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Chapter 1079 Sun and Moon
What England knows is half true.

Yang Gao was really a fortune teller, and Tang Er was really arrested, but their motives for coming to England were not pure.

Not even on the table, Longhumiao Zhu Cao Changqing who is good at dissection is included. They belong to the Bureau of Commerce of the Eastern Military Government and the Department of Europa Affairs.

The dilapidated farm in the woods of Dreyvesend near the port on the south bank of the Thames was bought four months ago by a carpenter who lived on the coast for generations, Old Taylor, with a large sum of money. Many workers were hired to repair it and converted it into a lumberyard.
This little thing was nothing to attract attention, although the baron of the territory was not very happy when he bought the land... As long as this year's woolens arrive in the Netherlands by sea, he can raise sheep on this land up.

But fortunately, old Taylor, a carpenter, heard that he had made a huge fortune. It is said that a distant relative living in France left him a rich inheritance. Even the baron felt jealous, but he couldn't use force to snatch it.

This bad old man hired a few sailors from the merchant ship of Daming Tang Er to protect his property. Those strong men with black hair and black eyes with the theft tattoo on the left arm and the snatch tattoo on the right arm were all wearing chain mail, carrying swords, muskets, Galloping fast horses, chewing raw tobacco in their mouths, their fleshy faces are dreadful.

He was someone who smuggled arms from the New World, and the little Baron would not dare to mess with him.

But what the baron didn't know was that the sawmill was just to avoid people's eyes and ears. During the construction, the sawmill dug a large cellar. Even today, those Ming gunmen are still working underground, and they have to dig all the way to the riverside through tunnels.

The person living in the cellar is Miaozhu in front of the Temple of the Dragon and Tiger Daojun in Xinhui, the former assistant of Chen Gongshi, a first-class doctor in the Dongyang Military Hospital, and Cao Changqing, the head of the Taoist priest.

Fifteen miles away by the river was the camp of arms smuggler Shang Tanger.

The thief who stole Chen Mu's five guns from the Dongyang Army Mansion in the past has now turned into a famous London merchant. Through Yang Gao's way, he got the right to build a small camp by the river, leaving [-] people behind. The subordinates went back to the New World by boat to report to the Eastern Military Government.

About him, the Earl of Leicester also knows half of it. He does have some relationship with the officer surnamed Fu of the Eastern Army. A large part of his sailors are Fu Yuan's personal servants, thugs from the gambling house in Nanjing City. .

The tattoos on these people's bodies are all Chinese characters. It was very difficult to do tattoos in the Ming Dynasty, because Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was too smart, but anyone who helped him take over the world was forbidden... For example, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty The generation of Han Shantong, the Red Scarf Army, all belonged to the White Lotus Sect, so the Ming Dynasty banned the white lotus;

Because Zhu Yuanzhang knows too well that the tattoos of the blue and green are heroes who fail to succeed, who are easy to get together and breed, and are a factor of social unrest.

Law of the Ming Dynasty, for those who have committed theft, the word 'stealing' will be tattooed on the right forearm for the first time, the left forearm will be tattooed for the second time, and the third time the person will lose the paint; if the robbery has been committed, the word 'theft' will be tattooed directly on the right forearm. The word "robbing" continued to be stabbed heavily for the second time.

Moreover, tattoos are generally committed for serious theft and robbery.

Therefore, when Fu Yuan was dismissed from office, the group of soldiers who were strong during the difficult period, theoretically speaking, they all tattooed according to the order, following the order of Emperor Taizu.

At this moment, two strong men with tattoos are in front of Old Taylor's wooden house. They are wearing different colored uniforms on purpose, with knives and exquisite handguns hanging from their waist belts. One is leaning against the door, the other One sits on a stake by the door sharpening his dagger.

Most of Fu Yuan's family members have bad habits. They have received half a year of military training in Beiyang, and they have also done some dirty work for the Eastern military government on the border. They are proficient in using various weapons and firearms. Discipline and restraint made them incompatible with the Beiyang Army.

Fu Yuan's training direction for them is extremely vague, but one thing is certain - he will not use these to fight. Fu Yuan, who has experienced two oceans, knows more about military reform than anyone in Ming Dynasty. The role of generals and servants on the battlefield The role is not better than the scientifically trained Beiyang Army, and in terms of special tasks, these people can barely compete with Lin Manjue's guerrilla army.

The real strength lies in the suppression of localities... These outlaws who were formerly rogues are no more fierce than the Beiyang Army, but the people are more afraid of them, no matter which country they are.

So they were sent to England to continue to do dirty work with Tang Er. They were the best assistants of Yang Gao and Tang Er. At the same time, they also accepted orders from Fu Yuan when they went to sea: Tendency, shoot to kill.

If the affairs in England are successful in the end, each of them will receive a generous reward of silver;

Behind them, under the floor of the cabin, a meeting was taking place.

"White lotus is not good. The court banned white lotus. You mean the Taoist Dragon and Tiger? No, no, this is even more unacceptable."

The cellar has nearly [-] steps of steps and passages to ensure that people standing in the room cannot hear the conversation inside. The large space is divided into two rooms, the inside and the outside. Inside is the incense hall of Cao Changqing's secret association.

Daoist Cao, who is immortal and strong, tapped the edge of the table with two fingers, looked at the people around him and said, "Daoist Dragon and Tiger will cause trouble for the commander."

Around him, there is Pan Sheng, a small flag officer under Chen Jiujing's command from the coast of France, and Fan Xiaotong, a descendant of the White Lotus Sect carefully selected by Chang Sheng's [-] immigrants.

Of course, this table also has a place for Cao Changqing's chief disciple, Old Taylor, but Old Taylor is managing the lumberyard outside.

The banner officer Pan Sheng nodded slowly. He was not used to retreating from the battlefield where the war was going on, but he nodded immediately when he heard the name of the commander in chief, "Yes, you can't cause trouble for the commander in chief."

Daoist Cao valued Pan Sheng very much. The French fugitive he brought from France was very good at frustrating the marriage between the French royal family and Queen Elizabeth of England. The marriage was achieved, but this assassination helped Yang Gao successfully win the trust of the Earl of Leicester, which is very beneficial to their great cause.

This is a man with a dark heart. Earlier, Daoist Cao didn’t know what method Pan Xiaoqi used to make a Frenchman willing to be their dead man. Later they realized that he was not a dead man at all. Pan Sheng promised the prisoner gang He let him go after an unsuccessful assassination, only to go up and put a bullet in the assassin's heart after the assassination was over.

Fan Xiaotong is a young woman with a graceful figure and a pleasant appearance. She has no blood feud and no strange experience. She elopes with a man who believes in a secret association and boards a ship bound for the Atlantic Ocean. She sold it, and in a rage she reported backhand to the Dongyang Army that her lover joined the White Lotus Sect, and Chang Sheng's secret association was wiped out.

Because of this experience, she knows the operating procedures of the White Lotus Sect and has no ambitions. She is the talent most needed by the European Affairs Department, so she was sent to Mexico City to train with Cao Changqing and others.

"If that's the case, why not call it...the Sun Moon Sect?"

Fan Xiaotong blinked, spread his hands and said, "Make up a few sets of words, and start teaching farmers how to speak."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)