After listening to Zhu Daolin's decision, Lu Tao, the captain of the "Chunshu", and Chen Xuan, the captain of the "Cypress", hurriedly congratulated Zheng Zhicheng and the others, and Zhu Daolin quietly called Guo Zhongjun, the chief of the guard, and Xu Wentao, the deputy of the guard, and pulled Yang Junwu over and gave him a low command.

Yang Junwu gritted his teeth and quietly walked to the outer circle, called the two apprentices to give him earnest advice, and then watched the two apprentices lead Xu Wentao and Guo Zhongjun to the Luoma City in the west of the city to recognize the place, and then returned to Zhu Daolin and sat down nervously: "General, will it be too much trouble?" ”

Zhu Daolin laughed in a low voice: "Don't worry about this, when a few of them come back, you can take the two apprentices and return to the capital overnight...... The 230 good horses I have bought will continue to be raised for me, and I will transport them away next time. ”

"The Cheng family and the Weiyuan Hou family will send someone to Tongzhou tomorrow to take over the affairs of the firm, and the expansion and establishment of the firm will be the responsibility of their shareholders, you only need to manage the general account room of the 'Four Seas Commercial Bank' for me, and you don't need to worry too much about the trivial matters in the operation......

"If we have time to train a few more good apprentices, our industry is not only the money and business houses in front of us, so look farther."

Yang Junwu immediately understood Zhu Daolin's intentions, and agreed with a grateful face, and most of his hanging heart was relieved.

Five o'clock in the morning the next day.

The city of Tongzhou is silent outside the city, but the military wharf at the bay outside the city is blazing and fragrant.

The officers and men stationed at the wharf and the military warehouse saw the officers and men of the Jiangnan Navy Division gathering in a formation and then dividing into a team of 50 people to eat silently, and they admired this group of Jiangnan Navy brothers who were strict in military discipline and well-trained.

Half an hour later, the officers and men of the sailor division who had finished their meal began to get busy, and some of them packed up pots and pans and dismantled the camp tents. Some lifted the wide and heavy gangplanks on the dock and erected them on the sides of the two large ships.

More officers and men of the Navy Division took out their weapons and equipment and put them on their sleeves in the sound of orders, which frightened the sentries on duty at the docks and military warehouses, and immediately rushed to the quarters of their respective commanders, and hurriedly reported the movements of the officers and men of the Navy Division to the commanders in the warm bed.

Two thousand-household officials, four deputy thousand-households, and two calmers were full of spirits. Gu Lulu got up, dressed and rushed to the wharf, and found that more than 500 officers and soldiers of the Jiangnan Navy Division who had treasure swords hanging on their waists and carrying muskets on their shoulders had already braved the biting cold wind and drove out of the dock checkpoint.

Eight town guard officers hurriedly ran to Zhu Daolin, and without waiting for them to ask, Zhu Daolin took the lead in saluting and apologizing:

"Sorry to bother you! My brothers went to the city of mules and horses in the west of the city to lead their horses, and they will surely return within an hour. Lead the horses to the boat, and we'll go at once. ”

Several town guard officers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but one of them, the middle-aged town officer, asked nervously: "General Zhu, it has always been mules and horses or horse dealers who bring horses to the side of the ship, it seems that there is no need to send so many officers and soldiers to lead horses in the mule and horse market, right?" ”

Zhu Daolin replied truthfully: "Since my brother asked, I can't hide it...... There are so many fools in Tongzhou Luoma City who want to slap me Zhu Daolin in the face, knowing that I am in a hurry to buy horses and go back to equip the Jiangnan New Army. But he wanted to make a hindrance and speak wildly, and not only did he raise the price of the horses from 45 taels of silver to 60 taels of silver per horse. He also threatened his counterparts in Luoma City that no one was allowed to sell horses to me Zhu Daolin, and threatened that even if he sued the military department and the imperial court, he would let me Zhu Daolin lower his head and go back, and I had no choice but to lead the horse myself. ”

The officers were stunned, and the smarter ones immediately remembered the rumors they had heard yesterday. Knowing that some of the people Zhu Daolin said were the "Wanxingchang" firm, which had a huge force behind it, he immediately held the attitude of watching the excitement, and he smiled and stopped asking.

The middle-aged magistrate turned pale with fright, and immediately sternly questioned Zhu Daolin: "General Zhu did this." Aren't you afraid of triggering a condemnation from the government and the opposition? Even if General Zhu doesn't care about discredit, doesn't General Zhu know that Tongzhou is under the nose of the Son of Heaven? ”

Zhu Daolin sank his face: "May I ask your surname?" ”

"In Xima Jinfu, Tongzhou Waterway Cangchang Sipin Town Fuguan!" Ma Jinfu looked at Zhu Daolin without being humble or arrogant.

Zhu Daolin nodded: "What is the relationship between Brother Ma and 'Wan Xingchang'?" ”

"You...... General Zhu, even if I have nothing to do with 'Wan Xingchang', I will not sit idly by and watch your behavior of violating laws and disciplines. Ma Jinfu replied generously.

Zhu Daolin asked coldly, "Won't sit idly by?" What else can you do but play with Lao Tzu? Do you want to stop me? ”

Ma Jinfu was shocked, and when he saw the other officers on the side subconsciously retreating, he immediately turned sideways and glared at Zhu Daolin angrily: "Since this is the case, then step over the corpse of someone on my horse!" ”

Zhu Daolin looked at him with disdain: "Brother Ma, let's go back and continue to sleep, wake up and go to the military department or the court to sue me, if you insist on staying in my way, I will not hesitate to order my brothers to throw you into the river, if you dare to transfer troops to stop me and try to make things bigger, I will not hesitate to cut off your head!" ”

"Don't think I'm just talking like you, I, Zhu Daolin, do what I say, I don't believe you try."

Before Zhu Daolin's words fell, the two junior disciples wearing the general flag uniforms behind him had already surrounded him with their hands on the handle of their knives, and the rest of the captains and first mates all stepped forward with angry eyes on their long knives, as long as Ma Jinfu dared to say a word again, he would definitely be thrown into the cold river by them.

The officers were so frightened that they hurriedly stepped forward to be peacemakers, and dragged the frightened and angry Ma Jinfu away, and there was no more noise on the wide dock.

The sky was slightly bright, and the sound of horses' hooves continued to come from far and near, and the vigorous Guo Zhongjun rode his horse into the dock and came to Zhu Daolin to report loudly:

"Report to the general, the task is complete, there are no casualties on both sides, the defenders of Tongzhou are very interesting, they avoid us when they see us from a distance, and the people of 'Wan Xingchang' are still shouting and shouting, but when they see so many of our brothers surrounding us with hundreds of flintlock pistols with bayonets, they are all so frightened that they flee into the shops in front of them and dare not come out."

"The brothers strictly abide by military discipline, do not implicate the innocent, only surround the" Wanxingchang ", and then separate into the horse circle, a total of 640 good horses were selected, including 15 obviously much taller war horses, Brother Wen Tao said that it is a high-grade war horse from the northeast of Liaoning, with Ding Ling horse blood, it is a very rare foal, not much worse than the two thousand miles of horses given to you by the emperor, it is estimated that the market will sell more than 5,000 taels of silver, these horses are behind, and they will arrive soon."

Zhu Daolin was very happy: "Well done!" Not killing or wounding a single person is enough to prove your ability, in a word: well-planned and well-directed! ”

Guo Zhongjun grinned: "Brother Wen Tao is more capable than the younger brother, and his eyes are vicious, as long as it is a good horse, none of them can escape his eyes, and even more than two hundred sets of horse harness stacked in the horse pen have been captured by him, but unfortunately our boat is not enough, otherwise even those hundreds of mules and horses will be pulled back." ”

Zhu Daolin laughed: "It's almost enough, if 'Wan Xingchang' doesn't accept the lesson, after we go north, whenever we encounter 'Wan Xingchang', we will rob it, and grab his master until he kowtows in front of me and admits his mistake, haha!" ”

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