On the fifth day of February, Wei Zhice, the counselor of the Xuanfu, led thousands of soldiers of the Tengshe Battalion to leave Chicheng in a mighty manner and march toward the town in formation.
Accompanying Tengsheying were Xin Congjian, the former head of the frame bureau of Yunzhou Craftsmanship, and more than a hundred civil construction craftsmen led by him. In addition, there were a large number of various construction tools and other items.
These craftsmen will go to the town with the army and be responsible for the construction of school grounds, barracks and other facilities required for the Yongyi Army to be stationed. They will also be responsible for the construction of the martial arts hall after the location is selected.
After all, there were four battalions and tens of thousands of people accompanying Zhang Cheng to garrison in the town. The barracks and training grounds where they lived were not small places. Naturally, such a large project required careful planning, so they were mobilized from the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp. A large number of civil construction craftsmen were recruited.
There are also large and small parcels in the General Akagi Office, as well as heavy red-painted wooden boxes, all neatly stacked. Apparently everything is ready and just waiting to set off.
Uncle Yongning is no longer alone now. He has two old ladies, his mother and aunt, his wife Ji Xuanzhu, his second wife Yang Liying, and his concubines Liu Ying, Liu Yan, and Tang Chunru. It can be said that he has a group of wives and concubines.
Thanks to the system of this era, Zhang Cheng can enjoy the blessings of everyone after establishing a foothold. However, after all, he has received decades of education in later generations. Although monogamy is not what he likes, it is still deeply imprinted on him. deep in his bones.
Therefore, Zhang Cheng respected and loved his wife Ji Xuanzhu, but without the constraints of what was later called the "Marriage Law", his bestiality and conscience were greatly released.
"Eat and sex!"
Since ancient times, how many Liu Xiahui have been able to sit still and remain calm in real history?
Zhang Cheng is neither a saint nor a saint, but he is also a real man with a sound body, and there are many beauties actively throwing themselves into his arms. How can he refuse?
In fact, up to now, although there were many women around Zhang Cheng, they all came to him by chance.
For example, when the Liu sisters first entered the North Road, Chicheng guard Wu Youlu gave it to him. Although they came with a special mission, they were truly devoted to Zhang Cheng and did not do anything bad. Wu Youlu also suffered retribution. There was no need to be more cautious about the two of them.
Ji Xuanzhu was different from other women. She was the first real matchmaker Zhang Cheng married. She was the official wife of the Zhang family who was officially recognized as being registered in the family tree.
Ji Xuanzhu also came from a scholarly family. He received a good education since he was a child, knew books, was polite, and could distinguish right from wrong. He was very worthy of the respect and love given to him by Zhang Cheng.
The second wife, Yang Liying, is a different story. She is also very beautiful, heroic, and very affectionate. Of course, these are her advantages.
However, the reason why Zhang Cheng married her as his second equal wife was not all about her. The most important factor was the clan power of the Yang family in northwest Henan.
Zhang Cheng's plan is very big. He focuses on the whole world, not just a small town in Xuanfu, so he has spies and hidden stakes everywhere within his reach.
Henan is located in the center of the world, and is full of thieves. In the next few years, it will be the place where the Ming Dynasty wars are most frequent. It can be said that it is a good place for him to make achievements, how could he not foreshadow it.
The Yang family has a deep network of relationships within hundreds of miles to the north and south of Mang Mountain. This is what Zhang Cheng lacks. Having lived in two generations, he knows that a network of relationships is far more effective than a strong military, at least. This is true when it comes to controlling local resources.
United front, a word familiar to most people in later generations, contains powerful power, which is the basis for conquering the world.
To use a word used at this time, it is - people's hearts.
right.
The so-called united front is actually the people's support!
The support of the people can affect the life and death of a dynasty.
Having the support of the people is the foundation for the continuation of this dynasty.
It is precisely because he fully understands the importance of united front work that Zhang Cheng is happy to embrace the beauty of the Yang family on Mang Mountain.
Finally, there is a new concubine named Tang Chunru. Her identity is a little embarrassing. I would say she is noble, but she cannot be said to be very noble. However, I would say she is ordinary, but she was personally gifted by the current emperor. beauty.
Although Tang Chunru is only a concubine in Uncle Yongning's house, the two old ladies and the wife of Uncle Yongning, Ji Xuanzhu, all love her very much, at least that's how it appears on the surface.
But she was a concubine given to Zhang Cheng by the current emperor, and she had lived in the deep palace compound for several years. Who knew if she had any secret decree before leaving the palace?
Therefore, it is not so much that everyone in the Yongning residence loves her very much, but rather that everyone is very nervous and defensive towards Tang Chunru and the maids around her.
Although there are many female relatives in the house, the main wife Ji Xuanzhu is regarded as the most respected person in the back house. Even if anything happens to the two old ladies, they will not handle it privately, but will leave it to the wife Ji Xuanzhu to decide. Disposal.
After all, Uncle Yongning’s wife, Ji Xuanzhu, was personally selected by the two elders, so naturally she wanted to maintain her supreme authority in Uncle Yongning’s house.
The original quota of the Detachment of Women was 3,500 men, but it has never been fully staffed. After all, the recruitment conditions here are too harsh.
But there is no way to do it. The Jianfu Battalion has a quota of 1,500 members, but only more than 1,200 people have been recruited so far. And the 500 members of the Chinese Army Cavalry have only been selected so far. There are only 300 qualified female soldiers.
In this way, the Chinese cavalry team has 300 people, and the left and right troops have 450 people each, leaving a vacancy of 300 people.
The Chinese cavalry here is a close confidant of the second wife Yang Liying, but the two girls beside her are the chief and deputy generals.
As for Su Zhenxiang, the left general manager of the Jianfu camp, and Yang Juanxiu, the deputy general manager, they were the first batch of refugees rescued by Yongningbo Zhang Cheng from Mafang in northern Beijing, and their loyalty to them was naturally much higher than that of others.
Although they obeyed the military orders of General Yang Liying in the Jianfu Camp, deep down they were still only loyal to Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng, followed by the two old ladies and the mistress Ji Xuanzhu.
Then there are Jia Honggu, the general manager of Youying Qian, and Ji Xiuyue, the deputy general manager of Qian. They are originally the natal family of Mrs. Ji Xuanzhu, the uncle of Yongning, and they naturally respect their own ladies in their hearts.
In this way, three forces were formed in the women's camp of the Detachment of Women. Although they all ostensibly obeyed the military orders of General Yang Liying, the military orders issued by Yang Liying might harm Zhang Cheng, the two old ladies, and the mistress Ji. When Xuanzhu comes, they may have a different attitude.
This is also Zhang Cheng's strategy of checks and balances. He is not afraid that Yang Liying will have any objections, but Yang Liying is already his equal wife, although her status is slightly lower than that of the first wife, the Zhang family's matriarch Ji Xuanzhu.
However, Yang Liying now controls Yong Ningbo's internal armed forces as the leader of the Detachment of Women. Once she is allowed to completely control this army, there is no guarantee that it will not be able to lose its strength and even threaten Ji Xuanzhu's position as mistress.
Once this situation occurs, the family will definitely be restless, and it will not only be a problem of being laughed at, but in serious cases, it may even destroy the family fortune that Zhang Cheng has worked so hard to save.
Therefore, in addition to playing the art of checks and balances in the Jianwei camp, we have also been wary of the Internal Guard camp and have not fully developed it.
It can even be said that the biggest obstacle to the internal security battalion's failure to reach full strength is none other than Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng himself!
The quota of the inner guard camp is originally two thousand infantrymen, but since the establishment of the camp, the number has not been fully recruited until now, because all the men of suitable age in the North Road and East Road who meet the physical requirements have been selected into Zhang Cheng Under his command, he serves as a soldier.
Most of the men with slightly lower quality in all aspects were selected into the garrison camps of various forts. When the internal guard camps began to recruit soldiers, it was much more difficult.
Therefore, when the number of soldiers in the Internal Guard Battalion was the largest, there were only more than 700 soldiers. With Zhang Cheng announcing that the "Yong Yi Army" expanded to six major battalions, these more than 700 soldiers in the Internal Guard Battalion were all merged into the six major battalions. In the camp.
Qian Chief Yang Fu and Deputy Qian Chief Yang Xing were admitted into the Yongyi Army system by Zhang Cheng. However, they were not incorporated into the battalion for the time being. Instead, they were ordered to advance to the "Lecture Hall" as the first Students in the first semester participate in systematic military theoretical study.
However, even if there are only 1,200 female soldiers in the Jianfu Battalion, it is still a very large team. Even the guerrilla camps of some guerrilla generals may only have more than a thousand capable soldiers at full strength.
Moreover, their armors, weapons, guns, artillery, chariots, etc. are probably not as numerous and complete as the Jianwu camp. Let’s not talk about anything else. Once these more than a thousand Jianwu arrive in the town, they will definitely cause chaos all over the city. The soldiers and the people looked sideways.
These healthy women were originally the family members of the officers and soldiers in the Yongyi Army. Now many of them set out with their husbands to station in the town.
Once they go there, they may never have the chance to return to their hometowns on the North Road and East Road. Therefore, many female soldiers from the Jianfu Battalion will bring their families with them to the town.
However, not all the female soldiers from the Jianwubao Battalion brought their families to the town. Many of them still have elderly people at home, and their children have grown into teenagers. Now they are not studying and literate in primary schools in various forts. They have already entered workshops and other places to work, and some have even been admitted to engineering schools, and there is no need to follow them anymore.
But even so, there are still more than a thousand dependents from the Jianfu Battalion who want to accompany the army to the town to live in peace. If we add some dependents of the soldiers from each battalion of the Yongyi Army, there will be more than tens of thousands of people?
For this reason, Zhang Cheng specially ordered three hundred Chinese cavalry from the Jianfu Battalion to accompany him to the town this time, taking on the responsibility of guarding and taking care of the women's families along the way.
The infantry of the left and right units will temporarily stay in Chicheng. After the garrison areas of the battalions in the town are completed and the construction of barracks and school grounds are completed, they will escort the families of the soldiers and set off together.
Even the two battalions of Teng She and Bai Hu, who were stationed in the town in advance, and the Weiyuan Battalion, which was about to escort Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng to the town, also left an infantry unit on the north road, waiting to escort the battalions and the army. The family members went to the town to settle down.
Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng gave full support to the Yongyi Army officers and their families who were resettled in the town. Not only did they order each camp to keep a soldier as a guard, but they also reimbursed all the food and lodging expenses for each migrating family member along the way. .
The reason why he encouraged the soldiers of the Yongyi Army to go to Zhencheng with their families was simply to increase his popularity in Zhencheng.
Although Zhang Cheng's family was also a military family in the Xuan Mansion, it had gradually withered in recent generations. In his father's generation, there were only two brothers, and Zhang Cheng's father died young.
Fortunately, his uncle Zhang Yan, relying on the shadow of his ancestors and having fought hard for his life, managed to become the general of the Xuanfu by virtue of his military exploits and was able to hold on to the Zhang family's power in the town. Foundation.
However, because Zhang Yan did not like to associate with those mediocre and corrupt colleagues, he was very marginalized in the circle of generals and military attachés in the town. However, Zhang Yan was a general who was promoted based on his solid military achievements, and no one could do anything to him.
However, Zhang Yan also seemed to be alone in the circle of generals in the town. He only had some contacts with the commander-in-chief Yang Guozhu and the general Liu Guangwu.
It is precisely because of Zhang Yan's insistence on uprightness and his unwillingness to join in the slander that the Zhang family has only a few isolated manors around the town, and they are all small in scale.
Therefore, Zhang Cheng tried his best to encourage the officers and soldiers of the Yongyi Army battalions to move with the army and their families to settle around the town. His idea was to use this to strengthen his mass base in the town.
In order to protect their beautiful homeland, these brave soldiers who have settled around the town will be more loyal to Zhang Cheng and resolutely carry out every military order issued by Zhang Cheng without reservation.
Because their families were settled in the town, carrying out Zhang Cheng's military orders meant protecting their families. With the increase in the number of family members of the Yongyi Army officers and soldiers who moved to the town, Zhang Cheng himself would further develop a favorable situation in which he could respond to all requests.
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On the sixth day of February, Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng, escorted by the soldiers of Weiyuan Camp, led thousands of troops to leave Chi Castle and march toward the town in a mighty manner.
From outside the Red Castle to Yiangtian Castle, crowds of people kept appearing to see Yong Ningbo off. Some of them gathered in groups of more than a hundred or hundreds of people and knelt down to see off the advancing army along the way.
Occasionally, some elderly village elders from various towns would stop Yongning Bo's carriage on behalf of the military and civilians along the way and offer baskets of local specialties.
Naturally, Zhang Cheng would not be indifferent to people's enthusiasm. Whenever he encountered a village elder who came to stop him, he would order the porter to stop immediately and receive the village elder personally.
Once an old woman is found among them, Yong Ningbo will also instruct Zhang Chengfang to invite his wife Ji Xuanzhu to come over and receive the village elders together with her.
For many years since then, people on Xuanzhen North Road have been praising how close Uncle and Mrs. Yongning are to the people!
(End of chapter)
