Nanming Engineer

Chapter 122 Triumph
Wang Huan led thousands of people, suppressed hundreds of captives, and brought a cart full of Niaotong weapons, rumbling back to the Longevity Valley. The news spread that the soldiers and civilians staying in the valley were led by Ma Chongming. , happily gathered at Taniguchi Pass to welcome them with gongs and drums.

Groups of soldiers wearing the mandarin duck battle uniforms of the Ming army and tied up in a string passed through the people of the Longevity Valley who were onlookers. If Zhuang tried his best to stop him, many people would rush forward to punch and kick him, shouting and cursing.The refugees hated the officers and soldiers to the bone. The reason why they left their homes and fled to Shizhu was not because they were afraid of the bandits, but because they were afraid of the officers and soldiers.

The folks carrying bamboo spears and wooden sticks followed closely behind, and the people immediately burst into cheers and applauded warmly. They stretched their necks to look for the figure of their own man among them, and couldn't help waving and laughing. He also held his head up and straightened his chest, keeping his reserved eyes straight, and happily followed the queue into the closed door.

Originally a farmer who plowed the fields, after this battle, he became a hero who defended his home and land. In exchange for countless eager eyes and admiring welcome, a strong sense of pride burst, a kind of "I sprinkled my blood for my homeland" Feelings arose spontaneously, and in the hearts of the people, the awareness that Wanshou Valley was their eternal home became stronger and stronger.

The last ones were Wang Huan and other generals on horseback and 150 white-robed soldiers who followed on foot. Among the soldiers, [-] veterans brought by Ma Xintian from Shizhu were at the forefront.

These soldiers are different from the previous civilians. They walk in a uniform pace, and they step on the ground like a person. The strict discipline formed by the strict queue training makes the troops of the standard battalion line up and stand upright. This is still the case during the march. As soon as they appeared, the cheers of the people at the pass immediately increased by dozens of decibels.

"My lord, my lord is mighty!"

"My lord Wang wins!"

The cheers reached a climax, and countless people pushed forward desperately, sticking their heads from the shoulders and gaps of the sweaty and desperately blocking the strong people, just to let Mr. Wang on the horse hear their shouts.

Wang Huan, Zu Bian, and Ma Xintian clasped their hands together and smiled, responding to the enthusiasm of the common people. The soldiers who followed immediately showed a gap. The fifty veterans in the front row still kept their eyes and heads tilted. They walked their own way, turning a blind eye to the lively scene of gongs and drums, while the centurion in the back row looked around a little, grinning, and secretly glared at the pretty girls and daughters-in-law in the crowd. Eyebrow winking, although the queue is still maintained, but the solemn military appearance is completely gone.

Sure enough, the training can't achieve the goal in just one month. To become a qualified white-armed soldier, you have to practice hard. Wang Huan quietly took a panoramic view of this scene and thought secretly in his heart.

Ma Chongming was obviously moved by this welcome ceremony, and even made an incense table with a variety of fruits. A dozen old men with white beards who were trembling as they walked, led the boy, and brought a plate of fruit and wine to meet Wang Huan at the gate. I bowed, which made Wang Huan very embarrassed. He kept shouting that he didn't dare to act, and he got off his horse as a gesture of kindness, supported the old men with both hands, and drank the wine in the cup heroically. The people were moved to tears by the harmonious scene. Shouting loudly, "Master Wang can afford it!" "Master Wang is worthy of being the protector of the Longevity Valley!" pushed the whole welcome ceremony to a climax.

The noisy ceremony lasted for nearly an hour, and it didn't end until Wang Huan poured five or six cups of rice wine. The villagers dispersed, found their families and went back to each house happily, and Xu Tiezhu went from house to house for those who died Wang Huan wanted to come to the door in person, but he was so troubled by everything that he couldn't leave, so he had to issue an order that from now on, the deceased in the Longevity Valley, regardless of their origin, would give each family member 50 taels of silver as a pension. For the survivors, the Wanshou City Government Office will give a fixed amount of food subsidies every month. If the family members are too busy with the field work at home, they can apply for help from the chief security chief of Jia, and Baojia must organize people to come to support them.

This is the first decree of Longevity Valley that involves forming an army. Xu Tiezhu engraved it on a huge stone tablet according to Wang Huan's intention, and placed it at the gate of Longevity City for the common people to watch.

Wang Huan didn't have time to ask about the commotion caused by the stele. He had more important things to do.

On the day he came back, without even washing his face, Wang Huan called all his bosses for a meeting.

Now his subordinates who can be used include Ma Xintian, Ma Wannian, Ma Chongming, Zhou Cheng, etc., Xu Tiezhu and Chen Xiang, who have survived thousands of miles and are extremely firm in their will. Not to mention his loyalty. These days, Xu Tiezhu has shown some signs of civil affairs, showing his potential in management. Given time, he will definitely become a figure like Li Shanchang.As for Chen Xiang, Wang Huan's idea is to let him develop in the direction of the special agent Jin Yiwei.

These people constitute Wang Huan's small circle. Some of them are good at fighting, some are good at business, and some are good at management. Although they are not necessarily outstanding in ability, they either admire Wang Huan sincerely, or are closely tied to Wang Huan's interests. Together, they become a body that shares weal and woe, and Radu cannot be separated. They are absolutely loyal to Wang Huan, and they are objects that can be relied on.

None of them got official titles, and even Wang Huan didn't have any decent status. He was just a counselor under the Ministry of Consolation, and they were not even counted as officials, let alone them, and they would not have any promises, but these people felt that Following Wang Huan, he was motivated, motivated, and willing to work hard under the young man's hand towards the glorious future that no one said but seemed to hang high in the sky.

In the meeting hall of the Wanshou City official office, Wang Huan sat in the middle, and everyone sat on the left and right.

"Zeng Ying will not let it go, and will definitely make a comeback in the near future!" Wang Huan said at the beginning, playing a tune.

Ma Xintian nodded in agreement, and said calmly: "My lord is right. I met Zeng Ying when I was with Zongbing Qin. This man is the most narrow-minded. He has always been the only one who bullies others. No one can bully him. If he suffers Last year, he seized Chongqing Mansion and Kuizhou Mansion. A few remaining generals of the former governor Chen Shiqi wanted to take advantage of the fact that they were soldiers from central Shu, occupy several remote counties of Kuizhou Mansion, and kill them. Zeng Ying sent a county magistrate and drove away the rest. Zeng Ying was so angry that he ignored Zhang Xianzhong. Letting it go, it shows how arrogant and unscrupulous this person is."

"But this man also has some skills." Ma Wannian said, "I heard from my grandmother that Zeng Ying, the commander-in-chief of the towns in the Hongguang Dynasty, was capable of fighting. Military horses, but the soldiers are divided into three classes. The first class is his family's personal soldiers, who are paid more than double the fixed salary of the imperial court. Only [-]% of the salary is paid. Although the soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers don’t get much, they are better than none, and Zeng Ying never owes salary, so his team is very effective and can drive Zhang Xianzhong from Eastern Sichuan.”

Ma Chongming rubbed his fat face and said: "Actually, I heard from merchants in the Chongqing government that Zeng Ying's food and salary were basically never paid by the court, and he got them all by himself. I don't know how this man fought. He got money. However, his ability is extremely great, not to mention collecting food and taxation for the land he laid down, the most vicious thing is fabricating crimes, recruiting wealthy households, first arresting the children of rich and wealthy families in the territory, and forcing their families to pay for people If you don’t give money, you will be killed, and another one will be arrested and forced to continue until the family has no money. The methods are outrageous!"

Wang Huan nodded and said, "I've heard about this. Old man Zhang, a leather goods dealer who defected from Chongqing Mansion a few days ago, broke his family like this."

Ma Chongming had a look of regret on his face and gritted his teeth with empathy: "Zeng Ying was outraged by what he did. People gave him the nickname "Zeng Pei". We businessmen all changed our minds after hearing this. Old man Zhang, such an honest businessman, was forced to raise his family. Fleeing abroad shows the poison of this person."

He is also a wealthy businessman with a lot of money, and what he fears most is that the people in power will think of him as a fat sheep, slaughter him, eat his meat and drink his blood, so he hates Zeng Ying and Liu Zei for the power that preys on the rich.

Wang Huan glanced at him secretly, and said to himself that fortunately, I am not short of money as a time traveler, otherwise it would be hard to say whether I would follow Zeng Ying's example of beating local tyrants to divide the land and fighting landlords to rob property.

However, Wang Huan knew very well that Zeng Ying's behavior could indeed accumulate a large amount of wealth in a short period of time, enough to pull up a powerful army, but it could not last long, and sooner or later he would play with fire and set himself on fire.

Because Chinese society in this era is still in the historical period when the big landlord class occupies a dominant position. To openly stand against the big and small landlords in the world is to die. Looking at the change of dynasty in the feudal period, the pure peasant army finally sat on the dragon chair Li Zicheng was the closest to success, but he was also driven out of Beijing by the landlord class and the Manchu Qing army.

Wang Huan would not make such a mistake.

(End of this chapter)