Chapter 86: This Daddy Recognizes Worth

The scorching sun was scorching, the hot wind was blowing, and there seemed to be a woman's whimper in the wind, which made people's backs chill.

What the hell is going on here? What kind of person can be so vicious? Even if it is a good killing, you can't do such a thing that lacks morality.

It was rumored everywhere that officers and soldiers indiscriminately killed innocent people and slaughtered Qingyuan in order to take credit. But Tiemo and the others knew deep that these were all lies.

Hei Yunlong walked into the dilapidated county office and saw the broken walls, and there was a human head hanging under the plaque in the lobby. This human head has long been burned beyond sight.

Finally, unable to suppress the anger in his heart any longer, the black cloud dragon pulled out his knife and looked frantically at the remnant wall next to him, "Beast..... This group of beasts actually did such a poisonous thing..... They are ...... in vain."

Of course, the Black Cloud Dragon was angry, someone committed this kind of atrocity, but in the end, he was thrown on the head of someone by the black cauldron.

The officers and soldiers closest to Qingyuan County are his Black Cloud Dragon and Tiemo. Although it was not explicitly said that it was not said, in fact, it was clearly said that they had killed the good and risked the merits.

Tie Mo is not as uncontrollable as Heiyunlong, and he doesn't have much of a good impression of the so-called rebels.

Those rebel leaders, who sound like amazing heroes, are actually all careerists. As far as these people are, compared with the so-called heroes in the Water Margin, they are not much stronger.

I couldn't figure out how the thieves should get out of the predicament before, but I didn't expect these people to be really ruthless enough to directly throw away all the burdens that slowed down the marching speed.

Tie Mo secretly swore in his heart that if he knew who caused the tragedy in Qingyuan City, he would have to put that person in the oil pan and fry it.

In the middle of summer, the corpse couldn't be left for long. It's only been less than a day, and mosquitoes are already flying all over the sky, and there is a disgusting smell everywhere. Tens of thousands of corpses in Qingyuan City, if not dealt with in time, can easily cause epidemics.

It was not safe to dig pits to bury the bodies, so hundreds of fires had to be placed for incineration.

The difference between officers and soldiers and thieves is here, as saboteurs, thieves can burn, kill and loot, turn around and leave, but officers and soldiers cannot, and must clean up the corpses.

The destroyer and the builder, it is always easier for the destroyer to do things, but it is difficult for the builder to do things.

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The siege of Taiyuan Mansion was lifted, but before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard the bad news again.

In order to retaliate against the atrocities of the officers and soldiers in Qingyuan City, the thieves looted the two county seats, and the men and women in the city killed and looted, almost turning the two county towns into ruins.

It can be said that after the looting by the thieves, Wenshui and Fenzhou have become the same as Qingyuan County, and most of the women in the two cities have also been taken away by the thieves.

On August 12 of the first year of Chongzhen, the chaotic party Kewenshui passed through Fenzhou, entered the territory of Shaanxi, and assembled in Suide and Mizhi in batches. Fleeing all the way and looting countless times, it directly led to the three cities becoming ruins, and nearly one million people in Shanxi were homeless, especially Qingyuan County, which almost became a dead city.

The military intelligence was sent back to the capital, and the court was furious. Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor who knew the ins and outs, was furious and wanted to arrest Ye Heng, the prefect of Taiyuan, back to the capital for beheading.

However, due to the intercession of the cabinet and most of the ministers of the six ministries, Zhu Youzhen could only give up. In the end, Ye Heng, the prefect of Taiyuan, was demoted and transferred to the Nanjing Ministry to be the main officer. Donglin Party member, Yu Shi Gaojie is the new prefect, and he will take office soon.

Ye Heng was degraded, which made Tiemo very unhappy.

It is said that with Ye Heng's mistake, it is not enough to cut his head ten times. The situation in Shanxi is so erosive, and there is a direct reason for Ye Heng's blind command. If it weren't for Ye Heng's indiscriminate deployment of troops, he would not have let the thieves easily break into Shanxi.

If someone else made a mistake like Ye Heng, he would have died a long time ago.

Sure enough, there are people in the DPRK and China who are good officials, and there are still benefits to forming a party.

If someone is demoted, someone will be promoted. Tiemo is one of them, in view of the two battles of Taiheling and Heishui River, Tiemo has accumulated merit and promoted to a thousand generals, and the soldiers and horses under the command of the department are no longer under the establishment of the guard, but directly under the battle sequence of the Xuanfu Beijing camp.

Although he has accumulated meritorious work and promoted to the general manager, his real power has not changed much, and he is still the commander of Zhangbei Garrison and Dark Village Fort.

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Zhangbei is in ruins, but here, you can clearly see a busy scene. It may be desolate, but it is full of life.

Tiemo sent troops to suppress bandits this time, and the biggest gain was not military merits, but a lot of materials.

The materials changed hands, and each Jin merchant could almost get no less than 30,000 taels of benefits.

These benefits have strengthened the confidence of several Jin businessmen and made this cooperative relationship more stable.

Seeing the benefits, the Chang family and the Cao family also supported Tiemo's army expansion and training operations, especially ordnance, and there were no restrictions.

In the past month, Zhangbeicheng has undergone earth-shaking changes, the Chang family, the Cao family, and the Yang family have transferred their shops to Zhangbei, and in addition, Duofu is also preparing in an orderly manner.

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Zhangbei Xicheng was set aside a place to be used as a firearms workshop, and the strange old man Zhao Jinrong became the general person in charge of the workshop.

Although the workshop was only in its infancy, Zhao Jinrong, a firearms maniac, had already devoted himself to the improvement of firearms. When I came to the workshop today, I was also pulled over by Zhao Jinrong.

"Dad, the child has fought several battles and is tired to death, can't you let me sleep well for two days?"

"What's the whining, is it important to sleep, or is it important to fire?" Zhao Jinrong opened a wooden box and bent down to pick up the firearm inside.

After seeing this firecracker, Tiemo's eyes straightened, and the drowsiness in his head suddenly disappeared without a trace.

The shape of the firebolt in front of him is no different from the bird's gun used in the army, but Tiemo still sees some differences.

First of all, there is a triangular pattern in the filling port, which reduces the slot for setting the fire rope. The tip of the barrel has also changed, with an additional round card slot and a longer barrel.

With just one glance, Tie Mo dared to be sure that this was definitely not a traditional firecracker.

Coming to the open place outside, when Zhao Jinrong opened the card slot for filling gunpowder, Tiemo found more differences.

In addition to the groove for filling gunpowder, there is actually a long groove in the front, what is this extra long groove for?

Without waiting for Tiemo to ask, Zhao Jinrong took out an item from the cloth bag on his waist and put it in the groove.

At this moment, Tie Mo was a little speechless with excitement.

The cone-shaped strip of ammunition resembles the bullets of later generations, and more importantly, the ammunition is not poked through the barrel.

breech reloading.....

God, breech loading, and it's not that spherical buckshot yet.

After reloading, he poured some gunpowder into the groove behind him, closed the card slot, and raised his hand to shoot in the distance.

With a bang, there was an extra black hole in the big willow tree more than thirty feet away.

Looking at the big willow tree in the distance, Tiemo kept swallowing his saliva, his eyes staring, like dementia.

A long range, look at that black hole, the effective range is at least ten feet farther than the bird's gun, and the most important thing is breech loading.

Loading from breech to breech is definitely a qualitative leap, and when you think about it, you can stuff lead bullet into the barrel and stab it again, and you feel like you've eaten.

Breech reloading, how much time is saved?

Also, for the musket, the real soul is not the musket itself, but the bullet.

The ammunition used by Zhao Jinrong already had the rudiments of later bullets, although it still had to be ignited with gunpowder.

As for why there is no arquebus, it can be fired smoothly, this point Tiemo still knows a little, it must be flint firing, which is what later generations called flintlock pistols.

Flintlock pistol, breech loading, conical bullets!

Tie Mo looked at Zhao Jinrong directly, his eyes shining with gold.

Phew, this dad doesn't lose money, he makes a lot of money.