Shangyuan Wharf.

Zhu Daolin stopped the bleeding for the killer and cut off his other hand, then slowly stood up and looked around, and ordered the pale-faced officers and soldiers to isolate the people and guard the scene.

Yang Dading stood up with his bandaged shoulders under the support of Yan Yihe, Zhu Daolin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and after stepping forward to ask about the location of the shot, he suddenly relieved himself, turned to Ying Changpei, who was standing in the middle of the road like a fool and trembling all over, patted his arm, and comforted him in a low voice:

"Third brother, don't be afraid, I can't die...... Buckshot is embedded in the armor I wear inside, and it doesn't get in, and you go and pick up the short guns on the ground and can't let one of them out, this thing is so surprising to me, how can it be in this place? ”

The pale-faced Xuanfang Daoist and the extremely shocked Xu Wentao came at the same time, Zhu Daolin greeted them without waiting for them to ask, and explained in a low voice after signaling the two to approach:

"Please don't worry about Uncle Shi and Brother Wen Tao, I'm wearing an invulnerable armor, although I was shot twice and my chest hurt a little, but the short lead bullet can't penetrate the armor inside, it's okay!"

"First let the guards and officers and soldiers disperse the onlookers as soon as possible, stabilize the order, and let the guards tell everyone separately, saying that I am fine, I have not been beaten, and order everyone to return to their posts immediately, and to publicize it loudly, otherwise tens of thousands of people in major workshops will be in trouble."

Daoist Xuanfang and Xu Wentao immediately arranged separately, and Zhu Daolin grabbed the hand stretched out by his junior brother Yuhu, and instructed the little junior brother with red eyes:

"Okay, I'm fine, you send Dading to the pharmacy in the Taoist temple, and ask the second master to immediately treat the wound on his shoulder for him, and if the wound is black, cut off the blackened flesh. Wash it repeatedly with brewed high-grade liquor, otherwise it is easy to cause lead poisoning, remember? ”

Yuhu quickly wiped away his tears: "Senior brother, I won't be an instructor anymore, I want to follow you!" ”

"Don't be stupid! I still expect you and Yulong to lead troops to kill the enemy for me in the future, why don't you calm down and learn the military training books I handed over to you? Go for it. Don't delay. Zhu Daolin pulled Yuhu to Yang Dading's side, and carefully instructed them to take precautions before letting them go.

Ying Changpei came to Zhu Daolin with three flintlock pistols: "Brother, you see, the workmanship is very exquisite, and there are Franc machine words on it...... Look here......"

Zhu Daolin took one of them and looked at it carefully, and finally felt completely relieved to see the year name "1625" under the Latin letters: "This is a new flintlock pistol made in France, which is much more advanced than the flintlock pistol used by the Spaniards and Portuguese who had just left." ”

"Look at the workmanship of this gun, the flawless steel material, and the thick-walled barrel, it is really powerful...... It's strange, such an advanced flintlock pistol. Even the Portuguese and Spaniards were not equipped, how could they fall into the hands of these two turtle killers? ”

Ying Changpei thought for a while: "It's not unusual, a few years ago, there were two business friends from Lingnan who also wore similar short guns, but they didn't have these delicate ......."

"I remember one time when I invited them to dinner, one of them brought out one for me to admire, and he said that this latest type of short gun was not sold, and it could only be bought on the Dutch island of Java, or further west on the big port of Goa!"

"Don't look at this short gun. Such a gun would cost a thousand taels of silver, which was ten times more expensive than a long-barreled musket. He also boasted that ordinary people can't buy it even if they have money, and they have to have status, and I guess he may have shipped goods to Java to do business, and he got acquainted with the Franc machine man who sold guns. ”

Zhu Daolin's face was ugly after hearing this, and he swept the delicate short-barreled flintlock pistol in his hand: "It seems that our opponent has started to play ruthless moves." They can't beat us in the officialdom, and they can't do us in business, so they sacrifice such indiscriminate methods and want to kill me for a hundred, hum! Wait and see. It's Lao Tzu's turn! ”

"Where are you?" Ying Changpei grabbed Zhu Daolin, who turned around to leave, and Yan Yihe also picked up a short-barreled flintlock pistol and leaned over.

Zhu Daolin looked at the dozens of senior brothers who were standing in a large circle and protected themselves in the center of the scene of the incident, and then glanced at the killer who was lying in a pool of blood not far away with a Tang knife in his chest, and finally set his eyes on the unconscious killer at his feet: "Call a car, first send this live mouth to the Taoist temple for treatment, don't let him die...... The dead one was left for the East Factory to perform an autopsy, maybe they had a way to see something. ”

Ying Changpei and Yan Yihe called an empty carriage outside the circle, and together with Zhu Daolin, they lifted the live port and put it on the car board, and the head of the Xuanfang Daoist came over to ask a few words, immediately took over the live port, and ordered Zhu Daolin to go back to see if he was injured, and then took a group of disciples and escorted the carriage straight to the Ziyang Temple in the east.

Zhu Daolin was assassinated at around 4 p.m., and the hundreds of people and traders on the wharf were shocked and quickly spread the news in all directions.

Many of the people who returned to the city were even more eloquent, extremely exaggerated, and it was rumored that more than a dozen assassins were holding muskets and firing a volley at Xiao Zhu Daochang, and Xiao Zhu Daochang, who was possessed by the gods, did not even get two shots, and still brandished his long sword, and all the assassins in his hand.

So, the news of the assassination of Xiao Zhu Taoist spread rapidly, and spread all over Nanjing City in less than an hour, and Wu Jingxian, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, who received an urgent report, was furious, and quickly sent Dongchang Fanzi to Hushan Manor, and then mobilized Nanjing Yulinwei to rush to all the city gates, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Zhang Gongwei, Marquis of Longping and Zhao Zhilong, Xincheng Bo Zhao, launched martial law together.

The sky is not dark, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji, Zhang Gongwei, Zhao Zhilong and Jinyiwei commander Chang Yanling and other powerful figures gathered in the main courtyard of Hushan, the eunuch Wu Jingxian has already arrived with a group of elite soldiers, eight masters of the East Factory are interrogating the only living mouth left in the martial arts hall next door, and the atmosphere in the lobby of the main courtyard of Hushan is very depressing.

Zhu Daolin had changed into a moon-white robe at this time, and after pacifying a group of tearful women in the back room, he returned to the crowd again and sat down calmly to drink tea, listening to everyone's analysis and speculation.

Hearing Ying Changpei say that martial law had been imposed in Nanjing City, Jinyiwei, Wucheng Soldiers and Horses and Yu Linwei jointly dispatched thousands of men and horses to search for assassins who assassinated the imperial court officials everywhere, Zhu Daolin immediately understood the purpose of Wu Jingxian and Xu Hongji and others, and nodded gratefully to the eunuch uncles Wu Jingxian and Zhang Gongwei.

After Xu Hongji and Zhao Zhilong who were sitting next to him finished discussing, they all looked at Zhu Daolin, seeing Zhu Daolin's expression as usual, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, Xu Hongji asked loudly with interest: "Daolin, can you let us see and understand that personal armor?" ”

"That's right! Actually blocked the lead bullet shot by the short fire bolt within five steps, which is definitely an unprecedented treasure, let us open our eyes! Zhao Zhilong echoed loudly.

Zhu Daolin saw that everyone's eyes were full of anticipation, and nodded lightly. (To be continued......)