Chapter 856: A New Volume - Ten Years Later......
Time flies, time flies, and ten years pass......
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In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, at the beginning of February.
The night is like a thick inkstone, so deep that it can't be dissolved, the moon is dim in mid-air, the starlight is sparse, and the whole city of Guangzhou seems to be asleep.
At this time, there are no pedestrians on the street, even in a prosperous place like Guangzhou, at this moment, in addition to the place of the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, most of the households have also turned off the lights to sleep, and occasionally some houses are still on fire, and there is no sound at all.
The word night market does not exist for the world at this moment.
And it was at this time that a group of musketeers wearing cotton armor rushed straight into Funingfang. The soldiers marched through the street like a torrent of footsteps and marching in order, until they came to a halt at a crossroads.
Musketeers, a musketeer belonging to the command of the Guangzhou Soldiers and Horses. This is the Qi army at this time!
Ten years have passed, and the number of musketeers has long expanded from ten battalions under the Imperial Front Division in the early days, and is no longer limited to the Imperial Front Division.
Guangzhou is an important town in the south of the sky, and the defenders have their own musketeers. This epoch-making class of troops, in conjunction with the original infantry and artillery cavalry, can often exert amazing energy. Even if it is a separate army, it is also super powerful. Because its trajectory was very different from that of the historical musketeers, who were already accompanied by bayonets at the beginning of their birth.
Torches were lit, and three bigwigs from different departments were clustered in the center.
In the middle is the envoy of the Eastern Guangdong Inspectorate, on the left hand is the deputy chief of the Eastern Guangdong Soldiers and Horses and the Guangzhou Soldiers and Horses Envoy, and on the right hand is the first leader of the Eastern Guangdong Security Bureau.
"Pufu?" Under the light of the fire, the envoy looked at the block in front of him on the left and sneered, and said to the two people behind: "Two, without further ado, there are many dreams in the night, so the musket battalion will start immediately, and the official will supervise it routinely." ”
At present, this drama is not just the destruction of the door, but also the raiding of the house, according to the system of the Lu Qi Dynasty, this kind of thing must be accompanied and supervised by local officials. The Security Division, the military and the District Attorney should all be transcribed under tripartite control.
And if the matter is small and there is no need to send the military, then it will be replaced by a local parent officer.
As China's first-class metropolis, the police station here is equipped with a formed anti-riot armed police force, with 200 people, all of whom are veterans in the army, wearing iron armor, holding swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and their combat power is not inferior to that of the garrison.
But the current Pu family is not trivial.
He was a leading figure among the Chinese Tianfang merchants, and he was also a wealthy merchant of the first class in Guangzhou, with not only a large ocean-going fleet, but also a shipyard and a large trading house. There are not 10,000 people who are attached to the Pu family for dinner, but also seven or eight thousand.
There may be no other family in the top 10 of the wealthy businessmen from Guangzhou, but there is definitely a Pu family in the top 20.
The Pu family's maritime merchant ships have traveled between Middle-earth and Heaven for many years, and there are many brave men in them, although the imperial court has its own laws, and such people cannot live in the mansion for a long time, but the ghost knows whether the Pu family listens to orders or not, how many slave warriors will they have in their family? When fighting, the police will inevitably be injured, and they may not be able to take care of them thoroughly. The garrison of Guangzhou City must be dispatched for this matter!
Behind the three bigwigs, there are also some local officials such as the Guangzhou Mansion Cheng and the police chief. The former is okay, he just came to Guangzhou last year to take office, but the latter has been rooted in Guangzhou for seven or eight years. The police station is the first-class power department in the government, and wealthy businessmen like the Pu family are bound to befriend them, and no matter how big their background is, they must also treat the Guangzhou police station with good words.
Every time you donate some goods and materials during the New Year's holidays, this is a necessary human exchange.
The director is very familiar with the Pu family, and when he saw this situation, he sighed in his heart: "The Pu family is finished." "But the end of the Pu family is not at all a loss, colluding with foreign forces, spying on the secrets of guns and guns. even dared to smuggle guns and cannons to the outside world, it was really an old birthday star who ate arsenic - rushed to death.
In the past ten years, the number of guns and cannons has increased significantly, and the scope has also spread a lot, and some secrets must not be covered.
How was the Liangshan cannon back then, wasn't it also obtained by Zhao Song in the end?
However, foreign forces can cast guns, but their quality and cost of monomers, and even the manufacturing speed and qualified rate of finished products, are very different from China. It's all a military secret.
Powder formulations are also difficult to keep secret. However, it can keep the purification method of sulfur and saltpeter required for the powder, as well as the granulation of the powder.
Liangshanbo has always been the largest production base of Qi Jun's gun powder for the sake of secrecy. For this reason, Emperor Lu did not hesitate to increase the cost price of gunpowder. There are also many pharmaceutical powder bureaus set up in various places, but the level of confidentiality is extremely high.
The Tianfang people began to spy on guns and cannons as early as ten years ago, and in the past two years, they have begun to spy on the military powder of the Qi army. Whoever commits a crime will not die well.
The Pu family was dragged into the water, their family is hugely wealthy, and they are the leading figures among the naturalized Tianfang descendants, if they always keep to themselves, they will not be able to truly take root in China in another generation or two. But in the end, they are still confused by interests and feelings, and it is no wonder that others.
But thinking about it the other way around, you can't blame the Pu family for not knowing what to do. In recent years, because of the great prosperity of Lu Qi's sea trade, the Pu family, a naturalized person, in order to enhance their own influence, was also instructed by the Lu Qi government, and they had a deep relationship with the heavenly side, so the heavenly color on their bodies became more and more indispensable.
There is a gain and a loss, and the important people of the family have no future in the officialdom.
To say that there is resentment is understandable. But they made such a choice, so bold, it was still unexpected by the sheriff.
Just when he was thinking like this, the envoy waved his hand slightly, and already said, "General Zhou, let's start!" ”
At that time, he was the deputy general manager of the soldiers and horses in eastern Guangdong and the envoy of the soldiers and horses in Guangzhou, and he was not the other one, but the whole little overlord Zhou Tong. But no matter how chaotic Zhou Tong is, this kind of thing will never be tolerated.
The latter didn't talk nonsense, just waved his hand forward.
The musketeers immediately divided into two routes, northwest and west, and marched towards their destination, encircling the entire Pufu in the sound of neat footsteps.
At this time, there was already a reaction in Pufu, several gongs sounded, and a voice shouted: "There is a thief, the guy!" ”
Although Zhou Tong couldn't see the inside clearly through the wall, he could feel the crowd surging and panicked inside just by listening with his ears.
"Boom......" There was a bang in the courtyard, and the entire heavy gate jumped and shattered. Then I heard screams from within. A large group of musketeers rushed in from the door with bayonets, and after a short fight, all the Pu family 'family members' at the gate fell down. These people are old and young, and they wear all kinds of clothes, but none of them are Han.
"The rabble, dare to resist!" Zhou Tong showed a cruel smile, the soldiers he brought were not many, only five hundred. But musketeers are cattle.
The corpses inside the gate fell to the ground, blood flowed everywhere, and seeing this, the remaining musketeers, although still standing, were ready to move. Not only were they not afraid, but there was a hint of excitement on their faces.
Lu Qi was founded only thirteen years ago, and in the thirteen years, the army fought in the south and the north, and the east and west fought in the west.
It is the garrison army in this Lingnan land, which does not fight as frequently as in the northwest, but it has also repeatedly entered the Indochina Peninsula to suppress the places, not to mention that everyone has seen blood, at least everyone has undergone severe training, and there will be no fear of blood. On the contrary, for them, killing enemies is the greatest asset for rewards and promotions! At present, although there are few military merits in killing these thieves, no matter how few military merits there are, they are also military merits. The meat on the legs of ants is also meat. As long as the people in Pufu resist, they will be able to count merit.
Let's be honest, the more people who rebel in it, the better.
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