Xia Nan said: "When things go wrong, there must be demons, there is no love for no reason in the world, and there is no hate for no reason." www.biquge.info he must have his purpose in doing this, but I can't see through it. Since I could not trust him unreservedly, I did not dare to put an elite army in his hands. ”

Lin Weiye nodded: "I understand." Although in terms of ability, he is capable of this position, but it is more important to guarantee absolute control over the army, and I support you. The Marine Corps is still just an idea, and there is still a long way to go before it is officially established, and we can slowly look for other candidates. ”

This small turmoil at the dock did not affect the pace of the Qiong Navy, and they soon entered the scope of Tianjin Wei.

Tianjin is bordered by the Bohai Sea in the east, Yanshan Mountain in the north, and the Haihe River meanders into the sea through the urban area of Tianjin, adjacent to the capital and Hebei, known as the "river and sea to rush" and "the gateway of Jifu", it is the gateway of the capital, and the geographical location is very important. But the history of such an important port city is very short.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, this place was called Zhigu, and the Yuan Dynasty changed to Haijin Town, which became the transshipment center of grain transportation, and set up the Dazhigu Salt Transportation Department to manage the production and marketing of salt. In the second year of Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty (1400), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, crossed the Grand Canal and went south to compete for the throne. After Zhu Di became the emperor, in order to commemorate the "Battle of Jingyan", in the second year of Yongle (1404), he personally passed the edict "build the city and give the name Tianjin", and renamed this place Tianjin, that is, the meaning of the ferry through which the Son of Heaven passed. As a military important place, in the small Zhigu area southwest of the Sancha River estuary, Tianjin began to build a city and set up a guard, known as Tianjin Wei in history, and later added Tianjin Left Guard and Tianjin Right Guard.

After the construction of the city and the establishment of the garrison in Tianjin, it was originally only a guard post, and the commander had no administrative powers, but had a certain amount of land (castle and tuntian), a large number of people (the sergeants and military families of tuntian) and political affairs (military administration and tunzheng). With the increase of population, the development of commerce, the variety of affairs, and the occurrence of word and litigation disputes, the health office was no longer able to govern this commercial city with a mixture of military and civilian. But this is still a city dominated by guards, and those who can speak can still be guarded by the commanders, soldiers, eunuchs, etc., all of whom are involved with the army.

A large army suddenly came to Tianjin Wei, and there was no order from the military department, which alarmed the people in the city.

The commander of the Tianjin Wei sent people to inquire about the Yamen, and it was Huang Mengjia who was sent by the Qiong Navy to negotiate, and the reply was the same as that of the Dagu Fort.

“…… Pursuing the Tartars all the way to this point, the military department is in the process of dispatching it...... Please open the gates of the city for our army to settle in, and provide food and grass. ”

The people sent by Tianjin Wei were a little embarrassed, "This is not in accordance with the rules, without the order of the military department, the Acropolis cannot be entered, let alone grain and grass......"

Huang Mengjia was a little irritable, grabbed this man by the collar, lifted him up, lifted his feet off the ground, and asked viciously: "How can there be so many rules, didn't you hear us talk about beating tartars?" Tens of thousands of Tartars have crossed the border, have you ever gone out of the city to stop it? You actually have the face to say what rules......"

The man was taken aback, the fierce man in front of him was unreasonable, the good man didn't eat the loss in front of him, his eyes rolled, and he defended: "Brother is angry, I'll go and report to the commander to see if I can be accommodating." As for the grain and grass, they are all in charge of the Bingbei Road, and the grain and grass in Jizhen and Liaodong are all transported by him, and the grain and grass in Tianjin Sanwei are also allocated by him, so we can't call the shots. ”

Huang Hansheng let go of his hand and pushed it, and the man staggered back a few steps and almost fell.

"You don't need to report it, our general is the chief soldier of Qionghai Town, Pingnan Bo Xia Nan, and asked your commander to come to see him in person."

Qionghai Town has become famous in recent years, who has never heard of being a soldier and being paid, the imperial court newspaper has been announced to the world three times and twice, and the record of capturing Gao Yingxiang is even more thunderous. When this person heard this, he couldn't help but shrink his head, and hurriedly responded: "I'll go and ask the commander to come over immediately, and ask the brothers to wait." After saying that, he slipped away and left.

As soon as the shadow of the famous tree and the name of the Qiong Navy came out, the commander of Tianjin Wei couldn't sit still, and hurriedly went out of the city to negotiate in person. Xia Nan "cordially" received the commander.

The commander wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and said carefully: "The next official is Xu Zhong, the commander of Tianjin Wei, who has seen the right governor, I don't know what the matter is when you come to Tianjin Wei?" ”

Originally, the guard and the battalion were different systems, and they were not subordinate to each other, no matter how bad the guard was, no matter how bad the battalion was, it was also well water that did not interfere with river water. But in addition to the title, Xia Nan also has the title of the right governor of the Five Armies Governor's Mansion, which happens to be the official of Xu Zhong, the commander of the guard. Although by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies had been hollowed out, and most of the power had been transferred to the Ministry of War, it was still nominally the highest military institution in the country, and theoretically it was still the direct superior of the local capital guards.

Xia Nan thought to himself, multiple titles are really easy to do, and they can justifiably suppress the commander of a guard station, otherwise it will become a general army in the field to break into the garrison, and the nature is completely different. However, this commander was able to remember this title among his many identities, and quickly put himself in the right position, and he was also a delicate person, and he took the initiative to name the identity of the right governor, so it was not a loss to meet him as an official, and it was considered to save his face. The person who can pass the command of the official residence and the three products is really not too stupid.

The rules of the game in officialdom are that the sedan chair person carries the person, since the other party lowers his posture, then he can't reach out to hit the smiling person, and he has to say it well. He smiled and said: "Commander Xu is polite, this official has nothing else to do when he comes to Tianjin Wei, just to pursue the Tartars, hoping to make it convenient." ”

Xu Zhong was stunned, and subconsciously asked, "Chasing the Tartars?" Aren't the Tartars in the Shunyi area? "The communication conditions of this time and space are naturally not comparable to the old time and space, and the record of the Qiong Navy defeating Abatai in Changyi was only a few days ago, and it has not been reported to the imperial court, nor has it been transmitted to Tianjin, so Xu Zhong naturally does not know.

Xia Nan patiently explained: "That's the case, there are two forces in the Tartars, one is Azig, and the other is Abatai. In Shunyi was Azig, and Abatai went south from Cangzhou to Shandong, and we fought with him, killing thousands of Tartars, and scared him away, so we took a shortcut from the sea to Tianjin to intercept him. Tianjin is the only way for Abatai to go north, and we want to eat his army here completely, so we ......"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Zhong was so frightened that he couldn't stand steadily, and his subordinates hurriedly supported him, so that he didn't let him sit on the ground and make a fool of himself. Xu Zhong had more sweat on his forehead, and asked in disbelief: "Killed thousands of Tartars?" And to completely eat the army of Abatai? ”