It's already dawn.

The heavy snow stopped in the second half of the night, but the wind was still very strong.

The strong wind blew the branches of poplar trees on both sides of the street, and from time to time it would roll up snow and fly, making it look misty from a distance.

The sun is bright, but it cannot give people a warm feeling, but it makes people feel even colder.

There are much fewer vendors on the East Street than before, and most of the shops are closed. The Guojia store in Xiaoxi Bridgetou has a door open, but there are more than half of the customers than before, and it is deserted and looks a bit depressed...

"Old Man Guo, what's wrong today?"

When a team of patrolmen walked past Xiaoxi Bridge, Wang Po in front of Guojiadian couldn't help asking.

She is old and sleeps early, and she is not sure what happened last night. Anyway, when she wakes up early in the morning, she feels depressed and her business is much worse than usual. You know, relying on the Guo family store, she can sell at least dozens of sesame cakes at this time on weekdays. But today, she only sold more than a dozen, and the number of soldiers on the way seems to have increased a lot.

Since the Song Dynasty, the economy has developed very rapidly.

The market system in the Han and Tang dynasties gradually collapsed, and the degree of freedom in the city was much more relaxed.

If it were in the Han and Tang Dynasties, there would be a night ban every day. After entering the Song Dynasty, the system of night ban still existed, but it was in name only.

Old Man Guo is the manager of Guo’s store and the shopkeeper.

He was also very leisurely today, and handed over the business to a few young men, then sat behind the door and curled up and looked out.

"Ponzi Wang, don't you know? The thief from Liangshanbo is coming!"

"ah?"

"I heard that a group of people sneaked into the city yesterday. Fortunately, Gao Dujian was alert and found those people, so he surrounded them in the middle of the night. But they didn't expect that the thief actually used the thief... Do you know what the thief is?"

"How could I know?"

"Then I'll talk to you."

There were several customers sitting in the store, drinking mutton soup.

There were three people sitting around one of the tables. When the young man in charge heard the conversation between the old man Guo and the Grandma Wang, he couldn't help but frown.

"Brother, it seems that the real person in charge of Xucheng County is the dog official named Gao."

He lowered his voice and said to the strong man beside him: "This Gao Jie is very alert. We must do something, I'm afraid it will be a problem."

The strong man wore a Fanyang hat and a patched jacket, and his face was shiny.

"Sanlang said it right. He thought that the dog official was leaning against Gao Qiu and was an ignorant person.

But now it seems that we are afraid that there is something wrong with our news, so this person has some skills. However, we have agreed with Brother Chao Gai to open the city to meet him tonight. Therefore, we must think of a solution, otherwise my brother will be faceless."

"How about killing that dog official?"

A flash of murderous intent flashed in the young man's eyes.

The strong man put down the soup bowl, turned his head and looked at the young man, showing a thoughtful look.

"Brother, the snake cannot do without a head, and the soldiers cannot be rebellious.

In my opinion, the prefect Cheng of Lao Shi is not involved. The person who is really in charge of Xucheng should be Gao Jie. As long as Gao Jie is killed, Xucheng will be in trouble. At that time, let Wang Dalang take action and brother leads people to open the city gate, it will be easy."

"this……"

The strong man showed hesitation, as if he was unable to make up his mind.

"Sanlang should understand that after what happened last night, the dog official must be vigilant and the guards will become particularly tight.

It is probably difficult to do it.”

The young man smiled and said, "Why are my brother getting more and more courageous? What kind of person can the dog official have? Jie Zhen is a brainless person, so he is seen through the Tao. Why not do this? Let me take action and kill the dog official to help my brother with his help."

"Sanlang, it's too dangerous."

"Brother, I don't know the danger, but...

The situation on the mountain is getting more and more complicated. If we continue, we don’t need the government to take action. Maybe we will fight first. Brother Tianwang is a first-class benevolent man. But he is a bit too kind compared to Song Gongming. When Song Gongming went up the mountain and split his subordinates directly, he was not going to have the trouble today.

The Song Gongming people called Baoyi, and their reputation was louder than that of the King of Heaven and his methods were also more clever.

Dai Zong, Li Kui and the Jie brothers repeatedly provoked each other, and it is hard to guarantee that he would not have been behind the scenes. Before they went up the mountain, Brother Yang Zhi was so intimate with us. But since Song Jiang went up the mountain, they have gradually become alienated from us... This time, Brother Tianwang wanted to seize Xucheng, but Song Jiang sent someone over, obviously with ulterior motives. And the scholarly brother, although he is with us, don't you think he has been leaning towards Song Gongming in the past two months?"

After saying this, the young man breathed a sigh of relief.

"If the King of Heaven fails this time, it will be difficult for him to gain a foothold again."

The strong man closed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and made a decision, "Since that's the case, then you will deal with the dog official.

Wang Dalang will take action at that time. If you see the signal, you will take action. I will also seize the city gate."

"Brother is ready, I will not let Gao Jie ruin the good things of Brother Tianwang!"

After the young man finished speaking, he stood up and walked out.

The strong man did not leave immediately, but waved and shouted: "Shopkeeper, let's have another bowl of mutton pasta soup. You should add more mutton pasta, and then you will have ten sesame cakes."

Old Man Guo was talking to Wang Po, and when he heard the shouts, he quickly stopped talking.

"Pony Wang, those ten pancakes are here, the guests will wait and come soon!"

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The thunder fireball is made of a crackless dried bamboo that is two or three sections long and one and a half inches thick. There is no chisel between the sections. Thirty pieces of thin porcelain of small flat money, three and a half pounds of gunpowder are mixed, and the bamboo poles are wrapped around it. It looks like a ball, and there is about an inch of bamboo poles at each end. Some gunpowder is added to the outside of the ball. Even if it is basically completed, it can be used for small-scale explosions.

Its explosion is not very powerful and will produce thick smoke.

However, the sound is very loud, just like a thunderbolt, so it is called a thunderbolt fireball.

On the table in the guest room of the Dujian Mansion, a complete thunderbolt fireball has been split into pieces.

Such an entry-level firearm is really too simple...Pi Li Fireball? It sounds amazing, but it is actually average.

The reason why such a big explosion occurred last night was not that the Thunderbolt Fireball was powerful, but that there was too much gunpowder... According to the explosion scene last night, Liangshan bandits had at least fifty Thunderbolt Fireballs, or more.

There are so many thunderbolt fireballs, it is not impossible to explode the gate of the Hucheng City!

Gao Xiaoyu crushed the gunpowder on the thunder fireball, observed it carefully, and wrote it quickly on paper. After a moment, the ratio of the gunpowder was generally understood. Gunpowder was originally a product of monks' alchemy. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, alchemists made gunpowder pill recipes. After that, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the alchemy recipes were spread to the people. It was not until the late Tang Dynasty that they were officially recognized by people and began to be used in military affairs. Of course, more often, gunpowder was still used in the folk.

There are countless alchemy recipes in Gao Xiaoyu's mind.

Although his gunpowder specialization skills are only intermediate, after obtaining those many skill books, there are no less than a hundred kinds of pill recipes. No matter which pill recipe, it is stronger than the prescription for the Thunder Fireball in front of him. But...

In fact, since the Song Dynasty, the imperial court attached great importance to firearms, and some even specialized firearms were used as hospitals to make firearms.

Gao Xiaoyu thought about it, tore the original prescription to pieces, wrote another prescription, and walked out of the room.

A cold wind blew towards us.

Gao Xiaoyu shivered and called the servants from the Dujian Mansion.

Last night, after he returned to the capital and went to bed early.

I slept until dawn. When I woke up, I realized that Ma Dazhuang had already gone to the forage farm to report.

Originally, Ma Dazhuang no longer had to go to the forage farm. Last night, he followed Gao Xiaoyu to monitor the bandits in Liangshan, and made great contributions and could make up for the mistakes. However, because the situation was quite chaotic last night, Gao Jie did not talk about his arrangements for Ma Dazhuang. This honest guy got up early in the morning and went to the forage farm to be on duty... Gao Xiaoyu was also sleeping at that time.

There is no danger in the forage farms on both sides, so Ma Dazhuang went there.

Gao Xiaoyu was going to ask Gao Jie for a favor later and let Ma Dazhuang go, which would be completely free.

But after waking up, he held the thunder fireball to study.

This study was half a noon.

"The path needs these items, so I have to work hard for the lay Buddhists.
Chapter completed!