"What are you drawing?"

Seeing the silver ingot holding a drawing board, drawing in front of him in a decent manner, Zhang Han was quite curious.

Zhang Han and Yin Ingot have a tent, and at the same time Wu Qi and Li Gui, his tent is of course the largest, and this privilege is still there.

However, it is not tied into the kind of large tent that can sleep and meet people, there may be strong winds every day, that kind of large tent is too laborious to set up, and it is easy to be caught by strong winds, even if it is firmly rooted in the ground, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be blown up by strong winds, so it is better to be smaller.

The tent can accommodate a dozen people to sleep, the round tent is very thick, the ground is spread with hay and put on wool blankets, plus thick fur mattresses, people feel very warm after getting in, and it is good to have no brazier.

"That's what happened to the painting." The silver ingot turned his head to Zhang Han and smiled, and said, "You won't not give a painting, right?" ”

"I'll take a look."

Zhang Han's curiosity rose, and he got out of the mattress and observed the painting of the silver ingot.

The drawing board and sketch-like painting methods were originally taught by Zhang Han to Silver Ingot , and after the number of missionaries of Hutchison increased, Silver Ingot worshiped a good teacher and began to learn European painting methods very seriously.

After Chinese painting reached the high-end, in fact, there were also realistic painting methods, and the level would not be low, but it was difficult to get started with Chinese painting, and after weighing the silver ingots for a long time, I decided to learn Western painting methods.

In the past few years, his level has been quite good, at least much stronger than Zhang Han.

On the drawing board, the patterns are all about what has happened recently.

From the alliance to the march, and then to Zhang Han's before and after entering the dungeon fort to comfort the soldiers, they were all painted realistically with silver ingots.

"Do you want to draw a comic strip?" Zhang Han smiled: "It looks like a story, but there is no charm in it." The art evaluation of such a painting will not be too high. ”

"Fuck the art." Silver Ingot scolded with a smile, turned his head to Zhang Han and said very seriously: "These experiences are quite precious, I am afraid that my memory will be deviated in the future, and the things drawn will be discolored, now I just lay a foundation, and I will use my best skills to polish these paintings in the future." Maybe in a few hundred years, these paintings of mine will be legendary. ”

Silver ingots have always pursued in art, from the fool Xiao Taiji, who loved beauty and called people to paint portraits, has become a painter with great ideas.

Zhang Han looked at the painting of the silver ingot, the lines were soft and there was hidden tension, and the level was quite high.

After further processing, who says that it will not become a famous painting in the future?

These paintings, painted by at least one eyewitness, should be taken more seriously by the world than those drawn by Europeans based on Bible stories, right?

Zhang Han laughed, and he said to the silver ingot, "You will definitely succeed." ”

However, Zhang Han didn't continue to look at it, as a Mongolian, the silver ingot was already very accustomed to going out under harsh conditions, and he was not too tired.

For Zhang Han, even if his physical strength is quite strong, these days it has exhausted his physical reserves, and now he is tired, he quickly lay down again, and sighed: "I still look like my whole body is strong in the painting, it's not real, silver ingot." Now I'm tired, I wish I could go back to Qingcheng tomorrow, take a hot bath, and then sleep for three days, I really don't want to pay attention to anything, I'm too tired......"

Silver Ingot rarely heard Zhang Han's complaint, a smile appeared on his face, and when he turned his head to say something, he found that Zhang Han had fallen asleep and snored.

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After walking on the road for another ten days, we finally came to an area where the snow was not too deep, and there may have been a short period of warm-up to melt some snow, in short, the snow was only half up to the horse's hooves in a large area, this kind of road was quite easy to walk, and everyone was in good spirits, and they were riding horses from morning to night.

After returning from the south of the city for more than a month, I finally walked to the core area of Hutchison, and when I saw the second copper mine in the northernmost part of Qingcheng, many people almost shed tears.

Many people have experienced several bloody battles, and of course, they have also experienced the hardships of thousands of miles.

But like this time, nearly 4,000 miles away, more than half of the time in the snow trekking, every day in knee-deep snow for thirty or forty miles, they have to walk while also having to take care of the horses, every day in the afternoon these soldiers who have gone through hard physical training are exhausted, to the end of the year even the Mongols can not stand it, fortunately out of the deep snow area, otherwise there will be a large number of people and horses on the way.

Even so, several people died, and the loss of war horses was even greater, more than a hundred war horses died on the way, and people had to abandon a lot of equipment that was not necessary, so that the war horses could travel lightly and reduce losses.

Fortunately, after entering the Inner Mongolia area, it is not as cruel as the no-man's land of Outer Mongolia, the snow is getting lighter, people can ride on horses to hurry, and recover the physical strength of the step-down, as for the war horses, they will definitely have to lose more, and they can only go back and give these poor big animals a good rest to recover.

This time, Zhang Han had no intention of inspecting the rest of the area, and hurried while the snow was shallow, if there were two more heavy snowfalls, the snow would be deep, and he would have to rely on his legs to rush in the knee-deep snow every day.

In the middle of December, a few days before the Chinese New Year, people first saw the mountains of Daqing Mountain on the horizon, stretching for thousands of miles like a sleeping dragon lying on the ground, and the original green mountains were already covered with white snow, and everyone almost cried after seeing such a scene.

After walking for another two days, the north gate of Qingcheng was in sight, and no one could bear it at this time, and they all cheered.

Zhang Xianzhong is full of beard again, even Zhang Han is bearded, of course no one will blame him, when everyone cheered, Zhang Xianzhong shouted: "Lao Tzu is going to take a good bath, and then call two little ladies, and then don't wear pants, don't get out of bed for three days!" ”

Everyone laughed, even Zhang Han.

Men, the psychology is the same, although I don't even want to lift my fingers when I am tired, but when I think of the woman with warm nephrite, I have lived an abstinence for two or three months, and my heart and lower abdomen are hot.

Holidays are sure everyone has, this time it's too hard, according to the habits of the merchant army, at least half a month's vacation will be given to everyone, and it's the New Year, even with the same year vacation, at least ten or twenty days of rest, Zhang Xianzhong will not get out of bed for three days, as long as he suffers it, no one will care about him.

At this time, there are already a large number of people to catch up, the defense of the north of Qingcheng is still very tight, until the copper mine at the north end has quite a lot of fire piers and baggage garrisons, to the first circle of defense on the periphery of Qingcheng is the garrison range of the first regiment of the guards, the first regiment has also changed from a pure infantry regiment to a dragoon regiment, because it is the first regiment of the guards, it has a great advantage in resource care, almost equipped with complete war horses and cuirasses or armor, weapons, especially firearms and bayonets, are also fully equipped, when Zhang Han and his party appeared, The outer defense line immediately activated the early warning, and before the identity of Zhang Han and the others was completely judged and confirmed, a small group of cuirassiers followed not far away, and no one came to interrogate, Zhang Han and the others were familiar with the process after the alarm triggered by the merchant army, so they still hurried forward unhurriedly.

After a large group of cavalry appeared and the encirclement formation was prepared, a ranger non-commissioned officer wearing armor galloped forward with a small group of cavalry, which should be to observe and confirm the identity of Zhang Han and the others nearby.

Everything is according to the process, the response is quite fast, and everything is done almost unconsciously.

Of course, Zhang Han is quite satisfied, he has no way to be dissatisfied, all these processes are all planned by the people below, and they were approved by him after the drill is mature, and it has been proved that the current set of processes is very mature, even if it is really an enemy attack, it is impossible to please under such a tight defense.

Of course, the enemy cavalry really came, and the dungeon along the way had already called the police, and now it was only the last formality.

The cavalrymen ran very beautifully, the armor and cuirass on their bodies were very solid, flashing silver, and the weapons in their hands, whether they were spears and sabers or riding guns, had a strange beauty of strength, and the cold light of the tips of the spears and the three edges and stabs and knives flickered so that everyone felt palpitations.

It is the feeling of beauty in which defense and strength are perfectly balanced, and it is also the feeling of strength, which a woman may find a little awkward when she sees it, but it is different for a man, and there is no man who is not conquered by this feeling and indulges in it.

Even when on vacation, many merchant soldiers like to be fully armed, and they like the feeling of being conquered and enveloped, even by retired disabled soldiers.

There was a large group of caravans watching the scene in front of them at the north gate of Qingcheng, and the merchants were also cheering, everyone knew that it was unlikely to be enemy cavalry, but when the merchants made the most perfect defensive state, it still attracted everyone's attention and applause.

"It's different from other places." A middle-aged businessman smiled at the entourage around him: "The status of a soldier is much higher than that of our merchants and landowners, and the soldiers are respected everywhere, and they take a lot of silver. We came from Yongping, and we counted on these soldiers to buy the local products we brought with us, and they were much richer than the people in the tunbao. ”

"The people in the Tunpu are not bad." Another businessman from Yongping Mansion said with a smile: "There are dozens of acres of tuntian planted, the tax is also low, the yield is high, the price of planting some tobacco is very high, the sweet potato was originally cheap, no one wants it, and now it is used to make wine is also taken away by a large number of people, we have also tasted sweet potato wine, and the grain is not bad." ”

"Alas, what's the use of saying this, I'm going to die of worry."

This group of Yongping merchants was indeed unlucky.

They are aware of Hutchison's strong strength, and they are also a group of businessmen who are willing to cooperate with Hutchison.

Of course, the net worth is not bad, at least in the area of Yongping Mansion, the territory of Jizhen is second to none.

Unlike those merchants in Jingshi, they at least have a good sense of business, and Hutchison cooperates with merchants in Zhangjiakou and other places, and the merchants everywhere make a lot of money, and many northern merchants make enough money in trade with the Russians.

A large number of Russian goods also entered the Zhangjiakou area and penetrated into the south for sale.

The merchants from Yongping to Shandong were anxious.

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