open sea

Chapter 816 Environment
Fourteen days after the arrival of the first batch of immigrants, Xu Jin took Ding Hai and other 33 households with more than a hundred people and set off for their destination—a small uncultivated village on the western border of Ming Dynasty.

Before leaving, they received the livestock assigned to them by the military government, including six yellow dogs, eight cows, twelve sheep, and 22 horses, mules, and donkeys in total.

In addition to livestock, eight two-wheeled row carts carry sixteen water tanks, thirty-three dishes, oil candles, salt and rice sauce, nine hatchets, eight hoes, twelve axes and saws, twelve waist knives, and sixteen step bows. , 33 boring handles for guns and spears, 32 matchlock bird guns, [-] feet of rope, sufficient ammunition for mixed arrows, eight tiger and leopard flags of various colors, and one dragon flag inlaid.

Because they were the last to receive the supplies, they received relatively more things. In some villages in front of them, only [-] households received eight dishes, but those villages were relatively close to Changsheng County. can make up for what is needed, and they are different.

They were going five hundred miles away. For that, Mexico City was within easy reach, while Changsheng County was far away.

In a short time, they will have to rely on themselves for everything there, and the only thing they can rely on is probably Chen Mu sending the news of their going over to Alva in Mexico City by a rider, so as to ensure that the Spanish soldiers will not attack the people .

"There is a reason why the Beiyang Army respects you soldiers from the Nine Frontiers. You are very physically fit." Xu Jin panted slightly against the tree trunk, took out a small medicine bag wrapped in oil paper from his luggage and handed it to Ding Hai, and said with a smile, "I can keep up with you." ,not bad."

"Qianlijianbu, prescribed by a first-class doctor of Beiyang Medical Academy, soaks into the soles of shoes."

Traveling forty miles a day, the old and the weak, women and children were sitting in the car, and the flag soldiers and men below were carrying big bags and small bags. It was miserable. Xu Jin from a hundred households was always worried that the strong people like Ding Hai would not be able to keep up, but it seemed It may be difficult for others to travel, but Ding Hai, Ding Lu, and Wang Yang are much better off.

Their performance was not inferior to Xu Jin's Beiyang Banner Army, which made Baihu feel a little ashamed and complained: "The Aztecs built this road just like the road stepped on by ordinary people outside Liaodongkou. This is what you three are doing. It's like walking through mountains and rivers." Walk on the ground."

In fact, Beiyang did not have much physical training. Chen Mu recruited all the children of good families. The drills focus on discipline, weapon use, and battle formation training. In terms of physical fitness, they are really not much better than the veterans of the Nine Sides.

Although their training is more scientific and more targeted.

"Respect?"

Ding Hai didn't understand. He took the medicine bag and sniffed it under his nose. He took off his worn-out cloth shoes and poured them on the soles, and handed them to his brother. Dense Lin, it took a long while before he shook his head and said calmly: "There is nothing to respect, Baihu has been to Nine Sides?"

Xu Jin was a little dumbfounded, it seemed that Ding Hai was not so happy to hear that the Beiyang Army respected them, he said: "How can I go to Nine Sides, to be honest, I was a small flag four years ago, and I was patrolling the sea in Nanyang The pirates from the Yi country were transferred to Beiyang twice as a military trainer, filling the vacancies of Baihu."

Ding Hai frowned. He heard that Nanbei Eryang was promoted quickly, but he didn't expect such an understatement. He wondered: "Then what?"

"Oh, you said that the Beiyang Army respected the officers and soldiers of the Nine Borders? When I was still serving as a small flag in Nanyang, the general started a small flag to set up a preaching officer. That's what the preaching officers said. They had never been to the Nine Borders. At that time, we were in Guangdong. The capitals are all Bai Shuai's soldiers, that's what the preacher said at that time."

"The preaching officer can be regarded as a substitute deputy flag. Is there no deputy flag in the north? There are three officers in a small flag in the south, the flag, the deputy flag, and the preaching. The flag army at the bottom, let everyone know what to fight for."

Xu Jin's eyes were full of reminiscence: "At that time they said that we, the flag soldiers and flag officers, will become hundreds of households, thousands of households, and even commanders in the future, but we should not be arrogant. This is not because we are talented and superhuman, but With the fortune of the imperial court to expand the territory, we must know how to be grateful, it is the common people who support us, and it is the other robes who fought hard in the hinterland on the nine sides, so that we have the glory of expanding the territory for the imperial court."

"Even if you get promoted in the future, you should not look down on others, because this luck may belong to anyone, just because we are there, we take this luck away, and the preaching reminds us to remember to be grateful to others."

"Heh!" Xu Jin smiled, shaking his head and said: "Now that I think about it, it is true that everyone in Nanyang is working hard, signing up for the martial arts hall, and going overseas to fight against the heat, but it is actually the same if the effort is replaced by others. A progressive environment, everyone is like this.”

"very nice."

Listening to Xu Jin's words, Kong Wu's powerful Ding Hai leaned against the tree and slowly hunched down, almost curled up. The plain narration almost made him cry out loud, so he slapped his nose twice , breathed the air greedily to stabilize his emotions, and repeated heavily: "That's great!"

Isn't it great!

Banner Army, Dunjun, Ye Bu, Nine Sides are as low as a dog, but they don’t need to do anything to get a thousand acres of land thousands of miles away from their hometown, of which five hundred acres belong to him, can they eat it? Meals are all on their own.

He could also hear 'we all respect you' from other people. This 'other' is not just a cat or a dog, but the Beiyang Army that the entire Ming Dynasty's million-dollar army most wanted to be.

Xu Jin didn't ask about Ding Hai's feelings. He had heard some rumors about the soldiers on the Nine Frontiers. He asked, "You don't accept them at night. Why didn't you think of defecting to Beiyang after Sanchakou was abolished?"

Ding Hai shook his head and said: "My family is not a military household for generations, but was hooked into the army. I served as the Six Years Banner Army in the Miyun Guard, and the night at Sanchakou was over, so I was hooked away, and my younger brother went with me. I heard that Beiyang's elite soldiers are trained, and you practice shooting, firing cannons, and even running, and Qi's army is the same."

"But that's not the case with us. In the past seven years, sometimes with good luck, thousands of households or commanders will be transferred to the Great Wall to manage and raise Liantian. There is no need to worry about it for half a year, but more often in the pier outside the Great Wall, only Each of the five people lived there with their wives and children, and there was a stone carving on each pier, with the same inscription on it."

"Five piers, five water tanks, five pairs of dishes, five bed boards, five banners, and nothing else. They will be inspected by the chief every month. If there are Mongol footprints in the trenches outside the piers, they will be punished."

"Ye Bu Shou didn't come from training, and no one taught him anything. He raised horses, shot arrows and fired cannons. He learned it by himself. If he dies, he dies. Those who don't die... don't do anything if they don't die. The leader has no meritorious service, and if he has meritorious service, he will not be promoted."

Ding Hai smiled contemptuously: "I don't want to be a soldier anymore."

What else could Xu Jin say? He breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "That's a pity. The imperial court is here to use troops. Your village is the Great Wall of Asia... Sigh."

In fact, this time, why is Ding Hai not a Dunjun in a different place?

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)