Three days later, Zu Dashou and Man Gui rushed to Ningyuan together, Man Gui almost brought all the Cangtou and Neiding, his subordinates were mixed with Hu and Han, there were Mongols and Han Chinese, which was also a very normal situation in Liaodong, and Zu Dashou also had a considerable number of Mongols in his own family. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation in Liaodong was complicated, Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty, the Houjin, the three parties fought each other, and there were also mutual cooperation, and the Mongolians had people in the pot of Houjin to eat, and there were also people in the Ming Dynasty who led the Yulu, there were many Mongolians who fell to the land of Liaodong are milk or mothers, these people's loyalty is very limited, but they can rely on their outstanding riding and archery skills to eat under the command of the generals, and there is almost no fear of accepting the Mongolians in the Jiangmen of Liaozhen.

On the way, Zu Dashou and Man Gui talked about the front station personnel with Yusheng, Man Gui has no opinion on this, he was ordered to complete the city defense of Ningyuan City, and to help the thirteen mountains Man Gui is also the commander, he is already the deputy chief soldier, only one step away from the general army, as long as it is not too angry with Sun Chengzong, it doesn't matter, it is good to have a little more help.

Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan more than 200 miles away, Ningyuan city defense is almost completed, along the way is also a large area of cultivated farmland, the farmhouse is hidden in the farmland, in Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan boundary placed about five or six hundred thousand people, plus the original residents should be close to one million, such a place has a large number of households, in the north of the Ming Dynasty is a very rare situation.

All the generals are in a hurry to divide Dingkou and the land, and Zu Dashou did not hide it from Mangui, pointing to the large area of land around the Ningyuan Acropolis and said: "Don't hide it from Brother Cangyuan," Zu Dashou said: "This piece of land of 10,000 acres is my ancestor's land." In addition, there are tens of thousands of acres in the north to Jinzhou, and there are also 10,000 acres from Shanhaiguan to Yongpingfu. ”

Man Gui snorted and said, "I know that Brother Fuyu is from the Ning Yuan family, I'm afraid there's more to it." ”

Zu Dashou smiled silently, he is talking about this now mainly to make it clear to Man Gui first, he must also have a large amount of land to attract and raise his family, and the familiar land here is not only the ancestral family, but also the other Liaoxi Jiangmen families are almost occupied, and Man Gui wants land, so he can only find a way to reclaim it by himself.

The other is the military household Dingkou, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty generals can treat the military household as a tenant farmer, Jiajing to Wanli years, especially in the Wanli period in order to solve the useless disease of the general to give the generals a lot of preferential treatment, including a large number of Shi Tian, the generals encroached on the acres of land legalized, but the generals have no way to occupy the military households, to Zhang Juzheng, all kinds of reconstruction of the law to speed up the collapse, to now the ancestral family in the western Liaoning area at least more than 100,000 acres of land, just for his family to farm for the military households there are more than 10,000 people, If it weren't for these lands and Dingkou, Zu Dashou would not be able to support those thousands of families.

While speaking, they have seen the Ningyuan Acropolis, this city was built very early, and it was rebuilt after being damaged, because of the importance of Ningyuan, when rebuilding Sun Chengzong, the cabinet supervisor, ran over several times, no general dared to fill his own pocket in the matter of building the city, so the city was built very firmly, and now the southeast of the city is being repaired here and Kuixing Tower, the city gate is wrapped in the corner platform on both sides, once the enemy can shoot arrows and fire artillery on both sides of the corner, the city gate can be protected very well, if the ants are attached to the siege of the city, It will make the besiegers unable to afford the price of a strong attack.

Although the corner platform has not been completely repaired, there are obviously many cannons placed on both sides, and they are all Hongyi cannons of the 5,000-pound level representing the highest level of Daming cast cannons.

Although the firearms casting of the Ming Dynasty went the wrong way, the battleship's naval guns were cast as fortress guns and field guns, which were almost useless except for defending the city, Houjin received the king of Sanshun and a large number of cannon casting talents in the hands of Huang Taiji, and sent an artillery team to Dolgon into the pass in order to attack the fortified city of Tongguan, and as a result, a large number of manpower was used to walk from the capital to Tongguan, and it was also on the road for several months, and the Qing court also pulled the cannon to the south of the Yangtze River in the later war, but it was of little use.

The Ningyuan City in front of him is almost completed, the city wall from the wall base to the city tower all the stones and city bricks, the city tower is still being built, the circumference is about six miles, in the interior is the scale of a large county and a small state city, compared to the large famous city that is often ten miles long or even twenty or thirty miles, the scale of Ningyuan City is of course much smaller, but considering that this is a military fortress, that is, the acropolis of the guard, its scale is not small.

"In front is Lord Yuan."

Zu Dashou found that there were a lot of people gathered outside the east gate, most of them were ragged peasants and military households, they should be in labor, just harvested at this time in the summer, and the acres were also turned over, for the time being, there was not much to do except weeding the farmland, most of the things about building Ningyuan and the corresponding forts were to draw labor from the Liao people, here is a military area, and conscription is also a kind of local tax, if Chengping is fine, of course, the government will not ask the people to contribute, but in Ningyuan, a former enemy place, The people also knew that if the city was not repaired, there would be nowhere to hide when the captives came, but no one was dissatisfied because of this, and even if they were dissatisfied, it was useless, and those with a little strength hid in Shanhaiguan during the battle of Guangning and even the battles of Shenyang and Liaoyang.

In the crowd, there was a group of guards holding honor guards, there were also some low-grade civil officials wearing green robes and blue robes and black gauze hats, and there were many small officials wearing official uniforms, and the most conspicuous thing in the crowd was a short and thin official in a red robe.

"Lord Yuan, I have always admired." Man Gui said: "Lord Yuan has a resolute temperament, I heard that during the Battle of Salhu, he was a Beijing official in the capital, and he sneaked into the battlefield on a single horse to observe the captivity, which is very admirable." ”

Zu Dashou smiled and didn't say anything, Yuan Chonghuan came to the fore mainly after the battle of Guangning, he was a firm main battle faction, and he was also a faction that resolutely advocated the construction of Ningyuan City, at the beginning Yuan Chonghuan was suppressed by Wang Zaijin, and then Sun Chengzong came over, Yuan Chonghuan of course soared.

As for the things that were said to sneak into Liaodong, Zu Dashou definitely didn't believe it, the closer he got to these big people, the more he knew the bottom, Yuan Chonghuan didn't know martial arts, the situation in Liaodong at that time was chaotic like anything, Zu Dashou had to take a large number of guards when he traveled, Jianyu's sentinels, fine work, spies, and those chaotic soldiers, bandits who fell into the grass for the bandits, there were dangers everywhere, how could Yuan Chonghuan really go to the hinterland of Liaodong to observe the enemy's situation?

Forget about this kind of thing, Zu Dashou reminded Man Gui: "Master Yuan attaches more importance to etiquette, and Brother Cangyuan must pay attention to this layer." ”

Man Gui said: "I have also heard about this matter, Master Yuan once beheaded the rude junior colonel when he was in Shanhaiguan, although he was reprimanded by Sun Gebu, but the army has been more afraid of him since then. ”

The status of civil officials is above the military generals, but civilian officials generally do not kill martial artists at will, after all, human life is critical, and if it causes dissatisfaction in the army, it will also affect the ability of civilian officials to control the army, and the Ming Dynasty is not without the tradition of mutiny, the governor of Hangzhou during the Wanli Mutiny was beaten by the rebels, and the general soldiers were forced to jump over the wall and escape by the rebels.

Yuan Chonghuan was called Yuan Manzi by the warriors in Liaoxi because of this incident, this title is on the one hand because Yuan Chonghuan is a southerner, and his official words are very non-standard, and on the other hand, he killed people to give the generals a big impact, so the generals of Liaoxi warned each other, don't anger Yuan Manzi, in case he gets up, with the current identity of Ning Qiandao, the military attache below the level may not be able to guarantee that his head is safe.

Nearly 1,000 cavalry galloped forward from the official road, there are many trees on the side of the road to bring shade and shadow, the farmland on both sides is still barren, some have been re-turned, and after a while they will be planted with sorghum or bean feed, and some land is planted with alfalfa, now the number of military horses in western Liaoning is very large, even if the imperial court has bean material supplement, it is also very nervous, alfalfa has been planted in many places, Liaoxi is no longer Liaozhen back then, now the soldiers and horses are almost all controlled by the general army, the infantry is still cannon fodder and slaves, and the cavalry is almost directly controlled by the generals, No one will dare to swallow the beans and raise the horses to be tired and thin.

The continuous dry weather made the road surface dusty a lot, the ground was also potholes, the horsemen galloped on the road carefully, most of the cavalry wore fiery red military robes, or wore red cloaks and cloaks, the cavalry at the front held a big red military flag, and the whole cavalry team was like a red angry tide, rushing straight to the city of Ningyuan.

Of course, Ningyuan City had already discovered this cavalry team, and the identity of the cavalry had already been determined, otherwise the city gate would have been warned a long time ago, and the city gate would have been closed a long time ago.

When they arrived at the place where Yuan Chonghuan was, Man Gui and Zu Dashou dismounted together, the two of them knelt together, and then clasped their fists and saluted: "The last general has seen the boss." ”

Yuan Chonghuan is only in his thirties, and he does not call him old, calling "boss" is a kind of honorific title for subordinates to Shangguan, in Daming, simply calling the other party is a close relationship, otherwise you have to add a lot of honorific titles and official titles, such as calling the governor the military gate, you can also call the old man like Man Gui and Zu Dashou.

The courtesy of the two generals was very respectful, Yuan Chonghuan showed a smile on his black face, he stretched out his hand, returned a half-bow, and then said with a smile: "The two generals, please get up." ”

"Thank you, sir."

Yuan Chonghuan said to Man Gui: "This official has received a letter from the Governor the day before yesterday, and he is very happy with the arrangement of the Supervisor. ”

It was a little difficult for Man Gui to listen to Yuan Chonghuan's Nanyin official dialect, but fortunately, Yuan Chonghuan spoke slowly, and it is estimated that he had been in the north for a long time and knew that his official dialect was not standard, so he deliberately spoke it slower.