I, the grandson of the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, earned 100 million taels at the beginning

Zhu Di did not expect Zhu Zhangui's ideal and lightest artillery to be stronger than the active general Zhankou.

"Little brat, are you sure your artillery can meet your requirements? This is not a joke, it is related to the future fate of our Daming."

Zhu Zhangui nodded very positively.

If steel from the Ming Dynasty was used, Zhu Zhangui could not guarantee that these artillery could reach this range.

If you want the artillery to have a longer range, the amount of charge must be increased.

The quality of steel in the Ming Dynasty is really not good to be honest.

Making weapons and armor is no problem.

But if it is used to make artillery, and it is such a long-range artillery, Zhu Zhangui would not dare to take the risk.

Even if the craftsmen made it, Zhu Zhangui did not dare to equip the army with these artillery that could explode at any time.

"Whoosh..."

Seeing Zhu Zhangui nodding, the old man was breathing heavily.

He couldn't help fantasizing in his mind, if the artillery of the Ming army could really reach the level that Zhu Zhangui said, then in the whole world, who could stop his footsteps.

The old man has always had a heart disease.

Every time I look at the frontiers of the dynasties in history and the maps of the frontiers of the Ming Dynasty, the old man feels awkward.

Small, too small!

Not to mention the vast and boundless Yuan Dynasty, even the peak period of the Song Dynasty could not be compared.

The old man who has always looked down on the Song Dynasty, how could he tolerate such a result.

The old man was obsessed with the reason for the Northern Expedition, that he wanted to lay down a large territory and tell future generations to tell his dead father.

I, Zhu Di, am no worse than any emperor in history.

I am even stronger than them, and I have conquered more territory than them.

It's a pity, now that he is over half a hundred years old, the territory of Daming is still about the same as when his father was alive.

To be honest, Zhu Di was a little anxious.

Given Daming's current situation, he was really ashamed or afraid to see Zhu Yuanzhang.

So he urgently needs a sharp weapon to break the impasse in front of him, so that before he dies, he can lay down a large territory for future generations.

Similarly, it is also good to prove to future generations, to the dead Zhu Yuanzhang.

I, Zhu Di, am a qualified emperor, stronger than most of the emperors in history, and even a hundred times stronger than the Zhu Yunqi appointed by you old man.

"Make... must make!"

The more Zhu Di thought about it, the more excited he became. He pressed Zhu Zhangui's shoulder, and said in a firm tone, "Little brat, I will give you whatever you want, grandpa. The only thing grandpa asks you is that I want to see you during the Northern Expedition." These artillery guns appear."

Zhu Zhangui nodded seriously.

"Grandpa, don't worry, you will be able to see it, and Mahamu will be the first batch of sacrifices for the new guns and artillery, and the same batch of guns and artillery will also become the most powerful help on your road to greatness."

Zhu Zhangui's assurance made Zhu Di's blood boil.

"Hahaha...well, grandpa is looking forward to that day."

He patted Zhu Zhangui's shoulder heavily, and the old man promised: "In order to make these guns and artillery appear as soon as possible, I will ask everyone in the Ministry of Industry to cooperate with you fully. Whoever dares to violate your order is to violate Grandpa's order. The Minister of the Ministry will never tolerate it."

"As many craftsmen as you want, just let the Ministry of Industry mobilize. How much money and how much iron do you need? Go to Xia Yuanji. If he doesn't give it to you, you can come to me directly, and I will talk to him in person."

"My only request to you is that before the Northern Expedition, I want to see these guns and artillery."

After explaining about the artillery and firearms, the old man suppressed the excitement in his heart, took out a memorial and handed it to Zhu Zhangui.

"Look at this!"

Zhu Zhangui took it curiously, opened it and took a quick glance.

The content is very simple. It tells that in Fujian, many villages were harassed by Japanese pirates, and even the shipyards that built Zheng He's fleet were attacked.

The Fujian Guards have repeatedly encircled and suppressed, but unfortunately the results are few.

This gang of Japanese pirates is as slippery as loaches. Every time before the troops from the guard station arrive, these gangsters will run away completely.

A few times they deliberately set up ambush circles, and these Japanese pirates seemed to know it in advance, and they were not fooled at all.

In desperation, Fujian could only write a letter to Zhu Di, hoping that the imperial court would send someone to deal with the matter, or request the Japanese side to control the subjects and stop harassing the border of Ming Dynasty.

After reading the content of the memorial, Zhu Zhangui looked at the old man thoughtfully.

"Are you sure this is really a Japanese pirate."

Zhu Di smiled slightly.

"I said he is, he is. You have been in the sea for so many years, you must know this kind of people very well, so I plan to leave this matter to you."

"I don't care what method you use, my request is that no more Japanese pirates are allowed to appear in Daming."

Hearing the old man's words, Zhu Zhangui narrowed his eyes happily.

Fighting Japanese pirates and pirates is his favorite.

Noticing Zhu Zhangui's expression, the old man reminded: "Your great-grandfather listed the Wa country as a country that will not be conquered, you little bastard, don't mess around, let other foreign countries know that we conquer the country of subjects, I'm afraid they will feel dissatisfied what."

Zhu Zhangui grinned when he heard this.

"Grandpa, what you said, I naturally dare not disobey the ancestral precepts of my great-grandfather."

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows, knowing that there must be something behind this kid.

"However, I heard that the Wa Kingdom is surrounded by the sea. If you have never been to the sea, you don't know that there are many pirates on this sea, and they are very courageous."

"Not to mention some ordinary merchant ships, even some small countries are often looted by pirates."

"Wo Kingdom, a country facing the sea on all sides, must have been targeted by some big pirates, and it will probably be sooner or later that it will be plundered and slaughtered."

After listening to Zhu Zhangui's nonsense, Zhu Di pretended to be stupefied and nodded, and then said sympathetically: "Oh, poor Waguo, I will write a letter of comfort later, and comfort them well, anyway, their Waguo is also ours. The vassal state, they have been hurt so much, it is unreasonable not to comfort them."

Zhu Zhangui nodded in agreement, and at the same time reminded in a low voice: "Grandpa, the pirates haven't gone yet, so don't write your comfort letter too early, or it will be a joke."

The old man asked Zhu Zhangui nonchalantly as if I was doing things and you were at ease.

"How much money do you think the pirates will loot from Wa?"

Zhu Zhangui stared.

This old man is really serious. He was thinking about splitting the money before he even started to deal with the matter.

After all, the Japanese country is also your vassal country. After suffering so much, you, as the boss, don’t feel bad for a while. It’s really unreasonable to care about how much money the pirates took.

Zhu Di sneered: Heh, the brat wants to have it all to himself, not to mention the door, even the windows.

Chapter 68: Artillery test firing, again cheated by this little bastard.

The pirate organization, the Japanese pirates, has never stopped from the appearance to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and has accompanied almost all the history of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, there are not many Japanese people among the real Japanese pirates, and most of them are from Ming Dynasty.

To be precise, those families of smuggling and maritime trade.

Due to the ban on the sea in the Ming Dynasty, except for paying tribute, the government did not allow boats to do business.

But money touches people's hearts, and this kind of thing can't be banned at all.

In the beginning, there were only a small number of Japanese pirates. Later, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty moved north, the control over the south gradually weakened.

Those aristocratic families and officials who were looking for money began to organize teams to smuggle trade.

On the way of sailing, if you encounter a weak or opponent's team, these smuggling teams will immediately turn into pirates.

Even later, some families felt that the business was not fast enough, or in order to solve competitors and deal with some dark matters, they specially raised pirate forces.

This is also the origin of most of the Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the Wa country is such a big place, and such a huge pirate force is really all Japanese people, so why should they be pirates, wouldn't it be nice to go back to their hometown to dominate one side?

Zhu Di understands this, and so does Zhu Zhangui.

The reason why Zhu Di wanted to target the Wa country, mainly to the destination, was to teach him a lesson.

Some time ago, at the banquet welcoming the envoys from various countries, the Japanese envoys boldly wanted to ask for the land of Daming. This made Zhu Di very dissatisfied, and decided to let his grandson teach him a lesson, so that these short winter melons would understand that Daming is not Anyone can be provoked.

Of course, it would be even better if you could loot a wave of money and get it back.

It's just that Zhu Di didn't know that Zhu Zhangui was very concerned about the Wa Kingdom.

When the fleet returned, Zhu Zhangui wanted to go to the Wa country.

It's a pity that Zheng He stubbornly stopped him.

Now that he got Zhu Di's secret promise, how could Zhu Zhangui not be excited.

Zhu Zhangui is an absolute cynic.

Most of the countries that he slaughtered along the coast were small countries that had harmed the people of the Han family.

Regarding the white-eyed wolves who had hurt the people of the Han family, Zhu Zhangui would kill one by one, and the methods were absolutely ruthless.

Some people may have said that harming the people of the Han family is a matter for their descendants, and it has nothing to do with them.

Zhu Zhangui doesn't care about this, in his opinion, they are all the same species, and they are not good people anyway.

Now that he has the opportunity to deal with a bigger enemy, Zhu Zhangui has already begun to plan in his heart which cities he will attack.

This wave of Zhu Zhangui's past has prevented Wogua country from flowing into rivers of blood. Zhu Zhangui will be sorry for those Jinling people who died tragically.

Although I really want to take people there immediately, but the current situation does not allow.

The most urgent thing for the Ming Dynasty is to deal with the bastards in the north first.

Zhu Zhangui thought about it for a moment, and decided to go to the north with the old man first, and then go back to entertain these Japanese pirates.

When the emperor gave an order, the entire court instantly moved.

Although Song Li, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, had some opinions on this purpose, he felt that it was a waste of manpower to gather all the craftsmen to build artillery.

But the decree is the decree.

Even if he has an idea, he has to keep it.

Zhu Zhangui has not been idle these days, and spent most of his time in the camp in the south of the city.

While receiving the delivered iron materials, it provides various types of steel pipes to the craftsmen.

In order to improve efficiency, Zhu Zhangui arranged shifts for the craftsmen.

And the assembly line is adopted to unify various sizes, allowing craftsmen to produce various parts in batches.

I have to say that the efficiency and obedience rate of Daming's craftsmen are really high.

In just two days, they got used to this kind of production intensity.

On the third day, skilled production began.

With the cooperation of more than 100 veteran craftsmen and their apprentices, more than 100 rifles can be assembled in one day.

And the artillery is progressing very fast.

The steel pipe provided by Zhu Zhangui does not have any burrs and edges, and is exactly the same as the polished one.

Whatever size and length you need, any side of the supermarket will provide it according to your requirements.

On Zhu Zhangui's side, only later modification and external reinforcement are required.

After a few days of processing, research and comparison, with the efforts of dozens of old craftsmen, all three types of artillery were manufactured except for one sample.

"Grandpa, these three are samples of the standard artillery that our Ming Dynasty will equip in the future."

On the second day after the artillery sample was manufactured, Zhu Zhangui invited the old man over.

The old man was in a hurry, and urged him several times a day.

"Good... good... good..."

Looking at the three mighty and domineering cannons exuding a violent aura, the old man applauded with satisfaction.

The three cannons are light artillery with a length of 1.5 meters and a caliber of 60, a medium-sized artillery with a length of 90 meters and a caliber of 150, and a heavy artillery with a maximum length of [-] meters and a caliber of [-].

"Nephew, you can really hit eight miles with this thing, why don't I believe it?"