The officers in the small training ground saw Gu Dayong and Zhou Chong walking together, and they all stopped archery at the moment, and before Gu Dayong could open his mouth, he saw that the Jinyi guard officer with excellent archery skills walked forward with a smile and saluted: "Father-in-law Gu, you can come, Your Majesty is waiting for you!" ”

When the other party said this, he turned his head to look at Zhou Chong next to Gu Dayong, and immediately saluted again: "This must be Zhou Chong Zhou Gongzi, who commanded Qian Ning in Xia Jinyi and Weidu, and met Zhou Gongzi!" ”

"Channing!" Hearing this name, Zhou Zhong was also shocked, and at the same time couldn't help but look each other up and down. Zhengde Dynasty has a total of three major ministers, namely Liu Jin, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin, there are many records of this Qian Ning in history, including records about his good shooting, just saw Qian Ning's archery, it seems that the record in the history books is not wrong, and now Liu Jin is dead, it is the golden age of Qian Ning's rise, but unfortunately he colluded with King Ning, and was killed by Jiang Bin, who was recommended by himself.

Zhou Chong recalled the historical record of Qian Ning in his mind, but on the surface, he smiled back and said: "It turned out to be Qian Commander, Zhou Mou had already heard Wu Shan talk about adults, and he admired adults very much in his heart, but unfortunately he never had the opportunity to meet, and today he finally saw the demeanor of adults!" ”

For Zhou Chong's compliment, Qian Ning was extremely happy, and then said a few polite words to Zhou Chong, and then introduced the people around him for him, but when he introduced the positions of those young Jinyi Guard officers, he startled Zhou Chong, because these people are either commanders or commanders, and at the lowest are also pacification envoys. It can be said that almost all the officials above the fourth rank of Jinyi and Wei are here. And these people are all about the same age as Channing. The oldest is about 30 years old.

In fact, what Zhou Chong didn't know was that Qian Ning himself was relatively young, after he was promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Jinyiwei had some opinions about him holding power at such a young age, in order to establish his prestige, Qian Ning dismissed several senior officials of the Jinyi Guard who opposed him in a row, and also replaced the top management of the Jinyi Guard with young people like himself, so that he did. No one dared to point a finger at him anymore.

After a few polite words with Zhou Chong, Zhou Zhong immediately took them to see Zhengde, but Zhou Zhong followed Qian Ning to the direction of the test gun, and walked about a mile in this way, and finally saw the place where the test gun was tested, only to see two Franc machine guns fixed on the gun mount, and the gunner was constantly bombarding a wall in front of him, and the city wall had been scarred by cannonballs, and the surface was full of cracks, and even some cannonballs were directly embedded in the city wall. It looks like it won't be long before it will be brought down by artillery.

Dozens of paces behind the two cannons, a group of brocade guards stood protecting a young man in armor. Because of the distance, Zhou Zhong couldn't see the young man's appearance clearly for the time being, but presumably he should be the great tomorrow Zhu Houzhao, who is famous for his absurdity!

The long body is jade and looks handsome, this is Zhou Chong's first impression of Zhengde, he only knew that Zhu Houzhao was very young, but he didn't expect that the other party was still a handsome guy, if it was placed in the future generations, he would definitely be qualified to be an idol star. And now that Emperor Zhengde is wearing armor, he looks a little more heroic, if it weren't for the fact that he knew the Tao in advance, Zhou Zhong wouldn't have believed it anyway, the heroic young man in front of him was ridiculous Zhengde.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao also saw Zhou Chong and them, only to see that his gaze swept over the bodies of Gu Dayong and Qian Ning and others, and finally fixed on Zhou Chong's body, and a little light suddenly burst out in his two eyes, and at the same time he began to look Zhou Chong up and down, and even showed a little excitement on his face, but he quickly covered it up.

"The grass people are heavy, knock on my majesty! Hooray, hooray, hooray! Zhou Zhong came to the Zhengde Emperor in military uniform, knelt down and saluted. In fact, he is still very reluctant to bow down, except for kneeling to Wang Lun and Aunt Wang when he got married, this is the first time he has knelt to others, and the other party is still a young man who is not much older than himself, which makes Zhou Zhong very unaccustomed.

"Ha Luha, this is not the palace, Zhou Chong, you don't have to make this big gift, hurry up, and accompany me to finish the last few shots of this most luke, I let people bombard the city wall with artillery for a few days, and today it is finally going to fall!" After Emperor Zhengde looked at Zhou Chong, he also looked very happy, and at that moment Da Lu smiled and personally helped Zhou Chong up.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao's words fell, and Zhou Chongye just got up, he heard a cannon sound in front of him, followed by a loud "boom", and the city wall that was used as a target finally could no longer support it, and was suddenly collapsed by the last cannonball.

Seeing this, Emperor Zhengde smiled happily again, and even pulled Zhou Zhong forward without regard for etiquette, as if he was ready to personally inspect the collapse of the city wall. Regarding Zhu Houzhao's move, Gu Dayong and Qian Ning in the back glanced at each other, and they couldn't help showing a cautious expression in their eyes, and at the same time, their evaluation of Zhou Zhong in their hearts was also higher.

For the first time Emperor Zhengde met, he was so affectionate to himself, and Zhou Zhongzhong couldn't help but feel a little flattered, but after all, he came from later generations, and he was not as in awe of the imperial power as the people of this era, so after the shock, he quickly calmed down, and followed Zhu Houzhao to the collapsed city wall to check it out, and he soon found that not far from this section of the city wall, there was a section of the city wall that had already been blown down, and it seemed that it was also bombarded with cannons.

I saw Emperor Zhengde look at the ruins of the city wall for a while, and then pointed to the section of the city wall that had been blown down not far away and said excitedly: "Zhou Chong, look at the city wall over there, that is what I asked the gunner to use our Ming artillery to collapse, the size of this artillery is similar to the size of the Franc machine gun you sent, although the power is stronger than the Franc machine artillery, but the rate of fire is extremely slow, the gunner took four days to collapse the city wall, but the rate of fire of the Franc machine gun you sent is several times that of the Ming artillery, It only took a day and a half to collapse the city wall, which shows that in terms of attacking fortifications, these Franc machine guns are more than twice as strong as the original artillery of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhou Zhong couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that Emperor Zhengde actually used this method to measure the power of the two types of artillery, because he had only known that the Dao Lang machine artillery was stronger than the Ming artillery, but it could only be expressed in terms of fast rate of fire, but he didn't expect Zhengde to use such an intuitive method to prove the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of artillery.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty is wise, although the power of the Franc machine gun is lacking, but the rate of fire is extremely fast, so it can not only make up for the lack of power, but even enhance the overall power, in addition, the biggest advantage of this kind of artillery is that it is not easy to blow up, which is a great advantage for our poor iron quality in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Franco's artillery is one of the great gifts that Zhou Zhong gave to Zhengde, he naturally wants to praise this artillery, and what he said is also the truth, I believe that with Zhengde's attention, this kind of artillery will definitely be promoted quickly in the Ming army.

Hearing Zhou Zhong praise the advantage that the Franc machine gun is not easy to explode, Zhengde also nodded with satisfaction, in the past few days, he used two Franc machine guns to fire hundreds of shells in a row, but the two guns are still intact, on the contrary, the Daming artillery used to compare before was used several times, so he also attaches great importance to this advantage of the Franc machine gun.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, my Ming army has obtained this sharp weapon, he will be able to drive the Tatars to Mobei in one fell swoop, and reproduce the martial arts of His Majesty Chengzu back then!" At this time, Qian Ning also stepped forward to congratulate.

Qian Ning, as a cronie of Zhengde, naturally understands that what Zhengde hopes most in his heart is to establish immortal military merits, so the Zhengde Emperor who slapped this sycophant is eyebrows and smiled, and then saw Zhu Houzhao speak: "Qian Ning, your words are a bit heavy, His Majesty Chengzu beat the remnants who were still very strong back then, which made me enjoy hundreds of years of peace, how dare I compare with Chengzu, but now the little prince of Tatar has defeated the tile thorns and reunified the northern grasslands, which is definitely not good news for my Ming Dynasty. If I have the chance, I will definitely defeat the Tatars on the battlefield in one fell swoop, so that they will never dare to come again! ”

When Emperor Zhengde said that he was the most reluctant, a resolute gaze flashed in his eyes, although he didn't like to deal with court politics, and he was also very playful, but he had an unusual hobby for military affairs, and even dreamed of leading troops to fight, but unfortunately he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty after all, and he couldn't leave the capital easily. Of course, the Zhengde Emperor in history still ran to the front line of Xuanfu without authorization, and he also fought with the little prince of Tatar, and even won the victory when the army was not superior, which made the Tatars dare not raise troops for several years, and could only do business honestly with the Ming Dynasty, but the current Zhengde Emperor has not yet had the courage to escape from the capital.

However, although Emperor Zhengde said that he did not dare to compare with Chengzu, but Qian Ning and Gu Da used these people to be cheeky and slapped Emperor Zhengde's sycophants, and lifted Emperor Zhengde to the sky one by one, if they were not afraid of disrespecting Chengzu, I am afraid that they would have directly praised Zhu Houzhao for being a hundred times more wise than Zhu Di, and at this time, Zhu Houzhao showed a little intoxication in the sound of everyone's sycophants.

Listening to the sycophants of Qian Ning and others, Zhou Zhong finally knew what history would call Qian Ning and Gu Da these people as ministers, not to mention anything else, Emperor Zhengde listened to these people every day, I am afraid that the most important person will really think that he is very great, and naturally he will not realize his mistakes, no wonder Zhengde in history is so bastard, it is estimated that it has a great relationship with these people around him.

In order to let Zhengde absorb less spiritual opium, Zhou Chong suddenly opened his mouth and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, there is another gift here for the grass people, which also has a huge effect on the army, if it is used properly, the effect is no worse than the Franc machine artillery!" (To be continued......)