Wang Pu in the late Ming Dynasty

"What is that doing?" Madame Qin climbed the city wall on a whim, pointing to the chimneys in the valley in the distance, billowing black smoke and faintly hearing the piercing sound of clanging bells.

"Madame, that's the artisan area. Wang Yan hurriedly replied.

"Craftsmen, Ou En, what weapons have they built? Mrs. Qin asked.

"Guns and artillery, and chain mail. "

"Bring some over here and show them to me. "

"Yes, ma'am. "

Outside the guerrilla general's mansion,

Mrs. Qin pointed to a few rows of shacks next to her, and said very dissatisfied: "How can there be these indiscriminately built straw huts outside the general's mansion, in case there is an enemy army who is ambushed here, and kills the general's mansion at night, and it is too late to escape, so it will be demolished immediately." "

"Yes, ma'am. Wang Yan was embarrassed but did not dare to reply, these shacks were ordered by Wang Pu to build a school, he said that if the soldiers learned astronomy and geography, they would always have some benefits if they went out to fight and applied what they had learned. And because the city is narrow, there is no extra vacant land, so it is located next to the general's mansion.

They rushed into the general's mansion, and Mrs. Qin sat on Wang Pu's seat, and ordered someone to transfer last year's account books and flip through them page by page.

Half an hour later, Wang Yan cooked a bowl of local chicken soup and presented it.

"This account book is inexplicably upside down. Last year's three quarters of iron ore mining volume is only more than 10,000 taels, but the freight is more than 7,000 taels, how can this be reasonable, I carefully reasoned, there are ten boats of ore, more than 67,000 catties, freight 700 taels is enough, a total of 300 pairs of iron armor, nonsense, you little girl do not understand, a pair of iron armor will cost thirty or forty catties, three hundred pairs is 10,000 catties of pig iron, more than 60,000 catties of iron ore how can smelt 10,000 catties of iron, and there are more than 1,000 firearms, more than 100 artillery pieces, are you doing tricks. Mrs. Qin slapped the account book on the case and scolded angrily.

Wang Yan pursed her lips with a face full of grievances, gritted her silver teeth and lowered her head and did not dare to reply, looking like an angry little daughter-in-law. This account book is according to Wang Pu's instructions to count copper, iron, coal and other ores every ten, after all, these ores are not coming from the right way, involving Yang Wanchun, the remnant of the thief army who secretly colluded with Pinglu County, if it is detected, it will be tantamount to a catastrophe for Wang Pu.

However, as the commander of the guard, he is like a soil emperor, and he

does not need to worry about being audited, so he is very sloppy and full of flaws when he starts to fake accounts, and Mrs. Qin has been operating tea and silk for many years, infiltrating the shopping mall, and it can be seen at a glance that there is something abnormal in this account book.

"Madame, the craftsmen's area has sent the finished products of muskets, cannons and chain mail, all of which have been displayed outside the courtyard, please take a look at them. Wang Yan secretly regretted in her heart, she knew that her wife would come to check the accounts, so she should have forged an additional account book, and this half-truth account book was usually locked in the box.

Mrs. Qin snorted coldly when she heard this, got up and took a lotus step, surrounded by all the women outside the courtyard, and looked at these finished products in turn, her eyebrows were deeply locked, and she sighed with her forehead: "Pu'er is a child after all, although her mind is clever, in the end, she has less years of experience, and she can't wait for it." "

Yan Ba pointed to the chain mail, said: "This armor is cumbersome to make, extremely labor-intensive and money-intensive, and can not keep out the cold, in the winter when going out, you have to carry a large number of extra cotton clothes, too much baggage, you have to raise more soldiers, in vain to consume money and food, far less practical than cotton armor, is that no guard will choose this kind of useless armor." Pu'er has a young heart and likes flashy things, most of which are the villains around him who like him and give him this bad idea. "

"Madame is too worried, chain mail is not difficult to make, and it does not take time. Wang Yan whispered on the side. Since the completion of the 100,000 jin hydraulic forging press designed by Wang Pu himself, the wire can be forged effortlessly, and the manufacturing process of chain mail is now simple and fast. It's just that Wang Puyou strictly ordered that the secrets in Yanmen should not be leaked. These things cannot be said to Madame.

"Firebolts are very easy to blow up, and they are inaccurate, but the plaything is far less practical than the crossbow. However, this cannon is mounted on wheels, which is very novel, and Pu'er's occasional whimsy is very good. "

"What Madame said is that the young master has many wonderful ideas, which make people impressed, and the craftsmen in the guard house praise him as a genius who is born to know. Wang Yan hurriedly offered beautiful words, hoping that his wife would turn her mind elsewhere, don't delay the business by issuing orders here, but she didn't want to be self-defeating.

"Smart is mistaken by smart, young people are frizzy, do things hastily, for the mother should plan for him to check the pass, take these chain mail and fire guns to sell, in the chaotic season, all the guards, the city guards will be willing to pay a high price. If you change the money, you can build more cannons, and it is not enough to have cannons, but also to have spearmen, swords and shields, which can resist the enemy at close range, and can be bombarded by artillery from afar, so as to win the battle. "

"Madam, by all means, we are all women's camps here, and it is easy to kill the enemy with firearms, and if women are weak, if they use ordinary weapons, they are only afraid that the enemy will not be able to protect the city. When Wang Yan heard that he was going to sell the fire gun and replace it with a sword, gun and shield, he immediately became anxious and begged bitterly.

"If you want to talk more, it will turn your hooves. Mrs. Qin was talking energetically, where could she allow a slave to talk back in front of her, and she suddenly became angry, and reprimanded angrily. Wang Yan was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she trembled slightly unconsciously, only to feel that the sky was spinning, as if the sky was about to fall, after all, she was the maid that Mrs. Qin bought from a poor farmer, and the deed of sale was filed in the official mansion, so she belonged to the lowly status, and life and death were placed in the hands of others, how dare she not obey orders.

"Do it immediately, don't be noisy. Mrs. Qin ordered, and the accompanying female battalion officers looked at each other, all at a loss.

"This, such a big thing, can only be decided when the young master returns. Wang Yan risked his life and would never obey.

"Presumptuous. "Mrs. Qin is angry, a cheap maid actually dares to disobey in public, this is an unheard of scandal in this life, if it is spread, how to face the world. She stretched out her hand and slapped her palm, Wang Yan couldn't bear it, and fell to the ground, this palm scraped with anger, and the five finger prints were clear and transparent, like a red flower painted on her face.

At this point, Wang Yan went out instead, she knew that she had no way out, and in the whole world, only the young master could give her a way to live, although this way of life was also extremely slim. In the Ming Dynasty, filial piety ruled the world, and if the daughter-in-law and her mother-in-law had a dispute, the government would inevitably give justice to the mother-in-law, not to mention the dispute between the maid in the young master's room and the main mother, how would the government deal with it.

The people's hearts are like iron, the official law is like a furnace, Wang Yan, who is wise and blue, knows that her situation is now to see the official die, if you want not to see the official, you can only rely on the young master, the so-called clean official is difficult to break the family affairs, as long as the young master is willing to bear the name of unfilial piety for her, come forward to confront her biological mother, she can live.

Wang

Yan has been inseparable from Wang Pu for the past year, knowing that the third young master's temperament has changed greatly, and he has great ambitions in his belly, and he dares to take risks to put his ambitions into practice, and he will no longer be the playful and chaotic gentleman of the past. Ordinary ethics can only be used to restrain ordinary people, how can an ambitious lord of a feudal town not distinguish between the important and the important, put the cart before the horse, and easily abandon the cronies around him who help the great cause for the sake of the stubble, this is Wang Yan's confidence to dare to resist his wife.

"Madam, even if the slave and maid deserve to die, they will wait for the young master to come back. Wang Yan got up and looked directly at Mrs. Qin, not humble and resolute, not overbearing.

Mrs. Qin was stunned for a moment, and she was at a loss. In the past year, Wang Yan has held authority in his hands, is accustomed to giving orders, and has unconsciously developed the inherent nobility of a superior person.

"Hahahaha, little bitch, you're okay, the old lady took a look, but she didn't see that you were a slut. I finally know why Pu'er always broke up with me, it must be you who instigated and separated our mother and son. Mrs. Qin immediately traced her long-standing frustration and doubts to Wang Yan, and was full of hatred for the culprit in front of her.

"The young master

said that when he led the army outside, all the affairs of the Yanmen guards would be handed over to me to take care of, and no one should think about breaking the rules set by the young master. Zhou Li, are you a dead person, blast out these irrelevant outsiders for me. Wang Yan said coldly.

"Yes, Miss Goose. "Healthy woman Zhou Li replied, she was originally the daughter of a farmer in Guanzhong, three years ago to avoid thieves, fleeing through Tongguanwei, was commanded by Tongguanwei to make Pang Quan sign a deed of sale with a bag of beans, a few worthless girls look not bad, but there is no waist, round and short, because of the sturdy, then arranged to feed the pigs, assigned to a small soldier.

Wang Pu helped defend Tongguan last year, and became a big customer of local human trafficking, exchanging a large number of women from Pang Quan with armor, but this customer is very picky, as long as the woman is good-looking, but the refugees are all desperate poor people, and there are not many good-looking girls.

Seeing that the supply was insufficient, a good profiteer, Pang Quan, was greedy for the iron armor of the Shenjia battalion, and he indiscriminately filled the number, and arrested and sold some women who had been rationed to his subordinate soldiers, and Zhou Li was among them.

Zhou Li is a simple peasant girl, the year before last she gave birth to a child who did not want to be separated from it, at first she was looking for death and life, starved for a few days before she was honest, and she swam to Yanmen Guard with a cage, she didn't want this woman to be strong, she stood out in military training, and was entrusted with a team of female battalion commanders, and now she has become Wang Yan's most relied on cronies.

"Bold, I am the biological mother of your guerrilla lord, who dares to be disrespectful to me. Mrs. Qin's eyes widened angrily and she said sharply. These words were really immediate, and all the female soldiers of the Yanmen guards stopped and did not dare to step forward.

"The generals will obey the order and cover me, and those who disobey and retreat will be beheaded. Zhou Li took a step forward and ordered. This woman can be appreciated, because there is no other reason, only the brain is not bright, only recognize military orders, never know the world. Wang Pu at the beginning of February last year to worship the Yan Gate guard commander, soon because of prying the emperor's corner, Wang Wei was seriously injured by the family method, more than three months lying on the bed to recuperate, the Shenjia battalion grass creation person is really Wang Yan, her ability to lead the troops is still above Wang Pu, once taught Wang Pu the experience, the young general uses the stupid person, the general uses the understanding person. Wang Pu was impressed when he heard this, and he was willing to bow down.

Mrs. Qin's entourage is the real family of the Wang family, and she can be fearless in the face of thousands of troops and horses, but the female soldiers on the opposite side are in order, slowly approaching with bayonets, and the cold air at the tip of the knife is seeping people, and there is a terrifying momentum.

"Madam, we are few and invincible, so let's go quickly. An elderly family member turned his head to Madame Qin and persuaded him, he could see from the neat footwork of these female soldiers that the opposite side was by no means a rabble, and the heroes did not want to suffer the immediate losses, but they didn't want to die here in confusion.

Mrs. Qin is a woman after all, at this time she suspects that Wang Yan has betrayed the Wang family and voted for thieves, otherwise how dare she show her sword to herself, disobey her orders, so she thinks about it and makes her suspicious, and she can't help but lose her face, and flee from Yanmen Pass in a hurry under the support of all the family members.

At the same time, in the Tianjin Acropolis, Gu Huanchen, supplemented by words, is the most proud descendant of the Gu family, this person is six years old poetry, nine years old can read and write articles, twelve years old into oxygen, can be called a prodigy, adult is a sword eyebrows starry eyes, a word of beauty, a slightly longer face circumference, a sturdy body, live off a beautiful talent with both talent and appearance.

"I see, my golden girl has always been scheming, and she must have been coerced to survive. When he learned of the great changes in his family in Jizhou City, Gu Huanchen just talked and muttered a few words, unaware that this was a catastrophe.

"What's your idea for Brother Fu?" Liu Longdi didn't talk nonsense, just asked about the plan, and said in his heart: If there is no way, then I have to go to my father in the south and report the Gu family.

Gu Huanchen glanced up at Liu Longdi, and said with a smile: "There are three strategies, upper, middle and lower, let you pick one." "

"How to do it. "

"Let's talk about the next strategy first, I'm still thinking about the best strategy. Second Brother Liu immediately left the house, turned left and went to the yamen to report the big case. "

"Don't joke for Brother Pu, this matter is life and death. Li Longdi said angrily, this is the last helpless move, with the in-laws of the Liu family and the Gu family, involved in such a big case, it is essential to dredge the silver, and the so-called immortality must also be peeled off the skin. If someone falls into the well and jumps out to make a false accusation, then the court may rather kill the mistake than let it go, and the Liu family will also be executed.

Zhongce didn't dare to say. Gu Huanchen said with grievances on his face.

"No, don't dare to say it? Then don't say

it, don't say it. Liu Longdi was not stupid, and immediately realized that the middle strategy was to simply stop doing nothing and surrender to the captive. At least he could save his life, and he turned pale with fear at the thought.

"The best policy, wear the guilt and make meritorious service. "

"How can I make meritorious deeds, if this matter is easy, you will not be needed. Liu Longdi smiled bitterly.

"Actually, it's not difficult, not long ago on our way to escape, we saw a Ming army stationed on a small island, and it looked quite elite. "

"Then your proposition is to go to their aid?"

"No, I inquired, that's the Shenjia battalion, the leader of the army is called Wang Pu, not long ago he just broke the captive kou, you should have heard of it, the captive chief Taiji was angry and personally led the troops around, how to save it. "

"I am neither deaf nor blind in this matter, I heard that Wang Pu personally beheaded a Dongyu Baylor, and the chief swore to heaven not to kill him and swear not to be a man. If we can't save it, what's the use of it? Liu Longdi complained sadly.

"Manpower is not enough, but with the help of heavenly power. "