Gao Shixin, Man Gui and others squatted in the prison for seven days. On the seventh day, someone came to pick them up and released them out of prison. However, in the past seven days, Gao Shixin and the others did not suffer. Except for Gao Shixin who was beaten with two hundred military sticks on the first day, no one else was beaten. He could still eat wine and meat in prison. It is said that Li Rubai paid for them out of his own pocket.

With a "bang", the prison door was opened, and Gao Shixin and Man Gui and his group were out of prison.

At the door, an officer dressed in a hundred households stood. When he saw Gao Shixin coming out, the officer said, "Sir Gao, I will take you out of prison on the order of Zhengluo Yang. After you come out, I will take you to take a shower and change your clothes."

The hundred-house officers took a group of poor soldiers who had just been released from prison to a bathhouse for a bathhouse.

There was a bathhouse in the Song Dynasty, and it was even more prosperous during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The bathhouse was not expensive. One person had five copper plates for soup, two copper plates for scratching his back, five copper plates for combing his hair, two copper plates for trimming his hair, and five copper plates for pedicures. All of them were only nineteen. Nearly a hundred people went to take a bath together, which cost more than one or two silver dollars.

The ancients raised their hair and tied their hair, but it did not mean that they never wore their hair. Some edges and corners needed minor trimming, and those who wore their hair had to clean their ears. Of course, combing their hair would cost two cents to clean their ears, and asking people to help comb their hair and tie them up, which would cost another five cents. Because of the long hair, the workload of hair repairing is much lower than combing and tie them up.

Until the Qing Dynasty, because of the braids in shaving, those craftsmen who originally specially used to repair and comb their hair for others became barbers.

After taking a bath, Gao Shixin changed into a new set of green official robes with embroidered burlap, which were seventh-rank military official robes. Then the hundred officers took Gao Shixin to see Yang Hao.

"General Gao Qi, you just got promoted, and you caused trouble," Yang Hao said earnestly as soon as he saw Gao Shixin, "You know that Mr. Fan you beat, I can't afford to offend him. Someone in the court supported him, and the situation in Liaodong became worse. If the people in the court attacked us, we would be unable to protect our heads."

In fact, what Yang Hao was worried about was his own head. Gao Shixin was originally just a soldier, and the court could not surrender it to a soldier. On the battlefield of Sarhu, he made such a great contribution that he could directly become a military official in the garrison after returning to the capital. If there was no vacant in the garrison, Gao Shixin felt that no matter how meritorious people like him, the court would arrange a position for him. At worst, he would return to Liaodong to fight again.

"Yang Jingluo, the lower official is really unaware of it. He just saw his people fighting with his brothers, and Bei Yi had to protect his brothers. All this was just a misunderstanding." Gao Shixin's mind was quick and knew how to talk to Yang Hao.

"I know you've misunderstood, then the punishment of Li Junmen is too heavy. Gao Zhuangshi, if you get two hundred military sticks, can you kill the enemy and make meritorious?" Yang Hao nodded. He was reluctant to punish Gao Shixin because he also planned to let Gao Shixin make meritorious service to protect the black hat on his head. Many people in the capital are impeaching Yang Hao. He knew that his position was in danger, and he might even be locked by the Jinyiwei one day and taken back to the capital to be thrown into the heavenly prison!

Gao Shixin replied without hesitation: "Please rest assured that Bei Zhiliuo is in prison for seven days. Li Junmen is pretty good to Bei Zhi. Not only does he not endure hardship, he also has wine and meat every day. Now his injuries have almost recovered, and he can fight to serve the court."

"That's good, you guys discuss it and see when they will leave." Yang Hao stroked his beard and nodded with a smile.

Gao Shixin replied: "Yang Jingluo, I have just been released from prison today. I will prepare for one day at home tomorrow and I will leave early the morning after tomorrow!"

"Okay!" Yang Hao stroked his beard and nodded, saying with a smile, "Then I wish you all the best! Come on, have a drink! I want to drink with Gao Guoshu in person!"

Yang Hao held a banquet in his mansion to entertain Gao Shixin. During the drinking, Yang Hao asked Gao Shixin how to deal with Jiannu from Liaodong. Gao Shixin roughly answered some questions, but kept the most critical questions. After all, he felt that Yang Hao would not have been in Liaodong for too long. He luckily saved the black hat this time, but the Ming army would still be defeated in the Iron Battle soon. After the Iron Battle, Wanli would definitely not tolerate Yang Hao anymore and would definitely let Xiong Tingbi take over.

The two drank until it was late, and Gao Shixin returned to his fullest. Through conversations with Yang Hao, he found that Yang Hao was actually not a bad person. When he was managing Liaodong, he reclaimed wasteland, hoarded food, and actively organized the war against Japanese and aided Korea, which was also considered to be a certain achievement.

The defeat in the Battle of Sarhu was because Yang Hao was stubborn and greedy for merit, and his command mistakes. Of course, there were also the incompetence of the generals under his command, some were too confident, some were afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and some were unable to distinguish between the enemy and me. In short, there were various reasons. Liu Ting was a general who could fight. He formed a camp to resist the enemy. The Later Jin army could not defeat his camp at all, so he took the banner of Du Song and disguised himself as the Ming army. As a result, he smuggled into Liu Ting's camp and defeated Liu Ting.

Lao Nu’s tactic reminded Gao Shixin that he could use Lao Nu’s trick to deal with Lao Nu’s reverse! This time he went to Liaodong to burn the mountains and forests, and he could wear Jiannu’s military uniform and armor and pretend to be Jiannu.

Through Liu Ting's defeat in the war, the management chaos of the Ming army was also explained. When large troops were fighting and camping outside, they needed to have a strict password system, carefully observed and distinguished between the enemy and us.

The next morning, Gao Shixin went to find Man Gui and told him: "Brother Man, we are going to prepare for departure tomorrow morning. Today we will prepare and need to prepare some things. It will be useful on the road tomorrow."

In addition to the armor and weapons that everyone carries, the most important thing is water bags and dry food.

Gao Shixin asked someone to prepare meat and dough cakes. The meat was selected as lamb leg meat. Put it in a large iron pot, add water, green onion, ginger, salt and wine, and add a little white braised lamb leg meat made of tangerine peel and licorice. There was neither soy sauce nor large ingredients, cinnamon, pepper, grass fruit and pepper, nor sugar.

Large ingredients, cinnamon, pepper, and other spices were expensive luxury goods back then, especially pepper, which was an expensive luxury goods comparable to gold! White sugar and soy sauce were also extremely expensive items back then, and only princes and nobles could afford them. The fine salt and brown sugar of those days were already very expensive, let alone soy sauce and white sugar.

Li Rubai slaughtered six people in total, and the lamb leg meat was provided to Gao Shixin and others. The rest of the lamb, lamb blood and other things were used to treat his servants. The lamb leg meat of the six lamb leg meat was braised, less than fifty pounds, and one person could get more than half a pound of braised lamb leg meat.

The mutton was braised. Gao Shixin picked up a piece of mutton, cut a small piece with a knife, tasted it, and found that the taste was pretty good. Although there were not as many spices as later generations, the Hokkaido in the army had a really good cooking skills.

The fire-headed soldier hung up the braised mutton and dried it. A soldier next to him drooled and said enviously and jealously: "I really envy you, you can bring so much meat to the battle."

"Brother, we have exchanged this for life. This is a life-long death. If you want to eat meat, then go and fight Jiannu and exchange for meat." Gao Shixin smiled and scared the soldier.

The soldier trembled for a moment and shook his head repeatedly: "If I don't go, just like my little body, how can I beat Jiannu?"

Hang the mutton with white water and dry it. It will bask in the afternoon and then dry it for one night. It can be put into a bag and brought on the road early the next morning. With the meat, the next thing to consider is dry food.

The Huotou soldier used more than 100 kilograms of flour and mixed more than 100 kilograms of sorghum flour and black bean flour to bake more than 400 cakes, totaling 82 people. Each of them could carry five pancakes and more than half a kilogram of braised lamb leg meat, but this amount of food was only enough for the soldiers who went to the war to eat for five to six days.

"It doesn't matter if there is not enough food. We went to Jiannu's place and found Baoyi to get it." Gao Shixin said with a smile.

The so-called "take" is of course to ask them for a knife. Those coats will not give the grain to the Ming army in vain. If they don't put the knife around their necks, will they take out the grain?

Everyone brought a pair of cowhide water bags. Gao Shixin asked Mangui and others to boil the water, put it cool and then pour it into the water bag. He said to Mangui: "Now if you have the conditions, try to drink the cool boiled water. After we go out, we will not get the snow water."

Man Gui brought two water bags, one of which contained water bags and the other with wine. This guy who was addicted to alcohol wanted wine everywhere he went, and he would lose energy if he had no alcohol.
Chapter completed!