Chapter 37 Tears (continued)
In a corner of Xiaohuang City, there are a restaurant, restaurant, and neighborhoods gathered in Xiaohuang City, and many business trips from south to north, as well as residents in the city, as well as officers and soldiers, were scattering money everywhere in the yard.
This neighborhood was just renovated in the first half of the year. It is also known as "Food, Drink, Play and Entertainment Street", also known as "Huangzhou Fang".
The reason for this is that this renovated neighbor brings together many Huangzhou merchants’ diaries, each diaries sells a large number of Huangzhou specialties and goods, including books, paper, soap, glassware, white porcelain, etc.
Among the goods sold by these restaurants are specialties from Jingxiang, Dongting Lake and Pengli Lake in Shannan, which attracted merchants from all over Bozhou to purchase goods and were very popular.
Secondly, because there are a large number of Huangzhou tourists gathered, and the restaurants and restaurants opened here are mostly based on the flavors and foods in Huangzhou and Jingxiang, it is particularly prominent in Bozhou.
Another wonderful Xiyang shadow puppetry was also performed in the theater of the house, attracting Xiao Huang and the surrounding people to come and watch it.
The most important point is that the Rixingchang Guifang semi-colon and several newly opened Guifangfangs are located nearby. The coming business trips have brought more popularity to this Lifang.
Everyone knows that the general account of Rixingchang Guifang is in Huangzhou, so the neighborhood named "Xing'anfang" is called "Huangzhoufang".
At this time, Governor Li Jing, who was inviting wine, was treating guests in the "Yunlai Restaurant" in the yard and invited his subordinates to drink.
Today, Li Jing led his troops back to the city. After returning to the General Administration Office, he had nothing to do and had a drink. He was drunk and stopped. More than 50 subordinates who followed him back to the city were present. The shopkeeper saw Fei Yang... The old customer was so generous that he gave "Governor Li" a 10% discount when he was overjoyed.
Li Jing ranked third in his family. He is over 20 years old this year and is not married. He works in Bozhou, and his relatives are not around. Without his brother Li Yaowang, he is long-winded all day long. Li Jing is free and unrestrained. It is a happy single life of "one person eats enough, the whole family will not worry about".
His income in recent months has basically been spent on treating guests and drinking.
At this time, according to the old rules, Li Jing ordered a "big box" and ordered more than a dozen buckets of new brewed ale wine commonly known as "horse pee". As soon as everyone sat down, they ate a few Huangzhou buns toast to the stomach, and each person toast to "horse pee".
The ale made from this new winemaking method has a strange flavor. When I first drink it, I just feel it is as difficult to drink as urine, so it is named "Ma Yu". However, when I get used to drinking it, I feel it is good, so Xiaohuang gradually became popular.
The soldiers of the government especially like to drink. Anyway, this is wine, which is more heroic than drinking water. The soldiers returning to the city like to go to the winery to drink a few glasses of "horse urine" and spend their time without any delay.
This time, the governor Li Jing was posing in the wine shop, of course, not just for the sake of the thing in the cup. He wanted to celebrate the successful return of the bandit suppression with his subordinates.
The bandits they suppressed were mainly horse bandits. These horse bandits had a wide range of sources, including the defeated soldiers after the war last year, the horse bandits that had been circulated in various places, the powerful armed forces who took advantage of the situation, and the so-called "civilians" who were both farmers and bandits.
The origin of horse bandits is complex, and the elements of the official army involved in the suppression of bandits are also many, including serious warriors, such as Li Jing's troops, prefectures and counties, as well as brave men sent by various escorts and caravans. Under the arrangement of the General Administration Office, they worked with the teams of the General Administration Office of Qing, Xu and Yu to eliminate the Horse bandits.
From the east to the shore of the East China Sea, to the north bank of the Huai River in the south, to the foot of the Dabie Mountains in the west, to the south bank of the Yellow River in the north, this vast Henan land has become another battlefield, with the officials and horse bandits chasing like cats and mice.
After more than half a year, the once rampant bandits were gradually wiped out by the official army, and the fish that had escaped the net also hid. It was better to be arrogant than before. Many of the soldiers who participated in the bandit suppression had made contributions.
Seeing that autumn is about to come and winter is coming, and after half a year of hard work, many people are happy. Taking advantage of the opportunity to return to the city to report their lives, they drink and have fun with their comrades in "Huangzhoufang".
Li Jing is about to be promoted to the commander-general for his military merits, so today he also means "thank you" his subordinates to support him.
Since it was a thank you, Li Jing would of course have to drink a few more glasses. After drinking more than a dozen cups of "horse pee", he turned to the bathroom to "change clothes" several times. Li Sanlang dissipated his alcohol and continued to drink and chat with his subordinates.
Li Jing was familiar with military books, determined to travel on the battlefield, and immediately gain fame, but his ambition was not only that.
If he had the opportunity, he hoped to pacify the country and to be the former Han champion Hou, he could seal the wolf's servants and be famous in history.
Although it is just a bandit suppression for more than half a year, it is a rare opportunity for Li Jing to train.
The two armies lined up a dignified formation and fought on the battlefield, which was a war; and dozens of small cavalry chasing, ambushing and counter-ambushing were also wars.
When small groups of cavalry fight, they have high requirements for the personal skills of the cavalry, and their command, judgment, and adaptability of the generals. For more than half a year, Li Jing has taken his subordinates to fight with the cruel and cunning horse bandits, and has suffered losses and bleeding, but they all laughed to the end.
The continuous training of actual combat has given Li Jing a lot of experience in the command and combat of cavalry. Such experience is very valuable to him, but he cannot learn or experience it in books.
The experience of leading troops can only be accumulated through actual combat to achieve qualitative changes.
Looking at the subordinates who were drinking red in front of him, and the excellent cavalry trained from fierce battles, Li Jing was quite proud: this is his subordinate, a subordinate who can depend on life and death.
Li Jing raised the wine glass made from the bamboo tube and shouted loudly: "Come on, have another drink!"
The wine in the glass was filled with joy, and someone was pouring out the wine glass, then threw it out the window, causing several shouts and scoldings outside the window: "Damn who is throwing the wine glass litter!"
Li Jing leaned out and was about to apologize to the other party, but heard the other party ask: "So it is Governor Li?"
He looked closely and found that it was Liu Boer, who had been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Hulin Army cavalry, and he passed by with a few and was hit by a wine glass.
Liu Boer, who was drunk, couldn't help but be excited when he saw Li Jing: "Governor Li! You have robbed the bandit suppression this time, so you have to treat you no matter what happens today!"
Li Jing said "Okay" with great enthusiasm. He felt that even if Liu Boer and others could drink, they were just a few people, so even if they spent a few more money, they could afford it.
However, not long after, he was stunned: Liu Boer came here to bring more than a few people, and dozens of people were scattered in several restaurants next door to eat and play. When he heard the "Governor Li treats guests", he ran over to toast with a smile.
Not only that, King Bi's tent "don't accept it at night", there were dozens of people eating wine in the wine shop, and they happened to be acquaintances such as Lu Wuji who Li Jing recognized. They listened to the "Governor Li" setting up the "Wine Jar Formation" and came to "step on the array" with the wine jar.
Looking at the smiling faces of a group of people, Li Jing felt a chill on his back. He realized for the first time what it felt like to be "short in his pocket". However, he had already said it, and there was no reason to go back on his word.
The shopkeeper of the restaurant rushed over and smiled and saluted Li Jing: "Governor Li, our small business is not on credit, but Governor Li is the old customer of our store, so this time it will be a good example."
"Okay... OK..." Li Jing stammered and agreed, not knowing whether to cry or laugh. On this credit account, he would probably have to spend all his income in the next few months.
But seeing everyone gathering together and drinking, Li Jing was really happy. Some subordinates saw some tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, saying that it was shed because of his happiness.
Chapter completed!