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Just when Li Zixiao was requisitioning the Kang family's caravan, he inadvertently found a man in the Kang family's caravan, and his eyes suddenly widened.

At this time, the man standing in front of Li Zixiao was very tall, half a head taller than him.

In this era, his own figure is already very different, and he can be said to stand out in the entire Kang family caravan, so Li Zixiao discovered it.

At this time, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most ordinary people could not eat enough, and it was too normal for children to be malnourished, so they were generally not tall.

It is even more rare to be as tall as Li Zixiao, who is one meter and eight years tall.

In addition to the heirs of generations of aristocratic families, because of adequate nutrition, there are occasional big men like him.

And the person in front of him is actually taller than him, about 1.85 meters, and standing there makes ordinary people feel depressed.

This man's figure is not bad, and it is nothing to be a big man, after all, there will be strangers there.

The main reason that really surprised Li Zixiao was the man's ethnicity.

The tall guy in front of him actually had brown hair and blue eyes, and he knew at a glance that he was a white European.

Moreover, this man also wore a Western long sword on his waist, and when he saw this foreigner.

At this time, Li Zixiao immediately became interested in this foreign devil.

To say that in the era of the late Ming Dynasty, European countries had established east-west routes, and the Portuguese should have defrauded Macao from the Ming court.

Western missionaries also began to infiltrate China, and Li Zixiao remembered that at this time, the area of European activity was mainly limited to the southeast coast.

In the capital, in a big city like Jinling, there will also be some foreign devils, Yangzhou is not far from Jinling, and it is not a big deal to meet foreigners.

But after all, this is the first time Li Zixiao has seen a Westerner since he crossed over.

"Yo? There's a foreigner here. Hehe! It's interesting, it's really hard to find a place to step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there!

Let me ask you, who are you and why are you in this place? Be honest! ”

Li Zixiao walked up to the foreigner and asked with a smile.

"Why am I telling you?" The foreigner said in broken Chinese.

Li Zixiao smiled slightly, he knew that this foreigner should be able to understand Chinese, otherwise how dare he come to Daming alone.

After hearing the words of this foreigner, Tie Dan on the side immediately took two tiger soldiers to catch this foreign devil, pressed his shoulders and said coldly: "Our general asks you to answer the question honestly, you will answer obediently, and if you dare to say more nonsense, I will kill you." ”

After speaking, Tie Dan directly led people down, the long sword on the waist of this foreigner.

The foreigner rubbed his shoulder, which was pinched by the iron egg, and protested loudly: "I want to protest, you barbarians, you are so ungentlemanly!" ”

Li Zixiao was also immediately amused, squatted down and stared at this foreigner coldly, and said, "Yes, you foreign devils are embarrassed to say that other people are barbaric."

Your country has established colonies everywhere and slaughtered the local races, and if it were barbarism and brutality, you were ten times more ruthless than we were.

And, what about you? Isn't it also to make money that he came all the way to our Huaxia? Mention to me that gentlemen are just a bunch of hypocrites.

Answer my questions honestly, I promise not to embarrass you, and I can even find you a job that pays well! ”

"Seriously?"

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, this foreigner was silent for a while, and then he showed joy.

So the foreigner stood up, and continued to answer Li Zixiao in a somewhat jerky Chinese: "My name is Jack Louis, and I am Portuguese, which is what you Ming people call Franco.

I used to be a mercenary, and then I became a servant of Father Martin, who followed him to your kingdom to spread the great teachings of God.

It's been three years since I came to your country, but unfortunately Father Martin went to Heaven a year ago because of an unfortunate illness, and I'm the only one left here.

If it weren't for the Kang family to take me in this time, I'm afraid I would have starved to death, and this time I plan to follow the Kang family's caravan and be a guard to earn a salary. ”

After Li Zixiao heard this, he immediately laughed, it turned out that this guy must have lived unhappily in the West, so with the idea of going to a foreign land to pan for gold, he wandered all the way to China with a priest.

Unexpectedly, the priest was unlucky and died in Huaxia, so this guy lost his livelihood and couldn't get along.

Fortunately, he got the favor of this Kang family, and let him follow the caravan as a guard to get a bite to eat.

Li Zixiao has already set his sights on this foreign devil at this time, this is a treasure, since he has encountered it, he can't let it go.

"Jack Lewis, follow me, I'll give you a better job, how about working for me?"

Li Zixiao said to him.

However, what Li Zixiao didn't expect was that Jack Lewis shook his head directly and refused.

He was not stupid, he saw that Li Zixiao's group of people were not good at stubble, and he was worried that he would be pitted, so he didn't dare to agree.

"Since Lao Tzu has made up his mind, it doesn't matter if you agree or not."

So he smiled brightly, and commanded the iron egg behind him: "This guy is very good, it is useful to us, you take someone to take him down, let us follow us in the future!" ”

Tie Dan was also very curious about this foreign devil, so he waved his hand and immediately tied up this Jack Louis and dragged it aside.

"What do you want? You can't catch me! ”

"Shut up! If you shout again, do you believe that Lao Tzu beat you up? Iron Egg shouted and threatened the guy.

Jack Louis was brave, but he wasn't stupid, and he knew that he couldn't fight against this gang on his own.

So he had to keep his mouth shut, but he resolutely refused to kneel down according to Tiedan's request.

Li Zixiao ignored this Jack Louis for the time being, thought about it for a while, and a wicked smile appeared on his face.

Li Zixiao wants to take away this foreign devil, of course the model will not stop it, originally he hired this foreign devil purely to look at his foreigner identity and be curious.

At this time, Li Zixiao wanted to take it away, so let it be taken away, he didn't dare to offend this group of evil gods because of this.

Soon, Li Zixiao returned to their camp with a hundred men and sixteen carriages.

"Oh, God, there has just been a terrible battle here, and so many people have died!"

When Jack was taken and followed Li Zixiao all the way back to the camp, he saw countless corpses in the wilderness, and the soldiers of the White Dragon Army were pulling them.

They need to find out the bodies of their fallen comrades, then cremate them, and bring the ashes back to the Martyrs' Shrine.

"Tianba, let the soldiers load the boxes, let the wounded soldiers also get on the car, and if there are still vehicles left, let the uninjured soldiers take turns.

We have to leave Yangzhou Mansion as quickly as possible, otherwise Lu Da'an, that old thing, if he knows that we have captured his son, I don't know what crazy he will be! ”

Li Zixiao recruited Li Tianba, the general of the Tiger Camp, and after a while, Li Tianba went down to carry it out.

Taking advantage of the time gap when his subordinates were busy loading the boxes containing gold and silver into the car, Li Zixiao came to the Franky Jack Louis again.

At this time, Jack has become very honest since he came here, because he was really shocked by the hundreds of corpses on this battlefield.

made him understand more that the team in front of him was obviously the winning team, and it was a very strong army, and as a mercenary, he still had this bit of eyesight.

Therefore, he didn't plan to run away, once he couldn't escape and was caught, he knew that the end would be miserable.

Moreover, at this time, Jack also believed that Li Zixiao was a general of the Ming Dynasty, because he saw a familiar Sun and Moon Banner of the Ming Dynasty.

He has lived in Daming for three years, and of course he has seen that the Ming army will hold such a sun and moon flag, and the identity of General Li Zixiao also made him breathe a sigh of relief.

He was very glad that he didn't fall into the hands of bandits.

"Jack, can you tell me your resume in detail? I'm still curious about your origins!

It's about your quality of life later on, and it's best if you don't hide it! ”

Li Zixiao didn't talk nonsense with him, and asked him directly.

Jack nodded honestly and said, "That's no problem at all, I told the adults before that I'm Portuguese."

Formerly a mercenary, he was hired by a priest to protect him as a missionary in your country!

I used to ......"

Li Zixiao listened quietly, and Jack finished his experience, and at the same time prayed in his heart, hoping that this Frankie man would surprise him.

Although Jack's Chinese is very lame, some words are even mispronounced, and he has a strong Cantonese and Hokkien accent, who let him stay in those places the longest.

But in the past three years, Jack has basically learned Chinese, and it is not a problem to barely communicate with Li Zixiao.

While talking about his resume, Jack secretly observed Li Zixiao's expression, and saw that Li Zixiao had a blank face, and didn't seem to be too interested in his resume.

So I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in my heart, feeling that this time my value didn't seem to be as high as he thought.

But in fact, Li Zixiao was already happy in his heart at this time, but he just endured it and didn't show it.

Because, just now when Jack was talking about his life history, he mentioned that he used to be the artillery captain of a mercenary army and knew a lot of ways to cast artillery.

This is exactly what Li Zixiao wants to know the most, and it is also the main reason why Li Zixiao brought him back as soon as he heard that he was Franky.

During this period, the artillery cast by the Frankians was the best in the world.

And the military workshop established by Li Zixiao's White Dragon Army can already mass-produce ordinary armor, cold weapons, and even new bird guns.

In terms of artillery, Tie Pingliang is building casting tools for tiger squat cannons, and he is very familiar with casting tiger squat cannons.

And another kind of artillery that Li Zixiao values very much, the Frankie cannon is not the artillery that Tie Pingliang is familiar with, and he will not build it.

And the appearance of the Franky man in front of him made Li Zixiao see hope.

"Hmmm! It's okay, so you're thirty-four years old this year? Do you not have a wife and children in your country?

Why did you come to us? Don't tell me that you have lofty ideals that want to spread God's blessings to us!

That's all nonsense, I'm a martial artist, you're a mercenary, we don't believe such words! ”

Li Zixiao said to Jack unceremoniously.

Jack was a little embarrassed, because he didn't expect the general in front of him to be so powerful, and he could see at a glance that his purpose in coming to Huaxia was not pure.

So he had no choice but to answer truthfully, "Yes, my lord, I am thirty-four years old this year, and I have no wife or children so far.

As for the reason why I came to your country, it starts with that damned priest.

He told me that you have gold everywhere, and that if I follow him here, I will earn a lot of gold, and when I return home, I will be able to buy my own estate and have a beautiful daughter-in-law.

It didn't work out, and when I got here, I realized that I had been fooled, and that damn priest was just trying to deceive me and escort him here for free, making up lies.

When the priest died, I lived a life of wandering, and later met the Kang family in Jinling City and recruited me as their escort to sustain my livelihood. ”

"Well, I believe you are an honest person, you didn't lie to me, you just said that you are the captain of an artillery in a mercenary army, and you also said that you know a lot of ways to cast artillery, is this true?"

Hearing Li Zixiao's words at this time, Jack was overjoyed, knowing that Li Zixiao asked the most critical thing at this time, which was the thing he was most proud of.

Just ask a general, what is most interested in, artillery is definitely one of them.

Jack had already roughly guessed at this time what Li Zixiao wanted to hire him for, and this was testing him at this time.

And Jack wanted to give it a try, hoping to get out of his current poverty from the general.

So he quickly nodded and said, "Of course I know, before I became a mercenary, my father was a craftsman who cast cannons, and I used to help my father when I was a child."

Later, after I became a mercenary, our mercenary regiment had its own cannon foundry, and as an artillery captain, no one knew how to cast cannons better than me.

The cannon I cast never blew up, and it had a long range and was very accurate! ”

Li Zixiao watched Jack's excited Wang Po selling melons, so he smiled indifferently and said: "It's useless to just say it, if what you say is true."

I've got a job for you here, and I'm guaranteed to make a lot of money.

However, you will have to prove it to me when we return to my territory, and I hope you have not lied to me, or you will be very unlucky. ”

"I'm definitely not deceiving adults." Jack reassured.

Li Zixiao left in a good mood, but left Jack in a worried mood, Jack knew that this was an opportunity in front of him, and he didn't want to give up.

At this time, he also completely gave up the idea of escaping, and planned to follow the general to his territory to have a look.

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