The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 321 New Loader
Zhen Siming ranked first in the military culture test, third in shooting, and No. 20 in reloading speed.

In the end, he lost the selection. Liu Guozheng, who was in charge of supervising the selection, said plausibly that he was originally the loader for the selection of adults, and the loading speed was of course the most important achievement.

Not a single military officer pleaded for Mandu'er, even Huang Dongshan and Gu Shanhe agreed. They didn't think that Liu Guozheng, who was not afraid of offending others, was right, but that keeping Mandu'er away from adults would make people feel uncomfortable. rest assured.

Zhen Siming's mother, Mrs. Li, has lived in Huang's house for nearly a year. Seeing her son becoming more sensible every day, she is extremely happy every day, and she does her best with the housekeeper Zhao Rui.

The starting point of everything is to protect the interests of the Huang family, and she is busy every day. With the help of this dedicated and educated woman, Zhao Rui is much more relaxed.

Li Shi, who was reborn, heard Zhao Rui tell the conditions of the Patriarch's agreement to accept her only son as a musketeer in the first month, and wept so hard that she couldn't speak.

The head of the family actually cared about the life and death of such a penniless woman like her, and forbade her to commit suicide for the sake of the festival.

Later, Zhao Rui told her the unbearable past in her ear, and told her not to tell anyone.

Mrs. Li finally knew that the Patriarch was not hypocritical. He really didn't dislike the woman who was forced to be helpless and tortured. Whether the Patriarch loves the housekeeper or not, the Huang family can see it.

She secretly vowed to work hard for the head of the family, even if she died for the Huang family, she would not frown.

The son lost the election, and the mother decided to go to the big housekeeper to help her son's future and talk a few words. In fact, Li Shi didn't have too many fantasies, but seeing her son very sad, she just gave it a try.

After all, the beloved Patriarch of the Huang family has never been attacked by anyone, and his son's taint is naturally compared to other youths who are upright and young. Li knows that the Huang family's youths are not cowards, and all of them are cultural people. There are so many outstanding ones. also!
Zhao Rui explained the whole story when the master came to stay in her yard, and Huang Sheng was a little embarrassed. The four loaders had already been selected, and they were all top-notch young men. He couldn't pull down a young man who had passed the public examination just because there was someone who opened the back door.

The principle of fairness is the bottom line, and no one can touch it, but creating better opportunities for a highly gifted child will not let the pearl be dusted.

Huang Sheng put his arms around the beauty and gave her advice, let Zhao Rui continue to recruit four people in the civil affairs system to recommend, let Manduer also come to the exam, or choose the best, if the selection presided over by Zhao Rui still fails to get the top four The only way to rank is to give up.

In the end, the head of the family doubled the number of loaders, a total of eight people, and Mandu'er was recommended by Zhao Rui, the respected housekeeper, with the first overall score.

The four selected by the army are actually teenagers who have served for more than a year. They are the orphans of Juehua Island, Yunzhonglai, the canal tracker, and Huawu, who was born as a slave in Fuzhou.

The other one is one of the first 36 Ming armies under the command of Huang Sheng at the end of the fourth year of Tianqi. He is now Yu Xiaolong, the second son of Yu Deshui, the sixth-rank excellent captain.

Two of them have already changed from seventh-rank officers to the Patriarch's side, but they have changed to the rank of small banner officers from the beginning, without rank.

But the young man cherishes this opportunity very much, even if the salary according to the small flag officer is one tael less than before, the salary of the small flag officer is one tael more than that of the soldiers, the monthly salary is three taels of silver, and the corporal leader is two taels of silver. .

The starting point of these eight loaders is too high, and Huang Sheng is very satisfied. He not only often arranges them to work alone, but also often discusses the formation of troops with them, and subtly guides them to learn the art of leadership and the principle of fairness.

He doesn't treat Mandu'er differently, and doesn't teach him anything specially.However, through observation, Huang Sheng found that this child is full of tenacity, not to be outdone in everything, and he is practicing diligently every day.

He not only practiced hot weapons hard, but also learned martial arts from Liu Guozheng's personal army, often pestering those martial artists to learn a move and a half.When martial artists came to Huang Sheng's side, it was completely different from before. Their moves were all simplified, with no fists or legs, and all moves were directly killed.

On June [-], Zhao Shimin returned to Huangjiawan Island with a fleet of ships traveling to the east, and brought back [-] shi of Japanese rice and [-] jin of smuggled brass ingots.It's not that the fleet can't hold it, but that Li Guozhu hoarded so much before the time came.

As soon as Zhao Shimin came back, the three younger brothers couldn't wait to kowtow to recognize the elder brother. Zhao Shimin naturally encouraged them to go to the grassroots and work hard, kill more Jiannu and strive to regain Liaodong as soon as possible.

Sure enough, Zhao Shimin, Wang Lianfa and the others were not polite to the pirates they met, and captured the three Zhuyin ships with a more rogue tactics. Because the flagship and the new warships were too powerful, it was much easier than the previous time to fight against the pirates.

The enemy had no chance to fight back under the artillery fire, and the pirate ship was not as fast as the Huang's warship and could not escape, so they had to surrender in the end.

After interrogating the prisoners of war, he learned that the scale of this group of pirates was too small, so Zhao Shimin decided to dig out their lair by the way. Unexpectedly, for some reason, the few pirates in the lair had already fled.

In the end, Zhao Shimin analyzed that when the warship killed the three Zhuyin ships, it was not far from the land. It should be spies of pirates on that island.

Since it took some time to interrogate the captives, it was too late when the Huang family's warship found out the exact location of the pirate's home port and killed them.

Knowing that the old nest was about to be exposed, the pirate leader resolutely gave up and took the pirates away. They took away all the gold, silver and treasures in the old nest, and only seized a few hundred shi of rice and some worthless furniture.

Fortunately, some of the gold and silver on the three Zhuyin boats were worth 3 to [-] taels of silver, otherwise it would be meaningless.

Captured 97 pirates, most of them were sailors and gunners, and 54 ronin. The pirate leader in his lair also had a Zhuyin ship. When he fled in a hurry, he didn't dare to kill the slaves there, so Zhao Shimin rescued five men, 210, There are more than 60 women, half of whom are Han Chinese.

There were more than 200 family members of the pirates who failed to escape. It may be due to the rush of time, or it may be that the Zhuyin ship could not fit. No matter how many, Zhao Shimin took them home and sent them to several islands to serve as cattle and horses.

The people of the Huang family all have the value of force. Hundreds of reform-through-labor prisoners can't make waves. They work honestly to feed and clothe them.

After Li Guozhu received Master Huang's letter and saw Zhao Shimin's main battleship, he agreed without hesitation to join forces on Daishan Island and go south to attack Zheng Yiguan together.

He wrote a reply letter to reassure Mr. Huang that this time he will definitely give his all to fight Zheng Yiguan and will not save his strength.

Zhao Shimin told his teacher that the main battleship has fully met the design requirements after actual combat, and its speed can definitely catch up with the straw boat modified by the Huang family.

(End of this chapter)