Hutu Ketu is ruthless enough, but he is definitely not a cunning opponent, which Meng Tu has already understood, after all, if he hadn't blindly adopted a tolerant attitude, then he would not have been beaten all the way from the east to Moxi.

The Tatar Mongols completely occupied their steppe, and Khutuktu had nothing to do about it, until this time the Tatar Mongols kept up with the broken chariot of the Houjin Nuzhen.

The bloody dog who was beaten by Da Ming.

This made Hutuketu seem to see hope for a return to its former glory, but he could not understand why the Ming people were reluctant to allow themselves to occupy the fertile pastures to the west.

You must know that the place was originally something that belonged to your own tribe.

I made a mistake by taking it back now.. This logic made Hutuktu very angry, but anger was anger...

He didn't mean to stop, after all, in his opinion, Da Ming was just a group of lucky nouveau riche.

If those firearms are given to themselves, they can also beat the Jurchens all over the ground.

"Let all the tribes pay attention to some... Go as fast as you can into the steppes of the Tatars, no matter what tribe you are! If you see it, you can kill it! ”

The grinning Hutuketu smiled happily, and he felt that he had found the best way to war, turning his tens of thousands of troops into one cavalry group after another overnight.

All the cavalry that entered the steppes of Tatar Mongolia would not have been found at all.

"Da Ming.. But that's it! ”

"When all my army is mixed into the Tatar steppe, how can you tell the difference, and then I will reassemble all my forces, or I will completely eat the steppe!"

After saying that, he straightened the armor on his body, and went with his subordinates to eat the roasted whole sheep that he had snatched.

In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen's face was not good-looking at all, but he looked at Xue Fengxiang in front of him helplessly.

"Say it.. What is the matter that is coming to me? ”

"Hey, hey! Your Majesty, I really can't hide it from you... The minister has come to see His Majesty today mainly because of a reluctant invitation.." Xue Fengxiang, who was smiling all over his face, said with a smile in front of Zhu Youzhen like a child.

But Zhu Youzhen said directly: "I think that if it is a reluctant invitation, I think it is better for Xue Aiqing not to say it.."

"Ahem.. The old minister felt that he still had to discuss it with His Majesty. ”

"Okay, okay, okay. I know, you'll still say it, just say it! Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said.

"Your Majesty... The minister wants to expand the General Bureau of Ordnance, or build a branch factory in Shanxi! ”

"No way!"

Zhu Youzhen didn't think much about it, and decisively rejected Xue Fengxiang, and then said: "Don't think I don't know, there is still such a big place behind the General Bureau of Ordnance that is not used, where do you need to expand it again?" ”

Unexpectedly, Xue Fengxiang said with an anxious face: "Your Majesty.. You're right, and I'm not hiding it... To tell you the truth, the General Directorate of Ordnance found a grenade in a book in the Royal Library. weapons .."

"Wait? What did you say.. Hand grenade? Xue Aiqing, don't you want to tell me that you want to expand because the General Bureau of Ordnance has developed grenades, so you want to expand production? Zhu Youzhen said, his face was already a little incredulous.

"Your Majesty, that's really not difficult, it's just a shell plus fuses, fragments, gunpowder, maybe the most difficult thing is to unify the system and the size of the power.."

Xue Fengxiang did not lie to Zhu Youzhen.

Nowadays, the General Administration of Daming Ordnance has close contact with the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Library, and Zhu Youzhen used to flop more or less every day, but sometimes the books obtained...

It is often not related to technology, and occasionally there are things that can barely have a little relationship, and most of them are similar to batch popular science books, without specific production processes and manufacturing content.

This kind of book is often stuffed into the royal library after Zhu Youzhen reads it at will, and then as time goes by, a researcher of the Royal Academy of Sciences finds a popular science book in the military category in the library, and finds an introduction to hand grenades in it.

The researcher who felt that if such a thing could be developed, it would be of great help to the Royal Heavenly Tiger Army of the Ming Dynasty.

Almost immediately, the grenade was explored on its own, and finally found that its overall structure was simple, and the production process was not cumbersome.

Basically the same as the one introduced in the book, this explosive weapon, which can be thrown manually by the soldier, is not technically difficult.

However, the researchers' research has reached a bottleneck at this point.

Because Zhu Youzhen, in order to avoid the leakage of technology and the waste of resources, he had a clear division of labor and certain restrictions on the new division of directors of the Ming Dynasty a long time ago.

Similar to the development of military weapons, the Royal Academy of Sciences was incapable of developing them, and in the end the researcher was only able to find the General Directorate of Arms.

When I first saw this kind of technology, I just made a rough sketch out of paper.

Xue Fengxiang saw at a glance the war potential represented behind it.

It was ordered immediately.

A certain amount of money, equipment and skilled craftsmen were invested to carry out continued research and experimental production of hand grenades.

Of course, it can be seen from the fact that Xue Fengxiang took the initiative to find Zhu Youzhen today and sought another expansion of the General Bureau of Ordnance.

The end result was a delightful outcome.

This kind of grenade, which uses wood and iron sheets as the raw materials for the shell, has a certain amount of gunpowder and fragments placed inside, and finally uses a rope as a fuse, has been tested internally by the General Bureau of Ordnance, and has achieved results that make everyone cheer again and again.

And it was extremely recognized by Sun Yuanhua, and even said to Xue Fengxiang: "The most important thing now is not to continue research and experimental production, but to expand equipment as soon as possible, organize manpower, and mass production... I think he can also surprise Daming on the grassland. ”

So Xue Fengxiang immediately made a decision and invited the State Administration of Industry to develop production equipment, and finally developed a full set of technology.

"I.. I really didn't expect that Xue Aiqing would be able to bring me such a big surprise today. ”

For a long time, in Zhu Youzhen's view, the current industrial level of Daming is not very good.

Although at a certain level, it has thrown off a considerable gap with those Taixi countries, but for some industrial products that only appeared in later generations.

Zhu Youzhen has not paid too much attention to it.

But now Xue Fengxiang seemed to be using his actual actions, lying on Zhu Youzhen's ear and telling him: "Daming Industry!" Not bad! ”