I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 525 Ambush
Wen Renyi was riding a donkey and leading his men out of the mountain path. Just as they were about to go to Taohua Village, they suddenly heard an unusual sound in their ears.

He decisively raised his right hand, stopped the team, then turned over and got off the donkey, put his ear to the ground and listened carefully. The harsh sound of gongs and the screams of being beaten and whipped came into his ears, along with the crying of women and children and the scolding of officers and soldiers.

Wen Renyi listened silently for a while, then he stood up with his hands slightly supporting the ground, a slight sneer appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"Boss, what happened up ahead?"

This place was still a few miles away from Taohua Village, and none of them had the sensitivity of Wen Renyi. Although they also followed his example and lay on the ground to listen to the sounds on the ground, they did not hear any useful information at all.

Wen Renyi has been gifted in martial arts since he was young. After his family encountered great changes, he devoted himself to practicing martial arts by guarding the statue of his ancestors for years.

It was unknown whether it was the manifestation of his ancestors, but during a fox hunting operation three years ago, he accidentally obtained the secret manual of martial arts left by his predecessors. Since then, he has been practicing hard day and night, and finally his body is full of true energy, and his meridians are strengthened exponentially. After that, his five senses and six consciousnesses are much more sensitive than ordinary people.

At this time, no one else noticed anything wrong, but he had already heard a lot of information from the ground.

Facing his subordinates' questions, Wen Renyi did not keep them in suspense and said bluntly: "There are soldiers arresting people in Taohua Village ahead."

"Arrest people? Why are you coming to such a remote village like Taohua to arrest people?" The subordinates were a little confused. The grain tax should have been collected long ago, why did the soldiers come to the village?
Since ancient times, the imperial power did not go to the countryside. Except for the days of collecting grain and paying taxes, people from the government would basically not appear in the village. If something happened in the village, it was usually the clan leader, village head, and village head who would solve it in private.

People in the city abide by the laws of the country, while people in the village abide by clan rules and village rules. Unless someone is particularly dissatisfied and avoids the villagers' interception, secretly finds a lawyer to write a complaint and spends money to go to the county government to sue, the government office will not care about the affairs of the village.

Wen Renyi did not answer immediately, but first touched the Heavenly Emperor Sword hanging on the donkey's back, and then his eyes shot out two rays of light, and he said to his men: "Find a must-pass road leading to the official road ahead, hide there, and prepare to act."

"Yes!" The two brothers answered in unison without hesitation. Then one of them immediately turned around and led the donkey to the mountain to find a hiding place, while the other went to pull weeds to prepare a straw hat for camouflage.

Although they rarely take the initiative to provoke officers and soldiers, they will never question the authority of the boss. After all, it is always right to listen to the boss.

It's just killing a few lackeys of the imperial court, what's the big deal, a few days ago they followed the boss to behead the dog official. They are all people who are ready to rebel with their heads on their belts, they have seen blood, and they will not be timid anymore.

If the boss says to do it, then we do it. Now the boss has successfully prayed to the gods to be banished to heaven, and it is time for him to return to his destiny!
Their village is still full of good things like divine rice, divine noodles, divine salt, etc. bestowed by the gods. These few days, everyone has finally had enough to eat, and no longer has to be stingy and afraid to use salt, or to eat big mouthfuls of rice or meat.

Wen Renyi looked at the unsharpened Heavenly Emperor Sword with an indifferent look. Although it was unsharpened, he could still kill people with it.

Since he had decided to take action, he would certainly not leave anyone alive to tip off the enemy. Taohua Village had been designated as his own territory, and if he encountered the enemy, he would not allow the soldiers to take the people away from the village.

This sword was given to him by Xia Qingdai. It is a one-to-one restored anime model peripheral, made of high-quality steel and materials using modern industrial technology. The only drawback is that it is not sharpened.

In addition to the Heavenly Emperor Sword, there was also a National Guarding Divine Halberd, which Xia Qingdai gave all to Wen Renyi. She also went online to look for mini peripherals of other Chinese comic male protagonists, mainly buying authentic armor and weapons with good reputations, and of course if there were any casual clothes, she would buy them as well.

In the process of searching for items, Xia Qingdai was pushed by big data to a hairpin lady who changed her career to become a hidden weapon master. The other party's Xiaohongshu store has a bunch of mini weapons, which are better than those sold by the official anime, and accepts private customization.

Since Xia Qingdai had given it to me, it went without saying that I would customize it.

However, the eighteenth century was already an era of hot weapons, and there was no point in creating too many cold weapons. What Xia Qingdai wanted most now were mini guns and cannons.

She ordered another 20 of the Gatling guns with black powder and steel balls, but unfortunately, the mini guns were not available. Even the models were not available in China, and they were all useless plastic toy guns, which were strictly controlled.

She planned to go to the base in East India to make a purchase for free when the delegation passed through there on the way back.

Of course, it would be even better if we could encounter a cargo ship from the East India Company at sea. This idea that Xia Qingdai has been thinking about for several months has not yet been realized.

Because of the Qing Dynasty's policy of seclusion from the outside world, it currently has a huge trade deficit with Britain.

Since the 16th century, Europeans, especially the British, have been pursuing oriental porcelain, silk and tea. They even developed their own tea culture, so there is a great demand for Chinese tea. But at the same time, they have almost nothing to export to the Qing Dynasty.

The Chinese people did not need Western products at all. Even when the British tried to bring cotton yarn and textiles to Guangzhou and advertised them, no one was interested. This was because the Qing Dynasty was still an agricultural society where men farmed and women wove, and they were completely self-sufficient.

As for small items like mirrors, pocket watches, and bells, only a few Qing nobles would buy them, and the market was very small. Compared with the Qing export commodities, it was completely disproportionate.

European companies were embarrassed by this situation. In order to trade smoothly with Qing merchants, they had to go to America to get silver first, and then take the silver to the Qing to trade.

The British had tried to grow tea themselves many times, but all failed. The botanists on this mission had the task of bringing back tea and mulberry trees. It would be even better if they could learn the techniques of growing tea, frying tea, raising silkworms, and reeling silk.

In order to make up for the trade deficit between the two sides, the East India Company finally came up with a good idea - that is, dumping opium, which was very profitable.

Therefore, whenever you saw European merchant ships bound for the Qing Dynasty during this period, they were definitely carrying either silver or opium.

It would be fine if it was a legitimate merchant ship trading silver, but if Xia Qingdai encountered an opium ship, she would have to destroy them on behalf of the Moon.

Weapons and gold and silver treasures were confiscated, opium sank into the sea, and unscrupulous merchants fed it to the fish.

It’s a pity that no such good thing happened on the way here, which made Xia Qingdai very disappointed.