Eunuchs who traveled through the Qing Dynasty

Hearing these words, Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment.Thinking of my own situation, isn't it such an embarrassing situation?On the surface, he is a majestic deputy chief executive, a celebrity in front of his master, deeply favored by the emperor, and even the prince and his ministers have to give way; in fact, he is sandwiched between several major forces, being coerced by others everywhere, walking on thin ice, Walking is difficult.I can't help but have a lot of thoughts for a while.Cheng Tong saw that his expression had changed, and he thought that he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly said: "My lord, don't get me wrong, the villain is just talking nonsense, don't take it to heart!"

Xiao Ran shook his head and said: "What you said is very reasonable. Why am I not like this? It seems that I should also make a good plan... But with your talent, if you don't discover it, it will be a bright pearl cast in the dark, a brocade suit It's a pity to travel at night!"

Cheng Tong suddenly took a step forward, and said in a low voice: "My lord, you have also invented a lot of new firearms, but..." He frowned and stopped talking.

Xiao Ran hurriedly said: "Brother Cheng, there are no outsiders here, so it doesn't matter if you have something to say."

Cheng Tong pondered for a while, and said cautiously: "An old saying goes: A tree that is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it. You have made great achievements many times, and your talents are unparalleled. Aren't you afraid of being jealous because of your achievements and villains jumping on the beam?"

"This……"

In fact, it's not like Xiao Ran didn't think about this question.In fact, if he wants to change history, turn the tide, and play the role of a savior, he really doesn't have such ambitions, and he doesn't think he has the strength.He has always been a lazy person who seeks comfort and enjoyment. At best, he can live comfortably, watch over a bunch of beautiful wives, and be happy and at ease.Life is like this, what more can a husband ask for?But since traveling through time and space to come to such a precarious world, any man with a bit of blood should do something, right?No matter how bad it is, I can't watch my compatriots being enslaved and bullied by foreign devils, but they are wise and indifferent.

What kind of path should he choose for his life, Xiao Ran thought for countless nights but couldn't figure it out.In fact, most of the time he feels like a pawn crossing the river, with no way out, no choice, and can only let others manipulate him step by step.

Xianfeng, Sushun, Yixin... Now there is another Concubine Yi, and all of these people are the masters of the world.What's depressing is that I just happened to be caught in the middle. If I want to stay out of the matter and don't ask right and wrong, it seems that none of these guys will let him go easily.Whenever he thinks of this level, li xuan will deeply understand what it means to be involuntary, what it means to be a knife and a fish to me!

After being silent for a long time, Xiao Ran smiled wryly: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. Oh, let's take a step and see! In fact, if you can find a place to live in peace and stability like Brother Cheng and Brother Duan, it might be a kind of kindness. happiness."

Although Cheng Tong didn't know what happened to him, after all, he had been in the officialdom once (Bao Yidian Military Academy was a seventh-rank post), so he could somewhat understand his situation.He shook his head and sighed, ready to leave.At this time, Xiao Ran suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and blurted out: "Brother Cheng, if you are asked to build a secret base in Daxing Mountain, what do you think?"

"Secret base? You mean..." Cheng Tong's eyes lit up. "That's right! We want people and people who want money and money, so why bother to make any inventions for Mr. Xianfeng? We have to worry about it. If we have advanced weapons and troops in our hands, no matter if it is a foreign devil or a minister of the emperor, we still have to worry about it. Who are you afraid of!"

"Well said!" Xiao Ran slapped the table and stood up. "It's better for me to be a knife than to be slaughtered by others! Whether it's a foreigner or a government official, whoever dares to touch a hair of us, let's make his mother look good!"

"But..." Cheng Tong was excited for a while, then suddenly hesitantly said: "Those treasures haven't been sold yet, where did we get the money from? Should we get rid of these treasures first?"

"No, no! These are all rare treasures, and they must not be sold so easily! As for the money, you don't have to worry, I should be able to raise as much money as you need." Xiao Ran said in his heart, damn it, these are all national treasures!I'm still waiting to give birth to a bunch of sons, and use Jiulong cups, Ruyao bottles, etc. as chamber pots for them!After a pause, he said mysteriously, "Brother Cheng, guess how much money I have now?"

"This..." Cheng Tong knew that he was in a good mood now, and he must have earned a lot of oil and water. He counted for a long time and said, "I guess there is a thousand or eight taels of money, right? At most, the money is just for the brothers to have a meal. , but the matter of building the base can be..."

"Damn! You look down on people so much! Let me tell you, my brother now has at least a dozen or two hundred thousand taels, a real rich man!"

"!!!!!!!!!!!!"

What kind of personality Cheng Tong is, can be seen from Han Qiang's incident.All Xiao Ran was absolutely at ease with her.The two of them had nothing to hide, and discussed the preparation of the secret base into a detailed plan.Including the distribution and management of personnel, the development direction of the base, basic safeguard measures, and so on.

Originally, Xiao Ran wanted to tell Dai Tong about the development and production of the grenade.Now with Chengtong, you can do it yourself.Blacksmith Li San was indispensable, what Xiao Ran could provide him was not only the salary of a top craftsman, but also the well-being of his family, so this matter was easy to settle.

Chemicals and raw materials are a bit of a headache.I don't plan to tell Dai Tong about this matter now, it's not that I can't trust him, after all, it's a head-scratching business, I'm afraid that if something happens to implicate him, it will not be worth the loss.But in this way, the supply of raw materials will have to be handed over, first transported from Dai Tong to Chengde, and then transferred to Daxing Mountain.Right now, there is no other way but to make do with it.

Now there is another key issue: the invention of firearms is of course inseparable from professional chemists. Although Rolto is a pharmacist, he is also capable of doing chemical experiments and pyrotechnics.The only regret is that he has no skills at all, and the research on health products, even the production in the future, cannot be separated from him.Xueyao can't be alone now, so Daxing Mountain can only be vacant.At this time, Xiao Ran would miss such things as mobile phones infinitely. The call fee is a little black, but it is convenient to be able to transmit voices for thousands of miles.If China Mobile could go to Daxing Mountain to build a launch tower at this time, Xiao Ran would not hesitate to pay any amount of money.

The details were basically finalized. Xiao Ran handed over 5 taels of silver notes to Cheng Tong, and prepared some raw materials and equipment needed for the production of gunpowder explosives. Luo Erto also repeatedly instructed the production method, and wrote a detailed instruction of.With these things, crafting grenades shouldn't be a problem.Cheng Tong packed up now, bid farewell to Xiao Ran, and went back to Daxing Mountain.

Let's say that Xiao Ran sent Cheng Tong away, called Wang Menglai, and asked him to go to the capital to bring Yulai to Chengde.Now that the massage stick has been produced, the next thing to do is to turn this thing into white silver.It is more than 400 miles from Chengde to Beijing, and it takes four days on a fast horse to run back and forth.At noon that day, Yu Lai came running profusely with sweat, and before he could catch his breath, he saw Xiao Ran and immediately said: "It's no good, Mr. Dai Tongdai hanged himself two days ago!"

"Ah?!" Xiao Ran was taken aback, "Old Dai him, is he dead?"

"No, fortunately, the family found out early, and finally rescued him. But when I arrived, I met him, and his complexion was very bad. Li Jingchou from Huichuntang showed it to me personally, and said that he was old and angry. Gongxin, it's very troublesome. By the way, this is a letter that Dai Tong asked me to give you."

Xiao Ran tremblingly unfolded the letter paper and saw that there were only a dozen or so short words: I am old and shameless, I am ashamed of my ancestors, I have failed the king's expectations, and I am the only dead ear!

Xiao Ran was extremely anxious, and hurriedly asked what happened.Unexpectedly, when Yulai said those words, his anger shot straight at Xiaohan, and his eyes cracked.It turned out that old man Dai committed suicide for no other reason, but because of those three hundred new-style rifles.

Ever since he boasted to Xiao Ran that day, this old man Dai has become more serious, spending all day in the workshop.This old man is very familiar with the road, and he had already built these three hundred guns years ago.According to the rules of the Ministry of Industry, it was presented to the Minister, the Minister, and the left-behind minister, Prince Gong Yizhen. After the trial shooting, everyone was full of praise.The news reached Xianfeng.Xianfeng praised it very much.

This matter was somehow known by the Russian envoy Ignatiev, and he made up his mind.This Ignatiev was old and cunning, and he was polite and friendly on the surface, but he was actually extremely insidious, and his attacks were always darker and more ruthless than that of Britain and France.Originally, there was only one place for Russia-China trade, Qiaktu. In the third year of Xianfeng, Russia sent a large army into Heilongjiang under the pretext of false boundary survey to occupy Aihui.At that time, the Qing government was struggling with Changmao, how could it care about dealing with outsiders?Xianfeng ordered Heilongjiang general Yishan to negotiate with Ignatiev, and the lion opened his mouth wide, demanding a large tract of land on the north bank of Heilongjiang.Yishan actually obeyed his orders and signed the Treaty of Aihui.

Later, Britain and France raised their troops, and the Russian envoy also led the fleet to share a share of the pie.In the first battle of Dagu, the British and French ships suffered a lot of losses and were returned to Guangdong. Only this Ignatiev entered Beijing and signed another [-] special treaties in May of the tenth year of Xianfeng. , Haikou trade, according to the British law."It is also necessary to "send consuls with accompanying warships". This is called the Tianjin Special Treaty.

When the British and French allied forces entered Beijing and insisted on coming to Yihe in Beijing, King Gong was timid, how could he dare to agree?The Russian envoy Ignatyev took this opportunity to persuade King Gong to call him to meet in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, claiming that the yamen of the Ministry of Rites is close to the Russian embassy, ​​and the Russians can act as protection.Prince Gong was inexplicably grateful, so he had the courage to meet the British and French envoys.Who knew that as soon as the peace talks were over, Ignatyev immediately came to ask for protection fees, and then signed the Beijing Treaty, citing the land on the east bank of the Ussuri River, all of which were assigned to Russia!

The treachery of Russian envoys can be seen.This time, the rifle invented by Dai Tong was tested in the field, he was the first to find out the wind, and immediately went to see Yixin, and took one in a shameless way.I went back and tried it, and found that this new rifle was so powerful. I was shocked and didn't have time to ask the Russian emperor for instructions. I immediately issued a circular letter in the name of my country, willing to contribute 2000 taels of silver to buy this batch of arms.The difference is that this time the wording is harsh and full of gunpowder.Firstly, Yizhen had a good relationship with the Russian envoy, but secondly, he really didn't dare to offend him, so he hastily submitted a note to Xianfeng.

Unexpectedly, Xianfeng was overjoyed when he heard the play, and he thought it was a big pie falling from the sky.It turned out that the price offered by the Russian envoy was 400 taels of silver for each gun, which is really a sky-high price!Worrying about the emptiness of the national treasury and making ends meet, he readily agreed.He also ordered Yixin to step up the production of firearms in order to exchange more silver with foreigners.When the criticism was sent back to Beijing, Dai Tong stomped his feet and beat his chest when he heard it, but he didn't expect that this hard work with Xiao Ran turned into making wedding clothes for others, and he hanged himself when he couldn't think about it for a while.Fortunately, the old family member Dai He found out in time and saved his life.

After hearing this, Xiao Ran was so angry that he trembled all over, unable to say a word for a long time.Seeing that his face was pale and his chest heaved sharply, Yu was afraid that he would lose his temper, so he quickly helped him to sit down.Wang Meng stomped his feet and said, "F*ck, this Yi bastard, I bring a few brothers, I'm going to Beijing to kill him!"

Xiao Ran managed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said, "Have these guns been delivered to the foreign devils?"

Yu Lai said: "Probably not yet. Dai Tong secretly told me that in order to prevent these weapons from falling into the hands of foreigners, he had secretly removed the bolts, bolts and other parts. But this matter is being investigated by Yixin, and I am afraid it will not last long."

"Okay!" Xiao Ran patted the table, gritted his teeth and said each word, "Since Xianfeng doesn't care about this thing, then we don't want to be polite to him! Wang Meng, you go and inform Duan Xingnian and Cheng Tong that They took all the brothers and hurried to Beijing! Damn, we have business this time!"

The sky was gloomy, and the north wind whizzed across the mountains and forests with fine snow mixed in. The whimpers echoed like sea tides.The vigorous pines pointed at the sky angrily, and a deep and dignified dark green stretched endlessly in the hazy sky.

"Dede..." Suddenly, a fast horse came running from a distance, flying all four hooves, and a large cloud of snow and fog was raised behind him.Immediately, the knight was wearing a snow-white cloak, which was straightened by the wind, revealing a blue cloth bunt.Clouds of white air spewed out of his mouth, and white frost condensed on his eyebrows. The raised collar covered most of his face, only two eyes were shining brightly.

He ran to the mountain mouth in a blink of an eye, reined in the horse's reins, and the horse under his crotch neighed and tied his four hooves.The man raised his hand and whistled, which spread far and wide in the mountains.Suddenly, a row of heads popped up from the uniform mountain ridge, and one of them responded and waved at the knight.The knight jumped off his horse nimbly, led it around the mountain ridge, tied the horse in the woods on the back slope, and then climbed up the hillside quickly with hands and feet.

In the knee-deep snow, many figures lurk indistinctly, all wearing white cloth cloaks, occasionally blown away by the wind, revealing that they are uniforms of foreign soldiers, red clothes and blue trousers, and riding boots.A slender and handsome boy stood up from behind the bushes and said, "Brother Duan, how is the situation?"

"It's the same as what Dai Tong said yesterday. There were more than 100 Russian soldiers when they left the city. I have been following them past the Ma's shop. It should be there in about half an hour." The knight put down his collar and ran his hands along the Shuanghua wiped down her eyebrows, revealing a beardless but sturdy face, it was Duan Xingnian.

The handsome boy nodded in satisfaction, of course he is Xiao Ran, "Dai Tong secretly disassembled the parts of the gun, have you taken care of it?"

"Don't worry, my lord, I found a back for him." Duan Xingnian smiled quite proudly, "Brother, I was originally from the Xing Shensi, and planting is my strong point. As for those guns, Dai Tong has already made them himself. Alright, you can use it when you bring it over. It’s a pity that the time is short, and there are not many ammunition in the paper package, less than a thousand rounds.”

Cheng Tong smiled and said, "What's the matter? We have everything in Daxing Mountain now. It's no problem to make ammunition by ourselves. You can have as much as you want. I'm afraid you won't be able to use too much!"

All three laughed.Xiao Ran took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said: "It's getting late, Brother Duan, you also hurry up and change your clothes. Brothers, check your equipment and prepare to start!"

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, with fine snow particles blowing in bursts, whirling and blowing into the neck, icy cold.But all the people were motionless, buried in the snow with white cloaks on, only two eyes were exposed, staring closely at the somewhat blurred plank road in the wind and snow.Finally, a few neighs came from the front, followed by the sound of wheels and chaotic footsteps, which gradually came over.

Xiao Ran made a gesture, Duan Xingnian understood, and pulled out a sharp waist knife with his backhand, and wrapped the handle of the knife tightly around his wrist with the red silk on the handle.The Quick Swordsmen were all gathered around him at this moment, probably because they hadn't fought for a long time, their hands were itchy, and their expressions were very excited.Duan Xingnian looked around and said in a low voice: "Brothers, it's ready to open! Do you still remember the few bird songs taught by the adults?"

"Remember. Ou Ye! Ou sells cakes! Kaman is despicable, vacco oil..."

"So!" Duan Xingnian nodded in satisfaction, "If anyone dares to say a word of Chinese to me today, I will make him look good! Donkey, don't you motherfuckers, stop shouting, talk about Shandong Taste..."

Not far away, Cheng Tong didn't know whether he was cold or excited, his face was flushed.According to the plan, today's battle will be kicked off by this little man.Beside his hand, there were dozens of grenades in a row, and he was also tightly clutching one, his knuckles turned white from the force.

Getting closer, getting closer, a group of foreign devils huddled and showed their heads in the snow.Behind them are three carts, and there is a group of soldiers behind them.In such bad weather, the foreign devils stumbled and grunted and complained.An officer looks like riding a tall horse, waving a saber and urging non-stop.

"Damn, it's you!" Cheng Tong checked the distance with his eyes, and pulled the fuse confidently.Huh~!The black grenade drew a perfect arc and flew straight towards the group of devils.Before it hit the ground, Cheng Tong threw the second and third ones extremely quickly.

"Boom! Boom!" Following a series of loud noises, several clouds of snow and mist rose one after another, engulfing the devil officer in an instant.The foreign devil immediately exploded, screaming strangely, and scurrying around.The foreign soldiers in the back of the hall rushed forward in a hurry, barely held their ground, raised their guns and fired randomly on the mountain ridge.

Under the cover of the white cloak, Xiao Ran and the others were completely indistinguishable from the snow, not even hurting their hair.The sharpshooter began to shoot rhythmically, condescending, and the rows of foreign devils were like a row of live targets. With the sound of a gunshot, they fell like counters.Cheng Tong led a few gunners, and dropped the grenades one after another with incomparable precision.The foreign devils knew that something was wrong, so they retreated hastily under the cover of the carriage.

"Dog! Dog! Dog!" Duan Xingnian shouted and jumped out of the snowdrift.At this time, he was stepping on a boat-shaped wooden board with its tip raised, but it was a simple snowboard.There are basically no shrubs on the front of the mountain ridge, and it is completely covered with snow. The snowboard slides down lightly, bringing up a stream of snow smoke.Dozens of fast swordsmen also stepped on snowboards and slid down the mountain ridge quickly, roaring thunderously, brandishing long knives, their snow-white cloaks were blown up by the wind, as if a group of demons descended from the sky.

The foreign devils turned pale with fright, and they couldn't handle the skateboard that was rushing down with all their hands and feet, and the number one hundred and ten people were rushed into several pieces.There are not many fast swordsmen, but all of them are experts in murder. Dealing with these foreign devils armed with muskets is like a tiger entering a herd, and the close combat power of cold weapons is immediately highlighted.Following a flash of bright knife light, the rain of bright red blood sprinkled into the sky like the rain of stumps and broken arms, and splashed on the silvery white snow, as if bright and strange flowers were blooming.The miserable howling sound spread far away, echoing in the mountains.

After a few rounds of sharp knives, the foreign devils dropped dead bodies all over the place, and the remaining three or forty people fled back the way they came.The sharpshooters fired unhurriedly. At a distance of less than 40 meters, almost every two shots would lie down.Xiao Ran hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't kill them all, let them go back and report a letter!" Duan Xingnian at the foot of the mountain led Kuaishou to chase them far away, yelling and cursing in English non-stop.

Less than half an hour before and after, the battle was over.The battle was fought cleanly, and all three hundred new-style rifles and ammunition were seized.Xiao Ran asked the soldiers to drop some military caps and boots at random, and then quickly retreated with three carts.The wind is still tight, the snow is still heavy, and soon the sky and the earth will be blurred, and gradually nothing can be seen...