Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 427
Chen Zilong also felt a sharp pain.

Because a heavy four-edged arrow the size of a thumb had pierced through his breastplate, fortunately the Jiannu vest was a little far away, so the arrow only penetrated Shanwenjia's breastplate less than half an inch.

Otherwise, the arrow could directly penetrate his chest.

"Master Chen, are you alright?" Yang Ponu hurried over carrying the wooden sign.

"Du Tu Tu!" Three muffled sounds, and three more heavy arrows were shot at the wooden sign, one of the three-edged heavy arrows pierced through the wooden sign a full two inches, almost piercing into Yang Ponu. eye sockets.

Yang Ponu was startled, and quickly pushed the wooden sign forward by more than a foot.

Chen Zilong turned his waist knife horizontally and cut off the arrow shaft inserted in the heart mirror with a click.

"Mother thief, where did these slaves come from? Have you seen how many people there are?"

"I didn't see clearly." Yang Ponu shook his head and said, "My lord, let's go back to the stronghold, if we don't go back, we will really be here today."

"You can't leave the conservatory, women and children can't run fast." Chen Zilong shook his head and said.

Yang Ponu also hesitated, because there were also his women among the women and children inside.

"It's all my fault." Chen Zilong said with some annoyance, "I knew I shouldn't have come out to repair the greenhouse at this time, and now we are trapped here."

"Master Chen, why don't the villains rush out to report the news?"

Chen Zilong was also a little moved when he heard the words, and now it seems that he can only take a risk.

However, at this moment, a faint sound of a trumpet suddenly sounded in the wilderness behind.

"Looks like a trumpet?" Yang Ponu listened for a moment, then suddenly shouted, "It's a trumpet, reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived!"

I hurriedly probed to the south, and sure enough, I saw teams of town soldiers coming in line.

There are sword players in front, three rows of musketeers in the back, and six rows of spearmen in the end.

When they got closer, the second row of musketeers fired a volley and drove away the Jiannu on the opposite side.

It was also at this time that Chen Zilong and Yang Po Nu discovered that there were more than a dozen Jian Nu.

After a while, the reinforcements arrived, led by Du Yinxi, the admiral of Xuzhou.

"Block the military gate." Chen Zilong and Yang Ponu hurried forward to salute.

"Is it okay to remonstrate with Chen?" Du Yinxi asked with concern.

"Thank you for the concern of the military sect. It's okay to be an official, but the skin hurts the ear."

"Are there any casualties among the women and children who helped you build the breeding greenhouse?"

"Fortunately, the army came in time, and there were no casualties among women and children in the greenhouse."

Du Yinxi breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately dispatched a team of town soldiers to escort the women and children back to the nearby fort.

At this moment, a puff of wolf smoke suddenly rose from the northern horizon, soaring to the sky.

Yang Ponu put on the awning and looked around for a while, then reported to Du Yinxi: "Dujun Gate is Chen Jiabao!"

"Let's go to Chenjiabao!" Du Yinxi immediately led the soldiers to support Chenjiabao, and Chen Zilong followed with Yang Ponu and other dozens of soldiers.

A moment later, reinforcements arrived at Chenjiabao.

I saw more than a dozen Jiannu vests swimming in the wilderness outside the stronghold.

Seeing Du Yinxi leading a large group of town soldiers to kill them, the dozen or so Jiannu vests immediately ran away on horseback.

The scholars and town soldiers in Chenjiabao opened the gate to welcome them out. After asking, they found out that two town soldiers in Chenjiabao were hunted and killed by Jiannu vests when they went out to repair the canal.

"Blocking the military gate, I'm afraid it's not easy." Chen Zilong instantly realized the danger.

"Well, I also found out." Du Yinxi said solemnly, "This is the No. 19 fort that has been attacked in the past three days, and the town soldiers have also sacrificed nearly a hundred of them."

"Have nineteen strongholds been attacked? Have nearly a hundred town soldiers been sacrificed?"

Chen Zilong, Yang Ponu and other town soldiers immediately became terrified when they heard the words, it seemed that the situation was quite serious.

Yang Ponu said worriedly: "Blocking the gate of the army, these might be Jiannu's night-time refusal!"

"There is such a possibility." Du Yinxi nodded and said to Chen Zilong, "Chen Gejian, please send someone to Nanjing to report the situation here to Chen Shengshang."

"The subordinate takes orders."

……

Two days later, Yanziji Wharf.

A large sailboat sailing from Guangzhou slowly docked.

The gangway was lowered, and then a group of aliens with hair color and eye color different from those of the Chinese people disembarked one after another.

There are more than [-] people of these alien races, and their language is also very different from the official language of Ming Dynasty.

The porters who carried jobs on the pier and the small vendors outside the pier had never seen so many people of different races, and they all cast curious eyes on this side.

These aliens also looked curiously at everything inside and outside Yanziji Wharf.

Among these aliens, there was an old friend wearing a black priest's attire, and he was Boym.

"Father Kamig, is this Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty you mentioned?" One of the young men with curly brown hair pointed at the Jinchuan Gate in front of him and said, "This is really a majestic city."

"Bryce, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Boym said with a smile, "Da Ming is much richer and more prosperous than France."

"I admit that the city of Nanjing is indeed bigger and more majestic than Paris." The young man named Blaise nodded, then changed the topic and said, "But I can't see where it is more prosperous than Paris."

"It's just landed, and it hasn't even entered the city yet." Boym said with a smile.

At present, Boym brought more than 30 young people into Nanjing through Jinchuan Gate.

After entering the city gate, the bustling market rushed towards us in an instant, and more than 30 young people looked straight at it.

Most of these young people come from big cities such as Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, and Rome, and it can be said that they have seen the bustling scenes of big cities.

Paris, in particular, has a population of more than 30.

But even Paris is far from enough to compare with the city in front of me.

Blaise pointed to the row upon row of shops and the endless stream of people on the street, and asked Boym, "Father, is the whole of Nanjing so prosperous?"

Kamig laughed.

"Dear Bryce, where is this?"

"When you go back to Gongyuan Street, you will know what prosperity is."

"Oh God, God." More than 30 young people kept crossing their chests.

After entering the city from Jinchuan Gate, you could have directly reached the Imperial College by turning left on Gulou Street, but Boym deliberately took a long detour in order to deepen the good impression of Bryce and others on Nanjing.

After all, whether these young students can stay in Daming will directly affect his missionary plan.

Boym led more than 30 young people to continue south through the Drum Tower and entered Sanshanmen Street.

Sanshanmen Street is the most densely populated area in Nanjing, and the pedestrians, cars and horses on the street are not a constant stream, it is simply crowded with each other.

More than 30 young people managed to hold hands, so as not to be dispersed.

"God!" Blaise exclaimed, "This is Gongyuan Street, it's really bustling."

Burger laughed when he heard this: "No, no, this is just Sanshanmen Street, not Gongyuan Street."

"Oh, my God, isn't this Gongyuan Street?" Bryce exclaimed, "Can Gongyuan Street be more prosperous?"

Another young man also said sincerely: "I thought Amsterdam was already the most prosperous big city in the world, but I didn't realize that Amsterdam is just a small city until I arrived in Paris, but I didn't realize it until I arrived in Nanjing today. It turned out that Paris was only a small city.”

"Nanjing is a truly big city."

"Father, how many people live in Nanjing City?"

Boym was also stumped by this, and he didn't know it.

After pondering for a moment, Boym said, "When I left last year, there seemed to be 100 million people in Nanjing, but the streets are not as crowded as they are now. It is estimated that there are 200 million people now."

"God, 200 million?!" Blaise and other young people were frightened. With so many people living in one city, is there really no problem?How is the sewage discharged?How is food supplied?And how to maintain law and order?

You know, even in the richest city of Paris in Europe, there are a large number of beggars on the streets.

Moreover, these beggars are also very bad, not only part-time thieves, but also openly robbing weak women and children.

But they didn't seem to have encountered a security incident since they entered the city?The law and order in Nanjing is so good that it is unbelievable. This is simply a miracle.

"Bryce, are you hungry?"

"I'll take you to try steamed cakes and rice cakes from the Ming Dynasty."

Boym pointed to a food shop on the corner of the street ahead and said that he himself was a little hungry.

After leaving Nanjing for so long, I really miss the food in Nanjing. It seems that the food of the whole Ming Dynasty is concentrated in Nanjing, and he has never tasted more delicious food.

"Okay, okay, let's try it."

Blaise and other young people are full of energy and want to try everything.

Immediately, Boym walked into the restaurant with more than 30 young people, and said in fluent Ming Mandarin: "Man, serve us 37 baskets of steamed cakes and 37 bowls of rice cake soup."

"Alright, 37 cages of steamed cakes plus 37 bowls of rice cake soup, in the lobby on the first floor."

The clerk left with a loud yell, and Blaise and other young people sat down at the five Immortals tables respectively, reaching out their hands to touch and look around, as if they were full of curiosity about everything.

Blaise soon noticed that the three at the next table were arguing.

Seeing that the three of them were arguing red-faced, Blaise was very curious, and immediately asked Boym quietly, "Father, what are they arguing about? Can you translate for me?"

After listening for a while, Boym said: "One person said that all things are composed of two elements, Li and Qi. Qi is the origin of all things, and Li is the law of operation. Li and Qi are interdependent and cannot be separated."

Blaston time is awe-inspiring, this must be a profound scholar.

Boym also said: "Another person said that the mind is reason, everything is my mind, and my mind is everything."

"This is wrong." Blaise said softly, "Everything is everything, and the heart is the heart. How can it be simply equated? But this must be a professor with profound knowledge."

(End of this chapter)