At noon, Chang Yu and his entourage entered Guancheng. Gao Di invited them into the General Military Mansion, while his subordinates went into the barracks to rest.
In the General Military Mansion, Chang Yu took a shower, and a banquet was prepared for Gao Di to wash away his dust.
As the name suggests, Shanhaiguan has mountains and seas, so the banquet includes both mountain and seafood delicacies.
But no wine!
"General Gao, are you a bit stingy in your hospitality?" Tu Yuan joked casually. Gao Di looked at Chang Yu at a loss. After all, the imperial court issued a ban on alcohol and the military inspections were stricter. Although he
There are no restrictions on his identity and status, but he doesn't dare to break the rules openly in front of the eunuch.
But when Tu Yuan said this again, he didn't know how to deal with it.
Chang Yu knew that Tu Yuan and others were drunkards, so he smiled calmly: "It's bitter cold outside the pass, let's have a drink to warm ourselves up."
As soon as he heard this, Gao Di quickly asked someone to serve wine. It was not a fine wine, but an ordinary Shao Dao from outside the customs, but it matched the taste of a rough military commander like Tu Yuan.
Chang Yu was naturally a teetotaler. He ate tea and rice slowly and asked Gaodi about the defense and military affairs in detail.
Gao Di is still very confident when it comes to his duties. He is confident that he can withstand the investigation. After Chang Yu came to power, he strictly inspected the internal affairs of the border army and used severe punishments for embezzlement, empty pay and other violations of laws and disciplines. Jin Yiwei and Dongchang's fan
Under the covert investigation, few people dared to go against the trend. Of course, Chang Yu passed by Shanhaiguan this time not to check the account books, let alone to investigate Gao Di's military discipline.
It depends on his performance and professional ability.
Gao Di's main business scope is defense and garrisoning at the country's gates, but now the situation is stable. Tang Tong is stationed in Ji Town, and Zu Dashou is stationed in Ningyuan outside, leaving him with nothing to do for a while.
Is that really the case?
Of course not.
There are more than two people in Shanhaiguan, and there are many bandits in the mountains.
There are no less than a dozen groups of bandits, large and small, entrenched in the mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles inside and outside the pass. The more chaotic the situation, the more rampant these bandits become. They rob homes and houses and block roads and robberies are commonplace. Even officers and soldiers dare to rob. Chang Yu once encountered it.
Chang Yu has never been merciless to bandits and robbers, but suppressing bandits has always been a troublesome task. Let alone whether you can find his den, you may not be able to defeat him if you find it, or he may escape when you come, and the vast mountains
Where are you chasing?
In addition, the gangsters in the mountains are more or less related to the external border. Some gangsters are even officers and soldiers themselves, and they are just bandits. The collusion between soldiers and bandits is quite serious, and the relationships are complicated. If you want to wipe them out in one fell swoop, that is
More difficult than ever.
However, under Chang Yu's strict orders, both Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan sent troops to the mountains to clear out the area, which caused the bandits in the mountains to put down their arrogance. The desperadoes looked for other places, and the bigger ones reached an agreement with the officers and soldiers to stay away from home.
For evil deeds, as long as passing business travelers pay toll protection fees, they are not allowed to rob money or hurt lives. Of course, half of the income must be divided between the officers and soldiers.
This kind of shameful agreement to divide the spoils could not be hidden from Chang Yu's eyes and ears, but the situation at that time made him too busy to do it, and it could be said that he was powerless. It was not until after the Ningyuan victory that he became famous and reached the peak of his power.
At that time, few people dared to violate the law. Wu Sangui of Ningyuan, Gao Di of Shanhaiguan, and Tang Tong of Jizhen began to make the suppression of bandits a top priority. After inspecting the nine borders last year, he repeatedly ordered the generals in various places to ensure the Qingming Festival within their jurisdiction.
For a time, there was a strong campaign of suppression in various places.
However, during the battle in Ningyuan, those green forest heroes in the mountains also helped, so the officers and soldiers mostly focused on recruiting them, and only those stubborn ones would be beaten to death.
Over the past year or so, the results have been obvious.
So when Gaudi talked about his achievements, he was very proud of himself. He patted his chest in front of Chang Yu and promised: There will be no thieves inside the customs and no bandits outside the customs.
Tu Yuan and Ji Jike followed Chang Yu to attend Gao Di's reception banquet at the General Military Mansion, while the soldiers under his command rested in the military camp. In the shadow of the famous tree, since the Dongchang Guards are the elite troops under the great eunuch, they are also
They were the emperor's personal guards, so they were treated well no matter where they went. Gaudi arranged for someone to serve them, feed the horses water, make a fire and cook food... He just didn't kill the chickens for the horses, but he killed five pigs, so that
The local soldiers and horses were very envious.
There was soup to drink and meat to eat on a cold day, and the soldiers were enjoying themselves greatly. They all joked about General Gao's good conduct.
But there are also people who have no interest in these delicious broths. Instead, they are fascinated by the vastness and desolation here. This person is Li Guo.
A few days ago, he and Chang Yu reached an agreement and decided to leave isolation to see the world.
What is the world has many meanings and many explanations.
But as soon as he arrived at Shanhaiguan, he knew that this was a world he had never seen before.
This is the gate of the country that the people of the Ming Dynasty call. Although the Ming Dynasty once expanded its territory to Mobei when it became the founder, this gate is the last bottom line in the hearts of the court and the people. Entering this gate is equivalent to entering the home.
Head!
The sky was gray, the mountains were gray, and the wind was howling. Li Guo and Song Xiance walked up to Guancheng with their entourage, and walked along the city wall to Lao Longtou. He had never seen the sea, and he wanted to see it.
look.
Guancheng is an important place, and ordinary people are not allowed to board it. However, the guards thought that they were from the East Factory Guards, so they did not dare to stop them. Although they saw that their clothes were different, they thought they might be with the army, so they were even more worried.
Not daring to question him anymore, he allowed them to go to the city.
The young man doesn’t know what it’s like to be sad, he falls in love with the upstairs, he falls in love with the upstairs, and he expresses his sorrow in order to compose new words...
Now that I have experienced all the sadness, I want to say goodbye, but I want to say goodbye, but I say it’s been a cold day in autumn.
Adults are always preoccupied, and their worries are always unspoken or even unspoken.
After Li Guo arrived at Guancheng, he looked around the mountains and the sea, always frowning but not saying a word.
Song Xiance, who was traveling with him, was also like this. He also had his own hardships and sorrows, but they were all unspoken.
After staying at Lao Long's head for a long time, Li Guo sighed and turned around to leave. No one knew what he was thinking and feeling.
"Hey, kid, who is it? It turns out to be a big tiger." Just when Li Guo and his party were returning from Laolongtou and about to go down to the city, they suddenly heard someone shouting. He looked up and saw a group of people walking towards them.
The two people at first pointed at him and the people behind him with mocking looks on their faces.
Li Guo didn't know these people, but they looked familiar, because these people were subordinates of the chief eunuch, yes, they were from the East Factory Guards.
Li Guo's identity was sensitive and special. Under Chang Yu's operation, he quietly left the capital and dressed up with more than ten accompanying merchants along the way. He followed the team during the day and stayed at the Liangwei camp at night. Occasionally, Chang Yu summoned him when he was camping.
He had barbecue together and chatted, and thus he met some people from the Dongchang Guards. They looked familiar but did not know their names. The only ones he really knew were Tu Yuan and Ji Jike, the two commanders of the guards.
Other than that, those who looked familiar were naturally high-ranking generals in the two guards, otherwise they wouldn't be around the great eunuch often.
The Dongchang Guards are the twenty-seventh guard of the emperor. Although they are elite soldiers, their scale is far smaller than that of the other twenty-six guards. Normally, one guard has five thousand households under its jurisdiction, and the number of troops is no less than five thousand six, and those with more will go up.
Wan has a complete set of official positions, such as commander, commander, commander, etc. It can be seen from the particularity of Dongchang Wei that it is different from the regular Wei Da. He has tigers, leopards, wolves, bears, eagles under his command.
The six battalions of Hegongziying are equivalent to the regular guard's Qianhu Station, but the general strength of Qianhu Station is thousands, but the six battalions of Dongchang Guard, except for Ji Jike's Ying and Hao Yaoqi's
Xiong, except for the strength of a thousand men, the rest are all at three hundred.
In terms of official positions, the Dongchang Guards did not have official titles such as Commander, Tongzhi, etc., but were directly under the direct control of the Dongchang. In other words, Chang Yu was the actual controller, and the commanders of each battalion all had the rank of Qianhu. Of course, these were just military ranks, like
Tu Yuan, Jia Waixiong, and Lao Jiu also had the false title of general from the fourth to the third rank.
So, the top general of the two battalions is Qianhu. In addition, each of the two battalions also has a deputy Qianhu and three hundred households. Who will be the familiar people to Li Guo? Yes, it is these two
Baihu, when he went to meet Chang Yu in the camp several times, he saw these two people staring at him not far away, and he was deeply impressed because of their obvious appearance.
Who is the deputy Qianhu of the Tiger and Eagle Battalions?