"Huh~~" In the main hall was Zhu Youxiao's violent wheezing, other than that, there was no other sound, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting next to him almost didn't dare to breathe, and the sound caused the emperor's anger. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Prepare the carriage and horses and go to the Tiangong Research Institute." After a long time, Zhu Youxiao calmed down and continued today's trip.

Tiangong Research Institute is Tiangong Workshop, after Xu Guangqi's drastic restructuring of the Inner Palace, all the manufacturing functions here were split and changed to a place for research technology, and the name was also changed.

Originally, he planned to go over there after getting up today, but he was just stopped by Luo Sigong and Wei Zhongxian, and heard an unpleasant news.

"I hope Xu Guangqi can surprise me." Zhu Youxiao looked forward to it in his heart. The news brought by Luo Sigong made him feel a little uneasy.

Since the other party is not a pure Japanese bandit, but a pirate gang gathered by scholars who escaped from the south of the Yangtze River, and occupies a certain geographical advantage in the local area, in this way, Yu Shigao and Qin Liangyu's counterinsurgency may have many twists and turns.

After this incident, Zhu Youxiao completely distrusted the army of the guard, not only in terms of combat effectiveness, but also in collusion with local forces and even foreign enemies to cause chaos in the localities, and even the minimum quality of the soldiers was completely lost. Although he had seen how low the quality of the soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty was in some materials, it was only information after all, but this time it was really happening in front of him.

The bad impression made him want to cancel all the guards now.

"It seems that the pace of the formation of the field army will be accelerated." On the way, Zhu Youxiao was thinking about the available troops at hand.

At present, in general, it has always been usable by the Yulin Army. The Dajing Division's urban defense force was formed with three major battalions and the Gyeonggi perimeter guard as the backbone, and it was quite effective to say, but this army had to protect the safety of the Gyeongswig Division and take over many Great Wall checkpoints in the north, and the task was tense and could not be used easily.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao is quite disdainful of the city defense army that still uses cold weapons, although the Beijing city defense army also practices spear phalanx, but the use of bows and arrows, rather than the use of firearms, makes Zhu Youxiao not want to use it.

The Yulin Army was about to enter Sichuan at the end of May to quell the rebellion, and the only thing that could be relied on without this force was the Hosoyanagi Army, which still had only a prototype in Zhu Youxiao's mind.

This name comes from Zhou Yafu's fine willow camp in the Han Dynasty, and the name has no specific meaning, but Zhu Youxiao simply thinks it sounds good, and his naming of the field army is like this.

In his vision, the Hosoyanagi army would be a pure firearms unit, on which he would cancel the phalanx of spear infantry and use all firearms, and in addition to cavalry, there would be no need for spearmen at all.

He is not one of those revolutionaries who started from everywhere and has no resources in his hands, he is the emperor, the most powerful person in this era, the resources of the whole world are at his disposal, and firearms are as many as he wants.

Nowadays, the manufacturing method of casting the barrel and the iron ring of the outer hoop is adopted, and the quality of the musket is much better, even better than that used by the Yulin Army, reaching a range of seventy paces, far exceeding that of ordinary bows and arrows. The establishment set by Colonel Zhu Youxiao for each field army is 50,000, and except for the 5,000 cavalry that must be equipped, all the others use strong artillery.

Use cavalry to protect the two wings, and then form a phalanx of muskets, think about it, if it is more than ten rows of battle lines, the Jurchen cavalry will not be able to rush at all, not to mention, he still has the big killer weapon of conscience cannon, although Zhu Youxiao said that he was resting these days, he was not really idle.

After a few days of careful consideration, he basically perfected his design, and now, he only needs to go to the Tiangong Research Institute to experiment.

This is also the main purpose of where he goes today, in addition to mastering the production of musket artillery, this is it.

"Hey, Lord Xu, where are you going?" Just as Zhu Youxiao was sitting in the carriage and thinking, he suddenly felt that the carriage stopped, and it was Liu Ruoyu's question.

"Dare to ask Grandpa Liu, is it Your Majesty in the car?" Immediately afterwards, Xu Guangqi's voice also came.

"But coincidentally, it was the saint in the car. Lord Xu is looking for the saint? Facing the red man in front of the emperor, Liu Ruoyu did not hide it, and told the other party directly, but he knew that His Majesty went to the Tiangong Research Institute today to find Xu Guangqi.

"That's really good, the old minister entered Beijing just to find His Majesty. I asked Gonggong Liu to pass the court, and said that the inner government ordered Xu Guangqi to ask to see. Xu Guangqi's somewhat tired voice came.

"Then Lord Xu wait a minute, let's go."

Soon, the curtain of the carriage door was lifted, and Liu Ruoyu opened his mouth and said, "Qi Qi Sheng, the inner government order ......" Before he could finish speaking, Zhu Youxiao directly interrupted.

"Needless to say, I heard it, you go and clear Xu Aiqing and take the same car with me."

This situation made Liu Ruoyu stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted, "Yes, Your Majesty, the slave and maid are retired." ”

"Careless, careless." After retreating, Liu Ruoyu was quite annoyed, "It's really careless to put people so close and make the voice of your majesty hear, fortunately it's Lord Xu this time, what if you have bad intentions at this moment?" ”

Although the emperor didn't say it, it is likely that the emperor didn't know such rules, but Liu Ruoyu still didn't take chances, but secretly blamed himself in his heart.

When the errand is not anywhere else by the emperor's side, there is no mistake, otherwise it will be a catastrophe, and after secretly waking up, Liu Ruoyu invited Xu Guangqi over.

"Your Majesty, the old minister." After getting into the car, Xu Guangqi reluctantly saluted, the space of the carriage was a little narrow, and many actions could not be performed.

"Aiqing doesn't need to be polite." Zhu Youxiao also knew this, and quickly stopped and let the other party be exempt.

"Aiqing came in a hurry, what is the matter?" Zhu Youxiao was the first to ask, he knew Xu Guangqi's temperament, and he would never come to him when there was no major event.

"Your Majesty, great joy, great joy!" Xu Guangqi's face was full of joy, "The method of open-hearth steelmaking delivered by His Majesty, the old minister has already groped his way out." Now a furnace of steel has been successfully smelted. ”

This news made Zhu Youxiao stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of joy, being able to make steel on a large scale, no matter how complicated and how high the cost, was a great thing for him.

A large amount of steel, the most direct effect is to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of his army, steel cuirass, swords, steel guns, steel cannons, etc., can be followed.

Although there are still many technical difficulties, it is also a hope that it is not.

"How does steel behave?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't wait to ask.

"This ...... The old minister couldn't tell for a while, but His Majesty would know when he went to take a look. Xu Guangqi replied.

"It's okay, you and I go together, I also have some ideas that need to be confirmed." Zhu Youxiao nodded in agreement.