Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 185 Promotion, Bankruptcy

"Follow the sky to carry the goods, the emperor decreed:

Nanyang's head rests on Funiu, and its feet stand on Jianghan. It is surrounded by Tongbai in the east and Qinling Mountains in the west. It is actually a barrier between Jianghan and Jianghan. Military strategists must fight for important territory and cannot afford to lose it.Since Taizu, Nanyang Guards have been established to defend Jianghan for more than two hundred years... Liu Jinchang, the former commander of the Nanyang Guards, was greedy for money, lustful, cowardly and incompetent. For his own selfish purposes, he allowed the enemy to support bandits and allowed bandits to plunder the countryside. , is truly heartbroken and has been executed in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty!The combat power of Nanyang Guard has been eroded, and the officers and soldiers of the guard are old and weak. They have not been trained for many years and are vulnerable to use. Therefore, I have to cut the knot quickly and abolish Nanyang Guard.The commander of Wuyang Guards, Yang Menglong, was brave, resourceful and courageous in his duties. In the first battle, he killed more than a thousand slaves and in the second battle, he annihilated thousands of powerful bandits. He was indeed a good general of the country and could be used in many ways. He ordered Yang Menglong to take over the Nanyang Thirteen The defense of the county will take over from Nanyang Guard to defend Jianghan. Nanyang Guard's military fields, warehouses, ordnance, and assets will all be handed over to Wuyang Guard and shall not be damaged. I do this! "

Wu Yong's expression was dignified, with ups and downs, while Yang Menglong was downcast, like a little rooster who has lost a fight.Wu Yong secretly laughed, it was the first time for him to encounter this kind of bastard who was more depressed when he was promoted than when he lost his official position.After the imperial decree was finished, Yang Menglong still didn't respond. He said with a smile, "Master Yang, you are a real commanding officer now, why aren't you happy at all?"

Yang Menglong said in a low voice: "For an official who is losing money, I won't be happy even if he is promoted to three ranks." He got up, took the imperial decree, and handed it to Xiao Yufang to keep it.

Lu Xiangsheng smiled, took out the military documents and official seals and handed them over: "Hold it, from now on, hundreds of thousands of people in the thirteen counties of Nanyang will depend on you to protect them!"

Yang Menglong said: "Listening to what you said, I am really stressed out!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "This is not an easy official...you don't know how much painstaking efforts Mr. Sun Ge took to persuade the Holy Majesty to revoke the Nanyang Guard and replace it with Wuyang Guard!"

Yang Menglong was startled: "Mr. Sun Ge?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It is the emperor's teacher, Sun Chengzong and grandson."

Yang Menglong slapped his head: "So it's this old man!"

Wu Yong said: "Our family escorted Liu Jintang back to Beijing. After reporting the whole story to the sage, the sage was very angry at what Liu Jintang and others did. Wei, was immediately opposed by all the officials. They all said that although Nanyang Wei's military discipline is lax and its combat power is corrupt, after all, there are thousands of military households. If it is dismissed rashly, it will inevitably cause chaos. It attracted unanimous opposition from all civil and military officials, saying that you are young, and it is already a big difference to become a thousand households in a weak crown. If you are directly promoted from a thousand households to the commander of the capital in just one year, it will be counterproductive. The suspicion will be beneficial to both the adults and the court..."

Yang Menglong shouted: "I was originally the commander of the commander, okay! The commander of the Wuyang Weidu, how can I be promoted? Dare you lie to me before?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "These are two different things. In the past, the Wuyang Guard was only a little bigger than the Qianhusuo, with a maximum of [-] soldiers, but now the Wuyang Guard has five or six thousand households, and has five or six thousand soldiers. Did you say you were promoted?"

Yang Menglong was right when he thought about it, it was equivalent to being promoted from regiment commander to brigade commander.

Wu Yong continued: "Master Sun thought that all the officials were too selfish and wanted to go to Nanyang Guard to block talents in every possible way. In the end, the Holy Emperor listened to Mr. Sun Ge's suggestion and ordered the Nanyang Guard to be abolished and replaced by Wuyang Guard. Our family , he is the supervisor of Wuyang Guard."

Those Jin Yiwei smiled and said: "We will stay with Eunuch Wu and shoulder the responsibility of supervising the army."

Day, this is blatantly seeping sand into Lao Tzu's territory!Yang Menglong was secretly unhappy, but there was no other way, the system of the Ming Dynasty was like this, and it was better to be open than to be covert.He cupped his hands and said, "That's really grateful to Mr. Sun Ge for his cultivation. I must prepare a generous gift someday and thank him in person."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "There is no need to thank you, as long as you can do your duty and keep the party safe, the old man will be satisfied."

Yang Menglong nodded again and again: "Yes, yes! By the way, since my Wuyang Guard has been upgraded and the jurisdiction has expanded from three counties to thirteen counties, can I recruit more soldiers?"

Wu Yong said: "Of course. According to the establishment of Nanyang Guard, Wuyang Guard has five thousand households with a total of 5 soldiers, and one craftsman battalion... Of course, it must be very difficult to expand so many at once. Come on. The Ministry of War will allocate [-] taels of silver and [-] shi of grain as funds for opening the guard..."

Yang Menglong bulged his eyes and called out, "In order to manage one thousand households well, I spent more than 3 taels of silver in three months. Now I have to manage five thousand households, and only give me 5 taels of silver?"

Wu Yong said with a smile: "The rest of the adults can figure out their own way. Our family believes that the adults must have a way."

Yang Menglong scolded: "My god, after all, I still have to lose money!"

In any case, he has been promoted, from regiment commander to brigade commander, and he can manage 6000 troops at a young age, which is a bit of a sense of accomplishment...Leading [-] to [-] troops to kill people, It's also quite majestic.Thinking of this, he put aside the entanglement of being an official and losing money for the time being, and asked the housekeeper to slaughter a few more pigs, and threw the fat and lean meat into the pot to cook together, and peeled a lot of potatoes. When it was half-cooked, it was poured into the pot and cooked together until it was delicious. In the evening, when everyone came back from work, he solemnly announced to everyone that he had been promoted and invited everyone to dinner!Immediately, cheers resounded across the sky. The people from the former Wuyang Guard thought that the Lord had been promoted, and they had risen with the tide. They were very happy. The refugees thought that the escape of the military households in the thousand households in Nanyang was serious, and the adults wanted to form five thousand households. Those who definitely need to absorb more military households, their chances have come; even the bandits who were punished to serve hard labor in various farms are very happy, now they always have a chance to get rid of this damn hard labor and go to Wuyangwei to serve as soldiers right?In a word, everyone is very happy, regardless of whether they know each other or not, they got a big bowl of oily potato stewed pork and sat down together, talking happily, and even brought out a little old wine from their collection , everyone, you take a sip and I take a sip, let's drink it to the fullest!Yang Menglong also didn't forget the miners in the mine. He ordered people to transport thousands of catties of potatoes and two big fat pigs in a horse-drawn cart early on, and asked them to have a teeth-beating sacrifice and make up some oil and water. Needless to say, those miners must be very happy.

Yang Menglong himself stewed a sheep, killed two chickens, and asked someone to fish some river prawns from the river. He put together a table of dishes and entertained the gang of well-dressed beasts who were still lingering in the county town to discuss plans to introduce potatoes next year. As well as Lu Xiangsheng and Wu Yong who came from afar, we will be colleagues in the future, and we must establish a good relationship.Poorly stewed mutton, boiled river prawns, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, boiled chicken, stewed lamb with potatoes... every delicacy makes people's index fingers move, they are full of praise, and the spirit brewed by Yang Menglong makes them even more addicted—— ——This is purified rice wine, [-] to [-] degrees, and those cloudy wines with only a few degrees or ten degrees are incomparable to it. Even Lu Xiangsheng, who never drank much, drank several cups. His face was as red as a steamed river prawn. If he had a beard and a big knife, he would be the reincarnated Guan Gong!
The next day, Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng went for a walk by the river on horseback.I haven't seen each other for more than half a year, so I naturally have a lot to say, and these two are rare masters, so neither Wuyang Guard nor Tianxiong Army has anyone to follow... Can hurt these two in Wuyang's territory I'm afraid people haven't been born yet!Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng rode horses and walked aimlessly along the river bank, chatting about the scenery along the river, the hellish weather, the general trend, and the food in Henan and Hebei. Anyway, they talked about whatever came to mind, which was very pleasant .While chatting, I don’t know why, but the topic turned to their respective achievements.

Under the care of Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng has been going smoothly these days. His army has expanded to 9000 people, including [-] musketeers, equipped with bird guns, and these bird guns were all used by Sun Chengzong. I got it for him from the storeroom of the gun, the gun tube is made of fine iron, it is extremely fine, it can penetrate heavy armor within thirty steps, and the middle one will fall easily, the power is amazing.As for the messy muskets such as the thunderbolt and the electric gun, they were all discarded. Why make it so complicated?It’s just that the knives and guns allocated by the military battle bureau are not satisfactory. The workmanship is quite rough. Many knives are made of inferior iron and are very blunt. If you chop them several times, you will be reimbursed. The same is true for the spears, which have no steel at the tip. , the armor-piercing ability is very poor, and the spear shaft is also brittle.Sun Chengzong couldn't do anything about it, the war situation was so nasty, and the things in their hands were short and short to take advantage of it, which almost killed them.Lu Xiangsheng can only make do with these rubbish things first, try hard to raise funds, and see if he can build qualified weapons by himself.Letting his soldiers go to the battlefield with such glamorous but rubbish equipment is simply a joke!

"What about you? I heard that you led the Wuyang Guards well. You wiped out [-] bandits in one battle with just over a thousand men. Even the elder Ge highly praised you. I must have trained your troops well, right?" Lu Xiangsheng ask.

Yang Menglong shrugged and said, "I'm not as lucky as you. The military department didn't give me a tael of silver or a grain of rice. What kind of soldiers can I train? I can only say that they look good."

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help laughing: "You wiped out four thousand bandits in one battle just for showing off. If you are a good soldier, you'll be fine? Can you take me to the barracks?" To put it bluntly, he ran to Wuyang Still worried about Yang Menglong, worried that he would not be able to lead soldiers well.

Yang Menglong was very straightforward: "What's wrong with this? Let's go to the barracks!" He took the lead and ran towards the barracks. Lu Xiangsheng followed, and the two horses galloped across the field in the early morning.

(End of this chapter)