When Zhu Shun was still thinking about how to find Chongzhen to come to the policy, the second uncle Zhu Zhongyi first went to the warehouse to get a few Yanling knives left by the previous general flag, and went to Chongwenmen.

Chongwenmen is the end point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the most important economic artery of the Ming Dynasty, and it is stipulated in the Wanli period that all merchant ships and goods must go to Chongwenmen and pay the three taxes of the main ship.

The Chongwenmen area has also formed a prosperous market, and it is also a place where the poor people in the capital live, as long as they have the strength to do it, they can earn six or seven cents of silver a month.

Although it is small, this is their only way to live, except here, no matter how strong they are, they can't find a place to contribute.

Hu Blind is one of the many coolies, and the only difference between him and other coolies is that he used to be from Liaodong.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the Jurchen Tartars launched the Liaodong Massacre that exterminated humanity, brutally killing more than one million Han people, and the blind Hu family of more than a dozen people, he survived, and later joined the border army in order to take revenge.

No one remembers what Hu Blind's real name was, because one eye was shot by the Jurchen Tartars, and he has always been called Hu Blind.

"Blind man!"

The blind man was concentrating on calculating his wages to see when he could make up enough money for the lady to buy a copper hairpin, and before he could finish the calculation, a whip was drawn on him.

A green hand wearing a black silk placket raised his whip and slapped it fiercely at the blind man, glaring at him viciously and saying, "Hurry up and hand over today's money." ”

It is not so simple to bring out coolies in Chongwenmen, and this place has long been monopolized by several powerful banks.

All the coolies have to be handed over to the bank every day on a regular basis, and the coolies who make less money are pitiful, and then hand over a part of the work to the white wolf with empty gloves, and they can't eat enough.

Qingshou saw that the blind man was pretending to be stupid there, and raised the whip to pull it again, but before the whip could fall on the blind man, he was kicked into the canal from behind.

There were more than two dozen helpers by his side, and when he saw that the boss had been kicked into the canal, he immediately turned around and prepared to kill this man who didn't know how thick the sky was.

The more than two dozen young hands turned their heads and looked, but they didn't dare to move, because the person who kicked the boss was a military master.

Dressed in a cyan rhinoceros complement official uniform, with a goose feather knife at the waist, and black official boots on his feet, he is dressed as a standard flag soldier.

Compared with this kind of official uniform, Zhu Zhongyi prefers to wear a mandarin duck battle jacket or armor, but if he doesn't wear an official uniform today, he can't deter some crumbs.

Zhu Zhongyi was followed by four middle-aged men, with different looks and heights, and the only thing they had in common was that they all had disabilities.

When the blind man turned his face and saw Zhu Zhongyi and the other four men, he quickly turned his face away.

Thinking about how strong he was back then, and looking at today, he is a soft egg, and he really has no face to see the old brother before.

Zhu Zhongyi picked up the last Yanling knife, threw it over, and only said one sentence: "Blind Hu, give you a small flag, do not do it." ”

The blind man hurriedly took the Yanling knife, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he looked up and saw that the other four people were also holding a Yanling knife, and said with a bright smile: "Dry!" ”

A few days later, Zhu Shun saw that the second uncle had returned, and at the same time brought back fifty family members, a little strangely, these sergeants all had two common characteristics.

The second uncle Zhu Zhongyi returned to the new Wang Gongchang factory, and the first thing he did was to get a hundred flintlock pistols, two for each person, and a few carts of ammunition, and went out.

Since then, on the edge of the Yongding River near Wang Gongchang, gunshots have been ringing out every morning since the beginning of the day, and the smell of gunpowder smoke is still permeating.

Listening to the sound of flintlock pistols and smelling the pungent smell of gunsmoke, the craftsmen of Wang Gongchang not only did not feel the slightest annoyance, but also felt extremely relieved.

This is outside the capital, and there is no tall city wall as a barrier, so you can finally rest assured that there is such a sergeant who is good at using muskets.

During this period, there were still several relatively large forces of lamas, who ran to the Zhu spinning factory to extort money without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and they were all beaten into a sieve by Zhu Zhongyi, the general banner.

The head was also skillfully cut off by them, and it was taken to the military department to receive a reward, saying that it was the head of the bandit.

The military department is not a fool, and sent someone to investigate, but it turned out that these people were bluffs, and they were half of the bandits, so they folded the reward money in half, and embezzled a large part of the ink, and less than one or two pieces of silver fell into the hands of Zhu Zhongyi, the general banner.

Zhu Zhongyi, the general banner, was accustomed to this kind of behavior of eating empty salaries and greedy military salaries before he entered the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and he had long been used to it, and he didn't say anything, and bought all the wine with the money.

And so it passed for a month.

Shanhaiguan brought twenty or thirty donkey carts, and Cao Wenzhao, Zu Dashou and several other generals were also sent to compete in the school field.

Cao Wenzhao's luck doesn't know why it's so bad, and in the past month, he has always lost more and won less.

Today, Cao Wen was about to leave the school yard with a beard and glare, and saw twenty or thirty ox carts transporting baggage, and muttered: "It's strange, I don't usually see it once a year." ”

"Now I've seen each other twice in a month or two."

Before Cao Wen Zhaozu Dashou and several other generals surrounded him, Mr. Qian, who was in charge of escorting the baggage, jumped out of the car: "Brother Cao, you are going to get rich again." ”

"Zhu Zhongyi's nephew, Zhu Shun, has created a batch of new-style bird guns, well... It should be called a flintlock pistol, and this first batch will all be handed over to you General Cao. ”

Zu Dashou and several generals heard that it was not a military jacket and a salary, but a bird that was not as good as a bow and arrow, and their faces were no longer envious.

Zu Dashou held his breath because of the incident last time, and now he finally found an opportunity, and said with a smile: "Such a good thing, Lao Cao, if I were you, I would replace all the archers in the camp with bird guns." ”

When Cao Wenzhao heard this, his face immediately turned dark, it is true that the power of the bird gun is great, but the steps are too cumbersome, and one shot of the bird gun is enough for the archer to shoot six or seven arrows.

There are also many restrictions, so you can't use it on rainy days, and you can't use it when it's windy.

The bird guns of the border army are generally mixed with bows and arrows, and it is rare to use all bird guns, after all, they are not fighting with the rogues who walk on two legs, and there is enough time to release the bird guns.

This is the frontier, the warring are all Jurchen Tartars who come and go like the wind, and the range of the bird gun is only about a hundred steps, for the fine war horse, a few breaths of effort will rush over, where is there time to fill the bird gun for you slowly.

If you replace them all with bird guns, you are looking for death.

When Mr. Qian left, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his head and said: "Look at my memory, Inspector Yuan said, this kind of flintlock pistol does not need more than a dozen steps, only two steps can be fired." ”

"Two... Two? Cao Wenzhao swallowed his saliva with difficulty, his eyes glowed green, and he yelled anxiously: "Brothers, hurry up and transport the things back to the camp." ”

When Zu Dashou and several generals heard the two steps, the playfulness on their faces instantly froze on their faces.

Several brave generals surrounded him, rubbed their hands, and sneered: "Brother Cao, look, can you give some to your brothers." ”

Cao Wenzhao was like an old hen guarding her chickens, jumped on the donkey cart in a hurry, and drove the donkey cart away in person: "There is no door." ”

Zu Dashou watched twenty or thirty carriages leave in front of him, and he was annoyed in his heart, when he recruited troops with Cao Wenzhao, Zhu Zhongyi took refuge in himself first.

Later, he disliked Zhu Zhongyimu, so he didn't want him, but Cao Wenzhao grabbed it as if he had found a treasure.

Who would have thought that Zhu Zhongyi was really a treasure.

If Zhu Zhongyi had been accepted, the new army jacket and flintlock pistol would have been his own, how could he have cheapened Cao Wenzhao.

Zu Dashou really regretted his intestines.