Chapter 252 Returning Home

After hearing Huang Laifu's words, Liu Bingbei's face showed glory. The development of Ningwu Dao in recent years and the inspections of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel were excellent every year. If nothing unexpected happens, when Governor Yang is promoted or resigned, he will be the next Governor of Shanxi Town.

He held back his complacent, stood up and thanked, "It all depends on the Governor's far-sightedness, planning and not daring to make a contribution to the humble position."

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Oh, this is Liu Bing's credit for you. Shanxi Town is clear, you don't have to be humble. When Ningwu Dao develops better in the future, perhaps the entire Shanxi Town will implement your experience of success in the future."

If Huang Laifu could only instigate Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei to plan everything in Ningwudao, now he has the power and ability to plan the entire Shanxi Town.

Liu Bingbei was even more happy and said with a smile: "It's all up to the adults to cultivate!"

He was happy that if Ningwu Dao's experience was implemented in the whole Shanxi Town, he would naturally have his contribution to this after Shanxi Town was developed in the future. Moreover, in the years he had managed Ningwu Dao, he had gained countless benefits in private, and both public and private benefits naturally made him happy.

Everyone talked for a while, and Huang Laifu asked them to disperse and returned to the back hall to rest.

In the evening, Huang Laifu attended the dinner held by Governor Yang for him and went back drunk.

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Huang Laifu closed down in Ningwu for several days to deal with some government affairs accumulated after he left. However, Huang Laifu has been much more relaxed now. When he was in the capital, the news that Huang Laifu, the military affairs, food and salary of the two towns in Datong, Shanxi, spread, many literati came to join him.

Among these literati, they were not only the unsuccessful young literati of the past, but even some famous literati have begun to defect to as staff. Although Huang Laifu is still a military man, in the eyes of many people, they are now a worthy object to bet.

When he was in the capital, with the consent of Emperor Wanli, Huang Laifu had decided to set up the Governor's Mansion in Wuzhai Fort. Therefore, it was inevitable to move the framework of the former general's mansion to Wuzhai Fort.

On the second day of the seventh month of the 27th year of Wanli, Huang Laifu led his army and a group of staff to get up and head for Wuzhai Fort.

This time, the number of people accompanying Wuzhai Fort is huge, because in addition to the thousands of soldiers from the Eastern Expedition that were originally brought out from Laifu Camp and Wuzhai Camp, the two thousand servants of Laifu Camp who were originally stationed in Ningwu Pass also wanted to go back together.

Although the Ming Dynasty had very strict control over the mobilization of local armies at that time, it was necessary to mobilize hundreds of troops wherever it was necessary to obtain the consent of the Ministry of War or even the emperor.

However, as early as the capital, Huang Laifu mentioned this matter to Emperor Wanli. Since the Governor's Office had decided to set it up in Wuzhai Fort, the original Laifu camp servants naturally had to stay with Huang Laifu, which was also the convention at that time.

At present, the defense of Ningwu Town is 2,000 Ningwu camp model soldiers led by Liu Quanli. They were originally protecting the safety of coal mines in Ningwu. However, after years of operation, coal mines in Ningwu have long been on the rules and no special soldiers are needed to guard it. They can return to the town to continue their defense.

In addition to Liu Quanli, the city defense also had a battalion of models led by the governor Yang Fangluo. As for the remaining garrison soldiers inside and outside the city, they had long become self-sufficient military farming soldiers and mine managers.

However, even if there are only these two battalions of soldiers, there is no problem with the safety of Ningwu Town. After all, Ningwu Pass is deep in the village of Shanxi, and there are Laoying Forts, Wuzhai Forts and others blocking outside. For any soldiers who want to attack Shanxi Town from the grassland area, these two castles are iron walls.

When Huang Laifu was leaving that day, Ma Jiuying, Governor Yang and others came to see him off. Of course, Ma Jiuying was sincere, but Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Laifu was finally leaving, which was great.

During these days, the two of them always felt a sense of embarrassment and pressure, which always lingered around them. This feeling of being suppressed by warriors was really bad. Although Huang Laifu was still their immediate boss in Wuzhai Fort in the future, the days when he looked up and saw him were finally a great blessing in disgrace.

After learning that Lord Huang Laifu and the soldiers of Laifu Camp were about to withdraw, many Ningwu people who learned the news came to see him off. Finally, the people who saw him off on both sides of the street and at the city gate were crowded with people.

Huang Laifu was in Ningwu Pass for several years and protected the local security. From then on, there was no danger of the Hu people on the grassland invading. And it also allowed the local military households to live a good life, which was beyond imagination.

Moreover, the soldiers of Laifu Camp stationed in the town under his command were mighty and majestic, but they never harassed the people inside and outside the city. The various reasons were deeply loved by everyone.

Now that Huang Laifu and others are leaving, it is naturally unwilling for everyone to bear it. Many people sighed that the local atmosphere of Ningwu Pass is still not as good as Wuzhai Fort, and Lord Huang Laifu will eventually go back.

Amid the explosion of firecrackers and the farewell of everyone, Huang Laifu led the army out of the city gate. After leaving Ningwu City, he looked back through the layers of flags. The moat on Huagai Mountain was still towering.

He also felt in his heart that he had been in this "Phoenix City" for several years and still had a lot of feelings for the place. Now that he was about to leave, he was naturally reluctant to let go, but... Suddenly, Huang Laifu's horse whip blew a crisp sound in the air, and a loud shout, instigating the horses to leave, and the army behind him also followed suit.

Seeing the steel torrent disappearing from afar, Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Laifu finally left, just leave, just leave!

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From Ningwu Pass to Wuzhai Fort, since cement roads were built along the way, it was much easier to walk on the road. Along the way, the density of pedestrians and merchants on the road was significantly higher than that in many places in the Ming Dynasty.

The cement road is flat and clean, without dust. The cars, horses and pedestrians walking on it all look much calmer, and many merchants praised it. They traveled around the world and said that this section of the road is the best.

There is now a toll station on the road from Ningwu Pass to Wuzhaibao, which collects taxes and tolls, road maintenance fees, etc. The fees collected are used to maintain the road every year.

Therefore, although the cement road from Wuzhai Fort to Ningwu Pass has been repaired for many years, the road surface is still very flat due to proper maintenance. Seeing this successful test, many places in Shanxi Town have formed a wave of thinking about building cement roads.

Huang Laifu's plan was to build cement roads on all official roads in Shanxi Town in the future, but this required huge amount of funds and could not be completed in one or two days.

Seeing Huang Laifu's army flag-plaque rolling in front of him, the pedestrians on the road flashed from afar, and at the same time, they watched the army's departure with respect, leaving behind a lot of discussion.

Huang Lai Fu has been in Shanxi Town for ten years and has already left a very high reputation and prestige in the area around Wuzhaibao.

At noon on the third day of the July 1st, Huang Laifu passed through Shenchi Castle and entered the boundary of Wuzhai Castle.

The current Shenchi Fort has become a famous cement and coal and iron production base in Shanxi Town. The fort is full of various factory workshops, with migrant workers from all over the world and business people coming to do business, with all kinds of accents, forming an area like an industrial zone in later generations.

Within this radius of ten miles, there is a prosperous scene. The only disadvantage is industrial pollution, and even the sky above the surrounding Shenchi Castle is covered in gray.

Now, Huang Laifu's third brother-in-law Tian Dafu, who is in the fort, is so rich that he can be said to be so rich that he has no other thoughts and hopes to guard this Shenchi Castle for a long time.

Tian Dafu had already learned about the military affairs and food payments of Governor Huang Laifu in Datong, Shanxi, and counted the days when Huang Laifu returned every day.

On that day, Huang Laifu finally passed by Shenchi Castle. He didn't say anything, so he naturally wanted to take Huang Laifu to have a good banquet in the castle, and his expression and words were extremely enthusiastic. He just hoped that Huang Laifu could take care of his third brother-in-law more so that he could stay in Shenchi Castle in the future.

For the sake of the third sister Huang Birou, Huang Laifu will naturally help him. The two of them drank at the banquet. Huang Laifu talked about his experience in North Korea, which made Tian Dafu feel unhappy.

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After the army passed the cement road from Shenchi Fort to Wuzhai Fort, they entered Wuzhai Fort. The sky immediately became much cleaner and the mountains and rivers became more beautiful. Huang Laifu's positioning of Wuzhai Fort is an agricultural and commercial place, and he had to control this environmental pollution with all his strength.

Ten years have passed, Wuzhaibao has obviously become the richest man in northwest Shanxi. Most of the people seen on the road are dressed neatly, with rosy faces and refreshing spirits. The wide, clean and sturdy cement roads, farms like small castles, are scattered, and newly built tiled houses are everywhere.

The mountains and hills that can be seen are covered with green trees, the fields of each village are endless, and the fields are covered with dense deep water wells. By each river, there are dense water trucks, constantly irrigating river water into the canals, forming a unique and pleasing scene.

The closer you are to Wuzhaibao City, the busier it is. There are more factories and shops on both sides of the road, with a large number of pedestrians and various carriages driving back and forth.

Nowadays, public carriages have been opened between each farm, and public carriages have been opened between each farm and Wuzhaibao City. Sometimes there are even a few trips a day, which greatly facilitates everyone's travel.

The mountains and rivers are beautiful, rich and full of vitality everywhere! Anyone who first arrived at Wuzhai Fort would think it was a town in the south of the Yangtze River, but would not think that it was just a poor military fort in northwest Shanxi.

The soldiers of Wuzhai Camp and Laifu Camp naturally ignored this situation, but among the Huang Laifu staff who came from the capital and other places, they inevitably were stunned and sighed incredible. Everyone said that it was said that it was a long time since the poor northwest of Shanxi, and it seemed that the rumors were untrue.

Of course, someone soon said: "This is all the credit of the Prince Taibao. In the past, Wuzhai Fort was a place that was very poor. If it weren't for the painstaking efforts of Prince Taibao, in the past, Wuzhai Fort had been a large number of military households fled every year. How could it be like now, people are constantly pouring in from all over the country every day, just hoping to live a good life like the people of Wuzhai?"

After hearing this, everyone sighed: "The prince, the grandpa, the great talent, I'm not as good as I can."
Chapter completed!