A few people in the study room in the front hall said goodbye, but Zhu Gaoxu stopped Mr. Li and pointed to the official documents and reports piled up on the case: "In the future, these things will be seen by the Changshi Mansion first, and the important ones will be sorted out, marked and sorted out, and then sent here." ”

Mr. Li said, "Obey the king's orders." ”

In the past, Zhu Gaoxu was very easy to be a prince, he could do nothing and would not affect the operation of anything. But now it's different, the Han Wangfu actually controls three provinces, and it's at war, and there are a lot of official documents, and Zhu Gaoxu can't see it at all.

That's probably why the emperors had to delegate power to the bureaucrats, right? Of course, Ming Taizu is an exception, it is said that when he was sixty or seventy years old, he personally read every book every day, and he knew best the difficulty of starting a business, completely ignoring the hard work.

Mr. Li pondered for a moment, and then asked, "The next step of the army, the prince has already set a number?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes glanced at a map on the table, looked at the Huguang area, and said, "If I think about it again, you can tell me if you have any ideas." ”

Mr. Li bowed his hand and walked out of the study.

Zhu Gaoxu only opened a dossier presented by Xu Tao at this time, and when he saw it, it was full of small characters. Fortunately, the dossier is written in square block letters, which is very easy to read. Zhu Gaoxu flipped through a few pages casually, and found that they were all confessions, records of the assassin case in the Shu Palace. He took a deep breath and read page after page.

After all, Mu Sheng sent people all the way from Chengdu City to Yunnan, and this dossier was mostly a relatively important thing. The more Zhu Gaoxu looked down, the more interesting he felt. interrogated the confessions of various people, and pointed the behind-the-scenes instigator to the king of Shu!

The result is very strange.

There is a reasonable point, that is, in Chengdu City, the person who can successfully send assassins to the banquet of the Shu King's Mansion and can make the assassins kill themselves when they fail, the King of Shu is the most powerful. There are also inappropriate places, if the king of Shu really wants to assassinate Zhu Gaoxu, he can poison the food, or even let the assassin disguise himself as a slave who delivers the food, it will be easier to succeed.

Based on this dossier, Zhu Gaoxu had to make the following inference: the assassin was a person from the king of Shu, but the king of Shu did not want to assassinate anyone.

Such contradictory inferences made Zhu Gaoxu feel that the assassination incident was a play! The assassin played the role of a play, which was quite appropriate. It's a pity that just to put on a play for the powerful, you have to pay the price of your life, and the play is really a bit sad and pitiful.

Who is the play for? Although Zhu Gaoxu and Mu Sheng were in front of the stage at the time, it was not for them to see...... The audience is Zhu Gaochi, who is far away in Beijing.

If the rebellion of the Han Wangjun fails in the future, this play will be the time to see the light of day again. The king of Shu may jump out and prove his innocence to the imperial court: this king not only defended Chengdu, but also wanted to assassinate the king of Han after the defeat and destruction of the city, so as not to destroy the lives of the world!

If Han Wangjun succeeds, there will be no more audiences for the behind-the-scenes performance of the play.

Zhu Gaoxu still sat on his chair, staring at the file in front of him, and couldn't say a word for a long time. His mood was a little mixed.

After figuring out the stakes, Zhu Gaoxu was a little angry at first, and a little helpless: because he didn't dare to touch the king of Shu, otherwise he would make enemies for himself and make other vassal kings feel a sense of crisis.

But gradually

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, Zhu Gaoxu finally suddenly understood the king of Shu a little......

Suppose the King of Shu is a rich man worth 50 billion, and Zhu Gaoxu and Gao Chi are two gamblers who are gambling.

The King of Shu stood by and watched, if he joined one of them, he would win the King of Shu or be a billionaire with a net worth of 50 billion; If you lose, you will become nothing, and then you will be hacked to death by those who lend you money!

There is also a way to play the entry of the King of Shu, which is self-contained, and the gambling table has become three. But the probability of the king of Shu losing is nine out of nine, and if either side of Zhu Gaoxu and Gao Chi wins, the king of Shu will still have nothing.

A gambler who already has so much wealth can choose very easily in the face of such a game. As long as he has a normal mind, his best choice is: not to gamble.

So Zhu Gaoxu thinks that the approach of the King of Shu is understandable, and the King of Shu is just trying to make him not gamble.

Zhu Gaoxu closed the file and sighed "sigh", saying nothing, and did not plan to do anything.

…… Nansi of the Imperial Mansion reported that Nansi had received an order from the King of Han to improve the ignition method of the copper fire gun, so that it would be easier to aim at the face door with both hands of the gun. A few months later, the Armory had already built a new firecracker.

So Zhu Gaoxu asked Wang Yu to arrange that he would get up early in the morning and go to the school near the palace to see the new weapons.

Today the weather is clear, the sky is clear, the air is fresh, and the view is excellent, it is a good day for outdoor activities. The accompanying civil and military officers came to the front hall one after another, and Zhu Gaoxu held the horse's back, stepped on the stirrup and turned over and rode up.

At this time, he saw that Duan Xue was wearing a neat and neat narrow robe, and he also led the horse over and joined Zhu Gaoxu's entourage. Duan Xue hated a person who practiced martial arts, his skin was very firm, and his bumpy body was full of toughness. Under a closer look at her facial features, she is really similar to Mu Zhen. However, the expressions and demeanors of the two are very different, and if they don't already know that they are related, it will be difficult to find out the similarities.

When Zhu Gaoxu saw this, he subconsciously carefully observed her face and neck to see if there were any scars. Duan Xue hated his gaze, her ears and cheeks quickly turned red, her gaze dodged, and after a moment, she reached out and gently covered her cheeks.

The group came to the east school field, and there was a camp office near the school field; There are also some newly renovated courtyard houses in the north, which are workshops run by the Arsenal Bureau, Yuan and other official offices of the Han Dynasty, which are responsible for the manufacture of weapons and armor.

There were many artisans in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, which belonged to the Ministry of Industry, and the system was inherited from the Yuan Dynasty. In the last years of Hongwu, the number of artisan households reached 150,000. Like military households, they could not leave their nationality and become slaves, and they served the imperial court free of charge, and the government only gave them rations and salt, and did not exempt them from conscription and land taxes.

Many artisans flee every year, but the system has been maintained so far, and the number of artisans is still increasing.

There are a number of government-run handicraft workshops in Yunnan, involving construction, textile, military weapons, crafts and other industries, which are managed by various bureaus and bureaus. Originally, these institutions should not be under the control of the Han Dynasty's palace, but after Zhu Gaoxu raised his army, he directly took over the government's ordnance bureau and asked them to gather craftsmen to make firearms for the crime army.

An official of the Armory Academy reported on the side, as if he wanted to ask for credit for himself, "After receiving the order from the Nanji of the Imperial Palace, the lower official immediately gathered people to make a fire mechanism, and at first he had no clue. The lower officials will issue a list to the craftsmen in Yunnan, and those who can make the fire gun will be rewarded twice! Within a few months, many artisans volunteered ......"

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Zhu Gaoxu was a little shocked when he heard the second reward, technological innovation is so worthless? However, considering the difficulty of making a living for the craftsmen, it is estimated that the two copper coins are also very attractive.

The official was still talking endlessly, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't stop him, and directly asked someone to bring the newly made firecracker.

When the craftsman brought a few firecrackers over, Zhu Gaoxu picked them up and looked at them, and his eyes lit up.

This firebolt looks good! The bronze pipe is no different from the copper fire gun used by the Ming army, and the new copper pipe is polished yellow and bright, which is very beautiful; The most important place is the ignition mechanism that holds the fire rope and the wooden bracket that supports the shoulders, which are beautifully curved.

Just looking at the appearance, it looks like a step gun! But Zhu Gaoxu knew that its power was not much different from the copper firecracker, because the gun tube was the same thing; The only thing to do is the arquebus, and the bracket at the back of the brass.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately raised his hands, put the wooden handle against his right shoulder, and pulled the trigger. There was a "click" sound of a reed, and a small hammer with a fire rope on it slammed down; At the same time, an iron lid popped open, and the hammer slammed into the hot pot with a fire rope.

"Interesting! This thing is amazing......" Zhu Gaoxu was overjoyed, and his beautiful words were undisguised.

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Who made the thing?" ”

The official bowed: "A carpenter in the armory workshop is named Mao Kaishan. ”

"Where are the people?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

A few people were busy sending people to call Mao Kaishan. Soon after, a young man in his twenties came to meet him outside the camp office, tall and tall, with dark skin and fine flesh.

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "This mechanism you made?" ”

Mao Kaishan said: "The villain first made it with wood, and then asked a blacksmith to forge it. The villain made a wooden handle with his own hands, and made a fire rope out of plant ash mixed with water. ”

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a while, then turned his head and said: "Ask the palace treasury to allocate 200 yuan and reward it to Mao Kaishan, and promote Mao Kaishan to 100 households in the Ordnance Academy." He also made a record of the patent rights of this ignition mechanism, and named it after the 'Kaishan Gun', and anyone who made a Kaishan gun and used the technology of this mechanism in the future would have to pay Mao Kaishan a penny, and it would end after 15 years. ”

He pointed to the official in charge of the matter and said, "You have merit, and the reward is 100 yuan." ”

Mao Kaishan was taken aback, stunned and seemed to be unable to believe that wealth had descended from heaven. After a while, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Villain Xie Han King Grace!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the eunuch next to him and said, "His name is Wang Gui, Mao Baihu can tell Wang Gui if he has something in the future, and go around the palace." ”

It's useless to say more, the key is to give tangible benefits. Zhu Gaoxu ignored Mao Kaishan and ordered: "Load the ammunition for trial launch, try it repeatedly, and write down the number of times it is used; Where it is broken, it continues to improve. Then put it into the workshop to make it in large quantities. ”

"The lower officials obey the order."

The two sergeants obeyed the order and picked up the "Gunner" and began to load the gunpowder lead bullet, and the method was not much different from that of the copper gun. The only difference is that the copper fire gun has to put a fuse, while the Kaishan gun pours gunpowder into the primer pot.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu saw two puffs of white smoke rising up, two loud bangs, and the fire bolt was successfully fired!

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