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"Sir, this is the thing." A few relatives ran in carrying the cylinder, and when they saw Hong Chengchou still standing in the courtyard, they hurriedly saluted, "Is it put in the master's room?" ”

"Silly, aren't you? Of course you can't put it in the old man's room," the voice of the housekeeper next to him shouted, "Put it in the flower hall, who knows what this thing is for?" If something goes wrong in the old man's room, who can afford it? A few relatives nodded hurriedly, and then ran out with the cylinder on their shoulders.

"Stop!" Hong Chengchou hurriedly shouted, and these people all stood up again, turning their heads to look at the old man and not knowing what instructions they had. Hong Chengchou walked closer, looked at the cylinder carefully, and asked, "What about the umbrella?" ”

"This is it!" One of the relatives who followed at the back hurriedly said, "It's this big piece of cloth, I don't know what it's used for, it's still an umbrella in the sky, and it becomes a piece of cloth when it falls to the ground." As he spoke, he showed Hong Chengchou the piece of silk cloth he was holding in his hand.

Hong Chengchou carefully looked at this piece of silk cloth, this piece was obviously woven from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and there were even patterns and patterns on it, it should be the product of the Wu Dynasty itself, but I don't know why it became an umbrella here. And the maker obviously belongs to the unappreciative goods, from the edge of the silk cloth can be seen at random, cut like a dog planing, let him sigh. Ropes are tied to several corners of this silk cloth, and the workmanship of these ropes is quite fine, and at a glance you can see that it is definitely not hemp rope or straw rope, but you can't tell what material it is made of. The ropes converged on two at the back, and finally connected to the cylinder that several people were holding in their arms.

After the hatred is cool, the battle is cold, and the sealing technique is cold

Hong Chengchou took a closer look at the cylinder, the cylinder seemed to be made of metal, the exterior was polished very smooth, shining with metallic luster, and there was even an arrow mark on the position of the cylinder hat that connected the rope, as if people were grabbing this round cap and twisting. He stretched out his hand and asked a few of his relatives to carry the cylinder over, but his face changed as soon as he got it in his hand. It turned out that this Yuantong was not heavy at all, just a few pounds, and he couldn't help but ask a little angrily, "How many of you, this thing is so light, and it takes so many people to carry it?" ”

It is indeed a bit exaggerated to say that these relatives are done, don't look at this cylinder is a foot and a half long, it is quite thick, but it is very light, and it is obvious that it is empty inside. Of course, Hong Chengchou knew that these guys were carrying it like this just to ask him for a few more rewards, you must know that even the fluttering silk cloth was held by two people, he sighed slightly, and said to those people, "Go to the account room and get two coins of silver each." The entourage ran away with cheers, leaving the housekeeper and Hong Chengchou standing in the snow-swept patio.

Hong Chengchou took the cylinder, twisted it hard, with the sound of "whoosh", the cylinder cap rose in response, he looked carefully, it turned out that there were threads in the cylinder cap and on the cylinder, which were tightly rotated in accordance with the direction of the arrow on the cylinder cap. After opening the cap, there was a gurgling sound inside, as if there were a lot of things inside, and he quickly opened it completely, squatted on the ground and poured it out.

Inside the cylinder were some things that were also wrapped in silk cloth, some of which were wrapped in a cylindrical shape, and some of which were bulging, and I don't know what they contained. Since it was poured out, it was already certain that there was no threat, so Hong Chengchou held these things and let the housekeeper drag them into his study with a cylinder, and then put all the things on the desk.

He picked up the smallest package first, and he didn't know what it was, but through the silk cloth, he could feel something heavy inside, allowing him to feel the smell of silver. The package is opened three times and two times to see, it is really two pieces of silver cakes, the size is about nine to ten dollars of weight, these two pieces of silver cakes are finely made, carved with complex and exquisite graphics, turn over to see that there is another pattern on the back of the silver cake, it is a very strange shape of the big ship in the sky under the stars breaking the waves of the pattern. It is printed with the words "For the Senate and the People" and "One Yuan", some of these characters he knows, but some are difficult to say, obviously simplified characters, and he occasionally does not know. He also found the words "one tael" at the bottom of the pattern, it seems that the denomination of this silver cake should be used as a tael, he picked up this silver cake and looked at it carefully, there is a circle of side teeth on the border of the silver cake, although I don't know what it is for, but there is no common mold mark of ordinary coins, so this silver coin should not be minted.

"Butler, you come to see if this is a silver coin from Medenor?" Hong Chengchou stretched out his hand and handed the silver coin to the butler, although his butler usually doesn't care about the money, but he has seen a lot of money, and he has also seen a lot of Medeno silver coins, but he shook his head, "Master, although the little one doesn't know the origin of this silver coin, it is obviously not from Medno." ”

"Why?" Hong Chengchou asked with some curiosity, and the housekeeper hurriedly said, "Look, sir, first of all, the silver coins of the Maidno people are all some crooked and incomprehensible strange characters, but you see that there are no such strange characters on this silver coin, they are all the characters of my Wu Dynasty, even if they are not, they are also similar in shape, so the people who use this kind of silver coins should be in the line of my Wu Dynasty." ”

Hong Chengchou nodded, "That's right, these silver coins are beautifully made, and I don't know who made them," he said and picked up another silver coin and looked at it carefully, the size of the two silver coins is the same, the weight is also the same, but the pattern is different, the top of this silver coin is carved with a strange thing that I don't know what it is, at first glance it looks like a human with limbs, a nose and eyes, and a pouting mouth whistling, but there is a long tail, combined with a pointed nose and big ears, At first glance, it looks a bit like a mouse. The rat seemed to be standing in front of a platform spinning a plate, and he didn't know what he was doing. He couldn't help but smile slightly, "These people are quite interesting, they draw a mouse like a human." He wrapped the two silver coins in a silk scarf and picked them up and put them aside, and then opened another small tube wrapped in silk cloth, and when he opened it, it turned out to be a thick piece of paper, which was smooth, far thicker and tougher than the paper he usually used.

Hong Chengchou was not yet forty years old at this time, he did not have the trouble of presbyopia at all, he took the paper a little closer and looked at it carefully, every word was painted with iron and silver hooks, it seemed to be Song style, such words were written neatly, so that he felt that it should be written by a calligrapher. What was written on it startled him. It turned out that this cylinder was sent from the guest army from Annam, and it was written that according to the emperor's request, the guest army of Annam would depart from Annam Province, arrive at Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong by sea, and land in Qingdao, and then the army would go all the way to Shanxi along Shandong, Jingshi, Henan and other places, and then it could be immediately put into battle. There is also a passage in it that the person who found this cylinder could keep these two silver coins for use, and these two silver coins could be equivalent to two taels of silver in the hands of the Annan army, which could be exchanged for food or commodities that anyone wanted.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this, Annan's guest army came from the sea, landed in Jiaozhou Bay, Shandong and then went by land, which was a very good route. If you come from Annan along a road in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, and Henan, you will definitely have to delay a long time on the road, not to mention that the entire North China is almost covered by ice and snow at the moment, and it is likely to take a long time to adapt to the cold and snow marching directly from the south, but when you land from Shandong, the road conditions are definitely better than those in the south, and the traffic is relatively dense, and the distance is much shorter than that of Annan directly. He couldn't help but secretly admire the fact that these leaders of the Annan guest army had a little vision. But then there is another question, the guest army has arrived in Shandong at this moment? He remembered that the post sent by the cabinet said that they were going to set sail in the near future, from the coastal road of Annam to Shandong, which was thousands of miles away, how did they get there? Isn't it? Hong Chengchou picked up the two silver coins that he had just put aside, although one side of the silver coin was different, but the image of the starlight boat was the same, could it be that this kind of boat without sails and oars was used to drive over?

He couldn't help but shake his head and smile, maybe someone was joking? How can it be so fast? While thinking about it, he put the paper full of words aside, picked up the largest cylinder, opened the silk cloth outside, and sure enough, it was a paper tube made of paper rolled inside, but this paper was much more than the previous one, about more than a dozen, he opened the first one, and saw that it seemed to be a pattern, and his legs trembled when he looked closely. The pattern is nothing else, it is the pattern of the holy decree, and if you look closely, it is really the holy decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, with his big seal. He hurriedly stood up straight, thought about it, respectfully picked up the holy decree granted by the previous emperor on the desk next to him, and opened it respectfully and carefully, the words inside were exactly the same as those on the pattern, and even the traces left by the jade seal were exactly the same, there was no difference, and it was certain that the pattern was definitely drawn in accordance with the holy decree.

Carefully looked at the content of the holy decree on the pattern, it was indeed the content of the transfer of troops from Annan to Shanxi to quell the rebellion, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart, it seems that the people who write and draw on these pieces of paper are not joking, these are all genuine things. He opened another piece of paper, and there were drawings of many people disembarking from the boat, which, like the one on the other side of the silver coin, had no oars. The patterns of these people are very realistic, as if they have seen them with their own eyes, but the outfits of these people are completely different from those of the great warriors. One by one, they were dressed in robes, tied around their waists with a wide band, and they carried long bird guns in their hands, some were beckoning to their companions, some were waving into the distance, and many more were just waving and smiling in their own direction. Although Hong Chengchou is not a painter, but he still has the ability to appreciate painting, the painting in his hand is completely different from any painting he has seen before today, whether it is the Qingming Riverside Picture or the Eighteen Bachelors' Picture, he has seen it with his own eyes, not to mention painting on such paper, just looking at the appearance of these people inside, there is no trace of decoration at all, and the landscape in the picture is also on the paper, as if it is really seeing the scene with his eyes.

There is also text in the upper right corner of the screen, "Jiaozhou Bay Qingdao Landing Commemoration". It seems that this means that these guest troops have indeed landed in Jiaozhou Bay, and his attention quickly fell on the equipment of these sergeants, these soldiers are not dressed at all like the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, and they do not have the "mandarin duck battle jackets" that every soldier has, and some of them are completely the same robes, and the length below has covered the knee. The pants of the soldiers are also exactly the same, and they should be dark pants from the picture. And their hats made Hong Chengchou a little puzzled, he didn't even have a helmet, although the officers and soldiers of the Wu Dynasty didn't wear helmets very much, but there were always three or four out of ten, but the guest soldiers in the picture didn't have any of them, they were carrying a huge burden on their backs, and they didn't know what they were loaded with. Although there was snow everywhere on the ground, it could be seen that each of them was not wearing the cloth shoes that the Wu Dynasty had levied on the people, but what seemed to be leather boots.

He couldn't help but smile slightly, this is a transgression, according to Wu Taizu's requirements, people of different classes can only wear different clothes and shoes, leather boots are something that big-headed soldiers can't wear, if it is left in Wu Taizu Wu Chengzu's time, he will definitely cut off his feet. But he was also quite surprised by what he saw, and it was already a lot of money to be able to make every soldier wear leather boots. He couldn't help but think about how much it would cost to form an army with such equipment, but then he laughed self-deprecatingly, this is all a picture of these guest troops boasting about themselves, how can they believe it.

While smiling slightly, he opened a piece of paper below, the paper is still a picture, the top is still as lifelike as the previous picture, several soldiers who are also dressed are standing in front of a city wall, the people on the city wall are like a great enemy shrinking behind the arrow stack to probe their brains, you can see the words written on the city wall, "Nanxun", and the upper right corner of the picture is also written with the words, "Arrive in Liaocheng to take a souvenir". Seeing this, Hong Chengchou was really surprised, and arrived in Liaocheng, so this guest army has almost half gone, and I am afraid that it will be able to reach Shanxi in a few days, right? Are they all gods acting as Taibao? This speed has to run at the speed of a thousand miles every day.

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