Chapter 222 Jinyiwei Training Camp
The rice porridge made from millet, rice and sweet potato cubes is very sticky, reaching the level of not falling into pieces of chopsticks and not falling into a towel. If you drink a bowl of such porridge in the morning, you can do a whole day of hard work and not faint from hunger. If you drink a bowl in the evening, you can sleep comfortably until dawn and not wake up in the middle of the night.
Even if a person who is about to starve to death drinks a bowl of porridge, he will be saved. After recuperating with such porridge for a few days, he will be full of energy and strength, and can do heavy work with lively.
The children had a good appetite. Most of the children drank three to five bowls of porridge, and even the little girls drank two bowls of porridge. The Goudan, who had been renamed Gao Mielu, drank seven bowls of porridge in one breath!
Gao Mielu drank seven bowls of porridge in a row, and he couldn't drink it anymore. Then he stood up with a burp and patted his stomach: "It's comfortable, I haven't eaten that much for a long time!"
Let’s look at the children. Each of them drank several bowls of porridge and was much more energetic.
For the next three days, they were treated with rice porridge every day. After three days of rice porridge, these children went from being pale and thin when they first came to being in high spirits and regained their innocence and liveliness.
Within these three days, Gao Shixin also asked Wu Liuqi to take several Jinyiwei's Jinyiwei's Hundred Houses Institute to go to the city to customize a batch of new clothes for the children. The style of the new clothes was designed according to the green mandarin duck war jacket worn by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in a scale. After getting the customized clothes, they were replaced with the children.
After entering the palace, these children will change into black armor and black wide-brimmed iron helmets. On weekdays, they are wearing flying fish suits and wingless black gauze hats. But they can't be allowed to enter Beijing in tattered clothes, right? So they will change their clothes first, and after returning to the capital, they will settle in a temporary barracks outside the city for a period of training before entering the palace.
Gao Mielu, who had changed into new clothes, looked at the mandarin duck battle jacket on his body proudly, and felt that he was full of energy and had become like a different person.
"We are all officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. There is no need to be afraid of those guys who bullied us in the past in the future!" Gao Mielu said excitedly.
Another child said: "We still have to work hard with our adoptive father. When we make great contributions and become Shangguan, we will go back to settle the score with those who have bullied us!"
"Yes!" Gao Mielu nodded, "The adoptive father is as kind as a mountain to us, and our lives will be sold to the adoptive father! If anyone dares to do something wrong with the rebellious father, I, Mielu, will be the first to take his life!"
Seven days later, the second batch of twelve Jinyiwei from the capital came to Jinan. These Jinyiwei were all from Gao Shixin. They came to Jinan and took the children back to the capital.
Gao Mielu followed the Jinyiwei back to Beijing. On the way back, he did not see his most beloved adoptive father.
"This brother, where is my adopted father? Where has he been?" Gao Mielu pulled a Jinyiwei Baihu and asked.
The Jinyiwei Baihu said, "Child, you have to call me uncle! I am your adoptive father's cousin! My name is Wei Liangqing. Your adoptive father will call me brother when he sees me! I am your elder!"
"Uncle, where has my adopted father been?"
Wei Liangqing smiled and said, "Nephew, your adoptive father has gone to do something very important for the court. I will take you back to Beijing. In the future, you will follow my arrangements. First train you and then teach you how to read. When your adoptive father comes back, you will naturally arrange for you."
At noon the next day, the team arrived in Texas and then transferred to Beijing by boat.
"Eunuch Zhang, the babies brought back by Mr. Gao from Jinan have arrived and are waiting in the temporary barracks outside Zuoanmen." Zhang Yongxin's confidant young eunuch Fan Xin came to report.
"Have you returned?" Zhang Yong asked.
"When Eunuch Zhang returned, Gao Chenshi did not come back. He told Wei Baihu that he had important matters to do in Shandong, so he asked Wei Baihu to bring all the children and settle outside Zuoanmen. The Jinyiwei built a new barracks there." Fan Xin replied.
"Let's go out of the palace to have a look. Our family will first ask the emperor for leave and call my uncle to go with you." Zhang Yong said.
First, they went to the carpenter for a day off. Zhang Yong and Wei Zhongxian took Fan Xin, Xiao Chuan and a group of Dongchang men out of the imperial city. A group of people dressed in bright clothes and horses, heading straight for the temporary camp of the Jinyiwei outside Zuo'anmen.
This barracks were built outside the pass last time Gao Shixin returned from outside the pass and ordered a Jinyi Guard barracks built outside Zuo'anmen. There are barracks where soldiers live, martial arts yards, arsenals, canteens, teaching halls, central army tents and other facilities. The outer edges are two circles of wooden fences, one tall and one short, covered with wooden boards, forming a wooden city wall. There are arrow towers and watchtowers inside the city wall. There are also raised enemy platforms built of bricks and wood outside the wooden city wall. The barracks cleverly use the Yongding River and its tributaries to form a natural moat.
When I walked to the main entrance, I saw six big words "Jinyiwei Training Camp" written above a wooden gate, and the suspension bridge was pulled up high.
Zhang Yong raised his head and shouted: "Our family is Eunuch Zhang Yong from the palace! Eunuch Wei is here too! Please open the door!"
The Jinyiwei guards guarding the city did not dare to neglect them, so they immediately went back to report to Wei Liangqing: "Captain Wei, the old lady Zhang Yongxiao in the palace is here, and the old lady Wei is here, and they are here, saying that they want to see you."
Wei Liangqing, who was comfortably leaning on the Taishi chair to drink tea, jumped up as if a spring was installed, and slapped the Jinyiwei in the face, and opened his voice and shouted: "Eunuch Zhang and Eunuch Wei are here, why don't you go and open the door quickly! Do you know who they are? Eunuch Wei is my second uncle! Eunuch Zhang is my cousin, how dare you stop them? Do you want to die?"
"No!" the man responded, ran outside immediately, shouting: "My sons, please open the door quickly and welcome Eunuch Zhang!"
Wei Liangqing rushed outside and shouted: "Children, Eunuch Wei and Eunuch Zhang are here, come out quickly and line up to greet him!"
After these young men came to this barracks, they were told that in the future, they would be loyal to their godfather, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was loyal to Godfather, as well as His Godfather's uncle Wei Zhongxian and His Godfather's good brother Zhang Yong. When they heard that Eunuch Wei and Eunuch Zhang were coming, the children knew that it must be Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Yong. They did not dare to neglect them and immediately rushed out of the barracks and arranged neatly in the martial arts field, waiting to welcome the arrival of the two father-in-laws.
The gate opened, and Wei Liangqing led a group of Jinyiwei out of the camp. Seeing Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Yonghe and a group of people riding in, Wei Liangqing hurriedly knelt in front of Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Yong's horse and kowtowed: "Second uncle, you are here, I don't know, I have missed the opportunity to welcome you, and I will be punished by death!"
"Monkey, get up!" Wei Zhongxian jumped off the horse with a smile, helped his nephew up, "Take our family in!"
Wei Zhongxian stepped on his horse again and walked into the Jinyiwei training camp with a group of people. He saw more than 100 young Jinyiwei in a neat lineup on the martial arts field. They were wearing Ming army's blue mandarin duck battle jackets, and the team was neat. Everyone stood straight and motionless, like a statue.
"Please review the young Jinyiwei!" Gao Mielu, the leader of the team, stood up, walked to Wei Zhongxian, clenched his fist with his right hand, and placed it on his chest to salute Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian waved his hand immediately and signaled that Gao Mielu was doing a good job.
A group of father-in-law and Dongchang men surrounded Wei Zhongxian and rode their horses past the young Jinyiwei. While walking on horseback, Wei Zhongxian gestured to these young Jinyiwei: "Thank you for your hard work, boys!"
"Thank you for your hard work in Eunuch Wei!" The young Jinyiwei roared in unison, rushing into the sky.
Chapter completed!