stubborn thief

Chapter 150
Roadside shop in Sangbi Mountain.

Hong Bi, the General Banner of the Ningshan Guard who came from Zezhou, squatted on the ground, raised his waist knife high above his head, and looked like he had eaten a fly.

The forty bannermen behind him also looked similar, all squatting on the ground, looking more and more useless.

The two Hongyi cannons were put on the carriage, and the cannon body and the gun carriage were transported in separate vehicles. Only the cannon and one shell had no gunpowder. A total of four vehicles were loaded and transported by eight horses.

This should be an easy delivery.

From Zezhou to Xizhou, the road is not difficult, and a lot of food is brought, and it is still within the province.

There are also hundreds of silver rewards for this delivery, each with four cents.

Hong Zongqi thought about it on the way, if a hundred households were willing to give them 20 taels, the commander would allocate at least 50 taels.

But this is not bad, their Baihu is a good person, in fact, isn’t that how people are, the boss eats meat, and the younger ones just have a mouthful of soup in the back.

What's more, it's not a military transport, but just transporting something to an idle official in Xi County, so there is no need to be very tight in terms of time.

The biggest danger came from the frontier soldiers who fled back from King Qin. They tried their best on the way, but after waiting all the way, the deserters didn't come.

So Hong Zongqi walked quite comfortably. He was on his way every day, sleeping when it was time to sleep, and eating when it was time to eat. When there were sumo wrestling shows in the countryside and temple fairs, he would show his brothers to see them.

There is a teahouse on the side of the road for the brothers to rest and drink a bowl of foam tea to quench their thirst.

After all, you can't just count on the mules and horses for this cannon cart, and people have to push the wheels beside them, which is very tiring.

Just now, he decided to rest at Sangbi Mountain, not far from his destination, let his brothers drink some tea, and sent two cavalrymen to report to the old man, so as not to scare the people when the officers and soldiers crossed the border.

He knew very well that the people were more afraid of seeing officers and soldiers than seeing thieves.

After drinking tea, rest your feet, and wait for Mr. Huo to send someone to pick you up. If there are local people with you, it won't disturb the people.

He had just cut a penny for the owner of the tea stall, and he always felt that he was at a loss, and wanted Dr. Cha to find him another ten Wen Tongbao, when he saw his confidant Qijun hurried over and whispered: "Brother! Come to the frontier army!" .”

Turn around and look, good guy.

Tang Qi planted a small flag on his back and stood by the side of the road.

The official road was quite spacious, but from a distance, three riders lined up side by side without seeing their heads, each riding a tall horse, everyone was covered with red cotton armor, their arms were covered with iron armbands, and the helmets and guns on their heads were almost inserted into the sky. up.

Grandma's, Hong Zongqi is really greedy for the equipment.

He also went to ask Tang Qi, and asked the brothers which general's subordinate this was, but he didn't know that the young Tang Qi looked at him with his nostrils, and turned his head without squinting.

Hong Zongqi thought in his heart: Elite.

Hurry up and ask the brothers to get up, get out of the way on the side of the official road, and bow down.

He was used to this journey, and he might meet an official's sedan chair along the official road at any time, salute at the side and finish the job, anyway, no one else was interested in talking to him, at most he would send someone to look at his official documents.

It’s really not a good thing to meet someone who is reasonable. A total of 20 households will give him [-] taels for this job, and after distributing it to the Qijun, he will have [-] taels left.

On the way, it took less than a tael for the brothers to add food and tea, and it was estimated that they would spend another tael when they went back. In the end, there would be two taels left, and he had arranged how to spend them.

One or two bought rouge brocade cloth for my mother-in-law in Linfen, which I promised my mother-in-law before going out.

In the end, there was only one or two left, and he had been looking forward to buying the pair of suede boots that he had been thinking about for two years in Panyunsheng, Zezhou, but he couldn't find the money to buy them.

As a result, I ran into an eunuch on the road, and was followed by him for a while.

Well, the joy of buying boots is gone.

There is no other way, although the emperor abolished all the eunuchs guarding the local area, but last year, there was a tendency to reuse eunuchs after the change of Jisi.

Hong Bi didn't understand these bastards, they were all mentioned by thousands of households when they were drinking. In fact, no matter how the emperor treated the eunuchs, he had nothing to do with the eunuchs.

I can only thank the eunuch master for taking time out to hurt him in his busy schedule.

That was the only one who spoke to him.

He also didn't want the general to talk to him, and he couldn't keep the cannon off if it was going to go away.

So I knelt on the side and lowered my head, watching the series of horseshoes pass by.

Just keep your head down so they can't see me.

Hong Bi never thought about encountering bandits. He had just passed through Xizhou City, and there was peace outside the city.

It's not too far away from Yonghe County, and it's on the official road, so how could it meet a thief?

And it's impossible for this thief to look like this, they should be holding a hatchet with their bare buttocks.

A team of horses passed by, another team of horses passed by, another team of horses... stopped the team of horses?

A pair of straight-seam cowhide boots was getting closer and closer to his eyes. Hong Zongqi raised his head cautiously and saw a young man dressed as a general.

The young officer smiled at him and asked, "Is there any money for tea?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I gave one coin, Dr. Cha asked for the humble Tongbao ten coins." Hong Bi didn't dare to get up, but asked, "Hong Bi, the humble general of the Ningshan Guard General Banner, who is the general?"

"My surname is Liu. You transported two cannons from Zezhou to Huojiabao. Let me take a look at the official documents."

Liu Chengzong almost burst out laughing in his heart, as soon as he stretched out his hand, Hong Zongqi hurriedly took out the official document.

He looked at it, and there was nothing written on the official document, so he simply folded it into his arms and said, "Okay, the cannon has been received, you can go back."

"No, General, this is not acceptable. I was ordered to send the cannon to Huojiazhuang, and the cannon must be sent to Huojiazhuang."

Then Hong Zongqi's soldiers were disarmed.

A group of people squatted beside the official road of the teahouse, raised their weapons high above their heads, and were taken away by the sergeants of the Lion Camp.

Then many people came down from the mountain. Those people looked like the guards, they all wore helmets with the word "Yong", some wore earth-colored jackets, and some wore nail armor on the outside.

Those who came down to drive the chariot, and those who escorted the detainees went straight to Huojiabao.

From the beginning to the end, Dr. Tea stood aside and dared not make a sound.

Those officers and soldiers didn't intend to talk to him either.

The division of labor in the Lion Camp is very clear. The battle post is in charge of Qiu Wuwu, and in simple terms, he just ignores the people.

It has nothing to do with other people to communicate with the people by relying on the heavy sentry. The officers restrain them, as long as they can not cause trouble to the people.

So until these 'official soldiers' took away the people and guns away, Dr. Tea didn't know what happened in his teahouse.

With hindsight, the waiter at the teahouse asked the boss, "Boss, what happened just now?"

The shopkeeper said: "Maybe the general flag made a mistake? Don't care about our business, just keep silent."

Timing is very important in the interaction between people.

When Liu Chengzong had just dealt with the bannermen of Fenzhouwei, and then saw Hong Zongqi, a bannerman who drank tea and paid for it, he suddenly felt that hope for the world had returned.

He really planned to let Hong Zongqi go, but Hong Zongqi didn't go, he insisted on sending the cannon to Huojiapu himself, Liu Chengzong had no other choice but to take the cannon with him.

"Hong Zongqi, do you know that thieves from Shaanxi have entered Shanxi?"

Hong Zongqi saw that his subordinates were disarmed and he was taken away in a miserable state. He was very upset, but he didn't dare to show it, so he nodded and said, "Then the general is a soldier from Shaanxi to suppress bandits? I have hundreds of households with these guns. Having said that, I have to send it to Huojiabao in person, I hope the general will make it easier for you."

He could tell that Liu Chengzong's accent was not quite like that of Shanxi. Although the accents of the two places were relatively similar, there were still some differences.

Unexpectedly, Liu Chengzong ignored him until the team turned from the official road to the mountain road, and then said to him: "I am not from Shaanxi to destroy soldiers and horses, I am a thief from Shaanxi."

Does this general like to joke so much?
The key is not funny.

But Hong Zongqi still laughed a few times cooperatively: "The general really knows how to joke."

"I'm telling you the truth. Those who transported the guns were hungry people from Shaanxi, and they made their own earth-colored jackets."

Liu Chengzong is actually very strange, why doesn't the general flag think of him as a thief at all, it's so cute.

Even now, Hong Zongqi still doesn't believe it, and still analyzes the aspects of self-orders and prohibitions, Qiu Wucheng, and armored soldiers, and finally said: "This is obviously the frontier army, and those are the guards."

"We used to be soldiers on the three sides of Shaanxi. There were deserters and surrendered soldiers. Look at those helmets. They were captured from the defeat of the Fenzhou Guard Banner Army a few days ago. Those bastards were really bad. They slaughtered two villages on the way here. "

Hong Zongqi's mentality changed.

His neck was a little stiff, and he turned his head to look for his Banner Army in the army formation, and found that his Banner Army was treated the same as himself.

That is, everyone has at least two frontier soldiers in armor and holding swords by their side, talking with them.

"General, general, is what you said true?"

"Really, my name is Liu Chengzong." Liu Chengzong looked at him and asked, "Have you heard of this name?"

Hong Bi shook his head.

"It's okay, I'll know later, your luck is bad, if you are told to go, if you don't go, you can't go now."

Hong Bi swallowed his saliva, and seeing that the mountain road became narrower and the scenery on both sides of the road became more and more desolate, he couldn't help saying: "General, general, don't kill us. No money, no food, look at my boots, my toes are almost showing!"

Hong Zongqi's cloth soap boots were indeed showing their toes.

It's not like he's really poor. In fact, he still has a pair of old leather boots at home, but it's just that the journey is far away and he is reluctant to wear good shoes.

Never thought this would come in handy.

Liu Chengzong didn't care about his shoes, and didn't want to kill them. He waved his hands and said, "Be honest, I won't harm you, and I will let you go in a few days. How much reward did the officer give you for transporting these two cannons?"

"Reward money, reward money, 20 taels."

Hong Zongqi's heart was pounding and he was thinking about whether it would be appropriate to say less, but he didn't dare, so he quickly touched his arms and said, "16 and two points are given to the banner army. On the way, the eunuch's entourage has to walk for a couple of dollars. One or two, I..."

He held two taels of silver and a handful of copper coins in his hands: "I have only these left, and I hope the general will accept it with a smile."

Puchi.

Liu Chengzong couldn't hold it back, he laughed and said: "What do you think of me, haha, put away your little money, be honest, I will give you two taels per person when you go back, don't talk nonsense when you go back, just Said that the cannon has been delivered, do you understand?"

It doesn't matter if you talk nonsense or not, Liu Chengzong left this group of people just to allow time for the carrier to deliver materials to Shaanxi.

They are going to Fenzhou Mansion. Before that, these people cannot be allowed to file a complaint in Pingyang Mansion.

When they pass Luliang Mountain, these flag soldiers can file complaints wherever they like, and then it won't matter.

Telling them to go back to Zezhou is not a nonsense, but Liu Chengzong is thinking about them.

As for the two taels of silver, on the one hand, it is to look at the pity of these flag soldiers, and on the other hand, to stabilize their minds, and to stay in peace for a few days is good for everyone.

Hong Bi rolled his eyes, hearing what Liu Chengzong meant, he didn't seem to really intend to kill them, so he asked, "Then, what about Master Huo?"

"Master Huo?" Liu Chengzong turned his head and glanced at him: "He can't sue you anymore."

When Hong Zongqi and his gang really sent the cannons to Huojiabao and they were placed on a hill not far away, they were not treated badly except for having no weapons.

They are also really cute.

To say what Hong Zongqi feels in his heart, um... the horse meat is really delicious.

Cao Yao had been waiting in Huojiabao for a long time.

As soon as the two red cannons were transported into the mountain road, this guy ran over, just wanting to jump on the cannons.

Liu Chengzong smiled and said, "Why don't you hug it to sleep at night."

"Okay!"

Cao Yao looked as if it should be taken for granted, and directly gestured to his subordinates: "Send it to my tent at night, just this copper door."

It was also at this time that Liu Chengzong took a serious look at the two cannons.

The calibers of the two cannons are almost the same, but the iron is thicker and heavier, and the cannons have an inscription beginning with Shanxi Yiguo Iron Smelting Institute.

In fact, the inscription is very long. First, there are the time of donation and the name of the person, and then the name of the official who supervised the construction and the name of the person who cast it.

Then, the weight of the gun, the weight of the medicine used to fire the gun, the type of shells to fire, the distance to fire and the maintenance method were written in detail.

If it is not used for more than a year, it should be moistened once with rice bran.

More than 400 words were cast on the body of the gun eloquently, which is almost an essay.

This is the first time Liu Chengzong has seen the Hongyi Cannon. The shape is indeed better than the previous General Cannon, and the measurement of the narrow mouth and wide tail should be the modulus I learned from Wang Zheng.

The cannonballs are very interesting. The total weight is four catties, of which the large shell is two catties, and there is another two catties for the broken iron beans wrapped in cloth.

When shooting, first pour gunpowder, then use straw to compact it as a shell seat, then put the broken iron in a cloth bag, and then load the big shell.

Cao Yao said that this is not the only way to load ammunition: "This is suitable for field battles. For defending and attacking cities, it is better to use large iron cannons. Moreover, this iron cannon is too heavy to be used."

In fact, iron cannons are not bad, but for them, it affects their maneuverability. They can usually run seventy or eighty miles a day, but they may only travel sixty miles with this heavy cannon.

A distance of twenty miles may be enough to kill them.

"Let Chengyun send it back to Yan'an Guard. In fact, I think the best cannon is a [-]-jin bronze cannon. It is easy to run and can be used in the field."

Liu Chengzong pointed to the iron cannon and said, then looked at the bronze cannon: "I don't think the cannon cart is good, it has to be changed to a two-wheeled one, which is easier to run on the mountain road."

　Good afternoon!Today's birthday, more points.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)