Because the soldiers were exhausted after fighting all night, the fleet only left Tianjin and entered the canal, and then anchored on the shore for the night.

Li Jing woke up, got dressed, washed up, and went to inspect the various ships to visit the wounded soldiers.

All ashore in the morning. Li Jing held a memorial service for the four soldiers who died. All the soldiers wore black arm veils and lined up, and Li Jing led the officers and soldiers of all sizes to bow three times and recite the sacrificial text. Then cut off a small amount of hair and nails and put them into small cloth bags, cremation of the remains, small cloth bags and ashes into wooden boxes.

Being a soldier in this era is not a good profession, as the saying goes, a good iron does not hit nails, and a good man is not a soldier. If you die, you will pay at most some money for burning and burying it. However, Li Jing felt that soldiers should have a sense of honor and change the tradition of this society despising soldiers.

Li Jing announced that a military cemetery would be built in Keelung Harbor on Dayuan Island, and all soldiers who had served in Li Jing's system were eligible to be buried after death. Including Li Jing himself, a hundred years later, he also arranged this. In this era, it is a tragic thing that there are no descendants to pay tribute to. Since the soldiers were young, the vast majority did not have families and had no offspring. The cemetery is built with an ancestral hall, and there are full-time personnel to pay tribute on the fifteenth day of each month. Build a monument and a wall of martyrs to engrave the names of martyrs and inspire future generations.

Most of the officers and soldiers were born in shantytowns, hiding in the mountains, being discriminated against and humiliated, and the officers and soldiers also came to clean up the scourge. They were bitten to death by poisonous insects and beasts, and many people died at a young age due to lack of medical treatment. After coming to Nanao Town to serve as a soldier, I felt for the first time that I was a decent person, for the first time I felt respected, for the first time I was well fed and clothed, and for the first time I felt safe and worry-free. You don't have to sleep with a knife or axe. If you are sick, you can go to the medical team.

This time, when I heard that there were people who died in the war, there were also people who paid tribute, and they were not afraid that there would be no children and grandchildren, and everyone was even more excited. I heard that Li Jing is like everyone else a hundred years later, he is alive and follows the handsome, and he dies in battle. Also with the brethren. A sense of dependence and belonging that has never been felt before, filling the chest and lungs, and everyone vows to die.

Subsequently, Li Jing announced the establishment of the Military Service Bureau, and Li Jing personally served as the ambassador of the Bureau. Li Jing's uncle, Li Ning, served as the executive deputy ambassador and presided over the daily work. Li Ning is a good man with average ability, but he is diligent and dedicated, he is also honest and popular. Since then, the families of the martyrs who have died in battle have been placed by the Service Bureau, arranged for employment, and their children have been sent to the Juvenile Academy and the Maritime Academy. Parents who are unable to work can be admitted to welfare homes, and those who do not want to leave their hometowns will be given money and food on a monthly basis. Let the officers and soldiers have no worries.

After the memorial service, I buried the pot and made rice, bought five big fat pigs from nearby villages, made braised pork, provided one or two white wines per person, and all had a meal. Morale was suddenly high. After the meal, everyone boarded the boat and set off.

The soldiers, after being boosted by the morale of the morning, seemed to have an inexhaustible strength in their bodies. Ten minutes to change shifts, take turns to trample on the flywheel, six warships sailed without sails and oars, flying upstream, the people along the coast were dumbfounded, and the officials of the banknote customs saw that it was the naval warship and hurriedly let it go. At noon, he rushed to Tongzhou, after eating and resting, he rushed to Chaoyang Gate in the afternoon, Li Jing took Bai Yu and the four maids to get off the boat and enter the city, and the six boats anchored along the moat to Jishuitan.

Before going ashore, Li Jing met the father and daughter, returned to the cabin, and asked people to call the father and daughter who raised fine dogs.

There was a great chaos in the city, and they were taken away when they retreated.

The two men were terrified. Later, when the fighting in the city subsided, they were not released, but took them on a boat and came to the canal. Fortunately, there was a stop not far from Tianjin, and I rested here for the night. Fortunately, the officers and men were very polite and polite, and arranged for their father and daughter to live in a spacious place on the bow of the ship.

Someone also brought dinner, a small iron pot of stewed tofu, and ten white flour steamed buns. He also sent ten steamed buns to two thin dogs. The father's name is Han Lin, who looks old, but he is actually only thirty-three years old, and his daughter's name is Han Ling, who is thirteen years old. A native of Baoding Prefecture. Han Lin's wife fell ill and died, and she never had the money to marry again, so she took her daughter to make money by performing arts.

Li Jing asked them about their food and housing. Seeing that they were still a little scared, after gently comforting them, he said: "The origin of the thief this time is not simple, if you don't take it away, you are afraid of retaliation afterwards, you can't go back to Tianjin, anyway, you go to the rivers and lakes to perform art is also a home from all over the world, this time your father and daughter are meritorious, I will give you two choices, one is that I will give you a reward of silver, and you will take the sailor warship to Jinling." The second is to serve me, you are good at training dogs, I am preparing the military animal management bureau in the city, and there is a military dog brigade if you want, you can come to serve as the captain. We are battalion soldiers, according to the imperial court system, from the general soldier to the soldier, there is no grade. However, the salary is good, it is an employment relationship, and it is not assigned to the military household. Sign a labor contract, and you can resign at the end of the term. It can also continue to work. ”

This day and night spent a short time with Nanao Town, which subverted their father and daughter's perception of officers and soldiers, who were all young and vigorous. He spoke politely and respectfully, and although his clothes were a little strange, he did look handsome and handsome, showing the heroic temperament of a soldier. Han Lin had never seen such officers and soldiers.

Xiao Han Ling, who ate the braised pork in the morning, almost didn't bite her tongue, and she repeatedly persuaded her to eat slowly, and she also gave her her this one, don't worry.

"I don't know how this captain is," Han Lin asked cautiously.

"The treatment, the captain and the battalion captain are first-level, they are grass-roots civilian officers, there is no military rank, the monthly salary is five silver coins, which is equivalent to five taels of silver, and the public funds for food, clothing, housing and transportation are responsible, and there are no other expenses. Your father and daughter are to attend night school to learn to read and write, and the officers in Nanao Town must be literate and numeracy. ”

Han Lin thought that he was wandering the rivers and lakes with his daughter, hungry and full, and being bullied by the head snake on the ground, and now that he had won the blue eyes of this young handsome man with his skills, it could be regarded as his own time to operate.

"I am willing to serve the commander," Han Lin bowed and said.

sent Han Lin's father and daughter away, and Li Jing and others also got off the boat and entered the city. Li Jing saw that it was still early, and suddenly remembered that his home was near Longfu Temple, and he hadn't taken a good stroll yet. Longfu Temple is the most prosperous business circle in the capital, with thousands of shops, clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Bai Yu and the four maids heard that they were going to visit Longfu Temple, and they were also full of joy and interest.

Not long after Li Jing and his entourage walked into Longfu Temple, they met a group of people, their two sisters and Zhang Fengyi chattered in front, Ma Wenting and Ma Wenying walked behind, and looked at the clothes, satin, powder, rouge, and various small goods hanging in the shop twice from time to time.

Looking back, Li Jing's eyes widened, and the two men behind him were carrying large bags and small bags of things in their hands, and they looked like they were being caught and carried bags.

The two looked helpless and complained to each other, one was Ma Xianglin, and the other was a teenager who stopped him in the Drum Tower a month ago and sent a lighter by himself.