Zuo'anmen is the outer gate of Beijing City, was built in the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1553 AD), because there is a stone in the outer door hole of its arrow tower, commonly known as "the gate of the stone".

Yang Feng led the army to set off and walked for half a month, the troops were already a little tired, and now they finally arrived at the city of Beijing, so Yang Feng ordered the army to be stationed outside Zuo'anmen. Because of its proximity to the Temple of Heaven and its remoteness, there have always been few people living around Zuo'anmen, so it has become an ideal place for the army to camp.

After Yang Feng ordered the army to be stationed, he first sent people into Beijing to inform Xiong Tingbi to go out of the city to make peace with them, and then began to order the troops to rest for two to three days before continuing to march towards Liaodong. In the interval between rests, Yang Feng sent people to Beijing to buy a large amount of grain, forage and other materials to supplement the consumption of the troops, but what he didn't expect was that it was such an ordinary thing that made his troops famous.

It stands to reason that Beijing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has passed through or settled in countless troops from here for hundreds of years, and the people here can be regarded as having seen the market, after all, the people under the roots of the imperial city boast that they grew up in the imperial city, and they all have such a sense of arrogance, and they always have the feeling of looking at the countryside when they look at outsiders. Even the self-proclaimed most well-informed have to admit that they are eye-opening.

Chenghuang Temple, Chongwenmen and Lamp Market are one of the most prosperous places in Beijing, and they are also places for bulk trading, such as Beijing's largest gathering place of grain merchants is here, today Yang Feng's housekeeper Yang Laishun took more than 10 sergeants and hundreds of young men to the market next to Chongwen Gate to prepare to buy grain, when hundreds of young men wearing three-color camouflage uniforms, feet with liberation shoes on their feet of the baggage battalion of the camp drove hundreds of carts to the market when the whole market was a sensation.

Since he entered the Yingtianfu prison in Nanjing, Yang Feng admired this old butler who would rather be trapped in the big guy than bite himself, so he promoted him to be the procurement leader of the army's baggage battalion. The procurement of this project has always been a fat difference, but as long as you have the heart, you can make a lot of money in this project casually, and you can see Yang Feng's trust in Yang Laishun from here.

When Yang Laishun came to the market surrounded by more than a dozen sergeants, he was warmly welcomed by the grain merchant shopkeepers who had already gotten the news, these shopkeepers are not stupid, everyone knows that none of the things involved in the purchase of the army are small, and they are also the most profitable, as long as they grasp this business, not to mention that there is no problem in making at least a lot of money with a mouth full of oil, so when Yang Laishun first stepped into the market, more than ten shopkeepers came over.

"This lord, come to the contemptible trading house to have a look, the contemptible Sihai trading house has complete goods, preferential prices, and is guaranteed to satisfy you."

"This lord, the price of Shunda Commercial Bank is the largest in Beijing, and you can find anything you want!"

"My lord, what do you want, just say it, the contemptible person will definitely give you the lowest price!"

Looking at the businessmen who surrounded him like a swarm of little bees, Yang Laishun couldn't help but panic a little in his heart, he was originally just an honest ordinary person, and he had never seen much of the world, it stands to reason that such a person is not suitable for trading, but Yang Laishun has seen a lot of the market behind Yang Feng for most of the past six months, and he is loyal and honest, so Yang Feng thinks that it is most appropriate for him to be in charge of procurement.

Although he was a little panicked in his heart, Yang Laishun still calmed down and said according to the words he had thought before: "Don't squeeze, everyone, our army from Nanjing Jiangningwei is going to Liaodong to fight Tartars." Now he has been ordered by the commander to come to the capital to purchase grain and grass. Later, let's find a place to sit down, I will send you the quantity and type of grain and grass we want to purchase, and you can quote a price to us after you have read it, and we will make public the prices you have quoted one by one, and then choose a trading house with the cheapest price to place an order with them. ”

"Huh?"

All the businessmen glanced at each other, and the way of the heart is very fair, everyone can see how much they are asking at a glance, and they don't have to worry about someone operating in the dark. Some people were relieved, but there were also people whose eyes flashed, as if they were thinking about something else, but then Yang Laishun began to warn again.

"Also, don't think about squeezing other people away at the lowest price, and then use shoddy methods to make black money. Our family said that we are not bad for money, but we will not tolerate those profiteers who use old rice, moldy rice, and rice bran or sand into the rice, and if they are discovered, the knife in our hands will not recognize people! ”

As soon as Yang Laishun's words came out, many grain merchants who were thinking crookedly immediately felt a chill in their hearts. Mixing sand into grain with shoddy quality is the only way for businessmen to make money, and if you do this, let us make so much money.

Not to mention those depressed grain merchants, those idle and bored old and young masters in the capital don't care about these, now they are most interested in the young men and more than a dozen sergeants who followed Yang Laishun. First of all, the clothes of those young men and sergeants made the eyes of the old and young masters in the capital shine.

These young men are all men over the age of eighteen and under the age of thirty-five, and they dare not say that they are all strong and strong, but at least they are not old, weak, sick or disabled. These people are all wearing three-color camouflage uniforms, and they are wearing a pair of green old-fashioned 50-style liberation shoes on their feet, these liberation shoes are specially purchased by Yang Feng from the manufacturer in large quantities, and there is only one reason why this old-fashioned liberation shoes are purchased, that is, because it is cheap, a pair only needs ten yuan, so Yang Feng purchased 100,000 pairs in one go, which was used to distribute to Jiang Ningwei's military households, Zhuang Ding and the young people of the baggage battalion.

Of course, for those sergeants who need to undertake combat tasks, they don't wear this kind of shoes, and Yang Feng naturally has to look at the combat troops differently, these people are wearing more wear-resistant and beautiful training boots, and the purchase price of this kind of training boots is seven or eight times that of old-fashioned liberation shoes, so there is an interesting anecdote in Jiang Ningwei, that is, the easiest way to tell whether a person is a sergeant or not is to see what shoes he wears. But anyone who wears high-top training boots is a sergeant, on the other hand, it is a Zhuang Ding, a military household or a baggage soldier.

An old-fashioned camouflage uniform, an old-fashioned liberation shoes, if you look at it in 2006, it will naturally be dirty, full of migrant workers in the city, but in the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago, this dress is too trendy. Today, the vast majority of the people in Daming are wearing heavy and unsightly cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles and even straw sandals with sloppy feet.

At the beginning, after the distribution of these shoes and clothes, many people even collected them and were reluctant to wear them, and they still wore their own straw shoes and heavy cloth shoes on weekdays, only during the New Year's holidays would be on the boat this kind of light rubber shoes, that is, after the liberation shoes were generally opened, Jiang Ningwei's Zhuang Ding began to wear them generally, and before this pullout, Yang Feng gave a set of camouflage uniforms and a pair of shoes to every baggage soldier who followed the army to the front line, as a reward for them.

Now these baggage soldiers are wearing such a uniform brush in Beijing City, such a station immediately burst a lot of eyeballs, those self-proclaimed well-informed Beijing men were immediately stunned, these military households from Nanjing are all green clothes, wearing unknown green shoes on their feet, this is simply a green. Look at the sergeants standing behind Yang Laishun, except for the shoes on their feet and the helmets on their heads, they are almost the same as those young men.

Seeing this, I don't know who began to shout the nickname of the Green Army, and soon the nickname of the Green Army spread in the market, and many people who had nothing to do ran to the market to see the rare Western scenery, and the whole market was surrounded for a while.

The day's grain purchase plan was still very smooth, Yang Laishun purchased a total of 2,500 stone of grain and forage, and also purchased more than 200 fat pigs, because there were too many things they brought to the cart could not be loaded, Yang Laishun could only bring back a part first, and the rest of the part was sent to the barracks by the merchants the next day, and after two busy days, the material replenishment plan was finally completed.

On a scorching summer day, in a small courtyard in the headline alley of the Huitong North Pavilion in the inner city, a middle-aged man in light cyan civilian clothes and a pair of thick-soled official boots on his feet, about fifty years old, with a wisp of beard, and a serene face was sitting under the grape trellis holding a book and looking at it slowly, and there was a pot of fragrant tea and a teacup on the stone table in front of him, looking unusually leisurely.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed as a servant, came over and said respectfully: "Master, this is a post sent by Master Yang sent by Jiang Ningwei's commander, please go out of the city to meet the army, and prepare to follow the army to aid Liaodong." ”

This middle-aged man is not an outsider, it is Xiong Tingbi, the former Liaodong Jingluo who was dismissed and idle at home a few days ago.

Xiong Tingbi raised his head and stretched his waist Haha laughed, he left the book in his hand on the stone table, "This Yang Feng has finally arrived, I hope he won't disappoint the official, otherwise the official will really impeach him." Walk...... We'll meet this Lord Yang! With that, he stood up and strode outside.

"Master, wait, we have to pack up our things!" The servant was a little anxious, and shouted to Xiong Tingbi, who had already walked to the door.

Xiong Tingbi's voice came from outside the door: "What to pack up, just bring our official seal and official documents." If there is something missing, let's just ask that Lord Yang, presumably he is still willing to give this face to the old man! By the way, if you tell your wife, you will say that the old man has no time to say goodbye to her, and if there is anything to write to the old man. ”

Xiong Tingbi, who was in a hurry, only took a servant and two war horses lightly and came to the military camp outside Zuo'anmen, looking at the neatly arranged tents and rows of rejecting horses and dug trenches outside Zuo'anmen, he couldn't help frowning, and a trace of incomprehension appeared on his face.

When they reached the door of the camp, they saw two rows of sergeants standing at the door with firearms in their hands and armor all over their bodies and solemn faces, Xiong Tingbi sighed softly, "These sergeants listen to the spirit." ”

Although Xiong Tingbi is also a civilian official, he is a Liaodong economist and has fought in Liaodong, naturally he is not comparable to those civilian officials who can only fight mouth cannons, and his eyesight is also very high, and he can see at a glance that these sergeants in front of him are not only well-equipped, but also very likely to have fought and seen blood.

"These sergeants also seem to be elites who have seen blood, and this Yang Feng is really good at training!"

Xiong Tingbi was naturally very clear about the situation of the guards in the Ming Dynasty, although he had heard about Yang Feng's deeds before, and he was also very clear about his extermination of the Japanese and even the fact that he had fought with Xu Hongji's family, but he still had reservations about Jiang Ningwei's combat effectiveness. In his opinion, Jiang Ningwei's two battles do not reflect their true strength.

After all, one of the two battles fought by Jiang Ningwei was fought with the Japanese Invaders, and many people doubted the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Invaders, and there was another battle fought with the battalion soldiers in Nanjing, which was even more nonsense, for the combat effectiveness of the Nanjing battalion Almost all people who have stayed in the nine sides will subconsciously despise them, so this also directly affects Xiong Tingbi's judgment of the combat effectiveness of the Jiang Ningwei army, but when I saw Xiong Tingbi today, I felt that my previous judgment seemed to be a little too arbitrary.

"Stop, don't trespass in the barracks. If you come here unintentionally, please retreat quickly, and if you come here for business, please show the official document or official seal! When Xiong Tingbi and his servants led their horses to the camp gate, an officer stopped them.

Xiong Tingbi looked at the officer, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, burly and ruddy-faced, and the same was true of the sergeants standing behind him, obviously these sergeants were very nutritious on weekdays, and this discovery made him even more curious about Yang Feng.

He stroked his beard and said to the officer: "This official is Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi, and now he is ordered by the imperial court to go to Liaodong with you. After he finished speaking, he took out the official seal and an official document from the bag around his waist and handed them to the officer.

After taking the official seal and official documents, the officer carefully checked them, and then raised his hand and put it on the edge of his ear, and made a strange military salute: "It turned out to be Lord Jingluo, Lord Yang had an order before, after Lord Xiong arrived, please go directly to the Chinese army tent to find him, please!" ”

With the officer's military salute, the sergeants who stood solemnly on the side with firearms in their hands held their guns in their right hands and their left hands crossed to their chests saluted, all with solemn expressions.

Xiong Tingbi also saw the other party's military salute, and there was a gleam in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, but walked into the barracks with a smile......