What catches your eye is a very characteristic pockmarked face after smallpox.

It had only been a few days since the hot air balloon soared, and Liu Yu recognized it at a glance, this was the naturalized Sauron man named Shutu.

The arrogant Lao Butu on the opposite side also recognized Liu Yu at a glance, and they all shouted in unison.

Thinking about the events of that day, which had nothing to do with him, Liu Yu smiled and said, "It turned out to be an acquaintance? That's good. Does Master Shu remember me? ”

Jiao Lao Butu looked at Liu Yu, who was wearing a military uniform and an embroidered spring knife hanging from his waist, and also smiled and said, "I recognize it." I also wondered which family's guard would come here, but it turned out to be the prince of Yiguo. ”

There was a smile on his lips, but he was quite unhappy in his heart.

Jiao Lao Butu looked at the young Liu Yu, and said in his heart When Lao Tzu was as old as you, he had already cut seven or eight people in the northwest.

Fighting for half a life, a piece of the scalp was cut off, and only then did he spell out a captain of a light car.

Those of you who have a good Lao Tzu have never even killed anyone, but you actually climbed directly on Lao Tzu's head?

Look at your fine skin and tender meat, don't see the dead man, pee your pants!

I muttered a few times in my heart, hating and hating.

But this thought could only be buried in the bottom of his heart, thinking that although he had the meritorious service of the fourth grade of the lieutenant of the light car, there was a guard on the other side who was rewarded by His Majesty, and he immediately saw the salute first.

Liu Yu knew that this kind of meritorious service was crawled out of the pile of dead people, and he didn't dare to hold it up. As a guard, according to the etiquette system of the national dynasty, it is actually equivalent to the treatment of a positive five products, and he hurriedly returned the gift.

Looking up at the barracks, there were about 200 people in the camp, all of whom seemed to be brave. They should all be selected from the children's army, but this military discipline doesn't look very good.

A group of people gathered around a fire on the ground and smoked cigarette pouches.

Two people wrestled there, and a group of people gathered around to watch the excitement.

The clothes were all dirty, and a group of people were squatting in the sun to catch lice, biting and gurgling in their mouths, comparing to each other to see who was moving more.

The chaos made Liu Yu, who was used to watching the military appearance in his previous life on TV, quite uncomfortable, thinking that this is the elite of the transfer?

What is the average level of the Beijing camp?

Thinking that he had just arrived and needed to get acquainted with him before he spoke, he invited him into the camp with him.

"Do you know what you're going to do this time?"

"Yes, I didn't know that until now. Since there are military orders, all major matters are arranged by Lord Liu, and I will listen to Lord Liu. ”

Liu Yuxin said that you are going to kill me with a stick?

I have just arrived, although I have been in contact with it before, but how to camp and how to march, where do you know about such things as how to camp and march on the first day?

Thinking about the conversation between Lao Butu and Tian Ping that day, I guessed in my heart what kind of person this was.

You arched his hand and said: "You and I call each other adults, it's really awkward." I think when there is no one, let's talk about the tooth order indiscriminately. Brother Shu, don't laugh, I'm still young, and I've never been to the battlefield. This march has to be taken care of by Brother Shu. ”

"Brother Shu is a light car lieutenant who cut people and cut people, and he is more than half a little stronger than me, a guard who relies on the shadow of the family."

Show weakness first, so as not to cause any trouble in the future.

Liu Yu felt that he needed to look at the situation again, and then consider establishing his prestige, if he hadn't even figured out the situation, he would have to pull the calf, but he was afraid that his prestige would not stand up, and he would make people laugh.

deliberately showing weakness, arrogant Lau Butu is also comfortable to listen to.

How can you say that the other side is also a duke, and it is rare to be able to talk about it to this extent, after all, it is better than the duke of Qi on that day, and that kid will not speak a personal word.

Liu Yu deliberately asked a few more questions about where he got all the merits of the lieutenant of the light car, and he was scratching the itch.

In a tone that seemed casual but was actually eager for people to know, he told how he fought to become the captain of the light car.

Halfway through the conversation, I finally got down to business.

"Brother Liu, our errand is not difficult, but it is not easy to say. You need to pretend to be a vendor selling rhubarb and tea cakes, and go to the city of the Rakshasa people to check. is also because my father was a lieutenant in Handoliwei back then, so he is familiar with it. When they got there, they had to contact some deer-hunting tribes, and some people followed the tribes to the depths of the barren forest. ”

"This slave is dry, no more than anywhere else. Brother Liu has never been there, but I grew up there, and it is really bitter and cold. There are a lot of risks, and it can be regarded as telling Brother Liu in advance, so as not to be unbearable when you get it. ”

Liu Yu smiled secretly in his heart, thinking that Lao Tzu's grandfather in his previous life was also the first generation of forest workers, Lao Tzu may not be as familiar with the Northeast as you, and the place where he grew up is probably further north than you.

But he said politely: "Yes." Along the way, I have to rely on Brother Shu to bother. ”

After touting it, he called several key figures of this line of team over and got to know each other.

This time, since he was going to pretend to be a caravan to the fortress of the Rakshasa Kingdom, he naturally had to look for some knowledgeable ones. The knowledgeable veteran is about fifty years old, with skin like orange peel, and at first glance he has experienced the wind and sun, which is the meticulous work of the children's army.

He often traveled with caravans to Mongolia and sometimes as far as the Russian border. Knowing Mongolian, Jurchen, Russian and Korean, he looks inconspicuous, and in fact he has the merits of a cavalry captain, but this life is over.

Not only is it disguised as a caravan, but it also has some goods on it, and it has its own knowledgeable operation.

Since Peter's reforms, Russia has vigorously expanded its army, monopolized the rhubarb trade, and took it into an official camp.

and hyped the medicinal effects of rhubarb, coupled with the fact that European aristocrats often eat meat, and it is common for them to be dry and unable to pull out feces, so this kind of herb that leaks its effect has become a hot commodity.

The Russians hyped the miraculous medicinal effects of rhubarb in Western Europe, and Western Europeans also came up with all kinds of strange ways to eat it: rhubarb soup, rhubarb wine, rhubarb cheese, rhubarb pudding......

One put, or about thirty pounds of rhubarb, is smuggled in the border areas for forty rubles.

Peter I minted silver coins, which were about twenty-five grams, about half a tael, and forty rubles were twenty taels of silver.

To Western Europe, it will rise to 180 to 300 rubles.

Sonya, the heroine of Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", sold for 30 rubles, and this price was exchanged for two catties of rhubarb in Western Europe.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the level of shipbuilding and navigation in China has been greatly distanced from Europe.

Now the British are about to make a nautical clock, and even the first circumnavigation of the world of the naval fleet is about to begin.

Such high profits would not have been possible without the support of navigation, geometry, and astronomy.

Everyone knows that the difference is best without a middleman.

This is true for taxation and trade, and the money is earned by the second-tier dealers.

Rao is like this, and the price of nearly twenty taels of silver for one pou in the border area is also a huge profit for the merchants.

Matteo Ricci once recorded that the price of a pound of rhubarb in China is one-tenth of a silver coin.

For the sake of military expenses, Peter collected rhubarb as an official camp and pressed the purchase price.

However, at this level, local businessmen still have 200% profits, which can be said to be rushing.

After all, formal channels still have to pay taxes, or there is a very hard relationship.

Smuggling saves a lot of taxes, and sneaky smuggling has not been stopped.

Overall, it's basically two routes.

One is a merchant from Shanxi, who went along the Mongolian line to deliver goods to the Russian fortress near Lake Baikal, and by the way, he could also sell tea cakes among the Mongolian tribes.

The other is Liaodong merchants and military officers, who take the first line of the Korean border to the Mudanjiang River. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the frozen river like a road in winter, he walked from the Mudanjiang River to the Songhua River, and then smuggled rhubarb to the Russian castle on the bank of the Heilongjiang River.

Liu Yu is going to the Songhua River this time, and the disguised businessman is from Liaodong all the way.

The veteran hasn't crossed this line, but I've heard of it.

Fortunately, Jiao Lao Butu is a native of the Songhua River, and he also knows about these cats - when his father was the captain of the Folding Chong in Handoliwei, the big people involved in smuggling would greet him, and the little people would pay tribute.

This time there are many tasks, and they are also very miscellaneous, disguised as a merchant, or disguised as a deer hunting tribe after arriving, all of which have different purposes, and act cheaply when the time comes.

In addition to surveying the Russian fortresses, it is also necessary to expand the inscriptions of Yongning Temple, check the roads along the way, and draw a map of the direction of hydrological mountains and rivers, which requires some professionals.

More than 20 officials belonging to the Ministry of Military Affairs also followed the team, most of them Catholics, all of whom had studied with missionaries, and a few of them had participated in the surveying and mapping of the inland maps of those years.

Now that chaos is about to break out between the DPRK and China, let them follow them, which can be regarded as protecting them.

Taken together, there were about three hundred and forty people.

Except for the more than forty who have never been to the battlefield, the rest are some elite soldiers in the Beijing camp or the children's army, and in order to be easily disguised as a deer hunting tribe at that time, the naturalized Sauron people account for a small half.

This group of people is not easy to bring, many of them have meritorious service, and they have killed people and seen blood.

Liu Yu also knew that with the hairless white and tender appearance on his mouth, it was impossible for this group of people to convince themselves, but they had to find a way.

It's only mid-August, and they won't set out until mid-September, almost October. I have to prepare here before and run in.

After thinking about it, Liu Yu knew where his advantages were, and he knew in his heart that he was not in a hurry to convince everyone, and he had his own plans.

I checked the various pieces of equipment that were distributed, and it was really shabby. The one who protects against the cold is a cotton jacket and a pair of cotton pants, because he has to disguise, and he can't wear armor.

There were a lot of horses, and there was no shortage of carts, which contained rhubarb and tea cakes, and some miscellaneous goods, and their own civil servants were responsible for keeping accounts.

After pondering his strengths and having a plan in his heart, Liu Yu also pressed his heart and did it according to his own path.

In the afternoon, he carefully wrote a long list, handed it to the steamed bun, and asked him to go back and prepare.

Part of it is the standard equipment of the imperial court, which can be completed by the Duke of Qi, which is simple.

The other part is not the standard equipment of the imperial court, so let the steamed buns go back and use the gadgets in their yard as a gadget.

Such as the hundred-year-old gold lock when I was a child, the silverware for cooking cocoa, and the gold coin for private money, etc., to make a sum of money. Borrow another one from a fox friend.

I specially instructed the steamed buns, and when I brought them back, pack them in a box so that others don't see what's inside.

After the order, the steamed buns left the barracks, and Liu Yu made a gesture, mingling with those soldiers during the meal, chatting and bragging, and eating with them.

A group of officers looked fresh, and some laughed: "This boy is a little interesting." ”

Arrogant Butu snorted and spouted a mouthful of phlegm, rather disdainful.

"I'm going to see how long he can pretend. This is "The Biography of General Li" and "The Biography of Sun Wu", I have watched too much, and my brain is broken? Ming'er said that you have hemorrhoids on your cheek, see if he wants to learn from Wu Qi to suck it on you and suck out the pus. ”