This is quite serious, Guo Dong and several craftsmen were stunned there, and then they knelt on the ground, kowtowing again and again, and when they saw kowtowing, Li Meng's brows were even more wrinkled, he was really moved to kowtow, not that he couldn't stand it, but he felt too awkward, and heard the following Liao Min crying and explained:

"Master, the two newly-made firecrackers are still in the shop, and this armor is completely built by the villains who stayed up all night, using the leftovers of the firecrackers, and there is absolutely no delay in the business assigned by the master."

Li Meng's face was still gloomy, several Liaomin craftsmen were even more panicked, Guo Dong walked a few steps on his knees, and begged again:

"The villains are all wrong, they are all the villains themselves, ask the lord to be merciful, don't drive the villain's family away."

After finishing speaking, he didn't dare to say more, just kowtowed desperately there, Li Meng looked at the apprentices at the door of the blacksmith shop and knelt down in fright, and after a little pondering, the matter had already guessed probly, and couldn't help crying and laughing, Li Meng sighed and said with relief:

"Why are you so careful, what I want is a fire gun, everyone is groping for this thing, don't worry about anything, just rest assured, you don't have to do these things to please me."

Hearing this, the Liao people cried even louder, their heads were knocked to the sky, and they couldn't cry, this scene looked very touching to outsiders, but Li Meng was very irritable, and said there in a loud voice:

"Hurry up, hurry up, if I break my head, who will make me a firearm." As soon as Li Meng's joke was opened, these people kneeling on the ground confirmed that there was indeed nothing wrong, and they only got up after a long time, and saw Li Meng waving his hand again and again and said:

"Let's get busy, I'll wait to see what happens with those two firearms?"

After speaking, he turned around and left, regardless of the set of full-body armor hanging on the shelf, these Liaomin craftsmen naturally did not dare to stop it, and they did not dare to mention the matter of the armor again, but Li Meng took a few steps. But he turned around, walked up to the armor, looked at it a few times, and asked aloud:

"How much effort does it take to make a simple armor?"

Since he was back in Fengmeng Town, Li Meng was not in a hurry to leave. It still takes some scruples to act in Jiaozhou City, and it is really his own world here in Fengmeng, and he is much more comfortable.

The two firearms over there, Guo Dong guaranteed that he would be able to come out in four days, not to mention that these craftsmen were needed to make some other utensils, which were none other than armor. After seeing that beautiful armor that day. reminded Li Meng of one thing.

Now there are more than 2,000 salt dings, all of them are cloth clothes, and there are no defensive measures and equipment. Of course, Yan Ding trained hard, the weapons in his hands were excellent, and ordinary battles were often set up in formation, spears stabbed flat, and the other party was scattered when he trotted over. Haven't lost so far.

This has something to do with the fact that most of the opponents are thugs and ruffians who are salt lords, and these people are not as equipped as Yanding, and it is already a great thing to have a knife and axe in their hands.

But Li Meng's predicted opponent was not these ruffians. In this troubled world, Yan Ding is Li Meng'an's capital to live a good life, think about his future opponent, Li Meng has no confidence at all, Ming Army. Break into the army. The Qing army may have other armies, and who knows which side they will join. Which side to fight again, having said that, Li Meng is still very sure of one thing, he will never join the side of the Manchu Tartars.

Fighting with these regular armies, with spears in their hands and cloth clothes on their bodies as they are now, is clearly a joke.

Any trained regular soldier would shoot a bow and arrow with more precision and power than the three salters had shot a year earlier, not to mention that they had in their hands the experience and skill of firearms, artillery, and fighting formations.

It was naturally not suitable to see the complicated and exquisite armor that day, but the simple chain mail, the leather armor inlaid with iron leaves, according to Guo Dong, more than a dozen apprentices could make a few samples in these four days, and it would not delay the progress of making firearms, Li Meng was not in a hurry, and staying in Fengmeng Town was to practice equestrianism and riding battles.

The location of Jiaozhou City is quite remote from Shandong Province, and since the beginning of the Apocalypse, the general famine in the whole world, the market has gradually withered, that is, after Li Meng began to use Laizhou salt Dengzhou salt to encroach on the private salt market in Shandong, all kinds of salt merchants and related people gathered in Jiaozhou to consume in Jiaozhou, which made the market in Jiaozhou slowly prosper.

However, as October approaches, there is still a gap before the peak season of salt sales, and the salt merchants are also less than in the past.

Zhang Butcher opened in the interior of Jiaozhou City, this casino is a two-entry courtyard, the scale is smaller than that of Fengmeng Town, and the business is much worse, but it still makes money. There is an advantage to a casino like Zhang Butcher, that is, people related to the government do not dare to come over to extort, and they only need to hand over the usual silver, and it will be too peaceful, after all, this is the place where Li Meng is sheltered by the salt administration, and he is willing to give the regular silver to save face.

Although Li Meng introduced Tang Er to Zhang Butcher when he accepted it, he asked Zhang Butcher not to worry about his own face, and it was normal to use it, his original intention was to find a place for this subordinate to eat, but the person introduced by Li Meng, how dare Zhang Butcher treat it carelessly.

Tang Er's salary is the highest among the guards, and he is also the leader of the guards of this gambling house in Jiaozhou City, everything is to ask him what his opinion is, such treatment, food and clothing are not a problem, and life is also comfortable, the problem is that every time Tang Er sees his former colleague Yan Ding in the city, he always feels uncomfortable and tight, thinking that he used to live in such a collective, he is the companion of those mighty people, and his waist is straight every day, although the practice is hard, but he is also very happy, and he feels that he is also respected when he walks outside.

Now it's just a casino bodyguard, it's no different from a role like a nurse, it's really not glorious, but Tang Er also knows that it will be difficult for him to return to Yanding's team, but unfortunately he doesn't have the opportunity to take regret medicine.

No one in the casino made trouble, the idle Tang Er was sitting at the door of the gambling house, bored looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, the sun rose, he felt warm all over, and wondered if he went into the house to take a nap, but he saw two familiar faces, these two faces were the most impressive to him.

When he was frustrated and regretted at night, Tang Er always wondered why he didn't rush up and cut these two people at that time, he fell into the current situation, and he had a lot to do with these two people.

Zhou Bing, the son of Jinyi Wei, and Feng Qi were walking on the street opposite the casino at this time, but the clothes worn by the two of them were not the kind of new mandarin duck jackets, but ordinary green cloth clothes - the dress of the guys in the trading house. The two brocade guards were walking on the street with their heads bowed, looking unwilling to be shown by others, Tang Er was just about to walk over, but remembered that he was no longer the identity of Yanding.

He simply pushed back into the gambling house, and observed the opposite side by the door, in addition to Feng Qi and Zhou Bing, there were many people dressed like this, about 50 people, some pretending to be businessmen, and some of them were men, looking like a caravan.

Tang Er is also an old salter, and it can be seen that the members of this caravan, although they have different shapes, have rules and regulations between their gestures, this kind of subtle style, at first glance, there is nothing special, but among the common people, it is particularly conspicuous, especially for the salters who also have this style, it is even more conspicuous. Zhou Bing and Feng Qi are not in the position of leader among these people, that is, they follow the team.

What are you doing here, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is not good for Li Meng, Tang Er suddenly became nervous, although he has been expelled from the team of Yanding, he has always been grateful to Li Meng, after all, his whole family can be given by Li Meng, and this time he came to the gambling house to be Li Meng's large number of adults.

Following the other guards, Tang Er turned around and went out, followed the "caravan" from a distance, walked for a while, and watched these caravans enter the backyard of the Zhizhou Yamen, there are few pedestrians here, and if you follow the past, you are afraid that you will be exposed, Tang Er pretended to have nothing to do and walked back a few steps, and then ran towards the casino.

The status of Jiaozhou Tongzhi is the deputy of Zhizhou, and he is a very important figure in the yamen, and he has the right and responsibility to participate in big and small matters.

Zhizhou Yamen has always been idle, Zhizhou and Tongzhi often rest in their own house in the morning, and only after lunch did they symbolically go to Yamen to walk around, today Tongzhi Wu Wensong was still reading in the study, he was called up by Yan Zhizhou's family, saying that there was an urgent matter to go to Yamen.

Seeing that it was the family who came to call someone, Wu Wensong naturally knew that the matter was urgent, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and followed him to the yamen.

In the past, it was a clean and abnormal backyard of the yamen, but at this time there were many civilians dressed as caravans, these people did not look at the majesty of the government in their eyes at all, and in that loud talk and laughter, Wu Wensong was suddenly extremely dissatisfied in his heart, but he also knew that he dared to be so unscrupulous in the yamen, there must be his unscrupulous reliance.

Yan Zhizhou, who was talking with a businessman in the hall, saw Wu Tongzhi coming in from a distance, and hurriedly raised his voice to greet him:

"Lord Wu, come here, I have something important to inform you!"