In the No. A mill, Xiao Ye, who was dressed in a green shirt, stood next to the stone mill, looking up and silently looking at the picture that appeared out of thin air in front of him, but he was thinking about other things in his mind.

Yesterday, Tian Fangjun came to visit, and he took out the money and begged for it, which made him feel a lot more comfortable, and the big mouth also reported that Xiuxiu is now in Bailong Lake and has begun to manage things there; However, Tian Fangjun's last faint tone of compulsion, Xiao Ye was quite dissatisfied.

With the family behind him, Tian Fangjun, who has no official position, obviously does not take his own hundred households in his eyes, what people value may be just his relationship with the Persians, the indignant Xiao Ye, and the arrogance in his bones, make him take the Tibetan soldiers Bailonghu for granted.

Without strength, even the merchants will not look at themselves squarely, let alone Jiang Jie, who is far away in Gansu Town.

Originally, he didn't want to compete with the Tartars, but he just wanted to have the power to protect himself, keep the raw material mining of Bailong Lake, and quietly use manpower if he had the opportunity to take revenge in the future; But now, what he thinks of is to continue to increase his strength.

With a strong army in hand, even if he is a small hundred, those merchants will not dare to speak wildly in front of him, and sell the food and materials in his tun, and they will not say that the price will increase.

Everything is still for self-preservation, as long as Yang Tianshou stays in the private school on the mountain for a day, Xiao Ye doesn't have too many ideas, and he can't do anything that touches the bottom line, and his father-in-law is staring at him all the time.

At present, in Bailong Lake, there is a lot of consumption of fire/guns and projectiles, and the squad barracks still need nearly 100, and the earthworking bullets needed for earth-shaking thunder, jumping thunder and even mining stones, Huang Hanxiang only needs a letter, and he is more urgent than asking for food.

Five B-shaped stone mills, a steady stream of raw materials for Xiao Ye, except for the yellow plaster production can be increased to a limited extent, other materials have to be picked, take more of one, others are bound to decrease.

Xiao Ye, who has to look at the picture and study it for a while every day, is basically clear now, the materials provided in the stone mill have a balanced quantity, this one is more and that one will definitely decrease, from the twenty grids in the picture, the numbers marked separately, between the increase and decrease, you can see the problem.

Glancing at the numbers on the screen, Xiao Ye asked for twenty rear-loading guns in a deep voice, and after dragging down two long wooden boxes from the platform in front of the stone mill, he suddenly found that when he looked up, two block letters appeared above the first grid on the far left, a realistic military crossbow, "Data upgrade,"

The number on the lower right side of the crossbow also disappeared at the same time, and Xiao Ye clearly saw just now that he could take out hundreds of military crossbows, but now he couldn't even take out one.

"Data upgrade?" With his puzzled voice, the crossbow in the picture quietly cracked, and the picture turned, a sergeant in an earthy yellow field uniform, holding a shotgun, screwed a dark and thick iron pipe at the front end of the muzzle, and then pressed a fist-sized iron lump on the iron pipe.

Pulling the iron pin from the iron lump, the sergeant picked up his shotgun.

A pointed-nosed projectile was stripped of its lead and placed in the magazine, and the sergeant raised his gun to shoot, and the iron lump shot out, exploding a ball of fire in the distance.

The silent picture directly made Xiao Ye's eyes round, what is this? Isn't this just a small artillery, or a flowering shell? Xiao Ye, who had only heard of flowering bullets in his father's mouth, only drooled over the Huzun artillery on the wall of the Gravel Castle, even if it was not flowering shells, it was really cumbersome, but he still only dared to think about it when it came to lifting a gun lightly.

After a long time, Xiao Ye, who was relieved, looked at the iron lump in front of him, and knew its name from the words on it, "Gun grenade,"

Although it was a pity that the disappearance of the crossbow was a pity, the appearance of the gun grenade made Xiao Ye's heart suddenly hot, "Gun grenade, one hundred and twenty." ”

After waiting for two teas, the platform sank, and when it rose again, there were four thin iron boxes on it, and when one box was opened, the lid was lifted, and a layer of fifteen small rectangular iron boxes were neatly placed inside.

Counting, there are a total of thirty on the two floors, Xiao Ye casually took out an iron box, it felt very heavy, and when he opened the clasp cover, he saw a thick and long round grenade.

After patiently inspecting the box, he found the dark and cold fine iron pipe in an iron box, with a three-inch long and thick pipe wall, which weighed half a catty.

Touching the familiar groove in the tube, Xiao Ye suddenly thought that his shotgun, the groove on the barrel, was probably used with this tube.

Holding ten iron boxes and putting them into a cloth bag, Xiao Ye walked straight out of the mill with them; Zuo Shi outside the door took his personal guards and pushed the wheelbarrow into the mill as usual, and packed the two wooden boxes on the ground, a pile of cowhide magazines, and four iron boxes, and Uncle Kun was still waiting for the count in the arsenal.

Waving his hand to beckon Xiao Liuzi, Xiao Ye and a few people rode on war horses and ran to the training ground; At present, the four squads sent by Shiguantun to rotate on the grassland are stationed in the Tatar tribe all year round, and the remaining three squads are escorting supplies back and forth after resting, and the strength is already a little embarrassed.

Qin Shi's hunter team should also get involved.

At present, the pro-guard team mainly guards the two stone forts, plus Hao Yongliang's banner team to supervise the safety around Shiguantun, Wang Ziliang's heralds, Li Langzhong's medical soldiers, all need manpower, Xiao Ye If he hadn't kept the B-shaped stone mill running, he would have already hit the idea on the craftsmen under Wang Dali's hands.

However, let the craftsman fight with a gun, Xiao Ye asked himself if he was not so short-sighted. It's just that in "On War", the use of combat engineers, he still has to find time to talk to Wang Dali.

On the training ground, Xiao Liuzi, who claimed to be the first person to experiment with weapons, didn't let Xiao Ye point this time, a red-faced personal guard was handed over by Baihu and carefully admonished for a while, and then he took two small iron boxes and ran to a dozen steps away with a shotgun on his back to start preparing.

Xiao Liuzi looked at his busy subordinates in disbelief, and in his ears, Xiao Ye's slight voice came, "You are a captain, and you are a captain who competes with the little soldiers, and you are ashamed," the words slapped his face, but the meaning of the hundred households, Xiao Liuzi heard it really clearly, and his eyes quickly became a lot clearer.

In full view of everyone, the guards opened the iron box and first screwed a tube with a small eye on the side to the barrel; Suddenly, the guards who were watching from a distance understood the role of the groove on the barrel of the shotgun.

opened another iron box, took out a grenade, and the pin with a ring on it was rushed outward, and the punch could not be pressed inside; "Click," the grenade pressed into the pipe and snapped on, with a crisp reed, and then dragged out, it couldn't move.

Taking off the pin on it, the sergeant squatted down and carried the shotgun in his hand, took out a projectile from the leather box on his waist, pulled out the bullet with his teeth, loaded it into the magazine with one hand, and closed the bolt with a bang; Raising his gun, pointing at a large rock in the distance a hundred paces away, the sergeant took a slight aim and pulled the trigger sharply.

"Peng," In the muffled sound of gunfire, a black shadow could be seen with the naked eye quickly making an arc, and on the ground in front of the big stone, a ball of fire suddenly exploded, and dust and smoke splashed and the rubble flew away.

The guard, whose face turned red to sauce, stood on the spot, and under the contemptuous gaze of everyone, he was simply ashamed and indignant; 100 steps to hit the target, he is the master of raising a gun, now it's good, why pull it out and be embarrassed directly.

Xiao Ye and Xiao Liuzi didn't say anything, the two of them ran up quickly in the face of the faintly dispersed smoke and dust, and looked at the explosion point for a while, and then asked the guards to come forward and take a look; This is comparable to the destructive effect of the earth-shattering thunder, and the distance is a hundred steps away, and the hundred households and the guards are really happy.

There is not a single sergeant who can throw the earth-shattering thunder a hundred steps away, but this small gun grenade can easily hit a hundred paces, which can be done by a sergeant, and it is also a big killing weapon.

On the solid stone ground, a shallow stone pit was blown out, and the big stones next to it were also marked with several pea-sized shallow pits, which made Xiao Liuzi and the others immediately interested in the iron pimple taken out by Baihu.

"This is called a gun grenade, a shotgun shot, it is used with that fine iron pipe, and the pointed projectile must be removed," Xiao Ye did not keep it, and told his relatives about the vague understanding of the gun grenade.

In retrospect, the guards also tested the gun and grenade into experience, and taught it to the flag officers, who then taught the sergeants.

"Go back, Xiao Liuzi will find Uncle Kun, and then take out a pipe, you select two personal guards, and equip them immediately, and the others must be able to use them," Xiao Ye muttered, "The remaining two and fifty gun grenades, next time give priority to Huang Hanxiang to teach them to use, the risk on the grassland is too great, let them master the method as soon as possible,"

"Yes, my subordinates know," Xiao Liuzi replied with a smile, he could guess that Huang Hanxiang and they would definitely not put this gun grenade in the warehouse, and the Tartar rangers would be killed.

After Xiao Ye instructed a few words, he left Xiao Liuzi and they were familiar with the use of gun grenades, and they would not stop if they did not run out of the remaining gun grenades; Xiao Ye rode back to the Hundred Households on horseback, and every day he had to study the book.

Especially the iron box containing guns and grenades, it is a sturdy lunch box with a canopy, which can be used for cooking and water in the field, Xiao Liuzi and the other guards fell in love at a glance, but because of the presence of hundreds of households, they were embarrassed to grab it.

Xiao Ye left the training ground, Xiao Liuzi and the others tried the power of the gun grenade, and they were still unsatisfied, so they actually used a shotgun with a fine iron pipe to try to shoot a few projectiles, and found that the gunfire had weakened a lot, but the range was dozens of steps shorter, and the accuracy was much worse. This kind of grenade launcher that can double as a muffler makes Xiao Liuzi simply can't love it.

In the afternoon, Wang Ziliang, who knew that Baihu had a habit of reading in the morning, came to Baihu's office after lunch, drank coarse tea with Xiao Ye, and talked quietly for a long time.

I have to say that the book "On War" that Xiao Ye took out can be regarded as Wang Ziliang, who was already quite dissatisfied with the government, completely picked out the fire in his heart, if the sergeants under the hundred households acted according to this book, he was sure that the army of the Ming Dynasty and the cavalry of the Tartars were not opponents at all.

Although the Ming army has quite complete military regulations and military training, in terms of tactical application, it can only rely on the commander's mind and experience, and there is not much merit; Otherwise, it would not have been a hundred and five years later, beaten by thirteen barbarians in armor, and the glory would have been lost.

At present, all kinds of raw material resources are trafficked by merchants, including the limited number of people, which are Xiao Ye's shortcomings, and this huge shortcoming is Xiao Ye's fatal weakness that cannot be made up at the moment, and Wang Ziliang can't think of a good way for a while.

He was an orthodox scholar, and he could talk about farming, and he had studied earlier, and he was interested in miscellaneous matters, and he was reluctant to get involved in those business affairs.

At noon, the weather outside was really hot, sitting in the hall, Xiao Ye was wearing a short shirt, shaking a fan in his hand, and the book on the table was also put away. Wang Ziliang, who was sitting on the right, although he kept holding a paper fan in his hand, was still dressed in a long shirt.

"Brother Liu Ren, the younger brother wants to build a shop in Gansu Town, mainly to find out all kinds of news, our Shiguantun information here is really blocked, the Tian family has such a big event, it is Tian Fangjun in the back mountain, and it was only two days later that I learned that they have a pigeon letter in their hands,"

Xiao Ye has not yet informed Wang Ziliang about the kidnapping of Tian Xiuxiu, but this Xiucai may have also seen clues, and he has not exposed it because of his face. After a long time, everyone knew that it was a matter of time.

The reliability of the pigeon letter, Xiao Ye can be regarded as clear this time, from here to Gansu Town, the straight-line distance is only more than 400 miles, but a carrier pigeon is afraid to pass the news, there are still some accidents, and I don't know that Tian Fangjun received the first few carrier pigeons sent by the Tian family.

"This shop is still opened in the name of Baodes, the name is called Fuguilou, and it is harmonious and wealthy," After thinking for a while, Xiao Ye held back a cheesy name, and Wang Ziliang smiled and didn't care.

Perhaps, Huang Fugui in the Gravel Castle, Xiao Ye was very impressed, and his first transaction was not the silver grain he got from him.

"Fuguilou mainly sells goods, buys grain, green salt, medicinal materials, and cloth daily necessities, and only needs sulfur, saltpeter, tin, iron and copper, and the government is keeping a close eye on that thing,"

If Baudes transported a large amount of gold and silver out of Gansu Town, it is estimated that even if he was a Persian merchant, it would be difficult for him to survive the threshold of greed of those merchants.

Sulfur, saltpeter, tin is easy to say, although the government is more tight, those merchants can still get it, but iron and copper are strategic materials supervised by the imperial court, buy less will attract attention, more people will come to the door immediately; The wooden plaque kept in Xiao Ye's inner room made him a little restless.

"Okay, my subordinates understand, I'll inform Baodes when I go back, this guy is too comfortable for a day, and he is restless," Wang Ziliang said with a smile, Xiao Ye is not satisfied with the status quo, which he is happy to see.

The promise given to him by the hundred households, he firmly remembered it in his heart, and waited for the day when Xiao Ye's strength soared; Perhaps, in less than three years, the blood feud of his own family will be able to taste the revenge.

After experiencing the grassland line, Wang Ziliang, who is quite clear about the background of hundreds of households, also pinned all his hopes on Xiao Ye, and naturally there was no room for sand in his eyes.

Baodes moved to the compound of the Houshan Workshop, and within a few days, the Huang family sent a bewitching woman, who was said to be a distant branch of the Huang family, with white and tender skin like water, but the Haixi man was dizzy, and in addition to eating and drinking with those deacons and shopkeepers all day long, he sowed clouds and revealed in the room.

And his relatives gradually began to enjoy it, eating, drinking, and dressing all stretched out their hands to the Huang family, and even the principals of the Tian and Wang families couldn't bear the endless demands.

After getting the news from the letter post, Wang Ziliang asked Xiao Ye's personal guard to borrow a wrist knife and hid it in his sleeve pocket.

After seeing Baodes, under the pretext of having something important to tell him, Wang Ziliang saw Baodes and his woman in the side room of the hall, and when they met in the first year, Wang Ziliang didn't say a word, grabbed the woman who was covered in Roudes, and stabbed her heart in front of Baodes, and stirred twice by the way.

Stabbed to death Baodes's concubine and kicked it to the side, Wang Ziliang sneered twice at this guy who was starting to get lucky, if it wasn't useful to keep him, he would have cleaned it up all together.

The two sergeants standing next to Baodes watched Wang Ziliang go crazy, and they didn't mean to stop at all, but they shocked the Haixi officer and understood his position.

The scholars who give up their lives to do things, play with their brains, and the military masters are not opponents at all; Frightened, Baodes was so frightened that he knelt at Wang Ziliang's feet.

Baodes finally figured it out, to put it bluntly, he was a puppet, a façade, this kind of fragrant and spicy treatment, but it was given by the young Baihu on the mountain, and the scholar in front of him was his henchman, which indirectly represented the attitude of Baihu towards him.

"Those relatives of yours are not here for them to enjoy the blessings, they are hostages, you have to figure it out," gloomily, Wang Ziliang threw the blood-dripping sharp knife on the ground, "Keep it, give you a long memory, as long as you are obedient and obedient, everything is reported, and you can still enjoy happiness, otherwise, let you run back to Haixi Village, you will not escape death,"

No matter how big or small everything is, you can live a nourishing life by reporting to a hundred households, and there is a chance to correct your mistakes. Wang Ziliang's actions taught Baodes a cruel lesson in the Ming Dynasty.

The red-haired sergeants beside Baodes are not only his bodyguards, but also the bystanders who supervise him, as long as there is an order from a hundred households, they can immediately clean up this greedy Haixi officer, Wang Ziliang is not afraid that he will be able to slip away.

After some intimidation, Wang Ziliang calmly returned to Shiguantun and returned to the Baihu Office to ask Xiao Ye for guilt, but he did not have an order, and he didn't know if Xiao Ye would be dissatisfied with him.

Xiao Ye was stunned for a while when he learned of Wang Ziliang's bold move, and then said quietly, "If you violate the order, you will be fined for one month, and you won't be an example, let's go to work,"

By his side now, only this scholar can be used, and the other big men are okay to fight and work, so they don't have to think about it; Father-in-law Yang Tianshou stayed in the private school all day, and Xiao Ye knew that he was hiding from him, so he didn't bother too much.

Since the death of his concubine, Bowez has reined in a lot, and his relatives have stopped stepping out of the courtyard for a while, and the red-haired sergeants guarding them have become even more strict in their interrogation of visitors. Out of the compound, no matter where Bauddes went, within ten steps, there were bodyguards.

After a few days of stability, he received the military order of Shiguantun Baihu, and immediately convened the three deacons, announcing that he would set up a rich building in Gansu Town, which also made the three deacons excited for a long time, and finally, they were going to leave this desolate mountainous area.

Soon, all the large and small merchants in Gansu Town received the news that Fuguilou was to be set up, headed by Wang, Huang and Tian, followed by Fan, Wang, Jin and Zhai, and representatives of Wang and Liang from Zhangjiakou gathered together again and began to discuss this huge business opportunity and how to coordinate everyone's interests; Of course, the funds for the renovation of the Fugui Mansion should be shared by everyone, and it is best to give a good impression to the Persian merchants.

As for the command and envoy and the government, there was not much turmoil, and the foreigners did business on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and they just paid taxes according to the regulations, and the transactions below were handled by their agents.

Jinyi Wei Baihu, Fang Shanshui also got the news at the same time, pinched his chin and thought for a while, and invited Gou Liangchen to whisper.