Beijing, Yang Xin Palace, Chongzhen looked at the mountain-high Zhangzhang in front of him, shook his head and sighed, "Qin Xiaochuan! He openly robbed the clans of Kaifeng," he sighed, with shock and anger in his tone, robbing the clans was really something that had never happened in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Chengen on the side said helplessly, "Your Majesty,"

Chongzhen, who had just experienced the ecstasy of the great victory, heard Qin Xiaochuan's sacking of the Kaifeng family, and immediately dispelled the joy in his heart, and said: "This Qin Xiaochuan really doesn't listen to discipline more than once, it turns out that the two times are to exterminate the family of thieves in the city, this time it's better to rob it directly!" It's arrogant! He looked at the mountain in front of him and sighed helplessly.

"Your Majesty, although this person has done a lot of things, he still obeys Your Majesty's orders!" On the side, Wang Chengen said with a smile: "No matter what he does, he is Your Majesty's courtier, and he obeys His Majesty's orders every time, and General Qin still lives in the capital." ”

"Alas!" Chongzhen shook his head, looked at the folds in front of him, and said, "His army has exceeded 50,000 people this time!" 50,000 people! There is one more total soldier under the command of Da Ming with more than 50,000 troops! He smiled wryly.

Suddenly, a man wearing a flying fish suit outside walked quickly, holding a fold in his hand with a nervous face, and said: "Your Majesty, Qin Xiaochuan has continuously sent troops to the three cities in northern Henan to maintain order and relieve the victims!"

"What!" Chongzhen's head sat down directly on the chair! Angrily lined up the table and said, "How dare he expand his territory so blatantly, so blatantly!" ”

"Nope! Lord Guogong said, let Your Majesty quickly send the prefect and others to maintain order," the man in the flying fish suit said, "Because these cities were looted by thieves, there were no big families and officials in them, so I had no choice but to do so." ”

"Humph!" Chongzhen softened his tone when he heard this, and said, "Let's send people from another household department!" It's kind of his acquaintance! He was still angry, and this act of occupying the city without obeying orders made him angry.

"Your Majesty is angry, in the past, Han Xin helped Liu Bang to defeat all the princes, and begged Liu Bang to make him the fake king of Qi, what will happen in the end?" Wang Chengen said this, Chongzhen heard a sigh, and said: "I am not Liu Bang, he is not Han Xin!" I will never fight with him in a few places in Henan, and I order the household department to send officials to occupy these places as soon as possible! His army can be stationed outside the city, but the officials will send it! ”

"Your Majesty" Wang Chengen sighed Your Majesty still takes the prestige of the Ming Dynasty too seriously, but he won't be flexible, Chongzhen looked at the letter on the table again, and said: "Qin Xiaochuan played, asking the soldiers and horses of Hong'er in the south to attack Zhang Xianzhong with him?" ”

"Your Majesty, offering thieves is my Ming henchman!" Wang Chengen clenched his fists and said, "If the Duke of Qin and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince work together to exterminate Zhang Xianzhong, it would be great!" ”

"Oh?" Chongzhen shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Hong'er, yesterday he wrote to me that it is inconvenient to send troops now, it is a critical time for him to train his troops, and he also wants me to transport the craftsmen of the Northern Zhili and other local ordnance bureaus to Nanjing City as soon as possible!" He also asked me if the master craftsmen in the capital were sent to Qin Xiaochuan by me."

Listening to Chongzhen's laughter, Wang Chengen also said strangely: "The slave also feels strange, this Qin Xiaochuan under the command of Shandong, the drought and locust plague that only occurred a few years ago, and was looted by the thieves Houjin, the population is less than two million, the craftsmen are even less, and his firearms are very sharp." It's tougher than Gangnam."

"Yes! Hong'er said, the other party's firearms are strong, and they began to think that the system made it so sharp, "Chongzhen said, Daming has a whole set of departments to supervise the manufacture of firearms, but at the end of the period, it has become a place to make money from each other, Zhao Shizhen once invented the eagle cannon, after all parties pulled the skin, so that he had no way, and in the end, the last shot of this sharp firearm was not made. "Later, Hong'er changed the firearms system, but the firearms still could not reach the level of the Shandong Army, and his self-generated fire device and the bayonet, no one in Jiangsu and Zhejiang could make it!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, yesterday the Ministry of Industry Shangshu and others also asked whether His Majesty secretly transferred skilled craftsmen from the capital to Shandong," Wang Chengen said.

Chongzhen shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said helplessly, "Transfer the craftsman to Hong'er first!" Since Hong'er was unable to go north, Zhang Xianzhong mobilized Zuo Liangyu to go, and he defeated the Xian thief the first few times! ”

"Your Majesty, you can call the Lord Guogong to go with you," Wang Chengen said with his fists clenched.

"Humph! n Could it be that without my Ming army, he won't be able to win the battle," Chongzhen said angrily, brushing his sleeves and leaving.

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"Still can't make it?" With an angry question, Zhu Cihong sulked in his heart, looked at the craftsmen in front of him, they were the most skilled craftsmen in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, and said: "You keep saying that you are the most exquisite craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, but Qin Xiaochuan can make such a perfect self-fire device in the broken place in Shandong that has been plagued by thieves and Tartars several times, and this palace can't make it with the strength of the two provinces?" ”

"Your Majesty's Anger" More than a hundred craftsmen near him knelt on the ground at the same time, their tone was frightened for fear that the prince in front of them would be angry, they had originally lived a miserable life as a craftsman, if it weren't for the prince in front of them to give them preferential treatment, how could they live such a comfortable life now.

A middle-aged foreign man with blond hair and blue eyes on the side said strangely: "Impossible, impossible, Europa doesn't have such a perfect flintlock pistol!" And this bayonet, it's impossible, no one can make the screw so perfectly, this size requires that no one can make it unless it's a dwarf," John Tong joked about the dwarves in European legends.

Everyone on the side bowed their heads and said silently, Zhu Hu behind the prince said, "Alas, Mr. Tang, this is what many people have seen with their own eyes, its firecrackers can fire without the fire rope ignition and pull the trigger, and none of the hundred shots fail!" Sharp! ”

"I don't think this is realistic," John Tang said strangely, he spoke Chinese very well, looked at the craftsmen around him and said: "Your Highness, these gentlemen in front of you, they have the ability to even surpass the craftsmen of Europa, they are the smartest people in me, I don't believe anyone can make things that they can't make," he said, after coming here, he was all impressed by the whimsical ideas of the Ming craftsmen.

So he didn't believe that someone in Shandong could make a self-fire device, and said: "Last time, there was a Dutch man who told me that people here have the same weapons as meteors, haha, some people in the north are very superstitious, and they always say that what they see in their dreams is real or real."

"Mr. Tang, you can see for yourself if it's true or not!" The prince snorted and said, his eyes swept around the crowd with a kind of dissatisfaction, and said: "How much silver does this palace put into you every month, but the things made by so many of you can't even compare to the wool made by others!" ”

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, this Winged Tiger Gun is already the most perfect firearm," John Tang pointed to the firearm on the side, he was not as frightened as the other craftsmen, but said his results.

"Humph! Do you know that Qin Xiaochuan's Winged Tiger Gun has already sat down to seven tubes, and even the self-generated fire device behind it does not need a fire rope! The prince snorted.

"Impossible, there won't be this kind of firearm" Tang Ruowang felt that this was impossible, not to mention how to build the seven pipes, just to say that the self-generated device He thought that this kind of thing could fight fire, it was already a bit magical.

"Humph! Since the quality of the main palace can't be reached, let's pile it up from the quantity! The prince snorted, looked at the fire gun in front of him and said, "How much is this month?" ”

"Eight hundred" The craftsman stretched out three fingers with some trembling eyes, and the prince shook his head and said, "Not enough!" It's not enough, after a while, my father will mobilize northern craftsmen to come over, and I hope to have 1,500 handfuls a month at that time! ”

"This?" The craftsman wiped his sweat, and Tang Ruowang took a deep breath and said, "You are embarrassing your subordinates, here are the best craftsmen I have ever seen, they have worked hard enough for you, you shouldn't be so harsh on them!" He felt that these craftsmen were too honest to fight for their rights.

"Humph!" The crown prince glared at him, if he hadn't taken care of his identity, he would have gotten some Western technology from him, he would have driven the other party away a long time ago. "This palace is located in the south, there are no war horses, no cavalry, and no strong warriors, and the only advantage is firearms! Firearm! ”