prosperous age

Chapter 1 1 Peasant Soldier
The water of the Yangtze River flows into the East China Sea from west to east like a winding dragon.

Along the river, countless rivers flow into it, making the momentum of the river even more enormous, it is really a river flowing into a big river.

If the Yangtze River is a giant dragon crouching on the land of China, then the vast Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake are like the claws of a giant dragon, allowing the whole dragon to live, as if it is preparing for the last leap, and it can jump into the sea go.

The Yangtze River has been a golden waterway since ancient times. It not only provides abundant irrigation water for the basin along the river, but also promotes the exchange of materials between the east and the west.

Huguang is familiar, the world is full, and the developed water transport makes it of great importance in the empire, and it is an important channel for transporting troops.

"In ancient times there was the Battle of Chibi, and today there is the Battle of Poyang Lake in the Ming Dynasty. Bah, bah, bah, where did I go? It all happened 200 years ago, and it's still here today."

At this moment, a ten-year-old child is sitting by the river and looking at the sailing boats passing by on the river. Occasionally, there are two fishing boats passing by, showing the prosperity of this golden waterway.

In the distance, on the skyline on the river, the little boy knew that it was the Jiujiang Chaoguan Wharf. Although he couldn't see it, the little boy also heard what his father said. There are hundreds of taels of silver in the account every day, which is tens of thousands a year. The matter of two silver coins is really the best place in the world.

In the previous life, tens of thousands or 10,000+ did not seem to be a big deal, but now it is in the Ming Dynasty.

The little boy still remembers that he took a piece of silver from his father, saying that it was 2 taels, and it looked very heavy. It didn't feel as heavy as the 2 taels of his time, it seemed a little lighter.

Although I don’t know how many grams a jin was in the Ming Dynasty, I still know that 1 jin in ancient China was 1 taels, so it is estimated that 16 tael of silver is more than 1 grams.

Still not used to this day and age.

The little boy sighed in his heart. Over the past ten years of education, he has developed a habit of measuring according to the so-called international standards, grams and kilograms, and it is still a bit difficult to convert.

Rubbing the still red and swollen palms, he recalled that he had touched the palms of his master in the private school in the morning. He felt a dull pain in his palms, so he picked up a stone next to him and threw it into the river fiercely, splashing a ball of water and rippling in all directions.

"Dong dong dong dong."

At this moment, there was a piercing sound of gongs and drums from a stone castle in the distance behind him. The drums were beating fast, which seemed to be very urgent, which made the little boy look back unconsciously, and just in time saw a knight on a prancing horse coming from He sprang out of the city gate, and flew along the riverside path to the distance, and the direction should be in the direction of Qianhusuo.

"Yutou, it seems that something happened at home, hurry back."

"Let's go, let's go."

"Hurry up, there are spies, something must have happened."

A few children who were still playing by the river behind left the little boy behind, picked up the cloth bag from the ground and ran towards the stone castle, bluffing in their mouths.

The little boy named Yutou also got up at this time, rubbed his muddy hands, bent down and picked up a gray cloth bag next to him, and straddled it diagonally before turning around and trotting back with his playmates, faintly listening to him while turning around. On the river, there was the sound of oars paddling water.

Yutou looked back, they were two Baihusuo fishing boats, no, it should be said that they were sentry boats patrolling the river, they were only used to catch a few nets along the way.

This kind of sentinel ship is about ten meters long. There is a canopy in the middle of the ship to shelter from the rain. There is also a mast in front of the ship to hang sails. Three or four oars can be lowered on both sides of the ship. It is especially suitable for traveling in extreme weather conditions. It is used along the Yangtze River and in Poyang Lake.

Yutou has heard from the sergeant that this is called Jiujiang sentinel boat, which is produced in Hukou County next door. It is said that the bottom of the boat is flat, the boat is curved, the draft is shallow, the buoyancy is large, the load is heavy, light and sensitive, sturdy and durable, etc. There are many features and advantages.

However, in Yutou's eyes, it was just a wooden boat that could hold a dozen people. In my time, domestically-made oil tankers of hundreds of thousands of tons and aircraft carriers of tens of thousands of tons were trivial. The boat in front of me was really not interesting at all.

It is also because of these two small boats that I rely on the mountains to eat, and I have not been short of fish these days. By the way, I also ate a meal of wild rabbit meat, which was sent by military households to the mountains to honor their families.

At the moment, some of the sergeants on the ship were pulling in the nets, while others were adjusting the sails while sliding the oars on both sides to approach the small pier.

When the children in front were about to run to the stone castle, they all slowed down consciously, waiting for the fish head behind, and the fish head trotted there at a leisurely pace, looking back from time to time, and getting off the boat What do the sergeants gain.

After approaching, many people came running from the field outside the fort, rushing into the gate of the fort at this moment, most of them were dressed in red, but they looked ragged and a bit miserable, and these people from the field Those who ran over were the soldiers guarding the stone fortress, and I didn't see many of them still holding hoes in their hands.

"Yutou, is something wrong in the city?"

"That's right, I saw Tanma going out first."

"That came back to the city, not from our castle, maybe it was from the city to report."

Several children were chattering to the approaching fish head at this moment.

"We'll go in after they go in, and we'll know when we ask. There should be something wrong."

While talking, the sound of gongs and drums in the fort has disappeared, but people still keep running from a distance and rushing into the fort.

A few little guys wandered through the gate of the fort, and saw a lot of people scattered in the small square, they were the soldiers who were urgently summoned by the sound of gongs and drums just now, and they didn't stand at this time. On the earthen platform, an officer dressed in a hundred households was speaking there.

On one side of the earth platform, several people stood guarding two large vehicles. One vehicle was full of weapons, shields and spears, which were to arm the peasant army, while the other vehicle was piled with piles of red battle Clothes.

It's just the battle clothes. I didn't imagine the bright silver helmets and bright armors on the ancient battlefields. It's just some red coarse cloth clothes, but they are a little thicker than the cloth, because they are the so-called cotton armor. I don't know how much they cut corners, but anyway It's still standard equipment, maybe it's because I'm afraid that I can still distinguish the robes clearly after the battle is messed up.

"Go and listen to what your father said there."

A little friend said with a smile after seeing this scene.

"What a joke, didn't you see that your father is also forming a team below? I'm afraid there is going to be a war."

Another child spoke, pointing at the two carts under the platform with his little hand.

"Who to fight? Where to fight?"

"I don't know, Yutou, do you know?"

The children chattered for a long time without saying anything, and all turned their eyes to their boss—Yutou.

"I don't know either. I haven't fought a war for many years. Go over and listen to what my father has to say."

The children unconsciously quickened their pace.

(End of this chapter)