() Zhong Jinwei, escorted by seven officers, rode across the street and headed for the King's Army camp outside the city. The few pedestrians on the road stopped to watch, whispering about his identity and purpose.
A passerby A whispered to the passerby B next to him: "Look, my neighbor next door who works in the office of the head of the Ministry of Industry is right. When the Dongchang comes out to move around, it will be bad luck for them."
Passerby B looked at the Dongchang guards who were leaving, and gloated: "They deserve it, the emperor should have punished them long ago. A few days ago, I went to the Yamen to handle this matter, you know. The clerk of the Yamen, who is...
It cost me sixteen taels of silver to get the job done, and I said the higher ups would also share the profit."
"Forget it, forget it, there is no money to do things there now, let them go dog-eat-dog, let's go and drink some wine to warm ourselves up." Passerby A comforted Passerby B, who was in pain, and then took him to the restaurant not far ahead.
Restaurant.
Naturally, Zhong Jinwei didn't know that he had brought Dongchang's servants out to hang out, which caused a lot of discussion.
After arriving outside the capital city, I saw the refugee camp. All tents were set up, and some people were outside basking in the sun, doing nothing.
Zhong Jinwei frowned and said to Gu Baichuan who was following him: "It seems that not many people are employed by people in the capital. Seeing how free they are, we might as well hire them all to make cement. There should be a lot of demand there.
Laborious.”
"What Uncle Zhongxing said is that these people's skin will itch if they are idle for a long time, so we must find some work for them." Gu Baichuan agreed with Zhong Jinwei's idea.
"Okay, when the cement is officially produced, we will select some strong people from these people to go there. If necessary, it would be good to carry out some demonstration projects for road reconstruction." Zhong Jinwei said another idea.
After Zhong Jinwei made up his mind, he stopped caring about the affairs of the refugee camp. He quickly headed to the Qinwang Army camp with his horse under his belly.
The Qinwang Army camp was not far from the refugee camp. Zhong Jinwei and his party didn't take much time to see the camp.
The camp this time was different from when Zhong Jinwei first came. Perhaps because many soldiers were eliminated, the camp had been set up again.
From a distance, it looks like a field, with many battalions that are not related to each other, and are still a little far apart from each other. Looking at the flags, it is one battalion of King Qin's army.
Zhong Jinwei looked a little strange and said to himself: "They are so far apart, are they on guard against each other or something?"
Gu Baichuan heard this and explained to Zhong Jinwei: "Uncle Zhongxing, setting up camp like this is to isolate the area of influence from possible camp roars at night."
Zhong Jinwei had read a lot of online novels and knew a lot about Ying Xiao. So, he said "Oh" and went to the gate of the camp.
When they were approaching the gate of the camp, they saw two rows of soldiers standing guard at the gate. Seeing Zhong Jinwei and the others approaching, they stepped forward to stop them, preparing to interrogate them.
At this time, Xiao Qi, the team leader, recognized Zhong Jinwei and quickly gave way without daring to be wordy.
Instead, Zhong Jinwei reined in his horse and asked him, "Where is the camp of Magistrate Lu of Daming Prefecture?"
"Report to the Supervisor, Magistrate Lu's camp is about three camps away from the Chinese army's camp, just walk straight in." Xiaoqi listened to Zhong Jinwei's inquiry and quickly pointed out the direction while talking."
"Okay." Zhong Jinwei agreed and rode forward, thinking in his mind that the discipline at this gate is much more decent than last time.
Zhong Jinwei walked along and saw training in many open spaces in the camp. The last time he came, the soldiers were just warming up around the fire. It had been a while since he came here, and he was all impressed.
Gu Baichuan's sharp eyes first spotted a camp not far ahead, with the word "Lu" on the fluttering flag.
Under his leadership, Zhong Jinwei and his party arrived at Lu Xiangsheng's camp. The guards at the entrance of the camp were all tall and strong men, holding long guns and standing motionless.
The biggest difference from other camps is that they are not wearing Ming army uniforms, but ordinary people's clothes, but they have a vague sense of military strength.
Seeing Zhong Jinwei and his entourage heading towards them, a leader took a few steps forward, holding the handle of the knife at his waist with his left hand, and raised his right palm to signal to stop.
Wang Peng took a few steps forward on his horse and shouted: "King Qin is supervising the army. When Uncle Zhongxing arrives, he still doesn't get out of the way."
The leader was startled and took a step back, but immediately took another step forward, stood back and said, "Please let me check my belt first."
When Wang Peng heard this, he raised his eyebrows and was ready to yell. At this time, Zhong Jinwei urged his horse to pass Wang Peng, came to the leader, took off his belt badge from his waist, and threw it away.
Then he turned back to Gu Baichuan and said, "Fortunately, you reminded me and brought this thing. Otherwise, I would have been rejected today."
Gu Baichuan smiled but didn't say anything. He thought to himself, even if he really didn't bring it, it didn't matter. With his status as Dongchang, he couldn't go.
The leader checked his waist badge and quickly presented it with both hands: "Young man has eyesight but doesn't recognize the supervisor. Please take care of your duty and forgive me for being rude."
Zhong Jinwei did not answer his words, took back his waist badge, put it away and asked him: "Where is your prefect Lu? Take me over to see him."
"We should be at the training ground now. I'll have someone take you there." The leader stepped aside and ordered a guard to lead Zhong Jinwei to the training ground.
Lu Xiangsheng's camp was not big, with only about 800 people. Zhong Jinwei quickly arrived at the training ground in the camp.
Sitting on the horse, in a relatively high position, I could see the situation in the training ground very clearly.
There were about two hundred people scattered around the venue practicing spears. It was just a simple forward thrust, and they yelled every time the thrust came out. It looked very powerful, but because each thrust forward and their actions were different, it seemed a bit uneven.
The center of the venue was even more spectacular. There were about a hundred people, lined up in several columns, practicing swordsmanship. There was a person in front of the column leading the group, and everyone followed suit and practiced the sword one by one. Every movement was accompanied by a shout:
Compared to the gun training side, the momentum is stronger.
There are also people who practice swords, shields, and bows and arrows, but they are not as conspicuous as the ones just now.
The guard leading the way took a brief look, pointed at the man who was leading the team to practice swordsmanship, and said to Zhong Jin, "That is our Magistrate Lu."
Gu Baichuan was a little strange and confirmed again: "You said the one who leads the team in sword practice is your Magistrate Lu?"
"Yes, please stay with the supervisor. I'll go and report it to my magistrate." After the guard finished speaking, he ran over there.
Gu Baichuan shook his head, Minzhuang was Minzhuang, and he showed his true colors inadvertently. When he saw Zhong Jinwei turn over and dismount, he also dismounted together and waited for Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng was a little surprised when he heard that the supervisory army was coming to patrol the camp. He had never heard that he was in the camp, so why did he come suddenly.
He told a few people around him to continue practicing on their own, and then hurried over to see him.
Zhong Jinwei saw that Lu Xiangsheng was only wearing thin clothes and was not afraid of the cold wind that blew from time to time. He couldn't help but secretly admire him. If you didn't know Lu Xiangsheng's background, you would think that this person was a imperial examination scholar.
Lu Xiangsheng threw the long knife in his hand to the servant who was following him. The servant caught it with one hand and held the knife aside. Lu Xiangsheng was about to talk to Zhong Jinwei, but Zhong Jinwei was surprised and said: "Prefect Lu, all your men
How can you catch your 140-pound training knife so easily?"
"Haha, no, this is just an ordinary sword. I didn't bring my training sword, it was left in Daming Mansion." When Lu Xiangsheng said this, he remembered something, and then asked Zhong Jinwei: "There is something unclear about my humble position, who is the supervisor of the army?"
How do you know that the sword that I used to practice in Daming Mansion weighed one hundred and forty pounds?"
"Oh, ah, that, I dreamed about it. Haha, by the way, you guys practiced very hard!" Zhong Jinwei didn't expect Lu Xiangsheng to ask this question, so he hesitated and explained, and then immediately diverted Lu Xiangsheng's attention.
Lu Xiangsheng was speechless at Zhong Jinwei's explanation. Looking at his look, he knew that he didn't want to elaborate. He saw the Dongchang fan next to Zhong Jinwei and was shocked. Could it be that Dongchang knew about it? But since he was in Yuntai,
When the emperor chose the weapon for him, he felt that he didn't know how well he used the Yanyue Sword, let alone how heavy the sword was. If Dongchang investigated, the emperor should know.
Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and didn't understand. Then when he heard Zhong Jinwei's praise, he had to put aside his doubts and explained to Zhong Jinwei: "Jianlu is still in the capital, so we don't need to practice much at this time. When we meet Jianlu, we have to
I feel resentful."
After saying that, he turned to look at the training ground, and then said to Zhong Jinwei: "The time is too short, these good men have to practice more before they can go to the battlefield."
But he didn't know that in the original history, no matter how well they practiced, others only regarded them as the strong people and did not give them a chance to play.