The spring breeze blows across the fields, and the fields on both sides of the post road are fresh and tender.
The yellow sunshine, green sprouts, brown soil, white paddy fields, the outdoor scenery is bright and clear, and it is very beautiful.
Such a scenery eliminates the fatigue of many pedestrians.
The farmer in a short-clothed dressed in a straw hat hoe on the ground was attracted by the pedestrians on the road. He straightened his waist to rest, while looking at the pedestrians riding on horseback with swords and horses curiously.
There were two horses and one carriage on the post road, and the people in the car could not see them. The two men riding horses were not old. The square face in front was thin, and the one behind was a strong man. The thin man was in his early thirties, and the strong man was probably only in his twenties.
Most of the people who traveled with swords in the Ming Dynasty were literati who achieved fame and fortune. Martial people rarely traveled with weapons, but these two people did not look like literati, but rather like generals of the Wuchang court.
They are Zhu Guangyang and his cousin Zhao Hu.
The older thin man was Zhu Guangyang, and the commander of the Second Battalion of the Navy was also a person with great military power. The outfit of the two horses and one cart seemed very simple.
However, it is said that General Zhou only brought one follower from Lizhou to Wuchang last year. Zhu Guangyang felt that he was just a commander, but he could not compare with Zhou Mengxiong, so he was naturally not qualified to make him more glorious than Zhou Mengxiong's entry into Beijing.
In addition to the groom who drove the carriage, there were two women, namely Zhu Guangyang and Zhao Hu's inner men.
The official document that ordered them to come to Wuchang for training was strange, and they asked them to bring their wives here too...
At first, Zhu Guangyang felt that he sent his family to Wuchang to be hostages. After all, the new army is very important and it is said that it spent a lot of money.
But then I thought about it, and the military order only called taking a wife, not a son.
What kind of insurance can a woman do?
If you really want to be a hostage, you must have asked your son to send it.
Especially the wife of Zhao Hu’s family spent ten coins back then!
The Zhao Hu family used to be poor and poor, otherwise he would not have joined the army, and he went to sea; most of the soldiers who went to sea to make a living were not from good families, or they would not have gone there. Think about it, it would not be a matter of living a life of one ship on a thousand miles of sea water?
The soldiers under the army of Eunuch Zheng also had exiled prisoners who had committed crimes.
Zhao Hu's brother married a sister-in-law. He knew that his family could no longer afford to ask for his wife, so he followed Zheng He's fleet to see if he could make a fortune.
As a result, he was injured. After Zheng He's fleet returned from Luzon, Zhao Hu went ashore to prepare to return home.
Halfway through a county where the famine was in danger, many people fled to famine and starved to death.
Zhao Hu saw a teenage brother and sister crying on the side of the road. It turned out that his father was starving to death. Zhao Hu had no money to ask for his wife. When he saw that the little girl was pretty good, he immediately became interested and went up to help cut trees and nail the coffin, buried the old man in the soil, and distributed the dry food he carried with him to the two children. During the conversation, he learned that the family's surname was Jiang, so he proposed to marry the little girl of the Jiang family.
Zhao Hu only had ten copper coins on his body, but with his fair share of 3 inches of tongue, he might have starved to death by saying that the little sister would have been starved to death, and she would definitely be able to support her with her.
I just got myself a wife for ten cents.
This time, one of the two women brought on the carriage was Jiang Erniang, Zhao Hu's wife.
Jiang Erniang's life with Zhao Hu is of course very different from before. When Zhao Hu was in Yuezhou, he was a team leader. He had two general bannermen with more than 100 people. His fixed income was only 5 taels per month. He could get rice, cloth and other physical goods if he could not get money. The monthly income alone was equivalent to the annual income of ordinary people. He also gave him a large piece of fertile land in the Yuezhou army for free.
This time, with his old friendship with Zhang Ning and the recommendation of Monk Yao, he was directly promoted to the chief of the new army's main ship, and his military salary was immediately quadrupled.
Moreover, as a general with actual military power, you can still get some spoils when you are captured, as long as it is not too much, it is basically fine.
Zhao Hu is very glorious in front of his relatives and friends. He has heard a lot of words such as seeing promising since childhood. Even his elders praised him for being a person and understanding the rules sooner or later, it is not a thing in the pool.
The group walked slowly on the road for a few days and had arrived in Wuchang City at this time.
Zhu Guangyang took out the seal and showed it to the soldiers guarding the gate. The soldiers immediately looked at them with admiration and hurriedly asked them to trot and call people later.
After a while, three young men dressed up and rode to the city gate.
Especially the leader in the middle is very young, and she looks like a teenager. She is wearing a blue military uniform, a white middle suit, and a golden-scattered sword hanging on her waist. She is dressed very clean and tidy.
When they walked to Zhu Guangyang and Zhao Hu, the two generals were dwarfed by each other, and their appearance could not be compared with the young boy's appearance, and they suddenly seemed very vulgar.
The queen gave birth to a horse, but spoke very well, without even bent her waist, and stood up straight and said: Zhou Zhong, the commander of the palace garrison, made a special trip to welcome all the generals who came to Wuchang for training under the order of King Xiang.May I ask the two are Commander Zhu and General Zhao?
That's right.
Zhu Guangyang responded very kindly, not seemingly concerned about this young man who is not as good as the hairy young man. He also said politely that we are new to unfamiliar places, so we will be able to work for General Zhou.
Zhou Zhong didn't say much, just said: Please.
After saying that, several people got on the horse one after another.Zhu Guangyang rode his horse and walked slowly side by side with Zhou Zhong, and suddenly asked casually: Ling Zun is Zhou Butang, right?
Zhou Zhong said: Yes.
Zhu Guangyang looked dazed and praised a few more words, "What a tiger father has no dog son," he said, "Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it if he says it's nice."
No wonder this kid is just a commander at a young age. He is less than 20 years old. If it weren't for Zhou Mengxiong's son, how could he be on par with Zhu Guangyang?
Zhu Guangyang has been through many battles and has been struggling for many years.
The group walked towards Chayuan Street while talking. The location here is in the north of the Chu Palace. Now the cabinet of the Wuchang court's power center is also located inside the Beigong Gate. There are six government offices outside, which can be regarded as the political center of Wuchang. There are many officials coming and going on the street, and officials riding horses kept getting off the horse across the street, holding their fists to greet Zhou Zhong.
Although Zhou Zhong is young, he often appears in the palace gate and has many people know him.
At the entrance of a yard next to the Ministry of War, there was a plaque saying: Ming Empire Non-commissioned Officer School.This name is really strange.
Zhou Zhong pointed to the sign and said: When the navy generals who came to Wuchang everywhere, you will be trained here, but you don’t have to go today.King Xiang said that the title of our Ming Dynasty should be the Ming Empire, and Ming is the name of the country; the Empire is the system of the state, implements the system of the emperor, and commands all directions to barbarians and small states and to be prosperous and prosperous all over the world, so it is called the Empire.
Zhu Guangyang thought he was kind, and of course he was too lazy to care about this literal form, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Ming Empire, he was the first emperor, and the civil and military officials were in power, relying on the imperial examination and relations to gain power.
But because I thought it was strange, I took a few more glances.
The group walked for a while and turned from the street into an alley. They saw signs hanging at the doors of the houses in the alley, including military academy one house, two houses, etc.
Stop outside the Yishe door, a few servants in green came out to pick up the reins. Zhou Zhong said: Just hand over the carriage and horse to the servants here.The wives of the two generals were on the carriage, and they asked the wives to get off.Two generals and wives lived here in the following two months. There were gardeners, cooks, grooms, and palace maids transferred from the Chu Palace, and they didn't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Zhu Guangyang hurriedly said: Are these arranged by the King of Hunan?
Zhou Zhong said seriously: It was all explained by the King of Xiang himself, and he treated all the generals as disciples.
Zhu Guangyang said: The last generals can only fight to the battlefield to the death, and they cannot repay the kindness of King Xiang... Hey, why didn’t General Zhou get off the horse?I was so tired that I could take the lead in and sit and drink tea.
General Zhu recognized the kindness.
Zhou Zhong said in a good manner that the two of you and your family are working hard to get along, so I can't bother too much.You have a break first. There will be a welcome banquet in the palace tomorrow night. You must bring your wife to the banquet. Then you will meet the prince... By the way, you must not give gifts. The generals wear newly-delivered navy uniforms and do not bring weapons into the palace.
Zhu Guangyang's cousin Zhao Hu couldn't help but speak: Can we enter the palace to meet the saint?
Zhou Zhong said: It’s not about meeting the emperor, it’s about meeting the King of Xiang.
Zhao Hu hurriedly said: It is a great honor to meet King Xiang. I am ungrateful. I am thinking about the Face Saint, haha.
After hearing this, Zhu Guangyang breathed a sigh of relief, and was worried that Zhao Hu would say something wrong, saying anything that King Xiang was equivalent to an emperor or something like that. After all, this kid had never seen any world and had been a pawn before...
But I think I have extra worries.
Zhu Guangyang said again: We are happy to meet the King of Xiang, but we are sure to bring the Gu Nei to the palace for a banquet?I am afraid that women have no knowledge and do not understand etiquette, so they will make jokes.
Zhou Zhong frowned and said: The princess will also attend the banquet. This is a family banquet. Don’t let the prince down.
So that's it, it will be dull and dull.Zhu Guangyang said in surprise, "I really didn't expect that the prince valued us so much, so he actually recommended him to his family."
Zhou Zhong said: You don’t know that you are in Yuezhou. Recently, the prince wants civil and military officials to revive the six ancient arts and be an example for the people of the world.Both civil officials and generals must learn the skills of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, bow, horse, riding and shooting. Generals cannot only know how to kill people and do not understand elegance and dignity.Our dynasty is justified, and the world is the right thing. The prince uses martial arts to fight against rebellion. His subordinates are not the bandits who robbed their families in the green forest.Your wives are not the ladies of the village, so what jokes can they make?
Zhu Guangyang said yes, and Zhou Zhong left after he said that.
After the outsiders left, the two women got out of the car and showed up and entered the yard together.At this time, Zhao Hu said casually: If we lead troops to fight, what other six arts can we learn?
Zhu Guangyang looked at his cousin with a smile, thinking about his relationship with King Xiang, and joked: Don’t think it’s useless. In the future, the world will be determined. Isn’t we the title of marquis a noble?For kings, princes, generals, and wealthy families, they naturally need to be a show-off.
The yellow sunshine, green sprouts, brown soil, white paddy fields, the outdoor scenery is bright and clear, and it is very beautiful.
Such a scenery eliminates the fatigue of many pedestrians.
The farmer in a short-clothed dressed in a straw hat hoe on the ground was attracted by the pedestrians on the road. He straightened his waist to rest, while looking at the pedestrians riding on horseback with swords and horses curiously.
There were two horses and one carriage on the post road, and the people in the car could not see them. The two men riding horses were not old. The square face in front was thin, and the one behind was a strong man. The thin man was in his early thirties, and the strong man was probably only in his twenties.
Most of the people who traveled with swords in the Ming Dynasty were literati who achieved fame and fortune. Martial people rarely traveled with weapons, but these two people did not look like literati, but rather like generals of the Wuchang court.
They are Zhu Guangyang and his cousin Zhao Hu.
The older thin man was Zhu Guangyang, and the commander of the Second Battalion of the Navy was also a person with great military power. The outfit of the two horses and one cart seemed very simple.
However, it is said that General Zhou only brought one follower from Lizhou to Wuchang last year. Zhu Guangyang felt that he was just a commander, but he could not compare with Zhou Mengxiong, so he was naturally not qualified to make him more glorious than Zhou Mengxiong's entry into Beijing.
In addition to the groom who drove the carriage, there were two women, namely Zhu Guangyang and Zhao Hu's inner men.
The official document that ordered them to come to Wuchang for training was strange, and they asked them to bring their wives here too...
At first, Zhu Guangyang felt that he sent his family to Wuchang to be hostages. After all, the new army is very important and it is said that it spent a lot of money.
But then I thought about it, and the military order only called taking a wife, not a son.
What kind of insurance can a woman do?
If you really want to be a hostage, you must have asked your son to send it.
Especially the wife of Zhao Hu’s family spent ten coins back then!
The Zhao Hu family used to be poor and poor, otherwise he would not have joined the army, and he went to sea; most of the soldiers who went to sea to make a living were not from good families, or they would not have gone there. Think about it, it would not be a matter of living a life of one ship on a thousand miles of sea water?
The soldiers under the army of Eunuch Zheng also had exiled prisoners who had committed crimes.
Zhao Hu's brother married a sister-in-law. He knew that his family could no longer afford to ask for his wife, so he followed Zheng He's fleet to see if he could make a fortune.
As a result, he was injured. After Zheng He's fleet returned from Luzon, Zhao Hu went ashore to prepare to return home.
Halfway through a county where the famine was in danger, many people fled to famine and starved to death.
Zhao Hu saw a teenage brother and sister crying on the side of the road. It turned out that his father was starving to death. Zhao Hu had no money to ask for his wife. When he saw that the little girl was pretty good, he immediately became interested and went up to help cut trees and nail the coffin, buried the old man in the soil, and distributed the dry food he carried with him to the two children. During the conversation, he learned that the family's surname was Jiang, so he proposed to marry the little girl of the Jiang family.
Zhao Hu only had ten copper coins on his body, but with his fair share of 3 inches of tongue, he might have starved to death by saying that the little sister would have been starved to death, and she would definitely be able to support her with her.
I just got myself a wife for ten cents.
This time, one of the two women brought on the carriage was Jiang Erniang, Zhao Hu's wife.
Jiang Erniang's life with Zhao Hu is of course very different from before. When Zhao Hu was in Yuezhou, he was a team leader. He had two general bannermen with more than 100 people. His fixed income was only 5 taels per month. He could get rice, cloth and other physical goods if he could not get money. The monthly income alone was equivalent to the annual income of ordinary people. He also gave him a large piece of fertile land in the Yuezhou army for free.
This time, with his old friendship with Zhang Ning and the recommendation of Monk Yao, he was directly promoted to the chief of the new army's main ship, and his military salary was immediately quadrupled.
Moreover, as a general with actual military power, you can still get some spoils when you are captured, as long as it is not too much, it is basically fine.
Zhao Hu is very glorious in front of his relatives and friends. He has heard a lot of words such as seeing promising since childhood. Even his elders praised him for being a person and understanding the rules sooner or later, it is not a thing in the pool.
The group walked slowly on the road for a few days and had arrived in Wuchang City at this time.
Zhu Guangyang took out the seal and showed it to the soldiers guarding the gate. The soldiers immediately looked at them with admiration and hurriedly asked them to trot and call people later.
After a while, three young men dressed up and rode to the city gate.
Especially the leader in the middle is very young, and she looks like a teenager. She is wearing a blue military uniform, a white middle suit, and a golden-scattered sword hanging on her waist. She is dressed very clean and tidy.
When they walked to Zhu Guangyang and Zhao Hu, the two generals were dwarfed by each other, and their appearance could not be compared with the young boy's appearance, and they suddenly seemed very vulgar.
The queen gave birth to a horse, but spoke very well, without even bent her waist, and stood up straight and said: Zhou Zhong, the commander of the palace garrison, made a special trip to welcome all the generals who came to Wuchang for training under the order of King Xiang.May I ask the two are Commander Zhu and General Zhao?
That's right.
Zhu Guangyang responded very kindly, not seemingly concerned about this young man who is not as good as the hairy young man. He also said politely that we are new to unfamiliar places, so we will be able to work for General Zhou.
Zhou Zhong didn't say much, just said: Please.
After saying that, several people got on the horse one after another.Zhu Guangyang rode his horse and walked slowly side by side with Zhou Zhong, and suddenly asked casually: Ling Zun is Zhou Butang, right?
Zhou Zhong said: Yes.
Zhu Guangyang looked dazed and praised a few more words, "What a tiger father has no dog son," he said, "Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it if he says it's nice."
No wonder this kid is just a commander at a young age. He is less than 20 years old. If it weren't for Zhou Mengxiong's son, how could he be on par with Zhu Guangyang?
Zhu Guangyang has been through many battles and has been struggling for many years.
The group walked towards Chayuan Street while talking. The location here is in the north of the Chu Palace. Now the cabinet of the Wuchang court's power center is also located inside the Beigong Gate. There are six government offices outside, which can be regarded as the political center of Wuchang. There are many officials coming and going on the street, and officials riding horses kept getting off the horse across the street, holding their fists to greet Zhou Zhong.
Although Zhou Zhong is young, he often appears in the palace gate and has many people know him.
At the entrance of a yard next to the Ministry of War, there was a plaque saying: Ming Empire Non-commissioned Officer School.This name is really strange.
Zhou Zhong pointed to the sign and said: When the navy generals who came to Wuchang everywhere, you will be trained here, but you don’t have to go today.King Xiang said that the title of our Ming Dynasty should be the Ming Empire, and Ming is the name of the country; the Empire is the system of the state, implements the system of the emperor, and commands all directions to barbarians and small states and to be prosperous and prosperous all over the world, so it is called the Empire.
Zhu Guangyang thought he was kind, and of course he was too lazy to care about this literal form, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Ming Empire, he was the first emperor, and the civil and military officials were in power, relying on the imperial examination and relations to gain power.
But because I thought it was strange, I took a few more glances.
The group walked for a while and turned from the street into an alley. They saw signs hanging at the doors of the houses in the alley, including military academy one house, two houses, etc.
Stop outside the Yishe door, a few servants in green came out to pick up the reins. Zhou Zhong said: Just hand over the carriage and horse to the servants here.The wives of the two generals were on the carriage, and they asked the wives to get off.Two generals and wives lived here in the following two months. There were gardeners, cooks, grooms, and palace maids transferred from the Chu Palace, and they didn't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Zhu Guangyang hurriedly said: Are these arranged by the King of Hunan?
Zhou Zhong said seriously: It was all explained by the King of Xiang himself, and he treated all the generals as disciples.
Zhu Guangyang said: The last generals can only fight to the battlefield to the death, and they cannot repay the kindness of King Xiang... Hey, why didn’t General Zhou get off the horse?I was so tired that I could take the lead in and sit and drink tea.
General Zhu recognized the kindness.
Zhou Zhong said in a good manner that the two of you and your family are working hard to get along, so I can't bother too much.You have a break first. There will be a welcome banquet in the palace tomorrow night. You must bring your wife to the banquet. Then you will meet the prince... By the way, you must not give gifts. The generals wear newly-delivered navy uniforms and do not bring weapons into the palace.
Zhu Guangyang's cousin Zhao Hu couldn't help but speak: Can we enter the palace to meet the saint?
Zhou Zhong said: It’s not about meeting the emperor, it’s about meeting the King of Xiang.
Zhao Hu hurriedly said: It is a great honor to meet King Xiang. I am ungrateful. I am thinking about the Face Saint, haha.
After hearing this, Zhu Guangyang breathed a sigh of relief, and was worried that Zhao Hu would say something wrong, saying anything that King Xiang was equivalent to an emperor or something like that. After all, this kid had never seen any world and had been a pawn before...
But I think I have extra worries.
Zhu Guangyang said again: We are happy to meet the King of Xiang, but we are sure to bring the Gu Nei to the palace for a banquet?I am afraid that women have no knowledge and do not understand etiquette, so they will make jokes.
Zhou Zhong frowned and said: The princess will also attend the banquet. This is a family banquet. Don’t let the prince down.
So that's it, it will be dull and dull.Zhu Guangyang said in surprise, "I really didn't expect that the prince valued us so much, so he actually recommended him to his family."
Zhou Zhong said: You don’t know that you are in Yuezhou. Recently, the prince wants civil and military officials to revive the six ancient arts and be an example for the people of the world.Both civil officials and generals must learn the skills of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, bow, horse, riding and shooting. Generals cannot only know how to kill people and do not understand elegance and dignity.Our dynasty is justified, and the world is the right thing. The prince uses martial arts to fight against rebellion. His subordinates are not the bandits who robbed their families in the green forest.Your wives are not the ladies of the village, so what jokes can they make?
Zhu Guangyang said yes, and Zhou Zhong left after he said that.
After the outsiders left, the two women got out of the car and showed up and entered the yard together.At this time, Zhao Hu said casually: If we lead troops to fight, what other six arts can we learn?
Zhu Guangyang looked at his cousin with a smile, thinking about his relationship with King Xiang, and joked: Don’t think it’s useless. In the future, the world will be determined. Isn’t we the title of marquis a noble?For kings, princes, generals, and wealthy families, they naturally need to be a show-off.