When he saw Dong Ce, his eyes lit up, he got up, looked up and down, and praised: "What a big man!" ”

Dong Ce didn't dare to slack off, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The lower official has seen the garrison, and the lower official is late, please punish the lord." ”

Behind him, Shi Jin and the others also knelt down one after another.

"Eh, what is the sin, what is the sin?"

Hou Jiawei smiled and helped Dong Ce up with his own hands.

Dong Ce hurriedly made a flattered expression, and said that he didn't dare. This also makes Dong Ce a little puzzled, with Hou Jiawei's status and status, Fang Cai's behavior can already be called a broken knot, and it can even be said to be very popular, he just made this little merit, is it worth him to do this?

If it were someone else in this era, a military household who was an ordinary military household a few months ago, but now he is being treated so politely by the garrison, he must be grateful in his heart, but for Dong Ce, there is no such thought.

Xu Rujian just smiled faintly when he looked at it on the side, but there was a heavy sarcasm in his eyes.

"These are good men too! Hehe, Dong Baihu, your method of training soldiers is not bad, you can train your subordinates like tigers and wolves! Hou Jiawei saw several soldiers behind Dong Ce who were wearing iron armor and holding sharp weapons in their hands, and praised loudly.

"The lower official is lucky, it's just a fluke, the adults praise it falsely, and I dare not be the "One", "Ben", and "Read" novels YBDU." Dong Ce hurriedly humbled himself.

"Let's go, let's go in and talk." Hou Jiawei took Dong Ce's hand and entered the hall very closely.

It's just that the closer he became, the more bottomless Dong Ce's heart became, and his careful cold observation suddenly made him find out that something was wrong - Hou Jiawei's face was certainly a ball of harmony, but Dong Ce clearly saw a trace of extreme contempt and disdain in his eyes. Even this emotion contains a faint hatred.

This immediately made Dong Ce vigilant.

"Why does he hate me?" Dong Ce thought secretly in his heart. But I can't figure it out, it stands to reason that I have made such a great achievement, and everyone follows the light to take benefits, and gratitude can't be said, at least it shouldn't be hate.

When they arrived at the hall, they sat down separately, and after a few more gossip, the banquet began.

The price of the dishes is generally up, and the luxury is beyond Dong Ce's expectations.

Shanxi Henan ground is famous for the water eight treasures and Lu Bazhen is not bad, all are in the column, all with extremely exquisite blue and white porcelain plates, just this container is worth a lot of money, and then transported from the south of the Yangtze River to this side of the north, it is several times higher than more. Those little maids who served the food were also clear-eyed and well-dressed, and there were two little maids who were only thirteen or fourteen years old, both of whom were quite beautiful, standing behind Hou Jiawei and serving.

One of the most brilliant dishes is a large carp of the Yellow River, which is more than two feet long, with a tray of blue and white seabed and entwined lotus branches. Of course, Dong Ce is more concerned about how this fish is transported, you must know that the nearest section of the Yellow River is more than 300 miles away from the northern border of the Jin Dynasty! It will take two days to arrive.

Hou Jiawei is obviously also a very discerning figure, Dong Ce's gaze stopped on the carp for a moment, and he found it. He laughed and said: "The love of this official's life is this mouthful of garlic popping the Yellow River carp, there are a few people in the family all the year round on the Yellow River, some fishermen caught a big carp and bought it, loaded it with a water bladder, filled with ice cubes in the water bladder, and stuffed with cotton outside the water bladder to prevent cold air leakage and prevent bumps. Then he was sent to Zhenqiang Fort on a fast horse, and the fish was still alive. ”

He took a bite of the fish and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully for a while, Fang Zi sighed comfortably, and said with a somewhat intoxicated smile: "It's still the best time to be fresh, if this fish dies, it can't be eaten!" ”

He gestured to Dong Ce very enthusiastically: "Dong Baihu, you can also taste it." ”

"Yes." When Dong Ce arrived, he stretched out his chopsticks and put them in his mouth. The fish is tender with a hint of toughness, and it is really well cooked, and a burst of deliciousness flows on the tip of the tongue.

"How?" Xu Rujian said with a smile: "There are a few chefs specially invited from the capital in the garrison's family, and that skill is well-known in the Northland. ”

Hou Jiawei was also smiling, and he couldn't see that he and Xu Ruwei were now fighting openly and secretly, or even like fire and water.

"Excellent, it's really a delicacy that Xia Guan has never tasted." Dong Ce sighed, with a smile on his face, and praised repeatedly.

Hou Jiawei suddenly felt a light on his face, laughed, and ordered to go down, and the dishes came up like water. In the Ming season, the phenomenon of everyone gathering around a table to eat also began to appear, but among the high-ranking officials and nobles, it is mainly divided between the top officials and nobles, each person has a small table, and it is okay to sit on the ground and kneel, or to sit cross-legged. Soon, the small table in front of the individual was already piled up.

Dong Ce smiled on his face, but the disgust and annoyance in his heart became more and more severe, and he was almost irrepressible.

Look at these dishes, all of them are precious ingredients, exquisite materials, exquisite cooking, today's table, there is no one hundred and eighty taels of silver can definitely not beat. Look at those little maids, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and satin ayaluo. Look at this hall again, the blue bricks are all over the floor, the tables and chairs are all mahogany, pear and small leaves of red sandalwood, the pillars are tall and elegant, the two walls are calligraphy and paintings, and the screen behind them is all precious, and the cost is not known geometry!

The mansion outside is even more deep in the courtyard, I don't know how many, slaves and miscellaneous servants, hundreds of groups. Outside, outside the Qiangbao of this town, in Shilipu, in Dasunzhuang, there are thousands of acres of fields belonging to Hou Jiawei's name, countless livestock, and hundreds of tenants.

And it is also outside this town of Qiang Fort, the soldiers below are still starving, and the fixed monthly salary is only less than 30% of the variegated silver, which cannot be supplied to support the family at all. The fields that had been given by the imperial court and had been passed down from generation to generation had been embezzled by these officers, and they had also become tenant serfs. These poor military families even have to rely on their wives and daughters to **** to barely survive.

This is just a small garrison, just Datong Town, there are seventy-two town guards, and there are seventy-two garrison officers. Looking at the entire nine sides of thousands of miles, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many.

With these stupid worms here, what can you do about it?

The people brought the wine again, it was the best Shanxi Fenjiu, an ordinary jar, which looked very rustic, even shabby, but as soon as the mud seal was opened, it was full of mellow fragrance, obviously I don't know how many years of good wine it has been cellared for.

This wine is also very valuable.

Wang Hun, Shi Jin and others are all good drinkers, and when they see it, they can't walk, they eat meat and drink wine in a big bowl, and they are very happy. Most of this wine went into the dregs of these people.

Hou Jiawei was not rude, he just looked at it with a smile and greeted: "Carry three more jars of wine, and Dong Baihu will bring them when he leaves." ”

Dong Ce got up gratefully and thanked him, and shouted at Wang Hun with a cold face: "You rammer, why don't you hurry up and thank you?" Just know how to drink! ”

Others are eating a lot, but Dong Ce doesn't eat much, he just feels that these delicacies are difficult to eat, and the taste is the same as chewing wax.

The imperial court imposed heavy taxes, and I don't know how many peasant families were ruined before squeezing out this little military salary and allowing it to be given to Jiubian, and I don't know how many military families could not survive and starved to death. All the food is the fat of the people, and the blood of the soldiers is drunk!

He is not a saint, nor is he a hypocrite full of benevolence and morality, but he also has his own bottom line to stick to.

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

Hou Jiawei suddenly looked at Dong Ce and said, "You are now a hundred households, right?" ”

"Yes! Just got lucky. Dong Ce said respectfully.

"What fluke?" Hou Jiawei was a little disapproving: "You killed more than a dozen Jiannu, this is a great achievement that has not been seen for many years!" According to the rules, you should have been promoted three levels in a row, but you are still young, and it is not good to be over-promoted, so you are pressurized. ”

Dong Ce said: "This is a great love for the lower officials. ”

"I heard that this officer is a team officer?" Hou Jiawei shook his head: "It's not proper, it's not proper, according to your rank of a hundred households, the team officer can do it." ”

He stared at Dong Ce and said slowly: "If you come to me, this official will give you a boss!" ”

Dong Ce's heart beat violently, and a voice echoed in his heart: "It's here!" Here it comes! ”

Today's closeness to Hou Jiawei made him a little uncomfortable, and he felt uneasy from the bottom of his heart. Why? Why? Why did he do it? What kind of purpose does he have?

Now the answer is out - he's going to woo himself! But what is there to win over yourself? What is his purpose for this?

Xu Ruwei frowned and glanced at Hou Jiawei, and then looked at Dong Ce, who was expressionless, and his brows tightened.

At this moment, Dong Ce was almost moved.

Since about the Zhengde Dynasty, the establishment of the Ming army has gradually transformed from the guard system to the battalion sentry system, and the establishment of the infantry and cavalry armies in various places is complex and not very unified. For example, during the Wanli period, the army under the command of Qi Jiguang, who guarded Jizhen Town, had a team of 12 people, with a team leader, and four teams as a sentry and a long post; The four sentinels are officials, and the officials have sentinel officers; The four officials are the total, and there is always a total. In the year of the Apocalypse, Xu Guangqi listed the army establishment in the "Art of War" as a team of five people, twenty-five people as a team, five teams as sentinels, five outposts as departments, and five departments as battalions. It can also be seen from this that although the details are different and slightly different in various parts of the country, they are still roughly the same as the establishment of battalions, headquarters, sentinels, teams, and services.

The nine sides are not quite the same as other realms, generally speaking, ten people are the first, and the inner one is long; Fifty people are a team, with one management team and one post team, with the team officer as the main team officer and the team officer as the auxiliary; 500 people are the general, and there are two generals, each of which is in charge of five teams; In short, there are thousands of generals, and there are thousands of soldiers and horses under him; Further up, there were 3,000 people in the battalion, and the battalion had a staff member.

This Hou Jiawei has jurisdiction over more than 1,000 people in Zhenqiang Fort, which is actually equivalent to a thousand generals.