Bright Spring

Yuan Gong reminded Geng Hao calmly, "What General Geng said is the truth, but you can add a sentence after it, 'If there is a half-true false statement, you will be struck by lightning and you will die'!"

Geng Hao's face was ugly, but he wrote it anyway.

After everything was settled, Yuan Gong picked up the article written by Geng Hao face to face, read it first, and then gently blew on the wet ink on the paper a few times; he looked very cherished, and quickly pressed it down with a paperweight.At this time, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Geng Hao asked uncomfortably: "Won't Marshal Zhang know about these things?"

Yuan Gong frowned and said, "He is two thousand miles away, how can he know the inside story?"

After sending Geng Hao away, Yuan Gong immediately told Lei: "You take the confession, and you immediately write a memorial based on it, and submit it to the sage!"

Lei Tiao said: "Your officer obeys."

Yuan Gong put away the dried paper, "I'll show Wei Guogong what Geng Hao wrote first, and then let Wei Guogong play it."

Yuan Gong heaved a long sigh of relief, and the matter was finally completed smoothly.At this time, a gorgeously dressed beautiful woman came in. She put tea on the coffee table, and with a flattering appearance, she came up to beat Yuan Gong's legs.

Lei Tian hesitated to speak, and finally cupped his hands cautiously and said, "Then Geng Hao might think that Yuan Siqing's prostitute is your relative..."

Yuan Gong stared and said: "If he wants to think so, what can I do? I do have a widowed relative of the same clan, and I didn't lie to him! Officer Lei Ke also met, last year in my house, the one who looks like Maitreya, Waist thicker than a bucket."

"Remember!" Lei Tian nodded.

The beautiful woman covered her mouth with a smile and said, "Who would say that about my family?"

Yuan Gong said sternly: "I'm just telling the truth, is it wrong? But today's matter, we have to talk about it; I have to tell Geng Hao that my relative is also in the carriage today..." Yuan Gong turned to look Xiang Meiren, "You are serving her."

The two agreed, and Lei Tian said: "That makes sense. What Geng Hao saw was Mrs. Yuan's maid, he just misunderstood."

"That's right." Yuan Gong said, "If Geng Hao thinks he's ugly, let him marry you, Ming Meizheng, I have nothing against it!"

Lei Tian said: "Yuan Siqing is wise!"

Yuan Gong said coldly: "The Marquis of Jiangyin was just unlucky, and Geng Hao immediately divorced his wife; then Zhang Fu wooed him, and he betrayed Zhang Fu in just a few days! Why do we pay attention to so many rules with him!"

The beautiful woman pursed her lips and said: "Then you still want to push him into the fire pit?"

Yuan Gong said with a smile: "Anyway, the Geng family is not an ordinary family, and Geng Hao is also a good-looking talent. How could he be willing to marry someone from such a lowly background like you? You want to jump into the fire pit, but you can't get in."

"Haha..." Lei Tian and Yuan Gong burst out laughing.

Lei Tian said: "How could Geng Hao think that he still has hope for the title of Marquis of Changxing? At first Yuan Siqing mentioned such an obvious thing, I was afraid that he would not believe it!"

Yuan Gong said: "What a person is willing to believe is someone else's business. I am not his father, so there is no need to care so much. As long as he believes, we will make a promise."

"Yuan Siqing's words are reasonable." Lei Tian bowed and said no more.

They only talked for a while, Yuan Gong stood up, adjusted his clothes, said goodbye to Lei Tian, ​​and walked out of the other courtyard.Yuan Gong still took the carriage and went back to the Taichang Temple Government Office in Qianbulang.

As soon as you enter Hongwu Gate, walk up the Thousand-step Corridor, and the left side of the intersection of the Thousand-Step Corridor is the Taichang Temple, which is really the most convenient yamen to enter and exit.However, Yuan Gong passed by the gate and didn't go in. Instead, he went straight to the north to find Xu Huizu in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.

There are five yamen in the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies, and Xu Huizu works in the northernmost Dudu Mansion of the Chinese Army.There were two bored Jinyiwei sergeants sitting at the door, and Yuan Gong didn't avoid them; after all, it didn't matter what Jinyiwei saw, the most important thing was what the Holy One had in mind.

When Yuan Gong saw Xu Huizu, the two only exchanged a few words. Yuan Gong hurriedly took out the article written by Geng Hao and silently handed it over.

Xu Huizu glanced at Yuan Gong, took the things and immediately began to read the content.

After a while, Xu Huizu was so angry that his face was red. He slapped the paper on the table and said coldly: "I have already said that those who come from humble backgrounds, once they are in high positions, it may not be a good thing! Some people He has no tolerance, and what he does is full of indiscriminate means; he has no heart, and the enemy is in front of him, and he still disregards the country, the society, and the people of the world, and intrigues!"

Yuan Gong echoed: "Wei Guogong's words are reasonable. Over there, they dealt with Wu Gao at this time, but it was just adding insult to injury and had no effect. I think it is Xiang Zhuang who dances the sword, and He Fu, the Marquis of Ningyuan, is the Duke of Pei."

Xu Huizu nodded, and said in a calm narrative tone: "The Marquis of Ningyuan should have been wronged." Then he said, "This man He Fu has some cities, and things like He Lu have never been mentioned to me; but After all, the He family was a well-off family in the Yuan Dynasty, and He Fu is a very reliable person, so he probably wouldn't do those desperate things. My guess without evidence before was really too coincidental."

Yuan Gong said in a deep voice: "We must protect Ning Yuanhou. Our colleagues in the court originally had no prejudice against Zhang Fu and others, but Zhang Fu has done too much and it is too obvious! Now he is simply unscrupulous and has no rules at all." Don't care."

Xu Huizu responded, pondered for a moment and then said: "However, I have to persuade the Holy Master about this matter, don't blame Zhang Fu first, you can give He Fu some breath and tell him to lead the army with peace of mind. Everything should be based on the overall situation."

Yuan Gong bowed and bowed, full of respect, and said: "It is very fortunate that the Ming Dynasty has Duke Wei!"

After Yuan Gong straightened his waist, he continued, "Would you like to remind Zhang Fu a little, lest he go too far in the future."

Xu Huizu immediately shook his head and said: "The timing is not right. If the Holy One sends someone to beat Zhang Fu, no matter how serious the words are, Zhang Fu will always guess more meanings. Such a situation is not conducive to the upcoming Huguang battle. Compared with Now, I still trust He Fu more, He Fu can take care of the overall situation."

Yuan Gong was a little disappointed, but still nodded and said, "According to Wei Guogong's intention, let's not worry about this matter with Zhang Fu for the time being."

Chapter 500 Hanwang Cannon

The city of Guilin with green mountains and green waters is very beautiful under the clear autumn sky.

Jianhu Lake (Rongshan Lake) has misty water waves, dotted with pagodas, pagodas, pagodas, pagodas, pavilions and pavilions.On the school field in the south of the city, the banners were flying, and white smoke was bursting. The drill of the King of Han Army, at least it looked like a spectacular scene.

Some simple wooden houses were newly built near the school grounds to accommodate the successive arrivals of Sheng Yong's Ministry of Safety.The camp has not yet been built, and there are many tents nearby. The gray and white tents are neatly arranged, and the white clouds in the sky complement each other, which is quite impressive.

A burst of yelling came from not far away.When Zhu Gaoxu on the horse turned his head to look, he saw two rows of sergeants squatting or standing, and fired guns at the same time. Between the sound of "bang bang bang...", white smoke was blown into the air by the wind , mixed into a large group.

Just looking at their postures, Zhu Gaoxu knew that the gunfire soldiers over there were all using "mountain guns"...

Over the past few months, the firecrackers produced in the rear have been transported in batches to supplement the front lines; all the newly-made copper firecrackers are mountain blunderbusses, which have successively replaced the copper handguns that were originally equipped in large quantities in the army.

The firearms and equipment of the army of the Han Dynasty have gradually embarked on a different path from that of the imperial army.

The official army developed from the bronze hand guns in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty to the "sharp gun"; the sharp gun is also a cast copper fire gun, but the structure is slightly different, and arrow clusters are used instead of lead bullets.However, the ammunition of the Hanwang Army has not changed, and the main improvement is the ignition device.

The artillery of the two sides also began to show great differences. The artillery manufacturing of the Hanwang army was mainly arranged by the "Shouyufu" Nansi, and the Shouyufu was greatly influenced by Zhu Gaoxu.

At this time, the largest artillery of the government and army was the Hongwu cannon.Zhu Gaoxu had thought about it earlier, and felt that it was really a cast steel cannon!At present, there are only two bureaus and institutes in the Ming Dynasty that have the craftsmanship of casting the latest Hongwu cannons. One is in the capital, and the other is in the chief minister of Shanxi. According to the law, the disclosure of firearms craftsmanship is prohibited.

Therefore, the government in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan could not use cast steel to make Hongwu cannons.Even though the King of Han's army seized Wu Gaojun's heavy artillery on the battlefield, they could not imitate it.

Fortunately, there are many copper mines in Yunnan, so the Yunnan Armament Bureau switched to bronze cannons.There are mainly two kinds of bronze cannons that have been transported one after another. One is the official Hongwu cannon imitated in bronze, which looks like a big barrel. The largest cannon can fire more than 200 catties of stone bullets; The scale is enlarged, and it is still cast in bronze. The muzzle is small and the barrel is very long.

After the weapon bureaus and institutes in the three provinces switched to bronze, there were no more technical difficulties; after all, the technology of casting cannons was not much more difficult than casting bells.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered the South Division of the Imperial Palace to cast the "Han King Cannon", which contained some of his ideas... because the air pressure formed by the explosion of gunpowder would accelerate the shell. In theory, the longer the barrel, the longer the acceleration time ; Regardless of whether it is a firecracker or a cannon, increasing the length of the bore will speed up the ejection of the cannon.

Zhu Gaoxu heard the sound of cannons on the west side of the school grounds, so he yelled "drive", kicked his horse and ran towards that direction.The soldiers around him followed suit one after another.

When Zhu Gaoxu came to the place where the cannon was fired, he heard a cry of pain. Not far away, the doctor carrying the medicine box was squatting on the ground to treat the injured.Right now there is no war in the Guilin Mansion, and even the drills have killed or injured soldiers?

Several generals came forward to pay their respects, and Zhu Gaoxu pointed directly at the wounded soldier and said, "What's going on?"

A general clasped his fists and said, "Go back to your lord, the 'Hanwang Cannon' exploded!"

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said: "The official document reported by Nansi said that all the cannons have been tried, how could they explode?"

Hou Haidao, a civil official: "There is the name of the bureau on the body of the cannon, and you can find out where the cannon was cast by checking it. I will ask the Nansi to investigate this matter strictly."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "First ask about the situation before we talk about it."