That night, a bright moon hung high in the sky, and in the small courtyard of the 100 households in Shiguantun, Ximen Xiao had a banquet for the representatives of the Huang and Tian families in Tunli; However, the dishes on the stone table really opened the eyes of the two young masters and young ladies who had seen the big scene.

There is vegetable oil for sale in the Huang family's shop, but the military households in Tunli only buy a few taels during the solar term, and the sales volume of the entire Tunzi vegetable oil can just be the same as the daily consumption in the Huangdeshan shop.

If it weren't for the fact that the military house sometimes bought a barrel of vegetable oil, Huang Deshan almost returned the vegetable oil to the trading house in the town, and sold it faster in exchange for ale wine.

a large basin of rabbit meat, a large basin of sour cabbage stewed wild boar, a large basin of beef shallots, plus a large basin of steaming wheat rice, and a pot of ale wine; Four large clay pots, three pairs of wooden chopsticks, if it weren't for Xiao Ye's enthusiasm, Huang Changzu would have thought that the third brother was dissatisfied with him.

Miss Tian, who was invited to the banquet, sat at the table without a different color.

The food brought from the food box from the military house did not look good, but it was large and affordable; Uncle Kun went to the next door, and the one who was waiting next to him was a short guard, black and thin, very inconspicuous.

"Third brother, you have been living a difficult life, blame my brother for not thinking well," Huang Changzu sighed lightly, the paper fan in his hand and knocked twice, his mouth was lamenting the hard life of the third brother, but in fact, the meaning of blame was self-evident.

Tian Xiuxiu lowered the thin sand, and moved slightly, "Xiao Baihu is a little difficult, but the life of the military households can be like this, it must be good,"

Between the words, Huang Changzu could hear it, now that the Tian family's shop had just gone up the mountain, it was necessary to rely on Xiao Sandi, and he didn't care at all.

Xiao Ye didn't hear the wit in the words of the two, and sat on the stone bench with his waist straight, "The younger brother used to be in the gravel castle, and he also lived a few days of hard life, but now he is much better, at least he can fill his stomach,"

His sincere words made Huang Changzu completely let down his guard, if Miss Tian can endure such rough food, then she will not be able to take on the future of the Tian family, and she will be more confident when she goes to the Tian family to be hired in the future.

As soon as he raised his hand, Lao Wu, the family guard behind him, took a small jar of Fenjiu, opened the red silk sealing mud, and a rich aroma of wine wafted in the small courtyard, "Come on, taste this Fenjiu, fifteen years, I brought it from my hometown to quench my thirst on the road, and I don't know if the third brother Miss Hetian likes it,"

The crystal clear Fenjiu, Xiao Ye had never seen it, let alone drunk it, so he hurriedly got up and grabbed the wine jar and poured the wine glass in front of the three of them.

Although she sat silently, Tian Xiuxiu, who was behind the thin sand, had already blushed on her face, she was angry, she was angry with this Huang Changzu, who looked full of morality, but when she spoke and did things, she was all looking down on her Xiao Lang, and she also wrapped herself in.

Once there is a bad fate, it is not something that she can forget when she is calm, on the contrary, she is now looking at Xiao Ye more and more pleasing to the eye.

Lao Wu and the maid Xiaoju standing behind, as well as the sergeant, which one can't pour wine, glanced at Xiao Ye, she was also a little annoyed by his sincerity.

The silver ticket paper was quickly sent back to the Tian family, and within three days, she received a letter from the flying pigeon in the family, and the secret letter asked that the sale of this paper must be held in her hand, and it would be better if she could find the source of goods.

For this reason, the father in the family sent the old housekeeper Xingye to Wuguan Town, and said to his face that even the Tian family could pay a considerable price, as long as they could monopolize this kind of ticket paper; They didn't know that Tian Xiuxiu had already paid a heavy price.

For the sake of the family's interests, she decisively even paid for herself, but she is not very disappointed at present.

This time up the mountain, the shop is a trivial matter, the main purpose, or for the matter of ticket paper, the caravan brought up the mountain, there are prepared sulfur saltpeter, lead also brought 500 catties.

The lead that is abundant in the south, and there is not much stock in the shops in Wuguan Town, so all of them have been transferred out.

After a glass of wine, Xiao Ye felt that from his throat to his stomach, there was a hot hotline, which provoked him to cough continuously, but it felt much better than ale; Huang Changzu, whose face did not change, picked up the chopsticks with a smile and added a piece of wild boar, which was very tasty.

Tian Xiuxiu took a sip of wine, ate a little sauerkraut, and stopped moving; She's not here for dinner tonight.

"Fourth brother, your dressing mirror and crossbow, that's not to say," After a few words of greeting, after a glass of wine, Huang Changzu was a little impatient, and shook the paper fan slowly, "It's the matter of the firecracker, and you have to work hard to return the third brother,"

Don't mention the matter of yellow plaster, it is already in the Huang family's bag, Shiguan is at most an unnamed workshop, and Young Master Huang has an advantage to grasp it.

His firearm was indeed guessed by Xiao Ye, imitation is impossible, then he can only buy it in the near future, and the children of his Huang family in the officialdom still need to be motivated; Whether it is to enrich the strength of his own home guard, or to dedicate it to his boss for blue eyes, fire guns are a must, and the number is indispensable.

"Big brother, now in my sergeant's hand, the fire is full of fifty, for this reason, I went to the grassland not long ago and bought thirty, and half of the sergeant's casualties," Xiao Ye chewed the rabbit meat and shook his head unambiguously, "Next year, I'm sure that the Tartars will come again and come to Shiguan for revenge,"

"Then, give me ten, this is the least," Huang Changzu hesitated for a moment, and said regretfully, as if he was suffering a loss, which made Xiao Ye's eyes finally have a faint anger.

Xiao Ye couldn't hide his thoughts on his face, and Huang Changzu could also see his displeasure, so he persuaded bitterly, "Third brother, one hero and three gangs, you don't have the help of the Huang family and the Tian family, and you can't even buy cloth in Shiguan,"

Seemingly full of sincerity, Xiao Ye couldn't refute it, his allies? Maybe it's not right now to go to allies.

However, in the future, there will be allies who will come to the door, Xiao Ye, who lowered his head and gnawed on his bones, had a burning heat in his eyes. The reason why Huang Changzu is close to him and what kind of calculation he plays, his father-in-law has already analyzed it, but he still has some expectations and doesn't want to think about things for the worse.

Actually, there were already many people helping him, but Xiao Ye didn't realize it.

"Hey, Young Master Huang, you said about you, my Tian family doesn't dare to get involved in weapons, that's a felony, I just want to buy and sell some daily necessities," Tian Xiuxiu couldn't help Huang Changzu's cheekiness at all, and laughed softly.

"However, Young Master Huang's words are not bad, there is a way that is a big trick, and the things in Xiao Baihu's hands will soon be snatched up, and there is more than one," Tian Xiuxiu's words immediately made the two people on the opposite side condense and stop their chopsticks.

The Huang family also received such bad news, but they didn't tell Xiao Ye.

After a glass of cold wine, Huang Changzu glanced at Tian Xiuxiu with some annoyance, there is an opportunity to let you laugh under my crotch, laughing hard, "Hehe, Miss Tian is serious, I think my Huang family is in the six major merchants in the northwest, the status is not high, but it is not easy to knead, the goods designated in the Huang family in Shiguan Tunli, I see which one dares to act recklessly,"

"Well, the Huang family's dressing mirror and crossbow, the younger brother promised that there are no two families, and the yellow plaster is also ten thousand catties a month, and there is no shortage of it," Xiao Ye's guarantee immediately made Tian Xiuxiu stand up in a hurry, without saying a word, and left with the maid, without even saying goodbye.

"Hey, it's really a woman's family, the amount of gas is a little smaller, come on, let's have another drink, I haven't seen the third brother for many days, you have lost a lot," Young Master Huang watched the beauty leave, without moving his buttocks, twisted his face and smiled and poured wine into the wine glass, and pulled Xiao Ye to tell his story of the wind and snow. The more the relationship between the Tian family and Xiao Ye became different, the happier he became.

The two small jars of Fen wine were drunk by the two unconsciously, and the wine banquet dispersed.

The agreed goods ensure the supply of goods, Xiao Ye confirmed it again in person, although it was reckless and straightforward, but which merchant of honest people didn't like it, he Young Master Huang liked it very much.

After chatting for nearly half an hour, Young Master Huang saddled his horse and was about to go back to the guest room in the shop to rest, before leaving, he casually mentioned, "Next time the fourth brother goes to the grassland to buy goods, can you let Lao Wu and a few guards follow, there are still fewer sergeants in the hundred households, brother, I'm worried about you,"

"Oh, yes, just follow it, I still need to be told by the eldest brother many times, it's really troublesome, I am grateful to the younger brother," Xiao Ye, whose face was flushed, spit out a strong smell of wine in his mouth, his body shook a little, and his eyes swept over Lao Wu, "I am familiar with Lao Wu,"

Easily responded to his words, which made Huang Changzu secretly happy, only Lao Wu's body trembled unconsciously, Xiao Baihu's faint gaze just now, and the killing intent contained in it, he could clearly perceive it.

"The Tartars on the grassland are uncertain, little brother, it is a blessing for me to suffer a loss, it is good if I can't die, of course, the profit is not small," When sending Young Master Huang out, Xiao Ye's casual words, Huang Changzu didn't realize it, Lao Wu's face was already dark.

With the cotton silk coat presented by Third Brother Xiao, Young Master Huang returned to his shop.

In the middle of the night, in Xiao Ye's room, there was a soft snoring, and a hazy figure walked outside the courtyard; Followed by Xiao Liuzi, who was on guard tonight, saw that a guard came forward to stop him, so he hurriedly waved his hand quietly and drove the guards away one by one.

"Miss Tian, 100 households are resting at home, please," let the figure covered with a scarf enter the small courtyard, and Xiao Liuzi stood at the gate of the courtyard in person and became the door god.

Tian Xiuxiu, who bowed her head and was silent, did not speak, opened the cotton curtain by herself, and walked into the room; In the room, the soft snoring soon stopped moving.

Xiao Liuzi, who knew that the hundred households had thin faces, smiled in his heart, withdrew from the small courtyard with light feet, and stayed outside.

Tian Xiuxiu's arrival again, Xiao Ye was not surprised, if he didn't come, he would be surprised; With the vague experience of the last time, the two of them whispered a few words on the kang, and then rolled together quietly again, and the slight chirp was quiet for a long time.

The thrill of cheating is not ordinarily big for the two.

Lying on Xiao Ye's strong chest, Tian Xiuxiu put her face next to Ailang's neck, and said faintly for a while, "You, you really underestimate your eldest brother," because she was really shy, she didn't dare to look at Xiao Ye's eyes now, although the room was dark.

"There's no way, my hundred households can't withstand the strong wind, even if they suffer losses, they can only rely on the Huang family temporarily, and they can't let the Tian family come out here," there was still a strong smell of wine in his mouth, but Xiao Ye's voice was very cold.

"I know that the rafters in the early stages rot first, but the rain here is a little lighter, and the rafters may not rot," Feeling Xiao Ye's dishonest big hand, Tian Xiuxiu leaned sideways, allowing him to hold his pepper/milk comfortably.

What she couldn't think of before, once she did it, she felt normal, but she couldn't sleep with excitement.

"Accumulate strength, there will always be the day when I Xiao Shi comes out, no matter which rafter will take advantage of me, hum," Xiao Ye smiled coldly, hugged the soft delicate body, and his heart became hot again, and he kept putting his hands up and down.

"I'll take advantage of you, hey," eagerly, Tian Xiuxiu was coldly shot by Xiao Ye, and went directly into her mud alley, and was hugged on it to enjoy the joy of horseback riding.

Two hours later, Miss Tian, who had been asleep for a while, talked to Xiao Ye again, got dressed, put on a black cotton silk coat, and the veil covered the flush of her cheeks, and was escorted back to her shop by Xiao Liuzi.

It turned out that the Huang family was Xiao Lang's shield, the cranes and mussels competed for the fisherman's profit, he was not so easy to deceive, Tian Xiuxiu, who was light-footed, was in a very comfortable mood in the cold wind.

Soon, in the small courtyard of the hundred households, the guards put in torches, called for washing water, and the green salt box was also placed; Xiao got up at night to wash, and it was time for him to go to the mill.

Half an hour late, Xiao Ye walked into the mill and asked the guards to pour into the stone mill to grind the eyes, two carts of charcoal, and the hundreds of catties of fruit pits.

In the guest room of the Huang family's shop, Huang Changzu was lying on the soft bed, and when he heard Huang Deshan coming from outside the door curtain, Xiao Ye went to the mill again, and couldn't help but snort, "This fourth brother of mine is a little more upright, and the bull doesn't drink water on his head, so it's time to suffer a loss,"

A hundred household officers who dare to confront the Tartars, his status is a little low, but he has a certain supply of goods by chance, and he is not good at business.

Interests can change at any time, but Huang Changzu is still very comfortable with the grasp of business opportunities during this period.

If you have a chance, let him have a little more knowledge, in this world, a wolf dog who is not chained is not worthy of being a peripheral member of the great family; That's right, Huang Changzu regards this third brother as just a help for him to control the family in the future.

But if the requirements are not met, then a brother who has been remembered in battle can also increase the emotion between the words of making tea; Huang Changzu, who has been trained outside, needs not only helpers, but also enviable talking points.

Before that, we still have to find the source of goods before we look at it, no matter what you say, he will not suffer.

The little maid kneeling beside him was playing vigorously under the young master's crotch, but the cold words in his ears made her tremble all over, and she almost let the cherry bite on the slender meat/stick.

"You scumbag, be a little hard," Huang Changzu scolded in a low voice on the soft couch in the warm room.

In the 13th century, when the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Western Xia, Dali, Western Liao, Mongol, and Tibetan regimes coexisted, the Chinese army was already equipped with hand-held firearms.

The original pistol in Europe appeared in the 14th century as a one-handed fired hand-held musket, and the arquebus was developed in the 15th century, which was subsequently replaced by the flint pistol.

In the dimly lit mill, the twelfth motif that appeared before Xiao Ye's eyes was only in the early 19th century, a firing rear-loading multi-barrel rotary pistol, a Colt revolver/gun, a fire cap firing type, using a 10.16 mm paper cartridge conical warhead.

In the four small kraft boxes, the paper shells were pointed, Xiao Ye counted them, and there were still sixty rounds per box. Carrying a heavy handcuff and putting away the projectile magazine, the sky was already slightly bright.

Xiao Ye didn't care how useful those fruit cores were, as long as the stone mill could provide constant firearms, he was already content. Just relying on the kernel can make the millstone have an extra pattern, as well as the handwriting on the golden book, he will collect a large number of them in the future.

The handcuffs, which were more than two and a half pounds, were taken by Xiao Liuzi to the shooting range on the west side of the training ground, which had become a special place for practicing firearms; "Bah, bah," compared to the Shiguan firecracker, the sound of the handcuff shooting was crisper, but the distance of fifty paces made the guards who tried the gun not much interested.

The projectile of this gun adopts an edge-firing type bullet, which has no special bottom/fire, and the firing charge is loaded into the bottom edge of the cartridge case. Rim-fire bullets use a flange-shaped barrel case with a closed bottom, and the firing charge is pressed into the gap within the bottom edge of the case.

The projectile of the Shiguan fire gun is a center-firing gun, and the bottom/fire is located in the bottom/fire chamber in the center of the bottom of the cartridge case, and it is also the center-firing method commonly used in military guns in later generations.

To Xiao Ye's surprise, after the handcuff was taken out of Shiguantun, it was quickly imitated by the Huang family, which quickly became popular in the Ming Empire, and also flowed into the hands of the Tartar in a short time.

Of course, the difference between genuine products and parallel imports lies in the difference between effective range and projectile penetration.

Without him, it is because of the edge-firing bullets, the imitation ability of the Ming craftsmen, I can't get a glimpse of it.

The next day, Xiao Ye went to visit the Tian family's shop, and discussed with the polite Miss Tian family about buying a batch of mining tools and receiving those mineral materials; And what Tian Jiaming changed to on his face was nothing more than a black silk cotton coat that had not yet arrived.

Hearing the news, Huang Changzu, who had already handed over the dressing mirror and military crossbow with Wang Dali, told Huang Deshan very calmly that in the future, all the yellow plaster in Shiguantun would be purchased, and the Tian family could not be given any leeway.

"Eh, this, young master," Young Master Huang's words made Huang Deshan visibly flustered, "I heard from the secretary Wang that the current output of yellow plaster is 10,000 catties in January, and that is due to the weather, and when it gets warmer, there will be 20,000 catties of plaster in January, will you accept them all?" ”

"So much, no wonder the third brother is so sure of the supply of 10,000 catties per month," Huang Changzu's face sank, it seems that if he doesn't give this third brother a profound lesson, it will be difficult to master it in the future.

The cold effect of the silk cotton coat is wonderful, although the Tian family paid a great price to make a contract, he still doesn't want to let go, his third brother, clean up and give some sweetness, should be enlightened.