"Don't worry, I will never let anyone know!" Babutai put the brocade box close to his body, then got up to say goodbye, Huang Taiji sent Babutai to the door, and suddenly bowed down to him: "Lao Jiu, this trip is precious, I love Xinjue Luo's great cause depends on you!" ”

Babutai hurriedly turned sideways and stepped aside, not daring to accept the Huang Taiji's salute: "Why should the Great Khan be like this, I am also a person who loves the Xinjue Luo family, so I will naturally do my best!" ”

Babutai left Yongfu Palace and returned to his home. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info sat down in the study to feel that his heart was beating hard, he took out the brocade box to find a safe place to collect, looked for it and finally moved the cabinet to the side, took out a brick from the wall, put the brocade box in, and stuffed the brick back, looked at it and felt that there was no trace before relieving his heart. Babutai was about to push the cabinet back to its original position, when there was a sudden knock on the door, which startled him, and he hurriedly turned around to cover the cabinet, and shouted, "What's the matter?" Didn't I say I wanted to be quiet and not bother me if I didn't have to worry about anything? ”

Fujin's voice came from outside the door: "It's the seventh brother who came and said he wanted to have a few drinks with you, do you say it's important?" ”

"Seventh brother, what is he doing at this juncture, isn't he hearing something?" Babtay's heart spun for a flash of lightning, and he decided that he would just bite himself and not know anything anyway. He made up his mind and hurriedly responded: "You asked Brother Qi to wait for me in the back hall, I just took a nap in bed, let's change my clothes first!" ”

Hearing the footsteps of his Fujin gradually moving away, Babutai hurriedly pushed the cabinet back to its original position, wiped off the traces on the ground, turned left and right to confirm that there was no problem, and then rubbed his clothes and hair, pretending to have just woken up, pushed the door to the back hall, and smiled far away: "Seventh brother, forgive me, my body is a little heavy today, and I have been lying in bed for a long time!" ”

Abatai was a little drunk, he looked at Babutai, and said with a smile: "Lao Jiu, the Great Khan has given me benefits today, everyone has come to my house to congratulate, only you didn't go, you and I are brothers of the same mother, this is yours!" ”

Babutai was stunned for a moment, he then remembered that Abatai was appointed as the acting agent of the Blue Banner in the palace today, he just wanted to say that the Great Khan left him behind, and just arrived home, and swallowed back at the end, and said with a smile: "What the seventh brother said is that this matter is indeed the younger brother's, and the younger brother will definitely make amends to the seventh brother with wine another day!" ”

"Huh!" Abatai patted Babutai's shoulder and said with a smile: "Lao Jiu, I am the one who is playing with you, I am my brother with you, can I really blame you?" It's just that I'm very happy today, and I don't feel happy when I don't see you, so I come to your house to sit. Speaking of this, he sighed: "I have also made a lot of contributions over the years, but unfortunately when it comes to the critical time, the benefits always go to others, and you and my brother can only watch from the side." I didn't expect that it would be my turn to sit in the position of the owner of the blue flag today, could it be that I changed my luck? At this, I couldn't help but laugh again.

Babutai had grown up with Abatai since he was a child, and he had never seen him in such ecstasy for more than ten years, and he knew that his brother was overjoyed. He remembered what Huang Taiji said to him in the study, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, his brother thought that he was lucky, how did he know that this was just another ploy of Huang Taiji, his brothers were either brave or wise, they were all the choice of the moment, but because they couldn't get rid of the power and profit, they all became puppets in the hands of Huang Taiji, and manipulated them.

Abatai laughed for a while, but saw Babutai sitting there distracted, with a little sadness on his face, so he patted the other party's shoulder and asked, "What's the matter, aren't you happy for me, Lao Jiu?" ”

"Happy, happy! The younger brother is naturally happy for the elder brother! Babutai hurriedly smiled and said, "I wish my brother success in this trip, and come back to receive the position of Heshubele." ”

"Good, good! When I become Heshuo Baylor, I also want to let Lao Jiu you become Baylor, and it will be your turn to transfer my brother together! Abatai laughed.

"Yes!" Babutai replied, thinking to himself, "I just don't know if this is good luck or bad luck!" ”

Tumut River, August.

Counting from the capture of Helinger City, this is the second autumn that Liu Cheng has spent here. Below the white clouds of Qingchuan, the Daqing Mountains in northern Sichuan rise and fall along the horizon, and the rivers on the plains are criss-crossed, and the river flows smoothly, as if it is stationary. The vast grassland is like a huge carpet, the sky above is blue and boundless, and the white clouds are almost flowing overhead, like a huge dome, shrouding the grassland. The breeze blows, the air is crisp and dry, and the sound of birdsong is heard in the ears from time to time, which makes people feel refreshed.

There were about 200 people in a group of horses, and they rode on a slope like this, and the weather was surprisingly good. Most of them took off their fur hats, wore only tight-fitting hunting suits, a short knife stuck in their waists, and carried a bow bag and a hulu on their horses. Wonderful weather like this, even just walking slowly in such autumn colors is already a great enjoyment.

"Shuolei Khan, look over there!" Liu Cheng pointed to a river bay in the distance and said to Shuo Lei beside him: "There is a river bay over there, there should be a lot of birds and beasts, why don't we go over there and fight around!" "The dress of this powerful Lord Jinong is no different from the guard beside him, the only difference is that instead of a bow and quiver on the horse's back, there is a bird gun. It turned out that although Liu Cheng had made a lot of progress in riding over the years, he was really average in the way of bows and arrows, especially riding and archery, which was not a one-day effort, so he brought a bird gun.

"It's good!" Shuolei Khan smiled, he was invited by Liu Cheng, came across the Hanhai, and the two stayed in Guihua City for two days, and then went out of the city to hunt according to the habit of the Mongols, and it has been seven or eight days. Shuo Lei originally thought that Liu Cheng had spent a lot of effort to invite him to come in order to invite troops to crusade against Houjin together, but before he came, he also made up his mind to have a good deal with Liu Cheng and wait for the price to sell. But these days, Liu Cheng didn't mention the matter of soldiers, and just hunted and rode horses every day, as if he really invited him out to play. If it weren't for Shuo Lei, who saw a line of horse artillery teams and carts of camels along the way, he was really coaxed by Liu Cheng.

Seeing that Shuolei agreed, Liu Cheng nodded to Hao Shaoqi beside him, and the group went to the river. When I got closer, I saw that there was another small river confluence with it, and the confluence of the two rivers formed a wetland that stretched for more than ten miles. Waterfowl are infested in the reeds, skimming the water surface from time to time in search of food; In the wetlands, there are herds of wild boars, elk, yellow sheep and bison even flocks to drink at the water's edge. Several experienced hunters also saw the footprints of wild wolves, lynxes and other carnivorous beasts, and it was a good hunting ground.

The attendants hurriedly chose a high ground by the river and erected a pergola for the nobles to rest. Then they sent men to the wetlands, drove the prey out of the reeds, and rode to the flat land by the river to shoot them. Liu Cheng and Shuo Lei stood side by side under the pergola, and saw the shallow grass-covered earth slowly stretching downward, and finally sliding into the reeds in the distance. Under the breeze, the reeds sway gently, and the sunlight reflected in the puddles can be faintly seen, and herds of wild deer, yellow sheep, and bison haunt the reeds. Ah Gui wore a deer antler hat, led a horse, and walked against the direction of the wind in the reeds. Suddenly, the sentry stag raised its head, pricked up its ears, and listened anxiously around. At this time, Gui stopped, held his breath, and remained motionless, until the stag relaxed his vigilance and lowered his head to drink and eat, and then continued to move forward.

Suddenly, the wind changed sharply, and the sentry stag raised his head, sniffing nervously, searching for the smell of danger, and finally identified the source of the danger, and raised his head, and let out a low, powerful cry in his throat.

Liu Cheng, who was standing on the high ground, suddenly heard a sharp bone whistle, and then saw birds flying in the depths of the reeds, and then countless beasts of all sizes rushed out of the reeds and ran ashore along the riverbank. The guards who had been waiting for a long time got on their horses one after another, shouted loudly to catch up, and rushed their prey to the high ground where Liu Cheng and Shuo Lei were.

"Lord Jinong, please!" Shuo Lei respectfully stretched out his hand to Liu Cheng and made a gesture of please, although he was the Khan of the Chechen Department, but Liu Cheng was the Jinong who represented the Great Khan of the Golden Family, plus the strong strength in his hands, he was already above the northern and southern Mongolian tribes in the desert. Liu Cheng smiled slightly, took the bird gun from Hao Shaoqi's hand, aimed at the stag in front, and pulled the trigger.

With a bang, a puff of white smoke erupted from the mouth, and the stag fell to the ground as if it had been struck by an invisible club, and struggled on the ground but could not get up, blood gushing out of the wound on its neck, and in the blink of an eye it was a red color.

"Lord Jinong is really good at archery!" Shuo Lei high-fived and praised, and then realized that something was wrong, and when he looked back, he found that the bird gun used by Liu Cheng was a little different from the ordinary one, and there was no fire rope, and he didn't know how to shoot it. He subconsciously asked, "My lord, you bird-"

"Oh!" Liu Cheng smiled: "This is a new one in my factory, it is fired with flint, and there is no need for a fire rope." Why don't you try it too? ”

Shuo Lei took the bird gun from Liu Cheng's hand in disbelief, reloaded the gunpowder lead according to what Liu Cheng said, pulled the trigger, and then aimed to shoot, sure enough, as Liu Cheng said, with a sound, the gun spewed out a ball of fire, but Shuo Lei used this new bird gun for the first time, and forgot to put the butt of the gun against his shoulder when firing, and the gun mouth was raised and did not hit the target.

"This, how is this done?" Extremely excited, Shuo Lei stammered a little when he spoke, he naturally knew that compared to the original fire rope, this new type of bird gun had a huge advantage. Thinking that Liu Cheng already had such a terrible weapon, he couldn't help but be scared and happy at the same time.

"The principle is not clear for a while!" Liu Cheng said with a smile while reloading the gunpowder lead: "If you don't sweat, you will ask your son later, he visited the workshop of making bird guns in Chaoyi some time ago." ”

"Good, good!" Shuo Lei answered twice, glanced at his son Babu who was standing next to him, and secretly scolded this bastard boy for not being sensible, why didn't he tell himself such important information earlier. He thought for a moment and said in a low voice: "Lord Jinong, although our Chechen Department is in Mobei, we have no second heart for the Great Khan and you, can you sell us some of this new type of bird gun for the crusade against the Donglu and Horqin people." ”

"The Great Khan wants to buy this bird's gun?" Liu Cheng smiled: "It's not that I don't want to sell, it's that my craftsmen are not proficient, and only one or two pieces of ten pieces are suitable for use, and there is no large-scale manufacturing." I only made a few for me to play with. If you like it, Khan, take this one, and if you want to buy it, I'm afraid it will take a few years until my factory is mass-produced! ”

Shuo Lei was skeptical when he heard Liu Cheng's words, so he had to take the bird gun with a smile and thank Liu Cheng. After this incident, where did he still have the mood to hunt, and perfunctorily shot two roe deer, so he shirked some of the wind and cold and went to the back to rest, Liu Cheng was very interested, and just asked Babu to help his father to rest in the back. As soon as the father and son arrived in a secluded place, Shuo Lei shoved the bird into Babu's arms and scolded: "You rabbit cub, let me ask you something, do you know about this new bird gun in advance?" ”

"You mean this flintlock pistol?" Babu skillfully played with it twice: "Of course I know, I have also forged parts by hand in the factory!" ”

Shuo Lei heard that his son knew a lot about this new type of bird, and he couldn't help but be surprised and happy, his anger had already gone seven or eight points, and his tone also eased: "Then why didn't you tell me earlier?" Let me be a little prepared too? ”

"Ready? What to prepare? ”

Shuo Lei was stunned when he heard this, and secretly thought that his son's words were not bad, even if he knew in advance, he couldn't prepare anything, but since his son already knew the details of this flintlock pistol, and he had a sample, even if Liu Cheng didn't sell it to himself, he could go back and copy it. Thinking of this, he smiled at Babu and said, "You didn't come in vain this time, and when this time is over, you will go back to Mobei with me." ”

Babu's reaction was beyond Shuo Lei's expectations, and he shook his head: "No, I'm not going back, I'm going to stay in Chaoyi!" ”

"If you don't do a good Taiji, what are you doing in that court?"

"Learn the craft!" Babu smiled: "There are dozens of factories in Chaoyi, which are much more interesting than Mobei!" ”

"Fool!" Shuo Lei smiled: "Why do you want to learn a craft in Chaoyi?" And not for the Chechen Ministry? You learned how to make this flintlock pistol, so you opened a factory in Mobei, and let the craftsmen prevent it, why stay on someone else's territory? I'm already old, won't this inheritance be yours in another ten years? ”

Shuo Lei thought that Babu would be overjoyed when he heard that he had appointed him as his heir, but he didn't expect Babu to show a surprised expression: "Father Khan, when did I say that I had learned how to make this flintlock pistol?" ”