"That's it, that's all!"

Duan Heyu muttered quietly, in the past ten years, he didn't know how many times he had said this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was the tenth year of the "Yuan Xian" in China, and ten years had passed since Zhou Quan ascended the throne, and Duan Heyu had also stayed in Yingtianfu for ten years.

For the first five years, his freedom was limited to a certain extent, but in the past five years, as the Dali Province settled down and the Gao family's rebellion was put down by the Huaxia army, he gained considerable freedom. For example, at this moment, he can come to Haizhou.

No, no.

His third son, Duan Yixing, is going to go on an expedition with the Huaxia Army and Navy today, and he is here to send off his son.

Although the Chinese court gave him the title of county king, but in the Chinese Dynasty, the title is only an honorary title, and the annual title gold is pitiful, and the title of the dignified county king is not as good as the annual salary of the county order of a small county, and he mainly relies on an annuity of 180,000 yuan per year - from 150,000 to 180,000 yuan in ten years, but compared with the increase in prices, it is obviously impossible to support a big family.

So he can only do business, not only him, but almost all the families that have been knighted will do business, and only in this way can his family not be too shabby.

But doing business is not an easy thing, with the relationship with Dali Province, the Duan family can get some tea or other local products from Dali Province, and can earn 20,000 or 30,000 silver yuan a year, if you want to make the family business better, you must open up new ways to make money. The Duan family was somewhat taboo and did not dare to get involved in industries such as steel and shipping, so opening up new trade routes became the best choice.

In particular, Duan Yixing, the third son of Duan Heyu, was only nine years old when he came to Yingtian with him, and later received education in Yingtian, and was taught to be a Chinese fanatic in the past ten years, and he was bent on joining the Huaxia Army and expanding the territory for future generations, completely ignoring the fact that he was once the prince of Dali.

However, because of his health, he could only leave the army after serving a year of reserve service, and he did not give up, so he pestered Duan Heyu and asked to go to East Africa to sell ivory - in fact, he participated in the burning expedition that had lasted for eleven years, and this time Duan Heyu did not stop him, and could only come to see him off worriedly.

Looking at his son's excited and inexplicable expression, Duan Heyu muttered a few words, took off a string of prayer beads that he had hung around his neck for many years, and hung it around his son's neck.

Duan Yixing was a little impatient, but he also thanked his father.

Their Duan family believes in Buddhism, and now Duan Heyu has become a vegetarian and a layman at home. In recent years, with the economic prosperity, the two religions of Buddhism and Taoism have also flourished, but it is said that the fundamental reason for this is that the two religions performed extremely well in the burning expedition.

In some places, the natives did not know anything about the guns brought by the Chinese people, and feared them like gods, and then the two religions of Taoism took advantage of the situation, especially Taoism, and directly declared that the gunpowder was obtained by the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Thunder Puhua Tianzun and the Tang Dynasty Zhang Zhongjing, so this gun is all Taoist artifacts, and the Taoist priests will have more illusions, and the natives will be fooled not to be wanted, so Taoism is extremely prosperous.

And Buddhism can be said more than Taoism, Jiatian from Jiaozhi to Siam, originally had a foundation for Buddhism, so they also successfully killed the ancestral court Tianzhu.

"The money I donated to Nalanda Temple, you must remember, you must send it to the temple, it is for me and your mother to pray for your blessings, the stakes are very high, don't delay!" A thousand words, and finally turned into this sentence.

Tianzhu Nalanda Temple is now in decay, four years ago, the burning expeditionary troops and the Dajin army fought a decisive battle in this vicinity, the Jin country also used muskets, but their front-loading arquebuses in the face of the flintlock breech guns is a tragedy, and what is even more tragic is that the proportion of the Jin muskets is too high, a battle, one fifth of their musketeers were injured by their own muskets.

After this battle, the Huaxia army completely drove the power of the Jin Kingdom from the northeast of Tianzhu, and also drove the influence of the Great Food God Sect out of this area. Because the Great Food Sect had seriously damaged the Nalanda Temple, the remnants of the monks in the temple came to China with the troops of the burning expedition and begged Zhou Quan to rebuild the temple, but Zhou Quan flatly refused.

"The Han family has its own beliefs, gods and Buddhas don't eat fireworks in the world, what's the use of asking for money? If you have money, you should build more schools and hospitals, so as not to violate the teachings of God and Buddhism. ”

This is Zhou Quan's original words, but he also opened a convenient door, allowing the believers of the Buddha to donate by themselves, and the imperial court can collect it on their behalf without collecting taxes. In this way, the believers of Buddhism donated money one after another, and Duan Heyu believed in it, of course, he also donated a lot, and this time he simply asked his son to bring some over.

At this time, Yi Xing still didn't understand his father's love for his son, so he just nodded in response, and then looked behind him again.

Over there, there was a group of more than a dozen people about his age, all smiling and waiting for him.

Duan Heyu was a little helpless, among these young people, many of them he knew, many of them were the sons of the objects of the "attention" of the Chinese court, such as Zhou Guozhong, the son of the original lord of the city of Zhancheng, and the son of the original Japanese state Genji, the original Yoshitomo of the original Japanese state - these two countries are now under the rule of China, and the state of Champa has become the province of Champong, and the country of Japan has become the four provinces of Fusang East, Fusang West, Tsukushi, and Iyo, and its original rulers have changed their surnames to Han, like the lord of the city of Zhancheng, who was given the surname Zhou because of his dedication to the country.

The identities of these people are somewhat taboo, but the younger generation has been taught to become Great Chinese Scholars, and their minds are to strive for the prosperity of Great China and their personal fame. They relied on their family's surplus money to devote themselves to wave after wave of burning expeditions, hoping to make a fortune with the help of Huaxia's strong expansion.

"Daddy, Auntie, if you don't have other instructions, I'll leave." Seeing that his partners were faintly laughing at him, Duan Yixing was a little embarrassed and urged his parents.

"That's it, that's it......" Duan Heyu said habitually, waving his hand to signal him to leave, while hugging his tearful wife.

Duan Yixing couldn't wait for a long time, so he hurriedly bowed and met with his companions.

Duan Heyu looked at his back and sighed slightly.

In the ten years since the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the world has changed greatly, and the times have been completely different.

In the past ten years, I don't know how many sons and daughters of all ethnic groups have been like Duan Yixing, full of ambition and longing, taking a sea ship and drifting on the sea for dozens of days or even months, in order to find an opportunity to get ahead.

As far as Duan Heyu knows, one-fifth of them died on the way to adventure, two-fifths returned in despair, and only two-fifths were able to return home.

But the newspapers will not talk about the dead and downcast, only about those who have returned home, and those who are behind the Burning Expedition will not mention anything that is not conducive to the Burning Expedition.

I hope his son will also be one of the two-fifths of those who have returned home, hopefully.

Half a year later, West Tianzhu, known locally as Salsai Island, and the Chinese named Xuanzang Port more than 150 miles to the north.

Meng Shen, who had a deep scar on his face, roared: "Monk Duan, are you dead?" ”

After eleven years of participating in the Burning Expedition, Meng Shen was reluctant at first, but later he was used to fighting, and even organized his own escort team after retiring, and he had grown a lot. Eleven years of war, in addition to adding a long scar to his face, also brought him eight medals, a fief with an area of more than 500 li, the title of earl, a total of nine concubines of different races, a family property worth more than 6 million silver yuan, and a reputation spread all over the world.

Duan Yixing, whom he called Monk Duan, got up from a ditch in Xitianzhu and spit out the dirt in his mouth.

At this time, his face no longer had the whiteness of a scholar, and some of it was rough after the sun and rain. He looked up to the other side, where it was already quiet.

In the ditch beside him, many people, living and dead, lay on the ground. Two or three months ago, Duan Yixing was scared to pee when he saw this appearance, but now, he just glanced at it casually, and then said loudly: "There is no abnormality, prepare to move forward!" ”

He originally went to East Africa, where an expedition found a huge elephant population, and although Zhou Quan himself had no interest in luxury, at least 10 million of the 150 million people in China were wealthy people who chased luxury, and their desire for ivory and ivory products made East African ivory also very profitable.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that when they arrived in Xuanzang Port, they were facing a crisis.

The Jin State, which was driven away from the coast by the Huaxia Army, launched an unexpected counterattack, and the target of their counterattack was Xuanzang Port, the most important port of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force in Tianzhu.

Obviously, Jin Guoda heard the news, the Huaxia army is preparing a huge offensive, ready to completely pull out the power of Jin from Tianzhu, so that Jin Guo will lose Tianzhu's manpower, cotton and mineral products, they launched an attack in advance with nearly 100,000 troops, and the target of the attack is Xuanzang Port, which is full of war supplies.

The Huaxia Army's defense force in Xuanzang Port was only more than 12,000 people of the newly formed 14th Army, and the opponent was nearly 100,000 Jin troops and more than 200,000 Tianzhu natives who were coerced, and although the Jin army was backwardly equipped, it also had 50,000 arquebuses, more than 600 artillery pieces and countless cavalry. The large-scale reinforcements of the Huaxia Army will arrive in three months at the earliest, so the Tianzhu Metropolitan Protector issued a wartime conscription order, and all the Huaxia forces that passed through Xuanzang Harbor at this time were within the conscription of the port siege.

So Meng Shen, who took his escort team as a mercenary, Duan Yixing, who was preparing to rush to East Africa with his companions, and many other Chinese were temporarily recruited to participate in this war.

Fortunately, all Chinese people of appropriate age are required to serve in the military and conduct military training ranging from half a year to a year, so everyone cannot be regarded as ignorant of military affairs.

After Duan Heyu finished shouting, he picked up the musket, and the cat bent his waist and began to charge forward, but he moved fast, and several people around him ran faster, and rushed to the rushing side in the blink of an eye.

Duan Heyu glanced at the two of them, and remembered the names of the two people who had just joined his team, one was called Lu You, and the other was Li Yu.

It is said that two students who traveled during the holidays did not expect to be involved in this unexpected war.