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Chapter 107 Excellent Nation

"You idiot Yuan Zhen, he was ambushed when he was defeated at sea before. This time, more than 100 of our ships were captured by dozens of thieves and escaped, and we still have the nerve to come back." Wen Ping, the general magistrate of Guangzhou, looked at the city Chen Jiajun, who was outside in formation, gritted his teeth angrily.

"What's the use of saying this? You can still cut him off and sacrifice the flag." Guangzhou Zhizhou Zhu Guang was steady, and his character was not disturbed by successive defeats.

"Zhizhou is so thoughtful. If I had killed this fool, I would definitely kill him." There was something in Wen Ping's words. I don't know if he was trying to flatter Zhu Guang in a subtle way, or was sarcastically saying that Zhu Guang was weak and could be bullied.

"It's the right time to employ people, and in naval operations, Yuan Zhen already loves the taller among the short ones."

What could Wen Ping do? He went around begging for help and got dozens of ships from the gentry and wealthy merchants. Who would have thought that these people would not work hard enough.

It didn't help, but instead cheated Yuan Zhen who was fighting at the front.

Yuan Zhen also cried when he came back. As soon as the battle started on his side, the boats behind him started to run away. Even the gods could not restore the situation.

It was Wen Ping's suggestion to borrow those ships, and he was also the one who suggested that Yuan Zhen take them to help with the momentum. Yuan Zhen said so, and he could not blame them entirely for the defeat.

"I was surprised. Did this thief Chen suddenly emerge from the earth? I have never heard of such a powerful family in Dongguan before. Looking at these few battles, the capable thief Kou Yue under Chen thief More and more are coming." Wen Ping was very puzzled.

"There are no signs. I have heard that a wealthy businessman has emerged in Dongguan in recent years. His business has gone overseas, and every household in Zhuangzi has made money." Since the Chenjiazhuang uprising, Zhu Guang also sent people to investigate: "Before, we When I drank Jiannanchun for the first time, I also talked about the Chen family. But who would have thought at that time that the Chen family secretly cultivated so many capable people and was able to win them over to death."

"Wang Xu is also a fool. Thieves are developing under his nose, but he only knows how to collect money and doesn't care about it. How can it end when the trouble has reached this point?" Wen Ping complained again to the former Dongguan County Magistrate Wang Asahi.

"Relax, Fangla rebelled in the second year of Xuanhe, gathered hundreds of thousands of people, corrupted dozens of states, and was not easily wiped out by Tong Xiang in the end." Zhu Guang's mentality is still very positive, and he does not think that the consequences of Chenjiazhuang's rebellion will be serious. serious.

Since the Song Dynasty, people have generally failed to become officials by punishment, and the worst outcome for themselves is to be demoted. As long as they are willing to spend money, they can always turn around one day.

"Hey, talking about this, I can't help but think of Tong Xiang, who made brilliant achievements in war all his life, but was given a jute book by the new official to die in Nanxiong Prefecture." Wen Ping still had no hope for the future road: "The current situation in the world It’s such a mess, today is different from the past.”

Tong Guan's death has always been a thorn in Zhu Guang's heart.

In the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats like them, this ending was really too disgraceful, and what the officials had done was too great.

The Song Dynasty could accommodate ten million people, but it couldn't tolerate a demoted prime minister?

What did this make other scholar-officials think?How can they still do their best work?

"Let's get through today's test first." We couldn't continue talking about this topic, otherwise we wouldn't even bother to defend the city.

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The city wall of Guangzhou is more than three feet high.

In order to open up this wild land, the government built the city wall of the state capital very tall and generous.

It was this tall city wall that prevented the Song officials in the city from escaping on a large scale.

They believed that the thieves would definitely not be able to attack with such a small force.

"This city wall looks really high when you stand up close." Lu Hui sighed: "If it weren't for gunpowder weapons, it would be sheer wishful thinking for just a few of us to break through this fortified city."

"There are many ways to attack a city. There are countless cases in history where a city was defeated by strange tactics. Offense and defense have always been about people rather than the city." Chen Xun thought of the subsequent Battle of Kaifeng.

He really wanted to send a letter to Song Guan's family, reminding him not to be so reckless, just hide in the deep palace and let his soldiers defend the city.But now that the two sides are on opposite sides, this letter will definitely backfire.

It's better not to provoke him.

Work harder on my own side, inherit the "inheritance" of the Song Dynasty as soon as possible, and then go to clean up the Kingdom of Jin.

"Lang Jun, every time we attack a city, we set off so many big firecrackers, and the gunpowder is still not enough." Lu Hui reminded.

"Don't worry about gunpowder production. We in Chenjiazhuang have continued to purchase saltpeter for so many years, which has stimulated a significant increase in saltpeter production in the southeast. As long as we maintain the scale of acquisitions, this increasing trend will definitely continue."

If someone buys, someone will sell. This is a market economy.

China began to use saltpeter a long time ago, and began to mine saltpeter in large quantities in the Tang Dynasty. Some people in the world began to use saltpeter to make ice and sell it after summer.

Since the Song Dynasty, there have been more and more varieties of cold food on the market. Ice merchants have added various fruits or juices to the cold food, which is very similar to modern ice cream.

Chen Xun didn't know how saltpeter was produced in nature, but the Han people had already mastered the use of saltpeter soil to make saltpeter.

Saltpeter can be found everywhere and is not unusual.

In the past, saltpeter was purchased in small quantities and at low prices, and was mostly used as medicinal materials. Ice food was not a necessity, and the demand was not high (ice food was expensive, ordinary people could not afford it, and the scale could not increase), so the Han people would not spend time collecting it.

Since Chenjiazhuang harvested nitrate on a large scale, without quantity and at high prices, the nitrate market in the southeast has been opened.

The hard-working Han people are not afraid of hardship, tiredness, or dirt. As long as there is something to make money and it is not illegal, there will naturally be a lot of people doing it, and the scale will easily increase.

This is one of the reasons why Chen Xun is unwilling to leave the mainland and go overseas to accumulate strength.

The people on this continent are so outstanding. Without them, just relying on the lazy aborigines overseas would drive people to death.

The siege started at Si Shi.

There were dense defenders on the walls of Guangzhou. Lu Hui did not send troops forward, but only bombarded the walls with artillery and catapults from a distance.

Although the catapults seized from Dongguan were not as far and accurate as Chenjiazhuang's, they were enough to throw incendiary bombs far onto the walls of Guangzhou.

The defenders also used catapults and giant crossbows to fight back. However, since the Chen family's army was heavily protected in front of the formation, the effect was not good. Only the fire pots thrown were slightly lethal.

Three modified and reinforced wooden donkey carts began to advance side by side, with commandos hidden under the carts.

Under the cover of artillery, the wooden donkey cart quickly arrived in front of the moat.

Then he drove straight into the moat.

The modified wooden donkey cart can now float on the water. The people under the cart can stand on the crossbars at the bottom of the cart. Not only can they float on the water together, but they can also use their feet to draw water to power the wooden donkey cart.

It was easy to get into the water but difficult to get into the water. The water surface was still more than two feet high from the shore. It was impossible for a few people under the car to move the wooden donkey cart to the shore.

But there are already countermeasures.

(End of this chapter)