Lu Ming

Chapter 413
The moment the fleet arrived, Shanghai County was crowded with people.

In fact, after the fleet circled Lujiazui, there were already people watching on the walls of the county town, and along the way, people shouting on the streets. Now the whole city knew that there was a strange ship on the river.

After that, starting from the city, the river was crowded with people.People in the Ming Dynasty watched excitedly the once-in-a-century spectacle on the river, and a tide of human heads kept surging along the riverside along with the noise.

The first person who felt something was wrong was Chen Changyun, the magistrate of Shanghai.Chen Zhixian is from Ningde, Fujian. He was a new Jinshi last year.

When Chen Zhixian heard the news and caught up with the city tower, the billowing black smoke from the giant ship on the river made him first think of wolf smoke.

Secondly, although a courier from Chongming Island came to report the situation yesterday, the courier didn't say that the commander-in-chief of King Qin would lead his troops into the Huangpu River?Not to mention running to such an inland area as Shanghai County.

So Chen Zhixian immediately ordered: close the city gate.

However, the people who eat melons do not have the sense of crisis that Chen Zhixian has.

On the river at this moment, with the blue sky as the bottom and white clouds as the belt, a string of slender boats with white sails, accompanied by ant-like civilian boats around, is slowly heading towards the county.Among them, the blue-gold giant ship is the most gorgeous, and the billowing black smoke adds a sense of mystery, making the viewers dazzled.

Soon, as the fleet gradually approached the river on the side of the city, with good eyesight, he immediately read the official title words embroidered on the three large flags on the mainmast of the Zhenman.

Shanghai County in the Ming Dynasty was a super-rich area, so the literacy rate must have exceeded 60.00%.So soon, the melon-eaters all figured out the owner of the boat—it turned out to be the country chief soldier from Fujian and Guangdong?
Although most Shanghainese don't know where the specific jurisdiction of the "Zhangchao Deputy Commander" is, the fact that he is a countryman has not escaped.

At the moment when the melon eaters were talking about it, several insiders in the crowd were scared to pee.These few spectators were all the managers of the Land Deed Alliance's family. After figuring out the identity of the person on the river, they reacted and rushed to the Xu family's mansion not far away.

After a group of people rushed into the house, they grabbed the gatekeeper by the collar and asked, "Where are you guys?"

The gatekeeper was frightened, and replied honestly: "We are discussing the matter in the big study!"

Then several messengers shouted all the way and ran to the big study: "Master, it's not good, the soldiers surnamed Cao are here to kill!"

At this time, the masters of the Land Deed Alliance are making noise in the study.After such a big event happened, everyone was present except for Mr. Huang who didn't come because of a foot attack.

The alliance received the news that Cao's personal leader Wang Dajun arrived in Hong Kong yesterday, causing Wang You to shoot down and flee.

As if being hit in the head with a stick, at that moment, the masters were too terrified to speak.

The problem now is that after the person surnamed Cao goes to Beijing, the alliance's private transfer of troops will definitely be exposed.Even if the backers of the group fought hard in the court and did not turn the case into a major crime of treason, the guerrillas who led the army lost their posts and were dismissed.

In fact, the danzhang surnamed Cao probably went to Beijing just yesterday.

In this way, when everything is made public, people will be vigilant, and no one will do this kind of thing in the future.And it is impossible for the alliance's backstage to waste political resources again to wipe everyone's ass.Rebellion!Whose body can carry it twice?
However, what is disgusting is that Xiong Dao can continue to set fires in the days to come! ?

How to break?Waiting online, urgent!
The gentlemen have been arguing from yesterday to today, and there is no result yet.

Then everyone heard the screams from outside.

"What's the noise? Humph, it's out of place!"

As the master, Master Xu Jin immediately walked out of the big study, stood under the eaves and drank angrily.

"Master Xu, it's a disaster, it's a disaster, the man surnamed Cao is driving the boat to the door!"

Xu Jin blinked, but didn't react for a while.

After looking at each other for a few seconds with these panic-stricken cleaners, Xu Jin slapped her thigh and rushed back into the room: "Everyone, go out with the students, something happened outside!"

So a group of gentlemen, accompanied by a large number of entourages and stewards, rushed out of the Xu family mansion.

The next moment, everyone stood in front of Xu's house, opened their mouths wide, and saw the sightseeing fleet that was anchoring.

The fleet at this moment is only about 250 meters away from the river bank.The Xu family's mansion is only separated by a bluestone road from the river bank, so both sides can see each other clearly.

The gentlemen standing on the stone steps in front of the door could even see the group of figures pointing and pointing on the top of the boat building opposite, among them Cao Zongbing, who was wearing a second-rank red official robe, was particularly conspicuous.

Enemies are delighted to meet each other.

"I said, which of these people is Mr. Xu? They all look similar."

It was Xue Haiyuan who spoke cheerfully.This gentleman is holding up the binoculars, one by one to distinguish the few masters opposite.Xue Haiyuan originally opened a trading company in Fuzhou City, and while doing business, he also took care of part of the underground work.

As the stalls spread across the crowd got bigger and bigger, the previous layout method of "one light and one dark" in the cities of the Ming Dynasty could no longer be carried out.

After all, there are only a few people who are engaged in intelligence through time travel, and the rest of the lords are all excited when they watch spy movies, but if they really want to let them go to the "enemy-occupied area" where the environment is dirty and they often have to kowtow, one by one. Shake your head like a rattle.

So this time Cao Zongbing went north, and the intelligence bureau began to implement the pilot project of "one person, one city": Xue Haiyuan, as the newly appointed head of the Beijing station, not only had to manage the local intelligence department, but also managed commercial affairs on the surface. All his subordinates are Ming people, and there will be no more time-traveling people calling him.

After hearing Xue Haiyuan's question, Zhang Dongdong, a member of the second rank, waved his hand indifferently, and made a leadership speech habitually: "Why do you care so much? We are here today to smash the authority of the landlord class in the south of the Yangtze River, not against a certain person."

Wearing a white navy general uniform, the handsome old man, the captain of the Zhenman, Mu Longcheng answered with a smile: "Yes, yes, no one is targeting anyone, the opposite is rubbish."

"That's the reason." Zhang Dongdong nodded and continued: "At the moment, you can't rebel, so you can only walk on the bottom line of the rules, fight without breaking, and demolish the house. When you turn against Daming in the future, these gentlemen can still run away Can't you go to Mexico?"

"Maybe he was exiled by us." When Mu Longcheng said this, he suddenly patted his belly: "Don't tell me, I'm going to have a little craving for tacos now. Hurry up, why don't you let me go Cannons drive people away, and then we get to work?"

"Don't panic, I guess the masters will leave soon." Xue Haiyuan on the side, after all, had contacted many wise masters in Fuzhou City, so he predicted lightly.

Sure enough, not long after Xue Haiyuan finished speaking, a large number of servants and servant girls poured out of the Xu family's mansion, while the gentlemen already ran towards the county in panic.

Just a few moments ago when the time-traveling people talked, the masters of the alliance also figured out the situation.

And as the owner of Xu's house, when Xu Jin saw the big ship close at hand, she immediately felt angry: "Desperate, deranged, how dare someone surnamed Cao do this, how dare he do this!?"

Immediately afterwards, he felt fear—among the crowds of onlookers inside and outside the county seat, he was the only one who knew best why these strange ships stopped in front of his house.

However, the Ming people who lived in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River had never seen a real western-style double-decker gunboat.Even if there was, it was the Franji boat that someone had seen in Zhoushan before the Jiajing year.

So from Xu Jin's point of view, he has no concept of side porthole shooting at all.This led to his cognition error: the Zhenman ship hidden in the gun door itself was not in danger, and then someone surnamed Cao would definitely send troops ashore in a small boat to rush into the Xu mansion to burn, kill and loot, just like all the pirates familiar to Ming people.

Her legs trembled and her face was pale. At this moment, Xu Jin was extremely terrified, and her terrified voice was filled with sternness: "Is the person surnamed Cao going to risk the world's disgrace, go back to his old job, and come ashore to rob?! "

"No!"

Just when all the gentry were panicking, a white, square-faced, middle-aged gentry in his forties explained the intentions of the passing crowd: "The big blue plywood boat has cannons hidden inside. It is to bombard the Xu family. Masters, this is a dangerous place, everyone hurry to the county seat. Master Xu, order the servants of the mansion to flee!"

Who is this commanding middle-aged man?An old friend across time: Bu Da Xing Bu Master.

After he went to Fuzhou City to sue Cao Chuan for his black case, Master Bu came to Shanghai County and lived in the house of his acquaintance, who was also his niece's in-law.

And not long ago, after the news of the riot in the Jiading county government spread, Master Bu, who was living at leisure, realized that there were benevolent and righteous people who resisted the Japanese army everywhere!
So Master Bu found an organization: he joined the Land Deed Alliance with tears in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, just as soon as the front foot joined the organization, the back foot was copied by the Cao thief, and the crisis was just around the corner!
However, Master Bu had traveled to Dayuan after all, and he knew the inside story of Cao thief-he had seen broadside artillery fire in the sea outside Dayuan.

So Master Bu guessed Cao thief's plan immediately, and began to calmly direct the alliance people to transfer into the county.

When the captain of the Zhenman, Mu Longcheng, saw that Xu Zhaili was retreating, he picked up his hand microphone and used the tweeter to notify the whole ship's gun crew to prepare to shoot.

So on the side of the Zhenman facing Xu's house, portholes began to open, and the black, thick and long gun barrels of the doors were exposed.

Then the melon-eaters stuck between the Zhenman and Xu's house were immediately shocked: what the fxxk?

After a short period of stupefaction, everyone who recognized it as a cannon started to run away crying and crying, and the river bank was in a state of chaos.Including the open ships surrounding the fleet, the Great Escape also started. The Zhenman has not only portholes on the side, but also portholes on the front and rear, and black pipes are all sticking out at this time.

On the double-layer gun deck, each layer has four guns responsible for shooting the front and rear.In other words, after excluding the eight artillery pieces that do not participate in the salvo, the Zhenman has a maximum of 32 artillery pieces capable of firing broadside salvos at a time.

The next moment, after a slight shudder, the Zhenmanship fired a round of earth-shattering volleys at Xu's house.

(End of this chapter)