Chapter 201: Shooting Tigers by Myself, Look at Sun Lang
On the second day of the twelfth lunar month in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, in the morning, Wuchang.
In the hunting winter wind, the governor of Minghuguang, who gave the country the surname Krupp Zhu Shuren, was rarely seen wearing military uniforms and armor. A well-made Japanese sword was hung on his waist, and a six-shooter revolver covered with gold was hung on his left and right sides.
, personally boarded a large river boat worth 800 materials and prepared to set sail.
A large ship of eight hundred materials is almost unnavigable in the Yellow River or Huaihe River, but in the Yangtze River, it is not a problem, and it can be used in both rivers and seas.
This big ship is also the flagship of Zhu Shuren, and is the filial piety of his younger brother Zheng Chenggong. In the waters north of the Yangtze River, the Zheng family's ship cannot be used, but just on the Yangtze River, the Zheng family's ship can still be larger than the Shen family's ship.
Fang Kongzheng and Wang Gonggong will not set off so soon for the time being. They have to wait a few more days. Firstly, they are tired from traveling long distances and need to rest. Secondly, they do not have an army on hand, so it is useless even if the commander is gone.
We have to wait for Zhu Shuren to establish a foothold around Chongqing. After ten or eight days, it will be their turn to hand over the job.
However, the Fang family will still come to the dock to practice together with Zhu Shuren's family.
The eyes of Zhu Shuren's concubines were slightly red, but they were afraid of bad luck and did not dare to cry. They just asked him to take care of himself.
Especially since Bian Yujing had only been with him for three days and was about to be separated, he felt even more resentful.
Chen Yuanyuan knew that she was embarrassed to speak, so she had to help the sisters in person and asked: "Young master, I don't know how long you will leave us sisters behind."
Zhu Shuren also made a generous promise: "Okay, it's no big deal. This time is different from the previous trips to Changsha and Kaifeng to fight. I won't leave you behind for several months.
In a few months at most, I will establish a foothold in Chongqing and send a ship to pick you up. If you are lucky, you can reunite in Chongqing to celebrate the New Year. I have already told the prince that after the liberation of Chongqing, I will temporarily move to Chongqing.
, I may not return to Huguang for a while.
If everything goes well, after the first month of next year, my brother Zuo Mi will be in charge of military preparations in Huguang, so that when I am in Chongqing, there will be a civilian official to coordinate and coordinate the military defense here."
I heard that they had only been separated for more than half a month, and the four girls had calmed down a bit and started to smile again, so Zhu Shuren didn't have to worry about his family.
Zhu Shuren hugged and comforted the girls one by one to say goodbye. He also saw that Bian Yujing was different from the other three girls. He asked his personal maid to carry a package when he went out today. He couldn't help but laugh:
"What are you doing? Could it be that I have made up my mind that if I really leave you for a few months, you want to sneak on the ship and go to Chongqing with me? You have packed your luggage."
Bian Yujing's face turned red, but he quickly retorted confidently: "How can the slave family be so hopeless and greedy for intimacy? The master doesn't want to take us with him, so he has his own reasons for not taking us. The slave family and the sisters just stay at home and stay safe.
This is not luggage, it is a set of "Historical Records", several volumes of "New/Old Tang Book", and several volumes of "New/Old History of the Five Dynasties". The Nu family knew that Sister Ziling would definitely come to see him off soon, so they made an appointment with her for an exchange
Read some books."
Since the relationship between the two parties was clarified yesterday, the relationship between Fang Ziling and the women in Zhu Shuren's family has become slightly more harmonious. Especially with Bian Yujing, they have naturally formed a tacit understanding of reading history and criticizing together, and the results have been immediate.
Zhu Shuren was puzzled: "You are looking down on Zi Ling too much. She has read many poems and books, definitely more than you. Do you still want to lend her these books?"
Bian Yujing: "It's for exchange! It's not for borrowing!"
Zhu Shuren: “What’s the point of that?”
Bian Yujing: "Of course there is. My book has my own casual comments and annotations. Sister Zi Ling's book also has her notes and annotations. Only by reading them interchangeably can you know how different the interpretations of each other are.
"More is better than less."
Zhu Shuren was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
People in the Ming and Qing Dynasties also liked to write comments and commentaries between the lines of printed text when reading. "A Dream of Red Mansions" has a Zhi Yanzhai version, and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has a Mao version by Mao Zonggang. In earlier times,
"Three Kingdoms" and Pei's Notes are all based on this principle.
It was not uncommon at that time for a well-educated woman in her boudoir to alternately post book reviews and barrages among her besties.
Wu Shufu, a literati from Hangzhou during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, had two marriages and had three wives. Every time a new wife came in and packed up the belongings of her husband's deceased wife, she would find a book called "Peony" filled with book reviews.
pavilion",
Then the bride continued to read the works left by her predecessors, continued to post book reviews, and communicated with old friends who had passed away, forming an annotated version of "The Peony Pavilion", which is historically known as "The Three Wives of the Wu Family Commentary on the Peony Pavilion".
Zhu Shuren's era was, of course, several decades earlier than Wu Shufu's. It is estimated that in this life, there will be a lot of "Fang Bian He Ping XXX" left in the future. Maybe it will not only be limited to history books, but also female-channeled romance dramas.
Publish a bunch of review books and complain about each other.
It seems that women have some common interests and hobbies, which is also helpful for the harmony of the harem. They all complain about the bad things written by the ancients, so they don’t have so much energy to be jealous.
This kind of hobby can be encouraged and cultivated, and conditions must be created for them to toss around, so that they will not plot against their husbands every day.
Zhu Shuren thought to himself.
He was distracted, but soon the Fang family and the prince and his father-in-law also came to practice. Zhu Shuren also hurriedly went up to see the ceremony. There was no need to mention the details.
Fang Ziling couldn't help but say some personal words to him, asking him to take care of himself.
Finally, he asked the maid next to him and Bian Yujing's maid to hand over a book with one hand and another like a club, and then secretly dispersed.
Zhu Shuren had already set sail and was watching the transaction between the two women on the shore on the deck. He was also filled with emotion: In this world, women read books, comment on the ancients, and behave like thieves. From now on, the Shen family has established rules, and these things are all clear.
Just come or not.
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After the fleet sets sail, it slowly moves upstream, which can take about one or two hundred miles a day. In winter, the Yangtze River has less water and a slower flow rate, so traveling upstream is not as troublesome as in summer and autumn.
Calculating the itinerary, we can reach Jiangling on the sixth day of the lunar month, Yiling on the seventh day of the lunar month, and then enter the Three Gorges. As the flow speed increases, the journey will be slower. The 600 miles from Yiling to Fengjie only takes six or seven days to travel.
It would be good if we could reach Baidi City before half of the twelfth lunar month.
On the flagship, Zhu Shuren was idle and bored every day. Apart from studying in the cabin, he would go out of the cabin to patrol around, talk to the soldiers, or set up arrow stacks on the deck, practice archery, and cultivate his character.
Liu Guoneng and Yuan Shizhong also sailed in the same boat with him.
Although Liu Guoneng has been following Zhu Shuren for two years, he has never fought under the direct command of Zhu Shuren before. He always formed his own army and responded to changes. Therefore, his daily life style of his immediate boss does not count.
Too understanding.
In Liu Guoneng's stereotype, although Zhu Shuren was well versed in strategy, commanded decisively, and could predict the enemy thousands of miles away, he was probably a Confucian general. After all, he was a disciple of Mr. Wumeicun, a two-time Jinshi, and a famous scholar in the world.
In the end, he saw Zhu Shuren shooting arrows on the deck in person, and his shooting skills were not bad at all, which really refreshed Liu Guoneng's knowledge.
Yuan Shizhong was even more cautious, fearing that his experience as a thief would be looked down upon. This time, Mr. Futai was so sincere and was on the same boat with them without worrying about their emotional instability. This really made Yuan Shizhong burst into tears.
It made him even more nervous. He always wanted to perform well and was afraid that his subordinates would behave incorrectly and reveal their thief habits.
After a few days, everyone gradually became familiar with each other and the atmosphere gradually relaxed.
It was already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the fleet had just passed Yiling and was going to Zigui through the Xiling Gorge.
The river gradually became narrower and more rapid, making it difficult for ships to move forward relying on their own oar power and wind power.
Fortunately, the army was also prepared and organized a sufficient number of civilians in advance to tie thick hemp ropes to the foremast and bow girder of the ship, allowing the trackers to pull the fiber through.
In fact, since ancient times, the three counties of Yiling County, Zigui County, and Wu County have existed, and the population has obviously exceeded the scale that the local cultivated land can support. An important reason is that a large part of the local people will spend time in the leisure time.
He also works part-time as a tracker.
Earn some hard-earned money from passing business travelers, drag a boat for dozens of miles through the canyon, and get one or two buckets of coarse grains, and you can survive for several days.
But now the people in Zigui County are not living on this land originally, at least they are not living on this land a year ago, but Zhang Huangyan just organized immigrants a month ago.
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There is no other reason. Originally, the people of Zigui and Wuxian County were devoured to the bone and marrow sucked out during the period when Zhang Xianzhong was entrenched here and were extremely short of food.
Either they were thieves and served as soldiers for Zhang Xianzhong and barely managed to survive. Those who refused to become soldiers or had no physical strength and were not qualified to be soldiers would have been wiped out long ago.
When Zhang Huangyan regained this place, what he got was almost an uninhabited land. In order to draw fiber for the incoming army, he had to immigrate in advance.
Fortunately, Zhang Huangyan's internal affairs skills are not bad, and he has done a solid job in household registration rectification. In addition, the Jingzhou Prefecture he took over before is one of the few prefectures in Huguang that has not been destroyed by military disasters. After all, it was the place where Fang Kongzhen originally lived when he was the governor of Huguang.
The area is densely populated, and some are landless farmers.
Zhang Huangyan gave priority to the immigrants who were landless and poor peasants, and mainly used incentives to induce voluntary immigrants. He promised that they would be given military rations for a few months when they came, and the government would support them until the famine ended next year. During this period, they only had to help with fiber-drawing.
In the spring of next year, you can still freely cultivate the fields left by local residents, and the government will re-register and recognize the land rights.
With these two preferential conditions, tens of thousands of people were attracted in a short period of time, and their families dispersed to live in Zigui and Wu counties.
At this moment, looking at these skinny trackers, Zhu Shuren felt a little embarrassed.
So he ordered the soldiers to unload their equipment and leave it on the ship while the ship was approaching the shore and tying the ropes. Except for the sailors, all other horse and infantry soldiers got off the ship and climbed the mountains and walked along the bank of the Yangtze River. The horses could be pulled down and walked.
, also just like a horse.
After everyone has disembarked, the boat will be lighter by half, making it easier to pull fibers.
This move moved Liu Guoneng and Yuan Shizhong who were accompanying him.
Both of them were moved to tears: "Your Majesty, you really love the people like your own children. If all the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were like you, how could there be any thieves?"
Zhu Shuren didn't take it seriously: "What's the point? I can still ride on horseback, but those infantry soldiers have to work hard. They have ridden on so many sky boats, horse racing and exercised their muscles. It's all good."
We are tired of shooting arrows on the boat, so we go ashore to shoot some wild beasts to refresh ourselves. The mountains will soon be closed by heavy snow, and the wild beasts will definitely jump over the wall if they cannot find food. Maybe they will still dare to charge when they see a large group of people.
come out.
Anyway, those wild beasts that will rush out will definitely starve to death in this winter, so it would be a mercy to let them recycle the waste so as not to starve and gain weight before they die."
Liu Guoneng was impressed: "Your Excellency is both civilized and military, so adept at martial arts, this is really the only time I have seen in my life. I have been dealing with the civil servants of the imperial court for so many years, and there is no one like you... What is this called? I am drunk and brave, but I am still brave."
Shoot the tiger yourself and watch Sun Lang?"
Zhu Shuren was surprised: "Young? Old Liu, do you know how to draw prose? You also know the poems of Dongpo layman."
Liu Guoneng laughed awkwardly: "My incompetent brat, when I was studying with Mr. Meicun in Nanjing, he wrote a letter home report for me. He wrote these few sentences. I thought it was impressive, so I forcibly wrote it down. I really don't know about the rest.
I know a few words. It is said that Mr. Dongpo also had the world in his heart, but he was reduced to a regiment training in Huangzhou, which coincides with the place where you started."
Zhu Shuren smiled and praised a few words, saying to himself that Liu Guoneng was really spending a lot of money if he wanted to change his humble background.
You can rest assured if you use this kind of person.