The Xishan Inspection Department is located forty-eight miles southwest of Beijing.
It is located at the eastern end of the Taihang River to the west of the Yongding River.
It is stuck at the contact point between the Taihang Mountains and the Yanjing Plain, between Liangxiang and Fangshan.
Because it is located at the junction of the mountainous area and the plain, The terrain is complex and bandits have been rampant since ancient times.
An inspection department has been set up here since the Taizu period, responsible for arresting bandits and appeasing them.
Inspection departments are generally located in strategic traffic and remote places.
They are rarely located in busy markets and towns.
The same is true for the Xishan Inspection Department.
This is an ancient east-west road that leads west to Puyinxing and directly to Shanxi.
It is surrounded by low hills.
Seven or eight miles to the north is the Yongding River.
The terrain is extremely complex.
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Qing army was divided into two wings and invaded by destroying the border walls from Qiangziling and Qingshan Pass respectively.
Wu Aheng, the governor of Miyun, rushed to the battle and was killed.
The two armies moved to An, passed Fengrun, and met in Tongzhou, along the Taihang Mountains and Canal, divided the troops into eight groups and attacked westward.
From the west of Beijing to the border of Shanxi, within a thousand miles, there are mostly wilderness and plains.
Thousands of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry are good at galloping.
They gallop like a strong wind sweeping the ground.
Wherever the arrow points, the Ming soldiers are invincible.
They pass through the six towns along the way.
All were attacked and plundered.
The Xishan Inspection Department was also defeated by the Qing soldiers at that time.
Everyone from the inspection team to the ordinary archers died in the massacre by the Qing soldiers.
From then on, the Xishan Inspection Department was abandoned until now.
When the group arrived at the former site of the Inspection Department, Chen Yue couldn't help but frowned as they looked at the ruins and desolation.
The large courtyard covers an area of more than 20 acres.
The walls are uneven and the two gates are missing.
The plaque on the gatehouse is still there, but half of it is missing.
You can only vaguely see the words "Inspection" on it.
"Two words.
Entering the yard, there were more than 20 houses, but almost all the houses were in dilapidated condition.
The doors and windows were missing, the roofs were exposed to the sky, and there was no trace of furniture decoration inside the houses.
It seemed that all the houses were in dilapidated condition.
Everything was looted.
This is where the Inspection Department is located.
If you want to live here, you will need to spend a lot of time to renovate it.
But it is already the middle of winter, and the weather is freezing.
How can we rest and renovate the house?
Chen Yue looked at the situation in the inspection department and gradually had an idea in his mind.
I talked to Yang Zhengping and asked him to take a few servants who had learned to ride horses to look around, especially to Xishan Town, three miles away, to announce to the nearby people that the Inspection Department had been built again, and that it was working with various people.
Establish a relationship with village elders, and in the future you can hire nearby villagers to help renovate the house.
When he came to take office this time, in addition to the large amount of materials he brought with him, Chen Yue also brought a full thousand taels of silver.
With this money, the initial expenses of the Inspection Department would not be a problem.
However, although there is money, it remains to be seen whether enough people can be recruited.
With the Qing soldiers looting everywhere, there are not many nearby villagers who dare to stay in their hometowns.
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Yang Zhengping agreed and went with a few servants, while Chen Yue greeted everyone and sorted out a few rooms for everyone to stay temporarily.
There are a few houses in the east wing that still have roofs.
As long as they have roofs, as for the missing doors and windows, just find a few wooden boards and piece them together, as long as they can block the cold wind.
Chen Yue directed the servants to be busy, cleaning up the accumulated debris in the house, looking for usable materials from the ruins, piecing together the broken boards and nailing them with iron nails, blocking the empty windows and doors.
A few houses that were dilapidated and could not be repaired were demolished, and the bricks and stones were picked up and used to build an earthen kang.
A path was left in the middle to connect the kang to the kitchen pots and stoves.
The weather in the northern winter was too cold, and in the countryside at night, water dripped and turned into ice.
There was no warmth.
The heated kang was not enough to withstand the severe cold at night.
Finally, before dusk, five rooms were sorted out and the stove and stove were set up.
Three of the five wing rooms are used as housing for the servants, one is the residence of Chen Yue and Yang Zhengping, and the other is the kitchen, where Feng's mother and son also live.
Unload the supplies from the carriage and place them in the room.
Ms.
Feng stood in front of the stove and cooked dinner for everyone.
Rice porridge cooked with dried meat and salt has a fragrant aroma that hits your nose.
Feng's son Xiaobao squatted on the stove, adding some dry firewood to the pot.
His black eyes rolled around, staring at the steaming cauldron from time to time.
Before dark, Yang Zhengping led his people back and brought back details about the area within a few miles.
During the inspection of Xishan, there were originally more than ten villages nearby, among which Xishan Town was the most prosperous.
However, a few years ago, the Qing army invaded and robbed the village.
The villages here were plundered, and most of the villagers were either massacred or captured.
They were slaves outside the Great Wall, with almost ten houses and nine empty houses.
Only a few people escaped into the mountains to escape.
After the Qing soldiers retreated outside the Great Wall, they gradually returned to their hometowns.
However, after experiencing a catastrophe, the Ming Dynasty's political power at all levels was almost completely destroyed.
Prefectural and county officials were massacred.
It has not been fully restored to this day.
Inspection departments in various places have almost disappeared, and there is no government control.
Strongmen and bandits are rampant in various places, in small groups and dozens of people.
In many cases, many people cannot tell who is a citizen or a bandit.
Local powerful people have also formed strongholds to protect themselves, and the situation is chaotic.
"In a word, the situation here is very chaotic," Yang Zhengping concluded.
"Haha, it's good if there is chaos.
Isn't it the duty of our Inspection Department to arrest bandits and appease local areas?
Only when the situation is chaotic can we be useful," Chen Yue laughed.
"But, we people can deal with ordinary bandits, but if the Qing soldiers come, our strength is far from being the opponent of the Qing soldiers."
Yang Zhengping said worriedly.
"Haha, brother Yang, don't worry, the Qing soldiers won't come here to harass you this time."
Chen Yue said with a smile.
"Oh, how come you can see that?"
Yang Zhengping asked in surprise.
"Brother Yang, please think about it, what is the purpose of the Qing soldiers entering the pass?"
Chen Yue asked.
"Of course they robbed the people who were rich in gold and silver.
I heard that the cold and cold land outside the pass is very poor.
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These damn Manchus have grown strong by robbing my Ming Dynasty's wealth."
Yang Zhengping thought for a while and said.
Qing soldiers have entered the country several times to rob, but they have not tried to occupy Ming Dynasty's land.
It can be seen that their purpose is to rob, and they are a group of shameful bandits.
"Brother Yang is right.
The Qing soldiers came here just to plunder the wealth of the Ming Dynasty.
But this place was robbed a few years ago and it has not recovered yet.
Why do you think the Qing soldiers would come to this remote place again?
From the capital to the south, Hejian Guangping, the famous Dongchang, and even Yanzhou have flat terrain suitable for cavalry.
They are all the fertile lands of the Ming Dynasty.
There are no dangerous passes and no heavy troops from the imperial court.
The Qing soldiers will definitely make a noise and move south. , I will never go west to this remote country again.
"Chen Yue's voice gradually increased, not only to analyze the intentions of the Qing army, but also to appease his subordinates.
Following Chen Yue's departure from Beijing and coming here, everyone was trembling with fear, for fear of being attacked by Qing soldiers
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