Chapter Forty-Eight: On the Road

In the last chapter, it was said that the carpenter was invited by the government envoy to go to the coast to exterminate the Japanese, and said that this scourge was committed by the "hermit", that is, the "ninja", and the origin of the "hermit".

"Uh...... The subordinates are rude, and please forgive your sins! Since the adults don't want to talk about it, I hope the adults don't rest assured. The subordinates retired. ”

"Go, go, go, don't criticize the government in the future, otherwise the disaster will come out of your mouth, and it will be too late to regret it! After all, this envoy is also for your good! Let's go. ”

As soon as the words fell, the adjutant of the government office bowed to the political envoy Lu and withdrew from the palace hall, and went to the backyard to find the three girls to continue to teach court etiquette, after all, this is his duty, as long as the three girls are trained and successfully sent to the capital beauty pageant, the task will be completed.

At the same time, the carpenter returned to the "Luban Gate" with his escape technique, and summoned his seven sisters and nieces to announce the matter, which was nothing more than saying that he had been a little busy recently, and needed to go out to run errands continuously, or would not be able to come back until ten days later, hoping that they would take care of the helpers and apprentices.

However, the seven sisters were already getting better, and they only thought about "people are not old, and old cows eat tender grass" all day long. Nowadays, it is better for the little brother to be absent, so he can indulge in lust, change the groom every night, and be a bride every day, after all, a woman is thirty like a wolf, forty is like a tiger, and fifty can sit on the ground and absorb soil!

In fact, the carpenter knows this, and he is too lazy to care, thinking that women who are not accompanied by their husbands are like this, no wonder, as long as they don't die, they will die anyway, they will get pregnant and give birth to a daughter sooner or later, and they are still surnamed "urging".

In this way, the carpenter did not bother with many helpers and apprentices, after all, they were just "livestock" raised by themselves, and the meaning of their existence was to be squeezed, exploited and devoured by themselves. This is fate, who makes them faint and covet beauty, and they deserve to suffer!

So, the carpenter turned into a light and flew away, and first went to Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Fangchenggang on the north shore of the Beibu Gulf on the southern coast.

However, from north to south, from east to west, during the flight, it passed through many prefectures, prefectures, counties, and health stations, such as Liuzhou Mansion, Pingle Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Yulin, Luchuan, Beihai, Hepu, Elephant Training, Lianzhou Mansion, Qinzhou Mansion, Yong'an Prefecture, Siming Mansion and other places.

It was daylight, and the carpenter flew back and forth in the sky for three hours, releasing his mental power to repeatedly scan in order to detect the enemy. However, he only found that after some state and county government offices were attacked, some notices for the arrest of murderers were posted everywhere due to temporary panic.

The carpenter thought to himself that since he didn't see those cunning pirates out to commit murder during the day, he would have to wait until the evening to try again. However, this does not prevent the carpenter from casting the "sprout" spell of the Prophet of Unknown. So, after grasping some basic information, the carpenter landed incognito.

"Dare to ask my husband, where is this? Has it been uneven lately? The carpenter first cast a spell and scurried around on the ground, and happened to come to a field, and saw an old man and a young man in blue clothes, picking up a hoe and digging in the field, so he slowly showed his figure and went to inquire about the information.

"Ouch, what did you say? I don't understand, old man! The old man had just stopped, panting with his hoe, and asked the "little boy" to come over with a bamboo tube to drink water for himself, but when he saw someone coming to ask for directions, he asked curiously in dialect: "The guest is a foreigner, right?" Where did it come from? What's the matter? ”

"Uh...... Not bad. Xiao Ke is a person from Gutian, Jingjiang Prefecture, came here to do business, encountered thieves and robberies on the road, and finally escaped with his life, but he got lost, I don't know where this is? Although the carpenter couldn't understand the other party's "Cantonese dialect", he could barely communicate in "Guiliu official dialect".

"Oh? I see. What a sin! The old man with patches and patches took a sip of cold water with a bamboo tube and then turned to the "little boy" beside him, so he carefully looked at the carpenter with his hands on the pergola for a while, and suddenly smiled and said: "The guest has come to the wrong place, this is the mountain." ”

"Mountains? This...... Dare to ask my father-in-law, where is the nearest state capital and county government from here? The carpenter felt that this old man seemed to be close to his sixtieth birthday, but he still led a little boy of twelve or thirteen years old to weed and dig the ground in the wilderness on a hot day.

In fact, at that time, the people were still suffering, and it was the greatest happiness for the people to be fed and clothed, but because the young and middle-aged people, especially men, were often conscripted by the government to serve in conscription, garrison the frontier or fill the army to fight, resulting in a sharp decline in the population, and at the age of 16, he was a "big boy man", so he had to marry a wife and have children to inherit the lineage.

In addition, for many years, it is not the Japanese who are rampant, or the grass and the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty and the Dongxu Dynasty of Burma have been at war for many years, causing great damage to the lives of the people in the southwest frontier, making many rural populations wither, the old and the old have nothing to support, and many women are too worried about getting married, so they can only rely on the powerful to live for the lowly maids.

"The state capital, the county government? Joked, right? The old man in the pudding suddenly said with shame on his face: "Two hundred and five from house to house, one hundred from trench to trench!" I have lived in this mountain since I was a child, and I only heard when I was a child that there was a military camp called 'Mahout Guard' one hundred and eighty miles away, and I didn't know anything else. ”

"The mahouts? Good! Dare to ask the old man, where is this guard? "————" this ...... To the west, across the river, there is ......"

"Oh? Thank you, sir! You are a good person, and you will be blessed if you do good deeds and accumulate virtue. Xiao Ke said goodbye. The carpenter immediately understood where he was.

This "mahout guard" is actually one of the ten guards under the jurisdiction of the "Du Commander Embassy" in the "Guangnan West Road" in the Ming Dynasty, which was established in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1385. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had just won the world and established the Ming Dynasty, and he was afraid of the elephant array of Luchuan Tusi on the "Guangnan West Road", and specially set up a "mahout elephant guard".

"Mahout Elephant Guard" was first set up in "Siming Mansion", that is, the "Phoenix Mountain" of "Ningming County" in later generations. In the twentieth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1387, it moved along the river to "Nanning Mansion". In the twenty-second year of Hongwu, this guard was moved down the river from "Nanning Mansion" to "Hengzhou", that is, the "Heng County" of later generations, and the station was Hengzhou Town, Heng County.

Specifically, it is the area from Yingxuanmen to Siguanling in Hengzhou Town. At that time, there were more than 20,000 officers and soldiers in the early days of the Ming Dynasty's "Elephant Guard", with "Nantong Hou" as the highest military commander of the "Elephant Guard", hunting elephants and training elephant troops, specializing in fighting against the Lingnan rebel forces and Burma who invaded Yunnan Province.

There are 90 officials in the five "Thousand Households" of the left, right, center, front and rear of the "Elephant Warrior Guard", and there are 5,600 flag soldiers on the surface, but there are actually 20,146.

In the Xuande period, that is, after 1426-1435, the officers and soldiers of the "Elephant Guard" were sharply reduced, and only 368 flag troops, 20 sentinels, 163 soldiers, and 113 civilian funds remained in the Wanli period, after all, all kinds of rebellions in Lingnan were suppressed, and the Burmese invasion of Yunnan Province was also contained.

The salaries of the "mahout guards" were paid from the "Hengzhou Cangmi", and the income was also taken from the tuntian. Therefore, the guards guarded the city with three points and seven points.

At this time, Carpenter Cui was turning into a ray of light and flying in the direction of the "Elephant Guard", planning to use the power of the imperial court guard to re-evaluate the extermination.

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