Chapter 103: The Woman of the Wa Kingdom
If it is just to win over Duoyan Sanwei, this is barely said in the past, and the scale can be mastered, but Li Jinglong's next article has no room for maneuver at all.
In any dynasty, it is a big crime to make weapons privately, let alone the firearms that Zhu Yuanzhang values the most.
In the early years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Quartermaster Bureau, which was later renamed the Ordnance Bureau, specializing in the manufacture of weapons and some firearms.
The large-scale manufacture of firearms was handed over to the Gunpowder Department and the War Bureau under the Inner Court Bureau, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to firearms.
However, due to the limited production capacity of the central court of the imperial court, Zhu Yuanzhang and 1377 ordered the Tianxia Metropolitan Guards to set up various bureaus to produce weapons, so as to decentralize the production authority of firearms.
Although such a setting has increased the number and speed of the manufacture of weapons in the Ming Dynasty, it is also afraid that it will bring a series of sequelae.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that all firearms must be reported to the Ministry of War and allowed to be produced.
As for the production of firearms by individuals, they will all be punished as the grave crime of treason!
Therefore, Li Jinglong's words made many people scattered.
Zhu Yunxi not only made firearms privately, but also fornicated with foreigners!
"It seems that Li Jinglong is determined to put Zhu Yunxi to death!"
Many people gasped in their hearts, and even Liu Sanwu and Huang Zicheng, the backs of Zhu Yunwen's party, felt a chill.
Like everyone in the Fengtian Temple, they didn't know that Li Jinglong would suddenly attack today, and they were so ruthless, they obviously came prepared.
The Fengtian Hall was so quiet that even a needle could be heard clearly, and the tense atmosphere oppressed everyone a little breathlessly.
Xu Huizu suppressed the horror in his heart, and asked in a cold voice at Li Jinglong:
"The third master is in Chang'an, how can he make firearms privately, and how can he fornicate with foreigners?"
Li Jinglong's face was a little pale, and he chuckled, as if the voice came from hell, which made people inexplicably have goosebumps.
He ignored Xu Huizu, but said to Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Your Majesty, a month ago, when the Zhizhou of Zhejiang Province routinely inspected the merchant ships coming and going, a Japanese man was found, and a number of drawings were found from him, which were identified by the Zhejiang Ordnance Bureau as the design drawings of firearms."
Speaking of this, Li Jinglong said in an aggravated tone:
"It's an extremely powerful burst firearm, more than ten times more powerful than the firearm that my Daming is equipped with now."
As soon as these words came out, a lot of whispers sounded in the Fengtian Palace, but Li Jinglong continued:
"Your Majesty in the twentieth year of Hongwu listed the Wa State as a country without court, and never allowed the people of the Wa State to come to my Ming Dynasty to trade and do business, but now there are Wa people with such powerful firearm drawings, so Zhejiang Zhizhou did not dare to be careless and brought it back for interrogation."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter, and his eagle-like eyes stared at Li Jinglong and shouted:
"Go on!"
Li Jinglong's previous nervousness calmed down slightly, cleared his throat, and continued:
"The results of the interrogation are surprising, these drawings turned out to be brought back to the Wa Kingdom by a woman from Ying Tianfu and handed over to the Chiba family."
When everyone suddenly heard the words of a woman from Ying Tianfu, they all felt a little nervous inexplicably, and it seemed that they were about to get to the point.
Sure enough, I heard Li Jinglong continue:
"After investigation, the Chiba family is the most famous weapon manufacturer in the Wa Kingdom, and according to the confession of the Wa people, the woman in Yingtianfu happens to be called Chiba Shimizu."
Speaking of this, Li Jinglong's eyes looked at the original name of Li Yuanming, the secretary of the Criminal Department,
Li Yuanming knew that this matter was very important, and this matter originally had a result a few days ago, and he was about to report the file to His Majesty the Emperor by the Criminal Department, and he just chatted with Li Jinglong about this matter at the wine table the day before yesterday, but he didn't expect Li Jinglong to say it in public in this Fengtian Hall without saying a word.
"What a mistake!"
There was a trace of bitterness in his heart, and he felt that he was forcibly pulled onto the thief ship by Li Jinglong.
He glared at Li Jinglong fiercely, stood up very reluctantly, bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang, and then said:
"Zhejiang Zhizhou did not dare to slack off, and reported the matter to the Criminal Department, and the Criminal Department sent the former Jinyi Guard Investigation Department to host a thorough investigation, and found this woman and a man named Chiba Qingshui in an inconspicuous ordinary house in Yingtianfu."
Li Yuanming paused, licked his dry lips, and said with some difficulty:
"And found a letter in the house."
"A letter to and from the little third master."
After saying this, Li Yuanming felt like he had been drained of all his strength, felt a burst of collapse, and almost fell to the ground.
"What does the letter say?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.
"It's mostly about how this firearm was made and some graphics."
After saying this, not only Li Yuanming's face turned white, but the faces of many people in Fengtian Hall turned white.
Li Shanchang, Fu Youde and others had extremely ugly faces, and this matter came out of Li Yuanming's mouth, so they must have not run away.
Xu Huizu's face was pale, he didn't expect that his future brother-in-law would be able to do such a thing.
"He's only fifteen! If there was no one behind him, how could he have done such a thing? ”
Thinking of this, Xu Huizu's eyes were on fire, he glared at Chang Sheng and the others fiercely, and scolded in his heart:
"It's really a bunch of pigs, if it's going to be done, why don't you do it cleanly? Now that he has given someone a handle, Zhu Yunxi's kid is afraid that he will be played to death by you old guys! ”
There were bursts of discussion in the Fengtian Palace, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked expressionlessly:
"Who the hell is that woman and that man? What did it say out of their mouths? ”
Li Yuanming shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The detective secret department used drugs to capture these two people, but I didn't expect that after they woke up, the man actually broke his heart and died, and the woman bit the highly poisonous pill in her teeth. ”
"Dead?"
Zhu Yuanzhang muttered in his mouth, and after being silent for a long time, he said coldly to Li Yuanming:
"Call him back, I'll ask him personally!"
After saying this, he seemed to be a little tired and waved his hand at Wang Jinghong beside him and stood up.
"Retreat!"
Wang Jinghong shouted loudly, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Zhu Yuanzhang.
He felt that the emperor's body trembled slightly, but his own heart was already overturned.
There was a hint of anger, but more of a deep doubt.