Qiding Tailanhai, who was on the Liaodong Peninsula outside the Guan, sighed and shrank in front of the stove, the door was closed by heavy snow outside, and no one would come to visit the door at this time, and he was finally a lot more relieved. The New Year is just around the corner, the north wind is whistling, and the snow is fluttering. But now that winter is coming, will spring be far away? As soon as spring begins, an unprecedented fate will come irresistibly, and for the first time in his life, Tailanhai will go to serve as a soldier.

All the changes came from last year, when the big master returned to Shengjing from Beijing. This is something that has never happened in more than 100 years, and there used to be tomb sweeping every year, and it was just that the imperial court sent some officials to come and see. This time, the real master returned to the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, everyone knows that the reason for the return of the big master is not that he deeply misses the old master buried in Shengjing, but that he can't stay in the customs and has to flee back to Shengjing. As a minion, of course, you can't say bad things about the master behind your back, but there are all kinds of bad people among the minions, and I don't know that the slave who chewed his tongue said in front of the big master that the flag man on Lushun's side cut down the big tree and sold it to foreigners, making a lot of money. So a group of people forced the banners involved in the sale of trees to hand over the money on the grounds that they had cut down the big trees privately and damaged the feng shui of their ancestors. In addition to these, these bannermen, including the Taylan Sea, were also ordered to fight in the army.

When the big master was in the Guannei, Tailanhai and the others lived a very peaceful life, and after having a timber business, everyone was getting more and more prosperous day by day. Last year, everyone had already cut down all the trees, and they were waiting to put the wooden rafts and sell them for money. But it was not at all expected that people would sit at home or come from heaven.

Aside from sighing, Tyranhai had no other thoughts. Before the heavy snow closed the door, there was also some news coming. It is said that the Han people inside the pass will go out, and they must kill all the flag people outside the pass. Tailanhai was suspicious of this news, he had never been to the Guannei, and the imperial court did not allow the Han people to make a living outside the Guan, and those people he saw on the foreigner's ship did not know whether they were Han Chinese. But the Han people didn't see anything special.

And another news also spread outside the gate, and the tomb of the great master of Xianfeng, who returned to heaven a few years ago, was dug up. Some people say that the craftsman who built the tomb for the great master of Xianfeng handed over the map of the tomb to the Han people, and the Han people dug up the tomb of the great master of Xianfeng, and of course the gold and silver treasures in it were not dropped, and the head of the great master of Xianfeng was cut off and hung outside the city gate of Beijing. What's more, it is rumored that the Han people not only dug up the head of the great master of Xianfeng, but also the graves of other great masters who returned to heaven could not be saved.

When I came to talk about these news, Tailanhai and the others were gathered together, and the senior official, the prince, who was higher than the status of the banner master, was beating his chest and tears when he talked about these things. Tailanhai didn't have any special feelings about this, for him, he just had to live a good life, sell more wood, and make more money. It is indeed miserable that the old master's tomb was dug up, but for the banner people outside the gate, they just want to guard the ancestral land of Longxing and the tomb of the old master of Shengjing. The big master retreated from inside the pass to outside the pass, and the land outside the pass is still there, what else do they want?

Just as Tailanhai sighed, there was a knock on the door. Who will come to the door on this snowy day? Tailanhai glanced at his daughter-in-law, he was in a bad mood in the previous paragraph, and he beat his daughter-in-law a few times. Seeing Tailanhai's eyes fall on him, Tailanhai's daughter-in-law shuddered.

Not bothering to talk to the woman, Tyranhai got up and went to open the door. The person standing outside the door turned out to be the flag owner, and I saw that he was wearing the same cotton bag, which was a big cotton jacket bought from foreign devils after trading wood with foreign devils last time. These cloths are so good, they look much thicker than leather coats. The big boots on his feet were not the kind of dog leather shoes made by the flag man, but the boots with rubber soles, which were all strange cashmere, light and slippery, and Tailanhai thought it was too expensive at the time, and when it came to winter, he regretted it again. Now looking at the clothes that the flag owner bought from the foreign devils, knowing how difficult it is to walk in the wind and snow for so long, Tailanhai regrets it even more. With this, it would be much more convenient to go out hunting, why didn't he think of it at the time.

After entering the house and sitting down on the kang, the flag owner took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms. Tailanhai is illiterate, so he can't understand the two words "cloud smoke" in the center of the colorful carton. But this foreign smoke is good, and it tastes strong, but it doesn't have the pungent taste of dry smoke. However, this foreign cigarette is not cheap, that is, the flag owner only bought a lot, and Tailanhai only bought two, and he has already smoked it.

Hurriedly took a cigarette, and was flattered to lean on the match drawn by the flag owner to light the cigarette, and both of them took a deep breath of the cigarette and enjoyed the refreshing feeling. The flag lord took another sip, and then said, "Tailanhai, do you want to fight?" ”

When Tailanhai heard this question, he thought of the scolding and curses of the masters who were taller than the banner owners before and for their gang of guys who cut trees and sold wood. He hurriedly said: "If the master asks me to fight, I will fight!" ”

"Tsk!" The flag lord frowned, "I'll let you tell the truth!" ”

"Honestly?" Tailanhai looked carefully at the flag master's tightly stiffened face, after walking such a long way, his face was frozen, and it was difficult to see his expression immediately. After carefully distinguishing the expression of the flag owner, Tailanhai said tentatively: "Flag master, I don't want to fight!" ”

"If you don't want to fight, then you have to follow me to serve the master. But you keep your mouth up tight, you still go to be a soldier, but this being a soldier is not the same as fighting. The flag lord said in a dignified tone.

"Huh?" Tailanhai didn't quite understand what this meant, where was there such a good thing when he was a soldier but didn't go to war.

At this time, Tailanhai's wife had already avoided it, and only Tailanhai and the banner owner were left in the house. The flag owner took another hard breath of smoke, and after exhaling the smoke, he said: "There is a master above who said that now the court has no money, and the foreign devils are still buying wood from us." In the future, if we cut down trees and sell wood, that is, the master above asked us to do it. You are sincere, I just pulled you to do it, and if you want to do it, follow me. ”

Tailanhai was dazed by this news, why didn't he let the master who cut the tree be the master above, and now it is the master who wants to continue to cut the wood, which master said it? But being a soldier and fighting a war is an old thing more than a hundred years ago for these banner people outside the gate, and where have they ever seen such a war in the past hundred years. Tailanhai nodded hurriedly and said, "I listen to you!" ”

The flag owner nodded with satisfaction, but he immediately lowered his face again, "But you give me a strict mouth, if you hear this news from others, I won't spare you!" ”

"Yes! Be! Tailanhai nodded like a chicken, but after waiting for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "How big is this master?" ”

"It's the order of the prince of our banner, how big do you say?" The flag owner said impatiently.

Hearing the word Wangye, Tailanhai was completely relieved. The prince is the second only master to the biggest master, and with such a person giving orders, no one else is a problem!

After the two finished smoking a cigarette, the flag owner got up and left, looking at his hurried appearance, thinking that he was looking for someone else. When the banner lord saw Tailanhai staring at him and putting the cloud smoke in his pocket, he snorted, took out the cigarette and threw it to Tailanhai. "At that time, you didn't make less money, so why didn't you think about buying more."

Hurriedly took the only half box of cigarettes left, Tailanhai said with a smile: "That's not because I'm poor and afraid, this time with you, with the prince, when I make money, I will buy enough for a year!" ”

After waiting for the flag owner to leave, Tailanhai hurriedly took out a cigarette, went to the stove and lit it, looking at the snow outside the window, he took a beautiful puff. When he was ordered to hand over the money he had earned from selling wood, Tyranhai paid only half of it, and buried the rest of the silver dollars. Now that he can chop wood and sell it for money, it seems that this good life is far from over.

The snow inside the pass was much smaller than outside the pass, and the headquarters of the Northern Military Region at this time was located in Beijing. The bannermen were swept away, and the bannermen who insisted that they were Han were also sent to Wuyang, and the city of Beijing at this time almost became a military city. There is a cotton coat inside the Type 65 winter coat, and the political commissar of the Northern Military District, Nguyen Hi Ho, is wearing a military coat and is looking at the latest order. The speed of the Guangfu Army's advance was too fast, and the result of sweeping the world was naturally that the logistical pressure became greater, so the latest order of the central authorities was not to chase after the poor, but to build two railways, one from Beijing to Tianjin, and the other from Beijing to Changshan. It then travels all the way south to the Yellow River opposite Zheng County.

For Wei Ze, this railway line was naturally the northern section of the Yellow River of the famous Beijing-Guangzhou Line. And Wei Ze decided not to adopt the name Shijiazhuang. You must know that Wei Ze has watched a liberation war movie a long time ago, and the name seems to be the liberation of Shijiazhuang. At that time, the young Wei Ze still thought it was very strange, what was there to liberate a broken Zhuangzi.

Later, when they were talking nonsense with the brothers in Hebei, the brothers from Shijiazhuang felt that they would either call the provincial capital Zhengding, or simply call it Changshan. Changshan Zhao Zilong, a well-known hero and a handsome guy with a silver gun and a white horse, can definitely add glory to the capital of Hebei Province. Therefore, Shijiazhuang is not marked on the railway map, but the place name of Changshan is written on the big Lalama.

Ruan Xihao is a native of Guangxi, and of course he knows the name of Changshan Zhao Zilong, but he doesn't know these disputes in later generations. Even if he really knew, Ruan Xihao would not be in the mood to make fun of this at this time. The current workload can really be described as a tight time and heavy tasks. Not only these two railways, but also a branch line to Handan on the Jinghan Line, which was built for the Handan Iron and Steel Group, which was still on paper.

Of course, more importantly, the Central Military Commission told the Northern Command that when it marched into the northeast and Mongolia, it was afraid that it would not be able to avoid war with the Russians. Although not as strong as the British, the Russian army's land forces were not soft-footed crabs. Now there is no full-scale northward movement for the time being, but it is necessary to complete the railway line as much as possible. Make logistical preparations for a larger-scale war.

To engage in a military conflict with the world's largest powers, just such a piece of information made Ruan Xihao feel great excitement and great pressure.