At the end of May, the weather is gradually getting hotter, and the magnificent Lu Wangfu is purple and red, which is the most gorgeous time of the year. The Lu Palace, copied from the Forbidden City according to regulations, but slightly reduced in scale. Even so, it's still majestic and luxurious, with even more embellishments and embellishments. The royal city is two zhang and nine feet high, the main hall carries the temple base six feet and nine inches high, outside the royal city, four walls, four gates, the hall library are readily available, and there are more than 800 palace rooms.

Early in the morning, a group of favorite concubines rushed to send the inner palace and palace maids to invite Zhu Yihai to come to them to enjoy the flowers and drink. But at this time, Zhu Yihai was not in this mood at all.

Dressed in a satin robe with flowers, he has already been soaked with sweat several times, on weekdays, Zhu Yihai has already ordered to prepare fragrant soup for bathing, but today he locked himself in the study behind the carrier hall, and the internal officials and henchmen who served him personally guarded the courtyard and couldn't even fly into it. All the officials and maids who came to invite each other were closed.

The door of the study was closed, even the windows were closed tightly, and the few ice basins placed were now only ice water, but even so, a few people inside still had no intention of opening the doors and windows, and let the temperature in the room rise all the way.

There were five people sitting in the study, and Zhu Yihai was sitting behind his desk. The first thing is an official wearing a four-grade civil official robe, this person is Deng Fanxi, the new prefect of Yanzhou, who has a clear name for the official, and Zhu Yihai's brother Zhu Yipai is incompatible, but he is very close to Zhu Yihai, who likes poetry and articles. One person next to him was in his fifties. It was Wang Weixin, the senator of Yanzhou, and there was also a tall middle-aged man, Liang Hezhong, the commander of Yanzhou Wei. A thin old man standing behind Zhu Yihai was Shi Yu Qijiao, the head of the palace.

Speaking of which, these people have something to do with each other. Liang Hezhong and Wang Weixin are world friends, Liang Hezhong is still Wang Weixin's junior, and Wang Weixin has a good relationship with the prefect Deng Fanxi, today it is Liang Hezhong who found Wang Weixin to help, and Wang Weixin can only ask Deng Fanxi for help, Deng Fanxi has nothing to do, so he invited Zhu Yihai again.

looked at Zhu Yihai with a helpless expression. Deng Fanxi sighed secretly, knowing that this matter would not be so easy to solve. Now it seems that even His Royal Highness King Lu, who has always been anxious for justice and righteousness, is also worried.

Deng Fanxi stood up, tidied up his robe, and bowed his hand to Zhu Yihai. "This matter is very involved, and the lower officials also know that this is embarrassing for the prince, since this is the case, then the lower officials can only deal with it impartially, go to the court, and ask the cabinet and His Majesty to decide!"

As soon as the words fell, Liang Hezhong knelt down with a thud, "Lord Fuzun, don't do it!" Then Liu Zeqing is so good. If you let him know that we have reported to the court, he will do anything! When the time comes, don't say I'll wait. Even the people will suffer from the poison in vain! ”

Wang Weixin nodded again and again, Liang Hezhong was right, Liu Zeqing was violent, if he knew that Liang Hezhong actually dared to poke this matter out, wouldn't it be to provoke the disaster of the sword soldiers.

Deng Fanxi waved his hand dejectedly, "Then what do you say you should do!" Liu Zeqing mobilized Shandong soldiers and horses without authorization. If you want to take advantage of Yanzhou, this move is obviously to attack Denglai. My Ming generals now dare to transfer troops and horses without permission, isn't this a conspiracy? ”

Liang Hezhong smiled bitterly: "Then Liu Zeqing still has a warrant from Huguang Xingyuan, and there is also the private seal of Yang Gelao, the superintendent, allowing him to mobilize Shandong soldiers and horses in case of emergency." It doesn't say what it really means to be 'unnecessary'. That is, he also has an excuse to transfer troops. On the contrary, if something happens, I am afraid that the first thing the court will investigate and deal with is our crime of dereliction of duty! ”

Zhu Yihai finally opened his mouth, "You are indeed embarrassed by this king, the vassal king is not allowed to participate in local military and political affairs, this is the ancestral system." Liu Zeqing and Zhu Ping'an are already on the same page, and this time it is clear that Liu Zeqing took the opportunity to retaliate. According to this king, I am afraid that Yang Ge Lao also knows a thing or two about this matter, and he is indeed deliberately pretending to be confused, this Zhu Ping'an has some friendship with Lord Shoufu, so this matter is ......! ”

Zhu Yihai closed his mouth at the right time, and then closed his eyes, Deng Fanxi and the others saw this situation, and knew that Zhu Yihai wanted to show an attitude of not interfering, and suddenly felt bored, so he could only say goodbye.

Changshi Yu Qijiao sent everyone out, looking at the melancholy on everyone's faces, he couldn't help but smile, "Everyone, as a clan, the prince must not interfere in some things, and I hope you will sympathize with his difficulties!" ”

Deng Fanxi arched his hand, "Yu Changshi is polite, how can the lower officials and others not understand this." In fact, Xia Guan originally hoped that the prince could send a letter to persuade Liu Zeqing not to do a battle of will. Now it seems that since the prince refuses to intervene, then we can only wait for the ...... of the imperial court! ”

"It's not right either!" Yu Qijiao immediately objected, "Liu Zeqing is not a feudal town of the former Tang Dynasty, since the transfer of troops has naturally been arranged, how to explain it to the imperial court, not to mention that there is Yang Ge Lao behind." Once Lord Deng is neglected, he can only cause trouble in vain! ”

"Then you can't just let it go!"

Yu Qijiao waved his hand, "This is simple, Lord Liang doesn't want to be involved, he will stay in the palace for a while, and the feast will be held at night, during the banquet, Lord Liang suddenly fell seriously ill and can only stay in the mansion, and the prince and I can both vouch for him." Other commanders, acquaintances, and the like waited for themselves to find a reason not to show up. At that time, Lord Deng will be able to take over military affairs, whether to cooperate with Liu Zeqing or not, you can make your own decisions! ”

When Deng Fanxi and others heard this, they immediately felt empowered, and happily thanked Yu Qijiao again and again.

After sending the three of them away, Yu Qijiao returned to the study, Zhu Yihai had already changed into a refreshing civilian clothes, and was comfortably drinking tea to relieve the heat.

Zhu Yihai instructed the serving officials to serve Yu Qijiao tea, and then ordered someone to close the door again. "Did you say that you listened to the three of them?"

"Yes, according to the meaning of the prince, I have told them word for word, and they are all grateful to Dade!"

Zhu Yihai nodded, "Wang Weixin and Liang Hezhong want to stay out of the matter, but Deng Fanxi won't. He is a clean official, his temper is inevitably stubborn, and if he wants to oppose Liu Zeqing, he will go. Later, they sent people to deliver the letters. There is Zhu Ping'an's eyeliner in the palace, and no one can trust this king except you. ”

There were originally two main subordinate officials of the royal palace. Called the Wangxiang Mansion, the original left and right phases, are the main members of the second grade. In the ninth year of Hongwu, the Wangxiang Mansion was changed to the Changshi Division, with one person, and the official rank was reduced to the fifth grade. The duty of the long history is to take charge of the decrees of the palace, supplemented by sarcasm, and to lose the king. Leading the government officials to provide for each is a general affair. There are dozens of officials above the ninth rank under his command, and he also controls the palace guard department and the honor guard department. Yu Qijiao served Zhu Shouyong, the king of Lao Lu. He also contributed a lot to Zhu Yihai's succession to the throne, so he was very trusted.

"If you go to see Liu Zeqing in person, the Yamen of Yanzhou may not look at him nonsense, and he wants to pass through Yanzhou. Just work with us. We have a trade route in Dongping, inaccessible, you can go directly to Qingzhou, Qingzhou we also have a way to enter the Denglai region unconsciously, if he is sincere, after he succeeds, the king wants half of the share of the trade area, as well as the port terminal of Penglai. If it doesn't work, let him go to Dengzhou on his own! ”

"Understood!"

"Also. Send another person to Dengzhou to see Zhu Ping'an and tell him that Liu Zeqing wants to lead the troops into Dengzhou. Let him prepare! ”

"Lord Wang, ...... are you?"

"Hahahaha, there must be an injury when two tigers fight, the more chaotic the fight, the better, the more ruthless the better, in this way. We can reap the benefits of the fisherman! ”

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Weihai Weijun Port is now beginning to take shape, not long ago. Tong Wanjun received Zhu Ping'an's warning and learned that the Zheng Jiashui Division was about to attack Dengzhou in the near future. Although it has been peaceful for a long time, Tong Wanjun was still overjoyed when he heard the news, just like an old tree rejuvenated, jumping up and down like a young man all day long, and even the entire Denglai Sailor was not at peace.

The ships that had been hidden in the sea between the islands have also returned one after another, and the military intelligence department has also stepped up the search for enemy spies, and the entire Weihaiwei military port is like a hedgehog with spikes erected all over its body, cautiously but excitedly looking forward to the real naval battle that is about to come.

Sun Heding, Zhang Tao, He Changshui and other key personnel of the Dengzhou Research Institute came to Weihaiwei together, on the one hand, to cooperate with the Ordnance Bureau of the Dengzhou Metropolitan Division Yamen to conduct a pre-war inspection of the current batteries and ships, and on the other hand, to bring a large number of new guys to Weihaiwei.

Seeing a group of soldiers fixing the iron frames on the hull one by one, Tong Wanjun and other officers of the naval division were surprised and inexplicable. These iron shelves are mainly assembled on small and medium-sized ships such as Haicang ships, wheel boats, and Cangshan ships, and it took nearly half a month to assemble them alone. However, the operation is extremely simple, two soldiers can easily assemble and ignite a thing similar to a Ming army rocket, which is currently lacking in instruction proficiency and shooting accuracy.

There is also the high-density black powder researched by the research institute half a year ago, which has also been sent to various health centers in large quantities, including the Denglai Water Division, and today's shells and musket ammunition are filled with this gunpowder.

It is said that the process of making gunpowder is quite delicate and complicated, so the production is not large, and the current amount is still accumulated in the past six months. The amount of propellant, fuse, and destructive charge, the ratio of fire nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal are all strictly measured, and they are all prepared in accordance with the standards set by the institute, and there can be no flaws.

Tong Wanjun was fortunate to see it once, even the original sieves used had strict standards, and the orifices of the sieve were 100 to 120 orifices per minute, so as to ensure that the sulfur and charcoal powder were uniform in size and volume. Finally, the granulation process is even more refined, and a gruel-like paste or rice soup made from wheat flour is poured in. Stir constantly with a wooden spatula until a lump is formed. It is then sifted through a sieve to form grains the size of a grain of rice. Dry thoroughly before storing tightly.

Today, the Ordnance Bureau has recruited more than 2,000 homeless people, half of whom are working day and night to make this purified gunpowder, which is said to be amazingly powerful, and it is still the highest level secret in Dengzhou, and only Tong Wanjun and other high-ranking officers can access a certain process.

Tong Wanjun's subordinates also had veterans who had participated in the Battle of Julu, and when they saw those iron frames, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they couldn't help themselves with excitement, and they all shouted: "I know that this guy is definitely a sharp weapon to fight Tartar, but I didn't expect it to be used in naval battles!" ”

He Changshui was a little dismissive. explained that today's rocket artillery has been improved several times. Equipped with a new style of black powder, improved support frames, set standard weights and lengths, and equipped with a balance bar, and a stable spiral plate at the tail of the rocket, of course, there are some improvements that cannot be said to anyone. All of the above makes the rocket rotate after launch, maintaining a stable and accurate range, and extending the range.

An officer who was stunned to hear this, could have easily broken through the distance of two hundred paces, but now that the range has been extended again, how far can it reach?

He Changshui pouted, "There is still some time for you to become familiar with these equipment, and you will know when you try it!" (To be continued) R466