In the next two months, Song Ting began to run non-stop to Cangzhou, Yangzhou, Jizhou, and Xinzhou.

There are always problems in the workshops everywhere, especially when the parts are sent to the assembly center.

Ah Ping and Ah Chang, although they have good talents, understand standards, and can strictly control quality.

But Ah Ping is okay, to be honest, Ah Chang always releases water and flows some substandard accessories to the assembly center.

The assembly center was directly in charge of Chen Dabeard, and he found the most reliable people to help. Assembling this matter is a trivial matter, basically after the installation of no quality problems, just pack and preserve.

The warehouse where the muskets were kept was directly used from the empty cells in the county jail, and Cao Zhutou assigned patrols and officials to guard them.

There are almost no prisoners in Yongtai County, and the cells are idle, and they are good for storing arms, and they are not easy to be detected.

In response to Ah Chang's problem of quality control and water release, Song Ting decided to go to Jizhou in person to see what was going on.

On the third day of December, Song Ting took Lu Junyi and Yang Zhao to Jizhou.

Through the mouth of the mercenary, I learned the truth of the matter. It turned out that during this time, Ah Chang was addicted to wine every day, and he completely forgot about the overseer.

When I went to look for him on the street, I happened to bump into him coming out of a brothel, looking drunk and depressed.

Song Ting asked Lu Junyi to beat this kid up at that time, threw him into the workshop, and interrogated him in front of more than a dozen people such as shopkeepers and helpers.

"Where did you get so much money to go to a brothel?"

Seeing that he looked so weak that he was about to fall apart, he must have gone more than once or twice, and I suspected that he went every day, just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, how could he stand it?

People are visibly thinner.

And, where did his money come from?

With a salary of only two taels of silver a month, how can he have so much money to go to a high-end brothel?

"It's the money given by the shopkeeper Tong, saying that as long as I don't care about the overseer, he will give me money, and give me fifty taels a month......

Ah Chang was afraid of being beaten again, so he had to honestly accept bribes.

Song Ting had no choice but to resign both of them and send someone else to take charge of the production of the Jizhou workshop.

Ah Chang returned to the assembly department and was beaten by Chen's beard again.

……

As the end of the year approaches, there are more and more things, and the car and horse dealers have also encountered a lot of business competition.

After all, the two stations of the car dealership, Bianjing and Yangzhou, are both places where businesses must compete, so they often encounter some open and dark business competition methods.

Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang have no official positions, and some problems are not easy to deal with, Song Ting often has to come forward in person, but as long as he finds the local government, many problems are solved, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, and by the end of the year, there are already more than 30 carriages.

Originally, he thought that he could only make 40-50 guns a month, but later increased the investment of manpower and material resources, and actually made 100-120 guns a month, which was much beyond his imagination.

After doing this for a year, I'm afraid it will not be difficult to assemble an army. But his goal was 10,000, and 10,000 were made before the Jin people came in.

In order to further technological innovation, he and Chen Dabeard have already begun to create the blueprints of the second-generation version of the musket, striving to solve all the defects of all the first-generation versions and complete the technical overhaul.

The R&D drawings of the second-generation musket are top secret, only the two of them know, and when the time comes, they will be directly divided into accessories drawings, and then, it is enough to keep two general drawings, one for him and one for the beard.

In addition, lead bullet is also being developed and manufactured......

…

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year.

On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, it snowed heavily in Bianjing.

The sky is like a dark blue curtain, giving people a deep sense of depression, but the ground is like silver, snowflakes are sprinkled all over the sky, silver grass houses, jade thatched eaves.

The branches of the dead trees are crowded with snow, the doors and windows of the suburbs are closed, few pedestrians come out, and there are only a few pedestrians scattered on the streets.

Inside and outside the city, the sparse fence courtyard is like a greasy powder light shop, and the chimney is more like a lead paving.

As far as the eye can see, thousands of catkins are flying, and thousands of goose feathers fall on the roof tiles.

"Wow! It's snowing! It's snowing! ”

Xiaoman, the first to find the snow, rushed out of the yard, clapped his little hands, showed his broken jade-like teeth and smiled happily, dancing under the flying snowflakes, like a light butterfly.

Song Ting hurriedly took Zhao Yuanzhen out to see, walked through the corridor, and came to the courtyard.

Zhao Yuanzhen was wearing a white floral silk silk brocade robe, a white scarf around her neck, a silver hairpin and other decorations, and she was wearing a dingdong, under the cover of the snow, she stood in the snow, as if she was like a fairy in a painting.

"Xianggong, this snow is so beautiful!"

Looking up, Zhao Yuanzhen's eyes were clear and smart, glowing with crystal soft light, the wings of her nose were slightly raised, her lips were tightly pursed into a line, and then she faced the sky and slowly closed her eyes, with a beautiful posture.

"Princess! Princess! The maid Jin'er, who followed closely behind, carried a silver stove in her hand, worried that the princess would be cold, and hurriedly handed it over.

Zhao Yuanzhen didn't accept the nudge, took her husband's hand, and stood quietly under the snowflakes by his shoulder.

There is a woman dancing a sword in the snow, her posture is like a frightening Hong, like a swimming dragon, the swordsmanship is exquisite, eye-catching.

shook the snow off his body, and then gently dusted off the snowflakes on his wife's shoulder, looking at his wife's face, Song Ting smiled, "Zhen'er, you are so good-looking." ”

The woman smiled refreshingly, clear and graceful, and her beautiful face was intoxicating, "Xianggong, come to make fun of the slave family again." ”

She grabbed his arm tightly, leaned closer, and whispered softly—

"Xianggong, you know what? Whenever it snows, Zhen'er thinks of her mother, she always takes my hand, takes me to the yard, throws a snowman to play, builds a little me, and then builds a her, the snow at that time is as beautiful as it is now. ”

"When I was a child, I always wanted to go out of the palace and see the outside world, but then my mother died...... It was as if I had been forgotten by the whole world, facing the deep palace walls every day, and I didn't know what to do......"

"Later, I met Xianggong, heh, meeting Xianggong is really the luckiest thing in my life...... My mother once gave me care, and my husband gave me all of them, and with my husband, I also felt a lot of happiness. Xianggong loves me, cherishes me, never disobeys me, Xianggong is for me...... I don't want to marry a concubine, Xianggong is really the best and best person in the world! ”

Taking a deep breath, she stared sideways at him.

“… Xianggong, let's have a snowball fight! ”

"It's not a child, and you're still playing with this?"

She didn't give up, "Don't, just come and play once!" ”

"But you have to go back after playing for a while, and you can't catch a cold." Song Ting nodded.

At the beginning, Zhao Yuanzhen grabbed a ball of snow and slapped it on his face, looking at him confused, and giggled.

"Okay! Zhen'er, you wait! ”

grabbed a ball of snow and threw it over, but after all, he was still reluctant to throw it at her, and wiped it by her ear.

"Xianggong, you are not allowed to let me!" She quickly noticed.

"Hehe, Xianggong, chase me!"

“……”

It was rare to see her as happy as a child, Song Ting also smiled, chased after her, and hugged her in a circle.

"Hehe, I'm going to faint!"

“……”

In the window, the woman in white clothes and white skirts looked at this scene, her face was full of envy, and then she smiled elegantly, her lips were red and her teeth were white, and she was moving.

…

On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, there was also a lot of snow in the south of the Yangtze River.

Outside the city of Hangzhou, soldiers are coming to the city.

"Captain Wu, why don't you say this Fang La has surrendered?"

"Boy, don't complain, you think that's what you want to go home? I want to go home too! My wife is still waiting for me to buy meat and noodles and go back for the New Year! If this dog's day Fang La doesn't surrender, we have to spend it here! ”

"Dog's day! I had just slept with my daughter-in-law for two or three days, and I was arrested and sent as a soldier! I miss my daughter-in-law ......."

The soldiers chattered and complained, grabbed the snow balls, threw them into the teapot, boiled a pot of snow water, and ate the dry food.

The snow harrier flew through the sky, and you could see the entire city of Hangzhou, surrounded by 150,000 troops.

The guns exuded cold, and the tent was ten miles away, and the ice and snow were white.

The soldiers' armor was covered with snowflakes, and the cloaks behind the colonels rattled in the wind......

Hangzhou City, ten miles of siege.

(End of chapter)