Hong Chengchou wanted to hide but couldn't dodge, and soon a eunuch from the Qing Dynasty came to announce his new appointment, depriving him of various official positions, and letting him return to the court to listen to the staff, and then the Imperial Forest Army stepped forward to take people, but soon Hong Chengchou's superintendent raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at them.

Hong Chengchou's superintendent is the most elite new military town troops, with the latest Jinkai 2 arquebuses, these arquebuses were captured from the battlefield before, the Huaxia army has fought with them for several years, and it is not without losses, and this loss is inevitable, there are always soldiers killed or missing in the battle, this is an unavoidable thing, and the captured guns and ammunition are unavoidable.

What's more, now the Huaxia Army has replaced the new Jingai-2 arquebus, and the Jingai-2 arquebus has become the standard equipment of the Huaxia Army, and the Jingai-1 arquebus has been eliminated even if it is the most advanced arquebus.

Even the militia is equipped with the original Jingai 2 arquebus, the garrison battalion is equipped with the arquebus in the middle period, the garrison battalions in many core areas, the garrison regiment is even equipped with front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns, and the troops of the corps guarding Suzhou along the Yangtze River and Jinqi in Anhui Prefecture are equipped with rear-loading smoothbore flintlock guns.

In fact, the flintlock pistol is not the most advanced weapon in the land of the Ming Dynasty, the Europeans also have rifles, rifled flintlock pistols, Europe's improvement of firearms is much faster than the improvement of the Ming Dynasty, but because of the long distance they are not equipped, but these flintlock pistols have also appeared, the Qing Dynasty court and Hong Chengchou's warehouse have this advanced flintlock pistol, but to say large-scale equipment, it is impossible.

The Huaxia Army had its own arsenal and research and development institutions, but with the backward system of the Qing Dynasty, the court officials who were vying for power and profit all day long would not see the advanced nature of this weapon, and would only be frightened by the imprisonment of their minds and obstruct research.

Hong Chengchou has a research base established by his sworn friend Feng Quan, but it is also through imitation to catch up with the Huaxia Army, they have no interest in innovation, or no motivation and conditions, no machine tools, no advanced scientific knowledge, which allows them to only improve or improve on the original basis, but to develop a new gun that has not been seen, they will not have that kind of insight and vision.

So far, Feng Quan has only just been able to imitate the Jingai 2 arquebus, eat the Jingai 1 arquebus thoroughly, and then manufacture it in large quantities, of course, they don't know the division of labor and cooperation, they don't know the assembly line production, and they don't know how to hand over a lot of trivial parts to the outside store for production, they just expand the workshop, and then let more craftsmen come in and build it by hand.

Among the thousands, there may be a high-quality product, and among the hundreds, there may be a standard arquebus of the quality of the Huaxia Army, but the quality of a large number of arquebuses is actually unqualified, at least in the quality inspection department of the Huaxia Army.

However, these substandard products have also flowed into the troops and become the standard weapons for equipping the troops, because they cannot increase production and can only be shoddy, and only then can they equip the troops in large quantities, otherwise they can only equip tens of thousands of elite troops.

Therefore, even Hong Chengchou's Supervising Biao Guards now only have thousands of captured Huaxia Army Jingai-2 arquebuses, as well as imitations of Qiangai-2 arquebuses, and some other generals' guards have taken away the remaining thousand imitations, and there are no more.

But it's also amazing.

The arquebuses in the hands of the Imperial Forest Army who came with the eunuchs were just the Jingai-1 imitation arquebuses produced by Feng Quan and them in the past, which were all presented to the imperial court by Hong Chengchou.

The first and second generations cannot be compared in terms of quality, speed, range, and power, so those Imperial Forest Soldiers were very embarrassed and secretly glanced at the eunuchs.

"Hong Chengchou, do you want to rebel? You won't even accept the decree?" The old eunuch held his head high and pretended to be very calm and asked Hong Chengchou.

"Hmph, it's okay not to accept this kind of holy decree, because this is definitely not what the emperor wants, but those tyrannical and domineering people make it, they are rebellious, and the old man has a clear conscience for the court."

"Hmph, the miscellaneous family will relay your words to the emperor and the ministers, and then you will not wait to be participated, but directly arrested and imprisoned."

After saying that, the old eunuch and the good man don't suffer the loss in front of him, this is other people's territory, no matter how arrogant and unreasonable he is, he can't please it, but he may lose his life, he quickly turned around and fled.

Feng Quan was next to Hong Chengchou, looking at all this with cold eyes, he was discussing with Hong Chengchou just now how to deal with the current situation, it was not that he didn't want to be separated from Hong Chengchou and protect himself, but the imprint of Hong Chengchou's faction on his body was too deep, even if he escaped today, he would be in danger of the family in the future, so he could only follow Hong Chengchou all the way to the dark, so he discussed with Hong Chengchou what to do next.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Hong Chengchou came back, the will of the imperial court came down, and it seems that the imperial court is going to kill Hong Chengchou this time.

"Lord Hong, how is this good?" He looked at Hong Chengchou who turned around and asked.

"What else can I do, now I can only sit and watch the changes, I can't see that the imperial court still has the ability to dominate the world, the imperial court is not far from defeat, but now how do we deal with the current situation, the Huaxia army is dominant, and the situation is similar to the Qing Dynasty back then, I have taken the wrong path, if we want not to be eaten by any party, we can't rely on any party, we have to be self-reliant, or Lord Feng, how about you become the emperor?"

"This," after so many years of ups and downs in officialdom, Feng Quan, who changed from a heavy minister of the Ming Dynasty to an important minister of the Qing Dynasty, was surprised and immediately reacted, this is Hong Chengchou's temptation, if he does not express his loyalty, as long as he shows a little hesitation, then he will be dragged out and killed immediately, this is Hong Chengchou's territory, so he immediately smiled: "Lord Hong, don't be kidding, I have always supported Lord Hong, even if Lord Hong wants to be self-reliant, I will definitely follow Lord Hong before and after the saddle, and be a hero from the dragon." ”

Hong Chengchou stared at him for a long time before he withdrew his gaze and was silent, the air flowed slower at this time, and there seemed to be a hint of suffocation.

"Okay, then let's create a new dynasty, now in troubled times, I don't seek to restore the orthodoxy of the Han people, nor do I seek to unify the world, just be able to divide the world like Shu, you are my Zhuge Liang ......," said here, he rubbed the two iron balls in his hand and slowly rotated.

Feng Quan thought to himself, "Then who are your Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun?" ”

Hong Chengchou stood up, looked outside and said: "Tian Bin is very trustworthy, righteous, is a rare general, I think you will personally take someone to the capital tomorrow to meet him, the old man will give you a letter, read the letter he will know what to do, when the time comes, we will be the hero of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty." ”

Feng Quan was stunned, but immediately thought of something, this Tian Bin was very trusted by Hong Chengchou at the beginning, and later Tian Bin was transferred to the capital, and he didn't come back for many years, it seems that this Tian Bin still has his trust, confidant.

No wonder he's so fearless.

(End of chapter)