Blood from Daming

Chapter 475
Hu Tingyan, governor of Shaanxi, spared no effort in recruiting Gao Guiying. For his own future and the safety of Mizhi County, Yan Zibin, the magistrate of Mizhi County, encouraged the urban and rural gentry and rich men in Mizhi County to donate ten thousand taels of silver and more than one thousand shi of grain to the north of the city. These actions greatly softened Gao Guiying's attitude towards Hulushan's labor force, and he had the idea of ​​negotiating with the court.

In early May, after Gao Guiying received Yansui Governor Yue Hesheng's admission that he had misunderstood Gao Guiying's letter, Shaanxi Governor Hu Ting invited Gao Guiying's younger brother Gao Yigong to serve as Deputy General Commander, secretly admitting that Gao Guiying led an army to protect the territory and the people in Mizhi County. Gao Guiying and Yang Zhenlei.After deliberation, Li Xiaoyong agreed to the recruitment of Shaanxi Governor Hu Tingyan.

Gao Guiying sent thousands of taels of gold and silver to Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi in Xi'an, and released Mao County Magistrate of Jiazhou County, as well as nearly 2000 captives from Yansui Town and Jiazhou Officers and Militia. Gao Guiying's troops withdrew from most of Mizhi County , only occupied a small part of the land in the north and northeast of Mizhi County.

Hu Tingyan, governor of Shaanxi Province, was considered an honest official, and returned most of the ten thousand taels of gold and silver that Gao Guiying had sent, or converted them into real objects and gave them to Gao Guiying. After taking care of it, I went to Datong Mansion to take care of the sick Xue Yun.

However, Yang Zhenlei tactfully rejected Gao Guiying's request to go to Datong Mansion on the grounds that Xue Yun had his fiancée Miss Yu by his side, but said that after Xue Yun's health improved, he would report to the young master Xue Yun and let Gao Guiying follow her as soon as possible. The young master got together to meet, although Gao Guiying felt a little regretful, but considering her identity, she could still accept Yang Zhenlei's arrangement, so she had to wait for Xue Yun to pick her up in Hulu Mountain, Mizhi County.

In this way, Yang Zhenlei, Li Xiaoyong, the leader of Feiyingqi and Aruhan, the head of Harizhulawan, left Mizhi County one after another, but let Ma Ming lead a thousand Xue family soldiers to assist Gao Guiying in guarding the northern part of Mizhi County. , Wait for Gao Guiying's strength to become stronger before considering withdrawing to Datong Mansion.

Gao Guiying became the leader of the northern part of Mizhi County, with 3000 troops under his command. All the weapons and battles were captured from the Battle of Liujiashan. A vice-president was killed, and now the Gao family army is both an official and a bandit. The days are very nourishing. The only headache is that the food was too ruthless after breaking the mountain village in Mizhi County. Relief can't come up.

During the military rebellion in Jiazhou, Shaanxi, that is, in March of the sixth year of Tianqi, An Bangyanfu, the leader of the "She and An Rebellion", aggressively attacked Guiyang.In the middle of the night, An Bangyan's army went straight to Lu Qin's camp. The soldiers fled without pay. Lu Qin committed suicide. An Bangyan led tens of thousands of troops to threaten Guiyang but failed. Towards a big cancer in the southwest.

On the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, at Wang Gongchang in the capital, there was a sudden big earthquake, like the sky collapsing and the earth collapsing, and it was as dark as night.In Jingshi City, from Shuncheng Gate in the east to Xingbu Street in the north, it is three or four miles long and thirteen miles around, and it is full of powder.The area around the Gunpowder Bureau of Wang Gongchang was especially burned, with layers of zombies, foul smell, and rubble falling from the sky.After the on-site investigation by Li Canran, the censor of Xicheng, it was found that the gunpowder warehouse of Wanggong factory exploded, 930 houses collapsed, and 530 men and women were killed. On the fifth day of June, the earthquake in Lingqiu and Hunyuan Prefecture, Shanxi killed residents There are more than [-] people, so some people think that the explosion of the gunpowder bureau of Wanggong Factory should be caused by an earthquake.

Xue Yun has been in Dachangtu Island for more than two months. Ships from the Manchurian Kingdom arrived at Dachangtu Island one after another to accept Xue Yun’s selection. The Scarlet Blood Princess brought Xue Yun more than 300 front-loading guns, but There are only a few dozen or so muzzle-loading flintlock guns that are really relatively new, and there are so many types that they can only be used for research.

The most suffocating thing for Xue Yun is that the Fujian pirate Zheng Zhilong took the lead in robbing the ships of Manchuria, including Xu Xinsu, Yang Liu, and Yang Qi. This not only allowed Xue Yunshao to acquire a large number of seagoing ships, but also caused heavy losses to the ocean shipping of Mancijia. Pirates once.

Xue Yun finally obtained more than 300 sea-going ships. Considering the operating conditions of the Manchu-Canada, only [-] sea-going ships were requisitioned for training. , Today's Canadian sea-going ships can only go to Ryukyu, North Korea, and Japan for the time being to maintain normal business operations.

During this period, Xue Yun successively met with Uncle Wu who was in charge of the shipyard, his son Wu Dahai, nephew Wu Yang, father Wen Bo, the second son of the Liaodong Navy, and others. He also met privately with Si Qian, a descendant of Jianwen. It happened to Jiang Yang and the others. After Jiang Yang saw Xue Yun, he followed the Xue family army all the way to the dark. The others were also greatly encouraged, and their fighting spirit for the restoration of the country became stronger.

Today, Xue Yun accompanied Yan Sanniang to inspect the shipyard that Uncle Wu was in charge of. Uncle Wu muttered that the shipyard had become a repair shop, and asked Xue Yun whether the research on warships in the shipyard should continue. Xue Yun told Uncle Wu clearly , we must continue the research on fast warships. After all, the Xue family army will build their own warships in the future. Let Uncle Wu not worry about money and materials, and insist on continuing the research on warships to produce results.

Then Xue Yun and Yan Sanniang came to Uncle Lu's gunpowder factory. Uncle Lu moved the gunpowder workshop from Xuezhuang to Dachangtu Island. It was just over a month after the start of work, and he was still familiar with everything, including gunpowder, grenades, and explosives. Bags, even fire systems, etc. are also continuously produced.

However, today Xue Yun saw that Uncle Lu was concerned about the research of muzzle-loading flintlock guns. During this time, Xue Yun often discussed this muzzle-loading flintlock gun with the technical backbone of the gunpowder factory. It completely imitates the front-loading flintlock, but it is of great help to the improvement of Xue's army's fire system.

When Old Man Lu saw Xue Yun and Yan Sanniang coming, he took out the muzzle-loading flintlock gun that he imitated by hand when he was making it. Xue Yun came to the proving ground behind the gunpowder factory, pulled the trigger and fired three times, and Xue Yun weighed the gun. It feels a lot heavier than the front-loading flintlock gun, and the stability of the paper shell bullet is also much worse.

The old man Lu said knowingly: "Master, the barrel of the research gun used by the gunpowder factory is heavier, but the accuracy is much worse than that of Western guns."

Xue Yun said in his heart that the accuracy of Westerners' muzzle-loading flintlock guns is not reliable, and your accuracy is completely ignorant, but Xue Yun couldn't pour cold water on it, so he had to say to old man Lu: "Uncle Lu, put the barrel of the gun on it. Lengthen it, increase the impact force, try to increase the shooting range, and then think of a way in terms of the quality of the barrel, oh, can this paper shell bullet be imitated. "

Uncle Lu said: "Just now, the young master fired the ammunition of Westerners. The ammunition we imitated is much less powerful. It is probably due to the formula of gunpowder."

Uncle Lu's words made Xue Yun think of something, so Xue Yun said to Uncle Lu: "Uncle Lu, you just study slowly, and I will come and visit often when I have time."

Old man Lu repeatedly said yes, Xue Yun was very polite to Lu Yaojin's father, and came and went in a hurry after paying respects to old man Lu, Yan Sanniang asked, "Husband, what's the matter with you in such a hurry?"

Xue Yun remembered that just this year, the Wang Gong Factory of the Gunpowder Bureau in the capital would explode. It seemed that this had already happened. How could he have forgotten this? After the last time he went to the Gunpowder Bureau to buy gunpowder, he reminded the head of Baisheng Hall Qin Zhehua paid attention to this matter, but he didn't know whether Qin Zhehua's thoughts were still on Wang Gongchang after so long.

So Xue Yun said vaguely: "Third sister, my younger brother wants Qin Baihu from Baishengtang to bring some technical talents from Wang Gong's factory."

Yan Sanniang said: "Husband, I will return to Hangzhou City tomorrow, so let me send the news directly."

Xue Yun nodded in agreement, and Yan Sanniang said, "Husband, the Zhejiang Navy has reported to the Zhejiang Chengxuan Political Commissioner many times about the situation on Changtu Island. Mr. Pan Ruzhen, Cheng Xuan's political envoy, covered up his concubine's identity, otherwise he would have been denounced."

Xue Yun said: "The person who presented to the court seems to be a subordinate of Lord Pan Ruzhen."

Yan Sanniang said: "Yes, he is Master Hong Chengchou Hong Chengxuan of Zhejiang Province."

Xue Yun exclaimed after hearing this: "It's Hong Chengchou and Hong Hengjiu."

Seeing Xue Yun's overreaction, Yan Sanniang asked, "Husband, you know Hong Zuo's counselor."

Xue Yun said: "Third sister, this Hong Chengchou is not easy, you have to be careful and beware of him, go back to Hangzhou tomorrow and third sister will bring three hundred younger brothers' personal soldiers to follow."

Yan Sanniang said suspiciously: "Husband, there is no need to do this, it will make people suspicious if they let outsiders see it."

Xue Yun said: "Third sister, this Hong Chengchou is very powerful. For your safety, the other younger brothers don't care so much."

Yan Sanniang listened to the sweetness in her heart, and agreed to Xue Yun's arrangement, Xue Yun thought for a while and said, "Third sister, go and talk about brother Xu's tone, if you think there is an opportunity, my brother is ready to meet him. "Yan Sanniang nodded thoughtfully after listening to Xue Yun's words, then gave up and continued to inspect and returned to her compound with Xue Yun.

(End of this chapter)