provincial Government of Daming, and the Jinan government office, Wang Daoqiu, the governor of Shandong, had no choice but to He left Xuzhou and went north to Jinan to take charge of the specific work in Shandong.

And just when Wang Daoqiu was on his way to Jinan Mansion, in Jinan City, Zhang Liangwei, the current acting magistrate of Jinan, was also working hard to prepare a welcome ceremony for Wang Daoqiu.

Zhang Liangwei is just over 16 this year. He is from Jinhua Mansion in Zhejiang Province and can be regarded as Wang Daoqiu's fellow Zhejiang fellow.He was a Jinshi in the 21th year of Jiajing's reign. He first served as an intern in the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry for five years. Later, in the [-]st year of Jiajing's reign, he was transferred to a county magistrate in Henan. He was transferred to Dezhou as a prefecture magistrate the year before last.

This time the bandits broke into Jinan City. At that time, all the Shandong provincial officials in Jinan City and the prefecture-level officials of Jinan Prefecture were slaughtered by the bandits. He, the governor of Dezhou, which was across the Yellow River from Jinan Prefecture, was killed by the imperial court. He was transferred to Jinan and temporarily acted as the prefect of Jinan.

At the administrative level of the Ming Dynasty, Dezhou was just a scattered state under the jurisdiction of Jinan Prefecture. According to later generations, it was called a county-level city.Since Jinan Prefecture is the capital city of Shandong Province, its prefect is naturally much higher in rank and future than Dezhou Prefecture.

So Zhang Liangwei now wants to do a good job of receiving Wang Daoqiu.Then he tried to trick everyone on his relationship with fellow Zhejiang fellows to see if he could get Wang Daoqiu to help him by removing the word "generation" in front of him, the prefect of Jinan.

Therefore, as soon as he knew that Wang Daoqiu was coming to Jinan to take charge of the overall situation of Shandong, Zhang Liangwei sent people to the capital overnight to hire good cooks who were good at Zhejiang cuisine, and he did not hesitate to spend money to collect good ingredients.

On this day, Zhang Liangwei received the report that Wang Daoqiu had arrived at the post station twenty miles away from the city, and planned to rest at the post station for one night before entering Jinan City tomorrow morning.

As soon as he got the news, Zhang Liangwei hurriedly asked his men to prepare fast horses, took his master and housekeeper, and rushed to the inn outside the city.

When he arrived at the door of the inn, Zhang Liangwei asked Wang Daoqiu's men to report that he wanted to see the governor. He also hinted with his eyes that he asked his master and housekeeper to take care of Wang Daoqiu's entourage.

After a while, Wang Daoqiu's subordinate, who went in to inform Zhang Liangwei, came out and hugged Zhang Liangwei and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Magistrate. Lord Governor, you've had a long journey and have washed yourself and gone to bed. Please come back!"

"Yes, yes, yes, since the governor has gone to bed, it is indeed not appropriate to worry anymore. I will be at the gate of the city tomorrow to greet the governor. But I hope that I will tell the governor that I will come today. pass."

"Okay, Lord Magistrate, wait until the Lord Governor wakes up. I must tell the Lord Governor that you are here, Lord Magistrate."

"Thank you very much"

After greeting Wang Daoqiu's subordinates, Zhang Liangwei winked at the master next to him and asked him to give him money.

Not to mention Zhang Liangwei, the acting magistrate of Jinan, Wang Daoqiu immediately changed into casual clothes after arriving at the inn today, took his four young guards with him, and went to the roadside to catch an ox cart that was used to deliver manure outside the city and was now returning to the city. Went to Jinan City for an unannounced visit.Everywhere where flowers are grown, teahouses and taverns have always been the gathering place for local gossip.So in order to get first-hand information about Jinan City, Wang Daoqiu took four small guards and entered a restaurant where business was very prosperous.

After entering the restaurant, Wang Daoqiu asked the store owner to cut a plate of beef with soy sauce, ordered four dishes, one soup and five hot dishes, and asked the store owner to sift through two pots of wine. The five of them found an empty table in the lobby and sat there to wait. .

Sure enough, chatting about national affairs while drinking has been a millennium reserved activity for men in drinking bureaus.Wang Daoqiu and other five people were sitting there waiting for drinks and food, and they heard five or six drinkers at the next table chatting.

"Hey, our streets in Jinan have been so clean these past two days! The bandits entered the city a few days ago, fought with the officers and soldiers, and slaughtered King De, those officials, and those high-ranking families. This After the incident, there were bright red blood stains everywhere on the street, and corpses floating in rivers and ponds could be seen from time to time. But it has been clean these two days. The pavement on the street is as clean as a mirror, and even dogs dare not stand on it. It’s time to poop. The water in those ponds has been drained out, and the water has been replaced with fresh water. There is no smell of blood anymore! This acting prefect is not bad!"

"Hey, brother, our acting prefect is not doing this for ordinary people like us! A neighbor of mine works as an errand in the government office, and he told me that our six-yuan and unblinking murderous governor, these days We are about to come to Jinan Mansion. Our acting magistrate wants to give away his generational name, so these things on the street in the past two days are all done by the magistrate for Liu Yuanjidi to see. "

"Oh, that's it! Tell me, in the past, there were more beggars on the streets than flies in our city of Jinan, and they were all offering their bowls to people. But these two days, I haven't seen any of them."

"Hey, brother, you are talking about those beggars! Let me sue you. Those beggars were arrested by the acting magistrate and are now locked up in the treasury. Anyway, the place was robbed by bandits a while ago, and now Just in time to lock up the beggar."

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Listening to the discussions of these idle men, it all came to the same idea: Zhang Liangwei, the acting prefect of Jinan, was engaging in formalism in order to welcome the leader.If the current Ming and Qing Dynasties heard about this kind of thing, they would definitely be furious, but Wang Daoqiu was basically indifferent.After all, in a big country where he once lived, which level of government there was not Zhang Liangwei, the acting prefect of Jinan?
Thanks to Zhang Liangwei, the acting magistrate of Jinan, he allowed himself to return to his hometown again. Wang Daoqiu thought so wickedly in his heart that he ate in a hurry and then went to visit the streets again.

That night, Wang Daoqiu stayed in the city for one night. Early the next morning, he wanted to go outside the city to join the large army. All he saw was the direction of the post station where he had descended. A large number of officers and soldiers were putting up lanterns and banners there, and the city gates were not allowing the people to enter. Disappeared.

Damn it, later generations used this trick to welcome their leaders!If you do this, then the people who used to go through this city gate will go around other city gates for this reason. In the end, when they scolded Zhang Liangwei for not being a human being, they also took the opportunity to pay the "six yuan and third grade" of Lao Zhi. "Let's all scold together!
Thinking of this, Wang Daoqiu took four small guards, pushed aside the people who were blocking the city gate, walked forward with an angry look on his face, and handed over his official certificate to an official wearing a seventh-grade official uniform. dispatch.

As soon as the official saw the official certificate, he immediately took it and opened it.As soon as he saw the name "Wang Daoqiu", the official was immediately stunned. He immediately clasped his fists and saluted Wang Daoqiu and said: "I am lowered to Jiang Li, the magistrate of Jiyang County, to pay my respects to the governor."

What, Governor, this young man is the "Liu Yuan Ji Di". When he saw the magistrate of Jiyang, he saluted Wang Daoqiu and said, "Meet the Governor."The Jinan officials and citizens who were now blocked here were all shocked, and they all looked at Wang Daoqiu stupidly.

How the people are doing is not Jiang Li's business, but if the officers and soldiers don't salute Wang Daoqiu, that's his business.So when he saw that the officers and soldiers were dumbfounded and did not salute Wang Daoqiu, Jiang Li became anxious and hurriedly shouted to the officers and soldiers to pay homage to the governor as soon as possible.

He ignored the officers and soldiers who were awakened by Jiang Li and were now paying homage to him.Wang Daoqiu turned his head and said to the people who were blocking here: "I'm sorry, everyone. What happened today is because I, Wang Daoqiu, failed to control my subordinates well, and all the villagers suffered. Okay, now I declare that the city The door is open as usual, please come through!"

After saying this, Wang Daoqiu clasped his fists and apologized to the people. After hearing Wang Daoqiu's words, the people who were blocked here also applauded and praised Wang Daoqiu as a good official. They also cursed a few words. Zhang Liangwei, the acting prefect of Jinan, is nothing.

After the people passed through normally, Wang Daoqiu told Jiang Li, the magistrate of Jiyang, who was standing next to him: "Magistrate Jiang, you first send someone to the post station and inform them to quickly enter the city to meet me, and then take me to the magistrate's office. See Magistrate Zhang."

"Yes, my lord."

(End of this chapter)