Since the next day was August 15, the day off, there was no need to worry about being late for work, Shen Xi and Xie Yun'er lingered for a while that night, and Wushan ** slept until three poles before getting up.

Before Shen Xi could get dressed, Xie Yun'er, who had already gotten up to freshen up and dress up, came over to bring him breakfast, and by the way, Zhang Lao Wu and a few brothers had been waiting outside for half an hour.

Only then did Shen Xi remember that today he had to teach Zhang Laowu and others to control the Franc machine gun.

"Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" Shen Xi sped up the speed of getting dressed.

Xie Yun'er said: "Those people outside said that they would wait for the prince to get up and not let me disturb your dreams, and they refused to even come in the courtyard gate, which is really strange." ”

Shen Xi knew that after Zhang Lao Wu arrived in the capital, he was a man with his tail between his legs, saying that he followed Shen Xi to do things, and he used Shen Xi for eating and drinking, but he did not have specific affairs in his hands, in this case, he didn't even dare to step into the door of Shen Xi's mansion, for fear of staining Shen Xi's lintel.

Shen Xi casually took a few bites of food, and then went to the door, only to see Zhang Lao Wu and two brothers from the Che Ma Gang waiting there, all dressed up, knowing that they were going to the school outside the city today, except for Zhang Lao Wu, the other two had sad faces on their faces, as if they were afraid that they would not come back after they went.

Shen Xi asked Yun Bo to prepare the carriage, and Zhang Lao Wu drove the car, and the party went to the military department first, found the secretary of the military department who was in charge of contact, and led the way, and the group went out of the city and arrived at the school in the western suburbs.

There weren't many people on the school grounds, and there were few people around the camp.

"Is Lord Shen anxious? Even if it is easy to find a straw man, it will take some time to put a straw man in tartar clothes. ”

Shen Xi waved his hand and said, "Don't be in such a hurry, let's come over and shoot a few shots casually, as for other details, we can do it in the next few days." ”

Hearing that there was no straw man, just a few random shots, the people in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Xi called Zhang Laowu and the other three to his side, and those officers and soldiers looked down on ordinary people like Zhang Laowu, and they didn't even want to introduce each other.

Waiting for a few officers and soldiers to push out the heavy Franc cannon in a wooden cart, Shen Xi asked him to prepare the fuse and ammunition for the two guns, and then asked people to find paper and pencils.

After all, it was the Ministry of War that explained and cooperated with Shen Xi to run errands, otherwise the talents of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies would not have the patience to receive them.

After the pen and paper were delivered, Shen Xi wrote and drew on the paper, first graphics, and then some strange symbols, which none of the people present could understand.

"What is Lord Shen writing?"

"How do I know!"

"Don't you read?"

"Lord Shen is not writing words, but ghost drawings. The ghost knows what the painting is......"

Shen Xi was not foolish, he was calculating the elevation angle and parabola of the artillery, and what was written on the paper was only Arabic numerals and some mathematical symbols for calculation.

Shen Xi is a liberal arts man, and his math scores can only be said to be acceptable, plus he hasn't touched it for many years, a simple parabolic problem made him calculate for half an hour.

On paper, Shen Xi calculated the maximum firing range of the artillery, calculated at a maximum elevation angle of 45 degrees, the firing range of the artillery is about one mile, if the artillery is set at the head of the city in actual combat, the firing range can be a little farther, but one mile is basically the limit.

Although it is far inferior to the artillery of later generations, it is much stronger than the bow and arrow, and the point is that the Franc cannon is a shotgun with a wide suppression surface.

Shen Xi asked people to measure it, and then divided the location of the artillery and the approximate landing point of the shells, and then asked people to mark it in the corresponding area, and then asked people to put the straw man in the planned position.

"My lord, can you get started? Seeing that noon is almost over, you are not tired, we are still hungry. "Those officers and soldiers have already begun to shout at Shen Xi.

The secretary sent by the Ministry of War hurriedly went over and said a few words to the soldiers, and their faces changed, and they did not dare to make any more noises, and then their tone was more respectful.

At this time, these officers and soldiers knew that it turned out that this Lord Shen was the new champion of the first year, and now he was serving as the speaker of the East Palace, and he was going to enter the palace in the afternoon to attend the banquet of Emperor Hongzhi.

"Alright."

Shen Xi personally checked it, and when he came back, he confessed, "You can fire a cannon, just two cannons, just try the power." I'll teach you how to load shells and fire cannons first......"

For each step, Shen Xi tried to be patient and meticulous when teaching, how to reload the sub-gun, how to add the sub-gun to the mother gun, how to light the fuse to start the cannon, and how to coordinate in the middle to maximize efficiency.

Zhang Lao Wu's responsibility was to be responsible for ignition and launch, while the other two were tasked with reloading.

Shen Xi first carried out the reloading teaching, let the two repeat it a few times, and after the basic mastery, Shen Xi taught them how to quickly put the gun into the chamber, as for the firing procedure that Zhang Lao Wu was responsible for, in fact, there was no difficulty, that is, every time after changing the gun, you need to add a gunpowder fuse into it and ignite it.

After everything was taught, Shen Xi asked the three of them to do it again from the initial process, and some officers and soldiers next to him said with some disdain: "What's so difficult about this, let's see it." ”

Shen Xi wanted to say, since you know, you can come by yourself.

These officers and soldiers belong to veteran oils, and it is impossible to let them touch these dangerous things, and even Shen Xi himself is afraid that it will be dangerous to blow up the chamber.

It wasn't until the last step of the operation that Shen Xi nodded with satisfaction and beckoned around: "Everyone, let's withdraw first, it's not good if there is any danger." ”

Shen Xi and the secretary of the military department, as well as a few soldiers, retreated until dozens of steps away before stopping, so as long as the muzzle of the gun does not change direction, even if the chamber is blown up, it will not be affected, and the barrel of the Franc cannon is heavy, so it will basically not be blown up.

And Zhang Lao Wu, trembling and trembling, lit the fuse with a fire fold, and heard a "boom", and the shells flew out instantly, because the captured Franc cannons all belonged to medium and large cannons, and the power of this cannon was not small, and the bare hills in autumn were suddenly beaten into dust.

After the first shot was fired, it was followed by a change of gun.

Not long after, the second cannon was ignited, and with the experience of the first cannon, Zhang Lao Wu was much more confident, and watched the fuse burn intently, and after a while, there was another loud bang, and the two cannons were successfully fired.

When Shen Xi returned to Zhang Lao Wu's side, Zhang Lao Wu was fine except for some deafness at this time, and his face was a little excited, because this thing was more powerful than any weapon he had touched before, and he also imagined the scenery when he controlled the artillery on the battlefield and terrified the enemy.

Only then did Shen Xi remember that he had not taught a few people to open their mouths when they controlled the artillery at close range, so that the damage to the ears would be much less. After teaching these tips to protect his body, Shen Xi asked a few people to practice the process of loading ammunition.

The speed of the cannon depends entirely on the loading speed of the ammunition, and if you want to show the power of the Franc cannon in front of Emperor Hongji, you have to drill the speed to the extreme and show the power of the Franc cannon.

"Fifth Brother Zhang, you stayed in the school field for the past two days, I came over every day to see the progress of your drills, and you can ask me if you don't understand anything." Shen Xi looked up at the sky, it was not early, and he was about to return to the city to prepare for the banquet, so he offered to leave.

Zhang Lao Wu said happily: "My lord, just rest assured, this thing is not too difficult." We will definitely practice hard and live up to your expectations. ”

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Shen Xi went home first to tidy up the court clothes, and then took a carriage to the palace, this time it was Zhu Shan who was driving, Shen Xi asked her to wait outside the palace gate, Zhu Shan was a road idiot, no one showed the way, she really couldn't go back.

Shen Xi first went to Zhan Shifu to meet his colleagues, and then entered the palace together.

Because it was not the first time he had participated in the palace banquet, he was very familiar with it, but he only knew when he entered the palace that this banquet was not in the main hall, but in the square outside the Wenhua Palace, and Emperor Hongzhi was going to have a Mid-Autumn Festival to admire the moon.

It is not the three major festivals of New Year's Day, cold food, and winter solstice, and it is not the longevity festival of the emperor's birthday, and the banquet of the Mid-Autumn Festival is not every year, and even if there is, the rules are not so strict, and the emperor can temporarily adjust the specifications and venues of the banquet according to his own preferences.

Because he often has to go to the apse of the Wenhua Hall to teach the prince to read, Shen Xi is already very familiar with this palace, and it is nothing to enjoy the moon with the emperor, but since he wants to admire the moon, it must be a night banquet, which means that he will not be able to leave the palace very late at night.

When I got to the place, the desk was already set.

There are not many officials invited to this banquet, only all the members of the Zhan Mansion attended, as for the other yamen, the people who came came in twos and threes, as for the Hanlin Academy, only the bachelors and lecturers were qualified to come, and Zhu Xizhou and Lun Wenxu were not invited.

Among the young scholars, only Shen Xi attended the palace banquet.

Shen Xi and the right concubine Wang Hua at a table, the two sat down first, there was not even a cup of hot tea on the table, because the officials were still scattered, the emperor would not appear until after dark, it is said that this time the queen and the prince will attend, only this banquet in the palace, as for the banquet of the inner palace, because it is a banquet, it is also saved.

Until sunset, a gust of wind blew from the north, and the cold wind howled, making people feel cold for a while. Shen Xi hurriedly tightened the official uniform on his body, and at this time, the officials who went to the banquet were roughly all there, and the three cabinet scholars had also arrived.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian briefly discussed, and the three of them went to invite Emperor Hongzhi together, and all the ministers stood up and lined up in two columns, waiting for the arrival of the holy driver.

Not long after, Luan Jia arrived, but only the emperor was alone, and the queen and the crown prince did not appear, which did not match the previous rumors.

After the prostration, everyone returns to their places and the feast begins.

Shen Xi looked at the wine and food that were served one after another, and then looked at the slightly ugly face of Emperor Hongzhi in front of him, and felt a little weird, as if something big had happened in the palace.

Originally, it was good for the monarchs and ministers to enjoy the moon together, but Emperor Hongzhi was in a bad mood, and there was no basic toast during the banquet, let alone a dancer from the Jiaofang Division.

Everyone was silent, because the feast was held in the open air, and although there were palace lights around it, it was too dark after all.

Just when Shen Xi wanted to save some stomach and go back to eat hot pot and was about to put down his chopsticks, a person came from behind and patted Shen Xi's shoulder, Shen Xi looked sideways, but it was Xie Qian, a cabinet scholar.

"Elder Xie Ge?"

Wang Hua was startled when he found out that it was Xie Qian, and quickly got up and saluted.

Xie Qian said: "No need to be polite, Shen Yude, come out." ”

Shen Xi thought about it, this seemed to be the first time Xie Qian called him "Shen Yude", and he used to be either called "you" or "you kid", because when the two met, they rarely met on formal occasions, and they met in private.

Shen Xi probably knew that there was an emergency in the palace, so he couldn't shirk it, so he immediately got up and walked aside with Xie Qian, Xie Qian estimated that no one could hear the conversation between the two, so he asked in a low voice:

"The queen suddenly contracted a serious disease, and the imperial doctor is diagnosing it, but it seems that there is no countermeasure to deal with it, I will tell you the symptoms, you can help refer to it......"

Shen Xi frowned and said, "Xie Ge Lao is mistaken, it is Ji Nei who knows the medical skills, not himself. ”

Xie Qian said angrily: "Xie Xianjiu told me about you the day before yesterday, you kid knew medical skills at a young age, and even the method of planting pox came from you, and you are still pretending to be with me here!" ”

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PS: Fifth Update!

This chapter was written for more than two hours, and Khan one! However, the Son of Heaven has finally completed the task, and it is gratifying to fulfill his promise again!

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The outbreak will continue tomorrow, so please wait and see! (To be continued.) )