Although Fang Yizhi, Sun Zhijie and others gave up the opportunity to take the imperial examination from the capital to Tianjin and came to Dalian by water, it was absolutely impossible for ordinary people to meet the general, after all, he was a general of Pingyu and not an idle clan.

In fact, Fang Yizhi didn't mean to meet them, so they came to Dalian to apply for a job in the shogunate, and now they don't worship a general, but second.

When Fang Yizhi and Sun Zhijie and others came to the Juxian Building in Dalian, this giant building was already full of scholars from all over the world, in fact, scholars from all over the world have different comments on this prince, some people think that he is a rare virtuous clan in the Ming Dynasty, some people think he is Cao Cao in the world, of course, some people think that he is easy to kill, especially good to kill civil officials.

But one thing is undeniable that this prince is definitely a handsome man who can fight well, and he will definitely get ahead in his shogunate one day.

This is also the reason why so many people gather here, that is, when Fang Yizhi and the others entered the Juxian Building, a man on a fast horse came to the General's Mansion with a whip.

When the man arrived at the gate of the house, he threw down his whip and jumped off his horse, and when he was brought into the house, he fell on his knees, but he was a messenger from the king's house:

"Congratulations to the princess, the princess is happy!"

After receiving the letter, before he even opened the envelope, Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"You have a hard run, you will be rewarded!"

Then he took the letter in this way, and did not open it for half a sound.

Be a dad!

Although he has been mentally prepared for a long time, when all this comes, Zhu Guoqiang still needs some time to adapt.

"It's a pity that I can't go back to Jinan to see."

Thinking so in his heart, he even wanted to travel back to Jinan directly and go to Li Jingyun's side, but there was always a lot of work to do here.

"Hey, let's see this guest first."

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In the Shuangdao Bay wharf in Lushun, a three-masted ship came to the foreign boat, unlike later generations, in the era of sailing ships, Lushunkou, as a deep-water port, was not suitable as a port, and in later generations, as a marine aquaculture base, Shuangdao Bay was the most suitable bay for mooring ships in this era, just like Macao before the 19th century.

When the ship passed through the twin islands, Zu Zepu, who was sitting on the boat on the boat, occasionally set his eyes on the double islands at the mouth of the bay, when Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, was killed on the island for Yuan Chonghuanjiao, and it was from then on that there were only two words left in his heart for the generals of Liaodong - self-preservation.

Ship into Shuangdao Bay, there are dozens of ships of different sizes moored in the bay, although it is not a forest of mast sails, but such a lively port, in Liaodong is also very rare.

"It seems that the general does have some ability to govern!"

Zu Zepu said to himself in his heart.

After Zu Zepu and his party went ashore, they were soon greeted by the officials of the port, and after learning of their intentions, the officials of the port sent several carriages for them to use.

The car is a four-wheeled carriage, and Zu Zepu is no stranger to this kind of four-wheeled carriage, after all, as early as a few months, this kind of carriage that was first popular in Jinan has been sold to Jinzhou by merchants, but unlike the official road in Jinzhou that has been in disrepair for a long time, the road from Lushun to Dalian is a gravel road, although there are some bumps in the carriage can travel very fast.

"Second young master, I heard that in the past few months, the Pingyu army of De Shizi has been repairing roads all day long, it is estimated that this is the kind of road that is being repaired, and the small ones didn't understand it very well before, now think about it, the Pingyu military road connects all parts together, if you transport troops with such a big horse, you can march a hundred miles in a day......"

Feeling the slight bump of this spring carriage, Fei Mingjie said with some sighs.

"It seems that this kind of four-wheeled spring carriage is also specially made from Jinan, plus this official road, oh, by the way, it seems that Shandong is also building roads!"

Four-wheeled spring carriages from Jinan, this is nothing new, at first for the transportation of materials between construction sites, a large number of heavy-duty four-wheeled carriages were required, and then naturally spread to various industries, and even when going south, the southbound army was also carrying a large number of four-wheeled carriages. As for the construction of roads in various parts of Shandong, that is also the need for "work for relief".

Zu Zepu, who was absent-minded, just replied lightly, and then cast his eyes out of the car window, through the wooden lattice of the car window, he saw a black herd of horses galloping there in the distant mountain col.

"There are so many ......"

Zu Zepu gasped a little, although there were Mongolians living near Jinzhou, and he had seen a larger herd of horses than this in the past, but in the Ming army, there was no family that would have so many horses.

"Second young master, these horses should have been robbed by them when they took down Shenyang last time, I heard that Dongyu's horse farms were all empty for them, and they grabbed tens of thousands of horses, and most of them were mares, all of which were obtained by Donglu from the Mongolians, we are right to come here this time, just buy horses from them in the future."

In fact, in the past, for the Liaodong Army, it was easy to buy horses, at that time many Mongolians were attached to them, but now they can't, in addition to the small tribes attached to, most of the Mongolians have defected to the Dongyu, known as the famous Jurchen Iron Cavalry, in fact, most of them are Mongols, they themselves are just horseback infantry.

"Well, it's like ......."

After taking a deep breath, Zu Zepu's heart was a mixed array of flavors, the people of the German family are getting stronger and stronger, but what about the Liaodong Army?

Ay...... Every year, millions of taels of military salaries are spent, but the strength of the army is far inferior to that of the Pingyu army, these horses are robbed by them, and the territory is also robbed by them, and even ......

Suddenly, there was a burst of artillery in the distance.

The sudden sound of artillery made Zu Zepu's face change a little, and the guards on the side also hurriedly gathered around the carriage.

"Don't worry, big guy, this is our Pingyu army training......"

Before he finished speaking, there was another burst of more intensive artillery fire.

Listening to the sound of the cannon, Zu Zepu suddenly became interested, and ordered the coachman.

"Check it out over there! Look at the famous Pingyu Army! ”

After a while, they came to a small hill, and stood on it, and they saw a team of about five or six thousand people, lined up in a neat military formation, in which flags were fluttering, and more than a dozen Hongyi cannons were shelling the squares drawn with white lime in the distance from time to time. At the same time, the line of soldiers marched in order, and then suddenly stopped.

With a bang, clouds of white smoke rose from the wilderness.

"That's too generous, isn't it?"

Zu Zepu secretly shouted in his heart.

Although the military budget of the Liaodong Army is sufficient, it is not so generous that they are like them, firing guns all day long, after all, gunpowder is to be bought with money, but the Pingyu Army is like gunpowder guns do not need money.

In addition to their surprise, they saw that there were about a thousand armored soldiers coming out of the formation, and the tactics seemed to be extremely skillful, and for a long time, Zu Zepu couldn't calm down.

"The Pingyu Army is really not a waste of fame!!"

Staring at the Pinglu army that was once again in the team, Zu Zepu thought thoughtfully, and at this moment, in the ranks of the Pingyu army, which had already formed a whole team and was about to leave, the song suddenly sounded.

"You don't see it, the final army of the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is a captive, please be long."

It's not one person singing, it's everyone singing there.

"You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds. The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life. The situation is that if the national prestige is tired, the feather competition will not stop. Abandon my old pen, and I will be wartime. One called out to 100,000 comrades, singing war songs and joining the army. Qi joined the army, cleaned the dust, and swore to sweep away the slaves without regard for themselves! ”

The momentum of thousands of people singing in unison was very amazing, even Zu Zepu, who was used to seeing big scenes, was stunned by the singing for a while. The high-pitched singing resounded in the sky, only shocking everyone's hearts.

"Swear to sweep away the slaves without regard for their lives...... What a sworn slave who doesn't care about himself! ”

After being silent for a long time, Zu Zepu couldn't help but shout loudly, but his gaze was a little complicated, until the army left, he turned around and saw the coachman next to him, who didn't seem to be interested, so he asked casually.

"What? You don't like to watch it! ”

"What's there to see here, the Pingyu Army practices every day, and you can see it every day, so there's nothing new about it!"

As soon as his words fell, Zu Zepu was surprised.

"What? Practice every day! Can this soldier stand it? ”