Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Zhu Gaochi shook his head, ignored him, and then signaled Zhen Wu to go out for a walk and chat while walking. Zhen Wu had no objection. Zhu Gaochi came here for him today, and he also wanted to communicate with Zhu Gaochi more.

On the one hand, after Zhu Gaochi became the emperor, he had many affections, and on the other hand, he also wanted to tell Zhu Gaochi what he knew.

This person who left the name of Renzong in history.

I don't know if he is willing to pay more attention to ordinary people.

As the two walked, Zhu Gaochi suddenly asked, "Can you talk about the method you mentioned last time?"

Zhen Wu thought for a while and asked: "What do you think the world should look like better?"

Zhu Gaochi seems to have thought about this question for a long time, or he once asked his master in the palace, without thinking about it: "There is no war, the country is rich, the government is clean and the people are happy."

Zhen Wu smiled, this answer is a bit superficial, but for the feudal society, for Zhu Gaochi at this time, it is already rare and valuable.

In fact, he really wanted to talk to Zhu Gaochi about navigation, colonization, plunder, commerce, etc., and tell him everything that his future generations know about everything that is beneficial to the people of this place.

Because of his deep love for this land, he hopes that the people in this land will always stand on top of the world and no longer suffer, even if he comes from later generations, this is also his homeland, his nation.

However, he knows that it is not easy to realize those things, and it may take some time to get used to just accepting the viewpoints. He probably said these things, not only did not play a good role, but instead got him into it.

This is unacceptable to him.

Furthermore, even if Zhu Gaochi can accept it, it is too early to say.

Therefore, Zhen Wu just followed Zhu Gaochi's words and asked, "How can there be no war?"

Zhu Gaochi was dumbfounded.

Zhen Wu said: "A lot of times, it's not that we don't want to fight, we can stop fighting. If we want to have no war, it's not enough to coerce the nations. There will always be some bears who have the guts to bite you. When they have no strength to fight, you can be safe and sound, and you have to keep an eye on them all the time. As long as they are accumulating strength, they will attack with thunder and wipe them out in one fell swoop. Only in this way can you ensure your own safety. In my hands, like the emperor's several Northern Expeditions today, this is the intention."

"Then how can we make the country rich?" Zhen Wu asked himself and answered.

"A country's wealth depends on money and food. Let's not talk about money, just talk about food. Where does the food come from? If you want more food, you must either increase your land, or let the food produced in the ground increase. It is very simple to increase the land. There are fertile soils in Liaodong and Lingnan. If we grab our own, we will be rich. It is relatively difficult to increase the grain production, but there is a tricky way, which is to find some production. As far as I know, there are sweet potatoes, corn and other grains overseas, and the yield per mu is frighteningly high.”

"Guan Qingming..."

"Min Anle..."

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The two talked while walking. As time passed, they gradually got tired of walking, and they found a place to sit down. Even so, the conversation between the two of them still did not end.

Zhen Wu eloquently talked about some of his cognition.

Some of them were summed up by himself, and some were summed up by later generations. The perspective is so wide that he often looks at problems outside the territory of Ming Dynasty.

So this conversation completely changed Zhu Gaochi's impression of Zhen Wu.

In the past, he thought that apart from being brave, Zhen Wu had at most some wisdom, but now, he actually felt that Zhen Wu had a gap in his chest, like a good minister who ruled the world.

Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhen Wu with fiery eyes, and didn't understand what good Zhen Wu would do if he didn't go to the court to make a name for himself, and serve as a soldier in the small guard army.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but said: "I'll recommend you to my grandpa. With your knowledge, my grandpa will definitely value you."

Ok?

Zhen Wu, who was talking happily, suddenly stopped.

Serving as a civil servant under Lao Zhu?

Although we admire Lao Zhu, let's save this matter.

Besides, after several years of being an official under Lao Zhu, can Zhu Di confer titles on us?

Zhen Wu smiled awkwardly: "Thank you for your kindness, I just want to make fun of it, but in fact, I am really asked to do something, I may not do it well, but in the military, I am more suitable."

Now Zhen Wu really didn't dare to talk any more.

And he looked at Zhu Gaochi's regrettable look, and couldn't help but want to scold his mother.

Scold Xu Miaoyun.

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Huguang Dusi, Shizhou.

Shi Nan, the barbarians of Zhongjian Second Xuanfu Division rebelled, and Lan Yu was ordered to crusade. As soon as he arrived in Shizhouwei, he received a message from Beiping. He was so angry that he overturned the seat in front of him.

"Waste, what a waste."

The content of the letter was about Alu Timur. He didn't expect that the dignified Alu Timur would win over the old ministry, but he would still be able to make people stand up.

What's more important is that Zhu Di didn't move, and his subordinates alone emptied Alu Timur.

How can this not make Sapphire furious.

The next moment, Lan Yu called the guards and ordered: "Go and call Chahan over."

Chahan is the eldest son of Nahachu. Nahachu was surrendered in the 20th year of Hongwu in the battle between Feng Sheng and Lanyu Jinshan. Chahan changed to attack Shenyang Hou, and Chahan was Lan Yu's confidant.

Soon.

Chahan came over, Lanyu didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Are you familiar with Xue Bin?"

"Take off?"

"Correct."

Chahan shook his head and said, "My father still has some friendship, but I really don't know him well."

Pity.

Lan Yu shook her head, then thought about it, and said: "Well, you go to Liaodong yourself, there is my adopted son there, you go to help him negotiate a business, and go to Beiping City by the way."

buy or sell?Chahan was distracted for a while, when he heard Lan Yu's cold snort, he woke up in fright, and said hastily, "Yes, I'll leave immediately."

"Don't be too anxious, deal with your affairs first, go secretly, don't show your feet."

"clear."

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Chapter 087 - The Old Apprentice is Online

The right guards the cavalry camp.

Zhen Wu pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind, planning to give Zhu Yuying a music box, a very cute thing like this that can broadcast sounds and can be designed in appearance, there is no reason not to please girls.

The production is not too difficult. The clockwork mechanism drives the rollers, and small pits are punched out on the rollers according to the music score, so that the outer surface protrudes with small dots at different intervals. When rotating, different small dots You can play music by touching different iron pieces.

The only problem was the clockwork device. Although he knew the principle, he didn't know if the craftsman could make it.

Thinking of this, Zhen Wu didn't want to delay any longer, thinking that there are also craftsmen in charge of firearms in the army, so he looked for them immediately after the exercise.

But I didn't expect to see Liu Sheng when I came here just now.

Liu Shengzheng was holding a three-eyed blunderbuss, looking at it obsessively. From time to time, he would lift it up to make a shooting motion, slapping his mouth, imagining that he had directly hit the enemy, and then he looked intoxicated.

Zhen Wu walked over and patted Liu Sheng on the shoulder: "What? How old are you, yet so naive?"

Liu Sheng was taken aback, turned around and saw that it was Zhen Wu, rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know?"

What can I not understand?

Zhen Wu took the three-eyed blunderbuss from Liu Sheng's hand, held it on his waist like a Gatling, raised his eyebrows and said, "You've already started to imagine, don't you dare to think more powerfully?"

Afterwards, Zhen Wu's mouth immediately began to twitch, and after a while, he retracted the three-eyed blunderbuss, blew a mouthful of the blunderbuss, looked sideways at Liu Sheng and said.

"See, what's the point of your slap just now? My firearm swept a large area."

Liu Sheng was stunned for a while, and then laughed out loud, so much that he couldn't straighten up, and his eyes were full of tears.

He leaned on the wall, smiled and pointed at Zhen Wu: "No, no, I never thought that when you were still so ridiculous, if this firearm could become what you said, what kind of martial arts would we practice? A firearm must not knock down the sky."

Zhen Wu looked at Liu Sheng's exaggerated smile, his face was a little dark.

This unknown thing.

However, Zhen Wu estimated that no matter what he said, it would definitely come true in the future, and Liu Sheng couldn't believe it, so he shook his head and hurriedly turned the topic over.

"Okay, okay, what's so funny, first tell me what you are here for?"

Liu Sheng laughed for a while, and when he finally stopped, when he looked at the three-eyed gun, his face became serious, and he asked gently: "Don't you think this thing is worth pondering?"

"Zuo Mo? Three-eyed gun?"

The three-eyed blunderbuss is a firearm widely used by the frontier army at this stage. The three blunderbuss tubes are arranged in characters. There is a small hole on the outside of each blunderbuss tube. After adding gunpowder and projectiles, a matchlock is added to the small hole for easy ignition. The tail is equipped with a handle. The seat is connected with a long pole, and the soldiers hold the long pole to shoot, which can also ensure safety.

After the projectile is shot, the three-eyed gun barrel made of cast iron and steel can also be used as a hammer to smash the enemy.

But the shortcomings are obvious, not to mention the trouble of loading, the range is too short, 50 meters can penetrate armor, and the effect will be greatly reduced if it is farther away.

Liu Sheng shook his head, his eyes flickered with thought and said: "Not only the three-eyed blunderbuss, we have all kinds of rockets in our army, there are also small-mouth cannons, bowl-mouth cannons, and it is said that the south is still researching an easy-to-carry gun." A single blunderbuss cannon is quite powerful, and you said that if you gather these things together and figure out how to use them, and bombard them for a while when fighting, isn't that very powerful?"

Fire coverage?

This guy Liu Sheng really has something.

Zhen Wu thought for a while and said, "What you said makes sense, but the three-eyed blunderbuss and the fire blunderbuss, which are used by individual soldiers, are still a bit bad in the final analysis, and they are too troublesome to use. It would be better if they were improved."

At this time, an old man happened to come over and just heard Zhen Wu's words, and immediately retorted with a beard and a stare: "What do you rough guys who only know how to fight and kill know? Standing up and talking without back pain? Disgusting!" This, those who dislike that, don’t use anything if you have the ability, really think that this thing can be improved if you say it’s improved? If you have the ability, you can improve it for me, and talk nonsense all day long.”

The spittle from this short speech made Zhen Wu and Liu Sheng back away again and again.

This old man, Zhen Wu, knew who it was. Zhu Di had always wanted to build a guard station around Beiping for the purpose of making firearms, but unfortunately, for some unknown reason, it never came true. Army firearms.

This old man is called Mu Zhong, and he seems to have some relationship with Mu Ying. He is considered a relatively top craftsman, and he still holds a position in the Military Weapons Bureau. It also coincides with Zhu Yuanzhang's decree that all military households in the guards across the country send people to learn craftsman In order to fill up the military supplies, Zhu Di, the chicken thief, immediately picked some exciting people and threw them to the old man to learn.

Mu Zhong had been enjoying a good stay at the Weapons Bureau, but Zhu Di got him here for no reason, and became a cheap master.

Liu Sheng knew the importance of Mu En, and also knew that Zhu Di valued him, even if he was sprayed all over his face, he just kept giving in with a smile on his face.

The purpose of Zhen Wu's trip was to find Mu Zhong, a top-notch craftsman, he would be a fool if he didn't think about using it, but looking at Mu Zhong now, he felt a little troubled.

This old man is not easy to talk to.

Zhen Wu raised his eyebrows and pondered briefly, then made up his mind, put on a look of disdain and said: "If you have no skills, you have no skills. Being told that you are in pain is like someone else stepping on your tail. If I give you Tell me a way to improve, what can you do?"

Mu Zhong didn't expect someone to refute, and when he heard the refute, he suddenly became angry, and he was in a hurry. A big soldier dared to challenge his authority in his professional field.

Liu Sheng took a deep breath, and looked at Zhen Wu with a bitter face: "My good brother, what are you doing, you made him anxious, beware of your Highness looking for trouble for us."

Zhen Wu said calmly, "Don't panic."

Liu Sheng almost wanted to speak directly to draw a line with Zhen Wu, is this something to be panicked?

But it's not over yet, Zhen Wu is still provoking Mu Zhong.

"How? What if I tell you a way to improve it?"

Mu Zhong thought without even thinking about it: "If you come up with a way, old man, I will recognize you as my master for the rest of my life. If you say go east, the old man will never go west."

Zhen Wu was immediately happy.

"That's a good deal, don't play a rogue just because you are old, there are people to testify to it." After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu also stabbed Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng was speechless, what's the matter, but now, Liu Sheng is inexplicably curious, does Zhen Wu really have a way to improve?

Liu Sheng knew about Zhen Wu, he was a monkey and a monkey, and he had never seen a time when he was at a disadvantage.

Mu Zhong said proudly with a confident face: "You say boldly, if the method is really effective, the old man is not a human if he regrets it."

Zhen Wu laughed outright, he didn't expect this old man to be quite good-natured, and these few words made him a cheap apprentice.

Isn't there a lot of future disciples and grandchildren?

Think about how firearms have developed in later generations. Although he can't make them, it's not like playing with some suggestions for improvement.

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Chapter 088 - The Beauty of the North Country

The attitude towards firearms in the Ming Dynasty was still more important.

In the early days, the central government made and distributed troops, but it developed with time. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to various reasons, the products made by the Ministry of Industry were not only expensive, but also the quality was getting worse and worse. They could not meet the needs of the frontier army at all, so local manufacturing was opened. s right.

And because the frontier army belongs to the front line of the battlefield, they are more sensitive to firearms, have stronger demand, and have repeatedly innovated firearms, so firearms are gradually blooming.

For example, the tiger crouching gun, the five thunder machine, the bird's beak gun, the palladium gun, etc., as well as the flint gun and red cannon influenced by foreign countries.

quite developed.

If you know these things, no one can imagine that hundreds of years later, the people on this land will be thrown up and down by a few guns from the small country, and they will even be frightened into thinking that the other party knows magic.