As Wu Yuanming expected, the firearms maniac Dai Yan did go to Nan Huairen, this scientific maniac who only had firearms development and research in his eyes ignored Wu Yuanming's evaluation of Nan Huairen, and as soon as he returned to the inn, he left the others, and quietly touched the street with two new muskets and a letter of introduction from Chen Shikai, the chief soldier of the Bayar Society, and found the pavilion where Nan Huairen lived to ask to see him. In front of the post house, the post house is already full of lights, the voice of the people is boiling, Ren Weichu of Gaoyou County is setting up a banquet in the post Nan Huairen and his party, Dai Yan is not shy about it, until the door is handed over a letter, imploring Nan Huairen to meet.

Because he received the money from Dai Yan's three taels of silver, the post gate did not refuse, and directly sent the letter to Nan Huairen and Ren Weichu, who were talking and laughing, Nan Huairen was very familiar with Chinese, and could understand without translation, and after seeing the letter, he couldn't help but smile at Ren Weichu: "It's incredible, the chief soldier of your country in Mongolia actually begged me to take care of his relatives, I have never seen him once." Ren Weichu is Zhu Guozhi's confidant, although he has a bit of literary talent but very inferior character, he also smiled after seeing the letter: "Lord Nan misunderstood, this kind of letter is called a letter of notification in officialdom, there is no specific recipient, just ask officials at all levels to take care of his relatives." Nanda has worked hard from afar, if you don't want to see her, you can ask someone to send her away. ”

"No, no, no, it is very rude to refuse a lady's request to meet." Nan Huairen shook his head and said with a smile: "Please invite that beautiful young lady in." Ren Weichu nodded yes, and ordered Menzi to let Dai Yan in, but he sneered in his heart: "Damn, the foreign devil is really, do you know that this chick surnamed Dai must be beautiful?" ”

Having said that, when Dai Yan, a typical Jiangnan girl with a delicate and beautiful beauty, came in, Ren Weichu, Nan Huairen and the others all had their eyes lit up, Ren Weichu was still scolding Nan Huairen's peach blossom luck in his heart, and Nan Huairen screamed exaggeratedly, "God bless, there is such a beautiful young lady who takes the initiative to ask to see me?" Am I in heaven? The exaggerated tone of the Westerners is difficult for the Oriental to accept, but for Dai Yan, who only has one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal in her head, these words cannot stimulate her emotional nerves that are thicker than an elephant, so Dai Yan saluted Nan Huairen and Ren Weichu without shyness: "Minnu Dai Yan, meet Lord Nan of Qintianjian and Lord Ren of the county order." ”

"Beautiful young lady, is there something wrong with you suddenly asking to see me?" Nan Huairen's eyes kept rolling on Dai Yan's face, and he said with a smile. Dai Yan untied the package on her back and put it on the table in front of Nan Huairen and opened it, revealing the two muskets in the package. Nan Huairen was a knowledgeable person, waved his hand away from the soldiers, picked up the flintlock musket first, and said, "God, isn't this the flintlock musket invented by France not long ago?" It's a dangerous thing that doesn't need to be ignited to fire bullets. ”

"Nanda's eyes are like torches, and the people admire them." In order to ask Nan Huairen for the technique of making muskets, Dai Yan rarely learned to compliment Nan Huairen like others, and then picked up the long-shot musket and said: "But this musket, the people should not know if they think about Nanda." ”

"Miss, isn't this an arquebus? How can I not recognize? Nan Huairen smiled and said: "This arquebus has been invented in our Europe more than two hundred years ago, its reliability is very poor, the fire is slow, it needs to be ignited to fire, I believe that it will not be long before it will be eliminated by the flintlock musket in Europe." ”

"The folk girl knows that this musket is outdated, but does Nanda believe that this musket can shoot a hundred paces away?" Dai Yan asked Nan Huairen without being humble or arrogant. Nan Huairen took a closer look at the barrel and medicine warehouse of the long-shot musket, and also found the difference of this long-shot musket, and couldn't help but wonder: "Beautiful young lady, the barrel of your musket is very long, although it has the effect of stabilizing the bullet ray, but the side effect is that the range becomes shorter." If you say that this gun shoots with high accuracy, then I believe it; But you say it can shoot a hundred paces, and that's hard for me to believe. ”

"Lord Nan, if you don't believe me, you can put a target a hundred steps away and shoot a few shots." Dai Yan smiled and said: "If it can really shoot a hundred steps, then the Minnu hopes that Nanda can give the Minnu some guidance on the manufacture of muskets, such as the problem that my Daqing musket is easy to explode, I don't know how Nanda's country solves it?" ”

"Beautiful Miss Dai, you are really a diligent and studious person, well, if this long-shot musket can really shoot a hundred steps, then I will definitely teach you all the techniques of musket making that I know." Nan Huairen blinked his pale blue eyes and said to Dai Yan with a smile. Dai Yan was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out gunpowder and gunpowder to reload the musket, but Ren Weichu frowned, leaned over to Nan Huairen's ear and whispered, "Lord Nan, isn't this inappropriate?" I strictly prohibit ordinary people from possessing firearms, this woman actually carries so many muskets, this is obviously a violation of the imperial court ban, and I want to learn from you to produce muskets, and I should be arrested and imprisoned! ”

"Don't worry, let's see if her musket can shoot a hundred steps first, and then you can install a hundred-step target in the courtyard for me first." Nan Huairen smiled and shook his head, and said to Ren Weichu in a low voice. Ren Wei's junior official was several levels lower than him, so he naturally didn't dare to disobey him, so he had to arrange a target. At this time, Dai Yan had already loaded the long-shot musket with ammunition and handed it to Nan Huairen with both hands, Nan Huairen finished it again, and it was not until the target in the courtyard was set up that Nan Huairen went out with Dai Yan, who was full of anticipation.

The Gaoyou post station is not big, the widest part of the courtyard is only more than 60 steps away, but this distance is already an impossible range for other muskets, Nan Huairen will also use this target to test fire, use fire to ignite the fire rope, aim at the target inserted in the torch and pull the trigger, after a loud bang, the target inserted in the ground falls down. Nan Huairen, who was still full of disdain at first, immediately stood on the spot, and Dai Yan said triumphantly: "Nan Daren, how is it?" I can shoot a hundred paces with this gun, right? ”

Nan Huairen didn't answer, but quickly ran to the target to check, only to see that the target made of an inch of thick wooden planks had been shot through by the lead bullet, and the lead bullet was endless, and it actually drilled deep into the masonry of the back wall of the target, and its power was terrifying. Nan Huairen exclaimed, "God! How could a musket shoot so far in the world? Dai Yan smiled like a flower, and said proudly: "Nanda, how is it?" You haven't seen this musket of mine, have you? ”

"I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it, miss, who invented your long-shot musket? Can you tell me? Nan Huairen asked anxiously. Dai Yan pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment, but finally said cheekily: "Of course I invented it." ”

"I see, what a smart young lady." Nan Huairen carefully played with the musket, muttering a compliment to Dai Yan, but his heart was turned upside down. Nan Huairen said in his heart: "China has produced such a firearms genius, if she is reused by the Qing Emperor, I will not be able to gain a foothold in front of the emperor." Even if the Qing Emperor did not reuse her, and she invented this long-shot musket and spread and developed it in China, and made improvements, it would not take a few years for us Europeans to have no place in Asia, and our European armies would not be able to fight back in the face of such ......firearms. ”

"No, the Orientals must not be allowed to develop and use such advanced muskets! Such a musket is worthy only of us Europeans! Nan Huairen made up his mind, so he turned to Dai Yan and said, "Beautiful young lady, please go to the living room and sit down for a while, and I will come to you with the drawings of the European musket in a while, and teach you how to forge the European musket." ”

"Okay, thank you, Nan-sama." Dai Yan was overjoyed and hurriedly went to the living room to wait. But as soon as she left, Nan Huairen pulled Ren Weichu aside and whispered, "Lord Ren, this woman is very dangerous to your Qing Imperial Court, if this musket she invented falls into the hands of the former Ming anti-thieves...... ”

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"Quick, go to Nan Huairen's place to find Dai Yan back." At the same time, Wu Yuanming, who was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, pulled Li Xiongfei and a few veterans, and rushed to Nan Huairen's residence with Zheng Xin and the old servant of Dai Yan's family, wanting to call Dai Yan back. But when Wu Yuanming and the others arrived outside the pavilion where Nan Huairen was, it was already late, and Dai Yan had been escorted into the prisoner car by the Gaoyou County officials, and the prisoner car was surrounded by a large number of Qing troops, and Wu Yuanming and the others could not get close at all. Poor Dai Yan still didn't understand that she was being arrested, but struggled and shouted, "Why did you arrest me? Why did you arrest me? Nan-sama! Nan-sama, where are you? What about the blueprints of the musket you gave me? And my flintlock musket and long-shot musket, why don't you give me back? ”

"Shut up!" Gaoyou County ordered Ren Weichu to swing out his horsewhip and slammed it on the wooden fence of Dai Yan's prisoner car, Ren Weichu smiled and said: "Little girl, you have violated the imperial court's firearms ban, and it is illegal to possess firearms in violation of national law, and of course this official will bring you to justice." Speaking of this, Ren Weichu changed his fierce look and shouted: "Interesting, shut up for Lao Tzu!" Otherwise, Lao Tzu's next whip will smash your fox face! ”

"Chen Shikai, the chief soldier of the Bayar Society, is my brother, you can't arrest me." Dai Yan had no choice but to move out of Chen Shikai as a shield, struggling and shouting. But the county official is not as good as the current management, Ren Weichu didn't pay attention to Chen Shikai who was far away in the sky, kicked on the prisoner car again, and shouted: "Shut up!" The prince is still guilty of the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law, let alone you, Chen Shikai's sister? Hmph, if the official finds out that you have committed rebellion, he Chen Shikai will not be able to escape the involvement! After that, Ren Weichu waved his hand and shouted: "Escort to the county office, this official will try this case overnight!" ”

"Little ......!" In the dark, the old servant of Dai Yan's family wanted to shout Dai Yan, but Wu Yuanming quickly pressed his mouth with his eyes and shouted, "You can't shout, otherwise you and I will be implicated." With that, Wu Yuanming dragged him back to the alley next to the street, and Li Xiongfei, Zheng Xin and others hurriedly followed. Ren Weichu and the others over there went straight to the county government triumphantly, and it was not until they were completely far away that Wu Yuanming let go of the old servant's mouth.

"Miss, the old slave has repeatedly advised you not to bring a musket, why don't you listen? Well, now it's finally a big deal——! Wu Yuanming had just let go, and the old servant of the Dai Yan family cried loudly. Wu Yuanming waved his hand and said, "What's the use of crying?" Hurry up and find a way to save your young lady is the right thing to do. At the same time, Wu Yuanming was also more worried about the long-shot musket that fell into Nan Huairen's hands, if Nan Huairen dedicated the long-shot musket to Kangxi, needless to say, it would be even more difficult for his family to rebel; The more terrible consequence was that Nan Huairen transmitted the long-shot musket to the West, and with the industrial level and casting level of Western countries, it was only easy to imitate and improve such a musket, and if one was not careful, the Opium War could be staged in advance!

"Yes, Wu Gongzi is right, we should find a way to save Miss." The old servant said with tears in his eyes: "The old slave will go back to Qiantang to inform the son, and ask him to invite more local gentry to intercede, and spend some silver to find a way to rescue the young lady." ”

"When your son-in-law comes from Qiantang, the daylilies are cold." Wu Yuanming angrily scolded the old servant, and the old servant thought about it for a while, and couldn't help crying again, "Then what should I do?" The young lady is so beautiful, if the official is happy to see it, how can I explain it to the old lady? If the government tortures the young lady...... Then ...... Oh my God, what should I do? ”

"Don't worry, I'll think of a way first." Wu Yuanming turned to Li Xiongfei and asked, "Xiongfei, when you inquired about the news just now, did you inquire about who this Gaoyou County Commander was?" How is it to be an official? Isn't it our family's Western Election Officer? ”

"It's not the Western Elector." Li Xiongfei shook his head and said: "The county magistrate here is called Ren Weichu, who is a notorious corrupt official and a cool official, and I heard that he is also the confidant of Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangning. And as far as I know, he could have been promoted to the prefect of Songjiang, but the ministry gave him the ticket a step too late, and the prefect of Songjiang was preempted by our western election officials, so he had to change to the Gaoyou County Order. ”

"In that case, he should hate our family to the core." Wu Yuanming frowned, and had already given up his plan to use the tiger skin of King Pingxi to coerce Ren Weichu to release him. And the old servant of the Dai Yan family howled again, "Oh my God, why did our young lady happen to fall into the hands of this demon? Our family has been scholarly for generations, and it is the person that the devil hates the most. ”

"Why don't we rob the prison and save people?" Zheng Xin proposed. Wu Yuanming glared at her and asked rhetorically, "There are only a few of us, can this manpower rob the prison?" Zheng Xin was glared at by Wu Yuanming and lowered his head and pouted, muttering, "Then what should I do?" If that dog official is lustful, Sister Dai will be in danger. Of course, Wu Yuanming knew that Zheng Xin was telling the truth, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous in his heart, and after thinking quickly, Wu Yuanming made up his mind and said: "There is no way, I have to go to see Ren Weichu under the sign of Pingxi Palace, promise him some benefits, and see if I can save Miss Daiyan." ”

"Let me go." Li Xiongfei wanted to share the danger for Wu Yuanming again, Wu Yuanming shook his head and refused, "No, you have already exposed your identity once last time in Luoma Lake, maybe the Tartars have already issued a document to arrest you, if we can't catch you, of course we can deny it and not admit it, and the Tartars can't do anything about us, if you are caught alive, then my father will not be able to save you." ”

"Brother Wu, then I'll go with you, I can protect you in case of danger." Zheng Xin came to the spirit again and proposed to go with Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming pinched her tender cheeks lovingly, and said softly: "No, you, the little county lord of Taiwan, have also registered with the Tartars, it is also dangerous, you and Li Xiongfei are hiding outside the Gaoyou County Ya and are ready to answer me." Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming skillfully clasped Zheng Xin's arms with one hand, and untied the purse tied to Zheng Xin's waist with the other hand. Zheng Xin was so angry that he shouted, "Stinky thief, you robbed me of my silver again!" ”

"No way, I plan to pretend to be the envoy of King Pingxi to buy Ren Weichu, how can I not give him a greeting gift?"