The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 661 Brother With You

After walking out of the yard, the street is outside, and 100 meters away, on both sides of the street, are blacksmith shops stretching across the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, work has already started, and there are all kinds of sound of hammering iron everywhere. There are tens of thousands of craftsmen in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, but there are less than 50 craftsmen who can really make good guns.

In fact, when Yuan Tian first arrived, he proposed to Huang Taiji to let the craftsmen pass on their skills and strive to bring out more craftsmen, but the craftsmen here didn't want to spread their skills to the outside world and wanted to keep their official positions. This matter has never been promoted.

Now as Ding Yi's firearms are getting stronger and stronger, Huang Taiji is anxious to build a large number of firecrackers. He also feels the disadvantage of the shortage of craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty, especially the shortage of gunsmiths.

After Li Yongfang's death, Huang Taiji checked the Ming people arrested after entering the customs, for fear of being mixed in by Ming's spies.

But Huang Taiji has always been very tolerant and valued one kind of person, that is, craftsmen.

In his opinion, it is completely useless for a craftsman to be a spy, and Ding Yi will definitely not do such a thing.

This allowed a new craftsman like Hu Fuming to be named as Chief Qian within two months after he arrived, and he could freely enter and leave the artisan casting hall.

At this time, the two had already walked into the street, and there were no outsiders within 20 meters around them.

Yuan Tian's face was livid, and he seemed to be angry, but he said: "Are you from the intelligence department?"

"Intelligence Division Operation Six, Hu Xiaofu." Hu Fuming said in a deep voice.

"Come with me." It turned out that Yuan Tian (Yuan Gui) used to work in the Sixth Operations Division of the Intelligence Department.

"Yuan Chu is our leader, and he is the elite of the Dongjiang Intelligence Department. When Mr. Ding personally met me, he mentioned Yuan Chu many times." Hu Fuming laughed.

"Hey" Yuan Tian laughed, but the expression on his face was still angry. People who didn't know thought he was arguing with Hu Fuming.

"Why are you so good at musket shooting? I can't do it after a year of practice."

"My father was originally a craftsman." It turns out that Hu Fuming used to be a craftsman. His father was arrested after Houjin broke the fort and forced his father to work for Houjin. His father refused and was brutally killed.

"In Liaodong, Jiannu killed my parents and abused my sister to death. I was young and hid behind a stone wall and watched the tragic death of my father's family." Hu Fuming gritted his teeth when he said this: "I just I swore to myself that in the future, I will avenge my blood hatred and kill Jiannu."

After Hu Fuming arrived in Lushun, he always wanted to join the army, but because he was too small, he was repeatedly rejected.

He later transferred to learn gunplay and became a craftsman in Lushun.

But he never forgot to kill the Tartars.

Wu Dong from the Intelligence Department approached him more than two years ago, saying that he wanted to arrange for craftsmen to enter Shengjing, and asked him if he would like to.

Of course Hu Fuming expressed his willingness, and then sent him to Zhuozhou to work as a military craftsman. After working for nearly a year, the Qing soldiers entered the pass before breaking through Zhuozhou and arresting him.

"Do you have a mission to come in this time?" Yuan Tian asked strangely.

"Yes." Hu Fuming's face darkened: "I will blow up all the craftsmen with the best skills in Jiannu."

"..." Yuan Tian was dumbfounded.

More than two years ago when the Qing soldiers attacked North Korea, they had a shootout with Ding Yi's soldiers and horses. At that time, the Lumi guns of the Qing soldiers had already begun to take shape. Although Ding Yi's guns shot far in that battle, He fought accurately and won a big victory, but Ding Yi's gunmen also suffered a wave of casualties.

This made Ding Yi feel that Manqing cannot be allowed to continue to develop.

If the Manchu Qing had built tens of thousands of musketeers, even if Ding Yi was all flintlock guns, he would still suffer heavy casualties if he fired at him.

This is too uneconomical, and it is not easy for Ding Yi to train troops. As long as the Manchus enter the customs, they can rob tens of thousands of people every time and take down tens of thousands of Ming troops. Ding Yi is definitely not willing to consume each other like this.

Moreover, it has not been a few years since Chongzhen hanged himself at this time, and Ding Yi is going to start to weaken the power of the Manchu Qing, so that he can push it away in a single battle.

The intelligence department quickly decided to select suitable candidates and enter Shengjing.

One of the youngest craftsmen in Lushun, master craftsman Hu Xiaofu, was finally selected.

Hu Xiaofu wanted to join the army many times but was rejected because he was only about 1.5 meters tall and very thin.

He is a craftsman in Lushun, and his monthly salary is 20 taels, which is quite high.

When Ding Yi first recruited craftsmen, he always recruited 20 taels and [-] taels a month.

After the craftsman breaks through one hundred, the craftsmen who come later begin to set the level. Only when the craftsmanship reaches a certain level can they be rated as the head of the craftsman to get 20 taels.

So at present, there are less than two hundred master craftsmen who can be called craftsmen in the entire Dongjiang Town, including Jeju Dengzhou Dayuan and other places.

In fact, Ding Yi was reluctant to let such a craftsman go to Shengjing.

But Hu Xiaofu must go.

From the day he watched his parents and sister being humiliated to death by Jiannu, he always wanted to take revenge in his heart.

When Wu Dong of the intelligence department summoned him, he specifically told him that the person you want to kill may not necessarily be Jiannu, but may be Han Chinese. Can you not be impulsive?
"Anyone who helps build slaves should be killed. I will complete the task."

He was determined to come to Shengjing to do something big.

At that time, Hu Xiaofu was 17 years old and had not yet married.

Craftsmen in Lushun are very popular, but Hu Xiaofu is really too small, which is not very prominent among the craftsmen.

Wu Dong finally asked him: "What else do you want?"

Hu Xiaofu thought for a while, and his face slowly turned red: "I haven't married yet, and I haven't tasted a woman."

Wu Dong's eyes were also red at that time.

But this matter is easy to handle, Ding Yi immediately mobilized the Propaganda Department to publicize internally, someone wants to sacrifice his life to kill the Tartars, is there any girl who is willing to have a descendant with him.

As a result of Hu Xiaofu not returning, he must die. After the publicity department added fuel and jealousy to the publicity, there was a girl who was willing.

Hu Xiaofu got married in Lushun, lived in Lushun for a month, and then went to Zhuozhou.

Because Ding Yi knew that when the Qing soldiers entered the pass in the future, several counties near Zhuozhou would be destroyed.

Originally, Yuan Tian was also undercover here, so he would not tell Hu Xiaofu.

But Ding Yi was afraid that Hu Xiaofu would kill Yuan Tian, ​​so he could only inform him to contact Yuan Tian.

Yuan Tian was silent for a while when he heard this, and then asked, "When do you plan to do it?"

"Recently Wang Tianxiang asked me to make a fuze bomb. I have told him that it will be done in a few days. When the time comes, there will be many people watching."

"I plan to do it then, and I need your help."

Yuan Tian secretly sighed: "How can I help you?"

"I want black powder, a large amount of black powder, packed in bags and tied to the body."

"If Huang Taiji is here, maybe Huang Taiji will be killed?" Yuan Tian's eyes lit up.

"No." Hu Xiaofu said: "The Intelligence Department said it's best not to blow up Huang Taiji."

"Huang Taiji and us are not invading each other now. It's a very good situation. If Huang Taiji is killed, the new one will take revenge and affect Lord Ding's plan."

Yuan Tian nodded. The current situation is undoubtedly the best for Lushun and Ding Yi.

Huang Taiji would rather enter the pass to rob than fight Lushun.

If someone like Hauge came to power, he might gather troops from all over the country to fight Lushun.

"No problem, I'll take care of the black powder." Yuan Tian said immediately.

"And you, you have to be careful, stay away from me, and hide behind others." Hu Xiaofu took a deep look at Yuan Tian, ​​then nodded to him, turned around and strode away.

Yuan Tian looked at his thin back. Although he was only about 1.5 meters tall, he looked like a big tree, tall and straight, supporting the sky of the Han people.

For some reason, he suddenly felt his nose sore, and tears couldn't help but burst out of the frame.

Two days later, Wang Tianxiang sent someone to inform Yuan Tian that Qian Boss Hu Fuming had successfully dismantled the fuze bomb and had calculated the time of the explosion. He invited all craftsmen and craftsmen to watch and study.

Huang Taiji was also invited, and he gladly went.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, Hu Xiaofu came to a test range of the Craftsman Museum.

Maybe Huang Taiji arrived today, and many Ba Yala and guards had already arrived at the scene in advance to take protective measures, and some nobles of the Qing Dynasty also arrived at the scene.

As soon as Hu Xiaofu entered the arena, he knew that it would be difficult to bomb them, because a demonstration site was surrounded by a lot of sandbags in the middle of the artillery test site, just because he was afraid of bombing other people.

In the past, the Manchus tried to produce fuzed shells, and they blew up several times, even killing their own people, so be careful now.

Hu Xiaofu knew at a glance that he could not enter the demonstration area, and if he entered the demonstration area and then bombed, he would not be able to bomb anyone else except himself.

At this time, he was followed by two follower workers, each holding a cannonball in their hands.

The three of them walked in, and the scene was still in an uproar.

After all, everyone will be subconsciously afraid when they see the shells.

You Ba Yala rushed over directly, with a fierce expression on his face.

Wang Tianxiang hurriedly said: "This is a test shell, don't worry, it will be exploded in it later, it is very safe." After saying that, he pointed to the sandbag safety zone.

Ba Yala looked at Hu Xiaofu, then carefully retreated to the side of the Eight Banners, staring at Hu Xiaofu.

"Mr. Hu Qian." Wang Tianxiang and Liu Han saw him at this moment and waved to him.

Yuan Tian was also in the crowd, and was stunned when he saw Hu Xiaofu for the first time.

Because he asked Li Yangeng to get a lot of gunpowder two days ago, and then he mixed it into black gunpowder and packed it in small bags. There are eight bags that can be tied to the body.

But looking at Hu Xiaofu's thin body now, it seems that there is no gunpowder attached.

Regret it?Yuan Tian couldn't believe it.

It's June now, and the temperature is a bit high. People here are starting to wear coarse singlets. If gunpowder is tied around the body, it's easy to see.

Originally Yuan Tian was a little worried, but unexpectedly Hu Xiaofu seemed to give up.

It's okay to give up, and don't be in a hurry, he glanced at Hu Xiaofu, just in time to meet Hu Xiaofu's eyes, Yuan Tian nodded slightly, signaling him to hold on, don't worry, don't explode today, you can change another day.

Hu Xiaofu smiled knowingly, as if he had something in mind.

Uh, at this time Yuan Tian saw the two cannonballs behind him from the corner of his eye, and suddenly understood, damn it, he was directly loaded into the cannonballs?
Yuan Tian didn't expect Hu Xiaofu to be so courageous, because the shell was an empty shell before, and it was only filled with gunpowder during the on-site demonstration.

Hu Xiaofu installed it in advance, and it would still be very dangerous if someone checks it.

But now there is Wang Tianxiang who said just now, and actually got away with it.

At this time, Hu Xiaofu walked towards Wang Tianxiang, Liu Han and others. There were forty or fifty craftsmen gathered here. Basically, the craftsmen with the best skills in the Qing Dynasty were here, and all of them were gunsmiths and gunsmiths who made firearms.

Yuan Tian was also inside. He pretended to be chatting with someone, and slowly fell in the middle. There were about [-] people in front of him.

"Don't panic, this is an empty shell without gunpowder. We will try it out later." Wang Tianxiang kept explaining to the surroundings to calm everyone's mood.

Everyone pointed and whispered.

Yuan Tian also deliberately said to a craftsman: "This kind of shells should be brought in by the guards, otherwise if something happens, we will be blamed."

A craftsman on the opposite side nodded and said yes: "That's right, what Adjutant Yuan said makes sense."

"The emperor is here." Suddenly, a high voice came from a distance.

Wang Tian and others hurriedly turned around and knelt down.

Everyone also knelt down.

"See the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor." Almost all the Hanchens and craftsmen knelt down at the scene.

There were not many honorable men from the Qing Dynasty, and those who were interested came here, and many of them did not kneel.

At that time, they had not entered the Central Plains, and most of the etiquette of the Qing Dynasty was not as strict as that of the later generations. Even now, there are still people called Huang Taiji Khan, some who are not called emperors, and some people are called Khan Huang, in short, there are all kinds of strange names. , Huang Taiji didn't care either.

After Huang Taiji arrived at the scene, he first asked, who is Hu Fuming.

Hu Xiaofu hurried forward, and the two followers behind him also wanted to follow, Hu Xiaofu turned his head to signal them not to follow.

Wang Tian and others hurriedly stopped him, but he was holding two cannonballs, which looked scary.

"Grassman Hu Xiaofu, pay homage to the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor." Hu Xiaofu was a little nervous, his face was red, and he stuttered.

"Haha, Mr. Hu Qian please get up quickly, you are already Mr. Qian." Huang Tai laughed and waved him to get up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Hu Xiaofu got up now.

He was really nervous, his face was flushed, and he was at a loss. After all, he was not a professional intelligence officer.

But this way, it looks more like an ordinary craftsman in the Ming Dynasty.

"I heard that you did a good job, and I will demonstrate it to everyone later." Huang Taiji said in a good voice, "If you succeed, I will definitely reward you a lot. Even if you fail, it doesn't matter. I will come back later."

He deliberately showed his tolerance and benevolence in front of Han craftsmen.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty." Hu Xiaofu knelt down again, kowtowed a few more times before getting up.

At this moment, his eyes were red, and there were tears coming out faintly. Yuan Tian knew his mood, so he probably couldn't directly blow up Huang Taiji to death.

But now it is difficult for him to blow up. The people behind do not let the shells come over, they all stop at a distance.

After Hu Xiaofu got up, Huang Taiji went to his own safe zone, where there were many nobles from the Qing Dynasty.

Hu Xiaofu turned around and walked towards Wang Tianxiang.

Suddenly, Wang Tianxiang, Liu Han, and Yuan Tian were found standing together.

Yuan Tian had a helpless expression on his face. It turned out that he originally wanted to hide behind, but was called to the front by Wang Tianxiang to discuss matters.

What should I do?
At this time, many craftsmen are gathered there, Hu Xiaofu's best chance is now.

Once he entered the demonstration area and was surrounded by sandbags, he could only blow himself up.

And at that time, the fact that the shells were loaded with gunpowder in advance will also be exposed.

"Mr. Hu Qian, you can go in, the gunpowder and the fuze are inside." Wang Tianxiang said with a smile.

"Okay." Hu Xiaofu raised his head and glanced at Yuan Tian.

Yuan Tian looked serious at this time, and after taking a deep look at him, he nodded slowly to him.

It seems to be telling him: "Fry it, brother, I will accompany you."

Hu Xiaofu's face turned pale all of a sudden, and his mind turned upside down and struggled.

He didn't want to kill Yuan Tian, ​​but he knew that if he didn't do it, the best chance would be lost.

(End of this chapter)