Chapter 52: Sun Yuan is enlightened
The craftsman over there, after seeing Zhu Youxiao's gesture here, lit the fire rope, and then ran to the back desperately.
However, he was clearly overthinking.
The quality of the arquebus was okay, and it continued to burn slowly until the end of the burning, when the arquebus detonated the thunder mercury and the Regon detonated the nitrifying explosive.
Then, the tin can on the hillside "bang", and a shock wave spread out in all directions, followed by the nails inside the tin can, and the fragments of the tin can.
At this moment, Zhu Youxiao even saw a small mushroom cloud.
The dozen or so sheep were really unlucky, and they had already fallen in a pool of blood, and most of the sheep could not even find a complete corpse.
It's just a few sheep on the periphery, and the legs and feet can still move twice, but that's just a muscle reflex after the sheep dies.
The shock wave of the gunpowder explosion formed a gust of wind, which rushed towards Zhu Youxiao and Sun Yuanhua, directly blowing Sun Yuanhua's hat away.
Sun Yuanhua only felt that his brain was buzzing, and his ears were ringing badly.
Zhu Youxiao slowly took off the cotton in his two ears, looked at Sun Yuanhua, who was stunned, and expressed his satisfaction.
"Sun Aiqing, do you feel okay?"
Sun Yuanhua only saw Zhu Youxiao's mouth moving, but he didn't know what Zhu Youxiao said.
Or rather, he's actually frozen now, and his whole head is like a piece of mush.
What did he just see?
It was as if he saw a ray of light.
Are these things really still gunpowder?
Why is gunpowder so powerful?
Why can't he make this kind of thing, but Zhu Youxiao can make it?
Is this really destiny?
Zhu Youxiao shouted at Sun Yuanhua a few more times, but Sun Yuanhua couldn't hear what he said.
He didn't mind, just shook his head and walked to the guest hall of the arsenal first.
Sun Yuanhua was stunned by the explosion of the gunpowder, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.
After Zhu Youxiao returned to the guest hall of the arsenal and drank a few teas, Sun Yuanhua finally ran in from outside.
"Your Majesty, we have become, this time we have really become!"
"With such gunpowder, we can't fight anywhere, and Jiannu is in front of us, what kind of thing is it."
"In the future, when facing the Jiannu cavalry, we will win!"
Zhu Youxiao frowned, and his eyes looked very calm.
"Sun Aiqing, do you really think that our Ming army has reached this point today, or maybe the situation of our Ming Dynasty has reached this level, is it really just because our firearms are not advanced enough?"
Sun Yuanhua saw such a serious face, and slowly calmed down.
He had to admit that Zhu Youxiao had a point.
There are almost no firearms on the Jiannu side now, but they have artillery.
The elite cavalry on Jiannu's side. He was wearing triple iron armor, which was really good.
But where can the armor of their Ming officials and soldiers be?
The Jiannu cavalry is indeed very powerful, but they can also train the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and they will not lose to Jiannu.
So Daming has fallen to the point where it is today, is it really because Daming's weapons are not advanced enough?
I'm afraid not.
To put it mildly, Da Ming is terrible.
Whether it is corruption in the Ming army or above the court.
Is it really not enough for the imperial court to allocate so much military salary to the army in Liaodong every year?
No.
Although the military salary given by the imperial court to Liaodong was indeed not paid in full, it was not muddy to this extent.
The imperial court also gave the army in Liaodong a corridor to the west of Liao, which allowed them to settle fields and allowed them to be self-sufficient.
But in fact?
The fertile fields of the entire Liaoxi Corridor have fallen into the hands of those generals in Liaodong, and cannot reach the hands of ordinary soldiers.
The ordinary Liaodong border army could not even guarantee food and clothing, but had to bear heavy physical labor for the leaders and generals of Liaodong.
The military salary of the imperial court is also the same, once it cannot be allocated to Liaodong in time, the Liaodong border army will soon react.
For example, there are some generals in Liaodong who will point out that the army in Liaodong will cause mutinies and make trouble.
Is this really the work of ordinary soldiers?
It is a fact that ordinary soldiers are not well fed and clothed.
It is also true that the soldiers want to make money.
This is a fact that Zhu Youxiao cannot deny.
But this is absolutely indispensable to the intervention of those military leaders and generals in Liaodong, perhaps those generals in Liaodong secretly commanded the troubles.
This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao did not transfer elite soldiers from all over the country to form a new army.
Instead, they would rather select some poor people who have no military experience to serve as soldiers.
Even Zhu Youxiao these troops. It is not hung directly under the military headquarters, but half is hung under the warrior camp, and half is directly hung under the brocade guard.
The reason is very simple, Zhu Youxiao no longer believes in the army trained under the current imperial court system.
Because whether it is the warrior battalion or the Jinyi guard, it is the army of the Son of Heaven.
These two armies can be tossed as much as Zhu Youxiao wants, and no one is qualified to make irresponsible remarks.
No matter what changes he made in the system in these two armies, the military department and the people in the court could not control it.
Only in this way can we truly train an army with a new soul.
This is what Zhu Youxiao wants.
Thinking of these things, Sun Yuanhua understood Zhu Youxiao's good intentions.
Only then did he understand how much the man in front of him was carrying.
The world thinks he is a faint king, but is that really the case?
If His Majesty is a faint king, how can he make such an ingenious hydraulic lathe?
This Zhu Youxiao has always claimed that these artillery pieces were instructed to him by Zhu Yuanzhang.
But Sun Yuanhua felt that he couldn't believe it.
Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know carpentry work, but Zhu You will be in the school union.
Your Majesty has worked hard for this Daming.
Sun Yuanhua's eyes suddenly moistened.
He actually knelt down in front of Zhu Youxiao on the spot.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, Weichen will definitely follow your orders, make the best firearms, train the best gunners, and will not disappoint you."
"Wechen will never let those messy things in the army and above the court. Infiltrate the arsenal. ”
"You give Wechen eight months, and Wechen can assure you that he will definitely train you a top-notch artillery."
Zhu Youxiao understood that the Sun Yuanhua in front of him had finally opened his mind.
It's too tough.
Zhu Youxiao knew that if he alone, it would be difficult to change the current situation.
He needs more loyal and capable ministers.
Even if such a person has all kinds of flaws, at least he can use it.
So even if the other party is Wei Zhongxian, he will still use it.