Chapter 108: Muskets
In this life, there will always be times when people are stupid.
Zhao Shu returned to Jiangnan Mansion, and Su Xiu told her that Wang Jize had brought 300,000 people to encircle and suppress, and he would definitely rescue Huo Baichuan.
The prince told him that it was the Lu family, the Xiliang Qian family, the Zhong family of Beiding Mansion, the Yang family, the Wei family, the Huainan Hou, plus the kings, and the local old party clans, who contributed money and people to raise soldiers.
He is the enemy of the whole world.
Yan Shiren said that they only had one assault rifle team, and Huo Baichuan was going to lure the enemy to take the bait tonight, and if the assault musket team was destroyed, these people would not be afraid.
Chen Jianbo said that the island was about to be razed, and they were going to die with Huo Baichuan.
Zhao Shu thought, one person can let so many forces, so many families work together to deal with it, and there are so many lives to be buried with, and it is worth dying.
Sure enough, it's going to be famous for eternity, and I just hope that the name behind me will sound better.
She checked the pulse at the door of the yamen as usual, did not wash her face with tears all day long like Yan Ruyu, let alone ask if there was any news every quarter of an hour, nor did she not eat and sleep.
"County Lord, it's getting dark." Su Xiu put on a cloak for her, "General Wei has sent a letter." ”
"Well, let's go back."
I don't know why, as soon as it gets dark, it is easy to rain, Zhao Shu just stood up, and the rain began to fall, as if to wash the bright red blood, even God can't see it.
Back in the courtyard, Yan Ruyu leaned against the door frame with red eyes, and she choked up and said, "Did he say anything before he died?" If he has any unfulfilled wishes, you tell me, and I will complete them for him, and I will not trouble you. ”
"He said he wasn't going to die." Zhao Shu crossed her and entered the house, with a letter on it, and the envelope said 'Shu Shu personally opened'.
Yan Ruyu squatted down and cried, crying very sadly.
Zhao Shu opened the letter, and there was only one sentence on it, 'I don't see you for a day, and my thoughts are like crazy'.
I don't see it for a day, and I think about it like crazy.
I don't see it for a day, and I think about it like crazy.
I don't see it for a day, and I think about it like crazy.
"County Lord, I've found Lord Huo's body." Soldiers rushed in to give a report.
A fishy sweetness came up, and with a "poof" sound, blood spilled onto the letter, and I didn't think about it for a day.
"County Lord, County Lord." Su Xiu's anxious voice slowly faded away, and in the end, Zhao Shu couldn't even feel that she was still alive, and the voice of the whole world couldn't be heard.
There is only that sentence in my ear, and I don't see it for a day.
If you refuse to think, you want to fall asleep like this.
For three days, for three whole days, Mrs. Peng traveled thousands of miles from the capital to Jiangnan Mansion, the soup and water were filled with a lot, and the heart pulse was stable, but she just didn't wake up.
"Imperial Doctor Peng, when will Ah Jun wake up?" The prince asked.
Mrs. Peng was silent, "If she wants to wake up, she can wake up." ”
He is a doctor, not a Taoist priest, but he said some mysterious and mysterious words, which made the prince lose his temper, and he personally guarded Zhao Shu these days, just like Zhao Shu guarded him at the beginning, sleepless day and night.
People, when you are alive, there are always things that need to be cherished, flesh and blood friendship, friendship with friends, and this or that bond, and only with these things can life be considered complete.
Su Xiu knelt outside the door, and it had been three days, and Xiao Guozi and others also knelt behind her, and they didn't get up for three days, the wind and rain were blowing, and their eyebrows didn't wrinkle.
It was a man who walked over and shook his head, not knowing what they were sighing about.
The prince and the old lady Peng went to the medicine house to decoct the medicine, and Zhao Shu was the only one left in the house, she slept peacefully, her face was ruddy, and she couldn't tell that she had been in a coma for three days.
When the door was closed, she slowly opened her eyes, got off the bed, pushed open the door, and with a "Karma" sound, Xiao Guozi and the others raised their heads.
"County Lord, are you awake?" Xiao Guozi couldn't believe it, rubbed his eyes, saw that the person was still in front of him, and hurriedly kowtowed, "The county lord is sorry, it's not good to be a minion, a slave shouldn't go to the island, if the slave doesn't go to the island, you won't save the minion, and Lord Huo won't die." ”
"Please punish the county lord." Liang Xi and others also kowtowed and admitted their mistakes.
Only Su Xiu didn't say anything.
Zhao Shu looked at her, "You come in." ”
"Yes." Su Xiu knelt for too long, and couldn't stand up all of a sudden, and when she slowly stood up on the ground, Zhao Shu had already entered the house.
Xiao Guozi and the others were stunned, and they didn't know why the county lord summoned Su Xiu alone.
Su Xiu slowly moved into the house and knelt in front of Zhao Shu again, "Please punish the county lord, it's all the slave's fault, and it has nothing to do with anyone else!" ”
Zhao Shu sighed, "You go, don't talk to me in the future." ”
"The county lord is gracious, please don't drive the slave and maid away, the slave and maid are willing to receive the punishment, no matter how the county lord punishes, the slave and the maid have no complaints, as long as the county lord does not drive the slave and maid away, please be merciful." She slammed her head and kowtowed, blood pouring from her forehead.
Zhao Shu remembered that when a few of them came to her side, they were still a little confused and excited in their eyes, the master taught them a thousand times and ten thousand times, but they were not as real as the experience they had gotten by themselves, so they were both confused and excited when they first came.
Each one has its own story, Zhao Shu has never asked, she is not actually a slave when she is a disciple of Zhihai, many times, she wants to try to give them a good future.
"Reason." She said two words.
"The slave's father is Yue Louming, and his mother is Wang, when my father took a few of our brothers back home, he encountered a killer on the way, and no one survived except me." Many years have passed, and she is still grief-stricken when she says it at this time, "I overheard the conversation between Mr. Wang and his subordinates, and I knew that Lord Huo wanted to use himself to lure the three thousand assault musket team, and the slave wanted to take revenge with her own hands, so I went to the island without listening to the persuasion and asked the county lord to punish him." ”
"Have you taken revenge with your own hands?" Zhao Shu asked, it turned out that she was Yue Louming's daughter, and the original intelligence said that Yue Louming had a son who survived, "You are the only one in the Yue family who survived?" ”
"The slave and maid did not take revenge with their own hands, the county lord, you came to save the slave and the maid, the slave and the maid knew that it was wrong, the master raised me and educated me, I lived up to the master's expectations, I did not protect the county lord, and Su Xiu was not filial."
Thinking of the five-year-old Yue family who survived the rumors, Su Xiu burst into tears, the rumors are rumors after all, not true, "Those rumors are all false, the Yue family survived the slave and maid alone, and was picked up by the master, he accepted me as an apprentice, and the master asked the slave and maid to protect the county lord before he died, the county master, the slave and maid made a thousand mistakes, and they were all revengeful, please the county lord for the sake of the slave and maid master, don't drive the slave and maid away." ”
"Have you wiped out all the 3,000 assault muskets?" Zhao Shu changed the subject.
Su Xiu was overjoyed, wiped away her tears, and replied: "It's destroyed, the assault rifles are all bought from overseas, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that these three thousand assault muskets are worth 100,000 taels of gold." ”
"Advanced things, naturally valuable, go get a handful and show me."
She was a little inconvenient, but she was still ecstatic and left, limping, Xiao Guozi and the others were still kneeling outside, Zhao Shu said, "Get up." ”
They have feelings for Su Xiu, Su Xiu is smart and clever, and they go to the island with a few words, Zhao Shu doesn't want to worry too much, "Go back to Beijing and punish a few of you." ”
"Thank you, Lord Shire." A few people kowtowed and thanked them, but now that I think about it, aren't they troublesome? personally went to the island to get people, disrupted Huo Baichuan's plan, and led him to die.
"Let's all go down, and no one will come to disturb me." She didn't want to see anyone now, and she didn't want to see anyone, so she took a pen and handed a letter back to Wei Tingsi and handed it to Xiao Guozi, "Take it." ”
After Su Xiu brought the assault rifle, Zhao Shu didn't let her stay longer.
"The charm of technology is unmatched." Gently stroking the musket on the table, Zhao Shu drew a picture of the musket.
The prince and Mrs. Peng learned that she had woken up and had to come over to see her in person no matter what, but Zhao Shu had no choice but to let them in.
"Ah Jun, is there anything uncomfortable?" She stretched out her hand to probe Zhao Shu's forehead, her body temperature was as usual, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "You, what do you say, you can also believe a soldier's words, that is a meticulous work, deliberately making you distracted, although Huo Aiqing has not been found yet, but his body has not been found, don't worry." ”
He knew that Zhao Shu was worried, but he refused to ask, so he poured all the beans and said it all, and the old lady Peng next to him was not happy, "Your Highness, what should be said and what should not be said, you have said everything, let Weichen say anything?" This is over, I can't coax the county lord, she doesn't tell me the prescription. ”
looked extremely aggrieved, which made Zhao Shu grin.
"Brother Prince, look at this." Hand it to him, "Three thousand muskets are worth 100,000 gold, but what if three thousand muskets?" ”
The prince is a person who knows the goods, and he immediately looked stupid, "Ah Jun, is this possible?" "The assault musket is already a big breakthrough, if the musket can be made, where is there an opponent in this world?
"As long as there is silver, what is not to be done?" And she also has technical talents, "Brother Prince, over the years, the gold mines have been almost mined, right?" ”
"I don't know, I handed it over to my father and queen, and I never took care of it again, you know, he didn't let anyone take care of it." The prince was a little embarrassed.
Zhao Shu understands that if she is replaced, she will not let people interfere, it is a gold mine.
"Do you remember the location?"
The prince's eyes moved, and he looked at her, "Do you want to?" ”
"Yes, that's what I thought, it's yours in the future anyway, so why not use it in advance? As long as we raise 10,000 musketeers and dozens of cannons, who are we afraid of? "In the past, Zhao Shu always felt that these hot weapons should not be made, these things would make the world more chaotic and it would be more convenient to kill people, but now it is different, everyone else can use a musket, why doesn't she use a musket?
Holding spears all day long, shouting and shouting to kill, fighting a battle and filling it with human life, to see who has more people, can have several meanings.
"It's just hard to find a craftsman." Speaking of it, it is still a matter of talent, "this assault musket was originally invented by a soldier of the previous dynasty, and later the former emperor Yuan felt that the danger was very great, so he issued a ban, and the technology was wiped out, and then I don't know who brought this technology overseas, after improvement, the power soared, so in Dayong, it is difficult to find a craftsman who can do assault musket." ”
"Talent, as long as you want to find it, it's still easy to find, if the prince's brother can come up with 100,000 taels of gold, I will give you 10,000 muskets and 50 cannons, how about it?"
This is too tempting, the prince admitted that he couldn't resist such a temptation, and waved his hand, "Okay, 100,000 taels of gold, I'll figure it out." ”
Mrs. Peng really wanted to cover his ears, he didn't want to listen or don't listen, his eyes were disgusted at Zhao Shu and the prince, these two people were too bad, they deliberately let him hear it, and then let him use this old bone to die, and there is no heavenly reason!
"Old Peng." Zhao Shu screamed deliberately.
"I can't hear it, I can't hear it, I haven't heard anything, you discuss yours, please feel free, the old man has to see a few patients, slowly." He said he wanted to run.
Zhao Shumu sent him away, and then said unhurriedly: "Hey, a thick medical book, I don't know who to read it, it's better to burn it, it's in the way anyway." ”
"Auntie, you are doing well, what are your orders, do you say that it is not okay?" He turned, a sad face, a blowing beard and glaring.
Zhao Shu and the crown prince looked at each other and laughed, "Old Peng, my people must be under surveillance, you are the imperial doctor, no one will pay special attention to you, I want to ask you to find someone." Zhao Shu wrote a name and handed it to him, "At the beginning, he made a purple gold crown for my father, and his craftsmanship was excellent, and then he was sent out of Beijing by me, so far I don't know where he is, he may have changed his name and surname, and I will ask Xiao Zhuzi to send you a piece of information later, in addition to looking for him, I also need a group of craftsmen, I hope Peng Lao can find it for me." ”
"The old man is this life, isn't he just looking for someone, okay, ancestor, whatever you say is what it is." Mrs. Peng compromised for the sake of the prescription.
After the division of labor and cooperation, Zhao Shu looked at the two squarely, "Although I woke up, I hope that the prince's brother and Peng Lao, I hope that the two of you will announce to the public that I am dying, I was hit by a musket, and I was injured Yan zhòng, and everyone who must publicize it will know." ”
"Why?" Mrs. Peng didn't understand very well, and Zhao Shu looked a little injured now.
"Just do it." She didn't want to explain too much.
Mrs. Peng didn't understand, but the prince understood, when Yide entered Beijing, he would definitely tell everything that happened in Jiangnan, and he would distort the facts, I don't know how to arrange Zhao Shu, if she was dying of death, Emperor Mingde would have to scruple about it.
As long as you have scruples, you can delay time, and when you make a musket, whether you use it for negotiation or killing, it is enough.
More importantly, if Emperor Mingde understands the power of the assault rifle, let him be afraid and afraid, so that he will not punish her crimes lightly, as well as Huo Baichuan.
Moreover, Zhao Shu seems to understand what Hao Shumei's reliance is.
"Ah Jun, you are so resting, there is me outside, you can rest assured, the flood has almost stopped, General Wei has recovered Zhongnan and sent 100,000 loads of grain, many big clans have followed the example of the Luoyang Lin family, opened a warehouse and released grain, there will be no more famine, the plague is almost controlled, Peng Lao has excellent medical skills, he stabilized the people's hearts as soon as he came."
was praised, Mrs. Peng was a little embarrassed, "It's all the people who praise me, where the medical skills are excellent, those are all false." ”
"Don't be modest, as soon as I heard that Mr. Peng came to Jiangnan, the people of ten miles and eight towns welcomed you, saying that you are a miracle doctor, but you are much stronger than that medical immortal." The prince did not hesitate to praise him.
Zhao Shu wanted to make Dr. Peng famous in medicine at the beginning, but he didn't expect it to be done, from the anesthetic soup at the beginning, to the alcohol later, these new inventions made him sit firmly in the apricot forest world Taishan Beidou.
"Divine doctor, I didn't expect to see a living divine doctor, I'm so excited, hahaha......" Zhao Shu couldn't help but tease, sincerely happy for his old man.
"I won't tell you, the old man is busy." Mrs. Peng shyly snatched the door out.
The prince also had something to do, and after telling Zhao Shu to rest well, he went out.
After the two of them left, only Zhao Shu was left in the room, she sat down, cleared her throat, and then said: "Death is still ghostly, be careful that I find a Taoist priest to accept you." (To be continued.) )