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Chapter 107 Shanhaiguan (please subscribe!!)

Traveling by train is a boring thing, especially long distance trains.

After talking about his father with Li Ou in the morning, Peng Ke listened to the sound of playing Pai Gow and horse hanging in the next car all morning.

His hands were itchy.

But I couldn't get four players to play Pai Gow.

So, in the afternoon, Peng Ke took Ah Hu, and the two played chess.

Sitting around in the private seat of the carriage, looking at the chessboard in front of him, Peng Ke frowned, holding black pieces, and placing pieces on the chessboard step by step.

He and Ah Hu came and went, and blocked each other, fighting fiercely.

In the end, Peng Keqi was the master!
"I made five in a row first, and I won!"

Peng Ke complacently pointed at the sunspots on the chessboard, which were already five in a row, very proud.

Ahu put on a face dumbfounded: "Your Majesty, don't you play Go?"

"Go is too brain-intensive. It's hard to relax. Why are you still playing such a brain-intensive game?"

Peng Ke said indifferently: "Gobang is very good, the rules are simple, and you only need to do a little trick to achieve the goal."

"If Go is the great way, then backgammon is the small way. Although the great way is the right way, it will be interesting to try the small way once in a while."

Ah Hu's face was covered with black lines.

The prince really knows how to make excuses, if he is not good at Go, he is not good at it.

And why does this sound so weird?
Seeing Ahu's strange expression, Peng Ke raised his eyebrows: "Ahu, if you think you can't play backgammon, we can play chess."

"But follow my rules."

Standing up, he took out a chess set from the cabinet in the compartment dedicated to recreational toys, and placed it on the table.

However, he did not arrange the chess pieces in the normal way, but turned all the chess pieces upside down, blindly covering half of the chessboard.

After all the chess pieces are placed, they occupy exactly half of the chessboard.

"Come on, let me teach you how to play."

"We take turns to take out a chess piece, whichever color chess piece we pick up, then you belong to which side, and then..."

Peng Ke introduced to Ahu the rules of a simple version of the chess game that was particularly popular in elementary school in his previous life.

Hearing this child's play, Ah Hu was speechless.

Why does my son always think about these weird things and have all kinds of whimsical ideas in his mind.

In his opinion, the original version of chess is more fun.
But it's hard to say.

I can only follow Peng Ke and play the "Pen Ke version" of chess.

Not just chess.

Because of boredom, Penke made a lot of messy past life games and played them with his little brother.

He brought them all this time, just for travel entertainment.

Checkers, military chess, and even flying chess were all taken out by Peng Ke and played against Ah Hu.

The two played from the afternoon until they went to bed at night, and Peng Ke won more and lost less all the way, playing very happily.

It can be regarded as barely killing off the long train journey.

On the next day, when the afternoon was approaching evening, a special train stopped at Yingtianfu to unload some goods, added new coal, and finally arrived at the military train station in Shanhaiguan.

The garrison had already received the telegram notification that a new general was coming to Shanhaiguan in the next few days, and the garrison had already been waiting for Peng Ke here for a long time.

When Peng Ke stretched his waist and stepped out of the carriage, he was greeted by fifty armored and armed Huben soldiers!

The junior officer at the head quickly ran up to Penke, saluted respectfully and said:
"Hundreds of households under the command of the humble Dudu Jiang, Fu Chang, see General Peng!"

"Exemption."

Peng Ke smiled kindly, and said softly, "Fu Baihu, please come and pick me up."

"Please take me to see the governor."

Fu Chang raised his head and glanced at the well-known King Peng Yan in the Daming Jianghu. As soon as he met his eyes, he quickly lowered his head again.

On the Shanhaiguan side, in the past two years, they have received a lot of Jianghu sect disciples who were sent to the army.

When those disciples talked about Peng Ke, their faces changed drastically, as if they were terrified, and they were afraid that they would avoid him.

Now this King Peng Yan came to Shanhaiguan to lead the army.

Those Jianghu sect disciples assigned here probably won't be able to sleep well every night.

He didn't dare to neglect this famous murderer, and asked in a low voice: "The general is exhausted from the journey, why don't you rest for a night first."

"The governor has something to say, the generals don't need to be in a hurry to return to the camp today, but they can return to the camp tomorrow to meet the governor."

"You can take the general to visit the Shanhaiguan City."

"Although it is a border military city, Shanhaiguan is surrounded by the sea on three sides. The scenery is very unique, and the folk customs are also very tough!"

In this day and age, tough folk customs is not a derogatory term, especially in the frontier, it is a great compliment.

"Alright." Peng Ke tapped his chin, and said kindly: "Then I will trouble Bai Baihu to take a trip to Shanhaiguan with my book."

"It can be regarded as understanding the situation of the station."

The Guancheng in Shanhaiguan was directly connected to the Great Wall, and it was completely a military city.

The people living in Guancheng are all civilians accompanying the army, relatives of the [-] soldiers stationed in Shanhaiguan.

The border army of Ming Dynasty allowed family members to stay with the army.

Not only in the Ming Dynasty, but basically in all dynasties before the Qing Dynasty, the frontier army had this privilege.

After all, many frontier troops have been stationed for more than ten years, and they will even take root directly in the local area. It is impossible to not need relatives.

In ancient China, the real frontier was basically supported by the family members of the frontier army.

And there is another great benefit for the family members of the frontier army.

After these family members moved to the border, they not only turned their hearts to the imperial court, but also greatly enriched the prosperity of the frontier.

In the event of foreign invasion, children, women and children, and gray-haired old people will take up weapons and go to the top of the city to help defend the city, or do some logistical support work.

It belongs to the semi-military establishment where the whole city is full of soldiers, both the army and the people.

After all, their relatives are serving in the army, and helping the army defend the city is helping their relatives.

Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, the pass and dangerous cities on the border have always been guarded by the army and the people with one heart and one mind!
Throughout the dynasties, there have been countless epic stories of fighting against the enemy in the border towns.

And the protagonist never lacks the figure of the frontier people!

If you really want to expect the thousands of sinners who are sent to the frontier every year to work together with the defenders, then you really have seen a ghost.

In the late Ming Dynasty, many surrendered to the Jurchens, and even took the initiative to go to the Jurchens to seek high positions.

Most of them were criminals sent to the frontier army for violating the law of the Ming Dynasty. They took the opportunity to cross the Great Wall and fled to the Jurchens.

Thinking of this, Peng Ke, who was following Fu Chang to the train station, asked, "Fu Baihu, how many Ming people live in this pass city?"

"How many military members are there? How many criminals are sent to the frontier?"

Fu Chang, who was leading the way, gave out a set of numbers accurately without turning his head: "Return to the General, Shanhaiguan City is an important inner city, and there are [-] military family members living in Guancheng and the Wengcheng near the sea. .”

"In addition to this, there are another 25 criminals sent here in the [-]th year of Hongwu. Most of them are the children of the family members of officials convicted in the Lanyu case."

"On weekdays, these criminals are all farmed by the army."

Peng Ke nodded thoughtfully.

There are still a lot of people, and the ratio of criminals and military dependents is also very reasonable.

Even in the face of external threats of more than [-] northern barbarian troops, Shanhaiguan should be unbreakable.

Not to mention that Shanhaiguan is now an internal pass, and it is difficult to face the threat of the northern barbarians.

This place is indeed an important town suitable for his development!

　Three chapters will be released first, and the remaining two chapters will continue to be coded at night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)