The next day, Mu Tianbo found the Han people who delivered the news, this person's surname is Zhou, his name is Chubai, he was originally a Luodi Xiucai in Yunnan, because he knows Burmese, he is quite trusted by the Burmese king, relying on the tiger power of the Burmese king, he is also arrogant, and he is very arrogant to Zhu Jun's demeanor.

"I wonder what happened to Emperor Ming summoning his subordinates?" Zhou Chubai did not salute, and sat down directly on the seat of Zhu Jun's thatched house, staring directly at a painting on the wall of Tang Yin's "Ghost Swallow Sitting" made in his later years, with greed in his eyes.

The faces of the ministers standing on both sides changed slightly, but they were helpless against this fox and fake tiger guy, the landing phoenix is not as good as a chicken, people can at least say something in front of the king of Burma, if he offends him, he will provoke a few words in front of the king of Burma, but it will be troublesome.

Zhu Jun smiled calmly, pointed to the painting and said: "Brother Zhou really has a vision, this painting is Tang Yin's masterpiece in his later years, the only one in the world, if Brother Zhou likes it, I will give it to you." ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, how dare Zhou be such a big gift. Zhou Chubai rubbed his hands, but he was a little embarrassed, he knew very well the value of this painting, if it was taken back to the Central Plains to sell, it would be worth at least a few thousand taels of silver. That's a lot of money for this day and age.

"The pink is given to the beauty, the sword is given to the martyr, Brother Zhou is an elegant person, how can he not be. Come on, take this painting off, reframe it, and present it when Brother Zhou leaves. ”

There was already a little eunuch who carefully took down the "Phantom Swallow Sitting Picture" on the wall with his sleeves and went out of the house to frame it.

"What is the difficulty of the emperor coming to Burma? Zhou is also a Han Chinese, and if he can say something in front of the King of Burma, Zhou will definitely do his best for the emperor. With short hands, Zhou Chubai was much more polite, and bowed to Zhu Jun as a courtesy.

Zhu Jun said with a smile: "There is no difficulty, it's just that we are not used to the water and soil of Burma, and we want to migrate to southern Myanmar. ”

Zhou Chubai got the benefits, but he was really willing to do things seriously for Zhu Jun, he muttered: "Your Majesty, if it is only for this reason, I am afraid that the King of Burma will not agree, after all, you are an outsider, and you have so many subordinates, and there is General Li in the north who is active on the border of Burma, and the King of Burma is actually very guarded." ”

Zhu Jun coughed softly, repulsed the close ministers standing on both sides, and only he and Zhou Chubai were left in the whole thatched hut, so he pretended to be mysterious and said: "Brother Zhou doesn't know, in fact, I am just to leave a way back, the Qing army will hand over me to the king of Burma sooner or later, although the king of Burma has not agreed, but I am uneasy if it goes on like this." Southern Myanmar is adjacent to the sea, I just hope that when the Qing army comes to arrest me, I can sail out to sea and save a life, not to mention that Li Dingguo is in northern Burma, if we go south, how can we contact them again, and ask Brother Zhou to tell me in front of the King of Burma, if things are done, naturally the benefits of Brother Zhou are indispensable. ”

Zhou Chubai suddenly realized, and laughed at Zhu Jun in his heart that he was really an escape, and he also thought about what he said to the King of Burma, so he patted his chest and promised: "In this case, Zhou will definitely do his best, and Your Majesty will wait for the good news with peace of mind." ”

After sending Zhou Chubai away, Zhu Jun breathed a sigh of relief, he changed his life against the sky, only in these few days, as long as he arrived in southern Myanmar, he believed that he still had the ability to protect himself after a year.

Zhu Jun had nothing to do, so he inspected the entire temporary village accompanied by a cadre of officials, the whole village has more than 9,000 people, only a simple fence was built on the periphery with bamboo, Zhu Jun has nine thatched huts, which was ordered by the king of Burma to build for him, and the rest of the officials did not have such good treatment, and they all built some simple thatched huts casually.

However, Zhu Jun still admires the 300 officials who accompanied him, these officials who were still dressed in fine clothes and fine food, are still willing to follow his down-and-out son of heaven without complaint. Loyal and commendable, pedantic to the extreme, this is Zhu Jun's evaluation of them, and now only Mu Tianbo can really give advice for himself, and most of the other officials only know how to cry bitterly, or wave their fists passionately and ask to return to the border of Yunnan to fight to the death with the Qing people.

There are also 2,000 guards led by Zhang Youde, and the right guard of Longjiang has been guarding Gyeonggi since Zhu Dijing, the king of Yan, is the emperor's direct subordinate troops, so the drill is quite diligent, but in Zhu Jun's eyes, these people still have a lot of room for improvement.

In addition to officials and 2,000 soldiers, there are dozens of eunuchs, several concubines, more than 6,000 family members, what interests Zhu Jun is that there are 50 senior craftsmen, these are all skilled craftsmen recruited from all over the Ming Dynasty, originally these people were not qualified to follow the Yongli Emperor into Burma, and later because of the hurry of escape, many palace honor guards were abandoned, only officials proposed to recruit about 50 senior craftsmen to enter Burma together, and so that after the stability let these craftsmen re-make various imperial utensils.

"What's your name?" Zhu Jun asked a middle-aged craftsman at a loss with a pleasant face.

"Back to Your Majesty, my name is Chen Sanxi, Chongzhen escaped from Liaodong with my father in the fourth year." The middle-aged craftsman smirked, and the officials who followed Yang Jun felt that this guy was really rude, and kept squeezing his eyebrows at Chen Sanxi.

"What will you do?" Zhu Jun continued to ask him, Chen Sanxi gave him a good impression, simple and honest, because of the hot weather in Myanmar, his upper body was bare and his bronzed body was tied, and a pair of blue trousers were tied underneath.

"I'm a blacksmith, and I learned the craft from my father."

Zhu Jun nodded, and then asked, "Since you are from Liaodong, you can make ironware, can you make muskets?" ”

There are many firearms in the Ming Dynasty, including bird guns, Lumi guns, Franc machine guns, electric guns, thunderbolts, three-eyed guns, five-row guns, five thunder god guns, seven-star guns, ten-eyed guns, three-in-a-row guns, ten-shot guns, three-in-a-row guns, ten-in-a-row guns, lead bullets, flying gods, fire and poison dragon guns, etc., among which the three-eyed guns are widely used.

Liaodong used to be at the forefront of the anti-Qing resistance, and most of the craftsmen would be requisitioned by the army to make firearms, so the firearms made by the craftsmen in Liaodong were the best.

"This will be an ancestral craft, more sturdy than other craftsmen, if Your Majesty wants to play with a handful, I will immediately make a handful." Chen Sanxi ignored the murderous gazes of the officials behind Zhu Jun and grinned.

"No, I don't need that just yet." Zhu Jun shook his head, his knowledge of muskets was very poor, although there were many names for firearms at this time, but due to the influence of the level of science and technology, most of them had a low range, the time taken to reload was too long, and the cost was too high, and it was not cost-effective.

"I gave you a steel crossbow, can you make an identical one?" The rice has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the technology of the musket is not mature enough, so Zhu Jun wants to start with the steel crossbow, he still remembers the steel crossbow used for self-defense in the forest in his backpack, if he takes it to the craftsmen to imitate, he can quickly give Zhang Youde's subordinates equipment.

Zhu Jun's steel crossbow weighs only 17 catties, but the range reaches 250 meters, which may not be anything in modern times, but if it is placed in the middle of the 17th century, it is definitely a very strong individual weapon, in Europe, the most advanced arquebus of the Portuguese is only 100 meters long, and the loading is troublesome and expensive.

So Zhu Jun's choice now is only a steel crossbow, although he knows that this weapon will be eliminated, but that is a hundred years later, and saving his life is the last word.

"Li Tie's crossbow is well done, as long as the emperor hands over the steel crossbow to him, he guarantees that he can make the same one in half a month." Chen Sanxi scratched his head, his face was embarrassed, he really lacked understanding of the steel crossbow, so he pointed to a thin young man in the crowd of onlookers.

"Your Majesty, my name is Li Tieda, I am from Zhejiang, and I can make some crossbows, but I am not as good as Li Tieda." In front of everyone's eyes, Li Tie came out of the crowd and kowtowed to Zhu Jun at a loss.

"Get up, from now on, Chen Sanxi will be the head of the craftsman household, and Li Tieda will be the deputy to manage all the craftsman households. Li Tieda, you come here with Chen Sanxi at night, and I will give you the steel crossbow to imitate. After Zhu Jun finished speaking, he left with a group of officials.

Only the two Chen Sanxi and Li Tieda, who had bumped into good luck, were left standing still.

"Ah......" Chen Sanxi let out a scream like killing a pig, and scolded Li Tie: "What are you doing with your thighs?" I'm the head of the emperor's family, you don't have any respect for the chief, don't you? ”

Li Tie laughed and said, "Brother Chen, don't be angry, I just want to try to see if I'm dreaming." ”

"Ouch, what does it have to do with whether you dream or not and twist your thighs?" Chen San said angrily.

"Don't you understand? Since you are in pain, it means that I am not dreaming, okay, I won't mess with you anymore, since the emperor can afford us, we have to fight for some anger. ”

Chen Sanxi nodded and said: "Brother Li is right, I will go back to the house to prepare tools, when the emperor hands over the crossbow to us, we will rush to work overnight, and strive to imitate it as soon as possible, you are a good hand at making bows and crossbows, if you want to imitate it, you really have to let you come, I can only give you a hand." ”