I didn’t understand why Your Excellency came to Yiwu to recruit soldiers before, but now I understand. The Yi Bird people can be really flinty and fierce, they fight with advancement and no retreat, like they don’t want to die, recruiting them into the Zhejiang Army, they will certainly be brave and fierce in battle as well.”
Liu Dazhou looked at the blood and flesh flying below the scene of armed combat, could not help but swallow a mouthful of water, murmured.
Looking at the bloody killing scene below, Zhu Pingan suddenly had a stream of ignorant karmic fire ignite from his heart!
Such a brave and good man, the father and elder brother who supported the family, now even died in the armed fight!
What a waste!
What a waste!
To fight in the same room, to kill each other, to die for nothing, to have no value, no meaning! Pathetic! Lamentable! Exasperating!
“Let’s go, finish eating and hit the road, go straight to the Yiwu county office, visit the local magistrate, post a bulletin and start recruiting!”
Zhu Pingan took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, said to Liu Dazhu and the others, and took the lead to leave.
Liu Dazhu and the others followed closely behind.
The group returned to the tea stall, hurriedly ate the sheep soup and oil cakes, said goodbye to the owner’s family, turned on their horses, and headed straight to Yiwu County Town.
Yiwu County is a city with years and traces of age, grey and black city walls, peeling wall skins, wrapped city gates, outside the gates of an uneven yellow soil road, hit the horse through, splashing the sky yellow sand.
“I have eyes and don’t recognise Mt Tai, I don’t know that it’s the Acting Vice-Envoy of the Department of Tidings and Pressure Enforcement, Zhu Pingan Zhu Ta-Jin arriving, ten thousand pardons, please forgive me, Your Excellency, please.”
The city gatekeeper looked at Zhu Pingan’s waist plate, not expecting to be such a big official, he immediately went forward to perform a big salute in fear and trepidation.
“You guarded the gate impartially, what offence is there. Please rise quickly. This official is travelling through your county and has important business to visit your county honours, please also send someone to lead the way.”Zhu Pingan retrieved his waist plate, helped the gatekeeper up and said to him.
“My lord, please follow me.”The city gate official volunteered to lead the way, and turned to explain to the soldiers guarding the gate, “Liu Er you guys guard the gate well!”
“Many thanks, thank you!”Zhu Pingan thanked him, then said to Liu Dazhou, “Allow him a horse.”
The city gatekeeper was not courteous and rolled onto his horse, leading the way in front.
Soon arriving at the county office, Zhu Pingan rolled over and dismounted, the city gate official explained that the yamen servants took care of the horses of Zhu Pingan’s party and sent someone to quickly inform the county honourable that Zhu Pingan, the Acting Vice-Envoy of the Zhejiang Tidings and Pressure Division, had arrived.
“Big Dagger will be fine to accompany me, you guys find a place to rest in the county office, pay attention to discipline and do not disturb the order of the county office.”
Zhu Pingan ordered Liu Dazhou to accompany him and let the others rest in the front yard of the county yamen, explaining that they should not disturb the order.
The city gatekeeper arranged for an errand boy to guide the fifty Zhejiang army generals to the guest rooms to rest.
“I didn’t know that Lord Zhu had come to visit, my humble servant has missed the welcome, please forgive me.”After Yiwu Magistrate Zhao Qianxian was informed, he ran all the way to meet him.
“Where where where, it is this official who came uninvited and uninvited, giving trouble to your county and Lord Zhao.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and said politely, on his way here, he had already inquired about the name of the governor of Yiwu County and other basic information.
“Ta-Jen Zhu please.”Yiwu County Governor Zhao Qianxian extended his hand to politely invite Zhu Pingan to step into the county office, leading him to his office room.
After taking his seat, Governor Zhao poured a cup of tea for Zhu Pingan and also for Liu Dazhou, and somewhat apprehensively asked for advice, “I have yet to congratulate Lord Zhu on his high promotion to Acting Deputy Envoy, and I wonder what is the purpose of Lord Zhu’s arrival today?”
Zhu Pingan’s name is quite famous in the Jiangnan provinces recently, the first to eliminate the Yingtian Japanese disaster, due to the merits of the promotion of the Zhejiang Criminal Investigation Department Acting Deputy Ambassador, promoted to the fourth rank, who do not envy it.
Zhao Qianxian said is not envious, that is impossible. His feelings are deeper and more tangible than the average official.
Because a few months ago, Zhu Pingan was still the same as him, also a governor of a small county in Jiangnan.
And, a few months past, people Zhu Pingan first in the Jingnan made a great success in the anti-Japanese, promoted to the Commander of the Zhejiang Tidings Prosecutor’s Office, and now under the Yingtian City made a great success in the destruction of the Japanese, promoted to the fourth rank of the Zhejiang Tidings Prosecutor’s Office, the Acting Vice-Minister.
I myself, or a seventh-grade magistrate.
District a few months time, one from the seventh grade county high four grade deputy ambassador, one is still a seventh grade county.
People’s situation, so different, like a gulf, how can not envy it.
Of course, now envy or secondary, apprehension is the main. Zhu Pingan is now the Zhejiang Tidings Press Envoy Division Acting Deputy Secretary, Tidings Press Envoy Division is what to do, that is the provincial government offices, in charge of a province of criminal impeachment, both the judicial and monitoring power!
Zhu Pingan do not greet, do not send a notice, suddenly drop Yiwu, straight to the Yamen, he is here to do what? Is there something wrong with the case I’m working on? Someone has travelled to the Yingtian Tendai Yamen to sue me?
Governor Zhao couldn’t help but feel apprehensive in his heart.
“Thank you, Ta-Jen Zhao, this official has come today for the purpose of recruiting soldiers.”Zhu Pingan directly stated the purpose of his visit.
“Recruitment ah?!”Zhao Zhi Xian couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, it’s good that it’s not a case inspection looking for trouble from me, wait, recruiting, coming to us to recruit, Zhao Zhi Xian couldn’t help but doubt his own ears, looking up at Zhu Ping An with a face of disbelief, “Is your lordship recruiting from inside our Yiwu Guards?”
As a Yiwu governor, Zhao Qianxian was more than clear about the Yiwu Guards, the Yiwu Guards barracks were dilapidated, and with an establishment of 1,000 people, there were only a hundred or so people actually in the Guards, and most of them were old, weak, and sick. Recently, due to the frequent shortage of pay, coupled with the Japanese made a lot of noise, dead and wounded some soldiers, ran away some deserters, and now it is estimated that even a hundred people can not come together.
Where can these people fight ah, Zhu Pingan came to Yiwu Guards to recruit soldiers? This was a joke.
Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly and spoke, “Not recruiting from the guardhouse, but recruiting for the people of Yiwu county as a whole.”
“What? Lord Zhu is recruiting for the entire population of my Yiwu County?”When Zhao Qianxian heard this, he couldn’t help but stand up from his chair with a shocked look on his face.
“Your Excellency is recruiting soldiers! Please forgive me, Your Excellency! Since the founding of the Great Ming, the Great Ancestor set up military households and established guard stations, and military households have been soldiers for generations, this is the ancestral system of the Great Ming! If you want to recruit soldiers, this is a violation of the ancestral system, so please forgive me for not daring to follow your order!”
Zhao Qianxian arched his hand and bowed to Zhu Pingan, shaking his head vigorously, rejecting Zhu Pingan’s request.
“Hehe, Ta-Jen Zhao take it easy, this official’s recruitment of soldiers is a militia, it does not break the ancestral system, moreover, this official’s recruitment of militia is by the will of the Holy Emperor, by the order of the new Viceroy Minister, Lord Zhang Jing Zhang.”
Zhu Pingan smiled slightly, Zhao Zhi Xian’s reaction was within his expectation, so he smiled and explained.
Zhu Pingan said, while taking out two official documents from his pocket, and handed them over to Zhao Zhi Xian to watch, one is when he took office as the Commander of the Commander of the Zhejiang Criminal Investigation Department, the imperial edict issued by the court “to rectify the army”, the imperial edict granted Zhu Pingan the power to rectify the army, and to lead the **** soldiers; the other is the militia that Zhang Jing has just issued to Zhu Pingan!The official document, allowing Zhu Pingan Zhejun in shandong, south Zhili, zhejiang, fujian, guangdong, guangxi governor of any one of the seven provinces within the scope of the recruitment of militia 1,200 people, any local officials shall not be blocked, be sure to open the door to facilitate the cooperation with the cheap action, no error.
