Chapter Forty-Nine: The Fog
Night.
Shangpin Xiang Restaurant sent off the last group of guests, arranged the tables, chairs and benches, and closed the door.
Today, the guys are tired enough, and in order to treat everyone, Moyu gave each guy a tael of silver, and the chefs gave two taels. Everyone happily accepted the reward and thanked them in unison.
They talked and laughed, and went back to the small courtyard behind the restaurant together, and washed and rested separately.
In the house, the proprietress Moyu washed her hands in a silver basin, wiped them clean with a handkerchief, got up and picked up three sandalwood sticks next to the table and lit them, and bowed respectfully to a jade Guanyin statue three times, chanting words in her mouth, praying for the Bodhisattva to bless someone with peace and security.
Mo Xiao washed up briefly, then went to Mo Min's room to find Mo Min, and put a small ingot of silver on the table given by the proprietress Meaning, take the pocket money and buy some gadgets.
"Big brother, wait, what do you see here?" Mo Min took out a larger silver ingot from his pocket, held it in his hand and threw it.
Mo Xiao was stunned, not knowing where she got such a big ingot of silver.
"Hehe, a guest gave it, not bad, right?" Mo Min smiled and threw the ingots to Mo Xiao.
Mo Xiao shook his head and said that he didn't want to, and the ingots turned strangely in the air, and then flew back into Mo Min's hand.
"Big brother, you're so handsome. No, no, I have to hurry up and practice, otherwise the old man will scold me for being lazy again. Mo Min threw down the ingots as he spoke, took out a large handful of copper coins from his pocket, threw them into the air casually, and waved his right hand, brushing and brushing a dense sound, and thirty or forty copper coins flew towards Mo Xiao in response.
Mo Xiao raised his right hand, his five fingers were slightly curled and grasped, and all the copper coins suddenly accelerated in the air, flying to his palm with a bang, gathering into a round ball and spinning.
Mo Min watched dozens of copper coins spin in the air in front of Mo Xiao's palm, perceiving the balance and precision of his strength when controlling each copper coin, and his heart was shocked and envious.
The method of using the power of the Heavenly Dragon's True Qi is divided into various forces such as the power of fierceness, the power of femininity, the power of whirlwind, the power of staggering, the power of divergence, the power of adsorption, and so on. Mo Min has not yet completed the realm of incarnation, so he will only have the first two. For the latter types, they can only be mastered in turn after breaking through the realm of incarnation.
What Mo Xiao is using now is the power of adsorption among several forces. According to the old man, this kind of power can only be mastered in the later stage of the knot pill, and the effect is to let the initially solidified Xiao Dan continue to absorb the true qi, and finally form a golden pill. At this time, seeing that Mo Xiao's power to control the adsorption of copper coins had reached the point of perfection, Mo Min knew that Mo Xiao was not far from breaking through the realm of Jiedan.
Mo Min himself, but he has been incarnated for almost three years, and he is still lingering in the early stage of incarnation. If you continue to practice at this rate, it will be at least six years before you break through the realm of incarnation. Thinking of this, Mo Min's head was really big.
"Whew..."
Mo Min thought about it, exhaled a long breath, and raised his fist to make up his mind: "From today onwards, I will also practice hard." It's really annoying to return the copper money to others, and to delay other people's time after practicing it yourself. He held out his hand.
Mo Xiao shook his head with a smile, waved his hand, and the ball flew back to Mo Min's side gently, and spun a few times in the air above Mo Min's palm, with a soft sound, the ball fell apart, and dozens of copper coins fell into Mo Min's hand.
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Late at night, Oolong Town.
Chen Ruoping, Zhao Rong and a group of magistrates in Wulong Town discussed the recruitment of the new army and went back to rest.
The country has a total of 31 provinces, more than 3,000 counties and counties, and more than 40,000 towns and villages. This time, the imperial court is preparing to recruit 480,000 new soldiers from all over the country, which sounds very scary, but when it comes to each township, there are only a dozen people.
The country of Rui was established by martial arts, not only the imperial court of the past dynasties attached great importance to martial arts, but also the spirit of martial arts among the people was also a common practice. Almost everyone of the young descendants can do martial arts, even the old men who look like the wind can blow down the old men in the countryside, Bao Buqi is also a master of which school, they hold a pickaxe to plow the ground one moment, and the next moment they may be able to play a set of punches vigorously, which will open your eyes.
It can be said that in the country of Rui, where the practice of martial arts is prevalent, it is not difficult to select a dozen people from each township to serve as excellent soldiers.
Unfortunately, this recruitment is not as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of numbers.
The Central Army is the elite of the country, and this recruitment is not only to select the best soldiers for the imperial court, but also to ensure that everyone selected is reliable and loyal. The former article is good to say, for hundreds of years, Sweden has had a set of strict and effective recruit assessment methods. However, the latter has added a lot of difficulty to this recruitment work. In the past, the Swiss army also paid attention to the origin and loyalty of the soldiers, but this time, it raised this standard to an almost harsh level.
Chen Ruoping discussed this issue with Yan Tao before leaving, and also drew a blueprint, which counties can recruit people, which counties will not be considered for the time being, and even how many people will be recruited in each county, there is a more detailed plan.
But after all, the plan is just a plan, and the concrete implementation needs the support of local magistrates.
After Hangxiao approved the blueprint, it was immediately sent to the subdivisions of the internal affairs and intelligence departments in various localities, asking them to immediately recruit three times more soldiers than the number marked on the blueprint as planned, find out the origin, and wait for Chen Ruoping and Zhao Rong, two recruitment specialists, to personally go to various places to carry out the assessment and recruit soldiers on the spot.
Oolong Town was the first stop on their trip. Judging from the conversation and performance of the magistrates today, due to the short time for the order to be issued, their preparations are obviously not sufficient, and Chen Ruoping and Zhao Rong are likely to have to delay here for two more days......
In the room, Chen Ruoping was thinking about these things while washing, and then connected with the current situation of Sweden's domestic and external difficulties and strong enemies, and he was very anxious.
She was about to rest after washing, but when she turned her head, she saw the feather arrow on the table that had been plucked from the corpse of the guard, and involuntarily picked it up again and looked at it.
The feather arrows of Ruiguo can be roughly divided into two types: official and private, and the difference is mainly in the material of arrowheads, arrow shafts and feathers.
The feather arrows made by the official and the arrows made of fine iron are all triangular and extremely sharp. The shafts of the arrows are all made of paulownia wood with iron lacquer, and the length and thickness are uniform. The feathers are generally used from geese, eagles and other birds with excellent flight ability. Such feathered arrows, with stable range and high lethality, are exclusively used by the Swiss army.
The material of the folk feather arrows and arrow shafts is strange, wood, bamboo, copper, iron, gold and silver, everything. Feathers are even more bizarre, pigeon feathers, sparrow feathers, and even chicken feathers.
The feather arrow in front of him is a three-edged feather arrow with a wild goose's feathers, the length, the weight, and the workmanship of the three-edged blade are all so familiar, Chen Ruoping was sure that it was a feather arrow made by the official as soon as he held it in his hand.
It's just that how could such feather arrows shoot out of the hands of a group of horse thieves, and how could that group of horse thieves know the whereabouts of Zhao Rong and the others, and then specially ambush there and wait for Zhao Rong's life, these two questions are a bit difficult to think about.
At that time, those horse thieves used to besiege Zhao Rong's knife formation, Chen Ruoping cracked it without thinking. Now that he calmed down and recalled, Chen Ruoping suddenly realized: It was clearly the technique of the Swiss army's division and combined attack with a small flag as a unit.
Think about the horse control method of those horse thieves, it is completely the authentic horse control method of the Swiss cavalry.
I remembered that the leader of the horse thieves called himself "Lord Chen", and said that the knife did not touch his own blood......
The more Chen Ruoping thought about it, the more complicated his thoughts became. The scrawny faces of those horse thieves in my memory gradually became clouded with a layer of fog.