The city of Beijing is divided into four parts: the Imperial Palace, that is, the Forbidden City, the Imperial City, and the capital, which is the inner city and the outer city. A few people left the imperial city and arrived at Qipan Street. It is in Zhengyangmen, which belongs to the inner city in the middle of the city, because the location is in the middle, and it is close to the imperial city, the palace city and the various departments of the imperial court, there are many people coming and going, and the business is naturally prosperous. The streets are lined with shops, and it is the busiest place in the capital.

Li Jinzhong approached and said: "Your Royal Highness, it's not the fourth day today, otherwise in the inner market, all kinds of precious things, what do you want." There are only some ordinary things here, but I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the eyes of His Highness. Zhu Xiaoqi waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's good here." ”

He's new to the city, and everything is new. I saw that most of the people were brightly dressed and looked leisurely, and they couldn't see beggars or homeless people. The women wore all kinds of jackets, skirts, and armor that he couldn't name, and they also had all kinds of beautiful ornaments on their heads, which were pleasing to the eye. Some men wore long robes, some wore short beats, some wore melon skin hats on their heads, some wore turbans, and some simply wore a net scarf or a jade or wooden hairpin stuck on their heads.

Zhu Xiaoqi was dizzying, and sighed in his heart, there is the beauty of uniforms, and the beauty of etiquette is called summer. Such a scene, such a beauty, such a China, will eventually be destroyed by the hands of wild boar skin, and my 5,000-year-old Chinese culture will suffer a devastating blow, which is really a sigh. Can you stop all this by coming here yourself? Can it change all that?

Zhu Xiaoqi secretly clenched his fists. It is not a question of whether it can or not, but it is necessary to change all this, just to not drag the pig's tail that represents barbarism, only to let the Chinese nation truly stand in the east of the world, and only to let the beauty in front of us continue forever.

After a few people walked around for a while, Zhu Xiaoqi bought a few strings of rock sugar gourds, and walked while eating one by one. Suddenly, there was a heavy sound of footsteps behind him, Li Jinzhong was alert, and immediately turned around to protect Zhu Xiaoqi. I saw a young man in a short suit running in front panting, followed by two people, one wearing a brocade robe and the other wearing a long robe. Jin Pao is about thirty years old, and although he is running, he is calm and relaxed. The caftan was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and with the hem tucked at the waist, his demeanor was much more embarrassed than that of the brocade robe. His face was red, and he looked hateful. scolded in his mouth: "Mao thief, stop me." ”

The thief naturally wouldn't listen to him and stop, but Li Jinzhong didn't dare to let him get close to Zhu Xiaoqi, and with a wave of his hand, Xiao Deng and Xiao Li were on both sides of Zhu Xiaoqi. Li Jinzhong stepped forward and kicked out, and the leg of the short hit was crooked. The hairy thief fell firmly and gnawed on the mud. A sachet fell out and landed right in front of Zhu Xiaoqi's feet.

Zhu Xiaoqi bent down and picked it up. The sachet is embroidered with a lotus flower with four-color silk thread, which is lifelike, and a small word is embroidered with red silk thread on the corner. Put the sachet in front of your nose and smell it, the faint fragrance makes people feel refreshed. The young man in the long shirt just arrived, and when he saw this scene, his heart was on fire, and he scolded: "That prodigal boy is not a son of man." ”

Li Jinzhong quit and said angrily: "You young man, you don't know anything." We helped you catch the thief, how did you scold us! The young man in the long shirt couldn't say that Zhu Xiaoqi smelled his sister's sachet, but he just glared at Zhu Xiaoqi angrily.

The brocade robe walked directly to the thief, lifted it with one foot, and stomped it down on his knee. The thief howled loudly, Zhu Xiaoqi heard the sound of bone cracking, and was startled, and the brocade robe held up a sign: "Jinyi guards handle the case, idlers dodge." Hearing that it was Jinyiwei, the crowd dispersed a little, but they didn't disperse in a hurry, just pointed and talked from afar. Zhu Xiaoqi vaguely heard some, all of them accusing the thief, not scolding Jinyiwei. It seems that Jinyiwei is not like the book says that people hate ghosts.

Jin Pao hugged Li Jinzhong: "Good skills, thank you for wanting to help." Li Jinzhong hurriedly returned the salute. The brocade robe groped around the thief for a while, threw out a few blankets and a knife, and looked at the young man in the long robe: "What did you lose?" The young man in the long shirt glared at Zhu Xiaoqi silently.

The brocade robe looked over, a smile appeared on his face, and the young man became more and more annoyed. Li Jinzhong understood it and whispered to Zhu Xiaoqi: "That's something used by other people's daughters." Only then did Zhu Xiaoqi realize that his behavior was similar to that of a hooligan, with a strong sense of obscenity. Fortunately, I am young, otherwise someone else might have come with a fist. Of course, the fact that he didn't raise his fist now may also be the reason for Li Jinzhong's kick just now. I felt ashamed, and I didn't want to apologize myself, so I quietly said to Li Jinzhong: "You just say I'm a fool." Li Jinzhong was shocked and didn't dare to speak. Zhu Xiaoqi had no choice but to step forward and give his hand: "This brother Ren, the younger brother has been studying at home, and he has never seen such a thing, so he can't help but be curious, and behave Meng Lang a little, please forgive Brother Ren." ”

At this moment the two little girls arrived panting, and the little girl in front stepped forward and stretched out a white and flawless hand in front of him. Zhu Xiaoqi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly and carefully placed the sachet on her hand, which was as beautiful as a lotus. I thought to myself, "This hand is so beautiful." "If you look closely, the girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, slightly taller than herself, with a delicate figure and delicate skin. A little bit of baby fat on the face. Now he is puffing out his face, staring at Zhu Xiaoqi, and there seem to be two words written in his eyes, "Look!" ", and then changed to two other words "pervert!" ”。

She took the sachet and turned around stupidly, walked over to the young man in the long robe, and whispered something. The young man in the long shirt bowed his hand to Li Jinzhong, thanked him to the brocade robe, and walked towards the way he came with his sister. After taking two steps, he turned back and glared at Zhu Xiaoqi hatefully.

Zhu Xiaoqi was full of embarrassment, Li Jinzhong lowered his head, and he didn't dare to look at him. The brocade robe interjected appropriately: "Your noble servant Gao Yi, I thank you here." Zhu Xiaoqi and Li Jinzhong both found a savior, and Zhu Xiaoqi said, "It should be so." "Li Jinzhong said" It's not worth mentioning, I don't know what is the relationship between Qianhu and Commander Luo? ”。 Luo Yangxing said respectfully: "It's my father." Today's small is not worth it, but when it comes to such things, you should not let it go. The little one wants to escort the thief to the yamen, and don't leave it at that. The two of them hurriedly surrendered their hands.

Waiting for Luo Yangxing to go away, Li Jinzhong explained in a small way: "Luo Qianhu should have seen Xiao Li and Xiao Deng and recognized us from the palace. Zhu Xiaoqi suddenly realized that this thousand households were so respectful to his group, so it was. But this person is good, he is willing to catch thieves during non-working hours, and it is not the business of the department he is in charge of, although the means are a little more vicious, but it is understandable to be like this for thieves, after all, it is not more than three hundred years later. What's more, which way is better is also a matter of opinion.

A few people continued to shop and saw a bookstore in front of them, named Wanshufang. "It's a big mouth." Zhu Xiaoqi said: "Go in and see if it lives up to its name." ”

A few people entered the bookstore, and Zhu Xiaoqi said to Xiao Er: "Are there any books about firearms?" He felt that in order to defeat the wild boar skin, of course, advanced firearms should be used to deal with backward cold weapons. Xiao Er took them to the place where the military book was written, good guy, "Western Fire Attack Artifact Theory", "Western Law Divine Machine", "Fire Attack Essentials", "Artifact Spectrum", "Wu Bei Zhi", "Ji Xiao Xinshu", "Military Training Record", ...... There are a lot of them, all of them are military books.

Open the "Artifact Spectrum", which introduces a kind of thunderbolt, five guns, turn the gun tube to fire once, which is equivalent to five consecutive shots after loading five ammunition, and if the enemy approaches after hitting five times, you can also use the gun rod upside down as a fighting weapon. Zhu Xiaoqi was overjoyed, closed the book, and said to Xiao Er, "Wrap these books for me." ”

"Okay, I'll take a favor, thank you, officer, where will I send it?" Good sense of service, and door-to-door delivery. But you can't say that you want him to send him to the East Palace. So I declined his kindness and let Xiao Li and Xiao Deng take it. Li Jinzhong took out a piece of silver, Xiao Er took it to the counter, and a person inside cut off a little silver with scissors, then weighed it with a small scale, showed it to Li Jinzhong, and then handed the rest of the silver to Li Jinzhong to collect.

When he left the store, he said to Li Jinzhong: "It's so troublesome to give money, why don't you use paper money?" ”

"Is Your Highness talking about treasure money? Treasure money is also troublesome, there are different discounts for different ages, and the general store does not like to collect treasure money. ”

I used to know that silver was used in ancient times, but now I know that this silver is really inconvenient to use, and I have time to change it, and I can't use paper money or silver dollars.

"Oh, in this case, where are the firearms sold, let's go buy a few and see how it goes."

"Your Highness, you can't sell firearms outside, we have made them inside the War Bureau."

"Oh, where is the War Bureau? Take me to see it. ”

"The Scepter Bureau is in the Imperial City, responsible for manufacturing the weapons of the palace guards and brocade guards, and there is a gunpowder bureau attached. It's not early today, how about taking His Highness down tomorrow to have a good look? ”

Looking up at the sky, it was actually not late, about noon, but today was the first time to come out, and I was afraid that the Hakka family would be worried. I bought so many books, at least I had to familiarize myself with them first, and I would go to the Scepter Bureau tomorrow to have a good purpose, so the group went home.

As soon as he entered the residence of the East Palace, the Hakka family was already waiting at the door. Immediately ordered the palace maid to bring washing water, snacks or something. And the books were received in the study, and the meal was soon arranged. After eating, when he came to the study, Ke helped him light the incense, prepared tea and snacks, and gently closed the door and went out. Zhu Xiaoqi couldn't wait to start flipping through the book to find the flintlock pistol, which was a milestone in the development of thermal weapons. As a result, I didn't find it at all, and I thought, isn't the flintlock pistol still not appearing, so it's okay, tomorrow I can give a good indication of the country in the military battle bureau.

Looking forward to tomorrow's performance, I began to look through other books. Seeing that the author of this book was Qi Jiguang, he opened this "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", which is divided into 18 chapters, which records in detail how to select troops, drills, march formations, weapons exercises, military law prohibitions, etc., and even includes ideological and political work methods. The most important thing is that the language is colloquial, close to colloquial, so Zhu Xiaoqi is also easy to understand. The more I look at it, the more I feel that this is well written, and I think about it in my heart, there is such a good book, if the generals are all according to the leaders above, then the combat power of the Ming army should be very good, why did it lose to Houjin for a long time?