In the early morning, dozens of fast horses galloped out of Jiading City. Outside the city are endless paddy fields, and the paddy fields are dotted with mulberry fields. In the meantime, there are roads for horses to gallop. As the red sun rose, the horse team galloped along the field road. Zhu Mingzhong, who was riding on a horse, looked left and right from time to time, who would have thought that this farmland in front of him would become the most prosperous city in the Far East three hundred years later?

Zhu Mingzhong, who was riding on horseback, tried to look for traces of history here, but the result was disappointed. After all, this is not Xujiahui three and a half centuries later.

"Hey......"

After sighing in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong looked at the horse team in front of him. Eyebrows raised slightly, the reason why these short and stout Mongolian horses can be obtained in the south of the Yangtze River, perhaps to a certain extent, thanks to the results of the Manchu Qing Dynasty entry - although the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs for only a few decades, but because of the need for tea, silk, and cotton cloth in Mongolia and other places, the barter trade in Mongolia and other places is dozens of times more prosperous than in the past, and with the prosperity of trade, a large number of horses poured into the customs, which not only led to a decline in horse prices, but also normal to raise a few horses among the large households in Jiangnan, thanks to this, Zhu Mingzhong was able to acquire more than 400 horses, which enabled him to form a cavalry corps. Although these cavalry have only just learned to ride horses, there are infantry and cavalry, and they look more or less like that. This time out of the city to the front and back hugging can be described as extremely spectacular - there are thirty riders in front of the road, thirty riders in the back, a total of sixty-three horses, a few years ago, even the governor did not necessarily have such a large posture. It's not that Zhu Mingzhong wants to show off, but he has to do this, after all, the current situation is too unreassuring, not only do I not know how many people in this countryside are hardcore traitors, but who knows if they will run into the Qing army on the way to Shanghai County, in case they take a risk, their lives will be lost!

For Zhu Mingzhong, who is in a big era, he no longer has the initial fear, especially after mastering the foundation, his belief has become more and more firm. Now his goal is to keep a trace of pure blood of Chinese civilization no matter what, and then ensure the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty! "General, it's three miles ahead!" Liu Rushi, who was riding on a horse, wiped some of the sweat from her forehead, and pointed to the village in front of her. "My brother's old friend is after Xu Wendinggong, it can be said that he has a family relationship, not only proficient in Western arithmetic, astrology, but also proficient in the art of war, and understands firearms, which is not a problem compared to his ancestors......" Liu Ruyi's praise fell on Zhu Mingzhong's ears, and he nodded in response. If it is really as the virtuous brother said, your friend is the person Zhu needs, but ......, "It's just that whether that person is willing to go out of the mountain to help, this is the most critical question!"

Xu Wending in Liu Ru's mouth is the Xu Guangqi who introduced Western firearms into China, he is not only proficient in mathematics and Western military technology, he also has an unknown place - proficient in Western military art, Wanli 48 years when he was ordered to Tongzhou, Changping to supervise the training of the new army, but also learn from the European army to write a variety of regulations and codes, and try to establish a professional army based on Western firearms, although this attempt for various reasons did not succeed, even the so-called "new army" is just the old army with artillery. But at least one direction is pointed. Although there have been debates in forums about the invincibility of the Spanish pikes, at least one thing is undeniable: building a Western-style, modern army equipped with firearms is a shortcut, and perhaps even the only feasible way to attack the Qing in the north. Although Zhu Mingzhong loves military affairs and seems to know what a cannon is, what gunpowder is, and what a flintlock pistol is, he just knows it. Professional things need to be handed over to professional people to do, when Zhu Mingzhong made gunpowder for the first time, what he wanted to think about was to find a few talents to help him solve some technical problems, especially after seeing those so-called gunners with "family secret methods" and "master magic weapons", this desire became even stronger.

When he told Liu Ru is cause of his troubles that day, Liu Ru immediately recommended someone to him, but according to Liu Ru yes, the people of the Xu family, since Xu Wendinggong, have no intention of career, and her friend, Xu Erlu, of course, is a famous talent in Nanzhili, but he has no intention of career.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong made a temporary decision to go to Jiading with the army, and then rushed to Xujiahui, which is not far from Jiading, to come here and meet that Xu Erlu, that is, the talented person with a good belly in Liu Ru's mouth.

Of course, for Zhu Mingzhong, what he needs is not that Xu Erlu is good at farming, but what he needs is his knowledge of artillery, as long as this person is like his grandfather, he can help him train an artilleryman.

In the evening, Zhu Mingzhong and his entourage came to Xujiawan, there seems to be no difference between it and the nearby villages, it is nothing more than a family settlement, the arrival of Zhu Mingzhong and his party really brought a never-before-seen impact to the people of Xujiawan, when crossing the bridge, the old man of the tea stall on the side of the road looked at this group of people in astonishment, looking at Zhu Mingzhong and Liu Ru is dressed in Han clothes, the old man even trembled with excitement. I don't know what to mutter.

But for this excited look, Zhu Mingzhong has been accustomed to this way, when he was in Jiading, he also saw excited, even crying people, they are all wearing Han clothes pressed at the bottom of the box, all of them have shaved off the money rat tail, perhaps, the Manchu butcher's knife made them succumb, but in their hearts, they are still longing, eager to one day be able to wear the clothes of their ancestors again, grow the hair bun of their ancestors, instead of waiting for the money rat tail of barbarian animals.

The people's hearts are in me!

Again, Zhu Mingzhong had such a sentence in his heart, originally, he didn't know whether there was "nationalism" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, but now it seems that the nationalism in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties did not sink, the butcher's knife of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not kill the backbone of the Chinese people, and the iron backbone of the Han family in the hearts of the Chinese people who had not been enslaved for more than 200 years did not sink, what they needed was to be awakened!

As long as they can be awakened, what is the fear of this Manchu?

Thinking like this in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong looked at the Xu family's mansion that was getting closer and closer, and secretly thought to himself, will this Xu Er Road go out of the mountain? At this time, Wang Dahu, who had visited at the beginning, came back.

"General, the little man went to visit, and the housekeeper of the Xu family said that his master was unwell and couldn't see guests!"

"Didn't you tell him that it was an old friend visiting?"

When Liu Ru heard this, he suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"Can't see guests...... Hmph"

His brows jumped slightly, and Zhu Mingzhong sneered.

"It's a good one who can't see the guest, big tiger, you go and tell the man, just say ......"

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