Until the two of them walked away, seeing that there was no more news, Qiu Fei quietly retreated from the pile of firearms into the forest, but it was impossible to go back from the secret passage, not only because it was very risky to take the secret passage, but also because two of them returned to the secret passage to guard.

Because he is not familiar here, he doesn't know where to go, he can only rely on experience, see where the trees are sparse and go where, almost two hours Qiu Fei walked out of the woods and left a mark along the way, saying that it was out, but in fact it was just a trail outside the forest, this road was only five feet wide, and it was already the closest road to the Jurchens to set firearms.

It was already half-dawn, Qiu Fei used the direction of sunrise to discern the direction of the capital, and rushed back to the hiding place of the dark guard before dawn.

Qiu Fei told everyone the news he had discovered, but he couldn't make up his mind whether to send the Jinyi guards to collect the firearms hidden in the forest now, because they all knew that there were still some firearms that had not been delivered, and if they acted in advance, they would inevitably startle the snakes, and the people who colluded with the Jurchens in the Beijing camp still had no way to find out, but if they did not move now, they were afraid that negligence would cause this batch of firearms to be shipped out in advance.

So several people discussed reporting the news to Luo Sigong, and he made a decision.

Since Emperor Wanli became seriously ill, Luo Sigong has become much more cautious, and he is also a little constrained in doing things, whether it is not difficult for him to arrest the Jurchens now, but he no longer has the confidence to make a decision, but he just reported the news of the matter to Zhu Youzhen.

Since leaving the Qianqing Palace that day, Zhu Changluo has let go of his hands and feet and began to Zhang Luo's government, in addition to filling vacancies, tax reform, armaments, there are many matters, from time to time will ask Zhu Youzhen to go to the prince's mansion for questioning, these days is to be asked about the shortage of personnel.

Zhu Youzhen has been out of the palace for a short time, so he is naturally not familiar with officials enough, and most of the questions asked by Zhu Changluo are some questions such as policy arguments, Zhu Youzhen naturally can't answer, and he can't say any useful countermeasures for the appointment and dismissal of officials, which always provokes Zhu Changluo to sigh, and it seems that there are many rumors from the outside world that are untrue.

"Father, Xu Guangqi is a great talent, and he is worthy of a great responsibility." For others, Zhu Youzhen did not comment, but just said a Xu Guangqi.

"Xu Guangqi has no political achievements in the Ministry of Officials, and Fang Shoufu specifically mentioned that this person does not think about government affairs, is obsessed with agricultural affairs, and has close contacts with Fanbang, so it is not suitable for reuse." Zhu Changluo shook his head and said.

Zhu Youzhen saw his father's appearance and said hurriedly: "What is my Ming Dynasty's predicament today?" It's just a natural and man-made disaster, the people don't have enough to eat, they don't think about farming, how can they solve the people's urgency? Moreover, Fang Congzhe is a person, in government affairs, the abolition of hundreds of officials, the formation of parties for personal gain, and in military affairs, resulting in the defeat of Salhu, how can he still be reused? How can he believe his words again? ”

"Xiao Wu, the way to be a gentleman lies in forbearance, pay attention to the art of trade-offs, at this time, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, although Fang Congzhe has many shortcomings, but how to stabilize the political situation at this time? What's more, many officials in the court have close contacts with him, so how can it be said that it can be disposed of now? If you don't know how to endure as a father, how can you survive to this day? If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan. Zhu Changluo still patiently explained to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen said: "Father, Xiao Wu doesn't understand the way of being a king, he only knows that the people's will cannot be bullied, and the people's desire is the trend of the times." ”

"What is the trend of the times? Now that the DPRK is the father, it is the general trend, if Fang Congzhe is dismissed because of a momentary pain, who can still take on this important responsibility? How can you lose great because you are small? At first, Zhu Changluo felt that this young man was still young, and it was understandable that he didn't understand many things, but at this time, he didn't listen to the teachings, but instead argued, which made him a little unhappy, and he spoke more harshly.

Zhu Youzhen continued: "Father, isn't this unfair? Don't talk about others, the case involving Fang Shoufu's son is related to the British public, and if the other party has no punishment at this time, wouldn't it make the British public feel cold. ”

Listening to Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Changluo was very uneasy, the monarch and the ministers, father and son, Zhu Youzhen's statement was already a bit beyond the norm, he slapped the table and said: "Presumptuous, my father asked you to come to the school to test you, which really disappointed my father, and my father knew that you had some friendship with Zhang Zhiji, but how can state and private affairs be mixed up and there is no distinction between public and private?" Monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, thunder, rain and dew are all blessings, how can a courtier be dissatisfied because of one thing? How could Xiao Wu have such a mind? ”

"The son is reckless."

Zhu Changluo waved his hand impatiently and said, "Okay, you can go back." ”

"My son is leaving." Zhu Youzhen bowed and retired.

Zhu Youzhen left the prince's mansion, he was depressed all the way, eleven or twelve years old, but he was only at the age of reading the "Analects", for him, many things were indeed not something he could participate in, but as the prince of a country, he tolerated hiding dirt under his nose, which made Zhu Youzhen really dissatisfied with his father.

When Fang returned to the mansion, he heard that Luo Sigong had sent someone to report something, and Zhu Youzhen guessed the information that it must be a Jurchen, so he said, "Let that person in." ”

Soon, the butler led a man to arrive. Zhu Youping retired from the housekeeper, and the man said: "Qi Shizi, the governor ordered me to report to the prince, the two places have been controlled, but the situation on the other side of the Beijing suburbs is quite complicated, the Jurchens have already dug a secret passage in the house, and they transport firearms out through the secret passage every day, according to the news, the firearms are only half reached, do you need to pick up those people?" ”

Zhu Youzhen was a little upset at this time, although this batch of firearms was very important, and even involved the Jurchens, but it was not very urgent at this time, so he said to the man: "It's not time yet, you go back and talk back, as long as the artillery fire does not leave Dongshan, and the weapons do not leave the capital, don't act rashly, just follow carefully." After speaking, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand at the plainclothes Jinyi guard and said, "Let's go back like this, let them not act rashly." ”

"Yes." The brocade guard answered and turned to leave.

After two days, Qiu Fei would go to the house every day to explore, and he would often see some oilcloth-covered weapons in the backyard again during the past two days, but they would disappear at night.

It is certainly impossible for these weapons to be transported back through the secret passage that they were transported before, but no one has been seen entering or leaving the house in the past two days, so there must be a secret passage dedicated to transporting weapons into the courtyard. It's just that the guards will be very strict every time it is transported, and Qiu Fei can't avoid the Jurchens' inspection after trying several times, so he hasn't found out where the other secret passage where the weapons are transported in the past two days.

For more than ten days, occasionally people came out of the house, but most of them came out to buy some wine and food, and they never came into contact with anyone.

Until the evening of this day, the person in charge of guarding was the three-fingered Fan Qiong, and when he was staring boredly at the main entrance of the house, he saw a man with white gauze wrapped around his head walking out of it, accompanied by two people.

Usually every time someone comes out to buy some food, it is basically in the morning, but this time it is at night, Fan Qiong immediately thought about it, he beckoned to another person in the courtyard, that person went to the roof, Fan Qiong asked the person to continue to guard, he went down to the roof, said to a few other people, greeted Duan Yan, and the two of them went out in a night dress.

Along the way, the two of them followed those Jurchens for a long time, and thanks to these people who actually picked some small paths to walk, if they were afraid of being exposed on the official road, there was really nothing for them to hide, and it would be very difficult to track.

Until a few people came to a tidal flat, there was a forest about five zhang behind the beach, a river dozens of zhang wide in front of it, and after crossing the river, it was a tidal flat much larger than this side, and after the tidal flat opposite, Fan Qiong and Duan Yan were very familiar with each other and operated the station.

When the three Jurchens arrived, they stopped walking, and first walked around the river for a while.

Then I saw one of the Jurchens with his hands on his lips, and only heard a few cries of "cuckoo, cuckoo", which was enough to confuse the truth in Fan Qiong's opinion, and stopped without a few calls, and the Sanming Jurchens sat on the ground with a loud voice, and after a moment or so, the person before stood up again and called a few times as before. After calling the man to sit down on the ground again, it was not until after the third cry that there was finally a sound from the other side.

Because it was a little far away, Duan Yan and Fan Qiong could only see a rough idea, and they saw that someone on the opposite shore seemed to remove a stone from the ground, and then pulled up a very thick rope from the ground, and under the rope was a bamboo raft.

Then I saw the man on the other side squatting on the bamboo raft, pulling the rope in his hand, and thus marched from the other end of the riverbank. When there was still not far from the shore, several Jurchens couldn't wait to go into the water and drag the bamboo raft to the shore, the man got off the bamboo raft and didn't wait for him to stand firm, and the Jurchen, who was the leader of the head wrapped in gauze, hurriedly took the man's hand and asked, "Lord Shi, why did the things stopped today?" Don't you want to do business with our big gold? ”

The person who came from the other side was the head of the Shenji Battalion, he glanced at the three Jurchens: "Kurbu, you have already pulled more than half of it, and there is not much left, less than two percent of the total, but in ten days it will be the martial arts evaluation, this time both the training and the inventory are much more careful than before, only the last warehouse of weapons is left, recently the people of the Ordnance Bureau do not dare to go to Beijing to exchange firearms, so those firearms in the warehouse cannot be replaced, and they can't be shipped, as long as it takes time, This batch of weapons will definitely be delivered. ”

The Jurchen man called Kulbu said: "Just like your Ming saying 'a good meal is not afraid of being late', but there seems to be something wrong recently, the people of the Haisha Gang say that the inspection of Jinyiwei seems to be much stricter these days, and sometimes the road and road guide are useless, according to them, Jinyiwei is arresting some criminals, but in this way, Shi Jiang always needs to think of some way, otherwise according to the previous method, our batch of things will not be able to reach Tianjin Wei at all." ”