Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 227 Welcome
September 21th, 27st year of Wanli, near noon.

"Ningwu is really a good place!"

At this time, Huang Laifu and his party were heading towards Ningwu Pass in mighty fashion.After entering the boundary of Ningwuguan from Shenchibao, primeval forests can be seen everywhere. On both sides of the road, there are thick larch, coniferous and broad-leaved forests.During the march, from time to time, some wild animals such as brown-eared pheasants, black storks, golden eagles, and leopards can be seen rushing out of the woods.

This kind of scene with good ecological environment and dense primeval forest is rarely seen in Wuzhai Fort, Shenchi Fort, Laoying Fort and other places.Huang Laifu and others couldn't help but praise.

Since Ningwuguan is a town, there are quite a lot of post stations, fire road pier, etc. when walking on the road.The closer to Ningwuguan, the denser the fire road piers are, with one every mile.According to the beacon fire alarm system of Ming Dynasty, when there are police at the border, if the beacon fire is lit, the police will be sent four hundred miles a day and one night. The biggest support is these fire roads.

Ningwu and Shenchi Castle are separated by Guancen Mountain, and the post road passes along the mountain. The road condition is not very good, and there are potholes everywhere.However, despite the road conditions, Shanxi Town has no money to repair it, which can only make him more dilapidated.Huang Laifu pondered, to strengthen the connection between Ningwu Pass and Wuzhai Fort, this road may have to be sorted out in the future.

After turning over Guancen Mountain, the terrain gradually becomes flat. There are many hills and plains ahead, and some small rivers can also be seen flowing towards Huihe River.However, there is not much arable land here, and most of them grow some crops along the banks of the Hui River or various tributaries, mostly naked oats, buckwheat, wheat and so on.Most of the crops in Ningwuguan are spring wheat, and the autumn harvest is already over, and there are not many busy people in the fields.

Huang Laifu can see that the water conservancy facilities in this area are very simple, and due to successive years of drought, the water level in Huihe River and other places has dropped a lot, and according to Huang Laifu's later computer data, Ningwuguan belongs to the high mountain severe cold area and the cold and dry area. , the winter is long and cold, windy, and the frost-free period is short, which is not very suitable for farming.In addition, this is a town and city, and the entanglement of interests of all parties is not as simple as Wuzhai Fort.Huang Laifu pondered, if he wanted to farm in Ningwuguan, it really wasn't an ideal place.

After Huang Laifu set off from Wuzhai Fort, he stayed in Shenchi Fort for a day, and sent his third sister Huang Birou back to Shenchi Fort.The third sister, Huang Birou, also stayed in Wuzhaibao for a long time, she missed Shenchibao a little bit, and her mother Yang had already gone to the capital, so Huang Laifu sent her back.Anyway, now that the third sister's husband Tian Dafu also knew that he was wrong, and became gentle with the third sister, Huang Laifu would be more at ease.

Since Huang Laifu took office, soldiers and generals from all over Shanxi Town had to go to Ningwuguan to meet and discuss matters.Therefore, Tian Dafu, the third brother-in-law of Shenchi Castle, took some servants and went to Ningwuguan with Huang Laifu along the way. At this time, he rode his horse and walked beside Huang Laifu.

His brother-in-law was promoted to be the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, Tian Dafu was naturally elated. While he was proud and proud, he was also worried about Huang Laifu. He said: "Junmen, you will arrive at Ningwuguan soon. You have been entrusted by the Holy One." , to develop in Ningwuguan, to solve the problem of food and pay for the local soldiers. However, Ningwuguan is not like Wuzhaibao and other places, where there are many generals and officers, each of them is a mountain, and the general will worry that it will be difficult to handle!"
Huang Laifu has now been promoted to the general officer of Shanxi Township, has the seal of General Zhengxi, and has been promoted to the rank of governor, which can be said to be a prominent official position.But the current commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, in name, is in command of the entire town's soldiers and horses, but in fact he is only guarding a fortress.

The war decision-making and planning of the whole town's army is in charge of the governor.Local patrols, military weapons, and water transportation are handled by local military officers.The distribution of food and salaries is in charge of the officials of the household department and the military supervisor.That is, the local garrison and other things are also managed by the capital of the local health office.Huang Laifu can only take care of one thing, and that is to pay for the war.

But Huang Laifu is very strange. In addition to being the commander-in-chief, he is also the governor of Wuzhai Fort, Shenchi Fort, Bajiao Fort, and Ningwuguan several forts. He specializes in opening mines and setting up factories in the local fields.This official position is very strange, and it does not exist in the current Ming Dynasty official position.

Emperor Wanli took a fancy to Huang Laifu's farming ability, and made it specially for Huang Laifu to manage several forts, so that he could share the money with Huang Laifu.Regarding this point, the cabinet and various officials have discussed a lot, and many censors have said that this approach is suspected of creating a feudal town.But Emperor Wanli ignored it.

However, Huang Laifu can manage Wuzhai Fort, Bajiao Fort, Shenchi Fort, Laoying Fort and other places, but it is a bit complicated to open mines in Ningwuguan.After all, the fields, mines and other things over there are all famous flowers, and the forces of all parties are powerful, and the interests are intertwined.For Huang Laifu to proceed smoothly, unless he massacres like he did in Shenchi Castle, this is impossible.

The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu also understood this, so he was worried about Huang Laifu. If the matter in Ningwuguan did not go well, it would affect Huang Laifu's status and image in the eyes of Emperor Wanli, which worried him the most.

Gu Dadao behind Yang Xiaolu was always in high spirits, looking left and right, at this time he said strangely: "The military gate is the commander-in-chief, so naturally just fight and farm the fields, isn't that what the bannermen of the guards do? ?...Why is the military gate going to Ningwuguan to garrison fields?"

Yang Xiaolu in front of Gu Dadao proudly said: "Da Dao, you don't understand now, my lord, in addition to being the commander-in-chief, is also the governor of several castles. It was ordered by the emperor personally. Farming, mining and other matters can be handled by the military gate!"

After Huang Laifu accepted Gu Dadao, he placed him in the family camp.Huang Laifu went to Ningwuguan, Gu Dadao naturally followed.This time Huang Laifu set up his own family camp with a quota of more than 3000 people.The more than 2000 men in front of us were divided into two divisions, each with one head, led by Yang Xiaolu.Among them, more than 1 old servants are cavalry, and the rest are horse infantry.

Huang Laifu has a rule that no matter his cronies or relatives, in the army, they are all commensurate with their military ranks, and Gu Dadao is no exception.Although he is Huang Laifu's nephew, he usually still calls Huang Laifu the military family.As for Gu Dadao, Jiang Dazhong liked him very much, the two had somewhat similar temperaments, and after a few days in Wuzhai Fort, they got along quite well.And Yang Xiaolu took care of Gu Dadao because he was Huang Laifu's nephew.

"So it is!"

Gu Dadao has always admired Huang Laifu, and now he admires him even more.

Eunuch Ma Jiuying and Huang Laifu walked side by side, at this moment he laughed in his unique voice: "Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, in fact, you don't have to worry, our family believes in Huang Junmen's ability, and we can properly solve this problem by then."

After Huang Laifu became the commander-in-chief, father-in-law Ma Jiuying rose to the top and was also promoted to the supervisor of the army, and he went to Ningwuguan to take up the post together.But to be honest, Eunuch Ma Jiuying still likes Wuzhaibao more.But where the responsibility lies, he had no choice but to go to take office with Huang Laifu.

Huang Laifu laughed and said, "Eunuch Ma is the one who knows me!"

Regarding the situation at Ningwuguan, Huang Laifu also knew to some extent that the fields and mines there were indeed occupied by local officials and generals.But Huang Laifu is not worried, he has his own ideas.

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Amidst the jokes among the crowd, soon the soldiers and horses were not far from Ningwu Pass, and everyone could see the majestic moat on Huagai Mountain in the north of the city.On the forty-mile-long side wall, a three-story canopy building was built.From a distance, the moat of Huagai Mountain resembles the head of a phoenix, and the forts extending to the east and west look like wings of a phoenix. No wonder Ningwuguan is also called "Phoenix City".

Huang Laifu looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help sighing: "What a pass city!"

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There is a tall flying building on the north gate of Ningwu Pass, and a plaque of "Zhenshuo Gate" is hung on the gate tower.This Zhenshuo Gate has always been the passage for the military forts in Shanxi Town to enter Ningwu Pass.

At this time, outside Zhenshuo Gate, there were many generals standing in a forest, chatting and talking constantly.When the new commander-in-chief takes office, generals from all over the country will naturally come to meet and greet him.For Huang Laifu, everyone has been famous for a long time. I heard that this chief soldier is only 22 years old this year. Such a young chief soldier, apart from the founding of the Ming Dynasty, is probably unique in the history of the country.Therefore, everyone's heart is full of curiosity.

At the gate of the city, there is a patch of red-tasseled phoenix wings, heavily armored.In addition to the local generals of Ningwuguan, there were also generals from all over Shanxi Town, which crowded a city gate.In addition to these people, around the sergeants who maintained order, there were also local civilians and military households who watched the excitement.Everyone wants to see what this young Huang Junmen, who is famous all over the world, looks like.

However, among the military generals everywhere, there is not a single local civil servant. Although Huang Laifu is the commander-in-chief, these civil servants are more important than their own identities, and none of them are willing to condescend to come out to greet them, except Zhang Outside the cultural security adults.He also came out to greet him, which made him look a little weird among the generals in iron helmets.But Zhang Wenbao just stood there calmly, ignoring the eyes of others.

Among the generals, Huang Laifu's eldest brother-in-law, Octagonal Fort guerrilla Xu Xueshi, Huang Laifu's second brother-in-law, and Baodezhou defenseman Li Yingchun, both of them stood beside the generals in high spirits.My brother-in-law was promoted to be the chief military officer, and those of them who are brother-in-laws naturally have good faces.And because of this relationship, the generals of the rest also tried to please them, making them happy and chatting and laughing with everyone.

Among them, the one who looked the most flattering to them was Liu Quanli, the former commander-in-chief Liu Mingan's personal general.This is a tall fat man with a smooth face, wearing an eight-petal iron pointed helmet on his head, a red cloak around his neck, and an iron armor draped over his body, giving him a feeling of being crowded.

Liu Quanli was originally the rank of general, and he was the pacesetter in command of the first battalion for Liu Mingan.Pacesetter is the name for governors, governors, and personal soldiers under the command of the generals in Ming Dynasty. They have always been the elite of the town army.In the town of Ningwuguan, there are four battalions of soldiers, two battalions of skirmishers, and two battalions of pacesetters.Among the two battalions of pacesetters, Governor Yang Fanglue led the first battalion, and Liu Mingan led the second battalion.

It turned out that Liu Quanli and others were popular and hot drinkers under Liu Mingan's command, and they always walked sideways inside and outside Ningwu Pass.However, since Liu Mingan was demoted to Guangdong, except for a small number of people who went with Liu Mingan.Most of the soldiers have also become bereaved dogs. No one wants it, and they can't afford it.After all, it is very expensive to support family members and soldiers. Who has so much money to support them?

(End of this chapter)