The sun that had just appeared in the early morning gave off a daunting heat, and Tang Ming rode a docile old horse and walked in the middle of the group. In front of them were ten guards led by Zhu Yong, and as soon as they got on the road, they wore helmets and armor, the iron armor absorbed the heat of the June day, and they couldn't walk a few miles, all of them were as if they had been fished out of the water, they were wet, and their tongues stretched out longer than Xiaobai who followed Tang Ming.

Zhu Yong rode side by side with Tang Ming unhurriedly, at this moment he looked at his subordinates who were as hot as a dog in front of him, but his face was not pity at all, but his face was full of schadenfreude. When the team first traveled, he was also wearing armor, but when he saw that Li Ba and Weihaiwei's soldiers were only wearing a light soft armor, Zhu Yong, who was a thief, immediately asked for a set to put on himself.

The soft armor was designed by Tang Ming according to the special forces combat uniforms of later generations, and iron plates were sewn on important parts of the body with burlap, which was both breathable and cool. Compared with those armors weighing forty or fifty pounds, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground. As for not letting his subordinates wear such soft armor, Zhu Yong explained it this way.

"You rice buckets, ruining the reputation of my Left Governor's Army, can't even beat the soldiers of Weihaiwei, this garrison has decided to train you fiercely from now on. Of course, the first drill starts with wearing heavy armor and hurrying, if anyone drops the chain halfway, then don't blame the ruthlessness of the garrison, and it will definitely be dealt with in accordance with military law. ”

Li Ba was silent all the way, and the brocade guard sent by the emperor arrived in the middle of the night last night, and after giving him the emperor's secret decree, he flashed silently, and he didn't even have a chance to pull Li Ba closely.

After Li Ba read the secret decree, the whole person was blinded, and he really didn't understand why His Majesty, who had always been wise, would give himself such a task. The letter asked him to accompany Tang Ming after receiving the secret order, and protect him with Zhu Yong, and set off to Suzhou to recognize his relatives.

Moreover, it is not allowed to go to sea to take a boat, it is necessary to go by land, and there is no need to rush during this period, and the soldiers of Weihaiwei are not allowed to bring more, no more than 20 people at most. Li Ba was very puzzled, Tang Ming was now threatened by Jianwen's remnants, and he could die at any time.

However, he ordered him not to take the safest sea route, and he had to swagger through the city to not destroy his whereabouts when walking on land, which was obviously to put Tang Ming to death. But at the end of the letter, he had to ensure that Tang Ming's life was worry-free, and if Tang Ming made a mistake on the way to Suzhou, he would be questioned about him.

Li Ba was very depressed, and Tang Ming naturally couldn't get any better. Originally, as long as he was given some more time, he could make a second improvement of Weihaiwei's hybrid crops. At this juncture, Zhu Di issued a secret decree, ordering him to immediately leave for Suzhou to recognize his relatives and rush to Beijing.

The crops that Weihaiwei had worked so hard to get were all taken away by a group of people who didn't know their origins, and Weihaiwei even changed a hundred households to garrison here.

If Tang Ming would not be so depressed if he only had these, the main reason was that he thought that going to Suzhou by land in such a ghost weather would be more than twice as far as taking the sea route, and it would be very hard. Just like now, with a golden sun overhead, strolling along the deserted paths, sometimes trying to find a cool place to rest is powerless.

Tang Ming is depressed and depressed, but there is also bitterness that can only be swallowed in his stomach, in this era of the supremacy of imperial power, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, and he has no other way. If you want to resist but don't have that right, you can only slander a few words in your heart at most. Between stops and walks, before you know it, it's almost noon.

Because of the rush in the morning, he couldn't eat a full meal at all, and now his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, and he was hurrying under the scorching sun, his body functions doubled, and his physical strength had already been exhausted.

Looking up at the winding path ahead, Tang Ming frowned and asked Li Ba beside him: "Brother Li, it's noon, it's the time when the sun is the hottest, and everyone's stomachs are already growling with hunger, why don't you find a place with water to eat first before you go, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

"What else to eat! How can you still eat in such a ghost weather, wait for the grove ahead, and then have half an hour's road to reach Caizhou Mansion. When the time comes, it is better to find a restaurant and have a good meal than to eat dry food in this wilderness! Li Ba didn't have time to answer, but Zhu Yong next to him spoke first.

Tang Ming and Li Ba felt justified, and they shouted, and everyone sped up. Passing through a small forest in front of him, sure enough, as Zhu Yong said, the tall city wall of Caizhou Mansion was already in sight. At the thought of waiting to go to the city to rest, the speed of the crowd couldn't help but speed up a lot again.

At this time, Caizhou Mansion was still a desolate place, and it was close to the sea like Weihaiwei, and most of the people's economic resources depended on boiling sea salt for a living. Salt merchants from all over the world come here every month to buy, so the market is quite lively.

After a wild run, Tang Ming fell behind the team, and Li Ba and Zhu Yong accompanied him. Tang Ming, who has never ridden a horse, has been blistered on the way to the point that his butt is blistered, and it is estimated that he will not be able to ride a horse again tomorrow. For this reason, Tang Ming was also ridiculed by Zhu Yong, laughing at him for not being like a man like a girl.

Someone was naturally powerless to refute him, and all he wanted was to get to Caizhou City as soon as possible. Outside the city is a wilderness, because of the proximity to the sea, some of the land is not suitable for growing crops, and the ancient farming technology is too backward, so it can only be left to waste. In addition, most of the people in Caizhou make a living by boiling sea salt, so there are naturally fewer people engaged in farming.

As soon as you enter the city gates, all kinds of shouts are heard in an endless stream, which is in stark contrast to the barren land outside the city. Since ancient times, people have lived in groups, and the more lively it is, the more people gather. Tang Ming came to the top restaurant in Caizhou Mansion with Zhu Yong's support.

At this moment, it was just a meal, and the restaurant was already overcrowded, and there were twenty tables in the elegant hall, and all kinds of persuasions and cheers from Xiao Er. As soon as the shopkeeper who greeted customers at the door saw Tang Ming's military masters coming, he immediately accompanied him with a smile, nodded with a smile and said: "Sorry military masters, this store is already full, please find another place to rest, I'm really sorry!" ”

Tang Ming and Li Ba's brows furrowed, and they glanced at the hall in the restaurant, and found that it was indeed overcrowded, and when they were about to turn around and look for another place, Zhu Yong beside him roared, stepped forward and grabbed the collar of the shopkeeper, and easily mentioned it in front of him, and said: "His grandmother's, this military master ran all the way to your small restaurant to eat, and dared to lie to Lao Tzu that it was full, so there are two empty tables left on the second floor?" ”

The shopkeeper cried with a sad face, and said urgently: "Master Jun, the little one really didn't lie to you!" The second floor was chartered by the prefect and prepared to entertain those foreign merchants. It's not like the little ones are lying to you! ”

As soon as Zhu Yong heard this, his face immediately turned green, saying that if there was a happy event in the family, it would be okay to charter the second floor of the restaurant to entertain relatives and friends, but his grandmother's actually chartered the entire second floor of the restaurant in order to entertain those barbarians from outside the territory. Isn't this the word 'corrupt official' stuck to his forehead?

Grabbing the hand of the shopkeeper and waving it back gently, the shopkeeper suddenly screamed and fell on the street, so that he could not die and smashed into the body of a fat man. The originally lively street instantly quieted down, and more than a dozen guys dressed as yachas, shouting adults in their mouths, rushed to surround the fat man who was smashed.

The shopkeeper who was pressed on the fat man was lifted again, casually thrown aside, and after a muffled snort, he was silent and didn't know whether he was dead or alive. The fat man finally stood up with the support of the two yacha, and the first thing he saw was Zhu Yong's fierce face.

I don't know if he was stunned or what, the fat man didn't seem to notice that Zhu Yong and his party were wearing military uniforms, and he even pointed at Zhu Yong and shouted: "Arrest these murderers for me, dare to commit murder and beat people in broad daylight, is there still Wang Fa and Heavenly Justice?" ”

The fat man is obviously the prefect of Caizhou Mansion, and he is usually used to being domineering on this one-third of an acre of land in Caizhou, and he has been smashed and injured on the street when he has been injured. Isn't this Tai Sui's head breaking ground and the tiger's mouth pulling teeth? On top of the anger, there will be no care about Zhu Yong, who they are, and they will be arrested first after an order.

The upper beam was not correct and the lower beam was crooked, and under the order of the fat prefect, the yacha pulled out the saber on his waist one after another, and surrounded Tang Ming and the three of them with a ghost scream.

The movement at the door of the restaurant immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding crowd, and the hula came around, and the customs of the Chinese people who love to see the lively have not changed since ancient times. Although the fat prefect didn't wear an official uniform, there were still people who knew him on the street, pointing at Tang Ming and the three of them, shaking their heads again and again and saying: "These three military masters seem to be decided, dare to accidentally injure the prefect on the street in Caizhou Mansion, and if you don't die, you have to peel off your skin!" ”

Hearing this, Tang Ming and Li Ba frowned, and they were about to reveal their identities and the others, hoping to settle the matter. But Zhu Yong's face was full of disdain, prefect? The general himself has been killed, and if a small prefect is placed in the capital division full of powerful people, it is a fart! Originally, I was angry with the ghost weather along the way, and now I just happened to be angry with this fat prefect.

Zhu Yong roared, and rushed towards the fat prefect without even drawing his fist, and the two yacha who bore the brunt were knocked away by him with one punch. It can be seen that these guys usually neglect to practice, and it is okay to bully and bully ordinary people, but if they really run into hard scum, they will definitely not dare to even go on. Just like Zhu Yong at this moment, when the officials saw his bravery, no one dared to step forward to stop him, but they swarmed towards Tang Ming, who looked thin.

Seeing that these yacha turned out to be rats who bullied the soft and feared the hard, Tang Ming would be polite to them again, and the oily appearance of the fat prefect would definitely not be a good bird. Tang Ming patted Li Ba on the shoulder, pulled Xiaobai to move a chair, and sat at the door with a big move, ready to watch a good show.

Of course, Li Ba is not a fuel-efficient lamp, his bravery is not inferior to Zhu Yong at all, and he is brave and brave, plus he is from Jinyiwei, and his fighting tricks naturally have some yin tricks, unlike Zhu Yong's background in the army, which makes the tricks above board, and the courage of the soldiers is fully displayed between the big opening and closing.