The two boys were taken aback by the sudden change, and after a moment of stunned one of them reacted. Just as he was about to shout, he was stunned by Zuo Mingchan's palm one by one. Come here, and after a while, the small courtyard will be surrounded.
The foreigners who went in before were only focused on killing people in the house, and they didn't realize that the two companions outside were abolished. After Zuo Mingchan knocked the two boys unconscious, he opened the door and entered the room, opened a bag of fan powder at the door, and sprinkled it in with a shake of his hand.
The foreigners in the room screamed a few times, fired a few shots at the door indiscriminately, and rushed out. Zuo Mingchan hid behind the door, came out one by one and knocked down the other, and the seven or eight foreigners in the room were all captured without any effort. Stop, people from Xiaoqi School came in and tied up all these people with ropes, each carried one and then withdrew.
It was still dark when we returned to Huotong Tianxia Store, and Zuo Mingchan and Zhou Mingli interrogated overnight.
One of the foreigners was in the inn before, and the later foreigners obviously came to arrest him, so the two of them were the first to interrogate this person. After pouring a basin of cold water, the effect of the drug gradually wore off, and the foreigner slowly woke up.
Zuo Mingchan took a look at this man and couldn't help but smile: "This foreigner's life is not much different, but he can't tell his age."
Zhou Mingli said: "These foreigners are better, and those black foreign slaves are hard to identify. I was the one who brought Andrew's younger siblings to the Principality of Ross last time. After moving to the Principality of Ross, I realized that the customs and habits are completely different from those of the Central Plains. They Such foreigners have pale complexion and look not much different from Beiliao people, with blue eyes and high noses. In the homes of those big families in the Principality of Ross, there are many captive foreign slaves whose skin is as dark as charcoal. It looks like a ghost. The whole body is so black, but the teeth are frighteningly white."
Zuo Mingchan said: "It's true that the same rice supports all kinds of people. If I hadn't come to Muping this time, I would have never seen a foreigner...except Andrew."
Seeing the foreigner wake up, Zhou Mingli moved a chair and sat there and asked, "What's your name?"
The foreigner opened his eyes and looked, and found that he was no longer in the small inn before, and the person in front of him was not his captor, so he was a little confused.
"Where is this?"
He actually knew some Chinese, but his pronunciation was a little fuzzy.
"Don't care where this is, at least you are safer than falling into the hands of those foreigners."
Zhou Mingli asked: "Your name, why did other foreigners arrest you?"
"Because of... business matters, they think we have robbed them of their customers. You should know that when people like us come to Da Sui for business, they have to come in secret, because the Sui people don't allow us to come. We can come They paid a high price, so naturally we don’t want competitors to exist.”
The foreigner answered after being silent for a while.
Zuo Mingchan sneered, beckoned to come in and gave a few orders to the Xiao Riding School, then the Xiao Riding School went out immediately, and after a while several people came in with a foreigner on their backs and threw them on the ground.
"Cut off his ears."
Zuo Mingchan ordered.
Two Xiao cavalry school went up to hold the man down, and the other pulled out a dagger and cut off the foreigner's ear. Because his mouth was closed, the foreigner's miserable cry seemed muffled and could not be heard very far. This house is well-traveled and remodeled, and the sound insulation is not bad. The foreigner before was obviously taken aback, and shrank back subconsciously.
"what's your name?"
Zuo Mingchan asked.
"My name is Dro."
he answered.
"Why did these people arrest you?"
"Because of business..."
Before he finished answering, Zuo Mingchan immediately ordered: "Kill that foreigner."
People from the Xiao Riding School pinned down the foreigner's head and wiped his neck with a knife. Blood spurted out from the disconnected artery immediately, and a large bloodstain quickly spread on the bluestone floor. The foreigner made a few snoring sounds from his throat, and after a few blood bubbles, he swallowed his breath.
"Ask you again, don't answer, you will be next. I don't have time to chat with you. What I want is a simple, direct and truthful answer. If you are not willing to give me this answer, then the rest of those who arrested you must be willing Take the chance to survive."
Zuo Mingchan waved his hand, and the people from Xiaoqi School dragged the corpse down.
Dro's face was as white as paper, he glanced at Zuo Mingchan, he could see the coldness in the Han man's eyes, he was sure that this man would really attack him.
Zuo Mingchan glanced at him and said: "If you don't want to say it, let me give you a head start... You are from the Principality of Ross, and you are the former subordinate of the Grand Duke of Ross. And the people who arrested you are new members of the Principality of Ross. The master, Grand Duke Hurons, right? You are a Ross rebel, and you came to Sui to sell firearms to the Sui people in exchange for money and help, right?"
Dro's face obviously changed, he didn't expect the Han man in front of him to know so much.
Zuo Mingchan said indifferently: "I'm not asking you because we don't know, but because I want to make sure that we know it. One last reminder, there is only one chance to live, and it's up to you to decide... Besides, how do you know us? Doesn't help you? Maybe, I'm also interested in what you sell to others."
"This honorable lord."
Dro said: "You are right, I am a member of the Resistance Army of the Duchy of Ross, and I came here to seek help. The people who arrested me are the people of Sulence, a group of demons who invaded my homeland!"
Zuo Mingchan nodded: "Did you sell your firearms to Mu Fu?"
Dro shook his head: "To be honest, I don't know who my buyer is. People from Dongchu helped me contact the buyer and told me that it was a powerful nobleman in the Sui Kingdom with hundreds of thousands of troops. , is fully capable of helping the Russ regain their homeland. That's why I sold the firearms at a low price, just to meet the buyer. But the buyer was very mysterious and told me to wait until I got more goods ready meet me."
Zuo Mingchan and Zhou Mingli looked at each other, guessing that the foreigner was not lying.
"How many firearms did you sell?"
Zhou Mingli asked.
"Three thousand muskets and twenty cannons. This is the last batch. It has been distributed in batches before."
Zuo Mingchan was stunned: "What a great handwriting!"
Zhou Mingli said: "The people from Xiulunsi are here not only to catch you, right?"
Dro nodded: "As far as I know, they also came to do business with the Sui people. But they don't know how to sell firearms. The troops under Hurons are equipped with firearms from the Opru Empire, which are more powerful than our Ross. The ones made by people are much bigger. The people in Shulunsi know that the Sui people don’t have muskets, so they don’t sell muskets as goods. They should come to unite with you Sui people to deal with the Eastern Chu people.”
"What?"
Zuo Mingchan's expression changed: "Against the Eastern Chu people?"
"Yes!"
Dro said: "Emperor Leman of the Opru Empire was an ambitious man. He spent five years conquering all the countries around the Opru Empire. The Aegean Empire was the last to be destroyed. In that area He has no enemies on the mainland, and this man is so ambitious that he can hold the entire sky. What he wants is not only what he has now, so he has been preparing to march to the ocean since the Aegean Empire was destroyed. "
"Eastern Chu Kingdom is the first stone that stands in front of Emperor Lehman. Hurons sent people this time to join forces with you Sui people. Please don't help Eastern Chu Kingdom."
Zhou Mingli's mouth was slightly opened, and his eyes were full of surprise.
"The foreigners in the Tongsheng Inn seem to be sent by Hurons. They went to Yang Shunhui's mansion. Could it be that they are talking with Yang Shun about this matter?"
Zuo Mingchan was silent for a while and said: "You stay and continue to interrogate those foreigners. I will take people to arrest those foreigners in Tongsheng Inn. It is still about an hour before dawn, so there should be time!"
He got up and walked out in big strides, greeted the people from the Xiao Riding School and went out of the shop again and went straight to Tongsheng Inn.
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"This city is so beautiful."
Peter stood on the second floor of Tongsheng Inn, looking out of the window: "The buildings here, the food here, and the women here are all so beautiful... To be honest, I really want to go deeper into the Sui Kingdom, it's best to go and see What does Chang'an, which is known as the most majestic city in the world, look like, is it even more magnificent than the capital of the Opulu Empire?"
"I heard that this country is very big, at least as big as dozens of Ross Principalities. The northernmost border is still snowing, and the southern border is already blooming. If you walk, you can walk from the north of this empire for a year. To the farthest south, things are the same... Such a vast land, rich and charming."
His old servant bowed his head and said: "Eastern Chu is just a springboard. After the empire's army destroys Eastern Chu, it can use Eastern Chu as a base to attack the Great Sui."
Peter nodded: "I heard that in the west of the Sui Dynasty there was an empire called Mengyuan, whose territory was even wider than that of the Sui Dynasty, where there was an endless grassland that produced the most expensive and vigorous war horses and the purest and rarest jade. What I have seen is still too little... Across the sea, the world here is so different. The most exciting thing is that the people here are still so backward. Sui's army is still equipped with steel knives And bows and arrows, how can such an army defend their homeland in front of artillery?"
"It's so fascinating."
Peter sighed: "Unfortunately, I'm leaving this country before I have a good look at it."
"leave?"
The old servant was a little puzzled: "Don't we wait for Yang Shunhui's reply?"
"I also want to stay for a few more days, preferably if I have the opportunity to meet the people from the Mu Mansion... I heard that the Mu Mansion is the most powerful noble in the east of the Great Sui Dynasty, with hundreds of thousands of troops, even the royal family of the Sui Kingdom There is nothing we can do about the Mu Mansion. We are here to scout the way for the army, it would be a pity if we go back without even knowing the situation of the enemy, but... we have to go."
He looked back at the old servant: "The people sent to capture the Ross rebels haven't come back yet, obviously something happened. If they were not captured by the Ross rebels, they were captured by the guards of the Eastern Chu merchants. I was too careless, thinking that the rebels could be easily caught and questioned where the rebels are. Now, I am afraid that the people I sent are being questioned by others. I don’t think anyone can withstand the torture, my men I don’t have that kind of perseverance either, go ahead and pack up your things, now let’s go to Yang Shunhui’s mansion and leave the city at dawn.”
"To Yang Shunhui's mansion?"
The old servant thought for a while and then understood: "It's the safest place in Yang Shunhui's mansion, and the person who took your gold will definitely be willing to provide a little help."
Peter hummed, then turned and went back. Not long after, the old servant packed up his things, took the remaining guards to protect Peter, and went to Yang Shunhui's General's Mansion. They had only walked for less than half an hour, and Zuo Mingchan led the people to the Tongsheng Inn. Zuo Mingchan was very annoyed that the people from the Xiao Riding School did not find any trace of the foreigners.
He took people around the street for a while but didn't find it, and had to return to the shop of Hutong Tianxia when it was daylight.
After dawn, Yang Shunhui personally sent Peter and his party out of the city, and Yang Shunhui also agreed to their request, allowing people from the Principality of Hurons to come to Sui to do business. He kept watching Peter and the others leave, as if he was seeing off an old friend for many years.
When boarding the big ship, Peter looked back at Muping City and said with emotion: "I don't know how long it will take to come back."
The old servant bowed his head and said, "Soon, the imperial army will plant the national flag on the wall of Muping City."
"Sullons!"
Peter smiled and said, "You are so lucky to have caught up with such a beautiful era. If you were older, you would not be able to see the glory of the empire."
"Yeah... I'm really lucky."
The old servant said sincerely: "It is the luckiest thing in my life to serve you, my respected Emperor Leman!"