When he returned to the Shen Mansion, Shen Wansan really didn't sleep, saying that he was worried that Ma Du wouldn't be able to sleep. The ghost believes in him, where is he worried about Madu, he is weak-hearted and who doesn't know.

He didn't listen to Zhang Shicheng and asked what Zhang Shicheng was going to do, there was nothing to say, Ma Du told him the truth that he was telling the second prince a bedtime story, and Shen Wansan also looked like a ghost who believed you, pouted and went back to his bedroom to rest.

Ma Du finally felt sleepy, but he only slept on the bed for two hours, and before dawn, he heard the sound of killing outside the gate, and he knew that Xu Da had started to attack the city again without asking. But just after dawn, there were bursts of cannons from the gate in the west of the city, and the shouts of killing were endless, and the sound seemed to be louder than that on the side of the gate.

Jue naturally couldn't sleep, Ma Du walked to the courtyard and saw the smoke billowing from the gate, Lao Liu laughed softly: "Eighty percent is Xu Xiangguo burned the water village over the gate." ”

Ma Du said with a smile: "Lao Liu, you have not been in Pingjiang for a few days, but you have heard clearly about the deployment of the city." ”

"After living for such an age, I spent half of my time at war, and when I got to a place, I naturally cared about this. When the world is really peaceful on that day, maybe I won't ask anymore! ”

"I'm afraid it won't be far, let's have something to eat and inquire about those two bastards."

Lao Liu persuaded: "Master, don't take risks for these two rammed goods, if there is really any accident, it will be their own fault!" ”

"I know, I'm not going to mess around, we're just going to find out what's going on, if they pretend to be like each other, maybe it's safer than hiding in the cellar."

The two of them went to the northwest corner of Beicheng after breakfast, and they were fighting at the moment, and they had to be interrogated along the way, but as a subordinate official of the palace, they had an official seal in their hands, so they were naturally unimpeded.

I have to say that Zhang Shicheng's urban planning has done a good job. Now is the time when the southeast monsoon is blowing, and the smell is blown directly out of the city, and Ma Du has lived in Pingjiang for so long that he has not noticed it.

When he got closer, Mado smelled this smell that he would never forget for the rest of his life, yes! It's this smell, Zhang Shicheng is also cooking nitrate with dung. Since ancient times, China's saltpeter has mostly come from the land of Longshu, and the old Zhu is definitely rich in saltpeter mines, but it can't be found, and in desperation has to dig a pit in Yingtian to cook nitrate.

Jiangnan is not a place where saltpeter is produced, since Zhang Shicheng wants to use a large number of firearms, he has to learn from Lao Zhu to dig a pit, needless to say that it is also from Hongdu.

Zhang Shicheng seems to regard firearms as the last straw, and he also attaches great importance to this. The patrolling soldiers kept coming and going, Lao Liu only approached slightly, and the other party immediately drew a knife to threaten, and Ma Du simply rejected the idea of showing the official seal. Embarrassed, he believed that if he showed his official seal, it would immediately reach Zhang Shicheng's ears.

It has become impossible to save Chang Mao and Zhang Wuliu, and I don't dare to expect them to do anything earth-shattering, I just hope that they can wait until the city is broken peacefully, and then they can give Lao Chang and Chunhua an explanation.

Since he couldn't get close, he couldn't run in vain this trip, Ma Du asked Lao Liu to ask the nearby residents about the time when the smell appeared, and the result was two months, which made Ma Du breathe a long sigh of relief in his heart.

The time to make standard black powder is only two months, so the other firearms will only be later, and Zhu Jun will die a few fewer people. Just as he was about to leave, Ma Du saw a familiar figure, Mao Xiang.

Mao Xiang wore a hat on his head to drive his carriage that pulled the toilet, humming an inexplicable tune in his mouth and swaggering to this side, only glanced at Ma Du's side, and walked forward without squinting, when passing in front of Ma Du, Ma Du clearly saw that his car was not a toilet, it was dung.

The patrol soldiers surrounded him, but Mao Xiang was not nervous at all, and took a piece of paper from his arms to show them unhurriedly.

Dog's day, I went to Yang Shuping twice and didn't see him, saying that Shangfeng had arranged a new task for him, but I didn't expect it to be this. Ma Du was sure that he was not here to save Chang Mao and Zhang Wuliu, and those two rammed goods were not worth such a big capital under Pingjiang's inspection.

It turns out that Ma Du is a guy who looks down on people, Chang Mao and Zhang Wuliu are rammed, but they are definitely idealistic and ambitious rammers, and the two are brewing an unprecedented big plan.

After a few days of edification, Chang Mao no longer felt the existence of the nose organ, even if he was guarding the dung pit, he could eat and sleep.

A bowl of salted rice porridge and two black buns are his lunch, yes, ordinary people generally only eat two meals a day, and salt is added to prevent them from heat stroke.

"Chang Gongzi, what are you doing running so far with a bowl!" Zhang Wuliu spoke in a vague whisper while chewing on the black noodles all over his head, he couldn't hear the sound in the distance, it looked like he was chewing something, this was the method that Chang Mao taught him, and it has been proved in practice that this method is very effective, no one doubts that they are not dumb, but this method can only be used when eating.

"What else can I do, of course, just to have a few words with you." Chang Mao Zhengse said: "Let me ask you, do you know what you are doing every day?" ”

"They said it was boiling salt, but I knew he was lying to us, and it wasn't salt at all."

Chang Mao couldn't wait to spray the rice porridge in his mouth on his face, how did he know that it was sour and astringent if he didn't taste it, Chang Mao gave him a thumbs up, "You are finally smart, and you haven't been deceived by them." ”

"It's nothing, there's no way to fool me!"

Chang Mao pulled off a piece of steamed bun and put it in his mouth, and said while chewing: "Let me tell you, in fact, what you are doing every day is killing people, or killing your former comrades!" ”

Zhang Wuliu was stunned for a moment, grabbed a piece of bun and threw it into his mouth, "Chang Gongzi, where did you start with this, even if I am not boiling salt, I am not killing people, let alone killing my comrades, I have not killed anyone, I have killed two on the battlefield before." Are you stinking your brain, talking nonsense" and touching Chang Mao's head with dirty hands.

Chang Mao angrily knocked his hand off, pulled a piece of bun and put it in his mouth, "I tell you that what you cook every day is indeed not salt, but saltpeter." Saltpeter understands whether or not it is used for gunpowder, and with gunpowder they can make all kinds of firearms, and then take them to the city wall to kill people, and kill not others, but you and my comrades! ”

Zhang Wuliuyi slapped his thigh and stuffed a piece of bun into his mouth, "I remember, I used to cook this thing with my master in Hongdu!" ”