Guangdong, Chaozhou Prefecture, Pingyuan County.

The county is a wealthy residence, the county is only more than ten years, there is no city wall, the northeast of the county is close to the boundary monument of Wuping County, Fujian, there is a five-finger stone with the name of the mountain, the Ming general Lin Manjue of Guam is in the corner.

In the past, this place was deserted, and in the past six months, the Lin clan within a radius of thirty miles has sent the dolls here, because General Lin has cultivated social studies for the clan and gathered the village elders to set up rules.

From now on, the Fanlin clan in Pingyuan County can send their heirs to study and practice martial arts, food, clothing, and accommodation, all of which are supported by the Duzhong clan.

Lin Manjue is indeed a general, and there is no real shortage of Zhengqianhu in Chaozhou Wei, and he was awarded the rank of general of Wujie, and he also led the military affairs of the Pingyuan People's League, and guarded against thieves.

They were all Fujian people 12 years ago, and then Pingyuan set up a county, and they were from Ganzhou, Jiangxi for two years, and then Pingyuan County was changed to Guangdong, and they became Chaozhou people in Guangdong.

In the final analysis, it is still the junction of the three provinces, the neighboring mountains are isolated, and there are many iron mines in the local area, sometimes there are outlaws hiding in the mountains, and sometimes there are cottage thieves rushing out to loot the Quartet, the county can not be stopped, it is necessary to rely on the militia.

The common people are most afraid of bandits, but the bandits in Pingyuan are most afraid of the militias, so in Pingyuan County, the most powerful is Lin Manjue, and more than 100 of his soldiers who withdrew from Guam.

When Lin Manjue left, there was no one living on the Wuzhi Stone Mountain, and when he brought his subordinates to escort the coffin back, there was already a grass house nunnery on the mountain, and there was an old monk in the nunnery, who claimed to be a useless Zen master, who used to be a big landowner near the countryside, and ran to the mountain to become a monk.

The grass is rooted in the stone forest, so it is called the Stone Forest Temple.

The temple doesn't look like much, but the useless monk has a lot of silver, and he hired people to build a temple around the stone, and was bombarded by Lin Manjue from the bottom of the mountain.

"Zeng Er led the troops to go up the trail to kill, Lin Xiao put a gun on the mountainside, don't go one stupid thief!"

The three-foot bird gun was carried on his shoulder, Lin Manjue was still carrying the rusty old hand axe, and ordered dozens of flag troops to attack the temple on the mountain, and General Wujie snorted with his eyebrows: "More than ten stupid thieves, and you still want to gather the army of the people?" ”

It all started in the morning.

The useless monk was robbed by thieves in the mountains, and no one in the eight towns knew that he was because no one came to bring him food for the New Year because of his five sons, so he dug up the town house silver and ran to the mountains to become a monk.

Dozens of thieves rushed into the temple, not only taking his money, but also treating the Shilin Temple as a cottage.

Although a monk is over half a hundred years old, how big is the temperament of a person who can become a monk in one breath?

The Zen master came out of the wall and was still vigorous, and in the newly built mansion of the big family at the foot of the mountain, well, that is, the Wujie general Lin Manjue's family borrowed a horse, and ran all the way for more than 60 miles to go to the county magistrate.

More than a dozen bandits followed the old monk down the mountain, frightened by the dwarf fort of the Lin clan in the mountain pass, and chased after the detour, only to see the Zen master riding in the dust, and in a blink of an eye, there was a mansion deep in the forest, the courtyard wall was high and thick, and the two stone lions at the door were mighty and martial.

The house is called Lin Mansion, the surname is nothing special, half of the county in Wuping County next to it is surnamed Lin, the other half is surnamed Chen, and the surname is Fujian, which is too common.

The porter was a seventy-year-old man, and he was easily restrained, and then went around the shadow wall of the carved giant ship out of the sea, and there were more than ten northern horses tied in the stable, and taught these bandits to jump out of their eyes, and they knew that this was really a big family, and they had made a fortune!

It is indeed a big household, and this forest is Lin Manjue's forest.

At that time, the courtyard of General Lin's house had just been repaired, and two orange trees were newly planted, and he called his friends to watch and drink tea.

Speaking of which, Lin Sanlao didn't have any friends, but Lin Xiao, the deputy general of Qianhu Wuluo, Zeng Xishun, the captain of Chaozhou Weizhen Fu Zhaoxin, and others.

These people retreated from the battlefield, and the court did not hesitate to reward them, and sold the war spoils of gold and silver, earning a hundred years of money. Although the battle of Guam lasted only half a year, the intensity was far greater than that of the past few years, and returning home became the only obsession in the hearts of the fighting men.

It's really back to his hometown, but it's boring to live a smooth life.

When I was in a hurry, I set up a mansion, started a social school, built bridges and roads, and gathered together to drink tea.

They were talking about wanting to go back to the Nanyang Military Mansion and then fight against Xiyi, when a friend of Xi Shun in the Guangdong Metropolitan Division wrote a few days ago saying that the imperial court had made peace with Xiyi.

When the door was opened and the old Guam soldiers who were sitting or standing in various parts of the courtyard looked at the orange tree with a stunned expression, under which nine bandits knelt in a circle, and weapons fell on the ground.

Led by Black King Kong, more than ten soldiers of the foreign Lin family wore tiger-headed iron helmets, wore work-patterned chain armor, and held two-handed Qi family knives, long-handled gourds and other weapons.

There were already three corpses around Black King Kong, one was cut off by the Qi family's knife, and the other two were smashed by the golden gourd and stolen to the ground.

The rabbit has entered the wolf's den!

The results are self-evident, the useless Zen master to the county governance also touched a nose of ash, the county has to go to the five finger stone to find Lin Manjue in the case of military affairs, the five finger stone suffered from bandits and ran to the county to declare the customs, what's the use?

When the official soap official took the Zen master back to the Five Finger Stone, the battle was over, and the outer wall of the Shilin Temple was only a remnant of the broken wall, and the bandits were gone.

General Lin can be regarded as finding something to do for himself, this time the bandits went down the mountain to bring him a reason to convene the militia, Pingyuan all the young and strong sent weapons, on the grounds of training and preparing for the army, divided the troops into the mountain for drills, just seven days to pull out four villages, exterminate hundreds of bandits, the junction of the three provinces is clear.

When the soldiers and horses were gone, Lin Manjue often climbed the five-finger stone and sat in the courtyard of the Stone Forest Temple, but he did not talk to the useless Zen master.

He just set his eyes on the newly built grass and wood temple, and watched the old monks who gave birth to five unfilial sons watering and chopping wood, and trembling all day long to cook on the fire.

"There is a new order from the military government, Chen Shuai sent a letter, he needs a fleet to cross Malacca to the west, I don't know where to go, but the letter says that its land is like a forest and many mountains, and its enemies are like a forest, and Chen Shuai does not force me."

It's still in the Lin Mansion, it's still under the orange tree, it's still those people.

Lin Manjue's eyes swept over his cronies and clan brothers, and said, "If you go, Lin can be the chief officer of the 1,700 fleet." ”

This kind of army is only a small regional general army, and sometimes the leading troops are even inferior to a guerrilla army, and even worse than the deputy general army in Guangdong, but the difference between this expeditionary officer is that he can act alone.

"You are willing to go to Nanyangwei with Lin and increase all the officials."

The young Lin Xiao sat upright and leaned back, exhaling a long breath, he had already heard the meaning of Lin Manjue's words, and said, "Uncle is going again?" The big boss didn't force me to wait. Guam was successful in the first battle, and our department went to six or seven out of ten, and this time the commander sent such a mission...... Uncle? ”

"I'm going."

Lin Manjue's hand on the table was clenched into a fist, knocked twice on the table, nodded and replied solemnly.

He didn't tell Lin Xiao that in Shilin Temple, he seemed to see his old self from a useless monk.

He's old, but he can't make himself useless.