The Liaoxi Plain in early winter is full of bleakness. Although it is still early winter, the early winter outside the pass has the domineering nature of the deep winter inside the pass. Under the whistling of the cold wind, people cannot feel a trace of warmth.

The heavy snow for two consecutive days covered the mountains, rivers and lands in western Liaoning with a layer of silver. At this moment, there were still scattered snowflakes floating in the sky. The curling white smoke rising from villages and villages on both sides of the post road, as well as the birds occasionally passing through the air, became the only embellishment of this silver-white world.

Yonghe, sitting in the back row by the window, looked curiously at everything outside. These scenes that were very ordinary in the north in winter are now presented to him from a unique perspective.

Shengjing area is located in the western Liaoning Plain with a flat terrain. In addition, the Qing court maintained the post roads here in place, which was more suitable for vehicles to pass. So after the Liaodong Battle, the Logistics Department of the North Navy allocated more than 20 cars by land and sea transportation. In addition to facilitating personnel exchanges between Shengjing and Jinzhou fronts, it also ensured the rapid transfer of materials.

Since the car started on the road, Yonghe and his companion named Fu Chashan kept sweating from their forehead to the back spine, and their stomachs were also a little uncomfortable. Even so, he kept widening his eyes and carefully observing the details in the car, trying to figure out why they could run without a cow or a horse. However, after watching for a long time, he became even more dizzy.

The length of the post road from Guangning City to Shengjing City is 340 miles, and there are six post stations along the way. If you ride a horse, after deducting food and accommodation, even if you rush the horse for the rest of the time, it will take as fast as three days.

Of course, the court's 600-mile rush can guarantee that it will arrive in one day, but that is just a messenger who can change horses and not people, and five of them are sitting in the same car.

So when the jeep was running on the post road at a speed of fifty kilometers per hour, Yonghe felt that his perception was completely subverted.

He lived for almost forty years, riding the Wuzhumuqin horse that had traveled a hundred miles a day, and also riding a mule cart that ran fast, but he never expected that there were carts in the world that were not used for horses or mules. From the time he set out to now, he had driven more than twenty miles, galloping like lightning, and his speed was not reduced at all. The magic weapons of the immortals in the storytelling books were nothing more than that!

In recent years, there has been a rumor among the Eight Banners soldiers in the capital that Zhao Xin and his men are good at using magic to manipulate all kinds of evil weapons; whether it is a fast gun, a firework, or a river or a flying in the sky, everything is incredible.

The generals of various leaders also tried various ways to crack it. However, whether it was to ask Taoist monks to hold magic submission meetings before the war, or to set up a platform on the battlefield to open an oath, or even to soak guns and cannonballs to soak the blood of black dogs, or to set up a yinmen formation, it was useless.

Later, Qianlong issued an edict prohibiting the use of gods and ghosts in front of the army. You must know that the more useless he did, the more the soldiers felt that Zhao Xin was a god who came down to earth and his morale was depressed.

The breath from his mouth sprayed on the window glass in the back seat, forming a small white mist. Yonghe carefully wiped it with his sleeves, and it became crystal clear again in a blink of an eye.

In recent years, the price of flat glass shipments of Beihai Trading Company in Anping Port has been much lower than that of Guangzhou's imported goods, and the sales volume is also good. However, due to the cost of sea and land transportation, ordinary middle-class families still cannot afford it. Flat glass such as the windshield front and rear of Jeep is sold at no less than 100 taels of silver in Beijing and Jiangnan.

Yonghe was a sixth-rank guard. His annual salary was 60 taels of silver, 30 shi of rice, plus 24 acres of flag fields, 60 taels of horse materials, rewards in the palace on festivals, and income from two shops, which was 600 taels of money.

He has a lot of income and a lot of expenses; he has to spend money on everything from meals, clothes and relationships, and there are not many left in the year. Not to mention one hundred taels, he is reluctant to buy a piece of glass for ten taels of silver.

Because it was snowy and it was early to come out, and there were no pedestrians and carriages on the post road, so Guisheng asked the driver to increase the speed appropriately. However, this move made Yonghe and Fu Chashan's motion sickness worse, and their chests became more and more stuffy, and their stomachs began to swell, and sour water kept rushing to their throats.

Speaking of which, no matter how flat the post roads in these days, they cannot be comparable to the county-level highways in later generations, and they are even worse than township-level highways.

Just like the road to Shengjing that Guisheng and others are now walking, which is the most important transportation road in the northeastern region of the Qing Dynasty; the widest part is twenty meters, and the narrowest part is only three meters. Although this road was as flat as a threshing ground during the emperor's eastern tour, it would be like that if the emperor didn't come. The puddles left after the heavy rain in summer and the deep ruts pressed by the carriages made the people in the car feel bumpy.

"Stop! They both seem to be vomiting." The person who spoke was Lao Zhang sitting in the middle of the back row. This person was the person sitting in the corner when Yonghe met Guisheng yesterday.

From the first time when Yonghe saw Lao Zhang, he knew that the other party was a trainer. When he got in the car today, he was even more sure that he was a master who was proficient in internal martial arts. Such a person sat between himself and Fu Chashan, and his purpose was self-evident.

This person has a high eyebrow bone, the muscles on the cheekbones are slightly raised, and the temples on both sides are swelling outward. Although there are no calluses on the back of the hand, the palms are thick and rosy. In addition, the bone peaks of the joint bones on the back of the hand are concave, but this person is flat. All these are in line with the characteristics of an expert in internal martial arts.

When Guisheng heard Lao Zhang's words, he turned around and asked the driver to slow down and leaned aside. Unexpectedly, the jeep happened to encounter a frozen area on the road. He braked and the wheels began to slip. The rear of the car suddenly swung to the left. The whole car immediately swung a 90-degree circling, and his head was on the low loess wall next to the post road, and a piece of it collapsed.

Just now, Yonghe and Fu Chashan in the car could no longer control it and they burst into tears.

After a while, Guisheng and the other five finally got out of the messy car. Almost everyone's clothes were more or less covered with vomit, and even more so in the car.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The driver, who was still scared, hurriedly checked the situation on the front of the car after getting off the car. Although it was not serious, he was very regretful. Before he came out, he felt that the snow on the ground was not serious, so he did not install anti-skid chains. If it weren't for the earthen walls, he would have to rush downhill and hit the trees.

To put it simply, the post roads in the Ming and Qing dynasties - especially the Guanma Avenue, there are usually two one-foot-high earth walls on both sides, with pillars on them to indicate the mileage, and they can also serve as guardrails.

Guisheng on the other side of the front of the car was also speechless. It was not going well today! He turned around and looked at Yonghe and Fu Chashan who were squatting outside the car door. He thought to himself, why did people who could ride fast horses get motion sickness?

Among the five people, Lao Zhang was the same as the one who was fine. He first asked the driver about the situation. When he learned that the problem was not big, he could drive. He ran to a street sign and looked at it. After returning, he suggested to Guisheng: "We will reach Xiaoheishan Station five miles away. Let's pick up the car first, wait until we get some water there, wipe the car clean before we get on the road."

Guisheng nodded and said to Yonghe who was out of breath, "Yong Er Master, you and your companion should be held back, don't vomit anymore."

Yonghe didn't say anything, but rolled his eyes and thought to himself, "What kind of evil did I do?" If I had known this would happen, I would rather ride a horse!"

After a simple cleaning, the group started on the road again. This time the driver drove very slowly, and the windows on both sides fell. The whistling northwest wind scrambled into the car with fine snow, taking away a lot of the unpleasant smell.

After driving for more than twenty minutes, a building complex that looked like a village and a town appeared in front of everyone.

Xiaoheishan Post is not only a post station, but actually a large village with more than 300 households. In the Ming Dynasty, it was a military important place and belonged to Zhenyuan Fort on the Changcheng Middle Road in Liaodong Town. In the Qing Dynasty, it became an important node on the post road from Shanhaiguan to Shengjing, with dozens of stations.

The core of the post station is a square earth city. Each side has a wall of nearly 300 meters long and a wall of eight meters high. It has two gates in the north and south. There are office offices, as well as supporting official rooms, Ding houses, horse sheds, straw sheds, material warehouses, etc.

This place used to be the location of the "Road Record Yamen". It was in charge of villages and villages around the post road south of Shengjing and north of Jinzhou. The yamen was located next to the Post Office Office, with a fifth-rank defense officer serving as the boundary officer, commanding two hundred soldiers of the two flags, including the Hong and White flags.

In addition, since the post stations in the Qing Dynasty only provided food, accommodation and rest to court officials and were not open to the people, someone started a che and horse shop business outside the post station.

The post station, the road record yamen, the flag soldiers, the station soldiers, the helpers, the tutors, and the family members of these people and the servants of the Baoyi family formed a concentrated small society.

After the Northern Navy Marine Brigade landed at Tianqiaochang a few months ago, in order to prevent the Qing army in Jinzhou from fleeing, Tashan in the south and Xiaoheishan Post in the north must be taken down in advance. The Land Brigade dispatched a battalion and rushed overnight. As a result, no one of the 200 Eight Banners soldiers and dozens of postmen stationed in the defense escaped and became prisoners.

When Guisheng and his team were still one mile away from Xiaoheishan Post, they were discovered by the sentry standing guard on Tucheng. The other party waved at them excitedly, then ran down to the city wall to report to the platoon leader.

At this moment, several half-aged men who were playing on the roadside also saw the slowly coming jeep. As a result, the newly caught birds in the jackal under their feet ignored the birds they had just caught in the jam basket under their feet, and they all watched blankly, letting their noses flow down.

In the carriage shop on the side of the road outside the south gate of the inn, the young shop guy just came to the gate of the yard with a wooden bucket filled with dirty water, and the jeep happened to pass by him.

"Bang!" The wooden barrel fell to the ground with his hands, and the shopkeeper was covered in sewage.

"Kuanzi! What are you doing? Throw the good bucket onto the ground for me! Pay attention to knocking you back..." The shopkeeper heard the movement, lifted the curtain and walked out of the house. Before he finished speaking, he burped and swallowed it back, walked out of the door quickly, and looked out of the door.

When the jeep came to the four-meter-wide city gate hole, a North Navy with a gun ran out from inside, saluted and asked to check the documents. Well, although no one outside the entire pass had a car except the North Navy, the soldier still strictly enforced discipline.

At this time, more than twenty men, women, young and old had gathered outside the south gate of Tucheng. No one dared to get close to him. He surrounded a semicircle more than ten meters away. Some people were sharp-eyed to notice that a hand reached out in the jeep and handed the soldier a hand the size of a palm.

The soldier took the back and looked at it for a few seconds, handed the thing in, and then saluted. Then everyone heard a roar, and the jeep slowly entered the city gate. Seeing this, the children who had caught birds chased after him with curiosity and excitement.

The shopkeeper of the Chema Shop did not chase after him, but walked back to his doorstep and bowed to a merchant standing at the door, saying, "Boss Liu, you have a lot of knowledge in your journey. How dare you ask for advice on what that is?"

The merchant twisted his beard and said with a mysterious look on his face: "I've seen this thing outside Shengjing a few days ago, but it's different from the one I just saw. The one I saw was taller than this, and there was a carriage for things to be installed behind. I heard those soldiers call it 'qi chariot'."

"Angry car?" the shopkeeper said in confusion: "You can call a taxi without a cow or a horse?"

The guy next to him interrupted, "As you want, you can leave with a breath? That's what Monkey King can do! If you want me to say, that's a monster! Haven't you heard that the North Sea soldiers are all good at using magic tricks."

The shopkeeper shouted, "Kuanzi, you are full of wicked words. Be careful that the Beihai soldiers heard that they came to capture you!"

The merchant shook his head and said, "How can there be monsters in the sun in the sky? I believe there is a reason for this. I also heard from those soldiers that there are many such cars in the east of Jilin City, and they are loaded more than twice as many carts than carts!"

The shopkeeper of the carriage shop was shocked when he heard this. He couldn't help but look back at the horses in the cafeteria that were shaking their heads and eating grass. The idea of ​​changing careers inexplicably arose in his mind.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In fact, these people don’t know that just late at night more than two months ago, seven or eight cars, including this jeep, passed here to Guangning with supplies. However, shortly after the Liaodong Battle ended, people everywhere were panic. The local residents were mainly bannermen, and they were afraid of the famous Northern Navy. They closed their doors when it dark and dared not show up when there was any movement.

On the other side, Gui Sheng and his team also met the platoon leader of the local garrison. The man was named Sun Yuan, from Shangqiu, Henan, and had been in the army for five years.

The two sides met and greeted each other. When they learned about the situation, Platoon Commander Sun warmly greeted them to enter the station to have a hot tea. He also called a postman who was sweeping the snow and asked him to notify the kitchen to burn a large pot of hot water to use for cleaning the car. The postman wore a cotton coat and trousers full of patches and oil stains. He quickly stood at the scene and said yes, turned around and ran towards the kitchen with a broom.

Everyone followed Sun Yuan to the office office of the Yicheng Office. Lao Zhang, driver, Yonghe, and Fu Chashan sat in the outer room. Guisheng and Sun Yuanze entered the inner room. As soon as they entered the door, he asked, "I remember twenty days ago, the regiment headquarters transferred two carts of new cotton coats to you. Why was the postman still wearing old clothes just now?"

While making tea and water into the teapot, Sun Yuan explained: "I can't bear to leave you! I have several wives and children at home. I'll take them back and change them, enough for three of them to wear."

Guisheng frowned and said, "How are you poor households?"

Sun Yuan took out a cigarette box and signaled to Guisheng. Seeing the latter shook his head, he lit one on his own, took a deep breath and said, "There are hundreds of households, all of whom are armored soldiers from the Road Records Office, and the family can't be undone. I am planning to send someone to Guangning City tomorrow and ask the camp to transfer two cars of sorghum. I can't watch the whole family starve to death!"

Guisheng was transferred here not long ago. He didn't know the people's sentiment in Shengjing area and said in surprise: "So many! I remember that there are only 300 households here? Besides, don't the banner people have land? Can't they still support the harvest?"

"327 households." Sun Yuan showed a look of regret, and explained: "Captain Chen, don't know, these bannermen gathered together to play money without any trouble, and there were many people who lost their money. I heard from the postman here that 40% of the banner fields of Xiaoheishan Post were given to the pawnshop in Guangning City. According to me, I might as well arrest all the money-making people and send them to the reservoir construction site of Songhua River!"

Guisheng said: "Don't worry, take your time. It's not too late to figure out the situation first, and then do it. Besides, it's useless to catch gamblers just like this. If you want to catch them, you have to catch those guys who are in the banker."

Since the middle of Qianlong, the gambling atmosphere in Shengjing has been booming, and even if the Qing court ordered the ban many times, it would be useless. The bannermen of this year were honest and could not play with the Han people who opened casinos. Not only did they lose nine out of ten gambling, but they became more and more addicted to playing. They sold their houses and land after losing all their money, resulting in a large number of people losing their entire family.

In fact, there are also gambling under Beihai Town, but because the land ownership of Beihai Town is nominally controlled by Zhao Xin, and the people only have the right to use it, it is impossible to sell houses and land. At most, they will lose all the money at home and then borrow it. Once these guys are caught by the security police, they will be punished with different punishments based on the amount of gambling funds, such as verbal admonitions, community labor, and sentenced to work in another place.

Guisheng is not Sun Yuan’s direct superior, so he just listens to pass the time, cleans up the car and goes on the road.

Unexpectedly, the two were chatting together, and someone shouted for a report outside the office room. When the other party came in, Guisheng realized that this person was a squad leader under Sun Yuan.

"Platform leader, a flag manager told us that the people of the Gossip Sect will open an altar in Kaoshantun tonight."

When Guisheng heard the three words "Bagua Teaching", he immediately felt a wake-up call in his heart.

He worked as an orderly soldier for Zhao Xin for three years. After hearing and seeing the problem, his angle and height of looking at the problem are naturally different from others. Later, Zhao Xin sent him into the intelligence bureau, and since then he ran around with Xu Dayong, and had seen many people under the banner of "silent old mother".
Chapter completed!