Chapter 95 Cao Pi tries guns

At the time when Liu Hou was entangled in miscellaneous affairs, there was a group of people in Xuchang who were very leisurely.

Xuchang, in the imperial garden of the Wei Imperial Palace, the garden is full of strange flowers and plants, competing for beauty, people walking in this environment, there is a feeling of red and green.

On a meadow the size of half a football field, there was a man who was really snuggling up to the green. This man is about thirty years old, but he looks like a crown of jade, with red lips and white teeth, and a slender figure, so he looks like a graceful and suave person.

His identity was revealed by the clothes he was wearing, and he was dressed in a gorgeous yellow robe with a five-clawed golden dragon embroidered with gold thread. Those who dare to embroider a five-clawed golden dragon on their clothes, there are only a few people in the world who claim to be the emperor.

The clothes embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon can be called a dragon robe, however, isn't the dragon robe red? Liu Hou's dragon robe is red as the main tone, how can it turn yellow here?

Originally, Wei thought that it was the orthodoxy of replacing the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was Huode, still red, according to the theory of yin and yang five elements, fire gave birth to earth, so Wei should be Tude, and the corresponding color of the soil was yellow, so Wei was still yellow, and Cao Pi simply set the year name as "Huang Chu".

Then, the identity of this young man is about to come out. He is none other than Cao Pi, the emperor of the Great Wei State, Cao Cao's heir, and Cao Zhi's good brother.

Cao Cao's generation is a masterpiece, and the sons he gave birth to are all extraordinary, and later generations are talking about Cao Zhi Cao Zijian, who became a poem in seven steps, and Cao Chong, who was very smart and could use the principle of buoyancy to weigh elephants.

However, when the brothers are so powerful, can Cao Pi, who can still stand out and finally grab the throne, will his skills be bad?

In fact, Cao Pi was very smart at a young age, he was able to write articles at the age of eight, he was well-read, good at riding and shooting, and liked fencing, so he can be said to be a rare talent in both civil and military affairs. He, along with Cao Cao and Cao Zhi, is known as the "Three Caos", and they are all famous literary scholars in the late Han Dynasty.

Cao Pi is not only good at wrists, but also handsome and handsome. Of course, the romantic character is not only literary and charming, in fact, his life style is also quite romantic. Now there are a bunch of beauties around him, which are his concubines, and one of the most famous concubines is the queen Zhen 1, who is known as Luoshen.

Queen Zhen's name is Zhen Mi, she was born with white skin and beautiful appearance, and she has a devilish figure, which can be said to be beautiful, Cao Pi was fascinated when she saw her, and she was fascinated.

But now she is forty years old, and she has become a half-aged, and her appearance is no longer good, and she is no longer favored by Cao Pi. The reason why she became famous was because Cao Zhi wrote an article "Luo Shen Fu", in which she praised her beauty.

The little uncle wrote a gorgeous article, describing and praising the beauty of the sister-in-law, and it happened in a feudal society that pays attention to etiquette and religion, not in this new era of openness and moral decline.

Whether it is the brother-in-law coveting the beauty of his sister-in-law, or the eldest brother robbing his brother's lover, they are all in the past, the current situation is that Zhen Mi has become Cao Pi's queen, and Cao Zhi is degraded to the place where birds don't shit, and it didn't take long for him to die of depression.

The reality is cruel, the loser can only die, and only the winner can enjoy the beauty of flowers. Cao Pi is now enjoying the flowers in the garden and the beauties hugging left and right.

The concubines chattered, and Cao Pi also talked and laughed, but Cao Pi was so happy today, not only because he was traveling with the United States, but also because there was a very important and happy thing today, that is, today he had to test the artifact that the craftsman had just produced.

The general of Wei is surnamed Guo, and the master is not only a craftsman, he is the chief of the general supervisor, with a rank of 2,000 stones, and a silver seal and blue ribbon, which is not a small official.

He will be in charge of the palace architecture, embroidery of gold, jade, beads, emeralds, rhinos, elephants, treasures, utensils, zuò and lesagrain, and all kinds of strange utensils.

At this time, Master Guo was directing a group of craftsmen to fiddle with some objects at both ends of the meadow, and at the end near the emperor were placed yellow, orange and orange thick or thin copper pipes, and at the other end were arrow targets, armor, shields and other objects hanging on wooden stakes.

Finally when he finished fiddling, he wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, trotted over to Cao Pi and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, it's ready, it's ready to start at any time." ”

"Okay, let's get started." Cao Pi stopped talking and laughing with the concubines, waved his hand, and ordered Master Guo to start experimenting with the artifact.

After Guo Dajiang agreed, he came to the field and gave the order to start the test. The three craftsmen picked up three yellow fire# guns and aimed them at the arrow target on the other side of the grass.

These three craftsmen were the craftsmen of the firearms factory of the "Ministry of Industry" who were sent by Xu Jing to the Wei State. Liu Hou put so much effort into keeping the firearms manufacturing technology secret, such as strengthening security measures, such as using the assembly line production process, and the craftsmen in each section were only responsible for the production of one of the components.

However, these measures could not withstand the betrayal of their pig-like teammates Xu Jing and Wu Yi, who directly took over the "Ministry of Industry", making all the security measures directly ineffective, and then extracted one of the craftsmen from each section of the assembly line and sent it to the Wei State. This allowed Wei to obtain a complete production process for firearms in an instant.

However, due to the lack of suitable casting materials, and Cao Pi was urging him to hurry, they had to use copper to cast some gun samples first, and coax the emperor to pass this level first.

Therefore, now the fire # gun in the hands of the three craftsmen is yellow-orange-orange, except for the copper barrel, the other parts and styles are almost exactly the same as the fire # gun of Shu.

"Bang bang bang" three gunshots frightened Cao Pi's surrounding warblers Yanyanhua pale, his hands involuntarily covered his ears, and his liver jumped cautiously.

Cao Pi was also taken aback, but he had seen a big scene and held his identity, so he just frowned and didn't do anything rude.

After the guns were fired, the three craftsmen ran to the other side of the meadow as fast as they could, some carrying the targets, some removing the armor from the stakes, and soon they brought these things to the emperor for inspection.

Fortunately, the launch point was only a dozen steps away from the target, and none of these craftsmen missed the target, Cao Pi and a group of concubines leaned over, and they first saw a small hole in the target, but it didn't hit the red heart, it was near the edge.

"Yes, Your Majesty, what kind of gun or what the hell is so loud, it scared the concubine's heart and liver about to jump out, Your Majesty, you must comfort and comfort the concubine today." Daddy's coquettish voice is a noble person, but Cao Pi obviously doesn't want to pay attention to her, so he doesn't answer.

"Your Majesty, this person is not very accurate, he is on the edge, and the sharpshooters in the army are too far away, not to mention the marksman, even the ordinary archers can't compare." This time it was Li Guiren who spoke.

Cao Pi smiled and said: "Concubine Li, you still have a bit of vision, you can see the quality of the quasi-head, these people are all craftsmen, and they have never practiced archery at all, what kind of quasi-head is there." But that's not the point, the focus today is on the power of this new weapon. You see, the edge of this small hole is clear, and there are slight burn marks, which indicates that the object that pierces through the target is very fast and penetrating. ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Guo Dajiang slapped a sycophant, and then lifted the arrow target open, revealing a section of wooden stake behind the arrow target, which was hung on this wooden stake just now to shoot for the craftsman.

I saw a small black hole in the stake, the size of the hole was as big as the hole of the arrow target, and through the small hole, you could see that a black peanut-sized bead was deeply embedded in it.

"It's lead #bomb." Guo Dajiang gave an explanation in a timely manner.

"Wow, it's so powerful, if it hits someone......" Guo Guiren let out an exclamation of surprise.

At this point, a craftsman presented another target—a stake covered with armor. I saw that there was a small black hole in the abdomen of this armor, and Master Guo peeled off the armor again, revealing the wooden stake inside.

"Shhh There was a gasp of air. There is still a small black hole in this stake, and a lead# bullet is embedded in it, but the hole is much shallower than the one just now, and the lead# bullet is on the same level as the stake.

"Good, good, even the armor can't stop it, it's really an artifact." Cao Pi clapped his hands and praised.

Then there is the examination of the shield, which is also pierced by lead# bullets, which are shallowly embedded in the stakes behind it. Cao Pi and the concubines were amazed.

"Please cover your ears with your mothers, and now we are ready to test the power of the fire # gun, the sound of the cannon is much louder than the fire # gun, please be careful." Guo Dajiang was ashamed of his dereliction of duty just now for not reminding the emperor and the ladies to cover their ears, so he quickly remedied it.

Everyone covered their ears one after another, Cao Pi covered his ears at first, and then his eyes skimmed to a petite figure shrunk to the side, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, he beckoned and shouted: "Little Concubine Liu, come here, let me help you cover your ears." ”

Liu Guiren is the daughter of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, why is it called Xiao Liu? Because Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty married his two daughters to Cao Pi as his little wife, there were two concubines Liu, one big and one small, and in order to distinguish them, Cao Pi called them "Little Liu Aifei" and "Big Liu Aifei" respectively.

Xiao Liu Guiren is the youngest and has a beautiful appearance, and Cao Pi usually loves her the most. However, she and her sister are both daughters of the dead country, so they naturally don't feel good in their hearts, and they usually just force their faces to laugh and welcome each other. When watching the effect of the fire # gun shooting just now, all the concubines let out exclamations, but her two sisters hid on the side and did not make a sound.

Now Cao Pi called her, but she didn't dare to disobey, for this man who was both her husband and the usurper of the country, her feelings were very complicated, but she knew that if she made this man unhappy, not only herself, but even her father, mother, and even other Liu clansmen, could be wiped out.

So, she forced out a little smile and walked up to Cao Pi gracefully, Cao Pi was satisfied to cover her ears with the root of her palm, while her ten fingers were on her pink cheeks and ate tofu.

The other concubines suddenly stared at Xiao Liu Guiren with murderous eyes, and Xiao Liu pretended not to see everyone's jealous gaze, she had seen this kind of gaze a lot, and she had long been accustomed to it.

"Your Majesty must not, you have a golden body, how can you be like this. Sister Liu, you quickly cover your ears, what if you hurt Your Majesty's ears? Yin Guiren said indignantly.

Note 1: Zhen Mi was killed by Cao Pi in the second year of the early Huang dynasty (221 AD), and this article pretends that she is not dead.