Chapter 73 Local snake, harsh training

Everyone entered the garrison house of Shenchi Castle, sat down with guests and hosts, and presented tea.

The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu said: "Lai Fu, the horse thieves you met near Taipingzhuang may not be horse thieves. They are likely to be thieves from the Liu family in Taipingzhuang. Do you know who there are people in Taipingzhuang?"

Huang Laifu said: "Who are they?"

The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu said, "The people from Taipingzhuang moved to Ningwuke who lived in that area during the reign of Emperor Rui (Ming Yingzong). They had a hundred years of power in Taipingzhuang. Their current patriarch named Liu, named Liu Kedi, is a distant relative of Liu, the general of Shanxi Town. Liu Kedi is cruel and steadfast, and he has more than 200 family slaves, all of whom are murderers with human lives. When the farming period comes, they gathered young and strong people, and hundreds of thousands of them went into the mountains to steal mines and mine coal. In the Taipingzhuang area, there are at least hundreds of coal eyes. The coal they stole was transported to Daizhou through Ningwu Pass and sold in Xinzhou. I don't know how much profit they make every year."

The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu looked at Huang Laifu and said, "Now the city wall of Wuzhaibao Daxing, there is a lot of stone coal needed when burning bricks. Now most of the coal they picked has been transported to the direction of Wuzhaibao."

"This Liu Kedi is supported by the general inside, and there are horse thieves from Kelan Mountain and Guancen Mountain outside. The largest horse thieves in Kelan Mountain have more than 500 people. They are robbing families and houses in Ninghua, Jingle, Lan County, and Kelanzhou, and come and go like the wind. According to your brother-in-law's estimate, the thief is Liu Kedi's clan brother. Now their power is not even your brother-in-law dares to mess with him."

"You are now ordered by the court to be the governor of the Three Forts. I guess they also heard this news, afraid that you will take their property, so they came here to give you a warning, Lai Fu, you must be careful. These local snakes are not easy to mess with."

"Or, let's do this. Your brother-in-law sent his servants to investigate. Our Shenchi Fort is indeed full of coal. Not only Taipingzhuang, but also the Wenling area has a lot of coal, and the local power is weak. Even if we take action, there will be no consequences. From Wenling to the north, there are more iron ore. We will specialize in that area. Don't conflict with the Liu family. What do you think about Laifu?"

The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu likes money, but he is very timid. If the Liu family is just a local local snake, it would be fine. He would not be afraid of anything in the guards of Shenchi Castle, but the Liu family is involved in the general, so he could not help but look back.

Huang Laifu laughed and said, "Brother-in-law, you're too worried. What's the Liu family? So what if he has the support of the general? Did you forget the origin of Eunuch Ma in my Wuzhai Fort? Don't worry. With the support of the person behind him, no matter who he is, we don't have to worry. It's okay for the Liu family to be tactful, you can give him some sweetness. Not tactful. Even he was killed together. You must know that gathering the murderers to steal mines is a serious crime."

The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu looked unstable on his face, and finally hesitated and said: "Laifu, please let your brother-in-law think about it carefully."

Huang Laifu said: "Don't worry, brother-in-law think about it slowly. Anyway, in this kind of weather, I can't open a mine for the time being. Let's talk about it after the spring next year."

It is now the end of November. In December, January, February, and March, the coldest Shenchi will reach minus dozens of degrees Celsius, which is much colder than Wuzhai Fort. Huang Laifu does not think that this kind of weather can still recruit people to work in Shenchi Fort. The governance of Shenchi Fort. I am afraid that it will be the first time that next April and May will be in trouble.

The matter was settled like this. The third brother-in-law Tian Dafu took Huang Laifu and met his elders. He asked his two concubines to meet Huang Laifu. For such a long time, Tian Dafu did not talk about the third sister Huang Birou, which made Huang Laifu feel angry and finally suppressed him. He thought, it would be better not to say it, but it is good that the third sister Huang Birou lives in Wuzhai Fort now, so there is no need to go back to Shenchi Fort. Now it is not a future generation. If it were in a future generation, Huang Laifu would have advised his third sister to divorce his third brother-in-law.

Within a few days after that, his third brother-in-law Tian Dafu led Huang Laifu to various places in Shenchi Castle to check the mines and discuss the management of Shenchi Castle next year. A few days later, Huang Laifu and his group arrived at Bajiao Fort again.

The Bajiao Fort is sixty miles away from the Shenchi Fort, which is a dangerous place to block. It is built in Hongzhi, Ming Dynasty, and there are eight city towers, so it is named. With the garrison of the Bajiao Fort and the elder brother-in-law Xu Xueshi, Huang Laifu checked various parts of the Bajiao Fort. Compared with the Shenchi Fort, there are no minerals near the Bajiao Fort, but there are more flat land.

There is also a river nearby, called the Xianchuan River, which opens two tributaries. There are about 200,000 acres of land in the middle of the two rivers. It is probably rich in groundwater and convenient irrigation. However, at this time, most of these lands were dry, cracked and deserted, and only a few small villages were by the river, with some people sparsely populated.

Huang Laifu plans to open several large farms here in the future, plant some wheat crops such as buckwheat, and then plant some beans, flax (seeds), peanuts, rapeseed and other economic crops. Also, in this area, limestone mineral resources are rich, with large reserves, high crystal level, and easy to mine. Huang Laifu will build several large cement, lime, bricks and tiles processing factories here in the future.

Compared with his third brother-in-law Tian Dafu, his eldest brother-in-law Xu Xueshi made Huang Laifu like him much, and his eldest brother-in-law Xu Xueshi could also see his concern for Huang Laifu's elder sister Huang Zirou. When Huang Laifu arrived at the Octagon Fort, his eldest brother-in-law Xu Xueshi asked his elder sister with concern how he was doing in Wuzhai Fort. He only said that he had no gaps, otherwise he would go to Wuzhai Fort to see his wife and children, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

After staying in Bajiao Fort for a few days, Huang Laifu said goodbye to his elder brother-in-law and returned to Wuzhai Fort.

December 15, 1590. Somewhere outside Wuzhai Fort!

It was cold and the wind was whistling. It was rare for someone to move on the road outside.

But at this time, there was a silent army walking on the road. They were clear-cut, full of armor, and strong white air was heard from their mouths, one by one, and one by one, neatly moving. Everyone was very tired, but everyone was persevering because they were guarding the adults and in this harsh weather, they were also carrying out this arduous march with them.

There was a mountain pass in front of him, and Huang Laifu said, "Stop."

Immediately, several inspection flags next to him passed on Huang Laifu's orders. They passed on to each hundred households, and then the hundred households passed on the general flag, and the general flag passed on the small flag. The small flag passed on to ordinary soldiers.

Immediately everyone stopped silently.

With a sound of the gong, everyone followed their own flags and hundreds of households. They all sat on the ground to rest, holding weapons in their hands, and sat silently, and no one dared to speak. Because Huang Laifu had strict orders, remember not to make noise during the march. Otherwise, the military sticks would be at the worst, and the head would be beheaded.

Then Huang Laifu gave another order, and heard the sound of the sergeant beside him with a golden edge. Immediately, four servants rode out of the queue and went to the front to check the situation.

Soon, the servants came back and everything was normal.

Huang Laifu nodded and a sound of Boluo. The soldiers all stood up and stood with equipment, only the sound of a piece of armor leaves was heard. Then they blew the roars again, and immediately everyone got on the car and got on the horse, and the marching drums sounded. Everyone began to move forward silently again.

Such marches have been carried out several times in the Wuzhaibao army. This is the method of Huang Laifu in combat training when the Wuzhaibao army marched and encountered the enemy when the camp encountered the enemy. And camping in the cold winter is also a manifestation of honing the will of the sergeants.

Every time the soldiers were dressed in their clothes. The chariots and cavalry came together. To be honest, the hardships and fatigue of marching in the cold northern Shanxi field can be imagined. However, since Huang Laifu personally participated in each marching, the soldiers did not complain at all.

And the troops who were still practicing camping in the cold winter were deeply admired and proud of the Wuzhai Fort. Even the father-in-law Ma Jiuying and the thousand-house Yang Dawei of the Jinyiwei were very surprised.

Such exercises are not possible even if the landmark soldiers in Shanxi towns and towns can do it.

Soon, he marched to a wilderness. It was almost noon, and Huang Laifu ordered to make meals. At the same time, the origin of the pond horses was to explore the enemy situation and protect the safety of the army. Huang Laifu ordered. He heard a loud horn. The fire soldiers began to cook. Although the march was very hard. Huang Laifu was still very concerned about the soldiers' clothes and food, food, and drink outside.

Everyone was wearing several layers of thick cotton coats inside, and had iron armor on their outside, and a soft wool hat on their heads. The soft hood was covered with eight-petal hat helmets. The exposed areas on the outside were also covered with thick grease. If they were frostbite, there were also medical practitioners in the army.

As for eating, now there are large pieces of steaming meat, geothermal eggs, rice noodles, chopped green onion egg soup, etc., which fully replenish the geothermal heat needed by the sergeant.

After a full meal, according to the purpose of this marching, it was assumed that he had encountered an attack from a thief after the meal.

I saw the pond ahead shaking the small yellow flag. A thief came, about 2,000 people, and they were attacking head-on.

Huang Laifu called out the order and lit the drum, then blew the trumpet, and immediately three chariots pushed to the front, and the rest set up the mandarin duck formation, and the soldiers sat on the ground, divided the left and right central troops, and placed the refusal horses in front of each hundred-house team.

When the bandits reached 100 steps, there was a sound of wail and everyone stood up. Then the sound of swans sounded, and the first layer of bird guns rang out. Immediately, a smoke screen sounded, and the bird guns fired. When the bandits reached 60 steps, there was another rain of arrows. When the bandits reached 50 steps, several chariots and wolf machines were easy to fight. When the steps 30 steps, the tiger squatted cannons showed its power.

If the bandits had not collapsed at this time, the Mandarin Duck Formation was forward, the rattan card was in front of it, the wolf silence was the second, the spear was the third, and the sword was at the end, and the close forces were connected and the bloody battle was to the end.

At this time, the bandits collapsed, so the infantry sat down to rest, and forty servants with horses chased.

A great victory in the exercise!

When Huang Laifu was busy training troops to manage Wuzhai Fort, the Ming Dynasty was still moving in an orderly manner according to its own history.

December 16, 1590.

Shi Xing, Minister of War, said: "The border defense has been abandoned recently, and the viewing should be strictly observed."

So Emperor Wanli ordered nine court officials to follow the nine border defenses, and strictly investigated the negligence of the border officials, and impeached the important matters. At that time, the officials who were ordered to go to the nine borders were: the right-handed Zheng Mu came to assist in the Ji Town and Baoding, Changping. The right-handed Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Wang Shiyang inspected Yansui. The Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, Zeng Qianheng, visited Datong. The Chief of Shangbao, Zhou Hongsheng, went to Ningxia. The Chief of the Military Department, Zhang Dong, visited Guyuan. The Left-handed Shihou went to Liaodong. The Xuanfu was the Right-handed Shijue of the Engineering Department, and the Right-handed Shijue of the Engineering Department, and Li Ruhua, the Chief of the Engineering Department, and Zhang Zhenguan, the Secretary of the Military Department.

On December 22, 1590 AD, Grand Secretary Shen Shixing was ordered to submit the "Records of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations of the Consecrations

On December 24, 1590 AD, River Governor Pan Jixun completed his work on river control "A List of River Defense". The book consists of 14 volumes and 290,000 words. The content includes the background of river control and the court's river control policy. The engineering planning of Huang, Huai, Yunsan River and adjacent waterways, important places for river protection and hazards. Pan Jixun's own theory of river control. Key locations for river control. The work charter for river control. His own river control review. His historical information on the source of the Yellow River and the breaking of the Yellow River. Memorials on river control from ancient times to the present, etc.

At the end of December, the local barbarians of Liaodong, Bu Yan Taizhou, Huang Taiji and others attacked Liao and Shen, and then went deep into Haizhou, Liaoning. Li Chengliang defeated the battle. Qinghai Minister Mi Luochi attacked Taozhou and Hezhou. Hetao Bu Situ attacked Yongchang, Gansu and wanted to go to Qinghai, but was blocked by Ming troops. Yang Yinglong's rebellion broke out in the Xuanwei Department of Bozhou.

Soon, the new year is coming again.
Chapter completed!