From the original Shenyang Zhongwei of the Ming Dynasty to the west gate of Shenyang City, in the long yellow and green grass, the stars are dotted with gray cowhide tents, like clusters of mushrooms blooming on the prairie.

On the grassland, about 20 miles away from the west gate of Shenyang, a huge cowhide tent stands in the center of the camp like a flock, and a large flag is erected on the top of the tent; The flag is made of royal blue satin with a dragon embroidered with teeth and claws, and the big flag is bordered with a wide border of red satin.

Needless to say, this is the big tent of Amin, the owner of the blue flag.

The big tent is still the same big tent, and there are far fewer tents around it than a few years ago—the third flag, which once had 51 cows, has now been reduced to the smallest flag with only 29 cows, less than half of Dorgon's white flags, in the suppression of Huang Taiji and Amin's own constant mistakes.

Not to mention that the 62 Niu Lu of Zhengbai Banner are not only full, but most of them are over-compiled, and Amin's Niu Lu is almost not full, and the smallest Niu Lu only has a pitiful 210 Qi Ding.

This made Amin, who was one of the four major Baylors, more and more manic, and in order to enhance the strength of the blue flag, it was almost to the point where he had to fight, but it also made the contradiction between him and Huang Taiji deeper and deeper.

At this moment, the manic Amin was rushing from the west with one of his most powerful ones, Alazhen, surrounded by more than a dozen Goshkha, and the blue-flag-studded flags were evasive along the way.

"Amin, you can't do that!"

Coming out of the golden tent of Huang Taiji, Najia Lae Zhen was dissuading Amin all the way, but the latter never listened, and seeing that the big tent was about to arrive, Na Jia Lae was really anxious and leaned out from his horse. grabbed Amin's reins, and after stopping, he said loudly, "Last time in Lishan Mountain, you didn't listen to the orders of the Great Khan and went out to fight without authorization, but you couldn't stop Man Gui from entering Ningyuan City. Afterwards, you were whipped by the Great Khan and fined three Niu Lu, have you forgotten? …… Now that the Great Khan has arranged for us to set off for the fourth time, you just have to carry it out, why do you have to steal the limelight from Dorgon? Do you still want to be fined for the blue flag? ”

At this time, it was not far from Nurhachi's army, and the internal hierarchy of Houjin was far less strict than later, and this Jiala Ezhen was still a distant relative of Amin, so he didn't have so many scruples when he spoke.

But his words obviously poked Amin's sore spot, and the blue flag master's bull drum eyes widened more and more, and he scolded viciously. "I'm stealing the limelight from Dolgon? Joke! …… Everyone knows that Lin Dan Khan is a water dog, and now he is shivering and hiding in Chahar waiting for us to divide his cattle and sheep and his women...... He, Dolgon, was only a little Belle, so why did he go before me? …… Huang Taiji is favoring him! ”

Speaking of this, Amin became even more irritable, raised his horsewhip and pointed to the west and shouted hoarsely, "There are enough people with the white flag!" It's the Blue Flag that really deserves to be patched! He Huang Taiji is eccentric! I don't care what kind of bullshit he is! …… You let go! ”

After saying that, the whip of "snap" was whipped on Najia La's hand, and the pain made the latter subconsciously release the reins.

The sound of hooves rumbled away. Soon there was a long, low trumpet sound in Amin's tent - it was the trumpet of the generals who had gone on their march.

Najia La's forehead was really stunned for a long time, and finally shook his head with a wry smile. The horses went towards the tent.

Just when Amin was in a hurry to get out of the camp, in the golden tent, Huang Taiji was talking happily with Karaqin Taiji Selen.

At this time, Karaqin was very different from when Sun Chengzong was in charge of Liao a few years ago - not only did the leader change from the descendants of the golden family at both ends of the head rat to the selen of the pro-queen Jin, but its subordinates were also completely dominated by the Wuliang Ha tribe.

The tide has turned so around, it makes sense. The policy pursued by Sun Chengzong when he was governor of Liao should no longer work.

But at the turn of the winter and spring of 1628, the Mongolian grass suffered a white plague, the cattle and sheep died one after another, and the rations of various departments were not continued, and the Seleng disease rushed to the hospital. When he sent someone to find Yuan Chonghuan, who had just taken office, to mourn, a big pie fell from the sky and smashed on his head - Yuan Chonghuan agreed to open a border market to sell grain to Karaqin!

The rice grain that hundreds of thousands of stones pulled out of the mouths of the Ming subjects not only saved the Karaqin Tribe, but also made Huang Taiji, who was also scratching his head for the famine, breathe a sigh of relief - he no longer had to worry about the Eight Banners starving to death!

It is precisely because Seleng has made great contributions at the critical moment that Huang Taiji is particularly enveloped by him - sitting alone in the golden tent and drinking with Huang Taiji, only Korqin Taiji has this glory among the Mongolian tribes, and that is Huang Taiji's old man!

Just when Huang Taiji and Seleng were drinking mare's milk wine and laughing about the foolishness of Inspector Yuan, the sound of Goshha sounded outside the tent.

"Report! The blue flag was raised at noon today, heading west! ”

Huangtai's hand on the cup froze suddenly, and seeing Selentaiji looking at him inexplicably, he smiled lightly and said loudly outside the account, "Got it!" You go and tell Amin to be cautious, don't fall into the ambush of Lin Dan Khan! ”

After speaking, he raised his glass to Selentaiji and said, "My cousin is eager for meritorious service, I can't wait...... I am a warrior in Jianzhou, and I am happy when I hear the war, and my cousin is one of the best...... Come! Selentaiji, I will wait for this cup to be drunk and march for the army! ”

With that, he tilted his neck and poured the cup of mare's milk wine into his mouth.

Selentaiji thought of anything else, not only glad that he had found the right master, but also fearful of the prestige of Houjin.

As he also fell on his back, he didn't notice at all that Huang Taiji's slightly trembling hand holding the wine glass betrayed the anger in his heart—the knuckles were so hard that they turned white!

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"Bang!"

After a loud bang, the two heavy pieces of cast iron were separated again, and three rows of 12 streamlined lead shots were neatly arranged on the cast iron blocks below.

Sun Hedou, Tang Jiniu, and Wang Denghai gathered around the cast iron block, all of them dumbfounded.

Wang Denghai was the first to react, reached out and picked up a lead with a depression at the bottom and muttered, "My mother-in-law, more than ten lead seeds were made after two clicks...... What are we going to do with iron in the future! ”

Tang Jiniu, who reacted immediately, did something else - picked up a few pieces of lead and ran to the side, after running to the wall, he took the lead and tried Lu Mi Gong one by one, and after trying it all over again, he couldn't help but stomp his feet and shout, "Control tolerance, control tolerance!" Childe, you're so right...... As long as the tolerances are controlled, all lead can be used...... I'm no longer afraid that the lead won't be able to be stuffed in the battle! ”

After Sun Hedou was excited, he immediately thought of a practical question, turned his head and asked Chen Shangren, "Brother Keji, how much lead material is there in our base now?" ”

Chen Shangren frowned and thought for a while and said, "If I'm not mistaken, there should be more than six thousand catties." ”

"Lead must be procured right away!" Sun Hedou nodded and said, "At this rate, it's easy to make tens of thousands of pieces a day!" ”

Chu Fan on the side was extremely calm - stamping was something he had thought about a long time ago, and now the first stamping equipment really lives up to expectations.

Although it is only the simplest stamping bullet, as long as the tolerances are controlled, there are many places for stamping in the future: the armor leaves of the halfarm, the iron arrows of the ballista, the small parts of the flintlock device...... Even a variety of standard parts can be designed.

However, it is not enough to stamping the lead bullet alone, and the wooden bullet holder has to be manually processed and glued to the bullet, so it is still necessary to call on a large number of female workers - it is better to do this kind of delicate work by women.

He was contemplating the man to be in charge of the production of the bullet holders, when he heard a stack of shouts outside the door.

"Childe! Son! Oh no, something happened! (To be continued.) )