The harem, where the queen of Kunning Palace is located, Zhu Ciji has not returned for many days, and Huang Ying, Dong Xiaowan and other four concubines gathered here.

"Sister Queen, the emperor has not returned for many days, I heard that the county lord Xiumin was kidnapped by thieves, what is going on." Dong Xiaowan was the first to ask.

The queen shook her head and said calmly: "I don't know what's going on, but the emperor has indeed left the palace to save Lord Xiumin, and he has rescued Lord Xiumin yesterday, and the emperor has been taking care of Lord Xiumin all night." I have long seen that the emperor's friendship with the lord of Xiumin is not ordinary, and I have paid attention to their mutual expressions, what kind of brother and sister feelings, the word brother and sister has long changed! ”

Speaking of this, the queen paused, and then continued with a sour taste: "Maybe we will have one more sister in the future!" ”

It's been nine years, and Yi Dieyi has also been the queen for nine years, although when she talks about such things, her tone is inevitably a little sour, but she hasn't lost the queen's graceful and generous demeanor.

"I have seen it a long time ago, and it is embarrassing for him that the enemy can endure it today, so let's forgive him for not keeping his promise." Dong Xiaowan blinked and said.

The other three women all sighed helplessly, then looked at each other and smiled.

Although Zhu Ciji once promised that there would not be more than five concubines in the harem, they are not unreasonable people, since the matter has already been born, it is better to accept it generously than to be jealous.

The Lord's Mansion of Sumin.

Zhu Cicheng accompanied Chen Xiuxiu here for another day, and after Chen Xiuxiu's body fully recovered, he had the idea of returning to the palace.

"It's been so many days, if you want to go back to the palace, go back, the queen and other sisters should be in a hurry." Chen Xiuxiu also persuaded on the side.

She was already a little embarrassed in her heart, she didn't know how to face the queen and the others, and how to occupy Zhu Cicheng for a long time, even if Zhu Cicheng volunteered to stay in her county lord's mansion, she was inevitably embarrassed, and she was even more worried that she would give the queen and others a bad impression.

"Don't be cranky, I'm measured!" Zhu Ci staggered and smiled.

At this time, a guard suddenly ran in to report it.

"Your Majesty, there is good news from the Firearms Bureau, the technology of large-scale rifling has been developed!"

Zhu Ci staggered and nodded, in two years, it was time to research it.

In fact, as early as several years ago, the Firearms Bureau developed a rifled gun under the suggestion of Zhu Cijiao, but the rifling is more difficult to engrave, although it can be mass-produced, but the cost is too high. The current rifle of Daming is advanced enough, and Zhu Ci is not in a hurry, so he asked the Firearms Bureau and the Science and Technology Institute to first develop low-cost, large-scale, and fast rifling technology.

"It's out!" Chen Xiuxiu's eyes lit up, she looked at Zhu Cijiao with a smile, and said proudly: "There are a lot of my suggestions in it, when you reward me, you can't forget me!" ”

Seeing Chen Xiuxiu so proud and naughty, Zhu Ci's childlike heart rose, and she reached out and pinched her little Qiong's nose: "It's still my Xiuxiu who is smart, of course I can't forget Xiuxiu." ”

"I hate it, let it go, it's all hurting, what if it's broken!" Chen Xiuxiu slapped Zhu Ci's stumbling hand away and gave Zhu Ci a fierce look.

"Let's go, let's take a look with me!" Zhu Ci laughed, took Chen Xiuxiu's hand and walked out.

The carriage was already waiting outside the door, Zhu Cicheng and Chen Xiuxiu got into the carriage together, and the carriage drove in the direction of the Firearms Bureau.

In a corner of Nanjing, Mao Bidong and more than a dozen family members are still looking around.

Since that time I saw Chen Xiuxiu by Xuanwu Lake, Mao Bidong laid the name of his wife on Chen Xiuxiu, and Chen Xiuxiu was kidnapped by thieves in front of him.

As of today, nearly ten days have passed, and the person has not been found, Mao Bidong himself is in a trance, but he still has the perseverance to continue searching, which is also rare, just this chasing woman stands up to him and his own brother Mao Bijiang.

"Second Young Master, it's been so many days, I'm afraid I can't find it, it's better for the Second Young Master to go back and rest." A family member said that these days, they followed Mao Bidong around, Mao Bidong could hold on, but they couldn't hold it anymore, but Mao Bidong is a young master, they are just a family member, Mao Bidong didn't go back, and they naturally couldn't go back, so they couldn't wait for Mao Bidong to give up looking.

"Nonsense, how can a living person be found, it must be a thief who hid her, continue to look for it!" Mao Bidong shouted angrily.

After living for twenty-one years, is it easy for him to meet a woman he really likes for the first time? How can you give up so easily! He saw this as a test of God, and he believed that if he had perseverance, by virtue of his family background, and by his own ingenuity, the woman would immediately fall in love with him.

More than a dozen family members shut up, and their eyes were full of helplessness.

Mao Bidong led people to continue searching, and suddenly, one or two carriages drove through a street in front of him under the escort of hundreds of meters of guards, and when the carriage curtains waved, Mao Bidong seemed to see the figure haunting his dreams.

"It's her, it must be her!" Mao Bidong spread his feet and rushed towards the carriage without hesitation.

"Stop!" After a while, Mao Bidong stopped directly in front of the carriage.

"What people!" The guards guarding the carriage drew their steel knives with a swish, and some of them carried rifles, and also aimed their rifles at Mao Bidong.

Mao Bidong's cold sweat broke out instantly.

Inside the carriage, Zhu Ci frowned, stretched out his hand and skimmed the curtain to look out.

Mao Bidong saw Chen Xiuxiu's shadow from the carriage curtain that he was looking at, and his eyes widened in an instant, and all his fears were left behind.

"Girl, it's really you, you were rescued from the thieves? Or is it the person inside who has kidnapped you! Mao Bidong shouted at Chen Xiuxiu in the carriage, and after finishing speaking, he looked at Zhu Ci with a hostile face, and continued: "Girl, don't be afraid, I am the second son of the Mao family, and at the foot of the Son of Heaven in Nanjing City, he doesn't dare to do anything to you!" ”

Mao Bidong looked like he was not afraid of death, Zhu Ci didn't know whether to praise him for his courage or scold him for being stupid, didn't he see the royal symbol on his carriage, and he dared to stop his carriage, not afraid of being hacked to death by the guards under the misunderstanding?

"Xiuxiu, do you know this person?" Zhu Ci hesitated and asked Chen Xiuxiu, his tone was quite appreciative.

It's not that he can't see something in Mao Bidong's eyes when he looks at Chen Xiuxiu, thinking that it is the man Chen Xiuxiu knew before, and now that Chen Xiuxiu is his woman, he doesn't want such a man to pop out in the middle.

After Chen Xiuxiu thought about it, she shook her head and said, "I don't know!" ”

It's no wonder that Chen Xiuxiu doesn't remember Mao Bidong, but she didn't really pay attention to Mao Bidong that day, and naturally she doesn't remember such a person.

Zhu Ci stumbled and laughed and muttered: "Good boy, you are quite bold, you don't know whether you are alive or dead, and you dare to beat the attention of women!" ”

"Boy, I ask you, who are you?" Zhu Ci asked.

Mao Bidong was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he subconsciously replied: "It's my brother!" ”

It turned out to be Mao Bijiang's younger brother, Zhu Ci still remembered that Mao Bijiang seemed to have hit Dong Xiaowan's attention back then, but later he seemed to be beaten up by Peng Cheng and others, and now it is the turn of Mao Bidong to beat Chen Xiuxiu again, these two brothers are simply fighting back with him, they should fight!

"Come on, give me a hard beating, make sure that this kid can only lie in bed for the next half a month!" Zhu Ci staggered and smiled, with a sense of gloom and compassion.

"Yes!" The guards commanded.

"What are you doing! What are you doing" Before Mao Bidong could react, he was dragged aside by several guards and beaten up, and the screams were heard endlessly.

Chen Xiuxiu raised her eyebrows, and smiled at Zhu Cihe, she saw that Zhu Ci was jealous of her, and her heart was warm all of a sudden, as for the fate of Mao Bidong, she didn't care, she dared to stop the emperor's carriage in front of her, and beat the emperor's woman's idea, and was beaten so that she couldn't get out of bed for only half a month, which was already very cheap.

Zhu Ci immediately ignored Mao Bidong, and the carriage continued to move in the direction of the Firearms Bureau.

When Mao Bidong was beaten out, the whole person turned into a pig's head, and he almost couldn't even recognize his parents, and more than a dozen family members dared to come to Mao Bidong's side at this time, and carried Mao Bidong, who had more air in and less breath, back to Mao's house.

It's not that they didn't go over to save Mao Bidong just now, but they didn't dare, Mao Bidong was looking for someone to find him in a daze these days, and he didn't pay attention to the mark on the carriage for a while, they remembered it clearly, it was the mark of the palace, and the people sitting in it were the current emperor, they dared to go up to stop the emperor, and they were not afraid of being beheaded by the whole house.

Zhu Ciji and Chen Xiuxiu came to the Firearms Bureau.

After Zhu Ci saw the technique of rifled gun engraving, he did not hesitate to praise the craftsmen who participated in the research, and waved his hand to approve a heavy reward.

With this low-cost, quick-rifling technology, Daming was soon able to replace rifled guns on a large scale.

Originally, the current rifle of the Ming Dynasty was completely ahead of this era because of the use of rear loading technology and striking bullets, and if it was equipped with a rifled gun with a longer range and higher accuracy, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army could be doubled.

Not only rifled guns and engraving technology, machine guns Ji Niansheng has also developed a new product, the new machine gun can hold more ammunition, and more lightweight, the original machine gun is more than 100 catties, and the weight of the new machine gun has been reduced by half, only 50 catties, it originally took three to four soldiers to receive and operate a machine gun, if it is replaced with a new machine gun, the two can operate flexibly, the same greatly improves the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

After accompanying Chen Xiuxiu and staying in the Firearms Bureau for a while, Zhu Ci hesitated to return to the palace.

Manchu secretly infiltrated Daming and kidnapped Chen Xiuxiu's intention to steal Daming's secret technology, he didn't plan to let it go like this, it's not that simple!