It's just that the furniture inside is all pieced together by each family - the carpentry work is the slowest, and everyone has to make do with it first.

……

As soon as the two sides exchanged a few words, Zhang Yan came over in a four-person sedan chair.

"King Ding, Nanyang has been recaptured, and the Ming banner should be raised!" Zhang Yan didn't wait for Zhu Cijiong to meet her, and took the lead in speaking.

"What my aunt said is very true, the child came back this time, and it is for this matter!"

Zhu Cijiong personally supported this former queen, who still had charm and looked like a young woman, and let her sit on the right side of the main seat.

"The country is ruined, I, a useless old woman, are about to cry blind in a pair of eyes!"

Zhang Yan made a straight face: "Jiong'er, if you don't listen to it, you are the eldest mother who carried it here from the Beijing division step by step, without your eldest mother, there would be no you today!"

I can watch you recapture the country with my own eyes, even if the eldest mother is dead, she will smile at Jiuquan! ”

Zhu Cijiong bent down and bowed, the beautiful woman in front of him, the toughness in his bones, he admired it very much!

It is this woman who is so glamorous that she is known as one of the "Four Great Queens" in history, in the real history, she died of exhaustion in the queen's township between Nanzhao and Fangcheng, and left the legend that Empress Zhang died as a queen for a day in the local area.

The Qing court's literary prison at its peak for more than 150 years made the legend of Zhang Yan's nephew fleeing Henan cloudy.

Peeling back the cocoons and peeling aside the history that has been endlessly smeared and covered, we can see that even the unrecognizable case of the third prince of Zhu that was revised by the Qing court also left an account of Zhu Cijiong's exile in Henan and his escape to Fengyang......

"Although the eldest mother is the aunt of the child, in the heart of the child, the eldest mother is like the child's own mother, the Ming Dynasty will be established, and the eldest mother should be the Queen Mother of the Ming Dynasty!"

At this moment, what Zhu Cijiong was in front of was no longer a beautiful daughter, but an optimus pillar!

He put away all his reverie and bowed down with a sincere face.

Zhang Yan's face flushed, and she hurriedly said: "Jiong'er can't talk nonsense, Sister Zhou is the real Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Zhu Cijiong shook his head, although the original owner was the son of Queen Zhou, he should have established Queen Zhou as the Queen Mother, but Queen Zhou had committed suicide and could only be posthumously; Second, his cheap grandfather is really chilling.

Besides, he can now confirm that the elders who are still alive are Zhang Yan alone!

Besides, the Zhang family behind Zhang Yan also needs to give reassurance, because only Zhang Yan is the most suitable for the position of the queen mother!

"Mother, who else is you?" Zhu Cijiong firmly blocked Zhang Yan's rebuttal and turned to look at everyone.

"Zhang Siyuan listens to orders!" Zhu Cijiong straightened his face and said in a solemn voice.

Zhang Siyuan hurriedly walked to the hall and bent down to bow: "Minister Zhang Siyuan respectfully listens to His Highness's holy message!" ”

"The lone king wants to announce to the world that the Ming Dynasty will be officially rebuilt, and you will be limited to prepare everything within three days!"

"Command!" Zhang Siyuan was overjoyed.

Don't look at the three days are very tight, and the red tape can't be prepared at all.

However, at this time, it was wartime, everything should be simple, he only needed to prepare the Temple of Heaven, the Taimiao, and the palace that served as the palace.

With the size of Baishui Zhang's family, with all his strength, this is not too difficult.

"Li Tingran obeyed the order!" Zhu Cijiong looked at Li Tingran.

Li Tingran stood up and hurriedly bent down to bow: "Minister Li Tingran listens to His Highness's holy message!" ”

Zhu Cijiong opened his mouth and said: "Command the Quartet, select meritorious soldiers from all departments in this battle, gallop to Nanyang to receive honors, and participate in the founding ceremony!" ”

"Know all the ministries, arrange manpower, strictly guard against the movement of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, and must not relax the defense of the various ministries, and the personnel left behind in each ministry will be upgraded to one level!"

Li Tingran said in a deep voice: "The minister's order! ”

……

Half of the artisan camp at Laohugou stayed in place and expanded to continue producing muskets, while the other half moved to Nanyang.

After taking Nanyang, the blacksmiths from all over the country were gathered, and at this time, there were more than 3,000 skilled craftsmen and more than 10,000 apprentices in the craftsmen's camps in the two places.

Among them, only sixty-two people could make muskets, and only three could make cannons.

……

In the Nanyang craftsman workshop, three masters who can make cannons, were brought to Zhu Cijiong.

"What artillery did you all make?"

Zhu Cijiong asked.

The three old craftsmen, all with brown spots on their faces, are unique to blacksmiths...... For a long time, he has been in the company of hot iron, picking up a sledgehammer and dancing wildly.

When is there not one or two burns left on the body?

"King, the small one can make a furlong machine independently.

The little one once made a redcoat cannon for someone, and if I were to explore it, I would be able to build it. ”

A bearded man on the left spoke.

"Oh? What is your name? Zhu Cijiong immediately became interested.

The Furlong machine is a rear-loading gun, with a hole in the tail, and when firing, the gunpowder is loaded into the sub-gun first, and then only the sub-gun needs to be replaced to continue firing, which is a very fast rate of fire.

"Back to the king, the little one's name is Wu Tiexing, because when my mother gave birth to me, my father was burned by Mars when he was striking iron, so he gave me the name of Tiexing.

When I used to be in the craftsman's workshop, I used to use a sledgehammer, so everyone else called me Wu sledgehammer. ”

Zhu Cijiong nodded, wrote down this very distinctive name, and then turned to the next one: "You can also introduce yourself." ”

"Big ...... The king, the little one is named Ding Wei, and the little one used to be a scholar, not a craftsman's workshop. The little one had built a cannon for King Chuang before, and they called it the attack cannon. ”

Ding Wei, who is in his fifties and has a scar on his chin, said.

He was originally a scholar, and when Zhang Xianzhong occupied Hexi (Gucheng), he escaped the river.

But he was taken away by Zuo Liangyu and filled into the rear camp to make weapons, and gradually Ding Wei learned the craft, and was later captured by Li Zicheng.

His experience is also a cookie, Zhu Cijiong nodded secretly, and wrote down this person, a literate person, and there are very few blacksmiths!

The last person is named Fan Jiazhu. But it was a local blacksmith, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a great chaos, and all the big clans around the country were armed with their families in order to protect themselves, so he built a lot of earthen cannons for people.

These three people can tell the advantages and disadvantages at a glance, although they are not masters, but there is no craftsman camp here in Nanyang, and there are very few people who know how to cast artillery!

Make do with it, these three people can use it too!

Zhu Cijiong asked, "How did you all cast the cannon?" ”

The latter two said that they would only use the clay mold method, and only Wu Dazhui said that he would use the forging method to make cannons.

Since ancient times, there are three methods of casting, "model", "melting casting", and "clay fan".

The clay mold method has been used by Chinese craftsmen for thousands of years, and even the iron mold method and the lost wax method have been used for a long time.

It's just that the craftsmen of China have always respected keeping a hand, so this advanced method is extinct if you keep it.