After the king of Yan in control of Beiping, non-stop to capture the surrounding towns and passes, fortunately the second day of the king of Yan's army, there was a Tongzhou commander Fang Sheng led the crowd to surrender, Fang Sheng was originally the old department of the king of Yan, had accompanied the king of Yan to the northern expedition, this time Tongzhou did not fight self-restraint, so that the king of Yan was very happy - because Tongzhou is the gateway to Beiping, the river transport has to be anchored here, and this place is still the military throat, when the king of Zhongshan Xu Da Northern Expedition, is the first to control Tongzhou, only forced Emperor Yuan Shun to flee north. Moreover, Fang Sheng's surrender not only strengthened the power of King Yan, but also set an example for other generals.

Everyone in the Yan Palace, including the annexation of Tongzhou, even the women in the back house, in fact, from the day of the army, the princess Xu led by example and participated in her husband's career, she asked the internal supervisor to move all the cloth stored in the palace out, and took the palace ladies and palace people to pick up needles and threads to sew robes and flags for the Yan army soldiers.

"Mrs. Guo should also rest for a while," Xu smiled and said to the woman beside him: "You are also tired after a day, why bother to kiss it." ”

Mrs. Guo is the wife of Guo Zi, who participated in the politics of Beiping Zuo, when Guo Zi was occupied by the Nine Gates of Beiping, he and Sun Yu, the deputy envoy of the Inspectorate, Mo Lin, and the servant Lu Zhen surrendered to King Yan, in fact, this woman is more than fifty, but with several other official wives, she came to the palace early every morning to assist Princess Xu in sewing robes, and she did not dare to slack off at all.

There are no eggs under the nest, this is it, since he was unwilling to die righteously, he united with King Yan and faced the court together, and now he is also prosperous and lossy. From the moment King Yan raised his army, the appointment and dismissal of officials in Beiping was in the hands of King Yan, and he placed his own officials, so he could completely ignore the imperial court, and because of this, the three guards of Yanshan left guard in the hands of King Yan did not have all the military supplies issued by the imperial court, and all the money, food and clothing had to be prepared by Yan Mansion itself.

"Where are the courtiers tired," Mrs. Guo replied cautiously: "Niangniang has worked hard, raised all directions, and there has been no rest for a day, you must also take care of your body, don't work too hard." ”

These words won the approval of Chen, the wife of Meng Shan, Liu, the wife of Tan Yuan, the deputy Qianhu, the wife of Chen Qi, and the wife of Xu Xiang, the wife of Xu Xiang, and others.

Xu Shi smiled, the needles in her hands were still flying, and the stitches she sewed were fine and dense, and the collar of the military uniform was tied after a while: "What is the juncture now, the soldiers in front are born and die, if we can't keep up with the rear, and the soldiers are affected, how can I be at ease." ”

Zhang Zhaohua listened to the princess and the ladies talking, and was silently thinking about things in his heart. In fact, this place in Beiping is an important town in the north, with abundant materials and goods circulation, but after the beginning of the Jingjing, first of all, Tongzhou is the place, many wealthy businessmen ran away to Shandong overnight, because the Tongzhou Canal also has private ships moored, and it cannot be stopped, and overnight, the market is sluggish.

King Yan broke with the imperial court, and in case of military disasters, the goods in the south could never go up through the canal, Tianjin is not a seaport at all now, does not have the ability to sail, merchants to avoid military disasters, will not come to Beiping, Beiping's own merchants have also shrunk up, not that they do not want to do business, but because Beiping is now strictly controlled, access and exit are strictly controlled, in order to prevent the southern army from mixing in, but also to prevent their own people from defecting to the southern army. It seems that there are a lot of materials hoarded in Beiping, but Jingnan is a long-term war, so all kinds of military supplies must be raised in all directions, which is one of them.

The second is that Zhang Zhaohua listened to King Yan say that a few days ago Zhang Yuzhu was able to attack Jizhou, Jizhou is the place where Ma Xuan fled to command, this battle was brilliant, Jizhou was broken, Ma Xuan was also killed, but Jizhou Wei a large weapons production bureau was also destroyed by Ma Xuan, this is the most angry place for King Yan, if the future capture of the town capital and Jizhou Xue, the armory bureau of the guard will be blown up, then the ordnance and weapons of the Yanwang army will not be supplied at all.

The armament manufacturing industry of the dynasty is divided into the central and local, and the central armaments manufacturing industry is in the central position, the production of ordnance is managed by the Ministry of Industry, and the distribution is responsible for the Ministry of War, the specific management agency is the Ministry of Industry Yu Hengqing Division under the jurisdiction of the Ordnance Bureau and the Ministry of Internal Government under the jurisdiction of the War Bureau, in addition, the Ministry of Industry is also under the jurisdiction of the storage of ordnance and ordnance manufacturing raw materials of the inner library - the E-word library and the Guangji Library, the E-word library of armor and bow and arrow armor and other things, the Guangji Treasury palm sulfur, saltpeter and other things.

Located in Yingtian, the Ordnance Bureau manufactures weapons and distributes them to the World Guard, but the first to supply is the directly subordinate guard army, that is, the Beijing Army, but the world is so big, the number of Ordnance Bureau is only two or three thousand people, and the weapons produced are not even very good for the Beijing Army, so in the fourth year of Hongwu, the emperor ordered the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau to make some military styles, and tried to order the World Guards to produce weapons.

The weapons manufactured by the Metropolitan Guard, under the strict control of the imperial court, such as muskets and artillery, it is absolutely impossible to manufacture at this time, and in terms of raw materials, the control is strict, the Metropolitan Division reports the quantity, and the edict is allocated by the Division. Moreover, because the ordnance bureaus of the local health centers are actually government-run enterprises, there is a common problem of poor management, and the quality of the ordnance produced is not good, and only about one or two hundred pairs of ordnance can be produced per year, and the output is not large.

The Ordnance Bureau of the Beiping Division is already a big Ordnance Bureau in the north, but it is barely supplied to Yanshan Yiwei, and every year it still relies on the weapons issued by the Ministry of War, which King Yan has already thought of, he attacked Jizhou and Yongning, and the city broke the first to go to the Ordnance Bureau, and as a result, Ma Xuan was blown up, and King Yan couldn't help but be angry.

After all, at this time, the Yan army mainly relied on cavalry to fight, and the war horses were sufficient, because there were several horse farms, the largest was the horse farm in Kaiping, with two thousand good horses, and there were also Korean horses that were good at transporting, and the logistics and transportation were also more convenient, but there was a lack of iron armor and bows and arrows and saddle sheaths, and the main weapons of the cavalry were bows and arrows, and the combat was mainly based on cavalry and archery, no matter what era, this was always the main weapon of the Eastern cavalry. These three things are the things that the Yanwang cavalry needs and lacks the most.

Zhang Zhaohua knew that King Yan lacked these things, and she had sent someone to summon Zhang Sheng back before, because she had something important to tell him to do.

However, before Zhang Sheng returned from Qiantang, an unexpected person came in at the gate of King Yan's Mansion. This person Zhang Zhaohua has never seen before, but he knows his name, of course, she is not the only one who knows his name.

"Du Qi, a student member of Peking Mansion," the person who came was the young talent Du Qi: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Yan." ”

When King Yan saw him, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Du Qi, I've seen it in Wan'an Wine Shop, do you remember this king?"

Du Qi said with a long body: "Of course I remember, at that time, the students persuaded His Highness to be defeated with arrogance, but hoped that His Highness would carry on the cause of the long life. ”

"Zhizhi must be talented," King Yan said: "You are born to think that the world is useful, you are a virtuous person, this king has heard such a recommendation several times, and now you are willing to join the great cause with this king?"

Since King Yan raised troops, he naturally wanted to recruit talents from all walks of life, Du Qi had an impression in front of King Yan, and he was recommended by several masters of Ji Shan, so he was summoned to get his advice and assistance.

However, Du Qi seemed to smile and said, "The student has a word that he wants to say to His Royal Highness King Yan." ”

He immediately said: "Since Emperor Taizu Gao was a guest, the heir of the Son of Heaven, the political restoration, the love of the world, Duyun: 'There is Shengming inside, there is a feudal Han outside, the rule of Chengkang, goodbye to the present', the student heard the suicide note of Emperor Gao, and wished the king the heart of the Duke of Zhou, assisting the king, not to say that the king and the court are cut off, Zhang Sanjun, the sixth division, according to Beiping, attacked Huailai, and the students did not know what the king meant. ”

King Yan didn't expect Du Qi to say such a thing, and his face sank, but Du Qi came prepared, and did not wait for him to interrupt, but said eloquently: "Don't you know that although Beiping is the capital of Jin Yuan, Xiongzhen in the north, it is a place in the end, and the soldiers under the command of the king are not more than 50,000. ”

"Besides, the king and the Son of Heaven, righteousness is the monarch and minister, and relatives are flesh and blood," Du Qi said: "There is still a separation, and the people with different surnames under his command can ensure that they work together and serve His Highness?"

King Yan said angrily: "You came today, it turned out that you didn't help me, you came to be a lobbyist to persuade me to quit the army and surrender to the court!"

"Whose lobbyist are the students?" Du Qi asked rhetorically: "Today's subjects, no one knows the obedience, and they all know that the king used the excuse to kill the Zuoban Wenchen, but in fact, the king of Wu, Liu Bi, is obsessed, and resists the public with outnumberedness, and the world is still in mourning.

His last sentence hit the king of Yan, Emperor Gao's three years of mourning have not passed, and the king of Yan raised troops, how does the world view him - this is also the most unspeakable place of the king of Yan, he claims to be a filial son, but violates the imperial examination edict; if he wants to be the prince of Zhou, but he has selfish thoughts, can everyone in the world see the essence of his martyrdom, and regard him as Liu Bi in the Han Dynasty? And his fate will be the same as Liu Bi?

King Yan was extremely angry, "You yellow-mouthed child, how dare you be so presumptuous!"

He looked around left and right: "Push it out, push it out, kill it!"

The guards dragged Du Qi, who was not struggling at all, out, and seeing this, Ma He couldn't help but persuade: "Your Highness, this is just the remarks of a pedantic person and a white-haired scholar, he wants to follow his example, but let His Highness be the King of Qi Tian Guang! If His Highness kills him, won't he make him famous in one fell swoop, but leave the ridicule to His Highness?"

King Yan didn't know this truth, but he was still furious: "What if you kill him? Is he the only one of the world's talents? I want people with intelligence and wisdom to assist me, if all the people who are recommended are like this, wouldn't my great cause have collapsed long ago!"

Let's say that Du Qi originally came with a heart of loyalty and filial piety, and it was as he wanted, but the corpse was scattered, and he was put into a dung truck by the guards and pulled out of the Zunyi Gate, but he never expected that he would meet a noble man's car head-on.

"Ouch," exclaimed the lady in the car, "why does it stink so much!"

The dung truck and the driver happened to be in a narrow alley, and the smell of the dung truck was really difficult to hide, even the people in the car could smell such a smell - the newly puffed incense powder on Yongping's body seemed to have changed its smell, and she was so angry that she shouted.

However, the dung truck and the driver need to move carefully, because the dung truck cannot be easily collided, because if you are not careful, there will be gold juice spilled, and then it is called disgusting. Yongping only felt that the carriage and horse were haunted by the smell, and the movement was slow, and he couldn't help but open the door curtain: "Didn't you calculate the time to go out today or what's wrong, Renshoufang met a dung picker in the past, and now I encounter it again——"

She was silent because she saw the corpse on the dung truck in front of her.

"Du Lang, Du Lang-" Yongping jumped out of the car and actually grabbed the person on the dung truck, she pounced like this, and several Gong buckets suddenly poured out, splashing on her body was not a star, but she couldn't see anything, only saw her Du Lang: "What's wrong with you, what's wrong with you!"

She was so crazy, Du Qi's handsome face seemed to be asleep, and she looked at Du Qi as if she had returned to the night of Shangyuan in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, and the person who watched the fireworks side by side with her was her most unforgettable memory.

The people who served her looked at Yongping inexplicably, and the most terrifying thing was that she found something from the corpse, revealing a fierce and crazy gaze like a lone wolf.