Wei Zhongxian died, hanged himself in Hejian Mansion. It has been four days since he got the news, and Zhu Yousong has not had the slightest joy to get rid of his henchmen.

He immediately gathered his men and nervously prepared for battle. Training troops, building walls, stockpiling grain, the most important thing at the moment is to survive the first round of siege and let the imperial court know how much it costs to easily get rid of the Fu Domain.

Zhu Yousong believes that as long as he hurts, Zhu Youzhen will compromise. Zuo Liangyu is a ruffian, with a rabble of 100,000, which can make him jealous and dare not move at will.

After the order was completed, everyone took the order and left, and Zhu Yousong called Zhang Hao.

"You accompany me to Ying'en Temple, how is our flintlock pistol?"

Zhang Hao personally held the reins. Drove the carriage and took Zhu Yousong to the mountain gate. As soon as the soldiers and horses guarding the temple saw that Zhang Hao personally drove the car, he knew that it must be the prince inside. This former little groom is no longer what it used to be, and he can drive a car. Luoyang is the only one.

When you come to the forging room of the craftsmen of Ying'en Temple, you can hear the sound of hammers smashing from afar.

Pacing in, there is a heat wave in front of you, and the craftsmen are busy, and no one notices them.

On the forging table, there is a half-man-long firecracker, which looks like it has just been made.

Zhu Yousong stepped forward to pick it up, and Tian Qi, the craftsman who was building with his head down, was about to scold, looked up and saw that it was him, and hurriedly said, "Why is the prince here." ”

Zhu Yousong remembered his name and asked, "Tian Qi, how is it, is this the flintlock pistol I want?" ”

Tian Qi showed a ashamed expression and said, "Lord Wang, I created this long gun according to the handcuff you brought, but we still can't make that kind of small one." ”

When Zhu Yousong heard it, he really made it, and it was really a brave man under the heavy reward. He smiled and said, "It's okay, this length is just right." ”

Zhu Yousong led everyone to the outdoors to prepare to test the gun.

He looked nervously at the craftsman, loaded the gunpowder projectile, reached out and pulled the trigger, and a tongue of fire erupted from the moment the faucet pressed down and the flint friction caught fire. Not far away, the wooden planks were dotted with bullet holes.

"Good!" Zhu Yousong couldn't help but applaud and said, "You can try a few more times, and you can start mass production." ”

Zhang Hao stepped forward and asked, "Lord Wang, do you mean that we are also going to form a Divine Machine Battalion?" ”

"That's right, you hurry up and handle this matter, I don't want a 10,000-person god machine battalion."

Tian Qi stuck out his tongue and smacked his tongue: "My God, wouldn't 10,000 people use 10,000 guns, we don't have so many people." ”

Zhu Yousong frowned, and he said the same thing.

"Zhang Hao, you go to Ma Shiying immediately, and ask him to send someone to get me all the craftsmen near Luoyang, and use all means to tie them up."

Zhang Hao's expression changed, the prince has never acted so arrogantly, he has always put the people first, it seems that this time he is really serious.

Looking at the craftsmen who received the gold and looked happy, Zhu Yousong sighed.

There are too few craftsmen here, and the level is limited, after all, they are not professionals.

However, on the distant island of Taiwan, he picked up a big bargain, and the arsenal that Zheng Zhilong worked so hard to build was served by himself.

Unfortunately, the delivery of firearms here is simply a fantasy. But Zhu Yousong still decided to write a letter to Shen Muhong to build more guns and artillery, he has ships and money on the most important sea route between the east and the west, which is simply an excellent arsenal base.

Once he hits the beach in the future, he will be able to arm a huge number of Shenji battalions, and Zhu Yousong is still a little looking forward to it.

The role of Ying'en Temple as a temple has completely disappeared. Now the whole of Luoyang knows that Ying'en Temple is just a place name, and there are 20,000 outsiders living there.

These people, like ordinary Luoyang people, also go to the bazaar, and there is even a small market in the temple to sell some handicrafts.

Zhu Yousong sat on the drum tower, looked at the people coming and going, and asked: "Zhang Hao, when we came to repay our wishes, you never thought that there would be today." ”

"I couldn't have imagined that I would be in this situation today."

"This temple has been transformed, do you remember what I told you and Zhao Hong about the usefulness of these Buddha statues?"

"What does the prince mean, dismantling the cast musket?"

Zhu Yousong nodded lightly, and Zhang Hao said, "Understood." Then he turned and went to gather his men.

After a while, a vast group of young and strong laborers launched the "Great Leap Forward" movement in the whole temple, and just like the time in New China, everything with iron and copper was poisoned.

In the crowd, Li Dingguo, who had already become the team leader, was the most energetic. With more than a dozen people, he ran to the drum tower in high spirits, and before he went upstairs, Zhu Yousong heard him shouting excitedly: "Tear down the big bell on it!" I've long seen it unpleasant. ”

The first one to run up was him, and when he saw Zhu Yousong, he made a sudden brake, stood in place, touched his scalp and smiled embarrassedly: "Meet the prince, prince, why are you here?" ”

Zhu Yousong looked at him with interest and asked, "Li Dingguo, why don't you look at this big bell well?" ”

"Hehe, when Mr. Shen taught us to read, we had to get up as soon as the bell rang, which was annoying and annoying."

Zhu Yousong smiled, and then said with a straight face: "You come with me, don't dismantle this clock." ”

Li Dingguo was inexplicable, he didn't know what the prince meant, and followed behind him stupidly.

When he came to the stable, Zhu Yousong asked, "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

This tickled Li Dingguo's itch, he stood up straight, and said excitedly: "How could it not!" Then I didn't know what to think of, my face fell, and I sighed: "But Brother Zhang didn't let us ride horses, saying that we were infantry soldiers, and the grade was not enough, so we were not qualified to have our own horses." ”

"Go pick one and tell Zhang Hao, I gave it to you."

Li Dingguo stared at his eyes and opened his mouth wide, and said happily: "Thank you for the horse!" ”

He had been coveting these war horses in the temple for a long time, so he came to peek with Ah Chou when he had nothing to do, and both of them had their favorite horses. Without even thinking about it, he walked straight to a black war horse, untied the reins, and pulled it out.

Zhu Yousong watched him gently touch the horse's mane, with stars shining in his eyes, and said, "Li Dingguo, I still have something to give you, come with me." ”

"And?! Thank you! ”

"Haha, don't thank you first, come back to the palace with me."

When he came to the temple gate, Zhu Yousong asked the two guards with him to ride a horse, and he rode one himself, and returned to the palace with Li Dingguo and dozens of guards.