Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

"I will finally meet you, my father-in-law!"

In the Shenji Camp, Liu Sheng looked surprised when he saw Guo An coming in.

Ever since the soldiers of Shenji Camp were trained, Guo An rarely came to Shenji Camp.

In fact, even the affairs of Shenji Camp were only interfered with once every one month.

Now, as evening approaches, this young man suddenly appears in Shenji Camp?

"Zijian doesn't need to be so polite!"

Guo An replied with a gentle expression, and then asked directly: "Have there been any problems in Shenji Camp recently?"

Liu Sheng replied: "Reporting to the Lord, everything is fine in the camp!"

"Very good!"

Guo An nodded slowly and said directly: "Tomorrow, I am going to go out and select the two most clever and reliable people. Bring enough muskets and grenades and follow me!"

"Two hundred households?"

Liu Sheng was startled and asked quickly: "Master, does your Majesty know?"

"Your Majesty knows it!"

Guo An nodded slowly, "I am going here to escort His Highness the Crown Prince, with your Majesty's permission!"

Liu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and said directly: "My lord, the hundreds of households in the camp led by Yu Chang, the military attache on the left, and Wang Zhong, the military attache on the right, have been among the top in the school examinations in the past two months.

In addition, these two people are also old men of Yanshan Guards, and there are more than ten soldiers and generals under their command, who are Yanshan Guards!

Wei Chen feels that these two people from a hundred households are the most suitable for the father-in-law! "

"Ok!"

Guo An nodded slightly. He had seen these two people in the documents sent by Liu Sheng and had some impressions.

However, Liu Sheng blatantly favored Old Man Yanshanwei's thoughts...

Thinking about it, Guo An couldn't help but say, "Zijian, sometimes, I also like to use our old man Yanshanwei, especially for these important things, to feel at ease.

However, as the commander of Shenji Camp, we still need to ensure some fairness! "

Liu Sheng did not have any dissatisfaction, but nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, sir, the general will always treat the soldiers and generals in the camp equally."

"So good!"

Guo An explained to Liu Sheng again and returned home.

He also explained to Liu Baiwei and Yuelan, especially the need to take good care of the corn and sweet potatoes in the back garden.

Early the next morning.

Guo An took Xu Yong to the Capital Pier.

this will.

Zhu Gaochi was already waiting on the boat with several chamberlains and a group of guards in disguise.

"Your Highness, are you going to take a big boat and go directly along the river?"

Seeing the fleet prepared by Zhu Gaochi, Guo An pondered for a moment and then asked.

"Teacher, what's wrong?"

Zhu Gaochi was stunned and keenly felt Guo An's surprise.

Guo Andao said: "Your Highness, if there is really something wrong with the officials in Songjiang Mansion, the impeachments of the imperial censors in the capital must have made those officials wary.

And with so many people like me, I'm afraid the officials will notice it as soon as they enter Songjiangfu Pier. "

"Teacher's intention?"

Zhu Gaochi was startled and asked quickly.

Guo Andao said: "Your Highness, I think that since Your Majesty asked His Highness to go to Songjiang Mansion to have a look, His Highness should be allowed to see the living conditions of the people under the rule of Songjiang Mansion.

And if you go all the way down the river, then all your Highness will see is the water transport and the river water, nothing else...

Wei Chen has an immature suggestion. We can first take a big boat to Suzhou Prefecture. At the Suzhou Prefecture Pier, we can pretend to be a caravan from afar and go from Suzhou Prefecture to Songjiang Prefecture.

In this way, you can not only take a look at the living conditions of the people under the rule of Suzhou Prefecture, but also enter Songjiang Prefecture quietly! "

"Just as the teacher said!"

Zhu Gaochi nodded directly.

He doesn't go out often, and this time his father asked the teacher to take him to Songjiang Mansion, so that he could be the teacher.

Coincidentally, he also felt that as Guo An said, private interviews incognito were somewhat interesting.

immediately.

The fleet set off directly.

This time, Zhu Gaochi brought only about a hundred servants and guards.

Guo An took more than two hundred people with him.

Three hundred people took two large boats and left the capital dock, entered the Qinhuai River, then entered the river, and followed the river all the way east.

With the opening of the sea and the rise of sea trade, the fleet on the river has become much larger than in previous years.

There are countless boats, large and small, on the wide river.

There were even many merchant ships that were larger than the ships Zhu Gaochi, Guo An and others were traveling on, just like crucian carp crossing the river.

"I didn't expect that the river would be so prosperous?"

Looking at the situation on the river, Zhu Gaochi sighed with emotion.

Guo An nodded slightly, "Everyone is seeking profit. When sea trade flourishes, anyone with strength will want a share of the pie..."

Zhu Gaochi was responsible for important matters such as the cabinet, reporting residence, and paving straight roads.

The second day after Zhu Gaochi, Guo An and others left the capital, some thoughtful people in the capital noticed something was wrong.

but.

None of them thought much about it.

On the third day, some people became serious.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have left the capital!"

"But where did the big thing happen?"

"Where will His Royal Highness go?"

"The prince left the capital, and your majesty didn't inform everyone?"

"Have you ever gone to the East Palace to inquire?"

"You must not..."

"Perhaps something went wrong somewhere. His Majesty arranged for the prince to go and deal with it!"

"Is it possible it's a concrete straight road?"

"Or Liaodong?"

Although they were confused, no one thought much about it.

After all, Prince Zhu Gaochi had always helped Zhu Di handle political affairs and was not really responsible for any important yamen in the court.

However, Duke Ding Guo An was not in the capital and was not discovered by anyone.

The waterway from the capital to Zhenjiang is only three hundred miles, and to Changshu under Suzhou Prefecture, it is also more than four hundred kilometers.

Three days later.

Guo An, Zhu Gaochi and others have already arrived in Changshu.

it's here.

Guo An asked a steward of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and Industry to borrow a caravan.

The two hundred soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were responsible for escorting the carriages of the caravan.

The muskets and grenades they carried were the cargo of the caravan.

As for Zhu Gaochi's one hundred guards, they were pretending to be guards.

Although this caravan is somewhat large, even the caravan guards are somewhat tough.

However, as sea trade began, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture, prosperous state capitals close to the sea, encountered more large caravans.

The caravan of Guo An and others is not that conspicuous, and even a bit ordinary.

"It's just a caravan, no need to pay attention!"

After receiving the report, in a certain mansion, an old man with a noble face waved his hand casually.

"Treat it as you should!"

"Yes, sir!"

The man who looked like a butler bowed respectfully and hurriedly left!

then.

Guo An, Zhu Gaochi and others had just entered Suzhou Mansion and found a larger inn to rest. Yu Chang and Wang Zhong looked tense and hurriedly found Guo An.

"Master, there are some sneaky thieves around!"

"Ah."

Guo An couldn't help but sneer, "They are quite fast!"

"Master, are you going to capture those thieves?"

Wang Zhong asked coldly.

Guo An waved his hand slowly, "No, we are just ordinary caravans now, we can be bullied by them, and our relationship with the Maritime Trade Chamber of Commerce cannot be exposed!

For those thieves, we can only deal with them carefully, as long as they don't lose the caravan's goods and let those people disturb His Highness! "

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Zhong and Yu Chang responded and walked out with solemn faces.

After a while.

Wang Zhong walked in again.

"Master, someone sent a letter!"

"Oh? Bring it up and take a look!"

Guo An said curiously.

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Zhong handed a letter to Guo An.

"Tsk tsk..."

After reading it once, Guo An couldn't help but sneer on his face.

Immediately, he handed the letter to Zhu Gaochi, "Your Highness, please read it!"

Zhu Gaochi took it with a curious look on his face: "Teacher, what is this?"

"It's just the rules set by a group of young people!"

Guo An smiled disapprovingly.

As for this, Zhu Gaochi had already started to look at it for himself.

The more he looked, the gloomier his face became.

After reading it, I held the envelope with a gloomy face and was shaking with anger.

"Teacher, they are committing robbery and blatantly asking for money!" "Yeah!"

Guo An nodded slightly and consoled him without any anger: "Your Highness, there is no need to be angry. In our Ming Dynasty, the status of merchants has always been low.

During the business trip, it is common for people who have no background or who respect local officials to be deliberately embarrassed, or even framed, and have their property demanded! "

"They are officials of my Ming Dynasty, and they are depriving me of my Ming Dynasty's salary. How dare they do this?"

Hearing this, Zhu Gaochi was stunned.

Guo An chuckled and said, "Your Highness, as long as the imperial court does not send governors, they will be the overlords everywhere!

However, usually, they will send some important people in charge.

Unexpectedly, they looked down upon us so much and just sent an errand boy to deliver a letter to us! "

At this moment, Zhu Gaochi also calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Teacher, what about this letter?"

"hehe!"

Guo An smiled coldly, "Your Highness, it seems that these young men are accustomed to arrogant and arrogant with the power behind them. They want to use a letter to get passing money. What a wishful thinking!

I want to see what other tricks they can come up with if I don’t give them toll money! "

Zhu Gaochi nodded slightly, "What the teacher said is absolutely true. I also want to see how evil these young people are?"

Guo An looked at Wang Zhong and said, "Tell the messenger that he is just wishful thinking!"

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Zhong responded and withdrew again.

At this moment, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but look at the letter in his hand again, still a little unbelievable, "Teacher, how can such a small villain appear in the land directly under the capital? How can those officials and censors not take care of it?"

Guo An smiled slightly and said with an incomprehensible expression: "Your Highness, is it possible that those officials and censors are the biggest evildoers?"

"How can this be?"

Zhu Gaochi looked surprised.

"Your Highness, forgive me!"

Guo An cupped his hands and said: "Wei Chen is just guessing about this matter.

As for how, when we leave tomorrow, they should be eager to jump out! "

"Ok!"

Zhu Gaochi nodded slightly.

Nothing happened all night.

The next day, Guo An, Zhu Gaochi and others got up to finish breakfast.

Everyone set off again, preparing to leave Suzhou Mansion and take a boat towards Songjiang Mansion.

It's just that it hasn't been long since I opened the inn.

On the street not far from them, a group of street gangsters suddenly appeared and were fighting.

"alert!"

Yu Chang, Wang Zhong and other military attachés looked condensed.

A group of Shenji Camp soldiers quickly escorted the convoy and Guo An and others in the middle, looking at the group of street gangsters in front of them with vigilance.

In terms of fighting with fists and kicks, whether it is the thirty-six kinds of fighting fist combinations or the eighteen kinds of Yin people's black hands, they are much more familiar with them than the people in front of them.

They could tell at a glance that although the fight between these street gangsters in front of them was grand, they were actually acting on them, and all eyes were on them.

"Master, what should I do?"

Wang Zhong asked Guo An for instructions.

Guo An said in a deep voice: "Pretend to retreat and change the road to move forward. But be on full alert, these street gangsters are ruthless, be careful of what tricks they play!"

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Zhong responded and quickly passed it on.

Immediately, the entire caravan began to slowly retreat.

"Teacher, are these street gangsters coming for us?"

In the middle of the caravan, Zhu Gaochi asked with a puzzled look.

"Your Highness, it should be the person behind yesterday's letter!"

Guo An nodded slowly, "In the land directly under the capital, no matter how bad the security is, this kind of situation should not happen in broad daylight on such a bustling street, and it just so happens that it appears directly in front of us. …”

Zhu Gaochi nodded slightly and frowned gradually as he looked at the street gangsters in the distance who were shouting and fighting while approaching the caravan.

"No matter what, the Suzhou prefect is responsible for lax supervision!"

Guo An chuckled and asked, "I just don't know how long have these street gangsters been here?"

"Teacher's intention?"

Zhu Gaochi also heard what Guo An meant.

Guo An chuckled, "Your Highness, these street gangsters are fighting like this, and no one has come to stop them. Not a single government officer has come around. Presumably, the government officials in Suzhou Prefecture have already acquiesced to the existence of these street gangsters...

No matter what, after I return, I must report to His Majesty and strictly investigate the officials of Suzhou Mansion! "

"As for Your Highness..."

As he said that, Guo An looked solemn.

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. I implore Your Highness, at the critical moment, save your life first... These civilian street gangsters fight head-on. Two hundred Shenji battalions can destroy two thousand street gangsters.

But Wei Chen is worried that these street gangsters will have some weird and dirty tricks that people will be hard to guard against! "

"Thank you teacher for your kindness!"

Zhu Gaochi nodded solemnly.

"What do you want to do?"

"court death!"

"kill!"

Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and there was a cry of murder outside.

Guo An and Zhu Gaochi quickly opened the car windows and looked outside.

The street gangsters who were fighting had actually surrounded the caravan and even surrounded several carriages in front of the caravan.

And to this.

The soldiers and generals of the Shenji camp around them would not be used to it.

As long as the people in the carriage behind them are okay, even if they kill all these street gangsters, they will only have merit and absolutely no fault.

then.

Dodge and hit the elbows and knees, then hit the knees with the abdomen, punch the head... block the punches, lock the neck with both hands, hit the knees with the vagina, hit the head with the elbows... block the punches, use the armpit fists to tease the vagina, kick the abdomen with back kicks ...Knees hit the vagina, elbows hit the head...

Once he takes action, he is full of murderous intent.

Those street gangsters who were full of confidence were immediately stunned!

A mere group of merchant guards could actually have such ruthless skills. Not only were they fast and ruthless, but they were sometimes even meaner than them...

In the end, which party is the one who specializes in making a living through rogue means?

In less than a moment, half of the forty-five street gangsters who were fighting were lying on the ground wailing and rolling with their stomachs in their hands.

Seeing that the situation was not good, those street gangsters ran away with their heads in their hands.

Running and shouting.

"Why do you hit people for no reason?"

"I'm beating people, I'm beating people, foreign caravans are bullying people!"

"Help me..."

Simultaneously.

The people standing on both sides of the street and watching from a distance were full of excitement and relief.

"well played!"

"These street gangsters deserve to be severely beaten!"

"It's just a pity. Although this caravan looks a bit big, it will definitely be retaliated for provoking these street gangsters!"

"Oh, the sky has no eyes..."

"Shh, no words, you don't want to live anymore, how dare you say that?"

"..."

At the same time, on the third floor of a restaurant on one side, a middle-aged man with a goatee looked at the gangsters and was beaten away in all directions, his face suddenly darkened.

"These idiots can't even handle such a small thing!"

"Master, the guards of these caravans are not simple!"

Beside, a middle-aged man with a scar on his face squinted his eyes and said solemnly.

"It's a little complicated!"

The butler smiled softly, with a confident look on his face, "But this is Suzhou!"

Beside him, the middle-aged man also had a sneer on his face. '

"Lao Liu, go get those government officials to do something!"

"Yes, the big boss!"

The middle-aged man named Lao Liu bowed his hands in response and strode out!

"Humph, even if you have a great background, when you come to Suzhou, you have to abide by Suzhou's rules!"

And on the street.

As the gangsters left, Wang Zhong, Yu Chang and other guards snorted coldly and checked and tidied up the carriage.

"Out of town!"

Guo An ordered.

"Yes, sir!"

Following Guo An's order, the caravan set off again.

The caravan hadn't gone too far when a group of people appeared in front of them again.

The leaders were the street gangsters who had just fought in front of the motorcade.

However, this time, the street gangsters looked even more miserable. Some of the street gangsters even had pools of blood on their bodies, and there were a team of government officials beside them.

Arriving in front of the caravan, the street gangsters suddenly wailed loudly.

"Dear catchers, these are the thieves. They actually beat us in the street and robbed us of our belongings!"

"Yes, fellow catchers, these merchants are so rich and yet they actually rob us of our things. Their caravan must not be a clean caravan!"

"Perhaps, the goods of their caravan were robbed along the way..."

Hear the words.

The expressions of the government officials changed. The leader waved his hand, and the officials immediately surrounded the caravan where Guo An and others were.

...(End of chapter)