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Liu Yan really felt that this was the first time in his life that he had been insulted like this, but a little self-control was still there, so he immediately said coldly: "Hugh is talking nonsense, send off!" ”

The matchmaker seemed to be very excited, and couldn't help but say: "Although the young master of the Ma family is a continuation of the string, and he is not young, but it is difficult for you, girl, no, your identity, except for the young master of the Ma family, who dares to ask for you." ”

"What are you talking about?" She really doesn't use foul language, so that's the heaviest words.

The matchmaker said eagerly: "The girl's experience is sympathetic, but how can the position of this county order be handed over to a woman to do, not to mention that since the girl is in such a place, ordinary white people dare to accept it, and the young master of the Ma family doesn't care about it, although he has more concubines, but the child is knowledgeable, you used to be the wife of the county official......

"Get out, get out, someone, get her out!"

Liu Yan finally had a seizure, only to feel that his eyes were black, but the matchmaker was unrelenting, and continued to talk about how knowledgeable and personable the young master of the Ma family was, although he was in his forties, he was a local landlord.

Of course, the reason why he is called the young master is that his father is still there, and he has no fame so far, but when he heard about the new things in the city, he was picked up again, and he always thought that a woman would be a county official and climb on the head of a man, but it was so rebellious, and other various fake news were also legends everywhere, the official lady, a single woman, and suddenly got a high position, and it was impossible not to be envied by people.

Originally, if it were under normal circumstances, no one would be looking for death like this, but in the past 50 years, in this Jiangnan, it was the era when civil officials were the most arrogant, no matter what they did, they could be with the light, big things turned into small things, Xiucai killed people, and fined three glasses of wine.

Liu Yan shouted, but it took a long time before a panicked family came over and arrested the matchmaker, but the matchmaker was panicked and surprised, the legend says that this woman is already a broken flower, no one wants it, and she was arranged to be such a county official, no one thinks it will last long, there must be a man to be an official.

Under the previous massacre, there were indeed a lot of "official vacancies" in Anqing, many Xiucai and Tongsheng, holding the sour poems they wrote, thinking of jumping into the dragon gate, Li Xiangqian was good-tempered, and he was in a hurry to go to Nanjing, so he didn't rectify this group of incompetent and greedy brutes, just ignored them and let them get out, and afterwards naturally in the mouth of many Xiucai who came out of Anqing, cursing for not knowing talents, and sooner or later they would be defeated.

That's how you do things, no matter what kind of policy you implement, then there must be beneficiaries and losers, and there is no such thing as the best of both worlds.

Just now, Li Xiangqian took a boat to the distance of Nanjing without hesitation, where the flames of war could be heard even if they were more than ten miles away, and the flames and shouts could also be heard, not to mention, at this time, the river surface could be said to be cut off from shipping, except for the ship used by Li Dingguo to transport grain, there was almost no one else, and it was suitable for him to shuttle directly.

After being blinded by the grenade at the beginning, Li Dingguo and Zuo Mengeng were indeed a little unable to deal with it, but the gap in the quality of the soldiers on both sides was there, and Guo Jing who couldn't beat the empty-handed Guo Jing with the Yitian Sword, however, the side holding the magic weapon can always defeat the side equal to their own strength, and this equipment bonus is not nothing.

But it is still people who decide the outcome of the war!

After figuring out that the grenade is a new type of firearm, its miniaturization, and the nature of fragmentation damage, even Li Dingguo knows that this is the product of the imperial capital, and the quality is indeed very powerful, after all, in terms of technology, it is a thing that is ahead of many times.

Fear often comes from the unknown, once you know its approximate power, the convenience of throwing it out after ignition, then there is preparation, not to mention that Li Dingguo is not unprepared, as an anti-water warlord, Zuo Mengeng also collected more than a dozen cannons, dozens of tiger cannons are basically equivalent to grenadiers, gunpowder is enough, and Li Dingguo has also prepared a lot of Sichuan specialties, which can make Nanjing people drink a pot.

The effect of poisonous smoke is excellent, the weather is not very humid these days, there is no heavy rain, but it is not warm, and a kind of poisonous smoke heavier than air is a devastating blow to a big city like Nanjing.

And the grenade, once it reaches the open area, it is steady, but it is restricted from use, the reason is that those families are slowly being consumed, and throwing grenades is also a technical work, physical work, there is a family after igniting the fuse, just about to throw out, but was directly shot by the bow and arrow of a sharpshooter opposite, it doesn't matter if he died, the grenade exploded in his hand, and caused a martyrdom, which can be said to be a huge blow, after that, those families did not dare to gather together, they were all distanced, and began to retreat.

"It's really a waste of wood, I know what a real Kuomintang soldier is."

Imagining the scene of the soldiers of the national army holding a large number of American weapons being besieged by our soldiers holding weapons that are a generation behind, Li pressed the button forward, so that the drone quickly flew back, and it was really not easy to do at this time.

Zhan Shibang also wanted to laugh a little.

Nanjing's main external passage is now almost impassable, even if it is a land route, due to the chaos of the people, it is not safe, many officials who run slowly have not dared to send their wives and children or soft to the outside of the city, at present, not only the Yangtze River is not safe, and the state capitals can not be said to be absolutely loyal, after all, now even Hou Fangyu such generations of loyal guys are very wrong, and they go to other state capitals, it is likely to be to deliver food.

It can be said that if it was the elders from the imperial capital who attacked the city, then these great Confucian scholars and famous men would have surrendered long ago.

There is indeed a surrender economics in this, just as Germany desperately resisted the Soviet Union, and for those American GIs, it became more and more ambiguous, and the market garden plan was so crude that there was no resistance, which itself shows the attitude of Germany, itself has been at a distance from European land, and the Soviet Union can actually get half of the German land, which is due to strength.

Soon, someone from Li Dingguo's side discovered a small yacht close to Nanjing, the speed of the ship was so fast that it was almost impossible to intercept, and all the cannons were basically moved to the city.

Of course, in order to maintain looting in the surrounding villages and towns, or extort ransom fees, there are still many ships that are fully loaded and ready to fight, and our Zuo Mengeng is always maintaining a ship on the shore, ready to run away at any time.

Li Xiangqian thought about it, and for the enemy ships that were gradually approaching, he decisively took out the anti-materiel rifles that had been prepared long ago.

Anti-materiel rifles are not cannons, and it is impossible to destroy city walls, but after trial and error, they have an amazing effect on the wooden ships of this era!

The reason is naturally because of the warhead, for different purposes, there will be many different warheads, such as a kind of warhead, after hitting the target, but it first drills through the armor, and then sends the shrapnel inside, which bounces instantly, and its force can make the human beings in the armored car tank car become a pile of flesh and blood by the way!

The warheads of sniper rifles, most of which are ordinary bullets, tracer bullets are used for ballistic observation, arson effects or target indication, empty cartridges and plastic bullets are used for practice exercises, steel-core armor-piercing shells are used to break armor, and incendiary bullets are used for arson.

After several consecutive shots aimed at the front bow, a fire soon ignited, and the other ships also hurriedly stopped the ship first, and then turned the bow and ran away, and in the process some people accidentally landed, showing their lack of training.

After a long time, Li Xiangqian landed in an uninhabited field on the other side of Nanjing, and at this time, people who came to negotiate under a white flag also appeared.

At the same time, the Zhan Shi Gang also watched as anxious bureaucrats came here to demand that he sell arms.

This is the third time in a few days, Zhan Shibang has fully learned the style of later arms dealers, not only the price of grenades has increased several times, but also obtained the privilege of buying land and doing business in Nanjing, of course, this is basically no comparison with the Nanjing Treaty, but at least in terms of money, the total number of IOUs he has received has exceeded 800,000 taels of silver.

This is not a number, but a heavy weight, but it is not the gold and silver obtained by the elders who go to mining, or the reborn of the later generations to play a financial magic trick to earn tens of billions of dollars, it is necessary to loot a copper plate from the common people, and the most terrible thing is that every penny looted in Nanjing, it is necessary to snatch three to five times from the hands of the people!

Not to mention the fact that they had to feed the bureaucrats and gentry who were getting bigger and bigger, and the princes who came from the north, and after the grassroots lost order, all kinds of thieves who fell into the grass and deserters joined the gang also made the financial resources in the hands of the common people less and less.

In the land of Nanming, according to the original standard of taxation, and then large-scale interception, the phenomenon of their own use is widespread, because everyone is a Confucian child, who knows who is whose protégé and deceased official, it is impossible to be ruthless, so the general performance is harmonious and light and dust, that is, to inspect it, after eating and drinking, as usual.

That is to say, although millions of taels of silver were originally squeezed from the people every year, but there is almost no money that can really be used to do things, and any expenditure is an exploitation out of the warehouse.

In other words, they can't pay back the 800,000 taels of silver in their lifetime, but they still have to borrow money, because the Zhan Shibang put forward it, and in the accounts, it is recorded that it is one million taels!

In other words, 200,000 taels are bribes in the form of kickbacks!

"Zhan Gongzi, that grenade is really useful, especially before, that team of thieves ran into our storehouse, was locked in the yard, and wanted to run, and was thrown by dozens of grenades, and they all saw the king of Hades, this thing is really good, if you come in early, our family will take it to the first emperor, and the first emperor will not reward me with a celebrant supervisor...... Ahem, don't talk about it, I said, Zhan Gongzi, how many good things do you have, it's better to sell them all to our family, the benefits are endless, I will let you be the general foreigner of Jiangnan manufacturing, but they are all really big business, with the banner of our family, no one dares to check you. ”

Zhan Shibang smiled: "Thank you, no one dares to check me now." ”

Not to mention anything else, these grenades were brought in with great fanfare and under the banner of transporting goods, who would dare to care? Which official who is not long-sighted dares to intervene, according to the internal discussion of the elders, if there is such a person, it is necessary to send bombs to his house to scare and scare, but at the same time, some people say that if there is such a person, they should find a way to recruit them, and the degree of lack of manpower among the elders is already shocking.

These two diametrically opposed strategies have become fruitless after countless votes and quarrels, and the biggest problem with this thing is that any brain-dead strategy can be said, but in the end, the most surprising thing is that all the actions of the elders in Jiangnan have not been hit by any so-called upright officials, but everyone has the heart to reach out and get a share!

That is to say, the topic that the elders originally discussed, if they encounter Nanming's reliable officials, how to deal with it, has been a false proposition from the beginning, "ask if it is first, and then ask how to do it"!

"It's just that now the whole city is panicked, there are a lot of bandits in the four places, that is, yesterday, a head of the household department, sent his daughter to a village of his own in Jiangsu, and was intercepted by the nearby landlord on the way, and so he cried and begged to be rescued in the same year before, and his daughter came back and threw herself into the well, no one dared to go out of the city, in the past few days, there have been so many things, everywhere in the four places, there are more and more bullies looting under the banner of dragons or support, but the guards around the country only know that they want money and food here, But not a single soldier refuses to come out. ”

From the news of Zuo Mengeng's rebellion on the first day, to the fall of Anqing, to the fleet, which was several miles long and downstream, under such a momentum, it was not that no news was sent to Nanjing, but the institutional efficiency of the Nanjing bureaucracy, as well as the overall incompetence of the literati, coupled with the fact that there was no emperor after the emperor, there was no one who was really in charge, and when the local warlord Zuo Mengeng raised troops to plunder the local issue, they had already taken Anqing.

This efficiency is also against the sky.

Of course, Zhan Shibang still said bitterly: "Zuo Menggeng's kid is not authentic, what kind of bullying the people of the whole city is, don't say anything else, kill him." ”

Yang Wencong said: "Virtuous nephew, forgive me for relying on the old man and selling the old once, if you quickly dedicate all the firearms you have returned to the imperial court, I will be the master, and you will be a waiter, wouldn't this be a beautiful thing." ”

"Being an official, I can't be an official, I don't know what red tape is, the most important thing is that officials are not allowed to do business."

"The affairs of these merchants, you can delegate them to the clansmen, it is also a good thing, but now it is urgent."

(End of chapter)