A warm wind blew, making the silent Dongyang River move, and both sides of the river bank were also smeared with layers of green, this time is undoubtedly the best season for grazing.

But Yaruo couldn't come here to graze anymore, she had to pick up her little lamb, looked at her husband Xiao Hong, and asked with tears in her eyes: "Brother Hong, you must remember to come to Xinghe to find me, I am already pregnant with your child!" ”

Xiao Hong nodded and kissed his wife's forehead: "I know, I will come to you!" ”

Xiao Hong said goodbye to his wife, as the secretary of the county government, he could not follow his wife to leave Kaesong.

However, at this moment, most of the people of Kaesong have to leave Kaesong, and in the county Cheng Wang Long and escort the general Li En to Xinghe, where is a thousand households in the Ming Dynasty, where a brigade of the Ming Guards and 5,000 border troops are currently stationed, and it is also close to the important town of Xuanfu.

According to the arrangement negotiated between Gui Yong and Zhang Cong, it was undoubtedly the most appropriate arrangement to relocate the people of Kaiping City, especially the Mongolian people, to Xinghe, because there were more officers and soldiers stationed in Xinghe, which could give these people the safest shelter and have enough strength to prevent any spies from causing rebellion, and the people who moved there lived outside the city, which would not affect the city's defense.

And Kaiping City does not have a large number of people, which is also more convenient for the defenders to defend and reduce the consumption of food.

All the Mongols must leave the city, and those who resist must be punished according to the conspiracy!

However, the Han people were willing to stay in the city because they were reluctant to give up their family business and trade, and they also needed to obey the arrangements of the defenders.

However, basically most of the people left Kaiping City.

At this time, only more than 2,000 border army defenders were left in Kaiping City, and at this time, the Tartar cavalry had all gathered outside Kaiping City.

Kule was very reluctant to ride his horse to the city, he was not afraid of being killed by the Ming army in the city, he just felt helpless, he did not understand why his tribal leader wanted to join forces with Huadang to attack the city of Ping, obviously everyone's business was done well, the Mongolian people no longer had to worry about the mountains of meat that could not be sold and rotted, and even could be exchanged for silver dollars from the Han people in exchange for tea and very cheap cloth.

But as a member of the tribe, he had to obey the orders of his own clan leader, step on his warhorse, pick up his sword, and fight for the Golden Family.

As the leaders of his tribe said, they were born to rob, either to rob other people's things, or to be robbed and killed by others or to be slaves, not like the Han people who only know how to farm and trade.

But Kule accepted this point of view, he had to admit that he was more suitable for robbery, and he couldn't do business than the Han people, and the Han people have always been cowardly and most of them don't know how to group, and they are the best people to rob, if they really capture Kaiping City, he is also looking forward to being able to loot the prosperous Kaiping City, because he has been to Kaiping City, and knows that Kaiping City has Han women who are softer than his own Mongolian women, with a lot of gold and silver, and the most industrious and low-level Mongolian people who are also suitable for being his slaves.

"General Tian, please tell your general, the son of the Governor of Huadang, Duoyan Weidu, commanded the sons and grandsons of Tongzhi and the Governor of the Tumut Department, Alans, to come with 100,000 cavalry, and the city of projectiles in Kaiping City can't stop my army at all, but Lord Huadang knows that you are all heroes, and is willing to swear to Immortal Heaven that as long as you are willing to surrender, the lord will allow you to join us and become our brothers!"

Kuler is a nobleman of Tumut, and a big merchant of the Tumut Department, and many Ming troops in Kaiping City are more familiar, so he was sent at this time to persuade the border defenders of Kaiping City to surrender, after all, Huadang also knows that Kaiping City is a strong city, and the firearms of the Ming army have always been very sharp, so they can naturally persuade them to surrender.

"Kule, Shan Tai, which of them is not your friend, they help you load goods, and even help you do business, so that you don't know how to do arithmetic, but how do you treat them, do you treat your friends like this?!

Now you still want to come to persuade us to surrender, I, Tian, put my words here, unless all my brothers in Kaiping City die, you don't want to set foot in my Kaiping City! ”

Tian Deng did not convey Kuler's words of persuasion to Gui Yong, but scolded Kuler directly on the urn city.

Kuler did not fight back, nor was he angry, but he threw his head down in shame, and came back with a horse, he did admit that Shan Tai and other Han people who were killed by his own people in front of him were his friends, and he even intended to marry his daughter to Shan Tai, and he also invited Shan Tai to his house for milk wine countless times.

But what he has to admit is that he is a Mongolian, and his ancestors have been the guards of the Golden Family for a long time, and he is naturally no exception, even if these Han people are friends, he can't betray his master because of his friends.

Kuler was very painful and helpless, he did not want to face this situation of having to meet each other because of the difference of his race, he preferred to trade together on the grassland, but the lords liked to raid, because it was easier and more than the benefits of buying and selling, and the Han people basically did not retaliate.

"Chief, they are not willing to surrender!"

Kuler reported his persuasion to his chieftain, Alans, who looked at the children and grandchildren of the commander who had attacked the city.

"Since they refuse to surrender, after the siege of the city, no one in the city will be left, and tell me that all the warriors of Dayuan will belong to them!"

As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Han, a Han man dressed in a Confucian robe: "Mr. Jiang, the artillery you cast ensures that this Kaiping City can be captured?" ”

"Young master, rest assured, this cannon cast by the humble post weighs three thousand catties, can shoot two miles away, and will definitely be able to break through this Kaiping City!"

Jiang Han was originally a man, and was born in a bureaucratic family, and his father was a Hanlin official, but because he was dissatisfied with the current new policy of the imperial court and the fact that he was dissatisfied with the fact that the court wanted to resist his life and fled to the outside of the Saiwai, he did not expect that he would be caught by Duoyanwei's tartars.

Moreover, because Hua Dang thought that he was a Han and a scholar, he thought that he could cast cannons, so he kept him, and forced him to cast cannons for himself, Jiang Han could only agree in order to survive, but he did stay at Nanjing Central University, and he also had a lot of contact with artillery casting, so he cast a live cannon that can shoot remotely according to his own understanding.

Hua Dang was extremely satisfied with this, and promoted Jiang Han to be his commander, followed his son to attack Kaiping City with his children and grandchildren, and took charge of the artillery for his Duoyanwei.

Jiang Han didn't expect that he would have such a transformation, and he was grateful for Huadang's reuse of himself, and even began to hope that Huadang could destroy the Ming Dynasty and rebuild the Confucian statecraft.

But his children and grandchildren are not as important to Jiang Han as his father, he despises this person who betrays his own clan, but he also knows that he needs this person if he wants to break Kaiping City for his father, so although his face is gloomy, he still said quite politely: "This is very good, when the time comes, Mr. Lao Jiang will open the cannon first to break Kaiping City!" ”

Rumble!

Suddenly it exploded with a loud bang!

The whole earth seemed to shake! The powerful qi wave even knocked these tartars to the ground!

"Young master, be careful!"

A Tartar guard hurriedly protected the child and grandchild and fell to the ground with him.

When he pushed his children and grandchildren away from the dead guards who were pressing on him, and stood up, he saw that there was already a three-foot-wide crater in front of him, and no less than ten Mongolian cavalrymen had been killed on the spot, and even more than a dozen Mongolian cavalrymen who had not been killed had also broken off half of their bodies and wailed in pain on the ground.

Flesh and blood blur!

Crippled corpses!

Even more painfully, the war horse struggling to stand up on the ground was covered in blood!

……

This is the power of the long-range artillery of the Daming City Defense!

Although there are only five, but after the steam power was also applied to the Ordnance Bureau, the boring machine technology of the Ming artillery has matured, and the steam-powered boring machine can be directly used to directly boring out the giant cannon with rifling threads, coupled with the use of accurate moment and conical shells, it is natural that a single artillery bombardment can cause great damage to the enemy, and the Ming shells are still flowering shells!

The only empire in the world today that has mastered the technology of flowering bombs!

Note: Originally, there were flowering bombs in history, and there are still many circles in the research of Daming weapons, and it should not be advanced to appear flowering bombs here, after all, there have been many years of scientific and technological development in Daming.

Gui Yong looked at this scene, and couldn't help but smile coldly, his own advanced firearms gave him great confidence in defending Kaiping City, and after seeing that the first round of shooting caused the entire Mongolian army to almost be in chaos, he continued to order: "Change the gun, shoot again!" Before the Tartars retreated, kill a few more of them! ”

……

Rumble!

Rumble!

Rumble!

A series of cannonballs exploded again, like Gesang flowers blooming on the grassland, directly blowing up the soil and stones and the Tartar war horse, violently blowing up more than a dozen Tartars, and the shrapnel also turned into a sharp blade under the action of strong momentum, directly cutting the Tartar or war horse in two!

A round of shelling is over!

Quiescence!

Deathly silence!

Only the wails of the tartars and the miserable neighing of the horses echoed!

The children and grandchildren were a little stunned, he didn't expect that the artillery of the Ming army had developed to such a point that it could kill so many of his own people with one shot!

The children and grandchildren hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw!" Retreat! Retreat a mile! ”

Fortunately, these Tatar cavalry have always been well-trained soldiers, and there was no chaos because of the order of the commander of the son and grandson to retreat, but the artillery bombardment of the Ming army also caused a lot of shock in their hearts, and they all looked back at the direction of Kaiping City in a panic to see if there were any shells flying.

……

Gui Yong looked at the Tartar army that was retreating in a hurry, and only smiled coldly again, and ordered: "The artillery battalion cools the artillery, cleans the barrels, and carries the short-range guns and tiger squat guns, and the musketeers are all loaded and ready to shoot!" Later, these Tartars will definitely disperse the siege, and after the long-range cannon cools down, they will be responsible for blowing up the Tartar artillery! ”

Less than half an hour after Gui Yong finished speaking, the Tartars began to push the giant cannon, and Tian Deng, who was in charge of observing with the telescope, hurriedly reported to Gui Yong, and Gui Yong hurriedly ordered the artillery to prepare to bombard the Tartar artillery.

……

On the side of the Tartars, Jiang Han took a pair of binoculars given to him by Huadang and looked at the Kaiping city wall, and only after making sure that the giant cannons on his side were placed in the right position did he order: "Release!" ”

Bang!

The Tartar's cannon was a live shell, so it slammed into the thick concrete wall, leaving only a little mud debris.

"How could it be! How so! How can the cement walls that the newspapers say can be so strong?! Not even a cannon can be destroyed ?! ”

Jiang Han said in horror.

At this time, the Ming army, who was hiding under the battlements and preparing to avoid the shelling, found that they had not even shed a little dust on their heads, and they were all surprised, and they couldn't help but raise their heads and laugh.

"This dog's tartar artillery is still in the era of iron balls and black powder! Just want to blast me Kaiping City, it's just delusional! ”

Team Zheng Yan Heng said at this time, as the first batch of graduates of the Ming Army Military Academy, he is naturally very clear about the development history of Daming gunpowder and artillery, and now he can't help but laugh when he sees the shells and artillery bombardment effects of the Tartars.

And this time.

The long-range artillery of the Ming Dynasty also launched a counterattack, and the five artillery pieces directly sent ten shells to the Tartar artillery position within a few breaths.

Rumble!

Rumble!

Rumble!

All the Tartar artillery was blown to broken copper, and all the artillery with the Tartar was killed, and Jiang Han ran back desperately, and then fell to the ground with a stumble, and couldn't help but kowtow like garlic and said: "Don't, don't up!" ”

……

Seeing that all their artillery was destroyed, and they couldn't shake Kaiping City, they had to order their cavalry to scatter and charge towards Kaiping City, and shoot down the Ming army on the city wall with the bows and arrows of their cavalry and the spirit of not fearing death.

Thereupon.

Countless Tartars rushed all over the sky.

But as soon as these Tartars pulled their bows and arrows and rushed with a roar, the Ming army's short-range artillery and tiger squat artillery opened fire, and the continuous shells exploded in the middle of these Tartars, directly blowing up these Tartars one by one, and the corpses were flying everywhere, and blood was sprinkled on the grassland like rain.

On the other hand, the Ming army kept changing the guns and harvested the lives of these Tartars with continuous shells and gunpowder.

These Tartars were not afraid of death, and continued to rush towards the city wall.

In these Tartar worldviews, there have always been warriors who have died in battle, and there are no warriors who have retreated, and they believe that they have the protection of the immortal heaven, so they only sprint with a force of approach.

The musketeers on the Ming side have already picked up their muskets!

Three hundred steps!

Two hundred steps!

One hundred steps!

Crackle!

The Ming army pulled the trigger and fired the bullets from the rifled guns, and the primer produced by the cotton directly ignited the propellant, causing the conical bullets to pierce the air in a swirling way, directly penetrating the brains or chests of these Tartars, and continuing to rotate in the bodies of these Tartars to cause secondary kills.

The Tartar who had been shot fell off his horse.

Or the horse that was shot fell directly to the ground, tripped over its own master, or even crushed its own master to death!

Dense bullets formed a dense rain of bullets, and the Tartar cavalry fell in batches.

The rifled gun of the Ming army is to pull the trigger once and withdraw a bullet, and then the magazine bullet is directly loaded into the bolt under the action of the spring, and continues to pull the bolt to shoot, the whole process is very fast, the dense bullet rain is continuous, and the corpses are everywhere in the 100-step area of the entire city wall! Wailing!

The Tartar cavalry had to retreat, and Kaiping City, which was defended by only 2,000 people, made the 100,000 Tartar army not take advantage of it!

……

Liangguang Guangzhou Prefecture.

Although the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the teahouse opposite the Daming Stock Exchange is still full of friends.

Dr. Tea shuttled back and forth between the tables, serving refreshments to the gentry and eunuchs while accompanying the careful ones.

At present, with the development of the empire's industry, you can not only drink hot tea when you come to the teahouse, but also have chilled black plum and chilled double skin milk, and even chilled fruit cuts.

In this hot solar term, the people of Liangguang naturally prefer the latter, a mouthful of chilled watermelon juice in the stomach, the whole body of the heat is dissipated, but when the stock price after the stock exchange opens, the cold pleasure suddenly disappears completely, and the excited people are so hot that they pull their clothes, slap the table and look out of the glass window: "Oh my God, it's gone up again!" ”

"In just a few days, the stock of Shanxi Commercial Bank has tripled!"

"Isn't it, didn't you see those scattered people outside, there are still queues to buy on such a hot day, isn't it because of this market!"

"But why do I always feel a little wrong! Even if it rises, there is no such way to rise! ”

"What's wrong, those professors from Zhaoqing University from Beijing Normal University also said a few months ago that the stock is abnormal and will plummet, it's been almost half a year, and I haven't seen a fall! If you have money, buy it quickly, and recently there is a Liaomeng commercial bank listed, specializing in big business outside the customs, and they are looking for a way to buy original shares! ”

The people in the teahouse were talking nonsense, and they were all excited because of the rising stocks.

In a quiet garden in the backyard of the teahouse, Fan Yonghe from Shanxi was not as excited as the people outside, but only indifferently played chess with his housekeeper Yang Feng. ”

"Today it has risen by nearly seventy percent, and the money of the entire Guangzhou government should have been emptied by us, and now some scattered people have begun to borrow from banks and gentry to speculate in stocks, and even Zhaoqing and Chaozhou have people to buy! You see, when will we rule them and take over? ”

Yang Feng asked.

"Don't be in a hurry, wait for Liaomeng Commercial Bank to go public and set up a sum of money as soon as it is listed, and then stop it, and tell Keteduo, remember to continue to invest a sum of money when the time comes, and their Huadang leader will hope to take more than three million silver dollars in Liangguang this time! But we have to pay 500,000 silver dollars in advance to our Shanxi Commercial Bank! Otherwise, Fan will let them lose all their money! ”

Fan Yonghe continued to ask, "When will Xia Butang return to Guangzhou?" ”

"It's expected to be the end of this month!" Yang Feng replied.

"Then strive to return to Shanxi at the end of this month, let Xia Butang clean up the mess by himself, and say hello to Meng Butang when the time comes, this cabinet can't be without me!"

Fan Yonghe said.

"Understand, Meng Butang has just taken charge of the Ministry of Officials now, and when the time comes, the two will be in chaos, and he will not be able to escape the blame, and it will naturally not be his turn to enter the cabinet! And except for him Xia Yan, there is no one who is higher than Meng Butang in terms of seniority," Yang Feng said.

"Why not, don't forget the new uncle who commanded the troops in the border town!" Fan Yonghe said with a smile.

"I'm afraid that the court still needs him to guard the Xuanfu and fight against Huadang's 100,000 army", Yang Feng said this, Fan Yonghe just smiled faintly: "It's coming, or we still want our Jin Party to clean up the mess!" ”

……

At the mouth of the Pearl River, the sunset gradually sets on the sea, and the afterglow dots the turquoise waters with sparkling waves, like gold hidden in the sand sea, attracting countless ships to dig for gold and make a fortune in the treacherous sea.

Xia Yan, who was in charge of all shipping routes and colonies in the entire Pacific and Indian Oceans, pushed open the glass window and looked at the city of Guangzhou, which already had dozens of high-rise buildings in front of him, and he was not very embarrassed, he never thought that in the past few years, the city of Guangzhou has developed so fast, and the rich people almost have boats, filling the entire Pearl River estuary, and the fish shops squeezed on the shore stretch for miles.

Xia Yan's wife, Feng Shi, took off the black veil on Xia Yan's head for Xia Yan, and snuggled on Xia Yan's shoulder, Xia Yan hugged his wife's waist and enjoyed his wife's tenderness: "Yuan'er slept?" ”

"Sleep, he is also the first child of our Xia family to be born on the ship, even if he encounters wind and waves, he sleeps very peacefully, I am afraid that in the future, I will have to toss and turn on this sea like your husband."

Feng replied.

Xia Yan couldn't help but smile: "When you arrive in Guangzhou, you take Yuan'er back to his hometown Guixi, and when he grows up, let him go to the new-style school to study!" ”

"Master, why did you say this suddenly", Feng couldn't help but hug Xia Yan tighter as he spoke: "I just want to accompany you!" ”

Xia Yan sighed: "There are some things, I can't tell you, but now I have to let you know, you know my current position, although I control the entire Nanyang military and political power, but there is a way to climb the heights and fall heavily, I have killed so many smuggling magnates and gentry, I am afraid that I will offend a lot of people, I am afraid that I will inevitably end up abandoning the market in the future, have you noticed the recent stock price of Guangzhou, according to my experience of studying sacred science in front of His Majesty in the early years, the stock price of Guangzhou is very abnormal!" ”

"Hasn't it been rising, the people are very happy, and even boast that this is the credit of you, master", Feng replied.

"That's just a superficial phenomenon, don't talk about this, even if you end up in a different place in the future, you can lay such a foundation for my Ming Dynasty, and you can repay the grace of the virtue saint, Xia Mou's life is enough!"

Xia Yan couldn't help but hug his wife tighter as he spoke: "Let's go, let's take a look at Yuan'er, I don't know when he will be able to call Dad!" ”

Three days later, just when Xia Yan was about to land, Wen Jinghua, the prefect of Guangzhou, hurriedly found Xia Yan: "Lord Ministry, you can count it back, the big thing is not good, just two days ago, the stock price plummeted!" The losses of the listed commercial banks have reached tens of millions of silver dollars, and they are still falling, nearly 100 private commercial banks have collapsed, and six businessmen have been unable to accept it, and they have committed suicide by jumping into the river! The people are panicking, and there are even green-skinned hooligans taking the opportunity to rob on a large scale, you see, how this is good now! ”

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then asked, "Is Shangshu not?" ”

"According to your requirements, eight hundred miles have been rushed to Beijing! Xiaguan has just been transferred from Yunnan, and he is not familiar with these stock price control and business management, and everything depends on you to save Xiaguan! ”

Wen Jinghua, the prefect of Guangzhou, bowed to Xia Yan again as he spoke, in fact, even Xia Yan himself was a little dazed.