Chapter 11: Mr. Dongyan

On the way back to Duoyanbu, Yun Zhao sighed for a long time, he had seen all kinds of people in the Ming world, but he had never seen a fool.

From this, he came to the experience that when the time comes to the end of the world, there will be only the wise people left in the world.

Even in a desperate situation, Grand Lama Morgan must not only strive to survive, but also live with dignity, not lose face, and if possible, he even has to fight back to see if he can turn the bad things into his favor.

However, one thing Yun Zhao is very sure of is that today, after seeing the power of muskets, Morgan really moved his mind to buy guns.

Unfortunately, the Mongols, the Tibetans, and even the Jiannu were not Yunzhao's target customers.

Never!

In the past five years, the Yun clan has finally built qualified flying bird guns in Yushan, among which the continuous short guns are the most outstanding.

Although the Yun Short Gun can only be fired twice at a time, these two shots are continuous and without gaps.

The craftsmen of the Yun clan also planned to install a few more barrels on the short guns to achieve the purpose of firing more consecutive shots, but basically few people could grasp the shots with one hand according to this idea.

It is only a reckless character like Yun Yang that he made two six-barreled handcuffs for himself for some unspeakable purpose...... After that thing was built, Yun Zhao couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

The Gatling gun can only fire six times in one hand, and then it takes a long time to reload, and if you don't have a chance to reload, this thing becomes a completely useless waste.

The godly priest John Tang, who was boasted by the Manchus, was not good at artillery or even muskets, but only knew some superficial physical knowledge.

As for Deng Yuhan, Luo Yagu was even more unbearable, and the knowledge of astronomy by these three people far exceeded the study of physical chemistry.

If it weren't for the fact that Deng Yuhan came up with a rudimentary version of the telescope, the large amount of money Yun Zhao invested in these three would have been a complete failure.

However, those Westerner slaves that Xu Guangqi bought for Yun Zhao shined on Jade Mountain!

They were very powerful in creating artillery for Yun Zhao!

Although it was only a very crude artillery, this had already made Yun Zhao very satisfied, and the most important thing was that these people had made some improvements to the shells of these cannons, and copied all the chain bullets and grape bullets on the pirate ship.

Although these shells only rely on the power of gunpowder to push these projectiles out and cause damage to the enemy, they can cause a lot of damage to the enemy's living forces in close combat, especially when the enemy is in dense formation or when the cavalry is charging.

What surprised Yun Zhao the most was that these guys actually developed a new type of flowering bomb.

Different from the flowering bullets owned by the Ming army, (it should be explained here that there were already flowering bullets at the end of the Ming Dynasty), the flowering bullets made by Yushan are similar to a ball-shaped grenade, but they are pushed farther by gunpowder, and the iron ball contains more gunpowder, and there are more small projectiles in the iron ball.

Although less than forty percent of the ten cannonballs can really bloom and hurt people, this is already a rare surprise for Yun Zhao.

In order to study this thing, Yunzhao's Westerner slaves were accidentally blown up and killed more than ten people.

However, after Yun Zhao threw a large amount of silver, none of these people cared about their lives, and they all took out the spirit of outlaws and continued to study bombs with greater lethality and higher explosion rate.

So, in this atmosphere, Yun Zhao got grenades and mines again!

That is, after these things were studied by craftsmen and slaves, the abilities of Tang Ruowang, Luo Yagu, and Deng Yuhan were slowly discovered.

The ability of these people is not to invent and create, but to organize, induct, and summarize, because they have all the procedures summarized and recorded, so that the Yushan gun workshop continues to have new weapons being created.

Yun Zhao is satisfied with the development of the past five years, and what satisfies Yun Zhao the most is the army trained by Yun Fu.

In the past five years, the army owned by the Yun clan has not only not increased, but has been decreasing, more bandits who are not suitable to be soldiers have returned home to participate in labor, and the old thieves who used to live in the mountains have come down to the mountains to receive a small piece of land in the Yun clan to support themselves.

Sweet potatoes are Xu Guangqi's biggest gift to the people of Lantian County, and after adapting to the climate of Lantian County, this thing is like its vines that expand wildly.

With this thing, people can finally use a small piece of arable land to eat their stomachs.

Potatoes and corn have become expensive and have become the daily food of people in Xi'an.

Nowadays, when you leave Xi'an City, as long as you cross the Baqiao, you can see endless cornfields planted on both sides of the road.

In the spring of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Yun clan killed Jukou in Qianxian County and captured 300 Liukou.

In the autumn of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Yun clan injured Jukou in Fufeng and captured 451 Liukou.

In the winter of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Yun clan and the giant Liu Zongmin met with Wu Gong and made a contract that the Liukou were not allowed to enter Lantian County, and the Yun clan was not allowed to fight against the Liukou at the county border.

Since then, there has been no invasion of thieves in Lantian County.

In a place, with enough products and a large enough population, a large number of merchants naturally appeared.

The business between the Yun family and the Huang family to exchange grain for salt is still going on, but the transaction partner has changed from the Huang family to the Wang family.

In this process, the merchants of Zhangjiakou keenly found that as long as the grain purchased from Lantian County was not sent directly to the border village in Zhangjiakou, it would be safe and sound, and once the grain left Zhangjiakou, there would be a great disaster waiting for them.

After several times, Hong Chengchou's grain robbery could not be concealed, and in the end, Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, which is a matter of course.

Without Hong Chengchou to cover up the fact of the prosperity of Lantian County, more and more people paid attention to Lantian County, Yun Zhao resigned from the post of county magistrate of Lantian County, but Huang Yao Zhuo, the political envoy of Shaanxi, was promoted to the governor of Xi'an Prefecture and temporarily represented the magistrate of Lantian County.

Yun Zhao resigned three times for this, and finally had to hang the big seal of the main hall of Lantian County in the county government of Lantian County.

According to the recent news from Yunxiao, the main hall seal of Lantian County is still hanging there, no one has taken it away, and no new officials have been stationed in the county office.

The big seal was taken down and wiped every day by the main book of Lantian County, and there was not even a trace of dust on it.

Lantian County without Yunzhao seems to be getting better.

There is no shortage of taxes paid every year, and they are rising every year.

On the seventh day of the 11th month of the ninth year of Chongzhen's ninth year, the two old officials guarding the county yamen of Lantian County sat on chairs with their backs against the south wall and were drowsy by the warm sun, a group of sparrows pecked at the grain on the edge of the county yazhaobi, and the prisoner who was locked in shackles was leaning on the wall to bask in the sun, and the other prisoner who was beaten and had a bad butt was tied to an iron chain and lay on his butt in the sun, hoping that his injuries would heal soon.

Behind their necks were wooden signs with words on them, one that read steal and the other that scammed.

A thin middle-aged man in a thick cotton robe put his hands in his sleeves, slowly approached the two prisoners, carefully looked at the wooden signs inserted around their necks, and then looked up through the courtyard to look at the empty county hall and coughed softly.

The two old officials raised their heads in unison, and when they saw that it was Mr. Dongyan, they put their heads on their arms again.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, Mr. Dong Yan frowned and crossed the threshold and was about to enter the county hall.

An old official said lazily: "If you have nothing to do in the court, you will have thirty rods." ”

Mr. Dong Yan stopped and said, "You are so slack......"

Without waiting for Mr. Dong Yan to finish speaking, another old servant said: "Lantian County is like this, when the county order was in the past, we would bask in the sun together on the root of this south wall, what kind of thing are you, dare to spread wild in my Lantian County." “

Mr. Dong Yan smiled, looked at the two old officials with his hands behind his back and said, "Oh? It turned out to be the rule of your county, and students wanted to meet the county to discuss something, but I don't know if they could report it. ”

The old servant looked at the few copper coins handed over by Mr. Dong Yan with disdain and said: "The county has long stipulated that those who have nothing to do with him will be charged five taels of cashiers, and you also want to get through these copper coins?" ”

Mr. Dong Yan was stunned again, a trace of annoyance appeared on his face, he raised his foot and stepped on the ground to suppress his anger and said, "What if the people have grievances? ”

The old official didn't seem to see Mr. Dongyan's angry face, and continued to say lazily: "If the people have grievances, they should first go to the chief, the grain chief, and the village elders.

The county's time is precious, how many major things have to be dealt with, and where is the time to manage some small things that the villagers have disputes. ”

"Where's your county?"

Mr. Dong Yan found that it was unwise to entangle with these old poor people, so he went straight to the point again.

"My county? He was idle and had nothing to do to be a thief......"