The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 753 Homecoming
"Go home!"

On the official road, a large number of four-wheeled carriages are parked next to the post station.

Someone stood on top of the carriage and shouted loudly, which instantly evoked countless people's responses.

"Go home!"

Hundreds of soldiers of the Ming army happily responded to his cry. Even if they did not know each other, it did not affect their relationship with each other. Whether they were in the army or not, they would always be the same.

The Jiazi post station on the east side of Chang'an City, the inside and outside of the post station are full of soldiers who have already got their holidays.

There are twelve gates in the outer city of Chang'an, a total of twelve roads leading to all directions, and a total of twelve post stations outside the city, responsible for transit.

Han Cai, the post officer in charge of the post station, sat behind the counter and looked at the noisy soldiers inside the post station with a smile. He was also a veteran of the Yellow Turban Army and a village chief.

It’s just that the years are not forgiving. Han Cai was also injured on the battlefield, so he had no choice but to retire from the battlefield. But luck and fortune depend on each other. After retiring from the army, under the arrangement of the Bureau of Veterans Affairs, he also found a position that can provide for the elderly. , worked as a postman here.

Seeing so many comrades again now reminded Han Cai of the scene in the army in the past.

Han Cai was not from the old Taipingdao, but from the Bingzhou Army. Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou, died. When Taipingdao entered Bingzhou, his trilogy also joined the Yellow Turban Army sequence.

At that time Taiping Dao occupied Bingzhou, people were fish and meat, I was Daozu, and the Shangguan had already surrendered, so these small soldiers could only join the Yellow Turban Army together.

However, when they really entered the Yellow Turban Army, they discovered that the Yellow Turban Army was actually completely different from the rumors.

The rumored Yellow Turban Army is vicious, all murderous, ruthless, cruel, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of crimes. Many people are transformed by the mountain spirits and monsters in the Taihang Mountains, not real people.

But becoming a member of the Yellow Turban Army also made him gradually realize the true appearance of the Yellow Turban Army.

Those Yellow Turban soldiers, like them, are actually mortals. They will be injured by swords, and they will be afraid of powerful enemies. They also have their own families, but many of their families have already died in the years of turmoil. middle……

The ethos in the Yellow Turban Army and the ethos in the Han Army can be said to be very different, completely different.

Among the Han army, it is commonplace to be greedy for meritorious service and withhold supplies, and it is rare for a superior to remember to share some of the benefits with the main contributor.

Military officers at the first level of military marquis are basically the children of aristocratic families. These ordinary sons of good families are not qualified at all.

But in the Yellow Turban Army, this situation disappeared. The military judges in the army who counted the military exploits, that is, the Fu Zhu in the army at that time, and the officers would not be greedy for military exploits. The decapitation of the pawns was distinguished.

Until now, Han still remembered the Yellow Turban soldier Fu Zhu in their team, and also remembered the scriptures that the Yellow Turban soldier Fu Zhu explained to him.

There is no strict class in the Han army in the past, everyone calls each other comrades, and the officers are not only strict in training, but also pleasant in peacetime.

Everyone eats in one pot, even the battalion officers.

Han Cai never thought that he could be promoted to an officer by virtue of his military merits, but after repeated battles, his military rank rose all the way through the mountains of corpses and blood, and no one withdrew his military merits.

He finally became a village commander in the military camp by virtue of his meritorious service, commanded hundreds of people, and became an officer in the Yellow Turban Army...

Hearing the noisy voices in the station, Han Cai leaned back in his chair and slowly closed his eyes.

Time went back to Huayin in the third year of Chuping (192), which was the last battle he experienced.

Everything seems so real.

"The heavens and the earth have their own treasures, all have their own gods and spirit..."

"According to the five acts of color, following the rise and fall of the qi of the four seasons, as the envoy of heaven and earth, to become the people and all things..."

The noisy human voices in my ears have turned into a magnificent chanting.

A mass of Dong Zhuo's soldiers swarmed over with sharp blades and spears held high.

The sound of dense and rapid footsteps was like a raging tide.

The shouting like a tsunami almost completely overwhelmed the chanting voices in the army formation, like thunder rolling in the sky.

But even so, right beside him, hundreds of comrades with yellow scarves on their heads are still standing firmly with him, without any hesitation...

"Big Brother Han!"

The shout came from outside the post station, interrupting Han Cai's thoughts and bringing Han Cai back to the present world.

Han Cai opened Yang and looked at the official road. The voice came from a carriage full of people on the official road.

Many hands stretched out the car window, shaking towards him constantly.

"We're going home first!"

The soldiers in the carriage waved happily at Han Cai, they were all familiar with Han Cai.

As the courier of the courier station, Han Cai helped people in the army deliver family letters on a regular basis every month, and regularly sent the reply to the military camp outside Chang'an City.

Soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army could only rely on letters to communicate with their families when they were not on vacation.

There are dictionary-literate farm officials in the villages all over the country, and there are also literate Fu Zhu in the army who can help write letters.

Han Cai also waved his hand with a smile as a farewell.

The coachman who drove the carriage flicked his whip, and the long whip slammed in the air, and the horse neighed suddenly, and the four-wheeled carriage full of people and goods raised a little dust, and slowly moved forward.

The carriage gradually disappeared, but Han Cai's eyes did not move away, still staying on the carriage.

In fact, Han Cai can’t remember how many people said goodbye to you. Most people know his name, but he can’t remember the names of those people. Although he has met and heard of them many times name, but Han Cai is always reluctant to remember everyone's name.

He has been a post officer for two years. He has memorized the names of many people, helped them send letters, helped them receive letters, drank many people's wedding wine, and met many people's relatives and friends.

But now, he only maintains basic courtesy with the soldiers in the army.

In two years, many people he was familiar with, people he knew, and people whose names he remembered disappeared one after another.

The last time I saw any information about them, it was all in the compensation letter issued by the Chinese military government.

In the post station, the most unwelcome people are the civil servants of the Zhongjun Mansion.

Every time those civil servants came, they brought news of death.

That's why Han Cai chose not to remember the names of those soldiers. If he didn't remember the names and didn't know the news, he wouldn't feel too uncomfortable.

"Old Han, Old Han!"

A hand appeared in front of Han Cai's eyes and shook violently, blocking Han Cai's sight.

A paper bag was thrown on the counter in front of Han Cai, and then a black shadow completely blocked his sight.

When Han Cai saw the person coming, his smile instantly froze on his face, and then he straightened his face, showing a businesslike attitude.

"Where are things going?"

"Sent to the thirty-six heavens."

The visitor raised his hand, pointed upwards, and smiled.

The corner of Han Cai's mouth twitched a few times, he put down the pen in his hand, took out a sign from under the counter with a livid face, put it on the counter, and shouted to the side.

"Hu Le, hang this sign outside the station."

A teenager who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old heard the call, and hurried to the front with a stack of documents in his right hand.

"I'm coming."

The boy's name is Hu Le, and now he lives in Chang'an, and he also went to school, but he didn't pass the county school exam, so after graduation, he just found a post station official in a post station.

Han Cai handed over the sign, and Hu Le was about to reach out to take it, but the person standing by the counter immediately grabbed Han Cai's arm.

"Don't, don't, Brother Han, if you put this sign up, I'll be really famous by then..."

Hu Le was still a little puzzled at first, but after standing still and seeing clearly the black and white words written on the sign, he also laughed.

Twelve Chinese characters were neatly written on the sign——this post station prohibits Tian Zhang and voles from entering.

"I don't send anything, I really don't. This package is the pork meat I just weighed in Dongshi, and it's for you."

The person who came was none other than Tian Zhang who got the holiday.

Before Han Cai retired from the army, he was the head of the military camp, and Tian Zhang was also a chief of the military camp. Although the two were not on the same page, because Tian Zhang was a chatterbox, many people basically knew Tian Zhang. , and the relationship is very good.

Tian Zhang is notoriously talkative and likes to talk about irrelevant things. In Tian Zhang's words, he is not suitable for fighting, he has no talent for fighting, but he has already become a village chief, so it is not easy to retire, otherwise he will become a storyteller It can also make a lot of money, and the scenery is beautiful.

The reason why Han Cai wrote the sign was because he was annoyed by Tian Zhang.

"I think this sign really should be hung."

Just as Tian Zhang was snatching it, another hand reached out and took away the listing plate that had fallen on the counter.

Wang Qi looked at the listing card in his hand, and then threw it to Chen Wu not far away.

"Just hang it on the right side of the gate of the station."

Chen Wu smiled and was about to hang up the listing card, Tian Zhang also reacted from the stupefaction, and quickly let go of Han Cai to stop Chen Wu, and several people soon became noisy again.

"Meet the Marquis."

When Han Cai saw Wang Qi, he quickly stood up and saluted Wang Qi respectfully with military etiquette.

"Just call me by my name, there's no need to call him Junhou."

Wang Qi also returned a salute and said with a smile.

"If there is no Junhou, I'm afraid I would have become an inscription on the inscription. No matter where I am, Junhou will always be my superior."

Han Cai had a serious face and said solemnly.

In the battle of Huayin, it was Wang Qi who pulled him out of the dead, so he has always been very respectful to Wang Qi.

"The work of the post station is relatively busy during this period, but don't forget to accompany your family. When I heard about it in the military camp earlier, your family had a newcomer. At that time, you were busy with disaster relief and couldn't be free. These things count as ours. Come with the gift, don’t think it’s too little.”

Wang Qi took out a money bag from his pocket and handed it to Han Cai.

There is not much money in the purse, and the current system of the Ming Dynasty is quite targeted at corruption.

After all, it is a long-standing custom to collect gift money for normal marriages between officials, generals and schools, and it must not be forcibly banned. Forcibly banned will only be counterproductive and cause dissatisfaction.

However, Xu An still made certain restrictions on it, in order to prevent bribery in the form of gift money, such things are not uncommon in later generations.

Of course, the means of anti-corruption is definitely not only from the system, but also from supervision agencies such as the Eagle Wolf Guard and the Criminal Prosecution Division in various places.

"Don't worry, it's all within the regulations, and you don't have to worry about censorship."

After giving the gift money, Wang Qi and Han Cai exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then heard the sound of the bell ringing.

"The bus to Bingzhou has arrived, so let's go first."

The family members of the garrison troops in various places are generally arranged on the spot, and the same is true for the soldiers in the military region.

The Yellow Angels and Teng Xiangwei are the personal guards, and their families are all placed in Chang'an City. As for the trapping camp, they are all composed of prisoners, and their families naturally did not move.

The directly-administered army of the Yellow Turban Army is mainly composed of soldiers and sharp soldiers. Now it has undergone several expansions. There are already [-] soldiers and more than [-] sharp soldiers, each with three battalions.

Because of the founding of the country, the Yellow Turban Army also carried out some reforms. It is no longer called the Yellow Turban Army, but the Ming Army. The military uniforms are still mainly khaki.

It turned out that the military system of the Yellow Turban Army was roughly similar to that of the Han Army.

There are ten people in one team, one team, fifty people in one team, one team leader, one hundred people in one village, five villages in one village, five hundred people in one army, and five hundred people in five villages. Department, one of the five songs set up army Sima.

In addition, each team has a Fu Zhu, leading the guards, a total of five people, explaining the Taiping Dao scriptures and military regulations to the soldiers in the team on weekdays.

Originally, Fu Zhu also served as a military judge, but after Xu An separated some people from the Eagle Wolf Guard and used them as the backbone, he established a military police force to maintain military discipline and ensure the execution of military orders. The post was taken over by the Gendarmerie.

The battalion is a special organizational system and is not limited by the number of people. It is mainly based on military orders.

From bottom to top, according to the size of the troops, the army of the Yellow Turban Army consists of five levels: Shi, Team, Tun, Qu, and Department.

After the reform, the four major military regions of Taihang, Liangjun, Badong, and Mobei set up armies respectively. In fact, the army has always been called, but it is only implemented on paper.

Numbers such as A, B, C, D have been completely cancelled, and more intuitive digital numbers have been used instead.

The garrison and garrison soldiers still follow the original organizational system, because they basically exist in the form of qu and tun, or move in the form of garrison, and the army at the Ministry level is only in the hands of the military guards of the four states.

Most of the family members of the direct-controlled army were placed near Chang'an City, that is, in Yingtian County, and most of them were in the first wave of immigration.

But their homeland was difficult to leave, and some people chose to stay in Bingzhou. They got used to Bingzhou. Naturally, the family members of soldiers could not be forcibly persecuted, and Wang Qi's family members stayed in Bingzhou.

However, it is not the original nine counties of Bingzhou. The original Sili Hedong County was divided into Bingzhou. Wang Qi's family now lives in Hedong County, which is not far away.

More and more bells rang, dust rose above the official road, and one after another four-wheeled carriages moved forward slowly under the yelling of the coachman.

(End of this chapter)