The team left the capital and headed straight to the southeast. This time, it was mainly the water and land battalion that escorted Zhu Houwei's brothers and sisters to Tianjin.

At present, there are a total of 500 people in the reconnaissance battalion, 500 people in the baggage battalion (which also serves as an engineer battalion), 500 people in the cavalry battalion, 3,000 infantry, and of course a secret weapon, that is, 300 people in the artillery battalion.

The land and water battalion expands every spring, and most of them are miners bought from other mines, and some are poor households around the capital who have joined the army spontaneously. For recruits, it is always necessary to train for half a year first, and then pull them out for real combat. With the actual combat training of the water and land battalions, the Gyeonggi area was peaceful and the public order situation was greatly improved.

Although it is the Gyeonggi area, the Gyeongyeong camp here can be said to have the largest number of people, but there are still bandits and bandits in some places. These bandits are usually about 10 people, and the larger ones are 1 or 2 hundred, so the target is small, and it is not easy to attract the attention of the government. The hiding places are all relatively secret mountains, once the official army comes to encircle and suppress, they will run into the mountains, plus they generally plunder the passing merchants, do not go to provoke Maozhou County, so they survive.

The land and water battalions are different, in the words of the bandits, they are dead-eyed. If you run deep into the mountains, they will follow you into the mountains, and if you want to jump into the river to escape, they will search everywhere on both sides of the river, in short, no matter how hard it is, no matter how many bandits there are, the land and water battalions are always tirelessly chasing. Moreover, the weapons of this army are of high quality, and if they cut them, their weapons will be broken in 3,5 strokes, not to mention that there are very few opportunities for this, most of them are more than 100 meters away, and they see a burst of white fog on the opposite side, and then their own people here fall, such sharp firearms are unheard of, and they are quickly terrifying. Therefore, the bandits and bandits in the Gyeonggi region were quickly exterminated. Among them, there are two bandits with more serious circumstances, and one is actually related to a magistrate. This group of 200 or so thieves mainly helps the county to do some dirty work, that is, whoever does not obediently listen to the county and honor the county will teach this kind of person a lesson. After the bandits were eliminated, the magistrate was quickly beheaded and his family was exiled. The other bandit was a raiding caravan, and it seemed to be related to a certain big family, but unfortunately the big boss who knew the specific situation committed suicide, and the others were not very clear.

The water and land battalions to exterminate the bandits and bandits generally get some silver money and materials, but not much, and the biggest gain is the bandits themselves. As long as they are prisoners of food who surrendered, as long as there is no major physical problem, they will be sent to Shanxi by Zhu Houzhao and the two brothers to dig coal. A total of more than 700 people were sent, which alleviated the shortage of manpower, and the coal consumed did not have to be bought with all the money. Gyeonggi has become a forbidden place for bandits and bandits, and many conscientious magistrates have gone up to the county to show their merits to the water and land camps. This land and water battalion has gradually entered the field of vision of the imperial court.

The water and land battalion now has a total of two camps, one is in the south of the capital, which is the original camp, mainly responsible for recruitment, training, and guarding the military factory, and one is in Tianjin, which is also responsible for recruiting and training, but now the recruits are all sailors, currently a total of 600 people, and 30 people have been brought from Dengzhou to help train.

Nowadays, the distance from Beijing to Tianjin Wei is less than 150 kilometers, and it only takes 2 to 3 days if you take a horse-drawn carriage. Because next to the original official road, the newly built smooth cement road has been opened to traffic. The concrete road is 20 meters wide and, like later generations, is spaced out in the middle and planted with flowers and trees. Beijing to Tianjin Wei has always been busy, if a convoy is blocked in the middle of the road, so wide the road is not enough. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao asked Hongzhi for an order to implement traffic laws on such a newly built cement road in the future. That is, as in later generations, the main thing is to take the right half of the road, because the half of the road is also 10 meters, so the whole road is divided into 4 lanes, a caravan is not allowed to occupy 2 lanes of the half road, pull over in case of special circumstances, and so on. Such a small thing, it stands to reason that Hongji should be able to pass well when he opened his mouth, and the interesting thing is that the six parts were actually discussed for two days. The Ministry of War said, "The army will pass from above, so the new road should be in charge of us." The household department said, "Most of the people come and go, so let's come." The Criminal Department said, "Since it is to be added to the Daming Law, it should naturally be under the jurisdiction of our Criminal Department." "The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry also came to join in the fun. Why? Because these officials believe that if such roads are built in the future, they can set up checkpoints and collect tolls, and once they are built between commercially developed cities, tolls will be astronomical.

In the end, Hongji stood up and said that there are no checkpoints and no tolls for such a road. All of a sudden, the six were indisputable. In the end, it was decided that since it was built at the expense of the Imperial Village, it would be managed by Hongji himself, but he could not collect all expenses such as tolls.

At the beginning, there were always many people on this road who did not follow the laws and regulations published in the "People's Daily" and "Ming Pao", and were stopped and fined by the water and land battalions. Everyone follows the traffic laws, and there are no traffic jams on this road. As for the fines paid, they are naturally used to maintain the road surface.

Zhu Houwei and the little girl sat in the carriage, which had a lot of space, using bearings and spring shock absorption systems, and then driving on the flat cement road, basically no bumps.

The little girl was lying on the window looking at the scenery outside the carriage, and now that it was winter, everything was accumulating energy, waiting for spring to come. Since the snow has not stopped for the past two days, the farmland on both sides of the road is also covered with snow, and the window is a white world, patches of monotonous white. But the little girl still looked out of the window with great interest, and there was Qingmei like him, who was lying on the other side of the window and watching, and whispered a few words to her sister Xiaohuan from time to time.

When I arrived in Tianjin this time, all the escorted water and land battalions were on horseback, and the whole team was a huge four-wheeled carriage except for horseback. It is almost noon now, and the whole team has left the capital for nearly 100 miles, and it is expected to arrive in Tianjin Wei tomorrow morning.

Suddenly, there was only a "tearing" sound, and everyone in the carriage looked at the place where the sound came from. Zhu Houwei is a person who will not wronged himself, and he also installed a coal stove on his special carriage, which can be used for heating and cooking.

I saw a few small iron plates around the iron chimney on the coal stove, and a barbecue grill, Zhu Houwei was continuing to take out the beef cut into slices from a food box, and the mutton was slowly put on the iron plate, and the boiling oil on the iron plate made a sound of "tearing Lasla" as soon as it touched the raw meat, and then a burst of white smoke was released, mixed with a smell of meat wafting out, and then Zhu Houwei picked up two small shovels and kept stir-frying, and successively sprinkled green onions, pepper and other condiments, the meat on the iron plate became more and more fragrant, and the window of the carriage was open. The soldiers of the land and water battalion who were riding away from the carriage all sniffed their noses involuntarily, showing intoxicated expressions. This is the case outside the carriage, let alone inside the carriage, the little girl and her maid Hongling and Qingmei are all looking at Zhu Houwei's teppanyaki with bright eyes, and Xiaohuan is grilling lamb skewers, tenderloin, etc. on the barbecue grill, constantly tumbling, brushing the condiments with a small brush. Zhu Houwei's carriage was in the first one, followed by Huang Gonggong's carriage, Huang Gonggong saw that the carriage was smoking, and hurriedly ordered the team to stop and rest, and then several carriages behind also smoked one after another.

After a while, the meat was ready, everyone began to eat, and several carriages behind became mobile canteens, and the team stopped on the side of the road, except for a few soldiers who continued to stand guard, the others went to the window of the carriage behind to get food, today's meals were all the same, all teppanyaki and barbecue, everyone lined up to get one, and it was not enough to line up again to get it. Due to the cold weather, the soldiers had a small pot of wine on their bodies, which was used to warm up their bodies, and they should not drink too much. Eating barbecue and drinking wine, I still enjoyed it very much.

On Zhu Houwei's carriage, the other three were fine, but Qingmei and Xiaoya looked like refugees, constantly stuffing slices of meat with chopsticks into their mouths, and holding 4 or 5 skewers of meat in the other hand. Zhu Houwei said helplessly to the little girl, "You eat slowly, there are still a lot of them, enough for you to eat." The little girl said, "If it's delicious, you have to eat it in a big gulp, you usually have to talk about etiquette, you can only eat it slowly, no matter how delicious it is, it will be cold and not delicious." Qingmei's mouth was full of meat, the corners of her mouth were oily, and she chewed and nodded at the same time, agreeing with the little girl's words.

Zhu Houwei also had no choice, let them go, and he was also very hungry, so he hurriedly eaten. After eating, the little girl was lying half-lying on the carriage very unfiguratively, her legs stretched very wide, and she was rubbing her stomach while burping, Zhu Houwei glared at her, "Zhu Xiuning!" As soon as the little girl heard it, she knew that the second brother couldn't look at her image, so she had to retract her legs, and laughed at the second brother flatteringly, Zhu Houwei shook her head helplessly, this girl was spoiled by the three men in the family.

"Second brother, what happened to Tianjin this time?" The little girl asked happily. Zhu Houwei asked rhetorically, "Didn't I say two days ago, the warships of the land and water battalion were launched, and I want to go over and have a look." ”

The little girl stuck out her tongue, "I just heard that I was going to go out of the capital to Tianjin Wei, and I didn't pay attention to anything else." Zhu Houwei was speechless for a moment.

The little girl continued to ask, "Second brother, do you say Tianjin Wei University, is there a big capital, and is there a lot of people in the capital?" Zhu Houwei broke the illusion of the little girl, "The capital of the Ming Dynasty is the largest, and the number of people is also the largest, Tianjin Wei is quite prosperous, and it will not let you down." If you want to say that the world can be compared with the capital, then there is only Nanjing. As he spoke, his eyes were a little confused, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

At this time, Qingmei was talking to the little girl, and the little girl asked Xiang Qingmei, "Qingmei, you have been by my second brother's side for almost two years, is there any interesting story about my second brother, let's hear it." Qingmei glanced back at Zhu Houwei, who was in a daze, and said with a smile, "Back to the princess, half a year ago, it was not long after moving into the crystal house." One evening, the prince went upstairs to the bedroom, walking in a daze, stopped in front of Steward Xiao's door, and was about to open the door, but Steward Xiao happened to come out, but the prince suddenly crashed into Steward Xiao's arms, and then took two steps back, if it wasn't for me and my sister supporting behind, the prince would have fallen. The little girl laughed when she heard this, and then Zhu Houwei came back to her senses and said viciously to Qingmei, "I've told you a few times, I'm thinking about things, not in a daze, why can't I remember it." Qingmei stuck out her tongue, and then smiled and stopped talking. The little girl said, "I've seen that Steward Xiao a few times, and I don't like it." Zhu Houwei was speechless again. No matter how old a woman is, her jealousy is very strong, although Steward Xiao is already 26 years old, but she looks only in her early 20s, her appearance is beautiful, and the most important thing is that she is convex and backward, appearing in front of her second brother all day long, so that Xiaohe can not let go of the little girl who shows her sharp corners.

After eating and resting for a while, the people and horses were full of food and drink, and this time they continued to set off towards Tianjin Wei.