Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 63 The spy at the sticky pole?That's it?
For Zhu Jinsong, it doesn't matter if you give each flintlock gun ten more bullets or twenty bullets. After all, front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns are very impressive in terms of shooting accuracy and range. He didn't intend to equip this kind of backward-generation things, so he might as well sell them to Chen Tailai in large quantities, which can not only exchange for the money and labor that Meng Lianggu was in short supply, but also instill in Chen Tailai the idea that it is better to buy than to make, so that those who want to kill Chen Tailai in the future Time is more convenient.

It just so happened that the scholars under Chen Tailai didn't really like strange skills and ingenuity, so the deal between Chen Tailai and Zhu Jinsong can be regarded as dry wood meeting fire, pheasant meeting hooligans.

It's a pity that Chen Tailai originally wanted to illuminate the moon with his heart, but Zhu Jinsong directly threw all of Chen Tailai's loyalty into the ditch.

Not only did Zhu Jinsong intend to bring Chen Tailai into the ditch where it was better to buy, but he also planned to bring the Tartars into it by the way.

After careful consideration, a piece of good news was published in the "Meng Lianggu Newspaper": The Hongyi cannon made by Meng Lianggu abandoned the traditional smoothbore cannon and used a new design mode of the rifled cannon, both in terms of range and shooting accuracy. Far beyond the previous Hongyi Cannon.

Yang Huaizhen, the artillery manufacturer of Baizhangya Arsenal, stated in the article that Meng Lianggu will equip large quantities of this extremely advanced artillery in the future, and strive to send the Tartars back to their hometown outside the customs within ten years.

Then Agui and Mingxing were shocked.

The Zhu rebels who had no artillery were already extremely difficult to deal with. If they were to be equipped with a large number of more advanced Hongyi cannons, what should I do?
Of course, it is not that Agui and Mingxing did not doubt the authenticity of this information, but judging from previous Meng Lianggu newspapers, the role of Meng Lianggu newspapers on Zhu Ni's side is similar to that of the imperial court's mansion newspaper, so it shouldn't be. Make fun of this kind of thing.

Therefore, this also means that Zhu Ni is likely to come up with a more advanced Hongyi cannon.

Agui's hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, and she looked at Mingxing with anger in her eyes: "Can you tell the imperial envoy, how many scholars still know how to make cannons and firecrackers under your Shandong governor's rule?"

Without waiting for Mingxing to reply, Ah Gui continued: "Send someone to find a way to infiltrate Meng Lianggu and find out what's true."

Just being told by Ah Gui, Ming Xing's expression became even uglier: "We have dispatched several waves of spies before, but which time did we not send meat buns to beat dogs?"

Ah Gui hummed, gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind: "Continue to send! However, the people who were sent out before were all those under you and me. This time, let's send people directly from the sticky pole. I still don't believe it." Now, Meng Lianggu and those rebels can still see through the sticky hands?"

Ming Xing also got angry, and echoed: "Yes, this time let the sticky poles be sent to masters! I don't believe that those rebels can still see through the sticky poles' masters!"

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Achanga is a sticky pole Baitang.

Compared with Daming's Jinyiwei, the sticky pole is not well-known, whether it is power or strength, it is far behind Jinyiwei.

Even so, not everyone can enter the sticky pole. One of the strict requirements for the official members of the sticky pole is that they must be born as slaves, so as to ensure the sticky pole's loyalty to the emperor of the Qing dynasty.

A Chang'a is a coat-coated slave who was born under the Five Banners. He joined the sticky pole since he was a child. After more than ten years of hard training, Achang'a finally became a glorious secret agent.

Logically speaking, Agui, the imperial envoy, couldn't order Achang'a at all. After all, no matter how awesome the imperial envoy was, he was just an imperial envoy.

In Achang'a's view, his greatest role should be to sneak into Menglianggu or Yanzhou mansion, look for an opportunity to chop off the dog's head of Zhu Jinsong or Chen Tailai, instead of inquiring about the reality of the Hongyi cannon.

It's a pity that Achang'a can live without Agui, but he can't live without Fukang'an.

So, Ah Chang Ah came anyway.

Along the way, he passed through Tai'an Mansion, and then passed through Yanzhou Mansion. After more than ten days of traveling, Achang'a finally arrived at Wutaiji.

Wutaiji is not far from Meng Lianggu.

Looking at the village not far away, Achang'a, who was still a little worried, finally relaxed a little.

It seems that the people sent by Agui and Mingxing were too stupid. Otherwise, how could Ben Baitang get to the vicinity of Menglianggu safely?
As he walked towards the village, Achang was thinking about how to sneak into Meng Lianggu under the name of joining the army, and how to figure out the reality of Hongyi Cannon.

After entering the village, Achang'a found a few old men who were chatting in the shade at the entrance of the village, leaned over and asked, "Master, I'm going to join the army in Menglianggu, I don't know how to get there?"

Several old men looked at each other, and one of them asked with a smile: "Where do you come from? Why do you want to go to Menglianggu to join the army?"

Achang'a's face darkened, and he said in a low tone: "My family is from Tai'an. I didn't think about joining the army or fighting against the Qing Dynasty. Later, when the Tartars invaded and suppressed Menglianggu, my family suffered a disaster. The old and the young were all killed by the Tartars, and I was the only one who escaped by working outside."

"My family is gone, and my relatives are gone, so I thought, if I can't avenge them, can I still be considered a person?"

"Later, I also want to vote for Chen Tai to come to Governor Chen. After all, Governor Chen is closer to my family, but Governor Chen's everything is for the squires. Only our Meng Lianggu is the one who is wholeheartedly in charge of us poor people, so I will Thinking about it, if I want to join the army, I also have to join Meng Lianggu."

The old men looked at each other again, and the leader sighed, and said slowly: "This is a dog who is in the world, a dog who is a tartar! But, let's not hide it from you, you go to join the army like this, is it right?" Can't vote for Meng Lianggu."

A Chang'a was startled, and asked, "Why? Meng Lianggu isn't recruiting troops?"

The old man smiled and said, "Zhao, how could Meng Lianggu not recruit soldiers? After all, he wants to drive the Tatars back to the outside of the pass, so why not recruit soldiers? Let me tell you, before the Tatars sent many spies to go to the mountains. The head of the family said that it is not like recruiting soldiers like before, and only those in our village who know the basics can go up the mountain."

Achang hummed, and the expression on his face became even more gloomy: "Then, I will never be able to go to Meng Lianggu in my life, and I will not be able to avenge my family."

But the old man shook his head and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, I don't think you look like a spy from the Tartars, so you should stay in our village first, and I'll talk to people from the peasant association tonight, and let them Send you up the mountain, Zhong?"

Achang'a was overjoyed immediately, fell to his knees with a thud, and kowtowed to the old man repeatedly: "Thank you! Thank you! If it weren't for you, old man, my family wouldn't be able to avenge their revenge!"

The old man hurriedly helped Achanga up, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you are a young man with a lot of etiquette. Let's do this, you will go to my house in a while, and I will deal with the stuttering for you first, and then I will take care of you." Go to the people from the peasant association."

Achang'a hastily refused and said: "I dare not. This year I suffered a drought in Tai'an, and I don't think it will be much better here in Yizhou. Everyone's life is hard. I have some sweet potatoes, so don't waste them. Food for the elderly."

But the old man let out a laugh, held Achang'a's hand, and said, "Young students, young people, with your words, my heart is satisfied."

"However, since we have come to Yizhou Prefecture, not only have we no longer been oppressed by the Tartar government, but the boss has also brought people to dig wells for our village, and brought us to plant sweet potatoes, so the drought has really not affected us much. Here, the harvest at home is much stronger than that at Yee's."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask these old people, which one of them doesn't have one or two hundred catties of grain? It doesn't matter if you give birth to a meal."

"If you have the heart, the younger generation, when you get to Menglianggu, you can take care of us to the head of the family, won't you?"

Achang and Ah nodded again and again, and said gratefully: "Don't worry, old man, I will definitely take care of the head of Ye Xiang!"

The old man at the head nodded, and when he brought Achanga back home, the old man cooked two bowls of cornmeal porridge, distilled two steamed buns, mixed a plate of sweet potato seedlings and pickles, and grinned his toothless mouth , said with a smile: "Don't blame the younger generation?"

Achang'a hurriedly thanked: "What is your old man talking about? I am grateful if I have a stutter. How can there be such a thing as being offended?"

After finishing speaking, Achanga and the old man began to eat slowly.

Or say that Achang is a sticky pole worshiping Tang at the sticky pole. On the surface, he seems to be wolfing down, but only when the old man drank porridge, Achang would follow him. , the old man ate sweet potato seedlings and pickles, and Achanga would follow him. In short, he was always on guard against the old man.

After a short time, the meal was already eaten. The old man first cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, and then said to Achang'a: "Later, rest first, I will talk to the people from the peasant association, if it makes sense , you can go up the mountain tomorrow, if it doesn't make sense, then you can think of another way?"

Achang said: "Thank you, old man! I, Huang Mancang, have nothing to repay for your great kindness!"

The old man smiled and nodded, turned around and left the room, but Achang'a was sitting on the chair, holding the bundle with his left hand, and tightly holding the short knife in the bundle with his right hand.

Even at this time, Achang'a still refused to rest assured.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the old man took a man back to the house slowly, pointed at A Chang'a and said, "Look, this young man wants to join the army."

The man nodded, took a look at Achang who had stood up in a hurry, and said with a smile, "This young man looks quite strong. After waiting for Meng Lianggu and training hard for a while, he must be a good soldier!"

After complimenting Ah Chang, the man said to the old man again: "Okay, sir, let this young man come with me later, let him stay in the farmer's house for one night today, and tomorrow I will take him up the mountain. "

After the old man nodded in response, the man said to Achang: "Master, you will sleep in the house of the peasant association today, but in order to prove your identity, I have to arrange someone to accompany you tonight. Do not?"

Achang nodded, and replied very sincerely: "Don't worry, I promise to be obedient!"

The man nodded in satisfaction, and said with a hum: "Then you can go with me."

Just after leaving the old man's yard, Achang'a found several men with weapons surrounding him, and at the same time, two flintlock guns were pointing at him. The door of the old man's yard was closed with a bang. The man who returned to the room also rushed aside with a whoosh.

Achang looked at the man with aggrieved face, and asked, "What's wrong?"

The man said: "If you really want to join the army, let me tie you up first, otherwise, you won't be able to leave our Nine Girls Village today!"

Achang looked at the situation in front of him, forced himself to calm down and let the man tie him up, and then said aggrievedly: "If you want money, then I really have no money for you. If you want to test me, then I'm not afraid, I really want to join the army!"

The man tied Achang'a tightly, and suddenly he spit and cursed: "You son of a bitch, you still want to lie to your grandpa? You are still a little tender!"

(End of this chapter)