Huayin County
In the afternoon, Jia Heng, accompanied by the guards of Jinyi Mansion, rode a maroon horse slowly on the streets of the county town. As far as he could see, it could be seen that many of the houses on both sides of the streets had been collapsed by the snow the day before. Holes after holes.
The generals and soldiers of Guoyong Camp are carrying wood, thatch, tiles and climbing ladders to help people in Huayin County repair their houses.
The cold wind approaching Huashan Mountain was a bit biting, hitting the young man's carved and sculpted face. His temperament became more heroic and pure, and his red cloak fluttered with the wind, like a red brocade, brilliant and bright.
The young man was sitting on the saddle, with the Emperor's Sword hanging in the golden dragon scabbard hanging on his waist, and was about to continue walking towards the camp outside the city to handle military affairs.
However, when the busy people on both sides saw Jia Heng, they called out "Yunhui is coming" cordially, walked out of their houses and shops, and stopped the cavalry.
Seeing this, Jia Heng had no choice but to dismount, handed the reins to the Jin Yiwei on the side, and said with a smile: "Fellows and fellow villagers, please come."
A mother-in-law with silver hair on her temples and a ridged face, and a girl with a red hair, shakily came out of the crowd, carrying a basket, and said with a smile: "This is my home-made fried cake, it's still warm. , Yunhui, give it a try."
The woman with an apron tied around her waist was also smiling. She was carrying a bamboo basket with half a basket of local eggs in it and said, "This is a chicken. Yun Hui is eating the stew with it."
Another middle-aged woman in Jingchai's cloth skirt and bucket waist smiled and said: "Is Yunhui married? I have a niece who is twenty-eight years old and very handsome."
The other women laughed and said, "Mother Cuihua, where did you get your niece? Don't even think about saying that your daughter Cuihua, with more than 200 kilograms, can she be worthy of Yun Hui?"
Everyone laughed.
Seeing this scene, General Shan Ming had a moved expression on his face, and said with a loud voice: "A certain family has been in the army for decades, but no soldiers have repaired the houses for the people, solved the people's problems, and have never seen the people love and be close to the generals. Neighborhood."
It is said that bandits are like a comb and soldiers are like a grate. In this era, if you can maintain strict military discipline and commit no crimes, you are a king's division with Dao. But now, the generals and soldiers of Guoyong Camp have more than just the word "Dao"?
Deng Xing, the county magistrate, led a black horse. Hearing this, he also sighed with emotion: "General Shan, I have been in various counties under the official position. I have been ups and downs in the officialdom for nearly ten years. I have never seen soldiers helping the people build houses. The people love the soldiers." Just like relatives and friends, the inferior sage once said that they would eat wine from a pot to welcome the king's master, but now it looks like this."
In the early years of Chongping, this magistrate of Huayin County, who was born with the same Jinshi, had obviously not been completely contaminated and assimilated by Chen Han's officialdom. Seeing this scene, he was deeply touched.
Qu Lang said in a clear voice: "Yun Hui said before that many of the soldiers come from the common people. They are soldiers of the children. It is the duty of the children of the family to solve the problems of their elders who were affected by the disaster."
Hearing this, Deng Xing's eyes lit up and he said loudly: "What a soldier of disciples! In front of Yunhui, there is a love between soldiers and civilians, and there is a soldier of disciples behind him. It is rare for famous generals throughout the ages to have such a feeling of relief for soldiers and civilians. The theory is really like Huang Zhong Dalu, inspiring the deaf and enlightening!"
Ancient military strategists mostly emphasized and discussed the role of temple calculations, military supplies, rewards and punishments, strategies, and time in military battles in their military books, but rarely thought about the dependence between the army and the people from a political perspective.
Sun Tzu said: "He who has the same desire above and below wins."
However, this "top and bottom" refers more to the king and his ministers, generals and soldiers, rather than soldiers and people.
After Jia Heng responded to the warm greetings of the people in Huayin, he cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Dear fellow villagers, I still need to go to the camp outside the city to inspect military affairs, so I don't want to hang around too much."
When everyone heard this, they all smiled and spread out a passage.
Che Zheng looked at this scene, then turned to look at Lu He and the two guerrilla generals from Yuan Guo Yong's camp, with a look of shame on his face, and sighed: "Earlier, the Shaohua Mountain bandits fled into the mountains, and it was thanks to the help of Huayin elders to find the bandit's lair. , so that the soldiers and the people are integrated and help each other, I can't wait."
"Yes, I never dared to think about it in the past. Every one of the common people would avoid me like a snake or a scorpion!" A general named Xiao Lin nodded and said with deep understanding.
Another guerrilla general said: "Master Jia has a good command of the army, which is an eye-opener for us."
Lu He listened to the others and thought to himself, Lao Che, do you think you can keep your seat by flattering that guy?
That person is capable of running the army and generals but no one else can. I'm afraid that after returning to Beijing, there will be no one like me in Guoyong camp!
After being stationed in Huayin County for a long time, the generals of Guo Yong Camp under Jia Heng were more or less infected by this scene of harmonious coexistence of soldiers and civilians. Although they cannot say that they have been baptized in souls and changed their minds, they were also deeply touched. .
But while everyone was filled with emotion, there was a burst of noise from the city gate.
It attracted the attention of Jia Heng and the generals.
I saw carriages entering through the city gate.
But there was a car escorting a car full of boxes. The axle was broken and it turned sideways. A heavy wooden box fell to the ground with a "thud".
The gold, silver, and silk inside were scattered all over the ground, and the soldiers of Guoyong Camp who were guarding the city gate were about to step forward to help.
The young man in a yellow shirt who was riding on a horse pulled the reins, his face changed, and he shouted: "Let me see who dares to move! This is the property of our Xue family! Uncle Fu, come quickly Watch!”
The person on duty at the city gate was a small flag officer. When he heard this, his face fell and he became a little unhappy.
He crossed his hands, raised his eyebrows, and said with a sneer: "Who cares about your rags? I broke into a copycat some time ago. There are boxes of good things in them. They are more than these three melons and two dates. I have seen them." You are so worthless!"
Several soldiers from the Guoyong Camp wearing Fan Yangli also laughed when they heard this.
Whether it was the four groups of thieves in Shigu Mountain or the several groups of bandits in Shaohua Mountain, they robbed passing merchants and became rich. After the annihilation, they broke down the stronghold and seized a lot of stolen money and property.
For example, in Shigu Mountain, four groups of thieves who were unwilling to break bottles and cans seized a total of nearly four to five million taels of gold, silver, and silk.
Eighty-nine gangs of thieves from Shaohua Mountain also seized gold and silver worth nearly one million taels.
However, according to Jia Heng's military orders and the patrols of Jinyi Mansion and the military guards prepared by his own soldiers, these belongings must be confiscated and cannot be kept secret.
To enforce military discipline, dozens of heads were chopped off.
There was even a guerrilla general who was eager to search for money to make up for his shortfall because he was short of quota. He was caught by the constitutional guards who were trying to impeach the moral code and was sent to the Central Army. He was punished by Jia Heng for two crimes and was "killed first and then reported" with the Emperor's Sword!
Since then, Guo Yongying has been on alert.
After that, Jia Heng sent people to inspect and count the belongings. First, he took out 10% to pay two months' salary arrears, another 10% was used to place the newly recruited refugee soldiers, and another half was used to provide compensation for the fruits. The casualties of Yongying’s command.
In addition, we plan to use half of it to hold a commendation meeting outside Huayin City to reward meritorious generals and soldiers before returning to Beijing in triumph.
As for Jia Heng and the generals above the guerrilla general level below, they did their jobs, but they didn't get a single tael of silver.
First of all, we can't just give him a silver reward after he has just taken the short quota and hasn't settled the accounts in the future.
Secondly, if you don’t have three to five thousand taels, how can you buy these middle- and high-level generals? As a result, the investment cost will be high.
Interestingly, in this specific scenario, most of these guerrillas and generals have no... united front value.
On the contrary, the money saved will be distributed to low-ranking generals and soldiers in amounts of 78, 350, and 350 to gain military morale.
From then on, Guo Yong's army's wishes were like arms and fingers.
The general opinion of the lower-level soldiers is that Jia Yunhui is a capable person and has strict military discipline, but the benefits are really there for you.
This is the truth about how the former Beijing-based prostitutes and second-rate men suddenly turned into the so-called "disciple soldiers."
We must have real soldiers and real pay, be neither greedy nor occupying, and have clear rewards and punishments.
Of course, the remaining nearly 70%, nearly one million taels of property, was counted and recorded by Jinyi Mansion and added to the national treasury and internal funds.
The latter was also one of the sources of joy for Emperor Chongping when he saw the memorials (daily newspapers).
Otherwise, if you read too much of the old lady writing essays and reflections, you will get bored.
In this compartment, Xue Pan, who was sitting on his horse, listened to the ridicule of several soldiers at the city gate. His big face suddenly turned green and white, and he cursed secretly in his heart.
Damn it, these Qiuba were laughed at.
In the Xue family, it snows heavily in good years, and pearls are like earth and gold are like iron. People laugh at them because they are all tatters! ?
In a carriage behind Xue Pan, a girl in yellow clothes with a plump face and smooth skin was sleeping with her eyes closed. The girl's cheeks were as white as pear pistils, and she was as beautiful as a pistil.
At this time, the girl listened to the movement outside, gently opened a pair of moist and clear apricot eyes, and asked the maid Ying'er who was sitting in front of the carriage through the curtain, and said softly: "Ying'er, why did the car stop? Who is my brother arguing with outside?"
Ying'er said in a worried tone through the curtain: "Girl, it seems that the uncle has had a quarrel with the officers and soldiers."
Baochai's face changed slightly, and worry appeared in her apricot eyes under Liu Ye's slender eyebrows, and she asked, "Is nothing wrong?"
Along the way, she saw many officers and soldiers, who were almost no different from bandits on the road. Fortunately, her family had a road guide issued by the Jinling Prefecture's Yamen from Jinling to Beijing, so there was no danger on the way.
Ying'er said softly: "The car broke down, the box fell on the ground, and some gold and silver spilled out. The officers and soldiers didn't rob it, they just held their hands and laughed."
When Baochai heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief at first, and then said in surprise: "This is strange."
She had seen the virtues of officers and soldiers along the way. Even though she had a road guide issued by the Jinling government office, and her brother used his uncle's name from time to time, he still left some money to buy the way.
This is the first time that I have seen money without looting.
At this time, Xiangling also rubbed her eyes, opened them, and looked at Baochai curiously.
At that time, Ying'er complained softly: "Girl, we originally said we would go straight to Beijing without stopping all the way, but the uncle insisted on resting in Huayin."
When Baochai heard the words, he comforted Ying'er and said softly: "It's getting late. I don't think I can reach Shenjing for a while. I'm looking for a post station on the way. There are so many people and mouths that it's hard to settle down. Why don't we set off tomorrow morning? Let’s go to Chang’an County to rest for a while.”
As Baochai spoke, he stretched out a jade hand with skin as good as snow and opened the cotton curtain of the carriage window. Because there was a bamboo curtain to cover it, he could see the outside from the inside, but the inside could not be seen from the outside.
Baochai stared at the scene not far away.
As expected, just as Ying'er said, the soldiers looked at the gold and silver treasures scattered on the ground, holding their hands and laughing. The hot breath exhaled by the men and horses made the faces of the soldiers unclear.
"These soldiers seem to be soldiers from the Beijing camp?"
Because his uncle Wang Ziteng was the military commander of the Beijing camp, Baochai quietly did some homework along the way. Now that he saw the uniforms and flags that were completely different from those of the provincial army, he knew it was the Beijing camp.
Seeing this, I felt calm.
In another carriage behind her, Aunt Xue was frightened, and told Tong Xi and Tong Gui: "Please Pan'er not to quarrel with others. If you want money for passing by, please give it to the military master." ”
Hearing this, Tongxi picked up the curtain and got down from the carriage, trotted closer, called Xue Pan and said, "Master, if they want money for crossing the road, just give it to them."
In this compartment, Uncle Fu, who came from behind, heard this and ordered his servants to pack up the box that had overturned on the ground. He took out a piece of silver from his sleeve, stepped forward with a smile, handed it over and said : "Master Jun, take this and have a cup of tea with some brothers."
When the flag official saw this, he suppressed his smile, opened his eyes as if avoiding a snake, and cursed: "Old man, are you trying to harm me?"
Who dares to accept this money!
The flying saucer with white feathers on its helmet glanced over and stared at it with a pair of eyes as big as copper bells.
Since Jia Heng established the Constitutional Guards with his own soldiers in Guoyong Camp, they were responsible for correcting moral conduct and observing illegal things.
But here, Xue Pan scratched his neck and shouted: "Why do you give them money? My uncle is the governor of the capital camp. We are at the foot of the capital. We are afraid of what these soldiers will do!"
As soon as he said this, the little flag officer's face suddenly changed and he looked at Xue Pan in surprise.
Seeing the change in the little flag official's face, Xue Pan felt happy. He was secretly proud of himself, raised his neck, and wanted to say a few words arrogantly.
But at this moment, I heard the sound of horse hooves. A burly guard wearing a flying fish uniform drove his horse forward. He looked at the convoy blocked at the city gate. His face was cold and stern, and he shouted: "You are waiting here. Why are you blocking the road? Hurry up and help lift the car and clear the road! Your Excellency is going to the camp to inspect military affairs."
But it was a Jin Yiwei behind Jia Heng who came forward and dispersed the crowd.
The flag officer quickly ordered a few soldiers to help push the cart.
Xue Pan felt timid when he saw the brightly-dressed guards in brocade clothes. He rolled his eyes, a smile appeared on his chubby face, and said in a close tone: "Brother, Xue Pan, what do you call me? By the way." , which adult is in front of you?"
As he said that, he turned his gaze to the young dignitaries who were cheering and hugging him. However, when he met a pair of cold and sharp eyes, his heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly moved away.
The guard in golden clothes looked at Xue Pan and said solemnly: "Behind me, Mr. Jia under Jia Yun's command, came out of the camp to inspect military affairs!"
Hearing this, Xue Pan was overjoyed and laughed loudly: "The flood has really washed away the Dragon King Temple, and the whole family no longer recognizes each other! Cousin Heng, I am Wen Long!"
As soon as these words came out, Aunt Xue's expression in the carriage changed slightly, she opened the curtain and looked.
Baochai also frowned, her beautiful eyebrows flashed, her almond-shaped eyes flickered, she opened the curtain and looked at him with a smile, but due to the angle of her sight, she couldn't see the visitor for a while.
But when Jia Heng heard Xue Pan calling, he couldn't help but frowned, and his expression returned to calm.
In fact, when Jia Heng just heard Xue Pan shouting "My uncle is the Jiedushi of Beijing Camp", he already knew that he was Xue Pan, and he was a little surprised at first.
I didn't expect to meet the three members of the Xue family who went to Beijing here.
In fact, some people don't want to talk to Xue Dashan.
At this time, Xue Pan had already stepped forward on his horse, looking at the young man in bright clothes and angry horse who was surrounded by guards, and said with a smile: "Cousin Heng, what a coincidence, I can see cousin Heng here, I am Wenlong, brother Baoyu’s cousin!”
To be honest, Xue Pan had never seen Jia Heng, but when he saw several people shouting and hugging a young man wearing a military attaché robe, a red cloak, and a winged official hat with a mountain character on his head, no matter how big a fool he was, I can guess a thing or two.
As for being called cousins, Xue Pan and Jia Heng are actually similar in age.
Jia Heng looked indifferent, nodded, and said in a clear voice: "It turns out it's the Xue brothers who are in front of me. What a coincidence."
A clear, clanking sound sounded in the winter afternoon, floating to the two carriages behind Xue Pan.
Aunt Xue in the carriage had a happy face on her fair and prosperous face.
When Baochai heard the cold voice coming from outside, she frowned, and there was a trace of thought in her almond-shaped eyes.
Is this Uncle Heng?
From the sound of his voice, he doesn't seem to be very old.
Xue Pan got confirmation from Jia Heng, and the smile on his face became even brighter.
However, before Xue Pan came forward, Jia Heng said loudly: "Brothers of the Xue family, I am still busy with military affairs, so it is inconvenient to say more. The brothers of the Xue family send my regards to my aunt and cousin on my behalf."
At this moment, the soldiers had already lifted up the vehicles containing the goods, and the Xue family's motorcade was moving smoothly again.
Jia Heng spoke, nodded to Xue Pan, clamped the horse's belly, and passed by. The Jinyi guards and generals behind him quickly followed.
