Chapter 45: After all, he is a faint king
Lu Xiangsheng had already heard that Zhu Youxiao had made up an arsenal.
In the mouths of his colleagues and other friends, the news he got was that this Zhu Youxiao only knew how to be greedy for pleasure and liked things with strange lewd skills.
This arsenal is where Zhu Youxiao used it to create playthings.
Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also forcibly took the craftsmen who cast firearms by one-third.
This can be said to be a complete disregard for the safety of the border, and it is really the act of a faint king.
When Lu Xiangsheng first started, he also had such a mentality.
But when he approached this Xinfeng Arsenal, he found that the situation was a little different from what he had imagined.
The arsenal was heavily guarded.
When Lu Xiangsheng entered the range of ten miles, he found that he had been targeted.
When he entered the range of five miles, there were already Jinyi guards who came up to confirm his identity.
And under the personal leadership of Jinyiwei, he led him to the arsenal.
From Lu Xiangsheng's point of view, this arsenal itself doesn't know what to do, but just looking at the guards on the periphery, it already feels like a military fortress.
From this point of view, Lu Xiangsheng was a little unconvinced, such a big battle was just to make fun of Zhu Youxiao.
This also made Lu Xiangsheng inexplicably have a little expectation for this arsenal.
After Lu Xiangsheng was not easy to catch up with the arsenal, he was already shocked by the scale of the arsenal.
At this scale, without two million taels of silver, it will definitely not be possible.
Lu Xiangsheng remembered that during this time, several ministers were raided.
The princes in the court were still thinking about asking Zhu Youxiao to take out these silver taels to supplement the shortage of expenses in the court.
But Zhu Youxiao has always refused to agree.
Now it seems that all the silver taels that were stolen have been thrown into this arsenal.
As soon as he arrived, a brocade guard came to look for him, saying that Zhu Youxiao was already waiting for him.
Lu Xiangsheng followed the brocade guard, and finally walked to a shooting range by the river.
He saw a large group of gunners, manipulating a cannon.
This cannon looks very similar to the Hongyi cannon that Lu Xiangsheng has seen, but the butt of this cannon is gone.
Lu Xiangsheng looked at it again, and it turned out that his buttocks had been cut open and changed to the appearance of a rear-loading cannon.
He felt a slight disappointment.
Zhu Youxiao tossed for so long and spent more than two million taels of silver, just to toss a rear-loading gun.
Mr. Lu is very interested in military affairs and is very familiar with such things as rear-loading guns.
He had also checked the information, and he knew that this thing would not work, and it would not be able to shoot far.
His expectations for Zhu Youxiao just now slowly lowered again.
This is still a bit unrealistic.
But this did not affect his grovel to Zhu Youxiao.
No matter how faint it is, that's also Jun.
"Wechen see my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!"
"Xing!"
Lu Xiangsheng stood up.
Zhu Youxiao turned his head to look at Lu Xiangsheng, and found that although the other party was a civil official, he had an extraordinary appearance, a tall figure, and indeed a good skin, which was better than him.
"I heard that although a Lu prefect is very young, he is very talented, especially good at military training, and he has really made a lot of contributions to the bandits and grass bandits and some homeless troops in your territory."
"What I admire most is a talent like you, and it is for this reason that I specially transferred you to be a squire in the military department."
After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng only felt that there was no discomfort in his body.
Who said that this majesty is a faint king.
Even if Your Majesty is a faint monarch, he is also a faint monarch with eyesight.
Otherwise, how could he find his pearl from thousands of grains of sand?
This is what His Majesty is capable of.
However, he had a panicked expression on his face.
"Your Majesty's words are serious, but the minister is just fooling around, and he can't get on the table!"
Originally, Lu Xiangsheng also wanted to be polite, but he didn't expect Zhu Youxiao to nod.
"You're right, it's true that you can't get on the table."
Lu Xiangsheng felt that the whole person was not good, he looked at Zhu Youxiao, and felt that the other party was still a faint gentleman after all.
"Soon though, you'll have to do something that makes sense."
"The Jiannu in the north is detained every year, which makes me very impatient, and I am planning to form a new army to fight the Jiannu field."
"You are a good candidate specially selected by me, and I will train a group of troops to bring you when the time comes."
"Aside from some of the methods I requested, you can train your soldiers in your own way."
"I want you to train a working army before the spring of next year."
Mr. Lu felt quite stressed, and even felt that Zhu Youxiao was a little whimsical.
The cavalry of Jiannu even has a saying that there are no more than 10,000 people, and more than 10,000 are invincible.
As far as they want to use more than half a year to train an army that can fight Jiannu head-on, it seems a little unlikely.
He saw that Zhu Youxiao looked eager to try, and even retreated.
Although he goes to war and likes to go to war, he doesn't like to die.
Such an army, which has been trained for less than a year, is pulled out to fight with Jiannu, that is, it is sent to death.
At that time, if he is arrested by Jiannu, will he surrender or not?
"Your Majesty, this matter is absolutely inappropriate, if an army is not trained for a year or two, it will be difficult to use it to fight against Jiannu."
"If the time is only half a year, the minister can only guarantee that he can train an army that can defend the city, and the rest may be difficult."
Zhu Youxiao nodded, this matter was also expected by him.
"You are honest, much better than that Yuan Chonghuan, then Yuan Chonghuan often tells me that he has been in Pingliao for five years, that is simply thinking about fart."
Lu Xiangsheng heard Zhu Youxiao comment on Yuan Chonghuan so rudely, but he didn't dare to interject a word.
Otherwise, if someone hears about it, it will immediately spread that he slandered Yuan Chonghuan, which will be extremely unfavorable to him in the future.
However, Zhu Youxiao obviously did not continue to stay on this topic, which also made Lu Xiangsheng breathe a sigh of relief.
"You can't say it's possible, but I think it's possible."
"Let's take a look at this cannon that I came up with, this is what Emperor Taizu gave me a dream to build and let me build."
"I have already named him, it is called the Emperor of the Apocalypse Golden Gun, its power is beyond your imagination."
Lu Xiangsheng didn't know if Zhu Youxiao meant something.
But he heard that His Majesty now has no surviving heirs under his knees.
Therefore, he expressed high doubts about Zhu Youxiao's cannon.
Soon, Sun Yuanhua on the other side had already taken his gunners to prepare the preliminary stage of the cannonball.
"Your Majesty, this cannon is ready, is it ready?"
"Hit!"