open sea

Chapter 660
Cheng Dawei had never seen such a well-armed Daming Guard Army.

Baihu leading the way in front of him was a lame man with terrible scars on his face. He wore a three-pronged red-tasseled small helmet gun with a phoenix-winged iron helmet. It consists of three large decks, connected by chain armor in the middle, which does not affect the activities. It is tightly protected from the neck to the knees. Through the gaps in the arm mail armor, you can see that the armor is wearing a beige cotton coat.

Outside the armor, this Baihu wears a short blue round-neck, sleeveless, waist-length burqa. The lower body is also a blue skirt with two petals until the calf. The blue blouse has round bears on the chest and sides of the thighs Embroidered leather, red satin around the waist, a strong physique and thick armor that make people bulging, plus a lame right leg, supporting a long gun with a good thorn, one foot is deep and the other is shallow. Walking through the woodland.

It is worth mentioning that this Baihu not only wears a blue burqa with bears painted on it, but also holds a cub whose coat is blue to gray in the depths. A leather bright helmet is crookedly buckled on his head, and a small yellow flag is stuck on the helmet spear, with the word "Huangming" written on the flag.

"Majiagang has never been to the merchants, let alone the people in my court. How did you find this place?"

Baihu walked forward and talked without looking back. Although his right leg was lame, he walked with a long gun in one hand and a waist knife in the other, leading the bear cub, but he walked slowly. Only when he realized that Cheng Dawei was not keeping up Gun leaned beside him, raised his finger to the little creature jumping past the tall tree with pine cones in his arms, and said: "Squirrel, the seasons here are very different in the Central Plains. I didn't know summer was short and winter was long. When this little thing started to store food for winter, It means that the summer is over, and I have to prepare to eat."

Cheng Dawei was panting on crutches. He was over [-] years old. Although he was used to traveling in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, how could he know that after sailing here, he would have to endure such hardships. The melting ice and snow would bring difficulty to this land. Even his second son and nephew were not used to this kind of trek, and their trousers and robe were stained with mud.

He appeared in Majiagang at this time, which meant that the envoy sent by the Nanjing Ministry of Industry to Huizhou Prefecture to inform the No. 3 winners of the first Wanli Mathematics Award would be in vain.

Cheng Dawei, who struggled to walk to Baihu with the cedar or pine tree, took off the water bottle next to the small abacus on his waist and took two sips in his mouth.

Moisturizing his already dry mouth a little, Cheng Dawei cupped his hands and said: "Back to Zhou Baihu, last year, I have enough business capital, buy five hundred shi of rice and grain, and take a boat to a hundred households for four thousand miles, on the way back I lost my way and was rescued by an official ship. I learned that the imperial court had dispatched an army in the Great East, but I was short of tools and got a chart. After returning to Nanzhili, I bought a few ships, and bought tools and agricultural tools, and sold them here.”

"One shipment of rice grains and one shipment of meat and vegetable oil is allowed to sell and one shipment of copper and iron is allowed, but they are not allowed to stop at the Wa country, and they are not allowed to go ashore at the ports along the way. They are only allowed to be replenished at the hundred households. Until Xingmajiagang."

"The official boat, is this Eunuch Chen who came to convey the holy metaphor? You are lucky, and you have enough courage to travel thousands of miles across the ocean."

boom!
There was a sudden bang in the forest in the distance, and Cheng Dawei was startled when he heard it. Zhou Baihu's expression remained unchanged, his words were a little bit of a sigh, and he spoke with a Liaodong accent: "Don't be afraid, that's the banner army of our division. I have been practicing all my life. The skill of the military array, I thought it was Dongdu killing thieves, but here it is like a hunter."

Zhou Baihu has a name that does not match his vigorous physique. It is called Zhou Junan. He is the Baihu who was ordered to stay in Majiagang after Ma Gui, Ma Jin and others left. He knows very well that all the guns in this land are his subordinates.

After all, Zhou Baihu turned his head and said: "You came at the wrong time. If you came last year, you could have bought two shipments of rice and grain from Majiagang. You can escape the cold and set off to return home. Exploring the coast to the east and south, there are only 170 flag troops left in our two hundred households. We have no shortage of food this season, but we have a lot of useless mountain goods. Five hundred shi of rice is enough. Your goods It can't be sold out."

A moment later, there were two dogs barking in the forest, and a Jurchen soldier with no armor but a jacket and a strange hairstyle was holding a short ax and casually chopped the ax mark on the trunk of the tree as he passed by, and walked out of the forest and spoke to Zhou in proficient Liaodong Mandarin. Hundreds of households saluted, with the blunderbuss on their shoulders, and the yellow dog running in front of him held a rabbit with big hind legs.

"You can buy some copper and iron, but if you want to go back with a full load, I'm afraid you will have to wait until next year." Zhou Junan looked at Cheng Dawei and said: "Go east, go south, follow Ma Shuai, wherever he goes, you Sell ​​the goods there, and finally the commander-in-chief will order Majiagang to transfer your goods."

Cheng Dawei rested against the tree trunk for a while, and recovered his strength. He listened to Zhou Baihu's words and nodded and said, "It's okay, I have this intention. Not only Cheng and his clan's children came here by several boats, but also friends from the same village. That is to say, come here by boat, and I will wait for the merchants without fear of suffering from the cold and heat, Zhou Baihu, please lead the way, I have almost rested."

Zhou Junan shook his head and continued to move forward with a smile. He said casually, "I heard that you have a song that said that non-cultivated students in the previous life were born in Huizhou, and they were thrown away at the age of twelve or thirteen. It is indeed true."

Their place is the end of the serious world, and the imperial army has not yet come here, and even Jinghai Bo Chen’s agent, He Xingsheng, Fujian and Guangzhou merchants are still begging for life in North Korea, Japan, Nanyang, Malacca and other places. This Huizhou merchant has found this place. Come, and listen to his words, he has successfully done a business from hundreds of households in four thousand miles.

After walking for only one mile, the ear became more and more noisy. After walking out of the forest, it suddenly became clear to the eyes. The log wall with the height of a man was pierced with a wide wall. Every few steps on the wall, a book with the banner of Huangming was erected. Inside the opened camp gate Except for the barracks with both corrals and pens, most of the marching flag soldiers did not wear armor. There were Han people, Jurchens, and Mongols. Learn Chinese under instruction.

Cheng Dawei and his nephew looked around curiously. There were logs piled up everywhere in the camp, including logs cut into several feet long and smaller planks.Two bannermen were holding an adze and an ax to cut a log without stopping. On the open fire, three bannermen would use wooden sticks to open the inner core of the boat and bake it to shape it.

Zhou Junan introduced to Cheng Dawei as he walked: "That is a canoe. We use this to fish on the seashore and in the river; the flag army over there is smoking the fish. The fish here is very fat. The best fish caught in summer requires Hang it up and smoke it to eat it in winter, Majiagang has to go another fourteen miles east, but it is not suitable for logging. My hundred households are close to the river, and I mainly fish and log in spring and summer. We made a lot of hunting lodges in the forest, where hunters would spend the whole winter hunting their prey.”

"We don't hunt mink on weekdays. The mink fur grows well in winter. A hunter can bring back ten mink furs when he comes back in spring. I heard that you have yellow dogs in your cargo. How many do you have? How many do I want?" , a good dog can go a long way when hunting mink."

"To go to Madong Baihusuo, you have to go to Majiagang and then go northeast for seven miles. It is close to the fields. The banner army is mainly responsible for farming military fields. In winter, they will return to Majiagang to escape the winter. There are brick kilns in Majiagang, which burn bricks and tiles. The houses there are warm."

The nephew behind Cheng Dawei showed a look of rejoicing when he heard the words. It sounds like the winter here is long, but it is not difficult for the Banner Army to live here.

When Zhou Junan saw this expression, his face was full of mockery of ignorance, and the scar made the smile very scary.

"If you want to spend the winter here, you have to be careful about this."

Zhou Junan said, lightly lifting the leather strap that was holding the cub in his hand, and said: "At the beginning of the year, the snow shell had not yet melted, and the hungry bears in the forest broke into the unbuilt camp of my flag army. Most of the hunters were outside. Three of us The good dog bit a bear's hair, and the good dog will not live long here, and Zhou's legs were also lame at that time, with rough skin and thick flesh, which was difficult to cut with a knife, and the gun only hurt the flesh; Open your mouth and bite."

"During the fight, I was stabbed by Zhou with a dagger, and fled into the forest with the dog's corpse. Twenty gunmen followed the bloodstains into the forest and searched for two days to reach the lair. That's why I got this."

As he said that, Zhou Baihu, who was sitting on the pile of logs to dry, took the meat slices from the Banner Army who was carrying the food plate and fed them to the cubs. Zhou Lai'er, No. 70 of our division's Seven Banner Army, serves as a member of the Lu division."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)