I am the king of the dead

"Your Majesty's decree is only to let us come to Nanyang and Xiyang to restore the trade routes during the Yongle period."

"It's really too dangerous."

Tang Xing said with a smile: "I, Tang Xing, am a born adventurer. I know the dangers at sea better than you. I have made sufficient preparations, and His Majesty has given me full support. This is not an adventure, but an exploration."

"If we can meet again, it will at least prove one thing! The land and ocean under our feet are really a ball, what a wonderful thing?"

"I wish you a smooth journey." Liu Yongcheng stood up and hammered Tang Xing's shoulder and said, "A born adventurer!"

A smooth journey is the best wish. Five days later, Tang Xing left Chen Lunpo with this blessing, left the ferry of Kaileni River, and headed towards the endless sea.

"Bastard! Tang Xing, you bastard! You bastard!" Jin Canju broke free from the two riders like crazy, and rushed into the sea. The two riders rushed to rescue him, and Jin Canju didn't drown in the sea.

When Tang Xing left, he left the harbor with twelve three-masted ships, except Jin Canju.

Instead, Tiqi locked her up and prevented her from doing stupid things.

Tang Xing is an unrestrained man who loves freedom. Today, he cannot be restrained by the bureau, nor by children. He yearns for freedom, respects freedom, and practices freedom. Humans are born free.

After Tang Xing left, Jin Shenju just cried for a while, and then he was like a walking corpse. After more than a month like this, Jin Shenju still looked foolish.

Liu Yongcheng looked at the bewildered Jinyu, and said helplessly: "Commander Tang was also afraid of your danger, and when he left, he specifically told our family to ask you to go back to Songjiang Mansion and wait for him. He will definitely come back!"

"Just like attacking the palace this time, don't you know your man? The sea is his home."

"He can go back and forth between Ryukyu and Wa in a single-masted boat by himself. You know his ability better than our family."

This is the silver bracelet on her wrist, which is one of the few gifts Tang Xing gave her. It was made by Tang Xing himself with Japanese silver when he was in the Japanese country. It is not exquisite, but more Not beautiful, Tang Xing used such a thing to marry her.

But today's Shenju regards it as a treasure, even if the emperor gave Tang Xing many rare treasures, Jinju likes this silver bracelet.

Liu Yongcheng saw that there was no answer from the board today, so he could only talk to himself: "The boat escorting Xu Shimin will leave tomorrow, and you will go back to Daming with the boat, and there is one more thing, the accompanying imperial physician said that you are pregnant, this is a happy event, a happy event. "

"You have a child now, cheer up and be more energetic, otherwise Commander Tang will still want you when he sees you like this when he comes back?"

Jin Shenju was shocked suddenly, stood up, looked around, looked around and said: "He doesn't want me, he just thinks I'm ugly, yes... That's it, my eyebrow pencil, my rouge and gouache, give them to me quickly." I'll bring it here, find it for me quickly."

"I beg you, give it to me!"

It's going a little crazy today.

Liu Yongcheng stood up, in fact, when Tang Xing left, he didn't give too many instructions, probably only a few words, that is, after I left, my wife Ru Yangye.

Tang Xing entrusted the current participation in the bureau to this stubborn old man Liu Yongcheng. If Li Binyan was here, Tang Xing would definitely entrust it to Li Binyan. However, Li Binyan is just a chair in Ceylon and cannot be entrusted.

Liu Yongcheng walked out of the Thousand-foot Bamboo House in the bureau, looked at the sea on the line of sea and sky, which was the direction Tang Xing left, and muttered to himself: "Tang Xing, Tang Xing, you are such a bastard, such a troublesome thing Son, entrust me with what to do."

Because there is no need, Liu Yongcheng is not good at dealing with women, especially this half-crazy woman.

When the news came back to the capital, Zhu Qiyu was coaxing Zhu Jianying, the fifth princess born to Tang Yunyan. The child looked like Tang Yunyan, but her temper was even more similar. Whenever Zhu Qiyu hugged her, she would dance and dance, or cry loudly. She didn't want to be hugged by Zhu Qiyu with.

"Hey kid." Zhu Qiyu handed the fifth princess to Tang Yunyan, and Xing'an handed Zhu Qiyu a Tang newspaper.

"Tang Guozhang is so majestic!" Zhu Qiyu read half of the pond newspaper, and said with a smile: "It's amazing, the Daming Navy is in Colombo, and Xu Shimin, the king of Ceylon, doesn't know what's wrong. To meet the Daming Navy and attack the Daming Navy, Tang Guozhang led [-] cavalry to break through the palace, then captured the King of Ceylon, and now he has sent him back to Beijing!"

"it is good!"

Tang Yunyan fed the child, and said with a smile: "Daddy still has a bit of courage. If he receives an errand from the court but fails to do it well, he will always be laughed at by others. If you know Daddy's temper, you may want to fight with others." Immortal."

Zhu Qiyu is more than just the father-in-law of the country, but there is only such a Tang Xing.

"Huh?" Zhu Qiyu finally finished reading the Tang newspaper.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Qiyu put away the pond newspaper and said, "Tang Guozhang left the Jinshen Bureau in Ceylon, he is already half crazy, and he is pregnant again."

Tang Guozhang is Tang Guozhang, and the current participation in the bureau is the current participation in the bureau. They all have their own opinions. Tang Yunyan doesn't like her father marrying another, and she has never even met with the present. Strictly speaking, no matter how expensive Tang Guifei is, she is just A concubine, not a queen, not a wife, Tang Xing, the father of the Tang Dynasty, has a bad reputation.

Tang Yunyan took the pond newspaper handed over by her husband, read it for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "She is also a poor girl, she will get better, she is a mother, and she will get better when she has another one."

Zhu Qiyu actually didn't care whether Jinshenju was crazy or not. From the standpoint of the emperor, he only cared that Jinshenju didn't sit in the imperial order, so that Japanese silver could enter Daming more smoothly.

On December 12th of the [-]th year of Jingtai, the figure of Yuan Bin, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Feng Shanye, Yuan Gong, appeared in Tongzhou again, and returned to Beijing to return to his command once every five years. Because he was worried that the sea would freeze, he deliberately came back a few months early.

According to the idea of ​​the Ministry of Rites, since Yuan Bin is a substantive feudal vassal, he should enter Beijing through Chaoyang Gate instead of Desheng Gate.

But Yuan Bin thought that he was still in command of Jin Yiwei, so he was naturally still His Majesty's soldier, so he made a statement and asked the emperor to allow him to enter Desheng's gate.

Zhu Qiyu still wants to show Yuan Bin respect and let him go to Chaoyangmen. After all, the present is not what it used to be. Yuan Bin has already achieved success and fame. Anyone who can understand Chinese knows that this is the bravest man in Ming Dynasty. Zhu Qiyu wrote the canonization edict himself. , named Yuan Bin as Shanye Yuan Gongfang, and even wrote the imperial edict to make Yuan Bin the king of Japan.

In the early morning of the next day, Yuan Bin entered Beijing from Desheng Gate and met His Majesty in the lecture hall.

Yuan Bin insisted on following the Deshengmen, so Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to criticize Yuan Bin's statement. Yuan Bin really wanted to be the official of the Japanese kingdom, and he had already entered the shrine to kill the emperor, took the emperor's bird position, and sorted out the famous names at home and abroad. Ask Daming again, please seal it, instead of letting the Wa country go on in such a mess.

Zhu Qiyu didn't care about the Wa Kingdom, and Yuan Bin actually didn't care either. He went to the Wa Kingdom just to let the Wa Yin enter the Ming Dynasty smoothly.

"Sit down quickly." Zhu Qiyu looked at Yuan Bin, then at Lu Zhong and said, "Yuan Bin, Lu Zhong said that when he was in Nanya last time, he had a match with you, and he won. .”

"I don't believe it, unless you have a fight."

Yuan Bin did not care to admit that he had passed his prime, and that it was not a shame to admit that he was no longer as brave as before. He said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I am ten years older than Dudu Lu. You really can't beat him."

"Your Majesty, when it comes to life-and-death fights, Yuan Gongfang is still the best. After all, he was fought in battle." Lu Zhong said politely.

Practicing martial arts is not for fighting fiercely, let alone to compare who is better or not. Practicing martial arts is to defend the territory of Ming Dynasty, to defend the homeland, and to settle the affairs of the king. This is martial arts.

"I'm using the gun now." Yuan Bin thought for a while and said.

Zhu Qiyu took out a Tang newspaper and handed it to Yuan Bin, saying: "Commander Tang defeated the Ceylon army in Ceylon and captured the king of Ceylon, but when he left Hong Kong for Manbasa, he left the current bureau behind. .”

After reading the Tang newspaper, Yuan Bin shook his head and said, "This is stealing my tactics!"

The method of beheading has existed in ancient times. For example, in the 36 strategies: destroy its strength, seize its head, and break its body.The dragon fights in the wild, and its way is poor. To win the first prize is to capture the thief and the king.

With the continuous development of the times, the beheading tactics during the Jingtai period were indeed initiated by Yuan Bin. When Yuan Bin returned to the Yibei camp, he planned to behead King Jili.

Chapter 955 Jingtai Type [-] and [-] Fixed Fire Guns

Yuan Bin didn't want to use the big fire blunderbuss before, because he was powerful in force and young in the world, even if he didn't have the fire blunderbuss, it didn't affect his invincibility.

But the Ming army was not willing to use firecrackers before, and the household department in charge of logistics and supplies did not like the Ming army's use of artillery guns in the past.

The previous Daming fire blunderbuss could not be used when it was windy or rainy, and could not adapt to the complex battlefield environment. However, the quality of the gunpowder before the Ming Dynasty was not good, which was not conducive to long-term storage. Over time, stratification would appear. Gunpowder, even fireworks and firecrackers cannot be made, and expensive gunpowder has become a pile of waste, which is not suitable for long-term storage.But in actual use, you have to reload after firing a shot, and it takes a long time to reload. In the moment of life and death on the battlefield, who has time to let you reload slowly?But because of the quality of the gunpowder and gunpowder, how much to load depends entirely on the feeling.

For all the above reasons, the tactics of firecrackers and cannons are destined to be used only by elites in a small area, and this is the reason why only the Shenji Battalion of the three major battalions of the capital has equipped firearms on a large scale.

After the entire Beijing camp was annihilated, the Daming Beijing Camp was reorganized. After the reorganization, the Ministry of Industry, Shijing Factory, and the Ten History Bureaus have been working hard to improve the various drawbacks of firearms. Every time a problem is solved, let the firearms This kind of firearm is more suitable for the battlefield. Until now, 12 years have passed, and the martial arts hall has proposed many possibilities around the combination of firecrackers and artillery. The battle method that has been tested on the battlefield is to line up and shoot.

The army, the most sophisticated killing machine of mankind, pursues the simplest and most efficient way to kill the enemy.

Zhu Qiyu stood up and said to Yuan Bin: "Let's go, let's try the bird blunderbuss sent by the Bingzhan Bureau. At first, the Bingzhan Bureau said that it was called the Jingtai [-]-style fixed-mounted blunderbuss. I asked them to take the Jingtai [-] If the first word is removed, it will be a fixed-mounted firecracker of the first and second styles."

"This is a firecracker that will be mass-produced. It is ready to be fully installed in the entire Beijing camp, and all the old equipment in the Beijing camp will be handed over to the frontier army for use."

Two small yellow gates cleared the way in front, Zhu Qiyu and Yuan Bin talked about all kinds of interesting things about the Japanese country, until they came to the shooting range of the school grounds, and a set up long gun appeared in front of Zhu Qiyu.

If Yuan Bin's green bludgeon, long and short, has the gorgeous style of green scorpion animal head, then the style of the one or two fixed-mounted blunderbusses in front of him, which is about to be installed on a large scale, is a minimalist style. , without any extra accessories, without complicated patterns, minimalism does not mean simple, but simple and durable.

Yuan Bin's green gun was broken, and the emperor of Ming wanted to make up ten or eight sets for him, but the ordinary sergeants of the Ming army did not have such conditions. became inevitable.

Zhu Qiyu picked up one or two fixed-mounted firecrackers, patted and said: "The gun stock is made of teak wood. The teak wood from Luchuan can not only make durable ships, but also can be used to make gun stocks. Seamless steel pipe is used, and the entire bolt is made of high-quality spring steel and brass."

The teak wood of the gun stock has been steam-dried and soaked in tung oil, showing a red color with wood grain, which is still red in Ming Dynasty. This teak red color is not bright, but rather calm. The teak wood comes from Wanli Haitang, Jiaozhi, Luchuan and other places. Most of the tung oil is produced in Guizhou and Huguang, but the production of gun stocks is in Songjiang Prefecture, which is the distribution center of Daming Department Store.

The seamless steel tube of the gun barrel replaces the previous cupronickel. The production of the steel tube is extremely complicated. The seamless steel tube comes from Liaodong Benxi Tieshan in the Liaodong factory. It brought a lot of surprises. Daming suffered a severe copper shortage, and only Benxi Tieshan could provide the best iron materials.

The gun mechanism is completely made by the Bingzhan Bureau, and spring steel is still the specialty of Shijing Factory in the capital of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu patted the firecracker and said: "The craftsmen of Bingzhan Bureau made a side cut on the inside of the butt to make it easier to aim, and the gun is made of copper for maintenance. The gun made of steel is easy to rust, and it is still cupronickel." It is more reliable, the steel pipe and the steel hoop of the butt are consumables, but the operation is simple, and it is very convenient to disassemble, replace and maintain.”

"In the process of using firecrackers for a long time, I found that our Ming soldiers all cherish their firecrackers and maintain them like family heirlooms."

The Ministry of Households counts the reported loss rate of the Beijing camp every year. This figure is so low that Zhu Qiyu wonders if the Ministry of Households is fooling him. After checking it himself, he finds out that it is neither the Ministry of Households fooling him nor the general of the Beijing camp. , The commanders concealed the report, but the damage of Daming's firecrackers is so low.

This firecracker should be a consumable item, but the soldiers of Ming Dynasty used it as a long-term armament.

This has to mention that the Yongle-made pistol that Yu Qian gave to His Majesty the Emperor, it has been more than 40 years, and it is still brand new. It is put on the Xianyu of later generations. It has to be marked as a new one for a girl's own use. The fire blunderbuss is nothing Good luck, in the process of experimenting with new gunpowder, Zhu Qiyu blasted him in the chest.

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "The whole gun weighs nine catties, its total length is four feet five inches and three cents, the barrel length is three feet three inches and nine cents, and the caliber is five cents and four centimeters. The different shapes of lead are also the spherical lead bullets ordered by Shijing Factory, and our sergeants don’t need to grind the lead bullets if they have nothing to do.”

Zheng Xu Dun, the inspector of the Qintian Supervisor, quickly waved his hands and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you still have to grind it. Although the barrel of this gun is not bad at all, there will inevitably be burrs on the lead, which will easily wear out the barrel, so you still have to grind it. "

Zhu Qiyu spread his hands and said to Xu Dun: "Of course I know that the lead bullets I use are all ground by myself, but I don't go to the battlefield. With this skill to grind lead bullets, the soldiers usually work very hard. , how can there be time to grind? When it is worn out, you can change a barrel, and you don’t have much money, and you spend all day digging and digging, it’s a consumable!”

Xu Dun wanted to refute, but in the end he hesitated and didn't say anything.

The lead bullets used by His Majesty were all ground by the supreme Emperor Ming himself, and Yizhao looked up to him and acted accordingly. In the minds of many soldiers, grinding lead bullets was not only for protecting the barrel of a gun, but also for a purpose. This kind of etiquette, more commonly speaking, is consecration.

This logic is very meticulous. Emperor Gao and Emperor Wen all claimed that he was the reincarnation of Emperor Zhenwu, and His Majesty also took the title of Emperor Zhenwu. If Emperor Zhenwu used blunderbusses to grind lead bullets, wouldn't the sergeants grinding lead bullets be congratulations?

This is more accurate!

His Majesty has time to sharpen lead bullets even though His Majesty has a lot to do, no matter how busy the sergeants are, they can still find time to sharpen them.

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "The sulfur sent by the Japanese country is of high quality, and it is all processed in the Japanese country. It can be used directly in Daming. The Tai Hospital also specially made sulfur bath beans and sulfur soap, which are really good. , Our gunpowder can now be wrapped in paper and packed in paper, and the country of Wa also contributed."

Zhu Qiyu is very grateful for the Japanese silver and brimstone sent by the Japanese country, so he hopes that the Japanese country can maintain the status quo and provide Japanese silver and sulfur continuously and steadily.

Packing gunpowder in paper was finally used on a large scale with the increase in productivity in the Ming Dynasty. This is due to the uniform specifications of gun barrels, bolts, and lead bullets, and the improvement in accuracy. It has become a kind of armament that can be deployed on a large scale, not a possibility.

In the past, only the Tiqis could use the fixed gunpowder. The armaments of the Tiqis were standard armaments. After Jingtai completed the refitting 14 years later, the first and second types of fixed gunpowder will continue to refit the frontier troops.

Zhu Qiyu picked up the long bayonet on the table and said: "The last is this front-mounted boring knife, a bayonet that can be mounted on a firecracker. This is the most popular modification of the first and second type of fixed-mounted firecrackers this time."

A bayonet that can be mounted on the firecracker has become the most popular modification. Of course Zhu Qiyu knew the need, but after sending out a small-scale experiment, this bayonet was highly praised. Among all the inspections, the sergeants liked it the most. The reason given for this bayonet is that lead bullets are fools and bayonets are heroes.

It's not Zhu Qiyu's turn to object to what the soldiers who use ordnance like.

"Come and try." Zhu Qiyu handed Yuan Bin a long blunderbuss, took one for himself, began to fill the gun with ammunition, and then fired. It was divided into [-]-step target and [-]-step target. Zhu Qiyu's hand was very steady. Buckshot whizzed across the shooting range, fell on the steel target and passed through.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Qiyu put down the firecracker. During this quarter of an hour, Zhu Qiyu fired a total of 46 lead bullets.

"Report the target." Zhu Qiyu looked at the little yellow gate and signaled that he could go and check the target report, and the papers hanging on the target were taken back one by one.

"Yuan Gongfang's [-]-step target, [-] shots on the target, [-]% of the target, [-] shots from the [-]-step target, [-]% of the target." Xing'an put Yuan Bin's target paper in front of His Majesty for inspection and put it away In front of Zhu Qiyu.

Soon Zhu Qiyu's results came out, and Xing'an put the target papers one by one in front of his Majesty and said: "Your Majesty, with a target of fifty steps, you will get 23 shots on the target, and you will get 23% of the target, and you will get [-] shots on the target at a hundred steps. Ten percent of the target."

Zhu Qiyu laughed angrily when he saw it, pointed at the target papers and said: "Xing'an! You took out the trick of pawn pushing on the chessboard again? This cheating is just cheating. It's nothing more than fooling me on weekdays. This foreigner is here Well, you are fooling too."

"I didn't..." Xing'an immediately became impatient, he really didn't deceive the emperor!

It's not surprising that the referee likes to make rulings in favor of His Majesty. It's fine to fool the emperor a little on weekdays, but with the minister here, such a target rate is a bit fooling people.

This is really because Zhu Qiyu misunderstood Xing'an, he didn't coax His Majesty to play, and he didn't cheat today, His Majesty just played accurately...

Zi didn't say anything strange, but His Majesty's blunderbuss was so accurate, Lu Zhong sometimes thought, could it be that His Majesty is really the reincarnation of Emperor Zhenwu?Last time in Hukou County, His Majesty shot Dabutou Jinsan, and he hit the opponent's heart with a single shot. The distance was at least fifty paces.

"You guys, just coax me every day." Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said to Yuan Bin: "One or two fixed-mounted firecrackers, if you hit the target with [-]% of the fifty steps, you are considered qualified, and if you hit the target with [-]%, you are a god." Shooter, in the dense battle formation, the combined hit rate exceeds [-]%, as long as you hit, you will either die or be injured."

"In the face of the big fire gun array, charging means death."

Zhu Qiyu knew the hit rate of the Daming fire blunderbuss, so he said that Xing'an was coaxing him. Before he came to Daming, Zhu Qiyu was a teacher. The school held a sports meeting. When the 1000-meter race was held, the physical education teacher who ran in front was at the finish line. Suddenly, he stumbled with his left foot and fell down with his right foot. The principal came out on top and won the championship!

After Yuan Bin heard about it, he was stunned for a moment. He found that his military skills were a little behind. After leaving Daming for so many years, he actually felt like a world away. His Majesty said that it doesn't matter whether he queued up to shoot or the overall hit rate , to Yuan Bin, is a very new thing.

"Is this a tiger squatting cannon?" Yuan Bin looked at what looked like a tiger squatting cannon and asked incredulously.

Zhu Qiyu also looked at the cannon on the ground with a complicated face and said: "It's made by the military battle. It can be regarded as a tiger squat cannon. It is used by individual soldiers. It can be operated by one person. It is weaker than the traditional tiger squat cannon in power, but it is portable. It surpasses the tiger squatting cannon, if it is said to be a swarm, it is more powerful than the tiger squatting cannon."

It is probably a tiger squatting cannon and a swarm of bees. It is a bit like a mortar, but not as convenient as a mortar. In short, for Zhu Qiyu, this thing is also very abstract. This tiger squatting cannon is in the middle of the Tiqi After being installed in a small range, it has also received good comments and many suggestions for improvement.

Zhu Qiyu chatted with Yuan Bin for a long time, and Yuan Bin still couldn't find the mirror in the shrine in the Kingdom of Wa. He reported in detail about the output of the three major silver mountains of the Kingdom of Wa, and the new situation that the Kingdom of Wa recently faced with a large number of Ming merchants going to sea. Under the situation, all kinds of changes have taken place, in order to welcome the arrival of the great Ming maritime merchants, and because of the chaos in the Wa Kingdom, the industries of the traveling girls, Taifu, and Oiran in the Wa Kingdom have had a great impact on the North Korean Koryoji industry.

The vigorous and rapid development of the skin and meat business is also a silhouette of the rapid development of the Seto Inland Sea economic circle around the country of Japan.

In Yuan Bin's view, this kind of development is undoubtedly deformed, because most of the people in the Wa Kingdom are in dire straits, and the large number of compradors emerging around the Seto Inland Sea to satisfy the interests of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably become Wa Kingdom's cancer.

In this regard, Zhu Qiyu said that compradors should be supported, and at the same time they can obtain the unique resources of the Japanese country. Naturally, someone will bear the crime of suffering from the Japanese country. These compradors are the best scapegoats.

At the same time, Zhu Qiyu also reminded Yuan Bin that he should pay attention to recruiting refugees, adjusting the contradictions of various classes, and at the same time stabilizing Shan Ye Yuan Gongfang's detached position in the Japanese kingdom.

I don't care, but just a little bit, it's just for Shanye Yuan Gongfang's status in the country of Japan.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing. The sailor, Peng Sui, took six three-masted ships and twelve armed merchant ships with thousands of materials, and headed for the Great Eastern Ocean." After reporting the state affairs, Yuan Bin said one thing. little things.

In Ryukyu, Peng Sui observed that the drifting ducks returned to Ryukyu. After marking and releasing them many times, he captured the marked drifting ducks. Peng Sui judged that in the Great Eastern Ocean, there was a Cangming current that circulated. After the preparation of the time, Peng Sui, the boatman who discovered the Cangming Current, led an adventure team and set off towards the unknown.

The people of Ming Dynasty never lack people with adventurous spirit, because there are too many people of Ming Dynasty.

Daming's maritime policy has always been relatively vague, which led to a muddled state of maritime affairs before Daming, so the experience of adventurous adventurers cannot be widely spread.

But now, Daming is steadily entering the nautical exploration stage.

Chapter 956 Imperial franchise, melons and vines sit together