Chapter 122: Missed by Thieves
After breakfast, amid Feng's mother's reluctance to give in, Chen Qinglan, Su Su, and Xiaozhang saluted Feng's mother and left the Feng family courtyard, followed Feng Jian to the place where the carriage was parked outside the courtyard.
Cheng Yousheng ran to Feng Jian and whispered: "June Zhou Lu'er sent someone to report it. He and his soldiers had arrived at the gate of the village as ordered and asked when they would set out!"
Feng Jian nodded and said, "Are all the herbal and local specialties shipped by Sun Fang and the Mutual Aid Association ready?"
"Everything is ready, the villain has asked Fan Li and Bao Feng to escort these supplies to the gate of the village to join Zhou Lu'er."
"Okay, the heavy snow has just melted, and it is probably not easy to walk on the mountain road for more than 60 miles! Please invite three girls to get on the car first." Feng Jian said, turning around and asking Chen Linlan and Su Su and the other two to walk into the carriage in turn.
This time, he plans to establish a trade chain in the city. He already wants Pan Zhaoying to take the lead in becoming the shopkeeper of this trade chain.
When he walked to the carriage, he suddenly saw Pan Zhaoying acting as the handlebar, and he bent his body to face Feng Jian and others with a whip in his hand.
Feng Jian smiled and said, "Is it a bit indifferent for the fat man to be a coachman himself?"
Pan Zhaoying grinned and said, "It is my duty to serve the commander and three ladies, I, Fatty Pan, and I can't ask for it! The commander is making fun of the villain again!"
As he said that, he bent down to Chen Qinglan and the other two and said, "It's cold outside, and the villain has already started a basin of charcoal fire in the carriage. The three ladies along the way don't have to worry about getting cold in the carriage."
Feng General looked at Pan Zhaoying with appreciation. Pan Zhaoying was indeed flexible and sociable. He saw that the three women were highly valued by him, so he could easily arouse others' favor by saying flattery!
Leaving the Huluyan Commercial to him to take charge may be the most correct decision at this stage, and it may also bring you huge surprises in the future.
Feng then checked his own carry supplies as usual. Darts were life-saving things and were hidden in hidden places on his body as usual.
He was holding a Japanese sword in his hand. When Jiang Saner's carry weapon was killed after failing to rebellion, the sword fell into Feng Jian's hands.
The body of this Japanese sword is arc-shaped and narrow, and its appearance is very close to that of a modern Japanese sword. There is a raised line on the side of the blade, and the two sides gradually become thinner. It is obvious that the focus of this sword is on chopping and cutting, which is suitable for large-scale equipment of military camp swords and shields as standard weapons.
A few days ago, Feng Jian also discussed with Zhang Dalai of the Huluyan Military Research Institute. Zhang Dalai told Feng Jian that this kind of Japanese sword was being looked at the equipment decades ago by Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao's Qi family army.
This knife is light and sharp, and is suitable for use by swords and shield soldiers holding one hand and the other. The only disadvantage is that this knife requires a large amount of impurities on the blade body, so it is time-consuming to make a Japanese knife.
In this era, there was no more advanced means to extract impurities in iron materials, and they could only rely on manual hammering over and over again. Feng Jian thought of the methods of making steel in later generations by local methods, and thought it was feasible to use local methods to build a small furnace.
Feng Jian found that the hardness of the loess mud mixed with rice slurry is no less than that of cement products at all. He can build a small refining furnace by himself to speed up the refining of iron materials.
The problem of small furnace refining was solved, and Feng Jian planned to ask Zhang Dalai's Military Research Institute to make a large number of these Japanese swords, and in the future, he used this type of Japanese sword as a standard weapon for the sword and shield soldiers of Zhenshan Camp.
Feng Jian shook his head, turned his thoughts to his eyes, and looked at Cheng Yousheng. He found that the boy was holding a waist knife in his right hand and a horse whip in his left hand. He was wearing a thick half-body leather robe on his upper body, and tied his waist tightly to resist the cold with a tie. He wore patched cotton pants on his lower body and a pair of dog leather boots under his feet.
Feng Jian received the horse whip handed over by a friend and smiled: "Looking at your outfit, you really look a bit sarcastic!"
Cheng Yousheng touched his head, bared his teeth and said in a charming manner: "The little man is a dog beside you, and he will be specially released to bite you!"
Feng Jian was shocked. He still has not yet applied to this era. People have a natural and conscious mentality of being slaves and being humble to strong people.
Feng Jian quickly bypassed the topic and waved his hand to Cheng Yousheng and said, "Tell Fatty Pan, we're going!" As he said that, he turned over and stepped onto the head of the war horse to lead the way.
Cheng Yousheng touched his head and said intimately that he was talking about heartfelt words! Why did the commander seem to be unwilling to do so?
Seeing that Prosecutor Feng was about to set off, he quickly greeted Pan Zhaoying and stepped onto his horse and guarded him around the carriage.
Pan Zhaoying let go of the shaft, waved the whip, and with a "show", the carriage began to follow Feng Jian slowly towards the gate of the village.
Walking along the flat rocky roads in the village, there are many farmers watching along the way.
Many farmers knew that the commander rescued the daughter of the magistrate of Pingdu City! Today, they were about to send him home, so they were watching from both sides of the street, hoping to see the daughter of the magistrate.
Cheng Yousheng rode a horse to the front of the carriage, shouting and driving away the crowd to watch the fun so that the carriage could pass smoothly. Chen Qinglan naturally could not show up for people to watch.
When the carriage arrived at the gate of the village, Zhou Lu'er and his 108 soldiers stood solemnly at the gate of the village. Although the soldiers were wearing various clothes, the cold and solemn aura naturally burst out, which shocked ordinary farmers.
Next to the soldiers, Fan Li and Bao Feng were escorting more than ten carts of medicinal materials and local specialties, and those who drove the car were all handlebars selected by Mutual Aid Association. These people were squatting next to the shaft of the carriage, smoking a cigarette pot waiting for the order to set off.
After Feng Jian and his party met with the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp at the gate of the village, they ordered Zhou Lu'er to lead the team of troops to open the way. The team was full of people and rushed towards the outsiders.
On the way down the mountain, Cheng Yousheng, as a sentry detective for the entire team, rode his horse forward and behind to investigate the surrounding situation, and reported the surrounding situation to Prosecutor Feng from time to time.
The mountain road was rugged, and the carriage was pounding all the way to the foot of the mountain, but never encountered bandits who had robbed the road.
This section of the mountain road is controlled by Huluyan, so it is normal not to encounter bandits. It starts from the Zhenshan Camp station, which is in the plain area. I don’t know what will happen!
Generally, when the end of the year is approaching, most bandits will not go out to rob, and most of them have retreated back to their nests to prepare for the New Year, so it may not be a big accident!
It took more than an hour for a group of more than 100 people to reach the foot of Chashan Mountain. Walking further forward, it was the Zhenshan Camp military camp that had not yet been built in Huluyan.
Zhou Lu'er will lead most of the soldiers in Zhenshan Camp to stay at the Zhenshan Camp station and wait for Feng Jian to return from Pingdu City. During this period, Zhou Lu'er's soldiers in Zhenshan Camp happened to supervise the newly discovered carbonite mining.
A long way from here, I saw the new Zhenshanying camp surrounded by a row of thick circles. There was no way inside the tree wall to see the outside. The new Zhenshanying camp station could only pass through the wide camp gate.
Chapter completed!