Min Ruoying, who was bored in her heart, wandered aimlessly in the palace, but she sighed in her heart how unfair God was! A few days ago, he just received that there was a border conflict between the Ming State and the Qi State in Changning County, and a Qi army that entered the territory of the Ming State was completely annihilated by the Ming people, and the leading generals of the Qi army were actually the royal family of the Qi State, which caused a confrontation between the two sides on the border, and the two countries continued to send troops on the border, seeing that a big battle was about to start.

Now that Ming Guo and Qi Guo are fighting, it is naturally the situation that Min Ruoying wants to see the most. The Qi State is very strong, but the current Ming State is even more arrogant and invincible. If they fight, I'm afraid it won't be something that can end in three or two years, so that Chu State will naturally be able to breathe a big breath.

The war between Ming and Qi is not only conducive to the smooth recovery of the territory of the two counties that fell in the end, but also allows the Chu State to take more initiative in its exchanges with the Ming State.

For today's Chu State, the best way out is to fight to the death with the Qi State like now, but at the same time, you have to ask for the support of the Ming people without shame.

It's all because of the defeat of Luzhou that year! This is a thorn in Min Ruoying's heart, if he doesn't take back the six eastern counties for a day, he feels that he has no confidence to speak in front of the ministers above the court, after all, that war was launched under the condition that he was the master. At that time, the first auxiliary horse to the east, the military department Lianbo, and the few ups and downs of the household department Shangshu Zhang Chen, were all opposed at first.

But he just received the latest information today, and he was disappointed again. Because Qi Guo was on top of this moment, there was a fire in his backyard. Bozhou Zhou Shuguang's rebellion made Min Ruoying's desire to watch the big drama immediately fade a little.

The core of the reform that Emperor Qi is implementing is to eradicate the influence of a family like Zhou Shuguang in the court of Qi and bring all the power into the court.

I'm afraid that the most important thing for Emperor Qi now is to exterminate the rebellious Bozhou Zhou Shuguang and put a few more nails on the coffin board of those wealthy families, but in this way, the war with the Ming State will have to be postponed indefinitely. No one would fight a formidable enemy on the outside when they were at peace in their own backyard.

Judging from the information sent back by the internal guards, the Ming State also intervened in the Bozhou Rebellion, at least the warships of the Zhou clan must have come from the hands of the Ming people. Thinking of these warships, his mind jumped to Ning Zhiwen's body again.

This person has an inseparable relationship with the Ming Kingdom, and his son is in a high position in the Ming State as the commander of the water division, and the Jinghu Theater really can't do without the support of this person's water division earlier, so he can only endure it, but now he has no such concerns, with Bian Wushuang's successive victories, the front continues to advance, and the necessity of the existence of the Jinghu Water Division has been greatly reduced, and a very problematic general like this naturally wants to take it.

Of course, you can't use his son's affairs in the Ming Kingdom as an excuse, after all, there are many people who have nothing to do with the Ming State today, such as Ma Xiangnan, the younger brother of the first auxiliary Ma Xiangdong, who is the county guard of Changyang County of the Ming Kingdom, and the shepherd guard side is deeply valued by Qin Feng, and the front-line general Jiang Shangyan has been fighting under Qin Feng for several years.

The people he sent had hinted at this matter to Bian Wushuang several times, but Bian Wushuang didn't seem to understand what he meant, and now he actually sent Ning Zhiwen to start dredging the waterways leading to the Jiangnan Counties, the reason was to allow the food and other military supplies from the Jiangnan Counties to reach the front line smoothly. Is Bian Wushuang too confident, or does he have other plans? Min Ruoying hadn't figured out the joints here for a while, could it be that Bian Wushuang really thought that he could completely control Ning Zhiwen?

For Bian Wushuang, of course Min Ruoying will not trust unreservedly, the Ma Chao incident at the beginning was an attempt by him to control Min Ruoying, this failure was a heavy blow to Min Ruoying, not only provoked the Ming people's questioning, but also made Bian Wushuang have a thorn in his heart. Don't look at Bian Wushuang didn't say anything, but it was precisely because he didn't say anything that it proved that he was quite dissatisfied with this matter.

So during this period of time, Min Ruoying's request for Bian Wushuang was to be obedient, and she wanted time to dissolve the shadow in the hearts of both parties this time.

Thinking of these intricate relationships, Min Ruoying felt a pain in her head, when she went on an expedition to Qi, why didn't those wealthy families of Qi rebel? If that's the case, maybe you've already achieved something. Now that Ming Qi is facing up, the problems of Qi have erupted one after another, is it really that God also favors Qin Feng?

The clanging sound in front of him brought his thoughts back to reality, and from a distance, a group of people had gathered there, and he didn't know what he was doing, and his heart immediately became a little annoyed. The eunuch beside him, who saw his face, immediately trotted past, and after a while, he turned back again.

"Your Majesty, there is the carriage that the Empress of the Ming Kingdom dedicated to the Empress Dowager, where are the craftsmen who accompanied it?" The eunuch replied.

"Go and see what kind of carriage it is, which makes that envoy boast that it is rare in the sky and nothing in the earth?" Min Ruoying snorted. Regarding her sister going to take the Queen Mother to live in Yuejing City, Min Ruoying intuitively thought that Mingguo definitely had no good intentions. Since Min Ruocheng's death, my sister is afraid that she will no longer have the feelings of her relatives. In Shangjing, the only thing that still has some fetters to her is the Queen Mother, do you want to take the Queen Mother away, and then you can attack yourself unscrupulously?

He strode close to the construction site. The craftsmen, guards, and some eunuchs and palace maids who were watching the excitement fell to their knees in an instant.

Min Ruoying didn't pay attention to them, just looked at the carriage in front of her.

The body has basically been spliced together, and the whole body is two to three times larger than the ordinary carriage, carved dragons and phoenixes, gorgeous and abnormal, and the two-wheeled carriage that is now in use in Chu is different, he is four-wheeled.

With the Ming merchants entering the Chu State to do business, the four-wheeled carriage has actually begun to pass in the Chu State, but it is not uncommon, but as a luxury product, it is not common among the people, and it is more used as a travel carriage for some rich and powerful people. Min Ruoying also has one, which is indeed much more comfortable than a two-wheeled carriage, but it is not perfect.

Walking to the carriage, looking up and down, he glanced at a few Ming craftsmen kneeling beside the carriage, "In addition to being bigger and more gorgeous, what is the difference between this carriage and ordinary carriages?" ”

Since the envoy of the Ming Kingdom can boast of Haikou, there must be something commendable, but he hasn't seen it yet.

"Back to Your Majesty, this carriage is dedicated to the Queen Mother, so the whole carriage has applied the most advanced technology of my Ming Dynasty, which is completely different from the carriages circulating on the market before, this carriage is now the only one in this world, and even our Emperor Majesty and the Empress Mother of the Ming Dynasty have not yet sat on it!" A craftsman-like figure stood up.

"You are a little craftsman, how do you know that your emperor is not?" Min Ruoying snorted.

"Back to His Majesty the Emperor, although the minister is a craftsman, he has an official status in the Ming Dynasty, and the minister is a five-grade master, and this carriage was built by the minister." The craftsman straightened up and looked at Min Ruoying proudly.

Min Ruoying's eyes froze, a craftsman can be an official in Daming, he has heard of this, and even a person who farms well can be an official, which is not a rare thing in Daming, but in Chu State, it is a legend. He really didn't think that those craftsmen with the most humble status in Dachu were actually the ones who stood in front of him and talked eloquently.

He sneered: "I want to hear it, what is the difference between this carriage and the bottom?" ”

"Please allow the minister to introduce to His Majesty!" The craftsman bowed: "Your Majesty, the body of this carriage is actually completely separated from the frame, and we have used the latest invention of the suspension system and shock absorption system, so that the carriage can drive on the road, even if the road is bad, it will basically not affect the comfort of the ride." ”

The craftsman patted the body and said proudly: "At the beginning, we studied this thing, because our Emperor His Majesty often travels, not only to conquer the Quartet but also to inspect the four realms, we craftsmen have nothing to repay, so we want to build a carriage like this for Your Majesty to make Your Majesty travel more comfortable, but I didn't expect that the research of things also came, Your Majesty's first thought was the Queen Mother, it was really filial piety to move the world." ”

Min Ruoying's face is dark, is this saying that he is not filial? God is pitiful, he Min Ruoying is really a dutiful son.

The craftsman didn't notice Min Ruoying's face, and grabbed a wheel with his hand, the wheel had just been installed, still hanging in the air, and with the craftsman's strength, the wheel turned drippingly, but it didn't make any sound, which made Min Ruoying, who was used to hearing the toothy sound of the wheels of the carriage turning, very strange.

"Your Majesty should wonder why this wheel doesn't make a strange sound?" The craftsman smiled like a roundworm in Min Ruoying's stomach and picked up an iron gadget from the toolbox on the ground, and presented it to Min Ruoying with both hands: "It's the credit of this thing." Your Majesty, don't underestimate this thing, several of our masters have worked hard for two whole years for this thing to get him out. ”

Min Ruoying looked at the iron object in her hand, it looked very simple, there was a big iron ring on the outside, and a small circle on the inside, surprisingly, among the two iron rings, there were shiny steel balls inlaid with them, reaching out to hold the iron ring inside, and gently flicking, the big circle outside turned dripping.

"This thing, it's extremely difficult to make?" Min Ruoying asked suspiciously.

"Quite hard to make!" The craftsman smiled: "It's not just the process problem, but also the material problem." When we got it, His Majesty was very pleased, and said that it could be used not only for carriages, but for other great purposes! ”

He smiled and pointed to the black thing wrapped on the outside of the wheel: "Your Majesty, in the past, in order to absorb shock, our carriage wheels were sewn with animal skins and wrapped on the wheels, but such leather wrappings are expensive and can be damaged very quickly, but since last year, our Maritime Administration has discovered a tree that can secrete strange sap overseas, and these saps are collected and processed to become an extremely good material for wrapping wheels, and this kind of tree is everywhere overseas. It's not worth much, but the most expensive thing is to transport them back to the country. ”

He casually picked up a wheel from the ground, lifted it and let go, the wheel fell to the ground, and it made a soft snap and bounced a little.

Min Ruoying's heart at this time was extremely shocked, the things contained in the small carriage were not only some fresh technologies, but also a reflection of a country's strength.

That small roller, it took two years to develop successfully, then the materials consumed in between, I am afraid that the silver money is not a small amount, this wheel should be made like this, reflecting the strength of the Ming Kingdom above the water division, and it can get things from others at will, which is not simply said to be bought with money, let alone in a foreign land overseas.

Has the gap between the State of Chu and the State of Ming been pulled to such a point?