Qian Tai wrote the notice overnight, and the next day he arranged for someone to distribute it to all 100 households to post and read through, explaining in detail the general military office and Li Xin's promise, hoping that the big guys would no longer resist the work of the Wei Si Yamen to sort out the military households.

However, the result made Qian Tai extremely annoyed, and six or seven of the dozen or so soap subordinates who acted separately were brought back by the military households. The original intention of this toss was to obtain the understanding and cooperation of the military households, and only in this way could everyone join hands and pull Gu Tong off the horse. Only in this way can the remnants of the four thousand households have a good life. It stands to reason that they should be happy to agree to cooperate, and no matter how bad they are, they will ignore them, so how can they oppose it so fiercely?

Qian Tai angrily scolded in the Weisi Yamen, and the scolding himself stopped when he was tired. After calming down, he gathered Soap Li together and asked them in detail about their experiences and what they had seen and heard. Sure enough, he found out that on the first day when the Weisi Yamen sent people to post the notice, the cavalry of the Left Thousand Households had been active in this area, and even had a physical conflict with the soldiers of the Right Thousand Households.

It seems that the problem should be here, it must be that Gu Tong did it first, and he also wondered very much, what kind of hands and feet could make the military households have such deep hostility towards the Wei Si Yamen? This has never been done before.

At noon, Soap Li brought the old military household who was familiar with Qian Tai into the Acropolis, and after detailed questioning, he suddenly realized. It turned out that Gu Tong sent someone to give an ultimatum to inform the military households that the General Military Office was ready to use the Wei Si Yamen to recover their land, and now Gu Tongnian was in his hometown, as long as they were willing to merge the general's household registration policy into Zuo Qianhu, he would be willing to stand up for everyone. However, in return, military households were required to contribute a portion of their land.

The military households of the thousands of households were bullied by Zuo Qianhu in the past, and they had long hated Gu Tong to the core, how could they believe his empty mouth and white teeth, and even clashed with his people. However, after all these twists and turns, the military households did not even believe in the General Military Mansion and the Guard Yamen, and they all had a deep sense of fear.

In a word, as long as they don't touch their land, other things are easy to say.

After listening to the old soldier's upside-down story, Qian Tai, who had already lost his anger, arched up again, angry and despicable, and angry that he couldn't do anything. Relying on the opportunity to sort out the military households to weaken or even cut off Gu Tong's strategy may not work, he originally planned to only take the five thousand households of the town and the guard, although the other four thousand households are incomplete, but as long as everyone is twisted into a force to support the Wei Si Yamen, Gu Tong will definitely make concessions under pressure, and as long as the opening is opened, there will be a lot of opportunities and loopholes waiting for him to grasp.

Now it's good, Gu Tongshi took a step ahead and blocked all the roads. Qian Tai sat in the yamen of the guard and was at a loss, and in desperation, he had to look for Li Xin, the chief soldier of the three guards, but after looking around, he didn't see his figure.

Qian Taixin said, this general soldier is really still an idle master, and he asked a few soap subordinates in a row to get the letter, and Li Xin actually went to the iron factory in the Acropolis. This ironwork is different from the folk blacksmith shop, but it is an authentic official supervision and official office. It's just that the town guards are withering day by day, and the ironwork that used to have dozens of ironworkers is now only an old ironworker who is over the age of six, leading two little apprentices and refusing to flee.

Li Zongbing always has an unusual smell when he thinks about problems and does things, and Qian Tai can't figure out his thoughts even if he wants to break his head, so he doesn't go to inspect and supervise the manufacture of weapons in person, right? How many people are there in the current town guard? If you build a weapon, someone has to be able to use it!

With all kinds of doubts and incomprehensions, Qian Tai rushed to the ironworks with anxiety all the way. Far away, I saw black smoke whirring from the chimney of the iron furnace in the ironworks, and the sound of clanging iron was clearly heard at the corner of the street.

In front of the courtyard gate of the iron work station, there are straight soldiers standing guard, wearing a red Ming official army cloth and armor, which is obviously different from the dilapidated clothes and armor of the town guard guards.

Qian Taichong smiled at the soldiers standing guard, raised his legs and was about to enter, but who knew that several soldiers Yanling swords with sheaths waved across the road, and directly stopped him. Qian Tai was taken aback, he didn't have such rules when he saw General Li in the Weisi Yamen in the past, why was he so verbose when he left the Yamen.

Qian Tai wanted to scold him with a straight face, but when he saw the cold face of the leading soldier, he swallowed back before he could say anything.

"I wonder if the chief soldier can be in the ironworks? Qian Tai is in a hurry to see! ”

One of them told Chan Tai to wait, and after a moment of entering, he came out and signaled that he could go in. Qian Tai entered the door, but secretly sighed in his heart, worthy of being a general from the capital, this majesty and prudence, Gu Tong is simply unworthy compared to him. It's just that I don't know, can the ability of this chief soldier be as good as the one or two of this possibility?

Li Xinzheng was concentrating on watching the old ironsmith clanging to make ironware, a handle with a dark red spear head has gradually taken shape under the delicate and accurate hammer beating, as soon as he looked up and saw Qian Tai entering the courtyard, he smiled and said: "Governor Qian, come and see, how is the spear head made by the Zhenwei ironworker!" ”

Qian Tai came to the iron platform, glanced at it, and couldn't help but gasp, the ordinary iron spear head is four feet away, this one is more than five feet, and the inner edge of the base of the spear head should be two or three inches.

"Could it be that the commander-in-chief is like a spear infantryman?"

Li Xin praised: "Governor Qian has good eyesight, and he can see at a glance that it is the head of an infantry spear. ”

There is a big difference between the Ming Dynasty infantry spear and the cavalry spear in terms of thickness, the most obvious point is the thickness of the gun, the ordinary cavalry spear is generally not more than one inch in order to facilitate the hold, and the infantry spear is not less than two inches in thickness for tenacity and destructive power.

Li Xin, who had a thin wrist-sized spear body, was also really taken aback when he first saw it, but the combat effectiveness of the relative spear infantry was also greatly improved. Thick enough, not only does the spear not break or cut off lightly, but it also weighs enough to make the spear a stick to smash.

The old blacksmith struck the last two blows, put down the hammer, stabbed the head of the spear with his iron tongs and sank it into the bucket beside him, and after a moment he lifted it out again and placed it on the iron platform.

"What do you think, General? This craft has been put aside for more than a year, and today it is finally addictive! ”

Li Xin raised his hand to pick up the head of the spear, rubbed it carefully, and the old ironsmith added on the side: "You can use it when you open the blade!" Li Xin suddenly asked: "Old man, the head of the gun is easy to say, but I don't know what kind of wood this gun barrel is made of?" ”

The old ironworker replied without thinking: "I don't know about other places, but this Datong Mansion uses oak wood to make zuò gun barrels." ”

Qian Tai also accosted on the side: "Our Datong Mansion is full of oak wood, which can be taken inexhaustibly" He has always wanted to find an opportunity to make Gu Tong a hindrance and sort out the unsustainable things of the military household and talk to Li Xin. It's just that Li Xin's interest seems to be focused on the spear, and he can't speak rashly in front of the old ironworker, so he has to endure listening to the exchange between the two.

"What the governor said is exactly that our Datong Mansion is full of oak wood, and it is extremely convenient to process." As he spoke, he entered the inner room of the workshop, and in a moment he came out with a black lacquer stick about three feet long. Look at the appearance of two inches thick, the surface of the black paint is covered with circles.

The old ironworker handed the stick to Li Xin's hand, the weight was not as heavy as he imagined, but it was not clear, and it was a little difficult to hold it with one hand.

"This is called Jizhu Muqi!"

It was the first time Li Xin had seen this thing, and he couldn't help but look up and down curiously, left and right, and looked at this kind of stick called Jizhu Muqi. The old ironworker took back the "bamboo and wood" from Li Xin's hand, picked up the half-finished gun head on the iron platform, and put the base of the gun head into one end of the stick. An iron spear is done!

"General, don't underestimate the bamboo wood, this kind of gun barrel oak wood is wrapped in bamboo skin, wrapped in silk linen, and then black and black, and the knife is constantly chopping, but it is a good body!"

Li Xin thought about it, the wooden gun barrel is indeed easy to be cut by the sharp blade, this combination is simply the composite gun barrel of the Ming Dynasty, and the materials used are ordinary and common things, and the cost will not increase too much. However, a question immediately jumped up, Jingying can be regarded as the elite army of the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that he has never seen this kind of gun.

"If there are so many benefits, why don't the Ming officials and soldiers use them much?"

The old ironman sighed heavily.

"It's not that the court doesn't use it, it's that you can't afford it! Since the beginning of the Chongzhen Dynasty, they have been fighting wars year after year, and after fighting thieves, fighting Tartars, and fighting endlessly, weapons have been made one stubble after another, and they can't keep up with the speed of defeating the war. The imperial court has no money, and it is already good to be able to build an ordinary gun, who would do such a laborious thing. Like our town guards, hasn't the ironworks also stopped for more than a year? Alas! ”

Li Xin nodded frequently, the factors in the court should be roughly like this, I didn't expect an old ironworker in an iron factory to have such knowledge. So he said solemnly: "Old man, I want to build five hundred iron guns with bamboo and wood bodies, I don't know how long it will take?" ”

The old ironsmith stretched out his right hand, which was full of dirt, and stroked his gray beard, and pondered for a long time before he said:

"It's going to be more than two months!"

The two-month period was really not fast, and he was worried about not meeting Li Xin's requirements. Several forts in Baiyangkou outside the town guard have been abandoned, and the current town guard is equivalent to facing the soldiers of the Saibei Tartars, once they enter the pass and plunder, can they defend the acropolis with this plate of loose sand?

Qian Tai finally waited impatiently, and he couldn't care about the presence of the old ironworker, so he directly pulled Li Xin aside, and told him how Gu Tong was in the way.

Gu Tong had long expected that Li Xin would not be able to deal with him, but he didn't expect that there were some tricks, it seemed that he had underestimated him before, and Qian Tai alone might not be his opponent.