As night fell, in the Tenth Prince's Mansion, the Jin Yiwei were divided into three groups, led by Xue Lao'er, Wang Chaodong, and Zhu Maozhen, and headed towards different directions in the capital.

Naturally, Zhou Shixian does not need to do the rest himself. As the backbone of the entire team, his most important task at the moment is to guard the Tenth Prince's Mansion and suppress the arrogant generals who are about to gather here.

Moreover, most of these Jin Yiwei's hands are already stained with Chen Yan's blood, and several of the chief officials are his confidants and brothers. Zhou Shixian does not need to worry about any betrayal among them. He will naturally not use them if he cannot trust them.

Soon, a Mongolian Jinyi guard under Zhou Shixian took the lead back to the Ten Princes' Mansion with hundreds of war horses. The war horses roared back and rushed all the way. Even the scattered soldiers patrolling the streets did not dare to interfere.

These tall and strong war horses had been "bought" by Zhou Shixian with a knife in advance and hidden in the capital. Now they are just a nest.

The school grounds of the Ten Princes' Mansion were very large, with hundreds of horses scattered among them without any crowding. Zhou Shixian looked at the horses in front of him, and immediately asked someone to give a reward of five taels of silver to the first dozen or so imperial guards who came back to their lives.

Not long after, Zhu Maozhen came back personally escorting five large carts. The carts were all filled with the only remaining armor, swords, and guns in the treasuries of various capitals, as well as muskets and ammunition.

After the five carts were parked in the palace, Zhu Maozhen immediately ordered his officers and soldiers to check the loading and unloading, and then hurried to find Zhou Shixian to resume his duties.

"Sir, my subordinates have collected all the armor, swords, firearms, firearms and ammunition that are still usable in the treasury of the Beijing Military Warfare Bureau. There are a total of eighty-three muskets, of which thirty-one are blunderbuss, and twenty-two

One is a turtle-dove-foot blunderbuss, and another thirty are Lumi blunderbuss. There are also plenty of gunpowder and lead bullets.

In addition, there were 228 pairs of chain mail, 312 pairs of cotton armor, three pairs of Wenshan armor, 457 Qi knives, 109 crossbows, and 242 short axes.

Handle, spear..." Zhu Maozhen reported with cupped hands and fists.

Although he and Zhou Shixian are brothers, he has been in the officialdom for several years and he knows the rules. It would be too ignorant to call him brothers in this situation.

Hearing this, Zhou Shixian nodded approvingly, and his heart suddenly relaxed.

In the entire preparation plan, what he was most worried about was the issue of weapons and equipment. The money could definitely be obtained, and the war horses had been prepared long ago. Those ministers were not actually necessary, but if the weapons and equipment were not good, just these two or three

With a hundred people, the possibility of breaking out of the city is slim.

In this era of mixed use of hot and cold weapons, and in which military science and technology are highly developed but have not yet made breakthrough progress, armor and firearms are the first priority to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.

Zhou Shixian must arm his troops to the teeth and become a veritable "iron army".

Soon, Zhou Shixian and Zhu Maozhen arrived at the palace courtyard. More than a dozen Jinyi guards were sorting out firearms, cutting match ropes and loading gunpowder. Armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows had already been sorted and put away by them.

Firearms are of particular concern to Zhou Shixian, because his current main enemies are the Shun Army and the defeated Ming Army heading south. The level of firearms and equipment in both of them is not high, and the firearms used are basically of poor quality made in the Ming Dynasty.

There are also those who use three-eyed guns.

The firecrackers made by Mingting's workshops were of very poor quality and often exploded, making soldiers afraid to use them.

The items Zhu Maozhen brought back were all purchased by Tang Ruowang from Macau. They were originally intended to equip the Beijing camp, but as soon as they entered the military battle, they were already assigned by the ministers in charge.

It can only be said that Ming Dynasty's corruption has reached a hopeless point.

Zhou Shixian walked to the place where the muskets were placed and picked up a turtle-dove gun. This turtle-dove gun is the Ming Dynasty version of the musket heavy musket.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty took the hundreds of turtle dove guns that the former two governors Xiong Can escorted to the capital as samples, and improved this too bulky matchlock gun, reducing its weight to ten while maintaining its huge power.

It weighs less than five kilograms, and the weight of medicine and lead bullets is almost halved, but it is still far more powerful than bird guns and Rumi guns.

"Sir, this is a turtle dove musket. It can easily break through two layers of armor within fifty steps. It is not a problem to break through heavy armor within a hundred steps. Once hit by this kind of musket, the whole body will be rotten.

, its power is far greater than the Rumi gun."

In order to resell weapons, Zhu Maozhen has become a semi-firearms expert and is very familiar with all kinds of firearms and armor.

However, he knew his brother's temper, and since he had promised an official position, Zhu Maozhen was ready to change his ways.

Zhou Shixian touched the metal parts and barrel of the gun in his hand. The workmanship was very exquisite and it was worthy of being made in Guangdong. During this period, Guangdong and Fujian were the most developed places for the manufacturing of Daming firearms.

"Well, that's right." Zhou Shixian nodded, and then continued: "The Rumi gun only uses four coins of gunpowder and three coins of lead. It can be said to be the longest, most poisonous and powerful, not to mention the turtle-dove foot gun.

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When Zhu Maozhen heard this, he couldn't help being surprised. It turned out that the prince-in-law was also an expert in firearms. Didn't he just wield a sword in front of Guan Gong? Especially, the other party was an adult, which was a big taboo.

"Sir, you are really amazing. You even know how to use muskets." A soldier on the side who was loading gunpowder into a small leather bag said flatteringly, and then there was a burst of cheers.

Zhou Shixian smiled, and then took this opportunity to encourage the surrounding soldiers and started chatting with them. The courtyard was in full swing, and hearty laughter could be heard from time to time.

After coming to Ming Dynasty, in order to win over talents, it was even more impossible to cure his social anxiety syndrome.

After a while, four more carts slowly drove into the gate of the Tenth Prince's Mansion, led by Wang Chaodong. After the cart stopped in the yard, four blindfolded officials got out of the cart.

Wang Chaodong looked at Zhou Shixian from a distance and asked for instructions. Zhou Shixian winked. He immediately understood and ordered his men to take the four people to the backyard of the palace.

Li Banghua, Ni Yuanlu, and Wu Linzheng were all veterans of the court. When the Jin Yiwei came to arrest people, naturally no one dared to disobey them.

Now is the Chongzhen Dynasty. Not only was the emperor suspicious and seriously ill, he was never merciful when it came to killing ministers. In the past seventeen years, he had no idea how to kill ministers.

As for Tang Ruowang, as a foreigner, he did not dare to act rashly. Especially, this guy is still a deserter and is considered guilty.

Wang Chaodong immediately came to Zhou Shixian, cupped his hands and clasped his fists with a smile on his face and said: "The prince-in-law, Mr. Li, Mr. Ni, Mr. Wu, and Tang Ruowang, all have been escorted back by their subordinates."

"Well, good job." Zhou Shixian still had that friendly smile, but Wang Chaodong's little thoughts were immediately seen through, and he joked: "Is it possible that I picked up some treasure? Seeing you smiling like this, I don't know.

I thought I was a fool!"

For his confidants, Zhou Shixian naturally did not need to put on any airs or gestures, as that would be counterproductive.

"Prince-in-law, you are really amazing. You guessed it right right away. I really picked up a treasure."

Wang Chaodong was a straight-tempered person, and he couldn't hold it in anymore. He quickly took out a square wooden box, opened it in front of Zhou Shixian, and said happily:
Chapter completed!