November of the twelfth year of Chongzhen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The winter solstice is coming, and the east road is full of joy, not only because this year's days are better than in previous years, but also because General Dingguo and Ji Junjiao, the righteous daughter of Confucianism in Baoanzhou, are married, which adds a bit of joy to this festival.

Ji Junjiao is the daughter of Ji Shiwei, the governor of Xuanfu Town, this is a tacit thing for everyone, of course, no one will stupidly pierce this layer of window paper.

The matter of General Dingguo is the matter of everyone, and the people of Donglu want to take this opportunity to express their hearts. On the day of marriage, it was full of guests, and it was very lively. There were officials and generals from all over the country, and even many ministers in the DPRK and China sent congratulatory gifts.

At this time, Wang Dou was in Baozhou, as a general of the East Road Division, in fact, he could flexibly control the garrison problem, move to Yongning in autumn and winter, and return to Baoan Zhou at other times. A few days after getting married, he spent a few days of warm nephrite.

Those who attended the wedding naturally included Ji Shiwei and his wife Chu, as well as his eldest son Ji Boqing and others, although they came under other names.

Seeing his daughter marrying Wang Dou with happiness on her face, Ji Shiwei was comforted and sour. The daughter of a governor can only marry Wang Dou in this way, and in front of outsiders, the daughter can only call others her father. compromised, just to pull Wang Dou into his own carriage.

However, his daughter finally got married, and Ji Shiwei also let go of a matter.

In fact, when Junjiao escaped to Baoanzhou, she was an unmarried virgin in Yunying, and she had a relationship with Wang Dou for the first time, and she openly lived together unmarried, which naturally attracted a lot of gossip. Now that she is married, she is justified, and she can be regarded as blocking the mouth of the world.

Ji Shiwei is also good, and Weng and his son-in-law happened to discuss some things.

A few days after the marriage, Wang Dou unexpectedly got the news that Li Zhenting, the governor of Baoan Prefecture, was going to be transferred to another place due to his outstanding political achievements.

He was promoted and transferred to Guide Mansion as the prefect.

As for Baoan Prefecture, it has also been changed from a civil prefecture to a military prefecture, and after a large-scale change of nationality of local households, there are no more than a few households, and there is no point in setting up civil affairs officials. After reporting to the imperial court for approval, Baoan Prefecture was renamed Baoan Zuowei, and only garrisons were set up to guard the town.

At the same time, Wang Dou also got another news from the Di newspaper, in October of this year, the Qing army attacked Ningyuan again, when Ningyuan had 10,000 soldiers, but the soldiers were timid, and no one dared to fight. Jin Guofeng, the chief military officer of Ningyuan's regimental training, was furious, and led his second son and dozens of families to fight hard with the Qing soldiers in Beishangang, and all of them were killed.

After getting the news, Wang Dou was silent for a long time, he still couldn't change Jin Guofeng's fate, and he couldn't help but feel gloomy when he remembered the situation when he intersected with him a few months ago.

As early as Yongning, although Wang Dou had reminded Jin Guofeng and made Hong Chengchou think, but time was pressing, and soon after Jin Guofeng returned to Ningyuan, the Qing soldiers entered the army. His fate can't be changed after all.

There is also a message from Hong Chengchou in the newspaper: The camps in Ningyuan are complicated, and the power is controlled by elbows, so please order military affairs to be controlled by the chief military officer. The same applies to those who are in the same city as the overseers, governors, and town guards. In view of Jin Guofeng's matter, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Hong Chengchou's request.

Perhaps, this concert will be a good thing for Wang Dou in the future.

In December, Li Zhenting left office, and there were many people who saw him off, and Wang Dou was also among them.

The carriage and horses of the Li Mansion went out of the city gate, and Li Zhenting got out of the car and said goodbye to Wang Dou and the crowd: "There is a labor to send each other, and I feel full of hospitality, and the general will stay." ”

Wang Dou took a glass of wine from the guard next to him: "Send you a thousand miles, there will be a farewell in the end, Lord Li, please drink this cup full, this trip will be smooth." ”

Li Zhenting took the wine glass, drank it all, looked back at the state city with emotion for a long time, and sighed: "Kong said Chengren, Meng said to take righteousness, what is the matter with reading the sage books, after several years in Baoanzhou, the lower officials finally understand." ”

He bowed his hand to Wang Dou and said, "General, take care." ”

Wang Dou returned the salute: "Take care, my lord." ”

Li Zhenting laughed and got into the carriage.

On the other side, Ji Junjiao and the young lady were also saying goodbye.

"Sister, I can't bear you."

Ji Junjiao held the young man's hand and cried. At this time, she was wearing a bijia, a coat and a mink fur, like a flower like jade, and the charming and glamorous light after the newlywed was even more seductive. The young lady is still wearing a dark purple gown, and the graceful charm of the young woman will not be lost to her.

Seeing Ji Junjiao like this, the young lady sighed lightly: "Sister, I can't bear you, he has a free day, I will come to Baoan Prefecture to see you." ”

In the end, the two separated, and the young lady looked at Wang Dou and saluted: "The concubine is goodbye, and the general cherishes it." ”

Wang Dou returned the salute: "Madame is precious. ”

Li Fu's carriage and horses are far away, Wang Dou is also a little reluctant, Wang Dou has a bad impression of Li Zhenting as soon as possible, although he is ambitious, he likes empty talk. However, after a few years of getting along, Wang Dou's impression of him has changed somewhat, at least he still has a heart for the country and the people, and he has also done a lot of practical things for the people, which is worthy of respect. ,

He pondered for a long time, and pondered silently in his heart: "Guide to the ...... of the Mansion"

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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the first day of September in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen.

The autumn of September is crisp, Yongning City is becoming more and more lively, from the West Street to the branch of the general's mansion on the road, came a team of carriages and horses honor guard. Seeing this guard of honor from afar, the people on the street consciously gave way. Many people even saluted the carriages and horses, with respectful expressions in their eyes.

"Madame is going to help the victims again, with General Dingguo and his wife here, it is really a Buddha of ten thousand families."

After the carriage and horses, there was constantly the heartfelt voice of the people on the street.

Soon after, the guard of honor on the bridge stopped in front of the General's Mansion, and Xie Xiuniang got off the horse.

As the wife of the imperial court and the wife of Wang Dou, Xie Xiuniang enjoyed the same pomp and honor as Wang Dou, at this time she was wearing a formal dress of a wife, wearing a golden crown, and a faint smile on her face. Surrounded by maids, that graceful aura could not be concealed.

A few months ago, Xie Xiuniang gave birth to a daughter for Wang Dou, and her figure became more plump and dignified.

She got out of the carriage and horse, her gait was not slow or hurried, and her demeanor was quite elegant. This is the result of her asking Ji Junjiao for a series of manners and manners, and practicing hard by herself. Of course, her demeanor and demeanor cannot be compared with Ji Junjiao. However, her identity and Wang Dou's feelings are incomparable, and Ji Junjiao can't compare.

After entering the mansion, the walking shogunate members saw Xie Xiuniang, and they all saluted respectfully, and Xie Xiuniang always returned the salute meticulously.

Looking at Xie Xiuniang in the past, many people in the house showed respectful expressions.

Mrs. Decree in the East Road relief victims, care for women and children, in the people have a motherly name, many people set up in the tablet, Xie Xiuniang is standing side by side with Wang Dou. For all the members of the shogunate, Mrs. Decree has a generous temperament, and all the members of the palace have received the grace of Xie Xiuniang.

For Wang Dou and Xie Xiuniang, everyone on the East Road respects them in their bones.

Entering the backyard of the mansion, Wang Dou's mother, Mrs. Zhong Shi, was talking to Ji Junjiao, Liu Qing, Liu Ji, Butterfly, and Dragonfly.

Taking into account the actual situation, in the new military discipline of the Shunxiang Army, the generals of the Shunxiang Army who are in Yongning City can move their families and distribute them to the mansion if they are at the general level and above. After marrying Ji Junjiao last year, when Wang Dou returned to Yongning City, the elder of the Wang family came with him and lived in the general's mansion.

At this time, Ji Junjiao's five daughters were all holding a child in their arms, both boys and girls. Last month, Ji Junjiao gave birth to a daughter for Wang Dou, which disappointed her, and Ji Junjiao always wanted a son. However, Wang Dou was still very happy and named his daughter Wang Sha.

Liu Qing and Liu Ji followed Wang Dou for a few years, and they also had children, Liu Ji gave birth to two sons, and Liu Qing had a son and a daughter.

Ji Junjiao was originally two personal maids, butterflies and dragonflies, and they came with Ji Junjiao to be the girls in the room, and because they gave birth to children for Wang Dou, they were all raised as concubines.

As for Xie Xiuniang's daughter born a few months ago, named Wang Wan, she is now in Zhong's arms.

In this way, Wang Dou now has a total of nine children, but the mortality rate in this era is high, so he must be carefully raised.

Seeing Zhong's, Xie Xiuniang gave a salute to Zhong's coat, Zhong was a little helpless, and said: "I said daughter-in-law, don't be so formalized in this house." ”

Xie Xiuniang said seriously: "Mother-in-law, this is not good, if you lose the etiquette and spread it, it will make people laugh at each other." ”

Zhong sighed, his daughter-in-law, for his son, can be regarded as a painstaking worker.

After Xie Xiuniang sat down, Zhong asked about it: "My grandson has been going to lecture in the martial arts hall for a few months, and I don't know if he is living hard in it, alas, there is no news coming." ”

Last year, the Lecture Hall was set up to train officers, and the children of all officers were also sent to study in the inner middle school. Military academies have strict rules and practice semi-closed education, and they are not allowed to come out when they are idle, and outsiders are not allowed to enter casually.

Although Wang Zheng is Wang Dou's son, he is no exception, and he must also implement strict teaching and training. Once the Zhong family missed his grandson and secretly took Wang Zheng back for a few days, Wang Zheng was immediately severely reprimanded by Wang Dou, so that he could be punished.

After this incident, Zhong did not dare to mention the matter of his grandson, and the generals of Dingguo were like this, and other officers were no longer worried, so they had to abide by the discipline of the military academy.

Although Xie Xiuniang is also very concerned about her son, she is a woman who centers on Wang Dou in everything, and she will do whatever Wang Dou says.

Hearing her mother-in-law say this, she said: "Xianggong said that if the jade is not cut, if the children are not strictly taught, they will grow up to become the children of the gentlemen, and lose the face of our Shunxiang army, what the Xianggong said is always reasonable, and the mother-in-law does not have to worry." ”,

Ji Junjiao hugged her daughter and laughed: "Sister, you spoil our Dingguo general too much." ”

Xie Xiuniang's eyes widened: "Sister, I don't read much, but listening to what Xianggong said, it still makes sense." ”

Zhong Shi looked at the sky and said, "It's almost noon, why doesn't the stinky boy get off work?" Waiting for him to eat. ”

"Stinky boy" is only qualified to be said by Zhong, and the word "off work" was also "invented" by Wang Dou, and in Wang Dou's system, it is a trend.

Xie Xiuniang said: "Xianggong may be worried about the famine, I have been to see those victims, it is really pitiful." ”

Ji Junjiao said: "Sister, do you want to go in the afternoon?" I'll go with you. ”

Xie Xiuniang persuaded: "Sister, you have just finished confinement, and you still have to live and recuperate, so it is inconvenient to move around." ”

Ji Junjiao said that it didn't matter, she had been confinement for almost a month, and she was so idle that she was about to panic.

Zhong sighed: "When will the disasters of Daming come to an end. ”

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"The matter of sending troops is imminent, five days after Chongyang, my Shunxiang army will send troops!"

In the hall of the General's Mansion, when Wang Dou said this, all the generals present became excited.

Yes, the Ministry of War has issued official documents one after another, and the matter of sending troops cannot be delayed any longer.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is September of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen.

In this year, a lot of things happened, first of all, Chen Xinjia, the former governor of Xuanda, finally entered the cabinet at the beginning of the year and took up the post of secretary of the military department. Originally, Wang Dou thought that after Chen Xinjia left, his father-in-law Ji Shiwei would be the governor of Xuanda, but as a result of the cabinet's deliberations, Zhang Fuzhen, the governor of Yansui, was transferred to serve as the governor of Xuanda.

This made Ji Shiwei lose for a long time.

For Wang Dou, there is another very important thing, according to his knowledge of history, starting in May, the Qing army has gradually launched a siege of Jinzhou.

In the early days, the results of the siege were limited, and when Dolgon carried out the siege plan, the soldiers and civilians in the city could still go out of the city to hunt, transport military rations, and come and go at will. This made Huang Taiji extremely dissatisfied, and demoted Dolgon to the king of the county, fined him 10,000 taels of silver, took two oxen and recorded the household, and sent Zilharang to replace him.

After the arrival of Zilharang, he set up eight camps along each side of Jinzhou City, dug long trenches five or six miles away from the city, set up battlements along the trenches, and sent soldiers to patrol and surround Yimi.

In the face of the situation of the Qing soldiers, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, figured out that the Qing soldiers were a repetition of the old tactics of the Dalinghe River, and actively responded to it. He vigorously stockpiled grain in Jinzhou, Xingshan, Ningyuan and other places, and each place had at least half a year's worth of grain and grass for the defenders.

After entering September, the Qing soldiers besieging Jinzhou reached 50,000 or 60,000 people, with two cubic battalions and two long battalions, and no less than 40 Hongyi cannons were transported. In particular, several long trenches dug around Jinzhou are deep and dense, and the structure is complex, just like the trench warfare repeated in Liaodong during the First World War.

At this time, the entire Ming Dynasty may only know that Wang Dou alone knows that in the near future, there will be a tragic battle related to the national fortunes of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In August, Xue Guoguan was indeed removed from his post and released, and he was impeached for bribery and arrested in Beijing. The Xue family has undergone a great purge, but to everyone's surprise, Xuanfu Town Huailong soldiers are prepared for Ma Guoxi but safe and sound, due to the significant civil affairs of the East Road, he has excellent performance, and was specially commended by Emperor Chongzhen.

Also in August, Yang Sichang personally entered Sichuan to supervise the war and continued to kill Zhang Xianzhong and others.

After the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong by the officers and soldiers at Agate Mountain in March this year, Yang Sichang was very happy. However, in the following months, the officers and soldiers suffered successive defeats, and Yang Sichang had to personally enter Sichuan to supervise the battle.

Shang Shu also pleaded guilty to the imperial court, but blamed the failure of the encirclement and suppression on the uselessness of the Sichuan soldiers and the Qin army's coercion. In the end, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, was dismissed and questioned, and the city was abandoned for crime, and Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, was also dismissed and succeeded by Ding Qirui.

The more at this time, the more Yang Sichang felt the distress of not having a confidant general by his side, and the more he looked forward to Wang Dou's arrival. His two generals, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, were extremely arrogant, and they were not properly deployed, and he wrote to Zuo Liangyu by himself, but he disdained them, resulting in successive failures of encirclement and suppression.

From last year to the first half of this year, due to the optimistic battle situation, Yang Sichang felt that it might be okay without Wang Dou, but now it seems that only Wang Dou has the ability to turn the tide.

He sent several times to the imperial court, asking the military department to immediately send Wang Dou to send troops, and in the face of one official document after another, Wang Dou also knew that the dispatch of troops could not be delayed any longer.

In fact, he has delayed sending troops until now for various reasons, and he also has his plans. The land of four states, the sky is high and the road is far away, from Baoan Prefecture to there are afraid that there are four or five thousand miles of roads, Shu roads, it is difficult to go to the blue sky. Not to mention logistics, it is this problem of not adapting to the water and soil, and the Shunxiang army is all northern soldiers, and when they first arrive in the south, I am afraid that there will be a huge non-combat attrition. ,

Entering Sizhou, it is also not attached to Wang Dou's strategic layout, and now it is just right to send troops, and when he arrives in Henan, Li Zicheng happens to make a large-scale disturbance there, and soon Zhang Xianzhong will also arrive. The province of Wang Dou rushed all the way to Sichuan. The Qianli Plain of Zhongzhou is also suitable for the Shunxiang Army to fight.

For the war, the Shunxiang Army has always been active, everyone wants to fight, and Wang Dou is still thinking about which generals to select to fight.

In addition, there are many civil affairs that need to be dealt with, and Wang Dou gathered all the members of the shogunate to discuss, mainly what Fang Cai Zhong said.

Yes, the famine, a large-scale famine swept the land of Daming, since the second half of last year, there has been no rain in Damingjifu, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi all over the place, thousands of dollars of rice, the people cut the bark and sawdust mixed chaff to eat, or dig the white mud in the mountains for food, look at the village, the bark is stripped away, and the hungry corpses are everywhere.

After the great drought, the locusts that fell from the sky were all gone.

Disasters do not go alone, there is a great drought in the north, and there is a great flood in the south.

In May this year, Suzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou and other prefectures poured heavy rain day and night, floods were surging, countless houses were dumped, and the bucket of rice jumped to three or four coins of silver.

With the catastrophe, there was another plague, and the people who were lucky enough not to die died again, and there were not a few people who died in the whole village, the whole town, and the whole city.

The drought and locust plague are also rampant on the east road, and the military cantons of Wang Dou rely on deep-water irrigation wells, and the drought has little impact, but the flying locusts that come from the sky have also caused heavy losses to the tuns under his rule, especially those old military households and old households.

Fortunately, in the past two years, there have been many chicken farms and duck farms opened in various places on the East Road, and the spectacle of military households driving thousands of chickens and ducks to eat locusts has made many literati talk about it.

Not only that, Wang Dou also made a shocking move, mobilizing the army and the people to eat locusts, with him taking the lead, and the officers led the officers and soldiers under their command to follow, frying, frying and roasting, and countless locusts turned into dishes into everyone's mouth.

Although some people are worried that this move will anger the "locust god", Wang Doudu has taken the lead, and the same is true of Ma Guoxi, what else do the people have to say? They followed suit, and it didn't take long for the locusts in the territory of Donglu to be eaten up by Wang Dou and others.

Not to mention, the protein content of locusts is still very high, and eating locusts for a long time makes people look even more red and strong. Cooking locusts has gradually become one of the specialties of the cities on the East Road, and there are even merchants who catch locusts everywhere and transport them for sale.

As for the plague, after the clean-up campaign in the cities of Donglu, the outbreak of the plague has lost many sources, and the Intelligence Department has obtained the "Jingyue Quanshu" from Jiangnan, which has a lot of treatment and defense for various plagues, and the medical departments of various states and cities are also the objects of Wang Dou's vigorous support, and the number of doctors has increased rapidly.

So far, there has been no plague on the territory of the East Road.

Because of this, Tai'an and Le's East Road has become a paradise for victims from all over the world, and the victims continue to pour in every day.

These victims brought heavy pressure to Wang Dou.