Chapter 19: Detailed Discussion of Artillery Stations
Chapter 19: Detailed Discussion of Artillery Stations
Pei Yuan was very interested in Cheng Leixiang's affairs in Huashan Sect.
The eldest senior brother of Huashan Sect and the like can still touch Pei Yuan’s yearning for the martial arts world.
When I heard Cheng Leixiang excitedly mention his master, the great hero Yue Qingfeng, the feeling became even more appropriate.
However, I don't have that much free time to listen to his nonsense right now.
They also had to hurry back to their homes to take with them the gifts they had prepared.
Pei Yuan prepared a set of pedestrian clothes, a set of formal Jinyiwei centurion uniform, as well as some dry food, flint, bandages, three hand-rolled earth grenades... and so on.
There are also advantages to having your soul travel back to the Ming Dynasty.
At the very least, you no longer have to rack your brains to get things like sulfur and saltpeter of higher purity yourself.
As long as you have money, you can easily buy it in many places.
When Pei Yuan first went out to secretly purchase sulfur, he was interrupted impatiently after speaking a few words in a veiled manner.
"You want to buy gunpowder?"
Pei Yuan was shocked at the time, feeling a kind of panic as if he had been caught in a fishing net.
Unexpectedly, the other party casually quoted a price.
"Three taels of silver per pound, the minimum price is 20 pounds or more, not just a few."
Pei Yuan looked at the sample.
Although he didn't know much about it, he knew that there were two types of gunpowder: black powder and yellow powder, but he had never heard of colorful gunpowder.
According to that person, there were also things like arsenic, croton, wolfsbane, and fecal particles in it.
Once you are infected, you will experience dizziness, cramps, blistering, inflammation, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and non-healing wounds. It is very uncomfortable.
Pei Yuan was speechless about this.
I made gunpowder to make a powerful weapon that can clear the field, not to cause damage from magic balls.
Pei Yuan bought the ingredients and prepared them himself.
He didn't really understand it, but he had read a lot of time-travel novels, so he tried to make a few homemade grenades according to some recipes that looked reliable.
The effect is unexpectedly good.
Pei Yuan brought three homemade grenades this time, two of which relied on their power, and as for the other one...
It's the effect of hitting the ball.
Pei Yuan thought about the difficulties of this journey.
Since magical things like the money-moving ghost have appeared, it is very likely that the story of Mei Qinnan being turned into a ghost is true.
If you really encounter something deadly, no matter how big the amount is, it will be nothing.
Therefore, Pei Yuan specially enchanted this earth grenade this morning.
In addition to the traditional magic ball recipe, Pei Yuan also boiled and ground black dog blood into powder and sifted it, then added it in.
As for whether it will be effective or not, it all depends on God.
His mission on this trip was just to act as bait for Yuan Lang and others and lure Mei Qinniang out.
The ones who really confronted them head-on were veterans like Yuan Lang and the monks in Yuan'en Temple.
Pei Yuan owes Mei Qinnan a favor, so he has some confidence to protect himself.
If you really can't figure it out...
Pei Yuan opened the interface and looked at a line in his "Debt Settlement System".
——Current credit value: 15/100 (You have obtained the news that Jinyiwei is actually vacant, which gives your debtor a little confidence)
Just raise your credit value to above 20 before going to Nanzhili to meet the real boss.
At the critical moment, you can force the mastermind behind the scenes to give you face and give you a way out.
As for how many favors I will owe, that is a matter for the future.
Pei Yuan was thinking about it when he saw the "Current Credit Value" jump up to 16/100.
Then a system prompt pops up.
"Your reputation for doing what you say has spread within a very small circle, and has gained wide recognition from the front gate to the back gate of Zhihua Temple." Pei Yuan was speechless.
This is really a very small range.
It should be that Cheng Zhihu knew that I was filling in for Cheng Leixiang.
Cheng Zhihu’s major events are also the major events of Zhihua Temple.
Pei Yuan fixed his eyes on the current credit value column and thought about it for a long time.
He still has some money in his hand now, so he might as well settle some old debts.
This would lower the debt ceiling somewhat, and perhaps even restore some credit worthiness.
Pei Yuan glanced around the house again. He had already cleaned up the house when he left in the morning.
His courtyard had been secretly searched by creditors countless times, but it was very safe now.
Pei Yuan was reluctant to carry the green-glazed porcelain vase he had acquired yesterday, so he could only hide it under the big locust tree.
The plan to make money has to be discussed after returning from Nanzhili.
Pei Yuan picked up the bag with his Xiuchun Knife and went to meet up at the South Gate.
Fortunately, his creditors were everywhere, so he didn't need to take a detour to pay back the money. On his way to South City, he paid back more than ten taels of money.
But unfortunately, Pei Yuan’s credit with his old creditors was completely beyond redemption.
His actions didn't even add any credit value.
When we arrived at the South City Gate, we saw Cheng Leixiang and Chen Toutie waiting there with packages.
Looking around again, Yuan Lang and a dozen other people were looking at Pei Yuan impatiently.
Pei Yuan took a quick glance and knew what was going on.
Those sturdy men dressed as Jinyiwei were the general Zhao Jiu Ming and the eight fighters under his command. There were also six men dressed as monks, who were monks from Yuanen Temple.
As expected, Cheng Leixiang and Chen Toutie were very tactful and stayed away from Yuan Lang without any intention of talking to him.
When Pei Yuan came over, Yuan Lang patiently introduced them, "This is the general Zhao Jiuming, and this is the abbot of Yuanen Temple, Master Yuantong!"
Pei Yuan looked at the dignified Master Yuantong and thought to himself, I am also familiar with Zhongtong, Shuntong and Shentong.
Seeing Yuan Lang was about to introduce himself, Pei Yuan stopped him and said coldly.
"Don't waste time talking about this. They listen to you, not me."
Yuan Lang frowned and walked away.
Pei Yuan was happy to have some peace and quiet, so he followed the group with his two little followers.
This trip was a case jointly handled by the Jinyiwei of the two capitals. When they arrived at the post station, Yuan Lang showed the official document, and the post station chief hurriedly provided horses for everyone.
The post stations in the Ming Dynasty were very developed. Not only were they clearly classified, but the services they provided were also beyond the imagination of later generations.
For example, there was a university scholar named Yu Shenxing, who received shad as a reward from the emperor, and he couldn't help but compose a poem.
The first two lines are, "In June, the shad is cold with snow, and the journey is three thousand miles to Chang'an."
This shows that the post stations in the mid-Ming Dynasty had developed to the point where they could carry out cold and fresh transportation even in the hot summer.
The group did see the rare and precious fruits being transported to Beijing via the cold chain at the post station. Abbot Yuantong, who seldom goes out, was amazed at the sight.
When netizens in later generations were undecided about foreign affairs, they still mentioned another other company, Dongfeng Express, but you would never have thought that the writers in the Ming Dynasty had such wild ideas!
This brings us to another version of Journey to the West, which is the version written by Yang Jingxian in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
It mentions that when Tang Monk was seeking Buddhist scriptures, he once asked a postman for directions.
The postman said to him.
"Master, if we continue for another month, we will see the Donkey Station ahead. If we continue for another month from the Donkey Station, we will see the Dog Station. If we continue for another month from the Dog Station, we will see the Cannon Station."
Elder Tang was secretly delighted and immediately coughed lightly, "Tell me more about the artillery station."
So the postman explained to him that six wooden pillars made a frame, and a long pillar formed a catapult. When someone came, they would tie him up and put him in a leather bag, and then hit him with a heavy iron weight. Then he would be gone!
Elder Tang: ...
I have to say, the imagination of Ming Dynasty writers was really wild.
(End of this chapter)