Chapter 52: Fireworks in Tokyo

Of course, this kind of information from the afterlife can't be explained to the people in front of him, so he can only try to raise the topic as much as possible and explain it.

A sentence of Mencius said, not only the eyes of the young Jin'er were shining, but even the eyes of Lin Niangzi and Zhang Jiaotou were shining.

Lin Niangzi naturally felt that her husband had defected to the right person, and Zhang Jiaotou was shocked by Zou Run's courage and ambition.

"The hour is not early, after dawn is the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, I think that Chinese New Year's Eve has arrived, the defense of all gates in Tokyo will definitely be relaxed, and then according to my method, this trip will be able to turn danger into a disaster, unimpeded, what do you think?"

The plan has been decided, everyone nodded one after another, and Zou Run saw this and began to make preliminary arrangements.

First of all, let everyone simply pack some luggage, and large things are not allowed to be carried, needless to say. Then Zou Run asked Zhang Jiaotou's family to take advantage of the time to take a break, after all, there was a fuss in the middle of the night, if you don't raise enough spirit and gather enough strength, not only is it a problem to rush, but I am afraid that with Zhang Jiaotou's age, the original condition is likely to worsen, which is not a trivial matter.

There are still some details, Zou Run repeatedly instructed, only then did he hide his tracks, and then climbed over the wall again, and called Zhang San and Li Si, who were sentry at the corner of the alley, to go back, planning to make another arrangement.

Before going out of the alley, everyone took off their night clothes, restored their original clothes, and walked on the street pretending to be master and servant, which was inconspicuous in the crowd.

Zou Run and his entourage walked out of the alley slowly, turned into Yuewufang, and passed near Xuande Building, preparing to return to the vegetable garden outside the sour jujube gate.

It's the beginning of the day, the winter night is deep, the cold is bone-chilling, and the joyful and festive atmosphere in Tokyo is starting to recede, and most of the people who have gone out to play are returning home one after another. However, the nobles on both sides of the royal street and the Xuande upstairs were in high spirits, although most of them were drunk, but they did not want to go back to their homes, they called friends and friends, recruited relatives and introduced the old, gathered together, and drank the excellent singers in the colorful shed to sing and dance again, and the teaching box army continued to shine on the bright lights on Ao Mountain.

As for the people in charge of setting off fireworks during major festivals, the officials and dignitaries in Tokyo were even more likely to get away, and the high-ranking officials and dignitaries named the fireworks to see the new style, and constantly sent people to urge them to be set off quickly.

Ling Zhen, who has been working hard for half a day, has not entered the water and rice, and is busy and dizzy, is helpless, as the deputy envoy of the Jiazhan Treasury, it stands to reason that he is also the official body of Zheng Bapin (Note 1), if he is put on the local level, the lowest is a state-level soldier and horse guard, this kind of prominent military attaché, but in the huge Tokyo City, Zheng Bapin, is still a military attaché, then sorry, if you don't have much background or backstage, this level is in the eyes of the civil officials, it is a little stronger than the city gate captain who is responsible for guarding the city gate.

Belch...... I'm sorry, maybe it's not as good as the captain of the city gate, but it's a lucrative errand for people, a storehouse? Or a deputy envoy? A red guy Qiu Ba the size of a sesame mustard seed can set off fireworks for civil officials and lords in the middle of the night, which is his blessing.

Ling Zhen has always been an upright person, and he is not used to seeing his bosses relying on the treasury to eat the warehouse, reselling weapons, and cutting corners, and he is squeezed out by his bosses and colleagues in the armor warehouse, except for the gunner brothers under his hands, almost no one will give Ling Zhen a good face. Otherwise, he would not be the only one who would set off fireworks in Tokyo, and he would not have fallen on his head every year on this hard and dangerous errand.

Seeing that the elite gunners who had worked hard for the Great Song Dynasty and cultivated for the imperial court, in this cold winter night, they could only wear a thin standard soap silk cotton shawl and a small piece of purple turban, resisting the biting north wind, climbing high and low, filling gunpowder, and arranging leads.

It can be seen with the naked eye that many soldiers have dark purple and dark red chilblains on their hands and feet, and even on their cheeks and ears, once this kind of chilblains are born, they will linger for a whole winter, and the itching is incomparable, and once it is broken, it will flow purulent water, and it is very easy to recur in the coming year, and it will be tormenting.

Seeing this scene, Ling Zhentang, a man in his twenties, unconsciously gritted his teeth and cracked, and tears had overflowed his eyes.

"These are the most elite forbidden army gunners in the Great Song Dynasty! It's not as good as those van soldiers who lead horses and carry sedan chairs for civil officials! What kind of world is this! ”

With the sound of the lead being lit by the torch, a colorful fireworks rose in the sky again, and this beautiful scene like a flash in the pan suddenly attracted the ladies on the city tower to cover their chests and mouths, and screamed again and again. The scholars and doctors were full of poetry, and many of them wore long-sleeved fluttering Confucian clothes, or let the little maids polish the ink, or let the beauties add pens, and they immediately wanted to vent the poetry in their chests.

Seeing this, Ling Zhen was even more angry in his heart, a pair of iron fists creaked, and a faint sigh came from Leng Buding's side.

"Alas, such a high-cost militaristic weapon, I don't want to think about how to exert its own power, and use it to kill and injure the Western thieves and Liao people on the battlefield, but I dump a lot of money in this Tokyo city, mix some flashy things into it, and make such colorful fireworks to please the powerful, it is really a tyrannical thing, and it is shameful!"

Ling Zhen was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly followed the sound to see a young man with a noble face, wearing a narrow-sleeved, tight-fitting silk brocade robe, and a mink warm hat on his head, surrounded by two companions, standing there and watching.

"Your Excellency! I just heard what Your Excellency said, it seems that you know a lot about the formula of gunpowder, in Xia Ling Zhen, now in the Tokyo Jiazhan Library, has always been very interested in the use of gunpowder in battle formations, I wonder if you can give advice? ”

Looking at the man in public uniform standing in front of him, Zou Run was also surprised, he was only passing by the vicinity of this Xuande Building when he was returning to the sour jujube gate, and he happened to see the colorful fireworks in the sky, so he unconsciously complained twice, but he never thought that he would meet Ling Zhen, the number one gunner in the world of the Great Song Dynasty, so coincidentally!

Fate is a wonderful thing!

Zou Run hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "It turned out to be Deputy Envoy Ling, the name of the first gunner of the Great Song Dynasty is like thunder, I didn't expect to meet here, it is really a blessing for three lives, Zou ...... cough, Zhou is polite. ”

"It turned out to be Brother Zhou, a little name is not worth mentioning, I Guan Zhou Brother is a fellow Taoist, Ling Zhen dares to invite Your Excellency to Fan Lou to talk about it, I don't know if you can appreciate it?" Ling Zhen suffers from a severe gunpowder obsession, he has long been interested in Zou Run's words just now, he doesn't care about those red tape at all, and he pulls Zou Run when he comes up, wanting to discuss the formula of gunpowder with him.

Good guy, since he came to this Great Song Dynasty, Zou Run has never seen such an enthusiastic person, this Ling Zhen is also a serious court official, he actually has no shelf at all, he has to invite him to dinner as soon as he meets, and he goes to the most expensive Fan Lou.

It seems that he is a proper science and engineering man, this is not a good end, he has to rush back to see Lu Zhishen to discuss tomorrow's major events together, he really has no time to chat with Ling Zhen. But if it is not Lin Niangzi's urgent matter, even if he accompanies this thunderous thunder to chat for three days and three nights, Zou Run is willing.

Helpless, Zou Run had no choice but to reluctantly refuse.

"Deputy Envoy Ling said it seriously, but what he said just now is just nonsense, in vain, Zhou Moujie has a white body, how dare the deputy envoy sit together? Some other day! Another day, Zhou will come to the door to make amends, so don't pass it today......"

In fact, when he said this, Zou Run's heart was bleeding.

This is Ling Zhen! Once his value is excavated and the real artillery comes out in advance, then his own naval army can really run rampant in the world, and the infantry army will be invincible in attacking the city.