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As he spoke, Young Master Zhang used a long pointer to click on the location of Constantinople on the hanging chart: "Byzantine Empire."

"Their predecessor, the Roman Empire, can be traced back to the second year of Heping in our Han Dynasty."

"At that time, the Great Han Empire already knew about this empire as powerful as theirs in the west! Call it 'Great Qin'!"

Liu Jian couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard the words, and said wheezingly: "Da Qin?! Is it Da Qin?! They have passed on the country for thousands of years?!"

"Yes! Although it was once divided into two kingdoms, East and West, and had 93 dynasties, there are [-] emperors in total, but the incense has been passed down to the country for more than a thousand years!"

All the ministers couldn't help but gasp, Zhou Chuan said that the 800-year-old state tusk was all seen from the history books.

Even for this matter, many times it made them feel that it was just a sage's big talk.

But now I heard that there is a country in the west that has inherited the national oak for thousands of years, and it is naturally extremely surprising that the incense is endless.

"In the [-]-volume "Tong Dian" written by Du You and Du Junqing of the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that Du Huan, a soldier under Gao Zhixian's command, was captured, traveled to the Great Food Kingdom and arrived in the Great Qin Dynasty."

"It's said'"Fushu Kingdom is located in the west of Tomakura, thousands of miles away from the mountains, and it is also called Daqin.The color of the people is red and white, the men wear plain clothes, and the women wear pearl brocade...'"

"'The king's city is eighty miles away, and the four sides are dozens of miles away. There are about one million victorious soldiers, and they are often defended against the Great Food'..."

After citing a record, Zhang Lun looked at them and said in a deep voice.

"Its capital city is called Constantinople, and the city walls are built with thick stone strips three feet long, one foot wide, and five inches thick!"

After hearing these words, Emperor Hongzhi and all the ministers couldn't help but stare wide-eyed and "hiss~~" gasped!

Thinking about the two-foot-five-foot-high city wall, all built with such thick stone strips, I immediately felt a sense of grandeur.

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Zhang Lun's voice was a little erratic: "This city is built on the mountain, with its own running water, many waterway gates, and secret caves that can lead to the outside world without fear of siege."

"Because the city's solid walls have been felled many times, but it has never fallen, it is called the 'capital that never falls for a thousand years'!"

Emperor Hongzhi and others couldn't help but nodded. If they were so prepared, it would undoubtedly be impossible to attack from the outside.

"However..." Zhang Lun looked at Emperor Hongzhi and the important court officials on the high platform indifferently, and said softly: "In the fourth year of Jingtai in my Ming Dynasty..."

"This city fell, and the millennium empire once fell! The last emperor, Constantine XI, died in battle, the people scattered, and the ministers became slaves!"

Hearing this, Ma Wensheng's eyes widened suddenly and he shouted, "How is it possible?! Such a mighty city, how did it fall?! Are there thieves inside?!"

"There are no internal thieves, they were directly shot down."

Zhang Lun turned around to look at Ma Wensheng, and said calmly, "The one who conquered this city was their neighbor, Dashi!"

"The Dashi, or 'Ottoman Empire'. Fatih the Conqueror, Emperor VII, destroyed this mighty city with his own hands!"

As he spoke, Zhang Lun lit the giant cannon on the top of the canvas and said in a low voice, "The one he relies on is this cannon!"

Emperor Hongzhi sat on the chair and moved his body with difficulty.

Trembling, he opened the book in his hand, and there was such a giant cannon drawn on it.

Even the specifications, shape, style... are clearly recorded.

"The name of this cannon is 'Dardanelle Cannon' or 'Ottoman Cannon'."

But Zhang Lun was casually lighting the canvas, and said calmly: "This cannon is 830 feet [-] inches long and weighs more than [-] catties!"

"The thickness of the gun barrel is six inches and four inches, and the muzzle is two feet and four inches and five inches. The bullets are all carved with hard stones, and each one weighs more than 360 catties!"

Emperor Hongzhi and a group of courtiers swallowed with difficulty, flipping through the booklet in their hands tremblingly.

"Three miles away, you can smash a huge stone wall!"

But Zhang Lun didn't seem to notice it, the whip just shook the canvas a few times.

"How many guns do you think Fatih built?!"

"One door~? No! Five doors?! More than that!!"

Zhang Lun suddenly raised his head to look at Emperor Hongzhi, and then swept to the courtiers: "The seventh emperor of the Ottoman Empire, Fatih the Conqueror, made seventy of these cannons!!"

"Remember! Not one, not five! It's a full seventy!!"

Seven... seventy doors!Emperor Hongzhi's eyes widened, and all the courtiers had difficulty breathing!

"After winning the cannon, lead an army of more than [-] paces, more than [-] cavalry, three hundred battleships, three hundred eagle cannons, and five hundred breech-loaded rapid-fire guns!"

"Forcibly attacking the Roman Empire, which has been passed down for thousands of years, broke into the city in just ten days! Destroyed the thousand-year-old oak!"

Emperor Hongzhi and others were silent, and everyone was quietly waiting for Zhang Lun's next words.

But Zhang Lun continued calmly: "The caster of this cannon is named Urban."

"He is a casting genius who came from Europa, but the first place he arrived was not the Ottoman Empire but the Roman Empire."

Speaking of this, Zhang Lun looked at Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng with a sarcasm and said in an erratic voice.

"Unfortunately, although the emperor of the Byzantine Empire wants to keep him..."

"However, the subjects below are unwilling to give this genius enough wealth and status..."

"Emphasis on Taoism over weaponry! But the craftsman of Cuoer actually wants to stand together with the important ministers of the court?! It's wishful thinking!"

Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng's faces turned red, but Zhang Lun looked at them sarcastically and continued.

"A craftsman is a lowly person! What he does is a small way, how dare he confuse the king?! How can he be qualified to stand in the court?!"

Zhang Lun's words can be said to be impassioned, but the sarcasm in his eyes is not concealed at all.

Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng blushed from his embarrassment. They wanted to refute but were stared back coldly by Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi doesn't want to hear about the Dao of Saints now, he just wants to know what is going on with this weapon that endangers his empire's rule!

"So this cannon-casting genius chose to defect to the Ottoman Empire in shame and anger, and was reused by the conqueror."

"The Conqueror had been thinking about the capture of Constantinople, and Urban's arrival made him overjoyed!"

Zhang Lun stood upright, looked at these courtiers mockingly and smiled slightly: "Urban's official position at that time was roughly the same as that of our Minister of Industry..."

"It's just that his authority is higher, and the cost is comparable to that of a prince! You only need to be responsible to the emperor, and you can get 20 taels of gold for every cannon that passes the test!"

Looking at these important ministers with gloomy faces, Zhang Lun said indifferently: "Then, he cast this cannon for the conqueror and destroyed the thousand-year-old oak!"

Emperor Hongzhi's hands in his sleeves trembled a few times suddenly, and his face kept changing from pale to pale.

"Having said so much, my lords probably feel that this matter is still far away from us..."

Zhang Lun smiled sadly, and the beautiful red phoenix peach blossoms were full of sadness, pointing at the cannons of the doors and roaring suddenly: "Look at them!!"

"Look at them! Do you adults think this matter is far from our Ming Empire?!"

The faces of all the courtiers have turned pale, and their fingers are constantly trembling...

"The guns I took out are not the best guns currently in service in Europa! They are just caravans! Do you understand?! Caravans are equipped with artillery!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the courtiers became even paler.

If the guns and guns equipped by the caravan are so good, how good is their army equipped? !

"Do you think they are arriving in Daming for the first time?! Wrong!!"

Zhang Lun let out a breath, and the pair of red phoenix and peach blossoms looked at Liu Daxia coldly, without any emotion in his voice.

"In the sixth year of Hongzhi, a group of foreign barbarians invaded the territory of Dongguan Shouyu Qiansuo! Dongguan Shouyu Qiansuo Qianhu Yuan Guang led his troops to encircle and suppress..."

"Encountered Fanyi in Cenzi'ao, was shot and died in the battle!"

But Zhang Lun let out a sigh of relief and looked at the important ministers of the country with a sneer on his face: "We don't even know who they are..."

"However, people are already figuring out our details!"

"Do you think that is someone else's army?! Wrong, that is someone else's expedition team! There were only a few dozen people! But they killed a thousand households of Daming!"

As soon as Zhang Lun stretched out his hand coldly, an old soldier quickly delivered a matchlock gun to his hand.

"He died at the hands of this kind of gun! However, we don't even know who he is! The whole court is unaware!!"

After speaking, Zhang Lun walked up to Liu Daxia with a livid face and gently placed the gun on the table: "It's just a small weapon..."

"It's just ringworm and scabies! The people who died on the nine sides and along the coast are just two-legged sheep in your eyes!"

Zhang Lun erected his pair of red phoenix peach blossoms fiercely and stared at Liu Daxia: "Really?! Master Liu who reads sage books!!"

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"You!!..." Liu Daxia stood up suddenly, but Zhang Lun took a few steps back with a mocking smile.

Brushing off his sleeves, he actually bowed to Liu Daxia: "First of all, I want to represent the pirates, thank you, Mr. Liu!"

"Master Three Treasures built a fleet of treasure ships decades ago. At that time, Fusang was terrified and took the blame, and asked himself to bind the thieves to serve as a credential! The coast is clear and bright!"

"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for saying 'wasting the country's money' for losing the charts and abolishing the fleet of treasure ships, so that the Japanese pirates ran amok at sea and killed my people decades later!"

Liu Daxia yelled "Bang~!" and glared angrily, "I didn't!!"

"What about the sea chart?! Why is the fleet abolished?! If there is a fleet, how can the Japanese pirates that I can wipe out run rampant in Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang! Come and tell me!"

"You are the censor of the right capital, and those Japanese pirates who are in charge of the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi are still rampant in northern Guangdong, so you are not responsible?!"

Zhang Lun erected the red phoenix peach blossom, stared back unceremoniously and said coldly: "They are murderers, are you clean?!"

"If it weren't for you to abolish the coastal areas, so that my Ming Dynasty has no coastal defenses, how can the pirates come and go freely, and even dare to kill people and stay overnight before leaving?!"

As he spoke, before Liu Daxia could react, he turned around, brushed off his sleeves, and bowed to Ma Wensheng to the end.

"I still need to thank Mr. Ma for the Japanese pirates! A word of 'ringworm and scabies' helped them get rid of the danger of being suppressed and killed!"

"Take pains to make His Majesty ignore the corruption of the guards in Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang, so that these Japanese pirates can easily kill and rob them!"

Ma Wensheng's mouth was trembling with anger, and he suddenly stared and shouted: "I don't have any!"

"Who is the minister of the Ministry of War?! Who is in charge of the coastal defense of the empire?! Who is in charge of the military affairs of the three provinces?! You are not responsible for the abolition of coastal defense and the rampage of Japanese pirates?!"

Zhang Lun also yelled back with his neck stuck: "The Japanese pirates are murderers, and you who abolished the coastal defense are their accomplices who handed over the sword!"

"I still need to represent Europa, thank you, my lords!"

But Zhang Lun didn't wait for Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia to refute, but bowed to the courtiers around him.

"Master Sanbao once exclaimed, 'If you want the country to be rich and strong, you should not ignore the ocean. Wealth comes from the ocean, and danger also comes from the sea'!"

"However, because of the status of Lord Three Treasures, all of you, you disregarded your words, abolished the borders, and the Japanese pirates ran rampant, and now the pirates have arrived!!"

Young Master Zhang looked at these courtiers mockingly, and said in a cold voice: "Think about it, they were able to dispatch more than [-] warships decades ago..."

"With a force of [-] troops, dozens of giant cannons, and more than a thousand artillery pieces of various types, break through the city that has not fallen for a thousand years..."

"Now, they have come to the Daming sea area..."

Zhang Lun paused, then suddenly turned around and stared at Liu Daxia's every word like a knife's edge.

"Master Liu! Let me ask you, if three hundred warships come with such a cannon, can you stop it in Jinmen?!"

Liu Daxia's face was pale. He also went to see the city wall just now.

Can it be blocked... how? !

"Master Ma! You are the minister of the Ministry of War, let me ask you whether you can stop the thirty Dardanelle cannons from bombarding the capital?! How many days can you stop?!"

Ma Wensheng's face was not only pale, but he was sweating "swirling..." and there was only one thought in his mind: I can't stop it!

The huge stone-laden city collapsed suddenly. How could the capital's city wall be made of only bricks and stones to withstand such heavy artillery? !

"Let me ask the Lords of the Kingdom, if the enemy has a hundred thousand troops with such guns, cannons, and giant cannons to attack me, will Daming be able to defend against it?!"

There is no trace of tenderness in Zhang Lun's pair of red phoenix and peach blossoms, only the fiery grief and anger: "Let me ask, who can prevent it?!"

From Emperor Hongzhi to the following officials, all of them were pale, and their hands were trembling uncontrollably...

How to prevent this? !A cannon shot came from three miles away, and it was impossible for the cavalrymen who watched the firearms to rush to the front of the man just now...

If there are more than [-] warships landing from Jinmen, and then directly attacking the capital...

In an instant, everyone felt as if their hearts were being held tightly by someone, and they couldn't breathe!

"My lords, why do you think I want His Majesty to arrest those maritime merchants who colluded with Japanese pirates?!"

Young Master Zhang's hoarse and cold voice sounded again: "Because the Europa man I came into contact with has already spoken clearly!"

"What does this mean?! It means that we Daming people taught him, who can teach him who has never been to Daming?! There is only one answer..."