There are many surnames Zhu, but there is only one emperor, so in order to be an emperor, means are inevitable.

Zhu Di is also surnamed Zhu, and he also wants to be the emperor, so he has to use means to create the Shenji Battalion, which is his secret weapon, and basically every large army will be equipped with two hot air balloons. However, the hot air balloon cannot be shown to people now, and can only be tested on the unexpected barren mountains of Beiping.

Now it is the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the heat in Beiping has receded, which can be described as a refreshing autumn, but Zhu Di can't feel the autumn air at all now, because he has once again come to his secret base, where the Shenji Battalion trains and sleeps.

This is a large cave with only two entrances and exits, each of which is guarded by Zhu Di's personal guards.

The autumn outside is crisp, and the inside of the cave is indeed hot, and Zhu Di has to shake the fan non-stop.

followed by Zhang Fu and Liu Sheng, sweating all over their bodies.

"Your Highness, the speed of making flintlock pistols has caught up now, but the only person who can create a qualified rifle is this master." Liu Sheng pointed to the old master next to the stove and said.

This master is the old man who made a flintlock pistol for Hu Ye last year, and was invited by Zhu Di from Tongzhou, and within a year, he has built more than 100 flintlock pistols for Zhu Di.

"Let his two apprentices study hard, one person can't achieve great things after all." Zhu Di frowned, the flintlock pistol is too precise, the butt structure is extremely complicated, and the chamber of the gun cannot be bent in the slightest.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid that I can't serve Your Highness for a few years, I always feel back pain today, and my heart is often bored. My two apprentices are stupid and want to master my skills completely. Maybe it's not possible. Ahem. ”

When the old man saw Zhu Di coming over, he greeted him and said to Zhu Di, before he finished speaking, he coughed, blocked with his right hand, and found that blood had been coughed up on the palm of his hand.

"Old man, you sit down and rest first, don't be in this cave for a few days, I will send someone to call the best Langzhong in Peking to see you." You can't get an accident. ”

Zhu Di knew the importance of this old man to himself, and now was a critical period, and more than a hundred guns were not enough.

"Your Highness, the old man's body, the old man himself knows, and he doesn't have a few years to live, I think His Highness should send a few smarter people to learn this technique, my two apprentices are okay at the moment, and ask them to make flintlock pistols. But it's a little reluctant. ”

The old man glanced at Zhu Di gratefully, regardless of whether Zhu Di was sincere or not, but it was enough to have this intention, if Zhu Di hadn't passed by Tong County and saved his life. He had long since become a pile of bones.

"I'll figure out a way to do this, you better rest for two days, and the stove will be extinguished in the next few days." Zhu Di said loudly, and then took Zhang Fu and Liu Sheng out of the cave. Apparently not very optimistic.

"Liu Sheng, go to all parts of Peking to find skilled blacksmiths, and you must be trustworthy. Don't leak the slightest bit of information. Walking out of the cave, Zhu Di instructed Liu Sheng to start preparing to find a successor for the old man.

The scale of the Shenji Battalion cannot be so large, and the manufacture of flintlock pistols must be increased on a larger scale.

Based on Zhang Fu's understanding of Zhu Di, Zhu Di definitely didn't care about the old man just now, but was worried that if the old man died, his Shenji camp would stop, but Zhang Fu didn't criticize this, and the way of thinking of the superior was different from him himself.

"Do you think I'm ruthless?"

Looking at Liu Sheng's distant back, Zhu Di said to Zhang Fu.

"The subordinates don't dare." Zhang Fu's face changed, knowing that Zhu Di must have seen what he was thinking.

"Wen Bi, that's why you can only be a general, not a handsome. You are very cruel to your enemies, but you are not ruthless to your own people. Remember, you have to be a person who can even do it yourself to become a ruthless person, and you can only be regarded as a fierce person. Zhu Di shook his head and walked towards the Yanwang Mansion, counting the days, Zheng Da should also rush back, he wanted to listen to Zheng Da's personal report.

"Ruthless? Fierce man? Zhang Fu scratched his head, recalling Zhu Di's words, why should he be cruel to his own people?

……

"Your Highness, your subordinates have not completed the task, please punish Your Highness!"

In the inner hall of King Yan's Mansion, Zheng Da knelt on his knees and said respectfully to Zhu Di. Under normal circumstances, the secret guard saw that Zhu Di knelt on one knee, but Zheng Da thought that this time it was his mistake and begged Zhu Di to punish him severely.

"Okay, get up, and tell me about the situation." Zhu Di didn't plan to succeed at one time, it was nothing to lose a few secret guards, as long as Zheng Da was fine, he just wanted to know what happened at that time, after all, Zheng Da was the only one alive at that time.

So Zheng Da had no choice but to report to Zhu Di what happened on the night of the assassination.

"Lose yourself? The people of the public loss family? It seems that there are still many hidden forces in the Ming Dynasty. After listening to Zhu Di's muttering to himself, when he thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's encirclement and suppression of various forces a few days ago, Zhu Di's eyes were cold.

"According to your intentions, he could have easily killed you, but he didn't do it, and he didn't expose you later, and let them think that it was the Japanese who did it? But why should he stop you again? ”

Zhu Di still thought of the unusual.

"Your Highness, the prince did not expose me, and explained the situation to Hu Ye, so that Hu Ye would send herbs and Weichen would be able to get through the dangerous period. As for why he stopped me, Weichen also asked him later, and he just said that Zhu Yunwen should not die now. Zheng Da replied.

"Shouldn't you die? Is it another fortune teller? What about the kid? What did the kid say? ”

Hu Ye also agreed with the statement that the public would lose himself, saying that the time would be at least four years later. Zheng Da replied truthfully.

"Four years?" Zhu Di slapped the table suddenly, he had been planning for this for many years, why did he have to wait for four years?

"Hu Ye did say so, before I came back, they were still exterminating the Japanese in Quanzhou, if His Royal Highness ......" Zheng Da wanted to say, but was stopped by Zhu Di.

"Okay, don't talk about the assassination, I see that your injuries are not healed, go down and rest, I will trust that kid for a while." Zhu Di waved his hand and let Zheng Da go down, "By the way, you can stay with me in the future, the old man seems to have little time, and when he returns to heaven, I have something for you to do." ”

"Subordinates obey."

Zheng Da said and withdrew from the inner hall.

"Four years! Don't keep me waiting, boy! Zhu Di muttered.

……

"Ahh

Hu Ye, who was in Quanzhou Mansion, sneezed violently, and immediately cursed which one was thinking about him.

"Hey, Your Highness asked you to come over."

As soon as Hu Ye finished sneezing, he heard the annoying voice, which was Yun Zichen.

Since the last time Hu Ye took them to Yuankoudu and found nearly 100,000 taels of silver, Yun Zichen had a feeling for Hu Ye, like admiration, but he couldn't put it down, and wanted to talk to Hu Ye well, but when he remembered his previous attitude, he felt that speaking well was to slap himself in the face, so he had to pretend to have his previous attitude.

Hu Ye shook his head, this Yun Zichen is also a young man who became famous, he is younger than him, but what he did surprised him, and he should be jealous of himself.

However, Hu Ye didn't think about saying anything to Yun Zichenming, so he should let it be.

When he walked out of the residence, he saw that Gong Yi was fiddling with his gadgets, and the workmanship had to be said to be very fine, but Hu Ye wanted to step on those gadgets in the past, and the anger of being played by Gong Yi last time had not disappeared.

Lou Ying and Xiao Jiuxian are also admiring the gadgets of the public loser, because they have nothing to do recently, and since Zhu Yunwen took them to Quanzhou, they have not caught the widows.

Originally, they wanted to go to the two widows to do the real thing, but they were sternly rejected by Zhu Yunwen, saying that those two people were important prisoners of the imperial court and could not be medicine men.

So they don't have a medicine man to do it, so they become bored, either to watch gadgets with the public loser, or to learn chess skills from the public.

After shaking his head, Hu Ye continued to rush towards Zhu Yunwen's residence, the old man has the world of the old man, we don't understand.

After arriving at Zhu Yunwen's residence, Hu Ye found that Kuramiya Minoru was sitting under Zhu Yunwen, and Matsushita Ikura was standing behind Kuramiya Minoru respectfully.

It turned out that these days, under the instruction of Zhu Yunwen, Kuramiya Minoru has slowly had a trace of the taste of the prince, reminiscing about the previous carefree life, Kuramiya Minoru was grateful to Zhu Yunwen for his magnanimity, and said that as long as Zhu Yunwen can help him regain the rule of the Wa Kingdom, he will let the Wa State bow to the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing Hu Ye coming, Kuramiya Minoru hurriedly came over to salute Hu Ye, after all, it was Hu Ye's Jian Yì who saved the two of them in the first place.

Hu Ye waved his hand, saying that he couldn't bear it, because since ancient times, the Japanese bowed to Cheng dù so big, that Kuramiya Minoruto's head was about to hit his toes.

"Your Highness, I don't know what you are looking for me?"

Hu Ye ignored Kuramiya Minoruhito, but went to the chair next to him and did it.

"The tens of thousands of taels of silver you found last time have now all been spent on a few ships, and now the army has a total of ten big ships, and the soldiers have completed their training. I'm looking for you to ask for your opinion, whether it is possible to go to sea to exterminate the Japanese invaders. ”

"In such a hurry? Isn't there something wrong? Hu Ye frowned, although Zhu Yunwen has been in Quanzhou for more than a month, he is not in a hurry to go to sea to exterminate the Japanese invaders, right? He didn't believe that in a little more than a month, he could train a flock of landlubbers to be able to compete with the Japanese at sea.

"A few days ago, Xinghua Mansion, Zhangzhou Mansion, and Chaozhou Mansion came to report that there were Japanese invaders along the coast. Knowing that we were guarding Quanzhou, we looked for the rest of the state capitals to act. In order to appease the people, I decided to lead my army to sea tomorrow to exterminate the Japanese invaders. ”

Hu Ye rolled his eyes, you are saying one thing and doing another, have you asked for my opinion? Why are people surnamed Zhu so domineering? (To be continued......)