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Chapter 127 Move to Wangjiazhuang

The big cart sent from Diandingshan was placed directly on the open space in the escort agency. There were bundles of spears on the car, and there were not many knives and axes. After all, the spears were cheap, and they were simple and consumed less iron.

The weapons were sent and the cart was not unloaded. They were left in the cart and someone was guarding them. When they left the city, they were transported to Wangjiazhuang.

Xiaowu and Wang Dafu were busy all over the place, checking the goods and checking their own carts and livestock.

The moment before dawn came was the darkest time of the day. Liu Tianyu asked someone to light a torch and began to inspect each warehouse.

The breakfast at the escort agency that day was earlier than before. When the aroma of the food filled the escort agency, the sky was already bright.

The yardman sleeping on the bunk bed and the newly recruited yardman began to get up by shouting.

The living facilities at the escort agency are very complete, and many of the designs look like prodigal, but now they look very efficient.

Things like washing were completed quickly, and the steaming food was brought up. Although no one said anything, the tense atmosphere gradually spread in the escort agency, and even the meal speeded up a lot.

After breakfast, the bodyguards began to transport the warehouse. There were many four cars on standby outside, and the coachmen were feeding the animals.

These coachmen were recruited by Wang Dafu during this period, and they prepared in advance for opening a mule and horse shop in the future.

All the corpses carried bags and spears in a neat row.

The cart had already been covered with animals. Liu Tianyu stood on the cart with a spear in his hand and said, "Now leave the city, go to Wangjiazhuang today."

Four carts came out one after another, and the bodyguards were guarding each other on both sides of the cart, and Liu Tianyu and Wang Dafu were walking in the front.

In addition to the escorts holding spears, there were also escorts holding muskets, who also lined up to follow the cart in an orderly manner.

Xiao Wu stayed in the city and presided over Guangji's things, and also left some of the escorts to guard the escort agency and Guangji's side.

There are many people and vendors waiting to open the city gate so that they can go out of the city to do business. The same is true outside the city, and many people are waiting to enter the city.

Guangji dispatched more than 200 people, and there were more than a dozen of them in four vehicles, including the sound of axles rotating, horse hooves, and unconcealed neat steps.

The people waiting in front of the city gate looked over in shock, and even the soldiers guarding the city were alarmed.

The person guarding the city gate was a general flag. When he came to Liu Tianyu, he smiled flatteringly, "Master Liu Dong, it will take half an hour to open the city gate. It's quite cold this day. Go and have a cup of hot tea there?"

"Fifty taels of silver, open the city gate for me." Liu Tianyu waved to the people next to him, and someone brought fifty taels of silver.

The general flag's eyes lit up, he licked his lips, and then said with a embarrassed expression: "Master Liu Dong, there are rules for the city gate switch. If the door is not opened according to the time, the upper part will be punished by the upper part. This..."

As he said that, he rubbed his fingers himself.

"I'll give you one hundred taels. If I still don't open, I'll wait for half an hour, and it won't be long anyway." Liu Tianyu smiled and stretched out a finger.

Naturally, someone next to him prepared a hundred taels.

When the general flag heard this, his eyes became brighter. He thought for a while, then stomped his feet and said with a smile: "Others can't do it, Master Liu Dong is talking, it will definitely do it. Even if he risked the punishment, he would let Master Liu Dong leave the city."

Liu Tianyu nodded with a smile and said, "That's a problem, but more people going out will be even worse. Let the outsiders come in, and the others inside should not go out."

The people next to him handed over a hundred taels of silver to the general flag guarding the gate.

The general flag took the silver and smiled on his face. The small request was naturally satisfied and nodded and responded.

Then, he hurried back, not knowing what benefits he had promised to his subordinates. The soldiers in rags became very busy.

As soon as he saw the city gate open, the people in the city walked out, but were blocked by the soldiers and went back, while the people outside the city were shouted into the city.

After almost the trouble here, Liu Tianyu's team of more than 200 people walked out of the city.

The soldiers guarding the city gate almost lined up to see off, nodding and laughing.

When they left the city, the city gate slowly closed behind them. Liu Tianyu looked back and saw that the city wall was towering and looked indestructible.

"Although the soldiers guarding the city are ruined, it is difficult to break with such a strong city!" Wang Dafu next to him sighed.

Liu Tianyu withdrew his gaze and said with a smile: "There is no unbreakable city. Not to mention the county town, it can be blasted open with cannons."

"Is there really such a powerful cannon?" Wang Dafu was not particularly confident.

He had worked as a soldier and naturally knew the clumsiness of cannons. It was okay to defend the city, but siege was laborious and laborious, and it might not be of much use in the end.

"There will be a day." Liu Tianyu said with a smile, but did not explain again.

He, who came from later generations, could not understand that the strongest city wall in the world could not stop the bombardment of cannons.

Liu Tianyu and the others suddenly left the city. Someone in the city was alert and it would take half an hour to pass the news. The city gate was closed again after Liu Tianyu and the others left the city.

There were more than a dozen large cars and more than 200 people, and they couldn't walk too fast. However, they left the city early and there were no people on the road, so they walked very smoothly.

As we got further and further away from the city, more and more pedestrians were beginning to rise on the official road.

These people looked at Liu Tianyu and the other team with surprise. Not everyone recognized Liu Tianyu. What everyone was curious about was that the team itself was the border army coming from Datong.

What is strange is that this border army has no official uniform or banner. It is said to be a caravan, but it is fully armed.

However, the pedestrians on the road reacted almost the same, and they made way for the team.

The sun gradually rose, and it was already winter. With the sun, everyone felt more warmth.

The first snowfall in Datong has already been in Datong. The thick snow has crushed all the malt in the fields back.

The stadiumers walked easily, and the coachmen also relaxed from the busyness of the morning and started chatting.

"This heavy snow fell a little early. As soon as the malt appeared, such a snow came. This winter may be a lot of frozen to death. The harvest next year may be bad."

"Who said no! In recent years, it was either a severe drought or a severe flood. Many people will suffer from difficulties in the coming year."

Listening to the coachman's comments, Liu Tianyu thought of the Little Ice Age.

In his memory, this situation lasted from the Wanli period until the time of Kangxi.

The so-called Kangxi and Qianlong eras in later generations were not because of how rich the people were, but because of the spread of corn and sweet potatoes, which made fewer people starved to death and caught up with the end of the Little Ice Age.

Without the Little Ice Age, the north of the Ming Dynasty would not have been inseparable for many years. Maybe the Ming Dynasty could have persisted for decades and dragged the Eastern Lu to death to regress civilization.
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