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Chapter 15 Perseverance

"This is a united conference, a victorious conference, and a conference to carry forward the past. [Latest chapter reading] The gentry offices present expressed their indignation towards the Qing Dynasty and the lackeys and villains under their command, and generously donated money to buy government loans to increase military benefits, greatly assisting the royal army in building a new garrison station and subsequently sending troops to recover lost territory, showing the great patriotic enthusiasm of the disciples of the Holy Sect in various counties in Jinhua Prefecture."

At least it is written in some private seal script historical books in later generations. As for how the parties think about it, it is not within the scope of consideration of conscientious historical inventors.

The King's Restoration of Jinhua Prefecture ended at night that day. Nearly a hundred rich gentry and wealthy families present pinched their noses and bought less than 8,000 taels of Zhenglu's large loan, and politely declined Chen Wen's fundraising dinner and left in a hurry, which included the first ten-year contract period.

As for the old man who subscribed for 1,000 taels, it was Sun Yu's father-in-law, Taishan, an actor specially found by Chen Wen, commonly known as "child care".

Because Sun Yu joined Yin Can's anti-Qing rebel army, the Yi family was repeatedly blackmailed by Qing officials in Jinhua Prefecture. Later, after Ma Jinbao moved to Jinhua Prefecture, he almost pulled Mr. Yi to get vinegar. If he had not acted humble enough, he would have devoted all the industries in the city, counties and even other prefectures to Ma Jinbao without hesitation, but he might not have even been able to save his life.

In this way, the wealthy family in Jinhua Prefecture plummeted, and a whole family hid in a broken house in the Liudong Mountain area and lived hungry for several years, plowing the few acres of thin fields left in the mountains. It was not until more than a month after the Ming army recovered Jinhua Prefecture that Sun Yu's father-in-law, who had learned that the prefect of Jinhua, who had returned to the capital city before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, met Sun Yu's family before Chen Wen invited him to act in this play.

Regarding these gentry and wealthy families who helped the Ming army, Chen Wen said that he would definitely record their contributions and would record them together with the righteous people who donated property to the Ming army and conveyed information. After liberation of Nanjing and welcomed the emperor, he would report their loyalty to the emperor. I think the emperor would definitely commend them.

So, after discovering that Chen Wen had such a good habit of keeping accounts, those "anti-Qing people" who were afraid that the Ming army would lock them according to Chen Wen's account book after their defeat had to pinch their noses and subscribe to some large loans for the Zhengluo. However, most of them chose the lowest value in terms of purchase amounts. On the contrary, the old master who once pointed at Chen Wen's nose and criticized his "credit issue", privately subscribed 800 taels, which was the largest loan besides "child care".

If there are less than 8,000 taels of silver, the one thousand taels will be reduced. These silver is nothing to this army that urgently needs funds to improve its strength, but for Chen Wen, it is already an unexpected surprise.

From large loans after the disaster, to installment payments, to large loans for the levy, Chen Wen's purpose was not only to obtain start-up funds to survive the most difficult months before the start of the summer tax, but more importantly, it was to tie the local gentry and civilians to the Ming army in order to obtain more support. As for whether these people were willing, Chen Wen didn't care at all.

At least in his opinion, as long as the army in his hands is enough to compete with the Qing army, defend this land and regain more lost land, these people will not cause any trouble. Instead, after the Ming army gained the initiative, they will increase their strength to support the Ming army, so as to maintain their status after the Ming Dynasty's revival and go further. From today on, he also gave these people a chance to gain both profit and name.

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Half a month later, Jinhua Wei, which had just been established, began to distribute the first batch of land acres. At this moment, outside a small village adjacent to Fenghuang Mountain in the southwest of Yongkang County, the Qianhu, who guarded the Thousand Houses of the Thousand Houses of Yongkang County and the civil servants of the garrison offices of the garrison offices and the county magistrates were commanding the small officials of the garrison offices to define the boundaries of land acres.

Many of the land in this village were previously occupied by the Qing army stationed in Yongkang County. Since this place is not far from the county town, it has been completed to diversion and irrigation near Yongkang River. Most of the families who were also seized were persecuted and even lost their families. Several of the first batch of military martyrs and disabled soldiers in the Ming army were divided here. Among them, there were Ding Keji, a family of the fallen soldiers who fought behind the Siming Mountain Palace.

After a busy morning with the vigilant eyes of the surviving people, the officials of the Thousand Houses finally set the boundaries and left the place with great gratitude from the widows of the Ding family, other military martyrs and disabled soldiers, and continued to supervise their work elsewhere.

After Ding Keji was killed, the Ding family distributed forty acres of land. This land could not be distributed because the Ming army under Chen Wen lived in Tiantai Mountain. It was finally settled until now. The forty acres of land were Yongye land, and there was no need to pay any taxes within 20 years. The Ding family and his son did not have to bear corvee labor, and they had been transferred to Ding Keji's name. He could change the landlord when his son grew up.

The reason for this is mainly to consider the possible remarriage problem, so the land of the fallen soldiers temporarily belongs to their names, and the name change can be regarded as a guarantee of the ownership of the land.

Not to mention the disabled soldiers and military martyrs in several other households in the same village, not to mention the soldiers who were injured in the battle of the Ding family, one of them had no wife and descendants, but the other family members were not alive. They joined the army alone in Dalan Mountain, and ended up in the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace. Chen Wen, according to the plan, selected a young orphan from Jinhuawei, and asked him to recognize the soldier as his adopted father, and changed his surname to his family, so he repaid his pension for the land.

However, this land was temporarily named in the soldier, and the land was also farmed by thousands of households, while his adopted son was arranged to be raised and educated in an affiliated agency of Jinhuawei. Only when the land and harvest became an adult will it belong.

Compared to this fallen soldier, Ding Keji is still lucky. At least he has a biological son and a wife who is willing to keep him...

After the officials of the garrison left, most of the captain Liu Cheng, who was alive when Ding Keji and the surviving comrades of the fourth Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team of the former Nantangying Armor Sentence, rushed over to assist the Ding family and his son to establish a tomb for Ding Keji in a place with good feng shui in the field to facilitate worship.

With a hoe and a shovel, An Youfu and Shi Daniu dug up the tombs used to place their clothes little by little. After the Ding family and his son put the clothes left by Ding Keji in, they began to seal the tombs. While An Youfu and Shi Daniu were busy, Liu Cheng and two other comrades found the stonemason they had found before. After paying the money, they moved the tombstone customized for Ding Keji on the ox cart assigned by the Ding family and pulled it over.

After erecting the tombstone, the Ding family and his son, Liu Cheng, An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others lit incense and candles, presented a tribute to him and began to worship.

"Husband, the land of land that Marshal Chen promised to provide for the land of land. From now on, I and Jie'er will live here, always guarding you. Keeping this land of land you exchanged for with your life will always raise your children to be borne by the Ding family..."

In the smoke and dust of burning paper money, the whimpering female voices between the widows of Ding's family, Liu Cheng and other Ding Keji's comrades all showed sentimental feelings. An Youfu and Shi Daniu, who were closest to Ding Keji, had even tears in their eyes, slashing across their cheeks one by one, remembering the help and friendship that the elder brother who had been dead for more than a year had given them.

After the Ding family's mother and son bowed down and kowtowed, it was Liu Cheng's turn. However, Liu Cheng was Ding Keji's boss during his lifetime, so he naturally didn't want to kowtow to worship, so he bowed a few times, and An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others kowtowed directly in front of the grave.

Telling the anecdotes in the army over the past year and the battles of the Ming army after setting off from Tiantai Mountain, Ding Keji's comrades were also saddened by their comrades who had left the world before. Until a long time later, everyone left the Ding family and went to a small tavern in Yongkang County. Even An Youfu, who had already been confirmed to be stationed here, was no exception.

Late at night, the owner of the tavern had already fallen asleep, while Liu Cheng, An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others were still drinking, but the young man was still lying on the large counter with a curved ruler and dozing.

However, at this moment, except for Liu Cheng, there was only one soldier who had been under his command who was still chatting with him, the former direct Shangguan You. The most talked about was the distribution of land and the military merits. Only when Liu Cheng, the old Shangguan General who had already stepped into the gate of senior officers, had the chance to know the inside story that Liu Cheng had already stepped into the senior officer's gate and the chance to know, only the former soldier was excited and toasted Chen Wen, who was far away in Jinhua City and the old Shangguan Liu Cheng in front of him, as if this could express his gratitude. As for the others, they were all drunk on the table, yawning one after another, as accompaniment.

Today is the day to set up a tomb for Ding Keji. Looking back at the time when he had just entered the military camp, he always offended people without any restraint and even ran into a military judge. But every time, Ding Keji was comforting him, helping him gain a foothold in the team, and sheltering him from the wind and rain on the battlefield. His former brother had long passed away, and An Youfu, who was so painful in his heart, was the first to be drunk on the table. Shi Daniu, who had always been honest and honest, was a little stupid, quickly vented his anger after An Youfu got drunk.

In front of everyone, Shi Daniu, with tears on his face, was drinking wine while crying about the details of Ding Keji's death. Later, he began to slap him hard in the mouth. The force was so strong that it really scared everyone, and even blood flowed from the corners of his mouth. However, Liu Cheng, an old Shangguan, stopped the attempt of others to dissuade him, and just silently watched Shi Daniu vent his long-accident self-blame. Until he was exhausted, he could no longer hold on and even when he was drunk, Shi Daniu's self-blame voice over and over, "If I could react faster, maybe Ding San Ge would not die" always echoed in his ears.

After drinking all night, only Liu Cheng, who had always had a lot of alcohol, was drinking slowly, while the others fell asleep drunk and continued to drink when they woke up. Only Shi Daniu did not get up after he had been drunk and was awakened by everyone who was about to return to the station until the next day dawn.

In addition to Liu Cheng and An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others remained in the war barracks after this reorganization. Among them, Shi Daniu, as a veteran, was promoted to the commander of their former team and worked under the new captain Luo Yongzhong.

Unlike these lowest-level officers, Liu Cheng has been appointed as a guerrilla general by Chen Wen to be responsible for the defense of the entire Dongyang County with his outstanding performance in Yiwu City Defense War, and has become one of the first intermediate officers in Nantang Camp to become the general. Of course, it is still incomparable to Lou Jiye, who is already in charge of the General Staff Department, but compared with other first-tier captains of Nantang Camp, he is already the fastest promoted one.

Everyone boarded the boat. They all wanted to go down Yongkang Creek and arrive at Jinhua Prefecture City. Among them, Liu Cheng wanted to go upstream to the military camp of Dongyang County after entering Dongyang River. Only An Youfu still saw them off on the shore.

"Brother An, don't you think about it anymore? Old brother, I can say a few more words to Marshal Wu. It should not be a problem to transfer you back to the military camp. Yongkang County is not a place where military merits can be seized. Why do you have to stay here and waste your years?"

Hearing this, An Youfu shook his head and then said to Liu Cheng: "Captain Liu, when Brother Ding San died in his country, I promised him to take care of his orphan. Now it is a great thing to be able to stay in Yongkang County to be the Qianzheng General of the garrison garrison. Please forgive me."

"Why."

An Youfu's answer made Liu Cheng sigh. Although this old subordinate had many problems and many times he was punished, his military merits were also quite large. As a soldier, the number of killing Qing troops alone and with the assistance of others was still ranked first on the list. During this reorganization, there was a chance for a speech commander from Nantang Camp and a training officer from the Military Training Department to choose, but he chose to come to Yongkang County, which had no chance to get his military merits as the Thousand General of the Garage Garage.

He was angry at the unwise nature of this old subordinate, but his loyalty and keeping promise still made Liu Cheng amazed. He had to jump on the boat after saying the sentence, and began to set off for the military camp of Dongyang County, where he was about to take charge of military affairs.

At the same time, dozens of miles south of Liu Cheng's destination, in a forest outside Hengdian Town, a man in Ming army uniform was burning paper money and telling him quietly to a grave in front of him that there was no tombstone.

"Dad, mom, the child is now in the army of Dashui Chen. He has made military achievements in the battle of Xiaoshun Town. He is no longer the slave who was once a slave, but a dignified warrior in the army. If he has military achievements in the future, he can marry a wife and leave a back for our family..."

"... Not long ago, Marshal Chen ordered the land to be granted. When the child obtained the land, he used the previous military merit reward to move the graves of his grandparents and your two elders to our own land. He was no longer angry in front of the Feng family, and his descendants were no longer slaves of the Feng family!" (To be continued.)
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