"They produce a large number of threads, of the same quality and in perfect colour, far exceeding those spun by the most delicate women of our artisanal hands. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThis silk thread is woven into silk and is one of the largest trades in the country. Of course, it's also extremely expensive......"

"It is surprising that the velvet, silk, satin, and other fabrics produced there are so cheap. Especially compared to the prices known in Spain and Italy. They don't sell silk or any other fabric by size, not even linen, but by weight, so there is absolutely no fraud......"

"There are many rivers in the country, and people grow rice, which is the common food and grain of the people of the whole country...... They harvest so much that when the price of rice is at its highest, you can buy a considerable amount of grain for a Portuguese or Spanish copper coin. Strangely enough, though, the people of the Han Dynasty were not as fond of eating bread as we do. Although they also grind wheat into flour, they cook the dough by steaming rather than baking. In the Han Kingdom, a similar food was called steamed bread ......"

"In the mountains uncultivable, there are plenty of pine trees, bigger and more flavorful nuts than you usually find in Spain. Between these trees, they grow a crop called sorghum, which is extremely rare in our country, but an extremely important food component in the Han country. In short, the industrious Han people do not leave a single foot of uncultivated land...... You can hardly see any wasteland or no harvest in the whole country......"

"All the fields are beautiful and fragrant, because there are many kinds of fragrant flowers, and it is also dotted with green villages planted on the banks of rivers and streams, where there are many rivers. There were orchards and gardens, and there were very cheerful feasting halls, and they often went to rest and escape from their worries. The old men, that is, the gentlemen, used to plant large forests and dense forests, in which wild boars, sheep, hares, rabbits, and other wild beasts were kept, and from their skins they made fine furs......"

When Yang Tianhong saw this, his heart suddenly moved, and he said, "Father Stewart, where does the cost of your mission come from in Anzhou?"

Stuart was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Well...... The church will allocate some to me, and the rest will depend on the kindness of the faithful. ”

The so-called kindness of the faithful is actually the donation of the believers.

Yang Tianhong smiled slightly: "Relying entirely on your church, I'm afraid it's impossible." If you rely on the relief of believers, it is not very reliable here in Anzhou. I have a solution, I don't know if you want to Father Stewart. ”

Yang Tianhong has never posed his true identity. I've been using the title "I" instead of calling myself "Bengong" as usual. He felt that it would be good to have Yang Tong as the highest power in Antar in front of Stewart for the time being. At the very least, he would have more opportunities to secretly observe Stewart as a Westerner.

Stewart's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Your Excellency, please come and listen." ”

"Hehe! Your Zhongyuan flower is really good, in this way, everyone will have a lot less trouble communicating. ”

Yang Tianhong smiled slightly, and then said: "I want to do business with you, everyone has a profit to make." ”

"Doing, doing business?" Stewart froze, then froze.

Yang Tianhong nodded: "Yes, it's just to do business together, you make money, I also make money, the church doesn't forbid you to do business, right?"

Stewart's eyes were confused: "Also, please make it clearer." ”

Yang Tianhong said what he thought in his heart, Stewart listened very carefully, nodded frequently, and when Yang Tianhong finished speaking, Stewart responded continuously, but then blinked his eyes, and the pious monk said with a sly look:

"Now, then, can I preach here?"

Stewart is not a fool. Yang Tong's reaction in front of Yang Tianhong before, as well as Yang Tianhong's sole use of the power of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion Hall, all showed that his identity was extremely noble. Thinking of the "grandfather" who has been praised by the people and officers and soldiers since he went ashore from the Caixian wharf, and the Duke of Yiyong and the general of the hussars who were enshrined by the imperial court, it is not difficult for Stewart to guess that the young man who is sitting in front of him and talking to him should be Yang Tianhong, the Duke of Yiyong, the envoy of Anzhou Festival.

"Oh, you can even see that?"

Yang Tianhong couldn't help laughing: "That's right, my father is Yang Tianhong." Fr. Stewart, under the condition of equal interests, you can preach anywhere in Ontario, not only will you not be embarrassed, but you will be protected by your father. ”

The reason why Stewart was given such favorable conditions was because Yang Tianhong wanted to cultivate an agent of his own among Western missionaries. After some discussion, it can be seen that Stewart is a simple man of nature, and he is not an absolutely fanatical preacher of another world. For the West, the people of the Central Plains can be said to know nothing. But on the other hand, Westerners came here as early as ancient times, and they also wrote books such as "Experiences in the Central Plains". In this way, if you want to control the situation more comprehensively, you still need a guide.

Of course, this kind of thing can also be seen from another angle. Just as there are dirty and ugly creatures like traitors in another world, it is only natural that traitors will exist in this plane. As long as Yang Tianhong doesn't tell the truth, I believe Stewart himself will not be aware of it.

People live in the world just for the word "money". Missionary to missionary, as long as he is given enough profit to get Stewart to do something beneficial to him, it will not be difficult. What's more, Yang Tianhong is also very interested in the cultivation methods of the ghosts.

That's what Stewart was waiting for, and he smiled. Then he looked outside and asked in a low voice: "Honorable Duke, although I still don't know the identity of the previous General Yang Tong, but in my opinion, here, Anzhou, it seems that you have the final say, Lord Duke, right?"

Yang Tianhong smiled and did not speak. This is equivalent to acquiescence in disguise.

After a moment, Yang Tianhong calmed down and said lightly: "Father Stewart, you go find a place to settle down first, the affairs of my father's place, when it is arranged, someone will naturally inform you." ”

"Thank you. Stewart said respectfully.

At this moment, hurried footsteps came from outside the inner hall. After a while, a Yang Mansion attendant walked in quickly, bowed down in front of Yang Tianhong, and said hurriedly and seriously: "Grandpa Qiyu, Hongling is in a hurry to report that Yuan County is in danger." ”

......

South of Anzhou, Yuan County.

The Heiyue clan is really worthy of the name of ferociousness, after being slaughtered by the Xuanhuo Army led by Yang Lin and others for nearly half an hour, and after losing tens of thousands of people, they suddenly heard the word "counterattack" shouted by Ruan Chen Changguang, and it turned out to be really from the chaotic situation of being slaughtered slowly into a local counter-impact.

Standing on the watchtower in the walled city, the Shuiyue patriarch Ruan Shuize Liang found that his side had begun to partially counterattack, and immediately smiled: "Although Ruan Chen Changguang's guy is reckless, it is not entirely a bad thing." ”

Qingyue Patriarch Ruan Qingshi Fang had a gloomy face, and nodded slowly: "Yes, if you are someone else, you will suffer such a big loss and be beaten on the spot, you must be thinking about how to retreat." Hmph! Only a brutal person like Ruan Chen Changguang would think of fighting back. The Heiyue clan is really vulgar. ”

The two of them teased here, what they wanted to see most was that the Heiyue people had no brains to bite the Chu army of Yuanxian County who were out of the city, and then the two sides fought an endless war of attrition in the field. If the battle situation evolves like this, then it will be the most advantageous for the Yue people, who have an absolute numerical advantage.

Ruan Shui Zeliang was even thinking about the feasibility of sending out the Yue soldiers without interruption and then engaging in a wheel war with the Chu army, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that this did not seem to be entirely delusional. However, no matter what you do, you must always give the defenders of Yuan County some more excitement to fight to the death.

"Aren't there still many Chu captives in the walled city? Counting those captured from Chu before, there should be tens of thousands, right?" Although Ruan Shuizeliang is at odds with Ruan Chen Changguang, he is still a Yue person in his bones. For the Chu people, they naturally can use it as much as they can, and they want to repeat the old tricks they used before.

Hearing this, Ruan Qingshifang's face changed suddenly.

He didn't like excessive slaughter, especially when there were many people and a large number of people, it was easy to arouse the undying hatred of the Chu army. Speaking of which, the war between the Yue and the Chu people was the result of the Yue people entering the army in the early years. If the Yue people had just grabbed some things and came back in the past, things would never have evolved into what they are today. But if you kill someone, then the hatred will be great. After all, killing people to pay for their lives and repaying debts will always leave an extremely deep imprint in the bones of the Central Plains people.

"Actually, Ruan Chen Changguang has already done it once, even if we do it a few more times, how can we do it?"

Ruan Shui Zeliang naturally understood that the cruel practice of slaughtering prisoners of war would inevitably cause the monstrous anger of the Chu people. But this is war, even if there is no more slaughter, there is already hatred between the two races, will that hatred disappear because there is no more slaughter?

The answer is clearly no.

What's more, the actions of Baili Feng and the other Guiyuan Sect monks before they could also be seen clearly by Ruan Shuizeliang, who was standing on the lookout. The shamans on his side are almost all dead. Even the great shaman, who claimed to have boundless power, had his throat cut by others. Although the battle between the monks would not affect ordinary people, those shamans were Yue after all, and they were the higher masters on their side. All shamans died in battle, which in some way meant that rituals such as prayers were ineffective. If the battle between the Yue warriors and the Chu army is still lost, then the end of the Yue clan may not be as simple as defeat.

At this moment, Ruan Qingshi was speechless.

yes, there's already hatred here. Especially as hundreds of Chu women were thrown into the boiling pot in front of the two armies. This kind of hatred is no longer something that can be resolved if you want to.

"Someone should be sent to remind Nguyen Chen Changguang. "Ruan Qingshi Fang is not stupid, this kind of thing that will cause high hatred should still be handed over to Heiyue people to do, then it couldn't be more appropriate.

Ruan Shuize pulled the corners of his mouth, which was considered to be laughing. Of course, he understood that the reason why Ruan Qingshi Fang said this was to leave a little room for his own Qingyue tribe to negotiate with the Chu people in the future. After all, the people who killed the prisoners were all Hei Yue, and they had nothing to do with their own Shui Yue and Ruan Qingshifang's Qing Yue. Of course, if you don't want to do something, it's better to instigate others to do it. Didn't the monks of the Central Plains have a saying———— Dead Taoist friends, immortal poor Dao."

Ruan Chen Changguang, who was constantly roaring and screaming on the battlefield and commanding the troops, was very annoyed. It had been a while since he ordered a counterattack, but the Yue soldiers under his command had not achieved any results. The counter-charge went up, even if it only opened up a little situation, and it was quickly slaughtered by the elite Xuanhuo Army. Nima, those Chu people are so powerful, it's like emotionless killing machines. Such a war has never been encountered by Nguyen Tran Chang Quang.

The Yue people, to be precise, should be the Black Yue, in the previous repeated battles, they all relied on barbarism and ferocity to press others to fight. Even if it is a temporary defeat, it can quickly change the situation by relying on ferocity and cruelty. However, now, no matter how ferocious the Yue ghosts were, the battle with the defenders of Yuan County did not seem to have the effect they should have. This helpless and embarrassing situation made Ruan Chen Changguang both annoyed and felt that there was nothing to be done.

A topless, dark-skinned herald trotted over to report, "Chief, Chief Shuiyue has sent someone here." ”

Nguyen Tran Truong Quang was annoyed and irritable.

The losses after the counterattack on their side were huge. Moreover, the Chu army in Yuan County is fighting and retreating in an orderly manner, and the enemy crossbowmen who join the attack sequence in the follow-up are really hateful, and wave after wave of arrows are like endless. In Nguyen Tran Chang Quang's view, the current situation is not as good as the chaos of the entire battle situation before. As far as the eye could see, they were all the corpses of the Yue people, stacked on top of each other on the ground.

Ruan Chen Changguang glared at the herald with red eyes, and roared repeatedly: "There are already signs of retreat on the Chu side. Lao Tzu is trying to bite them to the death. If there is any over there, tell Lao Tzu quickly!"

On the battle array, Ruan Chen Changguang wanted to save face. Even if you can't win against the Chu people, you have to say it better than usual. Being able to say that defeat is a victory is also a kind of ability. Nguyen Tran Truong has made a lot of efforts in this regard. Of course, at least in the ears of this messenger, it is impossible to hear the relationship between the two.

On the opposite battlefield, Yang Chong and Yang Yi did not receive the order to retreat, and they fought and retreated in order to form an army formation, not to retreat into the city. The cavalry of Yang Lin's subordinates who were wandering around the periphery, they kept the necessary distance from the battlefield, and they had no intention of retreating back to the city when they saw that they might pounce again at any time. The infantry of the Xuanhuo Army needs to be reorganized, but if you want to reorganize the army on the battlefield, you can only retreat, and in the process of retreating, the queue and the army formation will be slowly laid out.

Ruan Chen Changguang relied on blood and courage to fight, and there was no art of war or tactics at all. In the state of Ruan Shuizeliang and Ruan Qingshi Fang without any reminders, Ruan Chen Changguang also has the ability to fight with people's heads. To be honest, he didn't understand the movement of the military formation and the battle situation at all, and it seemed reasonable to misjudge the development trend of the war situation.

A fierce man, a fierce man who doesn't understand anything, only knows how to kill. This is Ruan Shuize Liang's evaluation of Ruan Chen Changguang. Of course, this kind of evaluation should be a compliment in the eyes of the uninformed. But as long as you dig into the roots, it is not difficult to find that this is actually a very ugly curse.

"What, Shuiyue is going to pull the Chu prisoners of war up and kill Liwei? Okay! Of course, let them move quickly, pull the Chu people up, and throw them into the pot!"

In the face of Ruan Shuize Liang's hint, or it should be a treacherous plan hidden, Ruan Chen Changguang did not hesitate at all, he was annoyed that his own people had been slaughtered so much and the enemy army was about to retreat to the city of turtle shells and could not be killed. It's okay, anyway, fighting is killing, whether it's cooking and eating people before the battle, or cutting off the opponent's head in battle, in the eyes of Ruan Chen Changguang, a fool, it's the same.

In the walled city, Ruan Shuizeliang, who got the reply, smiled with satisfaction. With Ruan Chen Changguang, an ally who has no brains, although he will be half angry to death many times, but more often than not, the benefits are really many.

The Xuanhuo Army wants to reorganize the army. Don't reorganize the army on the battlefield, not only the generals who lead the troops need to have sufficient ability. What is more needed is whether the elite level of the army can be achieved.

Of the more than 50,000 troops stationed in Yuan County, 30,000 are veterans. Many of these veterans of the Xuanhuo Army have experienced previous wars, no matter how they can be said to be experienced in dozens of battles, the matter of maintaining the formation on the battlefield is not a difficult and impossible thing for them, if they are not broken up in the formation, they will be able to reorganize the formation within a quarter of an hour, even if the existing formation is only familiar with a month, but now the reorganization of the formation is a little slower.

The elite corps has a very good feeling, and Yang Yi, who has led the army to fight a few times, has a very clear personal understanding of this concept. He knew very well that there was indeed a world of difference between the veterans of the Xuanhuo Army who had experienced dozens of battles and the recruits who had little combat experience. That is, now he is leading the recruits of the Xuanhuo Army after high-intensity training, if it is the Anzhou garrison recruited by Cao Hui, before Yang Tianhong entered Anzhou, unless this is the case, otherwise Yang Yi will not dare to play anything to reorganize the military formation on the battlefield.

Yang Chong's status is not as high as Yang Lin's, and he is a low-status lieutenant in the Chu army. However, in the Xuanhuo Legion, the identity of the captain can actually be regarded as a middle and senior general. Yang Chong was far more comfortable with the reorganization of the battlefield than Yang Yi. While reorganizing the formation, many times he was able to send troops to support the relatively sluggish Yang Yi, and he firmly blocked the counterattack of the Heiyue clan. (To be continued.) )