Chapter 1602: Recruiting troops in Yiwu (1)
“I didn’t understand why the young master came to Yiwu to recruit troops before, but now I understand. The Yiwu people are really frightened and fierce, and they have progress in fighting. No retreat , Don’t worry about your life, if you recruit them into the Zhejiang Army, they will definitely be extremely brave in fighting.”
Liu Dadao couldn’t help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva as he looked at the bloody and bloody scene below. .
Looking at the bloody fighting scene below, Zhu Pingan suddenly felt a fire of ignorance igniting in his heart!
Such a brave and good man, the father and brother who supported the family, died in a fight!
What a waste of natural resources!
It’s really not worth it!
Fighting in the same room, killing each other, and dying in vain, is worthless and meaningless! sad! What a shame! exasperating!
"Let's go, eat and hit the road, go straight to the Yiwu County Government, visit the local magistrate, post a notice, and start recruiting!"
Zhu Pingan took a deep breath, calmed down, and said Liu Dadao and others said goodbye and left first.
Liu Dadao and others followed closely.
The group returned to the tea stall, ate the mutton soup and pancakes in a hurry, said goodbye to the boss and his family, got on their horses and headed straight for Yiwu County.
Yiwu County is a city with age and traces of time. It has gray-black city walls, peeling wall coverings, cement-coated city gates, and an uneven loess road outside the city gate. Horses pass by and splash with water. The sky is filled with yellow sand.
"The young man has eyesight but does not recognize Mount Tai. I don't know that Mr. Zhu Ping'an, deputy envoy of the Provincial Department of the Procuratorate, has arrived. Please forgive me, sir."
The city gate official looked at it. After receiving Zhu Ping'an's badge, he was surprised to see such a high official. He immediately stepped forward to salute in fear.
"You are guarding the gate impartially. What crime have you committed? Please get up quickly. I am passing through your county and I have important business to visit your county. Please send someone to lead the way." Zhu Ping'an took back his badge, helped the gatekeeper, and asked him said.
"Sir, please follow me." The city gatekeeper volunteered to lead the way, then turned and told the gatekeepers, "Liu Er, you guys are so good at guarding the gate!"
"Thank you for your help!" Zhu Ping'an He thanked Liu Dadao and said, "Allow him to have a horse."
The city gatekeeper was not polite, got on his horse and led the way.
Soon arriving at the county government office, Zhu Pingan got off his horse. The city gate official asked the government officials to take care of the horses of Zhu Pingan and his party, and sent someone to report to the county magistrate quickly. Let Zhu Ping'an arrive.
"Just Da Dao accompany me. You can find a place to rest in the county government office. Pay attention to discipline and do not disturb the order of the county government office."
Zhu Ping'an ordered Liu Da Dao to accompany him and let others rest in the front yard of the county government office. , telling them not to disrupt order.
The city gate officials arranged for the officers to lead fifty Zhejiang Army soldiers to the guest rooms to rest.
“I didn’t know that Mr. Zhu is here, but I am not far away to welcome him. Please forgive me.” After Zhao Qiancheng, the magistrate of Yiwu, received the notice, he ran all the way to greet him.
"No, no, I am an uninvited guest, causing trouble for your county and Mr. Zhao." Zhu Ping'an said politely. On the way here, he had inquired about the magistrate of Yiwu County. name and other basic information.
"Master Zhu, please." Zhao Qiancheng, the magistrate of Yiwu, extended his hand to greet Zhu Ping'an as he entered the county office, and led Zhu Ping'an to his office room.
After sitting down, Zhao Zhixian poured a cup of tea for Zhu Ping'an and Liu Dadao each, and asked with some uneasiness, "I haven't congratulated Mr. Zhu on his promotion to deputy envoy. I wonder what you are doing with Mr. Zhu's arrival today. ? "
Zhu Ping'an's name has been quite famous in several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River recently. He was the first to eliminate the Japanese pirates in Yingtian. Because of his merits, he was promoted to deputy envoy of the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Punishment and Prosecution, and was promoted to a fourth-rank official. Who? People don’t envy it.
Zhao Qiancheng said that he was not envious, but that was impossible. His feelings are much deeper and more tangible than those of ordinary officials.
Because a few months ago, Zhu Pingan was just like him, the magistrate of a small county in the south of the Yangtze River.
However, a few months later, Zhu Ping'an first made great contributions to the fight against the Japanese in Jingnan, and was promoted to the Zhejiang Provincial Minister of Punishment and Supervision. Now he made great contributions to destroying the Japanese under Yingtian City, and was promoted to the fourth rank of Zhejiang Ti. The criminal inspection envoy Si Dai was appointed as the deputy envoy.
As for me, I am still a seventh grade county magistrate.
In just a few months, one was promoted from the seventh-rank county magistrate to the fourth-rank acting deputy envoy, while the other was still the seventh-rank county magistrate.
People's situations are so different, as vast as a gulf, how can we not feel envious.
Of course, envy is still secondary now, and anxiety is the main thing. Zhu Pingan is now the acting deputy envoy of the Zhejiang Prosecution and Prosecution Department. What does the Prosecution and Prosecution Department do? It is the Zhetai Yamen. It is in charge of the punishment and impeachment of a province. It has both judicial and supervisory powers!
Zhu Ping'an suddenly descended to Yiwu without saying hello or giving any notice, and went straight to the Yamen. What was he here for? ! Is there something wrong with the case I'm handling? ! Did someone go to Yingtian Zitai Yamen to file a complaint against me? !
Zhixian Zhao couldn't help feeling anxious.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhao. I am here today to recruit troops." Zhu Pingan directly stated his intention.
"Recruiting?!" Zhao Zhixian couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. It's not just the case handling supervisor who wants to trouble me. Wait, recruit soldiers, come to us to recruit soldiers. Zhao Zhixian couldn't help doubting his ears and raised his head. Looking at Zhu Pingan, he said with disbelief, " Are you going to recruit troops from our Yiwu Guard Station?”
As the magistrate of Yiwu County, Zhao Qiancheng knows very well that the Yiwu Guard Station’s barracks are dilapidated and the number of people in the Yiwu Guard Station is actually 1,000. There are only more than a hundred people in the health center, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. Recently, due to the constant shortage of soldiers' pay and the fierce commotion of the Japanese pirates, some soldiers were killed or injured, and some deserted. Now it is estimated that even a hundred people cannot be gathered.
How can these people fight? Zhu Pingan came to Yiwu Guard Station to recruit troops? ! This is a joke.
Zhu Ping'an shook his head slightly and said, "We are not recruiting troops from the guards, but recruiting troops from the people of Yiwu County."
"What?! Mr. Zhu wants to recruit troops from all of Yiwu. The people of the county are recruiting troops?" Zhao Qiancheng couldn't help but stood up from his chair with a look of shock on his face.
"My lord, you are recruiting troops! Please forgive me! Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu has set up military households and guard posts. Military households have served as soldiers for generations. This is our ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty! Sir, I want to Recruiting troops is against the ancestral system. Please forgive me for not daring to obey!"
Zhao Qiancheng bowed his hands to Zhu Pingan, shook his head vigorously, and rejected Zhu Pingan's request.
"Haha, Mr. Zhao, please be patient. I am recruiting militiamen. I am recruiting militiamen. I have not broken the ancestral system. Moreover, I am recruiting militiamen in accordance with the decree of the Holy One and the order of the new governor-general, Mr. Zhang Jing. Order."
Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly. Zhao Zhixian's reaction was as he expected, so he explained with a smile.
As Zhu Pingan spoke, he took out two official documents from his arms and handed them to Zhao Zhixian for viewing. One of them was the "Order and Military Preparation" issued by the imperial court when he first took up the post of Zhejiang Sentencing Envoy Si Qianshi. "The imperial edict granted Zhu Ping'an the power to organize military equipment and lead the militia in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; the other It was the official document for recruiting militiamen issued by Zhang Jinggang to Zhu Pingan, allowing Zhu Pingan's Zhejiang Army to recruit 1,200 militiamen anywhere within the seven provinces under the governorship of Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi. No local officials are allowed to block it, they must open the door to convenience, cooperate and act expediently, and make no mistakes. (End of this chapter)