Back at Toyamapo, the preparations for the tribute here were almost complete, but Pu Xianyu actually came back before Hong Jinglai.

When I asked, I found out that he had gone through the whole journey with the ship first, going through all the major and minor joints and the time required to avoid being caught off guard. So although Hong Jingrae set off first, it was Park Hyun-woo who came back first. Who was it?

Taking a boat is much faster than riding a horse.

Now Park Hyun-woo has become Park Jong-kyung's white glove, and all the candidates who were originally dominated by him have become his younger brothers. Who doesn't know that King Sunjong's biological mother's surname is Park?

Wealth is a sure thing.

What are you doing? In Donglai, you have been a jobber all your life. To put it bluntly, you are a village official. You only make a few hundred taels a year, but you don’t have much future. After entering Hanyang, if you become a tribute merchant, that is a "money career".

Big. Who can have trouble with money?

"Everything is entrusted to you! If there is anything wrong in the Taoist order, I will let you write a letter to the Taoist Office. If it comes to Hanyang, you should have your own way!" Watching the officers and soldiers of Shuiying coming over to carry large buckets filled with pear paste,

Hong Jinglai gave orders to Pu Xianyu.

"Don't worry, sir! I will do my best even if I don't need to tell you what to do!" Pu Xianyu is now full of energy and radiant.

There is a saying that is right, the best time in a person's life is not the moment when he stands at the top, but the moment when he is on the way uphill!

Pu Xianyu has now been favored by Pu Zongqing, and the bright future is in front of him. It is time for him to climb hard. There is no need for Hong Jing to rush him. He is very diligent now. After finishing this errand, he will immediately go to do what Pu Zongqing gave him.

Very busy with winter solstice ritual supplies.

"This is the first trip this year. The regulations have been changed. It's better to be careful."

“Save money, save money!”

After speaking, Hong Jinglai let Pu Xianyu sit on an ox cart and follow him to Shuying. He had to escort the tribute to Hanyang, and he had to change ships on the way and go through various currency checkpoints. There was no room for his negligence.

"Gelang, Wu Shi is back!" Hong Jinglai was still standing on the steps, and Han Sanshi quietly came over to report.

"Where are you?"

"We have arrived at the county and will return to the Yamen immediately."

Previously, Hong Jinglai sent Han Wushi to go out to do things quietly. It was more than two months before he came back, which was not easy.

"Let's go! Go back to the Yamen immediately!" Hong Jinglai got on his horse and ran back.

It was a coincidence that Hong Jinglai happened to arrive at the Yamen, and Han Wushi also rushed to the Yamen. Without further ado, Hong Jinglai immediately called Han Wushi and a few followers to go in together.

"How's it going? Did it go well?" He was in the back hall and asked Han Sanshi to go to the front office to keep an eye on it. Hong Jinglai asked Han Wushi to sit down and answer.

"That big-nosed Tatar is pretty good, he's a cheerful person!"

Han Sanshi naturally went to the Tumen River Estuary to meet Shekov again. Hong Jinglai had secretly agreed with them to meet at the Tumen River Estuary every year in the middle of summer.

The last time Li Zaichao "surprised" the Tatar soldiers, he was actually helping Hong Jinglai deliver a message. This time, Hong Jinglai didn't have any weird requests. He just asked Shekov to sneak in their current Russian military muzzle-loading muskets, bayonets and other equipment.

Ship it out and sell a batch to him.

To be honest, Hong Jinglai remembered one thing very clearly. During the entire Napoleonic War, the Russian army actually had more than a dozen types of muskets in service in the army. Although it was already said that they would be standard weapons these days, in the true sense

It seems that only the UK and France can basically do it.

Even Prussia, after being beaten by the emperor, picked up rags from other countries and used British foreign aid. The cannons of Austria were very good, but the rifles also differed depending on where the troops came from.

Although muzzle-loading muskets are similar to each other, Hong Jinglai has never seen the muskets used by European countries these days with his own eyes, so he can tell whether they are good or bad.

So Han Wushi was asked to take the gold to the mouth of the Tumen River to find Shekov, and asked him to get two samples of various muskets that he could collect, so that he could learn and observe without being embarrassed.

"Sweet man? It seems you don't know each other without fighting!" Hong Jinglai took a gun bag and stood up.

"That kid drank two cups of yellow soup and wanted to wrestle with me because he was half a head taller than me. Can I teach him a joke? He stood up and threw him into the mud! The kid still refused to accept it, so he was thrown to me.

"Four or five times." Even though Han Wushi was less than 1.7 meters tall, his body was flexible and strong, and he did have some skills in his hands.

"Is he angry because he was defeated?"

"No way! You were beaten by me until your nose was bruised and your face was swollen, and yet you were so stupid that you wanted to drink with me!"

Most of Shekov's skills are spent on horseback cavalry charge. I guess wrestling is indeed a little better than ordinary people, but it is better to be cured by Han Wushi, lest he still wants to take advantage of others, thinking that he is taller and stronger.

Bully.

"You let this gun go?" Hong Jinglai didn't know the name of the musket in front of him.

"Let it go, it's okay. It's very similar to the copper-cap gun that Gelang brought out in Tieshan." Han Wushi asked if he wanted to demonstrate it to Hong Jing.

Although Hong Jinglai knew how to fire a gun himself, he was willing to watch others practice it. He then handed it over to Han Wushi to watch him operate the gun.

This gun should be .75 caliber, which is normal. The length of the gun is about 110 centimeters, and the weight is about nine pounds. Under the gun body are 4 barrel sleeves, and an iron barrel is installed on the tail of the gun.

The casting is made of brass, and the barrel is fixed on the wooden base with screws. The wood grain looks like walnut.

The government office is not a place where you can shoot a gun, so Han Wushi just demonstrated it in sequence. According to him, if you practice well, the gun can be fired very quickly.

Even Shekov didn't have any secrets. They used what they passed on to Han Wushi. Including the paper fixed ammunition, which was said to be greased with butter and then forced to be used by Hindus, which resulted in

That thing about the great national uprising of the people in India against the British.

After a rough look, there is nothing particularly unusual about the muskets used by the Russian army. The muskets carried by several other people are similar, and not too different.

not worried!

No wonder that when it comes to the first Qing-British War, the British army only used weapons from a hundred years ago. The infantry weapons popular in European countries now should be like this. They are no different from the guns hand-made by the blacksmiths in Tieshan.

Fundamental generation difference.

"You go back and ask Li Zaipiao to copy a few of them and compare them. Keep the better one and make hundreds of them as spares!" Hong Jinglai then ordered the followers who had followed him to Tumen River Estuary in Tieshan to go back to find Li Zaichao.

Imitation.

"Save it!" Those few people agreed readily.

"Okay, let's go and rest. Thank you for the hard work on this trip!"
Chapter completed!