Chapter 273 Cutting down mountains and destroying temples
Yang Feng's problem of the source of troops was solved in this way. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
I have to say that this is really a big killer, in this era no ordinary people can resist the grievance conference, when one by one the people full of grievances and suffering complained on the stage one after another, the emotions of the whole venue were immediately detonated, the same fate made everyone's grief and indignation ferment together, and then a little induced, the original fear and concerns immediately disappeared, and then it was replaced by hatred for the Manchus and those gentry, and Yang Feng needed to do, It's just a matter of writing down the most suitable of these people and telling them what they want to do, and recruiting them into your team.
It's really easy.
After the 10-day meeting of grievances, a full 200 bitter and bitter young peasants and handicraftsmen joined the anti-Qing contingent without hesitation, all of them were strong, hardworking and simple seedlings, each of whom had the bitter experience of being bullied by the Manchus and the gentry, and the flames of hatred burned in the hearts of each of them.
Then Yang Feng's military academy was established.
Baokang, Huanglongguan.
This small Taoist temple has already converted to the Holy Religion.
The Holy Religion is also the worship of God, the latter is just the name of the outside world, and the believers in the sect are called the Holy Religion, and even the religious management system has been established, the leader of the sect is of course Yang Feng, but not called the sect leader, but all call it Xianzun, the following is set up left and right protectors, the left protector is in charge of internal administrative affairs, the original Zhenwu Guan Guan advocates Cuncheng to serve, the right protector is responsible for foreign affairs, and the former Xiangyang County catcher Qi Lin is in charge, and there is also a fairy aunt that is Wang Sai's family in charge of finance, and two fairy children are Anu and Wang Cong'er serving Xianzun. The following is based on the county and village as a unit, respectively, set up three levels of imams, these patriarchs directly belong to the left protector, mainly manage the affairs of the church, especially to help the poor, coordinate the relationship between the disciples, the believers need help when they need help, and even help them to fight lawsuits, anyway, if the money is not enough, you can report to the left protector, the left protector can go to the fairy Gu to ask for money, the village level imam is elected by the disciples themselves, and the county and township two levels of the imam are reported by the left protector and then appointed by the immortal.
As for Liu Zhixie......
He is the Grand Imam of the Diocese of Anhui.
At present, there are only two dioceses of Hubei and Anhui, and the diocese of Henan is also under preparation, and Song Zhiqing, the eldest disciple of Liu Zhixie, has been selected to go to various parts of Henan to preach, and several other believers have also scattered to Hunan, and Sichuan has even gone west to Hanzhong. In less than a year, most of the Taoist temples in Xiangyang and Yunyang have been converted to the Holy Religion, and those Taoist temples have basically been appointed as patriarchs at all levels, and these Taoist temples have also become institutions similar to Christian churches, but they still maintain their original image to the outside world.
"Immortal Venerable, please!"
Yao Zhifu, the patriarch of Baokang County, knelt on his knees, handed a flintlock pistol that had just been assembled to Yang Feng with both hands and said.
He was a disciple of Qi Lin.
The Holy Religion also adopts the disciple system, and whoever develops the disciple is the disciple of whom.
This is the secret base of the Holy Cult.
This small Taoist temple is hidden in the vast mountains of northwest Hubei Province, even if it is far from the county seat of Baokang, you have to walk on the mountain road of 100 miles, 30 miles to the west is the famous Shennongjia forest area, its remote and hidden is needless to say, the safety hidden here is the highest, although remote, but the traffic is not trapped in the south, because the horse bridge under the mountain is on the bank of the South River, take a raft down the river and go straight into the Han River to reach Xiangyang in two days at most. Yang Feng's flintlock pistol assembly plant and bullet factory are all here, hundreds of the most devout disciples work here day and night as Taoist priests, assembling muskets for the great cause of the Holy Sect and demons, Xiao Qian's barrels for Yang Feng are directly sent and hoarded here, and the blacksmith is responsible for the follow-up processing of the tail end and the front sight, while the other parts are made in the holy shrine by the blacksmiths under the personal guidance of Yang Feng, and the disciples are mixed in the normal goods with flat poles.
Including bullets are also made here.
Lead projectiles are not high-tech, and anyone can make a mold.
It's just that the process of making gunpowder is slightly more complicated.
First of all, the believers in the villages of Baokang, Nanzhang, Fangxian and other mountainous dioceses scraped the nitrate soil in the name of manure to improve the land, especially the old wall soil and the like, and then these nitrate soil were sent to the village patriarch to gather and then sent to the township patriarch, who organized the disciples to transport them to another Taoist temple near Baokang in various ways, where they smelted qualified soil nitrate, which was then sent to Huanglongguan, together with the sulfur that Yang Feng hoarded here, and the locally fired charcoal was made into granular gunpowder.
Then it can be handed over to the bullet factory, and the lead projectile is wrapped into a paper shell bullet.
Yao Zhifu is part-time the person in charge of the Huanglongguan Arsenal.
Yang Feng took the musket from his hand, very skillfully pulled away the dragon head of the flint, and at the same time pushed open the lid of the medicine cover, and then he picked up a paper shell bullet, bit it open with his mouth, poured a little gunpowder into the medicine pool, closed the medicine cover and shook it horizontally, then erected the barrel and poured the remaining gunpowder in the bullet into the muzzle, and poured the projectile inside, and the empty paper shell was stuffed into the muzzle casually, and he pulled out a pestle to the end, and by the way, he had a few more pestles. Only then did he raise the gun again, pull the dragon's head to the end, and aim at a goat that was a target twenty feet away in front of him, but just as he was about to pull the trigger, he suddenly turned the muzzle of the gun, and then the gun rang out, accompanied by gunsmoke and fire, a lead bullet with a diameter of 16 millimeters and a little more than 16 kilometers into the mountain forest forty feet away, where a tiger that suddenly pounced fell in mid-air like a stick, and crumbled in pain on the ground.
A pair of fairy child Lori who were originally picking wild flowers there screamed in fright, turned around and looked at the tiger who originally wanted to sneak attack her, and after confirming that the beast was dead, Wang Cong'er immediately changed her expression to an excited expression, and took a stick and poked it directly into the bullet hole in the tiger's head. Obviously, despite the distance of more than 100 meters, the power of this modern steel tube flintlock pistol is still very strong, directly piercing the hard skull of the tiger, so that the armor is basically useless, not to mention the cotton armor of the Qing army, even Napoleon's cuirass cannot be stopped.
And after Yao Zhifu came to his senses, he hurriedly beckoned his men to carry the unlucky tiger.
"This is a good gun, what about the bayonet!"
Yang Fengshou picked up the gun and said with satisfaction.
Yao Zhifu hurriedly brought him a steel triangular pyramid bayonet carefully crafted by a blacksmith.
Yang Feng took the bayonet and put it on the muzzle.
Immediately after he roared, the gun in his hand stabbed forward like a spear, instantly piercing a small pine tree in front of him, and he immediately pulled out the gun and threw it to Yao Zhifu. Obviously, the quality of this bayonet is good, this is all made of modern steel by those blacksmiths hammer hammer, Yang Feng is looking forward to the performance of the Qing army on the battlefield in the face of this thing, as far as the bad appearance of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion is now, it is estimated that it will be similar to when facing the British army.
"Give the guns to these brothers."
He said to Yao Zhifu.
"As for your business."
He turned his head and said to Qin Song, who was standing carefully behind him.
"Are there bandits around this Baokang?"
He then asked.
"Hui Xianzun, there is a small bandit, led by the Zhenshan Tiger, wandering in Baokang, the mountainous area of Fang County, it is estimated that there are fifty or sixty people, but in fact, the squires of the two places are raising, this kind of mountain is high and the emperor is far away, some squires need this kind of bandits to clean up some of the villagers who need to be cleaned up when they need it, last year there was a family because they refused to sell the field to the Huang squire, and one night they were wiped out by the Zhenshan Tiger, the former county commander invited the officials and soldiers of Yunyang Mansion, and a bandit was not killed, I took the opportunity to make a donation. ”
Qin Song said.
He came to tell Yang Feng that the monks of the nearby Longmen Temple went to the county government and told him that the Taoist priests of Huanglongguan had privately made firearms and gathered people to plot a rebellion.
Pity these bald heads!
How did they know that Qin Song was the official of these anti-thieves.
"It's easy to do it!"
Yang Feng said.
"You go back to the county first, in a few days someone will report to the county government that Zhenshan Tiger has destroyed the Longmen Temple, these demon monks really don't know whether they are alive or dead, and the immortals haven't gone to trouble them, they actually dare to find death by themselves!"
Then he said.
"Also, the county squire Huang also mentioned this matter."
Qin Song said busily.
In fact, the Huanglongguan Arsenal cannot really be hidden, even if it is hidden deep in the mountains, the local snakes can still be aware of it, but if there is no conflict of interest, no one will find this kind of trouble for themselves, and the Holy Religion absorbs Taoism, but it despises the bald heads, because of the large-scale spread of the Holy Religion in Baokang, so that the bald heads in this area are not very happy, and the loss of believers is serious, not only Baokang, but other bald heads in Xiangyang, Nanzhang, Fancheng and other places have had examples of whistleblowing, but they are no match for silver, If there is money to collect, those local officials will not have much trouble, not to mention that there is no sign of rebellion in the worship of God.
But not on the Huanglongguan side.
This is all ironclad evidence of rebellion!
"Squire Huang? One day, when he went out, he sent someone to inform him! ”
Yang Feng said very casually.
This is nothing more than arranging a few people, when this Huang squire goes out, ambush him on the side of the road to give him a random shot, Baokang is a place with eight mountains, one water and one field, and it is the most suitable to play this.
After getting Yang Feng's order, Qin Song didn't say anything, and hurriedly went down the mountain to return to the county, anyway, he was here to report the news, as for how to deal with this, it was up to Xianzun to decide.
"Go and solve the matter of Longmen Temple!"
After Qin Song left, Yang Feng immediately said to Yao Zhifu.
"Immortal Venerable, please rest assured!"
Yao Zhifu said with a sinister smile.
Immediately after he beckoned, more than 30 followers who needed to act as security guards for the arsenal, so the first group of disciples to learn how to use flintlock pistols immediately took their flintlock pistols with bayonets and followed him eastward into the vast mountains.