The east is white and the sky is dawning. Soldiers are crowded outside the Chunfeng Tower. Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves is heard, and a new group of people comes in the distance to change the shift from last night. Everyone in the building also gets up. The kidnappers took advantage of the Chunfeng Tower.
The kitchen cooked food for themselves and also divided the hostages. Bi Daguan made a list and sent it out to the leader of the Qin army, who was the accomplice he wanted to exchange. Among them was Cao Dong's family from Shilixiang Restaurant.
Mr. Cao, the uncle of Cao Dong's family, Huang Widow from Jixiang Embroidery Shop in Xianyang, the old madam from Baihua House, and others, did not have Le Lan and Cai Guohou, but the deceased Cao Empress. He also said that he would take the lead first.
The five adults go to see the scenery and exchange hostages later.
Mr. Cui frowned when he saw this list and said to King Qin: "This old man Cao is the father of Empress Cao."
The King of Qin was shocked: "Could it be that the Cao family is a masterpiece from another country?"
Mr. Cui thought to himself, "It doesn't seem like it. Maybe he was bribed by them in the past two years." Then he ordered someone to find out when Shilixiang Restaurant would open.
Not long after, the people below found out that Shilixiang opened two months later than Fuyuntang. Moreover, Mr. Cao had a son who left Chang'an for Japan two years earlier. Mr. Cui hummed: "This guy named Cao is so cunning.
He sent his own son away, but got his nephew involved in the trouble." Nai ordered, "Since there is no rush to exchange hostages, there is still time to send smart people to interrogate Mr. Cao's nephew."
At the other end, Daguan Bi led his kidnappers, suppressing Zhu Tong, King Zhao and other five people, and went out from the main entrance of Chunfeng Tower in an honest manner. Behind each hostage was a kidnapper holding a musket to the back of his head. The Qin army did not dare to make a mistake, so they had to
Follow closely behind. The bad guys look far away, but the kidnappers are more majestic.
After leaving the south gate of Chang'an City, Bi Daguan took the lead and headed straight for Qinghua Mountain. However, he did not go up the mountain. He only turned into a path at the foot of the mountain. After a short circuit of Qinghua Mountain, there was a Dazhuangzi in front. Bi Daguan
The man then stopped his horse and stood there smiling. Not long after, the Qin army also arrived. Bi Daguan raised his whip and pointed at Zhuangzi and said: "General Qin, if we have enough people and horses, we can unite this Zhuangzi."
Surround."
Zhu Tong frowned: "What place is this?"
Bi Daguan smiled and said: "Don't worry, my lord, come in with me."
Just as he was talking, he saw an old man in his sixties coming out of the village, shouting at the top of his voice: "What are you doing! Who is this person!"
Official Bi smiled and handed over his hands: "Old man, may I ask if your boss is here?"
The old man said: "This is a warehouse, how can the boss be here?"
Bi Daguan said: "We want to go in and take a look at the goods, is that okay?"
The old man said: "Of course not. We already said this is a warehouse." He waved his hand and said, "Come on, hurry up!"
Official Bi handed over his hand again: "I'm sorry." Then he shouted, "Take it!"
One of the kidnappers jumped off his horse and ran to the old man's side with a few words. Before the old man came to his senses, he was already twisting his arm and holding him behind him. The old man shouted to the sky: "Someone is coming! There are robbers! Strong men are robbing -"
Bi Daguan ignored him and urged his horse to go straight into the village. The kidnappers behind him followed, and the Qin army also followed.
When I entered the village, I saw that there was a large, square, flat land covered with grass. There were two square wooden frames with fishing nets placed at the two ends, which were as high as the door. Behind them were tall houses.
There are more than a dozen rows, and it looks like the warehouse that the old man mentioned. Some warehouse doors are open, and some are closed. Some men are standing or sitting at the door, of different ages. When they see them entering the village, they all shout.
, someone banged the gong.
Bi Daguan stood on his horse, looked around, laughed, and then slowly ran towards a warehouse with his horse's hooves kicking. Standing in front of the warehouse was a man in his thirties, with a dark face and wide eyes.
, shouted: "Who is coming!"
Bi Daguan turned over and dismounted, and the kidnappers also pushed Zhu Tong and others off their horses. The man stepped forward to stop him, but the two kidnappers pointed muskets at his chest. They were too frightened to move. Bi Daguan raised his hand and waved his hand.
:"please."
I only heard King Zhao laugh and say: "My lord, let's see what interesting things are hidden here." He strode inside.
Bi Daguan smiled and said: "Your Majesty is brave enough." He kicked open the warehouse door.
The warehouse was extremely high, and the door was also huge, facing east. As the door opened, it creaked, and the sunlight from outside just shone in. King Zhao exclaimed, "Oh!" Zhu Tong and others hurried to follow. They saw this
There were large windows on both sides of the warehouse, which was very bright. There were many large shelves inside, and all kinds of muskets were neatly stacked on the shelves. Zhu Tong exclaimed: "What kind of warehouse is this!" He turned to look at the commander He Yun.
He Yun was also shocked. He glanced at the warehouse and said, "The general will never know!"
King Zhao pointed out: "Look at the back! Isn't that an artillery piece? Oh my god! This artillery is beautiful! The artillery pieces of our Zhao country are not that big."
I saw an iron frame at the back, divided into two levels, with a large, oily cannon placed on each level. He Yun exclaimed: "That is the Schmidt No. 3 newly released by Red Bones last year. It is an anti-recoil rifled gun."
Cannon! One hundred thousand taels of silver each! When did we buy this?"
Bi Daguan laughed loudly: "The entire Qin State has not bought one, and there are only two in the warehouse. General He, your Qin court is really very poor."
Before he finished speaking, someone outside was heard shouting: "Who is breaking into people's houses without permission! Is there any royal law in the Qin Kingdom?"
Zhu Tong was already standing in front of the musket stand with his hands behind his hands. Hearing this, he shouted: "Bring in!"
Before the officers, soldiers or kidnappers could take action, a manager-looking man in a brocade jacket ran in angrily, pointed at them and shouted: "We have sent the police! The official will be here soon!"
Zhu Tong sneered: "Report to an official? What official to report to? An official who protects you?"
The steward raised his neck and said loudly: "We are from the Gao family!"
The whole place was shocked! Zhu Tong narrowed his eyes: "Gao family? Which Gao family?"
The steward's lips curled up: "When you mention the Gao family, the Gao family you think of first is our boss!"
Zhu Tong pointed to the musket on the shelf: "Is this from the Gao family?"
"nature!"
Zhu Tong hummed: "The Gao family is so rich, they are richer than the prince."
King Zhao came around from behind and asked, "Where did the Gao family buy these things? Doesn't Red Bones only sell firearms to the government?"
Zhu Tong said: "Ping'an Prefecture is not the government?"
King Zhao said "Oh": "I forgot."
The steward was stunned: "Bought? This is not bought, we made it ourselves."
Everyone was shocked: "Did it? Who did it? Where did it do it?"
The steward pointed south: "The factory is in the mountains, so it's easy to get wood. Our place is just a warehouse."
Everyone was stunned again. King Zhao took a musket from the shelf and weighed it. He looked at it carefully for a while and smiled: "This is made of wood."
"What?!"
King Zhao casually threw the gun to Zhu Tong, and Zhu Tong hurriedly stretched out his hands to catch it. Once he took the gun, he thought it was just wood. Looking at the light again, Zhu Tong breathed a sigh of relief. "It's really wood."
The steward looked at them for a while inexplicably. "You...don't think these are real guys?"
King Zhao quickly walked to Schmidt No. 3, stretched out his hand to touch it, knocked it a few more times, and said with a smile: "This one is also made of wood."
The steward said: "The real thing costs one hundred thousand taels of silver!" King Zhao turned over and sat on the cannon barrel and laughed. The steward shouted distressedly, "Sir! This one is very expensive!"
King Zhao said: "You're fake!"
The steward said: "This is a model! A one-to-one simulation model! It was customized by the Zhao State Handan Institute of Technology!"
"Plop!" King Zhao fell from the barrel to the ground. "What?! Who customized it?"
"Handan Institute of Technology." The steward said, "They customized two simulation models of Schmidt No. 3 artillery and said they would be placed at the entrance of the school to control feng shui. Their school used to be a cemetery."
King Zhao was stunned for a long time before he got up and patted the cannon body: "How much does one cost?"
The steward said: "I'm just a warehouse keeper. How would I know?"
Zhao Wang said: "How can you use a cannon model to suppress Feng Shui? You have to get a Zhong Kui anyway. What nonsense! Besides, polytechnic schools pay attention to materialism, so what's the superstition about Feng Shui? If you want to suppress Feng Shui, you should send it to Prince Zhao's Mansion. If you can suppress it,
The Feng Shui of the entire Zhao Kingdom is included in their school."
Zhu Tong coughed twice: "Mr. Wei, this is made by the school. If Mr. Wei wants it, he can order two more. The wooden ones will probably not cost much."
The steward hurriedly said: "This is expensive! This one is one to one. Except that it can't fire, it's exactly the same as the real one."
Zhu Tongnai asked: "Is this a warehouse for a woodworking workshop?"
"That's right." The manager said, "Our factory specializes in the production of wooden simulated weapons, whether cold weapons or firearms. As small as darts and sleeve arrows, as large as the Qinglong Yanyue Sword of Guan Yun, Yue Fei's Liquan Divine Spear, new styles
There are muskets, artillery, and grenades. They are all made just like the real ones." As he said that, he took out a stack of name cards from his arms, "This is the name card of our factory. We are in Chang'an, Ping'an Prefecture, Beijing, and Tianjin.
, there are semicolons in Guangzhou, a branch in Shanghai will open in the first month of the year, and next year there will be semicolons in Jinling, Taiyuan, Chengdu, and Changsha."
Zhu Tong took the name card and took a look. It said "Gao's Arms Shop" on the top, with a note on the side: specializing in manufacturing various simulated weapons. He smiled and said, "It's quite interesting. It's really good at making money."
The steward hurriedly sent the name card to King Zhao and others, and then walked to Bi Daguan and gave him one too. Bi Daguan pinched the name card and looked at the steward with a half-smile. The steward is a discerning man.
, and another one was given to the general of the Qin army, and the rest were not given to the kidnapping officers and soldiers.
Zhu Tong turned around and looked at Bi Daguan. Bi Daguan sighed: "After several years of hard work, I have completely lost. I have accepted it."
Zhu Tong chuckled and said, "You have worked hard for several years just to inspect a woodware factory in the Gao family?"
Bi Daguan looked at the steward and said, "May I ask, what is the use of that open space outside?"
The steward said: "Football field? That's where everyone usually plays football to relieve their boredom."
"Kick ball?"
"Yes, playing football is not the same as Cuju." The steward then talked about how to play football. He finally said, "Now young people outside like it, and schools in the south have begun to have regular competitions."
Bi Daguan sighed and said with a wry smile: "I still don't understand where I lost."
"Lost with only a little knowledge." Zhu Tong pointed at the cannon and said seriously, "I don't even know whether it is a real firearm or a wooden model. Is this difficult to check? The officials' subordinates would just take a look at it from a distance and run away.
Go back and tell the good news."
Bi Daguan shook his head and said nothing, and sighed again. After being stunned for a while, he said: "That's it, pick up the accomplices." He turned around and left. Zhu Tong, others and the Qin army followed behind.
When I returned to Chang'an City, I didn't return to Chunfeng Tower. Instead, I went to a very small dock next to the Bahe River. There was a steam engine speedboat parked next to the dock, and the words "Chengtianfu First Shipyard" were clearly painted on the boat. The Qin State
The leader sent people to pick up Mr. Cao, Widow Huang and others they wanted. After that, the hostage exchange was very smooth.
Everyone else got on the boat, and the deck was already full of gunmen aiming at the dock. Bi Daguan took another look at Chang'an City with his hands behind his hands, and said to Zhu Tong: "Master Zhu said last night that I insist on you coming here because I want you to come."
You know how you lost. It’s not the case.”
"Oh?" Zhu Tong said with a smile, "What's the reason?"
Bi Daguan said: "I really want to ask Master Zhu about those things. But Japan is not prepared to let Master Zhu live today."
Zhu Tong raised his eyebrows: "Do you still want to kill me?"
"That's right." Bi Daguan said seriously, "I just want to kill Lord Zhu."
Zhu Tong turned his head and looked at him: "Why did you change your mind again?"
Bi Daguan shook his head: "It's useless to kill you. You're dead...it's useless." He glanced behind Zhu Tong and smiled bitterly, "If the gunman accidentally kills someone else, we'll be in trouble."
Zhao Wangzheng lay on Zhu Tong's neck with a smile and waved his hand: "Hello, Bi Daguan, goodbye Bi Daguan!"
Bi Daguan took one more look at Chang'an, turned around and boarded the ship without looking back. The Qin gunmen on the dock were also facing the ship. Thick smoke billowed from the bow of the ship, and soon it started to move.
King Zhao was still lying on Zhu Tong's neck: "Just let them go like this?"
"Well." Zhu Tong said, "It would be better to let them go. This time they lost miserably, Situ Cen will not give up." He turned back and glanced at King Zhao, "If Zheng Wei and other four countries had not wanted to seize Zhao, Zhao would have lost
How can I join the Federation smoothly?"
King Zhao rolled his eyes: "You are the only ones with more tricks. What does this surname Bi mean?"
Zhu Tong said: "It means that from last night to today, he feels that he lost not to me, but to others. Killing me is useless."
"Ah? Who?"
"For example, find out the identity of Master Huiban, take away her whole family, kill the cook Shen Daming, hide the person who detained the widow from the Ding family, let the government know that Baihualou and Jixiang Embroidery are an accomplice, and notify the Gao family
The person who converted the firearms warehouse into a woodworking storehouse may be the Jin State or the Federation. He doesn't know who is secretly helping me and ruining his affairs."
King Zhao was stunned: "Didn't you do all of this?"
"I did it." Zhu Tong said seriously, "But I didn't tell him!" King Zhao rolled his eyes.
As everyone got ashore from the pier, a woman wearing a gorilla felt cloak flashed past the roadside and walked towards them with a dignified expression. Zhu Tong and King Zhao clasped their fists together: "Miss Mei!"
Miss Mei looked at the two of them and smiled, and went straight to Ding Bozhang, the imperial censor. Ding Bozhang was shocked and pointed at her without saying a word for a long time. Miss Mei bowed gracefully: "My niece pays homage to uncle. Thank you for your hard work, uncle."