Chapter 83: Care

This was said quite heavily. Guo Dong and several craftsmen were stunned. Then they knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. When they saw the kowtow, Li Meng frowned. He was really disgusted and kowtowed. It was not that he couldn't bear it, but he felt it was too awkward. He heard the Liao people crying and explaining:

"Master, the two newly built muskets are still in the shop. This armor was made by the little people stayed up late. They used the scraps left by the muskets, and they definitely did not delay the master's work."

Li Meng's face was still extremely gloomy, and several Liao craftsmen became even more panicked. Guo Dong walked a few steps and asked again:

"The villain makes mistakes, but they are all the villain who commits his own faults. He asks the master to be kind and does not drive the villain's family away."

After saying that, he didn't dare to say more, but just kowtowed desperately there. Li Meng looked at the apprentices at the door of the blacksmith shop and knelt down. After thinking about it for a while, he had guessed the matter and couldn't help but feel a little amused. Li Meng sighed and comforted:

"Why do you have to be so careful? All I want is a musket. Everyone is exploring and doing this thing, and you don't need to worry about anything. Even if you don't have to do it with confidence, you don't have to do these things that please me."

Hearing this, the Liao people cried even louder, their heads were clattering and they were crying in a hurry. If outsiders looked very touching, Li Meng was very upset and said repeatedly:

"Get up quickly, get up quickly. If you break your head, who will build a firearm for me?"

As soon as Li Meng opened his joke, the people kneeling on the ground confirmed that there was nothing wrong. They would get up if they were late. Seeing Li Meng waved his hand repeatedly and said:

"Go and do your business quickly, I'll wait and see what the hell is that of those two muskets?"

After saying that, he turned around and left. Regardless of the full set of armor hanging on the shelf, these Liao people naturally dared not stop it, and they dared not mention the matter of armor. However, Li Meng took a few steps, but turned around, walked to the armor, looked at it for a few seconds, and asked:

"If it is a simpler armor, how much effort does it take?"

Since he was back to Fengmeng Town, Li Meng was not in a hurry to leave. He still needed some concerns when he was acting in Jiaozhou City. Fengmeng is really the only one in the world, and he is much more comfortable.

The two muskets there were bent over and wiped their necks to ensure that they could come out in four days. Moreover, these craftsmen needed to make other utensils. This utensil was not the other, but the armor. After seeing the exquisite armor that day, he reminded Li Meng about something.

Now there are more than 2,000 salt dicks, and they are all civilians, without any defensive measures or equipment. Of course, salt dicks train hard, have excellent weapons in their hands, and ordinary battles often set up formations, spears flat, and rush over to the other side and disperse. They have never lost yet.

This is related to the fact that most of the opponents are salt owls and rascals. These people's equipment is not as good as salt ding. It is already a great thing to have a knife and an axe in their hands.

But the opponent Li Meng expected was not these rascals. In this chaotic era, the salt was the capital for Li Meng to live a good life. Thinking about his future opponents, Li Meng had no confidence at all. The Ming army, the rebel army, the Qing army might have other troops. Who knows which side he would join and fight with? Then again, Li Meng is still very sure that he will never join the Qing Tartar side.

Fighting with these regular troops, holding spears in their hands and wearing cloth clothes like they are now, is obviously a joke.

Any regular soldier with training will shoot more accurate and more powerful bows than the three salted dings a year ago, not to mention that they also have experience and skills in muskets, cannons, and fighting formations.

It was naturally not suitable to see complex and exquisite armor that day, but simple chain mail and leather armor inlaid with iron leaves. According to Guo Dong, more than a dozen apprentices can make a few samples within these four days, and will not delay the progress of making the musket. Li Meng had no need to worry about it. He stayed in Fengmeng Town, which was to practice equestrian and cavalry.

The location of Jiaozhou City is quite remote from Shandong Province. In addition, since the Tianqi period, the general famines all over the world have gradually declined. That is, after Li Meng began to use Laizhou salt to invade Shandong's private salt market, salt merchants and related people gathered in Jiaozhou to consume in Jiaozhou, which made the market in Jiaozhou gradually flourish.

However, as October approaches, there is still a gap before the peak sales season for salt goods before the New Year. Salt merchants are also less than before. Tang Er stood at the door of the newly opened gambling house and seemed very bored.

The casino opened by Zhang Tuhuo in Jiaozhou City is just a two-entry yard. It is smaller in scale than the one in Fengmeng Town, and its business is much worse, but it still makes money. A casino like Zhang Tuhuo has an advantage, that is, people related to the government dare not come to blackmail, and they only need to hand over the regular money, so there will be peace. After all, this is a place to shelter Li Meng from the Salt Administration Inspection Officer, and it is already a shame to give regular money.

Although Li Meng introduced Tang Er to Zhang's butcher Zhang's butcher Zhang did not have to worry about his face, and his normal use was that his original intention was to find a place for his subordinates to eat, but Zhang's butcher Zhang did not dare to treat the person Li Meng introduced to him accidentally.

Tang Er's wages are the highest among the guards, and he is also the leader of the gambling house guard in Jiaozhou City. He asks him what he has any opinions. With such treatment, food and clothing are not a problem, and he lives comfortably. The problem is that every time Tang Er sees his former colleague Yan Ding in the city, he always feels uncomfortable. He thinks that he used to live in such a group, and is a companion of those mighty men. He has a straight back every day. Although the exercise is hard, he is also very happy. When he walks outside, he feels respected.

Now I'm just a bodyguard in a casino, so it's no different from a role like a guard. It's really unlucky, but Tang Er also knew that it would be difficult for him to return to Yan Ding's team, but unfortunately he didn't have the chance to take the medicine for regret.

There was no one in the casino to cause trouble. Tang Er was sitting at the entrance of the gambling house, looking bored at the pedestrians coming and going on the street. When the sun rose, he felt warm all over. He thought to himself if he had gone into the house to take a nap, but he saw two familiar faces, which were probably what impressed him the most.

When he was depressed and regretful at night, Tang Er always wondered why he didn't rush up and chopped these two people at that time. He fell into this situation and had a lot to do with these two people.

Zhou Bing and Feng Qi, the Jinyiwei, were walking on the street opposite the casino. The clothes they were wearing were not the 80% new mandarin duck battle jacket, but ordinary green cloth clothes - the dress of a business clerk. The two Jinyiwei were walking on the street with their heads down, looking like they were unwilling to be discovered by others. Tang Er was about to walk over, but he remembered that he was no longer Yan Ding's identity.

He simply pushed it back into the gambling house and observed the opposite side by the door. He found that in addition to Feng Qi and Zhou Bing, two Jinyiwei, there were many people dressed up like this, and there were about fifty people, some pretending to be businessmen, and some people looked like a caravan.

Tang Er is also considered an old salt dick. It can be seen that although the members of this caravan have different shapes, they have rules in every move. This subtle style seems to be nothing special at first glance, but it is particularly conspicuous among the common people, especially for the salt dicks who also have this style. Zhou Bing and Feng Qi are not the leader among these people, that is, they are following the brigade.

What he came to do? The first thing he thought of was that it was not good for Li Meng. Tang Er suddenly became nervous. Although he had been expelled from the team of salt ding, he was always grateful to Li Meng. After all, his whole family was given by Li Meng. This time he came to the gambling house and was a large number of adults.

Following the other guards, Tang Er turned around and went out of the door, followed the "caravan" far away, and walked for a while, watching the caravans enter the backyard of the prefect's yamen. There were few pedestrians here, and they were afraid that they would be exposed after following him. Tang Er took a few steps back with nothing to do, and then ran towards the casino.

The status of Jiaozhou Tongzhi is the deputy commander of the prefect, and he is a very important person in the yamen. He has the right to participate in all matters.

The magistrate's yamen has always been idle and nothing. The magistrate and the magistrate often rest in their own houses in the morning, and only after lunch was the symbolic walk to the yamen. Today, when the magistrate Wu Wensong was still reading a book in the study, he was called out by Yan Zhizhou's servants, saying that he had something urgent to go to the yamen.

When Wu Wensong saw that it was the servant who came to call for someone, he naturally knew that the matter was urgent, so he quickly put on his clothes and followed him to the yamen.

In the past, there were extremely clean backyards of the yamen, but at this time there were many civilians dressed in caravans. These people did not take the majesty of the government at all. Wu Wensong was extremely dissatisfied with the loud chatter and laughter. However, he also knew that he would dare to be so ungrateful in the yamen, and he must have his ignorant support.

Yan Zhizhou, who was talking with a businessman in the hall, saw Wu Tongzhi coming in from a distance and quickly greeted him:
Chapter completed!