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Chapter 1318 Rebellion
In the 11th year of Wanli, on the third day of June, it was late at night in Puli City.

Geng Qi, a Ming businessman who had just been married for three days, and two sailors were assassinated by many people in a dark alley [-] steps away from the surrounding building of the Ming Chamber of Commerce.

During the pursuit, two Muye soldiers were shot to death by crossbows, and another killer fired a pistol from a long distance and missed it.

The deceased, Geng Qi, was a businessman who had a glass-making workshop in Changsheng. This time he went to Puli with the army to escort military supplies and also to find a market. Glassware.

Glass is an emerging industry in Daming, and the market demand is huge. Because of the foundation of firing colored glaze, the technological development is particularly fast, and it is easy to break Venice's blockade of European glass technology. However, glass is not new in Daming, and there is a strong competitor - Daming The largest glass seller is the Beiyang Research Institute. Because of the low cost and simple manufacturing, the price is kept very low.

Therefore, if ordinary businessmen want to make money from this, they still have to go to sea. There is also a market in Asia that is suppressed by the East. In the past, Geng Qi mainly sold in the countries of Luzon and Borneo in Southeast Asia. Map, then take the opportunity to escort the military supplies to walk the business route.

The businessmen and sailors of Ming Dynasty are white-skinned and hygienic. No matter whether they have money or not, they are very rich in the common people's eyes, especially when it comes to dealing with women. They can easily give away rouge powder that no noble lady can use. He is generous and well-educated, and won the favor of barbarians.

There are many people like Ren Ping who are merciful, but Geng Qi is a reliable person who sincerely made love to the daughter of a woolen merchant in Puli County, sent a matchmaker to bring gifts, and made the father-in-law happy. Ear mouth, Ming Media is marrying a foreign woman, and he doesn't care if people laugh at him.

It turned out that his wife had another suitor, who was also the son of a businessman. He tried to study in a monastery in his early years but failed to become a monk. On the day of his wedding, he came to the door to fight Geng Qi.

Not only did Ming Dynasty not have this tradition, but it was a great offense to tear down the stage on a big day. Among the guests that day were a few small banner officials from Beiyang and their subordinates, they were immediately tied up and kicked out, and beaten severely.

This kind of disgusting thing is considered light, if it is in their hometown in the southeast, there may be a large-scale fight and a blood feud between several villages and several surnames.

No matter where in the world people have their own taboos, if they are civilized enough, they will do as the Romans do, and if they are not civilized enough, they will fight.

In fact, more often than not, whose taboo has the final say, it depends on whose reason is strong.

In the so-called Puzhou at this time, people's perceptions were different. The people of Puli County believed that Puli belonged to them, while the people of Daming believed that Puli belonged to Daming.

There are too many such disputes, and the young people are inevitably angry.

So in one night after drinking, this bloody case happened.

This should have been a personal feud - if no one was spooked.

That night, the pursuer was arrested, and another killer escaped after being shot by a crossbow arrow. The news was reported to Yingming.

The murderer, the person who was killed was a Daming person, this was a very serious murder case.

The soldiers from Muye were dead, and they were still using several kinds of weapons, which made the matter even worse.

Let Ying Ming think about it that night, he couldn't think of how bad things could go.

But following the gunshots from the city, he changed his mind.

There is a neighborhood in the west of the city named Xin'anfang by Cao Changqing. Two armor chiefs led fifty muye soldiers to set fire to the street and went door to door searching for the killer. At that time, the subordinates of Chief Jia on the right side of the street were suddenly shot with longbows by several people on the wall of another courtyard.

Immediately following the house in front, someone rushed out to fight them, and immediately fell into a scuffle in the streets.

"Later, barbarians shouted in the street, and many people ran out with knives and shouted to kill. We saw that the situation was not good, so we had to retreat under the pretext of setting up defenses and waiting for reinforcements."

Hearing the report of Muye Bingjiachang at the intersection, Wei Jinzhong, who came to support with two Beiyang cavalry flags, reined in his horse and frowned, and asked, "Do they have firearms?"

Chief Jia reported truthfully: "There are a few short guns, not many, but a lot of bows and arrows."

Wei Jinzhong looked up at Mao Yueyue hanging in the sky and sighed: "Co-authoring is no longer a matter of killing one or two people. There was a noise outside the guild hall, and all kinds of demons and ghosts exploded. Some people in the city wanted to rebel."

"Don't panic, they are easy to defend and difficult to attack inside the courtyard wall, temporarily blockade, the general is opening the arsenal of the two commanders, and counterattack when the grenade arrives."

People living in the east of the city are all Ming people, and the Ming merchant guild hall and the third battalion of Muye Town are there, so it is peaceful, but the west of the city is different.

There were only two streets of fighting with the patrolling Muye soldiers. When Wei Jinzhong came over, he confiscated thousands of arrows in the church. Several blacksmiths found an order form for forty muskets and two muskets that were about to be finished.

It was Bishop Pooley who placed the order.

Now the bishop has been captured by the former Catholic monk Lao Qiao who converted to Taoist Dragon and Tiger less than three months ago. Lao Qiao is the Chinese name he gave himself in front of the portrait of Taoist Dragon and Tiger on the day of his conversion. His surname is Lao. My first name is Joe, so I will call him Old Joe.

As Wei Jinzhong said, there was a noise outside the hall, and all kinds of monsters and ghosts came out.

In fact, Wei Si, who is loyal and virtuous, doesn't know what's going on. He feels that the atmosphere in the city is not good these days.

He often runs on the street. Although Yingming sent him to take care of Cao Changqing, the old Taoist couldn't sit still. Seeing that he had figured out a new gadget, he was unable to exercise due to injuries to his buttocks, arms and legs, so he sent the new one to him. Discovered one by one to Wei Jinzhong, euphemistically called imparting martial arts.

Fourth Master Wei is not interested at all, who has the time to learn this shitty martial arts, wouldn't it be good to sleep in a brothel if you have the time?

But there is no way, this is the job given to him by General Yingming, let's just listen patiently, the old man didn't listen to the mysterious things he told him, but he remembered the key points - saltpeter essence, Alcohol and silver will explode together.

In the past few days, the old Taoist specially asked him to go to the attic of the yamen to pick up some items, and took the old Taoist to the outside of the wounded barracks to instruct him to make Leiyin. This kind of thing that would explode at every turn was named Leiyin by the old Taoist.

Only make a little bit at a time, even if it explodes, it will make a sound and light up, and it will save money.

Basically, it explodes every time, even if it is not exploded, it will explode within an hour due to unknown reasons, but at least Wei Si's multiple experiments have made the old Taoist better understand the things it created, and they can already use it first. Make nitrate silver, and then combine thunder silver with nitrate silver and alcohol.

As the name suggests, silver like thunder.

It was also the opportunity to run from the street that made him feel in advance that there were people in the city who were hostile to them, but at that time Wei Si didn't regard those vague eyes on the street as hostility.

Now he can be sure that there are people in the city who want to rebel.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)