Three days later, the steward came to Zhu Hongsan and the others and took them to a sea ship in the harbor.

This sea ship is much more comfortable than a cargo ship, and Zhu Hongsan even has a single room. After the steward made arrangements, he said to Zhu Hongsan: "Master Ma, this ship has sailed to Tanggu." If you go further north, you can't take a boat. Our Zheng family can only be sent to Tanggu. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Steward, thank you for taking care of you along the way, thank you Master Zheng for me." ”

The steward smiled, "There, it's just a gesture." The sea ship will be able to depart tomorrow. Master Ma is fine, please rest. ”

Zhu Hongsan sent the steward out of the room, and the steward said goodbye.

Zhu Hongsan went down to the bottom and looked at his soldiers, they were all shops. But it's okay, it's much better than a cargo ship and cargo crammed together.

The passenger ships bound for the north were basically merchants going to the north. Zhu Hongsan saw two people who were obviously not Han Chinese, and there was a fishy smell on their bodies, which should be Mongolian Tatars. What are they here for? Is there still a connection with the Zheng family?

The next morning the boat sailed, this time for fifteen days. It is about 2,000 miles from Kinmen to Tanggu. There are two stops along the way to replenish fresh water.

The first stop was at the Zhoushan Islands, where we stayed for a day. The second dock is in Weihaiwei.

After passing through the Yangtze River, the weather turned cooler, and it is now February, and the south of the Yangtze River should be in full bloom. But the climate effects of the Xiaoice River are still there. At night, the buckets on the boat also freeze.

After crossing the Yangtze River, the weather became colder and colder, and Zhu Hongsan's soldiers were all from the south, and the farthest was Henan. So when Zhu Hongsan left, he asked people to make 200 military coats. At this time, let the soldiers put it on, and it really kept warm.

At this time, the long journey by boat is really boring and tight, and there is no entertainment on board at all. Luckily, it didn't take a few days to get off the boat for activities.

In the torment, I finally arrived in Tanggu. Now Tanggu is not an international port like in later generations, just a small town with a small wharf.

Zhu Hongsan asked Qian Lide to go down to find the person who connected him, and ordered Zhu Hongyi to lead the team to get off the boat.

On the dock, there was the inspection department of Tianjin Wei, and I saw this group of guys who were obviously elite soldiers. I didn't even look at it, and I turned around and went back. This ship came from Zheng Zhilong's territory, and the people on it were either pirates or thugs. Can you not cause trouble or not cause trouble.

Zhu Hongsan originally thought that he would have to bother to explain, but he didn't expect the inspection department to turn around and go back, so he smiled and didn't take it seriously.

The two Tartar-looking men were muttering to each other, muttering unintelligible words. Zhu Hongsan looked back at them. The two Tartars saw Zhu Hongsan glaring at him.

Zhu Hongsan thought in his heart: "Your mother, if the master doesn't mess with you, you still mess with the master, and you will look good when you go out of the city in a while." ”

At this time, Qian Lide came back and led a man to come. The man saw Zhu Hongsan kneeling down and said, "Welcome to Tianjin." The horses are ready, let's go to live in the Tianjin Acropolis tonight. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and when he left the town, he saw that his horse was so angry that he was hanging. Half of them were horses, and the other half turned out to be donkeys. Qian Lide blushed and said, "Big brother, there's really no way. There is also a shortage of horses in the north. It's still easy to find. ”

Zhu Hongsan wasn't very angry, after all, he was in too much of a hurry. At this time, there was a burst of laughter, and Zhu Hongsan looked back and saw that it was the two Mongolian Tatars. There were more than a dozen of them, but there were more than thirty horses.

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "Grass your mother, laugh at your grandmother." ”

The two Mongolian Tatars understood a little Chinese, and they understood the first half of the sentence, but they didn't understand the second half. But a guess also knows that it's not a good word. When you get off the horse, you have to reason with Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Hongyi: "Big brother, kill them and grab the horse!" ”

Zhu Hongyi nodded, gestured to his subordinates, and more than twenty soldiers surrounded him. The Mongols over there saw that there were many people here, and they also came over one after another, and a few of them drew their short knives.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Hongsan's side was not reasonable at all, and when he saw them approaching, he took out a short musket and shot directly.

The two Mongols in front of them were immediately killed, and more than half of the more than a dozen behind them were also killed, and the remaining few were captured by Zhu Hongyi.

Zhu Hongsan said to Qian Lide: "You go and ask them what's going on, and they'll all be killed after the incident." ”

After a while, there were a few screams over there, and the fat man came back and said, "Big brother, I know." What tribe they are from Mongolia, I don't hear the name. I want to go to Zheng Zhilong to buy artillery. ”

Damn, Zheng Zhilong's artillery was still sold to him by the master. I didn't expect them to become second-hand dealers. Zhu Hongsan thought of this and asked, "They said they didn't say how much it was?" ”

Qian Lide said: "Twenty thousand silver for one door, Zheng Zhilong is black enough." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and thought: "It's not black yet, and the cost of the artillery sold to them is only one hundred taels of silver." Fifty times the money, or the arms to make money. It seems that in the future, he can contact the Manchus to do arms trading. ”

At this time, Zhu Hongyi had already led people to clean up, and the horses also belonged to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan said to Feng Fu, Feng's self-used family member on the side: "Old Feng, do you recognize the road?" ”

Feng Fu said: "Uncle, I went south from the canal back then, and I don't recognize this road. ”

Qian Lide said on the side: "We have a guide here, and the guys from the Ma family shop are here." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Look at it, it's too cold in the north, and I'm all frozen." Get on the horse and go! ”

Zhu Hongsan encountered several caravans along the way, forcibly buying and selling donkeys in exchange for their horses. Some caravans resisted, and Jingguang, who was killed by Zhu Hongsan, had replaced all the donkeys with horses in less than fifty miles from Tanggu to Tianjin Sanwei, and most of them were war horses. This is really Qian Lide dumbfounded.

Tianjin is the ferry of the Son of Heaven, it is the second year of Jianwen, the rogue emperor Zhu Di wants to go south to rob his nephew's country, and from here he takes a boat to the south. The place was renamed Tianjin.

After the second year of Yongle, three bathrooms were gradually added. Because Tianjin is located on the north-south thoroughfare, it is densely populated, and now it has formed a large town of tens of thousands.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Tianjin Wei was changed to Tianjin Prefecture. However, Tianjin in Zhu Hongsan's eyes is really not good. The North China Plain is still very cold. Everywhere is a yellowish patch. In addition, this place has just been plagued by the Manchu Qing Dynasty a few years ago, and it is in a dilapidated state.

After entering the city, it is almost the same, and it is still a little popular. After finding the inn, the group began to rest.

As soon as the city gate opened the next day, Zhu Hongsan led people to set off, and now Zhu Hongsan's grasp of the times is really uncertain, and it is the most important thing to rush to Beijing one day earlier.

Tianjin is more than 500 miles away from Beijing, which will take nearly an hour by high-speed rail in later generations. Zhu Hongsan: They will be walking for nearly ten days.

The closer you get to Beijing, the more you find that something is wrong, and when you leave Tianjin, you can still see one or two villages. There is not a single village near Beijing, and all you pass is the wreckage and broken walls.

Ma Guy Ji Ma Quan said: "This is the sin of Chongzhen's eleventh year of entering the Qing Dynasty to loot and plunder. The population around Jingshi is basically gone. Those who had a little money ran away, and those who had no money were either arrested and taken to Liaodong, or they were killed by the officials and soldiers. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "The world is so ruined, the Yan Wang family is really lucky. ”

Now there are Zhu Hongsan's henchmen all around here, so he doesn't have to care about anything when he speaks.

The crowd did not look at their surroundings and hurried away. Finally, on the fifth day of the third month, he came to Jingshi.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the world's largest metropolis, the first city to reach a population of one million. It is also the strongest city in China.

Zhu Hongsan stood outside the city and looked at the majestic city in the distance, the city that Zhu Di spent fifteen years to build.

Beijing City absorbs the experience of city construction that has been developed and sounded in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, based on the brick and stone city wall, relying on the arrow tower, corner tower, urn city, enemy platform, gate tower, city moat, etc., forming a plane and three-dimensional comprehensive defense system, which is one of the most well-defended capital cities in the history of ancient Chinese urban architecture.

Various defenses have reached the pinnacle of the feudal era. Since the completion of Yongle, it has never been breached head-on, whether it is the time of the civil fort, or the Manchu Qing Dynasty entering the customs, or the later generations of the Eight * Nationals * coalition army into Beijing, plus the peaceful liberation of Beijing in later generations. It seems that the fortress is never breached from the outside, it is always the internal problem.

The horse on the side said out of place: "Boss, let's go into the city." Old Master Feng's mansion is in the sweet water well alley of Qipan Street in the inner city, we have to enter from the Dongbian Gate, which was originally the closest to Chaoyangmen, but now the Liukou is coming, and the Chaoyang Gate is not open. ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Ma Quan, where is the Ma family's shop?" Have all the muskets arrived? ”

Ma Quan said: "All of them have arrived, and they are all in the warehouse of the Ma family's shop." The shop is not far from Feng's house, and when the second master chose the site, he wanted to take care of it. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Okay, you go back to the shop first and get ready, we may have to go and get the musket." It would be good to have Feng Fu to lead the way to Feng Mansion. ”