Wu Yuanming showed Dai Zi that the bullet was actually a bullet used in the Draser-style rifle invented in the nineteenth century, this kind of bullet uses a paper tube as a cartridge case, which combines a projectile, a propellant and a primer, and can be manufactured with the current level of technology - the only trouble is that Wu Yuanming does not know how to make thunder mercury, so Wu Yuanming plans to give this problem to Dai Zi for a headache. As for the guns, Wu Yuanming drew the structural diagram of the May Fourth pistol that he had been exposed to before, and he couldn't use this kind of bullet at all. So after Dai Zi spent a night studying Wu Yuanming's two sketches, Dai Zi immediately shouted that he was deceived.

"Brother-in-law, it's impossible for your gun to hold this kind of bullet." Dai Zi said to Wu Yuanming angrily: "This kind of musket is fed with springs, unless the bullet casing is made of iron or copper, otherwise the paper bullet casing will be broken when squeezed by the spring. Moreover, the firing pin of this musket is too short, and it is difficult to ignite the primer. There is also the question of how to make this primer, which cannot be ignited at all by an ordinary ignition impact. ”

"yes, this musket can't use this kind of bullet." Wu Yuanming hugged Dai Yan and said with a wicked smile: "But won't you find a way to improve?" You can find a way to make a musket that can use this kind of bullet, can't you just use this bullet? Find a way to make a bullet with a metal cartridge casing, and then you can use this musket? And that bottom gunpowder, I know it can be made with mercury and some other materials, and you can figure it out yourself. ”

Dai Zi was stunned by Wu Yuanming's words, and after careful consideration, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he nodded: "Yes, I understand the basic structure and principle of this bullet and this musket, and I can completely improve it according to this principle, and make a musket that can fire this kind of bullet and a bullet that this kind of musket can fire." Speaking of this, Dai Zi had a headache again, "It's just that making these things requires a lot of raw materials and silver, as well as a venue and assistants, I don't have any of these, and I don't allow the people to hold firearms, how can I secretly study these firearms from the government?" That's a big problem. ”

"Brother, what are you anxious about? Isn't there someone here who can help you? Dai Yan leaned on Wu Yuanming and smiled at Dai Zi, and pointed at Wu Yuanming with her little hand to hint. Dai Zi suddenly realized, and said to Wu Yuanming with a smile on his face: "Brother-in-law, since you are the prince of Pingxi and have a high and powerful position, my questions are just a gesture for you, I don't know if you can help me with this little favor, brother-in-law?" ”

"No, my words only work in Guizhou, Yunnan, and I can't help you in Hangzhou." Wu Yuanming refused. Dai Zi changed his words without thinking about it: "It's easy to do, I can follow you to Yunnan." ”

"No, Yan'er will definitely follow me to Yunnan, if you also leave, what if your mother is alone in Hangzhou? What should you do with your family's land tea fields in Hangzhou? Wu Yuanming still shook his head and refused. Dai Zi was anxious, and hurriedly bowed and said: "Brother-in-law, this is not difficult, I can persuade my mother to go to Yunnan with us, my family's family business in Hangzhou can be handed over to Fu Bo to take care of, and my sister will not officially marry you until Yunnan, why do the elders of our Dai family have to be present, right?" Brother-in-law, please, for my sister's sake, you just let me go to Yunnan with you. ”

"It's still not good, I still have to go to Jiangning to do some things, and I can only go back to Yunnan after finishing things, and I will sleep and wander along the way, I'm afraid you won't be able to endure the hardship." Wu Yuanming still shook his head like a rattle, and shook his head and said: "Brother-in-law, I advise you not to touch firearms in the future, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is afraid that the Han people will rebel, so the people are not allowed to hold firearms, you are tinkering with firearms in Yunnan and our Wu family protects you, but you can do it in Hangzhou, a bad one is a big crime of killing your head and losing your head, plus now that you love to tinker with firearms, the government knows about it, be more careful, don't I want to save you when the time comes." ”

"Brother-in-law, I'm not afraid of hardship, I'll be there when you get there, in short, I'll follow you." Dai Zi was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he glanced at Dai Yan again and again, and pleaded: "Sister, you can help my brother say a few good words, you know that your brother loves to study firearms all his life, and without my brother-in-law to protect me, won't I have no chance to touch firearms again?" ”

"Alright, don't tease my brother." Dai Yan almost burst into laughter, slapped Wu Yuanming lightly, and said softly: "On the way to Hangzhou, didn't you keep saying that you wanted to take my brother away?" Now that my brother has offered to leave with you, why are you losing your temper again? If you don't take my brother with you, you don't even want to touch my brother's 28-shot musket. ”

"Yes, yes." Dai Zi nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and said in a loud voice: "When I made the repeating musket, I originally wanted to dedicate it to the army, but at that time I had a dream, and there was a god in the dream that this weapon was too powerful and hurt the heavens, so I kept hiding the repeating musket at home. But now I don't care, brother-in-law, you just need to take me away, provide me with the site materials to study the new musket and the new bullet, and I can present the repeating musket to the king of Pingxi. ”

"In that case, for Yanyan's sake, I'll take you away. However, I have a few conditions, and I will take you away only if you promise me, and provide you with space and materials to study new muskets. Wu Yuanming saw that the time had come, and said with a sigh. Dai Zi even sold his sister in order to be able to study a new type of musket, and he didn't care about Wu Yuanming's conditions, so he agreed and asked what the conditions were. Wu Yuanming pointed at Dai Zi and said, "First, you must persuade your mother to go to Yunnan with us, and write to your father to persuade him to take up a post in Yunnan. The second is that you must study the new muskets and bullets step by step according to my arrangement, first of all, you must improve your repeating muskets and transform them into ones that can be fired without ignition, and they must be easy to produce. Then a new type of paper bullet and a mercury propellant were developed, and then a musket was studied to fire such bullets; Finally, you'll be able to study metal cartridge shells and muskets. Of course, if I ask you to study artillery, you have to put aside other studies and concentrate on artillery. ”

"No problem, I promise to do what you tell you to do it step by step." Who is Dai Zi, and he immediately heard that Wu Yuanming's request to him was from easy to difficult, obviously to facilitate the production and use of the army. But Wu Yuanming's paintings of those new muskets and bullets to Dai Zi were too sultry, and Dai Zi, a firearms maniac, couldn't care so much, so he agreed to all of Wu Yuanming's conditions. Wu Yuanming nodded and said, "Okay, then you and Yanyan will go home immediately to persuade your mother to go to Yunnan, pack your luggage and prepare to leave Hangzhou." ”

"Brother Wu, what about you? You're not going with us? Dai Yan was very reluctant to leave Wu Yuanming and wanted to invite Wu Yuanming to her home. Wu Yuanming shook his head and said: "Go ahead, I want to persuade my second sister and brother-in-law to go back to Yunnan, they are too reluctant to carry out the family business in Hangzhou." Wu Yuanming thought about it and added: "Remember, if your mother is unwilling to go to Yunnan, you can scare her, just say that your family's research on firearms has been known by the government, if you don't flee to Yunnan quickly, I'm afraid that you will go to prison and eat a lawsuit, the old man is timid, so she will go with you." ”

Sister Dai Zi went home to persuade her mother according to Wu Yuanming's instructions, in order to prevent accidents, Wu Yuanming asked Wu Lu to take a few family members from the Pingxi Wang County Lord's Mansion to protect them back, and at the same time, Zhu Fangdan was also sent out by Wu Yuanming, because Dai Zi's injuries still need to be adjusted at any time. Fortunately, Wu Yuanming lives in his second sister's house, so he doesn't have to worry about safety. However, after the Dai Zi brothers and sisters left, Wu Yuanming went to the second sister and brother-in-law to persuade them to return to Yunnan, but they were in vain - when the rice was harvested in autumn, it was the time for the tenants to pay the rent, and the stingy Wang Yongyuan and Wu Mei husband and wife were afraid that the housekeeper would enrich their own pockets, so they actually went outside the city to supervise the collection of rent. Wu Yuanming had a big headache, and said that my sister and brother-in-law were so stingy and greedy that it would take a lot of effort and effort to persuade them to go back to Yunnan.

"Uncle, why did Brother Dai Zi come home?" When Wu Yuanming was having a headache about not being able to find his second sister and brother-in-law, his nephew Queen Ying'er came to Wu Yuanming to settle the account with murder, Wang Ying'er grabbed Wu Yuanming's braid and shouted viciously: "Why didn't you notify me when Brother Dai Zi came home?" My grandfather has agreed to marry me to Brother Dai Zi, you should let me go to see Brother Dai Zi's mother!" ”

"Come on, you didn't get up after calling you outside the room dozens of times just now, and your uncle can't enter your boudoir, right? What's more, you're still sleeping? Who knows if you're convenient or not? Wu Yuanming replied angrily. Wang Ying'er thought about it, and immediately shifted the spearhead to Dai Zi, and hummed: "Hmph, you Dai Zi, you won't enter my room when you get my dowry, when you begged me before, you came to knock on my window in the middle of the night for three days!" You give me to remember! See how I clean you up! ”

"Dai Zi, good luck." Wu Yuanming prayed in his heart for his brother-in-law and nephew and son-in-law, and wanted to slip away. Unexpectedly, Wang Ying'er grabbed Wu Yuanming again, and said coquettishly: "Uncle, Brother Dai Zi is home, my parents went to the countryside to collect rent, I'm so bored alone, can you go shopping with me?" Saying that, Wang Ying'er didn't care whether Wu Yuanming agreed, and dragged Wu Yuanming out of the house, Wu Yuanming hurriedly refused: "Ying'er, my uncle is not familiar with the place in Hangzhou, and he can't even tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, how can he accompany you shopping?" You'd better find a few maids to play with you. Who knew that Wang Ying'er hit the snake with the stick, and immediately changed her words: "Okay, since you are not familiar with Hangzhou, then I will accompany you to go shopping and visit Hangzhou, I am your niece, how can I honor you." ”

Wu Yuanming has never been able to withstand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of girls, and the person who grinds and hardens hard bubbles this time is his own niece, and Wu Yuanming has no tricks, so after a stalemate for a small half pillar of incense, Wu Yuanming was finally dragged out of the county lord's mansion by Wang Ying'er, and accompanied this barbaric girl all over Hangzhou City. Fortunately, Wang Yinger's reputation is not as notorious as her parents, and Wu Yuanming did not encounter any embarrassing things when she went shopping with her.

Like other big cities in this era, there are also inner cities in Hangzhou that are not allowed to live in Han people for Manchurian settlements, and the disciples of the Eight Banners who live in these places have nothing to do with the monthly rice issued by Kangxi every month, and planting pomegranates and raising pugs in restaurants under the teahouse has become their biggest hobby and entertainment, which has virtually driven the economic prosperity of the streets near the inner city. Wang Ying'er is a lively person, so she naturally dragged Wu Yuanming to these places, and proudly announced to Wu Yuanming: "Uncle, you see that our Hangzhou city is much more lively than Beijing, right?" ”

"Pretty much." Wu Yuanming disdains his niece's sitting in the well and watching the sky, no matter how prosperous Hangzhou is, how can it compare to Beijing, a consumer-oriented city inhabited by banner people? Wang Ying'er didn't hear the disdain in Wu Yuanming's words, a pair of thieves' big eyes just wandered around the street, looking for new and interesting new gadgets, and soon, a scene of performing arts attracted her attention, originally like this kind of street art stalls are everywhere and strange, but strange is strange that there are the most people watching outside this stall, and the applause is the loudest, Wang Ying'er became curious, took Wu Yuanming's hand and squeezed over there, "Uncle, go and see the excitement." ”

"What's there to see?" Wu Yuanming muttered and accompanied his niece into the crowd, Wu Yuanming was not very interested in these rivers and lakes, but when he saw the faces of the two showmen, Wu Yuanming couldn't help but be dumbfounded - the two big men who were selling were Liu Haozi, the big boss of Luoma Lake, and Hong Dashan, the second boss!

After nearly a month of not seeing each other, Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan both looked a lot haggard and covered with dust. When Wu Yuanming squeezed in, Liu Haozi was holding a quick knife and said to everyone: "The fathers and villagers of Hangzhou, when Liu Mazi and Hong Dashan first arrived in your land, they used up the plate and entangled, and they didn't plan to steal it and lose their reputation, so they had to rely on the kung fu of the three-legged cat to exchange for some copper plates. After that, Liu Haozi put on a posture and used a set of single-knife knife techniques, which was really like a dragon, as fast as lightning, especially the extremely fast and incomparably six slashes, which were actually cut out in the blink of an eye, almost making people suspect that he had given birth to six hands, and cut out these six knives at the same time, and the people applauded. A few good deeds were not convinced, and shouted: "Embroidery shelf, who knows if it will work on the battlefield?" If you want a copper plate, come up with some real skills. ”

Liu Haozi's temper has obviously been honed in the rivers and lakes to many edges and corners, these words are to be changed when he usually turns his face and beats people, and now at the end of the road, Liu Haozi did not show the slightest anger, only took a piece of tofu two inches thick from Hong Dashan's hand, held the tofu and said to everyone: "Everyone, take care of the old and young, Liu Mazi is here to brag, after a while Liu Mazi threw this piece of tofu into the sky, when it fell, Liu Mazi cut the tofu into seven slices with six knives in a row, and the seven pieces of tofu were not broken or broken, exactly the same thickness, If Liu Mazi can't do it, all the fathers and fellow villagers can spit in Liu Mazi's face! If Liu Mazi did it, it would be ....... ”

"Then we have a copper plate." Wu Yuanming shouted loudly. Hearing Wu Yuanming's familiar voice, Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan were like lightning strikes, and the tofu in Liu Haozi's hand fell to the ground even more violently, and the two pairs of eyes turned to Wu Yuanming in the crowd together. Seeing that they recognized him, Wu Yuanming hurriedly squeezed into the crowd and smiled at Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan: "Brother Liu, Second Brother Hong, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come to harm?" ”

"Long time no see! It's been a long time! Liu Haozi glared at Wu Yuanming and gritted his teeth, and his big hand with green muscles had already clenched the handle of the knife. Wu Yuanming didn't know that the danger was approaching, but instead greeted Liu Haozi happily, "Brother Liu, why did you and Second Brother Hong come to Hangzhou...... Yes! Before Wu Yuanming's words were finished, Liu Haozi's steel knife had already slashed head-on, making Wu Yuanming so frightened that he took two steps back and sat on the ground, shouting: "Brother Liu, I'm Wu Yuanming, how can you cut me?" ”

Although Wu Yuanming retreated quickly, Liu Haozi's knife was faster, when Wu Yuanming sat on the ground, the robe on his chest had been cut in two by Liu Haozi's knife from the neck to the waist, and the skin on his chest was also scratched with a long blood mark. The people next to him all shouted when they saw it, "Kill someone, kill someone." Wang Ying'er pounced on Wu Yuanming and exclaimed, "Uncle, uncle, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Little girl, get out of the way." Liu Haozi didn't like to kill innocents indiscriminately, so he pushed Wang Ying'er away and was about to cut Wu Yuanming, but Hong Dashan grabbed it and stopped him, "Big boss, this is in Hangzhou City, don't kill people casually." Liu Haozi jumped three feet high, "Get out of the way, I want to kill this dog traitor and avenge our brother in Luoma Lake!" Hong Dashan grabbed Liu Haozi and persuaded him repeatedly: "Big boss, I'm not sure if he betrayed us yet, let's ask clearly." ”

"What else do you ask? It's not that he betrayed us, who else? Liu Haozi was so angry that his eyes erupted, staring at Wu Yuanming and roaring viciously: "That day at the mouth of Luoma Lake, he just got off the boat and slipped away, we were ambushed, if he didn't know that there was an ambush in the Suqian Waterway, why did he insist on leaving?" Moreover, the little county lord of Muwang's Mansion also said it himself, this dog traitor is the person of the big traitor Wu Sangui, who else will betray us besides him? ”

"Brother Liu, listen to me." Wu Yuanming covered his wound and endured the pain and explained: "Miss Zheng Xue has already told us about the events of that day, you were ambushed in Suqian, and the whole army was wiped out, but I didn't betray you, it was your opponent who was too powerful, he had expected that your fleet would pass through Suqian overnight, so the shipwreck in the Suqian waterway blocked the road for your retreat." I didn't expect Zhou Peigong's attack to be so vicious at the time, so I couldn't warn you in advance. ”

"Whew!" Liu Haozi spit a mouthful of phlegm on Wu Yuanming's face, and roared with red eyes: "Then you are a big traitor Wu Sangui's lackey, why didn't you tell us in advance?" Wu Yuanming was speechless, and only secretly scolded Mu Meng's little girl in his heart for having an uneasy zipper on her mouth. And Liu Haozi was even more annoyed, and raised a knife to cut Wu Yuanming again, but Wang Yinger was dead on Wu Yuanming, and Liu Haozi couldn't do it. Hong Dashan desperately grabbed Liu Haozi and persuaded: "Brother Liu, you can't kill people casually, although Brother Wu is Wu Sangui's lackey, he didn't do anything to be sorry for us when he was in Luoma Lake." ”

Wu Yuanming, Liu Haozi and others pulled and shouted to kill, and they had already alarmed the Eight Banners of the inner city not far away, and the Eight Banners of about a post rushed over to check the situation under the leadership of a general, and it was a coincidence that the Qing general turned out to be Ashan's son Saihe, and after Saihe arrived at the scene, he saw Wang Ying'er crying on Wu Yuanming's body at first sight, and hurriedly shouted: "Ying'er, why are you here?" Wang Ying'er was not polite when she saw that Seh had come to help, and pointed to Liu Haozi's majestic order: "Sehe, these thieves dare to hurt my uncle, take them down for me." ”

"Take it." The deputy brought by Seh, a Qing soldier sentry commander, also knew Wang Ying'er, and in order to curry favor with Wang Ying'er, he hurriedly commanded the Qing soldiers to take people. Who knew that Sehe's eyes rolled to stop the Qing soldiers, and politely asked Liu Haozi: "This hero, I don't know why you want to hurt people in broad daylight, aren't you afraid of the king's law?" ”

"Bullshit King Law!" What kind of person is Liu Haozi, who jumped three feet high and yelled: "This dog thief is the lackey of the big traitor Wu Sangui, everyone will be punished, I killed him to make the Han people in the world angry!" Sehe, who hated Wu Yuanming deeply, was secretly happy when he heard this, and immediately started the idea of killing Wu Yuanming with Liu Haozi's knife, and said in an official tone: "No, I know that you Han people all hate Wu Sangui, but Wu Sangui is the king of Pingxi in our court, and his subordinates are also our people of the Qing Dynasty, I can't let you kill him." ”

As he spoke, Saihe reached out to pull Wang Ying'er and said with a smile: "Ying'er, don't be afraid, Brother Saihe will protect you." Wang Ying'er didn't know what the plan was, so she was pulled up by Seh and left Wu Yuanming's side. Sehe glanced at Liu Haozi and signaled Liu Haozi to start, who knew that Liu Haozi was a rough man, and he didn't have the crooked intestines like Saihe and Wu Yuanming, not only did he not take the opportunity to kill Wu Yuanming with a knife, but instead glared at Sehe and shouted: "Dog Tartar, what are your eyes turning?" If you have something to say, let it go! ”

Wang Ying'er was also very smart, and immediately understood what Sehe meant, broke free and pointed at Sehe's nose and scolded: "Sehe, you shameless brute, you pulled me away for a long time, do you want to borrow a knife to kill someone?" Let me tell you, even if my uncle was killed by the thief, I would never marry you! Liu Haozi suddenly realized, and also glared at Sehe with disdain and shouted: "Dog Tartar, it turns out that you want to borrow my knife to kill people!" Don't be fooled by you! ”

"! Shame on the face! Seh's sinister intentions were revealed, and he waved his hand in anger and ordered: "Take down all these dog thieves who speak wildly!" But Sech really underestimated Liu Haozi's fast knife, and Liu Haozi, who was standing very close to him, saw the Qing soldiers rushing up, and immediately subconsciously slashed out, Sech didn't expect Liu Haozi's knife to be cut when he said to cut it, and he was caught off guard by a quick knife and hit the neck, a human head flew out of Xu Yuan, and the blood in the neck cavity spurted up half a day high.

"Brother Liu, you're in trouble." Wu Yuanming complained bitterly, and hurriedly shouted to Liu Haozi: "Brother Liu, Second Brother Hong, you run quickly, this person is the only son of Hangzhou General Ah Shan, Ah Shan will not let you go." ”