Win the Ding 1617

ps: This chapter is a bit heavy-handed, I hope you will not shoot bricks.

With the help of two accompanying guards, Lin Wenbing jumped out of the four-wheeled steel carriage under the curious and envious eyes of a group of idlers and bearers on the street, and stretched out his clothes. Robe, straightening the sea dragon leather hat on his head, Shi Shiran walked to the gate of Hong Mansion.

Hong Chengchou's house is located at No. 59 Nanluogu Lane, Di'anmen East Street, Beijing today, with Heizhima Hutong to the north.The gate is in the north of Dongkou Road of Fangzhuanchang, with a majestic momentum, and there are two iron lions at the gate.Lanterns with Hong Chengchou's official titles hung high on the five steps.

"Governors of the three sides, Prince Taibao, Minister of the Ministry of War, governors of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan for military affairs"!

He took a look at this prestigious official title, and then looked at the civil and military officials who lined up in a long line at the door, although Governor Hong was not in the capital right now, these many visitors already showed Lord Hong's power.

As soon as he walked up the third step, several family members on the lazy stools at the door greeted him.

"Sir, may I ask why you are here? Do you have a name card? My Master Supervisor is not in the capital. If you have something to do, please leave a name card. After the Master Supervisor returns to Beijing, I will visit you."

It seems that the rules in Hong's residence are good, they didn't turn the family into a group of powerful and evil servants, at least there is still some etiquette in face.

"Please report on your behalf." [

Lin Wenbing addressed the headed family in a neither humble nor overbearing manner in Mandarin with a Fujian accent, "Lin Wenbing, a fellow from Quanzhou, Fujian, was entrusted by his fellow villager Hong Gongqi Qiyin, and has a letter from his family. I hope you can do me a favor."

Lin Wenbing is talking here.A personal attendant next to him sent a door bag, which contained ten silver dollars.

It turned out to be a fellow from the same village, and he was delivering letters for Hong Qiyin.The head of the family squeezed the hard door bag, immediately with smiles on their faces, invited Lin Wenbing to sit in the gatehouse, arranged for a servant to make a cup of Tieguanyin for him, and went to the house to report.

Who is Hong Qiyin, anyone in this mansion who has ears and a heart knows.Hong Chengchou lost his father when he was young, and his family was poor, so he had to go around selling tofu with tofu.While selling.Hong Qiyin, who often went to the elder's house of the same clan, listened to lectures outside the Village Learning Academy run by Shuigouguan.After going back and forth, Hong Qiyin found out that the nephew who bought dried tofu was a scholar, so he took Hong Chengchou as his apprentice for free and asked him to pick up books again.He studied under Hong Qiyin for five years.Only then did Hong Chengchou have the opportunity to continue his studies in Quanzhou.After that, there were the township examination and the general examination.Lian Jie Dengke's official career.

Often discuss the past at home.Hong Chengchou was very fond of Hong Qiyin's kindness, and claimed that if Qiyin hadn't been promoted by his wisdom, he would have been exempt from the cost of studying.I'm afraid Hong is just the owner of a tofu shop in the countryside of Nan'an right now.

Such a heavyweight entrusts someone to send a message. If someone dares to make things difficult and blackmail and delay things, then he really feels that he has lived a long time!

If Mr. Hong himself were in Beijing at the moment, he would open the middle door and personally invite the messengers to come in. Now it would be a bit of neglect to just let the visitors sit in the porter room for a while!

Sure enough, just as Lin Wenbing's second tea was ready to drink, there was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard, "Where is the gentleman who delivered the letter for Duke Qiyin?!"

A gust of fragrant wind blows towards the face as the door curtain is lifted.

The owner of this fragrant breeze bowed his hands to Lin Wenbing with a smile on his face.

"This gentleman is here to deliver the letter for Duke Qiyin? I don't know how to call him?"

Lin Wenbing took a look at the man in front of him, his face was full of spring, his head was smooth and smooth, he was wearing a brocade robe sewn by skillful craftsmen, and there were traces of makeup on his face, his body exuded burst of aroma.It's just a slight beard on the chin and cheeks, and it should not be more than 25 years old.

Seeing this person's demeanor, Lin Wenbing understood seven or eight points in his heart.

Presumably, this fellow should be Hong Hengjiu's husband, a rabbit or something like that.

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the concept of "sex" among literati and bureaucrats was unprecedentedly open and corrupt. Playing games like rabbits and husbands was considered an elegant thing among literati and bureaucrats, and Hong Chengchou's hometown Fujian was also popular in this way. Suppressing thieves in the northwest, when there is fire and nowhere to go, it is unavoidable to have such a person by your side in case of emergency. [

And this one in front of me, presumably because of his old age and fading, he couldn't get into Hong Chengchou's eyes again, but he couldn't bear to abandon him, so he was placed in the house in the capital. The "role" of the class is actually a male "aunt" who has never been in court.

(The prevalence of homosexuality in the Ming Dynasty, if you are interested, you can read the "San Yan Er Pai" series compiled by Mr. Feng Menglong, there are descriptions about these. Hey! Don't talk about it, goosebumps all over the place !)

For such a character, Lin Wenbing has seen a lot of people in Beijing in the past few years, so he had to sit down in the living room instead of pretending to be false.

"It turns out that brother Wen Bing is not only a fellow from Fujian, but also a young hero from my Quanzhou mansion!"

Hong Qiyin's letter was not sealed. In his letter, he first praised Hong Chengchou's deeds, saying that his previous comments on Hong Chengchou's "a family of thousands of miles, a country of ten thousand stones" were really good.First, after a few words of admiration for Hong Chengchou's strategy of suppressing thieves after he became the governor of the three sides, he changed his pen and gave Lin Wenbing to Hong Chengchou.It is said that although this son is a merchant, he is eager for public service and righteousness. He benefits his hometown on a daily basis, repairs bridges and roads, respects the elderly and pities the poor, etc.

Xiaoyu, (the former male favorite of Hong Chengchou, Xiao Shou.) Twirling his orchid fingers after reading the letter, he couldn't help pursing his lips into a smile. "It turns out that Mr. Lin, no, Lin Dadong's family is the one who connected a hundred golden arhats within a hundred days!"

Lin Wenbing couldn't help smiling when he heard Xiaoyu mention this incident. It was a business war between him and Shanxi merchants and Tongzhou water transport merchants when he first arrived in Beijing.

When Long Shengxing chose a place to build a house at the wharf outside Chaoyangmen in Beijing and opened a business, it caused dissatisfaction among many colleagues, especially the business of Shanxi Bajia in Beijing, which had a lot of impact.

The scope of Longsheng's business, such as pawnbroking.Then there was a conflict with the pawnshops of Shanxi merchants.On this day, someone came to the door and took out a golden arhat, about eight inches in length, and asked to be a pawn in Longsheng.According to the price of gold, the court servant of the pawnshop pawned a ticket to the man and paid the silver.

Unexpectedly, starting from the second day, that person came to be a golden arhat every day for dozens of days.Every day, 2000 taels of silver were taken from Longsheng.Such a move immediately sparked chatter in the city of Beijing. Some idlers who liked to watch the excitement stood guard at the gate of Long Shengxing every morning.Waiting for that person to come to be a golden arhat.Waiting to see when this fight will end with what result.

Is it that Long Shengxing closed the door and made a pretense, or is it that the businessman behind it thinks it is unlucky to end this dragon fight?

Several Cao Gang managers who were very close to Lin Wenbing knew that there must be instructions behind this matter, so they sent out their hands to inquire secretly, and sure enough.It was the instruction of Huang Yunfa, one of the Eight Great Masters in Shanxi, the big shopkeeper of the business in Beijing.It is to squeeze this newly opened peer to death.

"Business matters. We need to use business means to solve it." Lin Wenbing declined the kindness of several stewards, and refused to use force to deal with Huang Yunfa.Moreover, he ordered people to set up two large vats at the gate of Longshengxing to serve the idlers who watched the excitement to drink tea.

then.There are more and more people watching the excitement every day, and it is almost crowded at the gate of Longshengxing.

This situation lasted for three months and began to change.

Lin Wenbing quietly arranged for people to use all kinds of precious stones brought from Nanzhong, such as emerald, lapis lazuli, cat's eye, diamond, red sapphire, emerald, etc., in the jewelry shops of the Eight Great Masters in Shanxi, Huizhou merchants, and Yangzhou merchants. Exchange it for silver to deal with the run-on behavior from Huang Yunfa's family. At the same time, he ordered people to sell these gems to the mansions of princes and ministers through various channels.On the other hand, starting from the second month, every time that person came to become an Arhat, he would no longer be given silver coins, but silver dollars with better quality and higher value!

The battle for more than a hundred days finally ended with Huang Yunfa's system quietly dying down, and Long Shengxing won a complete victory.At the celebration banquet, several Cao Gang stewards counted the fruits of Lin Wenbing's victory on their fingers.

"First, call out the sign for Long Shenghang. From now on in the capital, from the inside of the palace to the peddlers, no one knows about Long Shenghang. Second, put silver dollars on the market to let everyone know that one silver dollar It is equal to one tael of silver!"

Sure enough, Xiaoyu in Hong's mansion mentioned this matter today, his eyes were full of expectations and yearning for wealth.

Lin Wenbing was quite used to seeing this kind of look in his eyes, how to deal with it in a natural way.

The guard on the side took out a beautiful small wooden box from the worship box, "A little bit of something, add makeup to brother."

Xiaoyu opened the wooden box overjoyed, and inside was a box full of pearls, emitting a soft and lovely light under the sun.

"Hey, how dare you accept it?!" Xiaoyu said in his mouth, but he squeezed the wooden box tightly with his fingers.

"Wen Bing came today to congratulate Mr. Supervisor. Mr. Supervisor is a leader of our Fujian people. As a fellow villager, he is naturally honored."

As he spoke, Lin Wenbing ordered someone to take out the gift slip from the worship box and handed it to Xiaoyu.

"My lord is worried about state affairs, so naturally I dare not use gold and silver and other vulgar things to harass me. I have prepared some things needed by the army for your lord supervisor to equip the standard battalion around you."

"One thousand high-quality steel knives, one thousand two hundred spear points, two thousand gun barrels, one thousand eight-petal iron pointed helmets, and two thousand steel breastplate accessories?" Fei's gift list, Xiaoyu couldn't help hissing and sucking air. He followed Hong Chengchou to suppress bandits in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places. like that.If it was sent to Hong Chengchou, then the standard battalion army under Governor Hong would be like adding wings to a tiger.

But, why is this armor an accessory?

"Brother Taiwan is a hundred secrets. In the law of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor Taizu said that those who hide the armor privately will be cut off! Therefore, Wen Bing had to dismantle the armor into parts. First, it is convenient for transportation. Second, it is not good Violating the law of the Ming Dynasty."

"Brother is indeed a cautious person!" Xiaoyu gave Lin Wenbing a thumbs up, smiled charmingly, and continued to read the gift list.

"Fifty high-quality bird guns, each with twenty rounds of medicine."

Looking at the long list of gifts, Xiaoyu was full of praise for every item, except for this firecracker.

"The gauze, alcohol, and other things that Xiongtai sent, according to the gift list, are all things that treat knife wounds and gunshot wounds. Xiaoyu thanked Xiongtai on behalf of the officers and men under the command of the supervisor. But for this firecracker, I will thank you for not being sensitive." With thin lips, he was a little dissatisfied with Lin Wenbing's unsightly gift.

It's no wonder that the muskets equipped in the Ming army were always cut corners. They didn't hurt others, but they wounded themselves first.

Not only Xiaoyu showed a smile on his face, but also several generals in the Hong Mansion showed disdain, but it was hard to show it. They just gave so many extra armors, knives and guns.Just because they don't understand the disadvantages of muskets, they laugh at others.Is this the demeanor of the soldiers under the governors of the five provinces?

"Brother, one of the guards below happens to be carrying a similar firecracker. If you don't mind bothering me, you might as well try it in the open space of the backyard." Lin Wenbing didn't move his expression.Pretending not to see the winks among the soldiers.

Among the flower hall and water pavilion in the backyard.Because it is cold in winter.A thin layer of ice has formed on the surface of the water, and only a few remnants of lotus are shaking their bodies on the ice.The servants of the Hong Mansion were cleared out from here, leaving a passage of nearly forty steps from the flower hall to the pond.A stack was set up on the opposite side to test the fineness of the firecrackers that Lin Wenbing gave to Governor Hong.

Before starting the inspection, Lin Wenbing ordered someone to fetch a firecracker and hand it to the family members of the Hong family for inspection.The old man who had been with Hong Chengchou since he was still in politics took the firecracker and looked at it carefully.But seeing this bird gun is black and thick, the whole body is made of fine iron, the barrel is straight and long, there are front and rear sights, and the rear of the gun is sealed with bolts. The wooden support of the Lumi gun is slightly bent downwards, but it is a shape that can rest on the shoulder.

A guard of Lin Wenbing skillfully bit off the gunpowder in the gunpowder, left it for a while, ready to pour it into the medicine pool as primer, and poured the rest into the gunpowder barrel Among them, use the cleaning rod under the gun barrel to tamp twice, make sure it is solid and put in the ball, and then use the cleaning rod to tamp twice, then open the fire door behind the gun, pour the remaining gunpowder Go inside, finally take out the fire rope and put it in the faucet, and light the fire rope.The series of movements dazzled the soldiers of the Hong Mansion, they never expected that someone could play the firecracker so neatly!The shooting steps of the bird gun in the Ming Dynasty include pouring the medicine, charging the medicine, pressing the fire, loading, and loading the matchlock. Skilled shooters usually only shoot once a minute, and some ordinary The bird gunner, on the battlefield, is in a hurry, and it is fine if he can shoot once in 1 minutes.But this guy in front of him is obviously much faster than a skilled musketeer, he must have practiced it on weekdays!

However, Xiaoyu feels that the reason why this guy reloads so quickly is probably not all the secrets are in the paper tube.Wrap a certain amount of gunpowder and pills in a long paper tube, bite the paper tube with your mouth when filling, leave some gunpowder to the fire door as the ignition powder, and leave the rest of the gunpowder According to the steps, stuff medicine and pills into the mouth of the muzzle and tamp them firmly to complete.In this way, the natural loading speed is much faster!

"Boss, loading is complete!"

The guard asked Lin Wenbing for instructions in a deep voice.

Lin Wenbing asked all the people in the mansion with his eyes, and after getting affirmation, he stood beside the guard and patted his left shoulder, "It's time to fire the gun!" He is so bold that he hides away one by one.

The guard held the gun body in one hand and the trigger in the other. He opened and closed his eyes and stared at the shining star, and after a while he pulled the trigger. The gunpowder was ignited, white smoke rose, and the stack standing forty steps away shook a few times, it seemed that it had been hit.

"Again!"

Under Lin Wenbing's command, the guard showed off his movements again in a leisurely manner.Just as he was about to raise the firecracker to aim at the pile in the distance, the old relative of the Hong Mansion stepped forward to take the firecracker.

"I'll try this gun."

"boom!"

He pulled the trigger, and responsibly ignited the primer with a matchstick boiled in yellow wax, and completed the shooting.

"Again!"

After shooting three times in a row, everyone held back their hands in admiration.

The general even held the gun and refused to let go.

"During the war against Western Australia, if there was such a thing, I'm afraid that all the bandit leaders would be wiped out!"

"Nowadays there is a severe drought everywhere, this thing is only afraid of rainy weather, it is a sharp weapon used to suppress thieves! Those "chaotic" thieves, if you meet them head-on, you will be hit by a row of firecrackers, are you afraid that they will not break up? ! When the time comes, just chase and kill them!"

The soldiers of the Hong family happily began to discuss the great achievements of the Master Supervisor in the future.

Only Lin Wenbing, who was on the sidelines, watched coldly.In the past few years in the city of Beijing, he has also come into contact with some high-ranking officials and nobles, and he has heard about the deeds of these officers and generals who suppressed thieves. These sophisticated armor and equipment are in the hands of Hong Chengchou, a guy who always advocates strong thieves. I don’t know how many more he will kill Rogue?It should be noted that this fellow from Quanzhou not only advocates vigorously suppressing thieves, but also "killing and surrendering"!There were tens of thousands of surrendered thieves killed by him before and after, so that the reputation was not good, and they were called "Hong Crazy" and "Hong Demon King".

The lord wants to make friends with him and give him so many sharp weapons. Isn't this sending the sharp blade to the butcher?

Soon, these armored weapons were sent to Hong Chengchou, who was the front-line supervisor of the bandit suppression in Tongguan, Shaanxi, by the Titang officer, the governor of the five provinces stationed in Beijing.

When worrying about how to cleanly and thoroughly wipe out the 20 peasant army headed by Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang in Shaanxi, this small batch of equipment is suspected to be a shot in the arm.

"Send down the order to divide these items into three parts, keep one part for the standard battalion, and distribute the other two parts to He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian, the commanders-in-chief! To show the military prestige!" (To be continued. .)

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