Meng Tiezhu sighed lightly, pulled Fang Jingnan out of the pier, and looked at the distant mountains. The man from the north looked exhausted.

"This world is so difficult to live."

"Yes," Fang Jingnan sighed as he accompanied him, saying, "Who is not!"

Then he asked, "Who made Leng Li?"

"I beat my brother in the military camp. I can't help but stand up. Who can I, the Lord of the Hundred Houses?"

"Oh?" Fang Jingnan asked, "Did Leng Li violate the military rules?"

"The bullshit military rules," Meng Tiezhu vomited and said viciously: "There are no rules now. When the commander is happy, he can burn, kill, rob and abuse him. When he is unhappy, he will violate the military rules."

With Meng Tiezhu cursing like venting, Fang Jingnan understood the cause and the situation was not complicated, and it was a normal situation in the army during this period.

It's just a drag.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the military force of the garrison troops declined severely, and they never practiced, and were almost pure peasants. For the needs of defense, the major military towns began to recruit soldiers.

Recruiting soldiers is a full-time professional soldier. He does not have to farm, practices every day, and gets food and salary to survive.

This kind of recruitment once greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the army, but a good system needed to be implemented. During the Chongzhen period, the most serious ones were in serious condition. Those who were vacant and those who sold their military equipment were all showing their magical powers.

The combat power of recruiting troops was no longer enough, and the leaders of the major military towns gradually started to get servants.

The best equipment and the best food are given to the servants. When fighting, they rely on these elite servants to charge forward and win.

The guards and recruits to defend the castle and fight a battle with the wind. Of course, one thing must be emphasized is that there has never been a battle with the Donglu.

Therefore, in the eyes of major military leaders, recruiting troops is useless.

What the military leaders knew about was the people in charge of the distribution of food and wages. Of course, the elites of the Ming Dynasty and the Jinshi people also knew about it. Therefore, dragging wages became the norm.

"We are still good. Our ancestors have left more than ten acres of land, and they can't starve to death after digging it." Meng Tiezhu said: "But Ali and the others have not released a single grain of food since the Donglu came out of seclusion last year until now," he said.

Fang Jingnan answered, "So he ran to Baihu to ask for salary and was beaten."

"Oh, yes, to boost your courage, our Dun brothers have all gone, but before Ah Lea could say a few words, she was ordered to punish the damn Wang Shichang for ten whips."

"Uh, can't I ask Shangguan to appeal at his discretion?" Fang Jingnan asked tentatively.

Meng Tiezhu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I am not a member of the army, so I ask this. In fact, you can report it to the governor responsible for military merit rewards and punishments when encountering unfair things. However, Baihu is the sixth rank, and the governor is from the sixth rank, and he is the better of him in the rank. Moreover, Baihu and Guanfu in Yungang Fort are cousins."

OK, Fang Jingnan sighed, "Then let it go?"

"Yes, otherwise what else can it do," Meng Tiezhu sighed: "Fortunately, Agasa is still tough, and she should be able to get through it if she bears it."

"I will kill pigs tomorrow," Yinhua, who had not spoken, said at this time: "I heard that there is a lot of glue on pig's trotters, which can replenish qi and blood. I will secretly steal it out tomorrow to replenish Brother Aga."

Meng Tiezhu was very moved. He looked at Yinhua with a hint of gentleness and sighed: "I thank you for your kindness for Brother Ali. I will not refuse this life-saving matter. When he gets done, he will definitely let him thank you in person."

"Hey, why are we polite?" Chen Yinhua, who had a big bra and a round waist, showed a trace of the shyness of the little woman. She pulled the hem of the little red coat and stopped making a sound.

Fang Jingnan is not blind, so she can see clearly and understandably.

However, Fang Jingnan is not optimistic about their affairs. These days, he pays attention to the fate of his parents and has no free love. Meng Tiezhu is the richest man in Yinhua Family Village. This poor military household is really not arranging it to curse people, but the military household is really poor, and the descendants cannot study and do business, that is, they will always be poor.

Whoever is Yinhua’s father will probably not agree, and it has nothing to do with snobbery.

Fang Jingnan, an ordinary citizen, had no choice but to have any help from Leng Li's affairs. Meng Tiezhu was nagging for a long time, but he was not angry and asked someone to vent his anger, and he didn't expect anything.

The three of them chatted for a few more times, and Fang Jingnan asked Yinhua to hand over the dozen or so grain steamed buns. Meng Tiezhu was not polite, so he accepted them happily and said.

"Wait for a while, Ah Hua is very full today and has enough feet."

Ahua is a popular name, a medium-sized Mongolian horse. There is only one in Anmindun. It is a public thing to report credit in an emergency.

Fang Jingnan came to practice riding horses. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was always right to learn more life-saving skills. Yinhua's family also had two horses, but they were all used to pick up horses, transport goods and transport, and they ran very slowly.

Not long after, Meng Tiezhu pulled out a strong maroon war horse. He was not tall and looked one meter three meters tall, but his head was big and wide forehead, and his tendons were well developed, which looked very energetic.

The saddle was already secured, and there was a pair of bows and arrows and a knight next to it.

Seeing this, Fang Jingnan smiled and said, "Brother Tiezhu, didn't you just say that the bow will be useless? I really can't learn it."

Fang Jingnan in his previous life also shot an arrow, combined bow, and shot the red heart about 30 meters.

When he first came, Fang Jingnan was still very excited, but when he pulled up the so-called half-stone bow, his hands were sore that he could barely pull the target and could not even get on the target within 30 meters.

It was nothing, so I could practice more, but after Meng Tiezhu introduced the situation of others, Fang Jingnan completely threw the idea of ​​learning arrows.

One stone is 120 kilograms, and half a stone is 60 kilograms. It means that you need to keep a 60 kilogram pull on the bow. The effective distance with lethality is forty steps, which is fifty meters. Because the distance is not far, cavalry is generally used on horseback.

The bows used by elite infantry are usually about one stone, which means that you need to maintain 120 kilograms of strength to kill people. The effective distance that can kill people is 80 steps, which is 100 meters.

Later, the most elite Bayala soldiers in Jinli held a strong bow of 1.5 stones and could kill people within a hundred steps.

Excellent archers usually practice since childhood and work hard for five years to carry a bow.

If you want to talk about Fang Jingnan’s biggest advantage, it is that he has self-knowledge and can just get faster when riding a horse and escaping. Shooting arrows? Let’s forget it.

Fang Jingnan was a beautiful horse who was about to urge the horse to walk away. A violent sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded from a distance. Looking around, there were about a dozen riders galloping towards him.

It is swift and lightning, with extraordinary momentum.

Although I don’t know who it is, no ordinary people can ride horses these days. Fang Jingnan quickly got off the horse and walked aside. Now it’s for public use, so don’t cause trouble for Meng Tiezhu.

The group of people also saw this place, shouted, and actually raised their horses and came to everyone in the blink of an eye.

Wait!

A handsome puller stopped suddenly, and the leader was a middle-aged man with dark skin and a delicate face.

Meng Tiezhu saw the person clearly, and his heart trembled, and there was a hint of something wrong.

"Ah, it turns out that he is the master of the tumbler. He is here to inspect the Dunbao." Meng Tiezhu smiled boldly, "Don't worry, we are always staring at the north side, and those barbarians can't touch it."

"Don't talk about this here. If there is a warning, it is the first thing to discover," the governor had no intention of dismounting. He pointed at the horse whip and shouted, "Where is Leng Li, ask him to come out."

"Ah, Leng Li was pulled by a hundred households yesterday and was lying on the kang." Meng Tiezhu's heart tightened.

"So, come," the governor turned his head and shouted, "lift him out and take him away."

Hearing this, Meng Tiezhu suddenly panicked and took a step forward and stopped him, "What's the matter? Leng Li is still fainting now, and he will lose his life when he is on the road like this."

"Rareless," the governor shouted coldly, "Meng Tiezhu, don't meddle in other people's business, get out of here."

After a flash, the five fierce cavalry took out their bows, and the bow strings were pulled, and the arrows were pointed straight at the three of them with a dark light. Perhaps just a wave of the tutor's hand, the arrows would shoot at them.

Fang Jingnan was shocked suddenly, and cold sweat suddenly invaded his back. The world can be seen. In the past, he was a little nervous when he was pointed at by his nephew with a loaded toy gun, let alone this deadly weapon.

But don’t slip if you hold it firmly!

Meng Tiezhu was relieved. At this time, an old man next to the tutor jumped off the horse. He was Li Gunian, the chief bannerman, Meng Tiezhu's immediate boss, with a thin figure and a honest and honest face like an old farmer.

He pulled Meng Tiezhu aside and whispered: "Zhuzi, your father and I are brothers and will not harm you. Don't force yourself to stand up for this matter, you can't afford to offend me."

The officials of the ward station were all passed down by father and son and grandson. Over the past century, everyone basically knew each other. When they were young, Meng Tiezhu ate many snacks in Li Gunian and trusted him naturally.

"Uncle Li, what's going on? Didn't Agasa pass all the punishment? What else should I do?"

Li Gunian said: "Oh, this kid has caused trouble! He went to make a fortune yesterday, and people from other forts have also heard about him."

Meng Tiezhu said: "What's wrong with this?"

Li Gunian said: "In the entire Datong Town, which army has no soldiers under the head of the army to be dragged down? What if everyone is asked to ask for money, what if there is a mutiny?"

Meng Tiezhu said in shock: "This... isn't it?"

Li Gunian said: "It shouldn't be true, but I'm afraid of it if it happens."

"What should I do?"

A chuckled flashed on Li Gunian's honest face, "How difficult can this be? Just kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. Didn't the ancestors do this in governing the army? If you scare them, they will be honest."

"Then you can't cut it for no reason, aren't you afraid of the morale of the army being disintegrated?"

"You fool, just find a reason," Li Gunian said: "I remember that last year the barbarians entered the pass, and we all retreated to Yungang Fort. Leng Li didn't have time to patrol outside, so he later hid in the mountains."

"Yes, you know this, I know it, everyone knows it."

"But who can prove it? What if he was informing Donglu? Even if someone hid in the mountain with him, he would be together with eating, sleeping, and shit? There is no time before him? Who can say that he didn't go to inform Manlu at that time?"

Meng Tiezhu argued: "Who can say that he must have gone?"

"No one said it was certain," Li Gunian said, "so wasn't this to take him over for review. As for the use of some small punishments in the process, you can't say it's wrong, right?"

Speaking of this, Meng Tiezhu had a trace of despair in his eyes, and he murmured with no idea what to say, but suddenly, he seemed to think of something again, his eyes flashed, and he said, "There is one thing that proves that Ah Ga is not a meticulous work. If Ah Ga is a meticulous worker, how could he still run to ask for money for money?"

Seeing Meng Tiezhu's happy look, Li Gunian couldn't help but sigh, "You are just a small banner. Everyone doesn't say anything about paying money. You come and make trouble. You just do it in detail, and in the name of asking for pay, it's a reality!"

"Ah," Meng Tiezhu's face darkened, "How can... be like this!"
Chapter completed!