Yangzhou Thorn Shi's surname is Li, and his single name is a Mao character. He was an official of the imperial examination and a jinshi of the second class in the palace examination. It just so happened that when he took the exam, the chief examiner was Zhuge Taifu.

According to the rules of officialdom, those who will pass the exam will worship the examiner as their teacher and consider themselves students. Therefore, although this relationship is actually quite empty, if you really want to count it, Li Mao can also say that he and Xiuchunlou's amorous and tender love, and the "four major stalls" such as soul snatching ecstasy are the same brother relationship. And this relationship is recognized by even the emperor when it comes to the world.

Since Li Tingshi is a disciple of Zhuge Taifu, then He Cheng Li, the Duke of Yan Guo, can also be regarded as his own person. Therefore, after the two parties recounted their past experiences, they were invisibly between each other, and they had a sense of closeness to each other.

At that moment, Cheng Li helped Li Tingshi, and the two rode side by side, swaggering through the city of Yangzhou, all the way to the Thorn Shifu.

Along the road, the ordinary people of Yangzhou City couldn't help but feel scared when they saw the Yulin Army's strict appearance, the armor was stained with blood everywhere, the swords and guns were held high, and the murderous appearance was high.

But when I saw the Yulin Army's war horse on its neck, there were many large and small Japanese heads. The people of Yangzhou City immediately cheered excitedly. There were even quite a few people who immediately returned to their homes, packed food and wine in baskets, and then returned to the side of the street to be presented to the Yulin army. There are also some ordinary people who spontaneously pick up soil and burn incense on both sides of the street, worship to the Yulin Army Reclamation, and praise and bless well.

The Yulin Army is known as the pro-army of the Son of Heaven. But in fact, it has already become a place for the children of the meritorious family in Bai Yujing to live their lives. Before Cheng Li took over the helm of the Yulin Army, the children of these meritorious families were idle in Bai Yujing one by one, and they were all busy fighting cocks and lackeys, eating, drinking and having fun. From time to time, they also gather crowds to fight, and they continue to make nonsense. So much so that God hates the devil, and everyone avoids them.

After Cheng Li took over the helm of the Yulin Army, he took out the set of training methods he had received at the beginning and trained these meritorious children to the death.

To tell the truth, the world to which Cheng Li belonged before, compared with the current world, is ahead of even more than two eras in terms of scientific and technological level and the development of productive forces. For the training of soldiers in the army, there is also a set of methods that have been summarized after scientific and rigorous induction.

Of course, it is impossible for this set of advanced scientific training methods to be copied and used in this era. But just using some things that can be done in this era is enough to make an immediate impact and make the Yulin Army reborn for it.

The most important thing is that Cheng Li's own cultivation is extremely high, and at the same time he is friendly with Zhuge Taifu and the King of Extermination. Therefore, he is not afraid of offending people at all, and it is useless for anyone to speak and plead. If you should be beaten, you will be punished, and you can really order and prohibit. So after coming and going, these meritorious children who were regarded as waste by the world were trained fiercely.

From Bai Yujing all the way to Yangzhou, this journey is thousands of miles, Chinese food and camping, and all kinds of hardships are needless to say. The continuous fierce battles with the Japanese and the successive victories have cultivated a sense of pride and self-confidence in the hearts of the soldiers of the Yulin Army.

At this moment, when I entered Yangzhou City again, I was treated by the people in the city who ate pot pulp and burned incense to welcome him, and I felt even more proud in my chest. Invisibly, these former disliked sons and daughters seem to have been tempered into a strong army, even an iron army, by blood and fire.

The common people of Yangzhou City were harassed by the Japanese invaders, which can be described as a number of surprises overnight. Suddenly, seeing such an iron-blooded strong army entering the city, the hearts of the people were naturally settled.

Cheng Li had just entered the Assassin's Mansion with Li Tingshi and sat down. The door outside immediately came in with a thick stack of invitations, all of which were gentry and wealthy merchants in Yangzhou City, saying that they would hold a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust for the general.

Cheng Li doesn't know how to do the trick, so naturally it is impossible to take care of every invitation. However, if the Yulin army enters the city, if it wants to make a difference, it must have a good relationship with the local gentry and wealthy merchants, and get all kinds of support from them in terms of manpower and material resources, so that this battle can continue.

In the end, it was Guan'er who came up with an idea to let Li Tingshi come forward and hold a banquet in the largest restaurant in Yangzhou City, gather all the gentry and wealthy merchants in the city, and meet with Lord Yan Guogong at one time. In this way, no one will be offended, and the relationship between them will be good.

Cheng Li readily agreed. Then he entrusted Li Tingshi to handle it accordingly. Li Tingshi naturally agreed. But I secretly wondered in my heart, I couldn't figure out what Guan'er's identity was.

Guan'er still follows the usual habit of wearing men's clothes to show people. But she is naturally beautiful, and even a blind person can see that she is actually a woman. And it belongs to the kind of beauty that is one in a million. Compared with her, whether it is the famous ladies in Yangzhou City, or the Fengyue Oiran, they all seem to have become vulgar fans, which is not worth mentioning.

According to the imperial court regulations, women were not allowed to travel with the army. Guan'er is obviously a woman, but she follows Yan Guogong's side, and she does not shy away from outsiders at all, is she Yan Guogong's beloved concubine? But looking at the demeanor and behavior of the two, they didn't find any excessive intimacy. The reasons for this are incomprehensible.

But the statutes are dead, but men are alive. Cheng Li is not only the general of Yulin Zhonglang and the Duke of Yanguo, but also a relative of the emperor. And Yangzhou City still has to count on Cheng Li to save him. Therefore, although Li Tingshi is known for his uprightness and impartiality on weekdays, he also turns a blind eye at the moment, and he doesn't see it.

Cheng Li met with the gentry and wealthy merchants in Yangzhou City a moment earlier, and the hearts of the people in the city would be settled a moment earlier. Therefore, Li Tingshi did not dare to delay at all, and immediately rushed to handle it. It's been less than an hour, and everything has been arranged.

The place where this reception banquet is held, named Fuchun Building, is the most famous, the most luxurious and the most high-grade restaurant in Yangzhou City. On weekdays, those wealthy businessmen who have any happy events to hold a banquet must be the first choice for Fuchun Building.

Cheng Li and Li Tingshi stepped into the restaurant together, only to see that the restaurant was already crowded, tall, short, fat and thin, old and young, all of them were available. Everyone was dressed in bright and precious silk satin, and the various decorations on their clothes combined could at least afford to raise an army of tens of thousands and extremely well-armed.

It can be seen that this Yangzhou City is really the first prosperous and wealthy place in the world except for Bai Yujing. It is no wonder that during the Tang Dynasty, Du Mu wrote a poem saying "The dream of Yangzhou once in ten years won the name of Qinglou Bo Xing". There are even more ancients: The joy of life is nothing more than wrapping 100,000 yuan around your waist and riding a crane down to Yangzhou. At this moment, it seems that the ancients are indeed honest and do not deceive me.