Iron Dynasty

His Royal Highness, the lower official is not thinking about this, but thinking that the Qingzhou Army has engineers, logistics troops, and the navy. These military services are not available in Da Yu, and it seems that His Royal Highness is ready to implement military reform. , For this reason, the lower official is really puzzled.

Xiao Ming smiled. The military system of the Great Yu Kingdom was still in the era of cold weapons, and the sudden transition to the era of hot weapons naturally caused a lot of opposition.

It's just that Xiao Ming had to do this, because in the era of musketeers, the Western army has embarked on the road of regularization, and logistics soldiers and engineering soldiers have appeared.

He is just chasing now.

He said: When I was in Chang'an, the king explained the origin of artillery to his father, and the reform of this army also came from a warning from a Western priest, because today's Dayu Kingdom is no longer the previous kingdom of the Celestial Empire, but an established state. In a country that is poor and weak and can only be bullied by barbarians, if you want to catch up, you must dare to reform.

Pang Yukun was speechless, it was Xiao Ming who developed the artillery at the time of crisis to defend Cangzhou City.

He suddenly found that his knowledge could not keep up with the footsteps of the prince of the Great Yu Kingdom, and perhaps what he was thinking about was just mean in his eyes.

But it turned out that what Xiao Ming was doing was right. After hesitating for a while, he decided to trust Xiao Ming.

Xiaguan thinks too much. After all, the reform of the army involves a lot. Xiaguan believes that everything His Highness is doing now must be for the people of the fief. Pang Yukun said sternly.

Xiao Ming nodded, If you can trust this king, this king will feel at ease, lest a group of civil servants and generals come to the palace to make trouble with this king's hind legs.

Pang Yukun laughed dumbly, Xiao Ming was afraid that he would lead a group of officials to stop him from carrying out such dangerous reforms to the army, just like in Chang'an.

After all, he had done this kind of thing a lot when he was in Chang'an, and it was precisely because of this that Xiao Wenxuan disliked Pang Yukun so much.

Today is different from the past, His Highness is a bright master! Pang Yukun's eyes flickered, and there was a different meaning in his voice.

Xiao Ming was immediately alert to this point, he looked at Pang Yukun, Pang Yukun just smiled at him.

In Pang Yukun's eyes, he saw a kind of hope, which is the look in the TV series that loyal ministers persuade their loyal princes to compete for the throne.

Maybe Pang Yukun didn't dare to think about it before, but as Qingzhou became more and more powerful, he didn't know what his officials and generals thought now.

Seemingly realizing that his behavior was inappropriate, Pang Yukun suddenly smiled and said, Your Highness, Yue Yun has been out of the sea for more than a month, and I don't know how he is now?

Yeah. Xiao Ming was most worried about Yue Yun's fleet. Are they dead or alive now?

When the two were worried, Yue Yun, who was sailing at sea, sneezed.

A sailor came up behind him and said to him, Captain, that red-haired ghost is awake.

Go and call the translator. Yue Yun rubbed his nose and looked at the sea in front of him.

Leaving from Dengzhou, they drove all the way to the Strait of Malacca. On the way, they encountered many pirates who tried to rob them, but they buried them with artillery.

It's just that the farther they went west, the more vicious the pirates they encountered, and they even encountered pirate ships with the same guns.

This discovery shocked them, but in order to complete the task explained by Xiao Ming, they tried their best to avoid fighting with these pirate ships.

And the pirates seem reluctant to take a huge risk to attack them armed to the teeth.

In addition to pirates, they often saw the wreckage of warships drifting over at sea, and today they even saw the wreckage of a dozen large sailing warships.

There were corpses floating everywhere in the sea water. These corpses were dressed in strange red clothes, and their faces were different from those of the people of Dayu.

At this moment, he finally understood that Xiao Ming was not talking nonsense in the school. It turned out that there really was a Western country in this world.

And they also have sailing warships, artillery, and even a strange stick-shaped weapon.

When passing through this sea area where naval battles seemed to have happened, they caught a lot of strange things, and this thing was one of them.

Entering the cabin, Yue Yun saw the awakened Westerner.

At this time, the translator also arrived, looked at Yue Yun, and asked a question in English.

Hearing the words, the westerner dressed in a red dress immediately replied a few words.

What did he say? Yue Yun scratched his cheeks anxiously.

The interpreter said: He said he was from Great Britain, he was part of the Third Fleet of Great Britain, and he was the first mate of the navy. They were attacked by the Dutch in this sea area and asked if we could send him to the nearest colony, India.

A cold sweat broke out on Yue Yun's forehead. He then picked up the stick and said to the interpreter, Great Britain, isn't this what His Highness called Britain? You ask him what it is?

The interpreter said another sentence, looked at Yue Yun strangely, and said a few words.

He said it was a flintlock gun. If you like it, he can give you a lot, as long as you send him to India, said the translator.

Yue Yun's heart sank immediately. When he went to sea, Xiao Ming had already told him many things, and now all these things have come true.

You tell him, we can send him to India, but he needs to answer some questions for us. At this time, Yue Yun gave a booklet to the translator with the questions listed by Xiao Ming.

The translator took it and began to ask them one by one, but the British did not seem to resist.

In an hourglass, the interpreter asked all the questions and returned the booklet to Yue Yun.

Yue Yun opened it, and the answers above were filled by the translator. After reading the news, Yue Yun's face became extremely ugly.

He said to the translator, You told him that we don't need flintlock guns. If it's just potatoes, peanuts, and corn seeds, can he provide them?

The translator asked a few questions, and the Englishman replied with a relaxed look.

He said it was very simple, the colonies of India had a lot of grain, and these grains were potatoes, peanuts and corn, said the translator.

Yue Yun pondered for a while and said, Send him to India. If we can get what His Highness wants, we will return immediately. Now Ryukyu is occupied by the Dutch, and the Dutch are trading with the Japanese country. We have to go back and tell Your Highness.

Everyone nodded, their purpose was not to travel around the world, but to collect information.

Now that he got what they wanted, there was no need for a long voyage. After all, the more he went inside, the more dangerous it was. He wanted to keep the only three Galen ships in Qingzhou.