Through the investigation of the people near Taihang Mountain in the past few days, he knew that the bandits on Taihang Mountain did all kinds of evil, and they would go down the mountain to rob every autumn harvest or New Year's Pass.

So Lu Ning found a few local fellows as guides and discussed with the general.

"General Wang, these bandits gather in the mountains and forests and affect the stability of the imperial court, it is better for us to eliminate harm for the people and destroy them by the way."

Qincha has the power to exterminate the bandits, not to mention the suppression of the bandits, and General Wang himself has military exploits, so this matter has been decided.

General Wang is a veteran of war, and only recently was transferred to Shangjing as the Imperial Forest General.

Combined with the information provided by many guides, it was not long before a map of the bandits' defense on the mountain was drawn.

Lu Ning was depressed for a while, there was no Internet in the world of Daming, no Beidou navigation, no mobile phones, let alone maps.

If I have these things, I will draw some kind of defense map with the line, and directly pull the cannon over, blast them with a shot, and make them disappear.

According to them, it is known that these robbers generally fetch water from a mountain stream at the bottom of the mountain.

The mountain stream was called the Ghost Sorrow Stream, and if they had taken it beforehand, they would have cut off the source of their water.

Then they will hold their way to break out, and if these robbers do not want to commit suicide, they can only go down the mountain and surrender.

After making a plan, seeing that the lieutenant generals of the three armies were all deployed according to General Wang's orders, this Zhao Dawu was a little depressed.

"Dawu, what are you thinking?"

Since Li Jinglong is now in a prominent position and is sitting on Yingdao, he can't do without a capable bodyguard by his side, so he left Zhao Dawu by his side.

But looking at the meaning of this product, it is obvious that one hundred and twenty people are not happy.

Zhao Dawu forced a smile and said.

"There are no adults, follow the adults, and the villains are very happy."

Lu Ning thought about it and said to him directly.

"According to the original plan, I am going to escort our truth cannon to the bottom of that cottage, and after they have surrounded all the places, we will convince those robbers to reason."

Zhao Dawu knew the power of this truth cannon, but he didn't understand this stalk that convinces people with reason, and he still said stupidly.

"Those robbers are outlaws, they only recognize knives and do not recognize reason."

Lu Ning patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said.

"Dawu, there is an errand now, I can only send you to do it, I don't know if you want to go?"

"Your Excellency, please."

Hearing that he had an errand, he couldn't run away from this battle, and Zhao Dawu immediately looked excited.

"Those robbers on the mountain are some bandits with high martial arts, ordinary soldiers can't prevent them from going there, you are strong in martial arts, go and guard the ghost city stream for me. Those robbers are secretive and always have to drink water, you can catch us as many as you want. ”

I'll go, it's a beautiful difference.

Zhao Dawu shouted an order, turned around and left. Halfway through, he suddenly turned back and scratched his head.

"I'm sorry sir, I still can't leave you with the military order."

Lu Ning patted him on the shoulder and said.

"I have these people around me to protect me, is there a lack of you? Hurry up and do the errand beautifully, and I will give you credit when I come back! ”

After Zhao Dawu left, Lu Ning's second apprentice Xie Jin came to Lu Ning.

"Master, why do you value such a person so much?"

Lu Ning let out a long sigh and replied.

"There is a shortage of people around the teacher, and there are a lot of things to do in the future, and there are many people who need them. But all the elders who have a skill must be recruited under their command. ”

"So what does Master want to do?"

"This world is very big, and Master's greatest wish is to lead a strong team across the ocean to open up territory for the Ming Dynasty and see how big this world is."

Xie Jin shook his head.

"What Master wants to do, no one has ever done before. Moreover, the Confucianism of my Ming Dynasty has always been to settle down and relocate, and is unwilling to travel long distances. Not only do you not bring any benefits by doing this, but it also costs some people and money. In the future, it will definitely be sprayed by those imperial history trolls. ”

Lu Ning looked at him and said.

"I don't know if I'm a teacher, but now is a critical moment for the world to change. The world out there is changing, and I, Daming, am still sticking to the rules. One day, it will be surpassed by other countries from all over the world, and when the time comes, it will be regretted passively. ”

Xie Jin's eyes widened and he asked.

"Isn't this world dominated by my Ming family, and those small islands overseas are all uncivilized barbarians?"

Lu Ning sighed and said.

"Xie Jin, although you are smart, you are limited to what you see and hear, and you really don't know how big this world is."

"Then Master will tell me about it."

"Don't say anything else, back then, Taizu Genghis Khan's expedition to the west. You should know that there are more than 40 large and small countries to the west. ”

"Genghis Khan destroyed more than 40 countries and traveled 20,000 miles. It has long been written in the history of the Yuan, how can the apprentice not know? Even those small countries, even Genghis Khan can't defeat them, how can they pose a threat to our Ming Dynasty? ”

"In the time of Yuan Shizu, there was a man named Marco Polo who came to the Yuan Dynasty and brought many advanced civilizations from us. From that moment on, they continued to explore the world and become stronger. And we don't know anything about them, and that's the saddest thing. ”

Xie Jin seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and asked again.

"So Master wanted to go out on a boat and see how strong they were. And then come back to Daming to develop some reliable development strategies? ”

"Exactly. That's why I took over the task of immigration, firstly, to share the worries of the imperial court, and secondly, to gather some people with lofty ideals to lay a personnel foundation for future exploration. ”