Chapter 135: The Emperor is Assassinated

deviated, and Zhu Youzhen found that Daming's technology tree went in a strange direction.

Zhu Youzhen, who was dumbfounded, looked at the steam engine like a giant lying on the ground, and standing next to him was Song Yingxing, who had a proud face.

This big, stupid black thing is more than ten meters long. At the foreground is a boiler, with two towering chimneys more than six meters high. Behind the boiler is a huge crankshaft, and the flywheel at the rear is more than two meters long. Moreover, as a boiler that generates energy, it is a large coal-burning boiler, and it does not even have a pressure indicator, so it is completely manual observation.

What Zhu Youzhen didn't understand the most was that this thing was actually used in city defense.

"You're saying that the pressure it creates is directly applied to the bolts?" Zhu Youzhen's IQ is a bit insufficient.

"That's right." Song Yingxing was about to wave his hand to let people start the boiler.

"Stop!" Zhu Youzhen, who was completely concerned about his own safety, stopped him.

But when he saw the disappointed expression on the faces of Song Yingxing and the surrounding craftsmen, he could only grit his teeth, he knew that his encouragement was even more important than gold now.

"Wait a minute, you explain the principle to me clearly before starting, I don't have anything to do today, don't worry."

After listening to the explanation, Zhu Youzhen felt that he had led Song Yingxing astray, and Song Yingxing should have also led Daming astray. If he followed this path, Zhu Youzhen felt that he should be able to see the moving steam castle in his lifetime.

After waiting for the steel monster to activate, no sound can be heard. Li Ruolian and Wang Chengen were already sluggish, completely ignoring their Emperor Majesty's exposure to the occasional bomb of the Ming Dynasty's inferior steel boiler.

However, the final performance of this primitive steam steel monster surprised Zhu Youzhen.

The slowly rotating reciprocating crankshaft drives the flywheel, which in turn distributes the tremendous force to each crossbow spring energy storage device through complex mechanical transmission, which instantly compresses the energy storage spring to a minimum. Then, bareback workers will be seen stuffing different types of crossbow arrows into the long embrasures.

"Put!" A small red flag waved in the midst of a cacophony of sounds.

"Bang!" ，

A loud sound accompanied the trembling of the ground, and hundreds of crossbow arrows more than three meters long shot out of the emhole in unison. Rushed directly to the preset target five hundred paces away. With fire, those that exploded after landing, and those that exploded in mid-air, all kinds of crossbow arrows were not bad, and they all ploughed the sandy land on the target hill.

"Good!"

When the sound around him was a little quieter, Zhu Youzhen took the lead in applauding.

Hearing His Majesty's appreciation, all the craftsmen, including Song Yingxing, went crazy. They threw everything they could into the sky, and then they saw a group of swarthy, scarred craftsmen circling around their emperor.

"Kill five cows!"

This excitement of mastering mechanical power for the first time also infected Zhu Youzhen, and he almost roared and said to Wang Chengen.

"Kill five cows!"

"Add a meal to everyone today, and let everyone take home the rest of the beef."

Hearing the order of His Majesty the Emperor, the craftsmen went even more crazy. Li Ruolian knew that if he wasn't there, these people would probably hold up His Majesty the Emperor and throw him to the sky.

When the beef was stewed in the compound of the Academy of Sciences, Zhu Youzhen saw the derivatives of the steam engine that made his memory even more memorable.

"Your Majesty! This is a model designed according to your vision. Song Yingxing pointed to a rectangular model carved with double dragons, if it weren't for Zhu Youzhen seeing more than a dozen huge iron wheels below, he wouldn't know what he saw.

"This is the train you worked on?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. The steel cart was fifty feet wide and 25 feet high

Ruler. Twelve carriages can be dragged at a time. ”

"Call the train, the steel car is too ugly." Zhu Youzhen said a little helplessly, the indigenous scientists of the Ming Dynasty burst out of their imagination.

"Where's this?" Zhu Youzhen couldn't comment at all, so he could only continue to look down.

"Steam presses, now coinage is mainly water, the pressure of the impact is too small, and the forging of the metal is not enough. We envisage that the steam pressure will be increased again and released in one go. ”

"And this is a steamship?"

This is clearly a half-section of a ship, with a steam engine driving fifty huge oars on one side.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Yingxing squeezed over another foreigner.

"Paul Song, Your Majesty, this is the name that Mr. Song Yingxing gave me. If this ship can be realized, then we don't have to look at the wind at all. I like Daming, there is no God here, there is indeed an open mind. Your Majesty. ”

"Paul Lee escaped from the prison of the Holy See and worked as a mechanic in the Spanish fleet for five years. He is familiar with the transmission of mechanical power and has a talent for it. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said solemnly to Paul Li:

"Da Ming is much more open than you think, this is a land beyond God's control. If you want, Da Ming can give you the identity of a Da Ming person. ”

"If this ship can run on the water one day, your majesty, I want you to ask for a grace."

Song Paul ignored Song Yingxing, who was pulling his sleeve, and looked at Zhu Youzhen directly.

"No problem, if this steamship can actually operate, as long as your wish is within my power, I will grant you."

"I want to take this ship back to dark Spain and rescue my wife and children. Your Majesty. When Paul Song said this, his face looked a little gloomy. He also knew that it should be difficult for a criminal's wife and children to live on their own, but that was his only concern.

"I promise you. At that time, you will be an official member of the official delegation of the Ming Dynasty to Europa. He will also be an official of the Academy of Science under my command. I think the Spanish royal family will also receive a letter from me on this matter. ”

Bidding farewell to Paul Song, who was so grateful, Zhu Youzhen said to Song Yingxing:

"Well done! Although a lot of surprises came from me. But I still have to say that it did a good job. Especially in the case of Paul Song, my mind is the mind of the Ming Dynasty, and the mind of the Ming Dynasty should be your mind. For these results. Zhu Youzhen patted the locomotive close to fifteen meters wide in his hand.

"What I value more is that you have found a craftsman like Paul Song. Remember, the more such people, the better. Like the Army Military Academy and the Administrative Academy in Changping, you should also pass on and spread this knowledge through the school. Do you understand? ”

"I know."

"Alright, don't follow me and follow the rules, you can't let go of me here. I and Mr. Xu Guangqi are going to talk, and you are here to toast everyone on my behalf. ”

Xu Guangqi saw Zhu Youzhen's hidden emotions.

"Does Your Majesty think there is still a problem with this?"

Xu Guangqi was relatively sober, and he didn't see a positive expression on the young emperor's face. What's more, in just five months, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver flowed out of the hands of the Academy of Sciences.

"It's a wasteland, and going in either direction is a breakthrough." Zhu Youzhen said firmly.

"I can afford to wait, this flame will burn in the glass world created by you and me. They don't have to deal with the world, and the voice of the world shouldn't come here. ”

"The old minister understands." Xu Guangqi nodded.

Science will develop in that direction, and Zhu Youzhen is now completely unable to grasp it. But he knew what kind of environment these pure scientists needed.

Cabinet, Jinyiwei, Army Military Academy, Academy of Sciences, the last stop in Zhu Youzhen's plan is Lu Xiangsheng's county office.

He staggered and Xu Guangqi walked towards the gate, and the experimental site of the Academy of Sciences was arranged in a relatively remote suburb. Outside the gate is Xu Guangqi's agricultural experimental field. Now that the wheat is ready to be harvested, there are layers of green and yellow wheat waves everywhere you look.

Zhu Youzhen, who didn't know anything about agriculture before, greedily looked at the wheat that was about to ripen. He did not go on the horse as originally planned, but went to the wheat field.

Li Ruolian hurriedly waved his hand, and the nine horsemen and guards who were already next to the horses scattered around the emperor again.

A group of people were about to wade into the wheat field and walk directly in front of Zhu Youzhen, but they were stopped by him.

"Pay attention to the foot, this is all the seed food that has been cultivated with hard work, where can you stop you from stepping on it like this."

As he spoke, he took off an ear of wheat, twisted it with his hand, and counted it in the palm of his hand, thirty grains in all.

"There are thirty-two ............ here"

Sigh the law.

Before Xu Guangqi's words were finished, the docile war horse at the gate suddenly began to pull the reins in the groom's hand non-stop, and began to struggle and neigh uneasily.

At this time, Li Ruolian, who was standing behind Zhu Youjian, also seemed to feel a chill through his bones.

He looked around uneasily, and suddenly found that the wheat field not far from the emperor was no longer a wave of wheat blown by the wind, but there were obviously a few traces of being quickly sneaked open.

"Enemy attack!"

Almost immediately, Li Ruolian shouted directly.

Minglan who heard the warning didn't have time to judge whether it was a beast or an assassin who rushed over. She rushed up directly and bumped into Zhu Youzhen, who was only two or three steps away from her, with her body. While knocking Zhu Youzhen down, he also pulled Xu Guangqi, the old man next to the emperor, with his hand. The three of them fell straight into the wheat field.

At this time, Li Ruolian also turned into an afterimage and rushed to the front of the three of them.

The nine horsemen behind him were almost inseparable from Li Ruolian, and they were also shouting and running forward.

Almost at the same time that Minglan knocked down Zhu Youzhen, the distance was less than fifty meters, and the assassin in the wheat field also stood up straight. With the buzzing sound of the bowstring, one arrow after another left the string, spinning and drawing more than a dozen arcs towards the place where Zhu Youzhen was originally standing.

A little later came the sound of gunfire, followed by the whistling of guns across the air.

Then there was the muffled grunt of force.

I don't know the situation of the nine horsemen behind, but a feather arrow happened to shoot on the left shoulder of Li Ruolian, who was blocking the front.

"Plate Armor!"

Li Ruolian didn't care about checking his injuries, he knew that this kind of assassination would usually be several rounds of shooting, and the most important thing now was not to hunt down the assassin, but to protect His Majesty's absolute safety first.

What's more, just now, due to His Majesty's protection of the wheat field, his own protective formation exposed the front nakedly. Hopefully, my usual training will still work. As far as he could see, the Assassins had begun to shoot from their backs.

Fortunately, at this time, the nine horsemen had no scruples about the wheat field at all, and pounced directly from the left and right directions. He didn't even have time to unfold the plate armor in his hand, and could only stand up to resist another round of bows and arrows and firebolts.

The power of the firebolt is too small, and the deadliest thing is the feathered arrow that falls from the sky. Most of them were shot at the Nine Horsemen who acted as a human wall, and it seemed that the opponent's archery skills were very good.

"Armor!"

Taking advantage of the gap in the third round of shooting, Li Ruolian pulled a guard with an arrow in the chest into the protective circle, unfolded the plate armor that he had fallen from his back, and barely formed a plate armor barrier with the guards in the first circle. This was followed by another round of arrows, clanging on the plates. At this time, his heart, which was about to jump out of his throat, calmed down a little.

At this time, the cavalry guards who were waiting for the convergence in the distance rushed into the wheat field. As if forgetting their fate, the assassins did not hesitate to charge at their cavalry, but instead shot the last arrow of their lives in the direction of Zhu Youzhen.

Just as the arrows were in the air, the swarthy grenades landed in the crowd of archers dressed as peasants and not wearing armor. Fragments of the grenade, held open by the gunpowder, flew everywhere, easily piercing the Assassins' clothes and bodies.

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing that the cavalry began to wreak havoc in the wheat field, Li Ruolian dared to turn back.

In broad daylight, at the gate of Daming's Academy of Sciences, there was actually an assassination of the king, and Li Ruolian was a little panicked.

He had even forgotten about his duty and just wanted to see if His Majesty the Emperor was injured.

Zhu Youzhen was helped up by Minglan , and his face and hands were covered with scars from wheat mangs and shrubs on the ground.

"Your Majesty." At this time, Wang Chengen, who was in front of Zhu Youzhen, also ran over.

"What's the panic, I'm fine, let's take a look at Lord Xu Guangqi first." Zhu Youzhen knew that the hot pain on his hands and face was some skin trauma, but he looked at Xu Guangqi, who was dragged down, why he hadn't stood up yet.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen say this, Wang Chengen hurriedly turned back and turned over Xu Guangqi, who was still lying on the wheat ground. found that Xu Guangqi's eyes were closed tightly and he couldn't move at all.

"Flatten first, don't move." Zhu Youzhen scolded Wang Chengen, who was about to pick up Xu Guangqi again.

"Ride my horse and go to the official school to find Dr. Wu."

Wang Chengen knew the weight of Xu Guangqi in Zhu Youzhen's heart, so without saying a word, he got on his horse and ran to the official school.

"Don't kneel there." Zhu Youzhen said to Li Ruolian, who was kneeling not far away.

"If the injury is serious, lie down, if it is not serious, call someone to turn Changping County over to me."

Li Ruolian knew that if he could get these people closer than twenty steps today, it was estimated that all the people present would lose their heads. Without hesitation, he snapped the feathered arrows that had penetrated through the leather armor.

"Jinyiwei assemble!"