When I arrived at the warehouse in the south of the city, it was originally a warehouse used by Wu Sangui's army to hoard ordnance, and later it was used as the official treasury of Yuezhou by the Qing court.

In November of the twelfth year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, rebelled against the Qing Dynasty in Yunnan, and quickly advanced to Hunan, and in the first month of the thirteenth year, he trapped Wu Yingqi in Yuezhou. Yuezhou reaches Wuchang in the north, Changsha in the south, chokes the danger of the Yangtze River, and is an important place for soldiers. Kangxi sent the general of Jingkou in southern Ning, Doluo Shuncheng, and Wang Leerjin to lead his army to Jingzhou (now Jiangling, Hubei). The division reached Jingzhou, and Yuezhou was lost. On the 28th, Emperor Kangxi sent the Niyahan army to Jiangxi because of the strong defense of the Wu army in Yuezhou and the difficulty of enterprising, and ordered the Yahan army to go to Jiangxi, join up with other troops, and attack Changsha from Yuanzhou (now Yichun, Jiangxi) and attack Yuezhou. In July, Wu Sangui's general Du Hui and others came to attack, and the Qing general Shang Shan sent troops to meet them, and ordered the sailors to come to the battle, defeated the rebels at Dongting Lake, and Du Hui was defeated. In August, Shang Shan died in the army. The Qing court ordered Beylerchani to prepare for an attack on Yuezhou. Chani formulated a strategy: the boat division entered the lake, cut off the enemy's pay road, surrounded the city of Yuezhou, surrounded by rafts, wooden stakes, artillery, and patrolled the police with small boats, and besieged for a long time. In mid-December, the Wu army came to help, and the situation was prosperous, seeing that the water and land were under martial law, they could not fly across and were defeated. The rebels in the city of Yuezhou are starving. On the eighteenth day of the first month of the eighteenth year, Wu Yingqi's general Wang Duchong, and the general Chen Po each surrendered with their boats. Wu Yingqi collected the remnants of his soldiers, broke the siege and ran to Changsha, and the Qing army recovered Yuezhou.

It turned out that in the first battle of Yuezhou, after the Qing army defeated Wu Sangui and recovered Yuezhou, Wu Yingqi fled to Changsha, and these bulky cannons, guns and other things were left in Yuezhou. Wu Yingqi didn't want these firearms to be used by the Qing army, but he couldn't destroy them all in a hurry, so he had to bury them in the lowest layer of the treasury, covered with stone and wood, hoping that when Yuezhou was restored one day, the Wu army could still be reused.

After the Qing army entered the city, Belecani only received the things from the upper treasury, and then sent troops to hunt down Wu Yingqi, and did not delve into anything else. Later, Wu Yingqi committed suicide in defeat, so that these cannons became a century-old collection.

After Hong Yun'er and Luo Xuan, Tang Zhengcai and others went to the treasury to check, Hong Yun'er ordered someone to dig three feet into the ground, and finally found these cannons and firearms, in fact, Hong Yun'er didn't know the specific location of the burial, she just wanted Wu Yingqi to retreat in a hurry, and the most likely thing was to bury these cannons deeply, so she wanted to try her luck and dig in the place where Wu Sangui's army was used as a warehouse, but she didn't expect to be really found.

The cannons and firearms that were opened were wrapped in coarse cloth and oiled paper, and they were well protected, and there were many types. There are 20 iron cannons of the 3,000 catties of Shenwu General made by Wu Sangui imitating the Hongyi cannon, the cannon body is cast with a crosshair, the door is illuminated, and there are cannon lugs in the middle, compared with other cannons, the caliber is larger, the pipe wall is thickened, and gradually thickens from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, can withstand greater chamber pressure, and is regarded as the most powerful artillery in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Although more than 170 years have passed, the firearms and cannons of the Qing court have not developed much, and these cannons can be regarded as useful weapons.

In addition to the Hongyi cannon, there are also fifty five-hundred-pound guns in the style of the Franc machine, all of which are made of copper, and there are two types: one is called "Meteor Fight", with a square abdomen; Another type of "Sheng" type artillery with a cylindrical belly. There are dozens of other furlong guns, strange-looking tiger squat guns, and thousands of firearms such as arquebuses, bird guns, and three-eyed guns.

What's even more rare is that there are a lot of shells and mines placed next to the cannon, although the red medicine inside has deteriorated and cannot be used, but the firearms craftsmen of the Taiping Army found that some of the shells are different, and after opening and looking, they found that the red medicine was wrapped in a bamboo tube, and these shells turned out to be Wu Sangui's imitation of the Ming Dynasty's flowering shells.

Hong Yun'er sighed lightly after seeing it: "When Zuo Zongtang went out to Xinjiang in the later generations, he sighed after finding the flowering bomb used by the Ming people more than 200 years ago in a city tower left over from the Ming Dynasty in Shaanxi. ”

On the side, Xiao Yungui was stunned and asked, "Did Lao Zuo say that?" ”

Hong Yun'er flattened her mouth and said: "The Complete Works of Zuo Zongtang. In the second letter of the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen, it is clear that it is clear that Tessie has blossomed cannons and cannons into China. Now there are more than 200 flowering spores in the city tower of Fengxiang Mansion, the existing ocean cannon in the west city of Pingliang Mansion, the words such as Wanli and the general system Hu are engraved on it, and the rest are eroded, but the sharp weapon enters the Middle Earth for more than 300 years. At that time, some people paid attention to this, why did the island clan crisscross the sea for decades, and they were proud of me, and they couldn't solve it. ”

Xiao Yungui sighed, turned around and asked a few craftsmen a few words, then turned around and shook his head at Hong Yun'er and said: "There is no doubt that it is a flowering bomb, but the craftsmen said that these flowering bombs should not be very powerful, I think it is also the case, it is filled with black powder, and it is only four or five inches, that is, only about eleven centimeters, and it weighs no more than two kilograms. ”

Hong Yun'er snorted and said, "I can't count these things, according to you, only by increasing the power of gunpowder can this flowering bullet become more powerful?" ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "Of course, in the case of inconvenient caliber, the greater the power of the gunpowder inside, the better the natural explosion effect, the greater the lethality, one kilogram of black powder and one kilogram of TNT, who do you say is more powerful?" ”

Hong Yun'er sighed and said: "If only there were experts in the study of firearms, these craftsmen in the army are still a little shallow." ”

Xiao Yungui touched his chin and said: "Among the old brothers of our Guixi Silver Mine, the people who are familiar with gunpowder are already more powerful than the two of us, you can't force it, but if you know that there are any powerful firearms masters in this era, don't bother to recommend it, I can send someone to invite it." ”

Hong Yun'er frowned and said: "I only know that Ding Gongchen, who wrote "The Illustration of the Artillery", is also known as Jun Zhen, the word Shuyuan, the number Xingnan, a native of Fujian, and lives in Andou Village, Chendai Township, on the seashore of ** County. The ancestor Saidianchi Zhan Si Ding, an Arab nobleman, entered the Yuan Dynasty, and the official worshiped the post of Pingzhang political affairs province Yunnan, Ding Gongchen is the eighteenth grandson of Zhan Si Ding. According to historical records, he should have been invited by Sai Shang'a last year to go to Guangxi to build artillery for the Qing army to deal with the Taiping army. At present, Saishan'a was dismissed from his post by the Qing court and questioned, and he did not know his situation. ”

Xiao Yungui snorted and said, "What's so great about this guy?" ”

Hong Yun'er said with a smile: "In the eleventh year of Daoguang, people went abroad to make a living, went as far as the Arabian Peninsula, learned a lot of Western science and technology, and were the first to systematically investigate the use and structure of Western firearms and study and manufacture Chinese firearms. In China, the first models of steam engines, locomotives and ships were manufactured. Wrote China's first book on steam engines, locomotives and ships, do you say he is a cow or not? ”

Xiao Yungui opened his mouth wide, and said after a while: "Even if this kind of person can't be used by me, I can't let him build cannons on the side of the Qing army!" I'm going to send someone to find out about him, and if I find him, I'll tie him up. ”

It took three days for the Taiping army to launch the buried cannons and firearms, and although the shells, mines, and gunpowder that were launched at the same time had deteriorated due to moisture, the internal structure provided a very good reference for the Taiping army's pawns.

After the scene was cleaned up, Xiao Yungui was insatiable, and asked the Taiping soldiers to search the scene carefully, for fear of missing something, it was Xiao Yungui's greedy character that made him rich. After digging down, everyone found an underground stone chamber, opened the stone door of the stone chamber, and after the filth was dissipated, Xiao Yungui sent his henchman Tang Erniu with a few brave soldiers to light torches.

When they arrived in the stone room, they saw that there were more than ten iron boxes inside, Tang Erniu and a few soldiers stepped forward to cut open the rusty iron lock on the box and opened it, and were stunned by the scene in front of them, the ten boxes were full of gold, silver and jewelry!

When Xiao Yungui, who was outside the entrance of the stone chamber, heard the news, he immediately looked at the people around him, fortunately, only Hong Yun'er and his own guards were present, Luo Xuan, Tang Zhengcai and others were busy moving the cannon and other firearms away, and they had already left here.

Xiao Yungui only felt that his lips were dry for a while, and his heart almost jumped out of his mouth, he hurriedly ordered Li Zuoche, who had just returned from his injury, to gather all the guards in the West Hall to guard this place, and no one was allowed to approach, so he went down to the stone room with Hong Yun'er to inspect.

I saw that this stone room is only ten zhang square, ten large boxes are all opened, a large box is full of jade, pearls, and another box is opened, but it is agate, jadeite, none of which is not a treasure of great value. Hong Yun'er's pretty face turned red, and she couldn't help but change color on her face, and she was surprised and delighted, and even her breathing began to become rapid. Xiao Yungui calmed down, stretched out his hand to copy the bottom of the box, but saw that the lower half of the box was stacked with gold bricks or silver ingots, and the ten boxes were the same.

Hong Yun'er grabbed Xiao Yungui's arm and said in a trembling voice in some incoherent voice: "This, is this King Solomon's treasure?" Or did we cross over to Treasure Island? Or is it a gift from God the Father? ”

Xiao Yungui hit Hong Yun'er's head with a shudder, and laughed and scolded in a low voice: "Calm down, this is the treasure that Wu Sangui didn't have time to take away back then, and now it's ours, don't be like a hillbilly and make people laugh." ”

Hong Yun'er took a deep breath, pinched Xiao Yungui's waist fiercely, and said with a pout: "If you are calm, why are your hands shaking?" ”

In fact, it is difficult for anyone to calm down when they see such a large treasure, Xiao Yungui also took a deep breath, and slowly whispered in Hong Yun'er's ear: "Yun'er, with this Sangui treasure, we will be developed and can do a lot of things." ”

Hong Yun'er also said in a daze: "Yes, money can make ghosts grind, we can do a lot of things......"