The skin is better than the snow, the eyebrows are picturesque, the eyes are like a pool of clear water, and the bones are clear. Although he just stood aside with a slight smile, he was extremely eye-catching. If it is a pearl, it is beautiful.

Wearing a white coat made her whole person a little cold, but with the crisp air of the book between her eyebrows, it was too enviable.

Yingxiang can only praise in her heart, she is really the pearl selected by the entire Zhang clan, and her appearance and temperament are impeccable. Although she has seen it many times.

"Miss Nine, the slave has congratulated you. My uncle saw that the year was close, and the special agent sent a box to ......"

Laughing as he spoke. Although Yingxiang didn't hold the red box all the way, she held it when she went out from Zhang's side. The first impression - very heavy.

Liu Xian is the governor of a province, and he is not inferior to Zhang Shoudai at all. The box sent by the messenger is still so heavy, it must have contained a lot of good things. It's like someone is tickling in my heart, and I'm curious to death.

The coldness on Zhang Miaotong's face instantly broke down, the two cheeks were full of redness, shock, shyness, and joy, all kinds of feelings hit together, and everyone was at a loss. It was the first time in more than a year that Yingxiang had seen this ninth lady of the Zhang family look like this.

Zhang Miaotong's two personal maids on the side were smiling, and it had been a year since they had decided on both sides of the family, and their uncle didn't even squeak. Although according to etiquette, the two sides should not be secretly connected, but the psychology always feels a little lacking.

A few days ago, Hanzhong sent a gift, and Zhang Miaotong's share was indispensable. But everyone knows that Liu Xian is not in Hanzhong, which was prepared by his uncle. The small courtyard here thought that this year was like this, and this was approaching the New Year's Festival, but there was a big surprise.

Yingxiang is looking forward to Zhang Miaotong opening the box immediately, so that she can satisfy her curiosity by looking at it, and at the same time, she can sell it in front of her wife. But how could Zhang Miaotong open it in front of everyone and send away Yingxiang, and even the little maid and mother-in-law in the small courtyard pointed out the bedroom. Only she and her two personal maids who have been with her since childhood were left in the room......

What was hidden in that box, that is, the Zhang family in the following days failed to ask a word from his niece's mouth, and it was only rumored that there were several treasures in Miss Jiu's boudoir. In addition, everyone can see that Miss Nine's reward in this year's New Year Festival is much more generous than last year......

In fact, in Zhang Shoudai's mansion this year, Zhang Miaotong is not the only one who has become generous, but the Zhang family and Zhang Shoudai himself have a big loose money bag.

Liu Xian sent five leather wooden boxes! Except for the three boxes given to Zhang Shoudai, two of them are filled with Tang and Song solitary books and literary plays, and the remaining three boxes are all honest goods.

And it's not so precious, why did Liu Xian send more than 30 henchmen to escort along the way?

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At the same time, Liu Xian was warmly receiving Bell Fowles. That's right, the same Bell who led the line for him to 'hook up' with Burding Stanford and Schubert Duke.

The sub-manager of Maisheng & Co. in Hankou.

"Mr. Bell. I hope that our cooperation will continue to be so harmonious and pleasant. Cheers! ”

"Cheers! For the pleasure of our cooperation, but also for our next cooperation smoothly. Dear Admiral, ”

Holding a goblet and drinking foreign wine with foreigners, Liu Xian's appearance is really an alternative in the Manchu officialdom at the moment. But as long as there are sufficient interests, the alternative is different, and Liu Xian is not afraid.

Maxim brought him a full 1,000 M1841 Mississippi rifles and 500 Springfield M1855 rifles, as well as the corresponding configuration ammunition.

Listening to the titles of these two rifles, you can know that at this time in the world weapons level, they are definitely backward products. Although Bell praised them like a flower. Although in the test, the performance of these two rifles exploded the shotgun that the Qin army was currently equipped with. But Liu Xian is not a turtle who does nothing.

Mississippi M1841 rifle:

Weight: 9 pounds 4 ounces, about 4.2 kilograms, 7 pounds.

The total length of the gun: 48.5 inches, 123 centimeters, 3 feet 7 inches.

Barrel length: 33 inches, 84 centimeters, 2 feet 5 inches and 2 minutes.

Caliber: 0.54 inches, 13.7 mm, 1/4 centi.

Muzzle velocity: approx. 900 ft/s, 270 m/s.

Springfield M1855 rifle:

Weight: 9.5 pounds, about 4.3 kilograms, seven pounds and two taels and six coins.

The length of the gun: 56 inches, 142.2 centimeters, 4 feet 2 inches and 6 minutes.

Barrel length: 40 inches, 101.6 cm, three feet clear.

Caliber: 0.58 inches, 14.7 mm, 4 cents clear.

Muzzle velocity: approx. 950 ft/s, 285 m/s.

The musketeers brought by Bell could easily shoot two rounds a minute with a Mississippi M1841 rifle and accurately hit a target fifty feet away. The performance of the Springfield M1855 rifle is even more amazing, with an effective range of 100 kilometers and a rate of fire of six rounds per minute.

It can be said that no matter how well Liu Xian trained his current team, he could kill the Qin army over and over again in positional warfare against a third-rate team equipped with Springfield M1855 rifles.

The M1841 Mississippi rifle was the first rifled front-loading rifle in U.S. history and became famous as early as the Mexican-American War. After the Mexican-American War, the U.S. government mothballed the rifle and allowed a portion of it to flow into the civilian market. During the Civil War, due to the shortage of arms on both sides and the enlistment of a large number of militias, this rifle reappeared on the arms lists of both sides.

"The front sight is too small to fit a bayonet!"

Liu Xian really didn't know how to pick out the flaws of these two rifles, except for the fact that they were old goods. However, Bi Huaqing, who appeared in Liu Xian's military camp, easily quoted Bell from 30 taels of silver to 15 taels of silver for a reason that Bell could not discern.

But for the Springfield M1855 rifle, Bi Huaqing didn't say anything. Because the foreign guns equipped by Liu Mingchuan's department are all of this grade.

Since the French Mini rifle was equipped in 1851, the world powers have begun to develop new rifled rifles, and the U.S. Army has also begun to plan the development of a new generation of rifles to replace the obsolete M1842 and M1816 rifles.

The new rifle was finalized in 1855 and was produced as the M1855 Springfield rifle.

Although the time has progressed to the present, the M1855 Springfield rifle has been born for ten years, the German breech-loading rifle has been produced and equipped for twenty-five years, and the world's major powers have relatively mature single-shot breech-loading rifles on their arsenal lists. But for China, whether out of repression or tacit understanding, the rifles available for trade by the Western powers are still Minnie.

Bi Huaqing has a grateful heart for Liu Xian, the original battle of Runan, if it weren't for Liu Xian's appearance, Bi Huaqing didn't know how many friends he would lose, and even he himself might die in the battle. But for the M1855 Springfield rifle, with his gaze, he really couldn't find anything wrong.