Seeing this foreigner dressed as a Taoist priest and speaking fluent Ming Dynasty Mandarin, Shen Lie's eyes were opened and he felt that his world view had been subverted.
Tian Hong frowned slightly and said coldly: "That's enough... I'm asking you something!"
The foreigner named Victor quickly stopped and said obediently: "Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, I was a cook in Sweden."
Shen Lie was speechless again. He couldn't help but cursed in his heart. He was indeed an old European. He claimed to be a cook when he was caught.
What this person said is untrue.
Shen Lie looked at it coldly with a pair of deep eyes. His gaze fell on the foreigner's thick-knuckled fingers and looked at the thick calluses on his middle finger.
"Dishonest!"
Shen Liesen asked: "Are all your Swedish cooks born in musketry?"
The callus on your middle finger is so thick, you say you are a cook.
Do you think I believe it or not?
Do your Swedish chefs only use their middle fingers when cooking?
As soon as Shen Lie finished speaking, the foreigner's expression changed slightly.
Tian Hong, who was beside him, was already impatient and shouted: "Take it down!"
A knight in royal robes stepped forward and grabbed the foreigner who called himself Victor with his hands, intending to use grappling techniques to capture this man.
Unexpectedly, the foreigner suddenly became anxious. He jumped back to avoid the Jin Yiwei's grasp, and then stepped forward and punched the Jin Yiwei right in the face.
A cry of pain.
After being hit, Jin Yiwei covered his nose and staggered back.
"Ouch?"
Seeing the foreigner's fighting stance, Tian Hong was stunned, and soon became furious and said: "If you dare to resist arrest, I will rebel against you!"
Two more guards in imperial robes pulled out their wild goose feather knives from their waists, rushed in from outside the door, and bullied the daring foreigner one from the left and the other from the right.
Victor was forced to panic. He took a step back, bent down suddenly, and grabbed the firewood piled in the corner with one of his big, skinny hands.
Seeing his bending action, Shen Lie became alarmed, his expression changed slightly, he rushed up with a lunge, and then with a sharp sweeping kick, the foreigner was thrown to his back and fell.
Two sharp Yanling knives were placed on his neck, and Victor shouted like a pig: "Protest, I protest!"
"I want to protest to His Majesty the Emperor of your country..."
Before he finished speaking, Tian Hong raised his leg and kicked him hard with his big foot, causing the foreigner to scream in pain and curl up like a shrimp.
Tian Hong said coldly: "Clacking him!"
Shen Lie also smiled coldly, thinking that the emperor knows who you are...
The two horsemen in Jinyi picked up the foreigner, ran outside, took out the shackles from the horse, and tied him up.
After the brief fight, the small mill became quiet.
Shen Lie looked at Victor with a bruised nose and swollen face, then he walked slowly towards the pile of firewood, reached out and touched inside, and sure enough he found a loaded short musket from the pile of firewood.
Pick up this short musket.
Shen Lie fiddled with it carefully.
This short musket was very well made and heavy in weight. It was heavy in the hand. It had a front sight, a rear sight, and an open trigger. However, I couldn't find the match rope for a long time.
An idea popped up in Shen Lie's mind. This turned out to be a legendary flintlock short musket.
Although this gun looks a bit shabby, it looks very advanced, and there is an eye-catching badge inlaid on the shabby gun body.
The style of this emblem is clearly that of an evil dragon with wings, but it is not a Chinese dragon, but a fire-breathing dragon from European mythology.
Looking at this unique badge, Shen Lie was thoughtful and touched it with his hand, and found that the mark was actually gold-plated.
Which European country's coat of arms is this?
Shen Lie couldn't recognize it for a moment, so he carefully held the flintlock short musket, closed the trigger, and poured out the gun and gunpowder from the barrel.
Seeing the gunpowder falling, Tian Hong snorted coldly and said quietly: "These Thai people are really restless."
This cold snort was profound. As a rude warrior, Tian Hong had an instinctive aversion to these strange-looking Westerners.
Shen Lie caught the thumb-sized blunderbuss with his hand, held up the empty musket, and said with a smile: "Mr. Victor, according to the Ming Dynasty law, concealing firearms is a capital crime. I wonder if Mr. Victor has ever heard of Jinyiwei's imprisonment? "
Now the stolen goods were merged, and the identity of the Western craftsman was confirmed.
In an instant, Victor, whose nose was bruised and his face was swollen, turned ashen. As soon as he heard the cruel reputation of Jinyiwei's imprisonment, his tall body began to tremble like chaff.
Shen Lie and Tian Hong looked at each other again, and the corners of his mouth rose with a hint of an evil smile.
This foreigner was tall and thick, and looked very shrewd, but he was a little impatient. The two of them acted together in a show, and they deceived the truth at the same time.
Now that we have grasped the handle of this person, we have firmly grasped this person, so the more than ten acres of potatoes planted on the wasteland outside...
Got it so easily!
As Shen Lie handed the musket to Tian Hong, Tian Hong took the musket, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and said fiercely: "Search!"
Several Jinyi guards searched the small mill.
Not long after.
Some contraband items were found. In addition to this short blazing gun, the Jin Yiwei also found a small bag of gunpowder, a dozen blunderbuss, and a tattered Western military uniform in the pile of firewood.
There was also a pile of alfalfa, oats, and two sacks of potatoes.
This is the time when the sun rises three poles high.
Shen Lie looked at the pale Victor, and exchanged glances with Tian Hong. Now that he has this person under control, the scene must continue.
Tian Hong understood and said coldly: "It's too troublesome to send him to prison. Someone comes and drags this craftsman with ulterior motives out and chops it up!"
The two knights in royal robes cursed and kicked Victor hard on the legs, knocking him staggering, and then pushed him outside.
As soon as he heard that he was going to be beheaded, the tall foreigner screamed like a pig: "Spare my life, my lord, spare your life!"
Shen Lie picked up the tattered Western military uniform, looked at it, drank the Jin Yiwei, and said coldly: "Tell me, who are you, sir? What is your plan for infiltrating the Ming Dynasty capital like this?"
This basin of dirty water was poured over, and Victor shouted even louder: "I am really a cook, a cook in the army..."
Seeing that he still wanted to deny it, Shen Lie couldn't help but became furious. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the Yanling knife from the hand of a Jinyi guard, intending to kill this bastard who was telling lies.
Victor was embarrassed to say anything, so he could only say in detail with a sad face: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, I've recruited this villain, I've recruited you, I'm actually a lieutenant colonel in the Swedish Army."
Shen Lie then gave up angrily, and couldn't help cursing. If he had agreed to sell the mill earlier, he would still be able to save a hundred taels of silver.
He refused to drink a toast and was punished with a fine drink, he had to be beaten, and he was willing to tell the truth only after committing a capital crime. He was indeed an Angsa man, born in the year of a donkey.
As the foreigner confessed truthfully.
Shen Lie and Tian Hong suddenly realized that this person was a lieutenant colonel in the Swedish Army and an officer in the Kingdom's Royal Guards.
Later, this person committed a crime in the country and killed someone out of jealousy. He was desperate in Sweden, so he had to secretly board a cargo ship heading overseas and ended up in Asia by accident.
After this guy came to Asia, he first spent some time in Malacca and Nanyang, worked as a mercenary on a Dutch armed merchant ship for several years, and also went to Japan, and later came to the Ming Dynasty.
