"East Water Gate...... Oh, here it is. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info just broke through the city gate so much, I also had to tear down the city wall, who remembers! Hong Tao was very depressed, his reaction was always two beats slower than Wen Nan, and after the name was finished, he had to ask the guards to look for it on the map with a gas lamp.

"Bang Bang Bang ......" Soon, a dense burst of gunfire was heard near the city walls.

"This is a shotgun......" Hong Tao finally regained some face, and he could hear the gunshots.

"Tom...... Tom ...... "The gunfire is getting denser and denser, and there are a lot of dull sounds in between.

"It's a flintlock pistol, the barrel is long, and the voice is muffled! Listening from the sound of gunshots, our people have the advantage, and it is estimated that they will be able to ...... soon" Hong Tao is very proud, now Wen Nan and Luo Youde have to listen to their own lectures, in order to show their talents, they have to talk more deeply.

"Boom...... Boom ......" Unfortunately, before he finished speaking, there were two loud noises on the roof, and even the soil shook down a lot, and three people's heads were dropped.

"Oh my mother! What kind of cannon is this, how come I never heard Swann let it go? "Luo Youde's heart attack is about to be committed, why don't you say it in advance, it's so close, isn't it a hell of a life.

"Of course you haven't heard of it...... Bah...... This mouthful of sand! This is not our cannon, it should be the shore defense cannon on the city wall firing at our ship. Hong Tao shook the ash on his head, dusted the soil on his shoulder, and then stretched out his hand to point to the river. His flagship already had a broken mast, and as for the hull, it was not clear what was going on.

"Ahh And cannons on the ramparts? Lao Wen, I haven't heard you say it! Luo Youde hurriedly ran to the other side, looked out, and soon ran back and began to question Wen Nan.

"I really didn't have it when I was here, I should have been there later, and they won't inform me, right?" Wen Nan is also gray-faced, and his beard has turned gray.

"Shall we ...... Lao Hong, can our naval artillery hit the city wall? Luo Youde felt that what Wen Nan said was also reasonable, and after thinking about it, he had to ask Hong Tao this question.

"Don't worry, take your time!" Hong Tao took out a wooden tube from his pocket, poured out a cigar and put it in his mouth, squatted against the wall, pointed to the dock to the east, and then covered his ears with both hands. The guards next to them were also like each other, squatting in a circle.

"Tom, boom...... Tom, tom, ...... Tom, boom, ......"Luo Youde and Wen Nan also understood, but unfortunately they understood a little late, and before the two of them squatted down and covered their ears, there was an explosion on the top of their heads. Due to the proximity of the cannonballs, the speed of the cannonballs was faster than the sound waves, and when the sound of the cannons was heard, the explosions on the city walls were also heard, and the two sounds were mixed.

"You go and tell the commander of the artillery that if you shoot so casually, I'll throw him out as a shell! Proper suppression and suppression will be, and the city wall is not far away, so you will not go up with a gun and kill the enemy? How expensive are cannonballs! Just say what I said, let the artillery move the position to the city wall, right away! This mortar shell exploded a dozen rounds near the city wall, and before the shelling was over, Hong Tao jumped up from the ground and jumped at the guards. It's really distressing, these shells were all transported from thousands of miles away, and if you can calculate the freight, it is estimated that it is more expensive than the same weight of silver.

"When the war comes to your part, I'm also convinced! Aren't the shells just used to hit the enemy, and you can still lay cubs if you keep them? Luo Youde enjoyed the feeling of his own people suppressing the enemy with cannonballs, and he felt very safe in this way, and objected to Hong Tao's calculating behavior of small belly chicken intestines.

"Don't worry about it, shells are expensive, I'm not afraid of blowing up the houses in the city. The shell doesn't have long eyes, it flies dozens of meters more, and the gunner has no rut, don't you say, Luo Dashanren? At this moment, Hong Tao began to pretend to be a good person again.

"Goodness, great goodness! It would be better if he didn't shoot......" Luo Youde was not very satisfied with Hong Tao's explanation, he felt that Hong Tao was talking nonsense with his eyes open.

"Well, I'll find you a job not shooting, you go and inform our fleet, dock to unload supplies, all the sailors take their guns, and clear out all the people within five hundred meters of the pier, and no one is allowed to approach. Those things are our reliance in the future, how to arrange it is up to you, Boss Luo, move your noble body. There is always such a broken mouth to stir around him, Hong Tao feels very tired, so he simply finds a job to spend him.

"Will I get cold arrows when I go out now?" Luo Youde said it was very lively, and as soon as he heard that he was asked to go to the dock to direct the transportation of materials, he immediately softened.

"Let's go to the city wall and take a look, my gun hasn't fired yet, maybe I can catch up with a few people who are not afraid of death." You decide for yourself whether to go to the front line to be safe, or to be safe at the docks. "Hong Tao is really convinced, after so many years of fighting on the North American continent, Luo Youde is still afraid of war. No wonder he always protects Swan, it's worth it, without Swan, he can't expand his territory.

In the end, Luo Youde still chose to be shameless, and went to the dock to direct the unloading of the goods, no matter how far away from the city wall, there are also cannons on the battleship, whether it works or not, it is practical to look at. Hong Tao and Wen Nan followed the guards and climbed the city wall from the ruins of the Houchao Gate, which had been blown down.

The architectural planning of Lin'an City is not quite the same as that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and does not fully reflect the importance of the imperial city. The imperial city here is shrunk at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, and the city wall is only six or seven meters high, which is not as tall as the outer city, which means that you can see the palace when you stand on the outer city. The place where Hong Tao is currently stepping on is the outer city of Lin'an, which is about nine meters high, six or seven meters at the bottom, and more than three meters wide at the top. Judging from the stubble, it is filled with mud and wrapped in a layer of green bricks and stone strips.

"The imperial city here is added on the basis of the palace of Wu Yueguo, when Emperor Gaozong had supervised the construction of the palace of the inner servant Yang Gongbi, the right to know the Lin'an Mansion Xu Kangguo said: stop the order to create grass, only shelter from the wind and rain is enough; The fence is not harmless, it must be refined, and it must not be decorated. If the later emperors could also take Gaozong's words as the standard and put all their minds on the country, there might not be today's difficulties. Wen Nan and Hong Tao stood on the city wall together, looking at the palace not far to the west, with some emotion and a little sigh.

"I don't agree with you on this point, as the supreme leader of the country, the royal family can make the palace more luxurious, and this is not a mistake. You see, William's palace is not simple, even my son has built a palace. You can't expect everyone else to be like me, born not to like these very much. By the way, you've also been in my pyramid, and compared to the Great Song Palace, it's probably more luxurious, right? In fact, the focus is not on what the palace is built, but on what the emperor has done. If I used all the money to build a navy to build a palace, then I would be a bastard emperor; If I use my spare money to consolidate my rule, this is normal and not harmful to the country. The emperor is also a human being, and he also has seven emotions and six desires. In my opinion, the Great Song Emperor did a decent job in this regard, and he can't say good or bad. "Hong Tao is a person who has come over, and he has seen the luxury of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Great Song Palace is far behind them. Good is good, bad is bad, and you can't just put all the on people's heads just because the other party is an enemy.

"If the official family can hear your words, they will probably shed tears again, you are his confidant. It's a pity that now you're going to turn him into a captive, isn't it? Wen Nan didn't expect Hong Tao to say good things for a royal family who was about to be overthrown, and wanted to further explore whether Hong Tao's words were true or false.

"I'm not trying to hurt him, I'm helping him. His ability is not enough to manage such a large country, and he is reluctant to do it, not only harming himself, but also others. If I ask you to take Xiao Qi's place, you might do a good job? Hong Tao has no personal opinion on Song Lizong, the two of them have met once, and they sat together eating barbecue and drinking wine and chatting. This emperor, who is a few years younger than himself, is not a natural fool, he also wants to manage the country well, and he also puts down his body and asks himself for a lot of ways to govern the country. It's a pity that it's useless for him to think like this alone, the Great Song Dynasty is a dye vat, whoever comes in will be dyed with the same color, this kind of inertia can't be changed by just one emperor and several ministers.

If we want to change this situation, we must smash all the old rules, get rid of all the people who hold on to the old rules and refuse to let go, and then re-plan from this blank piece of paper. Song Lizong didn't have the courage or the ability, even if the Mongols in the north didn't invade the south, he wouldn't dare to play like this. So I need to help him, and this help is not accepted by both parties, but is unilaterally imposed. As for whether Song Lizong is happy or not, it doesn't matter, he will be happy. Why is it so unreasonable, this involves another question, who has thick arms and who has the final say! Nothing to say.

"You are indeed better at governing the country than the official family, but I am not sure if your method will work in the Great Song Dynasty. I hope it can be done, but in fact, we are not sure how to manage this country, right? Wen Nan understood what Hong Tao meant, and partially agreed with Hong Tao's views, but also worried about Hong Tao's future fate.

"There used to be a saying in my hometown, I don't know if you've heard it. If the country lives and dies for profit, will it not be avoided because of good and evil? I don't need to tell you about the meaning, do you think my current image is taller? Hong Tao has traveled to this era since he hit, and no matter who he meets, he rarely drags words. It's not that I don't want to, but I won't, I don't have that much ink in my head. At this time, he finally seized an opportunity, although it was not particularly appropriate, but the opportunity should not be missed, let's take a sentence first and see the effect. (To be continued.) )