Mei Yi's regimental soldiers were extremely brave and outstanding, and they first broke through the periphery of Nanjing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info thought that there would be desperate resistance from the bandits when they entered the market, and their own casualties would not be less, but to the great surprise, most of the bandits had either died in battle while defending the outer city, or they had already disappeared. The offensive of the regimental soldiers was fierce and progressed smoothly, and they took the lead in attacking the Caotou Palace, Hong Shiba, and won the first place in the battle. Hong Shibai had long since disappeared, and the bandits in the courtyard who had not had time to escape were killed cleanly. Although most of the soldiers in the regiment have a small reputation and can be regarded as literate and hyphenated people, after being instilled with the thinking of loyalty and filial piety to the monarch for many years, they will not be merciless in killing the Hong Eighteen bandits who are openly committing rebellion in front of them. Mei Yi was powerless to stop it, and he had no intention of stopping it. The imperial court ordered the restoration of Nanjing, and the military exploits were evaluated on the basis of heads. With this alone, killing is inevitable. Joining the army for the examination, for many people, isn't it just to fight for a wife? Mei Yi knew that at this time, the same killings were happening on the streets of Nanjing, and Nanjing had become a hell on earth.

Mei Yi frowned, and walked through the courtyard full of corpses into the main hall. Not to mention, the Caotou Palace, which was built on the basis of the Nanjing Governor's Mansion in the past, is amazing in scale, but it is funny and unsightly. Mei Yi spit out two words in his mouth, crazy. A grass-headed rebel who came out of the cave actually made such a big noise. It is really an unstable national foundation and full of demons. While sighing, the regimental soldiers came to report that they had found something in the backyard, and Mr. Yi also came to the backyard of the palace with people. Mr. Yi came, but he went straight into the backyard without saying hello to Mei Yi in advance. Mei Yi was just about to ask the leader of the regiment why he didn't report it in time, but Mr. Yi sent the regimental soldiers to summon Mei Yi to the backyard. Mei Yi felt that this matter was by no means ordinary, but he didn't expect to really encounter something tricky. Later, after returning to the island that his father had painstakingly managed for many years, Mei Yi kept thinking back to all the things that had happened in the decades since he came to his hometown in China, but he didn't fully understand it until he died.

The backyard of the palace has long been in shambles, presumably when Hong Eighteen was at ease here, it was indispensable to sing and dance with warblers, but unfortunately now in addition to the corpses all over the ground, there are only a few places left that have not been extinguished. In the backyard near the corner of the door, Mr. Yi was looking at something with his hands behind his back, because the onlookers were in a circle, and Mei Yi couldn't see what they were looking at. When he arrived, Mr. Yi and Mei Yi greeted him, Mei Yi felt something, and then looked closely, Mr. Yi's face was a little strange. In front of everyone, a big pit was dug out of the ground in the backyard of the palace, and the surrounding mound was not low, and it seemed that it had been dug for some time. Mei Yi secretly touched Mr. Yi, and Mr. Yi gave Mei Yi a silent hint with his eyes, and everyone looked at the situation in the pit silently. More than a dozen regiments of soldiers worked non-stop, and after more than half an hour, a bright yellow silk corner appeared in the brown soil. Things are starting to get weird. More than a dozen regimental soldiers surrounding the ground loudly scolded a dozen people in the pit, telling them to climb up and exit the backyard. Mei Yi couldn't help it, and with his official authority, he asked how these regimental soldiers could be so bold and arrogant in front of the governor. What Mei Yi didn't expect was that Mr. Yi persuaded him, and at the same time, one of those regimental soldiers was looking at Mei Yi with expressionless eyes.

Mei Yi realized that it was not only Mr. Yi's face that made him feel strange, but also the majesty that was faintly revealed from these onlookers. These men were tall and powerful, and although they had no weapons in their hands, they were by no means lagging behind in force. Mei Yi didn't leave, he wanted to see what was under the bright yellow silk. More than a dozen people who were still watching just now jumped into the pit and continued to dig, and the bright yellow silk gradually revealed its full face, and it turned out that there was a long strip under the silk. Someone uncovered the silk and found that it was still silk underneath, and after uncovering dozens of layers in a row, he saw a bronze slightly trunk-like thing, or a thick trunk that had not undergone any treatment, Mei Yi estimated that it would be as thick as four or five people hugging each other. It's really amazing, this Hong Eighteen is not small, how can he get such a thick sunken wood, and why is it buried here? The regimental soldiers in the pit, or the big men who didn't know the origin, more than a dozen people worked together, laboriously fiddled with the trunk, and opened a crack from the top, and slowly the crack was expanded, revealing a rough-faced person wearing a rough and disorderly flat sky crown inside. It turned out to be a coffin.

It looked like Hong Eighteen had been dead for some time, his face was a little deformed, and a thin layer of frost hung on it. Looking closely at Mei Yi, he found that the so-called facial deformation was really a little strange, and his face became slender, which may be caused by the reduction, but it would never be so exaggerated, Mei Yi had never seen Hong Eighteen, judging by people's rumors, this could not be Hong Eighteen, could it be someone else? The big man in the pit nodded to Mr. Yi, then dragged the body out of the coffin and threw it in the pit, someone poured the fire oil he carried on it, lit a fire, and the black smoke rose into the sky. Mr. Yi no longer looked at the situation in the pit, turned around and talked to Mei Yi that he would take extraordinary measures. It was this incident that made Mei Yi feel tricky. In the past, when Master Zhao was still there, he could still discuss it, but now he can only make his own decisions. When asked the reason, Mr. Yi sighed repeatedly, but said that there had been a major overturn in Xiyi, and it was difficult to explain what he said. He advised Mei Yi that as a person from Xiyi, it was better to obey. But this matter, Mei Yi is really difficult to handle, Mr. Yi proposed, let those elite soldiers who came with him secretly carry out this matter, Mei Yi was silent for a long time, and had to nod. Since Mr. Yi persuaded him to retire after completing his efforts, it seems that as Mr. Yi said, great changes have taken place in the Xiyi Group. What I can't bear is that these dozens of loyal soldiers brought from Hezhou will be secretly executed, and how will they be explained in the future. Mr. Yi was leaving, and he instructed Mei Yi to hand over the recital to the court as soon as possible, beg for help, and then retire.

The regimental soldiers who entered the palace of the eighteenth prince of Hong were all executed, and the people brought by Mr. Yi were very clever, and the executed regimental soldiers looked like they had died in heroic battles, which also provided convenience for Mei Yi, so that they could be rewarded for their meritorious deeds in the Ming court in the future. Mei Yi gasped, unable to guess what was going on in the Xiyi Group. The strange thing is that there is no news from the imperial court, and a feeling comes to my heart that I am a little minion of the Xiyi Group, and I don't have the right to know too much at all. Thinking of this, Mei Yi slapped the armrest of the gilded dragon chair in the main hall of Hong Eighteen, turned around and walked out of the courtyard. What is Mr. Yi doing in the backyard with people, Mei Yi is not interested in knowing, it is time for him to go back to his military camp. Walking in the street market that seemed to have settled after the war, except for the officers and soldiers who drank wine and ate meat around the fire to celebrate their achievements, only dozens of regiments of soldiers who had searched around Hong Shiba's courtyard hurriedly passed by with Mei Yi. How many years has the prosperous Nanjing become what it is today, how can it not be a huge consumption and blow to the current imperial court? Behind Mei Yi, someone successively carried out hundreds of large boxes from Hong Shiba's palace, and walked along the dark street market towards the east, following the torches of these people's small steps.

The imperial court quickly agreed to Mei Yi's request, and of course it was inevitable to praise and reward him. It doesn't matter, the important thing is that Mei Yi has discovered unknown mysterious people around the barracks these days. He was in the barracks, so he wasn't worried, but once he left the barracks and rushed to Hezhou, it was difficult to say how safe he could be on the way. After more than ten days, after handing over the command seal of the regimental soldiers to the colleagues who came to replace Mei Yi, Mei Yi forced himself to leave the regimental camp still stationed on the periphery of Nanjing with a personal servant without worry. When he was about to cross the Jinjiang River from the southwest of Nanjing, several strange ships in the river that came and went rapidly and roared like thunder attracted Mei Yi's attention, and more importantly, there was a strange ship with a flag fluttering many years ago, he had seen it, Fanren! Of course, there are other flags that Mei Yi has not seen, this flag is covered with blue and white strips, probably also the national flag of that state, Mei Yi waited for the strange boat to pass by, and took a ferry to cross the Jinjiang River and rushed to Hezhou along the official road. Along the way, it is inevitable that Xiaoxing will stay overnight, and there will be an unknown number of mysterious people who have been following behind.

Back in Hezhou, Mei Yi didn't stay long, Mr. Yi's words were still in his ears, and the mysterious person still pretended to be a passer-by who was not passing by Mei Yi's mansion and secretly spying on him. Mei Yi instructed his only servant to pack up and rush back to the small city of Haijiang as soon as possible, and then look for an opportunity to rush to the overseas island. It's been decades since I left the island where I was a child, and I don't know how it was there. Probably goodbye is already inhuman, Mei Yi couldn't help but shed tears. When he arrived at the small city of Haijiang and bought some of the things needed on the ship, Mei Yi thought that he no longer needed the servant to continue to follow, so he gave the servant a few hundred taels of silver to send the person back, and boarded the smuggling ship that he had quietly contacted alone.

Bobby crossed his fingers to count how many days were left before he could take the holidays, and as a boy of color, Bobby felt that he had a bad fate. He insisted on calling himself a person of color, but he couldn't resist the screams of and from the mouths of many white people on the street. It seems that people of color should be inferior in the United States, and it is a joke that Bobby, for example, wants to go to school and his family fortune needs to reach more than five hundred dollars. If Bobby's family had five hundred dollars, would he still need to work in a shoe factory when he was only fourteen? The guys who were chattering and talking in the streets as soon as the campaign year came were not caring how well a citizen of the United States like Bobby lived. Bobby wants to go to school, and although he is past school age, he can still go to technical school to learn a trade, and maybe in the future he can scrape together enough dollars for his own children. And if you go to join the army, you can get a one-time subsidy, and you can also receive a monthly allowance. If it is a field army, the allowance will be very considerable, and if it is to participate in overseas deployment, it will be more objective. Bobby thought about this, the corners of his mouth were about to grin to his ears, if the construction worker hadn't come over and gave him a stick, Bobby would probably spend the whole morning in silly fun, it would be terrible, he couldn't finish the ration, he didn't get paid for a day, where could his family afford it?

Bobby hadn't left the house and the factory and the road between the two points had been very far, so he wasn't familiar with that address either. I asked passers-by many times, and was ridiculed and ridiculed, and was even chased for a long distance by a dog led by a white man before I found that place. Looking at the place, Bobby was a little timid, and he began to retreat. If nothing else, as soon as I looked up there, the strange sculpture on the left side of the doorway was very uncomfortable, looking like an eye, surrounded by triangles. But thinking about the subsidies and allowances, Bobby still stepped up the stairs and pushed open the heavy door. There was a long line in the hallway, and everyone responded with all sorts of attitudes towards the skinny black boy who had just arrived, even the whistling man, but Bobby was used to it. He took the form he had received from the door, and followed the crowd with his head down. It took almost a full morning before it was Bobby's turn. Entering the room at the end of the hallway, when the clerk sitting behind the desk looked up, Bobby saw surprise in his eyes. He asked Bobby why he joined the army, and Bobby said something insincere, mostly from that advertisement. The other party was satisfied, but when asked what level of education Bobby had, Bobby hesitated for a moment before whispering, "I didn't go to school." The other party seemed to know the answer for a long time, so he hurriedly filled out the form, handed it to Bobby, and then told him the time and place of the meeting. Bobby's enrolment in the army ended with that.

Bobby signed up without telling his family, so it was very sad when his mother learned that he had joined the army. The father didn't say much, packed his bags for Bobby and personally drove him to the barracks. At first, the family didn't know, and Bobby only found out when he arrived at the barracks, and his mission in the army was to be an assistant to the cook, to put it bluntly, he dealt with potatoes and onions every day. It wasn't until he figured out for a long time that after the clerk learned that Bobby was uneducated, he went directly to the grid of the recommended post to cook in the sky. Fortunately, the allowance is also a lot, and of course there is no need to go hungry as often as at home, which makes Bobby quickly forget about this depressing thing and devote himself to his busy work. The training of the army did not last long before an order was received to be sent to distant Esnia. Bobby, unaware of the fact that there is such a place in the world, asks the head chef, only to be slapped several times with a pan and asks him what the army has to do with him. It doesn't matter, it means that you can't go home to see your mother for a long time, even if you're on vacation. Bobby was depressed and spent the whole day clearing a large basket of potatoes, and to the praise of the chef for several days, Bobby followed the army on the warship A squad bound for Esnia.

The destination in the order was the continent of Aisnia, but in the end, the warship had gone on a long and boring voyage of more than two months, and the place where it slowly approached was only a few small islands connected together. Is this what the continent is called? Bobby took advantage of the time to sneak into Class A and take a few looks, feeling a little funny. These islands don't even look as big as the base he trained in, why would the United States look at this small island almost far away, those guys in Congress and the president must be crazy. The army began to prepare for the landing, because it was necessary to observe traces of large-scale human activity on the island, so it was likely to encounter fierce resistance. The warships slowly approached the island, the landing boats were lowered one after another, and the so-called elite of the Marine Corps rushed down and waited to land on the island. Unexpectedly, the naval guns, ready for support, did not have a chance to open fire at all. The landing of troops from the United States was going well. The island does have inhabitants, numbering about a few thousand, with darker skin, some with yellowish skin, which seems to be the result of malnutrition. Almost all of the island's inhabitants depend on fishing for their livelihood, and there are very few crops produced on the island. A barren island, the United States still occupied it, built a barracks, erected a flagpole, raised the flag of the United States. According to the plan, the United States will use this as a base for further penetration into Eisnia. Of course, in order to be able to stay for a long time, the army inevitably has to build. The army set up its headquarters in a strange building, and the islanders said that this was the courtyard of the Ke family in the past, but now that his house is empty, it will naturally be abandoned.

Mei Yi hasn't been on a boat for a long time, so he can't help but be a little unaccustomed. He told the boat boss several times where he was going, but the boss shook his head and said he hadn't heard of it. Mei Yi looked at the chart for a long time, and with memory alone, no one could guarantee how much deviation there would be. Mei Yi is ready, if he can't return to that island, then stay on the boat and be safe with what happens. No one arrived behind him to spy on him, and Mei Yi thought that he was finally out of trouble. After a few days of interacting with various people on the ship, everyone gradually became familiar with each other. The captain of the boat talked about the hardships of going up the boat, and his heroic spirit was inevitably mixed with lamentation. In the past, in addition to God's bad temper, there were elusive pirates in the east. Now the pirates are gone, and instead there are armies of people on several nameless islands, inspecting passing ships and paying taxes. The boss said that there was probably more than half a day's voyage to those nameless islands.