Gao Shixin had targeted the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants before, but only captured a few minions working below. Although in the Zhu Yuanzhang era, merchants had a low status. According to the Ming Dynasty, merchants had the lowest status among the four civil ranks (scholars, farmers, industry and commerce), and were only higher than those of the cheap and slave ranks. However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, merchants' actual status was second only to scholars, because behind every big merchant were officials of the court. The merchants with real low status were those merchants without backstages or vendors who walked around the streets.

Even when the stall vendors arrived in the Hong Dynasty, their status was very low. They were driven by the Invincible Urban Management all day long. Do they have a big profiteer in the Hong Dynasty, but they didn’t have a high status? Ninety-nine Six, Ninety-nine Seven, and even wished they were seventy-nine Seven... But in this way, they were all representatives of the National People’s Congress, and the working class was directly represented by them...

Because every giant businessman has the support of the court officials, it is difficult for Gao Shixin's Jinyiwei to attack them before finding conclusive evidence. It is difficult to arrest a big businessman without evidence than to arrest a civil and military official first and then take it back for interrogation, because an official has a faction, and their own faction supports it, there must be other officials who oppose it; but a giant businessman has no way to do it rashly before he finds out who the person behind him is. It is easy to avoid hidden arrows and it is difficult to prevent it. If he doesn't catch the mastermind behind the scenes, he is really likely to be plotted against by that person.

After several days of training, more than 200 self-generated musket barrels were scrapped.

"These firearms with scrapped guns are placed in the warehouse over there." Gao Shixin ordered the Jinyiwei.

"Sir, although the gun barrel is destroyed, the bolt and spring steel strips are both useful. The self-generated musket that has been destroyed is taken back to the capital to replace a new gun barrel and can be used again. How can the sir be so careless and casual? Sir, you also know what kind of virtues are those guys who manage the arsenal of the garrison? What if they are lost and fall into the hands of the enemy?" Cai Jiuyi asked.

Gao Shixin's eyes rolled and said to Cai Jiuyi: "Let's go, let's go back to the room to talk."

When he returned to the house, Gao Shixin lowered his voice and said sinisterly: "Of course I know that these muskets are useful, but I just plan to put them there as a random way, waiting for fishing."

In Wang Dengku's business name, the accountant and Fei Yanggu walked into Wang Dengku's room: "The head of the family, I'm so happy! The Eagle Claw Sun, the surname Gao, has trained the Jinyiwei New Army these days, and has killed more than 200 self-produced muskets. The muskets are randomly piled up in an unguarded warehouse!"

"Hahaha!" Wang Dengku was overjoyed, "God helps me! Although these muskets are scrapped, the gun machine and steel sheet are good things! As long as we steal these scrapped self-produced muskets and send them to Sibeile, the four bells will be replaced with new gun barrels and they will be used! Hahaha!"

"It's a pity that we can't imitate it. It's not enough to get more than 200 self-generated muskets." Fei Yang Gudao.

"It's easy to deal with more than 200 poles. We have enough steel sheets to imitate them." Wang Dengku said.

The accountant said: "Okay, let's observe for another two days, find some time to start and steal this batch of scrapped self-generated muskets."

That night, the accountant and Fei Yanggu, with two masters hired by Dashengkui, sneaked into the warehouse of a business outside the Zhangjiakou Armory Warehouse, climbed up the roof, and observed the Zhangjiakou Armory Warehouse from a high place.

The warehouse management of the Ming Army Guards was indeed loose. There were no patrol soldiers outside, and there were no secret sentries. Only two Ming soldiers were sitting on the ground and dozing off outside the warehouse compound.

With such a loose guard, if you can no longer steal things, then the Later Jin Seizhu would be too incompetent.

After Fei Yanggu and others returned, they reported this matter to Wang Dengku.

"Okay, then we will start to act one day in advance. It will be dark tomorrow, so we will take action." Wang Dengku said.

At the third update the next night, Fei Yanggu, with twelve masters and twenty Dashengkui caravans, quietly approached the Zhangjiakou Warehouse warehouse.

The guards of the Later Jin Xizuo and Dashengkui Store climbed over the wall from the backyard and entered the yard. The two Ming soldiers sitting at the door were already asleep, and did not realize that an uninvited guest had broken into the yard.

The courtyard was dark and dark. Fei Yanggu took Hou Jinxiu to a dilapidated warehouse with the location of the scrapped musket warehouse that he remembered during the day two days ago. He saw that the door was closed and a large copper lock was hung on it. However, none of this stumped Hou Jinxiu. They successfully pried open the lock and opened the warehouse door.

When he walked into the warehouse, it was so dark that he could not see his fingers, but Fei Yanggu did not dare to let someone ignite the torch. He could only use the faint light to explore the darkness inside.

"It seems to be here!" Fei Yanggu touched a wooden box, gently opened the lid, reached in and fumbled, and felt that there seemed to be a musket inside, and he was overjoyed.

The rest of the Later Jin fine works also explored several boxes in succession, and all they found were muskets.

However, Fei Yanggu found something wrong. The muskets found in the warehouse seemed to be more than 500. In addition to a batch of self-produced muskets with scrapped gun barrels, there were also muskets such as bird guns. However, it was dark and Fei Yanggu and others had no time to select bird guns and other muskets. They could only carry more than a dozen muskets and evacuate the warehouse. Finally, Fei Yanggu covered the wooden box, closed the warehouse door, locked the big lock, and restored everything to its original state.

The path of the Later Jin Xizuo returned the same way. They asked a few people to climb up the wall first, hang ropes from above, tie the stolen muskets together, and pull them onto the wall.

The 526 muskets stole were taken back to the basement of Wang Dengku's business. When they entered the basement, Fei Yanggu breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, they were not discovered by Minggou Manzi, otherwise they would not have been able to escape.

The guards of the Later Jin Dynasty, Sezuo and Dashengkui screened these muskets and found that nearly 300 of them were ordinary bird guns, and 231 were the self-generated muskets they were eager to get.

Wang Dengku picked up a self-generated musket, played with it a few times, then pulled the faucet and pulled the trigger, and saw a spark splashing from the iron sheet of the bolt. He sighed: "It's a good thing. As long as these things are sent to Dajin, you can use it after changing the gun barrel. It seems that our Dajin has not successfully imitated it several times, the key is on this spring steel sheet."

The successful Wang Dengku and Hou Jin Xizuo were like thieves who broke into someone else's home and successfully stole them. Their top priority now is to send the stolen muskets out of Zhangjiakou as soon as possible.

"Mr. Fei Yanggu, we have received reliable news that these eagle claw grandsons will leave Zhangjiakou in five days." After dawn, a Later Jin Xizuo reported to Wang Dengku.

Fei Yanggu nodded, turned to Fei Yanggu and said, "I think this is the case. In three days, we will deliver this batch of goods."

Wang Dengku said anxiously: "Three days? Have to wait three days? We will stay here for one more day, which will be a little more dangerous! If the Eagle Claw Sun inspects the warehouse and finds that there are few muskets, they will definitely block the city and search! We must leave immediately! When the day dawns, we will leave the city quickly!"

"What's the hurry?" Fei Yanggu snorted, "This batch of goods is of great importance. If you leave Zhangjiakou Fort like this, what if you are robbed by the Mongols on the way? So, I am ready and released Haidongqing yesterday and sent the letter to the Korqin people. The Korqin people are on the grassland only two hundred miles away from Zhangjiakou today. They can arrive near the outer wall of Zhangjiakou in two days. We will go out of seclusion in three days. With their protection, we can rest assured and return to Dajin."
Chapter completed!