Tomorrow

Chapter One The First Drop of Blood

Zhang Jianliang jumped from a carriage and looked up and saw the city gate of Jiayuguan.

Immediately, his full-looking backpack was also dropped by the coachman from the shelf on the top of the carriage.

The backpack was so heavy that he didn't let it fall to the ground when he hugged it hard. For this reason, he glared at the coachman with a bad attitude.

The coachman smiled with his yellow teeth, showing no sense of Zhang Jianliang's anger, jumped back to the coachman's position, shook the reins, and the carriage slowly began to move, and soon it ran.

Long-distance carriages do not enter the city.

The Jiayuguan city wall is very tall, but there are no guards on the wall.

Only a group of tax collectors was checking the caravan entering the city.

Zhang Jianliang carried the rucksack, which was almost as tall as himself, dusted his armbands with his hand, and walked towards the gate of Jiayuguan.

An officer wearing a black military uniform and a black studded with silver ornaments appeared in the team preparing to enter the city. It was very conspicuous. The tax collectors had spotted him a long time ago. They were just busy with their work, which ignored them. he.

After seeing Zhang Jianliang at the head of the tax official sitting on a recliner, he slowly got up and walked in front of Zhang Jianliang and said, "Visiting relatives?"

Zhang Jianliang glanced at the tax officer and said, "Go home."

The tax official said embarrassingly: "It needs to be checked..."

Zhang Jianliang said: "Then check."

The tax officer smiled and said: "If the brother accidentally brought jade, agate, gold and the like, he can now put it on his body. According to the rules, for soldiers like brothers, only check luggage, not people."

Zhang Jianliang smiled and said: "When I went out of the Great Wall, I was empty-handed, and now I am back, and I don't have any long objects."

The tax official smiled and said: "That's good, that's good, it's not that the brothers don't give face, but the rush to pursue it. Some brothers went out and came back with two hundred taels of golden sand on their backs. This is not plausible."

Zhang Jianliang smiled and said, "I'm from Tuoyun Ranch..."

The tax official was stunned for a moment when he heard the words: "I heard there..."

Zhang Jianliang said: "We won."

The tax official's tense face burst into laughter for an instant, and said repeatedly: "I'll just say, General Duan is here, how can I allow those Mongolian Tartarians to be arrogant."

After all, let open the way to invite Zhang Jianliang into the customs.

"Don't check it?"

"Don't check, don't say that the captain is a hero who came down from the battlefield. As long as you come from a place like Tuoyun Ranch, you shouldn't be wronged here."

"I have gold and jade in my rucksack."

"It must be the captain's trophy."

Zhang Jianliang patted the tax officer's arm and said, "Thank you, brother."

After that, he walked straight to the nearby city gate.

"Brother, how many killed?"

The tax official's voice came from behind, and Zhang Jianliang stopped and turned back to the tax official: "I didn't kill many people this time."

The tax official frowned and said: "Why didn't you kill it? Our Daming messengers have all had their ears cut off."

Zhang Jianliang laughed and said: "The head of the Mongolian king with the ears of the messenger cut off has been made into a wine bowl by the general. More than 36,000 captives under the Mongolian king officially entered the Tuoyun Ranch to plant trees and graze for us. farming."

The tax official also smiled and said: "In this way, in the coming year, there will be no need to transport grain from the customs in the Western Regions?"

Zhang Jianliang shook his head and said: "It won't happen next year, but after three to five years, Mongolian Tartars are not very good at farming."

After bidding farewell to the tax officer, Zhang Jianliang entered the customs.

Jiayu Pass is an important pass. It’s just that the military status here has dropped a lot. The reason why there are still government offices here is that the most important significance is taxation, not defense.

Hami is the place where the army gathers.

After eating a large bowl of roast lamb noodles on the bazaar, Zhang Jianliang went to the post here to stay.

The post was full of people, even in the yard, there were many people sitting and lying down.

These people are all women without exception. The women of the Western Regions, when Zhang Jianliang appeared in the station in a military uniform, the women immediately became agitated and involuntarily shrank together, bowing their heads not daring to look at Zhang Jianliang.

Seeing an officer came in, the post-cheng who was drinking tea hurriedly greeted him and said, "Where did the captain come from?"

Zhang Jianliang took out a bronze medal from his jacket pocket and threw it to Yi Cheng and said, "Give me an upper house."

Yi Cheng looked at the bronze medal of the accommodation voucher representing the school officer in his hand, and then at Zhang Jianliang's epaulettes and said: "Captain, it's not that you won't get a room for you. If the military police comes, you won't be able to explain it."

Zhang Jianliang said: "I have been awarded the honor, and the officer has been promoted to major."

Yi Cheng looked at Zhang Jianliang's epaulettes and said, "There is no silver star."

Zhang Jianliang turned around and showed his armbands to the Yi Cheng.

After reading the armband carefully, Yi Cheng smiled bitterly: "This is the first time I have seen the inconsistency between the epaulettes and the armbands. I suggest that the captain should tidy them up, otherwise it would be a troublesome thing to be seen by the military police."

Zhang Jianliang glanced at Yi Cheng and said, "Couldn't you just give all the room to the slave traders?"

Yi Cheng shook his head and said, "Knowing that you would ask this, the answer to you is-no!"

Zhang Jianliang put down his rucksack, took out an exquisite wooden box from his rucksack and hugged it in his arms, saying, "This is Lieutenant Colonel Liu Guomin. There are six lieutenants and three officers in my rucksack, plus I have five lieutenants. A school officer, I don’t know if I can live in Shangfang?"

Yi Cheng took a close look at the urn inlaid with two silver stars, and solemnly saluted the urn: "Slowly, let's make arrangements. The major, please come with me."

Zhang Jianliang got his wish and got an upper house.

It is said to be a room, but in fact it is not too big, one bed, one chair, one table.

Zhang Jianliang took out ten urns carefully and placed them on the table, lit three cigarettes, and put them on the table to pay homage to his companions who died in the battle. Then he took a tub and took a bath.

The bathhouses in the inn were all the same. Zhang Jianliang looked at the darkened pool water and stopped the idea of ​​taking a bath. He stood under the shower pipe, twisted the valve, and a stream of cool water poured down from the pipe.

After a while, the water became scorching hot, and he stood under the water column, letting hot water poured from his head, and then covered his whole body.

The water rushed on him, this kind of sound could easily lead Zhang Jianliang's thinking into that cruel battle...

"Block, block, destroy the cavalry first..."

"Captain, I got an arrow, I got an arrow, medical soldier, medical soldier..."

"Follow me..."

"Up on the bayonet, up on the bayonet, throw the thunder out first..."

"Boom boom boom... I kill..."

Zhang Jianliang opened his eyes abruptly, holding his hand on the slightly hot water pipe, and the post Cheng pushed the door in, rubbing his hands to look at Zhang Jianliang's bruised body and said: "Major, would you like a woman to serve? There are a few clean ones. ."

"Get out—"

Yi Cheng was taken aback for a moment and said, "Whether it's okay, or you can tell me when you need it, they are all good guys, and they don't dare to lose money."

When his thoughts were interrupted, it was difficult to enter the emotion that made Zhang Jianliang tremble all over.

He hurriedly soaped his whole body, and after washing it clean, he walked out of the bathhouse holding the tub.

There are still those women in the yard, but at this time, they are eating. The so-called eating is just a piece of naan.

Standing in the courtyard saw Zhang Jianliang coming out, and he walked over and said, "Major, your food is ready."

Zhang Jianliang shook his head and returned to the upper room with the tub in his arms.

The cigarette on the table burned only a section of ashes, and when the door was opened, the ashes were blown away by the wind.

Zhang Jianliang put down the wooden basin and lit a cigarette again on the table. Liu Guomin was addicted to cigarettes, and he couldn't live without this thing for a moment.

Zhang Jianliang looked at the rucksack on the ground again, and put all the contents on the bed.

Just like what he said to the tax officer, there are ten bags of golden sand inside, and there are many precious jade and agate.

He was going to go to the bank to exchange all the gold for silver notes, otherwise, it would be too difficult to return to the customs with such a heavy thing on his back.

The most important thing is that the tax collectors in Jiayuguan may let them go, and the tax cards encountered later will not be so easy to let him pass.

Since the beginning of the three years in China, Daming's gold has withdrawn from the coin market. Non-governmental trading of gold is prohibited. Only gold products, such as gold jewelry, can be traded.

Zhang Jianliang gathered up the gold, put it in a small bag, and left the room to go to the bank next to the post.

Daming's post stations are all over the world, and they have many responsibilities, such as delivering letters, some small items, welcoming and sending to those officials, and those on business trips.

Later, banks and carriage shops were gradually added, and finally the inn became an indispensable part of the lives of the Ming people.

I heard that there are even telegrams in the post in Guanzhong, and this thing has not been communicated in small places like Jiayuguan.

Zhang Jianliang could actually ride a fast horse back to the customs. He missed his wife, children, parents and brothers at home, but after the battle at Tuoyun Ranch, he didn't want to go home quickly.

Sometimes he wonders, if he goes home later, will the family of the ten brothers who live and die be less tortured?

He pushed open the door of the bank. The bank was very small, with only a tall counter. There was an iron fence above the counter. A middle-aged man with a goatee was sitting on a tall chair with no expression on his face. , Staring at him indifferently.

"Exchange two hundred taels for Sands."

Zhang Jianliang lifted ten bags of sand on the counter.

The middle-aged man behind the counter seemed to be accustomed to this scene a long time ago, opened the bag and began to check the fineness of the sands.

"One or two sands and nine and a half silver coins."

After checking the sands, the middle-aged man said lightly.

"Didn't it mean that one or two sands can be exchanged for thirteen silver coins?"

The middle-aged man sneered: "It was in Wuwei~www.wuxiahere.com~ in Jiayuguan. There were only nine and a half of them. If you don't exchange them, you can take them away."

Zhang Jianliang gritted his teeth and said: "This is the pension of my ten brothers, and I am not a seller of gold. These golds are all accumulated by my brothers in the Tuoyun Ranch."

The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Jianliang and sighed: "Ten silver coins, no matter how high I am, I really can't help it. Brother, you can't bring these golds to Wuwei. The prefect of Jiuquan Prefecture is currently launching a campaign against unlucky gold. , You can't pass the level."

Zhang Jianliang looked up at the middle-aged humanity: "Is there any way to get around them?"

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "This is the safest way. One silver coin is missing and one silver coin is missing. You are an officer, and you have a great future in the future. There is really no need to commit the crime of smuggling."

Zhang Jianliang put the ten bags of sand on the table back into his pocket and walked out of the bank silently.

One or two sands were exchanged for ten silver coins. It was really a loss. He couldn't explain to those brothers who had died in battle.

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