"Is anyone inside?" Chen Xunping asked the guard outside the door.
"Report to Master, he is here."
With that said, the guard walked over and pushed the door open.
Chen Xunping stepped in.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Sun Chuanting sitting on the seat and looking towards the door.
"Mr. Sun, how have you been staying with us these two days?" Chen Xunping took the lead in greeting Sun Chuanting with a smile.
Sun Chuanting's eyes moved and he said, "There is no need to persuade him, I will not be a thief."
"Don't worry, I'm not here to persuade you." Chen Xunping walked to the empty seat beside him, sat down, and placed the gun at his waist on the table.
Sun Chuanting's eyes moved to the handgun on the table, the corner of his mouth curled up, and he said sarcastically: "It seems that the persuasion to surrender is not successful. I am going to be executed. Come on!"
As he spoke, he closed his eyes.
Chen Xunping looked at the gun on the table, shook his head immediately and said, "Mr. Sun misunderstood, I didn't intend to kill you. This gun was only put on the table because it was uncomfortable to hang around my waist."
After hearing that he was not going to kill himself, Sun Chuanting opened his eyes again.
He was very curious about the gun on the table, so he couldn't help but ask: "Can you show me this thing?"
"Please!" Chen Xunping raised his hand and gestured towards the gun on the table.
Without bullets and medicine, even if Sun Chuanting took a gun, it would not be of much use. At most, he could only be used as a hammer wielder.
Sun Chuanting stood up and walked over, carefully picked up the gun on the table, looked at it bit by bit in his hand, and even raised the gun with both hands and used his fingers to move the mechanism on it.
"It's such a good thing. I didn't expect that it can be fired without a match rope. What a good thing!" Sun Chuanting looked at the gun in his hand fondly.
He was not the kind of official who knew nothing. After studying it for a while, he discovered that this handgun had greatly changed the shortcomings of the matchlock gun.
I even thought that if the Ming army equipped a batch of these fire guns that did not require match ropes, the combat effectiveness of the firearms battalion could be improved by more than one level.
"Of course it is a good thing. In order to make this kind of fire gun that does not require a match rope, my lord spent a lot of effort and a lot of money to build it successfully." Chen Xunping said proudly.
Tiger Character Banner has created something that even the Ming Dynasty does not have. As a member of Tiger Character Banner, he is naturally proud of it.
"Yes, even you traitors can make better fire guns, but even though the country is rich all over the world, it still uses fire guns from decades ago. Just like this, the quality cannot be guaranteed." Sun Chuanting sighed with emotion. .
Hearing this, Chen Xunping said disdainfully: "Mr. Sun must know best the moral character of the Ming Dynasty from the emperor to the officials below. Do you think it is possible for Mr. Sun to expect them to come up with better and more powerful fire guns?"
"Your Majesty is still good, but he was deceived by the people below." Sun Chuanting defended Chongzhen.
The loyal Confucian education convinced him that the emperor was a good emperor and that the female ministers had deceived the emperor.
After hearing this, Chen Xunping waved his hand and said: "I won't argue with you whether the emperor is good or bad. I just want to ask Mr. Sun, is the situation in Ming Dynasty getting worse and worse? We have seen several dynasties. What it’s like in the last days.”
"What you said is simply treason." Sun Chuanting's face turned red with anger, and he stared at Chen Xunping.
Chen Xunping leaned back in his chair and said, "I admit that to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, what I just said was indeed treasonous, but the people's lives are getting worse day by day. Mr. Sun will not deny it! I listen. He said that Mr. Sun is from Dai County, Shanxi Province, so he should know better what the northwest is like? Of course, I am talking about what it was like before our Tiger-Character Banner occupied the northwest."
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Chen Xunping burst out laughing when he heard this explanation and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Sun to be joking."
"When did I start joking with you?" Sun Chuanting frowned.
Chen Xunping looked at him and said, "Since Mr. Sun is not joking, why should you blame all the conditions in the northwest on the weather? When an official attributes all problems to God, isn't this a joke?"
As he spoke, he spread his hands.
Sun Chuanting was choked by these words and didn't know how to answer them.
Chen Xunping continued: "After the Tiger-Character Banner took over the northwest, the situation in the northwest improved significantly, and the people's lives became much better. Could it be that after the Tiger-Character Banner took over the northwest, the weather became better? Isn't it the same? No, it can only be said that the imperial court is incompetent and does not care about the life and death of the people in the northwest. How can such an emperor be considered a good emperor, and what qualifications does such a dynasty have to exist?"
"This is not the reason for your rebellion, and Liu Heng is also a minister of the Ming Dynasty. The court has never treated him badly, and even let him preside over the military affairs of Xinping Fort as a guerrilla general." Sun Chuanting said.
Dai County is very close to Datong, and he knows Liu Heng's past very well. Even after the Tiger Character Banner rebellion, he went to Datong to inquire about the situation.
Chen Xunping shook his head slightly and said, "My lord's guild's rebellion was completely forced by the imperial court. Do you admit this, Mr. Sun?"
"Maybe there is persecution from the imperial court, but if you hadn't already been ambitious and rebellious, how could the imperial court want to take action against Liu Heng? In the final analysis, you still have disobedient intentions." Sun Chuanting said.
Chen Xunping chuckled lightly and said, "Don't you think it's ridiculous for Mr. Sun to say this? The imperial court forced the tiger-character flag to rebel, and it turned out that we are ambitious. According to Mr. Sun, we people should suffer. Kill, as long as your court is willing, we deserve to die, right?"
"You can't say that. The imperial court will not force its ministers to die." Sun Chuanting looked somewhat embarrassed.
Regarding what happened to Liu Heng back then, although everyone in the court thought that he had disobedient intentions, he did not rebel after all. It is not wrong to say that he was forced to rebel by the court.
"Fart!" Chen Xunping finally couldn't help but yelled, "We didn't rebel back then, but the court forced us to rebel. The people in the northwest didn't rebel, but they could only sell their sons and daughters, and they had to bear the heavy burden of food on an empty stomach. Taxes and labor, in the final analysis, are because the imperial court does not give us a way to live, nor does it give the people in the northwest a way to live."
Sun Chuanting's lips moved a few times, but finally he said nothing.
The people in the northwest lived a miserable life. It was impossible to say that the princes in the court knew nothing about it, but no one cared about the lives of the people in the northwest.
"Mr. Sun, you are a smart man. It is impossible for you not to see that the Ming Dynasty has reached the end of its rope and there is no hope. If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was really the sage emperor you call him, there would not be so many female sycophants in the court. You are right. Really?" Chen Xunping looked straight at Sun Chuanting in front of him.
