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Chapter 1248 Refuge
Order must exist.

Even when broken, the new order will rise from the corpse of the old one.

For the city of Lima, the Ming army is the new order, and it is the center of the city. This is not the geographical center, but the farther away from the Ming army's garrison, the closer it is to the wilderness.

The first ray of sunlight shone on the street, and the scorched door of the shopping street in Armed Forces Square was removed by the aboriginal helpers, and half of the charred branches that fell on the window sill were also cleaned up. The exterior of the store was painted with blue dye.

A small flag named Ren Chang stood in the middle of the wide street with his arms folded. He didn't have to say or do anything, as long as he stared at the early Beiyang iron hat, wearing a flag army breastplate and a red skirt, Coupled with a bird gun leaning on the body to stand here, it can play the role of a street tiger in the chaotic town center.

Qianhu, who appointed him to protect the black market, was sent here to protect the property of the Dongyang Army Mansion because he was also surnamed Ren, saying that he and Ren Ping were brothers in the same family.

Their two small flags were in charge of protecting the store, his flag troops were on duty upstairs and downstairs in the shop, and the other small flag was scattered in two houses across the street, so that the entire street was within thirty paces of range, in case emergency.

"It's enough to paint it. No matter how well you paint this earthen wall, it is still an earthen wall. First, hang the flag on it and open it."

Under the urging of the banner official Ren Chang, Ren Xiaozuo turned around and shook his head firmly: "That's not acceptable, how can the Ming Dynasty's flag be hung on such a wall, it must be painted before hanging the flag."

Ren Chang blinked and looked at the ruined tailor shop in the chaos. He didn't know how to refute for a while, and finally nodded helplessly: "That's fine, you can continue to paint. The two people over there will hang up the plaque first. , Yes, hang it on the door."

This shop is Ren Xiaozuo's tailor shop in the past. The location is superior. The nearest Ming army checkpoint is more than 300 steps north of the street. If there are fewer people coming, they can't beat the banner army guarding the house. If there are more people coming, a general banner department over there can rush to support as soon as possible.

Because of his nephew's surname, Ren Xiaozuo stood out from the many refugees who had taken refuge in Daming District, and was ordered to run a black market in the city. He got his wish and reopened his own shop, and also brought back several former workers.

Following the little flag officer's gesturing orders, two idle workers outside the shop stepped on stools and hung them on the door.

There is no black market word on the plaque. This store may be the first Ming store opened in Peru. It is called Ren's Pawn Shop.

Because the houses built by the Spaniards are far more stingy than that of the Ming Dynasty, it may be because of the narrow, dark and narrow streets in Spain, and the first batch of colonists were all from poor backgrounds. The public buildings in the square, the houses and shops belonging to the common people are still crowded and compact. There are windows next to the single door that can only allow one person to pass through. In the past, it was also used as a shop counter. Price wooden sign.

But it's useless, everything from the plaque to the wooden sign is written in Chinese characters, and few people outside the Daming District in this city know Chinese characters at all.

But I still have to write. In Ren Xiaozuo's words, it should be regarded as teaching others how to read.

Strange to say, in fact, regardless of mixed race like Ren Xiaozuo or pure blood aborigines, what these people born in the city need most is approval.

Unlike the aborigines born outside the city, tribes can bring them a sense of identity and belonging no matter they are pure blood or mixed blood, but people born in Lima are different, they do not have tribes.

Without the tribes, and the true Spaniards never accepted them, there would be no proper self-knowledge of themselves.

Just like Ren Xiaozuo's attitude towards ship flags nowadays, it is not a Huangming flag or the inlaid dragon flag, Qinglong flag, and Zhuque flag commonly used by the Ming army, but the ordinary sun and moon flag with a yellow background, but he But he regarded it as a treasure, as if it was an imperial flag.

In the eyes of Xiaoqi Renchang, it is hard to say whether it is ridiculous or pitiful.

He remembered passing through Japan during the Eastern Expedition, and the Banner Army stationed there talked about drinking tea.

Drinking tea is a casual thing, except that you have to put something in the cup, pour some hot water and drink it later, there are no taboos for both elegance and vulgarity.

But when it is passed there, the form and ceremony are overstated.

Ren Xiaozuo's current actions are the same, the more toneless the person, the more emphasis on the tone, the things that are truly integrated into the flesh and blood are random, but if such things are foreign, things that they don't have, people will subconsciously Remind yourself that you will deliberately seek work.

This wall, Ren Xiaozuo spent the whole morning painting the wall with a mentality of pilgrimage, and he must paint the wall with green powder. The more he painted, the more Ren Chang felt that their black market was incompatible with this street.

The city of Lima is full of Spanish-style civil-wood-stone mixed buildings. The most common ones on the street are gray two-story buildings, which are built with stones as a foundation and supported by wooden pillars. The outside is greasy and flat with the original color of mud. I also live in such a house, except that there are generally no supporting columns in the four-corner house, so the indoor space is not large.

There are also some good-looking cathedrals and magnificent aristocratic mansions. Most of them are stone buildings. The outer walls are painted white and covered with orange-red tiles, but they are rare after all. .

Now the whole street is covered with that kind of muddy and flat walls, but here it is painted with blue paint, it looks so abrupt and abrupt.

When asked why he had to paint the walls blue but not white, he said that his brother-in-law said that all Ming Dynasty had blue walls.

"There are also white walls, most of which are white walls in the south. Painting lime can prevent moisture. Your brother-in-law is from Huizhou, and most Huizhou people are frugal in business. After plastering the walls, it is not easy to get damp, and the courtyard walls can be repaired later in the future... But that is green. A brick wall, you are an earthen wall."

Ren Chang spoke quickly, and after hearing him finish, Ren Xiaozuo stared at the earthen wall without saying a word, his face became more and more disappointed, and he quickly comforted him: "What's the point of you painting an earthen wall? Poor, as long as the errands entrusted to you by the general are done well, when the situation is stable and these houses are knocked down, you go to Changsheng to find a craftsman to build a big yard for yourself, do you want anything?"

"I, can I push this all over and build a big yard here?"

Just a word makes me happy.

"I don't know if it's possible. It depends on how much you can collect. Daming will reward you for meritorious service. If you can make meritorious service, it shouldn't be difficult to build a big yard."

Ren Chang scratched his head while talking: "But it's already this morning, and there's not even a single person, you have to find a way, don't let us stand guard here for nothing."

"Collecting too many things is meritorious service? I'll go right away, I'll go right away."

Ren Xiaozuo said as he threw the brush down, splashing green powder soup all over his trouser legs, looked around, and finally said: "I, I'll find some people to help me collect it!"

　Good morning!

　　Bored and silly at home, Chapter 2 will be posted at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)