Chapter 172: Marco Polo

Father and son are both in one guard, Qiu Gong is a strong commander, and Qiu Liangcun's so-called prestige in the army is difficult to say how much comes from his father. Moreover, Yang Hewei suffered heavy losses after the city was broken, and all the officers in the city were killed in battle, if the commander made Qiu Gong not die in battle, I am afraid that the imperial court will definitely hold him responsible.

Li Xin didn't take this to heart, and the aftermath of Yang and Wei was handed over to Mao Weizhang to handle, and as for the funerals of the fallen officers at all levels in the city, they had to wait for the will and mercy of the imperial court before they were handled.

Now Li Xin is thinking about how many talents he urgently needs in Yanghe Acropolis.

Yang and Wei are different from Zhen Yuwei, one is that this Wei is in the northeast of Datong Mansion, guarding the northbound traffic arteries of the entire Shanxi Xingdu Division, and the merchants from the middle of the Jin Dynasty need to pass through this place to go north, so the trade has reached its current scale after hundreds of years of development, but the craftsmen in the Yang and Acropolis make Li Xin salivate. Although the Tartars had broken the city that day and burned it on a large scale, after all, the time was broken, the scope was small, and the destruction was correspondingly small, and the loss of the people in the city was not as great as it seemed.

This point, Mao Weizhang has been confirmed after more than a day of investigation, and the real damage to Yan zhòng is the narrow area in the area of the North Gate. Li Xin drew up a long list and handed it to Mao Weizhang, and told him that he was in dire need of the people listed in it.

Mao Weizhang was puzzled after reading the list, how could the chief soldier need some craftsmen? Carpentry, ironworking, masonry...... Could it be that the commander-in-chief wants to build a large number of buildings and rebuild the town guards? According to his understanding, it is almost impossible to rebuild the Acropolis without financial support from the imperial court, although he has heard that Li Xin has robbed a large amount of goods from the merchants in the name of the embargo, but these things are still enough to solve the urgent situation, and it is a drop in the bucket to rebuild the Acropolis.

What's more, the current Yanghe Acropolis has one more unstable dìng factor, Qiu Liangcun. According to Mao Weizhang's previous understanding of this person, if he learned that his father was killed in battle, and the command of the entire Acropolis fell into the hands of outsiders, he would not give up, and it was impossible to incite the old department to make trouble. But this time when he came back from Datong Mansion, Qiu Liangcun was like a different person, not only did he not say a word of foul language, but instead locked himself in his home, thinking that his father was guarding the spirit, he closed the door and thanked the guests, and no one went to see him, and he didn't even take a step out of the door on weekdays.

Often when things are abnormal, there must be evil things, is Qiu Liangcun brewing some earth-shattering conspiracy by doing this, Mao Weizhang's heart is like fifteen buckets, seven up and eight down.

For this reason, he specially sent members of the post-war picket team set up by Xinjin in the guard station according to Li Xin's instructions to monitor near Qiu Liangcun's mansion, these people were personally selected by him from the military household, and they had nothing to do with the Qiu family's father and son. In the final analysis, it was he who suddenly replaced the father and son of the Qiu family in the position of the experience of the division and temporarily took charge of the huge acropolis, and the lack of confidence in his heart was faintly troubled.

In the border town guards, it is not unheard of for military attachés who hold real power to resort to force at various street entrances to clear internal obstacles, especially since the Chongzhen Dynasty, as long as there is no big chaos, the imperial court usually opens one eye and closes one eye, and is posthumously recognized.

If Qiu Liangcun makes a fuss, if Li Xin doesn't support him again, Mao Weizhang Zaiyang and Weizhong have a very shallow foundation after all, so what can he do to fight against the Qiu family, who has been operating here for nearly ten years?

Li Xin has also heard about Mao Weizhang sending people to monitor the Qiu family, but after all, it is not good to interfere too much, as long as he does not make trouble, he will turn a blind eye to it. He felt that Mao Weizhang had been under the authority for a long time, and suddenly rode to the head of the Qiu family, who had been powerful, and his spirit was too nervous and sensitive.

Therefore, he came up with the idea to set up a post-war picket team of Yanghewei in the name of the Sanwei General Military Office, which was specially responsible for the security of Yanghe Acropolis, with a number of about 500, and the number of soldiers was completely determined by him.

I believe that with the military power in hand, there should always be a little more self-confidence.

In terms of the division of functions and powers, this post-war picket subordinate to the General Military Office was nominally to maintain law and order in the city, but in fact the scope of its jurisdiction was extremely broad, and it can be said that it had great power. And Mao Weizhang's main work is also inseparable from the cooperation of this picket team, one is to appease the people who suffered losses in the battle to break the city, and the other is to search for people suspected of fornicating with Mongolian Tatars.

And a large part of the craftsmen listed in Li Xin's list are also on his list of fornicating with tartars, these people are killed or stayed, and Mao Weizhang can't be the master.

Li Xin's solution is also simple.

"Craftsmen are rare, and those craftsmen who are suspected of collaborating with the enemy will be specially organized into a team, and special personnel will be sent to supervise and educate, and those who have sincere repentance and swear to break with the past can be exempted!"

This is tantamount to giving those collaborators a chance to be new people.

Mao Weizhang didn't know why Li Xin valued these people so much, but he still wrote them down. Just as he was about to leave, suddenly an officer of the picket team came to report his work, did not dare to enter the house, and gestured directly at Mao Weizhang at the door.

Li Xin saw the anxious look of the person who came, so he called him in.

"What's the matter with such a hurry?"

That team officer was an ordinary military household before, and the largest official he had ever seen was a hundred households of the hundred households. The young general in front of him was a dignified and upright general of the three guards sent by the imperial court, how could he not be nervous, and he couldn't say a complete sentence after kneeling on the ground and stammering for a long time.

Mao Weizhang seems to have no face, the team officer he selected is so unable to get on the stage, and in private, this person is also well-founded, why did he lose the adult today! It was a reprimanded angrily: "The time of the chief soldier is precious, and he replied with a sharp answer!" ”

Li Xin still understood, this matter was really related to Naqiu Liangcun, it turned out that his family sent to monitor the team members to arrest him.

Mao Wei opened his heart and said, how about it, I really couldn't hold my breath and showed the fox's tail, this is to tear my face with him. As soon as he thought of this, he looked at Li Xin to see what his idea was, after all, the pickets were subordinate to the General Military Mansion, and Qiu Liangcun's taking the pickets was equivalent to targeting the General Military Mansion.

Li Xin's face sank suddenly, this Mao Weizhang is too irresponsible, are these civil officials a virtue? The skin of a brain melon is thinner than that of a watermelon! The timid ones weigh that they don't have a penny.

"Just follow the Yanghe Acropolis Temporary Public Security Regulations drafted before, and whoever commits a crime will be punished!"

Mao Weizhang fully understood what Li Xin meant, and took the team officer to deal with the matter.

Heisenberg led a short and dumpty man with golden curly hair into the door, and there was no need to ask, this golden curly hair must be his friend Conrad? Dr. Albert.

After the two entered the door, they knelt down on one knee and saluted, and their mouths were full of beautiful words, which were generally to thank the benevolent and brave Li Xin for saving them from fire and water.

Li Xin looked carefully at this Humpty Dumpty named Albert, unlike the handsome and tall Heisenberg, this thing looked like a greasy piece of butter, and it seemed that the experience of being a slave in the Mongols did not make him lose weight in the slightest.

At first, I heard Heisenberg say that Albert was a doctor, and I thought that his medical skills were amazing, but the first time he showed his face, he failed, and the command made Qiu Gong's life still not be saved.

Heisenberg was the first to rise and said, "My friend Dr. Albert also wishes to be able to be the retinue of the benevolent and brave General of the East, and he will be honored if he can get the general's permission!" ”

Albert straightened his fat belly and nodded in agreement: "It's an honor, it's an honor!" ”

This Albert is obviously not as good at talking as Heisenberg, looking at the two Westerners in front of him, one tall and one short, one fat and one thin, Li Xin only thinks that these two goods look like fat and thin heads.

The general military office is in the initial stage, even if Albert is a doctor with two knives, Li Xin has no reason to push people out, not to mention that in his opinion, Western surgery is much better than those in China to deal with open wounds. So, he nodded, and agreed.

Seeing that Li Xin agreed, Albert bowed again and again to show his gratitude, and said that it was his greatest honor to be able to serve Li Xin.

Heisenberg and Albert had achieved their purpose, and seeing that Li Xin seemed a little distracted, the two of them prepared to leave. Who knew that Li Xin suddenly asked: "There is a question that I haven't had time to ask you." ”

Heisenberg immediately replied: "If the general has any questions, just ask!" ”

He said this sentence in Chinese, which surprised Li Xin, it seems that this product has worked hard in private. In the battle that night, Heisenberg left a deep impression on Li Xin, he had never seen an artillery soldier who dared to rush in front of the infantry, and in his impression the artillery always hid behind the infantry and fired a few cannons to supplement the infantry's attack. And Heisenberg's method of play completely subverted Li Xin's previous impression of artillery.

At the same time, he admired Heisenberg's bravery even more, and because he worked so hard, he was even more favorable.

"How did you two end up in the hands of the Mongols?"

It was Albert who answered him, and Albert had a big belly and waved a pair of large hands covered with heavy hair.

"It was with a book that Ludwig embarked on the road to find the Far East!"

"A book? Could it be Mark? Polo? ”

Heisenberg's eyes lit up.

"Even General Lee has heard of Marco? Polo? ”

When it comes to this Italian explorer, Heisenberg feels like he's been doped. In fact, when Li Xin talked about Marco Polo, he was thinking more about a food called ham sausage, and he couldn't help smacking his lips, and the saliva secretion in his mouth suddenly increased.

I really miss the taste, even though he didn't really like it at first!