The sudden appearance of criminal activities broke the peace of Datong Mansion.
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is an action specifically targeting Prince Dai's palace. As for who it is, it is a matter of benevolence and wisdom.
After Xu Yingxu received the news, he immediately sent more manpower to inspect Datong Mansion.
However, the beatings of road construction workers have not only not decreased, but have become more and more rampant.
The people were naturally filled with righteous indignation. Not only were they beaten, but their interests were also harmed.
The Prince's Palace was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. Faced with this situation, it did not issue a notice as usual, nor even a word of condemnation. It only recruited doctors to provide timely treatment to the injured.
This made the squire and wealthy people in the city feel that the young prince was intimidated.
Although the "notoriety" of this acting king spread far and wide in Nanjing, it was at the feet of the emperor after all, so naturally no one dared to take action against him, the prince.
But it was different in Datong Mansion. The local forces would not offer him up.
Within the Salt Gang, due to their effective actions in the past few days, the radicals have completely overwhelmed the conservatives.
In their opinion, they can make it clear to the young prince who is the boss in Datong Mansion without waiting for the imperial edict to arrive.
Especially the one-eyed dragon. Not only did this guy beat people, he even attacked a canteen set up by the Prince's Palace and looted the warehouse there.
"Brother, look, this young prince really has some tricks up his sleeve. It is said that these vegetables are a specialty of the south of the Yangtze River, but he actually takes them out for those bumpkin to eat. If he doesn't have the guidance of an expert behind his back, I'll rip off his head."
The one-eyed dragon is holding a basket of vegetables, including bamboo shoots and eggplants.
Zhu Gui redeemed these from the system store. He originally only planted them on a trial basis in Dai Wangfu. Unexpectedly, the vegetables produced by the system not only had a large yield but also had a short harvest period, so he provided some of them to the Chamber of Commerce.
Others were used as food for laborers.
Facing the achievements made by the Salt Gang, Hu Shidao was not happy at all.
"Why do you want to privately mobilize people to fight against the Dai Wangfu?" Hu Shidao said with a solemn face.
"Brother, aren't I doing this all for the Salt Gang? Now one-third of our manpower has been lost. If this continues, people's hearts will be scattered."
The one-eyed dragon said indignantly.
"With the Salt Gang disbanded, we can do other business. The king summoned all the small businessmen in the city and cooperated with them to form a chamber of commerce. This is also our opportunity."
Hu Shidao has his own ideas.
"Doing business? Brother, are you kidding me? What our Salt Gang does is licking blood from the knife edge. Although the price of salt is severely suppressed now, it is all because of King Dai. As long as we can let him know how powerful we are,
, we can still..."
"That's enough."
One-Eyed Dragon expressed his thoughts endlessly, but was interrupted by Hu Shidao.
"Now that your wings are strong and you have someone to support you, you don't take me as the leader of the gang seriously anymore. In this case, from today on, you walk on your Yangguan Road and I'll cross my single-plank bridge."
Hu Shidao said loudly.
His words immediately stunned everyone in the Salt Gang present.
The current situation is obviously very good, why does the gang leader suddenly propose to separate the family?
This is something that has never happened since the founding of the Salt Gang.
After saying these words, Hu Shidao turned around and entered the inner hall, leaving only the one-eyed dragon with a gloomy face.
The reason why Hu Shidao did this was naturally because he had his own plan.
Even if that king was really a soft persimmon, it would be more than worth the loss for the Salt Gang to offend the Ming royal family. Once the incident happened, the Salt Gang would be destroyed in the blink of an eye.
But now that things have happened, even if Cyclops is expelled from the Salt Gang, the things he did will still be blamed on the Salt Gang.
So instead of wandering on the edge of the cliff, it is better for a strong man to cut off his wrist.
After doing all this, Hu Shidao immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Prince Dai's Mansion.
That's right, as soon as he drew a clear line with the one-eyed dragon, he wanted to embrace the lap of the previous prince.
Dai Wangfu.
Xu Yingxu pushed the door open with a gloomy face. The guard at the door stretched out his hand, looking like he was hesitating to speak.
However, he did not find Zhu Gui in the house, which made him frown.
"It turns out to be General Xu. He's here to see the prince, right? He's in the back mountain."
Butler Wang walked in and said.
"What are you doing in the back mountain? Where is the princess?"
Xu Yingxu asked puzzledly.
"I heard they were testing new firearms, and the princess and the prince were together."
Butler Wang explained.
New firearm?
Xu Yingxu heard that one of the reasons why the acting king was driven from Nanjing to the feudal territory was because he promoted new firearms to the current emperor in the court.
He originally thought that the other party would have a longer memory, but now it seems that he has overthought it.
If he didn't have something important to do, he really didn't want to take a trip into this muddy water.
Xu Yingxu came to the camp in the back mountain of Datong Prefecture. Now most of the original salt dealers and their families have been resettled here, and it seems to have the scale of a village or town.
These people all had smiles on their faces and seemed to be living a pretty good life.
From time to time there would be a "bang bang" sound in the distance, but these people seemed to be used to it.
When Xu Yingxu found Zhu Gui, he was teaching Princess Xu Miaoqing how to use a flintlock.
With a 'bang', a fist-sized stone standing on a tree stump twenty feet away shattered into pieces.
"Okay, I hit it." Xu Miaoqing almost jumped up with joy.
As soon as she turned around, she saw a surprised Xu Yingxu.
"Second brother, why are you here?"
Zhu Gui also looked here, then handed the flintlock rifle to the guards nearby and asked them to continue practicing.
He has been training these ten soldiers here for the past few days to use flintlock rifles.
Although he knew what was happening in Datong Mansion, he felt that the time had not come yet. He only had a hundred men and ten flintlock guns. If he could not complete the battle in one battle, he would be in constant trouble.
Xu Yingxu seemed to have forgotten his original purpose. He pointed at the flintlock gun in the soldier's hand and said to Zhu Gui: "Your Highness, is this a new type of firearm?"
Zhu Gui did not hide it and said: "Yes, this is my king's improved flintlock gun. Compared with the traditional fire blunderbuss of the Ming Dynasty, the rate of fire and power have been greatly improved, but it is not easy to make them.
It’s not possible to dress them all up yet.”
Flintlock guns can be exchanged from the system store, but the price is higher than the experience value of the pistol, and he thinks that he has not fully controlled these soldiers, so even if he can exchange enough flintlock guns, he will not do it for the time being.
Dress them all up.
At present, the intimidation significance of the flintlock gun is greater than its actual power.
Xu Yingxu had a look of pity on his face. He saw that the soldier fired three shots before hitting the target, and he felt a little nervous for a moment.
"I wonder why General Xu came here this time?" Zhu Gui's words interrupted his thoughts.