Daming Military Empire

Chapter 133 Shocked Again
The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is a time for families to gather together to eat glutinous rice balls, admire the moon, and watch lanterns. However, on the [-]th day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Chongzheng, there is such a group of people who are far away from their hometowns and relatives. Every move of the enemy is ready to sacrifice for the country at any time.

They are the Daming defenders from Zunhua to the capital. Since the Manchu-Mongolian coalition forces on the northern grasslands have not dispersed, they have to keep guarding the city wall to prevent the enemy from sneaking in. Let alone the Lantern Festival, they are all On the wall.

This morning, when the soldiers on the city wall were shaking in the cold wind, buckets of hot glutinous rice balls were quietly carried up to the city wall by soldiers changing guards. The cleaned rice bowls followed Qian Zong, Ba Zong, general or Zong Bing to the city wall. Next to them were teams of Jin Yiwei, and they also held things in their hands, but they were not bowls but basins. It's a heavy wooden box.

Although the cities are different and the leading officers are also different, they all do the same thing: walk up to each soldier, greet each soldier kindly: "Thanks for your hard work." Deliver it to them, and personally scoop up a bowl full of glutinous rice balls for them.

Many soldiers were inexplicably moved, holding the glutinous rice balls and weeping blankly. Some soldiers curiously opened the envelope to see what was inside. The people who opened the envelope were shocked. It turned out to be silver ingots, a total of five taels of silver ingots. !

What's the situation? It's only fifteen, and it's not time to pay!

At that time, most of the soldiers were illiterate, so most of them didn't read the rubbings on the envelopes, but there were always a few special ones who could read some words.There is a relative in Lu Renjia's family who runs a private school. He went to study for a few years when he was young. When he saw the words on the envelope, he was excited and incoherent: "This, this, this"

The colleagues next to him looked at him curiously. Everyone knew that he was literate. One of the colleagues couldn't help asking: "Brother Jia, what is written on this envelope, please read it to everyone."

Everyone looked at other people's envelopes, um, they were all the same, it should have been written and then carved a wooden model, and rubbed out, so everyone looked up at Lu Renjia again, urging him to read it quickly.

Lu Renjia held the envelope tremblingly, and said excitedly: "The soldiers have worked hard. On behalf of the people of Ming Dynasty, I thank you all. Zhu."

When Lu Renjia read this, he paused, and there was no more to say. A fool asked stupidly, "What is Zhu, why didn't you read it?"

An old soldier next to him directly gave him a chestnut, and then warned in a low voice: "That's the emperor's name, you kid wants to die!"

The idiot touched his head and said excitedly: "The emperor? You said the money was rewarded by the emperor?"

Everyone ignored him, just smoothed the envelope tremblingly, and stuffed it into their bosom with great care. This is the emperor's calligraphy. Although it is a rubbing, it is quite rare. Taking it back to the hometown will definitely attract people from all over the world. Come and watch!

Of course, Zhu Cijiong didn't know that his chicken paw-like handwriting would be collected by others. He just wrote an envelope for Cao Huachun to rub it in order to let all the soldiers remember his good deeds. of.

The more than 40 troops gathered in Shuntian Prefecture, and the more than 20 troops in Liaodong who stood firm in the ice and snow, five taels of silver per person, as a New Year's subsidy. This was planned by Zhu Cijiong years ago. He bought people's hearts As part of the plan, Liaodong has not yet thawed, and the money cannot be transported, so it can only be sent to Shuntian Mansion first.Although no one will complain about him if he doesn’t pay a subsidy, they will definitely be moved by the subsidy. Although he spent more than 200 million taels, more than 50 soldiers will remember his goodness. The money spent value!
Today he has to go to Zunhua, so even though there is no morning court today, he got up early. He is wearing a grand gown under the service of Qin Mingyue. Zheng Chenggong ran over again, surrounded by Zhu Cijiong Turning around, he hypocritically praised: "Tsk tsk, the emperor is really majestic in this suit!"

Liu Rushi behind him hurriedly covered his mouth, not daring to laugh out loud, but Qin Mingyue chuckled without any scruples.

Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "There is nothing to show courteousness to, it's either rape or robbery, tell me, what do you want?"

Zheng Chenggong rubbed his hands to flatter him and said, "I heard that the emperor is going to inspect the new army in Zunhua, can you bring me, my little brother?"

Zhu Cijiong stared at him and looked him up and down, thinking: "This kid is growing up slowly, it's time to show him around, I can't lock him up in the palace all day with my younger brother, and don't take him out for a walk, how would he know?" How majestic is Brother. Well, it’s okay to take him to see our army, worshiping idols should be cultivated from an early age.”

Zheng Chenggong's palms were sweating under his gaze, and he stood there so nervous that he didn't dare to move, just like a prisoner waiting to be sentenced.

Finally, Zhu Cijiong said slowly: "It's okay to take you there, but without my permission, you are not allowed to speak, otherwise I will never take you out next time."

Zheng Chenggong jumped up excitedly, and was about to cheer, when Zhu Cijiong raised his eyes and glared, he quickly covered his mouth, and looked around nervously, how cute and cute he looked.

As soon as the time came, the army assembled outside Andingmen rose and marched mightily to the north.In the front are [-] elites of the Beijing camp, with steel spears like a forest, majestic and majestic; in the middle are [-] Jinyi guards, protecting the emperor's dragon chariot, with flags like the sea, covering the sky and the sun; You can't see the edge at a glance.

The whole team is so magnificent, but there is one person who is very weird. He has a high nose bridge and a big mouth, and his whole face is a sickly crimson. He is wearing a weird button-down suit and a nondescript The hat, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't match.

Naturally, this was the Portuguese special envoy Shivela. Zhu Cijiong had originally prepared an eight-carrier palanquin for him, but he insisted on riding a horse, saying that he wanted to enjoy the scenery along the way.Zhu Cijiong can only let him go, you are not afraid of being surrounded by monsters, I am afraid of a fart!

Zhu Cijiong's dragon chariot was surrounded by Jinyiwei masters on three floors inside and three floors outside. He couldn't get close at all, so he had to follow Zheng Chenggong's sedan chair to curry favor with His Royal Highness.Shivela had never ridden around the land of Ming Dynasty on a tall horse, and found everything new to see; Zheng Chenggong was not much better, except for the beach in Hirado, the Forbidden City was the place he spent the longest time playing. Few opportunities to wander around, but the two have a lot in common.

Zheng Chenggong lay on Liu Rushi's shoulder, stuck his head out of the sedan chair, looked around, and chatted happily with Shi Weila.Liu Rushi also wanted to see the scenery outside, but the foreign devil outside the car window was so scary that she didn't dare to look back, so she could only turn her back to the car window and listen to Zheng Chenggong's description.

Going from the capital to Zunhua, the first city in the middle is Tongzhou. This is the defense area of ​​Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu. Hou Shilu also got up early in the morning. He didn't want to accompany the emperor to Zunhua, but the emperor passed by you. If you don't even have a reaction in the defense zone, don't you think that you are too big and your life is too long!So he got up early to make preparations. First, according to the emperor's wishes, he randomly selected a centurion who was standing guard, and handed out the subsidy money to each soldier. Then he gathered all the soldiers who were not standing guard and lined them up neatly in Tongzhou. Beside the official road outside the city, I waited quietly.

After about an hour or so, a dark dot finally appeared in the direction of the capital. When they walked in, they saw a sun, moon and dragon flag lined up high in front of the line, followed by a cloud of flags. It was indeed the imperial guards The elite of the First Army Corps is indeed the emperor's patrolling team.

Hou Shilu quickly got off his horse and shouted: "Salute." Then he took the lead in kneeling on the ground on one knee, followed by more than 5000 soldiers. After that, Hou Shilu took the lead and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live. "

The soldiers behind him shouted along with the mountain, and slowly the soldiers on the wall in the distance also followed the mountain, their voices becoming more and more orderly and louder.

Hearing such a loud mountain cry, and looking at the soldiers kneeling on the ground in the distance, Shivira thought that he had reached the ground. He said to Zheng Chenggong: "This voice is so loud, it's the first time I've heard so many people together. Shout out, this is Zunhua, right?"

Zheng Chenggong said coquettishly: "It's still early, this is just a small town passing by, it would be good if Shenshi can reach Zunhua."

Hearing this, Shivela opened his mouth wide in shock and panted heavily. This is only a small city. Hearing the sound, there might not be 5 to 1 people stationed there!In fact, he misunderstood. These soldiers had just received Zhu Cijiong's subsidy, and they were very grateful to the emperor. Naturally, they howled desperately, so 5 people howled to the effect of [-] to [-] people. This is not because Zhu Cijiong deliberately cheated. I didn't expect the soldiers below to have such a big reaction.

After passing Tongzhou, there was Sanhe, and then Jizhou. Along the way, the voice of the mountain shouting long live became louder and louder. Shivira mistakenly thought that the three cities passing by had at least more than 50 troops stationed there.There are more than [-] horses in Jinling, more than [-] horses in the capital, and more than [-] horses in the sea. This is more than [-] horses. The army he saw with his own eyes is no less than [-]. He has already admired the strength of Daming There is no way to increase it.

Sure enough, as Zheng Chenggong said, the army marched for more than four hours, and Shen Shi did not arrive in Zunhua until a moment later. The welcoming scene scared Shi Weila almost fell off his horse.He wiped his eyes and looked to both sides in horror. He was really right. There were countless people gathered on both sides of the official road, and he couldn't see the end horizontally or vertically!
When the vanguard of the Imperial Guard was about a mile away from the welcoming team, there was a muffled "boom" in front of them, and the whole ground trembled. This was the sound of more than 20 people kneeling down at the same time.Immediately afterwards, I thought of the voice of Shan Hu Long live: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

The sound was getting louder and louder, like a mountain roaring and a tsunami, like a world-shattering thunder, the whole earth was shaking, and the whole sky was shaking!

Shivela was so shocked that he couldn't speak. At this moment, he only had one thought: "This Ming Empire is too powerful, too powerful, too powerful!"

(End of this chapter)