Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

Jinping County, which was only established in the first year of Tianqi, is located in a remote corner compared with several nearby counties. There are few people and little cultivated land. Even pirates rarely come here. They only come here to take shelter when there are storms and plunder.

Usually, officials who have offended their superiors or people with no strong background are sent here to serve. It can be regarded as a kind of disguised distribution.

However, the current magistrate of Jinping County, Liu Wendou, does not think so, and even thinks that he is a blessing in disguise.

Those colleagues who were proud and bossy in the past are now governed by mobs resisting grain and tax. Although they have not developed to the level of attacking the state and passing the government, and looting the state and county, it has been a war for three months, and letters from home are worth tens of thousands. Gold.

A government order could not even go ten miles away, and it took a lot of effort to send out a letter asking for help. Now that I think about it, it was a blessing in disguise.

My own Jinping County is a bit remote, and the local clans and powerful forces are intertwined with each other and have close contacts. Often, a government matter must be discussed with various prominent families before it can be implemented. Among them, there is no need to make discounts or bargains.

All the above inconveniences seem not to be worth mentioning now.

What's more, I didn't take any less of the interest money such as Bing Jing, Tan Jing, Huo Huo, etc. due to others. Apart from being a little controlled by others, there were some psychological difficulties. Compared with other counties in Lingnan, it can be said that it is peaceful. Elysium!

Not long ago, when I was serving as an aide to Governor Xiong, my fellow countryman sent a secret letter. Governor Xiong was very satisfied with the one thousand taels of silver dollars he sent, and he had rated it as excellent in his assessment.

When I think that I have been evaluated as excellent for three consecutive years, it is time to move my seat. It won't be long before I have to have a glass of wedding wine for promotion.

Under the eaves of the corridor, I held a book of songs in my hand, basking in the sun, consciously or unconsciously reciting the beautiful poems of the sages in a low voice, appreciating their infinite brilliance, and from time to time I picked up Kung Fu tea brewed in a small purple sand pot on the bamboo table next to me. After taking a sip, Liu Wendou, the magistrate of Jinping County, really felt like a god.

However, Murphy's Law has already arranged everything, and beautiful things are often disturbed by unsightly characters.

"Your Majesty the County Magistrate! Your Majesty the County Magistrate!"

As the patrol officer responsible for public security, arrests and other matters in Jinping County, he hurriedly broke into the back house of the compound.

Jinping County Magistrate Liu Wendou rolled his eyes at the unscrupulous patrolman, and reprimanded him with a nasal accent in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Mandarin: "Why are you so flustered? You are so good that you are an official. Don't lose your official status." decent!”

The official level was overwhelming, so the patrol officer had no choice but to bury his head in silence and listen to what he had to say.

After reprimanding the inspector, Liu Wendou picked up the purple clay teapot again and sipped tea leisurely.

"Tsk tsk! Good tea! Good tea!"

"You just spent some money to find a favor. You didn't come from a serious imperial examination. Otherwise, why would you be assigned here? Why are you pretending to be a bigot with me? It's bad luck!" The patrolman on the side cursed secretly in his heart.

"Your Majesty, a large group of thieves have been spotted outside the city and are moving toward the county seat! And they are going very fast!" the inspector specifically added, "It is very fast." He expected that our county magistrate would make a fool of himself.

Sure enough, there was only a "Crack!" sound, and the small purple sand pot fell from Liu Wendou's hand and shattered on the stone slab.

At the same time, on the road leading to Jinping County outside the city, bursts of thunderous movement came from far to near, causing the gravel on the roadside to smash and jump.

A big city in prosperous times and a remote place in troubled times.

Nowadays, almost all villages in Lingnan are lit with fires and smoke is everywhere. After landing in Lingnan from Keelung, Weizhou paid a little attention to the nearby villages. There was almost no village that had not built a wall.

The difference is that the height and thickness of the village walls are compared with each other based on financial resources and the strength within the village, and are obviously reflected in the weapons.

There are strong and wealthy villages that use bluestones to build their walls, which are more than three feet high. There are forts and arrow towers at the four corners. Rather than calling them village walls, it is more appropriate to call them city walls.

In addition to the usual defensive weapons such as rolling logs, stones, and gold juice, Weizhou also vaguely saw a few bronze cannons and small Buddha machines through the telescope in his hand. This shocked him a little, knowing that even the current state capital did not have the money to deploy such weapons.

Under the flag fluttering on the top of the city with the name of the village or the clan, villagers patrolled from time to time, and their awareness of defense was not inferior at all.

In troubled times, it is difficult to tell clearly who is a soldier, who is a bandit, and who is a citizen. After all, these roles change so quickly.

He has a hard fist, and what he says is what he says. If he is a citizen, he is a citizen. A good citizen like him can still rob soldiers. He is not bad at being a soldier. With weapons in hand, no one dares to disobey him. As for those poor people with no corners, they have been robbed long ago and either starve to death on the road or starve to death on the road.

Looking at the goods piled high on the four-wheeled carriages in the team, Weizhou couldn't help but become nervous. He was afraid that he would attract too much attention and cause unnecessary trouble.

If something really went wrong, he wouldn't be able to explain it when he went back. He had been begging for a long time before he got the opportunity to lead troops out. In his opinion, his task was not light.

But Weizhou on the road didn't know that this trip to escort the goods for the Qin and Han companies put pressure on the villages of all sizes along the Jinping County like a huge wave that could not calm down for a long time.

The smoke and dust brought up by the rapid march of men, horses and vehicles billowed into the sky, and the driving horses neighed like thunder.

The ground was constantly shaking as the vehicles rolled over them. Look at the momentum. Is there perhaps more than 10,000 people in this team, or even more?

Moreover, each one of them has bright armor and shiny swords and guns. An elite division is definitely an elite division.

You must know that the current elite division does not mean strict discipline, but means killing people without blinking an eye, and eating people without hesitation.

Occasionally, a pedestrian or business traveler walking on the road encountered him. He immediately ignored the filth and jumped into the ditch beside the road to hide, fearing that he would offend this group of gentlemen and bring disaster to himself.

In my heart, I was thinking about what I would say after being caught. I have a mother in her seventies or eighties and a pair of children waiting for food. As for my wife, I'm sorry, she ran away with the old oligarch next door. You think it's miserable enough.

In the distance, on the wall of the village that had formed a stronghold for self-protection, a group of villagers kept swarming up the wall. They hid behind the crenellations of the wall and secretly glanced at the marching group passing in front of them, analyzing in a low voice what this large group of people was. origin.

Did pirates come ashore to trade?

From the perspective of the vehicle, it looks almost the same, and it seems to be a big product, but when you think about it carefully, something is wrong.

Would pirates have so many horses? Do pirates have such powerful infantry?

If they are not pirates, then are they officers and soldiers?

The guy in his hand seemed to look a bit like an officer and soldier. A village soldier who had gone out to see the world did not hesitate to confirm to his companions that the large army in front of him was an officer and soldier, and he confirmed it with spit and nail.