Speaking of Zhang Sheng's matter, Zhao Boyuan said, "Things have priorities. Now the reorganization of the army cannot be delayed, and the search and rescue of Brother Zhang must not be delayed. Why don't Brother Wan train the troops here, and I will take the people to the west?"

Find out the news."

Wan Jun originally wanted to go there himself, but the training quality of the teaching team will determine the quality of the entire Chinese army's training in the future. No one understands the training of the teaching team now.

After thinking about it, Wan Jun said, "I can only do what you said. Bo Yuan, please pick a few good ones. You must remember that your own safety is the first priority. Let me know as soon as you have any news."

, my training will be completed in the fifteenth day at most, and I will bring troops and horses to support you then!"

Zhao Boyuan nodded and said, "I understand this."

Wan Jun thought for a while and said to Zhao Boyuan, "There is one more thing. You should pay attention secretly from now on. What good craftsmen are there? It is best to find some firearms masters. I want to build some good weapons for the soldiers of the Chinese Army."

Zhao Boyuan nodded and said, "I know a firearms master who once worked in the Capital Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau and made firearms for the Liaodong Army."

Wan Jun's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Oh? There is actually a talent in this place who once made firearms in the capital. Tell me quickly, where is this person?"

Zhao Boyuan said, "I have been away from home and studying here for several years, and I have heard such a story."

"There is Wangjialou Village to the south of Fushui Pass. There is a man named Wang Lihui here. His father is a member of the Tianqi annual donation. It is said that he used money to get in touch with the inner prison of Beijing. People here are called Wang Yuanwai."

"Later, when Wei Zhongxian fell, because of his family connections, Wang Lihui, who was working in the Capital Firearms Manufacturing Bureau at the time, was implicated and almost killed. Later, he barely managed to survive with money, so he had no choice but to take refuge in his hometown of Wangjialou Village in Jinzhongshan.

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"In the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Li Zicheng was severely defeated by Yang Sichang. Only eighteen of his cavalry were left and hid in Shangluo Mountain, building a fortress in Jinzhong Mountain to protect themselves. It is said that Li Zicheng was very lustful and would take his wife with him when he was marching on weekdays.

By his side, he marched hundreds of miles a day and had to be with women. When he fled into Jinzhong Mountain, he and his wife were separated. Without a woman, he would be like a burning fire. So this Li Zicheng, late one night, took seventeen old bandits and escaped.

He entered Wang Yuanwai's home and forcibly raped Wang Yuanwai's daughter, Wang Lihui's sister Wang Lanzhi, while she was sleeping. The next day, she took Wang Lanzhi back to Jinzhong Mountain and became his wife. In desperation, Wang Yuanwai agreed to have Wang Yuanwai's wife.

Lanzhi married Li Zicheng."

Wan Jun knows that after being insulted by gangsters, many women worry about their reputation and marry the person who harmed them. Even in modern times, there are many women, not to mention the Ming Dynasty where Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was prevalent.

Zhao Boyuan continued, "After Wang Lanzhi married Li Zicheng, she gave birth to a son for Li Zicheng in the Jinzhongshan Dazhai. Li Zicheng relied on Wang Yuan's wealth to recruit troops and buy horses, and gradually recovered his strength. Two years later, Li Zicheng returned with a family.

A large army came out of the mountain again, but when they left, they left Wang Lanzhi behind and only took away the child born to Wang Lanzhi."

"Because of this incident, Wang Lanzhi was severely hit. Frustrated, he found a big tree and hanged himself next to the east cliff of Jinzhong Mountain. Wang Lihui, who originally made weapons for Li Zicheng, heard about this incident.

He fled back to Wangjialou Village and hid in the Lotus Temple on Jinzhong Mountain and became a monk."

After hearing this, Wan Jun sighed and said: "After hearing your story, I really want to get to know this person. Tomorrow, when I have free time, I will go to Jinzhong Mountain Lotus Temple to look for this Wang Lihui."

Early the next morning, Zhao Boyuan took four people and went west in disguise.

Wan Jun gathered the fifty selected teaching team members and began the first day of training. After a brief mobilization speech, Wan Jun ordered everyone to carry fifty kilograms of weight and march cross-country to Wangjialou Village.

Wangjialou Village is twenty miles south of Fushui Pass and forty miles southwest of Jiangjia Village.

Ten thousand troops are at Jiang's house

The village found a guide who took Li Youfu and a few others on horseback to Wangjialou Village.

Unlike modern times, outside the villages at this time was almost all wilderness, with narrow roads sandwiched between mountains, weeds as tall as a person almost covering the roads, and less than a foot away was the dark forest.

The guide explored the road ahead and introduced the local customs and customs to Wan Jun while walking. He climbed over a small hill and said, "Sir, this hill is called Tutuling. When you get down from the hill, you will see the boundary of Wangjialou Village.

Across a large river ahead is Wangjialou Village."

After a while, everyone rode to a large river several meters wide. The guide rode directly down the river and turned around and said, "This river is called Heiqi River. The river bed is wide, the water flow is slow, and the deepest part is less than a person's waist."

Wan Jun finally saw Wangjialou Village, a small earth fence surrounding a small village, and a tall attic in the village could be seen.

Seeing people on horseback approaching, the villagers were very alert and gathered at the earth fence here with sticks and forks.

The guide was familiar with the villagers, so he walked over and said a few words to a middle-aged man. After hearing this, the middle-aged man waved his hand. Most of the villagers holding sticks dispersed, leaving only the man.

The guide smiled and waved towards Wan Jun and others, letting Wan Jun and others pass.

"I'm Lu Daqiang, the head of the Lu family. I wonder what's wrong with you here?" the middle-aged man asked, opening the gate of Tuweizi and letting everyone into the village.

Wan Jun said, "I, Wan Jun, have come to see the king of your land for something!"

Lu Daqiang looked at Wan Jun, "What are you doing outside Wang? He has been dead for three or four years, and now there is only one Wang family yard left."

The village in Tuweizi is not big. Lu Daqiang led a few people towards the tall attic and arrived at a large house. There was a tall plaque on the door, showing the owner's former glory, but it had obviously been untouched for a long time.

Come to think of it, the gatehouse is already somewhat dilapidated, and weeds are beginning to grow on the courtyard walls.

Weeds several feet deep emerged from the cracks in the blue bricks and stones in the yard. Several people walked more than ten steps in among the grass, and there was another courtyard gate, a typical triple courtyard style.

Passing by the tall attic, Wan Jun asked curiously, "Why is such a big house abandoned?"

Lu Daqiang said, "Everything in the world is unpredictable. Thinking about how prosperous Wang Yuanwai's family was back then, no one thought that such a day would come. After Miss Wang committed suicide on Dongzhai Cliff, Wang Yuanwai fell into depression and died of illness not long after."

While the three people were talking, they passed through another courtyard gate and arrived at the last courtyard of the Wang family compound. Wan Jun saw a tomb built right in the middle of the courtyard. The tomb was facing the door of the last hall, which looked very strange.

"You have all seen it!" Lu Daqiang said, "After Wang Yuanwai died of illness, the Wang family completely declined. According to Wang Yuanwai's instructions before his death, his tomb was built here. The villagers said that the feng shui of this yard is not good.

, there are often ghost cries in the middle of the night, and as time goes by, the Wang family yard gradually becomes deserted."

Wan Jun asked again, "Where is the Dongzhai Cliff?"

Lu Daqiang raised his finger and said, "It's on the mountain behind the Wang family yard."

Only then did Wan Jun understand that Wang Yuanwai wanted to be buried here after his death, probably because he wanted the grave to face the place where his daughter was hanged.

Wan Jun sighed and gave Lu Daqiang a few dollars and said, "Please also ask Chief Lu to take me to Dongzhai Cliff to have a look."

Lu Daqiang looked at Wan Jun, collected the money in his hand, and said, "The mountain road is difficult to walk, so you should follow closely."

Lu Daqiang took the lead and led several people to the right courtyard of the Wang family courtyard. Half of the wall of the right courtyard had been demolished and the courtyard had been converted into two vegetable plots.

Lu Daqiang called a man with a knife to clear the way in front, and everyone went up the mountain through a large bamboo forest behind the house.

The hillside was covered with trees and deep vegetation. When I walked up the mountain and walked along the ridge to the east, I soon saw a big stone. Next to the stone grew a century-old tree that several people were hugging. Lu Daqiang led a few people to the tree.

Next, "It's right here."

Wan Jun walked forward and saw two steles standing under the tree. The one on the left said "The Tomb of the Empress of the West Palace"! The other one had a lot of small characters. Half of it wrote about Wang Lanzhi's deeds during his lifetime, but it was just a few sentences, followed by the words "pay money".

The names of the villagers who erected the monument are mostly Lu, and only a few have the Wang surname.

Lu Daqiang said, "In the past, the Miss Wang family was the empress of Xigong Mountain, so the tombstone calls her Empress of the West Palace."

Wan Jun asked curiously, "Isn't this called Wangjialou Village? Why do most people have the surname Lu?"

Lu Daqiang sighed, "After the decline of the Wang family, most of the other people with the Wang family moved elsewhere. Gradually, only the Lu family was left in Wangjialou Village. Speaking of which, the Lu family was just a blacksmith who married into the Wang family.

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Wan Jun said, "So, the Lu family is not a blacksmith family."

Lu Daqiang smiled and said, "Brother, please ask, folks from all over the country buy ironware from our Lu family as the top quality."

Wan Jun took a few steps forward from under the big tree and found that there was a cliff more than ten meters high under the grass and trees. The wall tiles of the Wang family's yard were clearly visible below the cliff. Wan Jun was lamenting the Wang family's past. He said, "I don't know.

Where is the Lotus Temple?"

Lu Daqiang asked, "What are you doing with Lotus Temple?"

Wan Jun said, "I heard that there is a monk named Wang Lihui in the Lotus Temple. I want to find him."

Lu Daqiang said, "Are you the one who broke into... Emperor Dashun?"

Wan Jun said, "We are not Li Zicheng's people. We are Wang Lihui's old friends and want to come and meet him."

Lu Daqiang hesitated for a while and said, "Okay then, come with me!"

Wan Jun asked curiously, "Li Zicheng raped Wang Yuan's daughter, why did the Wang family use their family property to fund Li Zicheng's recruitment of troops?"

Lu Daqiang said, "That is a rumor. Empress Xigong did it voluntarily."

While Lu Daqiang was talking, he led a few people away from Dongzhai Cliff. Instead of walking down the mountain, he followed the ridgeline down to a valley.

There was a narrow path in the valley leading to another mountain. Everyone followed the path up into a large pine forest. The pine forest went up to the top of the mountain. There were no trees around the top of the mountain, only some grass as tall as a person. They followed a path among the weeds.

After walking a few hundred meters, an ancient temple suddenly emerged from the vegetation.

Lu Daqiang said, "This is the Lotus Temple. It is said that it was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty a long time ago."

This Lotus Temple is antique. There are two tattered couplets hanging at the door of the ancient temple. Wan Jun was confused when he read them. He saw that the left side was inscribed "Come and go, come, come, come", and the right side was inscribed "Life, life, death, death, life, life", with dragons and phoenixes dancing in the middle.

Written in four large characters are the words "afterlife and death" written horizontally.

The ancient Lotus Temple is built on a protruding stone cliff. The surrounding view is very wide. The mountains in the distance are like swimming dragons gathering here. A huge green river extends over, and the river is blocked by the mountains in the distance. It turns to the west of the Lotus Temple.

It rushes over, breaks out of a large bay under the cliff of Lianhua Temple, and then flows to the southeast.

Wan Jun sighed in his heart, this place is a place where mountains and rivers gather together, and the scenery is picturesque from a distance. The ancients were really good at choosing good places.

On the roof of the temple, there is a faint green smoke floating up, and the air is mixed with the smell of vegetation and a strong smell of incense, which makes it look quite sacred and solemn.
Chapter completed!