As the dawn lifts the light veil of night, the streets of Tokyo are already bustling with activity in the morning light, and the porridge and noodle shops on both sides of the road are already open, providing colorful and delicious breakfast for the citizens of Beijing who wake up early.

Lu Fang, who had been waiting outside the imperial city for a night, couldn't care about the exhaustion of his body, and bought some meat-stuffed steamed buns with his brothers around him to satisfy his hunger, and everyone dragged their sleepy bodies back to the secret stronghold.

At this time, Wang Lun and the others had already gotten up early, packed up, and when they saw Lu Fang coming back, they hurriedly asked him how the situation was, and Lu Fang reported back: "The night was quiet and peaceful, and there was no abnormality in the palace!" ”

Wang Lun saw this, thought for a while, and said, "This brother either hasn't started yet, or has already succeeded!" Well, you and the brothers have worked hard, go in and have some breakfast, and go down and rest! ”

"What's the point? Wait for the little brother to wash up, and then go to investigate! Lu Fangfu asked for his life.

Yan Qing saw it on the side and said, "Brother Lu Fang, go in and rest, and leave these things to the younger brother!" ”

It was okay for the two of them to come in different shifts, Wang Lun immediately nodded and said: "If my estimate is correct, after the official family finds out that something has been lost, it will be more and more difficult to get out of the city." In this way, Lu Fang hurried to rest, Yan Qing led people to continue to look for Shi Qian, I went to the market, bought the things that should be bought, and when the time came, we could just go! ”

Lu Fang and Yan Qing saw each other, glanced at each other, bowed down to receive the order, and went their separate ways. At this time, there was no need for Wang Lun's orders, Jiao Ting went to call five or seven brothers from the personal guard battalion, drove a carriage, and went out with Wang Lun.

With the experience of living in the capital for more than half a month last year, Wang Lun walked on the streets of Tokyo again at this time, less strange and more cordial. Looking at the gorgeous scene of the Qingming Riverside on the street, Wang Lun felt a sigh of emotion that was impossible for people at the time.

I don't know how many years this prosperous scene can last? Perhaps, the next time it comes, this pleasing picture of the world. It can only be remembered on the picture scroll of nothingness.

Time is running out for yourself!

Wang Lun couldn't help but feel urgent in his heart at this time, the original Liangshan small village with only 1,000 people, no more than three leaders, and even its own safety could not be guaranteed, from small to large in the past two years, from weak to strong, and finally developed into a leader of more than 80 people, more than 50,000 soldiers in the green forest of the leading benchmark village. This kind of rapid and rapid development trend can not be said to be fast, not powerful. But in the face of the impending difficulty of destroying the country, this young cottage seems to be a little immature.

Oh time! What I lack most now is time! If you give yourself another ten years, you will be steady. At that time, Liangshanbo will definitely become a powerful force with a fixed territory, a sufficient population base, and an abundant reserve army, and no one dares to underestimate it!

It's a pity that time is running out, and this is just a beautiful wish! The current situation made Wang Lun unconsciously come to a crossroads. Although at this time, he can completely copy Li Jun's trajectory and escape overseas. Establish yourself as king and give an account to those who choose to follow him. But sitting back and watching his homeland fall and his compatriots being humiliated made him unable to give himself an explanation.

Wang Lun's gaze penetrated the bustling phantom in front of him. From the vivid compatriots who are the prototypes of these picture scroll poems, I faintly hear the cry of my heart.

Every ordinary person has the right to retreat, but at this time, Wang Lun does not feel that he has this cold-blooded right.

"Keep it up!" Wang Lun's inexplicable words made Jiao Ting dazed for a while. But his excellent obedience made him never question, and immediately shouted: "Do it harder!" The road is still long, if it is so slow. You can't catch up with the heat even if you eat! ”

Everyone laughed loudly when they heard this, but they all quickened the pace of their feet and marched towards the road ahead in high spirits.

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"Eight hundred and seventy-five catties of sulfur, four hundred and thirty-seven catties and eight taels of wohuang, two thousand five hundred catties of flame nitrate, sixty-two catties and eight taels of maru, thirty-one catties and four taels of yellow wax, three catties and nine taels of clear oil, half a tael of tung oil, fourteen taels of pine resin, and one cent of concentrated oil. ......" A man dressed as a court official preached the bill of goods in his hand.

"Okay, the villain is going to prepare!" The shopkeeper of this shop replied with a smile, but he replied very expertly, "Dry paint, fixed powder, bamboo basket, yellow pill or not?" ”

Seeing this, the official laughed and replied: "Lao Huang, I am here to procure the New Year's royal ceremony, you should be fighting!" What do you want these poisons to do? "This shopkeeper is a relative of a certain important Shilang in the Ministry of Officials, and sometimes the taxes and goods escorted into Beijing by the state government are not timely, and the relevant yamen of the imperial court will buy them from the nearest market. This kind of transaction is not once or twice, and both buyers and sellers are quite familiar with each other.

"More mouths, more mouths!" Shopkeeper Huang smiled and said, "Lord Liu, please come into the house for a while, take a sip of tea, and the villain will prepare!" ”

Master Liu nodded, looked at his colleague who was squatting on the ground, and said, "Deputy Envoy Ling, let's go in and sit?" ”

"I'll take a look at the condition of the goods, Lord Liu, please take care of yourself!" Deputy Envoy Ling replied, and lowered his head intently.

Lord Liu shook his head, in fact, there was nothing to do with this person, he wanted to come over and take a look. In fact, if you are in the procurement industry, you are afraid of meeting a serious person, but this Deputy Envoy Ling is such a person. Master Liu didn't say anything, and went straight into the house.

"Shopkeeper Huang, how can you have so many impurities in this flame and nitrate, and there is also sulfur, the quality is far worse than the last time!" Deputy Envoy Ling turned around and saw that the shopkeeper Huang was leaving, so he grabbed him and said.

"The deputy envoy is an insider, and he knows that this flame nitrate was originally dug out of the soil at the root of the wall, and the skills of our four hundred military state nitrate refining people are uneven, who dares to say that they are all of the highest grade? There is also this sulfur, all of which are produced in Jinzhou, not the goods brought back by the maritime merchants, because there are some flaws, it is inevitable, and the deputy envoy must not see the truth! The shopkeeper Huang was originally the one who wanted to hide, but when he was stopped by this person, he was helpless, but he still forced out a smile and said.

"When you say that, I'm about to recite it!" Deputy Envoy Ling shook his head and stood up. He knew that the disadvantages of the imperial court procurement were too great, so he did not seek good, but only found related merchants to buy goods. Fortunately, this time it was not a military firearm, but it was just used to make fun for the official family during the New Year, because although he was a little helpless in his heart, he didn't say anything.

The shopkeeper Huang made a joke, and under the pretext of talking to Lord Liu, he went in as if he was hiding. Deputy Envoy Ling couldn't stay idle, just turned over and over to inspect the goods, his kind of behavior, even the apprentices around him were not surprised, let him inspect, and no one stepped forward to find himself bored.

After looking at it for a while, Deputy Envoy Ling suddenly found that there was an extra white-clothed scholar beside him, and said casually: "Buy goods and go to the inner room!" However, I advise you, the quality of the goods this time is not very good, and it is difficult to work in medicine! It's better to go to Fanshang to have a look! Our Da Song is good at everything, but we don't produce these things much! As the shopkeeper Huang said, this deputy envoy Ling is an insider, not only knows that sulfur and saltpeter can be used to make firearms, but also can be used for medicine.

"Thank you for the mention, don't you dare to ask the general's surname?" The white-clothed scholar smiled.

Seeing this, Deputy Envoy Ling stood up and looked at the person who came, this person is Si Swenwen, he is young, and he is not like a famous doctor in the capital, so he is estimated to be an apprentice of a medical hall. After all, although these two things can be used in medicine, but some doctors do not dare to use it easily, one is that the amount is less and there is no effect, and the side effects are too great if you use too much, and ordinary people can't control the heat.

"Don't be expensive, surnamed Ling!" Deputy Envoy Ling replied.

"Xiao Ke just overheard the shopkeeper here call Your Excellency Deputy Envoy Ling, dare to ask what is the relationship between Deputy Envoy Lei Ling Zhen and Your Excellency?" The white-clothed scholar asked again.

"You know me?" Ling Zhen was startled, looked at the scholar and asked. He looked this person up and down between words, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this person anyway.

"Xiao can see that he is now in the Qingfu left to seek business, know an old army in the state, often listen to him talk in his spare time, saying that the deputy envoy is the first gunner of my Great Song Dynasty, and he has the essence of using firearms, Xiao Ke is curious for a while, so he stepped forward to ask, please forgive me for taking the liberty below!" The white-clothed scholar said.

"Old Army?" Ling Zhen wondered.

"Exactly, this person is the same as Your Excellency, and he is also very interested in firearms, and has developed a kind of thing, which can open mountains and crack rocks when it explodes, and the power is amazing, but it is a pity that the imperial court does not pay attention to it, and his heart is depressed, when I came to Tokyo, he had a serious illness, and the doctors near the left were helpless!" The scholar sighed and said, "I don't know what he is capable of, and he hasn't found the heir to the mantle!" ”

Ling Zhen was shocked when he heard this, and said, "Can you open the mountain and crack the rocks?" You scholar, don't brag about it! ”

"I have seen this with my own eyes, how dare I deceive each other? My family members have also seen this person's ability! After the scholar finished speaking, he looked back at a few big men around him, only to see a strong man stunned first, and then said, "How can my master brag nonsense?" Don't believe it! ”

Only then did Ling Zhen notice that there were several big men beside this scholar, all of them were strong and strong, and they were even more imposing for the first strong man, and they were not at all inferior to the guards around the official family.

This veteran once said that the three methods of gunpowder in the world mostly rely on arsenic, croton, wolf poison, dry paint, fixed powder, bamboo basket, yellow pill and other poisonous people, or add iron nails and other injuries to people, in fact, there is no need to add these auxiliary materials, as long as sulfur, flame nitrate, charcoal are enough! As long as the proportions are correct, it can fully produce the power of opening mountains and cracking stones! By then, the enemy has already been killed, so why poison him? Seeing the other party's excited expression, the scholar in white spoke again.

Ling Zhen saw that this person was right, where could he doubt the truth of what he said, his heart was itching, and he hurriedly asked: "Has this old soldier ever said the formula ratio of sulfur, flame nitrate, and charcoal?" ”

"I don't know if it's a little one!" The scholar shook his head and said, "I only know the current three methods of gunpowder, flame nitrate accounts for about sixty percent, charcoal or one, or two, sulfur or two, or thirty percent, this old army once said, flame nitrate is indispensable, sulfur is indispensable, charcoal is not too much is the best!" ”

As the saying goes: As soon as an expert makes a move, he will know if there is one. As soon as Ling Zhen heard that this scholar's words were not bad, he obviously didn't say anything, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Ahhh I don't want to have such a strange person in the world! Where is he, he, he? Ah, attack Qingfu, by the way, it's Yanzhou, right? It's not too far from here, so I'll go back to take leave, and I hope that the scholar will make me a good one, so that I can see him at the end! (To be continued......)