Chapter 52: Chaos (3)

The woman's voice was very good, and she could see that beautiful and beautiful face through the light gauze hat, which really made Ni Liangxu's breath stagnant, so that he didn't hear what that sentence was talking too clearly.

Seeing that the little sister of the Zhou family led the maids and servants to help Yi Qing, who was crying, back to the room, Ni Liangxu had to arrange for a few soldiers to be brought to guard outside the doors, which could be regarded as monitoring the Sun family.

Sent Yi Qing back to the room and calmed him for a while, until he confirmed that everything would be fine, and the little sister of the Zhou family went out to prepare to leave after instructing the maids and servants of the Sun family to take care of them. It's just that when she just wanted to pass through the side gate of the mansion every time she came to visit, she was stopped by the military general who led the team and asked where she went.

Ni Liangxu didn't have any other intentions, but the responsibility of monitoring the Sun family still made him ask questions to prevent accidents. The little sister of the Zhou family seemed to know that there would be such a thing, so she frankly replied that she had been away from home for a few hours, and she had to go home quickly to make her family worry about Yunyun.

It is normal for a woman to go out to meet friends in a hurry to go home and not let her family worry. It's just that the city will soon be in chaos, and it is very dangerous for a young woman to walk on the road that may riot at any time, especially since this woman is also Yi Qing's close friend, and this relationship makes him even more uneasy when he feels guilty. So, Ni Liangxu persuaded him, saying that it was safer for him to send someone to send or the woman's family to pick it up.

Send, this is definitely not good, not to mention anything else, the plaque and lantern in front of her house are clearly written with the word "Zhou", and if this military general sees it, wouldn't he not be a self-confessor.

Since this is the case, the little sister of the Zhou family whispered a few words to the personal maid and looked for someone to pick her up. Back in the courtyard, not long after. I saw a well-dressed young scholar rushing over with the maid of the Zhou family, and after expressing some gratitude to Ni Liangxu, he left with the little sister of the Zhou family, but he still used the carriage that drove the little sister of the Zhou family to the mansion before.

Stepping out of the side door of the mansion, the little sister of the Zhou family couldn't help but relax her nervousness, but when she saw the word "Zhou" on the curtain on the door of the carriage, she was suddenly startled.

Thousands of calculations. But I forgot about this, after all, it is still the case that I rarely go out on weekdays, but isn't this a lie just as self-defeating?

What to do?!

Between the lightning and flint, many stories written in the book appeared in the mind of the little sister of the Zhou family. After a blink of an eye, I saw her turn around and promise Ni Liang a blessing in front of everyone to express her gratitude, and then boarded the carriage without the slightest abnormality and left the scope of the mansion. Only Ni Liangxu and a few of his gatekeepers were sent to the corner.

The little sister of the Zhou family is beautiful and knowledgeable, Ni Liangxu has a good impression of her, so he never asked too many questions that should not be asked, because he didn't believe in his heart that the little sister of the Zhou family would lie about such a simple question of origin. It's just that the word on the carriage always feels a little familiar to him, as if he has seen it there, but it is only familiar to him who is illiterate. I didn't understand the meaning, and I didn't know exactly what it meant.

Until a long time later. Ni Liangxu, who was no longer going to be entangled in this issue, suddenly remembered, that word didn't seem to pronounce "He", but "Zhou", Zhou Qingui's Zhou, he had seen it in Cao Conglong's appointment letter to recruit An Luo Chengyan Baitou Army, and the confidential clerk next to Chen Wen was also surnamed Zhou!

There can be many implications for this question. However, Ni Liangxu did not move lightly, his task was to control the government office rather than arrest potential opponents, as for the affairs of the Zhou family, there was already an officer from another Fubiao battalion to deal with it. Moreover, now that Zhou Jingting is going out with the army, as long as he controls the other men of the Zhou family. Could it be that a weak female streamer can still turn the sky upside down?

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A large workshop in the south of the city of Jinhua Prefecture, not far from Changxian Gate and Wujiang Wharf, convenient for the transportation of bulk raw materials such as wood, bamboo, iron, cloth and leather, and can also be shipped from here along the Dongyang River to garrison all over the country, so the Ordnance Division of Jinhua Town is set up here.

Most of the main personnel of the Ordnance Department of Jinhua Town come from the Construction Division of the Fifth Division of the Ming Army in Dalanshan, and many officials, including the director, are also from the Construction Division. The background of the civil officials of the Fifth Division of the Ming Army in Dalanshan made them quite dissatisfied with the fact that Jinhua Town was directly managed by military generals after its establishment, which not only destroyed the ancestral system of using literature to control the military, but also threatened their status and authority, and Chen Wen's bolt reward was the best indication of further infringement to come.

For this reason, the civilian officials of the Ordnance Department were fighting hard with Chen Wen behind the scenes, even when Chen Wen was still in Jinhua Mansion when the struggle situation was the worst, they also succeeded in making the craftsmen give up the reward, which led to the bankruptcy of the research and development plan of the wheel-type bolt that could be used normally as long as some parts were fine-tuned, and even the granulated gunpowder that had been used by the Ming army before Jiashen was stranded on the grounds that the production was easy to cause accidents.

It doesn't matter whether the bolt of the flintlock pistol can be made or not, and it doesn't matter whether there is granulated gunpowder or not, anyway, wouldn't those Qiu Ba be able to win the battle when they don't have these things. And behind all this, what really matters is who is in charge of the Ordnance Division, this is the essence of the power struggle!

After Chen Wen set out on the expedition, under the secret contact of Lu Wenlong, the officials of the Ordnance Department, who had already complained, immediately fell to Cao Conglong. However, in order to prevent the Quartermaster Department in charge of Chen Wen's fellow countryman, who had close contact with the Ordnance Department, was aware that the manufacture of ordnance, armor, and gunpowder had all been completed in accordance with the regulations, and they would never dare to delay the Ming army in the slightest.

At the same time, however, they ordered the craftsmen to work overtime to produce weapons, armor, and other items to arm the Fubiao battalion. Even the question of the chief quartermaster Gu Shouli at the meeting a few days ago was also pretended to be hand-made and there were many waste parts, so they needed to work overtime and perfunctory past, anyway, those quartermasters who can only settle accounts don't know how to build weapons, as long as the armory department itself does not go inside, everything will be seamless, and this is thanks to Chen Wen's system that the craftsmen of the ordnance department must live in the workshop during the war to prevent the leakage of military information.

Judging from the orders received, the Fubiao battalion had less than 300 soldiers at the beginning, and more than 200 people were recruited these days, plus the dozens of people in the governor's guard, it was more than 500. The weapons and armor required for such a force cannot be achieved by stealthily rushing to control it, so it is necessary to seize the arsenal southwest of the capital city as soon as possible in order to quickly control the entire capital city.

Although there are less than 100 really fully armed armored soldiers, and even some of them want to go to the Ming army camp outside the city with Cao Conglong, but it is estimated that the dozens of Kuding who have not been in battle with the arsenal are also captured. (To be continued.) )