The snow is white, the sky and the earth are vast, this year's winter is still as cold as last year, the rivers of Biandu are frozen again, and the snow is also more than last year.

Two sounds similar to firecrackers came from a distance, and I saw that a group of pheasants were frightened and flew up at the intersection of the woods and the reed pond, and someone not far away immediately ran to the place where the pheasants flew, and quickly picked up two pheasants that were still dying from the ground.

"Daddy is amazing!"

Shakuhachi ran and picked up the two pheasants, and Shakunanchi, who was next to Lotte, said with a smile: "The official is good marksman, this is the tenth prey hunted today!" ”

The two children, Le Zhao and Le Yu, also followed Lotte's side, dressed like two small cotton balls, clapping their hands at the prey and shouting: "You can eat pheasants, hares and foxes today!" ”

However, this musket of Lotte is different from the previous musket, in September, Wang Lao'er gave Lotte only one and a half feet long, this time Lotte Hand's musket is more than four feet long, and there are two barrels, which can obviously fire twice at the same time and fire two projectiles.

Taking the musket with the gunpowder projectile loaded in the ruler seven, Lotte checked it, and asked at the same time: "Master Wang, if Le wants to mass-produce muskets, and now the workshop is fully producing, how many muskets can be produced in a month?" ”

"The production of artillery cannot be stopped, Le still has great use, and the demand for artillery overseas is even greater." Regarding Wang Lao'er's statement, Lotte shook his head, thought for a moment and said: "In a few days, Le will recruit craftsmen to enrich the manpower of the artillery workshop......

Lotte nodded, took a few steps and estimated that the rabbit was within range of the musket, raising the gun to aim......

This time, Lotte went out to hunt for the purpose of testing the actual combat performance of the musket. Of course, the monthly output of 30 muskets is really less, the musket team is not large, and it cannot form effective combat effectiveness at all, and the colonies opened up by Dongying and Luzon are also in urgent need of firearms to maintain their military superiority over the local natives, and in Lotte they have to deal with the threat of the Jin people going south in the future.

Hearing Lotte's question, Shakuchi's face was full of excitement, and while loading the musket, he said: "Hou Ye, the business of the watch shop is very hot now, since Hou Ye invented the clock, it has been sought after by the dignitaries and nobles of the entire Biandu, and the powerful people are proud to own a clock."

Lotte handed over the watch business to Shakutan, so that he could exercise Shakutan, so that Shakuchi could be of great use in the future, and secondly, let Shakuchi get some store commissions so that he could contribute to his own future.

Rao is not enough wealth, as the son of heaven Zhao Ji does not care, still every day to spend wine to build Genyue garden, in order to make Genyue more and more auspicious and magnificent, is no longer limited to the purchase of flowers and stones, but also to collect the world's white deer, flying cranes, peacocks and other birds and beasts to fill Genyue.

"Master Hou, something happened!"

"What happened?" Lotte was slightly shocked, Tu Si Neng said that something big must have happened.

"How did you die?" Lotte asked.

"Stupid!" Hearing this, Lotte hated it, and even scolded: "Dig your own grave and destroy the Great Wall!" ”

"Pharmacist Guo is right!" Lotte also nodded helplessly, "I still remember that in April of this year, in order to deal with the negotiations between Yanjing and the prefectures and counties to which it belonged and my Great Song Dynasty, the Jin people insisted that the Liao army general Guo Yaoshi and the more than 88,000 households under his command who had surrendered to our dynasty before should be returned to the Jin Dynasty as prisoners of Liaodong."

Speaking of which, Lotte was already furious.

It is precisely because of his admiration for China and his attachment to his homeland that Zhang Jue, a Han man from the Liao State, rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

Bingzhou became the southernmost territory of the Jin people at that time, and it was named Nanjing by Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguta.

Zhang Jue's rebellion against Jin and the surrender of the Song Dynasty triggered a series of events, which made these Han and Khitan people, who had high expectations for the Song Dynasty, finally completely disappointed in the Northern Song Dynasty, and some people even resented it. This move seriously hurt the feelings of the returned Song and Han people, made them deviate from the Song Dynasty, and even promoted a large number of "traitors", who became members of the leading party of the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Northern Song Dynasty in the future.

Someone in history once commented on Guo Yaoshi, who was the remnant of Liao, the powerful rank of Song, and the hero of Jin. This person was a traitor in the early twelfth century, and he was a typical leader of the party, so that Lotte had to pay attention to this person.

"Yes!" Tu Si hurriedly said: "Guo Yaoshi returned to the Song Dynasty, served in Yanshan Mansion, and relied on the grace of the Son of Heaven to do whatever he wanted in Yanshan Mansion. Wang An "can't make it, and it's even more bent to serve it". The imperial court also favored Guo Yaoshi very much, and the imperial court tried its best to supply all the weapons, armor, staff, and horses that Guo Yaoshi wanted.

"So much?" Lotte was surprised, his face became solemn, Mo said that Guo Yaoshi has 300,000, that is, there are 150,000 people, and the combat power of the Biandu Forbidden Army cannot withstand it, except for the Western Army.

With a long sigh, Lotte said helplessly: "The court is rotten, the official army can't beat the Liao, the Liaoren can't beat the Jin, and the Jin people go south......"

"Do a good job of collecting intelligence on the north, and start shrinking the business in the north next year!" Lotte said.