Chapter 140

Yang Hongbin told about what happened in the past few days.

Jia Cong pondered for a moment and said: "When I first arrived in Jin Ling, I heard about the process of the Longtan Port blood case. The ronin causing trouble were divided into two groups, one group confronted and contained the government army.

The other group took the opportunity to rob the two hundred thousand guan of foreign goods, drove the ship into the Yangtze River waterway, and the garrison water surveillance department mobilized extensively but found nothing. At that time, I felt it was somewhat bizarre."

And a month after the incident, traces of dumping this batch of foreign goods appeared on the market.

These Japanese ronin could not only hide this huge amount of foreign goods without a trace, but after the incident, they could also sell this batch of foreign goods through local merchant channels.

If there was no support from local forces and connections in Jin Ling, how could a few ronin who didn't even have time to escape have such ability to plan?

A few days ago, Your Highness just found this key figure Zhou Suqing, but when making the arrest, you made a wasted trip. Judge Yang just said that he sent people to disguise themselves and wait at Zhou Suqing's residence for several days, but this person never appeared again.

Can we guess that before setting out to make the arrest, Zhou Suqing might have received the news, which is why he escaped in advance, making us make a wasted trip, so he never returned to his residence.

By the time Judge Yang thought of finding Wang En to investigate Zhou Suqing's whereabouts, someone had already taken a step ahead and killed him in the Embroidered Uniform Guard prison to silence him.

Whether it is Prince Yongning or Yang Hongbin, they came from the Love Shenjing to Jin Ling, and their focus is on the Japanese ronin disaster at Longtan Port.

They seem to be able to see the secret in advance in everything and cut off the clues we can investigate first.

But Jia Cong was born as an anomaly in this world. The conventions, frameworks, and limitations in the thinking of this era are all thin and can be easily broken through for him.

Their goal is to severely punish Wang En and others for dereliction of duty and bring the Japanese ronin who caused trouble and killed people to justice.

The whole story of this matter, the water surveillance department and the Embroidered Uniform Guard are all involved, and it is confusing and treacherous. It seems that there are not many people in this Jin Ling city that Your Highness can trust."

And the meaning in Jia Cong's words was very bold, believing that the water surveillance department and the Embroidered Uniform Guard were both involved and could not be fully trusted, or that there were very few people in the entire Jin Ling officialdom who could be trusted.

Prince Ning and Yang Hongbin were shocked by Jia Cong's words.

This youth not only has a sharp mind, but his ideas and vision are detached and bold, different from ordinary people. Hearing it for the first time, it really felt like it was deafening.

It was not until Wang En was killed that they had more doubts.

The disaster at Longtan Port, I feel, is no longer just a few Japanese ronin killing and causing trouble; there are people and things hidden behind it that we still cannot see clearly.

How could a few Japanese ronin do it?

But he was not wrong at all. The people behind it could see the secret in advance, making them fall short at every step, and even the suspects locked in the Embroidered Uniform Guard prison could be killed to silence them.

With preconceived notions, the Longtan Port incident was just a major case of corruption and bandit suppression in their cognition, and their vision and perspective were naturally limited.

This statement is a bit too alarmist, but thinking carefully about the whole story, I feel that Jia Cong's words are not groundless.

Such ability and means are not something that a few barbarian ronin can possess.

Therefore, at such a time, he could jump out of the barrier and see the overall situation that Prince Ning, Yang Hongbin, and others did not see.

This is just a difference in the barrier of thinking. The footing is the realm, and the contemplation is naturally different, which has nothing to do with a person's intelligence.

Prince Ning and Yang Hongbin were still savoring Jia Cong's words just now.

Jia Cong said again: "Your Highness, I heard that Japanese ronin are all highly skilled in martial arts, and their Japanese swords are sharp. When facing garrison officers and soldiers, they can often fight ten with one.

In the battle of Longtan Port, not only were many garrison officers and soldiers killed or injured, but even a Battalion Commander surnamed Liu was killed on the spot."

Prince Ning sighed: "When the Great Ancestor founded the country, the Great Zhou soldiers chased the fugitives and drove the Mongol cavalry that had destroyed countless countries out of the Central Plains. Since then, they have not dared to graze horses in the south. How magnificent it was.

Now, less than a hundred years later, the combat power of the garrison soldiers is so weak. It is really a shame to the ancestors."

Jia Cong said: "Your Highness does not need to be discouraged. Our Great Zhou has been at peace for a long time, and the soldiers are lax in combat readiness, and their blood and courage have faded, so their combat power has naturally been discounted.

I heard that Japan is now divided between the north and the south, and the shogunate is in chaos. Many of these Japanese ronin are defeated and exiled people who live in the blood and light of life and death every day, so they are naturally more cruel than ordinary people."

Since we cannot defeat them in close combat for a while, we should find a way to win by wisdom. That day, Judge Yang discovered twenty Rumi muskets at Zhou Suqing's residence, which reminded me of a way to win."

Yang Hongbin laughed: "The Grade 8 official is using firearms to deal with Japanese ronin. Although the initial sound of firearms is scary, there are many shortcomings in actual combat. The Grade 8 official may not have a deep understanding of current firearms.

Take the Rumi musket as an example. It is ignited by a matchlock. The firing power is indeed very strong, and it can leave marks on raw iron, but it needs to be loaded with medicine and bullets for each shot, and it takes six breaths between two shots.

If you use firearms against Japanese ronin, the soldiers will not have time to fire the second shot before they die under the Japanese swords of the ronin."

Jia Cong asked curiously: "Don't you know about the three-stage firing method?"

Yang Hongbin and Prince Ning looked at each other, both blank, and asked: "What is the three-stage firing method?"

Sure enough, they still didn't know what the three-stage firing method was. At least on the land of the Great Zhou, the three-stage firing method was still an unfamiliar concept.

Otherwise, Yang Hongbin's cognitive understanding of the use of muskets would not still be stuck in this rigid concept.

So Jia Cong explained the use of the three-stage firing method to them in detail. As long as the soldiers practice skillfully, the three-stage firing method can shorten the interval between two shots of the Rumi musket from six breaths to one or two breaths.

Coupled with dense formation firing, or two three-stage firing methods superimposed, even the bravest Japanese ronin can only be living targets.

Jia Cong's explanation of the three-stage firing method made Prince Ning and Yang Hongbin's blood boil. There is such a clever method in the world. If muskets are used in this way, wouldn't they be invincible on the battlefield?

They looked at Jia Cong again, and their eyes showed horror. This youth is not only wise and meticulous, but also has such strange ideas, which is truly amazing.

After Jia Cong left, an analysis and deduction of the Longtan Port blood case in Jin Ling, and a memorial on the three-stage use of Rumi muskets, were sent out by Prince Ning's temporary residence by fast horse, heading straight for the Love Shenjing.

Prince Ning also immediately transferred ten Rumi muskets from the armory of the Jin Ling garrison, plus the twenty Rumi muskets seized from Zhou Suqing's residence.

He began to practice the three-stage use method among his personal guards and asked people to record the problems encountered in the process in detail, so as to prepare for deliberation and compensation.

Prince Ning also has some courage. Since the Longtan Port case in Jin Ling is confusing and difficult to solve, and the various forces in Jin Ling city are difficult to fully trust, he cannot be restrained and stuck.

The three-stage use method of muskets proposed by Jia Cong, although a strange idea, is not complicated to practice. He brought more than a hundred personal soldiers this time, and these are his most trusted forces.

Thirty Rumi muskets are enough for him to train a musket team familiar with the three-stage method in a short time, in case of emergency.

(End of chapter)