Chapter 353 The sound of guns
There are many pedestrians walking on the road to Zhaojiayu, most of whom are fleeing to Lingqiu and going to Zhaojiayu to find a job, but compared with before, there are much fewer refugees.
The face-slimming Jinyiwei came to the Jinyiwei's hundred households and whispered: "Sir, it seems that this tiger-shaped flag is very good at winning people's hearts. Even the people of Lingqiu are talking to them."
"This tiger-shaped flag must not be kept." Jinyiwei Baihu said in a cold tone.
The face-slimming Jinyiwei nodded in agreement.
Jinyiwei Baihu continued: "The tiger flag is just a business in Datong, and the owner behind it is just a businessman. But when you come to Lingqiu, have you noticed the cavalry and the four-wheeled carts.
And the guards are more like elite soldiers than the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty. Only those personal soldiers can compare with them. Such a business name is simply a poisonous sore from the Ming Dynasty. It must not be kept and must be eradicated as soon as possible."
"What the lord said is," said the face-slimming Jinyiwei, "This tiger-shaped flag will also win people's hearts. There are droughts everywhere. However, Lingqiu is rich, and it tricked all refugees from all over the country to Lingqiu, which shows the east of the tiger-shaped flag.
The Lord has bad intentions.”
"He is trying to rebel." Another Jinyiwei said.
There are droughts everywhere, and spring and autumn grain production have been reduced. However, the Tiger Flag is under the banner of prosperity, attracting refugees who cannot eat everywhere. With the powerful force of the Tiger Flag, people will inevitably think about rebellion.
"Before coming, the commander-in-chief, Lord Luo, said that there were bandits here in Lingqiu. Now it seems that it is even more serious than Lord Luo said." The hundreds of households of Jinyiwei said with an ugly expression.
"Sir, after going to the workshop of the Tiger Flag, we can also go to Xujiazhuang to see it. I heard that it is the most lively place in Lingqiu and it is also the nest of the Tiger Flag. Maybe we can see something." The face-slimming Jinyiwei reminded
road.
The Jinyiwei Baihu nodded and said, "Let's go to Zhaojiayu's workshop first."
Half an hour later, the group arrived at Zhaojiayu. As soon as they approached the village, they heard the sound of ding-and-dang irons.
Boom!
Suddenly there was a loud noise, like a bolt from the blue, shaking people's ears trembled.
"What sound, thundering?"
The face-slimming Jinyiwei was startled and looked left and right in panic.
The other Jinyiwei looked bad, and was shocked by the thunder sound.
Similarly, many refugees who came to Zhaojiayu Workshop to find work were also scared, and some of them were so scared that they fell to the ground.
"The sun is so full, why is it that thunder sounded!"
"Thunder is thundering on sunny days, this is Grandpa Thunder is getting angry, this is not a good omen!"
"Such a thunder sounded like it was in my ears."
A group of refugees whispered, all shocked by the thunder just now.
The Jinyiwei Baihu said with a gloomy face: "This is not a thunder sound, it is someone setting off artillery."
"The sound of cannons!" The thin-faced Jinyiwei was stunned and then widened his eyes.
If it was really a sound of cannons, and the sound just now was so loud, it means that the cannon was near Zhaojiayu. Zhaojiayu is a workshop with the tiger-shaped flag, which is enough to prove that the tiger-shaped flag is building cannons.
I saw the powerful cavalry and infantry with the tiger flag before, but I suspected that the tiger flag was a giant bandit, but now that the artillery is a cannon, it is enough to prove that the tiger flag has rebelled.
Artillery is a country's important weapon. If a business company dares to cast cannons privately, even if it has not rebeled, it will be treated as a rebel.
Several Jinyiwei looked at the Jinyiwei’s households.
They came from the capital to verify the bandits in Lingqiu. Unexpectedly, they directly discovered that the tiger flag was not a bandits at all, but a giant bandit who could rebel at any time.
The evidence is now conclusive. As long as they return to Beijing and bring the news back, the court will definitely send a large army to suppress it, or they can also go to Datong Prefecture to ask the governor and general to inform the matter, and use troops to quell the rebellion.
However, the credit scores of these two methods are different. If it is the second method, they will almost do their best. If it is the first method, they will only share a small part of the credit, and most of the credit will fall on the adults.
Body.
"Hey, are you guys coming to the workshop to find a job? Come here?"
A young man walked out of a yard not far away and waved to several Jinyiwei.
This scared several Jinyiwei. He thought that his identity was discovered by the tiger flag and almost turned around and ran away. Fortunately, he heard what happened later and did not make a move.
"Why are you still standing there? Come here! You can have lunch after signing the document and stewed with white flour buns." The young man in front of the courtyard waved to the Jinyiwei.
When several Jinyiwei heard this, the Adam's apple couldn't help but squirm.
On the way from Weizhou, I ate dry biscuits. When I heard that there were white flour buns and stewed pork, my saliva was almost flowing out. Even in Beijing, I rarely could eat these two things.
Fortunately, several Jinyiwei knew what they were doing and did not move.
The Jinyiwei’s hundred households winked at the Jinyiwei’s face-slimming.
The face-slimming Jinyiwei swallowed his saliva and said to the young man at the entrance of the courtyard: "We are not looking for a job in the workshop. It is a bad omen that the thunder sounds on sunny days. We are going back."
The young man at the gate of the courtyard smiled and said, "This is not a thunder sound. This is a shooting test on the artillery field. Don't worry, if you stay in the workshop to do your work, you can hear the sound of artillery every day, sooner or later
Habit."
"Then we won't stay here either." The face-slimming Jinyiwei shook his head vigorously and said, "We'd better go to other places to find work. I heard that there are some work here in Lingqiu. As long as you are willing to work hard, you won't be hungry."
"Okay, I don't want to stay here in the workshop. You can go to Xujiazhuang to recruit miners there. If you know how to farm, you can go to Lizhuang, and there is work there."
After the young man in front of the yard said that, he ignored these people and began to look for other refugees.
"The sound of cannons came from the direction north of Zhaojiayu. Let's go and take a look." Jinyiwei Baihu said to the other people in a low voice.
Several Jinyiwei searched in the direction where the sound of cannons came.
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"This is a four-pound cannon!"
Liu Heng looked at a cannon in front of him with a happy face.
Since seeing Lee Kwok-joo away, Joshua Chan, Louis and others began to cast cannons.
The technology of casting four-pound guns is very mature. For Johnson Chan and Louis, it is not difficult to recast a new four-pound gun, but it is easy to cause the barrel to explode during cooling and the scrap rate is high, otherwise it would have been half a month ago.
New cannons have been cast.
Today is the first time that the four-pound cannon was tested in the cannon field.
"Yes, this is the four-pound cannon. After the cannon is cast, the cannon barrel is pulled with a hydraulic drill bit to make the caliber of the inner chamber smooth and consistent, and improve the firing ability." Johnson Chan introduced.
The shot just now satisfied Liu Heng very much.
Although the four-pound cannon is considered a small cannon, its power is comparable to the general cannon on the top of the castle, and its range is even more than the general's range.
Compared to the heavy and inconvenient cannons like the general's cannon, the four-pound cannon has a special cannon carriage, and the weight is not as heavy as the general's cannon. One slow horse can be pulled, and it can move for a long distance, and two slow horses are enough.
Chapter completed!