Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 130 Jiang Si
Jin Yiwei yamen, the command envoy is on duty.

On Lu Bing's desk was a letter from Qi Jiguang and a gun from Captain Fran.

Not long after, two people walked into the value room.One is He Liu from a hundred households inspected by the Fusi of Beizhen, and Jiang Si from a thousand households governed by the Fusi of Nanzhen.

Jiang Si's real name is Jiang Yan.He was ranked fourth among the Thirteen Taibao of Jinyiwei.In Jinyiwei, the twelfth elder Zhao Ci is a "corpse idiot", and the fourth Jiang Yan is a "firearm idiot".

This man is obsessed with firearms, to the point of obsession.Every day after a business trip, the first thing I do when I get home is to play with all kinds of firearms.In Jinyiwei, there is a firecracker team of 300 people, which is led by him, a thousand households who rule the army.

Seeing the two men coming, Lu Bing put down Qi Jiguang's letter, and said to them: "General Qi from Zhejiang seized a smuggling caravan in the outskirts of Taizhou ten days ago. The goods they smuggled are all the new-style fuzzy goods in front of us." Captain Lang's gun. The people who smuggled the caravan belonged to our Ming Dynasty. General Qi suspected that they had been selling the gun to the Japanese pirates along the coast. Fourth, you are proficient in firearms. What's so special about this gun? "

Jiang Si picked up the gun, touched his little finger deep into the barrel, and then looked at it carefully.

"Huh? This gun seems to be different from the ordinary Fran's machine gun!" Jiang Si said.

Lu Bing asked, "What's the difference?"

Jiang Si talked eloquently: "Ordinary gun barrels are smooth and straight. The barrel of this gun has a spiral line! It's very strange. The subordinates have never seen it before. Command Shi, I have a few friends from Francine Country who are in the capital at the moment. Let me bring this gun to them to have a look."

Lu Bing nodded: "Okay. Qi's army is fighting a bloody battle with the Japanese pirates ahead. Since General Qi suspects that someone has smuggled firearms to the Japanese pirates, we Jin Yiwei must investigate. Well, this case will be handed over to you two. Oh, congratulations." Liuhe Lao Hu has always been inseparable. Let Lao Hu also participate in this case."

Jiang Si and He Liu took orders and left.

He Liu called Lao Hu, led by Jiang Si, and came to the Xiyi Pavilion in the capital.

Xiyiguan is an inn, so it got its name because the people living in the inn are all Xiyi merchants.

Going up to the second floor of the inn, Jiang Si found two blue-eyed, big-nosed Francophones.These two Xiyi, one is called "Carlo Shit" and the other is called "Louis Shit".

Old Hu laughed and said, "What kind of weird name did this Franji man come up with? It's actually named after shit!"

Louis said, "Louis means warrior in our French language. Carlos means freedom."

Lao Hu was surprised for a while: "You guys can speak Chinese?"

Carlos smiled: "We have been doing business in your country. It is no exaggeration to say that we are more Ming people than Ming people when we eat noodles with fried sauce!"

Jiang Si smiled and said, "Okay, I'll treat you to fried noodles at noon. But before eating fried noodles, I want you to show me something."

Speaking of which, Jiang Si handed over the firecracker that Qi Jiguang sent to the capital to the two of them.

The two took a closer look.Louis said: "Oh, my God, this is the latest rifled rifle. Unlike ordinary muskets, it has a spiral rifle engraved in the barrel. It is the latest invention of the Principality of Prussia!"

He Liu asked: "Dare to ask Brother Lu, what is the difference between this lucky gun and ordinary guns?"

Louis replied: "Longer range, more accurate."

He Liu asked again: "You Franji have been doing business with the Armory Department of our Ministry of War. Is the rifle you recently sold to us also this kind of rifle?"

Louis shook his head: "No. The rifle is a new thing. We are afraid that your country's army will not accept it, and if it cannot be sold, it will be unsalable. In the past three months, a total of three Chinese merchant ships equipped with firearms have landed in the Acropolis of Tianjin. But They were all old-fashioned muskets."

He Liu, Jiang Si, and Lao Hu leave the Xiyi Inn.He Liu said to Jiang Si: "It's as if Louis Shit and Carlo Shit didn't say anything. They don't know where the gun came from. It seems that we are going to Zhejiang for a while."

Old Hu said: "Old Six, I don't understand. Franji people are good at sailing. If they want to sell the firecrackers to the Japanese pirates, they can just ship them to the Japanese country! Why do we have to go through all this trouble? Use our Da Ming people, smuggled along the coast of Taizhou?"

He Liudao: "I'm thinking about this too. It's really strange."

Jiang Siyi slapped his head: "I see! Sixth brother, do you know that there have always been two routes from Xiyi to our Daming to sell firecrackers. One is by sea, coming from the south; the other is by land, from the south. Our Raksha country in the north of Ming Dynasty transported it to Liaodong, and then entered Shanhaiguan from Liaodong. It must have been sold from the Raksha country to Daming for this new Fran machine gun. If criminals want to sell it to Japanese pirates, they can only Go south through the canal, transport it to Zhejiang, and trade it to Japanese pirates in Zhejiang!"

He Liu nodded: "What the fourth brother said is polite. Let's report back to Commander Lu."

An hour later, Lu Bing listened to Jiang Si and He Liu's reports and pondered for a long time.

He said to the two: "In this case, you should go to Zhejiang. You must investigate this case! We can't let the pirates get these firecrackers continuously!"

He Liu cupped his hands: "Dare to ask the commander, are we going south to Zhejiang in the name of the imperial envoy to handle the case?"

Lu Bing shook his head: "The emperor specially decreed Qi Jiguang Hussar General Sanjie at noon this afternoon. You will go south to the south of the Yangtze River in the name of imperial envoys to deliver the decree for the emperor."

He Liu left the command envoy to be on duty, and returned to Beizhen Fusi.

Liu Da, the governor of Beisi, found He Liu.He said to He Liu: "I heard that the commander sent you to go south to Zhejiang to handle the case with Jiang Laosi from Nanzhen?"

He Liu nodded: "It is true."

Liu Da said meaningfully: "I'm running an errand with the people from Fusi in Nanzhen, you need to be extra careful, sixth son!"

There has always been discord between Jinyi Weinan and Beizhen Fusi.

Commander Lu is 52 years old. In recent years, his health has not been very good, and he often fell ill due to overwork.The seat of Jin Yiwei Commander will be vacated sooner or later.

The post of Commander of Jinyiwei has always been selected from the south and north township envoys.Liu Da and He Er, He Tian'ang, the governor of Nanzhen, have been fighting for the chance to become Lu Bing's successor.

He Liu and Jiang Si packed up their luggage and were about to set off to the south when Jiang Si got a transfer order.

Jiang Si, the "firearms idiot", can be said to be famous in Jinghua.The Armory Department of the Ministry of War is planning to purchase a large number of firearms from the Fran Robotics, transport them to Taizhou, and establish a special firearms battalion in the Qi family army.

Zhang Juzheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, personally greeted Lu Bing, and borrowed the "firearm idiot" Jiang Si to go to the Arsenal to help check whether the firecrackers and fast cannons brought by the Fran robot were suitable for use.

Lu Bing couldn't refute Zhang Juzheng's face, so he agreed.

Ever since, the only ones who went south to investigate the Japanese case were He Liu and Lao Hu.

He Liu suspected that it was Liu Da who was acting as a hindrance to prevent Jiang Si from going to the south of the Yangtze River.

(Note. Rifled rifles appeared in the Principality of Prussia at the end of the [-]th century and the beginning of the [-]th century. However, they have not been popularized in European armies. The appearance of rifles in the Jiajing Dynasty does not violate history and military common sense.)
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