"Tiger Skin Station and Fengji Fort still have tens of thousands of Liao elites." Mao Wenlong stroked his beard, as if he was asking Wang Xingping a question.

These two places to the east, is Yuan Yingtai plans to re-operate the Qinghe, Fushun fort two starting point, is now the south of Shenyang two largest military cities, and last year in June Jiannu attacked Shenyang, he had divided 10,000 troops to Fengji Fort, on the one hand, to cut off the Shenyang back road, on the other hand, also did not want the official army to stabilize this advance base for Qinghe and Fushun.

But Wang Xingping still didn't care, and said: "The kid naturally knows, but there is another private matter today, which has something to do with the current situation in Liaodong, so it is better to explain it to the general." ”

"Private?" Mao Wenlong groaned, and suddenly looked at Fu Xiaofei, who had been accompanying him.

Wang Xingping then 'seemed' remembered Fu Xiaofei who followed him into the house, although he passed his name and surname at the beginning, he was afraid that he had been regarded as a regular follower, and he hurriedly introduced him, "I have been talking about it for a long time, and I haven't been introduced yet, this is Fu Dongzhu, who is a friend and a master of Wantong." ”

"Fu Xiaofei." Seeing Wang Xingping's reminder, Fu Xiaofei got up and gave another salute.

Wang Xingping continued: "Fu Dongzhu operates some Australian goods in Tianjin Wei, and now he wants to open a branch in southern Liaoning, this matter is good for both public and private, so the kid was cheeky and brought him here, and hoped that the general would help." ”

"Australian? Liaonan? It seems that this Mao Wenlong also knows a lot about the things in the Senate, and his eyes have changed a little when he sees Wang Xingping, and he has been talking for a long time, but he still has something to ask, he said: "How can you find me here, I can't help Mao Mou in this matter." ”

"Actually, proprietor Fu is also thinking about the general, and there is a way to get the best of both worlds, so he naturally thought of it."

"For my sake? What is the best of both worlds? I don't know if Mao Wenlong's appetite is hung up, but he didn't refuse directly, but waited for Fu Xiaofei's words, obviously Wang Xingping left a deep impression on him, and he didn't think that this proprietor Fu would not be a vain.

"I remember that Du Rong's uncle has been an official in Shandong for many years, and he is quite old."

Mao Wenlong noticed that this proprietor Fu did not call himself a 'villain', which made him a little moved.

He is always a little admired by the businessman's well-informed, listening to him talk about Shandong, naturally also understand, although Liaodong is a vast area, but still under the Shandong political department, his uncle Shen Guangzuo from the 33rd year of Wanli in Shandong as an envoy, to later transferred to the province of the right government, a stay is ten years, there is always some incense. Take what he knows, today's Guangning branch guard Wang Huazhen is the one in Shen Guangzuo's office, and if you judge from the township test, he can be regarded as half a teacher. And this proprietor Fu claimed to be doing business in Tianjin, and most of the fight was the idea of sea trade, but since this Wang Xingping obviously knew his uncle, why did he start from himself, maybe he still had any inside information.

Thinking of this, Mao Wenlongnai asked, "What does this have to do with me?" That bit of incense has long faded, not to mention that Mao is just an outsider. ”

Fu Xiaofei didn't care, "We do business, this connection is the most important, now the general is unwilling, have you ever thought about changing the court?" ”

"I am a military general, what can I change, I always listen to the dispatch of the imperial court." Mao Wenlong said in his heart, how could he talk to a businessman about such a thing as a soldier, but his intuition told him that this person still had something to say.

Sure enough, I saw Fu Xiaofei and said with a smile: "I am not talented, and I also have some friendship with Shen Zongrong (Shen Yourong) of Dengzhou Water Camp." ”

Shen Yourong has already been appointed, and with Zheng Jiefu's radio contact, it is very convenient to exchange voices.

Mao Wenlong was really not stupid, he connected the words before and after in one place, and figured out the trick, "You are looking for a private port?" ”

"Exactly."

Fu Xiaofei said in his heart, it is really comfortable to deal with smart people.

"Have you figured out a place?" Mao Wenlong thought to himself, this is probably the best of both worlds, if you want to do private Hong Kong business, it is certain to find a backstage in the army behind you, but you have to reach it yourself, and it is because of him that he has this question.

"Zhenjiang Fort." Fu Xiaofei did not hesitate.

Zhenjiang Fort is at the mouth of the Yalu River, that is, the original Jiulian City, which leans on the Zhendong Mountain in the north, borders the Hengdao River in the west, and separates the right branch of the River in the south, and is very close to the Dadonggou at the mouth of the Yalu River. Since the Jin and Yuan dynasties, this place has been the place where the trade of North Korea is controlled, and the geographical location is extremely important. ', this surnamed Fu's vision is good, and geographically speaking, it is not too far from his nominal defense area, and he can barely speak.

"The place is well chosen, but there is a mutual market there, and Fu Dong is mainly engaged in trading, so why bother looking for me." Mao Wenlong still had to take care of it, so he thought about it and said, "Well, I have some friendship with Chen Liangce, the Chinese garrison of Zhenjiang Fort, and it is not impossible to repair a letter and ask him to take care of it." ”

Fu Xiaofei said again: "Actually, it is said that it is in Haikou south of Zhenjiang Fort, I wonder if Durong is interested in operating it?" ”

Mao Wenlong pondered, and suddenly laughed and said, "You dare to think about it, but it does have some meaning." ”

Fu Xiaofei knew that Mao Wenlong was a good gambler, so he led him to that direction with these words, and he said: "Now the situation in Liaodong is unknown, and there are many bets in the next place. ”

He can be regarded as handing Mao Wenlong a ladder, once the Liaodong incident occurs, Mao Wenlong will come out, and he can do a lot of things in a low-key manner. However, if Houjin can't succeed this time, with Mao Wenlong's foundation in Kuandian and Sanyang and the relationship between the army and the old in Zhenjiang, the idea of the Senate to set up a commercial port at the mouth of the Yalu River should also be satisfied. As for Mao Wenlong, I am afraid that he is more interested in the latter possibility, after all, the official and military records since last year are not bad, although he scolded a few civilian officials, but he did not think that Liaodong would reach the point of complete uncontrol, at least the former possibility mentioned by Fu Xiaofei, I am afraid that the east of the Liaohe River will be captured by Jiannu.

Because of this, it is impossible for Fu Xiaofei to tell Mao Wenlong about the overall plan, after all, there are still many variables. Fu and Wang are just familiar with Mao Wenlong's gambling nature, but when it comes to the Liaodong Army, Mao Wenlong is not the only one who is familiar.

It wasn't until Wang and Fu left for a long time that Mao Wenlong casually opened the gift sent by the two, and in the big red box was a copper tube with a glass lens at both ends, and he immediately recognized it and sighed softly.

'Clairloom ......'

I don't know which kid set off the cannon outside the village, as if to see off Wang Xingping and them......

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Fengji Fort is between Liaoyang and Shenyang, and Hupiyi and Shenyang are each other's horns, just the gateway to the southeast of Shenyang, connecting the two most important cities in Liaodong today, although the name of the fort, the garrison is quite a lot. Nowadays, there are nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed here and around the Hupiyi Station in the west, although there are many old, weak, sick and disabled, but there are also elites like Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers.

In this way, he resisted the offensive of Jiannu in several battles last year, and the results were good.

From Anshan back to Liaoyang to repair and settle for ten days, and then two days in a row to hurry, now it is the thirteenth day of the first month, according to the Western calendar has been February, the military camp is still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year's Festival, all kinds of banquets between officers can not avoid vulgarity, seeing that the Shangyuan Festival is coming, this festival atmosphere is more intense.

The roe deer and venison hunted in the mountains are fragrant with charcoal fire, lined with snowflakes outside the tent, which is particularly heartwarming.

"Tiancheng, come and try this meat, it's hard to eat fresh in Jingzhong." Zhang Mingshi has now resumed his position as a general, but regardless of his age and identity, he personally cut off a piece of the most tender venison and handed it to Wang Xingping's plate.

"It's been nearly two years since Tianjin was goodbye, and I didn't expect to be able to meet outside the customs."

It can be seen that in the heart of General Zhang, Wang Xingping has been cited as a friend of the year.

Wang Xingping said apologetically: "I don't want to be a guest at the banquet today, but Xingping is bothered." ”

After returning from Anshan, Fu Xiaofei and Zhang Guoji stayed in Liaoyang to discuss the establishment of an intelligence trading station with Cheng Xiangwen, while Wang Xingping took most of his family members to continue north to Fengjibao, in order to meet Zhang Mingshi, who was the criminal general who was recommended by Xiong Tingbi and brought with him.

Of course, the speedy one went north first to the 'sentinel' near Shenyang and Yilu.

Zhang Mingshi was recommended by Xiong Tingbi as a criminal general in the Beijing camp, and he made great achievements in firearms, but Xiong Tingbi was dismissed, but he continued to serve in the Liaodong Army. Last year, he also contributed a lot in the battle of the official army to break the Jiannu. Today coincided with the New Year's Festival, and there were no relatives around, so his soldiers played some game, so they simply invited a few like-minded generals to gather together, but they didn't want Wang Xingping to come at this time.

Zhang Mingshi naturally invited him to attend with him, and he made a grand introduction.

Being able to know so many generals from Liaodong at once, Wang Xingping was naturally happy, but he acted more low-key, and he was extremely humble in the face of these generals.

During the banquet, a bearded man was full of Sichuan official dialect, and when he saw that Zhang Mingshi was so close to Wang Xingping, he also smiled: "I know that Wang Gongzi is the prisoner of the country, and he can deign to come to the table of these rough people such as me, and what do you say, my old Zhou is a station (note: Ming Dynasty Shu language, referring to the army), and I don't have those rows." ”

Another person also smiled and said: "That is, if Ge Laozi is not Tiancheng you came, where is there this good wine to drink, the meat eaten these days is all indiscriminate (note: Ming Dynasty Shu language, refers to pickled) over, it is rare to show that today's Zixian is the east, good wine and good meat are inherited from nature, we are all short and frustrated, and we are not as expensive as your Tianzi protégé, so you don't have to twist." ”

These two are the ones who are kind to Zhang Mingshi in the camp, the first one is Yongning General Zhou Dunji, and the latter is Shi Yan Xuanfu Si Du Si Shu Qin Bangping, and there are two people beside him, namely Bang Ping's brother Bang Han and Min Ping, both of whom are guards, but they did not speak.

Thinking that people in the army like wine, especially in this winter in Liaodong, the spirits of more than 50 degrees are enough to move the generals, Wang Xingping simply took out the remaining bottles of Guoshi Wushuang, this kind of good goods naturally can't escape the eyes of the generals, and it really makes everyone more personal to him, such as Zhou Dunji, who is even more addicted to good wine, and these bottles are faintly not enough.

Wang Xingping blindly entertained, and said to the three Qin brothers: "I have heard the prestige of the white pole soldiers for a long time, and I will definitely come to your camp to pay my respects another day." ”

"Whatever Xiucai says, just come." Qin Bangping raised his glass and drank it all again.

Before he finished speaking, another middle-aged man with a white face and long beard got up and said to Wang Xingping: "I heard that those children of Yiming have made great contributions in Guizhou, and I will also pay tribute to Tiancheng on their behalf, and I will take care of Tiancheng more in the future." ”

This person is Qi Jin, although this time he led the troops to aid Liao is for the country's affairs, in fact, he came as a deputy general to aid the suppression, only 300 people dare to fight around him, and there are not many Zhejiang soldiers left. Speaking of which, although this person is Qi Jiguang's nephew, the relationship with the Qi family army is already very weak, if you have to say it, the Qi family's blood inheritance is good, otherwise it will not be re-put into battle after ten years of rearing.

Although the imprint of the Qi family army on his body has faded a lot now, he is still Qi Jiguang's kin, and he is the only surviving general of the Qi family, and he feels that he always has a mission on his shoulders, which is a little different from other generals.

Zhou Yiming also participated in the Battle of Salhu at the beginning, and escaped with his life by relying on the war horse obtained by Wang Xingping with his connections, and re-established the garrison in Guizhou by chance. Since life has returned to the right track, the correspondence with the township party has also resumed, and it is also mentioned from time to time in the Di copy, so Qi Jin is also very pleased to see it, and his impression of Wang Xingping is even better. After all, Zhou Yiming fled to Tianjin at the beginning, and I heard that he was going to vote for him, if that was the case, it would be difficult to get ahead now.

Wang Xingping bowed down and saluted, "Where does Shen Rong say, Seventh Brother and my brother are all temperamental people, and they are used to being able to operate in the army, where I take care of him, it is clear that he takes care of Xingping." ”

After pushing and conceding with Qi Jin a few times, Wang Xingping couldn't help but look at Zhang Mingshi again, and secretly wondered about his good popularity.

As for Zhang Mingshi's ability to have this popularity in various battalions, there is no special reason. Because Gai is proficient in firearms, he serves in the Zhejiang barracks, but because he is the same as Zhou Dunji is a criminal general recommended by Xiong Tingbi, he has a lot of contacts on weekdays, and he gradually became familiar with the generals of the Sichuan soldiers. Moreover, as the elite of Shenyang's aid and suppression, the Sichuan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers are good at close combat and firearms, and they complement each other well on weekdays, and the generals of the two armies are also friendly. It is a pity that Chen Ce, the chief military officer, is nearly seventy years old, and he has already quit this big bowl of drinking, and he is also in Liaoyang, and Qin Bangping's sister is still in Shuzhong at the moment and has not gone north, otherwise Wang Xingping would like to know one or two.

When the wine was hot, Wang Xingping and everyone gradually got closer, so he took the opportunity to inquire about the things he was interested in.

He first set his sights on the Sichuan generals, especially Zhou Dunji, who was a self-acquaintance, but for some reason he had a good impression of Wang Xingping.

At this moment, he raised his glass again, and said in a somewhat angry tone: "It's better to study literature like Tiancheng, like our group of martial arts madmen, if something happens, they will only be taken to pad their backs, and in the future, my family will have to take a show before coming out, so as not to be bullied." ”

Zhang Mingshi just shook his head helplessly when he heard this, "Brother Zhou is still upset about the affairs of the luxury family?" ”

"How can you be peaceful, you let Tiancheng explain the reason, those embryos of the luxury family, why can't he kill me if he can kill me?"

Wang Xingping's heart jumped, and secretly said How can there be any matter of me here?

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