I'm really not the carpenter emperor

In order to prevent the army from continuing to investigate, the courtiers did everything they could to find out the eighteen generations of their ancestors.

What's more, he actually slandered Ma Shilong's ancestors as descendants of Mongolians. This time he must be harboring evil intentions.All these things made Zhu Youxiao dumbfounded.

Those who support it and those who oppose it have turned the court into a mess all day long, but no matter what, the action of checking and garrisoning the government is proceeding step by step at the local level.

After all, the emperor now ignores politics and suddenly likes hunting.

Without a clear will, Zhu Xieyuan and Ma Shilong can "act on their own", and they are also going all out this time.

Success or failure, in one fell swoop.

Zhu Youxiao sat on the carpet in Nanhaizi's imperial tent, and asked the people in front of him, "Who do you think I should worship as my supervisor for the expedition to Uzang?"

Avoiding government affairs is to deal with business.

Seeing that several people did not answer, Zhu Youxiao looked at one person, "Why don't you go?"

The person who was seen was none other than Wang Qia, Minister of the Ministry of War.

He paused and said:

"Your Majesty, at this time, it is more useful for ministers to stay in the court. There are not a few officials who oppose the investigation of the military settlements, and there are many in the military department..."

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "That's true..."

"What do you say?"

The British Duke Zhang Weixian had been thinking about candidates just now. After all, such an expedition to Uzbekistan had never been done since the founding of the country, and there must be a trustworthy person.

He met his gaze and said softly:

"Zhu Xieyuan and Ma Shilong need to stay in Shanxi to take charge of the overall situation. Sun Chuanting just won a big victory and has a lot of prestige in the army. Tell him to go?"

Zhu Youxiao thought about it and asked Sun Chuanting to go. In fact, he also considered it.

However, the expedition to Uzang should not have accidents this time, it must be completed in one fell swoop. Although Sun Chuanting has proved himself in Mongolia, he is still a little tender now.

As for Lu Xiangsheng, he is younger and has never experienced a war at all. His Tianxiong army is now in the south with Huang Degong, who is following the Jiangnan camp.

Sending Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to the expedition, Zhu Youxiao had to carefully consider and think twice.

After thinking for a while, he shook his head and said:

"Sun Chuanting is knowledgeable and talented, but this time is a battle to destroy the country. Zangba Khan has coveted Uszang for a long time, but now he has already occupied a favorable location. His experience is insufficient."

"Are there any other candidates?"

As the words fell, Zhu Youxiao's faint eyes swept across the people below the steps.

"Zhang Wanbang...?" Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, said, "In recent years, Zhang Wanbang has led the Datong Army to defeat powerful enemies repeatedly, and his power has shocked the outside of the Great Wall. Sending him out to fight will definitely hit the morale of the enemy army!"

Zhang Weixian shook his head, "That's all second!"

"Zhang Wanbang is just a general, not a handsome man! Naturally, Zhang Wanbang can lead troops to fight a battle, but this time we will fight several battles in a row, or even more!"

Several people discussed one after another, and the basic candidates were considered.

Going to Wusizang to attack and fight, let Zhang Wanbang's Datong army be the vanguard, and the Chinese army will supervise the formation and fight in the formation. There are also He Renlong, Hu Dawei, and Guo Qin's generation who can choose.

These people are brave and brave generals, and their subordinates are all tiger and wolf divisions honed through many battles, which are enough to entrust them with important tasks.

Now there is only a shortage of people who are in charge of the overall situation, and everyone has racked their brains, but they can't find it.

For a moment, the tent fell into silence.

Suddenly, Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, got excited and blurted out: "Hong Chengchou?"

Zhu Youxiao also slapped his thigh, how could he forget about him!

Hong Chengchou, who began to serve as the governor of Liaodong in the first year of Tianqi, and Xiong Tingbi, Liaodong's economic strategist, both constrained each other and did not interfere with each other.

These two people, one governing the government and the other supervising the war, are the ones who have made great achievements in restoring the entire Liao Dynasty.

Unlike Xiong Tingbi's character who almost bores everyone, Hong Chengchou has a very high emotional intelligence, and almost all parties and factions can turn around.

Hong Chengchou sat on the governor's seat of Liaodong for four years, and the people who had impeached him could count on one hand.

It has to be said that this is also a kind of ability.

And since Zhu Youxiao decreed to remove the governor of Liaodong at the end of last year, Hong Chengchou has been at home all the time, with nothing to do.

Right now, it seems that they can only rely on him!

There is no need to say anything about the right candidate, and Zhu Youxiao can tell from the eyes of several people that they are all very satisfied with Hong Chengchou.

That being the case, there is nothing further to discuss.

Soon, the imperial decree was issued from Nanhaizi, declaring it to the world.

In this sternly worded imperial decree, Zhu Youxiao re-appointed Hong Chengchou, the former governor of Liaodong, and worshiped him as a supervisor, and severely punished Zangba Khan's various crimes.

There are also fierce generals on the list for the expedition.

The famous general Zhang Wanbang led the brave Datong Army as the vanguard, Guo Qin, the general soldier of Guyuan, and Ma Yong, the general soldier of Ningxia, as the Chinese army. 25 elite soldiers from Diao Sanzhen and Jifu, known as 50, went on an expedition to Uzang.

This is the first large-scale military operation against Uzbek since the founding of the nation in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the first time to launch a war of annihilation against a so-called "country" that claims to have established a nation.

6 Chapter Fifty

Just finished talking about Wu Sizang, Zhang Weixian and the others hadn't gone far when they saw an official hurried into the imperial tent.

After a long while, Zhu Youxiao quickly ran out of the imperial tent, got on his horse, and ran at a speed of 180 miles to the test range of the Beijing Suburb Military Weapons Division.

The officer who came here just now was an officer under the Military Weapons Department, and said one thing, Bi Maoliang learned from the Spaniards and invented a method of combat with fixed medicine.

In fact, it is not an invention, this time it is still in the light of Philip IV.

The Spaniards were puzzled to see that although Daming had also followed up the Suifa device, he still used the outdated loading method of bulk gunpowder and lead bullets.

In order to show the sincerity of signing the agreement this time, the chief gunmaker in Spain told Bi Maoliang of the Bogarao Cannon Factory outside Haojing about this method free of charge.

When Bi Maoliang heard this, he was astonished. After more than a month of continuous testing, he experienced countless failures and finally succeeded in today's test firing.

What's going on, we have to wait until we arrive at the Armament Division to find out.

Zhu Youxiao only knows that for so many years, so much money has been allocated to the Military Weapons Department every year, and it is finally not in vain!

Zhenlu Cannon, the fixed ammunition this time, is a leap forward!

The current atmosphere in the Armament Department is like that of the New Year. No one can understand the joy of these craftsmen who have been studying firearms all day long after their success.

Because before this, the Ordnance Department had no idea that it could still load sub-drugs like this.

The so-called fixed-loaded ammunition refers to fixed-loaded ammunition, but there is no such thing as ammunition at this time. Lead bullets and gunpowder are both called sub-drugs.

Zhu Youxiao came here through time travel, so he naturally understands how much the invention and discovery of this method will improve the existing musket combat capabilities.

What are you doing here in Nanhaizi?Everything has to stand aside!

Zhu Youxiao jumped up and galloped out of the gate of Nanhaizi on horseback, making the Jing soldiers standing guard all open their mouths.

It's unbelievable that the Son of Heaven, who is the sovereign of the world and the lord of the people, ran out in such a disregard of his majesty.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao rushed to the test site of the Ordnance Department in the suburbs of Beijing.

Not long after, the cavalry of the Imperial Army also rushed over one after another. Seeing that the emperor had dismounted, they quickly tied the horses together and hurriedly followed.

They didn't understand why the emperor was so happy. In short, it must be a great thing!

However, something even more surprising happened.

Because he was really happy and it was dark, Zhu Youxiao didn't even bother to look at his feet. When he crossed the threshold of the test shooting field, he knocked, and the inertia confiscated him, and he fell into the field three or four feet away.

When the cavalry came over, they happened to see the emperor lying on the ground, and all of them dropped their jaws in shock and were dumbfounded.

It was so close at hand, and the same was true for the shooting range officials who had just come out. They didn't even think of helping their Majesty for a while.

When Bi Maokang came out, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly stepped forward to caress Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, why are you here in person?"

"No problem, no problem!" In the blink of an eye, Zhu Youxiao jumped up and patted the dirt, still full of joy.

"Has His Majesty arrived?"

Inside the test range, the craftsmen and officials were still discussing happily, and their eyes widened when they heard the words, as if they didn't believe it.

They didn't panic until they saw the emperor running in.

However, Zhu Youxiao was completely focused on the matter of customizing the ammunition. He wanted to see the results, so he sat down at a random place, looked around and said:

"I heard that you guys have made a medicine, show me quickly!"

At this time, Zhu Youxiao has recovered some of his demeanor, but the excitement on his face is still lingering.

Fixed ammunition, this is equivalent to a qualitative leap!

Bi Maoliang stayed in Haojing and continued to learn from the Spaniards, while Bi Maokang rushed back to the capital from Shandong. Hearing this, he said:

"Thanks to His Majesty, this time the Armament Division produced the first batch of paper projectiles with the help of the big Frang robot."

Zhu Youxiao was stunned, "Paper bullets?"

In the history of the development of bullets, although paper shell bullets are not so famous, they also have a place in the history of bullets.

The muskets used in the Ming Dynasty are generally filled with ammunition directly from the muzzle, or loaded with lead bullets, and this has been the case since the early Ming Dynasty.

This loading method is slow to operate and the amount of charge each time is uncertain, and the shooting effect is also unstable. This is a problem that the Ordnance Department has been trying to solve since the invention of the sudden launch device.

The quantitative charging that the Spaniards call is undoubtedly an effective way to solve this problem.

In this era, there is no such advanced processing technology as later generations, but there is always a way. About half a century ago, the Swedes discovered a way to solve this problem.

In order to speed up the loading speed and maintain a certain amount of ammunition, paper shells came into being and were first used in batches in the Swedish Army.

The original paper cartridge case only used a roll made of paper, which contained gunpowder, but the warhead was loaded separately from it, and the loading speed was still relatively slow.

Later, the western countries saw that after the Swedish Army used this paper bullet, its combat effectiveness was greatly improved, so they followed suit.

Up to now, the technology of paper bullets has been quite mature in the West.

It was found that if the warhead and gunpowder were loaded into the paper cartridge case, the speed of loading and firing could be further increased.

After signing the agreement, the Spaniards taught these techniques to the craftsmen of the Armament Department.

Of course, Spain today is not what it was half a century ago. The Spanish royal family used a large amount of gold looted from the Americas for luxury instead of industrial development.

This has also caused their development level to be slightly behind other Western countries, but compared to Ming Dynasty, the Spaniards' combat methods and guns are undoubtedly still advanced.

Zhu Youxiao has never been ashamed to learn from others.

If you don’t face up to yourself, you will never realize how backward you are in any aspect, so you won’t learn. Only by learning can you become stronger, and when you become stronger, you can gain the respect of others.

Since it is difficult for us to research some things by ourselves, why not choose to learn the ready-made ones directly?

Whether it is for the Spaniards to show sincerity or something else, the introduction of this technology will undoubtedly greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming Musketeers.

If this method can be popularized, Zhu Youxiao believes that Jiannu's so-called invincible Eight Banners cavalry will no longer be scary.

Invincible has always been a joke.

"What's the difficulty in mass producing such paper projectiles now? You can ask me." Zhu Youxiao said to Bi Maokang.

When the latter heard the words, his face was indeed troubled:

"Your Majesty, the problem of gunpowder has been solved now. The difficulty is that we don't have the tools to make this kind of paper projectiles. If we want to mass-produce them, we have to buy tools in large quantities from other countries."

"The first batch of tools we bought from Spain were intercepted by the Dutch fleet."

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, the excitement on his face dissipated a lot.

That is to say, although we now know how to make paper bullets, we don't have the ability to produce them ourselves, and we can't make them with tools.

If you want to make tools, you not only need to hire Western technicians to teach you skills, but you also need to buy some precision parts that are not currently available in China.

All in all, for now, it is impossible to manufacture tools in this way in the short term, and the only way is to import!

Spain can buy it at a low price. After all, it is an Allied country. For Spain, this kind of thing is not difficult to manufacture. The difficulty is how to transport it.

According to Bi Maokang, the sea trade has been blocked by the Dutch.

From this point of view, this battle must be fought.

Chapter 651 "Send" first and play later

Back at Xinuange, Zhu Youxiao was still restless.