(18) Change from today on

  These two days, the expenses for making mortars were all taken from the 2,000 silver dollars that Huang Shiyao gave him as a gift. He also thought that if the cost of making mortars was not enough, he would take some from those gold ones to use, but now Xu Yuanjin has undertaken the expenses and explicitly stated that they will be paid out of the bandit's loot, so he is naturally happy to ignore it.

  When you don't have much money now, it's still better to be more careful!

  "This Hei Lu is really not ordinary rich." Yang Shuo Ming finished reading the report, smiled and returned it to Xu Yuan Jin, "However, these have to be handed over to the public, right?"

  Xu Yuanjin sneered and snatched the report, tearing it to shreds with one hand.

  "What's wrong?" Yang Shuo Ming asked with feigned surprise as he watched his movements.

  "There's nowhere else to hand it over to." Xu Yuanjin said calmly, "Let's just use it ourselves to get some real things done."

  Seeing the exaggerated look of confusion on Yang Shuo Ming's face, Xu Yuan Jin walked to his side and whispered in his ear, "Do you know? The provincial city has already been lost."

  Yang Shuo Ming finally understood why Xu Yuan Jin said "nowhere to turn" and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

  "Disasters and bandits come together, it's a matter of life and death." Xu Yuanshen's eyes flashed with a hint of gloom, looking at Yang Shouming, he sighed, "The ancient saying goes: When the world is in order, one appears; when the world is in chaos, one hides. Although that's what they say, but this 'hiding' place is also hard to find!"

  Yang Shuo Ming met his gaze, smiled and suddenly said, "What Captain Xu said before, does it still count?"

  "Of course, I'm counting on it." Xu Yuanjin said seriously.

  "Then let's work together to change all of this." Yang Shuo Ming said calmly, his eyes refocusing on the target range.

  At this time, Huang Shiyao and Wu Jie, who were standing far away, did not hear the conversation between Yang Shuo Ming and Xu Yuanjin. Huang Shiyao's gaze was completely absorbed by the mortar launchers firing in front of him, while Wu Jie, beside him, watched as the shells flew into the distant target range and exploded, his hand involuntarily touching the Browning pistol at his waist, a hint of inexplicable fervor flashing in his eyes.

  "Hasn't he come back yet?"

  In the corridor of Huang's mansion, Huang Yuzhi sat in a chair, looking at the fish swimming freely and happily in the pond below with a heavy heart. She sighed and asked Yin Feng, who was standing beside her.

  As Huang Yunzhi's personal maid, Yin Feng naturally knew who the "he" Huang Yunzhi was referring to was and couldn't help but smile slightly.

  "According to the doorman, Mr. Yang was afraid that the bandits would come back to cause trouble in town again, so he got the security team to bring out a big cannon. It's quite impressive," Yin Feng replied, "The master and Wu should be back together soon."

  After hearing Yin Feng's answer, Huang Yunzhi felt a bit depressed and leaned back in her chair, her thoughts began to wander aimlessly, but she couldn't help but think of the handsome and agile figure that appeared at her most desperate moment.

  Who is he? What does he do?

  How can he understand so much?

  Where did his skills come from?

  She had asked herself this more than once in her heart.

  For a girl like her, the story of "The West Chamber" was already familiar, but she had never thought that a similar story would actually happen to herself.

  But these experiences are not as romantic as they are written in stories.

  She couldn't help but feel a pang of tightness in her heart as she recalled the bloody scenes of him killing bandits.

  And when she saw him lying in bed, calling her "mom" in a daze, the corners of her mouth involuntarily curled up into a faint smile.

  As she recalled those days when she took care of him, she felt a faint warmth and happiness spreading throughout her body.

  "Look! Miss! Old Master and Mr. Yang are back!" Yin Feng gently pulled Huang Yunzhi's hand, and Huang Yunzhi turned around to look into the distance, and indeed saw the figure that had been making her lose sleep for days.

  Yang Shuo Ming was walking side by side with Huang Shi Yao, Wu Jie and a few others following behind them. Huang Shi Yao kept talking to Yang Shuo Ming about something, Yang Shuo Ming just smiled and nodded repeatedly, he seemed to have glanced over unintentionally, his gaze coincidentally met Huang Yun Zhi's, after one glance, his face actually turned slightly red.

  Huang Yunzhi turned her head in a somewhat flustered manner, and her heart suddenly began to beat violently.

  It wasn't until much later that he and his father's figures disappeared into the corridor, Huang Yunzhi finally managed to calm herself down. She was just thinking of finding an excuse to go to Madame Huang's place to ask her to accompany her to visit him when Yin Feng's words made her heart skip a beat again.

  "Master should have proposed to Mr. Yang." Yin Feng smiled and looked at her with curved eyes, "Congratulations, Miss, congratulations."

  "How did you know?" Huang Yunzhi suddenly realized that she had misspoken and couldn't help but blush bright red.

  Yin Feng smiled happily and said, "I'll go ask around right now." She let go of Huang Yunzhi's hand and ran off quickly.

  Just as the little ghost guessed, Huang Shiyao has formally proposed to Yang Shuoming, and Yang Shuoming naturally did not refuse, but agreed in one mouth.

  At this time, Yang Shuoming, who had already returned to his room, was also thinking about the unintentional glance he had just exchanged.

  Being able to marry a lovely, gentle and considerate girl like Huang Yunzhi was one of his life wishes.

  In the era of "laughing at poverty, not laughing at prostitutes" where Yang Shuo's original organization could produce charity institutions that produced villas, luxury cars, and Hermès bags, for ordinary people like him, such wishes were simply unrealistic fantasies.

  Even if you work hard for half your life and marry such a beautiful woman, apart from being able to provide for her extravagance at all times, you also have to be constantly on guard against her infidelity. In the future, your days will basically be spent as a cuckold.

  But now Yang Shuo Ming doesn't need to worry about being a third wheel at all.

  From the way Huang Yunzhi took meticulous care of him, one can imagine what a wonderful life she would bring to her husband after marriage, despite being deeply influenced by China's traditional culture and feudal etiquette.

  What Yang Shuo-ming is worried about now is whether he can keep this happiness that is hard to come by in later generations in this turbulent era.

  Yang Shouming had just learned from Xu Yuanjin that the Lake Mouth Pass had been lost, and Li Liejun's anti-Yuan army had suffered heavy losses. The Beiyang Army led by Li Chun had entered Jiangxi and was advancing towards Nanchang.

  For a remote Jiangxi township like Shuanglong, the Beiyang Army's forces were still unable to reach for the time being. The greatest threat to the people of Shuanglong and surrounding areas was still the ferocious bandits.

  This is also why Xu Yuanjin was eager to expand the security team.

  In order not to cause panic among the townspeople, Xu Yuanjin did not openly recruit personnel, but instead adopted a temporary recruitment of young farmers from the eliminated Luanshi Mountain bandits with the money obtained from them into the security team, and conducted necessary training for them to deal with emergencies.

  Although the security team's elimination of the bandits in the Rocky Mountains gave a great shock to the nearby bandits, making them dare not to attack the Double Dragon Town for the time being, but the bandits often have many ears and eyes in each town. Once they know that there are no large troops stationed in Double Dragon Town, they may unite to launch an attack.

  For the people of Shuanglong Town, their danger has not been truly lifted.

  In fact, if it weren't for Yang Shuo Ming's eyes being the "Super Computer" transmigrator, Double Dragon Town would have likely become a ghost town overrun by bandits.

  Yang Shuo Ming's heart was still filled with a sense of accomplishment thinking about the new-style mortar he had made for the security team.

  Yang Shuo Ming has now made up his mind.

  Since you've come, you must make something of yourself in this era!

  With these "super computer eyes", I am not afraid of being unable to change history!

  Change history, starting from yourself!

  Yang Shuo Ming thought of this, his eyes fell on the box-shaped pistol in his hand. And at that moment, a disassembly diagram of this pistol appeared in his eyes.

  As a world-renowned pistol, the out-of-time box cannon has not been equipped by any country's military as formal equipment, and the number entering China is also small. The main reason is not that its design is not advanced, but because it is between a rifle and a handgun, with a volume too large for a handgun and a power that seems a bit small for a rifle. In addition, the price is relatively expensive compared to ordinary handguns, and the structure is more complex, so it ultimately failed to enter the military market.

  Later, the reason why the box cannon was able to shine in China was that after the Boxer Rebellion and the Yihe Tuan movement, Western countries began to impose an arms embargo on China, but handguns were not included in the embargo. The box cannon, as a type of handgun, could be used as a carbine with a wooden stock, and its price was cheaper than a carbine, making it deeply popular among Chinese people, allowing it to enter China in large quantities later on.

  In the last night raid on the bandit's lair, Yang Shuo Ming summed up the pros and cons of this pistol based on his personal experience, and on this basis, a bold idea appeared in his mind again.

  Can a combat handgun with a simpler structure, greater power, more ammunition capacity and fully automatic firing be designed on the basis of this box cannon made by Germans to replace the later large number of box cannons entering China and occupy the domestic market?

  The mere thought of it was enough to get Yang Shuo excited.

  As soon as Yang Shuo Ming's idea emerged, the line drawings of various combat handguns in his eyes began to surge rapidly, constantly disassembling and reorganizing to provide Yang Shuo Ming with the best answer. Soon, Yang Shuo Ming saw a design drawing, and with a slight movement of his mind, this handgun line drawing stopped and began to enlarge.