Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Rotten Imperial Court
The so-called containment of zuò use, this point has been foreshadowed from a few years before the conflict, although the emperor's arrangement cannot be said to be widely announced, but a discerning person can also see a thing or two. But even if it is such an important army, it is actually deducted from military salaries all day long, the equipment is not complete, and the soldiers are not as good as the Lu Jiajun. Naturally, this was not done by Qi Jingtong and his subordinate officers, but from the beginning of the military department, if Qi Jingtong was to start with the water again, the consequences would be even more unimaginable. Look at Lu Jiajun again, it's a world of difference, the distinction between public and private is clear, the law and discipline are strict, and there is no need to be greedy for ink at all, Lu Bing is very perfect, as long as he abides by the law and works hard, he can get a qiē.
And the Ming court, is already rotten, even though Qi Jingtong is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but Qi Jingtong is not optimistic about this war, and in the end the Ming Dynasty will fail, maybe the day of changing the dynasty is not far away.
Qi Jingtong sneered, wiped the black ash on his face, sighed and thought: If there is really such a day, Qi Jingtong will never surrender, he will kill himself to respect the grace of heaven, and will never disappoint the Ming Dynasty, live up to this somewhat mediocre emperor, this chaotic world, and never discredit the ancestors of the Qi family.
"Surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill." Voices came from all directions, some in the heavens and some on the earth. There was a riot in the barracks, everyone was terrified, it was difficult for Lu Bing to really become a god, and there were gods in the sky and on the earth to help him achieve great things.
Qi Jingtong rushed out of the barracks, his face was dead, he knew that this was also Lu Bing's ghost, although he didn't know why, but he knew that he was finished by looking at the faces of everyone in the army. Yourself have the confidence to fight any powerful enemy. In any case, the enemy always has weaknesses, and there is no invincible army in this world. But in the face of an enemy that could not be touched, Qi Jingtong only despaired. The army is fighting and attacking the heart, and Lu Bing's attack plan is too ruthless.
In the distance, Lu Bing held up his monocular for the first time and was very happy. Recently, the war started, and the telescope has become the standard configuration of every general of the Lu Jiajun, and the effect is immediate. Speaking of telescopes, whether it is anticipating the enemy's first opportunity or arranging troops during the march, it is a great achievement, but the cost is relatively expensive. Therefore, there are few generals in the Ming Dynasty, and even if the equipment is given by others because of their favor, or they spend a lot of money to make it for themselves.
The reason why the telescope is expensive is that his lenses are made of crystal. And it is particularly difficult to grind, and if you want to make a telescope with a high magnification, you need at least two lenses. The raw materials and manufacturing process of these two lenses alone are enough for an ordinary family's old snacks for one or two years, and it is still a solid family. Even Lu Bingfu is rival to the country. It is a large amount to want to equip every officer of more than 100 households with such telescopes, or even more sophisticated telescopes.
But for Lu Bing. This is not difficult, this credit should be credited to Shen Yew. Shen Yew learned the craft of making glass from Westerners, and there were naturally many skilled craftsmen in Shandong, especially after Lu Bing came to power in these years. Shandong people are no strangers to glass, because there is a very similar thing here, colored glass.
In the Tang Dynasty Li Kang's "Duyi Zhi", it is recorded that Zijun County in Shandong Province produces colored glass, and the so-called Zijun County is Changshan County (Zibo) and belongs to Jinan Prefecture. Although the raw materials are different. The process is also different, but after all, it all requires a high-temperature furnace. Therefore, the glass products that are relatively simple to manufacture, Shandong people can be said to be effortless, this is what they have been playing for hundreds of thousands of years, and there are similarities.
But even so, in this era of underdeveloped industrial technology, output still cannot keep up. But it is enough to solve two problems, the boutique is used to manufacture telescope lenses, and the slightly inferior or defective products are also marketable, which is just used in the greenhouse agriculture that Lu Bing has been thinking about for a long time. As long as the earthen wall is erected around it, and the top layer is covered with a wooden frame and then embedded with these glasses, it becomes the roof of the transparent greenhouse, and the use of the greenhouse can be detected this winter. Therefore, Shen Yew can be regarded as a great contribution.
Lu Bing put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Meng Lin beside him, "Big brother, what do you think?" ”
"Therefore, the three armies can win the air, and the generals can win the heart." Meng Lin smiled, then looked at Lu Bing and asked: "How did you do it, there are sounds in the sky and on the ground, if you don't die and know that it was you who arranged it, I'm afraid that I also think that you have the help of gods." ”
Lu Bing laughed and said, "It's a secret. After saying that, he turned over his horse and walked away, Meng Lin shook his head with a wry smile and turned over and ran to the camp.
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In fact, does Lu Bing really have the help of gods, naturally not. Lu Bing applied his mysterious weapons in the sky, the hot air balloon and the winged man. Speaking of hot air balloons, this is also going to talk about Zhu Houxi's Halloween ceremony, when Xia Yan analyzed the truth of Lu Bingduan's Qingfeng Ji Lianhong's magical gifts, which mentioned the hot air balloon-like Kong Ming lantern.
In fact, Lu Bing naturally understood these truths, if he didn't understand how to evolve those magical scenes, Lu Bing used the illusion caused by Kong Ming lanterns and kites at that time. As the saying goes, the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, and when Xia Yan analyzed and said this, Lu Bing's thinking instantly extended and thought of the hot air balloon. As long as you understand the principle, hot air balloons are better to make. The process is not too difficult, although it can't fly too high, but it is definitely not low, and people can only see a black dot when they look up.
However, the weight of this kind of hot air balloon is poor, if it carries a lot of people, the flight altitude will be worrying, once it is shot through, it will be annihilated, and now it is just a little loud to scare people, so it will not let Qi Jingtong find out that there are people flying in the sky, not gods.
But compared to hot air balloons, the formation of the winged people is full of tribulations. This plan was started in the twelfth year of Jiajing, from the wind resistance problems encountered during the development to the unreliable material later, and the problems such as the overweight and easy deformation of the frame appeared one after another, but they were solved one after another. This not only paid a large number of talented people's minds, but also caused nearly 100 soldiers to fall from the sky to the earth to pieces, but now it has finally achieved a heavenly wonder soldier, although there will still be a slight casualty due to flight errors and changes in the sky, but the proportion is very small and negligible.
Now the winged people quickly crossed and shouted and surrendered without killing, the sound was extremely flickering, but it added to the mystery, coupled with the looming black dots above, and the sound of surrender and non-killing floating in the distance, it seemed that the heavenly soldiers and generals shouted in unison. This person's psychological effect has a great impact on people's senses, for example, it is now, in fact, the sound from above is not loud, but the soldiers have a preconceived idea that there are gods in the sky, so this sound is listened to more and more clearly, the more mysterious it feels. Lu Bingdu has eaten human nature thoroughly, how can he be invincible?
As for the sound coming from the ground, it was not advanced technology, but as early as when Qi Jingtong was still serving in the capital, many places in Shandong carried out some renovation in the name of helping the Lu family to help the barracks and guards build barracks. Those court guards were naturally overjoyed, and Shandong took the Lu family as the leader, saying that this was a good thing to improve the living conditions in the barracks, and even a bad thing had to be done. Therefore, there was no resistance, and Lu Bing also won a commendation from the imperial court, what is for the country and the people, the heart of the Ming Dynasty, the richness of benevolence, and so on.
In fact, in these projects, Lu Bing hired many civil engineering experts to build complex and tortuous tunnels underground. Nowadays, these underground sounds come from through some flagpoles and wells, and people only feel like shouts coming from deep underground. There is no shortage of such civil engineering experts in Lu Bing's Inhuman Pavilion, and with the help of those tomb robbers who dig mountains and burrows all day long, this project is nothing at all.
Of course, the excavation of these tunneled cemeteries is naturally not intended to be today, so as to deliberately scare people. Lu Bing's position is special, and Zhu Houxi is suspicious of ordinary people, so Lu Bing must be more far-sighted so that he will not be as passive as before. These tunnels are afraid that in case Zhu Houxi wants to forcibly garrison the army, and Lu Bing can't stop it for some reason, when one person mutates, the Lu family's hundred refining elite soldiers can sneak in from the tunnels, and they can blossom and seize the opportunity to kill the generals, and even use it as a garrison to hide.
The war fell into a wonderful state of equilibrium, Lu Bing did not take the initiative to attack, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on the outskirts of Shandong were also waiting in the camp, only Qi Jingtong was still tireless once or twice but increasingly weak to charge. Finally one night, Qi Jingtong was knocked to the ground by his soldiers with sweat medicine, tied up and sent to Lu Bing.
Lu Bing did not woo Qi Jingtong, nor did he loosen his ties and say something to win him over, Lu Bing looked at Qi Jingtong in the hall, and said lightly: "Is it worth it to work for such a Daming?" ”
"I have a clear conscience about whether it is worth it or not." Qi Jingtong also said neither humbly nor arrogantly, and then said: "Lu Bing, you are my good brother, and you do know me, but I also know you, and I know that you will not kill me." But I beg you to kill me, so that I can kill myself and leave a name in history, so that I will not bear the name of a defeated general. ”
"Brother Shixian, I think you are so pitiful and pitiful, loyal to Daming, but Daming will not send you money and food. I can't stop the imperial court from transporting your supplies, but I also have people watching, hey, it's really pitiful, no wonder those who have a little ambition on your side come to my side to beg for food. In the end, my own soldiers were tied up and sacrificed to me. Who is the right way and who is disobedient, can only be judged by the orthodoxy of imperial power? Then Zhu Yuanzhang used to be just a monk who asked for food. Lu Bing said.
Qi Jingtong said with a sullen face: "Lu Bing, what are you doing here, are you humiliating me?" In vain, we have a relationship, you have taken care of my mother for me for many years, I still owe you, if you don't raise an army to make trouble, I will never be your enemy, what? Are you going to humiliate me today and make me break off with you?! (To be continued......)