"Okay, since this matter has been decided, then you all go down, and Brother Song stays for a while. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" After deciding on the palm print of the East Factory, Zhu Di waved his hand and motioned for everyone to retreat.

Xie Jin and the others saluted Zhu Di and then retreated.

"Zheng He, you don't have to wait for me here, Dongchang has just been established, there are a lot of things for you to deal with, you just go and be busy with you, as for the past few days, ......" Seeing that Zheng He did not retreat, Zhu Di paused for a moment, and then said: "You can arrange two little eunuchs to serve me." ”

"Slave obeys!"

Zheng He first responded, then hesitated for a moment, and said: "Long live, the slave maid will build the East Factory as soon as possible in the next few days, and bring the affairs of the East Factory into formal." Three days at the least, seven days at most, and the slave will come back to serve you, and you have to take care of yourself these days! ”

Zheng He's words are a bit-over, if Empress Xu and Zhu Di say this, it would be normal, but for Zheng He, if it is light, it is more mouthy, reward him with a few slaps, and if it is heavy, it will more tongue, and the punishment will be light, and there will always be twenty or thirty military sticks.

"Okay, it's only six or seven days, can I still be injured or disabled?" Zhu Di waved his hand and said, "Go down." ”

Zheng He bowed again and walked away.

At this time, only Zhu Di and Zhu Song were left in the pavilion, and Zhu Di saw that Zhu Song's eyes were a little strange, so he shook his head and smiled:

"Sanbao, he entered the Yanwang Mansion at the age of fourteen, and I specially selected knowledgeable officials to teach him in the mansion, so that he could read the books in the mansion at will. Sanbao is also competitive, not only talented, but also diligent and studious, if it weren't for this, I would never have kept him by his side for so many years. ”

"yes!" Zhu Song sighed and said: "People are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless, the four emperor brothers are people who value love and righteousness, and it is inevitable to be sad to let the people around you go." ”

"Sentimental what?" Zhu Di looked up at Zhu Song and said, "The Three Treasures have been by my side for so many years, is it true that they want to serve the Dragon Emperor to return to heaven?" I don't want him to serve someone else for the rest of his life. The East Factory is just the first step. ”

Hearing Zhu Di's words, Zhu Song suddenly remembered the famous 'Zheng He went to the West'.

Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, to lead more than 200 sea ships and more than 27,000 people to anchor from Liujiagang in Taicang, and anchored at Changle Taiping Port in Wuhumen at the mouth of the Minjiang River in Fuzhou to wait for the wind and open the ocean, sailed to the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and visited more than 30 countries and regions, including the Indian Ocean.

What a feat is this?

It seems that Zhu Di started the layout early.

Zhu Song couldn't help but feel admired for Zhu Di's ambition and the city.

"Okay, let's not talk about the Three Treasures."

Zhu Di shook his head and said with a smile: "I heard Zhang Fu say that in the shipyard of Huai'an Mansion, you installed a few cannons on the lucky ship I gave you, and I have thought about such a thing before, but this cannon is too cumbersome compared to the sailing sea ships and warships, and the recoil is very strong, and it will even make a big hole in the sea ship." I'm curious, how exactly did you solve this problem? ”

Just like Zhu Di himself said, he really tried to get the cannon on the ship, but after a cannon was fired, he didn't wait to see the power of the artillery, but the sea ship was blasted out of a big hole by the strong recoil of the artillery, and then the sea ship sank to the bottom.

He couldn't figure out how Zhu Song solved this problem?

Zhu Song smiled and said, "Fourth Emperor Brother, this method is also simple to say, it is nothing more than to start from two aspects: one is to strengthen the structure of the sea ship, and the other is to reduce the recoil of the artillery. ”

Don't look at Zhu Di's understanding of sea ships and artillery, but he still understands the basic structure of these two things.

Zhu Di directly threw Zhu Song a roll of the eye and said, "Do you still need to say this?" What I want is a concrete solution. ”

Zhu Song lowered his head and thought about it, and said, "Specific...... It's a long story. It is nothing more than to strengthen the keel of the lucky ship, and add several layers of armor to the boundary where the artillery is placed. In terms of artillery, the ministers can't explain it, they are solved by the craftsmen of the military department, and you have to ask the military department for details. ”

Zhu Di grabbed the pig and said, "According to what you say, the people in the Ministry of Industry have cast a new artillery?" ”

Zhu Song nodded and said, "When we went to the sea to pursue the envoys, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry returned to Yingtianfu, and if we calculated the time, they should have made new artillery according to the drawings." ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Zhu Di's eyes lit up.

When the grandfather gathered the army and raised troops against the Yuan, he had enough of the power of the artillery of the Yuan Dynasty.

Later, although they also captured some artillery pieces from the Yuan army, they were too cumbersome to carry, and if they encountered mountain roads, they had to abandon them.

Therefore, most of the artillery collected by the Ming Dynasty from the Yuan army was placed on some important city walls to protect the city.

Zhu Song said with a smile: "Didn't my brother just come back, and he hasn't had time to ...... yet?"

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, accompany me to the military department!" Zhu Di interrupted Zhu Song, "Swing the arsenal and clear the officials!" ”

"Long live the purpose, set up the arsenal of the Ministry of War!"

At the door of the warm pavilion, a little eunuch howled loudly.

……

The Arsenal Clearance Division of the Ministry of War is not in the city of Nanjing, but in the boundary of about three miles away from the city of Nanjing.

Most of the treasury of the imperial court and the subordinate departments of various ministries were located here, forming a large building complex.

The Arsenal Clearance Division is on the northernmost side of this complex, and there are groups of elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty guarding outside.

When Zhu Di, under the protection of Jinyiwei, came to the outside of the Arsenal Clearance Division, Qi Sihai, the chief officer of the Arsenal Clearance Division, who had already received the news, had already taken the subordinate officials of the Arsenal Clearance Division and waited in front of the gate.

"Weichen Arsenal Qing Officials Shilang Zhong Qi Four Seas, I have seen my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!" Qi Sihai respectfully kowtowed to Zhu Di.

"Haha, get up, I've heard recently that you've put a batch of artillery into storage, and I want to see the power of these cannons." Zhu Di didn't have anything else to do with Qi Sihai's ink, and directly stated the purpose of the trip.

"Long live...... Qi Sihai hesitated for a moment and said: "The power of these artillery pieces is not very stable, those complete artillery pieces are still in the Ministry of Industry, and the people in the Ministry of Industry said that they still need to study it carefully." ”

"Were those unstable artillery pieces pulled back from the Ministry of Engineering before the king returned to Nanjing?" Without waiting for Zhu Di to speak, Zhu Song took the lead in speaking.

"Yes!" Qi Sihai said: "When entering the warehouse, the lord of the Ministry of Industry told Weichen that the five unstable artillery pieces were all cast according to the new drawings of the prince. ”

"Isn't this the end of it?" Zhu Song clapped his hands and said, "Let's go, take us over to have a look." (To be continued.) )