Chapter 46: Departure
The next day, Long Jun handed over the money to Xu Chu to buy the ship, at this time Zhao Yun was still in Guangling, Long Jun wanted to personally send Feng Yuanyi out of Yu County, so the task of accompanying Xu Chu became Ma Chao.
On the way, Ma Chao didn't have a good face for Xu Chuke, the reason was that when the team was assigned this morning, Ma Chao was originally one of the three major commanders of the Long family's army, because he was not familiar with these soldiers, Long Jun did not give him real power to soldiers and horses, but Xu Chu on the side led a team of five hundred people alone. Ma Chao didn't dare to make a face with Long Jun, so every time he looked at Xu Chu's expression along the way, he was vicious! And because Xu Chu led his people alone for the first time, his high-spirited appearance stimulated Ma Chao even more.
The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became, Ma Chao asked with a sad expression, "Fat Xu, why do you have to call me to come with you?" ”
Hearing Ma Chao's resentment, a smile of successful conspiracy instantly appeared on Xu Chu's face, but this smile disappeared in a flash, and he hurriedly said, "This transaction is the key to our trip to Qingzhou, and we can't be sloppy at all, I originally wanted to call the lord to come in person, but that Feng Yuanyi lord still has something to talk to him, so I can't call you here!" ”
Pointing at Xu Chushu with a middle finger, Ma Chao knew that this was impossible, Feng Yuanyi's matter Long Jun had already dealt with it last night, the three of them didn't know, Long Jun didn't want to have anything to do with the people of Taiping Dao at all, otherwise he only had 2,000 people in his hands but directly bought 10,000 military equipment? This is obviously Xu Fatzi's intention.
The two of them made a noisy noise along the way and finally came to a dilapidated wharf along the Yangtze River, which is only thirty miles away from Guangling, and was once one of the largest wharves in Guangling.
In this transaction, the other party's firm knew what Long Jun was transporting, and the Long Jiajun's return to Yuxian County had been transported by their ships. However, the world is very chaotic now, as long as there is money to be made, there are a few people who will respect the legal system of the imperial court.
Just as the two were talking, the ships of Fuyuan Commercial Bank had arrived at the dock, and the three building ships were all old ships, but they were by no means dilapidated, because Ma Chao did not understand water nature, Xu Chu needed to talk to the steward of Fuyuan Commercial Bank, and Song Feng, who came with him, personally led the order to check. After some inspection, Song Feng nodded at Ma Chao, Xu Chu and the others, and after Xu Chu was confirmed by Song Feng, he handed over the prepared fifteen thousand silver coins to the steward.
The steward didn't say much, and after ordering someone to take the box, he counted the number, made sure that there was no problem, turned around and left, and didn't even say a kind word. Xu Chu also knew that these people were afraid of getting involved with him, if it weren't for the face of money, it was estimated that the other party wouldn't even take care of himself.
Shaking his head, he said to Ma Chao, "Meng Qi, I will stay here to take care of the ship, you go to the lord, tell him that our ship is ready, and ask when you will start carrying luggage!" ”
Ma Chao finally knew why Xu Chu called himself this time, in addition to showing off his team, the rest was to let himself run errands, and after despising Xu Chu's personality, he said viciously, "Okay!" Xu Fatty! You've got a kind! ”
Hehe, with a smile, Xu Chu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Meng Qi, you can't rely on me, after all, I am now the commander of five hundred people, and I can't leave easily, and you have no soldiers under you, so please Ma Gongzi!" ”
snorted coldly, Ma Chao didn't ink with him, turned back the horse's head and ran to the cottage. But there was still a voice
"Fat Xu, you gave me the !! I was waiting for"
On the other side, Long Jun has already sent Feng Yuanyi away, Ma Chao and Xu Chu have not returned, and Zhao Yun will not be able to come back until night, and the team in the village is training under the leadership of Lin Yu, Zhang Qiang and others. Suddenly, Long Jun felt that he had nothing to do, and glanced at the soul chaser gun hanging on the shelf, he found that he didn't have a set of armor yet, and he didn't have it last time!
After thinking about it, Long Jun decided to design a set of armor for himself first. In fact, long before his death in his previous life, in order to facilitate the theft of the national treasures left outside, he had already studied the armor of various dynasties, and the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty can be said to be the pinnacle of Chinese armor history. Since there was no paper yet, he found a piece of white cloth and began to design on it.
After an hour or so, Long Jun lifted the white cloth and looked at his design with satisfaction, and when he was about to satisfy himself, he heard the voice of his unlucky apprentice.
Tilting his head and glancing at Ma Chao, who was still depressed, Long Jun smiled secretly, this morning's incident was actually arranged by him deliberately with Xu Chu, put away his smile, coughed lightly and said, "Why did Meng Qi come back so soon?" Is it done? ”
Hearing Long Jun's inquiry, Ma Chao's loveless voice came again, and he said wistfully, "It's over, Commander Xu asked me to inform you!" ”
Knowing that Ma Chao was complaining that he didn't give him soldiers and horses, and teasing himself with the word "Commander Xu", Long Jun smiled slightly and didn't explain.
In fact, Long Jun had already thought about it, Ma Chao was a person who had experienced the battle array, and the soldiers and horses were skilled, and the remaining more than 1,000 Long family troops would definitely be handed over to Zhao Yun and Ma Chao to lead in the future, as for the people led by Xu Chu, they belonged to their own pro-army, because Xu Chu's character was not suitable for leading the army to fight alone, but Zhao Yun had not come back yet, and if Ma Chao was appointed alone, it would make people gossip. Even if Zhao Yun didn't say anything, his soldiers wouldn't think so, after all, they were all recruited by Zhao Yun.
After pondering for a while, Long Jun ordered someone to call Lin Yu, who was training, and instructed him to select two hundred people to send to Tongjiabao to Tong Yuan, while the rest of the men and horses began to pack their luggage and prepare to go to the dock.
In the evening, the Long family army was finally cleaned up, and Zhao Yun had also returned, standing at the door of the front hall and looking at the neatly lined up Long family army in the cottage, Long Jun's chest gave birth to a sense of pride, which was his capital to support the future.
After taking a long breath, Long Jun shouted loudly, "Brothers, today is the day when we will board the ship and leave Guangling for Qingzhou, you may not know what you may face in the future!" But what I want to tell you is that we will not be bandits, thieves, and traitors! There is a great drought in the three continents in the north, and the homeless people are rampant with bandits! If the business of the Long family wants to travel all over the land of China, we need to escort it, and this trip to Qingzhou is our first stop! Tell me, will you go with me? ”
I saw that everyone shouted in a loud voice, "Yes, willing!" ”
Now that the imperial court has not lifted the ban on the party, and the people have no heart to rebel, if Long Jun explains the truth, it is estimated that he will not be able to wait for him to leave Guangling, he will have to be imprisoned by the county guard, waiting to be beheaded!
Long Jun saw that the people's morale was high, and Zhengse shouted, "Ma Chao, Zhao Yun listen to the order!" ”
Zhao Yun and the two hurriedly clasped their fists and responded, "The subordinates are here!" ”
"I order you and the two of you to set off immediately, and personally lead 1,300 brothers to the dock to board the ship, and I will be there later!"
"No!"
Ma Chao and Zhao Yun led everyone to leave the cottage in turn, Long Jun brought the dragon horse, and was about to go to Tongjiabao to say goodbye to Cheng and others, but as soon as he arrived at the gate of the fort, he saw where Xiangbo was waiting for him!
With curiosity, Long Jun asked out loud, "Uncle Xiang, why did you come out to pick me up?" ”
"Just now I saw the brothers in the village leaving from the front of the fort, and my wife asked me to send a letter to my son, passing on a word!" As he spoke, he handed the letter in his hand to Long Jun, and then passed on what Cheng said!
This sentence made Long Jun turn around and leave quickly, with tears in his eyes!
Cheng's words are only one sentence, but they contain all the thoughts and expectations of a mother for her son!
"I don't want to say goodbye to my own children, I just want to be reunited with my son!"
Everyone finally gathered at the dock, Xu Chu had already cleaned the warehouse in the ship, and all kinds of military supplies had been loaded onto the ship by the sergeant who had just arrived, because the place where the ship was traveling was the Yangtze River and the coast, so there was no need for a slender man on the ship for the time being, and the rest only needed to allocate sailors!
Long Jun didn't know how to march and set up the army, so he could only let the three of them be in charge of a ship, and because Ma Chao was not able to pass through the water, he stayed on Ma Chao's ship! Nine times out of ten, there are people in the Danyang soldiers who are proficient in water, and it is very easy for them to operate the boat!
At night, the three ships finally set sail, because the night boat is very dangerous, Long Jun ordered the boat to sail to the main line of the Yangtze River, all the way slowly, but finally at dawn to the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The Yangtze River Delta in this era has not yet washed out the shoals of later generations, and there is no so-called Oriental Pearl! When watching the sun's brilliance shine on the sea, Ma Chao, Xu Chu, and Zhao Yun, who had never seen the sea, were already stunned by this beautiful scenery!
After chuckling, he asked the boat to be driven near a shoal by manpower, and Long Jun led the children who came out of the three mountains to drive the boat to the beach himself, ready to see if there was any seafood!
Long Jun knew very well that the best time to catch the sea was in the early hours of the morning, and by the early morning, many seafood had already hidden back in the sea, just to treat these three mountain cannon children, he decided to try his luck!
As soon as the four of them landed on the beach, Long Jun found a sand hole, and ordered Xu Chu to carry the prepared bucket, take a shovel and start digging, at first the three of them thought Long Jun was sick, but after a while, they saw a lot of crabs running out of the hole, Long Jun hurriedly grabbed a few big ones and still in the bucket! The three of them saw that they could catch it and follow it, but instead of the sound of crabs entering the bucket, they screamed! Long Jun was speechless about this, didn't these three goods see the big tongs on the crab's head, and dared to grab the pliers with their hands, after teaching the three of them how to catch crabs, after digging more than a dozen sand holes in a row, the whole three buckets were all filled and covered with lids!
When the four of them returned to the boat, Long Jun personally cooked, split the crabs and cooked porridge, and saw that the first meal for breakfast was actually crab porridge, Long Jun was funny when he thought about it, although he was not short of money in later generations, he had never been so extravagant, and the porridge cooked by nearly a hundred crabs was simply wonderful!
Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and the others also felt that it tasted good after eating, and hurriedly took the soldiers off the boat to catch crabs, which made the crabs near the entire shallows almost extinct, and then in the process of marching, as long as they encountered the beach, before Long Jun commanded, the three of them personally led the team to get off the boat to catch the sea!
In this way, Long Jun took the Long family army, went out day and night along the coastline, and finally felt the county at the first day of April!