At dawn, two hundred and fifty sturdy Karen men quietly assembled, took advantage of the night to leave the cottage under the leadership of several Zhu Jun guards, and disappeared at the back door of the cottage.

This is the agreement between Zhu Jun and Toulon, two hundred and fifty Karen people have become the backbone of the mountain battalion, Zhu Jun intends to recruit another three hundred and fifty Han people to join, a full six hundred, all equipped with crossbows, steel knives, jogging every morning to climb the mountain, the morning is still queue training, in the afternoon is to train bow and crossbow shooting in the mountains and forests, the method of fighting, but the commander of the mountain battalion makes Zhu Jun have a headache, the Karen people are used to shuttling in the poor mountains and mountains, originally the best candidate for the commander, but Zhu Jun still has a mustard for the Karen people, not my raceZhu Jun had to guard against it, so it was okay to arrange some Karen people to be middle and lower-level officers, but it was appropriate for the Han people to come to the position of commander, but who would be the commander? Zhu Jun has no suitable candidate for the time being.

However, it is quite difficult to establish the mountain camp, and the other biggest problem is the language problem of these Karen people, the language is not comprehensible, but it is easy to create trouble, but there is no one among the remnants who can be proficient in both Chinese and Burmese, thinking of this, Zhu Jun misses the Han general Zhou Mubailai, this guy is greedy for money and arrogant, but he is a talent who is proficient in two languages, if such a person can be used for a period of time to cultivate a group of talents, and then kick him far away, wouldn't it be happy?

Thinking about it, Zhu Jun didn't have this kind of dream, people climbed the big tree of the king of Burma, how could they be willing to run to their side to suffer from displacement, looking at the back door of the cottage The figure gradually disappeared, and was finally replaced by a dark fog, Zhu Jun turned around, but Toulon on the side was full of melancholy, and said to Zhu Jun: "Brother Zhu, send people out secretly like this, if the princess knows, she will be furious, although the princess does not regard you as an enemy, but she is still wary, hey!" Although this is a decision I made with the elders, I have concealed the princess after all, and I am afraid that this crime will not be able to get rid of it. ”

He paused and said: "Unfortunately, there is no food in the cottage, and the young people have no way to make a living, so they will not be isolated in this mountain forever, and live a life in a mess. ”

Zhu Jun sighed, in this era of human life, everyone is struggling, everyone is fighting, he is like this, and the Karen people are even more so, Toulon has found a way out for the young people in the cottage, but what about himself? In the future, he will face a huge empire and hundreds of thousands of elite Eight Banners army, they have lived on horseback since they were children, experienced countless baptisms of blood and fire, and the places they pass are like a wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and he is just a fallen leaf, but how to fight against the wind?

"Brother Toulon, why do the Karen people hate the Han Chinese? Zhu doesn't understand many things in the meantime, and I hope you can tell me, maybe Zhu can resolve them in the future. ”

"Let's go for a walk outside the village, talking as we go." Toulon patted Zhu Jun on the shoulder, and the two slowly stomped back and walked towards the gate of the front village.

Southern Myanmar is mountainous and close to the sea, so the fog at dawn is extremely heavy, Zhu Jun and Toulon walked outside the village, and even the scenery one meter away can only be seen faintly, Toulon was silent for a long time and said: "Our Donghu royal family established the Donghu Kingdom in southern Burma three hundred years ago, after two hundred and fifty years, the combined forces of the Burmese and Shan broke through the royal capital Donghu, the king was destroyed into ruins, and 170,000 Karen people were slaughtered in a single city of Donghu, and then, the second prince of Donghu in Dawei City Ayada raised an army to take revenge, was defeated by the coalition forces, and could only take his people to hide in Moriyama. ”

Zhu Jun said: "Ayada is probably the father of Princess Ya'an, right?" ”

"The second prince is the grandfather of the princess, after the defeat of the second prince in this continuous mountain by the elders of the seventy-three Karen cottages elected as the new king of Donghu, but within a few years, he died of depression, replaced by the eldest prince Ade, Ade reigned for eleven years, during which he resisted the encirclement and suppression of the Burmese king nine times, but unfortunately he always wanted to have a son to inherit his throne, but only gave birth to a Ya'an princess."

Zhu Jun's heart froze, as if he had thought of something, and finally swallowed the words into his stomach.

"Who would have thought that a Han man who claimed to be a merchant appeared, he told King Ade, there is an elixir in the Central Plains that can help him give birth to a son, Ade believed his words, and treated it as a guest, who knew that half a month later King Ade died mysteriously, according to the guards around him, when the king died, his face was dark, and the seven orifices were also bleeding black blood, and eighty percent was caused by eating the elixir of the Han people. And that's not all, that night, another group of pirates led by the Han people rushed into the king's place, and after a night of bloody fighting, they slaughtered more than 600 Karen people, and even the queen was taken captive by the pirates, and her body was not found on the beach until a few days later. When Toulon said this, Zhu Jun faintly heard the friction of Toulon teeth, and thought that he had already made this matter a great shame.

"Fortunately, Princess Ya'an was not by the king's side and escaped. Since then, the Karen royal family has been divided into two, with 23 cottages supporting Princess Ya'an to inherit the throne, and the rest supporting the election from among the elders of each village. Therefore, after two years of noisy fighting, no one was convinced, and each village did its own thing, and some cottages turned against each other and did not get along. Toulon sighed regretfully.

Zhu Jun frowned, if it was really as Toulon said, although he had won the trust of Toulon cottages, the rest of the cottages were taboo against the Han people, and it would be difficult to resolve them easily.

Seeing that Zhu Jun was silent, Toulon found a clean stone and wiped it with his sleeve, and after letting Zhu Jun sit down, he sat cross-legged by himself: "Brother Zhu, you are a noble person, and now the Karen people are divided, and Toulon has a few words that I don't know whether to say or not." ”

"Our own brother, Brother Toulon, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it." In the past few days, Zhu Jun really has some meaning of taking Toulon as a big brother, he came to this world without relatives, and his subordinates were frightened when they saw him and bowed down, compared to brothers, even friends are impossible, but this Toulon has no conflict of interest with himself, although Zhu Jun is suspected of using him, but he has some family-like dependence on him, this complex psychology, Zhu Jun doesn't know what's going on.

"Brother Zhu, the eldest brother knows that you want to use the Karen tribe to restore the country, although I am an elder of the Karen tribe, I also have a little understanding of the current situation, when you said that you want to let the warriors in the cottage go to form a mountain camp, I saw through your thoughts, but the situation within the Karen tribe is very complicated, you have tasted the sweetness of this time, and you will not be involved in the affairs of the Karen tribe in the future, otherwise you will be burned one day."

Zhu Jun's face was embarrassed, as if he was a child who had been found stealing candy, and his face couldn't help but turn red, he originally thought that Toulon was in the dark about his use of the Karen people, but he didn't expect that he had already seen through it. Just when he was at a loss, but seeing that Toulon was still a peaceful face, Zhu Jun made up his mind, this time he no longer had anything to hide, and said bluntly: "Don't hide it from Brother Toulon, Zhu is indeed suspected of using the Karen clan, but since we have a common enemy, why can't we join forces?" As for the internal affairs of the Karen tribe, the younger brother is not interested in participating, with two hundred and fifty strong men of the Karen tribe, Zhu is already satisfied, Brother Toulon, listening to your tone, it seems that there will be any major changes in the Karen tribe? ”

Toulon sighed, as if there was something unspeakable, and said for a long time: "Big brother can't say, it is precisely because of this premonition that he will choose to entrust the youth of the clan to your hands, you don't have to ask these anymore, you and I can be together for a blood alliance is also a kind of fate, if something happens to me in the future, I hope you can help take care of the clansmen in the cottage, the eldest brother is grateful." ”

Zhu Jun was silent, knowing that Toulon must have predicted that a great change would take place in the entire Toulon tribe, and he had already made up his mind to die, so he had a blood alliance with himself and agreed to allocate two hundred and fifty young clansmen to follow him.

It's just that Toulon said it at this time, but Zhu Jun didn't have any sense of disgust, but he admired him a little in his heart, and was a little reluctant, maybe after he left the cottage, he and Toulon would never see each other again.

"Brother Zhu, eldest brother has one more thing to entrust to you." Toulon looked directly at Zhu Jun, and his voice was full of vicissitudes.

Zhu Jun knew that this entrustment could almost be equivalent to his last words in a sense, so he said solemnly: "Brother Toulon, please speak." ”

"I want to ask Brother Zhu to protect Her Royal Highness the princess, no matter what happens in the future, don't let her have any mistakes."