readx; Before receiving the urgent performance in Nanjing, Zhu Youzhen was in a good mood. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In Shaanxi, the official army is progressing smoothly, Sun Chuanting took advantage of the defeat of Gao Yingxiang's might, marched west from Shangzhou, and won successive battles. There were originally as many as 100,000 enemies in Hanzhong, but nearly half of the elite had been taken away by Gu Junen, the "spy" placed by the White Lotus Sect beside Gao Yingxiang. The rest were originally a rabble, and none of them could live up to the expectations of everyone, and they soon fell apart. Hearing that the official army was about to come to the city, they didn't even have the courage to defend the city, and they scattered and fled, and Sun Chuanting's soldiers recovered Hanzhong without blood.

In Henan, Lu Xiangsheng led the main force of the official army to advance in great strides, and the rebels were defeated and retreated, and could hardly organize any resistance. In less than ten days, the prefectures and counties of Kaifeng Prefecture, Guide Prefecture and Runing Prefecture have been recovered, plus Ruzhou and other places recovered by Zuo Liangyu, in the whole territory of Henan, only Nanyang Mansion adjacent to Xiangyang has not been completely recovered, and it can be said that the war has gradually moved away from the Central Plains.

The situation on the battlefield was very good, and Zhu Youzhen's mood was rare and happy for a few days. Since pampering Mei Jian, the two of them are like glue, and it didn't take long for Mei Jian to become pregnant. Zhu Youzhen felt that it was time to give her a name, so he wanted to issue an edict to make her a concubine.

It was only at this time that Zhu Youzhen realized a problem: the names of the four sisters were chosen by themselves, but they really didn't care about what their surnames were. Now it's about to be canonized, and it won't be like saying that there is no surname anymore. After asking Mei Jian, I learned that her father's surname was Tian, and he was from Shaanxi. However, their parents are long gone, and there are no relatives in their hometown, otherwise their sisters would not have fallen into the dust, and they were collected by Wei Zhongxian into the mansion and dedicated to themselves.

Zhu Youzhen's heart moved when he learned about it, and secretly thought that Chongzhen in history seemed to have a concubine surnamed Tian, who was favored by Chongzhen because of her good color and art. Although he is in another time and space, Mei Jian's life experience is also very different from that of Concubine Tian, but both of them are surnamed Tian, which shows that in the dark, there are still various coincidences in history.

However, before the edict to canonize Mei Jian as "Concubine Mei" was issued, Zhu Youzhen received an urgent performance from Nanjing, and his joy was swept away. The new type of firearm represented by the grenade is a sharp weapon that he has developed with the help of his knowledge and thinking advantages through time, coupled with the exploration and trial and trial of many skilled craftsmen day and night, which is a high secret of the Ming Empire, and it is also an important weight for him to change the trend of history. If other hostile forces also possess such firearms, then Zhu Youzhen's superiority in this regard will be greatly weakened, and even a little military achievement that he has achieved with great difficulty may be wiped out in an instant.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen naturally attached the highest level of importance to this matter. At present, the military factory in Kaifeng is still under construction, and only Jingshi and Qinwangzhuang can produce grenades in the country. The grenades seized in Nanking were produced on the same principle as those produced in military factories, but in a significantly different format, apparently produced elsewhere. Zhu Youzhen does not believe that in this era, there are still people who can invent grenades "without a teacher", so there is only one possibility left: the grenade production technology has been leaked.

Previously, the courtiers had been urging Zhu Youzhen to drive back to Luan, but Zhu Youzhen suspected that the courtiers were constrained, and he kept dragging him in Henan on the grounds that "Zhu Changxun and Zhu Yousong's father and son have not been captured". But as soon as this incident came out, Zhu Youzhen immediately decided to return to Luan. His judgment was that compared with Jingshi and Qinwangzhuang, it was more likely that the Jingshi Military Factory would leak technology. After all, Qinwangzhuang is a small place, and it is a big deal to close the four gates and block the whole city, and the external contact can be cut off. However, this method is absolutely unusable in the Jingshi, which has a population of more than one million, and if the hostile forces want to steal technology, it is more convenient for the Jingshi, which has a mixed fish.

Of course, it has been more than a month since the royal driving expedition, and it seems that it is about to reach the end of the year. Of course, counterinsurgency is a top priority, but all kinds of government affairs in other areas are not as convenient as those in Beijing. In particular, the food and financial issues are extremely thorny, and Zhu Youzhen has to do it himself.

There is another reason why I must return to Beijing, that is, the New Year is approaching. This year is the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and according to the rules, although the new monarch ascends the throne, the name of the year will not be changed, and the new name will not be used until the new year. That is to say, on the first day of the first lunar month not long after, the name "Chongzhen" will officially appear on the stage of history. For Zhu Youzhen, this is of course a big event, and the Ministry of Rites has already prepared a grand ceremony, and he, the emperor, must attend.

Of course, the holy drive back to Luang is not just a walk, so many entourages, as well as accommodation, safety along the way, must make strict arrangements. But for the investigation of the grenade case, there was no delay for a moment. After Zhu Youzhen received the secret recital, less than a moment later, the flying pigeon transmission had been sent to the Beijing Division, but it was not sent to the cabinet, but directly to Yan Zhengang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

A few hours later, Yan Zhengang received the news from the flying pigeon, and was also taken aback, and immediately according to Zhu Youzhen's will, on the one hand, a large number of brocade guards, dressed in civilian clothes, pretended to hang out near the military factory located in the outer city, but in fact, they were monitoring everyone who came and went, looking for clues; On the other hand, he immediately met with Sun Yuanlong and Wei Zhen, who were in charge of the munitions factory and had been unusually promoted to ambassadors and deputy envoys of the Ordnance Bureau under the Ministry of War.

Although the official quality of these two people is very low, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau is only from Jiupin, and the deputy envoy has not yet entered the stream, but they are in charge of the Jingshi Military Factory, which has more than 2,000 ordnance craftsmen, and the production plan and research and development progress are directly reported to Zhu Youzhen, and they have a lot of materials in hand, and their actual power is not small.

Just after hearing Yan Zhengang introduce a few words about the case, Sun Yuanlong and Wei Zhen were all stupid. Because the military factory has a strict material management system, if the grenade is really lost, it will definitely be a major man-made accident, and the two responsible persons will not be able to escape the blame.

Yan Zhengang hurriedly reassured: "The grenades that appeared in Nanjing are different from those you produced, so it can be seen that it is not the actual flow, but someone leaked the production technology." The Holy Secret Decree also said that no matter how much you take precautions, there will always be a very small number of shameless people who will betray for their own selfish interests? State secrets, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, this is called a foot high and a foot high. So you two don't have to blame yourself too much, the top priority is to find out the leaker, avoid more leakage of secrets, and then formulate stricter precautions. The Holy One believes that the two of you will not be the ones who leak secrets, because you are deeply favored by the emperor and there is no reason to leak secrets. ”

In fact, Yan Zhengang did not say it thoroughly, and Zhu Youzhen's original words also had another meaning, that is, if these two people leaked secrets, I am afraid that not only the production technology of grenades would be leaked out, but the technology of all advanced weapons, including rapid-fire guns, flowering cannons, flintlock guns, Lumi guns, and mines, would all be leaked out. However, judging from the current facts of the case, it seems that only grenades were leaked, so the suspicion of these two general leaders can be ruled out.

Sun Yuanlong and Wei Zhenzi were grateful for the emperor's trust, and then, under the guidance of Yan Zhengang, they analyzed one by one which link and who might leak secrets. Suddenly, Sun Yuanlong slapped his thigh and shouted in his characteristic loud voice: "Damn, I know who it might be!" Ma Qing, the deputy foreman of the grenade production line, asked me for sick leave ten days ago, and he has not come to work until now. Three days ago, I sent someone to visit his house, but I couldn't find anyone, and his family said that he had gone to get medicine. Could it be him? "Chongzhen: Reconquer the world

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