With a "lying down" sound, a shot was fired, Li Zhique quickly took out the projectile from the leather bag, bit the hemp paper with his teeth, put the projectile into the barrel, compacted it with a pole, and then raised the gun to aim, and the full set of actions was quick and skillful.

"Lying down", after firing another shot, Li Zhique repeated the original reloading action.

After firing ten shots in a row at a distance of fifty meters, Li Zhique stopped.

A soldier stepped forward to check the target.

"Report, six shots hit ten rings, three shots hit nine rings, and one shot hit eight rings."

This is a remarkable achievement, although it has not yet reached the level of a sharpshooter, it is very rare to be able to practice so accurately in a short period of time, and in time, it will definitely be a sharpshooter.

Next, Li Zhique shot at a distance of 80 meters, also firing ten shots in a row.

"Report, two guns with ten rings, two guns with nine rings, four guns with eight rings, two guns with seven rings!"

At this distance, the accuracy of fire is much lower than at fifty meters, and according to the performance of the flintlock pistol, this is inevitable.

After the shooting, Li Zhique put away the gun and returned to Guo Wendong.

Li Zhique, in his early twenties, was of medium stature, quite strong-looking, with dark skin, large palms, and rough skin, and was an obvious farmer, who was originally a tenant who rented the Guo family's land for farming.

Guo Wendong approvingly: "Good fight." The other soldiers started training on the same day as you, so why did you fight so well? ”

Li Zhique said: "My lord, I like to hunt since I was a child, and in the past, when I was in the farm, I followed my father to hunt in the mountains, and most often went to Qixia Mountain to hunt. After hearing that he was going to be equipped with a self-made firearm, he swore that he would be the best musketeer in the Shenji Battalion. Since the fire has been fired, he has been training until midnight before going back to sleep. ”

He looks honest, honest, and doesn't have any pretentiousness.

Zhang Huang said: "Every soldier is given the same number of bullets every day for shooting training. Li Zhique asked his superiors to send more bullets and reported the general to the side of the lowly position, and the lowly position agreed. ”

"Not bad, not bad!" Guo Wendong patted Li Zhique's shoulder, and then said: "Work hard, this official will let you use it to the best effect." ”

At the beginning of the manufacture of the flintlock pistol, Guo Wendong thought that he could let Song Yingxing also study the primary rifle.

Any rifled gun, which can be called a rifled gun, that is, a rifled gun, was first invented by the Germans in the early 15th century, and in the early 17th century, the Danish army was the first to be equipped with a rifle.

Compared with flintlock pistols, rifles are heavy, time-consuming, and much more expensive.

However, rifles have a higher firing accuracy and a much longer range than flintlock guns.

With a talent like Song Yingxing, it is entirely possible to develop a compound gun, which can be used to equip a small number of troops and form a special team to snipe and kill important figures of the enemy.

However, there are priorities in the matter, and it will be until Song Yingxing develops a better Hongyi cannon that he will start to develop the rifle.

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In Nanjing, Shi Kefa's house, important members of the Donglin Party gathered here to discuss the next move.

Shi Kefa sighed helplessly a few times and said, "I will leave for Yangzhou in two days. You guys, you're all white! ”

Zhang Shenyan said: "I'm old, I can't fight them, I just want to spend the rest of my life in peace." ”

Jiang Yueguang said: "We can't admit defeat, we have to let the entire Ming Dynasty know that our Donglin faction is loyal ministers of the imperial court, and Ma Shiying, Guo Wendong and others are all chaotic ministers and thieves." ”

Lu Daqi said: "Yes, you can't let the chaotic ministers and thieves cause trouble to the dynasty." ”

Gao Hongtu said: "During the apocalypse, we will fight the eunuch party with bravery, and the six gentlemen of Donglin will swear not to give in to the eunuch party, and their names will go down in history, how can they give in to Ma Shiying and others." ”

In the group of readers, although the Donglin Party has not yet reached the point of covering the sky with one hand, it has the greatest voice among all factions.

The Donglin Party is naturally unwilling to lose, and they want to use their own right to speak to build momentum for their own side and discredit their opponents.

Shi Kefa said: "I'm going to Yangzhou, you can go back to Donglin Academy, please everyone." ”

Two days later, Shi Kefa set off for Yangzhou, where several Donglin heavyweights went to Donglin Academy in Wuxi.

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On this day at the end of August, Huang Delin came to report the situation to Guo Wendong.

"My lord, in recent days, there have been a lot of unfavorable rumors against you in Nanjing, and my subordinates will find out the source as soon as possible, and there is a good chance that it is those Donglin Party members."

"You send someone to Wuxi to see what is happening in Donglin Academy!"

Guo Wendong is not worried about what the Donglin Party can set off.

With the assistance of Dongfang Jun, after preparations, the "China Times" newspaper was officially established, and the office was not far from Guo's house.

For the addresses of various departments, Guo Wendong tried his best to set them up in the vicinity of his home to facilitate management.

The barracks, the Central Union, and the newspaper offices all take this as a principle, and they are not far from Guo's mansion.

Subsequently, Guo Wendong walked for 10 minutes to the newspaper office to inspect the situation.

The newspaper office is located in a house, and the front part of the house is the office area, which is responsible for the content of the newspaper, and the people who work here are equivalent to the editors of modern Chinese newspapers; In the back half of the house, there is a printing area.

Here, Guo Wendong saw a familiar face.

Guo Wendong said: "Lord Shangshu, you are very honored to come to the newspaper!" ”

Qian Qianyi stood up and said politely: "Lord Guo is in need, and Qian is duty-bound." I've written two articles, and I've written one. ”

Next to him, on the countertop, there were several written pieces of paper.

Guo Wendong looked at them all, and there were two chapters of articles attacking the Donglin Party, which unceremoniously revealed that the Donglin Party was all writing selfish guys, which was written by Qian Qianyi, which belonged to classical Chinese, and the writing was very good.

The third article belongs to the vernacular, which is an article that indirectly praises Guo Wendong, with a beautiful font, written by Liu Ru.

The article begins with a description of how the Guo government treats the tenants, pointing out that the Guo government is very conscientious, and only charges 40% of the tenants' land rent, and all vegetables, meat, etc., in the Fuzhong and Shenji camps, are given priority to purchase from the tenants' homes, and when it is necessary to hire personnel, the tenants are given priority, and the monthly salaries are never in arrears.

A few days ago, Dongfang Jun went to Qian Qianyi's house to ask for a meeting, and invited Qian Qianyi to write an article for the China Times, Qian Qianyi readily agreed, he wanted to please Ma Shiying, and he was also very polite to Guo Wendong.

Qian Qianyi said: "Master Guo, Qian has just become the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he has a lot of affairs, so he has only written two articles. But I had some time in the house, and I asked him to write the last one. It's wonderful that Mr. Guo came up with a newspaper method! If the future is really terrifying, the future is limitless! ”

When it came to the back, he gave a thumbs up.

Guo Wendong said: "Lord Qian is polite, I still need you to help me in the future, write more articles, and compose poems." If it is convenient for Mrs. Zun, you can come to work at the newspaper. ”

Qian Qianyi said: "It should be no problem, after the old man took up the post of the Ministry of Rites, he had a lot of affairs, and he had no time to accompany him, so it didn't hurt to let her help him." ”

Ma Lanxin is bored at home, and she will take care of the newspaper in the future, she knows Liu Rusi, so it's good to let the two beauties communicate more.

The establishment of newspapers and the distribution of newspapers were an important means for Guo Wendong to gradually control public opinion.