Ye Xun had a very tight schedule for going out this time, and after the matter of the Horqin Department was over, he was going to the capital to preside over Zhu Youxiao's wedding.

One is serious, and the other is a bit of a calf, Zhu Youxiao is sharpening his knives in the capital, but he has to go, as for what he thinks in his heart, I'm afraid only he knows.

Thirty miles away from Quang Ninh, the team met Zhang Qi, who came to greet him.

Guangning, as the gate of Liaodong, is nominally garrisoned by 5,000 men and horses, but in fact, Ye Xun has ordered Zhang Qi to expand the army to 20,000 in secret.

Although thirty miles is not far, Ye Xun was also a little tired along the way, so he ordered the army to camp.

After the big tent of the Chinese army was erected, Ye Xun called Zhang Qi in.

Zhang Qi can be said to be the descendant of Ye Xun's lineage, Tieling followed Ye Xun, in a year, from the smallest military leader, Yiyue became a first-class officer commanding more than 20,000 horses, and his gratitude to Ye Xun in his heart cannot be described in any words.

"See my father-in-law!"

After entering, Zhang Qi knelt on one knee and gave a military salute.

Ye Xun waved his hand and said, "Get up!" You came just in time, I won't go into the city tomorrow, you supply the logistics grain and grass, and send someone to tell Li Liang now, come to see me tomorrow morning, and you won't wait for the expiration."

Zhang Qi wrote down Ye Xun's instructions one by one, and then said: "Father-in-law went to Horqin, there are too few people around, right?" Why don't your subordinates bring 10,000 horses with you?"

Zhang Qi's 20,000 horses, although he dare not say that he is absolutely elite, but all the officers in the army are transferred from the sharp knife battalion or the dare battalion, and the assembly is also very sophisticated.

Ye Xun shook his head and said: "Zhu Youxiao's heart will not die, you are here as my Liaodong gate, there must be no mistakes, don't worry about Horqin, with me, they can't turn the sky"

"Is there any special news from the Golden State?"

In fact, Ye Xun's control over Jinzhou has never been relaxed, but what is on paper is not as real as what his subordinates told him in person.

Zhang Qi smiled and said: "I heard that Lord Cheng has collected some pirates again, by the way, there seem to be many widows among them."

"Widows?"

Cheng Yu reported to Ye Xun about the surrender of pirates, the Jinzhou Navy Division is now in the creation stage, and it is normal for the good and the bad to be uneven, as long as you grasp a degree, when Ye Xun has his hands freed up, the Navy Master will be completely rectified.

But Ye Xun really didn't know about the Japanese people, and it was estimated that Cheng Yu felt that they were all pirates, nothing special, so he didn't report to Ye Xun.

The Japanese are the Japanese people, Ye Xun knows too well the virtues of these people, and these people must not stay in the Jinzhou Water Division.

After asking Zhang Qi to retreat, Ye Xun wrote a letter to Cheng Yu, in which he told Cheng Yu that the Japanese could let him go back to plague the Japanese country, and he must not be assigned to the Jinzhou Naval Division, nor could he provide them with any funding.

Ye Xun discussed everything with Cheng Yu, but this matter was said in an ordered tone, he believed that Cheng Yu could understand his thoughts, and the matter of the Japanese ravaging the southeast coast was not far away, and it was impossible for Cheng Yu not to know.

As soon as the letter was written and sent away, a guard came to report that Lord Han Ping had an urgent matter to see.

Hearing that Han Ping was coming, Ye Xun couldn't help but be startled, Han Ping had been in charge of the arsenal in Shenyang, how could he suddenly catch up, could it be that something happened to the arsenal?

didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered someone to call Han Ping in, but when he saw Han Ping's expression, Ye Xun couldn't help but sigh, because Han Ping's expression had already told him that there was good news, and this good news must not be small, otherwise Han Ping would not have come in person.

"See my father-in-law, my father-in-law is happy!"

After coming in, Han Ping couldn't suppress the joy on his face, he even forgot to give a salute, and after greeting Ye Xun, he turned around and shouted outside: "Quick!" Bring it in."

Ye Xun's curiosity was also hooked, and he walked quickly to Han Ping's side, and said with a smile: "Quickly bring it in and show me, what can make Lord Han happy like this?" ”

With Ye Xun's summoning, I saw two soldiers walking in carrying a long box.

"Father-in-law, please forgive your subordinates for selling it, can you guess what's in it?"

It was a wooden chest, and through the cracks in the box there was a lot of thatch, which was supposed to protect the contents from turbulence.

Ye Xun looked at it, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and said, "Is it a fire gun?" ”

Han Ping gave a thumbs up and praised: "My father-in-law is really smart"

As he spoke, he leaned over and opened the box with his own hands, and opened the thatch inside, and then saw two swarthy firecrackers neatly placed under the thatch.

Han Ping stretched out his hand to pick up one, then held it to Ye Xun with both hands, and said with a happy face: "Gonggong Shenren, we have tried these firearms, not only the range is much higher than the original firecrackers, but also the guns made of wrought iron have not been blown up again, we have discussed, this thing will be called Ye Gonggong in the future."

Ye Xun took the musket, in fact, before he was in charge of Liaodong, there were already many firearms in the Liaodong army, but Ye Xun knew the quality and efficiency of that thing, so he simply abandoned it.

When fighting with the Jurchens several times, even the Franc machine guns and Huzun cannons that were commonly used in the army before were rarely used, in order to wait for the real musket artillery to be developed, it could be directly used on the battlefield and hit Huang Taiji by surprise.

The musket was painted by Ye Xun according to the shape of the rifle in later generations, and the shape of the gun in his hand that Han Ping called Ye Gong Gong is basically the same as the painting.

The only problem is that the loading method is still the same as before, loading ammunition from the barrel, but it doesn't matter, this is already a leap forward for Chen Tienu and them.

Nodding and smiling: "Go back and get 10,000 taels of silver to reward the craftsmen, but this thing is not in a hurry to mass produce first, I will draw a sub-drawing for you later, and tell the masters that if you can develop the musket on the drawing, not only will you have a heavy reward, but I will also give him an official job."

Han Ping was a little surprised, in his mind, if this thing was used on the battlefield with the Jurchens, it would have a much longer range than a bow and arrow, but he didn't expect that Gonggong Ye still didn't seem to be very satisfied.

Ye Xun obviously saw Han Ping's thoughts, patted Han Ping's shoulder with a smile, and said: "There is no end to craftsmanship, there is no best, only better, tell everyone to continue to work hard, I believe everyone can do it"

Speaking of this, Ye Xun couldn't help but think of the two foreign devils again, after catching the Jurchen spy who had come into contact with them last time, Sun Dong took them to visit the place of execution, and after the incident, Sun Dong reported that the two foreign devils were so frightened that they all peed their pants.

"Andes, how have they been doing lately?"

After listening to Ye Xun's question, Han Ping sneered and said, "They are honest now, but they are a little too honest, they just stay in the place where they live and recite the scriptures, and the iron furnace workshop rarely comes."

"There's such a thing!"

Ye Xun's eyes couldn't help but flash a murderous intent...