Unless Yu Guozhen could ruthlessly imprison Bi Maokang or simply execute him, he would not be able to stop the outflow of drawings, and even if he gave the order now, it would be too late.

It is conceivable that before Bi Maokang came to Xinxiang, he would not be unprepared, and he must still have a backup of the original six drawings at home. Even when he arrived in Xinxiang, he should also be on guard, for example, among his henchmen and servants, one of them had already said that he had passed the family letter and left.

Looking at Yu Guozhen for a while, Bi Maokang was silent for a long time.

He is an official to the military department, and he has never seen anything in the officialdom, but in the face of Yu Guozhen's honest eyes, he can't help but hesitate.

I can't see through it, I can't see through this teenager at all.

Bi Maokang didn't want to guess anymore, he naturally knew that Yu Guozhen really didn't care about him passing the drawings outside. Bi Maokang is familiar with the musket forging process of the Ming Dynasty, such a musket, placed in the Ming Dynasty, the most skilled craftsmen, the full support of the imperial court, can not make a branch in a month, and the cost of a branch, I am afraid to more than twenty taels of silver, and can not guarantee the pass rate of the finished product.

Yes, Daming can afford to equip it, but I'm afraid that at the same price, Daming can equip one soldier, and Yu Guozhen can equip two or three!

Bi Maokang still underestimated the productivity of Xinxiang, and the production cost of the Huwei C flintlock pistol was not much more expensive than the previous Huwei B.

Not only that, before the projectiles and gunpowder were improved, the range and accuracy of the flintlock pistol made by the Ming Dynasty were still lower than those used by the Tiger Guard! It can be said that the Huwei C-type musket only helped the Huwei have a greater firepower advantage in the face of Jianyu, but this point was of little use to the Ming court!

"Old and old, there is a heartfelt sentence to the uncle, if you say it wrong, the uncle is not strange." Thinking of this, he decided to be open and honest.

"Please."

"Uncle's loyalty and patriotism can be seen by the old decay, but the tiger guard on Uncle's side is inevitably a little ...... I only know that there is an uncle, but I don't know that there is a son of heaven. ”

After a little hesitation, Bi Maokang stared at Yu Guozhen's eyes, and said slowly: "This is not the way to become rich for a long time. ”

This is the first person to say such things to his face, Yu Guozhen also stared at Bi Maokang: "Bi Gong, I have no intention of being rich and noble, if it is not for the suffering of the people, I would rather sail overseas and just want to be at ease." ”

"I have made many meritorious deeds before, and the Son of Heaven also intends to give officials and rewards, I just ask for a farmhouse. This Gyeonggi incident, if it weren't for the fear that the eunuchs of the prison army would have made false achievements, and that the repeated refusal of knighthood and rewards would not be an incentive for the state, I would still be willing to return to the field house, rather than serving as this Nanhai Bo. ”

"The people will be happy, and I will be like a cloud of wealth to me."

Yu Guozhi said it sentence by sentence, and the speed was also very slow, which could be regarded as showing his heart. Bi Maokang was silent when he heard this, and after a long time, he arched his hand: "Old and old, please also ask Nanhai Bo to arrange for someone to send the old man back." ”

"Why should Bi Gong be in such a hurry, stay in Xinxiang for a while."

"Don't stay any longer, if you stay any longer, you will be reluctant to leave...... The old man knows the ambition of Nanhai Bo, and also sees the ability of Nanhai Bo...... Now I just want to go back to my hometown and die quickly. ”

Bi Maokang's words were somewhat pathetic, Yu Guozhen did not give him a guarantee, did not say that there would never be a day when the army would rise against Ming, but put the people first. That didn't solve the worries in his heart, but he knew he was powerless to change anything.

Whether it is to change the Ming Dynasty so that the people will not suffer, or to change Yu Guozhen and force Yu Guozhen to promise never to choose, it is far beyond his ability. All he can do is to retreat to the mountains and forests, he can only hope that he will die as soon as possible and not see the day he doesn't want to see.

"Why did Bi Gong say this, you are not Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong only wanted to die quickly at first, but then we won the battle, and they wanted to live but couldn't." Yu Guozhen smiled and said: "Bi Gong is old and strong, and his talent is what China needs, even if he doesn't want to stay in Xinxiang, he can go back to Zhang Shu and say that the younger generation is willing to print it into a book, so that future generations after a thousand years will also know Bi Gong's name." ”

For the real Confucian scholars, meritorious service, virtue, and speech are the three major pursuits of life, meritorious service and virtue are beneficial to the present generation, and the purpose of making words is to leave their doctrine to future generations, Yu Guozhen used this to inspire Bi Maokang, but Bi Maokang only smiled bitterly.

Ren Yu Guozhen repeatedly persuaded him to stay, and this contemporary weapon master finally left Xinxiang. Yu Guozhen also didn't have much of a mood to keep a literati of the old era, Bi Maokang was still loyal to Ming after all. He must devote his energy to the further construction of Xinxiang, and now, the problem that plagues the development of Xinxiang is not only the population, but also the resources.

The bottleneck of iron ore and coal resources is gradually emerging in Xinxiang and must be solved through some channel.

While Yu Guozhen was pondering how to obtain more coal and iron ore resources, the east of the mountain was Moqingdaokou, looking at the busy port with a trace of undisguised worry in his eyes.

"Jiang Lang, what are you afraid of, the soldiers are coming, the water is coming, we still have a few hundred people, can't we clean up a small Xianguo?"

Luo Yiniang, who was beside him, pouted and said, very dissatisfied with his emotions for a few days. Jiang An smiled bitterly, Yi Niang is used to seeing the tiger guard win battles, so she can't help but underestimate the world. Jiang An knows that although North Korea is not a big country, it is not a problem to gather 100,000 troops, if there are 10,000 tiger guards, of course, these 100,000 troops are no different from the local chickens and dogs, but he can only use 200 tiger guards in his hands, plus the less than 400 herdsmen, and the loyalty of those herdsmen has yet to be tested!

"Governor General, the Li family brothers are here!"

At this moment, a Denglai soldier came to report that Yu Guozhen did not have many troops left for Jiang'an, and now almost all of them were sent by him to Tamna Island, so at the mouth of Qingdao, the manpower he used was Sun Lin's Denglai soldiers. This Denglai soldier who came to report to the army, known to the general, named Meng Wei, is now the general appointed by the imperial court, but he is still pestering him throughout the whole day, wanting to go to Huwei to be a small soldier.

"Why do you always send a message?" Jiang An smiled: "Anyway, you are also an officer now, why do you need to come to such things?" ”

"What bullshit officer, where is it better than being a tiger guard, the governor, you just have a few nice words to your uncle, accept me!"

Meng Wei smiled with a smile on his face, his little eyes kept blinking, and he looked like a dog that was pleasing his master. But his expression is funny but not annoying, at least Jiang An will not be annoying, he knows this Meng Wei, the battle of Lengkou Pass was killed with Sun Linchong, and he was wounded by more than 20 wounds, and he fought more than once, and he was by no means a villain who only knew how to slap horses.

"It's hard, you're old." Shogishi scratched his head in embarrassment.

"The governor will use this to prevaricate, the villain's cousin Meng Fang, who is six years older than the villain, if he wasn't older than the villain, where would it be his turn to go to the artillery camp, but just because he can fire cannons, he let him go to the Tiger Guard, but the villain can't enter, this is not fair, the villain can also learn to shoot artillery!"

The two of them have had such conversations at an unknown number of times, and in the end they were all speechless - although he can speak well, he is powerless against the stubborn donkey who has repeatedly entangled him in admitting death. But it's also interesting to think about it, during the Battle of Lengkou Pass, among the Jurchens who were cast, Mo Ergeng and Xiteku were two brothers, and Meng Wei, who went north with Sun Lin, and Meng Fang, who led the artillery camp anyway, were also brothers.

The brothers of the Li family mentioned in Meng Wei's mouth were Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan, and as soon as the two saw Jiang'an, they immediately knelt down and saluted: "Brother Li family, I have seen the governor and the old man......"

"Get up, get up, but you don't deserve your brother's courtesy, my son-in-law has already said that the two are heroes in the world, and I want to use the power of the two more!" Jiang An didn't wait for the two to kneel down, so he went up and pulled them up, and said affectionately: "In order to avoid suspicion, the son can't come to see the two in person, so he only sent me, don't be surprised by the two!" ”

This made the Li brothers feel very comfortable.

Although Yu Guozhen was famous, in the final analysis, he was just a cloth cloth. But now it is different, the official document of the imperial court rewarding the famous lord has been issued to the world, and the people have also circulated among the people "Yu Jimin went to Rongji for thousands of miles, and Emperor Chongzhen's wisdom sealed the South China Sea", and the identity is different from when I first met. Yu Guozhen himself doesn't care about this, that's because this kind of title is not in his heart at all, and Huwei doesn't care about it very much, that's because in their hearts, Chongzhen is not as good as his own son, but in the hearts of the rest of the people in the Ming Dynasty, this is a great deal.

is such a strong brother of the Li family, and he can't help but feel worried in his heart, lest Yu Guozhen turn his face and deny people.

Therefore, when someone sent Yu Guozhen's letter to summon the two of them, they were somewhat hesitant, but when they came here, they were appeased when they saw this young man who was revered as the "governor", and gave him a few words.

"Our brother doesn't know what the governor commands, so he only brought two hundred henchmen, and if the number is not enough, he can call again."

"There are really not enough people, and we need to summon some more." When Jiang An heard the hands in their hands, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"My two brothers are a bit thin, and the governor needs as many people as he wants."

"I can't hide it, the more the better, and the risk is also great, but if it can be done, I will promise a certain amount of settling-in allowance of one hundred taels per person...... Don't be busy refusing your brothers, you two naturally don't have it, Gongzi said it a long time ago, you are very righteous, and you will look down on the two of you if you say money, so you are given three choices. ”

Jiang An said this, paused for a moment, and saw the excited look on the faces of the two brothers, Jiang An said again: "The first choice is that after this incident, the two of you will enter the Xiliu Courtyard to receive our Tiger Guard's drill training, and if you can succeed in the future, you will be a member of the Tiger Guard, but my son-in-law also said that the two are older, I am afraid that they will have to suffer several times, and even if they come out of the Xiliu Courtyard, they need to start from the bottom, first enter the teaching group as a pawn, and then be promoted according to their military achievements." ”

"The second option is to manage a horse farm for my son-in-law, but the horse farm is not on our land, but in the sea, Tamna, which is where we are going this time. You just have to watch those shepherd slaves and don't let them misbehave, and I will arrange for the rest to be dealt with by myself. To tell the truth, this is a blessed job, although it is important, but it is also leisurely, every time it is a gallop to drink wine and eat meat, but it is happy. ”

Speaking of this, Shogishi smiled again, because it could be seen from the expressions of the Li brothers that they had no interest in this position at all.

"The last and most difficult one is to maintain the current appearance, your brother is in the east of the mountain, and the son will pay you 10,000 taels of silver every year......"

"I'll choose the third option!" Without waiting for Jiang'an to finish speaking, Li Mingshan rushed to say.

(To be continued)