It was getting dark, Chang Yu ordered to break camp and enter the city. Hong Tianyi greeted him outside the city and was cautious. He held a banquet in the evening to entertain the officials. After the meal, Zhizhou heard the news and came to visit but was refused. Hong Tianyi brought the army register and account book to Fanzi for verification. Although it was cold, I was sweating.
Upon seeing this, Chang Yu said to him: "General Ma is on an expedition abroad. Guard your home and don't betray your trust."
Hong Tianyi hurriedly said he didn't dare, explaining that he had to personally inspect various places every day, and he did not dare to slack off in training his troops and horses every three days... Chang Yu was sure that he should relax more in his actions. If any loopholes were found, When he was held responsible, he also slapped Ma Ke from the head down first, and then Hong Tianyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Early the next morning, Chang Yu ordered the local Jinyi Guards to continue the verification, and his party left Changping and headed northwest, arriving at Juyongguan in less than half a day. When you leave Juyongguan and go beyond Badaling, you enter the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town, which is also an area hardest hit by corruption and chaos. This was also the original intention of Chang Yu to inspect Jiubian.
After lunch at Juyongguan, Chang Yu and his entourage left the customs and officially entered the vast mountains. Hong Tianyi wanted to lead his troops to escort him. Chang Yu smiled and asked if there were bandits in the mountains. Hong Tianyi shook his head and was not sure: "It's dozens of miles from Badaling Pass. It’s all mountainous, and there are absolutely no large groups of bandits, but we can’t rule out the possibility of three or five falling into the grass…”
"Do you know one of the requirements of this governor to patrol the border and rectify military affairs?" Chang Yu asked again. Hong Tianyi nodded: "Ping Xibo's military order has arrived, requiring all ministries to clear out thieves and thieves within their jurisdiction. Every one will be beaten one by one, and ten of them will be killed." We must fight together and eliminate the banditry within our respective jurisdictions at the latest by the spring of next year, otherwise military law will be strictly enforced..."
"Then just do your part. I understand your good intentions." Chang Yu said and then pointed to the surrounding area: "These hundreds of warriors like this can defeat thousands of troops, why are you afraid of three or five grass bandits?" .
Farewell to Hong Tianyi, the group left the customs. Kuang Ren ordered more than ten personal guards to explore the way ahead. Lao Jiu also ordered the soldiers of the Black Wolf Camp to cheer up: "To be honest, I thought that some bandits with no eyesight would come to the door. I haven't seen you for more than a month." Bloody heart is panicking."
Princess Kunxing was so frightened when she heard these words in the car that Zhu Cixiang was so excited that she wanted to talk to him, but she was afraid that Lao Jiu would recognize him. In fact, Lao Jiu had seen him before, but it was not far away. At a glance, he was dressed as a eunuch and deliberately concealed his identity. Lao Jiu also had a big personality and didn't care about the eunuchs who followed Chang Yu, so he never found out his identity.
"These bandits are like weeds all over the mountains. They grow again in the spring breeze and cannot be wiped out." Shi Kefa shook his head and smiled bitterly: "No matter which dynasty or generation, no matter in prosperous or troubled times, there will always be those who fall off the grass and conquer the mountains and become the king."
The accompanying civilian officials echoed, and Chang Yu smiled and said: "That's why we need to be soldiers. This is also the meaning of the existence of soldiers, to protect our families and our country."
"Yes, aren't we soldiers just to kill thieves?" Lao Jiu and others shouted. Shi Kefa was speechless, but he could only admit this fact.
Badaling is a mountain pass in Jundu Mountain, and it is also an important pass. The city was built thirty or forty miles away from Juyongguan on the mountain road, and it was called the outpost of Juyongguan. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the inscription on the lintel of the east gate of the Wengcheng at Badaling was: Juyongwai town.
As for why it is called Badaling, it has been popularized in the previous article. It is connected to Changchang and Beijing, to Yanqing in the north, and to Xuanfu in the northwest, which means it is connected in all directions.
There is a related city in Badaling, but it is built because of the mountains. It is low in the east and high in the west, narrow in the east and wide in the west, and the area is not large. More importantly, there is no well in the city and it is inconvenient to get water, and there are not many troops stationed on weekdays. The defending troops are all in Chadao City, three miles to the northwest.
There is a procuratorate mansion in the city, which is specially used to accommodate the emperor or officials who pass by. To put it bluntly, it is also a post station, which means it has a high star rating.
Chang Yu and his party were settled in the star-rated inn. They took their own food and supplies from the inn, and did not use Guancheng troops to serve themselves. After the meal, they directly led their troops to Chadao City, three miles to the northwest, to gather troops and horses for inventory. The number of people, food and fodder, and soldiers' needs were reserved, and people were even randomly selected for question and answer surveys, which made the officers and soldiers in Guancheng panic. People from Dongchang really came to investigate.
They worked hard until late at night. No one was arrested or killed. They were only counted and registered. Then they ate at the post station, washed up and went to sleep.
At dawn early in the morning, he led his troops and left, leaving behind a legend.
"Just left like that? Didn't you say that the eunuch of Dongchang was ordered to patrol the border? It's just like going through the motions." Someone murmured, and then someone yelled: "Is it possible that they cut us all down? It's not just going through the motions. They are patrolling the border to check." Those who are corrupt and bending the law have nothing to do with us little minions..."
Exiting the Badaling Pass means stepping out of the mountains, but it is also entering a mountain nest.
The sky was cold and cold. Princess Kunxing hid in the car without showing her head. Zhu Cixiang hunched her neck behind Chang Yu and listened to him talking about the topography of the Great Wall and the border. He was well-informed and experienced it all. He was more familiar with it than Shi Kefa, the minister of the Ministry of War. geography.
"When you leave Juyongguan, you actually enter the circle of the inner and outer Great Wall. The outer Great Wall goes north to Yanqing, west to Xuanfu and then southwest to Datong. The inner Great Wall starts from Juyongguan and goes southwest to Zijingguan, Pingxingguan, Ningwu, Yanmen, and Pianguan. Finally, it was connected to the Great Wall in the southwest of Datong... dozens of miles away from here are Yulin Fort, Xiao Nanxin Fort, and further west is Tumu Fort..."
"But that earthen fort?" Zhu Cixiang couldn't help shouting, which attracted everyone's attention. He quickly lowered his eyebrows and shrank his head. Chang Yu scolded: "Is it possible that there are other earthen forts in the Ming Dynasty? Yes, it was the Yingzong who was captured in the Ming Dynasty. There is nothing to avoid in this place where 200,000 soldiers lost their lives. Escaping from reality is a cowardly act. We must face history, know our shame, and then be brave!"
Chang Yu's words were so upright that Shi Kefa and the other civil servants were very surprised, because the defeat of Tumubao was closely related to Wang Zhen, the power eunuch at the time. The young eunuch dared to expose the scandal of his family and was somewhat generous. People admired him a little, but they didn't know that he was admonishing the prince by saying these words.
"I heard that the defeat was mainly due to that dog... thing Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen was also the eunuch of Dongchang?" Shi Kefa and others were dumbfounded. This nun spoke so...what is his background?
Unexpectedly, Chang Yu was not angry at all, and nodded: "Wang Zhen is not only the chief eunuch of Dongchang, but also the originator of the power eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, the first generation of power eunuchs, right, Master Shi?"
"Uh..., yes, that seems to be the case! I heard that the eunuch is the eunuch in charge of the ceremony. He is arbitrary and has power over the government..." Shi Kefa didn't know how to answer the question. He thought to himself, if anyone dares to say this to Wei Zhongxian, , his head fell to the ground a long time ago, and the nun clearly wanted to scold the dog eunuch just now, but luckily he stopped. What kind of combination are these two people? Not to mention the surprise of him and all the civil servants, they are Princess Kunxing and the prince. Zhu Cixiang was also puzzled. This nun seemed to have an unusual identity. Chang Yu could even endure this!
Su Jing had a lot of disobedient words and deeds on weekdays. If Chang Yu had argued with him, he would have chopped her head off a hundred times. But he didn't care about the so-called rules and didn't have so many disobedient words. Instead, he suddenly chuckled and said : "It's a bit mysterious. Back then, in Tumu Fort, in addition to Wang Zhen, the eunuch of Dongchang, there was also Kuang Ye, the minister of the Ministry of War. Now you see, we also have the eunuch of Dongchang and the minister of the Ministry of War, but we are short of an emperor."
He dared to say this, but no one dared to talk to him. Even Zhu Cixiang was slandering in his heart, always saying that I was unabashed and that he was not that virtuous. But he did not dare to say it out loud. He had a simple temperament that was not afraid of anyone. He sneered: "Then you should be glad that the emperor didn't come, otherwise the emperor would have been captured and still survived. The Minister of War and the eunuch of Dongchang were both killed by the rebels at that time."
Shi Kefa's face suddenly darkened. Chang Yu suppressed his laughter and scolded: "If you don't know how to speak, don't speak." On the other hand, Zhu Cixiang and his sister covered their mouths and snickered. This little nun was too daring to speak.
Unexpectedly, Su Jing's courage did not stop there, and she said to Chang Yu: "Although the emperor is not here, if a prince or princess comes to accompany you, it will be a good time to say that you are caught by someone when you get to the earthen fort."
The faces of the Zhu brothers and sisters suddenly turned dark, while Chang Yu's face turned green and he glared at Su Jing: "Are we coming to your territory soon? You are so arrogant."
Sujing laughed: "It's close, but it's not my territory."
When Shi Kefa and other civil servants saw that she was not afraid of Chang Yu at all, and that she spoke openly and without respect, they felt more and more that this little nun had a strange background, or that there was some kind of ulterior relationship between her and the little eunuch... After all, Eunuchs these days are very perverted and have unique tastes. It is said that there have been good nuns in all dynasties, literati, poets, and even officials. Even the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was not so virtuous.
So when everyone looked at the little nun, their eyes were a bit so, very meaningful.
However, he was so simple and unsophisticated that he turned a blind eye and had no feeling at all. It made Chang Yu Rumang feel a little uncomfortable on his back. He secretly cursed these sour thoughts as dirty and obscene!
