Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 108 The taste is getting heavier

Resting overnight in Zuoge [-]rd Battalion, He Liu and Lao Hu were going to enter Datong City.

Before leaving the Zuoge Third Battalion, He Liu told Fu Hanling: "Follow Yang Shoubei and work hard. Don't think about revenge. You are still just a small frontier officer, and you still don't have the ability to seek revenge from Jinyiwei North Town Fushi."

Fu Hanling cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Sixth Master! I, Fu Hanling, will never go back to Beijing if I don't show up at the border! When I return to Beijing—it must be Liu Da's death!"

The imperial cavalry entered Datong City.This important border town of Ming Dynasty has been looted by Tatar cavalry.

Zhao Jianzhi, the former governor of Datong, died for his country.Li Hu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, was waiting for the crime in his own house again.The imperial envoy was greeted at the gate of the city by Wang Tingshu, the new governor of Datong.

Wang Tingshu fell to his knees and said: "Chen Datong Governor Wang Tingshu, I respectfully invite Shengan!"

He Liudao: "Saint Boon."

Then he got off his horse and read Wang Tingshu: "Master Wang arrived very soon."

Wang Tingshu said: "I don't know about the mission. I was originally a magistrate in Xuanfu. After the transfer of the Ministry of officials, I rushed directly from Xuanfu to Datong. It is only four hundred miles from Xuanfu to Datong. The next official is non-stop. The day came here."

He Liu said to Wang Tingshu: "Let's not take the sedan chair, let's walk into the city."

After entering Datong City, He Liu said with emotion: "In such a big city, there is not a single commoner."

Wang Tingshu smiled bitterly: "Datong today is a ghost city. When the city was broken, the Tatars slaughtered the people in the whole city. Alas, the border town rules, the governor manages the people, and the commander-in-chief manages the soldiers. I am the new governor of Datong. , it’s very easy! Because no one let me take care of it!”

He Liudao: "Didn't your majesty issue an order? Before the new Datong commander-in-chief is dispatched, let Governor Wang supervise the Datong military."

Wang Tingshu said: "Datong's guard army has been wiped out seven or eight times by the Tatars. The lower officials have sent some generals and ordered them to gather routs in various places in Shanxi. Now they have gathered 9000 or [-] people. Now Those who defend Datong are the eight or nine thousand defeated soldiers. If the Tatars invade again, I can only follow the example of my predecessor Zhao, who committed suicide and died for the country.”

Old Hu interjected: "The Tatars will never come to Datong again. They went south to invade the country for the sake of my property. Datong City has been looted by them and turned into an empty city. It is meaningless for them to come again."

He Liu suddenly remembered something.He said to Wang Tingshu: "Master Wang, take me to the Beipian Gate."

The Acropolis of Datong has eight gates in total.The north side gate is located in the northwest direction.

Wang Tingshu led He Liu to Beipian Gate, and saw that the section of Beipian Gate had a towering city wall with a thickness of ten feet.There is a tower on the north side gate, condescending.

Lao Hu said to He Liu: "If I were the commander-in-chief of Datong, I would install more than a dozen Franji cannons on the tower. The cannons are condescending, and the cannons are loaded with powder. One cannon can kill a large number of Tatars."

He Liu asked Wang Tingshu: "Didn't there used to be twenty Francine guns at the North Gate?"

Wang Tingshu said: "It seems that when the Tatars withdrew their troops, they also removed the cannons. It's not too early for the mission, so why don't you go to the imperial envoy prepared by the lower officials to rest?"

He Liu shook his head: "There is no rush to rest. Let's go to Li Zongbing's residence first. I want to give him an order."

A group of people came to Datong General Military Mansion.

Half of the General Military Mansion has been turned into scorched earth.The other half is dilapidated.It seems that the Tatars have already helped He Liu run the errand of ransacking the house.

Li Hu, the general soldier, had a white cloth wrapped around his head, and his hands were also hung up by the white cloth, one left and one right.The whole person is like a wrapped rice dumpling.

In the note to the emperor, he claimed to have suffered eight stab wounds.It makes sense to be wrapped into zongzi.

"There is a decree! Li Hu, the commander-in-chief of the Datong Guard, was so stupid that he misled the country and caused the city of Datong to fall to the enemy. He was ordered to resign from the post of commander-in-chief and sent to Fusi Prison in Beizhen to be punished." He Liu declared.

Li Hu knelt down and kowtowed under the support of his entourage: "The sinner accepts the decree and thank you!"

Thousands of guards in brocade clothes under He Liu took off Li Hu's gauze cap and guarded him.

He Liu said to Lao Hu, "Let's ransack the house."

Lao Hu carried the innocence case on his back.According to the old rules, they went around the General Military Mansion now.

Old Hu was surprised and said: "Those Tatars are like vicious wolves! Don't talk about gold and silver treasures, even the wooden tables and chairs in the mansion have been removed! The ability of these barbarians to raid houses is definitely not your fault." Under the sixth child!"

He Liu took out the ground listener and the wall tiger from the innocence box, and said, "Let's still start the inspection from the front hall as usual."

Datong is a frontier fortress, and this General Military Mansion is not very big.Compared with the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy's mansion that was inspected in Jiangnan half a year ago, it is eight or nine points smaller.

But one day, He Liu and Lao Hu finished copying Li Hu's house.

Dozens of hanging copper coins, a few taels of silver, and a few bolts of cloth. . . .The two copied only the meager possessions that the Tartars had missed.

Old Hu sighed: "Oh, there are only so few things left! It's not enough for me to drink a few drinks."

When it comes to wine, Lao Hu feels anxious for a while.He said to He Laoliu: "My niece and daughter-in-law prepared for me to drink too much wine from the Western Regions. I'll go to the latrine."

As the saying goes, one poops, two tickles.Old Hu said that He Liu was also a little anxious: "Let's go, let's go together."

The two entered the latrine of the General Military Mansion.Take off the trousers and "sting and stab" and then release the water.

He Liu squinted, as if he was looking at Lao Hu's thing.

Old Hu laughed and scolded: "Look at me! Old Hu, I'm afraid that I can't even scare birds now. Back then, I pissed three feet against the wind, but now I have a shoe against the wind."

After finishing his convenience, He Liu tied up his pants: "You are not a girl with yellow flowers. I see what you are doing down there? I see this latrine!"

Old Hu grinned, and chatted with He Liu: "What is there to see here? Could it be that you are very hungry? In the 28th year of Jiajing, I copied the house of Liu Ping, the former minister of Taichang Temple with you. Then Mr. Liu pretended to be crazy and pretended to be stupid. , Jump into your own latrine and eat a meal. After eating, you still burp, and ask 'Is there any more? I'm not full!'. Don't you want to learn from Mr. Liu back then?"

He Liu stared at the filth in the latrine: "Old Hu, I'm not in the mood to fight with you. I smell—the smell of silver."

Lao Hu put on his trouser belt and gasped: "My God, what do you mean, there is money hidden under this latrine? Even if there is money hidden, who wants to go down to a pile of cakes to get money?"

He Liu said: "You and I don't want to jump into this latrine, and the Tatars are even less willing. This may be the only place in the entire General Military Mansion that has not been looted by the Tatars!"

Old Hu retched: "Lao Liu! Your taste is getting stronger and stronger! If you want to jump into the latrine, you can jump yourself. Old Hu, I'm going to run away first!"

(End of this chapter)