In the meeting hall.
Zhu Renxia, the Qipin County magistrate at that time, was wearing a blue official robe embroidered with 鸂飒, a black gauze hat on his head, and was sitting upright.
The Yangtze River champion of the Chang'an Town People's League is on the left, and the town committee leader Bo No. 5 is on the right. Jin Zhu, Zhao Yun and others took their seats according to their respective positions, which seemed to be in order.
"This is a long story, please listen to me."
Zhu Renxia picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He then described the trip to Liping Mansion in detail and finally concluded.
"After Liping City was looted by the rebels, the treasury was empty and the granary was exhausted. The gold and silver we sent was like providing help in the snow, saving Mr. Li from the fire pit and allowing him to revitalize the situation. Use this gold and silver as bait, I successfully planned a fundraising event and received more than 25,000 taels of silver..."
"What a brilliant idea! What a brilliant idea!"
The fifth person shook his folding fan and praised repeatedly, "Master Lou Dongfang is a smart man, he can compete with me as the fifth person."
Jin Zhu sneered: "Tch... Master Lou is the master of the magistrate. How can you compare with the master of the county?"
"Prefect Li was also promoted from county magistrate, so why can't he be compared?"
The fifth place was completely unconvinced and argued with reason: "He, Lou Dongfang, assisted one county magistrate, while I, the fifth place, assisted two. There was Chen Changsheng before him, and Zhu Renxia after him, and Mr. Zhu is only twenty-four this year. Years old, when he reaches the same age as Li Yao, he may become the prime minister of the dynasty."
Jin Zhu couldn't help being speechless: "If you say that, it seems to make sense. In the next twenty years, the Lord Zhu you follow will probably be an important minister in the court and become the prime minister. However, it seems that he has nothing to do with you. What does it have to do with it?"
"You two don't want to quarrel anymore. Let the county magistrate finish what he has to say." Zhao Yun couldn't listen anymore, so he had to speak to stop the enemies.
Jin Zhu pursed his lips: "I'll let you go this time."
The fifth man waved his folding fan with disdain on his face: "A gentleman is not as knowledgeable as a woman."
"You two are really enemies!"
Zhu Renxia picked up the tea cup and moistened his throat, and continued: "A few days ago, the five thousand officers and soldiers led by Du Si Yang Guozhu were completely annihilated in Feilian Fort, and Mr. Yang died on the battlefield..."
"What... Master Dusi died in battle?" Jiang Guanjun changed his face when he heard this, looking in disbelief.
Even on the Korean battlefield, facing 50,000 to 60,000 Japanese pirates, the highest official the Ming army lost was only a third-rank deputy general. Unexpectedly, the rebels under Yang Yinglong actually killed a high-ranking official of the second rank. This must have greatly shocked the Ming court.
The fifth person shook his folding fan and made an analysis: "This Lord Dusi lacks a military advisor. He attacks more with less and underestimates the enemy and advances rashly. How can he be undefeated? You must know that Yang Yinglong's rebels numbered 100,000. He led five If thousands of people go to attack, aren’t they looking for death?”
Jiang Guanjun said: "Perhaps Yang Dusi judged that the rebels were a mob and vulnerable to attack! Logically speaking, with such a disparity in strength between the enemy and ours, we really shouldn't take the initiative to attack."
"Yang Dusi has died in the battle. His merits and demerits will be determined by the court, so we will not comment."
Zhu Renxia straightened his black gauze hat, glanced at everyone, and continued: "After the rebels wiped out all the officers and soldiers, they became arrogant and morale boosted. Yang Yinglong sent his generals Xiang Fan and Deng Wuqian to each lead 20,000 troops to march towards Guiyang in an attempt to Encircle the provincial capital."
Jiang Guanjun held his chin and muttered: "There is only one Guizhou guard outside Guiyang City. It is estimated that there will be very few left after Lord Dusi's entire army was annihilated. As a result, the provincial capital is in danger!"
"exactly."
Zhu Renxia nodded and said, "I have read the letter written by Master Futai to Magistrate Li. Currently, the total number of guards, officers, and civilians in Guiyang City is less than 4,000, which is nearly ten times the number of rebels. Therefore, Master Futai The talented people wrote a letter to all the prefectures in Guizhou, requesting that minzhuang be sent to Guiyang for reinforcements."
The fifth man shook his folding fan and said: "So Magistrate Li has no soldiers, so he promoted you to the county magistrate. He wants to use our militia in Chang'an Town to support the provincial capital under the banner of Liping Mansion. Hehe... Magistrate Li is really fighting. What a good plan!"
Zhu Renxia said sternly: "Fifth Brother's words are wrong. If the rebels capture the provincial capital, Yang Yinglong will surely stay in Guiyang for a long time and plunge Guizhou into a protracted war. At that time, the lives of the people will be ruined and the people will be in ruins. We in Chang'an Town will not be able to escape the disaster alone."
Jiang Guanjun stood up and said in a deep voice: "Although the imperial court has failed our Qi family army, our Qi family army cannot fail the people of the world. I, Jiang Guanjun, will never stand idly by in this battle!"
"Uncle Third, that's well said!" Zhu Renxia couldn't help but applaud Jiang Guanjun for his loyal words.
Jiang Guanjun's face was stern and his voice was like steel: "We, the Qi Army, are not fighting for the imperial court, but for the people of Guizhou!"
While Zhu Renxia was describing the situation in Guizhou to the core of his men, officials above the company commander rushed to the conference hall one after another, waiting for instructions.
As the number of people and Zhuang people continues to increase, a few days ago, Jiang Guanjun carried out in-depth reforms in the establishment of the People's Zhuang League in Chang'an Town.
Previously, there were only eight people in each class, including the squad leader. The purpose of this was to facilitate dormitory arrangements.
Then the three squads formed a platoon, with 24 people in each platoon. Three platoons formed a company, with seventy-two men in a company.
This kind of grouping is based on dormitories. One class is a dormitory, and each dormitory has a person who is responsible for cooking and doing chores.
But after a long time, no one wants to cook and do chores, and there are often leftover meals for eight people, which easily leads to waste.
After learning from his experience, Jiang Guanjun expanded each class to ten people and appointed a first and second class leader.
Three classes formed a platoon, each platoon consisted of thirty people. Three platoons formed a company, each company consisted of ninety men.
Each company has a cooking class, which is responsible for the food supply and sanitation of the whole company. This solves the problem of wasting food and no one wants to cook.
At present, Chang'an Town has a total of 1,249 minzhuang people. In addition to twelve complete companies, there is also a company to be formed. Whenever a new minzhuang joins, they will be inserted into this company to be formed.
The company commanders of the twelve companies are as follows: Ding Xiao, the commander of the first company, is what Min Zhuang calls the Junzi Company.
The second company commander Lu Buping, the third company commander Zhu Junjian, the fourth company commander Xu Le, the fifth company commander Chen Daoming, the sixth company commander Hou Jie, the seventh company commander Ouyang Feng.
In addition, six more company commanders were added during this period, namely Yan Bin and Ma Juli from the Qi family army, Wang Sanqiao from Wulong Mountain, who is usually called Wang San, and Jiangjia Village. Jiang Jiao and Jiang Erhu were also promoted to company commanders.
In addition, there is a new man, from Xiangtan, Hunan, whose surname is Gao Mingtong. Because of his extraordinary strength and proficiency with swords and guns, Jiang Guanjun promoted him to company commander.
Zhu Renxia once again described the current situation in Guizhou to the thirteen company commanders, and finally announced that Lu Buping would lead the second company, Ouyang Feng would lead the seventh company, and Jiang Jiao would lead the eleventh company, plus Jiang Erhu's to-be-organized company. Come down and look at the house. All other companies are ready to go out and will leave Chang'an Town and march towards Guiyang at dawn tomorrow.
"Everyone, although I was appointed as the magistrate of Jinping County by Magistrate Li, in our Chang'an Town, I, Zhu Renxia, am still the mayor. In the future, you should not call me the county magistrate unless I am in the county government hall. "
All the company commanders laughed loudly: "Yes, County Master, we all remember it."
After Liu Gongfu became the magistrate of Jinping County, the Minzhuang Regiment lost a battalion commander. Jiang Guanjun proposed to add a new battalion commander.
Zhu Renxia nodded in approval: "We will face war at any time after leaving Chang'an Town, and the team must be well organized. Miss Jinzhu will be the commander of the first battalion, and the commander of the second battalion cannot be vacant. I propose that Ding Xiao concurrently serve as the commander of the second battalion. .”
Everyone saw Ding Xiao's martial arts and character, and they were all convinced and expressed their support.
"Except Brother Ding Xiao, there is really no one qualified to be the commander of the second battalion. We all support him."
But Ding Xiao refused to accept his words and said with cupped fists: "I, Ding Xiao, have little talent and mediocre martial arts skills. Asking me to be the company commander is already a rush. If I am capable of serving as the battalion commander, please choose another person from the mayor."
Zhu Renxia thought Ding Xiao was declining modestly, and said to him sincerely: "Company Commander Ding, if even you are not qualified to be the battalion commander, who do you think anyone else can be? If our Chang'an Town can't even have a battalion commander, If you can't be elected, how can you develop and grow in the future? I hope you don't have to decline modestly, just take office magnanimously."
"Mayor, I, Ding Xiao, am indeed not qualified for the position of battalion commander!"
Ding Xiao was obviously not pretending, "How much do I know better than anyone else? How can I, Ding Xiao, be on par with Miss Jin and Capt. Liu? I will never be the battalion commander."
Then he changed the topic and said: "However, if you don't have a good candidate for the mayor, I can recommend one. Looking at the strong people of Chang'an Town, there is absolutely no one who is more capable than him!"
