Han Xu is growing rapidly.

Sometimes he was glad that he was a master archery and had the physique of an athlete, which allowed him to escape death many times at the beginning of the crossing, and at this time he was able to make a name for himself in the Ming army.

If an ordinary modern person traveled to Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, what kind of encounters and what he would experience, he didn't dare to think.

What he already has is not enough, Han Xu is constantly learning and growing.

At night, there was no way to practice martial arts anymore, but he read at night with a lamp in the house.

Gao Xiaosan was ordered to run to Liaoyang once and collected a large number of books in Liaoyang.

Han Xu explained to him that as long as it is not opera, poetry, Bagu articles, all historical events, notes, especially books such as military books and military equipment, he should not let them go, and buy them all.

The money that everyone has in hand now is collected from the dozen or so dead Dongyu, and they scraped together dozens of taels of silver to do this, Gao Xiaosan is very expert in doing such a thing, he doesn't spend much money, and he does things very beautifully.

The large stack of books was placed in the east room, stacked up to half a person's height, and Han Xu lit an oil lamp every night and read it at night.

At the beginning, it was very difficult to read, the ancients did not have punctuation, the sentence reading required skill, the text was very obscure, Han Xu was born as an athlete, and later made up for many years of culture after retiring, so he could barely understand it, and after many days, the more he watched, the smoother it became, but if he wanted to read comfortably and conveniently, he didn't want to think about it.

The most read are, of course, military books and history books.

The most famous in this dynasty are Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, both of whom are Confucian handsome, can write and write poetry, and write military books in detail and appropriately, which helped Han Xu a lot.

There are also books about firearms such as the "Fire Dragon Sutra", which are not only words, but also accompanied by pictures, which looks very convenient.

Of course, "Wu Bei Zhi" should also be watched.

In addition to the book of war, it is a history book, and the most read is the general knowledge of governance, in the past, Han Xu only read this book to learn from history, but today he is trying to see the power and political disputes between the lines.

The wars in the book, Han Xu only glanced at them in the past, but now he has watched them over and over again.

The efforts of many famous generals may be only a hundred or ten words in the pen of a literati, and the details will be ignored if they are vague. It may be that in dozens of words, it is tens of thousands of soldiers who shed their blood and beheaded and made meritorious contributions.

The scenery after practicing martial arts, reading books, and praising his skills on the street seems to be leaving Han Xu, only he knows that this is just a wait before embarking on the journey again, and it may not take too long!

……

In a mansion in Fengji Fort, someone spoke quietly: "The new Ren Jingluo is about to arrive." ”

In a blink of an eye, it was July 28, the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Fengji Fort had more and more people in these days, and there was chaos everywhere in the fort, but the central area where the deputy generals of the general army lived was still very quiet, and the standard battalion soldiers and families of the generals would drive the idle people far away, ordinary soldiers could not get here, and a small number of households in the fort were not allowed to come here.

In the evening, a few horsemen came from the direction of Liaoyang, and they brought the latest news: Xiong Tingbi, the new Jinglu, had passed the Niuzhuang Station and would arrive in Liaoyang tomorrow.

After hearing the news, all the general soldiers and guerrilla generals and above decided to go outside Liaoyang City to greet them, and they were expected to leave at dawn tomorrow morning, and they wanted to rush to the outside of Liaoyang City before Jingluo arrived.

Others, after hearing the news, also gathered urgently to discuss their important matters.

The master is the guerrilla general Wang Wending, who is in his forties, white and fat, and has a stubborn face.

Wang Wending was born in a veteran family in Liaodong, and was one of the generals who escaped from the First World War in Salhu. The battle was defeated on all sides, the Ming army died several general soldiers, more than 300 officers above 1,000 generals died, and nearly 50,000 ordinary soldiers died. And this man escaped from the battle, and later served as a guerrilla in Tieling, and he led his troops to flee first, although he never surrendered to the enemy, it was also completely hateful.

There is also a guerrilla named Liu Yujie beside Wang Wending, who also fled back from the battlefield, his strength has been greatly damaged, relying on Wang Wending's disciples, since he heard that Xiong Tingbi is coming, this person knows that the old bear is powerful, and his face has always been a look of distraction, Wang Wending doesn't look down on him, but he still calls him.

There are a few people, are Liaoyang and Shenyang from the family of the principal or representative of the family, of which Shenyang Zhang family is a famous big leather businessman, has been a fortune for decades, the Lu family and the Yang family is also a famous businessman, these families and all over the guard and battalion generals have dealings, the important thing is that the big businessmen in Liaodong want to develop, left and right is inseparable from leather goods and ginseng, every time Kuandian and Fushun Guan, Daming here to buy is tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of leather goods, the most expensive leather price is only a few taels of silver, Transported to the Guannei, a most worthless deer skin is worth five taels of silver, mink fox skin is more expensive, ginseng is also a good commodity, the demand is very large, the ginseng production area and leather supply at that time are monopolized in the hands of the Jurchens, these merchants are more dealings with the Jurchens, these big families, and the Jurchen side of the relationship is very close, and what to discuss today is a very important matter related to their net worth and life.

As soon as the topic came to Jingluo, Liu Yujie was very scared, and immediately said: "Xiong is very spicy, in my opinion, let's stop this business for the time being." ”

"Why stop?" Zhang Ruting, who spoke, was a member of the Zhang family in Shenyang, and there were several officials in the family, Zhang Ruting himself was a lifter, and he had been a big picker in the county, and he was very confident in speaking, so he immediately pushed back and said: "As long as things are done secretly, how many people can Xiong Tingbi bring over?" Does he have three heads and six arms, or does he have clairvoyance and ears to the wind? ”

"That's right." Wang Wending smiled and answered: "The important thing is to keep things confidential...... Dayong, come here! ”

Wang Dayong came in response, and discussed in private, he was still wearing a six-rank military attache robe, and he looked very good. Hearing Wang Wending's greeting, Wang Dayong, who was standing at the door, hurriedly walked over, regardless of his status as a military attaché, and saluted everyone.

Wang Wending looked left and right, and said in a deep voice: "My nephew, now he is the general manager of the Xinyong Battalion, and the Xinyong Battalion has been handed over to Lao Bao, how can he have the heart to manage the camp affairs, and besides, we have nothing to stuff him with some silver, usually my nephew is in charge of the sentinel affairs, there are people inside and outside, what are you afraid of?" However, you should be careful in Liaoyang and Shenyang, where the official is beyond the reach of the whip. ”

Now Fengjibao to Shenyang, as well as the Fushun Pass line are all by the Xinyong battalion responsible for guarding the border sentinels, the general's family Ding personally will not easily go out, all of them here are big businessmen, the thing to discuss is to continue to do business with Houjin, the enemy of life and death, here to sell grain and medicinal materials pig iron in the past, to buy Dongzhu ginseng fur and other things over there, this is a profitable business, even if Houjin kills people like hemp, the families and businessmen here still refuse to give up such a big profit, the national disaster is at the head, it doesn't matter to these people.