Fang Yuan praised Qin Zhan a few words, and hurried into the Forbidden City from Bei'anmen alone, and saw Fang Zhenghua in a remote place on the side of Qianqing Gate.

Fang Zhenghua's voice was the same as Cao Huachun's, "Yi'er, after you became the general flag these days, are you still used to it?" ”

Fang Yuan knew that Fang Zhenghua was in a hurry to invite him to come, it was by no means a simple greeting, there must be something to say, so he omitted all the polite words and asked straight to the point, "Thanks to my father-in-law's support, if my father-in-law is assigned, I will do my best." ”

Fang Zhenghua was no longer polite, and after seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice, "There is an excellent opportunity for promotion close to the nobleman in front of me, and I have fought for you." ”

Fang Yuan was stunned and asked, "What errand?" ”

Fang Zhenghua said, "Our army Songjin was defeated, Your Majesty has not slept well for several days, but Tian Guifei is seriously ill and cannot serve left and right." Tian Guifei's father, the father-in-law Tian Hongyu, was ready to go to Jiangnan to find beauty and enter the palace to relieve His Majesty's boredom. ”

The Ming army had just been defeated in Songjin, 140,000 elites were annihilated, the Ningjin defense line completely collapsed, and the foreign territory of Guanxi was lost, leaving only Wu Sangui with a lone army of less than 50,000 to guard Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan.

Today's Ming Dynasty is a national disaster, there are still two short years before its demise, Tian Hongyu, as a national relative, does not know how to worry about the affairs of the court, and he still has the heart to squander a huge amount of money to buy beautiful women in the south to enter the palace.

Fang Yuan, who knew the historical process, knew that in fact, Emperor Chongzhen himself did not have the need for women, but Tian Hongyu made his own assertions, trying to curry favor, and the beauties he bought, Chongzhen was not included in the harem, and all of them were returned to Tian Hongyu.

Among these returned beauties was Chen Yuanyuan, who caused Wu Sangui to be angry and turned red.

Fang Yuan was angry and hated for this ridiculous behavior, and said unhappily, "Tian Guozhang really figured out His Majesty's thoughts, has Your Majesty ever instructed a beauty to enter the palace?" ”

Fang Yuan was full of words about the affairs of the harem, and the cautious Fang Zhenghua hurriedly covered his mouth and said hurriedly, "How can you intervene in the affairs of the harem as a little Jinyi Wei Zongqi?" This errand is for you to lead a brocade guard of the general flag to escort Tian Guozhang to Jiangnan to buy beauties, this is an opportunity to get close to the relatives, you can't mess up. ”

Fang Yuan is official is soft-spoken, he was arranged this ridiculous errand, no matter how angry he was, he was helpless, he could always see for a long time when he went to Jiangnan, which was better than waiting for death in the courtyard of the capital and the palace at two points and one line, so he gave up, "Yes, I will live up to the trust." ”

Fang Zhenghua patted him on the shoulder and said, "Tian Guozhang will leave in five days, and you will go to the Arsenal Division of the Ministry of War tomorrow to select firearms." ”

To go to Jiangnan, it is not enough to have dozens of brocade guards, what firearms do you need to bring?

Fang Yuan was stunned and asked, "Father-in-law, isn't the way to Jiangnan peaceful?" ”

Fang Zhengrong said, "The rebellion of Li Qingshan in Shandong has just been pacified, and there are not a few hoops in Shandong, so you must be fully prepared before traveling." If this errand is done, when I return to the capital, I will think of you to be promoted to the rank of Jinyi Wei Baihu. ”

Only then did Fang Yuan know that the rogue who was raging in the Ming Dynasty was by no means only Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, and there were already beacons in various places, and this trip was by no means a simple tour of the mountains and rivers, and when he came back, he would be promoted and raised, and the guards still had a lot of risks.

He didn't say that he had been on the battlefield before, that is, he beat each other with people, and it was also a few years ago, and when he thought of facing the attack of the rogue with real knives and guns, his scalp was tingling for a while.

Fortunately, Fang Zhenghua had mentioned in advance that he needed to prepare enough firearms for self-defense, so he hurriedly responded and said goodbye to Fang Zhenghua and returned to the courtyard.

Fang originally went to Cao Huachun to accompany Tian Hongyu out on an errand, and Cao Huachun told him that Tian Guifei was the side concubine of King Xin when Emperor Chongzhen was King Xin, and she was very favored by Chongzhen and gave birth to four princes to Chongzhen.

Cao Huachun also specially instructed that Tian Guifei and Queen Zhou have always been at odds, and now Tian Guifei is seriously ill and cannot serve the king, Tian Hongyu's move to go to Jiangnan to buy beauties is under the guise of relieving Chongzhen's boredom, and going to the south to buy beauties to enter the palace and enrich the harem, in fact, in order to maintain the power and status of the Tian family, it will inevitably attract the dissatisfaction of Queen Zhou.

This errand is actually a hot potato, and being too close to Tian Hongyu is to offend Queen Zhou, so you must keep a certain distance from Tian Hongyu.

Fang Yuan got Cao Huachun's advice, and he already knew it, and found the seventh sister-in-law and told her that she was going out to Jiangnan, so that the seventh sister-in-law could take care of Cao Huachun's daily life during her absence.

At night, Fang Yuan lay on the bed thinking about the errand of this trip to Jiangnan, he was extremely disgusted with the unreliable behavior of the abbot Tian Hongyu, but since it was a cultivation of Fang Zhenghua, he should still make some preparations before traveling.

Before, there were only 20 taels of silver left at home, and Cao Huachun had more than 30 taels of silver left to buy medicine these days, and the total was less than 60 taels of silver.

Toothpaste and toothbrushes are not necessities, and there are also alternative toothbrushes and tooth powder in the Ming Dynasty, so you don't need to buy them;

Kettles and water bottles also have water bags as substitutes, which are not essential to buy, and can be saved;

Fang Yuan could think of the only thing he needed to buy, maybe it was a watch, it was a long way to Jiangnan, and he didn't have a concept of time, he was really not used to it. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were also self-striking bells imported from the West, but there were no watches that could be carried around.

Fang Yuan opened the Taobao system and began to choose watches with the right price, genuine brand-name watches, which he couldn't afford with his little silver, so he could only choose a merchant that sold high-imitation Rolex watches.

The high imitation Rolex watch, priced at 488 yuan, after using a 20 yuan voucher, only need to pay 468 yuan, the shipping fee is 4680 yuan, a total of 5148 yuan, and the use of silver to pay, you need to pay 51.48 taels of silver, which is Fang Yuan's legal salary for five months, and it has completely hollowed out his family fund.

Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, took out the only family fund, and chose [Silver Payment].

The white light flashed, and the system took away the 50 taels of silver he paid, which was one tael of silver cheaper than him.

An hour later, the goods shipped by the merchant had arrived, Fang Yuan opened the package, took out a high-imitation Rolex watch, and wore it on his wrist.

He checked the details of the watch back and forth, and there was no difference between the high imitation and the genuine product, and the time had been adjusted accurately.

What's even more unexpected is that the merchant also gave a bottle of watch cleaning liquid with thoughtful service.

Fang Yuan was quite satisfied with this shopping experience, and immediately gave the store a good review, and patiently attached a large number of comments, and got a 20 yuan voucher returned by the store.

Fang Yuan was ready to make preparations before the trip, but he thought of his confidant Qin Zhan in his mind, and went directly to Qin Zhan's house to inform him of the task of the trip to Jiangnan.

When Qin Zhan heard that he was going to Jiangnan in the flower world, he was smiling and busy asking his mother's thoughts.

Qin's mother also happily let go, and even took out her own dowry, one hundred taels of silver, and handed it to Qin Zhan, asking him to buy a gentle, virtuous, and knowledgeable woman in Jiangnan to come back as a wife.

The next day, Fang Yuan led Qin Zhan and thirty brocade guards under his command to the Arsenal Division to collect firearms. The Jinyi guards in the capital were professionally trained agents, who could not only embroider spring knives, but also use all kinds of small firearms of the Ming Dynasty.

The procedures for receiving firearms in the Ming Dynasty were quite complicated, and the seals required on the documents alone included the emperor's seal, the cabinet seal, the cabinet first and auxiliary private seals, as well as the official seal of the military department, the private seal of the military department, and the official seal of the arsenal department, and the private seal of the arsenal department.

Fang Zhenghua had already greeted Wailang, the member of the arsenal, and Fang Yuan and his party successfully entered the arsenal to select firearms.

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty were divided into two categories: firearms and artillery.

There are many kinds of firecrackers alone, and there are at least dozens of kinds of firecrackers such as bird's beak guns, thunderbolt guns, three-eyed guns, abduction guns, five thunder god machines, and guns.

Fang Yuan, who had only seen arms in TV dramas before the crossing, praised these dazzling firearms again and again, if it were not for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to deliberately suppress the development of firearms in order to rule the Han people, where would there be the national shame of nearly two hundred years of modern China?

He didn't know the function of these firearms, so he could only humbly ask Zhang Chengde, the head of the Arsenal Division, who accompanied him to receive the firearms, for advice.

According to the fact that this trip to Jiangnan was mainly based on the cavalry moving lightly, Zhang Chengde recommended the three-eyed gun suitable for cavalry, as well as the bird's beak gun used in individual infantry combat.

After discussing with Zhang Chengde, who was proficient in firearms and equipment, Fang Yuan decided to equip each Jinyi guard with two three-eyed guns and two bird's beak guns.

According to Zhang Chengde's estimates, with these firearms, filled with gunpowder in advance, each Jinyi guard could fire at least eight shots in a row before the close soldiers, and then engage with the three-eyed gun. As long as the fire range of the firearm is 100 meters, it is more than enough to deal with 50 enemy troops. If there is enough time to fill the gunpowder, an ordinary hundred people will not be able to get close.

"With such a sophisticated firearm for self-defense, what are you afraid of?"

Fang Yuan's hanging heart was a little relieved, everything was ready, just waiting to set off to Jiangnan!