This briefing was not reported to the cardinal and the secretary's cabinet, nor through the Secretariat. Jin Jian was directly responsible to Xu Zixian.

Pirate intelligence in various places is the top priority, and it can be judged through a lot of intelligence. The pirates are no more than seven days away from the East Vanguard. Including the time for Penghu and the test to the East Vanguard, the war will not last more than ten days.

Pirates will not have any battle plan, but it does not mean that they will rush to the shore in a swarm. They will test, calculate the depth of the water, stop large ships and gather small ships, and then go ashore in batches where they think they are suitable.

Now the judgment of the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion is not necessarily the place where pirates are willing to land, so the soldiers of the government train battle formations under different terrains every day. Every day, Xu Zixian could hear the loud military singing of the brigade of the government soldiers when they withdrew their troops back to the camp.

Qin Dongyang, Ge Dage Er, Jin Baoyi, Lin Cunxin and others did not come every day. The generals were extremely busy. Of course, they would send people to take the pulse case every day to learn about the latest news about Xu Zixian's condition.

Everyone is worried and caring. This is an unquestionable fact, and Xu Zixian will not have any doubts about this.

In addition to the news about pirates, the situation on the island and on Fujian Road are generally similar to the news summarized earlier.

Xu Zixian forced himself to support himself and cursed with a smile: "Lin Douyao is really a fucking fool. No wonder he can't fight against King Zhao before and can't suppress me. Such a person has no responsibility and has made him a pacifier all the way. He still wants to enter the two mansions."

Jin Jian didn't say anything, but Xu Zixian didn't expect him to answer. He took a few breaths and then said, "What else is there?"

"Yang Dafu in Fuzhou is helping us find a doctor named Wang Xinyuan. I heard that he is a good at Dafangmai. There is no new news on the specific situation."

Xu Zi didn't comment yet. He no longer had any hope for the doctors who were treating the epidemic in this era.

After all, the development of traditional Chinese medicine is to be honest, and bone correction is experience, and prescriptions are also experience. They work back and forth in hundreds or thousands of herbs, and use human lives to build experience. What can reduce fever, what can stop bleeding, and what can relieve cough? Generally speaking, famous doctors have mastered some effective prescriptions and can judge what to use. Quag doctors cannot judge the condition and do not know what to use to treat it.

Bone correction is much better than Western medicine at this time, and it is also something that can be explored through practice.

To treat plague, if someone tried effective herbal medicines, it could at least help the human body fight the virus. It would probably work long ago. The current prescription is just a placebo, so Xu Zi was not willing to drink it, but he couldn't help but stand by the bedside and Xiu Niang to cry, so he could only pinch his nose and pour it down every day.

"Yang Shiwei is intent." After a while, Xu Zixian said: "What else is there?"

Jin Jian said: "I have asked the people in Nan'an to try their best to help and pay more attention to the doctor's news. There are only some signs and signs for other things. I will talk about it when I do it."

"Everything is calm." Xu Zixian glanced at Jin Jian. He could see that this young man was still the same as he was back then. He still had a stubborn heart under the surface of his handsomeness and easy-goingness, but he had more care and tolerance. Everyone was changing, regardless of whether they wanted or not.

"I understand." Jin Jian hugged her fists and turned around and exited.

Xu Zixian lay down very tiredly. A slight sound came from outside the window. It should be that a servant was watching the house through the flowered window. The room was always airy. The weather was hot. Xu Zixian lay down and his body was sweating slightly. This was actually a good thing. If he couldn't sweat, it would be a big trouble.

Then there was a sound of Jiaye. It was probably the guards who were changing shifts. There were three shifts of guards every day, and more than 30 people took turns to change shifts. Change shifts meant going to the outer yard to wash, eat and sleep. Everyone would not go out. But after changing shifts, they could take off their armored clothes that were soaked in sweat and breathe a sigh of relief.

This is true every day. Xu Zixian sometimes feels that he has lost control of everything, which makes him uneasy. Two times he woke up in the middle of the night. Lin Shaozong and others heard the movement and broke in. Xu Zixian has already woken up.

Sometimes he felt that he was just waking up from the nap, and was alienated and isolated from the entire world.

During the two days when he was in the worst condition, Xu Zixian felt that he probably couldn't survive. When he was in a high fever, he thought of the collapse of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion after his death, but he did not have much worry or anger, because at this time, he felt that everything in the world had nothing to do with him, like people in the clouds watching ants.

Whether it is wealth or humble, when it reaches this point, everything in the world is

It becomes meaningless.

Now he is still gritting his teeth and holding on. He can meet and talk to people every day. His way of thinking has not changed much, and the people closest to him cannot find his indifference and weakness a few days ago.

As a man, I just have to hold on.

As long as you have a breath, you cannot say bad things or do bad things. You have to stand up first in everything.

This time, Xu Zixian felt that he had gained something.

...

Two days before the pirates were sent, Zhang Zhongde and several other soldiers who returned home to the countryside to get a small family on board the boat. After passing Penghu, they arrived in Fuzhou, and then boarded the carriage arranged by the Nan'an Marquis Mansion in the port.

These matters are all handled by the military and political departments, and it is undeniable that they arranged them well.

Each soldier brought his belongings, and his bedding was packed behind him. They were wearing gray robes and a bronze star on their shoulders. They did not carry long swords, but they carried horizontal swords. The five soldiers were allowed to be carried by the people. These soldiers also had the identity of the wing army, at least recognized by the Wei court, so they traveled unimpeded along the way.

In addition, there are kettles, lunch boxes, spoons, salt bags, flints and other debris around the waist.

They didn't bother with each other, after all, they were going back to their hometown to visit relatives, so everyone wore leather boots.

After joining the Dongfan period, he caught a lot of prey and was no longer difficult to hide. The military and political departments successively equipped all soldiers with leather boots.

This made the Great Wei Xiang army guarding along the way envious. They all wore cloth shoes or hemp shoes.

These days, a pair of well-made leather boots cost at least one or more, or even several cents. Ordinary people cannot afford such equipment.

The soldiers in the palace had dark skin and happy smiles. When they were sitting in the car, they took off their hats and put them aside, got off the car and put them on their clothes quickly.

When they walked, their hands naturally drooped, their waists were straightened, and their eyes looked straight ahead, showing strong self-confidence and the self-esteem of soldiers.

In contrast, those thin and timid wing soldiers were like a group of gathering wild dogs, with a far different distance between the two sides.

More than once, not only the wing army was looking at these soldiers, but also the imperial guards or military officers. When they accidentally encountered such a group of soldiers, they would always look up and down thoughtfully, feeling the difference between these soldiers in the Nan'an and ordinary soldiers.

The soldiers of the Nan'an Prefecture Army always have a confident look. Even if they meet a military officer who is at the top, they will at most take the initiative to hold their fists and bow, neither humble nor arrogant, and look calm and composed.

Many people have not seen this kind of happiness, self-confidence and self-esteem on the faces of soldiers of the Great Wei for many years.

After going from Fuzhou to Nan'an, many soldiers of the government got off the car along the way. They carried the packages, which contained some local specialties from the Dongfan, and things they brought back from Penghu. They took these items home and enjoyed a ten-day holiday with their families.

This kind of rotating holiday is quite rare. It is at most once in a year. You can only apply for a vacation after serving for at least half a year. You may not be able to approve it.

Many soldiers of the government army took advantage of this opportunity to move their families. In fact, most of the government army had already taken their families to the Dongfan.

Everyone was in a bad mood, only Zhang Zhongde looked depressed and was in a bad mood.

Several friends from fellow villagers, the tall and rude Zhou Huaiyong, the capable and smart Lin Fengshan, and the cheerful team officer Lu Wenluo, they also knew his mood and would not disturb him.

Although Zhang Zhongde was still wearing a gray robe, outfit and weapons like everyone else, he even had a strong bow of ten strength, confirming his identity as a archer. If he were in the palace army, the archer's salary would be higher than that of ordinary martial soldiers.

But everything was ruined. Zhang Zhongde's physical strength collapsed during the difficult training process, and later his mental breakdown. After falling behind, he was listed on the unqualified list and was directly transferred to a guard.

Since they did not escape in front of the battlefield, surrender to the enemy, or did not obey military orders, the soldiers who retreated during the training were usually transferred to police officers, and some were directly transferred to officials. Because the soldiers had strong execution ability and knew the laws and regulations and were literate, they would be better than ordinary officials, and their abilities would be much stronger than ordinary officials.

Zhang Zhongde was unwilling to be an official, but he was willing to use bows and arrows to serve the lord, so he became a guard.

The guards were also organized by the battalion, capital, mail, and team. Since Zhang Zhongde was the sergeant of the government army, he was transferred to the guards post-school officer and served as deputy troop officer, responsible for the defense work of several hundred households and peripheral guard areas.

Instead, the salary has been increased, from two to three, and the benefits are not good.

Wrong, there are various in-kind subsidies, but he has not gotten married yet, and his life is quite comfortable.

But all this could not make up for the shame in the old mansion soldier who was trained in the Nan'an Town. It took Zhang Zhongde a long time to get out of the shadow, but his face still lacked a smile.

They were all archers who served for more than half a year and performed well, including crossbow soldiers, long slingers and warriors, but there were no cavalry. The miners from Jianzhou selected cavalry very few. They lived and grew up in the mountains and had few opportunities to ride horses. Unlike those on the front line of the Great Wall, they had more opportunities to get horses and ride horses, and of course there were many good families who could ride horses. Almost all of Jianzhou were infantry.

Everyone carries weapons, which is also a special regulation of the Security Department. The soldiers are soldiers at any time and do not leave the identity of soldiers just because they temporarily leave the camp.

Everyone leaned their weapons against the wall of the wing, and of course the topic was still the bandits moving around Jianzhou to Shuikou, Gukou, and Nan'an.

Since the Jianzhou Magistrate Wang Yue merged the mines and robbed the minerals, there have been many real bandits, including some miners who lost their sources of food and clothing.

A considerable number of people were probably sent by Wang Yue as bandits, threatening and forcing the mine owners who were still operating in disarray, to forcibly rob and merge their minerals.

Everyone was not afraid. After a few rounds of topics, the eight people discussed the battle formation drills. Their temporary team felt that they could fight against dozens of bandits.

Recently, the bandits in Jianzhou have rampant in Gukou, which has caused panic in Shuikou and Nan'an, and even alarmed Fuzhou.

People were talking a lot, saying that fortunately there was a capital of Nan'an, and local guards were formed to defend against bandits.

Of course, this is still a trained bandit. If it were the bandits in the past, these eight people would feel that they could hit a hundred or even more.

Of course, this kind of self-confidence is not for nothing. After a long period of hard training and several practical battles, it is also something that only veterans have.

They stayed in Fuzhou for a day and bought some local goods. There was nothing to bring in the Dongfan, and everyone could not go to see their families empty-handedly, so they bought some pastries and other things in Fuzhou and took them all the way home.

When they were in Fucheng, everyone felt a little nervous on the market, but they didn't care. They were not from Fucheng, and even if something bad happened in Fucheng, it had nothing to do with everyone.

People from Fuzhou paid great attention to these soldiers from the Nan'an Marquis Mansion. Zhang Zhongde and Lu Wenluo both felt some strange gazes. They didn't care too much. It was not surprising that the costumes and actions of the government army, just the eyes that were neither humble nor arrogant, and the unique military rituals, medals, and military ranks attracted people's attention.

Carriages were sailing southwest on the dusty avenue, with cars and horses everywhere, and there seemed to be a lot more pedestrians. Strangely, there were also obvious more ships sailing west on the river.

Only then did the soldiers of the government feel something was wrong, but they did not receive any instructions. Everyone moved their bodies in the carriage uneasy and looked out the window until the carriage vibrated and the carriage stopped in Nan'an Town.

Many people's eyes were a little wet. They were veterans from Nan'an. They were not necessarily people from the town, but maybe young men from the surrounding villages. They participated in the expansion of the group training.

It is also possible that they are directly from Guanzhuang people in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, and they are one of the earliest group of old soldiers.

"It's been calculated," Lu Wenluo looked at the situation on the street first, feeling that Nan'an is still prosperous, and said with a smile: "This time I'm going to take my parents, wife and children over."

"Me too."

"So too. I can't stand it if I can't see you for half a year."

"My family only has two acres of dry land in Nan'an. The land is very thin, and there is more rice per acre and one stone. My mother said she wanted to rent it out. I can say that she should plant it for the tribe, but she must establish a good contract, otherwise it will be hard to say after a long time."

"That's true. My family also has one and a half acres, but we plan to sell it directly."

"It's better to sell it. Dongfan gives us at least a hundred acres of land. What should we do here one or two acres?"

"We people on Fujian Road have no lies that they are hard to leave their hometowns."

Seeing that Nan'an is as usual, the soldiers of the government were also in high spirits.

Their home is twenty or thirty miles away, not far away.
Chapter completed!