Liu Yeqiang did not have a detailed map at hand, what he had in his hand was a rough map, which was changed from the maps brought by the old world, although these maps were more accurate for the location of the city, but the river road path or something was basically meaningless. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info You must know that the urbanization of the new world is far worse than that of the old world, many of the towns and villages marked on the map do not exist at all, and there are many places on the map that are already fertile fields and are still mountains, dense forests and swamps, so the existence of this map is only better than nothing.

Yang Muqin was absolutely depressed now, he had drawn more than ten maps, and what he had drawn was only a map of the area he was traveling through. Surveying and mapping maps is a delicate job, there are really few veterans in the entire senate system who can really survey and map maps, even if they are Beiwei and Xue Ziliang, they can only draw sketches, and professional mapping can not be drawn by putting a hot air balloon in the sky like now, and the things needed are from theodolite to rangefinder. According to the estimates of the veterans of the exploration team, even if the map of Dongfang Port and the Anyun area is to be drawn, it will take at least a year to a year and a half. However, the exploration team has already begun to train naturalized people with mapping skills, but the matter of cultivating talents must be done step by step, especially this kind of highly professional talent, which must not be sloppy. Therefore, the survey department is now leading a team led by the patriarch to carry out large-scale surveying and mapping work for the entire Dongfang Port, on the one hand, to draw a detailed map of the Anyun area, and on the other hand, to train surveying and mapping talents.

Liu Yeqiang looked at the map of the whole territory of Guangdong in his hand, smiled wryly and shook his head, "If the map is correct, our location should be close to Zhaoqing." ”

"Zhaoqing?" Yang Muqin leaned in front of the telescope and watched carefully for a while, but the distance was too far to see anything clearly, the only thing he could see clearly was the river. Guangdong from here to the east belongs to the area of dense water network, large and small rivers criss-cross, and the official road still enters the water network area in the first few days. Fortunately, the official roads are all roads funded by the government, and the mountains and roads along the way are bridged by water and water, but the convoy does not encounter a situation where there is no way out. But several bridges along the way are old, and I heard passers-by say that some bridges were built in the Chenghua period, and some were even built in the Yongle period. Thinking of this, Yang Muqin couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, this is a bridge that is more than two hundred years old, and it is mainly a wooden structure, no matter who is not at ease. Therefore, every time the convoy needs to cross the bridge, it will specially let the accompanying engineering personnel go to the bridge to check one side first, and when crossing the bridge, they are also specially required to drive slowly one by one, so as to avoid the occurrence of situations that affect the safety of the bridge.

Liu Yeqiang said as he picked up the compass and looked in the direction that Yang Muqin was pointing, and then compared it on the map, "That's right, if the map is correct, it should be Zhaoqing in front." ”

"But Zhaoqing looks big in the telescope, and it feels a lot bigger than Beihai City." Yang Muqin said and flipped through the map near Beihai that he had drawn before, "Beihai is at the provincial capital level, why does this Zhaoqing look similar to the scale of a provincial capital city?" ”

"You are wrong about this," Liu Yeqiang smiled and said, "I know you think Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province, but now you think so, it would be wrong, since the forty-third year of Jiajing, the Liangguang Governor's Mansion has been here, and now Mingzhou is far less important than Zhaoqing." ”

"Isn't it?" Yang Muqin was a little confused, "Mingzhou, ah no, I mean, hasn't Guangzhou always been the administrative center of Guangdong?" What's going on in Zhaoqing? ”

"It's true," Liu Yeqiang looked around and whispered, "Zhaoqing's status in Guangdong has always been very high, including Zhu Youlang of the Southern Ming Dynasty who also set the capital in Zhaoqing, and it was not until the 11th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty that the administrative center of Guangdong was moved to Guangzhou. ”

"Then should we go to Zhaoqing?" Yang Muqin looked at the telescope and asked curiously, "Since this is the administrative center of Guangdong, there is no overlap with our route, let me take a look." "There is a road about six or seven kilometers ahead of us to turn east, and there are boats in the river, and there is a wharf next to the wall. ”

"Of course there is a wharf, and this river is the Xijiang River. The Xijiang River is one of the major rivers in Guangdong, and the grain merchants who transport rice and grain from Guangxi basically transport their grain to Mingzhou through the Xijiang River. Liu Yeqiang said and looked at the map, "It stands to reason that we don't need to go to Zhaoqing, the Xijiang River is wide, and there is no Xijiang Bridge at this time, so if you want to cross the river, you must take a boat." After crossing the river, we will have to ferry to Mingzhou many times, which will add many uncontrollable factors to our itinerary, and it is completely unnecessary. ”

"You mean not going?" Yang Muqin said and looked at the city wall of Zhaoqing.

"It's not that you don't go, it's just that you don't need to cross the river in general, just choose a few people to go over." Liu Yeqiang said and smiled, "I don't want to slowly move towards Mingzhou with a lot of heads and captives, it will take at least ten days from here to Mingzhou, I'm sure there will be at least ordinary captives on the way, and I feel panicked when I sleep with this pile of heads every day." ”

"Also," Yang Muqin said into the microphone, he also hated the hobby of cutting off the heads of the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, for the officers and soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, recording their exploits or something is to see how many heads there are. Sometimes they do not hesitate to kill ordinary people to obtain the head in order to be able to risk more war exploits and salaries, and now they are of course impossible to give up these real bandit heads. He was originally a guy who was a bit of a cleanliness fetish, and on the day he cleaned up the battlefield, he vomited almost directly in front of everyone, and endured it for a long time before he held it back, and then saw that the group of Wu Dynasty officers and soldiers were smiling with blunt knives and cutting their heads, and they rushed to the side and spit out, and they were not very willing to deal with those Wu Dynasty officers and soldiers until now. "Let those Wu Dynasty people send their heads and prisoners over, that's fine, just let them help us open the road directly."

"Think beautifully!" Liu Yeqiang laughed, "It's definitely not such a good thing, we definitely have to go here, and it must be a veteran, otherwise let that group of officers and soldiers of the Wu Dynasty brag about it, saying that they have killed countless people and protected us, and as soon as it spreads, it will definitely make the bandits along the way eager to try against us." Then why are we willing to use so many ** to blow up these hundreds of bandits? ”

"Why?" Yang Muqin immediately turned into a curious baby, "By the way, it was specially flown from Dongfang Port, it's so luxurious." ”

"It's very simple, kill the chicken to show the monkey, and make such a big move, so that people who have thoughts about us will weigh more in their hearts, whether they can afford to provoke us." Liu Yeqiang said and turned his head to look at the bandit captives who had been looking up at the hot air balloon, "The main reason why these bandit captives are sent to Zhaoqing is here." Let them advertise for us, without diamonds, and don't come to pick up porcelain work, so that the bandits along the way can be jealous of us, so that no cats and dogs will come to beat our ideas. ”

"If you make up your mind, you will make up your mind, and you are afraid that they will not succeed?" Yang Muqin scoffed a little, but soon heard Liu Yeqiang's words, "Don't be stupid, there are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves?" Are you tired every day? Wouldn't it be better to save something if you can save something, so that potential enemies don't dare to do it? ”

"Chief! There is a case! The special investigator team member beside Yang Muqin who was manpowering out the blower suddenly whispered, "Over there." "Talking about the road pointing to the direction of Zhaoqing.

Yang Muqin put his hand on the pergola and looked over, and sure enough, there was a group of people on the road who were coming towards this side, but they couldn't see it with the naked eye, so they came to the telescope. The scene in the lens is immediately magnified, some people are sitting in sedan chairs and some are riding horses, most of the people walking should be servants, wearing clothes similar to those worn by ordinary family members. But these people did not have weapons in their hands, and the people walking behind did not use vehicles, but carried a huge roast pig the size of ordinary people, and the one behind them carried a burden, which contained all kinds of fresh vegetables, and some of them seemed to have salted fish and bacon and other foods.

"What do these people do?" Yang Muqin muttered to himself, picked up the earpiece and reported to Liu Yeqiang what he saw. Liu Yeqiang has a messy brain, where is the trouble at this time? Is it that you are going to sacrifice to the heavens? While he was in doubt, the walkie-talkie next to him suddenly rang, "Chief, we are a reconnaissance vehicle, and someone is here." ”

According to the regulations of the northbound detachment, every time the reconnaissance vehicle sets up camp, it must go forward and stand guard two to three kilometers backwards, and the specific distance is determined by the distance at which the walkie-talkie can transmit voice.

"Who's coming? Is there any malice? Liu Yeqiang picked up the walkie-talkie and asked. Soon got a report from the special investigators, "I don't know, chief, it's just a few people dressed as family members, holding red gift cards in their hands, do you want us to go up and grab a tongue and come back?" ”

"Don't expose them yet, keep watching and see if they're armed." "No, chief, no weapons, we've all reconnoitred, no weapons."

Not to mention the northbound detachment, even they didn't expect that these people were all wealthy businessmen and big families in Zhaoqing City. They hadn't heard the thunderous explosion the other day, but the caravans and residents they met along the way reported the news all the way. This incident stunned this group of big people in Zhaoqing City, such combat effectiveness is inevitably too rebellious, and in less than a hundred people, nearly a thousand bandits were killed, and a lot of prisoners were captured. Among them, there are also people who know this gang of bandits, and when they say it, they are even more shocked by this group of big people - it is actually the people and horses of the six road eyes of the king of the broken village.

Since the suppression of bandits in Dongfang Port, the bandits in Anyun have been running around, some have been exterminated by the official army or militia groups, but the bandits who have not been exterminated have formed a more powerful bandit group with you and me. The people and horses of the Liuluyan of the Broken Village King are the leaders of this group of bandits, because they guard the road from Yunnan to Dongfang Port, they kill people and goods as if they are in a no-man's land, and they have long been notorious, and even Zhaoqing, which is hundreds of miles away, is also talking about it. But it is unimaginable that such a team of less than 100 people completely wiped them out.

Moreover, listening to the oral accounts of the people I saw along the way, the method used by this team was very strange, and it was actually used to blow up hundreds of bandits at one time with explosions. And according to the people they saw along the way, this team is now coming along the official road towards Zhaoqing Mansion, although I don't know what their intentions are, but it is not a good thing to let such a deified team get so close to the important town of Zhaoqing after all.

There was some nervousness about the current governor of Liangguang, Wang Zunde, who was not far from Mingzhou, and that the ships that had been rented from Mingzhou and Maidno were like shooting stars every day, and that these ships had brought silver from overseas to buy all kinds of goods from Guangdong and Fujian, from porcelain, pearls, sugar, spices, and grain. Since the Wu Dynasty did not open the sea ban, unless these merchant ships were in Morning Star, they could only anchor near Baji Island outside Mingzhou City to let small boats carry goods.

Wang Zunde's biggest characteristic is that he is incorruptible, and before he took office, his officials participated in the operation of various dental shops, and they were able to fill their own pockets from the sea trade. After he took office, he severely cracked down on this phenomenon, which caused many officials under him to complain, but this kind of complaint came to an abrupt end since the Chinese New Year this year. Wang Zunde didn't know the reason, and after several inquiries, he learned that there was an Oriental Port in Annan, which was established by a group of people who occupied a beach in Anyun, Annan, and directly reversed the trade route of Mingzhou City with their strange goods. These ships were dismissive of the products of Guangdong and Fujian that were so popular in the past, and they just arrived at the port, unloaded the goods, collected the money and left, making the goods piled up in many tooth shops in Mingzhou and unable to sell.

Obviously, the "Chinese goods" made by these people are very appetizing to him, and they have hit those ** officials who secretly participate in smuggling, and support his action to crack down on ** from the side. But at present, this group of convoys claiming to be the northbound team of the people is coming east along the official road, and yesterday he heard that it has approached Zhaoqing, he doesn't know what this group of people is going to do, Liu Chuanzhi, the commander of Annan, has already informed the officials along the way of the northbound detachment and the intentions, but he is still a little uneasy, what if such an army suddenly comes to attack Zhaoqing and seize the prefecture and county? After thinking about it, he listened to the advice of his staff, and asked a group of local businessmen in Zhaoqing to meet these people, and by the way, he inquired about their intentions and sped on the military situation of the people.

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