Let's say that when Gu Haotian heard the word Fu'an, he immediately remembered the person who framed Lin Chong with Lu Qian, he looked at the left and right and there was no one else, so he hinted to Bian Xiang, and he followed, and then he heard a conversation.

"The imperial court has already discussed, allocated 5,000 pairs of leather armor, 1,000 pairs of iron armor, 1,000 longbows, 20,000 arrow clusters and the Jurchen mission, and the Taiwei ordered me to tell you, prepare it within half a month, and deliver it at any time." "These supplies are also prepared, but there are a lot of things, and the Jurchen people have to pass through Liaodi on their return journey, will he go?"

"These are not for you and me to worry about, you can't go by land, can't you take the water route?"

Then the two of them chatted about some innocuous idle work, and Gu Haotian quietly retreated. After a while, the envoy returned to the side hall.

"Ling Zhen's matter, since a few people interceded, the lower officials will follow, and I will let you wait for the people to go back." The Lord of Nawu promised this very happily.

"In this way, I have waited to thank the adults, but the kindness of the adults, I am very sorry not to go, tonight in the Qingfeng Building a little thin wine, please be sure to appreciate your face."

This Lord Wu is a gold mine, of course Gu Haotian is unwilling to have a Ling Zhen and give up. And Chief Envoy Wu also secretly laughed at these countrymen, gave him a fortune for nothing, and invited him to a banquet, why not do it, and he happily agreed.

About half an hour later, a public servant came over with a document and took Gu Haotian and the three of them to a cell.

Ling Zhen was still wearing the same clothes that he had buried, he didn't seem to have recovered from the explosion, and he was stunned when he looked at the three strangers in front of him, not knowing what was going on.

"Ling Zhen, you're lucky, these three nobles have protected you, and come with him." The duke took the paperwork and let Ling Zhen draw it, and left on his own.

"Brother Ling Zhen, it's inconvenient to talk here, I'll wait outside and talk to you in detail."

Gu Haotian stepped forward to say hello and asked him to go out together, and Ling Zhen hesitated and followed.

A few people found an inn and asked Ling Zhen to wash his body and change his clothes before sitting down again.

"A few people who have never known me in their lives, why did they rescue me this time?"

Although this Ling Zhen is usually obsessed with artillery, he is a delicate person, and he instinctively remains vigilant against a few strangers who appear for no reason and show favor to him.

"Brother Ling Zhen should not be suspicious, in the ancient Haotian Jingdong Jeju people's family, the family teacher is Zhou Dong, who used to mention the name of his brother to me, this time I traveled to the capital, and I came to visit well, I didn't expect to happen to meet yesterday's incident, so I asked Lord Wu for some favors."

Ling Zhen has been a fellow envoy of Wu for many years, so he naturally knows the weight of this bit of favor, but what he cares more about now is another information.

"Lang Jun said that Zhou Dong Daxia mentioned it below?"

"Of course, otherwise how would I know my brother's name?" Gu Haotian can only use the name of the master.

"I am really ashamed to do nothing, but I can't think of it, but I can't think of it."

"The family teacher once said that artillery is a militaristic weapon, and when people don't know it deeply, they regard it as a side door, which is really a big mistake, and the only one who is good at this is the only one who is thundering in the sky."

"I didn't expect that no one in the forbidden army was valued, but the hero was a bosom friend!" Ling Zhen muttered.

"In fact, I happened to see some records about artillery in an idle book, which said that the quality of artillery lies in the steel of casting cannons, and the purity of gunpowder."

"Is this book still there?"

Ling Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he asked anxiously.

"But in the manor in Jeju, there seems to be a gunpowder recipe in it." Gu Haotian took another heavy bait, and Ling Zhen really fished.

"When Lang Jun returns to Jeju, I'll go with you next."

"Artillery development is not a day's work, brothers and families ......"

"I'm a white body now, what's the use of staying in the capital, if there is a stutter in the manor, the family will go over together."

"Food and clothing are worry-free, only afraid that the brothers will go alone, without the helpers of the past, it is inconvenient to do things, I have seen that Ma Lao Wu is good, it is better to invite him to go with him, the wages in the manor are not disadvantaged, and he was initially set to five taels a month, do you think he is willing to go."

"Five taels?" Ling Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then said, "If it's five taels, no one in the more than 40 people in my camp wants to go, but this military registration is a trouble." ”

"You don't have to worry about your brother's military status, you can count the people who are willing to go, and tomorrow you will arrange it properly."

Let's say that Xu Guanzhong sat aside, watching Gu Haotian's knowledge of artillery come as soon as he opened his mouth, and Ling Zhen admired it, and willingly got into the trap of the petty official step by step. I was surprised in my heart, I thought that I was extraordinary, but I didn't expect that in the process of getting along with petty officials, I would often find that I was not as good as a thirteen-year-old petty official, such as this artillery, and I couldn't help but add a little curiosity to it.

After the noon gathering, Gu Haotian left two hundred silver for Ling Zhen, and instructed him to give five taels of settlement fee to each person in the camp if he wished, and let one team member stay, and go back to report after getting the letter.

Ling Zhen took two hundred taels of silver tickets and went with emotion, for ordinary people, the most convincing thing in this world is real money and silver, this Gu Langjun is too generous, and he hasn't agreed yet, just five taels per person, so those brothers under his command, which one is not willing to go.

After Ling Zhen went back, he first called Ma Lao Wu, and after a total of the two, they went out separately to investigate, and the results were obtained in about an hour. Gu Haotian was rewarded at the beginning of Shen Shi, and the forty-two people under his command, except for a few who could not go for various reasons, actually had thirty-eight people who wanted to go. Naturally happy in his heart, he called Xu Guanzhong, and the two discussed the strategy of dealing with the chief envoy of Wu at night, and then several people took a carriage to Qingfeng Tower.

Not long after the three of them arranged the wine and food, the chief envoy arrived, this guy had a lot of extra money in the morning, and he was in a good mood right now, looking at Gu Haotian and others was very pleasing to the eye. Under the deliberate flattery of the three of them, after a few glasses of wine, the atmosphere was harmonious.

"Lord Wu, there is an iron ore industry in Jingdong, and there is an urgent need for some talents who understand gunpowder when opening mines in the past, I see that there is an artillery battalion under my lord, there should be talents in this area, I don't know if there are some older people, the unusable characters in the battalion, transferred to the use of the next, of course, in the cost, in the lower will not be stingy."

After three rounds of drinking, Gu Haotian saw that the timing was about the same, so he threw out tonight's topic.

The envoy is also a ghost, he was thinking that these outsiders invited him to drink tonight, there must be a reason, but now after listening to it, he knows in his heart, those people in the artillery camp are a chicken rib for the armor storehouse, and there happened to be a big accident yesterday, he was thinking about taking advantage of this to withdraw this artillery battalion, and he was originally worried about the problem of the whereabouts of those dozens of people. Now it's good, not only do you have no worries about going anywhere, but you can inevitably make another profit. As soon as he thought about it, he spoke:

"There are some talents, but those people are all members of the forbidden army, and it is a troublesome thing to go to their identities and return their freedom."

"Naturally, I know that there are many joints in this, and the cost of these dots will be taken from the bottom, and the chief envoy will only say how much money one person gets."

Sure enough, on the road, Lord Wu secretly rejoiced in his heart, he pondered for a moment, and said:

"The capital is not as good as the locality, and those officials of the yamen have a very big appetite, I think they have to ask for at least three or five taels."

"This and that, you must not let the chief envoy show affection, and you have to post silver money, I think it will be ten taels per person."

Envoy Wu's heart skipped a beat, when had he seen such a generous guest, and thought of the more than 40 people in the artillery battalion, didn't there be more than 400 taels, so he immediately agreed.

Two transactions were made in one day, and Master Wu made a lot of money. Stimulated by money and alcohol, he regarded the three people in front of him as close friends who talked about everything.

"Chief Envoy Wu, there is another word below, but I don't know whether to say it or not?"

"You and my brother, if there is anything else that is not easy to say, just say it." Now the chief envoy of Wu has already called Gu Haotian a brother.

"My mine is in a secluded place in the mountains, and it is often frequented by strongmen and bandits, so I wonder if I can buy some defensive weapons in the warehouse?"

"If the amount is small, brother, I will get some with you anyway, but I say, what kind of weapons do you want?"

"There are some ordinary knives in the mine, I wonder if I can get some bows and arrows, armor and the like?"

"At the moment, the armor and bows and arrows are nervous, but it's okay to get a little, but it's difficult to get more."

"But why?"

The envoy hesitated for a moment, and then leaned over to Gu Haotian and said: "Since you and I are brothers, it doesn't hurt to say it, the armor, bows and arrows in the treasury will be stored for the Jurchen messenger in the near future, if the new products in the workshop come over in a while, I will definitely try to get more for my brother." ”

Let's say that when Xu Guanzhong heard this, he had fully understood that Gu Haotian proposed to buy armor but the drunkard didn't mean to drink, so he pretended to be surprised and asked:

"Oh, it turns out that the Jurchens want to use it, but isn't the Jurchen and the Liao people at war, how can he go with many soldiers?"

"What's so difficult about this, you can't take the sea route if the land route is not passable, and the Jingshi takes the Yongji Canal to the sea through Cangzhou, isn't it a good road. Everyone, Hugh said this, these have their own court and Jurchens to worry about, we just drink. ”

The alliance between the Jurchens and the imperial court is the current trend in the court, and everyone knows it, and this envoy does not treat him as a secret, so he said it casually. But Gu Haotian and the others were like treasures, and they secretly remembered them in their hearts.

A banquet in Qingfeng Building, Gu Haotian and others achieved all their goals, and after two or three days, the Wu Commander acted vigorously and resolutely, and the military registration of the forty-two people in the artillery battalion was done neatly, and even the artillery battalion was left with its "efforts", and only the nominal virtual yamen remained, and some of the gunpowder and artillery originally stored in the armor warehouse were bought by the Wu Commander for the sake of brotherhood, and they were bought by Gu Haotian at a price, that is, the four people who were originally unwilling to go to Liangshan had to follow because they lost their livelihood.

In a few days, the artillery battalion of the Beijing Division Armor Depot was wiped out by Gu Haotian, and he also got acquainted with a "brother who passed his life", which opened the door for the purchase of armor in the future, but it was an unexpected surprise after he arrived in the capital.