Cheng Dawei had never seen such a well-armed Ming guard.

The hundred households leading the way in front of him were a cripple with terrible scars on his face, wearing a three-pronged red tasseled small helmet and a small spear on his head, and the armor on his body was different from the common cuirass of the Nanyang Banner Army, the entire cuirass was divided into three large decks, connected by chain mail in the middle, which did not affect the movement, and was tightly protected from the neck to the knees, and through the gap in the arm chain mail, it could be seen that the armor was wearing beige cotton clothes.

Outside the armor, the hundred households wore a blue round-necked sleeveless waistless short burqa, the lower body was also a blue two-petaled robe skirt up to the calf, the chest and thighs of the blue burqa were embroidered with round bear skin, the waist was tied with red satin, the sturdy physique and thick armor supported the person bulging, plus the lame right leg, supporting the long spur of the thorns, one foot deep and one foot shallow through the rotting woodland.

It is worth mentioning that this hundred households not only have a blue robe painted with a bear, but he also holds a young bear with blue fur to the depths of the gray, the young bear is no more than two feet long, and it is cute and cute, and the bear head is crookedly buckled with a leather helmet, and a small yellow flag is inserted on the helmet gun, and the word "Huangming" is written on the flag.

"Majiagang hasn't been to the merchant yet, let alone seen the people of my court, how did you find this?"

Baihu Wu walked forward and did not look back, although his right leg was lame, he was not slow to walk with a long hammer in one hand and a knife on his waist with the other hand, and only when he noticed that Cheng Dawei did not keep up with him, he leaned the bird gun against his side, raised his hand and pointed to the little creature jumping by with a pine cone in his arms on the towering tree and said: "Squirrel, the season here is very different from the Central Plains, my generation does not know that summer is short and winter is long, when this little thing begins to store grain for winter, it means that summer has passed, and we will also prepare to eat." ”

Cheng Dawei was panting on crutches, he was over forty years old, although he was used to trading in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but who knew that he would have to endure such hardships after sailing here, the melting of ice and snow brought unwalkable mud to this land, and even his second son and nephew were not used to this kind of trek, and his trousers and robes were covered with mud.

His appearance in Majiagang at this time means that the Nanjing Ministry of Industry sent an envoy to the Huizhou Mansion to inform the third winner of the first Wanli Mathematics Prize to pounce.

Cheng Dawei, who was holding on to the fir tree or pine tree with difficulty and walked to the side of the hundred households, untied the kettle next to the small abacus on his waist and took two sips into his mouth.

Moistened the already dry mouth a little, Cheng Dawei then arched his hand and said: "Back to Zhou Baihu, last year, in the next scraped together enough business, purchased 500 stone rice grain and sold to 4,000 li and 100 households, and lost the way back to be rescued by the official ship, learned that the imperial court had sent officials and soldiers in the Great East Ocean, lack of tools, got the chart, returned to Nanzhili to buy a few sea boats, bought craftsmen, farm tools, and sold here." ”

"A shipload of rice grain and a shipload of meat and vegetable oil are allowed to sell a shipload of copper and iron, but they are not allowed to dock in the Wa Kingdom, and they are not allowed to go ashore in the ports along the way, and they are only allowed to supply to the 100 households, and they are to be guarded by ships from each 100 households until the port of Xingmajia."

"The official ship, is it Gonggong Chen who is here to convey the holy parable? You're lucky, and you're brave enough to travel thousands of miles across the ocean. ”

Bang!

There was an abrupt sound in the forest in the distance, Cheng Dawei was shocked when he heard it, Zhou Baihu's expression remained unchanged, his words were a little embarrassed, and he opened his mouth with a slight Liaodong accent: "Don't be afraid, that's the flag army of this division." After practicing military formation skills all his life, he thought he was going east to kill thieves, but he became a hunter here. ”

Zhou Baihu has a name that does not match his strong physique, called Zhou Jun'an, who is a hundred households who were ordered to stay in Majiagang after Ma Gui and Ma Jin and others left, and he knows very well that those who have guns in this land are his subordinates.

After that, Zhou Baihu turned his head and said: "It's not the right time for you to come, if you came last year, you can buy two boatloads of rice and grain in Majiagang, and you can escape the cold and set off to return to China." At the beginning of this year, Ma Shuai divided his troops along the coast to the east and south to explore the road, and only one hundred and seventy banners remained in the two hundred households of the division, and we did not lack food this season, but there were a lot of useless mountain goods, and five hundred stone rice grain was enough, and your goods could not be sold. ”

In a moment, two dogs barked in the forest, and a Jurchen soldier who was not wearing armor and only wearing a jacket and had a strange hairstyle held a short axe in his hand and casually cut axe marks on the trunk of the passing tree, and walked out of the forest to salute Zhou Baihu in skilled Liaodong official dialect, carrying a bird gun on his shoulder, and the yellow dog running in front of him held a rabbit with big hind legs.

"You can buy some copper and iron, but if you want to go back with a full load, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until next year." Zhou Junan looked at Cheng Dawei and said: "To the east, to the south, follow Ma Shuai, where the big man goes, you sell the goods there, and finally the big shuai orders Majiagang to transfer how many commercial goods you have." ”

Cheng Dawei leaned against the trunk of the tree for a while, roughly regained his strength, listened to Zhou Baihu's words and nodded: "It's okay, I have this intention in the next, not only Cheng Mou came with the children of the clan by boat, but also fellow villagers and friends who came by boat in a few days, I and other businessmen are not afraid of hardship, cold and heat, Zhou Baihu, please lead the way, I have almost rested in the next." ”

Zhou Junan shook his head and continued to move forward with a smile, and said casually: "I heard that you have a ballad that called the previous life of not cultivating in Huizhou, and throwing it away at the age of twelve or thirteen, it is really true. ”

They are here at the end of the serious world, the imperial army has not yet come here, even Jinghai Bo Chen Dashuai's agent Hexingsheng Fujian and Guangzhou merchants are still begging for a living in Korea, Japan, Nanyang, Malacca and other places, this Huizhou businessman has found here, and listening to his words, he has successfully made a transaction from 4,000 miles and hundreds of households.

Walking for only one mile, the ears are more and more noisy, out of the woodland suddenly open up in front of the eyes, the tall log wall of people is tied up with a wide wall, every few steps on the wall is erected with the banner of the emperor, in addition to the barracks inside the open camp gate, there are both corrals and cattle pens, most of the walking flag troops are not armored, there are Han people, there are Jurchens, Mongols, and a few people wearing thick leather jackets and looking the same but different clothes and ornaments are learning Chinese under the teaching of the small flag officer.

Cheng Dawei and his nephews looked around curiously, and there were piles of wood everywhere in the camp, both logs that had been cut into several zhang long and smaller planks. The two flag soldiers were holding adzes and axes to cut a log, and on the fire in the open air, the three flag soldiers had made the inner core of the boat and propped it up with wooden sticks, and the fire roasted and set.

Zhou Junan introduced to Cheng Dawei as he walked: "That's a canoe, we use this to fish on the beach and in the river; The flag army over there is smoking fish meat, the fish here is very fat, the best fish caught in summer should be hung up and smoked and left for winter to eat, Majiagang has to go east for fourteen miles, but it is not suitable for logging, I am close to the river in this hundred households, mainly fishing and logging in spring and summer, and so on the first snow in autumn, we do a lot of hunting houses in the forest, and the hunters will survive the whole winter there, catching prey. ”

"We don't hunt mink on weekdays, mink hair grows well in winter, a hunter can bring back ten mink skins when he comes back in spring, I heard that you have yellow dogs in your cargo, how many do you have, how many I want, a good dog can help a lot when hunting mink."

"To go to Madong Baihu to go to Majiagang and then go northeast for seven miles, that is close to the field, the flag army is in charge of cultivating the military field, and in winter will go back to Majiagang to avoid winter, Majiagang has a brick kiln, burns bricks and tiles, and the houses are warm."

The nephew behind Cheng Dawei showed a happy look on his face when he heard this, it sounded like although the winter here was long, the flag army was not having a difficult time here.

Zhou Junan saw this expression, the expression on his face was full of ridicule of ignorance, and the scar made the smile very terrifying.

"If you're going to spend the winter here, you'll have to be careful with this."

Zhou Junan said lightly and lightly lifted the leather rope holding the bear cub in his hand, and said: "At the beginning of the year, the snow shell has not melted, and the hungry bear in the forest broke into the unbuilt camp of the banner army under my command, most of the hunters are outside, my three good dogs bit a bear hair, in this good dog is not long lived, Zhou's leg was also lame at that time, the skin is rough and the meat is thick, and the knife is difficult to hurt the middle gun only the skin and flesh; The force is infinite, and when it is pressed on the body, it bites when it opens its mouth. ”

"During the fight, he was stabbed by Zhou with a dagger, and the corpse of the dog fled into the forest, and twenty gunners searched for two days along the bloodstains into the forest and walked to the lair to have this."

As he spoke, Zhou Baihu, who was sitting on the pile of drying logs, took the meat slices from the hands of the flag army who came forward with the food plate and fed them to the cubs, and reached out with his hands to brush the blue and gray shiny bear hair and chuckled: "Its name is Zhou Cripple, the seventy-seventh flag army of this division, and it is the pro-ding of the Lu Division." ”