In the northwest of the Grand View Garden, there has been snow covering the rockery and the Zhulan folded belt bridge, as well as the various colored vines climbing on the mountain rocks, there is no green in winter, maybe they will wither in the autumn, waiting for the next year to rejuvenate.

Turning the mountain stone in the front yard, in the yard behind the door, there are a few girls and beautiful women embroidering, and the woman's posture is not cheesy even if the girl is not.

Ying'er, who was combing three girls, listened to the masters, the embroidery needle in her right hand flew up and down, Li Kun brought three sisters-in-law on the side, and the girls were not serious about embroidery, only joking and messing around, Li Kun asked while eating pastries: "Baochai, Cousin Xue's matter has not been settled yet?" ”

"I heard my mother say that the father-in-law in the palace relies on Brother Cong very much, and now the chief secretary of the Criminal Department is also his teacher, it seems that something big happened in the palace, and the list of questions and beheadings after this autumn has not been ticked, and it is finally ...... today" Xue Baochai sighed, looking like he had the rest of his life after the catastrophe.

Li Kun muttered silently, that cousin's energy was still very large...... Xue Pan's matter is a "bad sound" category after all, Baochai defends his brother, and outsiders are "bullying people" in their hearts, like Xia Jingui said "Take action to advance people", although Xue Baochai's class concept is very deep, involving relatives, and other people's lives are not very concerned, but he is embarrassed to use strong words, and changed the topic: "Brother Lan will be able to take the exam again next autumn, and the sister-in-law will be able to teach her son meritorious, so that she can prosper." ”

"It's hard to say, reading is a lifelong thing, I often ask him to practice arching horses, Wen Taowu is slightly skilled, and there will be a place to go in the future......" Li Kun said indifferently: "Brother Cong hasn't heard from there yet?" ”

"The mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the journey of thousands of miles is not to blame." Xue Baochai turned the needle in his hand, tied a knot with the needle and thread, and then cut the thread with scissors: "He is keen on the fame and fortune of officialdom, and we don't understand it, but it's the matter of the third girl and the second sister, he doesn't reply to the letter, and it's not a way to drag it out like this." ”

Yingchun Tanchun blushed, Xichun pursed her lips and smiled, many of the women in the boudoir are very reserved about marriage, Lin Daiyu interjected: "The feeling is that the sister-in-law is not pleasing to the eye, Sister Bao is going to drive people away, so those who come in can feel at ease, and those who go out can't see it." ”

The women were fighting for a while, and Li Kun wondered: "Over there in Qianxiang Country, it seems that it has turned into a barbarian." ”

"Not really." Ping'er walked among the crowds: "I have heard before that the Wang family at that time was in charge of the customs of Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan and Zhejiang, and the country of Qianxiang was the overseas island of Fujian and Fujian Province, and the former dynasty was called Ryukyu, and the Celestial Empire regarded it as a barbarian. Brother Cong should be clear in the south, and he doesn't worry about the three girls going over......"

Jia Yingchun said worriedly: "It is said in the history books that many barbarians are rude, Jurchen, Mongol, Turkic, Warat, Tatar...... The women of their chiefs will either be passed down from brother to brother or from generation to grandchildren......"

"Oh my God...... Xichun changed color and said: "Isn't that even ethics?" Sure enough, it's a barbarian......"

Jia Tanchun's face was pale, Ping'er Li Kun comforted her for a while, and the women dispersed, leaving only Xue Baochai, Li Kun, and Ping'er, the three women in the main room to speak, Ping'er and peacefully: "Didn't Brother Cong say that Gonggong Liu collected a few women and sent them to the palace, I don't know what happened to the eldest lady of our family, my wife has not been seen in the past few years, and the words can't be transmitted......"

"The sky is unpredictable, we women and families, handle family affairs well, even if we do our duty, we don't have to worry about those ......"

When I returned to the courtyard on the middle road, Qingwen and Xiangling were there, serving the meal, Ying'er said: "I heard that Master Cong married a concubine in Yangzhou......

"Where did it come from?" Qingwen was holding the bowl vividly.

"The businessmen from Yangzhou, as well as the Shanshan merchants who went south, said in the Jingzhong Guild Hall, and the people in the Shanhai Bookstore were preaching, and I heard it inadvertently."

Xue Baochai moved his chopsticks, was silent for a while, and didn't say anything, and only Xiangling didn't feel anything.

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The gate of Suzhou Mansion is located in the northwest of the city, and then to the northwest is the famous Tiger Hill area, the landscape temples are full of traces of human history, there is a Li Jizhong Lane outside the gate, the waterway and land road are winding, and it is the most prosperous section of Suzhou books, there are also many big shops in Wu County that enter the gate, as well as the halls of giant merchants from all over the world.

This is close to the empty courtyard in the suburbs, the horse head wall has a new look, and the school field in the backyard is reclaimed near the foot of the mountain.

I saw Sun Fu, Long Aotian, Yu Lu, Bao Er, Wu Sange, Wu Zhuangyuan, Zhong Yin, Liu Xianglian and others, each wearing chain mail in the shape of Dashun military uniforms, with a minimum of 30 catties, and the armor was covered with cotton and linen, and the outside was an iron nail.

The weapons in their hands, including spears, thistles, rattan cards, and waist knives, were sweating like rain in the face of scarecrow training.

Riding on the horse were Jia Cong, Liu Xianglian, and Guan Chaosheng, Jia Cong held a bird gun in his hand, the shape was still from the Ming Dynasty, and it was easy to blow up, so he didn't dare to use it, let alone guards?

This musket was still taken from Liu Ting, which made Jia Cong feel very chicken: "No wonder the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain can occupy the overseas trade of our DPRK, and the destructive power of firearms is ten times stronger than that of cold weapons, so it is really unwise to abandon them." ”

"The imperial court thinks it's a strange and obscene skill, but there was no such thing at the beginning, and the world couldn't beat it, and it has always been a ...... to imitate foreigners," Guan Chaosheng said.

In the early days of the 16th Act, China's firearms lagged behind the West, but China was still the creator of the four great inventions.

If firearms are discarded and not used, there will be no difference in the future of this plane.

How useful are firearms?

The thousands of cavalry of the Qing Dynasty monk Lingqin were swept away by the muskets of foreigners in the battle of Dagukou, and only seven people remained.

What is this concept?

Governments that don't use firearms are stupid governments, and in contrast, a certain island country is stronger than China in this regard, and the Tokugawa shogunate closed itself off for decades, and then as soon as it opened up, it caught up.

History has proved that only when the survival of the Chinese people is in danger will they unite and condense the national consciousness, and many times they are selfish, with obvious advantages and obvious inferiority.

"When is it ......good to make a flintlock pistol" Jia Cong can only think about it, the current firearms are not in hand, there is no equipment, elite soldiers, musketeers, Qianxiang Country can't solve it at all, and archers, at this point in time when the West has become the hegemon of the sea, is useless.

Firearms are the nightmare of the cavalry, and cold weapons have gradually been eliminated, of course, this process is slow, Dashun has been founded for more than a hundred years, and overseas firearms are not enough to dominate China, but cold weapons and firearms are used together.

Moreover, the training of archers takes a long time, and Jia Cong, who has practiced, cannot kill the enemy, so it is not worth developing.

When Sun Fu saw Jia Cong's distraction, he became lazy, and they were all tired.

"Uncle Cong, the Xing family came up from Wujiang, and they are still ...... at the canal port" Jia Yun, who was busy with Gaoyou's work, returned to his original position.

Jia Cong asked a few people to come with him to pick him up, and after a while, he arrived at the canal wharf, and Xing Xiuyan could be seen coming down from the deck from a distance.