Peiping.

At this time, Beiping City was still the capital of Yuan.

However, it is only a part of the Yuan capital, because the north city wall is rebuilt, which is actually equivalent to cutting the Yuan capital in half, leaving only the southern half.

Or rather, the later inner city part.

And the Yuan capital had to go north to add at least one-third of the later inner city.

But later the outer city, at this time was completely wilderness, in fact, after Zhu Di moved the capital, this piece was also wilderness, until the Jiajing period, this piece of the circle was made the outer city, but until the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large part of the outer city still belonged to the wilderness in the city, so that Zuo'anmen was nicknamed the village gate.

At this moment, Yang Feng was on this wilderness, watching their new cannons with Zhang Fu and the civil and military generals of Beiping.

"This is your cannon?"

Yang Feng looked at the furlong machines lined up in front of him with interest.

However, at this time, the quality of the products of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty obviously exceeded that of their juniors, at least it did not look so shoddy......

When I was a crow, the sand hole on the cannon could hold a bowl of water!

Of course, this is not casting, in fact, the inside of these Furlong machines is a wrought iron pipe rolled out, and then a circle of wrought iron hoops is put on the outside, including the tail of the magazine is also wrought iron.

So the whole thing looks like a slub.

If you can be willing to use copper, you don't need to be so troublesome at all, just cast it in bronze.

In the final analysis, before the invention of modern steelmaking technology, bronze is the most perfect artillery material, but the problem is that the cost is really too high, and the general country can't afford it, as for the main artillery of the Ming army at this time, it is the Hongwu cannon, which is actually very high-end, because it is actually a cast steel cannon, and the metallographic analysis of the Hongwu cannon by modern Japanese experts is cast steel, but because of the fuel problem at the time of smelting, the sulfur content is relatively high, but in any case, it is steel in terms of carbon content.

Cast steel cannons.

So in terms of cost, now these are much lower than the Hongwu cannon.

After all, the smelting of steel is really complicated at this time, and the experience of the craftsman is extremely demanding.

These Furlong machines are divided into two kinds, one is placed on a special carriage, this one belongs to the large one, it should be about 300 catties, the barrel is relatively long, but the caliber is still not large, the other is a trumpet placed on a wooden shelf, less than 100 catties, can be carried by a special horse, and it can be lifted down when needed, and the gun body is on a bracket with 360 degrees of rotation, and one person can operate it......

"It's not going to blow up, is it?"

Yang Feng held the grip on the tail of a small Furlong machine and looked at Zhang Fu uncertainly.

"There is the name of the craftsman on it, if it is blown up, Your Majesty will get justice for you."

Zhang Fu said.

"Naughty!"

Yang Feng said.

Then he picked up the filled cartridge.

It's like a bottle, actually like a bullet casing.

The original version is actually bottle-shaped, but Yang Feng proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang to improve it, because the lack of power of the Furlong machine is mainly due to air leakage, so a circle of red copper is specially inlaid at the mouth of the bottle, so that you can get a relatively reliable sealing ring, and the only problem is the increase in cost. Yang Feng, who was holding the cartridge, looked at the paper ball inside, then inserted this thing into the magazine, then pushed the wedge on the side, picked up the hammer and smashed it, and then poked the ignition hole with a probe, poked open the medicine bag inside, poured some ignition powder, grabbed the handle and aimed at a group of unlucky sheep and sheep in front of him, and then picked up the ignition rod and put the arquebus on the ignition powder.

The next moment, with the sound of cannons, he coughed violently from the sudden gushing smoke of gunpowder, but after the smoke cleared, the sheep in front of him were already screaming.

Zhang Fu walked over and brought one directly.

"Pierced!"

He said as he turned over the miserable belly of the sheep.

"This powerful shotgun should be enough, right?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, now there are no heavy armored cavalry in the remnant yuan, if the heavy armored cavalry is not afraid, they can't beat us in the field, what they are afraid of is that they wander the grassland with light bows and fast horses, we can't find it, we can't catch it, and we can't spend it with them for a long time.

This thing is just right for pursuit, and the horses are trained so that they can be placed directly on the horse's back. ”

Zhang Fu said.

"Have you ever thought of replacing your horses with camels?"

"Camels, yes, camels can lie down, this thing is on their backs as if they were on the city wall, when the time comes, a herd of camels can surround a camel city, and camels can move for a long time in the steppe, and the cavalry can go anywhere with camel cannons."

"You have the potential to be a famous player."

Yang Feng said.

He's going to draw inferences.

"Uh, it's been awarded."

"Then can you tell me how many troops your majesty the emperor asked the king to take to Liaodong?"

"Your Majesty's will, all armies in Beiping have the responsibility of defending the territory, in order to prevent the remnants of the Yuan from taking the opportunity to enter the Kou, the soldiers and horses under the command of the Beiping Command Department cannot move, that is, the king of my family will select the elite from the three guards, and then mobilize the elite cavalry under the command of the Liaodong Command Envoy after arriving in Liaodong, and patrol the border together with the headquarters of the King of Liao. His Majesty's intention is that Liaodong was originally guarded by the King of Liao, but the King of Liao was young and had not experienced the battlefield, so the king of my family was the elder brother to take him, and the departments to the north of Liaodong were undecided, and the heads of those tribes at both ends needed to be deterred by soldiers and horses.

The king not only patrolled the borders, but also subdued the tribes along the way, and exterminated those who refused to submit, and those who submitted made them pay tribute.

Until it's all settled. ”

"Your emperor doesn't set a deadline or something?"

"I haven't heard of this, not to mention that it is about to enter winter now, and it will be difficult to enter Liaodong when it is cold and snowy."

Zhang Fu said.

Yang Feng frowned and looked thoughtful.

He was a little confused by Zhu Yuanzhang, after all, a scourge like him would be easy to get together with Zhu Di.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang didn't guess that it was Zhu Di, at least he knew that Zhu Di was forty percent likely.

The other sixty percent are the kings of Jin and Zhou, the king of Jin is forty percent, the king of Zhou is two percent, and the king of Qin is not worried, mainly because it is too hateful.

So if you put him and Zhu Di together, aren't you afraid of making up any sparks?

And judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's order, he should want to weaken Zhu Di's strength, but he didn't want to make it too obvious, so let Zhu Di go on an expedition to Liaodong and purge the Jurchens, so that Zhu Di's elite will definitely lose some, which is equivalent to weakening his strength. But since this is the case, then he should be forced to march in the cold winter wax moon, after all, he will have to freeze to death a lot in this way, or is he afraid that Zhu Di's strength will lose too much, so that he will not be able to deter Lan Yu and the others in the future?

"How many chaotic tribes are there over there right now?"

He asked.

"That's a lot, Hu Li Gai, Hu Duo Lian, Tao Wen Ministry, and then to the north there are Udiha, Ku Wu, etc., in short, it's a mess."

So which is the ancestor of my Qing Dynasty?

"Where are they?"

"How do I know so much, even these tribes, or those Mongolians told me, these are all nomadic fishing and hunting in the mountains and forests east of the Haravan Mountain, and Hu Yuan didn't care much about them in the past, just set up some official positions. Now that Hu Yuan has been beaten by us, there is only one breath left, these are no longer controlled, and they are robbing each other, and there are also those who come to beg for shelter from us, and some who don't know much about us, and even call Li Chenggui a minister.

But there shouldn't be much war on our trip, and this mess is not so much a tribe as a group of savages.

It's no different from a savage.

Ru Mao drinks blood.

Let's go and give them shelter, they should be grateful to Dade. ”

Zhang Fu said.

"Thanksgiving to Dade, at the beginning of the internal migration of those Hu people during the Wuhu period, I think I am also grateful to Dade, but when you look back, you should show your knife.

For these people, you have to kill if you can.

Even if they can't be killed, they have to break up their tribe and make their names disappear completely. ”

Yang Feng said.

"That's difficult, it's easy to kill them, it's hard to find them, according to what those Mongolians said, that icy and snowy mountain forest is almost boundless, these tribes are hidden inside, and there may not be one in hundreds of miles, and there is no shortage of wild beasts in the mountains and forests, they have lived in it for generations, if they can't hide, I'm afraid that in another ten years, we won't be able to finish it."

Zhang Fu said.

Yang Feng suddenly understood.

So Zhu Di needs to keep purging it.

Zhu Yuanzhang threw Lan Yu to Guangxi to train troops and Zhu Di to Liaodong to suppress bandits, in fact, they were far away from the political center and weakened their influence, but he kept them, so that he could choose a stable team of ministers for his imperial grandson in the court. It is estimated that the King of Jin will also be thrown out, all these dangerous elements will be thrown out, and he will prepare everything on his side, and when he dies one day, Zhu Yunxi will succeed him, and there will be a team of ministers he has chosen, which can quickly stabilize the whole country.

These dangerous elements will have little chance, and if anyone wants to rebel, others will intervene.

Zhu Di wants to go south to seize the throne?

Lan Yu's army happened to go north to King Qin.

Lan Yu wants to be a minister?

Zhu Di, the king of Jin, these vassal kings with heavy troops in their hands did not agree.

Other ministers in the DPRK and China want to overthrow the emperor?

None of them agreed.

In the end, he could use a civilian government to assist his grandson and become the son of peace smoothly.

"Let me ask one last question, that little beauty over there has been looking at us, who is she, she looks cute?"

Yang Feng pointed to a little beauty who was watching them not far away and said.

The latter has bright eyes and bright teeth, looks very attractive, and is very luxuriously dressed, but he came on horseback, and there is a bow next to the saddle, but it is not a bow for archery, but a slingshot, which is similar to the bow of the bow and arrow, but the bowstring is the pocket of the projectile, and it is a mud ball, but even this thing is controlled in the Yuan Dynasty, and I have to say that the Mongols have absolutely strict control over the weapons of the Han people, although it is useless.

"That's my sister!"

Zhang Fu looked at him vigilantly.

"You still have a sister?"

Yang Feng's eyes widened, and he said in surprise with an obvious intention.