Originally, the Qianhushou in Pengzhou had no city walls. Later, during the Jiajing period, due to the Japanese pirates, local military households strengthened the city walls and built a stone city with a circumference of 640 meters and a height of 10 meters and five feet. They had four city gates and also dug a moat.

Zhang Qianhu, the highest commander of Qianhu Institute, stood in person at the south gate to welcome the arrival of Jinyiwei. When the fleet with the Zheng family army was flying into Rongjiang just now, Zhang Qianhu had already seen it. Seeing the fleet mooring on the shore, a team of Jinyiwei came down from the ship. He did not dare to neglect and hurriedly took people to the gate to greet him.

There are 1,200 military households in Pengzhou. In addition to their families, more than 5,000 people live in the city.

Zhang Qianhu brought a group of hundreds of households, general flags and small flag officers to greet him at the door. Seeing a large group of Jinyiwei coming over, the leader of Jinyiwei wearing a purple flying fish suit, a wingless black gauze hat, and a jade belt hanging around his waist. Purple is the most noble, Zhang Qianhu knew that the person in the leader must be a big shot of Jinyiwei. Seeing that the team used the "Zhao" flag, he hurried forward.

"I am not good at the commander Zhao." Zhang Qianhu bent down to salute Zhao Peng.

"This is our commander, loyal and brave waiter, and the prince-in-law." Chen Xinyuan next to him said.

Zhang Qianhu quickly knelt on the ground and gave a big gift: "I am not good at marquis!"

Zhao Peng did not ask Zhang Qianhu to stand up, but continued to let him kneel there. Because he had no good impression of these hereditary Qianhu. These guys were officers when they were born, so they would definitely not fight. They were quite capable of bullying the military households. Zhao Peng just said: "I returned to Jiangnan from Guangzhou and passed by this place. I didn't want to encounter a storm, so I let the fleet enter the inner harbor to shelter the wind."

"The Qing Marquis visited the humble house. The humble rank was sent to a banquet to entertain the Marquis." Zhang Qianhu said. However, Zhao Peng did not ask him to stand up. He did not dare to stand up rashly, and could only kneel there.

Zhao Peng saw that he had almost kneeled down, so he made a gesture of "please get up": "Get up."

"Please come with the marquis!" Zhang Qianhu and his officers stood up, led the way in front, and led Zhao Peng and a group of Jinyiwei into the city.

The houses in Suocheng are relatively neat and beautiful, which is in sharp contrast with the dilapidated houses where the military households live outside Suocheng. The contrast between the two is a world of difference. The most luxurious building in Suocheng is the house of thousands of officers.

Zhang Qianhu asked Zhao Peng to take Chen Xinyuan, Wang Quan and several officers into his house, while the remaining Jinyiwei were picked up by officers from various small flags to their homes for dinner.

When he walked into Zhang Qianhu's house, Zhao Peng found that it was a three-entry mansion with a cross-yard. On one side was a three-entry courtyard. Through the hanging flower door in the yard, you can vaguely see that the cross-yard opposite was a big garden.

Seeing this, Zhao Peng said in his heart: The military households are living such a hard life. You, the officer of a thousand households, still live such a luxurious life. If I don’t find a reason to take you down in the future, then I, the commander of the Jinyiwei, will be in vain!

"Mr. Marquis, it's still early, please come to the dining room for breakfast first." Zhang Qianhu said.

Walking into the spacious and bright dining room, I saw a snow-white tablecloth on the table and a clean tableware on it. After Zhang Qianhu invited Zhao Peng and others to sit down, he turned around and said to the servant: "Give refreshments!"

After a while, four pretty little maids walked into the dining room with trays, brought the charcoal stove and teapot to the table, then added fiery red charcoal to the charcoal stove, and then heated the teapot filled with water on it. After a while, the water boiled, and the maids burned the tea set in front of everyone, and poured tea water into everyone's cups.

Zhang Qianhu greeted, "Come on, everyone should use tea first, drink some tea in the morning, which is equivalent to cleaning the stomach and eating something delicious later."

Zhao Peng responded, but he was cursing in his heart: Ordinary military households can't even eat enough, so how dare they drink tea to help digestion? But these guys who have been full all day long have to use tea to eliminate oil in the stomach and intestines. In later generations, it was only after the living conditions of Guangdong people that early tea and refreshments began to come. In this era, most people cannot even eat enough.

The maids walked in with trays and brought stacks of small buns, rice noodles, shrimp dumplings and other breakfasts to the table. Zhang Qianhu warmly greeted Zhao Peng and the others to enjoy the breakfast.

While eating breakfast, Zhao Peng started chatting with Zhang Qianhu: "Zhang Qianhu, I saw that the land here is all salt-alkali land by the sea and cannot farm. So what does Qianhu live?"

"Of course, it's salt production." Zhang Qianhu said.

Zhao Peng smiled harmlessly: "Isn't it selling private salt?"

Zhang Qianhu's heart suddenly shrank, and his heart skipped a beat, but he still answered without changing his face: "Of course it's not private salt. Beizhi is a place where the salt is produced openly. Naturally, there are officials and businessmen holding salt to buy it. Beizhi also has a lot of salt in his hands. If the Marquis does not believe it, Beizhi can get some salt and give it to the Marquis."

Zhao Peng smiled and waved his hand: "No need, I don't rely on selling salt to earn money. Our Jinyiwei will just copy a few corrupt officials and illegal businessmen. The income from the brothers is enough for the brothers to live a good life."

"What the Marquis said is, what the Marquis said is." Zhang Qianhu smiled awkwardly.

Zhao Peng ate some breakfast again, then took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. When he took out his pocket watch, Zhang Qianhu's eyes were straight: The Marquis is the Marquis, he is really grand! Such a treasure from the Europeans in Thailand can get a lot of money!

"It's still early," Zhao Peng put away his pocket watch, "I want to go outside the city to see the military households."

Zhang Qianhu was shocked and quickly made excuses: "The Marquis is noble, what are the best things for those mud-legged people? Let's use tea here slowly. It's almost noon, and it's time to have a meal in a while. Beizhi also invited people to invite nearby salt merchants and gentry to bring them to the humble house for dinner, and also witness your style."

Zhao Peng laughed: "Zhang Qianhu's words are reasonable. What are the best things for those mud legs? Or use tea here."

Next, Zhao Peng casually chatted with Zhang Qianhu about some topics. It seemed that he was chatting casually. In fact, when he was talking, he kept observing Zhang Qianhu's expression and unknowingly made a cliché.

But Zhang Qianhu is also an old man, so he naturally won’t be fooled by Zhao Peng easily. He answered all the casual conversations, but he chose to hide some key topics.

The teacup in front of Zhao Peng was empty. A little maid in light red clothes walked up with a teapot and added tea to Zhao Peng's teacup. After adding tea to Zhao Peng, Wang Quan, who was sitting opposite, pointed at the teacup. The little maid quickly turned around and wanted to add tea to Wang Quan, but when she was about to turn around, she tripped under her feet, and a pot of boiling hot tea sprinkled out and sprayed on Zhao Peng.

"Mr. I'm sorry, Marquis." The little maid quickly knelt on the ground to apologize.

Zhang Qianhu suddenly stood up and bent down to apologize to Zhao Peng: "Marty, this servant is ignorant, so I forgive me! I will drag her out and beat her to death with sticks! I will apologize to the Martyr as a Huye."

After saying that, Zhang Qianhu turned around and shouted, "Come on!"

Two strong servants walked in, Zhang Qianhu pointed at the little maid and said to the two servants: "This little bitch offended the marquis and dragged him out and beat him to death!"

"No!" The two servants bowed, then dragged the little maid out.

"Give me your life, please spare me!" the little maid begged.

Zhao Peng saw that although the little maid was not pretty, she looked only twelve or three years old. Seeing that such a young child was about to be beaten to death, he couldn't bear it, so he shouted, "Slow!"

The two servants stopped and Zhao Peng asked Zhang Qianhu: "How much did this little maid spend to buy it?"

"Five taels of silver." Zhang Qianhu said.
Chapter completed!