After Ren Siqi settled in Liu Defu's house, he went to visit Zhang Huangyan early the next morning. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Huangyan won the township examination in August last year, and because of the endless war in the north, he did not go to Beijing to go to Chunqiu, but was ready to study with peace of mind, and then go to the examination to gain fame after the north settled down. Zhang Huangyan was admitted to the examination at the age of sixteen, and at the age of twenty-two, he was promoted to the middle school, which can be described as a young man with ambition and high spirits. Since he was only twenty-two years old, he was naturally not in a hurry to take the Jinshi examination, but studied with peace of mind under his father's admonition.

Zhang Huangyan's father, Zhang Guizhang, is also famous, and once served as a judge of the Shanxi Salt Transportation Division and a member of the Criminal Department. After the war in the north, the thieves and thieves troubled the Central Plains, and the Manchu Tatars repeatedly broke through the customs and robbed, Zhang Guizhang did not want to be an official, so he returned to his hometown. He did not return to his hometown in Yinxian County, but bought a mansion on the shore of West Lake in Hangzhou, preparing to enjoy his old age in a beautiful place.

Zhang Huangyan is a man with great ambitions, he is a scholar who loves the art of war, and he is not a scholar who only knows how to die. Every day he would get up at dawn, play a few punches and kicks in the courtyard, and practice swordsmanship. After dawn and breakfast, he will practice archery again.

When Zhang Huangyan was admitted to Xiucai, he was in Chongzhen's eighth year. There were Manchurians constantly harassing outside the Ming Dynasty, and there were peasant uprisings led by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong inside, which can be described as internal and external difficulties. Emperor Chongzhen was in urgent need of talents, so he ordered that candidates who were admitted to Xiucai should "test the scriptures and righteousness, and then test the shot." "It's a pity that most of the candidates are weak scholars, and they have no power to tie the chicken, where can they shoot arrows? So they all looked embarrassed. Only Zhang Huangyan held a strong bow and shot three arrows in a row, and the arrows hit the target, which amazed the onlookers and made the examiners unanimously praise.

Zhang Huangyan's ambition is not only to be admitted to the Jinshi as an official and eunuch, but to set up a grand wish to stay in the early morning and prosper the Ming Dynasty, so he insists on practicing martial arts every day and is familiar with the art of war.

On this day, Zhang Huangyan had just had breakfast and was about to practice archery in the courtyard when he heard a report from his family that Ren Siqi, a fellow villager from Yin County, had come to visit.

Hearing Ren Siqi's name, Zhang Huangyan frowned a few times. This Ren Siqi was originally his cousin's fiancé, and he was also a relative of his family, he was selected for Xiucai at the age of fifteen, and his age was younger than Zhang Huangyan when he was admitted to the exam, and Zhang Huangyan admired Ren Siqi's knowledge. Unexpectedly, two months ago, Ren Siqi committed the crime of murder, lost his fame and was imprisoned.

It is inconvenient for Zhang Huangyan to express his opinion on the divorce of his cousin and Ren Siqi, after all, Zhang Pujia is his cousin, if Ren Siqi is executed, even if Zhang Pujia is unmarried and widowed, it will inevitably affect the marriage again, and Zhang Huangyan does not want to see his cousin suffer such misfortune.

Later, he heard that Ren Siqi escaped from prison and absconded, and Ren Siqi's clearing of charges and regaining his innocence only happened in the last few days, and it had not yet reached Zhang Huangyan's ears, so he was very surprised by Ren Siqi's visit, how could Ren Siqi, a fugitive, dare to swagger to visit the house?

However, the other party is a villager and a relative of his own family, Zhang Huangyan thought about it for a while, and asked his subordinates to bring Ren Siqi in.

Under the guidance of Zhang's subordinates, Ren Siqi came to the courtyard where Zhang Huangyan lived, and saw Zhang Huangyan shooting arrows at the target.

"Chirp", "Chirp", "Chirp" Zhang Huangyan shot three arrows in a row in a short period of time, and the arrows hit the bull's-eye 30 steps away.

"Brother Cangshui is good at archery!" Ren Siqi applauded, he had long heard that Zhang Huangyan was good at shooting, and he only saw Zhang Huangyan's shooting skills today.

"Aren't you used to walking on the horse stage, and you also know archery?" Zhang Huangyan stroked his back with his hand and said with a slight mockery. He has great ambitions, and he looks down on Ren Siqi's behavior in the past.

"I know a little bit about it, can Brother Cangshui let me give it a try." Ren Siqi stretched out his hand, when he was on the ship "Fuchun", he often asked Mao Liu for archery skills, so he could also shoot arrows, although the shooting was not very accurate, but ten shots could also hit two or three times.

Zhang Huangyan silently handed the bow to Ren Siqi, and then waited to see the joke. His one and a half stone is a strong bow, not comparable to the soft bow of the eight buckets learned by Yinxian County, and he doesn't believe that Ren Siqi can pull it away.

Ren Siqi took the bow, pulled out a feather arrow from the quiver and put it on it, stood with his feet shoulder-width apart, his back straight, his side facing the arrow target, and slowly pulled the bowstring.

Zhang Huangyan watched Ren Siqi pull the bow with a hint of ridicule on the corner of his mouth, and slowly the ridicule on the corner of his mouth disappeared. I saw that the bowstring was slowly pulled away in Ren Siqi's hand, and it was in the shape of a full moon, and as soon as Ren Siqi's right hand loosened the bowstring, the feather arrow flew out with a "chirp" and pierced the edge of the target.

"It's funny, it's far worse than Brother Cangshui's shooting skills." Ren Siqi returned the bow, and said with a sneer, his arm was faintly numb at this time, Zhang Huangyan said that this bow was stronger than the bow used by Mao Liu!

"It's already very good!" Zhang Huangyan nodded approvingly, it is very rare for a scholar to have such arm strength and archery skills as Ren Siqi.

"Little brother, I'm not very familiar with bows and arrows, I'm good at firearms." Ren Siqi didn't want to lose face in front of Zhang Huangyan for some reason, so he took out the musket he was carrying.

Zhang Huangyan watched curiously as Ren Siqi took out a cloth bag hanging from his waist, opened the mouth, and took out a very short musket from it. Zhang Huangyan had naturally seen the musket, and he had personally shot it, but he had never seen such a short musket.

I saw Ren Siqi erect the muzzle of the gun, took out a paper bag from the bag, bit the paper with his mouth, poured the gunpowder inside into the muzzle, and then stuffed a round lead pellet into the muzzle, took off the whole strip and stabbed it a few times, ending the process of loading the musket.

Ren Siqi raised his right hand musket, supported his right wrist with his left hand, aimed slightly, and decisively pulled the trigger.

There was a loud "bang", the fire flashed and green smoke rose, and Zhang Huangyan saw a round hole appear in the position of the arrow target against the bull's-eye. This arrow target is made of hardwood, and the arrow can't penetrate at all, but I didn't expect this musket to easily penetrate it.

"What a firearm!" Zhang Huangyan let out an exclamation from his mouth, "Your musket is different, it doesn't need a fire rope to fire, so it can be fired on a rainy day?" ”

Zhang Huangyan was really powerful, and he immediately saw the advantages of this flintlock musket.

"What Brother Cangshui said is that this is called a flintlock pistol, and there is a flint in it, which can shoot out fire and ignite gunpowder as long as it is hit." Ren Siqi carefully explained the principle of the flintlock pistol to Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan is very knowledgeable and can naturally understand. However, there are many firearms applications in the Ming army, and there is no shortage of powerful firearms, and after Zhang Huangyan understands it, he doesn't care too much.

"I wonder why you came to my house?" Zhang Huangyan finally asked Ren Siqi's intention.

Looking at Zhang Huangyan's vigilant appearance, Ren Siqi knew that he might not know about his redress of grievances, so he took out the letter written by Zhang Jingxian and handed it over silently.