Li Shanchang actually didn't know, he was just based on his understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang. However, if he thought that it was possible for King Yan and the horse to win, he couldn't think of any possibility!

That blue jade, of course, he also understands. He didn't think that those two boys would win that blue jade after three months of training!

After thinking about it for a while, he didn't understand, and he didn't want to think about it, it matters first.

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On the other side, after Hu Weiyong returned to his house, he also smiled proudly.

Before returning home, he went to the Dadu Governor's Mansion, looked for Lan Yu, asked quietly, and found that the emperor was not looking for him, so he came back after some excitement.

In today's situation, he has long smelled that something is wrong. Looking back and thinking about it carefully, he could know that those officials were all in the same book at this time, obviously with the emperor's instructions.

In Hu Weiyong's mind, the reason why the emperor did this must be to let the concubine and the king of Yan win, and to do so, unless Lan Yu released the water and deliberately lost.

Lan Yu's temper, he knows. In order to be safe, he deliberately went to see Lan Yu once, and found that Lan Yu's attitude had not changed at all, and he always wanted to teach the hairy boy a lesson. Of course, it may also be that if he loses, he can't afford to lose this face.

In that case, Lan Yu's side doesn't have to worry.

Even if the emperor still forces Lan Yu to change his mind afterwards and release the water so that King Yan and the horse win, it doesn't matter.

Hu Weiyong has already decided, and when the time comes for the competition, he must pull in the important ministers of the court and the central government, and they will go to watch together in Beijing.

If Lan Yu wants to release water, with their eyes, they can definitely see it.

Even if the final result is that King Yan and the horse win, the reputation of the imperial power will be affected. With this, that's enough!

Thinking about this matter, Hu Weiyong made a decision. The three-month competition time is also approaching. Then build momentum for this competition, and the more people pay attention to it, the better.

If King Yan and the horse lose, then there is nothing to say. If the two of them can actually win against Lan Yu, then the cattiness of it will definitely spread out!

Hehe, sometimes, being an emperor is not something you can do as you want!

In this way, without the knowledge of the parties themselves, the competition between King Yan and the horse and Lan Yu, with the intention of several waves of people, began to reoccupy the center of public opinion in Jingshi.

Of course, the basic public opinion is still the same as before, and no one is optimistic that King Yan and the horse can win. Under this premise, a small number of people feel that Yan Wang and the colt work very hard, even if they lose, it is nothing. After all, not everyone is willing to give up all their money for a competition, and it is impossible for anyone to not have a hereditary title for this competition.

The three parties were unaware of this. When the competition was approaching, even Lan Yu became serious and stayed in the school field all day to practice.

If you want to say that the least serious, it is the colt.

After Zhang Yifan went to the barracks once, he didn't go again. In his own horse mansion, he did the homework assigned to him by Zhu Biao, that is, the use of Daming treasure banknotes.

This is definitely a systems project, involving all aspects of national policy.

Zhang Yifan knew that if he had done this homework and handed it to Zhu Biao, then Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely be able to see it.

Therefore, he plans to take this opportunity to write down several things that he has always wanted to change in this assignment.

To do this, the assignment must be done beautifully.

So, Zhang Yifan went into retreat at home and wrote this homework with the strength of his later life to write a thesis.

At the end of September of the ninth year of Hongwu, there were only three days left before the agreed competition.

Zhang Yifan spent more than half a month, sprinkled with enthusiasm, and wrote a large chapter of nearly 40,000 words with a quill. Then it was revised and revised to about 50,000 words.

He started with the essence of money, and then how to manage it in terms of the specific court. There are a lot of yamen involved, and there is also a little private goods mixed in.

Looking at the stack of drafts, Zhang Yifan didn't have the courage to write a formal manuscript again, he was tired, especially with so many traditional characters!

So, he called his wife and said to Zhu Jingjing: "I'm going to have a competition soon, I have to go to the fourth brother to make a show." However, this thing is what the eldest brother wants, and he has to give it after the competition. Can you help me transcribe a formal copy? ”

"Brother Fan, write these, and leave them to me!" Zhu Jingjing listened, pursed her lips and smiled, and then replied.

As her husband, she has long seen that Zhang Yifan is very painful to write. But she didn't debunk it, she just promised it.

So, Zhang Yifan was relaxed and happily ran to see Zhu Di.

As a result, what he didn't expect was that on the side of the barracks, there was an extra team of Jinyi Guard Captains to guard him, but he didn't stop him.

After entering the barracks, Zhang Yifan ran to see Zhu Di's training, and before he arrived, he heard the sound of shouting and killing, which was very lively.

After turning the corner, after approaching, Zhang Yifan saw that thousands of people were fighting, no wonder there was such a big movement.

Seriously, Zhang Yifan had never really seen such a large-scale battle in ancient times. Now when I saw it, I was immediately attracted.

In later generations, although there are also film and television pictures of ancient wars, but, except for the fact that the camera may be in front of the fight, those battles as the background are really perfunctory.

However, the scene in front of me is absolutely different.

Zhang Yifan saw any place, and he was more imposing than the camera in later generations. In comparison, the kind of film and television fighting in later generations is really fake.

I saw that the 500 soldiers led by Zhu Di were surrounded by more than 1,000 people wearing vests outside the armor and fighting.

Obviously, this should be the actual combat training that Zhu Di said.

Zhang Yifan looked a little familiar with the more than 1,000 "Japanese robbers", and after a while, he asked Zhu Wudao: "Where do you seem to have seen those opponents wearing vests?" ”

"It's the Son of Heaven Guard!" When Zhu Wu heard this, he immediately replied, and then explained to Zhang Yifan what the difference between the guards was.

When Zhang Yifan heard this, he became curious and said, "Why is the Son of Heaven guard here?" ”

After asking, he immediately remembered the captain of the brocade guard outside the barracks. So, he probably understood, it is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang is helping his son (he himself has neglected himself!). ）

After thinking of this, Zhang Yifan took a serious look at the situation of the fight.

The besieging guards of the Son of Heaven also fought in formation, but they were obviously not Zhu Di's five hundred soldiers' opponents.

The mandarin duck formation composed of 500 sergeants is really well-trained, like a whole, and the coordination of long and short weapons is like flowing water, which is very tacit.

There are at least three to one soldiers on both sides who have withdrawn from the "wounded".

It didn't take long for this confrontation drill to end.

The Son of Heaven guards were all wiped out, and more than half of the five hundred mandarin duck formations were still standing in the middle of the field.

It seems that he didn't see Zhang Yifan coming, or Zhu Di was not available.

In short, after the end of this contest, the opposing armies on both sides began to assemble again, and then fought again.

However, this time, the formation of the confrontation has changed again. It was no longer surrounded by "Japanese invaders", but an encounter between the two armies.

The Mandarin Duck Formation formed a large Sancai Formation and began to fight, and after fighting for a while, the "Japanese Kou" was defeated and retreated, and Zhu Di led the troops to pursue, but in the process of pursuit, even Zhang Yifan could see that the five hundred sergeants maintained the Mandarin Duck Formation in pursuit.

In the process of the defeat and retreat of the "Japanese Invaders", they would turn back and fight, chase and fight, and finally end with the annihilation of the "Japanese Invaders".

The whole process, Zhang Yifan was fascinated, and before he knew it, it was noon.

The 500 sergeants and the "Japanese Bandits" all assembled, all of them sweating profusely, and disbanded for dinner.

It was only at this time that Zhu Di walked over to Zhang Yifan with someone.

I haven't seen him for a while, and Zhang Yifan found that Zhu Di was darker, but he was in very good spirits. Even if he is sweating profusely, you can feel his mental joy!

"Yifan, you kid finally remembered to come over?" Before Zhu Di approached, he shouted loudly.

When he got closer, Zhang Yifan found that the one who was following Zhu Di was not a commander he had seen when he went to the Son of Heaven Guard to select the source of soldiers.

"What can I do, I want to come over early!" Zhang Yifan spoke, opened his mouth, and replied to Zhu Di, "But, the eldest brother explained the matter, do you know?" I wrote at least 50,000 words or more in my reply to him! ”

Upon hearing this, Zhu Di showed a hint of sympathy and said: "In this way, then it's no wonder you!" ”

If you want him to write 50,000 words, then he would rather lead the troops like this! I'm a little tired, but it's cool!

After getting closer, Zhang Yifan saw that Zhu Di, the kid, actually stretched out his hand to pat him, and immediately jumped back and said, "Don't touch me!" ”

"Huh?" When Zhu Di saw it, he immediately laughed and said, "I didn't plan to use my strength, just say hello!" ”

"Okay, so you used to slap me purpose?" When Zhang Yifan heard this, he was not happy, "It's up to me to give you ideas to help you!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhu Di stopped talking nonsense, and immediately said excitedly: "What you came up with is really good, that artillery, as well as the improved gunpowder, my father said it was good!" ”

Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang came.

"I've seen a colt!" The commander was behind Zhu Di and gave Zhang Yifan a very solemn military salute.

He was like this, which made Zhang Yifan stunned.

Because he could see that this salute was very solemn, or rather heartfelt.

Zhang Yifan still clearly remembers that when he went to select the source of soldiers three months ago, in the face of him and Zhu Di, these commanders saluted as solemnly as they do now.

Zhu Di saw him stunned, so he laughed and said, "Yifan, there's nothing strange about it." Soldiers are honored by the strong. You invented that cannon and improved gunpowder, and anyone in the army is very grateful. In the future, when you go to the battlefield, not only will you have a lot more chances of winning battles, but you will even die a lot less. I'll tell you, your reputation in the army has improved a lot! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yifan couldn't help asking: "What do you mean, I used to have a bad reputation in the army?" ”

"That's it!" Zhu Di listened, without any scruples, and said directly, "If it's good, is there anything else to try?" Don't talk about you, I'm all! But now......"

Speaking of this, he smiled proudly and said, "Hehe, it's just to speak by strength." After this competition, you and I will be raising our eyebrows! ”

didn't wait for Zhang Yifan to speak, he wanted to reach out and pull Zhang Yifan again, but Zhang Yifan avoided him. So, Zhu Di didn't pull him anymore, but just said to him: "Go, go and see what you come up with!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yifan was of course interested, so he left with him.

Soon, he saw the tiger squat cannon, which was similar to what he had seen in later generations, that is, similar to what he had drawn.

The difference is that at the point where the tiger squat cannon touches the ground, there is something similar to a dog's paw. On both sides of the barrel, there are two ears of the same thing.

Zhu Di explained to him: "After the test firing, this artillery was changed again. The ground is gripped, and it is not easy to shake over during shelling. In addition, these two ears can also be carried by soldiers, or strung with ropes on their backs, and tied up. ”

Zhang Yifan nodded when he heard it, it was obvious that people at this time had strong subjective initiative and knew how to improve.

"Come on, try it!" Zhu Di was obviously full of interest, and even stepped forward to do it himself.

Zhang Yifan watched with great interest, and saw Zhu Di scoop out a spoonful of gunpowder from the powder keg with a special wooden shovel, smooth out the raised part, and then pour it into the tiger squat cannon, and then use a wooden pestle to pound it, stuff it solid, and then go to get the gravel......

Looking at the whole process, Zhang Yifan suddenly found that there seemed to be a few things that could be improved. However, Zhu Di was loading with great interest, and he didn't speak.

The gunpowder was indeed granulated and did not smell foul, apparently not with urine.

The target used in this artillery is a humanoid target, which is erected about seven or eight feet in front of the tiger squat cannon.

Zhu Di was busy for a while, and after getting ready, he told Zhang Yifan seriously: "You take ten steps back and cover your ears with your hands, for you, it's very loud, don't be startled when the time comes." Look ahead! ”

No matter how Zhang Yifan listens, he is a little ostentatious.

Yes, whatever, I'll let you show off.

After a while, after Zhu Di used a torch to ignite the gunpowder, he immediately took a few steps back and blocked in front of Zhang Yifan.

I heard a "boom", and the tiger squatting cannon sounded.

Zhang Yifan looked at Zhu Di's back, and couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart, this is subconsciously protecting himself, right? Does that mean that in addition to being his brother-in-law, he is also a friend?

I can't see what the answer will be for the time being. Anyway, Zhang Yifan looked at Zhu Di's very interested past to check the situation of the humanoid target, and then beckoned Zhang Yifan to go over and point and explain to Zhang Yifan.

In the end, he happily said to Zhang Yifan: "This artillery, in close combat, is simply a sharp weapon, not only can kill and injure the enemy rushing in the front, but also deter the enemy in the back, and the reaction it triggers has a great impact on the outcome of the battle!" ”

Later, he said with emotion: "In particular, your gunpowder has been improved to make the artillery more powerful. Now there is nothing to change, and it is the most powerful! ”

"Hehe, I think it's still far away, and there are many places that can be improved!" Zhang Yifan listened, but said with a faint smile.