Wang Ju wore a melon skin hat, a homespun short coat, and mille-feuille shoes, and held a small donkey carrying needles, threads, brains and other miscellaneous goods in his hand, walking on the official road from Tamsui to Xin'an.

Early this morning, a small steamer brought him ashore from Aotou Town, Daya Bay, and he hurried all the way from the shortcut road, and finally turned onto the official road at 8 o'clock in the morning. His current identity is a small trader from Huizhou, and the purpose of coming to Xinan is, of course, to do business.

After arriving in Longgang, Wang Ju's heart was raised. This is the largest township in the eastern part of Xinan County, and it is also the only way for Xinan to go to Huizhou. There is a small market in the town, which is different from the usual practice of the town every three or five days, and it is a place where there is a constant flow of people every day, not only with many shops, but also with two taverns and an inn. It is said that in such a prosperous place, the so-called Liberation Army should not be abandoned? Set up a centricard to collect taxes or something, it must be a source of money! He was puzzled by the news he could hear from the town.

It turned out that the town's Lika was automatically disbanded after the Guangfu army occupied the county seat, and the original Tangxun battalion was transferred away as early as when the British and French forces attacked Guangzhou. The Guangfu army came to the town once, but only announced the occupation of Xin'an County, and requisitioned dozens of people before leaving. Now it has become a three-way area, the Liberation Army is in short supply and cannot be managed, the Guangzhou occupation army members are too far away to manage, and the county yamen of the Qing court has been disbanded and no one cares. Several big families in the town got together to make a charter and play self-government behind closed doors.

"Working five catties of rice a day, and still taking care of food and housing, the salary is so high?" Wang Ju instinctively felt that it was bragging.

No one could accept the suspicion of others, and the person who told him the news swore that "people's wages are paid every seven days, and all they receive are new rice with white flowers, without a trace of sand and chaff." If there is half a lie, let me give birth to a son without ass! His attitude of cutting gold and cutting iron can't help but make Wang Ju believe in this news a little more.

After two more laps around the town, and without any useful information, Wang Ju had to move on. After passing through Dafen Village, Buji, Sungang, and Wenjindu, at one o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Ju finally arrived at Luohu and saw the Guangfu Army for the first time. In the original time and space, Luohu as a port has its geographical advantages, the Shenzhen River here turned a big bend, forming a small peninsula, Wutong River also meets the Shenzhen River here. At the location of the customs clearance pedestrian bridge on the Shenzhen River in the original time and space, a cement arch bridge is under intense construction. This bridge was built on the basis of the double-decker pedestrian bridge of the original time and space, for which the material collection team went to the Shenzhen Design Institute to find drawings. The conflict with the British is not over yet, even if it is not for the sake of "keeping the enemy out of the country", the survivors' own development needs to strengthen the connection between the base and Kowloon, so when the construction of the base has not been completed, this sub-base was opened ten days ago.

On the site of the original port traffic building, a small fortress has begun to take shape. The main body of the building is a three-storey, frame-structure turret, with the turret as the northwest corner, and a five-meter-high wall encloses the sub-base. Five meters outside the fence is a two-metre-high barbed wire fence. A ring of bungalows was built against the wall, which served as a barracks for the garrison, a diesel generator was responsible for power, a well provided domestic water, and the water tank was built on top of the turret to ensure the pressure of running water.

The garrison is composed of a platoon, equipped with a machine gun group, and the ammunition reserve can ensure that even in the face of the sea of worms in the movie "Starfleet", the garrison can hold out for thirty minutes, and these thirty minutes are enough to wait for reinforcements from the base.

Wang Ju encountered the first checkpoint at the intersection of Luohu, where two soldiers of the Liberation Army led ten indigenous soldiers to set up a checkpoint. The reason why Wang Ju could distinguish the indigenous soldiers at a glance was because the clothes of these indigenous soldiers were too weird. Although everyone wears a hat with a brim on the front, it can be seen from the sideburns and the back of the head that these people are bald, which is evidence that they have just shaved their braids. And there were also differences in weapons, the two Liberation soldiers carried muskets on their shoulders, which seemed to be more advanced than the British, while the indigenous soldiers only had a red tassel gun in their hands. These indigenous soldiers were all strong squads in the original yamen, and some of them would be sent to various places in the county every day. In the beginning, their weapon was only a wooden club, and it was only after yesterday's clash with the British that the Governing Council decided to exchange them with an offensive weapon, the Red Tassel Gun. In Wang Ju's eyes, the combination of a Western-style costume and a red tassel gun feels weird no matter how you look at it. The same is true in the eyes of most survivors.

Seeing the soldiers at the intersection, Wang Ju felt nervous, but thinking of his task, he had no choice but to meet it. At this time, he was the only pedestrian on the road, and it was impossible for people not to pay attention to him. Still two feet away, Wang Ju nodded and greeted him. "Ladies and gentlemen, hard work! Ladies and gentlemen, hard work! "The survivor of today's class is a young man named Guohuaixiang, who is a sling who graduated from high school and came to Shenzhen to work in the original time and space. In the past few days, as long as he stops here, the villagers who pass by are all respectful, and the indigenous soldiers are also blindly flattering, which makes him feel like a superior person. In the face of Wang Jufu's low and small posture, he was no longer embarrassed when he met it for the first time. "Who are you? What are you doing here? ”

"The villain is from Huizhou, and he usually walks the streets and alleys to do some small business. This time, I shipped some groceries to sell here, and I ask you to take care of them! Wang Ju said the identity that had been made up a long time ago, turned around and pointed to the donkey behind him, indicating that the packs were all groceries. At the same time, he carefully observed the soldier, although he spoke Cantonese dialect, but with a northern accent. The facial features are quite upright, and the figure is also very tall, standing there with his head held high gives people a sense of majesty. It is completely different from the fox and tiger power of the Qing soldiers and the arrogance of the British soldiers, which makes people feel that he is not a soldier, but a general. He is considered a soldier because he carries a spear on his back. In Wang Ju's knowledge, those who carry long guns are soldiers, and officers are all wearing short guns.

Guo Huaixiang circled around the donkey and looked at the bamboo baskets on both sides of the donkey. "Grocery sellers? We're welcome! "There is a reason why Guo Huaixiang says this. In order to restore the order of life in Xinan as soon as possible, the management committee has formulated a series of policies, and encouraging business is one of them. Vendors who come to Shinan are welcome to buy or sell.

Hearing that he was welcome as a small trader, Wang Ju immediately misunderstood. He reached out and took out a small red paper bag from his pocket and gently stuffed it into Guo Huaixiang's hand. "Master is so polite! This is a small meaning, please drink tea! ”

Guo Huaixiang waited for the things to arrive in his hand before he understood what was going on, and pinched it gently, and the red paper was wrapped in an irregular piece of metal, which should be the legendary broken silver. Receiving the first bribe in her life made Hangsi's heart full of mixed feelings. He returned the red envelope to Wang Ju, "Put it away!" Bribery is strictly forbidden in our Liberation Army. ”

Hearing that there were soldiers in the world who didn't charge money, Wang Ju didn't believe it, and thought that the other party was too little. So he half-mourned and half-pleaded, saying that he did not have much money with him, and that he would be grateful when he came back after the goods were sold. Listening to Wang Ju's words, Guo Huaixiang remembered the sadness of being driven by the city management in Shenzhen before, and patted the other party's shoulder. "Take it back! I'm not too little. I've worked as a hawker before, and I know it's not easy to earn two hard-earned dollars. This made Wang Ju believe his words, and he took back the red envelope with great gratitude, and then led the donkey away.

Without any further delay in Luohu, Wang Ju went straight to the county seat, and finally went to the city at dinner. After entering the city, he first found an inn to rest. Ju'an Inn is located on the main street of the county, a three-story brick building, is the largest inn in the county, but the scene Wang Ju saw when he entered the door can be described as a bird. The hall with the ten Eight Immortal Tables was empty except for the shopkeeper who was sitting idly dozing off at the door, so that the buzzing of two flies flying in the hall was particularly harsh. The shopkeeper who should have stayed behind the counter was nowhere to be seen, if it weren't for broad daylight, Wang Ju would have thought that he had entered a ghost shop.

Wang Ju coughed twice, waking up the shopkeeper who was half-asleep and half-awake. The latter rubbed his dry eyes, saw the person clearly, and hurriedly shouted upstairs. "There's a guest here!" Then he falsely led Wang Ju, "Please be in the guest officer!" Arrange for Wang Ju to sit at the table in the center of the hall. Soon I heard a chaotic footsteps from the stairs, a fat man walked down from the second floor, looking at the dress should be the shopkeeper, he saw Wang Ju after his face was happy, making people mistakenly think that he saw relatives and friends who had not seen him for many years.

The fat shopkeeper walked up to Wang Ju with a smile and asked, "Is the guest officer staying in the hotel or sharpening?" ”

Wang Ju had been on the road for a day, tired and hungry. "Eat first, then stay at the hotel. The shopkeeper, first a fat goose, then a dry fried snail, an oyster sauce lettuce, a cold cucumber, a pot of dried lychees, plus half a catty of rice. ”

"Great! Coming soon! Xiao Er answered, turned around and went to the back kitchen. While waiting for the food to be served, Wang Ju asked the fat cabinet, "Shopkeeper, why don't you have any customers in this store?" ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper's smiling face instantly turned into a bitter melon. "The guest officer is not a native of Xinan, is he? You didn't see the soldiers at the gates when you entered the city? ”

"See, don't they say that they are some kind of anti-Qing restoration army?" Wang Ju asked knowingly.

"Yes! You say that they are anti-Qing, don't people from other places dare not come to Xinan? People from other places don't dare to come, who else do you think will come to eat with me? The shopkeeper was discouraged, "At most three tables of guests a day, I can't even earn back the capital." It's been half a month, and you're still the first guest from out of town. ”

"But I came all the way, and the Liberation Army didn't block the road! There are no cards on the road to collect taxes, and the soldiers who patrol do not charge fees, and the road is much easier to walk than before, so why does no one come? Wang Ju told the shopkeeper everything he had seen and heard along the way. It would be nice to wait for the world to calm down after a while. ”

"I hope so!" The shopkeeper can only think about the benefits. He's been running a restaurant here for almost ten years, and he really doesn't want to start over again. "The guest officer is from outside, have you heard the rumors about this side in Guangzhou City?"

Wang Ju also wanted to inquire about some news of the Liberation Army from him, so he invited the shopkeeper to sit down and chat together. "Xiao Er, get another cup and a pair of chopsticks for your shopkeeper." The shopkeeper took a seat after a few polite words.

"The city of Guangzhou is already the world of British and French foreigners, as long as they have money to collect, they don't care who occupies the new city! The army of the imperial court could not be counted on. At this time, the wine and food were also served, and Wang Ju and the shopkeeper drank a few glasses, and then opened the conversation. I have heard from the people in the towns below that the Liberation Army is strictly disciplined, has not committed any crimes in the autumn, and has paid wages to the husbands, so it is truly worthy of the name of a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. ”

"That's a good thing." The shopkeeper sandwiched a piece of fat goose and took a bite of the oil and filled his mouth. "After the Guangfu army occupied the county seat, the ruffians and hooligans in the city were swept away, and the prostitutes, gambling, and abduction all ran away, and the first two opened a group of abductors who stunned the daughter of the shopkeeper Li of the cloth shop in the east of the city with drugs in broad daylight, and wanted to carry them out of the city in a sedan chair. Later, on the street, the cloud catcher of the Guangfu Army saw through it, and several male crutches pulled out knives and wanted to commit murder, but they were arrested on the spot and beat two to death with a short gun, and the rest were caught alive. The kidnapper who was caught was sentenced to death the next day, and he was pulled outside the city gate and shot at the target. A big leader of the Guangfu Army personally carried out the execution, a shot went into the back of the head, and the brains were splashed everywhere, and a man in a white coat took a small stick and inserted it through the hole of the gun and stirred it a few times, saying that this is the only way to make people die. ”

Hearing such a disgusting thing during the meal, Wang Ju suddenly lost her appetite, and drank two glasses of wine before she felt like vomiting. "Does this Guangfu Army also have a yamen? Do you still care about the criminal name and judge the case? ”

"Exactly." The shopkeeper didn't notice Wang Ju's reaction at all, "The Guangfu Army not only judged the case, but also judged it in front of the whole city, and a notice was posted at the gate of the city, and you didn't see it when you passed by?" "When Wang Ju entered the city, she tried not to attract attention, so she didn't find the notice at the city gate." The verdict of this Guangfu Army is quite fair, and it is not an exaggeration to kill this gang of abductors ten times. It's just that I don't know where the customs of the Guangfu Army are, but the judge is a woman, and when she preaches the verdict, she speaks murderously, and she is also a powerful character. ”