The New Year always has a lot of surprises, and this year is no exception.

The surprise of Beiping City was that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qianhu Qiu Fu led a hundred people and defeated thousands of Mongols who came to Kaiping.

This is a great victory in Beiping, this is a great victory under the wise leadership of Zhu Di, at least this is what Jin Zhong has propagated under Zhu Di's instructions.

So the people of Peking sang and danced happily to celebrate the New Year, and the entire first day of the new year was spent in the sound of firecrackers.

Compared with the singing and dancing of the people, there is a group of people who can only stay silently underground, even on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they can't see the sun outside.

Zhu Di got rid of the harassment of several sons, and even the youngest son Zhu Gaoxi was dumped by him in Yanwang's mansion. And he took Liu Sheng to a hill a few miles away from King Yan's mansion.

The mountain is not large, there is a hole underneath, and it is guarded by a group of heavily armed soldiers on the periphery.

Zhu Di just nodded at them, and did not feel guilty for letting them stay in this barren mountain on the first day of the Lunar New Year, because these people were his dead soldiers.

The entrance of the cave is not big, but the inside of the cave is extraordinarily wide, about four or five zhang high, and more than ten zhang long and wide.

The temperature inside the cave is very high, even though there is still snow in Beiping, but when he enters the cave, Zhu Di still has to take off his coat.

A wave of heat hit his face, and Zhu Di heard the heavy beating sound in the cave, the beating of heavy metal, which made Zhu Di feel as if he had returned to the battlefield of the Jin Ge Iron Horse.

"Your Highness is here! Your Highness is here! ”

As soon as Zhu Di walked into the cave, someone saw Zhu Di. While saluting Zhu Di, he said loudly.

When the rest of the people heard that His Highness had come down, they stopped their men and stood there straight.

For a moment, all that was in the cave was the popping sound of fire, and the whirring sound of a heat wave blowing on the eardrums.

"Everyone's worked hard."

Zhu Di glanced at the people in the cave and roared.

Unlike those dead soldiers outside, Zhu Di felt a little guilty about these people.

Because these people are all people who have followed Zhu Di on the battlefield, some are orphans, some have been separated from their wives, and some have not yet joined the army. The family was taken captive by the Mongols.

These men fought bravely on the battlefield. But they were left with lifelong disabilities, some with broken arms, some with broken legs, and some even blind.

They can't go on to the battlefield. Zhu Di also did not want to let the soldiers who followed him to fight the world live on the streets. In addition, Monk Daoyan instigated on the side. Zhu Di made up his mind and built an underground arsenal here.

Although Zhu Digui is a vassal king, there is such a thing as making weapons privately. Once exposed, it will be a major crime, and if Zhu Yuanzhang knows the truth, it is likely to be a crime of rebellion.

So these people can't show their faces, and from the moment they promised Zhu Di, they were destined to spend their lives in this cave.

"It is our honor to be able to contribute to His Highness!" A one-armed strong man roared and gave a military salute to Zhu Di, although he only had one arm, but it was so sonorous and powerful.

Zhu Di stepped forward and patted the strong man's shoulder, sighed, and then picked up a big knife from a stone table.

The strong man caught the big knife with one hand, and then looked at Zhu Di curiously.

"Be careful!"

As soon as the strong man caught the big knife, Zhu Di shouted, and touched his right hand in his arms, and suddenly the two flying knives were in his hands.

Sou! Sou!

Two sounds of breaking the air flew towards the strong man.

Ding!

There were two more collisions, and the two throwing knives suddenly fell to the ground.

The strong man put the big knife in front of his eyes, looked at the two grooves on the big knife, and was very shocked in his heart, "Your Royal Highness's demeanor has not diminished back then, this flying knife stunt is really admired by his subordinates!" ”

"You're not bad, you can take my throwing knife with one hand." Zhu Di clapped his hands, then came to the strong man's side, took the big knife, and touched the groove on the knife.

"The quality of this knife is still a little worse." Zhu Di put down the big knife and sighed.

Immediately, a one-eyed soldier knelt down, "Your Highness is angry, this knife is already the best steel I can cultivate." ”

"Okay, I don't mean to blame you, now the steelmaking process is a little worse, there are no impurities, the steel is not pure, and the strength is good." You will improve more in the future. Zhu Di said and took Liu Sheng to a small corner of the cave, which was the place he cared about the most.

There were only three people in this corner, one old and two young. If Hu Ye was here, he would recognize that this old man was the old man who made him a flintlock pistol in Tong County, and the two teenagers were the apprentices of this old man.

"Master Wang, how is it going?" Zhu Di stepped forward and said to the old man.

"Your Highness, I have lengthened the barrel of the gun according to what the young man said, and the power and accuracy of the gun have indeed been greatly improved, but it is a little troublesome to load ammunition, and it must be coordinated by two people." Master Wang picked up a spear as he spoke, and said to Zhu Di with a gesture.

This gun is not too long, but it is one longer than Hu Ye's flintlock pistol, and one person can barely load and fire, but the power is not satisfactory.

"Your Highness, I have also tried this gun, compared to the fire gun used before, it is much more powerful, and the lethality within a hundred steps is far greater than that of a bow and crossbow, and it is a sharp weapon against cavalry." Liu Sheng also stepped forward and said.

"A hundred steps is too short for a man with a gun to be within range of an enemy archer." Zhu Di shook his head, and then picked up another gun, the body of this gun is much longer than the one just now, and if you want to load and excite, you have to cooperate with at least two people.

"Master Wang, if you improve this kind of gun, and when you build it in the future, you will build this kind of gun, and you must destroy the enemy on the road of attack." Zhu Di said loudly.

If Hu Ye was here, he would have heard that this great quote actually came from Zhu Di's mouth, and maybe there would be one more in his Ming Dynasty experience.

"There is also the shortest flintlock pistol, which should also be built more, and the senior generals in the army will be equipped with this weapon in the future." After Zhu Di finished speaking, he took Liu Sheng out of the cave.

"Your Highness, I think that kid's invention will change the future war, this kind of character ......" After leaving the cave, Liu Sheng said in Zhu Di's ear.

"Okay, I know what you're worried about, and I'm on my own." Zhu Di waved his hand to interrupt Liu Sheng's words, and then walked towards Yan Wangfu.

There are surprises in Beiping, there are surprises in Zhu Di, and there are naturally surprises in Nanjing.

And Nanjing's surprise is the big-character posters all over the street, I heard that it has risen in recent days, and the initiator is a strong man.

The content of the big-character poster is very simple, that is, Qingtian Street has recently opened a Qingtian Academy, and the opening ceremony on the 16th day of the first month, interested students can go to sign up.

Moreover, the enrollment of this Qingtian Academy is very different, there are only four subjects, and each subject recruits ten people.

"Chinese culture is simple, and any academy is handing it over. What is this Architecture Division? There are also the Department of Physics and Medicine, which is still called a college. On a street in Nanjing, a scholar casually tore down a big-character poster glued to the wall, looked at the content on it, and muttered to his partner next to him.

"Don't look at the name of this Qingtian Academy, their lineup of teachers is not small." A scholar next to him pointed to a line of the big-character poster and said, "Honorary Professor Yan Shenggong, Chief Lecturer Ruan Gonggong, and Li Yuanshan." These people are not small. ”

"Who says it's not, the name of Yan Shenggong is a great thing in the literary world. Although I don't know what the honorary professor of Ludao is, but to be able to hang the name of Yan Shenggong, this Qingtian Academy is not simple. Another scholar added.

"Cut, I will also sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, I think this Qingtian Academy is just bragging, if they really invite Yan Shenggong, I will go to their academy to be a scholar." The first scholar to speak swore an oath.

"Ha Luha, if I listen to the lectures of Yan Sheng Gong every day, I am willing to be a scholar."

……

A similar scene was staged in Nanjing City, and it can be said that Qingtian Academy was known to many people in Nanjing City overnight.

However, basically everyone has a wait-and-see attitude, after all, it is not easy for a new academy to compete with those colleges with good background.

Nanjing City was in an uproar, and Kong Ne naturally got the news, and he was very angry.

"Shaft! Shaft! ”

Kong Ne held a pawn chess, smashed the chessboard fiercely, and kept scolding the vertical piece in his mouth.

Ah Fu next to him is naturally aware that the shaft in the mouth of Kong Ne is Hu Ye, except for Hu Ye, who can do this.

"Master, you are angry, why don't I go and arrest that kid for you now?" Ah Fu whispered.

"This kid has ruined my reputation, the honorary professor of bullshit, the old man just promised him to go around on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and this will become his honorary professor, what a bad old man!" Conne was furious, and then picked up a horse chess piece and placed it behind the pawn.

"Stinky boy, dare me to be your pawn, if you don't give me a reasonable explanation that day, the old man will definitely make you unable to get off the stage!" Conne said viciously.

As angry as Kong Ne is Ruan An, he is not a high-profile person, but wherever he has been going in the past few days, his father-in-law has always come over and asked, "Father-in-law Ruan, I heard that you are going to be a teacher, you really want to kill me first." ”

"Grandpa Ruan heard that the academy is treated well, and there are beautiful women with him, but it's a pity that I can't watch it but can't play it, hey."

"Grandpa Ruan, I heard that ......"

……

"Ahem, Xiao Anzi, I didn't expect you to be famous this time." In the imperial study, Zhu Yuanzhang coughed and said.

"Your Majesty, don't make fun of me, didn't I follow that kid's way, I knew that Lu Dao was so fanfare, so I wouldn't agree to him." Ruan An said embarrassedly.

"It's not wrong to make a lot of fanfare, I'm curious about what this kid's academy will be like." Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and recuperated, he was old, and he felt very tired when he moved a little.

Compared with Kong Ne and Ruan An's anger, the initiators of this surprise, Hu Ye and Lao Qian, were very happy at the moment, because they were happily gnawing on pig's trotters. (To be continued......)