Ma Xinyu, this guy, was still talking about resolutely not obeying thieves a few days ago, and it is difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety, but now he is wholeheartedly planning for the safety of the thief army. Although he was a newborn calf, had little social experience, and belonged to a nerd who read dead books, after joining Zhu Jun, he made up a lot of knowledge about the peasant rebel army in the past few years, and he knew a little about the profession of "rebellion", and he knew very well how much impact Gao Yingxiang's death would have on the rebel army......

At the beginning of the year, Wang Jiayin was killed by a traitor, which directly led to a great change in the 36th Battalion, Zuo Yuzhu surrendered to the officers and soldiers, and the momentum of the righteous army turned to a low ebb for a time. Later, the king of Zijin Liang died in battle, which also caused a great earthquake in the righteous army. The killing of Gao Yingxiang this time is believed to have caused internal turmoil in the 36th Battalion.

If the 36th Battalion dies, the Zhu Army will die, and if the Zhu Army dies, his father Ma Zhixiong, as the official grain store manager of the thief army, will definitely be finished. In addition to his father, there is another extremely important character who will also be finished, and that is the Red Lady! Ma Xinyu will never allow the red lady to have an accident, so she is anxious, like an ant on a hot pot, circling around Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu, the big thing is not good, as soon as Gao Yingxiang dies, the thirty-sixth battalion will be chaotic, you can quickly think of a way......"

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed confident and did not move, he pressed Ma Xinyu's shoulder and said, "What's the hurry?" The thirty-sixth battalion is just dead, so what does it matter, the eldest is dead and the second is going on, and it will not end here. ”

Ma Xinyu said: "Otherwise, if I am the boss of the Ma family." Cough...... That is, if my father dies and hands over the Ma family to the second uncle, then the Ma family will be completely finished. If it's Zhu Jun's boss, cough ...... That is, Eighth Brother Zhu, if you die, hand over Zhu Jun to Second Brother Wang, and our Zhu Jun will be completely finished......"

Before he finished speaking, the red lady behind him scolded with a smile: "Look at your crow's mouth, first curse your father to death, and then curse Brother Zhu to death, you are so ignorant." ”

Ma Xinyu was a little bit by her. Suddenly, his face was like earth. Hurriedly: "No...... I didn't curse my father and Brother Zhu......" In this era, he is very particular about lip color, and talking like this in his mouth really has the taste of a curse, and he hurriedly said to heaven: "Father." Children are not filial. Please live a long life. ”

The red lady was so happy. Haha laughed and said, "Look at you stupid, hahaha, what a nerd." She smiled. As bright as a flower, Ma Xinyu only felt dizzy for a while, and he didn't know where he was.

Zhu Yuanzhang also felt funny, waved his hand and said: "I already know about the 36th battalion, you go back to do things, in the future, let the messengers do this kind of letter delivery, don't rush to do it." ”

Ma Xinyu glanced at the red lady with an embarrassed face, and thought: If I don't rush to deliver the letter, how can I have a chance to see her?

Zhang Yingxian next to him saw that his face was strange, and she was also funny in her heart, after all, she was Ma Xinyu's elder, and she had the heart to help him, so she smiled and said: "If you are free, come and visit me, you don't need to find some messy excuses." ”

Ma Xinyu was overjoyed: "Thank you, second aunt!" ”

Zhang Yingxian shook her head and said, "Call me sister-in-law, don't call me second aunt, I don't want to hear that title." ”

Ma Xinyu actually knew a lot about his second uncle's virtue, and said with a long sigh: "You are right, no one will like to live with the second uncle...... It used to be really hard for you. ”

Zhang Yingxian smiled faintly: "It's not embarrassing, if I didn't go to Ma's house, I wouldn't be able to meet the current Xianggong, it can be seen that the things in the world have their own providence...... I've put it down a long time ago, so don't bring it up again. ”

Ma Xinyu let out a long sigh: "You have learned a lesson." ”

Zhang Yingxian glanced at the red lady again, looked at Ma Xiaotian, and then turned her eyes back to the little mute, and said to Ma Xinyu seriously: "Emotional matters, let it be, you can't force it, and you shouldn't get too deep...... When the time comes, there will naturally be someone who belongs to you, and if the time is not reached, you will break your leg and ask for it. ”

Ma Xinyu understood her outside the strings, her face darkened, and she said in a low voice: "The younger generation also understands this truth...... But the younger generation voluntarily fell into it, and was happy to be deeply immersed in it, and although there was suffering, the younger generation got far more pleasure from it than pain......"

"Hmm!" Zhang Yingxian nodded and said no more.

The red lady saw the two of her playing dumb riddles, and she didn't understand after listening to them for a long time, so she couldn't help but wonder: "Ma family boy, what fun and bitter are you?" Oh, I see, you're talking about eating bitter gourd, that thing is indeed a bit bitter, but it's also delicious when you get used to it, and I like bitter gourd very much. ”

Everyone laughed together, this red lady's dullness is extraordinary, you don't pull her ears to say clearly, she can't understand, in front of her to say some emotional hidden words, but also a fun.

Ma Xinyu hurriedly went, the red lady continued to watch the flowers and grass in the yard, chasing butterflies, but Ma Xiaotian, the old brother, came to Zhu Yuanzhang's side and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, since Gao Yingxiang is dead, all his subordinates will fall into the hands of the general Li Zicheng, in your opinion, will the situation of the 36th Battalion get better or worse in the future?" ”

If this question is asked to others, he really doesn't dare to answer it randomly, but Zhu Yuanzhang clearly knows the future trend of history, and he sighed and said: "Although Gao Yingxiang is ambitious, he has no great talent. The 36th Battalion under his command is like scattered sand, gathering and scattering from time to time, and in a mess, and he himself often gives wrong orders, but Li Zicheng has both ambition and ability, and once the 36th Battalion falls into the hands of Li Zicheng, its combat effectiveness will inevitably increase greatly, in my opinion...... The court killed a monkey who occupied the mountain and claimed the king, but woke up a sleeping tiger......"

Ma Xiaotian said: "Then how do we deal with it?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Don't worry, everything is decided and then acted, you open your eyes and take a closer look, you will have fun right away." ”

Sure enough, the fun came immediately, as soon as Gao Yingxiang died, the 36th battalion was immediately in chaos, and the two generals Zhang Miaoshou (Zhang Wenyao) and Scorpion Block (Tuoyangkun) immediately begged Sun Chuanting for peace. Because Emperor Chongzhen only discovered the edict of appeasement at this time, the leaders of the thief army begged to surrender to the court and no longer worried about being killed by the court, so the two surrendered very comfortably.

Sun Chuanting personally met with the two leaders of the volunteer army, and said that he was relieved, which made the two grateful. Zhang Miaoshou agreed to lead his thief army troops on the spot to help Sun Chuanting suppress the bandits, although the scorpion block did not make such a clear statement, but it was also quite moved.

As soon as the two took the lead, many small groups of rebels surrendered to the imperial court, and the situation took a sharp turn.

On the other hand, Li Zicheng took over the position of King Chuang, changed his name of "Chuang General" to "King Chuang", and also inherited the name of the generalissimo of Fengtian Advocate Righteousness...... Disappeared into the mountains.

Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to watch closely at the turbulent form, but at the same time, he worked hard to strengthen himself......

Early this morning, Zhu Yuanzhang was walking with Zhang Yingxian and Qiu Ye in the garden, teasing Xiao Zhu Zhi by the way, and suddenly got the news that Zhu Jun's first batch of revolver muskets was finally built, so he said hello to Zhang Yingxian and Qiu Ye, took Ma Xiaotian and the red lady, and hurried to the blacksmith street in Xianyang.

At this time, Blacksmith Street was already quite large, and hundreds of mine thieves picked up by Zhu Yuanzhang from the Lushi Mountains had already built a huge forging factory here. These mine thieves were small workshop-like operations at first, but they were later rectified by Zhu Yuanzhang once, and the basic division of labor was carried out. Since moving to the blacksmith street in Xianyang, under the guidance of Zhu Yuanzhang, they have divided the work more finely, and integrated the production system, no longer building weapons alone, but working in the "factory" prepared for them by Zhu Yuanzhang. Factories pay them by the piece for what they make.

In other words, blacksmiths no longer make money by crafting firecrackers, but only by selling their craft, and whoever is good at crafting, fast in crafting weapons, and excellent in quality will get more wages.

The piecework wage system is still used in modern times, and it is of course the most advanced production mode at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which greatly encouraged the work enthusiasm of the blacksmiths, and it turned out that a blacksmith could only make a fire gun a month, due to the exploitation and slavery of the imperial court, they could only earn a few hundred dollars to build a fire gun. But now, to build a firecracker, you can get two taels of silver from the factory, real money, and Tong Su is not deceived...... In this way, who doesn't want to make a little more money? The blacksmiths worked hard to improve their skills, to complete their work as soon as possible, and to receive their wages as soon as possible, but as a result, their work became better and better, and many of them volunteered to "work overtime", or simply ate and slept in the factory, and as a result, they now only needed half a month to make a firecracker, and their production capacity was fully doubled.

In addition, Zhu Jun also encouraged invention and creation, and rewarded technological breakthroughs, so several blacksmiths spent their efforts on imitating Western wheel reminers, Xu Renjie's Suifa wheel remitting rifle used to pretend to be forced was handed over by Zhu Yuanzhang and handed over to the blacksmiths to study imitation, fortunately, when Xu Renjie and Xue Hongqi were sticking recently, their minds were mostly on Xue Hongqi, and they were not very disappointed to hand over the firecracker.

After months of research and countless failures, Zhu Jun's blacksmiths finally created the first batch of their own Suifa muskets, which was a grand joy, how could Zhu Yuanzhang not come and see it in person? (To be continued.) )