People just followed quietly, pairs of hemp shoes and grass shoes stepped on the ground covered with dead grass, making a rustling sound like spring nibbling leaves. Passing a small stone bridge from the entrance of the village, there was a clear winding river underneath, and then along the winding road to the northwest, there were already fields on both sides. After walking for a while, when you heard the sound of the river rinsing, you were at the riverside.

There are some sparse woodlands and shrubs from small to small. The land near the river is afraid that it will be flooded when it is flooded in summer. There are large areas of weeds. Under the moonlight, piles of shrubs from tall people swaying in height. If a timid person is afraid to approach it.

When we arrived at the river, the terrain was getting higher and people walked upwards. After passing the shrubs and woodlands, there was a road moving forward rapidly. After walking a hundred steps, we arrived at the port where the ship was stopped.

It is said to be a port, but it is just a row of long wooden trests horizontally and vertically. Several canal ships from the hundred households are docked by the river. There are also a few thatched houses, which are piled up with some ship objects. Usually, there is no need to lock them. This thing can only be used on the canal ship, and even if it is stolen, it cannot be sold for money.

If it were normal in the past, the transportation army would set out as early as the beginning of the month and set up help to Huai'an. After the grain from various places gradually gathered, the number of grain ships would set out in groups.

There are ten people in a boat, which happens to be a small flag. Each ship transports more than 500 stone grains and is heavily consumed. When we head north, many places are in the dry season. The transporters need to take a boat and eat wind while getting off the boat and pull the fibers forward. They often pull from morning to night every day, with skin blooming and flesh blooming, hunger and cold...

When everyone saw the canal ship, their subconscious reaction was suddenly shocked!

Min Yuanzhong smiled bitterly and touched his back. Although he was a small flag official and a "Guansi" of the grain ship, he had to get off the boat and pull out the boat when he encountered dry water. Only the "A-head" with the identity of the chief flag or the hundred households could he watch everyone work comfortably on the boat. He had to have a higher floor of thousands of households or commanders to drink tea on the boat calmly. If the dry water was lost, the hundred households of the chief flag would be scolded by Shangguan, and even jumped down to pull the boat in a hurry... Han Sen did this.

Pulling boats, carrying grain bags, driving boats back and forth on both sides of the canal, farming and frying salt, these things are the things that these flag soldiers in front of them are the best at. They are a special group of people, with certain organization of soldiers and hard work of boatmen and boatmen, so they also have the brotherhood of boatmen and boatmen, both farmers and soldiers, and boatmen.

Because of these complex characteristics, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, they continued to be responsible for transporting grain, lost their status as a transport army, and became civilian households, and were inevitably bullied. During the Qianlong period of Kangxi, descendants of the transport army of Huai'an Guards and Dahewei retained the unity of the military personnel and the shipworker and boatmen, and gradually formed the prototype of the Qing Gang. However, this organization that originally formed gangs and protected themselves later changed its nature, which was also a later story.

This operation was considered the awakening of these movement soldiers. It was just that Min Yuanqi flapped the butterfly's wings in advance, and stimulated the blood and courage of these men in advance.

When they arrived by the river, the river breeze with a fishy smell hit the face, and people were all excited.

But soon people discovered an accident. A black-sailed boat was moored next to the canal boat. Several figures stood on the bow of the boat, and were blocked by the black-sailed boat behind them. When they walked closer, people realized it.

"Who is pretending to be a ghost!" Chen Liang reacted the fastest. When people were still a little confused, he had already swung the spear forward, and his whole person stepped forward, stretched and shrank his arms. When he was yelling, the spear tip of the spear pointed to a shadow on the bow of the ship. As long as the other party couldn't answer or had any sneakyness, he could stab the spear tip over him!

The other flag troops were still ignorant, and even Min Yuanqi could not react at all. From this detail, it can be seen that daily training is not as good as actual combat. When there are sudden accidents and accidents, only elite soldiers who have truly been on the battlefield and have been tempered for thousands of times can make the most correct reaction as soon as possible.

Min Yuanqi felt a little ashamed, and then he looked directly at the black shadow on the bow of the ship and pulled Qi Dao out with his right hand.

"I am Min Yuanzhi..." Someone in the dark shadow seemed to be frightened by the current scene, and the sound of the answer was also a little hesitant and panic.

Min Yuanqi had not yet come back to his senses, but Min Yuanzhong shouted happily: "Is it the twelfth brother?"

"It's me, is it Brother Yuanzhong Qi?"

"It's me, and Brother Yuan Qi is here too."

The Min family has branches and leaves in Dahewei, and has many tribes. However, the nearest branch veins are actually Min Gande and Min Yuanqi. Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong are both far-reaching clans, but most of the cousins ​​of the same clan are still in the order of orders and orders, and they are usually called brothers. Min Yuanzhong and Min Yuanzhi greeted Min Yuanzhi, and Min Yuanqi had also realized that Min Yuanzhi was the eldest son of the second uncle Min Gande family. He was not old and two or three years younger than him.

"I've seen my third brother." When Min Yuanzhi jumped out of the boat, he walked by a group of soldiers holding guns and knives. Because he was sure to go and snatch people, he couldn't help but fight and kill people. Everyone was a little nervous, and his murderous aura appeared.

Especially when Chen Liang was yelling with a gun, Min Yuanzhi felt his life was threatened and his hair was standing up. When he passed by Chen Liang, the eldest son of the deputy Qianqian family couldn't help but look at Chen Liang. When he found that the other party had no expression and his eyes were still lit and scary, Min Yuanzhi quickly turned his eyes away.

Although they are brothers of the clan, it is not the time to gossip. Min Yuanzhong and Min Yuanzhi simply asked a question, and said very directly: "What's the matter with the twelfth brother when they come to the hundred households? If there is no important matter, stay in my official hall for one night. Wait until I rescue Yuan Jin and the others from the Shuiguan River Room, let us brothers gather again..."

Unlike Min Yuanqi, who was in military uniform, Min Yuan was wearing a blue straight body, with a snow-white patch on his chest and a jade patch hanging around his waist. If it weren't for the middle of the night, he would have to hold a folding fan in his hand. If the person inside saw him, he would probably have recognized him as a son from a gentry's family, or a child from a scholarly family who had been studying for generations... Although the order collapsed in the end of the world, many years of habits were difficult to change. Even if he was a military officer, the general of the Liao Town, most of his children would have to study, and even take the imperial examination, like Wu San, the general of Liao Town. Gui, when he was a teenager, he liked to be a genius, and wrote poems and essays. At that time, the veteran general Li Chengliang hired Xu Wei, a famous scholar from Zhejiang, to grow up to his home, and was responsible for teaching Li Rusong, Mei, Rubai, Brothers... When Min Yuanqi was a teenager, he studied in the Min family. Most of the cousins ​​at that time were dressed similarly to Min Yuanzhi, and only Min Yuanqi was an alien. He was naughty since childhood and liked to use guns and sticks to learn martial arts and practice riding and shooting. Such character was actually an alien in the family of military officers...

"I came to the river house for you." Although Min Yuanzhi was young, he was in a complex place like Soicun. He dealt with either officials or officials every day. Although he was very smart, he could tell at a glance that Min Yuanqi was in a hurry to leave now... He was just not smart and knew that now was not the time to gossip.

Min Yuanzhi immediately explained his purpose. Min Gande knew that his nephew had made up his mind and thought he would go to the river room to grab people tonight. So he called Min Yuanzhi in the evening and took out all the twenty-collar armor he had taken in his private house. He ordered Min Yuanzhi to take his servants to take the armor on the boat while it was getting dark, and then wait quietly at the dock... All the details of his actions were explained by Min Gande. Min Yuanzhi was young but not frivolous, and did as his father's instructions, so it was not until Min Yuanqi brought the person to the dock that the two brothers met.

"My father said." Min Yuanqi said at the end: "I'm afraid it's inevitable to take action. Since you want to move, you must beat Yang's surname, and it's okay to kill him. Now it's so chaotic that the visiting soldiers only urge food and pay, and ignore local affairs at all. Even the visiting soldiers plundered and killed people everywhere. The government did not dare to ask... Yang Shida was not a serious official, and no one in the local area knew what kind of virtue he was. If such a person was killed, not only the people would applaud, but even the officials would breathe a sigh of relief. Yang Shili was in Yancheng, and if there was a problem, it would be a headache for Yancheng County. We don't have to pay attention to it here..."

Min Yuanqi was still feeling a little uncomfortable... Even though he was a human being in two lifetimes, he had never done the current thing, sneaked into the door, killed and set fire... Even if he had practiced this in his heart a hundred times, he would still feel naturally uneasy when he really wanted to let go.

In other words, the 17th year of Chongzhen and the future Qing soldiers went south to burn and massacre, and they could not avoid it. Otherwise, Min Yuanqi would rather be an ordinary household and try to be better for his own household flag army. Everyone can have a full meal. He is a small officer and landlord with good income, and it is also good to live a stable life...

"I inherit the love of my second uncle." Min Yuanqi gradually calmed down, and the actual support of his elders was more important than anything else. At this time, he understood better that the clans of this era must have backward, ignorant, unfair and unreasonable parts, and they will naturally be eliminated when they are not suitable for the times in the future. However, at this moment, having a reliable clan can be used as a backing, which is a very fortunate thing for Min Yuanqi.

The armor was removed from the boat, and there were indeed a total of twenty lords.

"Thirteen collars of cotton armor, six collars of locked armor, and one collar of armor!"

With Min Yuanzhong's counting, the twenty-collar armor was carried off from the ship and displayed on the ground by the river, exposed to everyone's eyes.

Although the "armor" in front of me is broken and the armor is broken, it is difficult to believe its protective ability, and even the idea of ​​judging its historical origin, having armor and not having armor is a complete difference... Even if Min Yuanqi's shallow knowledge of later generations understands this, let alone these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's garrison in the world?

Many flag troops are the first time they have observed armor at close range. These things are generally impossible to fall on the head of the flag troops. Not to mention ordinary flag troops, even small flag officials and general flag officials, it is extremely difficult to have a leader.

Even if Min Yuanqi himself did not have armor, he might have had, or even the precious armor of the cold-forged Qingtang armor, or mountain-cultural armor, or Mingguang armor, but over the long years, poverty and decades and hundreds of years, he did not need to wear armor. This kind of military and national heavy weapon is quite valuable, and there will always be buyers to buy it... Of course, it is not an ordinary household, even a scholar-official official cannot hide armor privately. According to the laws of the state, hiding more than five iron armors is enough to be sentenced to death. Civil officials cannot have interests and hobbies in this regard, unless they are granted the military and prefecture and position as governor, they need to form their own relatives to prevent them from being protected by force when commanding on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!