Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 14

Bang, another gunshot.

One of the attendants who was bandaging Shenghua fell straight down and his head was blown out.

Li Yu's gun muzzle emitted green smoke.

The sudden change made the other living people present dumbfounded.

Just watch him continue to pour gunpowder and stab it with a stick.

Then he stuffed the bullets under the linen cloth and continued to poke them firmly with the stick.

……

When Li Yu was about to complete the last step of loading.

The follower finally reacted, threw away his bow and arrow, and ran into the woods.

"Killing, killing." He screamed as he ran.

Li Yu finally finished loading and collected the note slowly.

I blew on the match rope to make sure it burned brightly.

He plunged into the woods and silenced him.

Fucheng still stood there blankly, his hands trembling as if he had Parkinson's disease.

On the ground, Shenghua, whose head was covered in iron sand, could no longer roll, and his blood was almost drained.

About half a cup of tea later, a faint gunshot came from deep in the forest.

When Li Yu came back, other followers happened to arrive.

"Don't come over here, please turn your back."

Fucheng's two followers didn't know what happened and obeyed obediently.

Lin Huaisheng was holding a short knife and sitting on a tree stump, whittling a half-finished wooden doll.

"Ayu, what should I do? I'm done, I killed someone."

Snap, Li Yu slapped Fucheng on the face.

"Wake up and stop crying."

"Dispose of the body as if it never happened. No one will know."

……

After a while, Fucheng gradually regained his composure.

"Brother, I listen to you, I will have them buried right now."

"Wait a minute, he's not dead yet, kill him."

Li Yu held his matchlock gun sideways and pointed at Shenghua, who was still breathing on the ground.

Fucheng picked up the knife on the ground and stabbed it tremblingly.

One stab, two stabs, three stabs, the wounds were deep, but not much blood flowed out.

2 hours later.

They just came down from Qizi Mountain.

The bodies, blood stains, and personal belongings of Shenghua's master and servant were dug and buried separately.

In order to seal the deal, Fucheng promised two followers 100 taels each.

They are both family-born, and their loyalty can be assured.

Along the way, Fucheng's face was changing, very exciting, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Li Yu was very relaxed and kept cleaning his gun all the way.

He successfully obtained the handle of Fucheng, a second-generation official.

The two of them worked together to kill the legitimate son of a second-grade Manchu official, which was much worse than Poitian.

"We've been together for a long time, so today's matter should be treated as a vote of approval!"

"From now on, we share the blessings and the hardships. Together we can go sideways in Suzhou Prefecture."

"..."

In order to hide from others, the two still went to a restaurant to eat.

It's still Deyuelou, and all kinds of exquisite dishes are served on the table like water.

In the private room, the two of them screened away all the servants.

"Brother Fucheng, I have a favor to ask of you, brother."

"Say, brother's business is my business."

"I am a scholar, not good at wielding swords or sticks. But the world is not peaceful now. In order to defend myself, I would like to ask someone to help me get some muskets."

Fucheng looked straight at Li Yu, his expression changing.

"I can help with this matter, but the imperial court has explicitly prohibited firearms from flowing into the public. You can't take them out casually. If someone reports you, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you."

"Don't worry, brother. I am defending myself and will never cause trouble."

Fucheng nodded and whispered in his ear.

It turns out that he has black market connections.

The men stationed at the Eight Banners in various provinces report losses every year due to training.

The lost muskets flowed into the black market at high prices.

Five times more than the normal price.

"Do you have a flintlock gun?" "You can get one as long as you spend more money. The Yi merchant ship went to Guangzhou to transport tea on the [-]th and paid the sailors to buy a few."

"Will they sell it?"

"Why don't you want to do this? They risked their lives to go to Guangzhou to sell tea, for what purpose? Isn't it just to make money?"

Fucheng drank a little too much, and he was so drunk that he couldn't stop talking.

"As long as the price is right, let alone a few broken guns. All the artillery on their ships can be unloaded and sold."

"Really?"

"The year before last, the Minister of War inspected the armaments of Guangdong Province. The men of the Eight Banners Artillery Brigade stationed in Guangzhou had already sold the artillery in the camp for money. What do you think they did?"

"Could it be that you're looking for a barbarian merchant to buy it?"

"Yes, they scraped together money to buy three naval guns from a 300-year-old barbarian merchant ship, and they managed to cope with it."

……

Early in the morning, Li Yu rushed to the shore of Shihu.

On the construction site, dozens of masons were building houses, and stones, bricks, and logs were piled all over the place.

Fan Jing has been living and eating on the construction site these days and is very dedicated.

He quickly took Li Yu to inspect the construction site and explained the process.

"According to your drawings, drainage ditches were dug on the outside first, foundations were laid with stones, and each area was painted with lime first."

"Is the budget enough?"

"The foreman said that 2000 taels was probably not enough. Because the materials we used were so good, he said he had never seen such extravagant materials for building a house."

"You don't need to worry about the money. First build the surrounding houses. The warehouse and meeting hall in the middle can be built first."

"Don't worry, I'll be watching day and night."

Li Yu patted him on the shoulder to express trust.

He was also rewarded privately with 3 taels of silver to support his family.

Local people who are ambitious and have a family are worth cultivating.

……

However, Suzhou Mansion is too peaceful.

Cunjutang seems a bit eye-catching and is always mentioned inadvertently by people.

Officials, Pan's family, idlers, and colleagues always ask about the progress of building a house from time to time.

This feeling made Li Yu feel very bad.

If the water is too clear, big fish cannot hide.

Something needs to be done to make the water in Suzhou Prefecture so muddy that we can't see how happy the fish are under the water.

On a bright spring afternoon, he convened a meeting of many people.

The double red flower stick crow, the gentleman Liu Qian, the local scholar Fan Jing, and the swordsman bodyguard Lin Huaisheng.

In order to keep it secret, I did not choose to stay in the hall or go to a restaurant.

Instead, I bought roast chicken, braised pork, lamb chops, pork head, and two jars of fine wine for a picnic in the countryside.

Chewing and bragging at the same time.

Liu Qian, with a stern look on his face, grabbed a roast chicken and ate it fiercely, feeling very satisfied with his current life.

Since joining Cunju Hall, I have never been beaten.

"This time, we need you to do something big for the sake of the club."

"The enemy who framed eldest brother is still alive and kicking. I want to take action on the Dong family."

"Okay, fuck him." Crow put down the wine bowl and responded immediately.

"Don't tell anyone what happened today. Otherwise, you will be kicked out of the hall." Li Yu said seriously.

Except for the crow, everyone else immediately nodded and obeyed.

"Raven, what do you want to say?"

"Can't even my eldest brother talk about this?"

"Yes, because I want to eradicate the Dong family and wipe it completely from the ground of Suzhou Mansion."

……

Li Yu still smiled with his signature smile and pulled up a handful of grass from the ground.

"Just like this, uprooting it will prevent it from growing again in the future."

The back of Crow's neck felt a little cold, so he shrank his head and nodded to show that he understood.

"Remember that if it gets out."

"I'm afraid that the Cunjutang brothers will have to change their careers collectively and become water bandits in Taihu Lake."

"Don't worry, military advisor." Everyone said in unison.

That evening, a small boat quietly sailed into the stone lake in the dusk.

To keep it secret, fishermen were not even hired.

Instead, Lin Huaisheng rowed and the others took the boat.

Liu Qian wore a black night suit and tinkered with his technical equipment under the oil lamp in the cabin.

Blade, long wire, iron pick, lard, beef soaked in sweat medicine, and a bag of lime powder.

(End of this chapter)