Daming wolf ride

If you don't understand it, you don't understand it, the sacred order is hard to disobey, no matter how dissatisfied Pei Shaokuan is, he dare not resist the order, and waits in Xianghe for the Liao army who came from the capital according to the order.

The military situation was urgent. After the Jinzhou Army set off from the capital, it passed through Tongzhou without stopping, and drove straight to Xianghe at full speed.

To the territory of Xianghe, the population is gradually thinning out, and all the graves you see along the way are new graves that are not more than two years old.

It is the winter solstice, and people can be seen going to the graves from time to time, but unlike usual, most of the people who go to the graves are widows, old and weak, and rare adults.

Seeing the officers and soldiers, some old people sneered and glared at them. Jinzhou soldiers were all heartbroken when they saw them, and they dared not step forward to scold them. [

The five hundred Changping children are especially painful. The new graves here and there were not caused by the invasion of the East two years ago.

At that time, among the people around the capital, there were very few people who did not suffer from the war.What happened in Xianghe, why didn't it happen in other prefectures?

It's just that Xianghe was the hardest hit, adult men were either slaughtered or taken away as slaves outside the pass, leaving only the old, weak, widowed and immobile, wailing in front of this grave every year.

That's what you've seen along the way.Everyone in Jinzhou was silent, Shi Dayong sat on the horse, and he was also heartbroken.

It was already the afternoon of the [-]th when we arrived in Xianghe County.Compared with Tongzhou, Xianghe County is very dilapidated.

Broken walls and ruins can be seen everywhere, cities are not like cities, and towns are not like towns.If it weren't for the reminder of "Xianghe County" hanging on the dilapidated city gate, it would be hard for Shi Dayong to imagine that this is a county near Gyeonggi.

Gyeonggi has always been the place where the essence of the world is located. Usually, a county is as good as another prefecture, but now, this county, which is only a few dozen miles away from the capital, is not even comparable to a town. It can be seen that the Eastern captives invaded two years ago How much damage was caused to Daming.

If he did this two more times, wouldn't Daming be hollowed out by Donglu?

With a deep sigh, Shi Dayong became more determined to protect Daming, and never allow Manchuria to harm Daming again.

Zhao Qiwen, the magistrate of Xianghe County, was born in the third year of Tianqi Juren, and he has never been a Jinshi. He was originally the head of Xianghe County.

When Xianghe fell in the second year of Chongzhen, he and three minor officials hid in a dry well, but were not captured by the Jin soldiers, and only then did they save their lives.After the Jin army withdrew, Fang climbed out of the well.After coming out, the bustling Xianghe County in front of him turned into a hell, with dead bodies everywhere, thick smoke everywhere, and the streets and alleys were in a mess.

Zhao Qiwen, who was stunned by the tragic scene in front of him, even crawled to the county government office, only to find out that Mr. Lin, the county magistrate, had hanged himself in the back government office, and all his family members had committed suicide, and even the old servant of the government office did not know where to find him. Just like that, he was hanged in the porter's room.

Afterwards, it took six days to bury the corpses of the victims in Xianghe County alone.With the burial of the corpse, Xianghe County no longer had the prosperity and vitality of the past.Two years later, the city is still lifeless, only the long banners outside the two restaurants tell outsiders who are new to this place that there is still a sliver of commerce in the city, and there is still a sip of wine to drink.

The people are gone, and the county magistrate is gone. Zhao Wenqi, the master who was born in Juren, has become the new county magistrate of Xianghe County.In the past, this was something that I would never have dared to think about, because Xianghe County was an upper-class county that paid [-] shi in grain. In such a big county, it was absolutely impossible for someone who was not a Jinshi to be the county magistrate.

However, today's Xianghe County no longer has such confidence, so that when the Ministry of Officials selected the new magistrate of Xianghe County, none of the candidates were willing.They are not stupid, what's the point of a county magistrate who has no oil and water?It's better to spend some money to manage it, and ask the official department to send other people to go. For yourself, just wait for the next batch.In this way, the candidate for the county magistrate fell on Zhao Wenqi, who was born in Juren.

Changing from a boss to a county magistrate almost overnight is like a pie falling from the sky, but Zhao Wenqi has never been excited about it.In his mind, he could not get rid of the nightmare two years ago. In the middle of the night, he would always be awakened by the dead bodies all over the street.

The heavy burden of post-disaster reconstruction fell on Zhao Wenqi's shoulders, but apart from asking the court for tax relief, Mr. Zhao was no longer capable of restoring Xianghe County to its former high-class county.

The common people were really frightened by the Eastern captives. The wealthy people who survived the disaster moved their families southward, or moved to the capital. How could the poor without money have the ability to participate in the reconstruction of this county? [

It is a great kindness for the imperial court to exempt Xianghe County from taxes, so how could it allocate money to help Zhao Wenqi rebuild Xianghe County.Today's imperial court is probably not much better than Xianghe County, and the money is always wishing that one penny can be used as two pennies, so there is no extra money to be posted to Xianghe County.

Zhao County Magistrate, who has no money and no one, can only follow Huang Lao's rule. He can no longer apportion the surviving poor people. If that is the case, it is no different from forcing the people to die.If the county cannot be rebuilt, there will be no political achievements. Fortunately, the Ministry of Officials also knew the situation in Xianghe County, so they didn't replace Zhao Wenqi.

Just like this for two years as the county magistrate, the life is uneventful, and the pain in Mr. Zhao's heart has not been erased by time.He hated Donglu more than anyone else, and what he cared most about every day was whether there was any news from the imperial court, and whether there was any war outside the customs in the house newspaper.

There were reports of the war in Liaodong in the house newspaper, but there was nothing that Magistrate Zhao wanted to see.The Daling River was besieged, the imperial reinforcements were wiped out, and Zu Dashou surrendered gold

The failures one after another made Zhao county magistrate numb, until the news of Jinzhou's victory suddenly appeared in the house newspaper.When he was convinced that he was right, the excited Zhao County Magistrate drank alone a jar of good wine that he had treasured for several years and was reluctant to drink it.He was drunk and vomited, but he couldn't hide his joy.

Therefore, when the news that the imperial court transferred the Liao army from outside the pass to Shandong to suppress the Kong Youde rebellion was transmitted through the Tang newspaper, Zhao Wenqi thought that if the Liao army was going to Shandong to quell the chaos, he would have to pass through the Xianghe River, so he thought about it. The army severely injured the Eastern captives outside the pass, and avenged the victims of the Xianghe people. This time, they entered the pass to suppress the bandits. As the county magistrate of Xianghe, no matter how tight he was, he would definitely do his best for the soldiers of the Liao army.

As he thought, the Liao army did pass by Xianghe when it went south, but another army also moved to Xianghe. This was the [-] Beijing battalion led by Pei Shaokuan, the hereditary commander who was supposed to be transferred to Tianjin Wei.

The arrival of the soldiers from the Beijing camp made Zhao Wenqi's face bitter, because these young and old soldiers from the Beijing camp were not good at fighting, but they were very good at finding women by drinking and eating meat.As soon as they entered the county, they wandered around the city in groups of three and four.The only two restaurants in the city were also instantly occupied by the soldiers of the Beijing camp, and they started guessing wine with their fists.If this is all it is, it is good, but most of the Beijing camp soldiers are looking for kao sisters all over the city. If they can't find them, they will smash the doors of good houses. The people are shocked to come to the Yamen to complain.

I thought the soldiers were bastards, but the general leading the soldiers would always be the governor.Unexpectedly, the commanding officer, Mr. Pei, is even more disrespectful than his subordinates. He openly asked Xianghe County to recruit a hundred prostitutes to work, but if they couldn't find them, Xianghe County was the only one to ask.

In the past two years, Xianghe County has not had any flesh and blood business. The only ones in the city are some village girls who have lost their husbands secretly doing some flesh and blood business in the alleys, so as to support their parents and immature children in the countryside.Regarding this, Zhao Wenqi also turned a blind eye to it, they are all hard-working people, why bother to make things difficult for them.

But Zhao Wenqi had heard about the virtues of the soldiers in the Beijing camp for a long time.Not to mention that the number of those village girls is small, and they can't take the guests from the Beijing camp.Even if he is the county magistrate of Xianghe, he openly pimps the soldiers of the imperial court. If it gets out, he will be shameless. How can he face the elders of Xianghe, let alone the people who died in Xianghe!

But no matter how he pleaded, no matter how he explained, Commander Pei ignored him and issued an ultimatum. If Xianghe County does not send the prostitutes to the court at night, then the soldiers will do something wrong in Xianghe County under the sudden change. It's hard to blame Pei Shaokuan for what happened.

"Bandits, shame! What kind of official army is this, it is clearly a bandit soldier!"

Zhao Wen stomped his feet and cursed angrily at the yamen, but after he finished cursing, he squatted on the ground in pain with his head in his arms in front of all the yamen officials, without any regard for the dignity of the county officials.

The small officials in the book office also sighed, they don't know the suffering of the county lord, but if this matter is not resolved, and those soldiers from the Beijing camp really make trouble in the city, it will not be the people of Xianghe who will be harmed.

Master Deng Tai couldn't think of a better way after much deliberation, so he could only step forward and suggest in a low voice: "My lord, if it really doesn't work, why don't you tell them to go to the nearby villages to recruit some women to come and rescue them?"

Hearing this, Zhao Wenqi was so angry that he jumped up, slapped Deng Tai with his hands, and scolded angrily: "Bastard idea! This county is an official ordered by the imperial court, how can we do such nonsense!"

"My lord" Deng Tai covered half of his face, and was too frightened by the county magistrate's angry appearance to dare to speak any more.The guards and petty officials were too frightened to move.

After scolding, Zhao Wenqi seemed to be ten years old, and he sat down on the ground forcefully, sighing and booing.

The nearest county was more than 30 miles away, and it was nearly [-] miles away. At this time, even if I had money to find prostitutes in neighboring counties, it was too late.The Jingying side has spoken, and if they don't see a woman at night, Xianghe County will be responsible for the consequences.No one in the hall dared to think about what those soldiers could do.

How can this be good, how can this be good.

Zhao Wenqi frowned a few times in anxiety, and simply thought, taking off this official uniform, he should not be the magistrate of Xianghe County.But he can pick and choose, what about the people in the city?How about I kowtow to Commander Pei to plead for mercy? [

Just thinking about it, a guard rushed in in a panic, shouting: "My lord, the Liao army has arrived at our Xianghe!"

"Ah?!" Zhao Wenqi was taken aback, and then waved to his subordinates excitedly, "Follow the county to welcome you!"

Seeing that the county lord was going to meet the Liao army, Deng Tai was in a hurry, and stepped forward to stop him: "My lord, what about the Beijing camp?"

This question made Zhao Wenqi stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, Fang sighed: "Let's go to meet the generals of the Liao army first, this matter, I will figure out a solution later."

"Your Excellency has a solution?" Deng Tai was a little disbelieving.

Zhao Wenqi said angrily: "This county has a way if it says it has a way, and if you say anything else, follow the county to the gate of the city!"

Seeing that the county lord was annoyed again, Deng Tai didn't dare to say anything more, so he nodded and said, "Yes, my lord."

At present, all the personnel of Xianghe County, under the leadership of the county magistrate Zhao Wenqi, went to the gate of the city to meet the Liao army outside the customs who went south to fight the bandits.Outside the yamen, soldiers from the Beijing camp saw that the county magistrate led a group of people to the city gate, thinking that something serious had happened, so they rushed to report to the commander Pei Shaokuan.

At the city gate, Shi Dayong entered the city.