In Hengwu Garden, northwest of the Grand View Garden, there are already falling snow covering the rockery and red railings and bridges, as well as various vines crawling on the rocks. They are not green in winter, and perhaps they will wither in autumn, waiting for rebirth to come back to the next year.

Turning around the rocks in the front yard, there are several girls and beautiful women embroidering flowers. The beauty of the woman is not even a cheesy person.

Ying'er, who was combing a bun on her three-ya bun, listened to her masters' speech, and the embroidery needle on her right hand flew up and down. Li Wan brought three sisters to her side. The girls were not obscene and just joked. Li Wan asked while eating pastries: "Baochai, hasn't the matter between Cousin Xue yet?"

"I heard from my mother that the father-in-law in the palace relies very much on Brother Chong Cong. Now the Grand Secretary of the Ministry of Justice is also his master. It seems that something big happened in the palace. The list of the beheadings after this autumn has not been called down. Finally, it has been entrusted to this day..." Xue Baochai sighed, looking like she had survived the disaster.

Li Wan pondered silently, that cousin's energy was still very high... Xue Pan's incident was a "bad" category after all. Baochai defended her brother, and outsiders were "bullying with power" in their eyes. Like Xia Jingui said, "take money to rush for people when they act." Although Xue Baochai has a deep class concept and does not care much about her relatives, she is embarrassed to make excuses and change the topic: "Lan Ge'er will be able to take the exam again next autumn. She will be the eldest sister-in-law who has made contributions in teaching her children, and that will prosper."

"It's hard to say, studying is a lifelong thing. I often ask him to practice archery and horses, and he is skilled in literature and martial arts. At least he has a place to go in the future..." Li Wan said calmly: "Has no news from Brother Cong yet?"

"The mountains are high and the road is far away. I can't blame anyone for the itinerary for thousands of miles." Xue Baochai turned the needle in her hand, tied a knot, and then cut the thread with scissors: "He is passionate about fame and fortune in the officialdom, and we don't understand it. It's because of the third girl and the second sister. He doesn't reply to the letter. It's not a solution to drag it like this."

Yingchun Tanchun blushed, Xichun smiled, many women in the boudoir were very reserved about the marriage, Lin Daiyu interrupted, "Feel is disliked by her sister-in-law. Sister Bao is going to drive people away. In this way, those who come in can feel at ease, and those who go out can no longer see them."

The girls were having a fight, and Li Wan wondered: "There is a barbarian in Qianxiang Country that seems to have been transformed from foreign countries."

"Not." Ping'er walked among the crowd: "I have heard before that the Wang family was in charge of the customs of Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan and Zhejiang. The country of Qianxiang was an island overseas in Fujian Province. The previous dynasty was called Ryukyu, and the Celestial Dynasty regarded it as a barbarian. Brother Cong should be clear in the south, and he was worried that the three girls would go over..."

Jia Yingchun said worriedly: "In history books, many barbarians are unqualified, Jurchens, Mongolians, Turks, Oirats, and Tatars... Their chief's women are either brothers and brothers, or passed on to their descendants..."

"Oh my God..." Xichun changed his color and said, "Don't he even want ethics? It's true that he is a barbarian..."

Jia Tanchun looked pale, Ping'er and Li Wan comforted her for a while, and the women had just left each other, leaving only Xue Baochai, Li Wan and Ping'er with three main wives talking. Ping'er was kind and said: "Didn't Brother Cong say that Eunuch Liu has collected a few women and sent them to the palace? I don't know how our eldest lady is. The wife has not been seen in the past few years, and the words cannot be conveyed..."

"It's unpredictable. We women, if we handle family affairs well, we don't have to worry about those things..."

After returning to the yard of Zhonglu, Qingwen and Xiangling were all there to serve the meals. Ying'er said, "I heard that Mr. Cong has married a concubine in Yangzhou..."

"Where did it come in?" Qingwen held the bowl in a pretty face.

"The merchants from Yangzhou and the Shanxi merchants who walked to the south said at the Beijing Central Guild Hall that the people from Shanhai Bookstore were spreading, and I heard it inadvertently."

Xue Baochai moved her chopsticks and was silent for a moment, saying nothing, and Xiangling felt nothing.

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The Changmen of Suzhou Prefecture is located in the northwest of the city, and further to the northwest is the famous Huqiu area. The mountains and rivers and temples are full of traces of humanities and history. Outside this Changmen, there is a Li Jizhong Lane, which is winding by water and land. It is also the most prosperous area for Suzhou books. Wuxian, where you enter Changmen, also has many large shops and guild halls of giant merchants from all over the country.

This empty yard near the suburbs has a brand new look. The schoolyard that enters the backyard is reclaimed near the foot of the mountain.

I saw Sun Fu, Long Aotian, Yu Lu, Bao Er, Wu Sange, Wu Zhuangyuan, Zhong Yin, Liu Xianglian and others, each of them wore chain mail in the shape of Dashun military uniform, with a minimum of 30 kilograms. The armor was covered with cotton and linen and iron nails on the outside.

The weapons in their hands were spears, caltrops, rattan cards, and waist knives, and they were sweating like rain and facing the scarecrow training.

The ones riding on the horse were Jia Cong, Liu Xianglian, Guan Chaosheng, and Jia Cong held a bird gun in his hand. The shape was from the Ming Dynasty and it was easy to explode. He didn't dare to use it, let alone the guards?

This musket was brought from Liu Ting, which gave Jia Cong a feeling of being useless: "No wonder the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain can occupy our North Korea's overseas trade. The destructive power of firearms is ten times more powerful than cold weapons. It is really unwise to abandon them."

"The court believed that it was a strange and lustful skill, but at the beginning, the world could not defeat without this thing. It was always imitating foreigners..." Guan Chaosheng said.

In the early days of the 16th, China's firearms fell behind to the West, and poor China was still the creator of the four great inventions.

If you don't use the firearm, there will be no difference in this time and space in the future.

How effective is a firearm?

Thousands of cavalrymen from Senggelinqin of the Qing Dynasty were swept away by foreigners' muskets.

What is this concept?

Governments that do not use firearms are all stupid governments. In contrast, a certain island country is better than China in this regard. The Tokugawa shogunate has been in isolation for decades, but later it has surpassed it as soon as it is opened.

History has proved that only when people in critical survival can they unite and consolidate national consciousness. They are often selfish, with obvious advantages and obvious inferiority.

"When will it be better to build a flintlock rifle..." Jia Cong could only think about it. No firearms are available nowadays. Without equipment, elite soldiers, musketeers, and Akatsuki's country cannot solve it at all. And archers are useless at this point when the West becomes the overlord of the sea.

Firearms are a nightmare for cavalry and gradually eliminated cold weapons. Of course, this process was slow. Dashun was founded for more than a hundred years, and overseas firearms were not enough to dominate China. Instead, cold weapons and firearms were used together.

Moreover, it takes a long time to train archers, and Jia Cong who has practiced cannot kill the enemy, so it is not worth developing.

When Sun Fu saw Jia Cong being out of sight, he became lazy and they were all exhausted.

"Uncle Cong, the Xing family came from Wujiang and was still at the canal port..." Jia Yun, who had finished working in Gaoyou, returned to her original position.
Chapter completed!