Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 108
Jinling City is rare to be quiet, and even the Qinhuai River, which used to be noisy until dawn, has closed down under the strong suppression of the Jiangnan camp.

By the way, he overturned and captured many troublemakers.

Jia Hun didn't have time to take care of them either, so he locked them in prison and starved them for a few days to make them sober.

It was late at night, after Jia Hui drank a bowl of millet and sea cucumber porridge, he ordered his three concubines to put on armor for him.

Xuan He, who has a pair of long legs, is a dancer, and she can still lift her armor after regular exercise.

Lined with his own bright red Suzaku woven gold dragging robe, hung armbands and iron ring arms, and then put on a gold woven cotton armor battle skirt decorated with Suzaku patterns and a square-necked double-breasted sleeveless fish-scale leaf-length waist armor.

After the main body of the armor was put on, the crested ibis and egret, who had been waiting by the side, also carried Jia Hun's stone bow, quiver, goose feather knife, dagger, fox tail and other small items, and put them on the belt, and finally put them on the table. Put on the pointed red-tasseled iron helmet, and the armor is complete.

It's not that he doesn't want to use the newly developed full-body cotton armor, it's because Jia Hun is not resistant to heat, and he is afraid that he will sweat and stay dehydrated or pass out due to heatstroke.

So I chose a relatively cool and light combination.Stretch your arms and legs, move your body to understand where there is a problem with the transmission, and debug it a few times.

After a while, I may have to go out and kill people myself. The condition of the armor is related to the property and life, so it must not be sloppy!
The last uncomfortable place was also adjusted by Bailu, and the three concubines lined up in a row. They didn't say anything, but just bowed towards Jia Hun.

Jia Hun sighed and looked back at the three beauties.

"Stay in the room and don't run. There's going to be a war, and it's dangerous outside. If there's anything, talk about it when I come back." After finishing speaking, Jia Hun turned around to the door again, and left the assigned room without looking back. own room.

"Patriarch wins!"

. . . . . .

In the lobby of the Ministry of War, several people who are in command of this counter-insurgency are sitting on high chairs with the servants who accompanied them to announce the decree. They said nothing but looked down at the map of Jinling City in a daze.

As early as half a month ago, the emperor had sent someone to Jinling with an imperial decree to endorse Jia Hun's command of the Jiangnan army.

Although Jia Hun has the discretionary right to mobilize the troops of the province or even the surrounding provinces when a rebellion occurs during the inspection period, the governors of the five armies in the past have never used this right. They all inform the court in advance, and the emperor Then formally decree to bestow tiger charms and so on.

Jia Hun also didn't want to make special troubles, and still followed the old methods of his predecessors.

It was Dai Ming's partner who entered the palace at the same time who came to declare the decree.

Although Eunuch Dai has not shown the content of the imperial decree to everyone for more than ten days, he also informed everyone of his position in advance to facilitate the preparation of the battle plan in advance.

The commander of the left army, Jia Hun, the deputy commander of the Jinling garrison, Guo Biao, Marquis of Wuning, Xia Ming, the eunuch of the supervising army, and Feng Tai will also be officially appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan battalion.
Everything that needs to be done has already been done, just wait for the first fire of the White Lotus Sect.

. . . . . .

The curfew is definitely a bad thing for the upcoming White Lotus Sect.

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The [-] Daqi field soldiers entered the city to patrol, let alone a group of servants who gave birth to children, even if they had undergone strict training, it was impossible for the frontier soldiers who had experienced war to escape such a dense patrol.

They have already received an order that any suspicious person who cannot prove his identity or runs away when he sees anyone on the street can be killed on the spot.

For example, everyone in the Qinhuai River patrol team who had just changed shifts had a head in their hands.

. . .

Lao Hu's family, who lives near Cheng'en Temple, started out as a cloth business, and then it grew bigger and bigger, even selling silk.It was also a good time for them to catch up. At that time, the king of Dongping County defeated Heyi and destroyed the Kamakura shogunate. The entire four islands of the He clan fell into the flames of war in an instant.

With the lack of supreme power, the ambitious people in the four islands suddenly rose up and moved towards the position of the world's people. At worst, they wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to expand their own strength.As a result, the entire four islands suddenly became a mess, which has been crazy for several years.How can the big names from all over the world care about maintaining order when they are fighting frantically?Only when the daimyos found out that their economy was on the verge of collapse did they stop their conquests and restore people's livelihood.

During this period, the merchants of Daqi made a lot of money, and the Hu family was no exception. Because of the good quality and good reputation, even if the production of cloth was restarted on their own site, the daimyos still like to order a piece of cloth from the Hu family from time to time. With the batch of cloth and satin, the business scale of the Hu family has grown by leaps and bounds.

Up to now, the Hu family can be regarded as one of the best cloth merchants even in Jinling City, and their business has even reached the Delhi Sultanate.
In the past sixty years, the Hu family has produced a total of two Jinshi and six Juren. Although the most official position is a doctor, but in Jinling, which no longer has the style of the former capital, the Hu family can already be regarded as an official family.

In order to improve efficiency and scale of production, the Hu family decided to abandon the traditional low-efficiency production methods such as going to the countryside to purchase, and instead purchased a large amount of land, people, and looms, built a row of houses and began to concentrate on the production of cloth and satin.

The appalling and bloody oppression began. In the information on embroidered clothes, there was even a case of being locked up in the room for more than ten years and then dying suddenly after learning how to use a loom at the age of seven. There are countless such things!
After Jia Hun knew about this matter, he also wondered why the Hu family didn't relieve some pressure and let these people have time to reproduce on their own.Tan Ji settled the accounts for Jia Hun.

The loss incurred during the period from the pregnancy of the slave girl until the child learns to use the loom at the age of six or seven is greater than the loss of buying another child of six or seven years old.
Jia Hun was so shocked by the bill that he couldn't speak.

The Hu family is not a special case, almost all industries that require a lot of repetitive labor are like this!
But even so, the price increase for six or seven-year-old children in the market is still negligible.
I thought that I was killing people like hemp on the battlefield, and I, who was burdened with a lot of killings, became a living Bodhisattva who saved the suffering compared to this group of conscienceless Jiangnan families.

The reason turned out to be that if you kill yourself, you will be killed with one blow, so it will be a pleasure!
If this group of humanoid creatures is not eliminated, Jia Hun will not let him go!

Whether there is slavery or not.
In the alley between Hu's house and neighbor Lu's house,
Servant class.

"Fourth brother, why hasn't seventh brother come back?" A young servant asked the big man in front of him with a worried face.

It has been more than an hour, and the time it takes to go back and forth from the Hu family to the Shengjiao sub-helm, even if it is a holiday, it does not take half an hour on weekdays.

"I don't know, I'm afraid it's more ominous than good." The burly fourth brother also looked worried, and today the yamen suddenly announced a curfew.It would be fine if the announcement was made during the day, but it would be fatal to go door-to-door before the sun sets, especially when a group of military masters with helmets and armor knocked on the door to notify them. The masters of the two Jinshi nodded and bowed in front of them, something must have happened!

When I went to the branch meeting yesterday, what I said was to keep in touch at any time.This is great, when I came back from work an hour ago, I took a look at the street, and it was really a military master all over the street!

Could it be that the news that the Holy Church was going to raise troops was known by the dog court?

I'm afraid that Lao Qi has already been given by this group of soldiers.
The more the fourth brother thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and the more uneasy he thought about it, the more he thought about "being discovered", the more likely he was.

"Fourth brother, what should we do now?" A servant wearing a cap seemed to think that the Holy Cult uprising had been discovered by the dog court, and hurriedly asked the fourth brother who was the backbone of the group.

The fourth brother was silent and did not answer.

"Fourth brother, I remember you said that it was done at Haishizheng?"

Someone in the crowd suddenly raised his head to look at the four, and said to the fourth brother as if he had suddenly realized.

"Hey, that's right, fourth brother, I remember you said that when you came back the day before yesterday."

"That's right, that's right, I heard it too. It seems that the rudder will shoot a firecracker into the sky at Haishi!" A young man wearing a sackcloth and mopping his forehead came over, and he was very smart at first glance.

"I don't know anything, that's called fireworks!" Another servant wearing a net towel hurriedly corrected the mistake of the forehead-wiping youth.

"Fart! That's called a signal flare!" A big man with a bulbous nose next to him couldn't stand it anymore, and corrected the two of them.

Ah, is that so?

How can I not remember?

The fourth brother was a little confused by the firm speeches of several people, scratching his head and carefully recalling the content of the meeting the day before yesterday.

"Oh, fourth brother, did you forget? Didn't you say that the day before yesterday! If you can't get in touch with the sub-rudder, let's see when the sub-rudder will light up the firecrackers!"

"The firecracker is a fart, that's called a signal flare!"

"It's firecrackers!"

"That's called fireworks!"

"You two. Bah! Forget it. Fourth brother, anyway, you said the day before yesterday that you have to wait for the rudder to send out a white flare!"

"It seems to be the case"

"Yeah, yeah, I remember that too!"

The few people saw the confused look on the fourth brother's face, and they became anxious in an instant. They moved to his side and began to confirm with him one by one. He began to talk to the fourth brother.

it seems to be like this?

Hearing everyone started to say this, the fourth brother also began to vaguely remember that he had indeed said this sentence, did he really forget it?
Forget it, never mind, since everyone said so, it must be because I remembered it wrong.

"Ah, yes, that's the case! By the way, what time is it?" The fourth brother also showed that this was the case, and asked the big man with a bulbous nose.

"It's a quarter of an hour to Haishi!" The big man with the bulbous nose said confidently.

"Yeah, I got it, Xiaojiu, keep your body light, go up to the roof and look at Cheng'en Temple later!"

"Okay." The young servant Xiao Jiu hurriedly responded, but he was not very interested.Up to now, he also guessed that Seventh Brother might have been given by the military master outside.
Thinking that after killing the master's family, he would fight desperately with the military masters on the street, and thinking that Brother Qi, who was much better than him, was killed by those military masters, Xiao Jiu became more and more flustered.

. . . . . .

Outside Cheng'en Temple.

After Xiuyi's investigation, the location of the branch of the White Lotus Sect in Jinling has basically been determined.

It's just that no one knows whether it is Cheng'en Temple's own idea or the wish of Buddhism, or what the White Lotus Sect has done to Cheng'en Temple.
Forget it, let's clean up the mess in Jinling City first.

A few men in black clothes and black face scarves sneaked over with three thick cylindrical sticks and hid at the northeast corner of Cheng'en Temple.

"Boss, the firecrackers are ready!" A man in black whispered to the man holding a knife who was vigilant about his surroundings.

"That's called a signal flare," said the man in black who was holding the knife.

"Yes, yes, flare, when shall we light it?"

The man holding the knife turned his head to look at Cheng'en Temple.

"Hurry up, let's fire the cannon when the bell rings!" the man holding the knife said in a muffled voice.

"Ring the bell? Do Buddhist temples still ring the bell at night?" The man in black was a little puzzled.

Fanzhong is the big bell in the bell tower of the temple.

There are generally two kinds of bells in the temple, one is the Buddhist bell in the bell tower.The other is the calling bell hung indoors, which is used to summon the monks in the temple or make announcements.

They were outside the temple, so they naturally heard the Buddhist bell.

"Our people sneaked in."

"okay."

The man in black stopped asking questions, and sat quietly beside the signal flare, waiting for the bell to ring.

On the roof of the Hu family's servant room, Xiao Jiu also looked nervously in the direction of Cheng'en Temple.In the room, the fourth brother and the servants of the Hu family were also very nervous.Hold the dick thing in hand.

Most of them are nursing homes, and the nursing homes who are currently on mission in the Hu family are also with them. The leader is called the third brother among the servants of the Hu family. The two of them are the heads of the second class of nursing homes. Well, the two brothers have already discussed some details, such as who goes on business and who goes to the meeting.

Just like today, the third brother had asked someone to open the back door and was waiting.

In order not to delay the servants changing shifts, the Hu family generously put a chiming clock in the servants' room, of course, it was the cheapest kind, and built a separate cabinet to tightly wrap the chiming clock inside.

As it got closer and closer to Haishi, everyone began to sweat their palms and swallowed nervously.

The lobby of the Ministry of War is brightly lit, and eunuchs, both civil and military, are all wearing armor and sitting on high chairs. Some are wandering, some are trembling nervously, some are staring at the chime clock, and some are joking with their friends. .

Jia Hun sat behind the hall table, closed his eyes and waited for the coming of Haishi.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and even the few people who were talking closed their mouths, looking uneasily at the long needle on the chime clock that was constantly moving towards the fixed point.

The entire main hall can be heard, and the only sound other than the wind seems to be the ticking of the gears of the chiming clock.

In Cheng'en Temple, the monk who quietly took off the chiming bell and carried it to the side of the Buddhist bell did not light any fire, but gently held a firefly sent from outside this afternoon, and used the faint light source through his sleeve. Dial behind illuminated glass
Tick ​​tick
The servants in the classroom were sweating profusely and drenched their clothes, but none of them wiped their sweat, but all nervously stared at the long needle of the chiming clock.

The long needle is getting closer and closer to the vertex.
click!

Obviously, it was only a slight mechanical sound at ordinary times, but now it is as good as the sound of bells and drums in the eyes of everyone.

Karakala.
dong dong dong.
A series of mechanical sounds came to everyone's ears, and the time of Hai...has arrived.

　The first update, sorry, the following things are not very easy to write, there are too many things to design, so the writing is very slow...

　　
　
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