In the early morning, the air purified by the dark night is particularly fresh. Early risers are busy, but no one minds, stop and take a few more breaths of this fresh air. Colorful flowers greeted them on both sides of the road, and with the help of the breeze, they nodded to passers-by one one and signaled to them. The dew on the leaves of the grass has not yet dispersed, desperately refracting the rays of spring, in vain trying to permanently engrave their lives in this pleasant landscape.

Outside the Dongzhi Gate of Jingshi, a group of pedestrians wearing superb official uniforms slowly walked on the wide cement avenue. Judging from the official uniforms, the lowest grade is the fourth-grade cloud goose, as well as the third-grade peacock and the second-grade golden pheasant, and even the first-grade crane.

Among these high-ranking officials, with a big belly and a round waist, there is a tall young man, too young and thin, which is very inappropriate with the age of the surrounding crowd, and what is even more puzzling is that he is particularly young, and he is wearing a white Ze supplement uniform that only princes have, which looks particularly unusual.

Pedestrians on the road, whether on foot, carts, horsebacks, or sedan chairs, have left the cement avenue to avoid trouble.

This young man is Zhu Youzhen, but the group of high-ranking officials are the cabinet assistants and the scholars and servants of the six ministries. They were talking as they walked, as if they were very satisfied with the flat cement road under their feet, but because Zhu Youzhen, who built this road, was among this group of people, most of the high-ranking officials were still very stingy with their praise, and all the beautiful eulogies turned into slander.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know the inner thoughts of this group of people, he still talked and laughed about the upcoming Daming Military Academy, until the military academy appeared in front of their eyes.

The three-meter-high wall is plastered with lime white, and in the center of the wall is a thick gate welded with steel. At this time, the guards were slowly opening the gate to welcome the owners of the Ming Dynasty. Above the lintel, there are six large golden characters written by the famous calligrapher Wang Duo: Beijing Military Academy. Although in verbal terms, they all become military schools, but the actual name of military schools is the academy.

The grounds are crisscrossed with concrete pavement. On both sides of the main road along the gate, there is a row of white and blue-tiled bungalows, the first row of houses, facing the side eaves of the main road, are two rows of large red characters, on the left are: soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty; On the right: the mission of the soldiers is to defend the territory and open up the territory.

At the end of the main cement road, there is a huge playground, and at the entrance of the playground there is a red iron sign that reads: loyalty, bravery, unity; In a corner of the playground, some outdoor training equipment is stacked; At the northernmost end of the playground, there is a high platform that is used for teaching. Because the time for the opening ceremony has not yet arrived, the entire playground is empty, only students from all over the country are chatting in twos and threes.

It's been the whole day, and the opening ceremony has officially begun. Zhu Youzhen, as the organizer of the military academy and the first president of the military academy, presided over the ceremony.

First of all, Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, delivered a speech on behalf of the Ministry of War, encouraging the students to study hard and defend their families and the country. Then there was the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu Huang Liji, who spoke on behalf of the emperor. The dry language and abstract indoctrination did not leave much impression on the minds of the living people, until the appearance of the soldiers of the four military battalions.

Just stand upright, take a break, turn left, start walking...... The instructions dazzled the students everywhere, and the heads of the cabinet and various ministries were also amazed.

Then Man Gui spoke to the soldiers of the Four Martial Arts Battalion in a loud voice:

"Brethren, what is your duty?"

"Obey orders."

"What is your mission?"

"Defend the territory and open up the territory."

"You are loyal soldiers, to whom are you loyal?"

"Loyal to the Ming Dynasty, loyal to His Majesty."

"Who are you brave for?"

"We are as brave as wolves when dealing with our enemies."

"Who are you going to unite?"

"We unite our comrades-in-arms, leave our backs to our comrades-in-arms with confidence, and slash the swords in front of us at the enemy."

The voices of hundreds of males are not soft, only shocking, and the overwhelming momentum is enough to converge into a radio wave that will never disappear.

The finale was the special operations team. A team of 300 people, a line of 10 people, a total of 30 lines. Cold eyes, neat steps, powerful arm waves. In Wang Mujiu's command, they first spread out the formation and performed a set of military techniques and knife techniques, and the soldiers were not panting or weak, and then quickly returned to the original queue. In the end, Wang Mujiu took the lead, and the special combat team sang the military song together:

"The wolf smoke rises

Looking north

Tornado up

The horse hissed

The sword aura is like frost

……

The dignified Ming wants to let the Quartet

Come to congratulate. ”

With the end of the lyrics of "The Great Ming Dynasty wants to let the Quartet come to congratulate", the three hundred soldiers stretched out their arms and raised their heads to the sky, fixed on the playground, and also fixed in the hearts of all the people who came to watch the ceremony. In the crowd on the high platform, except for Zhu Youzhen and Li Chunye, no one had ever seen such an alternative military parade, and no one had ever seen hundreds of males singing military songs.

The audience was silent, and even the students who commented on the situation forgot to express their opinions. A birdsong broke the silence of this empty valley, and the crowd who woke up, I don't know who was leading, could only use desperate applause to express their inner shock......

Zhu Youzhen originally planned to make a speech to the students, but if he didn't have the confidence to attract them around the party flag, he still didn't want to destroy the power of the shock.

The sixth day of the first month of June is the day when the cadets of the officer class and the staff class of the military academy graduate, and this is the first batch of students to graduate from the Beijing Military Academy. Zhu Youzhen did not let them go directly back to their respective armies, but arranged for them to go to the four military camps to observe and train for 10 days, hoping that the results of the training of the four military camps would increase their confidence and courage in training the soldiers, and even more hoped that they would be able to combine the theories they had learned from the military academy with the training of the army.

There is no fixed graduation time for the military medical class and the interrogation class, and the instructor determines that according to the student's learning situation, he can graduate if he meets the requirements of the syllabus, and if he does not meet the requirements of the military school, no matter how long the time is, he cannot graduate. Especially in the interrogation class, although many of the students were originally good in all aspects, under Zhou Wenqi's strict training, they graduated in early June, but let's talk about a few people, these people were all sent to the front line in Liaodong.

As the dean of the Military Academy, Zhu Youzhen really didn't have much time to stay in the academy. He also has several factories to manage, and he is also the director of the Firearms Bureau, albeit temporarily. In the military academy, he is more concerned with testing whether the instructors are carrying out their teaching ideas, and if the instructors still teach according to the old methods and experience, after the expiration of the three-month period, they will be terminated from their contracts and will go back and forth.

On this day, Zhu Youzhen took Wang Mujiu to the Firearms Bureau again.

Liu Yifei greeted him in a hurry: "Your Highness, the mines and grenades have ended the test and started mass production. His admiration for Zhu Youzhen is like the water of the Yangtze River, gushing endlessly. Since Zhu Youzhen began to contact with the Firearms Bureau, the Firearms Bureau's new firearms have emerged in an endless stream, and there are more varieties than those that appeared more than 200 years before the Ming Dynasty, and he Liu Yifei happened to witness the birth of these new firearms.

"Oh, so fast?" Zhu Youzhen smiled, "Then I have to take some back, so that the soldiers of the four martial arts battalions can get familiar with it first, the soldiers have no culture, they don't have enough time, and they won't use it." Deputy Director Liu, can you send me a few craftsmen? ”

"Yes...... Yes, Your Highness. Liu Yifei hesitated, Zhu Youzhen is now the director of the Firearms Bureau, and it is no problem to send a few craftsmen, but a large number of firearms have entered the camp, but he can't be the master, "Craftsmen can be stationed in the barracks at any time, but firearms are a bit troublesome." If His Royal Highness needs a small number of mines and grenades, he can directly send someone to pull them away, if the amount is large, he must have a warrant from the military department or the left and right attendants, and it would be better if there was a letter from Gonggong Wei. ”

"I'll take care of the orders from the military department." This Zhu Youzhen doesn't have to worry, now Li Chunye is his best friend, let him write a warrant, it's not a big problem. "Deputy Director Liu must prepare a large number of mines and grenades, but there are more than 40,000 people in the Siwu Battalion, and the amount is not enough. Soldiers had to test their live ammunition to understand their power and the points of use. ”

"No problem, Your Highness." Now that Zhu Youjian was able to obtain the warrant, this procedural problem has been solved, and as for the quantity produced, it can be said that there will be more or less due to the characteristics of the firearms bureau's current assembly line production. Thinking of this, Liu Yifei thanked Zhu Youzhen for the leap in production capacity brought to the Firearms Bureau, how many unknown secrets are still hidden in His Royal Highness the King of Letters?

"Well, in three days, I'm going to send someone to get mines and grenades." Regardless of whether the Fourth Martial Arts Battalion has the opportunity to go to the battlefield in the future, Zhu Youzhen trained his soldiers and treated them as soldiers who needed to go to the battlefield at any time. Now the basic training of the four martial arts battalions has long been finalized, and firearms can just increase the training enthusiasm of the soldiers.

"Yes, Your Highness." For three days, Liu Yifei didn't have to worry about the quantity at all. "Your Highness, the flowering bomb has also been made, do you want to take a look?"

"Blossom bombs? Okay, go check it out. "Another treasure, it is much more powerful than the solid shell of the Daming artillery, if you really want to reach the goal, as soon as you run down, Jiannu's men and horses will fall down a large piece, much faster than the sickle to cut wheat. If there are dozens or hundreds of artillery salvos, no matter how many soldiers and horses Jiannu has, in front of the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, they are all tofu to be slaughtered.

Zhu Youzhen followed Liu Yifei directly to the demonstration site, and Wang Mujiu commanded the guards to help deliver cannon barrels and flowering shells to the demonstration site.

The two guns stood quietly in a corner of the demonstration field, compared with the wide demonstration field, these two guns were insignificant, and the grass and wildflowers in the corner were grouped together, but in the eyes of Zhu Youzhen and the soldiers, it was indeed a behemoth, and the barrel and base weighed more than five hundred catties.

Liu Yifei took the cotton from his own soldiers and handed it to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Highness, after a while, the cannonballs will make a loud noise, please block your ears first." ”

"Oh?" Zhu Youzhen took the cotton and plugged his ears, and Wang Mujiu and other guards did the same.

Liu Yifei made a gesture, but when he saw the flag raised, the soldiers standing next to the artillery began to load the shells. When the shells were loaded, the flag waved downward, and the soldiers on the left side of the cannon began to ignite.

"Long, Long."

Two sounds remembered, and two shells shot up from the barrel of the cannon and fell on the grass in front.

"Boom, boom."

A huge fireball quickly spread in all directions.

Zhu Youzhen nodded and motioned for Liu Yifei to send it again.

Two more shells, replicating the scene just now.

When the flames were basically extinguished, Zhu Youzhen, accompanied by Liu Yifei, went to check the landing point of the shells, and there were already soldiers next to him who measured the range of the artillery: "Your Highness, deputy director, the range of the artillery is 2,200 meters." ”

Four huge craters, the grass around them has been burned, and the flames have not been completely extinguished.

"Well," Zhu Youzhen nodded, the power of the artillery was good, and the range of two thousand two hundred meters also satisfied him, "Director Liu, the power of this flowering bomb is the same?" ”

"Your Highness, we've tried the same. The shells just now were chosen at random. However, due to the fact that the flowering bombs have just been produced and the quantity is insufficient, we have not done it many times. Liu Yifei also regretted that the flowering bombs were not mass-produced, and the number was pitiful, and even the test was not enough.

"Deputy Director Liu, it's hard work." Zhu Youzhen sincerely thanked the deputy director who dedicated half of his life to firearms, without their daily trivial work, there would be no Ming firearms, let alone the future revival of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen was satisfied, Liu Yifei said hehe, he was happier than buying a sports lottery ticket and winning the jackpot.

"Deputy Director Liu, hurry up the test of the flowering bomb and strive to join the Ming army as soon as possible. In addition, the current artillery is too heavy and extremely inconvenient to transport, so it is necessary for the R&D Institute to develop artillery of different calibers, which are large in caliber and powerful and used to defend the city; Small caliber, easy to transport for field operations. When Zhu Youzhen couldn't stop nodding his head, he suddenly said: "I, the supervisor, can't be stationed in the Firearms Bureau, it's really incompetent, it seems that the deputy word of Deputy Director Liu still has to be removed."

Everything is on the right track, and Zhu Youzhen is not idle. During this period of time, he basically didn't go out, so he hid in the Xinwang Mansion to make people. Zhou Yufeng has been through the door for several months, Wan'er has been in the room for a longer time, and the two daughters have been tactfully acknowledging joy, but their bellies have not moved at all, Zhu Youzhen is secretly anxious, is he a body that has crossed over, and the body of the ancients does not match?

August, noon.

Zhu Youzhen had just had lunch and rested in Zhou Yufeng's room, but Zhou Yufeng was serving with tea and water. Zhu Youzhen wants to start his man-making plan again, failure is not terrible, there are more times and he will always hit the target, maybe this is broad daylight, the certainty of the hit is greater, why did he forget to try it during the day before? Zhu Youzhen persuaded himself, and he planned to use his ability to be seductive and seductive to tempt the demure and true Zhou Yufeng.

"Your Royal Highness, the emperor ordered you to enter the palace as soon as possible and participate in the court meeting." Xu Yingyuan's words were like a basin of cold water poured on his head, and Zhu Youzhen's plan to create a man had already lost the country of Java.