There is nothing else in the firearms camp, but there is a lot of black powder.

However, the soldiers of the firearms battalion did not know how to mix black powder, and Xu Enli found the three raw materials that Mo Qian needed after a while.

According to the best ratio of black powder in later generations, Mo Qian used one percent sulfur, one and a half percent charcoal, and seventy percent five saltpeters to mix a four-kilogram earth bomb.

Mo Qian asked the soldiers to take oil paper and wrap the black powder into the altar, and then connect the extended lead of the fire gun, after the lead was wrapped in oil paper, more than a dozen heavy stones weighing several catties were put into the altar, and then the loose soil was tightly wrapped, everything was ready, and a large earthen version of the bomb was ready.

Mo Qian asked someone to dig a deep pit in the jar and bury it, and after putting the soil bomb into the pit, he added a few more large stones weighing dozens of catties to the pit and pressed it to test the power of the soil bomb.

The soldiers of the firearms battalion didn't know what the marshal was doing, but everyone was curious.

Several generals were also confused, and they were a little puzzled by the behavior of the marshal, but it was difficult to ask, so they could only follow the marshal to run back and forth.

After arranging the extra-long lead, everything was ready, Mo Qian clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, retreat two hundred steps away to prevent injury!" ”

Everyone doesn't know what they mean, although they don't know what Da Shuai means, but Da Shuai's words are the highest order, don't ask more, just abide by it.

When all the soldiers were pushed away to a place two hundred steps away, Mo Qian personally took a fire fold and lit the fuse on the ground.

The lead was made of powderpowder wrapped in oiled paper, and the lead soaked in oil burned extremely fast, and Mo Qian ran behind him after lighting the fire.

Mo Qian had just run less than fifty steps when he felt a loud noise behind him, and then he felt like he had been hit the back, and he fell on the spot in pain.

"It's not good, Dashuai is injured!"

Most of the soldiers present were stunned by this loud noise, and only Qian Dayou had been concerned about the safety of the marshal.

When he saw a fist-sized stone hit Da Shuai's back, Qian Dayou immediately ran over, he picked up Mo Qian and asked with concern: "Da Shuai, Da Shuai, are you okay?" ”

Mo Qian only felt that he had been hit the back by something just now, and it was extremely painful at the moment, and he couldn't even speak.

Qian Dayou saw that Mo Qian was speechless, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, he turned around and squatted down, carried Mo Qian on his back and went straight to the military camp infirmary.

When he arrived at the medical center, the medical officer took off Mo Qian's clothes and checked it, only to see that a place on his back had been smashed and bleeding.

The medical officer hurriedly took out the gold sore medicine to stop bleeding and sprinkled it, and then pushed Mo Qian his back for a while, and Mo Qian breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, Mo Qian was finally able to speak, and he said to everyone with palpitations: "Careless, I didn't expect the power of this earth bomb to be so huge, the lead should be longer." ”

Qian Dayou and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Mo Qian was fine.

Qian Dayou persuaded: "Dashuai, you must not risk yourself in the future, it was too dangerous just now, and the last general saw a stone hit you with his own eyes." ”

Speaking of stones, Qian Dayou suddenly reacted and said: "Dashuai, what happened just now, why is that jar so powerful, dozens of catties of boulders can be blown up, if it is placed in the crowd, wouldn't it be hugely lethal?" ”

Mo Qian smiled and nodded, and then he said with a cold face: "Today's affairs must be kept secret, all the affairs of the firearms battalion from today must be reported to me, Dayes, you find a group of loyal veterans to fall into the firearms battalion, I have a lot of use!" ”

Qian Da nodded in agreement, of course he knew how important the matter just now was.

The people came out of the medical officer's place and returned to the place where the altar had been buried.

At this time, the location of the explosion was already surrounded by soldiers, and the soldiers of the brigade who heard the sound also ran over to join in the fun, wanting to see what was going on.

When Qian Dayou saw this scene, he immediately instructed his subordinates to drive all these people away.

When he came to the place where the altar was buried, he saw that the pit, which was only the size of the altar, had expanded several times, and there were broken stones scattered around the pit.

Qian Dayou looked at the pit and the pits all over the ground and was surprised, he immediately realized that Dashuai had invented a weapon of mass destruction, and once this weapon of mass destruction was used in the war, he did not know how much harm it would cause to the enemy.

Dozens of pounds of stones can be blown into pieces, not to mention flesh-and-blood people and war horses, once this kind of mass killing weapon is used in the war, it is not a one-sided slaughter with the official army.

Qian Dayou didn't dare to think about it further, there was only one voice in his mind now, that is, Da Shuai must be the chosen one, otherwise why Da Shuai could create such a thunderous weapon.

Mo Qian was also very satisfied at the moment, he didn't expect that the power of the four-pound black powder was so huge, and he actually blew up such a heavy stone.

Looking at the deep pit and the gravel all over the ground, Mo Qian said in his heart: "It seems that in the future, you can't put so much gunpowder in the earth bomb, otherwise I'm afraid it will be difficult to throw it out!" ”

Mo Qian asked the soldiers to find black powder again, this time he only used a pound of weight, and after matching it according to the proportion again, Mo Qian conducted an experiment again, this time the power of the earth bomb was much smaller, but it could still blow up dozens of heavy stones.

Mo Qian was very satisfied with the effect of this explosion, and he already had a basic plan for his artillery unit in his heart.

He called Qian Dayou to him and said to him: "Tomorrow you prepare the people, these people must be loyal to me, not too many people, thirty or fifty is enough, remember, once these people join, they must stay in the camp twelve hours a day, and they are not allowed to go out without permission, and besides, I will set up a workshop in the firearms camp, and you will send five hundred soldiers and horses to protect me with heavy troops, understand?" ”

"Don't worry, from today on, the firearms battalion is the top priority of our army, and no one else will be able to enter or leave except for the commander and the lowly position!"

Mo Qian nodded and said, "I have chosen someone to call me tomorrow, and in addition, you should quickly send people everywhere to purchase black powder, saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur, the more the better."

In addition, build a warehouse, store these three types of items separately, remember, be sure to give me moisture-proof, waterproof and fireproof, once something goes wrong, I will ask you! ”

When Qian Da heard this, he immediately cheered up and went off on an errand.

Mo Qian saw that he had almost finished what he had ordered, so he didn't say anything more, turned around and took people back to the mansion.

When I returned to the mansion, I happened to meet Cao Guoqi, who came to do something.

As soon as Cao Guoqi saw Mo Qian, he opened his mouth to complain: "Lord, there is one matter that needs to be dealt with by the lord himself. ”

"Oh? What's up? ”

Cao Guoqi arched his hand and said: "Yichun squire Yuan Yesi and Pan Shiwen actually sent people to Nanchang secretly to contact Lu Xiangsheng, and the people they sent were caught by our yamen people as soon as they left the city, lord, what should we do with these two people?" ”

When Mo Qian heard the names of these two people, he suddenly became angry, and he snorted coldly and said: "These two people originally gave money and grain to help Tian Youyou to exterminate me, and after I occupied Yuan Zhou, I didn't go to trouble them, but I just took the land in their hands, and didn't raid their homes."

It's good that they don't stay at home honestly and live the rest of their lives, and they dare to contact the imperial court to contact the government, this is to rebel.

It seems that these squires and tyrants are still dreaming of their Spring and Autumn Festival, and they are delusional that the court will fight back, you go, take someone to copy all the two of them, and all the people will be imprisoned for me, and they will be interrogated one by one, kill those who should be killed, and pass them off, show the squires and tyrants who still dream that the court can eliminate me, their spring and autumn dreams should wake up! ”

The big marshal was furious, and suddenly the entire Yichun City began to be under martial law.

The rebel soldiers attacked everywhere and hunted down the spies of the imperial court and the squires and tyrants of Yichun in the city.

The homes of all the wealthy families in the city were searched, except for Yuan Yesi and Pan Shiwen, as well as the Liu family, the Li family, the Yi family, and even the Lu family, all of which were not spared, and all of them found correspondence with Nanchang officials.

Some even wrote letters directly to Beijing, and these squires and tyrants had a few relatives who did not have officials in the court, and they dragged their doors to the court to send troops to exterminate Mo Qian.

can only eliminate Mo Qian, and they, the squires and landlords, can naturally recover their family's former fields, and start their landlords again, eating, drinking, and having fun every day, just collecting rent.

But their dream was shattered, and the rebel soldiers began to arrest people throughout the city, and found as many as 100 letters, among which Yuan Yesi and Pan Shiwen bore the brunt.

The second is the Lu family and the Yi family, which have been champions in the Tang Dynasty, and the two families are old gate valves who have been champions in high school in the Tang Dynasty, and the temple is still worshipping the champions Gong Yi Chong and Lu Zhao.

These two families are not small, in the Tang Dynasty, these two families were two champions in three years, Lu Zhao and Huichang were three years in high school, only two years later, Yi Zhong won the champion in Huichang for five years.

The two families have deep roots in Yichun and have many children and grandchildren.

However, although there are many children and grandchildren, there are few households that can rely on the remnants of their ancestors, and only a few large landowners can enjoy the treatment of the remnants of their ancestors.

These people are the key targets of Mo Qian's Juntian policy, the two of them occupy as much as 10,000 acres of fertile land, after Mo Qian captured Yichun, several families bore the brunt, Mo Qian took the lead in taking them, and all the fields of their households were confiscated and distributed to the people.

Yi Jijing, the head of the Yi family, and Lu Daozong, the head of the Lu family, held a grudge against this, and they were extremely disapproving of Mo Qian's such a thing as giving good land to the untouchables, and even hated it deeply.

It is a waste that all the good fields were given to the poor.

When they heard that Lu Xiangsheng was patrolling Jiangxi and wanted to suppress the bandits, Yi Jijing and Lu Daozong, together with Yuan Yesi and Pan Shiwen, united with the remaining dozen or so squires who were once big landlords, and secretly wrote a letter to Nanchang to ventilate Lu Xiangsheng.

In the letter, they made it clear that they were willing to use half of their family assets to help the officers and soldiers and do their best to eradicate the anti-thieves.

In order to one day be able to recover the fertile land saved by their families for several generations or more than ten generations, these big landowners did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to fund the imperial court, and they were bound to eliminate Mo Qian.

In the palace, Mo Qian looked at the thick letter on the table, the corners of his mouth turned slightly, and said to Cao Guoqi with an evil smile: "These people have a way to die, I don't think there is a need to try again, for all the men in these families, as long as they are adults, they will be beheaded, women will be sent to the laundry yard to do laundry, and minors will be sent to the stone yard to work!" ”

When Cao Guoqi heard this, he was immediately shocked.

He arched his hand and said, "My lord, I am afraid that there are no less than three or four hundred of these people in total, and there are more than a hundred adult men alone, and I am afraid that it will cause turmoil if I kill so many people at one time!" ”

Wang Zhongyi, the magistrate of Yichun County, who had just come in, also echoed after listening to it: "Lord, don't kill like this, deal with these people, once we start killing, then the squire landlords in other prefectures and counties will inevitably be in danger, especially those prefectures and counties that we have not yet captured, once they know that the lord has killed the squire landlords in Yuanzhou, it will inevitably be much resistant to our righteous army in the future, and even when we enter the army, they will take out money and grain to the local government to form a township to resist."

In this way, it will have a great counter-effect on the lord and the world, which can be described as a self-cutting arm, the lord, it is not advisable to kill and abstain! ”

Mo Qian frowned and asked, "Then what do you say you should do?" Do you just watch them mess around like this under my rule? ”

Wang Zhongyi said: "The lord, the people of the world, but all the flesh and mortal fetuses, they are inseparable from the four words love, power, wealth, and sex.

Now that the lord occupies Yuanzhou, cutting off their ancestral business, leaving them with neither power nor wealth, and there is no way to be promoted, how can they not jump over the wall in a hurry. ”

When Mo Qian heard this, he immediately understood Wang Zhongyi's thoughts.

He asked, "You mean to make these squire's sons officials?" ”

Wang Zhongyi nodded, "Yes, let their children be officials, be the officials of our rebel army, whether it is the children of their clan or the children of these squires themselves, as long as someone becomes the official of our rebel army, then they will be tied to us in the same boat and become grasshoppers on a rope."

No matter how many armies the imperial court sends to attack us, these squires must come forward with weapons to resist, otherwise once we die, their fate will not be much better.

The lord is determined to be in the world, and it is necessary to know that there are not only poor people in the world, but also many squires and landlords.

We can't kill them all, and if we do, we will be like those rogues in the north.

Although Gao Yingshen, Zhang Xianzhong and others seem to be powerful, they are not heroes, their behavior is like bandits, they will kill and grab wherever they want.

Our rebels are different from them, my lord, not only do we have to unite the people, but these squires and landlords also need to make them work for us! ”

After hearing this, Mo Qian nodded.

After thinking for a long time, he said: "Wang Zhongyi, you go and tell them that Ben Shuai will not kill them this time, but they secretly communicate with the imperial court, this is a major crime of collaborating with the enemy, they can avoid the death penalty, but the living crime cannot be escaped."

As usual, all their property was confiscated, but I allowed each of them to send people into the rebel army, and as long as they were of good character, able to endure hardships and endure trouble, not greedy for money and bribes, and able to act impartially, they could become officials.

Of course, those who are corrupt and pervert the law, engage in favoritism, and bully the market, if they are discovered, they will also be beheaded. ”

When Wang Zhongyi heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said: "Lord Shengming! ”

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