Yang Qilong did a good job of keeping his promise, and during this time, although the peasant uprisings in the north were devastating, the Beijing area remained calm. Of course, this is not an accident, in fact, before the peasant uprising, the Han army has already learned the news, in response to the upcoming uprising storm, Lin Feng has taken a lot of precautionary measures politically and militarily, such as urgently dispatching troops to control the floating crowd, sending troops on the border to be closely armed, etc., Rao is so, there are still many homeless people in several counties in Gyeonggi, of course, Lin Feng will naturally not be polite in this case, The conspiracy of these hungry people was quickly detected by Chen Menglei's intelligence network, and the army was immediately dispatched to wipe out these dangerous elements. In fact, even if someone makes a disturbance, Lin Feng will not be afraid, the current situation in Beijing is very different from other provinces, a small Shuntian Mansion has now gathered 40,000 troops, well-equipped and on standby, it is estimated that no good man will not be able to pick it up.

Judging from the intelligence collected by the intelligence network, Yang Qilong's organization of the uprising seems to be quite bad, although it caught the Qing court off guard militarily, but politically it has greatly lost points, although he played the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and publicly announced his identity as the "third prince of Zhu", but the group of rebels under his command did not act like a recovering army. In the area controlled by the rebels, almost all the landlords, rich peasants and wealthy merchants in the city were slaughtered, because of the excessive number of people, and the serious shortage of military materials, they had to adopt the policy of fighting to support the war, smashing and looting became the routine homework of the rebels after the capture of the city, and at the same time coerced the strong men to supplement the army, due to the loose organization and lack of discipline, the behavior of the rebels appeared quite brutal, Rape, robbery, murder, fire prevention, and all kinds of evil, these people who have been oppressed in the lowest strata of society all year round will be extremely terrible once they take revenge on society, and all kinds of destructive work will be done very thoroughly. They are like locusts that ravage one side, leaving nothing behind wherever they go.

In such a situation, countless local tyrants and inferior gentry have begun to flee, in addition to Shandong and Jiangnan, where there was no peasant uprising, Beijing under the control of Lin Feng has naturally become a very ideal choice, in such a moment of crisis, everyone will not care about what rebels are not rebels, although entering Beijing have to cut off the braids, but cutting the braids is obviously much more pleasant than being wiped out by the whole family of the rebels.

Under the instruction of Lin Feng, Li Guangdi's military government immediately issued a stern order at this time, in the area controlled by the Han army, all landlords must reduce rents and interest rates, and at the same time, all wealthy families must also cooperate with the government to set up wrinkled sheds to provide food necessary for the survival of the hungry people who fled to exile and famine. If the safety of life is lost, then all property is meaningless.

The influx of a large number of floating population has caused heavy pressure on the military government presided over by Li Guangdi, during this period of time the prices in Beijing have skyrocketed, and those local tyrants and gentry who fled to Beijing are all worth a lot, and under their stimulation, Beijing's consumption level has risen to a higher level, making many urban poor people complain, but in this case, Lin Feng can not do anything, although the grain depot in Tongzhou has hoarded a large amount of grain, but these military rations obviously cannot be used for charitable purposes, so the Han army is now only after ensuring the supply of military families, At a minimum, these poor people are provided with several bowls of porridge per day.

Under the hard-line policy of the Han army, the city of Beijing was calm again after a period of chaos, although the public security situation is not good, but compared to the war outside, it is like heaven. At this time, Lin Feng's political ability to stabilize the situation in Gyeonggi was also highly praised by the scholars, especially those landlords who fled for their lives were even more sighing, in such an atmosphere of public opinion, Lin Feng's original image of the rebellious leader was gradually improved, and it seemed that he gradually had a little bit of a king's spirit, and many people with keen political senses also felt that the prospects of the Qing Dynasty seemed to be not good, and the wealthy families in Beijing who originally maintained a wait-and-see attitude began to try to have in-depth contact with the high-level of the Han army.

The first to move closer to the Han army were those Qing court officials who had been captured, and during this period of time, Lin Feng did not embarrass them, on the contrary, he also showed a certain amount of respect and care, and these people can be said to be quite chic except for certain restrictions on their personal freedom. After learning that the great peasant uprising had led to the chaos in the Central Plains, these officials began to express their willingness to unite under the banner of rebellion against foreign races and work together for the recovery of China.

For the sudden outbreak of national consciousness of these scholars, Lin Feng naturally immediately expressed a warm welcome, these people may not have any great ability, but the most important is also skilled personnel, during this period of time, the military government presided over by Li Guangdi was under great pressure, so it was the right time for this group of people to go to work. Since Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei had served in the central court of the Qing court for a long time, they were relatively familiar with the abilities and conduct of these people, so it was also very convenient for them to inspect their abilities and confer official ranks.

Lin Feng's work during this period of time is also mainly focused on this aspect, as the number one person in the Han army, naturally there is no more important job than digging talents to buy people's hearts, for several days, he has been constantly meeting with these officials who have taken refuge, repeating over and over again a kind of warm and considerate meeting procedure, at this time, just sent away an official who was good at financial management in the original household department, and the new gift here was handed over, Lin Feng couldn't help but **, and closed his eyes in pain. Looking at Lin Feng's tired face, Li Ergou, the captain of the personal army, couldn't help but hesitate a little, and stood quietly aside with a sticker.

After a short break, Lin Feng sighed, opened his eyes and beckoned to Li Ergou helplessly, "Don't stand stupidly, call the next one up!" ”

"Sinner Dai Zi, I've seen the general!!" The young man opposite Wenwen was weak, his eyes narrowed into a thin slit, and he seemed to be a little short-sighted.

"Dai Zi?!" Lin Feng was slightly stunned, feeling as if he had heard this name somewhere, he immediately took the sticker from Li Ergou's hand reflexively, swept the corners of his eyes, and muttered for a long time, as if he was recalling something, just when Dai Zi was worried in his heart, Lin Feng suddenly raised his head and put on a kind smile, "You are Dai Zi Dai Wenkai?" Come on, come on, please sit down ,—— dog, tea on tea! ”

Dai Zi was hesitant in his heart, sat down with half of his buttocks sideways, and said gratefully, "General Xie!" ”

"I said Yunkai, what's going on with you?" Lin Feng greeted casually, and at the same time flipped through the post, "Oh, you were recommended by Prince Kang Jieshu to enter Beijing, and you originally served in the Ministry of War?!" ”

"Adults are clear, students are ...... This turned out to be meritorious in the army, cough ...... Cough...... Seeing that the student was quite accomplished in ordnance, the puppet Prince of Qingkang Jieshu ordered me to return to Beijing to supervise the manufacture of artillery equipment, and was later appointed as the head of the military department. ”

"I see, I see, I was really wronged Mr. some time ago, Lin Mou confessed," Lin Feng stood up and smiled at Dai Zi, "Don't hide it, sir, our team used to work on Geng Jingzhong's side, and also fought against Jieshu a few times, and when I was there, I often heard people mention Mr.'s name!" ——When I saw it today, I was still so young, which is really rare in the world. ”

Seeing that Lin Feng was so polite, Dai Zi was flattered, and hurriedly stood up and returned the salute, "Don't dare, don't dare, the general has won the award!" ”

"This ...... Brother Yunkai, hehe......"

Dai Zi hurriedly stood up again, and thanked him, "Don't dare, how can you be worthy of the general's brothers?!" ”

"Hey, what is that? The so-called brothers in the four seas, why bother to be so divided? To be honest, as soon as I saw your brother just now, I felt very right, and I made up my mind with you as a friend," Lin Feng said with a very thick skin and disapproving him, "I said Brother Yunkai, we won't come with you, what are your plans this time!" ”

"My lord, Dai Zi has been in the army since he left home the year before last, and it has been more than three years, and the letter from my father the day before yesterday is quite unscathing between the lines, so the students are brave and implore the general to ......."

"Oh? You want to go back to Yuhang?! Lin Feng was stunned, and his disappointment was palpable.

"Renren Avenue, filial piety first, please make it a general!!" Dai Zi carefully observed Lin Feng's expression, and pleaded with courage.

"Oh, so that's ......" Lin Feng frowned slightly, this guy is proficient in firearms manufacturing, he can make guns and cast cannons, and he can also engage in invention and creation, it can be said that he is a Qian Xuesen-style character, he can top two divisions wherever he goes, if he returns to the Qing army, it will be really troublesome.

Seeing that Lin Feng's face was cloudy, Dai Zi suddenly regretted a little, originally he didn't dare to make a request to go home, but just now he saw Lin Feng's attitude seemed to be very kind, so he gave it a try, and now he saw that Lin Feng seemed to have signs of turning his face, and he didn't feel apprehensive.

"Yunkai, Yu Hang is also fighting now, right? Look at you......" Lin Feng pointed to Dai Zi's head, "The braid is gone, not to mention the insecurity along the way, even if you can go home, if you are known by Jieshu, I am afraid there will be big trouble, think about it, a guy on my side wiped out the Jieshu family, and you, as a minister of the Qing Dynasty, went back safe and sound after being captured...... I'm afraid he's probably going to vent his anger on you, right?! Lin Feng smiled bitterly, "When the time comes, if you don't talk about it, most of the ups and downs of your Dai family will be unlucky!" ”

"This ......" Dai Zi didn't think so far, he was speechless for a while, and he couldn't help but turn pale when he thought of the tragic situation of being beheaded all over the house.

"That's it, Brother Yunkai, I can't force you if you don't want to serve the Han army, I'll give you two ideas," Lin Feng smiled slightly, and stretched out a finger, "The first idea, wait for me to talk to the heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society, and ask their brothers in the south to take your whole family to Taiwan, and then I will send a few good men to escort you to join them, you have worked on Jieshu's side, you must also know that now the Qing army has no sailors, at least in the past few years, there is no way to cross the sea, and it is still safe over there; Second idea...... Maybe it's a little troublesome, I'll kill a few death row prisoners here, and then spread rumors in the north, saying that you killed the guards in your residence and escaped, and issued a reward for you to be wanted, make the movement bigger, and it is better to make the world know, so that this old boy Jieshu will not be able to trouble you. Lin Feng looked at Dai Zi fixedly, with a sincere look on his face, "Which way do you think is better?!" ”

Dai Zi burst into tears, fell to his knees violently, and choked up, "General...... Dai Zi was speechless...... "He suppressed the excitement in his heart and tried to calm his voice, "Dai Zi is willing to serve the general!" ”

"Hey, Brother Yunkai, what are you doing here? Didn't I just say that? There are brothers all over the world, what is this little thing?! Lin Feng hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile, "That's fine, I'll ask Chen Menglei to personally supervise this matter later, and ask him to send capable people to bring your family from the sea!" ”

Dai Zi wiped the Han Zhu on his forehead, let Lin Feng press himself back into the chair, and said gratefully, "Thank you, sir!" ”

"Hehe, where did we just go? Oh, Brother Yunkai, what are your plans now?! ”

Dai Zi habitually stood up and replied, "My lord, students have been interested in the study of mechanical firearms since they were young, and they are confident that they can do a little bit, so they are willing to supervise the manufacture of ordnance for the general!" ”

Waiting for this sentence, Lin Feng laughed, waved his hand and said, "Sit down and sit down, don't be so polite, I don't like to talk about rules, let's talk casually," Seeing Dai Zi sit down, Lin Feng suddenly sighed, "Xiao Dai, you don't know, now I'm worried about the musket, you have to give me an idea!" ”

"Muskets? Could it be that adults also think that the muskets nowadays are not sharp enough? As soon as he talked about the musket, Dai Zi came to his senses and hurriedly asked.

"Not bad! To be honest, I think the musket we are using now is too poor, one has a short range and low accuracy, and the second has too slow firing speed. Lin Feng said with a bitter face, "I heard that other Westerners use flintlock pistols, the range is far away, and the guns are fast, and the weapons are much sharper than ours!" ”

Dai Zi's face was full of surprise, and blurted out praise, "It turns out that adults are also experts? Are you also interested in firearms? ”

"You'll know later, I'm just interested in firearms - to tell you the truth, I have organized tens of thousands of firearms soldiers in the Han army, and I am going to use them as the main force!"

"Your Excellency is wise!!" Dai Zi praised sincerely, "I can't imagine that my Dai Zi's confidant is actually here, alas...... Your Excellency, you don't know, at the beginning, when I served under Prince Kang Jieshu, those generals all believed in longbows and crossbows, but they didn't think much of firearms, they were really frogs at the bottom of the well! ”

"Where," Lin Feng waved his hand embarrassedly, "Yunkai, have you ever seen a Westerner's musket?" ”

"I've seen it, Yuhang used to have a Dutch ship to trade in the port, I bought one from the Yiren, and I also dismantled it!"

"Oh?" Lin Feng rubbed his hands and asked in surprise, "Then can you imitate it now?!" ”

"This ......" Dai Zi's face was full of shame, and he stood up and confessed, "My lord Mingjian, the musket seems to be simple, but there is a lot of knowledge in it, the students have pondered it and found that it is not easy to make a musket as sharp as the Yi people, and it cannot be completed by one person," Dai Zi frowned and said, "A good musket like that must be refined into fine iron, understand Zhou Yi arithmetic, be proficient in mechanical physics, in addition, someone must understand the science of gunpowder pharmacology, and even with these people, It also has to be tested repeatedly, in short, this matter is not easy, the general should not think that the effect can be seen in the short term! ”

Lin Feng knew that this thing was not easy, and he asked patiently, "Yunkai, do you understand all the knowledge you said?" ”

"I'm ashamed that the students have a little knowledge of arithmetic and mechanical physics, but they are quite unfamiliar with the study of steel casting and pharmacology!" Dai Zi said embarrassedly.

"So you mean we're going to have to find someone else?! Can you find these knowledgeable people? ”

"Since this is the case, do not hide from the adults, students have been immersed in this road for many years, and have also met a lot of fellow practitioners, and now there are a few people in the capital, such as Zhang Yuanzhang of the original Ministry of Engineering and Huang Mu Dao Huang, these two are good at steel casting, in addition to the foreign priest Thomson of the Jesuit Church in Dongcheng, he is well versed in pharmacology, and is good at calculation, the former Kangxi Emperor cast the general cannon when he ordered him to take the amount of gunpowder!" As soon as it came to the manufacture of firearms, Dai Zi's spirit suddenly became extremely excited, he couldn't help but stand up, walking back and forth in the living room, his spirit was flying, "In addition to these people, students have a lot of good friends in other provinces, and they used to be like-minded and cited as close friends, and they have gathered many times to discuss firearms, but later because the imperial court has not paid attention to it, there is no way to serve the country, and they are scattered in the three religions and nine streams, and they live in hunger and cold......

"Good, good, good!" Lin Feng was overjoyed, slammed the table, and shook the tea bowl, today is really shit luck, I can't imagine that this Dai Zi is so versatile in addition to his professional kung fu, and he can pull so many people for himself at once - what kind of people are these? The seventeenth-century scientist, when he thought that there would be so many scientific researchers under him to study weapons for him in the future, he smiled from ear to ear, and then pinched Dai Zi's hand and said eagerly, "Don't say it, don't say it, everything will be done according to Mr.!" ”

He held Dai Zi's hand tightly, "Yunkai, from now on, you are the chief supervisor of my Han army, the same position as the brigade commander in the army, and you will be in charge of the artisan shed in the capital in the future, in addition, I will immediately allocate one million taels of silver to you as a fund for the study of muskets, you will write to those friends of your right now, as long as they have real talent and learning, I will use it for myself!" ”

"Humble Command!!" Dai Zi did not refuse, and immediately bowed down, this position is indeed very tempting for him, he stood up, and suddenly asked cautiously, "The improvement of firearms can be completed overnight, I don't know what the adults ask us to do first?" ”

"How do you do that?" Lin Feng was stunned, and then understood that it was of course unrealistic to be able to develop an advanced musket all of a sudden, Dai Zi asked about the research plan, he thought about it, waved his hand, and said, "What about this...... You can get me a flintlock device now - you don't need to put a gun to light a fire once in the future, as for the range or something, let's take it step by step. ”

Listening to Lin Feng's request, the look on Dai Zi's face suddenly became a little strange, both like an accident and a surprise, Lin Feng saw this, and hurriedly said, "Oh, it doesn't matter if you can't make it, let's take our time, don't worry." ”

Dai Zi arched his hand and said with a wry smile, "Adults don't know, this ...... This flintlock device is not ...... It's not very embarrassing," he looked a little embarrassed, and explained, "Adults don't know, if you only talk about this flintlock machine spring, the predecessors would have invented it a long time ago, in the eighth year of Chongzhen in the previous dynasty, Mr. Mao Kang, the right attendant of the household department in Nanjing, wrote "Illustrated Weapons of Weapons", and the 'self-generated musket' in this is the flintlock pistol......

Lin Feng was stunned, his old face turned red, and he immediately stood up, bowed to Dai Zi, and asked sincerely, "That gentleman thinks that our musket should be ...... How to do it! ”

"It's a despicable job!!" Dai Zi hurriedly returned the salute and said, "Actually, the muskets used by our army now are not bad, they were originally used to equip Emperor Kangxi's Imperial Forest Army, there are straight line rifles in the barrel, and the firing range can reach two hundred and fifty steps away, the students think that the strength of the musket lies in the range and accuracy, and they were originally going to work hard in this regard, but now look at the meaning of the adults, it seems that there are requirements for the speed of shooting, so let's improve the gun mount machine spring first!" ”

"Not busy, not busy!" Lin Feng hurriedly waved his hand, this time he had self-knowledge, although he was from the twenty-first century, but in this regard, he was not comparable to Dai Zi, an expert, naturally he didn't dare to make a big deal like just now, he said in a consultative tone, "Brother Yunkai, let me tell you the truth, your eldest brother and I actually only know a little about muskets, or you take the idea, you can do what you think you should do first, don't pay attention to me!" ”

"Your Excellency is too modest!" Dai Zi said with a smile, "The students' opinions are only on paper, and they may not be taken seriously on the battlefield." The flintlock pistol is indeed excellent and sharp, more light and flexible than the arquebus, even if you don't say that I am ready to improve, according to the current equipment of our Han army, it can be regarded as a top priority, adults can rest assured, the students have a lot of experience over the years, and they must step up the progress after taking office, within a month, in addition to improving the flintlock pistol, the students can also increase the firing range to three hundred paces! ”

Lin Feng clasped his palms together, "Okay!" I will allocate another 1,000,000 taels of silver to you, and after you take office, you will be able to recruit talents, recruit workers from among the homeless, expand the artisan sheds, and strive to replace the Han army's firearms battalion with new flintlock guns after three months! ”