Seeing another stinky old nine returning to his heart, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but be overjoyed. This Feng Ruoshu can't be compared with others, this old guy has incomparably rich experience in officialdom, and has a good relationship with the-stirring sticks of the Donglin Party.

With Feng Ruoshu's help, he should soon be able to gain a foothold in Guangdong. Now Chongzhen has hanged himself, and several of his sons have also died. Zhu Hongsan's front can be said to be a smooth road. Zhu Hongsan only needs to return to Guangdong to make money and expand the army.

The Manchu cavalry was very powerful, but he was also powerful and had a fatal drawback, that is, the population was too small. There were less than 200,000 Eight Banner soldiers.

Although there were some Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners, they could only fight some tailwind battles, and once the war was unfavorable, these Imperial Cooperative Army ran faster than their masters.

In Guangdong Province, there are tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, and musketeers do not have long training time like cavalry. As long as he gave himself enough time and had the unlimited population resources of the Han people, Zhu Hongsan could train an army of 100,000 people.

This army, which is equipped with modern weapons and restrained by modern military discipline, will definitely be able to defeat the Manchu Eight Banners like a devastating one. The Battle of Bali Bridge in later generations has shown this.

Zhu Hongsan's visit to Beijing this time can be said to be a great success, as long as he can run back to Guangdong alive.

Feng Ruoshu asked, "Lord, what should we do next?" ”

Zhu Hongsan pointed to the boats on the dock and said, "Get a few boats, let's go down the canal and go to Dongchang Mansion first." ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he summoned Wang Jinbao and asked him to take someone to get a boat.

Tongzhou is an important point on the canal, and there are many boats on the wharf, but most of them are full of grain. Now the situation is urgent, and the shipwharfs on the dock also know that the Liukou have arrived in Beijing, and most of them have fled.

Only a few private cargo ships remained.

In order to facilitate inland river transportation, the boats on the canal are all in the style of flat bottom and wide mouth, and each ship can transport goods of seven or eight hundred stones.

After a while, Wang Jinbao got seven or eight ships, but they were all cargo ships. Zhu Hongsan was about to take people on the boat, when he happened to see a big boat parked at the outermost part of the dock. It is the passenger boats that are not common on the canal.

The carved beams and painted pillars decorated by this ship look like the private ship of the rich and noble. Zhu Hongsan looked just right, he took the princess with him, plus Feng Ruoshu, an old thing.

This is more than 2,000 miles to Nanjing, the princess is nothing, but Old Man Feng is sixty-seven. In case you die on the road, it's all over. This trip to Beijing was not perfect.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan took people to the side of the detour and came to the passenger ship.

Unexpectedly, when I got to the front, I found that the passenger boat was actually parked on a private pier, and there were two families standing guard in front of the trestle.

When the two family members saw a group of people rushing towards their boat, they hurriedly stepped forward to stop them, and said, "Daring, do you know whose boat this is?" Don't want to die? ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at the ship of the eunuch's house, rolled his eyes and said: "Your mother, the military master wants to flee for his life, who you are." After saying that, he went up and gave a housekeeper two big mouths.

The beaten family saw that there were many people on the other side, and he didn't dare to resist, and shouted: "We are the family members of the university scholar Chen Yan, and the third lady of my family is on the boat, aren't you afraid of killing your head?" ”

Zhu Hongsan heard it and scolded: "Who the hell do I think I am?" It turned out to be Chen's family. ”

Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and kicked off a family's leg, and said, "Fuck you, do you know who the master is?" The master is from Pingxibo Mansion, and now my general has taken a fancy to your third lady and wants her to be a concubine in the sixteenth room. ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, people dared to leave the two families. I got on the boat myself.

Zhu Hongsan entered the cabin and pushed open a door, and saw that there were three people hugging each other and trembling.

One is a middle-aged woman, who looks like she should be a mother-in-law, and the other is a girl ring who looks like a dress. The last one is Miss Chen Jiasan.

Zhu Hongsan pinched the third lady's chin and looked at it, and said, "It's average, not as good-looking as my wife." "Actually, this Miss Chen San is still good. The curved and slender eyebrows and a goose egg face are very in line with the aesthetic views of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan pursed his lips and thought, "Give her to Old Man Feng, lest Old Man Feng be unattended and unable to hold out in Guangdong." ”

Thinking of this, he said to Wang Jinbao: "Let Mr. Feng come to this ship, and bring the princess too." Then inform everyone to get on the boat, let's go quickly. ”

Wang Jinbao went down to arrange, and all the soldiers got on the boat one after another, and the horses were brought with them if they could, and those who couldn't be brought were released.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the boat and saw that the soldiers were all on the boat, Feng Ruoshu also came to the bow of his boat, Zhu Hongsan stepped off the gangplank and said: "Sir, let's make this boat, and there is a small gift for Mr. ”

Feng Ruoshu was stunned, and there are gifts? Zhu Hongsan didn't bring any gifts when he came just now.

Zhu Hongsan led Feng Ruoshu to the third lady's room, Zhu Hongsan said: "This is three thousand miles all the way to Guangdong, and the junior is afraid that Mr. will have a tired journey, so he specially found someone to serve Mr. ”

Feng Ruoshu saw that the woman in the house was very beautiful, and she was not dressed as an ordinary person, but she was a lady from an official eunuch family.

Feng Ruoshu asked, "Virtuous son-in-law, where did this come from?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "I robbed the boat to send it, I heard that it was Chen Yan's third daughter, or a grandson." It just so happened that my aunt had passed away for many years, and I was a filler for my uncle. ”

Chen Yan was Chongzhen's first assistant, and now he is also the second assistant of the cabinet, and his status is much higher than Feng Ruoshu.

Feng Ruoshu's face changed and said, "Isn't this okay?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "Uncle don't worry, Chen Yan will be a second minister in the future if he doesn't go south now, and his uncle will be the first assistant in the future." So what will Chen Yan dare to do in the future? If you can't figure it out, you still have to ask for it from your uncle. ”

Feng Ruoshu thought about it for a while, and when he saw that this third lady was beautiful, she was much better than her new concubine. I agreed with half a push.

Zhu Hongsan smiled on the surface, and scolded in his heart: "These stinky old nine are trouble." He said, "Then the son-in-law won't disturb my uncle's rest." With that, he closed the door and came out.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan and his party of nine boats had already set off, and the boatmen were almost gone, Wang Jinbao easily caught more than 20 boatmen, and there was no way to leave two boatmen for each boat to guide the work.

Zhu Hongsan looked at it and thought: "This speed is too slow, go ahead and take a look, and find a place to get the boatmen together." ”

At this time, it was already dark, and standing on the bow of the ship, you could see the fire of Beijing City, and the fire in the granary of Chaoyangmen had not yet been extinguished.

After the boat left the dock, the boatmen lit the lantern on the mast, lowered the sails, and officially began to walk on the canal.

Zhu Hongsan stood at the bow of the boat blowing the wind on the canal, thinking that the next step was to Tianjin. Tianjin is also not safe, it is only 400 miles away from Beijing, and it seems that it can only be safe if you enter Shandong.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan saw that the light in the third lady's room was out, and scolded in his heart: "Old man Feng is not ashamed, can't he wait for a while?" ”

Zhu Hongsan thought at this time that he still had a little beauty Zhu Yujiao waiting for him to do harm, and his heart was very hot. didn't care what the next step was, he immediately walked into the cabin and came to Zhu Yujiao's door.

Zhu Yujiao hadn't slept at this time, after all, she had experienced more things on this day than she had experienced in her life, thinking of the death of her parents and the unknown life and death of her brothers, Zhu Yujiao couldn't help but sit on the bed and weep secretly.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan opened the door and came in, Zhu Yujiao saw that it was Zhu Hongsan who came in, stood up and said, "The general is still restless when it is late?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I'll see how the princess's leg injury is, and the dressing on her arm is going to be changed." ”

Zhu Yujiao's face turned red when she heard Zhu Hongsan say this, and said, "Thank you for the general's concern, the leg injury is out of the way." ”

"How can I get out of the way? How else can I take advantage of you? Zhu Hongsan thought in his heart, but said: "The princess doesn't know, if you don't change the dressing frequently, it will leave scars, which is ugly." ”

This sentence was even more unacceptable to Zhu Yujiao than sawing off her legs, and Zhu Yujiao asked, "Can you really leave a scar?" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Of course, I am a soldier and naturally knows." Now, if you don't change the dressing, you will be left with a large reddish-black scar on your skin. ”

Zhu Yujiao pondered for a long time, gritted her teeth and said, "Then please ask the general to change the medicine for me." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Don't be reluctant, princess, I'm embarrassed not to change." After speaking, Zhu Hongsan made a gesture to open the door and go out.

Zhu Yujiao hurriedly said: "Don't, the general is back." ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled in his heart: "Little White Rabbit, can you still run out of the palm of the master's hand?" Tonight, I will definitely play with your eighteen postures to make you want to be *immortal*desire* death. ”