In the early morning of this day, Yang Xin gathered all the people at the wharf, and dozens of large and small boats had already been prepared on the river, all of which were leased from nearby fishermen and boat owners.

They now have their own naval army, and although the fourth small flag naval army is newly established, it has no problem being responsible for commanding and maneuvering ships.

The most convenient way to travel south from Tianjin is to take a boat along the canal to the south, which they have prepared for in advance, and evacuated at this time, so as not to panic.

After a few days of waterway, Yang Jiajun arrived at Dongchang Mansion.

At the wharf of Dongchangfu, the breeze blows the willows, the pedestrians are sparse, and a fleet of ships is driving mightily, and the bow of the ship is hung with a big "Yang" character.

Everyone on the wharf watched and saw a large number of neatly groomed soldiers at the bow of the ship, and immediately panicked, ran and shouted, and scattered as birds and beasts.

Yang Xin frowned, when he first arrived in Shandong, he didn't know what the situation was at all, why were the people so scared when they saw him?

When all the Yang family's troops went ashore, the situation was even more exaggerated, not far from Dongchangfu City was already under martial law, the city gate was closed, Yang Xin wanted to enter the city to buy some supplies, and inquire about some news, so he could only stubbornly lead the team to the city gate.

"Come, stop! Otherwise, we'll let the arrows go! ”

A group of officials with the people were guarding the city, and the leader shouted.

Yang Xin gave Bai Youcai a look.

Bai Youcai stepped forward and shouted: "This lord, we just want to go into the city to buy some supplies, and there is no malice, please open the city gate and let me wait inside." ”

The officials at the head of the city asked in a loud voice, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”

This question was a little embarrassing, Bai Youcai himself couldn't tell what Yang Jiajun was now, so he had to turn his eyes to Yang Xin.

Yang Xin had to take over the topic and said loudly: "Yang Xin, come from the capital." ”

The official at the head of the city was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "How is the capital now?" Are you the Great Shun Army or the Qing Army? ”

Yang Xin sighed that he originally wanted to find out some news from Dongchang Mansion, but it seemed that this person wanted to find out the news from his mouth.

At this time, he could only answer honestly: "The capital has fallen, the Manchu army is heading south, we are neither the Dashun army nor the Qing army, passing by here, we just want to buy some supplies, don't misunderstand." ”

The official was shocked, it turned out that the rumors were true, the Manchu Qing Dynasty really wanted to go south, and he had to report to the prefect when he went back, and the army in front of him was neat, not like the rout of Dashun, let alone the Qing army, the Qing army was in full swing, and there was no need to hide his identity.

Nowadays, in troubled times, thieves are rampant, and there are also many rich landlords training village soldiers, these people are either thieves who deceive the city, or township soldiers who have escaped from the capital.

At this time, he was also undecided, how cunning the thief army was, he naturally couldn't believe it, but Dongchang Mansion now has no army, and only the government officials and the militia organized by the government are guarding the city, and he doesn't want to offend these people.

So he said: "This general, now the situation is chaotic, in the next duty, do not dare to easily let people into the city, please forgive me, the general came from afar, the journey is hard, Dongchang Mansion is willing to take out some food and wine to comfort, and please wait a while, in the next will send someone to hang down from the city to send to the general." ”

Yang Xin couldn't cry or laugh, these people are afraid that they are like bandits, and they don't know what they look like?

But now I can't explain it clearly, so I have to wave my hand and say: "That's not necessary, my Yang Jiajun is not short of this bit of food, but General Ben has a question, I don't know whether today's Dongchang Mansion belongs to Dashun or Daming?" ”

The supplies that Yang Xin wanted to replenish were mainly weapons, muskets, gunpowder, etc., and the food they brought was completely sufficient, and he came to Shandong to develop for a long time, but he didn't want to ruin his reputation.

The official was surprised in his heart, he didn't want to give it away for nothing, could it be that he was really a thief army, and he came to the city?

However, Yang Xin's problem can't come back to himself, now, the Dashun army has already withdrawn from Shandong, the Qing Dynasty is still far away, and the Ming Dynasty has no news, this Shandong is now a three-regardless zone, and all the cities are confused, and all this, Yang Xin does not know.

"General Hui, such a big thing and a small thing can't be the master, we are all under the prefect, this question cannot be answered by the small one."

The official replied like this, which surprised Yang Xin, this question is very important to him, if the Ming Dynasty takes over Shandong, which the Dashun army does not want, then he can contact the Southern Ming court, and the identity of the princess can be exposed.

"Then can you ask the prefect of Dongchang to go to the city to see him?"

Yang Xin had to think clearly.

The official waved his hand and said, "No need, our prefect has been caught with a cold recently, and it is inconvenient to see guests, so the general should take our gifts and leave!" ”

The real situation is that the prefect of Dongchang heard that there was a thief army to enter the city, so frightened that he took off his official uniform and hid home, the head of the government had no choice but to bring more than 100 subordinates, with some people to the city, the entire city is now basically an empty city, if Yang Xin wants to come hard, he is very likely to take down this city.

Dongchang Mansion would not have been so empty, there have been a large number of chaotic people in Liaocheng recently, and about 1,000 defenders of the Dongchang garrison camp have gone to suppress it, so this official is anxious, just want Yang Xin to leave early, but he keeps asking.

Yang Xin had no choice but to lead the army to leave, bypassing Dongchang Mansion, all the way to the east, and going straight to Jinan.

The speed of the march was not fast, and Yang Xin ordered Daniel Zhang to send more than a dozen veterans to conduct simple queue training for the Fourth Banner's water army on the march, training while marching, and a quarter of an hour could not be wasted.

A few days later, when he arrived at the western outskirts of Jinan, this time Yang Xin learned wisely, and the brigade was led by Daniel Zhang, camped in place, and brought more than 20 people including the princess, Du Datou, the three brothers of Jiao Cripple, Bai Youcai and others into the city, so as not to make too much movement and cause tension in the city.

"Jiao Xuewen, you are a native of Shandong, don't know where your hometown is? What does the family do? ”

On the way, Yang Xin remembered this and asked casually.

"Back to the general, the little hometown of Texas, the father was a tax collector in Dengzhou, upright, in the officialdom there are many offends, and then because of the Dengzhou pirates to make trouble, unable to collect all the sea taxes, was sentenced to prison by the Dengzhou prefect, imprisoned for several months, the little mother scattered the family wealth to dredge the relationship was released, since then the family has fallen into the middle of the road, the little one has no way to make a living in Dengzhou before taking his parents away to Tianjin."

The lame man replied honestly.

Yang Xin probably knew his father's virtue from his character, so he smiled and said: "In this world, officialdom is like ink, corrupt officials and corrupt officials everywhere, according to your Jiao family's upright style, it is only a matter of time before you offend people and be punished." ”

"yes......"

Jiao Cripple sighed: "However, there are no such problems in the general's army, but this establishment is a bit strange. ”

Yang Xin didn't understand the military establishment of this era, he just copied the model of the Beida Battalion, and this was the first time someone raised this question, so he humbly asked for advice and asked: "What's the problem?" ”

Jiao Cripple suddenly came to his senses, and said: "In the Ming military system, there are only ten people in the small banner, the total flag is in charge of fifty people, one hundred households is in charge of two general flags, and the ten small banners are a total of 112 people, while the general is in charge of a hundred people, or a hundred households, and the general flag is in charge of four hundred households, which is equivalent to the level of a thousand households in the Ming army." ”

Yang Xin suddenly felt embarrassed, he was a traveler who didn't understand this, his subordinates were all homeless, all of them were at the bottom of the society, and he didn't understand it, Jiao Cripple, the son of a tax collector, had become the most knowledgeable person in the army in this era.

Of course, the princess is high and naturally does not understand military affairs.