"Jinmen is extremely hopeful, and the sky and the sea are east. This is the original Tianjin. ”

Tianjin was transformed from the sea to land by the impact of sediment 4,000 years ago, and it can be said that it is the youngest land. The Yongding River, the Ziya River and the Daqing River converge into the triangular lake in the northwest of Tianjin, and after flowing out, they converge with the north-south canal to form the Wei River (now known as the Haihe River), which flows to the sea. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Di raised his army, he crossed the canal from this place to the south to conquer Cangzhou, which was renamed Tianjin, and then the Grand Canal was completely dredged, and because it was located in the node of the north-south canal, Tianjin gradually prospered.

At first, Tianjin did not have a city, in November of the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin set up three guards and built a city. Hongzhi four years of bricks, the same as Jizhou, the city circumference is also nine miles and thirteen steps, the city wall is three zhang five feet high, the city is set up with four gates in the southeast and northwest, and there is a water gate in the southeast, the east and west are wide, the north and south are narrow, commonly known as the abacus city.

Chen Xin Liu Min and a group of six people walked for five or six days, they left Jizhou through the Xianghe River to Hexi, along the canal all the way slowly, fortunately not the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the road has long existed in name only, and the two black households were able to pass all the way. On the way, I did two more "Hope Projects", relying on Chen Xin's swagger and deception, not only did not decrease, but the assets reached 120 taels, and there was still a good Dongzhu in hand, so I had no worries about food and clothing for the time being. When he arrived in Tianjin, Liu Minyou looked at the city wall from afar and sighed in front of him. And the author Kong Shangren was not born yet, and the pirated version was stolen.

Six people crossed the river by ferry boat through Beimatoudu, but Chen Xin was not busy entering the city, seeing that the city was quite prosperous outside, the west city wall was 220 steps away from the canal, the middle shop was lined up, the flow of people was bustling, the bank of the canal was full of rows of boats, Chen Xin wanted to see the type of business by the canal, so he took everyone to walk along the street market on the bank of the south canal.

Both of them are from Tianjin, revisiting the old place, Liu Minyou looked at it for a long time and couldn't find where his three-bedroom apartment should be, and shook his head helplessly.

Seeing this, Chen Xin smiled at Liu Min and said: "Originally, Hexi Wu could get on the boat going south, but you have to come and see it, now you have to die." ”

Liu Minyou said dissatisfiedly: "Do you really plan to go to Jiangnan to make a living?" Then what are you doing with the fur seals and their physical training? What are your plans for the future? ”

"Hehe, complicated things need to be planned, I want to be promoted to make a fortune and dominate the world, but now we are just two adults with four followers to eat, and there is no plan for the time being. Practicing the body is just to run faster when being chased. ”

Liu Min didn't ask anything, and was about to continue to reason with Chen Xin, when Zhang Dahui suddenly asked on the side: "Brother Chen, are we going to cheat money in Tianjin again?" Hai Gouzi and Zhang Er echoed in unison.

Liu Min slapped Zhang Dahui on the head and scolded: "Thinking about cheating money all day long, you will live by cheating money all your life, right?" Zhang Da Da shrank his head and hid behind Wang Daixi.

After scolding Zhang Dahui, Liu Minyou turned his head and complained to Chen Xin: "Look at what these out-of-school children have become, is it possible that we have been doing the Hope Project like this?" To be honest, I have never deceived people in my previous life, I always cheat others out of money, even if I am a bad person, I can't bear it. ”

"What children, these days, they can be fathers at this age, and you promised to help when you brought them."

"Then it's not a way to cheat like this, you always need a plan in the short term, right?"

"Short-term planning is ...... Mixed lunch. Chen Xin snapped his fingers.

The four teenagers immediately cheered in favor, the days with Chen Xin and the others were the happiest time in their lives, they ate and drank during the day, and Liu Min taught them to read and write at night, and they had someone to make up their minds about what they did, and they felt relied on, Chen and Liu never discriminated against and enslaved them, and they had the same food and shelter, and they had long regarded the two as relatives in their hearts.

The three teenagers of the sea dog eat well, and they are asked by Chen Xin to walk in line every day, their bodies have become a lot stronger, and their eyes are no longer dull at the beginning, and they are a little angry with the tigers of the teenagers. Only Chen Xin asked the sea dog not to giggle, and the sea dog couldn't change it.

Watching the four of them get angry was the only thing that made Liu Min have a sense of accomplishment in this era, and he took Wang Daixi, and a group of people happily walked along the riverbank and looked for a restaurant to fill their stomachs.

Walked for a while and didn't find the hotel, but saw a group of people on the shore in front of them, a Cao boat head north leaning on the shore, six ropes thrown on the ground, Chen Xin and others were fine, so they stepped forward to see the excitement, and when they arrived next to it, they heard a rough voice and said, "No matter what Caokou you have, Lao Tzu only recognizes the rules set by the Cao Gang, and the sorting leader pulls the fiber, this boat is my order today, and you don't recognize which Cao Kou said." Who the dares to snatch this fiber, Lao Tzu will let his blood. ”

A voice that is neither yin nor yang replied: "Lu donkey, you don't want to be murderous, this boatman is a self-hired fiberman, this reason was originally there." If you want to use force, you may not be afraid of you, if you want to be reasonable, you will go to the hall together, and you will go to the Qing Army Hall with you. ”

Chen Xin separated the crowd, squeezed in, and saw a slender man with a naked body, staring at a master with a goatee, and a group of people stood behind the two, all dressed as slender men and porters. The master's dry appearance was a little smaller than that slender man, but he was not afraid at all, it turned out that there were nearly twice as many people behind him as on the other side.

Liu Min also had a few people squeezed in, and the enthusiasm of the Chinese to see the excitement was in the same vein, and the two modern people were no exception.

Lu Donkey said disdainfully: "Bah, the boat family is looking for a fiber worker, so what do you want the Cao gang to do, you rely on Caokou, and force the boat family to hire you Luo Sect people......"

The caokou shrieked and interrupted him, "Hugh has to talk nonsense, what kind of Luojiao, I also do things according to the rules of Caokou, how much should be collected on behalf of Caokou is not less than others, how to force the shipowner, you go and ask the shipowner if there is such a matter." A group of people behind him echoed.

Lu Donkey sneered: "How dare the shipowner offend you, but I don't need to ask him, I have seen it with my own eyes, how can I talk nonsense?" Let you say that the sky is broken, this trip I have decided. ”

When Caokou heard this, the crowd was surging, and they all shouted and scolded, and Caokou said loudly: "Since you are unreasonable, you can't blame me, you have taken advantage of the power of Dai Tiezi, and ruined my business several times, I have seen that you Yanggu people are not pleasing to the eye, and today I will end them together, don't talk nonsense, everyone is on." ”

A group of people in Caokou shouted together, took out sticks and iron rulers from behind them, and rushed towards the opposite side in a swarm, Lu Donkey's side did not show weakness, and also took out sticks from behind, obviously both sides were prepared.

As soon as the onlookers saw that they really moved, for fear of being injured by mistake, they made a noise and scattered, hiding dozens of steps away and then stopped to watch, and several people took out the single-edged short knife they bought and hid it in their sleeves, and surrounded Chen Xin and the two, for fear that others would hurt the two. Chen Xin bought five short knives when he was in Hexi, Liu Minyou didn't want it at first, and then Hai Gouzi and others said that the road was not too peaceful, so they reluctantly took it, Chen Xin and Liu Min had a knife tied to their legs, and the three of them were in their arms.

The table tennis in the field is lively, and the people on both sides are slender men who pull fiber, suffering hardships every day, although they look lean, they are all strong, brave and ruthless, and the fight is very intense. There are a large number of people on the Caokou side, although there are few people on the Lu Donkey side, but it seems to have more rules, a few people are not scattered, although there is no cooperation, but it is better than the other party, and they are evenly matched for a while, and a few people fell on each side.

He didn't go on the mouth of the water, hiding behind the mouth and beckoning his subordinates again and again, there was a short-sleeved and narrow-dressed person with a fierce face standing beside him, and Lu Donkey was quite strong, and he seemed to have a lot of fighting experience, he took a few people, holding two short wooden sticks, blocking left and right, and knocked down several people, rushing to the front of seven or eight opponents to retreat again and again, seeing that he also fell a few people on his side, and listening to the Caokou still shouting behind, he was angry, rushed forward a few steps, fought against the two sticks next to him, and knocked a person in front to the ground, and then ignored others, The two short sticks danced like a windmill, and only hit the man on the ground, and he didn't hit his head before, but he didn't care about it now, and after a while, the man on the ground held his head with both hands, screaming and screaming, and after a while, his head broke and bled out.

A few people behind Lu Donkey came up against both sides, and the seven or eight people in front of him saw the miserable situation of the person on the ground, and their hearts were empty, and they hurriedly avoided the front of Lu Donkey, Lu Donkey was waiting for this opportunity, and immediately dropped the person on the ground, and rushed to Caokou from the gap to Caokou, and hit Caokou on the shoulder with a stick.

Liu Minyou also said that Caokou was bad, but he saw Caokou sneering, and seemed to be not afraid at all, only listening to the sound of "bang", Lu Donkey only had half of the stick left in his hand, and a snowy knife light slashed towards his left hand again, Lu Donkey took a few big steps back, only to see that it was the short-clothed person next to Caokou, holding a slightly curved five-foot narrow-bladed knife in his hand.

Chen Xin looked surprised and said, "Do you have Japanese swords?" ”

Zhang Dahui said beside him: "Brother Chen, this is called a Japanese knife, the scar is said to be better than the waist knife, there are many in the border army, I have seen it in Shanhaiguan." ”

Chen Xin nodded after hearing this, this Japanese knife flowed into China after the coastal Japanese rebellion, Qi Jiguang improved the Qi family knife according to the style of the Japanese knife, and also refined the Japanese knife method, created the Japanese knife technique, transferred to the Jizhen General Army, and introduced the northern border army, in the Ming Dynasty some military records (such as "Four Towns and Three Guanzhi") clearly listed as the border army armament, in the late Ming Dynasty is one of the main goods exported by Japan to China.

Lu Donkey saw the other party's dress clearly, and mocked Caokou: "It turns out that the matter of the Cao Gang also has to find a young hand to cheer, Tang Caokou is worthy of being born in the turtle and is familiar with the way." ”

Tang Caokou smiled: "What about the background of the turtle prince, it's better than you who don't know a big word, this is my new disciple, all of them have been registered, who said that it is a fight?" ”

Lu Donkey couldn't help but be stunned, almost all the people in the Cao Gang are porters and slender men, when did they have this kind of green hands.

Tang Caokou saw that Lu Donkey had nothing to say, he was proud, and said to the green hand: "Pick this reckless man's hands and feet." ”

When the green hand heard the words, he immediately saw the difference with these slender men, his steps were not big, his body was uncertain, and after a few shakes left and right, he suddenly jumped, moving like a rabbit, jumping out of the distance, and instantly arrived in front of Lu Donkey, holding the sword in his hand, holding the speed of jumping, the knife speed was extremely fast, and the head was cut to Lu Donkey's head.

Lu Donkey hurriedly raised another short stick to block, and there was a bang, the short stick was split again, the knife momentum was slightly reduced, and it was in front of him, he only had time to turn his head away, his body leaned back, and the knife brought up a piece of blood light to open a hole in his chest, Lu Donkey screamed, threw the short stick head-on to the green hand, won a little time, and stepped back, the green hand did not give up, and another jump cut Lu Donkey's right hand, it seems that it is not to pick the hamstrings, but to cut off the hands and feet.

The others were still fighting at this time, Lu Donkey's previous helpers saw the danger, threw away the other people, came up to help, blocked a few times, and was cut off by the green hand, everyone hung the color, after all, the green hand is a professional, and the hand is holding a sharp weapon, such as a tiger into the flock, the other party can not stop, rushed to the Lu donkey side scattered, Caokou side has a numerical advantage, and now there is another master, immediately has the upper hand, surrounding the other party to fight, seeing that the Caokou side is going to win a big victory.

Liu Minyou and Chen Xin smacked their tongues, it turned out that this cold weapon was so powerful, it was much more intense than K1 or something, fortunately, the green hand didn't want to kill, otherwise I am afraid that someone would have died.

Liu Minyou said to Chen Xin: "If you meet such a person, the six of us are not enough for him to fight." ”

Chen Xin nodded, shook his head again, and said: "If we all take weapons and go up together to fight hard, he will be choked enough, besides, no matter how good his personal martial arts are, on the battlefield, thousands of knives and guns, and arrows raining down, how useful can he be." ”

Liu Min was surprised: "You still fight?" ”

Chen Xin smiled and said: "I haven't fought, but the art of war or something, I've always seen it, you know I'm still a military fan." ”

Liu Min said with a "cut": "It's just a half-hanger." He turned his head and looked at the field again.

I saw that the green hand was still chasing Lu Donkey, and the people around him also came to intercept him, Lu Donkey's space was getting smaller and smaller, and the helpers beside him were also separated from each other. Finally, Lu Donkey was hit by a stick, the speed was slow, the green hand jumped in two big strides, chased up, the knife was held high, Lu Donkey had no choice but to block his head with both hands, and sent his hand to the knife, the onlookers suddenly screamed, Wang Daixi turned his head and didn't dare to look again, and his hands couldn't help but hold Liu Minyou's clothes tightly.