Chapter 165                                                                                                                             

Jiajing decided to start his first attempt, to remove the centenarian turtle from eight pieces and study how the turtle lived long. Jiajing didn't seek too much. If he could understand it, he could live to 120 years old.

When Jiajing and Zhou Mengchen had a conversation, there was actually a question that Jiajing didn't ask. But there was a clue in his heart. That is, according to Zhou Mengchen's route, it was very difficult to live forever in his lifetime. At least Zhou Mengchen had no confidence.

This is also the reason why Jiajing finally let Zhou Mengchen go to Datong.

Anyway, Zhou Mengchen stayed in the capital, probably the same as before.

Jiajing had already made up his mind in his heart that I would do the way to immortality myself.

Not to mention it, Jiajing suddenly started a massacre for Xiangrui.

Just talking about Zhou Mengchen.

After leaving Jiajing, he completed the final arrangement. He watched the Ministry of Personnel send official certificates, various tokens, and even the flag of the king's decree. He knew that he would not be in Beijing for long.

Zhou Mengchen informed all parties and finally decided to leave Beijing tomorrow. Three thousand people and horses accompanied the Beijing camp. In addition, Zhou Mengchen brought various entourages, about 3,300 people were around.

The next morning, Zhou Mengchen supported Li Yunzhen and said, "I'm leaving. Don't worry, take good care of the children in your womb. If you have any problems, please ask your second brother and sister-in-law to come over. If you have any problems at home, you can send someone to Fengcheng Hou Mansion for a meeting, or go to Zhang Juzheng. He always has a solution."

"Take good care of your baby and ignore whatever happens outside."

Every time Zhou Mengchen said something, Li Yunzhen nodded slightly. But her eyes fell on Zhou Mengchen's face, as if she couldn't see enough of this face. As for what Zhou Mengchen said, she probably didn't hear it clearly.

Seeing this, Zhou Mengchen just said to his friends around him: "I'll ask you all about family affairs."

Those who came to see off together included Zhang Juzheng, Yang Jisheng, Yin Zhengmao and others. In the same year, they joined colleagues, and before they knew it, there were already many people around Zhou Mengchen. Although these people were not useful for a while, it was because Zhou Mengchen had fled too quickly.

But as time goes by, this subject in Jiajing's 26th year will always be famous in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhou Mengchen saluted these people, he looked back at Li Yunzhen and sighed and turned over to his horse.

I will finally leave after sending you a thousand miles away. No matter how reluctant I am, I will always leave.

Zhou Mengchen rode his horse to the Beijing camp to meet with Shenji camp.

Zhou Mengchen inspected this elite team of Beijing camp by the way. Zhou Mengchen found that everyone in this team of Beijing camp was very young, from generals to soldiers. Zhou Mengchen asked Qi Jiguang and asked, "What's going on? There is no old adult?"

Qi Jiguang said: "Master, this is what Fengcheng Hou said. The old people in the Jingying camp mentioned by Fengcheng Hou is hard to return and is hopeless. Therefore, these three thousand soldiers are all from innocent families in the Jingying camp. From generals to soldiers, they are all newcomers, and they are not infected with the bad habits of the Jingying camp."

Zhou Mengchen had to sigh that Fengcheng Hou had invested a lot in Shenjiying.

This is not without shortcomings. An army without veterans is like having no backbone, which means they have no experience and don’t know what to do when encountering things? But it is different. What will the old soldiers in the Jingying do? They can flatter the chief, repair city walls, and build temples? They can’t fight, but instead have the ability to be scammers.

But this makes the army much more immature.

Zhou Mengchen said to Qi Jiguang: "This is what you trained, what do you think?"

Qi Jiguang said hesitantly: "It's okay."

Zhou Mengchen understood that even in terms of military sources, he was still not very ideal. However, under Qi Jiguang's training, he could barely get through it.

This is also a strange place. Beijing is clearly the land of Yanzhao, and there are many generous and tragic people. In terms of military source quality, even if it is not as good as Datong, it is not much different. The problem occurs in the Beijing camp system, which essentially refers to the seventy-two Beijing guards. Some of them are personal guards. These people and horses are combined to be the Beijing camp.

All the troops in the Beijing camp came from these garrisons.

What does the garrison look like today? It is no longer like a city.

It is quite good to recruit troops on this basis.

In fact, if we can recruit soldiers, there is no need for anything else. Among the hundreds of thousands of refugees last year, we can definitely choose an army that dares to fight and fight. However, if we do not carry out large-scale reforms to the garrison, nobles, and even the entire Ming military system, the Beijing camp will not have combat effectiveness.

It is already commendable that Fengcheng Hou can achieve this level.

However, Zhou Mengchen also felt a little depressed. The border town had begun to recruit troops to make up for the shortcomings of the garrison system that could not be fought. However, the recruitment of troops has been completely destroyed, and the Datong garrisons are probably worse than the Beijing garrisons.

Zhou Mengchen thought of the various problems he had to face and had no intention of staying any longer.

Soon everyone arrived. With the order, the army wanted to go north. The convoy of more than 3,000 people almost occupied the entire street and slowly headed towards Xuanwu Gate.

Zhou Mengchen was on the carriage at this moment.

Although Zhou Mengchen can ride horses, his riding skills are not too bad. After all, horses are the most important means of transportation in this era. Zhou Mengchen can't ride it. If he just travels a long distance, Zhou Mengchen thinks it's better not to ride a horse. It's too uncomfortable.

He leaned against the carriage at this moment, enduring the poor shock absorption of the carriage. Although Zhou Mengchen had tried his best to do the shock absorption, it still made Zhou Mengchen unbearable. He held a piece of plum blossom in his mouth and took a document and looked at it carefully.

These are all information from Datong. I got it from the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Justice, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and even other strange channels. Many things are overlapping and repeated. Zhou Mengchen still needs to take a closer look. After all, overall, the appointment of the governor of Datong was quite sudden to Zhou Mengchen.

You always have to do more homework so that you won’t be at a loss when you reach Datong.

But suddenly the carriage stopped. This abnormal parking made Zhou Mengchen very uncomfortable and asked outside, "What's going on?"

"Sir, you'd better come down and take a look?" said an outsider.

Zhou Mengchen said in his heart: "What trouble can happen under the emperor's feet in the capital?" He lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage. When he came to the front, he was stunned.

But I saw countless people kneeling on the ground. Three old men, holding a bowl of wine, knelt in front. Together, all three were 160 years old. When they saw Zhou Mengchen, they immediately knelt down on the ground and said, "Mr. Zhou used work to provide relief in Shuntian Prefecture, and countless people are alive. We are all wandering souls saved by Master Zhou. Now I know that Master Zhou is promoted and dare not disturb me. I just hope that Master Zhou can drink a glass of water and wine to express my feelings."

Zhou Mengchen never thought that such a thing would happen.

In fact, local prefectures and counties have played with the love boots and umbrellas. In fact, it is just that local officials and gentry play each other. But this is not another place, this is the capital. Who has nothing to do and comes here to act? And who will perform it for?

Zhou Mengchen himself did not arrange these things. I don’t know where these people came from.

Zhou Mengchen could only go forward and said, "Old man, this is all the great grace of the emperor. It is Your Majesty's compassion, and I just give it to Your Majesty for his work."

But Zhou Mengchen could not refuse anything. He could only drink a bowl of wine, but it was not too far away. Another group of people came up, which was the same routine. Zhou Mengchen had no choice but to drink again. On the desolate road from the inner city to Xuanwu Gate, the people were surrounded everywhere, and the bowls of wine were sent away, making Zhou Mengchen unable to drink, so he could only lie on the carriage with the curtains on all sides. In this way, the people would not come to toast.

I just don’t know who sang “outside the long pavilion. In front of the ancient road.”

For a time, almost all the people started singing loudly. This song was also popular and spread throughout the Ming Dynasty in one or two years. From scholars and officials to the people, they could sing it.

As a result, tens of thousands of people sang chorus to shake the entire city of Beijing, and even in the south of the city, the singing in the wind could be vaguely heard.

Zhou Mengchen lay on the carriage and listened to the chorus all over the city. Suddenly a tear fell.

These are tears of joy.

When Zhou Mengchen was doing it, he never thought about the scene today. But he lived at least 200,000 lives in a winter, and he did not think about it. But the people will not forget it.

At this moment, Zhou Mengchen suddenly felt a sense of great joy. This pure spiritual pleasure is incomparable to many other feelings.

He likes it very much and wants it. He is very greedy and addicted to it.
Chapter completed!