On the other side of the sea, the war that had been quelled for more than ten years was once again raging, and the smell of gunpowder on the opposite side of the Dongjiang River was becoming more and more intense.

"Walk in unison, one-two-one! One, two, one! Stand still, turn left and right!"

In the loud slogan, the two pro-corps strode to the edge of the port, and immediately looked left and right, and suddenly compared the flintlock pistol to the shoulder, as if a person, the new soap-colored armor on his body trembled violently, and the visitors on the ship who saw it were all fluttering in their hearts.

"This is the Dongjiang River?"

Although he became Mao Jue's father-in-law, but this Dongjiang River, Denglai Governor Yu Dacheng came for the first time, not only the shock of the pro-soldiers on the dock, but also the Tieshan Port with many buildings, busy boats of all sizes piled up one by one trestle deep into the sea, and you can see people constantly carrying fishing boxes to the shore.

Look inside, due to the lack of space, many of the original bungalows were demolished to make two-story small buildings, and even built into three-storey buildings, anyway, there are many mineral deposits in the Dongjiang River, and the caves are coal mines and iron mines, with a dozen foundations, a steel bar, and then a hard big green brick inside, and the typhoon can not fall.

There are more than 60,000 residents attached to this port, although the population is still far less than that of Yingtian, Suzhou, Changshu and other super metropolises, but this prosperity is definitely comparable. Many businessmen from the south who came to do business were shocked at first glance, as if they had changed here in a year, and there was no shortage of more than one.

The rules of the Ming Dynasty, the Wenchen Supervisor, the military generals worked hard, even if it was a "chore", the court did not let go of Mao Jue, the commander-in-chief was his father-in-law, Yu Dacheng, the governor of Denglai Road, it was also difficult for the court to do some good things, Yu Dacheng did not come empty-handed, he also brought more than 6,000 Shandong soldiers and horses, 80,000 taels of silver salary, 120,000 stone military rations, and a large number of entourages of this and that official.

Looking at the bustling Dongjiang River, the leaders who came over and didn't know if it was useful, but they had a lot of entertainment expenses, also grew their mouths in surprise, and there were also eunuchs who made Mao Jue feel especially headache!

One of Cao Huachun's righteous sons, the prison army Cao Xi, was also dizzy when he saw it.

The crying child also has no milk to eat, Dongjiang is really like a stepmother's raiser, every year Mao Jue reported to the court but was short of food, shouting that if he didn't pay again, he would mutini immediately. Although he didn't get involved in the distribution plan of the military department every year, and the twelve months of salary could be issued to him for two months, he was considered Amitabha, but the name of poverty in Dongjiang still spread in Beijing.

To tell the truth, Cao Xi caught the lot to come to Dongjiang and counted him as unlucky, no one wanted to come, but he never imagined that it would be the appearance in front of him, how do you look at it, this firearm, this armor, it has nothing to do with poverty, right?

In the sound of click, the wooden ladder was lowered from the side of the boat, and followed behind Yu Dacheng, while walking, Cao Xi was still thinking about how much silver he could get, but he had just gotten off the boat, and what greeted him was a stiff face.

Almost expressionless, Mao Jue went up and bowed to Yu Dacheng.

"The last general will meet the governor!"

"Bold! You, a small lieutenant general, dared not kneel when he saw the governor of a town, did he dare not kneel? ”

Without waiting for Yu Dacheng to speak, the thing bared his teeth and screamed.

The movement of the Dongjiang River has become a weather vane of the party struggle between the DPRK and China, in the past two months, the bigwigs of various camps have written to Mao Jue, Mao Wenlong's handwritten letter has gone, but Dongjiang has not replied to it, if he resists the decree or perfunctory, so that the conquest goes wrong, the Wen Tiren party who came up with the idea, and Cao Huachun, who is involved in it, will not be able to get off the stage, and those Qingliu have a stinky mouth I already know how to do it? Just how it should be!

was ordered by Cao Huachun to suppress Mao Jue when he came, and seized this opportunity, this guy who had no eggs came up and wanted to give him a dismount.

Unfortunately, he hit the iron plate.

Glancing at him expressionlessly, Mao Jue suddenly raised his hand, and in an instant, the two rows of pro-soldiers directly picked up the flintlock pistol, followed by a burst of crackling gunshots, and even the bullets grazed directly above the heads of the crowd.

Not only him, but Governor Yu Dacheng, Jiang Li, who joined the army, Xu Congwen, and several civil officials sat on the ground together, good guys, a group of people turned out to be all soft-footed shrimp.

I almost didn't laugh in my heart, but on my face, Mao Jue reached out and pulled Yu Dacheng's hand and dragged him up, but he still spoke with a straight face.

"This is the highest standard welcome ceremony in my Dongjiang River, the etiquette of the barbarian land, let the adults smile, the last general has prepared a post house in the city, please follow the end of the future."

From beginning to end, he didn't look at that Cao Xi, so he led the way in front of himself, and the angry dead eunuch gritted his teeth in the back, and even wanted to go back to the ship, but after hesitating there for a long time, he was still cheeky, followed the tail of the team, and rubbed up.

The four-wheeled carriage had already been prepared outside the port, and even Yu Leer, the girl, was waiting outside excitedly, seeing Yu Dacheng, no matter how this father sold her to the Dongjiang River in the first place, he excitedly held his hand and pulled it up, although he was taken aback when he came, but those civil officials also knew that this Mao Jue was not threatening them, and no one did not open their eyes to squeeze up, anyway, there are many carriages here, there are more than a dozen, and they have to walk over without worrying.

At the back of the crowd, Cao Xi naturally squeezed into the last carriage, followed by the brocade guards sent to him by the imperial court, wrestlers, and the little eunuchs also followed, these few meters long, the public carriage with four rows of chairs and two tables was not too crowded, but the eunuch was the most narrow-minded, and when he got into the car, Cao Xi was still gritting his teeth there.

"This vulgar martial artist, a lowly lackey, dares to humiliate the masters, see how the masters will clean him up!"

"Father-......in-law, father-in-law ......"

He was furious there, but the tongue of the little eunuch under him couldn't help but snort, and he stretched out his hand and pointed outward, and he was already angry, Cao Xi shouted angrily.

"What's the matter!"

"No, father-in-law, you, look at it!"

"What a fuss, Suzhou and Hangzhou have not done anything wrong, this place, poor border towns, can have ......, can have ......"

Looking out the window, his eyes were straight.

Imitated in later generations, Mao Jue built a prototype landscape flower bed in the center of the street in the port area, but this flower bed is not planted with flowers, all of them are Bai Sensen's heads, layer upon layer, and I don't know how high it falls, look at the number, not tens of thousands, but also thousands.

Dongjiang's reward is very high, thirty taels of silver for a head, but these heads are in the hands of Mao Jue, but they can't continue to report to the imperial court, on the one hand, Mu Xiu will destroy it in the forest wind, you are strong, and you can think of you for any dirty work, on the other hand, it is useless to report the merits, Mao Jue, the deputy general, has not received it for several years, and it is only a big seal to give a general soldier, and there is no use for fart.

Spending money, even if it is a head, according to Mao Jue's character of Grandtai, he has to cut out two catties of oil, so Mao Jue ordered someone to boil these heads, and the skin and flesh were rotten, leaving skeletons and piling them up here, building an ancient Beijing view, symbolizing the martial might of the Dongjiang River.

Don't look at a bunch of heads, here is also the pride of Dongjiang people, is the evidence that they have overcome obstacles in the troubled times, to establish this rare paradise, whenever there are outsiders looking at these heads trembling, there are always locals proudly thumbs up.

"Aren't you just nodding your head? We Dongjiang people have cut down a lot, what's the fuss? ”

Of course, no one in the carriage explained to Cao Xi, so he could only look at the Skull Mountain Jingguan in a daze, and for a long time, he muttered with trembling lips.

"Good, good, what a cruel and vulgar martial artist, really, really, really called killing people like hemp, this, how many people do you have to kill?"

The majesty of the generals really comes from their military exploits, no matter whose heads they are, this way to the Tieshan Post House in the city, from Yu Dacheng to the eunuch Cao Xi, they were polite to Mao Jue when they got off, and this Cao eunuch didn't mention anything about kneeling or not bowing.

This is also the practice of the Ming Dynasty's business trip, in addition to the emergency military situation to lose the head, like what Kaifeng was surrounded, Songjin War, down the staff must first eat and have fun, sleep comfortably, before they can start the formal office, after all, it is their own father-in-law, this welcome banquet Mao Jue is still very sufficient, ginseng stewed pheasant, roast venison, Dongjiang specialty sea fish, a large table of dishes to eat at the bottom of those visitors in the pass are the guests and hosts, but the two leaders, but no one has much appetite.

It's really abnormal, after eating, even the few days of the White Horse Mountain Hot Spring arranged by Mao Jue to experience the style of Japanese women didn't go, and they directly blocked Mao Jue in his study.

Yu Dacheng obviously has a stomach to ask, the old guy is afraid of war, Mao Jue is incisive, Shandong beats the White Lotus Sect and fights it is ugly, but as an old fritter in officialdom, he is not without brains, looking at the eunuch Cao Xi who squeezed over, Yu Dacheng first held back his words.

Whether or not you can scrape the ground in the Dongjiang River this time is actually secondary, the first thing is to urge Mao Jue to send troops, no matter how many people die, earn the face of the court, so that the emperor, the first auxiliary scholar and Cao Gonggong can earn meritorious service decently, and then suppress those fly-like clear streams in the court is the most important thing, if he can't complete the task, he doesn't want to go back to Beijing, take the holy decree, this dead eunuch is impatient to ask.

"The Ministry of War has an order, ordering the Dongjiang River to send troops to the Wa Kingdom on the fifth day of the first month of October, escorting the young master of the Toyotomi family to return to the country, Deputy General Mao, the superintendent army orders you to prepare the soldiers, horses, and boat divisions immediately, and the miscellaneous family will be reviewed tomorrow!"

"Yes!"

Still that arrogant look, Mao Jue shrugged noncommittally.

(End of chapter)