Zhang Chu ordered the security army to change into the clothes of the official army, one is to make the action unexpected, and more to find an excuse for the court officials along the way to be a turtle with a shrunken head, as for the clothing of the official army, the security army here is that the original defeat of Hong Chengchou occupied his camp and seized a large number of materials, and there were tens of thousands of officers and soldiers captured prisoners, and it was not difficult to gather thousands of official and military clothes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The security army that set out from Yuncheng advanced all the way to the north, and soon entered the area controlled by the official army, and the official army immediately became nervous. When I saw that the security army did not attack the city, but just marched all the way forward, the officers and soldiers immediately knew each other, if you don't fight me, I will definitely not fight you, hide in the city and not fight, and it will be easy to deal with the officials if they ask. In recent years, there is nothing unusual about a group of officers and soldiers crossing the border, but I don't understand where the officers and soldiers are, and what can you do to me because of this, most of the officers and soldiers are pretending to be confused, and some don't even report that there are strange officers and soldiers passing through the territory.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, received the news that there were thieves operating in Shanxi again, but the news was very chaotic, and the thieves did not attack the city, and they could not understand the purpose of this gang of thieves for a while, and sometimes they lost the news of this group of thieves. If you send troops to encircle and suppress it, the officers and soldiers of the brigade will arrive and the thieves will not know where they have gone. Hong Chengchou decided to wait, and ordered all prefectures and counties to strengthen their vigilance, and report it immediately once they were attacked, so that when the thieves attacked the city, the officers and soldiers of the brigade could rush over and encircle and annihilate them.

There are other things that Hong Chengchou is more worried about than the appearance of the thief. Hong Chengchou never imagined that the location of this arsenal would become a problem.

Originally, in Hong Chengchou's opinion, the arsenal was the safest and safest to be built in Taiyuan City, and it would definitely not be attacked by thieves, but the space occupied by these tens of thousands of craftsmen was very huge, and there was no large enough open space in Taiyuan City to build the arsenal.

There is no way Hong Chengchou can only set his sights on the suburbs of Taiyuan City, preparing to requisition a piece of land in the suburbs, but he thinks about it for a while but has no way to start, because there is land in the suburbs of Taiyuan that is either the king of Jin or the king of the acting king, and these two Ming vassal kings Hong Chengchou can't afford to provoke him no matter what. With the Zhu family's descendants love money, it is better to kill them if they take out the land to build a factory for Hong Chengchou.

The Chinese officer Cao Qian gave the order to the craftsmen in the artisan camp to transfer their residences, and the craftsmen thought they were going to enter Taiyuan City, but they did not expect to go in the opposite direction, and everyone was getting farther and farther away from Taiyuan, and they stopped only after leaving the scope of the domain of the vassal king.

Hong Chengchou decided to find a suitable place to build a factory outside the land of the vassal king, but before the arsenal could choose a good address, the magnates in Taiyuan City took action and found Hong Chengchou through various connections, all hoping that the arsenal would not be built on the territory of his related people. Hong Chengchou is not uncannibalistic, and his colleagues still have to take care of each other. So the Chinese officer Cao Qian sent another order from the governor, and the artisan battalion moved again, moving to a more desolate place. This time, Hong Chengchou did his homework in advance, and the selected location was the land of some small landlords, and with the prestige of the official family, these small landlords should not make any trouble, and the arsenal should be able to start construction now.

At this moment, a rumor spread in the city of Taiyuan, and people would ask without saying a few words when they met: "Have you heard me say about the explosion of Wang Gongchang?" “

In fact, this is knowingly asked, Wang Gongchang's explosion occurred in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, only five years ago, although it happened in Beijing, it is a major event known throughout the country.

On the 6th day of the fifth month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, a bizarre explosion occurred in the area near the gunpowder depot of Wang Gongchang in the southwest corner of Beijing. The explosion covered an area of about 750 meters and covered an area of 2.23 square kilometers, killing and injuring more than 20,000 people. The cause of the explosion was unknown, the phenomenon was peculiar, and the disaster was enormous.

Taiyuan people say that the explosion of Wang Gong's factory is not for nostalgia, but because the three-sided governor Hong Chengchou wants to build an arsenal outside the city of Taiyuan, it is said that the arsenal wants to make iron to make weapons, the sound of striking iron every day must disturb the people, the smoke of iron-making will definitely choke everyone, not to say that the craftsmen have moved far away from the city, far away, it is said that there is a gunpowder factory in the factory, once the gunpowder factory produces gunpowder, the tragedy of Wang Gong's factory is in front of you. Once the gunpowder explodes, no one will survive within a radius of several tens of miles, and it has also been heard that the smoke and dust that drift away after the explosion will cause people to get sick wherever they go. We must protect the environment in which our ancestors lived, and we must not let Hong Chengchou be harmed.

Such an advanced concept was definitely not something that the people of the Ming Dynasty could come up with, and he came from the hands of Zhang Chu, who had infiltrated Taiyuan City with the Bureau of Statistics.

Zhang Chu didn't have to think about these words, he heard about building chemical plants everywhere every day in later generations, and then Zhang Chu couldn't be more familiar with the rhetoric of the surrounding residents.

Someone reported these rumors to Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou scoffed at this, these ignorant people, all day long, know nonsense, when it is the turn of the people to express their opinions on the establishment of the arsenal in the court.

What the people talk about it really doesn't affect the construction of the arsenal, but what happened next made Hong Chengchou stunned, something unprecedented happened in the Ming Dynasty, and the people went to the streets to petition. Groups of beggars, hawkers, old people, and children gathered from the streets and alleys and walked towards the residence of the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou. At the front of the procession, someone used a wooden stick to beat up a white cloth banner with an ink pen on it: "Stop building the arsenal and return my homeland." As they walked, they shouted slogans to stop the construction of the arsenal.

People did not care much about the content of the slogan, and now everyone only envied the two banner-bearers, each of whom had received a "big head" silver dollar, and it was said that as long as the banner was held up to the governor's residence, someone would give another "big head". It was the finest silver, and a silver dollar was a tael of silver. Walking around the street, you can earn two taels of silver, and this kind of good thing is not something that anyone can encounter. The rest of the people who followed the procession were now only given a copper plate, saying that if they followed them to the residence of the governor of the three sides, each of them would receive a penny, and if anyone shouted a slogan in the procession, someone would hand them a copper coin. This makes everyone very happy, and everyone has fun and money to get together, and this activity is loved by everyone. Everyone is not worried that it will cause the wrath of the Governor, there is a way to do justice and not to blame the public, and no matter how powerful the Governor is, he can't arrest so many people. Moreover, the person who distributed the money also said that when they saw the officials or officers and soldiers coming, everyone could get the money if they dispersed in a hurry.

Of course, these people not only went to the streets for a few copper coins, but the rumors in the past few days also made everyone nervous, the harm of the gunpowder factory is so great, why should it be built in Taiyuan, isn't it good that it was originally built in Beijing.

The advancing ranks continued to grow, more idlers joined in, and the slogans shouted louder and louder under the stimulation of the copper coins, and soon the three governors Hong Chengchou gathered outside the Taiyuan station with a crowd shouting slogans. (To be continued.) )