From the appearance of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the pirate organization has never stopped, and has accompanied almost all the history of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, there are not many Japanese people in the real Japanese Kou, and most of them are Ming people.

To be precise, the families of smuggling and maritime trade.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the ban on the sea, the government was not allowed to sail and do business except for tribute.

But wealth moves people's hearts, and this kind of thing can't be forbidden at all.

At first, it was only a small number of Japanese invaders, but as the Ming Dynasty's Beijing division moved north, its control over the south gradually weakened.

Those families and officials who wanted money began to organize teams to carry out the smuggling trade.

On the way, if you encounter a weak or rival team, these smuggling teams will immediately turn into pirates.

Even later, some families felt that they were not quick to do business, or in order to solve competitors and deal with some dark things, they specially raised pirate forces.

This is also the origin of most of the Ming Dynasty's Japanese power.

After all, the Wa Kingdom is such a big place, and such a huge pirate force is really all Wa people, so why should they be pirates, and it is not fragrant to go back to their hometown to dominate the party?

Zhu Di understands this, and Zhu Zhangui also understands.

The reason why Zhu Di wants to target the Japanese country, mainly to the destination, is to teach the other party a lesson.

Some time ago, at the banquet to welcome the envoys of various countries, the envoys of the Japanese State boldly wanted to ask for the land of the Ming Dynasty, which made Zhu Di very dissatisfied, and decided to let his grandson teach the other party a lesson, so that these dwarf winter melons could understand that the Ming Dynasty was not something that could be provoked casually.

Of course, it would be better if you could loot a wave of money and come back.

It's just that Zhu Di doesn't know that Zhu Zhangui is very concerned about the Japanese country.

When the fleet returned, Zhu Zhangui wanted to go to the Wa country.

It's a pity that he was stopped by Zheng He.

Now that he has received Zhu Di's secret permission, how can Zhu Zhangui not be excited.

Zhu Zhangui is an absolutely angry young man.

Most of the countries along the coast that he slaughtered at the beginning were small countries that had harmed the people of the Han family.

For these white-eyed wolves who have hurt the people of the Han family, Zhu Zhangui has one to kill the other, and the means are absolutely ruthless.

Some people may say that hurting the people of the Han family is the business of their descendants in later generations, and what does it matter to them.

Zhu Zhangui doesn't care about this, in his opinion, they are all the same species, and they are not good people anyway.

Now that he has the opportunity to deal with a bigger enemy, Zhu Zhangui has already begun to plan in his heart which cities to stab.

Zhu Zhangui passed this wave and didn't let the blood of Wogua Country flow into a river, Zhu Zhangui was sorry for the people of Jinling who died tragically.

I'd love to bring someone there right away, but the situation doesn't allow it right now.

The top priority of the Ming Dynasty was to deal with the bastards in the north first.

Zhu Zhangui thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the north with the old man first, and then go back to entertain these widows.

As soon as the emperor gave an order, the entire court moved instantly.

Although Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, had some opinions on this will, he felt that it was a waste of manpower to gather all the craftsmen to build artillery.

But a divine decree is a divine decree.

Even if he has ideas, he has to keep them.

Zhu Zhangui has not been idle in the past few days, and has spent most of his time in the camp in the south of the city.

While receiving the delivered iron, we also provide various types of steel pipes to the craftsmen.

In order to improve efficiency, Zhu Zhangui arranged the craftsmen in shifts.

And the assembly line is used to unify various sizes, so that craftsmen can produce various parts in batches.

I have to say that the efficiency and obedience rate of Daming's craftsmen are really high.

In just two days, they got used to this productivity.

On the third day, the production began.

More than 100 veteran craftsmen and the cooperation of their respective apprentices can assemble more than 100 rifles in a day.

And the artillery side is also progressing very quickly.

The steel pipe provided by Zhu Zhangui is free of any burrs and corners, and is exactly the same as the polished one.

What size is needed, how much length, which side of the supermarket will provide according to the requirements.

Zhu Zhangui's side only needs to be renovated in the later stage and externally reinforced.

After several days of processing research and comparison, with the efforts of dozens of old craftsmen, all three types of artillery were manufactured except for one sample.

"Grandpa, these three are samples of the standard artillery that our Ming Dynasty will equip in the future."

The day after the artillery samples were manufactured, Zhu Zhangui invited the old man over.

The old man was in a hurry, and he was urging several times a day.

"Well... Good... Well..."

Looking at the three mighty and domineering cannons that exuded an irritable atmosphere, the old man applauded again and again with satisfaction.

The three guns were a light gun with a length of 1.5 meters and a caliber of 60, a medium gun with a length of 2 meters and a caliber of 90, and a heavy gun with a maximum length of 3.5 meters and a caliber of 150.

"Big nephew, you can really fight eight miles away, why don't I believe it?"

Zhu Gaoxu, who has reconciled with the old man in the past few days, stretched out his hand and patted the heavy artillery, his face full of disbelief.

Zhu Gaosui also nodded in agreement, and also raised the doubts in his heart.

"That is, let's not mention whether you can hit that far? With the weight of this thing itself, once it rains on the grassland, I'm afraid it will be troublesome to move! ”

Zhu Zhangui ignored the two of them, and said directly to the old man: "Hearing is false, seeing is believing, whether its power is as strong as I said, grandpa, you will know at a glance." ”

Zhu Di nodded in approval.

"Okay, try its power and see if you can hit the little cub as he said, if it can't reach the range you said, not even half of it, grandpa will punish you."

Zhu Zhangui smiled confidently and stretched out his hand to invite the old man to wait at the viewing platform in the distance.

When everyone came to the viewing platform, the gunners of the Shenji Battalion, who had been prepared a long time ago, quickly stepped forward and pushed the light artillery out.

In accordance with the requirements of the standard, the artillery commander first checked the artillery, and after determining that it was ready for fire, he began to order the loading of the artillery.

The loader, who had been on standby for a long time, took out a fixed charge and stuffed it into the barrel, and the assistant next to him quickly took a pole wrapped in cotton cloth and poked the bag into it, and at the same time stuffed a mat made of hemp rope into it as a grid plate, and finally put in the prepared round cannonball.

After the previous steps were completed, the gunner pierced the gunpowder pouch with a hook and inserted a silver wire into it.

At the same time, he stretched out his hand to signal to Zhu Zhangui, and the artillery was ready to shoot.

"Hehe, at this speed, by the time they got it right, the cavalry would have already rushed in front of them."

Looking at such complicated steps, Zhu Gaosui sneered disdainfully, and Zhu Gaosui also chuckled in agreement.

Zhu Zhangui, who was just about to give an order, looked at Zhu Gaoxu when he heard the words, saw his disdainful expression, his eyes rolled slightly, and said with a smile:

"This is the first time that the new artillery has fired, and it is of great significance, why don't you give this opportunity to the second uncle?"

Hearing this proposal, Zhu Gaoxu's heart tightened.

Zhu Zhangui, this kid is very tricky, he doesn't believe that this kid will be so kind and give this honor to himself.

"Second uncle, you won't dare, right?"

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was about to refuse, Zhu Zhangui spoke aggressively.

This trick tried Zhu Gaoxu a hundred times.

"If you don't dare, isn't it just a cannon, and I haven't let it go."

Zhu Gaoxu snorted lightly, jumped directly from the viewing platform, strode to the gunner's side, took the torch, and stabbed it directly despite the gunner's reminder.

"Boom!"

The lead caught fire as soon as it saw it, and with a deafening roar, the gun carriage retreated violently, and a projectile whistled out, flying nearly a thousand meters before falling to the ground, and a few big bounces before slowly stopping.

Next to the artillery, Zhu Gaoxu threw away the torch, rubbed his ears vigorously, and glared at Zhu Zhangui viciously.

Damn, I was cheated by this little bastard again.