The Silent Reforms of Eldridge Chapter 63

The next day, I went to the camp to pay a visit to Prince Monk. King Monk asked me what I was responsible for in the Sheng camp. I replied: "At first, I led the Henan soldiers, and later worked as an errand in the camp office." King Monk said, "I will ask you for advice after I have initially settled down." Monk The king also sent a message to Ruixi, ordering all the committee members of Shengying to be dismissed, leaving only Zhang Fansi (the monk king called me by my original official title---I was dismissed when I was the chief envoy---This makes me very embarrassed) one person. In fact, I have wanted to leave the military camp for a long time, but I just couldn't. Alas!

The next day, Chongen told me: "I met the Monk King yesterday, and the Monk King wanted you to take charge of Mao Yong." I laughed and said, "Although Zhang Jixin is a capable person, he must not be keen on taking charge of Mao Yong." People, let alone people who can lead Mao Yong well." After hearing my idea, the monk king gave up his original idea. "The so-called Mao Yong was adapted from the rebels who surrendered. These people have a wolfish and ambitious nature. It's hard to change. How can I, a weak scholar, control these bandits? Chongen and I are close friends. Fortunately, he blocked this matter for me.

The monk king ordered that all the local soldiers and braves recruited from various places should be disbanded - he knew that these so-called "braves" were actually not brave at all in battle - only the Henan braves I brought were temporarily retained. Led by me. Chuan Yong and Chu Yong were the most ferocious scoundrels. The monk king reported to the emperor that Chuan Yong was brought back to Sichuan from Yanglang Mountain, and Chu Yong also sent people to bring him back to the Huguang area. These people were originally idle vagrants with no family. Those who joined the camp for bravery could receive daily rations, and could rely on their status as officers and soldiers to commit robbery and adultery. Their behavior was no different from thieves. As for the brave officers, they can falsely report the number of people and receive air force pay to enrich themselves. As long as they are on errands, the trial committee members (in charge of interrogations), the food desk committee members (in charge of logistics), etc. all draw their rations in the name of recruiting brave soldiers, but in fact they have no one under them. Shengshuai may not be unaware of these things, but it involves various human relationships, so he turns a blind eye.

Later, I heard that soldiers returning to their hometowns were robbed along the way. Some were captured by local officials, some were killed by bandits, and some even surrendered to the bandits and became bandits. Only a few of them actually returned to their hometowns. What's even more strange is that Chongen said: "The prefect of Dezhou captured three young female warriors. According to these three people, they were hired by Chuan Yong. They went out together with guns during the day and took turns to R@p3 and sleep with them at night. , these female heroes turned out to be performing monkey tricks and acrobatics on the street.

The Gaotang bandit army suddenly sprang out, killed more than a hundred soldiers in the camp, and then fled to the southwest. King Monk led the army to pursue Fengguantun and ordered Mao Yong, who had surrendered from the rebel army, to lead the battle. The two armies suffered casualties from each other. The rebels occupied the village house surnamed Li as their headquarters. King Monk brought in artillery from Gaotang to bombard the enemy. The rebels were hiding inside and could not come out.