It was the official school of the West Factory that fired the shells.

Different from the East Factory, the West Factory was directly supervised by Zhang Gui, so Zhang Gui ordered a large number of light artillery and various explosive firearms from the Ordnance Department of the West Factory at the beginning, and asked the West Factory to handle the case in a military manner, that is, to push the cannon to handle the case at any time.

Even the official academies recruited into Xichang are regular military academies such as the border army and the Beijing camp with actual combat experience.

After all, Zhang Gui's goal is to ask Xichang to go to the world to collect protection money in the future, and without strong arming, it is naturally impossible to guarantee the smooth collection of protection money.

As for the funding requirements for the procurement of munitions, it is not a problem for the West Plant at present.

Because the West Factory had just confiscated the Jin Merchants not long ago and obtained millions of taels of silver, it was still the time when the wealth was abundant.

What's more, Xichang is still investing in its own at present, and in order to lay an intelligence line, it has opened shops, restaurants, and inns everywhere to generate income.

Therefore, there is no financial pressure on the West Factory, and it is even so generous that it has directly invested in the Ordnance Division, asking the Ordnance Department to concentrate the best technical officers and craftsmen to set up a research and development group to develop all kinds of high-precision firearms for the West Factory, and also directly invest in the establishment of the West Factory's children's school in Xishan, which specializes in cultivating some orphans and children bought from the poor as the talent team for the West Factory to intervene in the management of various global affairs in the future.

These are naturally Zhang Gui's own ideas, he knows that he is powerless to change the bureaucrats and scholars who are deeply influenced by Cheng Zhu's philosophy in this era, so he simply finds another way to spend money to train orphans and bought poor children, anyway, these children, how he teaches, everything is up to him, and no one can put his beak.

As for what will happen to these children when they grow up?

Undoubtedly, when these children grow up, they can only work under the name of the West Factory and work for the West Factory.

The conversation turned back.

As soon as Huang Degong arrived in Suzhou, after seeing that the people of Dongchang were stopped by a large number of armed soldiers in Suzhou for arresting Li Sancai, he directly ordered the official school of Xichang on his side to bombard these Suzhou soldiers, and shouted: "The brothers of Dongchang are in trouble!" But like us, they all came with one purpose, so the brothers of the West Factory, we people from the West Factory have to help the brothers of the East Factory! Kill the enemy with me! ”

After Huang Degong finished speaking, he jumped from the boat to the shore first.

"What Qianhu said is that anyway, even if you don't have a son, someone will give you money to kill you if you die, what are you afraid of!"

The rest of the Xichang official schools also jumped up vigorously, and quickly formed a phalanx, with the sword and shield holding the shield and drawing the knife, the fire gun holding the bullet that bit through the paper shell, and the spearman holding the spear flat, rushing towards these Suzhou soldiers.

Zhang Gui promised that the adoption of orphans in Xichang would be distributed to the childless Xichang dead as descendants in the future, and burn paper money for them during the New Year's holidays, which was very meaningful to the official school of this era.

People in this era believed that there were ghosts and gods, and the real fear of death was that no one would sacrifice them and no one would burn paper money for them.

Therefore, there is a saying that there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great.

Zhang Gui's promise made these officials and schools of the West Factory eliminate a big worry under the condition of generous rewards, so they are all very brave and fearless.

And these Suzhou soldiers were already frightened after being bombarded with light artillery by the West Factory.

After all, in addition to the famous scholars, these Suzhou scholars are all hired by the gentry to be brave and green skins, bullying tenants and court servants and even Dongchang, which are not part of the regular army, but they are about to encounter the regular bureau, and they don't know how to deal with it.

The students who organized these township brave green skins to fight against the factory guards were the first to run their legs.

Because of the lack of exercise all year round, the students began to pant after running a few steps, and they had to shout: "Slide the rod!" Slide the rod! Lift the pole! ”

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

And as the professional firearms men of the West Factory began to shoot at these Suzhou soldiers, these Suzhou soldiers became even more frightened after being shot down, and some knelt down directly and begged for mercy.

"Brothers from the East Factory, get out of the way! Let me show you how to use cannons and phalanxes to solve cases! Team up! Anyone who stands in the way, shoot and kill! ”

Huang Degong was still shouting in his loud voice, and personally rushed to the front, holding the heavy bow he liked to use, deliberately selecting the students wearing scarves and wearing red willow green clothes to shoot arrows, one arrow at a time, a student who had just sat on the sliding rod was shot by him to slide the rod, screamed, and cried loudly: "I want to go home!" I want to go home! It's horrible! It's horrible! Whining! ”

Xu Xianchun and the other Dongchang Banner School were stunned at first.

They didn't expect that they could still handle the case like this?

"Damn, where are these people from the West Factory handling cases, they are going into battle to kill the enemy! Artillery and firecrackers came in handy, and when they saw that the other party had firearms, they dared to rush, and even killed the cowardly people on their side to maintain military discipline! ”

Seeing this scene, Xu Xianchun sighed, but because he was afraid that the credit would be snatched away by the West Factory, he was not to be outdone, and shouted: "Brothers of the East Factory! He is not afraid of death in the West Factory, and our East Factory is not a bad seed! Kill me! Kill these rebels and capture the Qin prisoner Li Sancai alive! ”

"Yes!"

As a result, these Dongchang flag schools also rushed up.

Li Sancai also saw this scene on the boat here, and saw the people of Xichang rushing ashore from the boat with Xichang lanterns, and killing the people of Suzhou to retreat, so he hurriedly shouted: "Open the boat, hurry up and start the boat!" ”

Saying that, Li Sancai couldn't help but scold hatefully: "This Uncle Zhang Guo actually asked his West Factory to join in the fun, the key is that his West Factory is a fierce general who comes up and fights desperately!" Handling cases by fighting and killing the enemy is not handling cases, it is rebellion! Damn it! Damn! ”

Li Sancai scolded loudly in a faux puff, and then after his boat left, he said, "Ignition!" ”

In order to avoid the arrest of the imperial court, Li Sancai not only asked the Donglin scholars who admired him to organize a group of Suzhou scholars to block the people who came to arrest him from the imperial court, but also arranged many small boats loaded with fire oil to follow him near the building boat where he lived, in order to create chaos when the court officials were likely to arrest him, so as to facilitate his escape.

"Sir! This is a prosperous area of Gusu, surrounded by civilian boats, and ignition may endanger the people on the river. ”

An old servant said unbearably.

"I can't care so much now, what is the death of a few people! As long as they can successfully go to sea, the princes of the court and the central government will count this account on these court eagles and dogs in the future! ”

Li Sancai shouted as he spoke: "Ignite the fire!" ”

"Yes!"

The old servant said yes, and ordered the fire to be lit.

Not long after, when Huang Degong and the people from the East Factory rushed over, a fire suddenly broke out around the boat where Li Sancai was located, burning the entire river clearly, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River all lived by the water, and even opened shops along the river for the street, and even directly installed their homes on the boat, so many people's homes were on fire.

Huang Degong of the West Factory and the people of the East Factory couldn't help but stop and watched Li Sancai's building boat go away.

"Hey!"

Xu Xianchun couldn't help but stomp his feet and said angrily: "Let's go!" ”

Xu Xianchun then left here with his Dongchang Banner School.

Seeing this, Ding Zhou, who was promoted by Zhang Gui to serve as the official of 100 households in the West Factory, couldn't help but ask Huang Degong: "Qianhu, what should we do in the West Factory?" ”

"Gotta get the fire under control! If you don't control it, you can't get by! You take a team of people to the shore to dismantle the separation zone and help the people fight the fire according to the method trained in our West Factory! The other team, go into the water with me and organize the people to separate the boats that are not burning! ”

Huang Degong commanded.

"Yes!"

As a result, under the timely rescue of the West Factory, although the people in this era were mostly based on wood and bamboo, in the end, only three or five people and six or seven civilian boats were burned.

After Li Sancai successfully escaped, he pushed open the window of the boat again, looked at the river, and smiled proudly: "From now on, I will be a sea man!" ”

As Li Sancai spoke, he also saw that the official school of Xichang was already busy with the people affected by the fire, so he couldn't help but snort coldly: "What a despicable uncle of the country, he actually let Xichang use such vicious methods, doesn't this make the people of Suzhou start to gradually feel that I, Li San, are the people who don't care about the lives of the people, and their factory guards only care about the lives of the people?!" ”

"Damn!"

Li Sancai couldn't help but scold again.

"How did the ship go north?"

Li Sancai was scolding, when he found that his boat was actually heading north, and he couldn't help shouting: "What's the matter?!" Come! ”

After a short time, the old servant beside him was escorted by several servants with knives.

One of the servants, Li Gui, also bowed his hand and said, "Master! Please forgive the little ones for being rude! You'd better be restrained. ”

Li Sancai was shocked: "What do you mean?!" ”

"The old man is angry! The main thing is that the people in the West Factory give too much! ”

Li Gui replied.