The old man still understands the art of war? Ru Taisu glanced at Qi Xiang calmly and asked softly.

Seeing Ru Taisu ask, the old man sat upright on the wine table, holding the wine bowl in his hand, which was quite a bit showing off. He smiled and said that Sun Tzu's art of war was cloudy, as fast as the wind, as the forest, as slow as the forest, as rushing as fire, as unmoving as the mountain, as hard as the yin, as moving as thunder. General, although you are well hidden in your outfit, the young people around you have an unconcealed spirit, and they must be an absolute elite. Even if they are not scouts in the team, they should be personal soldiers, and I don't know what I said

Is it right? Do you think I understand the art of war?

The wine bowl in Ru Taisu's hand fell to the ground, and asked in shock, "You really followed Duke Wu back then?" Seeing that your identity was discovered, Li Jin and others did not step forward immediately, but they secretly held the weapon and prepared to rescue Zhu Zhen at any time. As for what the old man said, they had followed Duke Wu before, and most of them thought it was a boastful word.

Now that the old man revealed everyone's identity in one word, Li Jin and others had to treat it carefully.

It would be fine if I really defected to Zhu Yuanzhang, but if I deliberately said something to deceive everyone, wouldn’t it mean that the old man in front of me was very dangerous? There might even be ambush around me.

Zhu Zhen waved his hand casually, looking at the old man in front of him with interest, signaling everyone not to be nervous.

Zhu Zhen is much more experienced in the battlefield than Li Jin and others, and he has seen more and more people than them. Therefore, Zhu Zhen can identify whether the old man in front of him is kind or malicious. This was once Zhang Shicheng's territory, and there are still many remnants of Zhang Shicheng. What's the benefit of saying big things? Everyone held the sword secretly. In fact, Qi Xiang felt it instantly, but he was not panicked at all, and he was quite disgusted.

He smiled with emotion.

How did the old man see that they are elite? Just their posture? Zhu Zhen smiled and said. Qi Xiang pointed to the musket on Li Jin's back, and pointed to an object hanging on the wall. He said that although I was old and had not been to the battlefield to kill enemies for many years, I liked to go to the restaurant to listen to some battlefield experiences. Now there is a rumor in Huai'an that a new weapon called a musket is available in the world, which can shoot projectiles and hurt people. It is similar to the musket of Song Tu, but it is very powerful. I specially found a blacksmith to imitate it. I guess this thing is on the shoulders of the general? Such a rare thing must be in the elite hand.

If they think about their demeanor, they must be the elite among the elite. Among the three armies, the elite among the elite among the elite are not personal guards, but at least they should be scouts.

At the old man's instructions, his son took off the musket from the wall and handed it to Zhu Zhen.

Zhu Zhen checked and found that it was similar to Junshan's current old-style muskets, except that the barrel was shorter. Although it was more powerful, its range was very short, but it basically had the prototype of the old-style musket.

Ru Taisu took the musket, looked at it, and praised the old man, who was indeed a great talent, could actually imitate this object through just a few words. If Junshan's firearms were not strictly controlled, I would have thought that our firearms had been lost. What's the matter? Qi Xiang smiled proudly and said, "I can not only imitate your muskets, but I also guessed that when you confront Li Bosheng's cavalry, you should have used a triassiding formation that can allow the muskets to shoot continuously." Yes,

wrong?

Zhu Zhen got up and bowed to salute. The boy was blind and did not recognize the old man's talent. He also asked the old man to forgive his crime.

Qi Xiang smiled and waved his hand. It's okay, it's okay, an old guy who is almost buried in the ground, what a big talent is not big.

Li Jin, who was standing by, saw Qi Xiang being so handsome, even Zhu Zhen was going to salute him. He was a little unhappy to see the old man. Since you are so powerful, then guess who is the person in front of you?

Zhu Zhen was about to scold Li Jin, but the old man shook his head at Zhu Zhen and told him not to make things difficult for the rest of his life. What's the problem? Duke of Wu ordered Zhu Zhen, the boss of Xuyi County, to be Pingzhang, Huai'an Province. When Zhang Chen was defeated, he came to understand the people's conditions as soon as possible. Except for this one year, Xuyi County, which was built like an iron barrel and was good at politics, spreading all over the world.

Who else can I do besides me?

The old man is amazing! Zhu Zhen got up and bowed again, and his expression became more and more respectful. After a few bowls of wine, the relationship between the two sides became much closer. Mr. Qi Xiang and the man in the army have always been in a state of temperament. Although he is a little old, he is quite heroic. He talked about a lot of brilliant achievements in his youth, which made Zhu Zhen and his personal guards applaud from time to time

commend.

At this time, even Zhu Zhen sighed sincerely that it was not because he was powerful, but because the older generation of big figures had gradually withdrawn from the historical stage.

Of course, it is even more impossible for Zhu Zhen to know that this old man has an amazing descendant named Qi Jiguang. Zhu Zhen couldn't help but ask the ancients during the chat that he said, "By the mountains and the sea, and the sea," Haizhou has abundant resources. Although the old man has retired from the army, it should not be difficult to find some robes and make some simple livelihoods, right? Why do I look at you with a huge face and a look of vigor?

Mang, how can life be so painful?

It's not that easy! Qi Xiang raised the wine in the bowl and whispered, spreading his hands out, and then looked at it carefully. Not only was it covered with calluses, but there were also traces of sea water corrosion. Some of his nails even fell off and turned into black and purple flesh

tumor.

When the war broke out and the team, after fleeing here, I knew it was quite difficult to go to join the Duke of the State, and my son was once again pulled by Zhang Shicheng, so I could only make some living at home. Who would have thought that life by the sea was not as easy as the Central Plains at all. I got up every Friday, checked fishing boats, went into the sea to fish, and after returning home, I had to chop wood, boil salt, and mowed a piece of wasteland, and also heavy fruits and vegetables.

I was busy day and night, and even my Feng'er helped me, but throughout the year, I still couldn't eat enough, and it was even more a disaster for the family to be destroyed when encountering military disasters.

The people are indeed hard-working, but compared with the stormy Central Plains, Huai'an is still peaceful. At least there is no tragic situation where white bones are exposed in the wild and parents change their children to eat.

Zhu Zhen poured Qi Xiang another bowl of wine, and his face also showed a gloomy look.

If it weren't for the indomitable state of Beiyuan, the people in the world were displaced and even if he was a foreign race, he would not have rebelled all over the world, and scholars were free from their wits.

It is reasonable. It is not a coincidence that Junshan can become the help of Duke Wu. Quan Lai Boye's broad vision is his achievements. The old man admired Zhu Zhen very much, and did not feel any alienation because of his identity. As for others? Ru Taisu's bookish look on his face always felt a little out of place with everyone. Qi Xiang, like Zhu Yuanzhang, did not like scholars very much. Duanmu Yuhe and Wang Yuluo were both noble and difficult to violate the ladies of the family.

, the old man refused to even look at it. The rest of Li Jin and others always give people a feeling of sharpness, and they are too young, so the old man has no common language with them. Since you come to understand the people's sentiment, I will say a few more words. People in the world say that Huai'an is rich, and I thought so before, but since I came here, I realized how wrong this kind of remarks are. The local tyrants and wealthy businessmen are indeed rich and powerful, but they are just a little bit

The life of the surname was very miserable. Perhaps because he served with Zhu Yuanzhang, Qi Xiang was very eloquent, had a reasonable and well-founded speech, and he also knew words. He dipped his fingers into wine and wrote on the table that there were four major harms in Haizhou, salt-alkali land, sea breeze and waves, and salt

, Haipi. Let's talk about this saline-alkali land first. Haizhou is located on the coast and the land is saline-alkali. It is almost as hard to even be lazy to grow weeds. I heard from nearby neighbors that before the war, there was still a yield of four or five dou per mu of land here. Now,

There are frequent chaos, people are living in poverty, and people are busy running around, and with frequent natural disasters, it would be great to have a yield of two buckets, especially in the past two years, God has been blind and almost reached the point where no seedlings can survive.

The second is the hurricane at the sea. The world is not good, and even Mazu doesn't bless it. Don't look at the calm sea now, but once the hurricane suddenly rises, the houses collapse and the people and animals are destroyed, so I'm too lazy to even repair the houses. Qi Xiang kept saying that Zhu Zhen listened silently and nodded sometimes. In fact, he had known for the harm of saline-alkali land and hurricanes that even in later generations, before the saline-alkali land rice came out, it was very difficult to grow crops in saline-alkali land.

The other is the sea breeze. Zhu Zhen still remembers the fear of being dominated by Mangosteen Wukong and others.

However, Zhu Zhen, the Taizu of the dynasty, said that fighting with the sky is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and there is no way to deal with these natural dilemmas.

Although Zhu Zhen didn't know how to manage it, Ru Taisu and Mr. Ye Dui were not the kind of scholars who were far away from farmland, including Zhang Dashe, who had unique insights on farming. According to Zhang Dashe, when he was a tenant for landlords, his wife planted better crops than others. As long as he washed the saline-alkali land with water, it could increase the yield. But later the wife disliked him for not being able to hold his hands and shoulders, and needed four more places.

Studying is just a change of life. However, if you want to wash the farmland, you need to make a fuss on the Huai River. The huge manpower and material resources that need to be invested are astronomical, and I am afraid that the entire Huai'an will be mobilized. The only way to do this in the future is to be able to do this.

Zhu Zhen is only Pingzhang, Huai'an Province. According to Zhu Zhen's observation, the huge reason for the chaos in the sea breeze here is because there is a problem with the production method of boiling salt here, because boiling salt will cut down all the trees along the coast, without any obstacles, and hurricanes will naturally rush around without any obstacles, not only Huai

In the future, the people in the mainland will also be greatly affected.

If you want to be rich, have more children and build more roads, you have to have more trees when you have nothing to do. Zhu Zhen quickly sets a goal for himself. In the feudal era, to be strong and strong, the first population must be guaranteed. This is not very difficult. As long as the people can eat enough, they will use countless postures to create children in the middle of the night.

But planting trees is not a simple matter. You should know that ten years of trees are not just a joke. This thing is difficult to be effective in a short period of time. Most people are unwilling to do such thankless things.

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