As night fell, in the Ten Princes' Mansion, Jinyiwei was divided into three batches, led by Xue Laoer, Wang Chaodong, and Zhu Maozhen, and went to different directions in the capital

The rest of the things naturally don't need to be done by Zhou Shixian himself, as the backbone of the entire team, the most important task at present is to stay in the Ten Kings' Mansion and suppress the proud soldiers and fierce generals who are about to gather here.

Moreover, most of these brocade guards already have Chen Yan's blood on their hands, and several of the chief officials are his henchmen and brothers, so Zhou Shixian doesn't have to worry about any betrayal in the middle. If you can't believe it, he won't use it.

Soon, one of Zhou Shixian's Mongolian Jinyi guards took the lead in returning to the Ten Kings' Mansion with hundreds of war horses. The war horses roared back, rushing all the way, even the scattered soldiers patrolling the streets, and they did not dare to ask.

These tall and strong war horses had been "bought" by Zhou Shixian with a knife in advance and hidden in the capital, and now they are just a nest.

The school yard of the Ten Kings' Mansion is very large, and hundreds of horses are scattered among them. Zhou Shixian looked at the war horse in front of him, and immediately asked people to give a reward of five taels of silver to the first dozen brocade guards to come back to their lives.

Not long after, Zhu Maozhen personally escorted five carts back to restore his life, and the cars were full of armor, knives and guns left in the treasury of various capitals, as well as musket ammunition.

After the five carts were parked in the palace, Zhu Maozhen immediately ordered the officers and soldiers under his command to check the loading and unloading, and then hurried to find Zhou Shixian to recover his life.

"My lord, the armor, knives, guns, firearms and ammunition that can still be used in the treasury of the Beijing Military War Bureau have been collected by the subordinates, and a total of eighty-three muskets have been obtained, of which thirty-one are bird guns, twenty-two are turtledove foot guns, and thirty are Lu Mi guns. Gunpowder and lead bullet were also plentiful.

In addition, there are 228 pairs of chain mail, 312 pairs of cotton armor, 3 pairs of Wenshan armor, 457 Qi knives, 109 crossbows, 242 short axes, and ...... spears," Zhu Maozhen reported.

Although he and Zhou Shixian are brothers, they have been in officialdom for a few years, and he understands the rules.

When Zhou Shixian heard this, he nodded approvingly, and most of his hanging heart suddenly let go.

In the whole preparation plan, he was most worried about the problem of weapons and equipment. The money can definitely be copied, and the war horses have long been prepared, those ministers are actually not necessary, but the weapons and equipment are not good, with only these two or three hundred people, the possibility of breaking out of the city is very small.

In this era of mixed use of hot and cold/weapons, and the high development of military science and technology, and the fact that breakthroughs have not yet been made, armor and firearms are the first priority to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.

Zhou Shixian must arm his troops to the teeth and become a veritable "iron army".

Soon, Zhou Shixian and Zhu Maozhen came to the palace compound, more than a dozen brocade guards were sorting out firearms, cutting fire ropes and loading gunpowder, armor, knives, guns, bows, crossbows and arrows had been sorted and placed by them.

Firearms are of particular concern to Zhou Shixian, because his current main enemies are the Shun army and the Ming army that went all the way south, both of which have a low level of firearms and equipment, and the firearms used are basically of inferior quality Ming manufacturing, and even those that use three-eyed guns.

The firearms made by the Ming Ting workshop were of very poor quality and often exploded, so that the soldiers did not dare to use them.

The ones that Zhu Maozhen got back were all purchased by John Tang from Macao, and they were originally intended to equip the Beijing camp, but as soon as they entered the military battle, they had already been assigned by the ministers in charge.

It can only be said that the corruption of the Ming Dynasty has reached the point of hopelessness.

Zhou Shixian walked to the place where the musket was placed and picked up a turtledove foot gun, which was the Ming version of the Musket heavy smoothbore gun.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty took the 100 turtledove guns that Xiong Wencan, the former governor of Liangguang, escorted into the capital, as a sample, and improved this overly bulky arquebus, so that it could reduce its weight to less than 15 catties while maintaining its great power, and the weight of medicine and lead bullets was almost halved, but the power was still far better than that of the bird gun and the Lu Mi gun.

"My lord, this is a turtledove foot gun, within fifty steps, it can easily break through two layers of armor, within a hundred steps, it is not a problem to break through heavy armor, once it is hit by this kind of musket, the whole body will rot, its power is far greater than that of Lu Mi gun."

In order to resell weapons, Zhu Maozhen has become half a firearms expert, and he is very familiar with all kinds of firearms and armor.

However, he knew his brother's temper, coupled with the fact that the other party had promised an official position, Zhu Maozhen was ready to change his ways.

Zhou Shixian touched the metal parts and body of the musket in his hand, the workmanship was very exquisite, and it was worthy of being made in Guangdong. During this period, Guangdong and Fujian were the most developed places for the manufacture of Daming firearms.

"Well, that's right." Zhou Shixian nodded, and then continued: "Lu Mi gun only uses four coins of gunpowder and three coins of lead, and it can be said that it is the farthest and most poisonous, and the power is huge, not to mention the turtledove foot gun." ”

When Zhu Maozhen heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that Master Ma was also a firearms expert, didn't he dance a big knife in front of Guan Gong just now? In particular, the other party is still an adult, which is a big taboo.

"Your Excellency is so powerful, you even know so much about muskets." A soldier who was filling a small leather bag with gunpowder flattered, and then there was a burst of cheers.

Zhou Shixian smiled, and then took this opportunity to encourage the surrounding soldiers, and chatted with them, the courtyard was in full swing, and hearty laughter came from time to time.

After coming to Daming, in order to attract talents, his social's disease is even more impossible to cure.

After a while, four more carts slowly drove into the gate of the Ten Princes' Mansion, led by Wang Chaodong, and after the carriage stopped in the courtyard, four blindfolded officials got down from the carriage.

Wang Chaodong bowed his fist to Zhou Shixian from a distance and asked for instructions, Zhou Shixian made a look, he also immediately understood, and immediately ordered his subordinates to take these four people to the backyard of the palace.

Li Banghua, Ni Yuanlu, and Wu Linzheng are all old ministers in the DPRK and China, and Jinyiwei came to take people, so naturally no one dared to disobey.

Now it is the Chongzhen Dynasty, the emperor is seriously suspicious, not to mention, he has never been merciful when he kills the minister, and he has not known to behead the minister in seventeen years.

As for John Tang, he is a foreigner, and he doesn't dare to act rashly. In particular, this guy is still a deserter, which can be regarded as a guilty body.

Wang Chaodong immediately came to Zhou Shixian, and said with a smile on his face: "Don Ma, Lord Li, Lord Ni, Lord Wu, and Tang Ruowang, their subordinates have all been escorted back." ”

"Well, good job." Zhou Shixian still had that kind smile, and Wang Chaodong's careful thinking, he saw through it at once, and quipped: "Didn't you pick up some treasure, seeing you smile like this, I don't know and think you're a fool!" ”

For his henchmen, Zhou Shixian naturally has no need to put on any shelf or posture, which will be counterproductive.

"Donkey, you're really a god, you guessed right at once, I really picked up a treasure."

Wang Chaodong is a straight man, he can't hold it anymore, so he quickly took out a square wooden box, and then opened it in front of Zhou Shixian, and said happily:

"Look, I found clairvoyance from that red-haired monster!"