Chu Qing was disheartened.
He felt it was time to take a good look at himself.
The people he made friends with were all a group of bird people. When they heard that he had rebelled, they were all excited to compete with each other.
Seeing that Chu Qing remained silent, the excited Zhu Mingyuan's eyes shone: "No wonder Dudu wants to use thunderous means to control the Zhechong Mansion and Tunbing Guards everywhere. It turns out that he is planning something big, and the subordinates are not stupid. Hahaha, I know the news. Later, we captured all the non-confidant officials and relatives in Taizhou City. They dared not to be thieves... no, they dared not to help Dudu!"
The more he talked, the more excited Zhu Mingyuan became. Chu Qing sighed: "Brother, can you calm down first?"
"Okay, okay." Zhu Mingyuan became even more excited: "When I joined the army, I did it to protect my family and the country. I fought in all kinds of battles, and I don't know how many scars I got. But now the court is full of people who are just eating corpses. They treat me like this." The army is abandoned like a shoe, and then look at the three roads of the East China Sea, the aristocratic families are running rampant, there is a nest of internal and external thieves, snakes and rats, the court turns a blind eye, the lower officials have long been worried about this damn world and the court..."
"Brother Zhu, please calm down, calm down, calm down, okay?"
"Okay, okay." Zhu Mingyuan started to tremble, his lower body trembling.
Chu Qing was speechless: "I asked you to calm down, why are you shaking your butt?"
"Didn't Dudu say it was a shock?"
Chu Qing: "..."
Wen Ya couldn't laugh or cry: "Mr. Zhu, no matter where you got the news, it's not like this. General Chu wanted to lure Liang Rong into the pass and kill them all in one fell swoop. The court didn't know about this and mistakenly thought that Lord Chu was going to rebel. This plan was Concealing the truth."
"Ah?" The shocked Zhu Mingyuan finally calmed down, with a look of disappointment on his face: "You didn't betray?"
Chu Qing sighed again.
I am a fake rebel, but I am surrounded by real rebels. What is this?
After Wen Ya talked about the affairs of the northern border in a few words, Zhu Mingyuan began to tremble again: "General Chu used his troops like a god to predict the enemy's opportunities and planned strategies thousands of miles away. There is no one who has ever done it before and no one has come since. Our army of Dachang is unparalleled in Zhongzhou." Kill the Gods and Buddhas, stand in the way of the Buddhas, and subjugate the enemy without fighting. Thirty-six tactics are the best. As the saying goes, there is an old man who died earlier than me. The mountain is not high, you can’t climb up. The water is not deep, there is no boat, stare, bare butt. It's embarrassing to go around in circles..."
"Brother Zhu, if you really can't make it up, stop making it up. Sit down and eat some fish first. If you catch too much, it will stink."
Zhu Mingyuan smiled awkwardly and sat by the bonfire.
Only Tao Ruolin keenly noticed that when Wen Ya said that all this was a misunderstanding and that the Chu family father and son were not rebelling, Zhu Mingyuan's eyes flashed with a trace of luck and relief.
Zhu Mingyuan asked again in detail, and only after confirming that Lao Chu was not a real traitor did he explain.
The news has come back, and people in the capital are panicking. The imperial court has begun to select good generals to gather troops to quell the chaos in the three border areas. I believe that many aristocratic families have also received the news.
It's just that this kind of thing is meaningless to many aristocratic families. Under the shadow of Chu Qing holding the butcher knife high, each aristocratic family can't protect themselves. They have to send money, ships, or heads. If they should run away, they should die. Shang Yundao's family The officialdom has long been full of chaos. Who cares whose son is who? Just take care of yourself.
"You came just in time." Chu Qing looked at Zhu Mingyuan and said seriously: "Prepare to hire civilians to build docks and shipyards."
"Dockyard?"
"Well, today many exiled Imperial College students have gone to fill the vacancies in official positions. The people can be settled in a short time. Let's build ships as soon as possible. Only with ships can we fight against the Japanese thieves. Only relying on Shang Yundao's boat master, if it is not the sea The pirates are plundering ships, but the real Japanese regular army is coming, and they cannot be stopped."
"Okay, whatever Dudu says, I'll do whatever I want when I'm a low-ranking official. It's just a common man's expense..."
"Um...do people like to eat fish?"
"fish?"
"It's five meals a day, the kind of fish you eat every day, eight meals a day is fine, preferably twelve meals a day."
Zhu Mingyuan didn't know why: "Where did Dudu get so many fish?"
"Fetched."
"How much was caught?"
"You can eat as much as you want."
Zhu Mingyuan was dubious, but he didn't ask deeply. As for Chu Qing's mass slaughter, which sent people to slaughter the family, he had taken away an unknown amount of property, land and food, and there was no problem in feeding tens of thousands of people.
"How many people do you want to hire to feed Dudu? How many people can you feed and how long will you feed them?"
Chu Qing looked at Fu San. The third brother took out his abacus and made calculations. After a moment, he looked at Zhu Mingyuan and said two words: "Enough."
Having said that, Zhu Mingyuan couldn't ask further, so the matter was settled.
Chu Qing pointed to the smelly fish and rotten shrimps piled up outside Guocheng: "We can't let Brother Zhu come here in vain. We should take two tons back with him when we go back, otherwise it will all stink."
Chu Qing was a little upset when he mentioned this matter.
They are all people who have never seen the world, especially the old pawns and the old cousins from Hucheng.
The problem of eating has always been a serious problem in the minds of ordinary people. They are always afraid. When they see so many fish that can be caught, they don't sleep all day long, so they go out to catch fish in a boat. The result is obvious. They vomit after eating and cannot finish eating. , even if they couldn't finish the meal, the old ladies would get up early every day to go out to the sea to fish, and send them back one net after another.
After the matter was almost discussed, Zhu Mingyuan, the first person in Shangyundao RAP, left in a hurry, anxious to return to Taizhou City. After all, he had arrested many family members of officials, so it was business to go back and release them.
In fact, these subordinate officials are quite unlucky. If they were not good birds and turned into thieves directly, they would not be able to act like I am not afraid of death but I will not rebel if you have the ability to kill my whole family.
Taizhou Zhong is really different from other state capitals in the three East China Seas. Most of the officials were personally selected by the emperors from the capital. At least they have nothing to do with the local aristocratic families. Most of them are loyal and patriotic.
Unfortunately, their immediate boss is Zhu Mingyuan. The younger brother made the right choice, while the older brother made the wrong choice.
After Zhu Mingyuan left, Chu Qing looked at the sea with a prawn in his mouth.
The real war is coming soon.
Once the Ying thieves know that Shang Yundao has begun to build shipyards and docks, even if they mistakenly think that they are rebel thieves, they will definitely take action. After all, rebel thieves do not need to build ships.
"How are the improvements made to the Divine Arm Crossbow and Bed Crossbow?"
Chu Qing asked what he was most concerned about, but Cuiyu shook his head: "It will take some time."
"Is it possible to shoot, but not far, or is it impossible to shoot at all?"
"You can shoot, and you can shoot far, but you can't shoot accurately."
Chu Qing rolled his eyes fiercely: "That's it, as long as it can shoot, build more, and shoot with whatever accuracy you want."
"No!" The extremely stubborn Cuiyu said sternly: "If it were not a weapon made by our Mo family, it would be nothing more than a flaw. But if it were a weapon made by my Mo family, it would be a skillful one and there would be no faults to blame."
The "crackling" sound of the abacus sounded, and the third brother started tinkering with the crappy abacus again. Then he raised his head and looked at the cuttlefish: "The bed crossbow twisting ribs should be shortened by an inch and a half, the head of the headwind crossbow should be slightly raised, and the bottom of the crossbow should be thickened by half an inch. If Privateer, fifteen crossbows, aim at the hull of the ship with that single eye, within three hundred steps, fifteen crossbows can cover the bow and stern of the enemy ship."
Chu Qing grinned: "Third brother, did you...calculate this?"
The third brother smiled honestly: "Master taught me well."
Chu Qing was confused in the wind.
What did I teach you and I taught you well?
