After spending the night at Li Xuanying's place, Guo Kang didn't have time to rest. It happened that my father was also on duty in the yamen, and no one was in charge at home, so he called Shang Bulei and others and asked them to follow him and go to find Wang Da Lama.

"Childe, there aren't many guards on our side, and as soon as we leave, the rest of us won't be able to see the house." In the concierge, Bu Lei reminded him: "Do you want to keep more people, so as not to lose things?" ”

"Don't worry, our house is never afraid of losing things, it's almost the same as losing people." Guo Kang said speechlessly: "It's a bit strange today, you have to be careful." ”

"The more I thought about it, the more worried I was that people would not even be watching my actions. But if you don't get in touch quickly, I'm afraid you'll have a lot of dreams at night. So I wronged everyone to take a risk and go to Niangniang Temple with me. Tonight, we'll stay there. ”

"Of course we listen to you." Bu Lei and others assured: "Usually the situation is special, so I have to relax." We must be cautious this time. ”

Guo Kang nodded.

He was also prepared, putting on the soft chain mail given by his stepmother in advance, and draping a robe on the outside. But Bu Lei glanced at him and shook his head.

"Wait a minute." He turned around and shouted, "Chen Xiao, come here!" ”

"It's coming, it's coming." A young guard named Chen Xiao walked over quickly.

Bu Lei asked him to stand next to Guo Kang and looked at them under the confused gaze of the two.

"Childe, please give him the robe." He said in a tone that was not too tactful.

Chen Xiao directly understood what he meant, and immediately took off his outer robe, revealing the armor inside: "Childe, I'll pretend to be you." ”

He is also an Oriental with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his head is about as tall as Guo Kang. After putting on the helmet, you really can't tell who it is.

"Well, there's no need to be so exaggerated." Guo Kang said embarrassedly: "I mainly want to prevent people who may be followed." If it really attacked me, I would have attacked it on my way back just now. ”

"It's hard to say." Bu Lei shook his head: "I don't know the specific situation yet, and I guess it's not completely clear, right?" So since we want to take precautions, let's take the safest one. I'd rather toss a few more times now than regret it then. ”

As he spoke, he and a few guards couldn't help but pull off Guo Kang's robe and find a set of armor worn by the guards to put it on him.

On the other side, Chen Xiao put on Guo Kang's robe and took out two loaded pistols. He examined the arquebus, fastened the lid, tucked it around his waist, and then wrapped his robe and hid it.

This arquebus was transformed by Guo Kang himself.

Compared with the musket guns commonly used in these years, arquebuses have little technical threshold. As long as you find someone to build the corresponding device, you can put it into use directly.

Guo Kang then imitated the crossbow machine and made a device that linked the gunpowder warehouse lid and the arquebus. When the trigger is pulled, the toggle pushes the lid forward, and at the same time, the arquebus moves downwards and penetrates deep into the lid to ignite the charge. In this way, no matter how the pistol is placed, the gunpowder in the pistol will not be spilled, or it will not go off due to contact with the fire rope.

In addition to the whole set of devices, a cover was made by imitating the cage shell of the Central Plains crossbow. It covers the firerope and mechanical structures, preventing them from touching soft clothing or being damaged by external forces.

This is redundant for muskets on the battlefield and hinders reloading, but it is very useful for fighting in towns, especially at night. What everyone grabbed was the first shot in the case of blind lights and black fire. As for this one, it is estimated that there will be no reload chance.

Several of the ones made by Guo Kang were first given to the guards for trial. Bu Lei and the others liked this kind of thing very much, and directly replaced the original hand crossbow.

Of course, Guo Kang himself has something more advanced.

"Where's the lightning gun?" He asked.

"Here." Bu Lei opened the box next to him, took out two weapons that looked similar in shape, and handed them to him: "It's already loaded." ”

"How's it going these days?" Guo Kang asked.

"I think it's okay." Bu Lei said, and asked again: "But this is a new thing, not only on the trigger." Childe, do you want to change to a safer one? In fact, during the raid, the difference between these two things is not too big, anyway, it is a matter of pulling the trigger......"

Guo Kang hesitated for a while.

Although the firing weapon looks high-tech, the threshold is not very high. Historically, it was also produced by artisanal workshops.

In his world, such firearms appeared in the early 19th century. But later, Ding Shoucun, a firearms expert in the Qing Dynasty, developed a method to make thunder silver without the need for a modern chemical industry.

According to this method, only raw materials such as alum, saltpeter, silver, and alcohol are needed, and simple equipment from the Middle Ages can be used to make this sensitive firing medicine. And with the fire cap it made, the arquebus commonly used in East Asia can be used as a firing pistol with a little modification.

Due to the low threshold, the Qing dynasty was able to rapidly popularize the firing rifle in its past history, roughly less than two decades later than the Europeans. During the Taiping War, both sides had already used a large number of firing rifles to fight.

Moreover, this material also provides the basis for other weapons. Ding Shoucun also made a jumping mine and transformed the artillery at that time. Fueled by a series of inventions, the Qing Dynasty almost abruptly skipped the entire flintlock era and went straight to the leading firing pistol era at the time. It can be seen that this process is likely to be popularized.

Because of the poor record in history, this incident is not too famous. But that doesn't mean the technology itself doesn't have value.

For the performance of the Qing army, weapons were not the most important factor in the first place. Looking at the military industry alone, the situation of the Qing Dynasty before the First Sino-Japanese War was better than that of Japan, and the number of bullets and shells it produced even exceeded that of the Ottomans, and far exceeded that of some modern powers. But the performance on the battlefield is completely opposite.

It can be seen that there should not be much inevitable connection between the two.

Guo Kang happens to have the materials needed for this process. So it's better to do it in one step and make this weapon directly. After all, for a qualified knight, the use of convenient hidden weapons when fighting is also a part of martial arts.

But this is really something new, and it's hard to say if something goes wrong in actual combat. Guo Kang thought about it, put down one of them, and picked up an arquebus.

"One of the same, that's it." He muttered.

Bu Lei nodded and put away his weapon. When the others had finished, they went out of the porter together.

Although when they stand guard on weekdays, they are either bragging and chatting or watching a play, and even the weapons they hold are some lassoes, iron forks, etc., but these people are really engaged in actual combat, and they look quite a set. Outside, someone had already brought horses, and more than a dozen people got on the horses one after another, sandwiched Guo Kang between the crowd, and followed the leader Chen Xiao to ride off on horseback.

There are indeed not many people who are still left, but Guo Kang is not worried. At night, there are often unknown women in this place, and the thieves have to beat them first.

They do seem to be overestimating the danger, though. Along the way, there were crowds of people running out to celebrate and play noisily. However, seeing their posture, no one dared to stop them, and the group successfully arrived at Niangniang Temple.

When Grand Lama Wang learned of the situation and came out to greet him, Guo Kangzheng took off the armor of the guards and took over his outer robe.

"What's wrong?" Grand Lama Wang was a little surprised: "Is there anything urgent about the three watches in the middle of the night?" ”

"There was a bit of an accident. It has something to do with the gangsters in the city. Guo Kang replied briefly: "Can you lend me the 'Heavenly Brother's Sword'?" ”

"So serious? What accident? Grand Lama Wang was even more surprised.

The "Sword of the Heavenly Brother" is a subordinate force of the Church, and strictly speaking, it should be regarded as an armed police officer and prosecutor.

The Purple Horde did not have the more centralized inquisition of the Roman Church. Religious and secular crimes were all judged under the unified Roman law.

Because the targets of the Khanate were, strictly speaking, all kinds of cults, and these people could not only violate religious regulations, but would certainly be associated with crimes such as murder, kidnapping, and extortion.

In the relevant trial, the Church will generally send a judge representative to the court to provide professional support to the presiding judge. For this reason, an understanding of Roman law and canon law is necessary. So, the church also has full-time judges and subordinate officials, but these people are mainly scholars who are well-versed in secular law and do not care much about other matters.

And if it does not touch on secular crimes, or commit political crimes that use religion to incite the people, the Khan court generally does not care much. At the beginning, Guo Gai believed that doctrinal disputes were too trivial, and the two sides often engaged in useless arguments based on trivial matters and even topics that could not be clearly defined. The Church was an important provider of talent for the Purple Horde, and it would be a waste to dwell on these things every day.

So, in terms of the power of judgment, the church has only this degree of involvement.

But on the contrary, in terms of detection and arrest, the presence of the church is much more conspicuous.

In those days, religion was the most basic form of organization. If you want to cheat money and even rebel directly, you will often organize through religion first.

And the churches at all levels are the most sensitive to these changes.

As a result, the church often receives reports from various grassroots clergy warning that there are people who are plotting against each other. In order to conduct investigations and identifications more efficiently, over time, the church has developed a set of rapid response procedures and response plans for various incidents. It is also because of this that the Great Lama Wang is also responsible for intelligence gathering.

In the same way, in order to quickly establish the truth and control the situation, the church has also been given the power to investigate and arrest suspects, and has formed a lean team. Because their token symbols are crosses and swords, the locals have given them the nickname "Sword of Heavenly Brothers".

As the Patriarch, the Great Lama has the power to urgently mobilize the "Sword of the Heavenly Brother". But correspondingly, he also had to give everyone a reasonable explanation afterwards. So it makes sense to ask a few more questions.

"Someone is plotting a plot against us, probably related to a cult." Guo Kanglu had already thought of a statement: "They should have colluded with the gangsters in the city, and they also used the gang-controlled troupe to cover themselves and take the opportunity to carry out propaganda and criminal activities." ”

"In the past few days, the city has been commemorating the triumph, there are many people, and the situation is chaotic, which is just right for them to act and realize the conspiracy." "Although the specific situation is not clear, I think this matter cannot be ignored, and it is better to investigate it quickly," he suggested. ”

The Great Lama will still be skeptical.

"We don't know anything about the current situation." He shook his head and said: "The investigation of the case requires a lot of preliminary preparation. It is necessary to find out the specific identities of the enemies, the channels of communication with each other, and the ways in which they are organized, so that they can have a general outline of their organization, and then it is time to close the net and arrest people and interrogate them. ”

"If you don't know anything and go directly, it is likely to fall for the trick, at least it will startle the snake, and let the really important enemy escape calmly."

"I've rarely seen you rush so much. But no matter how anxious you are, it's not so urgent. He glanced at Guo Kang: "It's okay to be in a hurry, but you also have to pay attention to methods." The more urgent we are, the more we need to be efficient, and the less we can afford to panic. ”

"You're still young and you've been exposed to too few things. I know you have a lot of ideas, but when you really do things, you still have to control your emotions first. ”

"You don't have to worry about this all the time, tell me the general range, and then go and rest first." He arranged: "I'll send people right now to investigate the situation over there." ”

Guo Kang thought for a moment and nodded.

The Grand Lama withdrew the crowd and asked a monk to take them to rest. He himself and Guo Kang came to the second floor.

Seeing that there was no one around, Wang Da Lama opened his mouth and asked, "Guo Gongzi, is there any secret in this matter that cannot be said publicly?" Can you tell me about the general situation for the old man, so that I can judge what to do? ”

Guo Kang hesitated and said, "I only know that it should have something to do with the Ross Gang." Other words......"

"It's okay, don't talk about the rest. It's all in a hurry for you, and I probably know what level of incident I'm involved in. Grand Lama Wang nodded confidently: "In addition, your guess should be right, there must be many people behind this." The Ross Gang, I said they had hatched a complex conspiracy on their own, can you believe it? ”

Grand Lama Wang is obviously experienced, and looking at him like this, he should have already grasped the general situation.

However, he reacted so quickly, which really made Guo Kang feel relieved.

"Hey, I can't help it." Guo Kang also complained: "These things are really troublesome, I can understand why my father always says that there are a lot of in the city, it is better to beat people on the battlefield......"

"It's okay, we have a lot of ways to deal with it." The Great Lama said, "Just listen to the old man and me, go to bed first." ”

"In my experience, the real big deal is still to come. And this kind of thing, like fighting, is very physically and energetically draining. So, be sure to stay in shape – you want to work, and in the next few days there are things that will keep you up all night. ”

Guo Kang felt that what he said did make sense, and nodded.

Grand Lama Wang shouted downstairs and asked a monk to take Guo Kang to take a bath first. Then he remembered something.

"By the way, speaking of the Rus, there is one more thing that I was going to tell you tomorrow." He turned back and said, "Lady Elena has replied to me, and she wants to invite you to talk to Tuohuan Taiji again." ”

"What's the matter?" Guo Kang asked.

"It's also a Rus." Grand Lama Wang said meaningfully.

(End of chapter)