PS: This chapter is a bit heavy-mouthed, I hope you won't shoot bricks.

With the help of two accompanying guards, Lin Wenbing jumped out of the four-wheeled steel carriage in the eyes of a group of idlers and many palanquin men on the street full of curiosity and envy, showed the robe on his body, straightened the sea dragon fur hat on his head, and walked to the door of Hongfu.

Hong Chengchou's house is located at No. 59, Nanluoguxiang, Di'anmen East Street, Beijing, and the north is Black Sesame Hutong. The gate is in the north of the east exit road of the brick factory, and the momentum is majestic, and there are two iron lions at the door. On the five steps hangs a lantern with Hong Chengchou's official rank.

"The Governor of the Three Sides, the Crown Prince Taibao, the Secretary of the Military Department, and the Military Affairs of the Governors of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan Provinces"!

Glancing at the official rank of Xuan He, and then looking at the civil and military officials lined up in a long line at the door waiting to be seen, although Inspector Hong is not in the capital at the moment, these many visitors have already explained the power of Lord Hong.

As soon as he walked up the third step, several family members on the stool at the door greeted him.

"This gentleman, dare to ask you what you are doing? Can you have a famous post? My Inspector is not in the capital, if you have any problems, please leave a post, and when the Inspector returns to Beijing, he will come to visit. ”

It seems that the rules in the Hong Mansion are good, and the family has not turned into a group of slaves and evil servants, at least there is still etiquette on the face.

"Please speak for me."

Lin Wenbing used the official dialect with a Fujian accent to face the family headed by the family, "Lin Wenbing, a fellow villager in Quanzhou, Fujian, was entrusted by his fellow villager Hong Gong Qiyin, and a letter from his family was sent. I hope you will make it convenient. ”

Lin Wenbing said here. Next to him, he sent a door bag with ten silver dollars.

It turned out to be a fellow villager, and he sent a letter for Hong Qiyin. The family led by him pinched the hard door bag, and his face was immediately full of smiles, and asked Lin Wenbing to sit down in the gatehouse, arrange for the little servant to make him a cup of Tieguanyin, and report it to the house himself.

Who is Hong Qiyin, everyone in this house who has an ear and a heart knows it. Hong Chengchou lost his father when he was young, and his family was poor, so he had to pick tofu and sell it around. In addition to selling. Hong Qiyin, who often goes to the patriarch's house, listens to lectures outside the village school hall run by the Shuigou Pavilion. After going back and forth, Hong Qiyin found out that the nephew who bought dried tofu was a scholar, so he accepted Hong Chengchou as an apprentice for free and made him pick up the book again. studied under Hong Qiyin for five years. Hong Chengchou had the opportunity to continue his studies in Quanzhou City. After that, there was a township test and a meeting test. Lian Jiedenke's career.

I always talk about the past at home. Hong Chengchou was full of grace to Hong Qiyin's acquaintance, and claimed that if it wasn't for Qiyin's discerning promotion back then, the cost of reading would have been waived. I'm afraid that Hong is just a tofu shop owner in the countryside of Nan'an right now.

Such a heavyweight asked someone to bring a letter, if someone dares to make things difficult and blackmail and delay things, then he really feels that he has lived a long time!

If Lord Hong himself is in Beijing at the moment, I am afraid that there will be a matter of opening the middle door and personally inviting the messenger to enter, but now it is already a bit of neglect to let the comer sit in the gatehouse!

Sure enough, Lin Wenbing's second brew of tea was just ready to be eaten, and a miscellaneous footsteps came from the courtyard, "Where is the gentleman who delivered the letter for Qiyin?!" ”

A gust of fragrant wind came to the face with the lifting of the door curtain.

The owner of this fragrant wind bowed to Lin Wenbing with a smile.

"This gentleman is here to deliver the letter for Qiyin? I don't know what Taifu is called? ”

Lin Wenbing looked at the person in front of him, his face was full of spring, his head was smooth and smooth, he was wearing a brocade robe sewn by a skilled craftsman, and there were still some traces of fat powder on his face, and there was a burst of fragrance on his body. It's just that there is a slight beard on the chin and cheeks, and it shouldn't be more than twenty-five years old.

Seeing this person's behavior, Lin Wenbing understood seven or eight points in his heart.

I think this guy should be a character such as Xianggong and Rabbit raised by Hong Hengjiu.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the sexual concepts of the scholars were unprecedentedly open and erosive, and the play of what rabbits and the like was considered an elegant thing in the scholar class, and Hong Chengchou's hometown of Fujian was also popular with this way, and Hong Inspector had been suppressing thieves in the northwest for a long time, and there was no place to send fire for a while, so it was necessary to have such a character around him in case of emergency.

And the person in front of him, I think it should be because of old age and decay, I can't enter Hong Chengchou's eyes anymore, but I can't bear to abandon it, so I placed it in the house in the capital.

(The prevalence of homosexuality in the Ming Dynasty, if you are interested, you can go to the three-word two-beat series compiled by Mr. Feng Menglong, which has a description of these.) Huh! Not to mention, goosebumps all over the place! ）

For such a character, Lin Wenbing has also seen a lot in Beijing in the past year, and he has to talk to him and take a seat in the living room.

"It turns out that Brother Wen Bing is not only a fellow villager in Fujian, but also a young man in my Quanzhou Mansion!"

Hong Qiyin's letter was not sealed, and in his letter, he first praised Hong Chengchou's deeds, saying that his comments on Hong Chengchou's "thousands of miles of family horses, national stones and thousands of jun" in the past were really good. After first appreciating Hong Chengchou's strategy of suppressing thieves after he became the governor of the three sides, he turned his pen and recommended Lin Wenbing to Hong Chengchou. It is said that although this son is a businessman, he is anxious for justice and righteousness, and he benefits Sangzi in Su Ri, repairs bridges and roads, respects the elderly and pities the poor, and so on.

Xiaoyu, (that Hong Chengchou's old male pet, Xiao Shou.) After reading the letter with his orchid finger, he couldn't help but smile. "It turns out that Mr. Lin, no, Lin Dadong's family is the one who connected a hundred golden arhats in 100 days!"

Lin Wenbing couldn't help but smile when he heard Xiaoyu mention this matter, it was a business war between him and Shanxi merchants and Tongzhou Caoyun merchants when he first arrived in Beijing.

When Longsheng chose a place to build a house at the wharf outside Chaoyangmen in Beijing and opened a sale, it caused dissatisfaction among many peers, especially the business of eight Shanxi companies in Beijing, which had a lot of impact.

The scope of business that prevails in Long, such as the pawnbroking business. There was a conflict with the pawnshops of Shanxi merchants. On this day, someone came to the door and took out a golden Arhat, about eight inches in size, and asked to be in Longsheng. The courtier of the pawnshop gave the man a pawn ticket according to the price of gold, and paid the money.

Unexpectedly, from the next day, for dozens of consecutive days, that person came to be a golden Arhat every day. Every day he took two thousand taels of silver from Long Sheng. Such a move suddenly started to talk in the city of Beijing, and there were idlers who liked to watch the excitement, and they stood guard at the gate of Longsheng every morning. Waiting for the man to come and be a golden arhat. Wait to see when this fight will end and what kind of outcome it will take.

Is it the pretense of Long Shengxing closing the door, or is the trader behind it thinking that he is unlucky to end this dragon fight?

Several stewards of the Cao Gang, who were very close to Lin Wenbing, knew that there must be someone behind this matter, so they sent out their hands to inquire secretly, and sure enough. It is the instruction of Huang Yunfa, one of the eight major families in Shanxi, who is the shopkeeper of trading in Beijing. It's about squeezing this newly opened peer to death.

"Business. It is necessary to solve it by means of business. Lin Wenbing declined the kindness of several stewards and refused to use force against Huang Yunfa. And ordered people to set up two large vats at the entrance of Longshengxing to serve those idlers who watched the excitement to drink tea.

Thereupon. There are more and more people watching the excitement every day, and it is almost crowded at the gate of Longshengxing.

This situation lasted for three months, and then began to change.

Lin Wenbing quietly arranged for people to use all kinds of gems brought from Nanzhong, such as jadeite, lapis lazuli, cat's eye, diamond diamond, red sapphire, emerald, etc., to be exchanged for silver in the jewelry shops of the eight major families in Shanxi, Hui merchants, and Yangzhou merchants to deal with the run from Huang Yun's fortune, and at the same time, ordered people to sell these gems to the mansions of princes and ministers through various channels. On the other hand, from the second month onwards, every time that person came to be an arhat, he was no longer given silver, but silver dollars of better quality and higher value!

More than 100 days of fighting, and finally ended with the quiet death of the Huang Yunfa system, and Long Shengxing won a complete victory. At the celebration banquet, several stewards of the Cao Gang counted the fruits of Lin Wenbing's victory with their fingers.

"One, the sign was called to the Longsheng, and from then on, in the capital, up to the palace inside, down to the peddlers' pawns, no one knew that this Longsheng was prevalent. Second, the silver dollar was pushed to the market, so that everyone knew that a silver dollar was equal to one or two silver! ”

Sure enough, this Xiaoyu in the Hong Mansion mentioned this incident today, and his eyes were full of expectations and yearning for wealth.

For such a look, Lin Wenbing is also used to seeing it, how to deal with the way of nature.

The guards on the side took out a small exquisite wooden box from the worship box, "A little little thing, add makeup to the brother's platform." ”

Xiao Yu was overjoyed to open the wooden box, and inside was a box full of pearls, which exuded a soft and lovely light in the sun.

"This, how can you be embarrassed to accept this?!" Xiao Yu excused herself, but her fingers pinched the wooden box tightly.

"Wen Bing came today to congratulate the Supervisor, who is the leader of my Fujian people, and as a fellow villager, he is naturally and honorable."

As he spoke, Lin Wenbing ordered someone to take out the gift slip from the worship box and handed it to Xiaoyu.

"Your Excellency is worried about state affairs, so naturally you don't dare to disturb it with gold and silver and other vulgar things, so you have prepared some things needed in the army for the Governor to equip the standard battalion around you."

"1,000 fine steel knives, 1,200 spearheads, and 2,000 spears. 1,000 eight-petal hats and 2,000 steel cuirass accessories? Reading this valuable gift list, Xiao Yu couldn't help but hissed and inhaled the cold air, he followed Hong Chengchou to suppress thieves in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, and he was somewhat familiar with the things in the army, if the items listed on this gift list were really as mentioned above. It was sent to Hong Chengchou, and the standard battalion pro-army under Inspector Hong was like a tiger with wings.

However, why is this armor an accessory?

"Brother Tai is a hundred secrets, in the Ming Law, Emperor Taizu said, those who hide armor privately, behead! Therefore, Wen Bing had to disassemble the armor into parts, first, to facilitate transportation, and secondly, not to violate the law of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Brother Tai is really a cautious person!" Xiaoyu gave Lin Wen Bingshu a thumbs up, smiled very charmingly, and continued to read the gift list.

"Fifty high-grade bird guns, each of which distributes twenty rounds of medicine."

After reading a long gift list, Xiao Yu was full of praise for every item, but he had a lot of criticism for this fire gun.

"The gauze, alcohol and other things sent by Brother Tai, according to the gift list, are all for the treatment of knife wounds and gunshot wounds. Xiaoyu thanked the soldiers under the command of the superintendent on behalf of the brother. But this fire gun, so I will say thank you for not being sensitive. He pursed his thin lips, a little dissatisfied with Lin Wenbing's gift of bad scenery.

It's no wonder that he, the musket equipped in the Ming army, is always a way to cut corners, and he didn't hurt others, but he injured himself first.

It's not just Xiao Yu who has a smile on his face, but also a few pro-soldiers and generals in the Hong Mansion who are also disdainful, but they are not easy to send out, and they have just sent so many more armor swords and guns. Because he didn't understand the ills of muskets, he laughed at others. Is this the demeanor of the soldiers under the governors of the five provinces?

"Brother Tai, there happens to be someone in the guards below with a similar firecracker, if you don't bother, you might as well try it in the open space of the backyard." Lin Wenbing didn't move. Pretending not to see the frowning between the pro-soldiers.

In the flower hall in the backyard and in the water pavilion. Because the winter is cold. The surface of the water had already formed a thin layer of ice, and only a few remnants of lotus trees were shaking on the ice. The subordinates in the Hong Mansion were cleared from here, leaving a passage from the flower hall to the pond for nearly forty steps. A stack was erected on the opposite side, ready to be used to test the quality of the fire gun that Lin Wenbing gave to Inspector Hong.

Before starting the test, Lin Wenbing ordered someone to take a firearm and give it to the family of Hongfu for inspection. There is the old man who followed him when Hong Chengchou was still participating in politics, took the torch and looked at it carefully. But seeing that this bird's gun is black and thick, the whole body is made of fine iron, the gun tube is straight and long, there are front sights and doors, and the back of the gun is sealed with bolts, which is really a good thing, but the gun is not slightly bent downwards like the common bird gun or Lu Mi gun, but a shape that can be placed on the shoulder.

A guard of Lin Wenbing skillfully bit the gunpowder in the sub-drug, left a little for a moment and prepared to pour it into the medicine pool to make the ignition powder, and poured all the rest into the fire pipe, rammed it twice with the through bar under the gun tube, and made sure that it was solid and put it into the projectile, and then rammed it twice with the through bar, and then opened the fire door behind the gun, poured the remaining gunpowder inside, and finally took out the fire rope and installed it into the faucet, and ignited the fire rope. The series of actions made the pro-soldiers of Hongfu a little dazzled, but they didn't expect anyone to play the fire gun so neatly! The shooting steps of the Ming Dynasty bird gun are about a few steps such as pouring medicine, charging, pressing fire, loading ammunition, loading the fire rope, etc., the skilled shooter usually only has one shot a minute, and some ordinary bird guns, when they arrive on the battlefield, they are in a hurry, and they can shoot a shot in two minutes. And this guy in front of him is obviously a lot faster than a skilled bird gunner, and he thinks he is familiar with it on weekdays!

However, Xiao Yu felt that the reason why this guy loaded quickly, I am afraid that the secrets are not all in the paper tube. The amount of gunpowder and projectiles are all wrapped in a long paper tube, and when loading, bite the paper tube with your mouth, and first leave some gunpowder to the fire door to act as ignition, and the rest of the gunpowder and projectiles are stuffed into the gun mouth according to the steps to build a solid one. This way, the natural reload speed is much faster!

"Boss, reloaded!"

The guard asked Lin Wenbing for instructions in a deep voice.

Lin Wenbing inquired with his eyes to the people in the mansion, and after getting affirmation, he stood beside the guard and patted him on the left shoulder, "It's time to open the gun!" The family members in the Hong Mansion on the side were not as bold as him, and they hid far away one by one.

The guard held the gun in one hand, held the trigger in the other, opened and closed his eyes and looked at the star, and after looking for a while, he pulled the machine, and with a "pop" sound, the dragon head with the fire rope touched the medicine pool and ignited the gunpowder, white smoke rose, and the stack standing forty paces away shook a few times, and it seemed that it had been hit.

"One more time!"

Under Lin Wenbing's command, the guard took a good time to show his movements again like a cloud of peers. Just as he was about to raise the firearm to aim at the battlements in the distance, the old relatives of the Nahong Mansion stepped forward to take the firecracker.

"I'll try this one."

"Bang!"

He pulled the trigger and responsibly lit the ignition with a fire rope boiled in yellow wax, completing the shot.

"One more time!"

After three consecutive shots, everyone gathered their hands in admiration.

The pro-general even held the fire gun and refused to let go.

"When we fought in Western Australia, if we had this thing, I was afraid that all the bandit leaders would be wiped out!"

"Now that there is a big drought everywhere, this thing is just afraid of rainy days, and it is a sharp weapon used to suppress thieves! That group of chaotic thieves, when they bumped into it head-on, they were hit by a row of firearms, and they were afraid that they would not break up?! When the time comes, just chase and kill! ”

The pro-soldiers of the Hong family happily began to discuss the great achievements of the Inspector in the future.

Only Lin Wenbing, who was on the sidelines, watched coldly. In the past few years in Beijing, he has also come into contact with some high-ranking officials and nobles, and he has heard of the actions of these thieves and generals, and these sophisticated armor and equipment have come into the hands of Hong Chengchou, a guy who has always advocated strong thieves, and I don't know how many more thieves to kill? It must be known that this Quanzhou fellow not only advocates vigorously suppressing thieves, but also "killing and surrendering"! There are tens of thousands of surrendered thieves killed by him before and after, so that they have a bad reputation, and they are known as "Hong Maniac" and "Hong Demon King".

But the lord wants to make friends with him, and give him so many sharp weapons, isn't this sending the sharp blade to the butcher?

Soon, these armor weapons were sent to Hong Chengchou, who was in the front line of the thief suppression in Tongguan, Shaanxi, by the governor of the five provinces in Beijing.

When he was worried about how to cleanly and completely wipe out the hedgehogs gathered in Shaanxi and the 200,000 peasant army headed by Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, these few pieces of equipment were undoubtedly a shot in the arm.

"Send the order to divide these items into three parts, keep one copy in the standard camp, and distribute the remaining two copies to He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian, the two general soldiers! Mighty with the army! (To be continued......)