prosperous age

Chapter 136 135 Small General Cannon

In the evening, Wei Guangde followed his father back home.

"Go and rest, you have to go to school tomorrow."

Father Wei hiccupped and said to Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde just turned around and tuned back, as if he wanted to say something.

"Anything else?"

"Father, next year Wei Li will send troops to Zhejiang again?"

Because of Zhang Hongfu's words, Wei Guangde thought he knew something in advance, so he couldn't help asking.

"Who told you this?"

Father Wei frowned slightly.

Wei Li did not receive an order to send troops to participate in the suppression of the Japanese, but because of the record last time, Zhang Jing, the current minister of the Ministry of War, has always wanted Jiujiang Wei to send troops again.

"Don't listen to these rumors, it's okay."

Father Wei categorically denied the rumors of sending troops, lest Wei Guangde worry about affecting his studies.

Father Wei also heard about Wei Guangde crying in Nanchang.

Although it was only spread among scholars at the beginning, it will be out of the circle sooner or later.

After Wei's father knew about it, he was even more unwilling to make Wei Guangde worry about him. Now the focus of the family is still Wei Guangde's career.

As for his official position, he shouldn't want to continue to be promoted in the short term.

Now there is only one way in front of Wei Meng, that is, there are vacant positions for Qianhu.

"It's fine if you don't."

Wei Guangde nodded, then whispered, "According to what Hongfu said today, he kind of wants to go to the coast to fight Japanese pirates."

"Ha ha."

After hearing what his son said, Father Wei didn't say anything, he just laughed casually, "I'm tired today, you should go back and rest earlier."

Time passed quickly, and it was the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

In recent years, the weather in various parts of the Ming Dynasty has been relatively cold. When scholars such as Wei Guangde gather together, it is inevitable not to mention a few words.

I have to say that the news among scholars is still well-informed. Those who can afford to study these days must have money at home.

Among the classmates around Wei Guangde, apart from the families of the gentry and the families of officials, many of their families had people traveling all over the world, and naturally brought back a lot of information.

Wei Guangde is stomping his feet on the pier by the river right now. There is a small house here, which is the resting place for the commander-in-chief stationed in the banner. The cold wind coming through the gap.

"It's time to fix it here."

Wei Guangde said to a nodding and bowing General Banner next to him, this is his room, but it doesn't belong to him for the time being.

According to the news sent earlier, today his eldest brother Wei Wen will bring his new sister-in-law to Jiujiang Mansion to celebrate the New Year, and his cousin and his wife will also be there.

Two carriages were waiting outside the door, and the coachman could only stamp his feet beside him, it was too cold.

I remembered that when I was at the government school two days ago, I heard my classmates talking about this year's weather. In previous years, the temperature dropped quite well, but this year's weather, according to some well-informed students, is almost catching up with the temperature of the capital.

The funniest thing is that some classmates said that they had heard from family members earlier that it snowed in Qiongzhou in the south, but I can’t remember the exact year.

Qiongzhou, that is Hainan Island, well, it's snowing there, I'm afraid Dou E is crying for grievances.

Wei Guangde took it as a joke when he heard it. In his later life, how many northerners flew to Hainan in winter to escape the severe cold in the north?
Thinking of the weather in February of the past two years, and thinking that if I am admitted to Juren in the future, I will have to go to the capital to take the exam at that time, which is so sour.
After an unknown amount of time, a soldier outside the door came in and said to him, "My lord, Peng Ze's fast boat has arrived and is about to land."

"Okay, let's go."

Hearing this, Wei Guangde got up and said to Zhang Ji who was beside him, then smiled at the general flag: "Thank you very much for today."

While speaking, Wei Guangde took out a silver ingot from his pocket and threw it to the general flag, then took Zhang Ji and went out to the pier.

When he went out and was blown by the cold wind, Wei Guangde couldn't help pulling the cloak on his body to make it tighter. Although he didn't take advantage of the wind, he still felt cold.

Soon, Wei Guangde saw a fast boat approaching the pier, the soldiers next to him got on the steps, and his cousin and elder brother came out of the cabin with their two sister-in-laws.

With a smile on his face at the moment, Wei Guangde stood on the pier and cupped his hands towards that side.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Wei Guangde only felt a bone-piercing chill when a pair of slightly warm hands that were just protruding from his sleeves were blown by the wind.

Without staying on the pier for too long, Wei Guangde picked up his two elder brothers and his sister-in-law, and let them get into the carriage directly.

The entourage carried several boxes of luggage and piled them behind the carriage, so they could only follow them all the way into the city.

Wei Guangde first sent his cousin Wu Dong to his uncle's house, the two were very close to each other, so there was no need to go around a long way, and then he took his eldest brother to visit his mother at home.

Although it was close to the end of the year, the commander and envoy had not yet closed the office, and there were still a few days left according to the rules, so my father was not at home at the moment.

In the evening, Wei Guangde's family went to their uncle's house for dinner. They were greeted again, and then they sat down to eat.

Wei Guangde has long been used to it. For people of this era, it is really cumbersome to meet and salute. It is like the later generations, just say hello and nod when they meet.

"By the way, about what you said last time, Wencai and I got a craftsman from Weili to try out two cannons, and the effect was not bad."

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, my cousin Wu Dong suddenly said to Wei Guangde.

"What cannon?"

Now Wei Guangde can occasionally drink a little wine, but the family does not allow him to drink too much, Wei Guangde didn't react to Wu Dong's words for a while.

"As you said, don't use the bowl mouth of the gun. The craftsman said that yours is a reduced-sized general cannon. It's just that the general cannon needs to shoot far. Yours doesn't need range, just to increase the shotgun. So if the muzzle is thicker, you can fire more iron bullets."

Wu Dong said with a breath of alcohol.

"Have you brought anything here?"

Wei Guangde asked casually, Wei Guangde still had an impression of what he said at the beginning, but he just said it casually, and he didn't remember it.

This time when his cousin reminded him, he remembered what it was.

"On the boat, ask someone to move it down tomorrow, and try to find a place nearby. Dad, uncle, you should go and have a look too."

After Wu Dong said this, he turned to Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng.

These two were chatting about things in the guard, and they didn't pay attention to what their son said, they just said perfunctorily: "Let's talk about it when the time comes." '

"Is that cannon also made of brass?"

Knowing that his father and uncle were not sad, Wei Guangde asked again.

Copper materials are very precious these days. If they are made of copper materials like bowl-mouth guns, the cost will be too high to be honest.

"No, it's made of wrought iron."

Wu Dong shook his head and said, "The craftsman said that it can be wrapped in wrought iron and fixed with a few iron hoops on the outside. If it is made of copper, where can I find it?"

"Just melt those bowls and muzzles and you'll have it."

Wei Guangde replied casually.

"It's easy to think, the bowl and mouth gun is gone, what should I do when I check in the future?"

Eldest brother Wei Wencai interjected at this moment.

"Give them some with the new iron cannon."

Wei Guangde said casually.

(End of this chapter)