"Oh?"

Zhu Di suddenly looked at Guo An with a curious face, "I don't know what kind of firearm it is?" ”

Guo An replied: "Your Highness, it should be a kind of burning powder made of stone powder, and how to fire it, Weichen still needs to discuss with the craftsmen." ”

Zhu Di thought thoughtfully, "It's dangerous? ”

Guo An said seriously, "Your Highness, as long as it is related to gunpowder, it is very dangerous. Therefore, Wechen implored His Highness, if His Highness is interested and wants to see the gunpowder workshop, he must take Wechen to go.

In addition, for the safety and confidentiality of the gunpowder workshop, you must ask His Highness to arrange a confidant......"

Saying that, Guo An subconsciously looked around, walked up to Zhu Di, and said in a low voice: "The gunpowder is huge, if it is used by gangsters, it can endanger His Highness, and even the safety of the Jingshi."

Therefore, Wei Chen advised His Highness that the gunpowder workshop must at least be able to guard against Jinyiwei! ”

Zhu Di was a little startled, looked at Guo An with some surprise, and asked, "It's so serious?" ”

Guo An's face was solemn, "It hasn't been developed, and Weichen doesn't dare to guarantee it." However, if it is developed, Weichen dares to guarantee that even if His Royal Highness takes Yanshan Sanwei to attack the Japanese country, it can be easily defeated! ”

At this time, Zhu Di was even more suspicious, "Isn't Guo Qingmo coaxing us?" ”

Guo An said helplessly: "Your Highness Mingjian, Weichen has never deceived His Highness once!" ”

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "That's the same." ”

Although he often dislikes Guo An, Zhu Di's trust in Guo An is similar to Zhu Fu, or even more than Zhu Fu.

After all, no matter what he did, Guo An never deceived him.

Even, Guo An said that whatever he wanted to do, he could do it in the end.

Thinking about it, Zhu Di said: "Guo Qing rest assured, for the defense of the gunpowder workshop, let's send Qiu Fu to go." ”

"Your Highness is wise!"

Qiu Fu is simple and honest, with a stubborn personality and a very brave personality. The most important thing is that the people of Fengyang are loyal to Zhu Di and let Qiu Fu defend the gunpowder workshop, and Guo An is also very relieved.

After retiring from Zhu Di, Guo An found Xu Yun and Zhuang Guang, the two directors of the Gongzheng Institute, with great interest.

Tell the two of them to go to the firearms workshop in the Gongzheng Institute and separate a small courtyard to set up a gunpowder workshop.

He wants to develop new gunpowder, and he must make those thieves have no return.

As soon as they heard that it was to deal with the Japanese Invaders, Xu Yun and Zhuang Guang were very happy to kill twenty guards of the Yan Wangfu, but it made the entire Yan Wang Mansion grit their teeth at the Japanese Kou.

So, what Guo An said, Xu Yun and Zhuang Guang went to do something.

A few days later.

Xu Xiang took eight large ships, as well as ten net shuttle boats and eagle boats, and went out to sea again.

On the ship, there is also a kind of bowl mouth gun that is only one foot and one inch long, and the weight is only more than 100 catties, and as for the range, it is only 100 meters.

Moreover, there are no sights on it, and if you want to hit the target, you completely rely on experience.

However, the cannonballs fired were so powerful that they could blow up a big hole in the wooden boat as long as they hit the ship.

Obviously, it was specifically for the sake of dealing with the ships of the Japanese Bandits.

After looking at this kind of mini artillery, Guo An's eyes widened directly, with this kind of artillery, do you still have to worry about the Japanese coming again?

Seeing this, Zhu Di told Guo An one more thing, from the tenth year of Yuan Zhizheng to the nineteenth year of Hongwu now, the Japanese will rob Goryeo every year.

Every time they plundered Goryeo, they were plundered on a large scale by more than fifty large ships, and if they could beat it, they would attack the city and plunder, and if they couldn't beat it, they would flee and change places, or loot villages!

Therefore, all the people of the Japanese kingdom are cowards!

Kou's instinct has been deeply rooted in their bones.

And now, the rise of Goryeo with a Li Sung-gye can repel those thieves.

However, the Japanese thieves could not plunder Goryeo, so they could only come to Daming......

Guo An's expression was solemn, he understood Zhu Di's worries, the six hundred Japanese robbers were probably only a small part of the thieves.

As a result, the development of gunpowder was intensified.

And as the fishing fleet led by Xu Xiang went to sea, a month later, the Japanese came again.

Fortunately, this time the fleet was well prepared, and even if the number of pirates doubled this time, it was still repulsed again, and more than 500 people were killed.

As for the guards on the fleet, twelve died.

In this regard, Zhu Di was happy at the same time, but also a little distressed.

"Guo Qing, these thieves are really a scourge, let's catch a sea fish, not only do we get nothing, but we also have to damage more than ten soldiers, and then reward and benefactor tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"Your Highness, in this month, the money bought and sold by the sea fish caught by the fishing fleet has been close to 20,000 taels of silver, isn't it?"

Guo An was relieved: "Therefore, His Highness has not lost any money. However, it is a pity that these soldiers are lost. ”

Zhu Di was in a better mood, then changed the topic, gritted his teeth and asked, "Guo Qing, when will the kind of gunpowder you developed succeed?"

These would-be robbers dare to come to our fishing boat three times and twice, and we really want to lead Yan Shanwei to ambush in the sea and kill all those robbers in one fell swoop! ”

"Your Highness's forgiveness, it will take some time!"

Guo An replied with a face.

A trace of regret flashed on Zhu Di's face.

At this time, Li Wang walked in from the outside and reported to Zhu Diyu with a happy face: "His Royal Highness King Yan Qi, there is a man from Tao Yiping, and there is also a Yang Ting, who claims to be the descendant of Tao Wanhu, and wants to meet Guo Changshi!" ”

"Tao Wanhu?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di and Guo An's faces were overjoyed, "Hurry up and invite them in!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Li Wang answered and walked out quickly.

Zhu Di said to Guo An: "Tao Wanhu is known as Tao Chengdao, he is the head of Taojia Academy in Wucheng, Zhejiang, and he is a talented person.

It's just that this Tao Wanhu likes to study alchemy techniques, just like Guo Qing likes to study all kinds of strange objects.

Later, on the way to alchemy, he found a firearm and began to study firearms.

After his father led his troops to attack Wuzhou, this Tao Wanhu took a group of disciples to offer his father's firearms skills, and at the same time stayed in the army to serve.

And Tao Wanhu's firearms skills made his father more powerful in the future wars, and he made many miraculous achievements.

Later, the Ming Dynasty was founded, and the father remembered the merits of Tao Wanhu, so he gave the name Tao Chengdao and rewarded Wanhu......

This person was very favored by his father, and his father was also very tolerant of his descendants. ”

"Ten thousand households!"

Guo Anxin, who listened to it, was shocked, and his saliva was envious.

With Lao Zhu's reward, the ten thousand households of Tao Wanhu naturally do not have any water.

If Lao Guo's family can have 10,000 households, then what is he doing so hard, just go home and farm.

Zhu Di looked at Guo An with a strange expression, "Why does Guo Qing look like this?" ”

Guo An came back to his senses and hurriedly said: "Your Highness forgives me, Weichen is just thinking that there are only more than 10,000 households in Wanping County, so how rich the Tao family must be." ”

Zhu Di was stunned.

At this time, Li Wang also led two young men in.

"Cao Min Tao Yiping has seen His Royal Highness King Yan and seen Guo Changshi!"

"Grass people Yang Ting see His Royal Highness King Yan and have seen Guo Changshi!"

"Wait for the courtesy."

Zhu Di smiled gently, and after Tao Yiping and Yang Ting got up, he said to Tao Yiping, "Speaking of which, when we were children, we also played with Wanhu behind the buttocks. I haven't seen you for many years, I don't know if Wanhu is still well? ”

Tao Yiping hurriedly replied with a grateful face: "Thank you, Your Highness, my father's body is still very strong." Now, I can take my brother and my brothers to study firearms day and night. ”

"Then we can rest assured!" Zhu Di nodded reassuringly.

Perhaps it was the first time to face Prince Daming so directly, Tao Yiping and Yang Ting sat in their respective seats, uncomfortable.

Seeing this, Zhu Di smiled lightly again and said, "I heard that the two of you came this time to visit Guo Qing, I don't know what it is for?" ”

At this time, Tao Yiping finally remembered what was going on, and hurriedly replied: "His Royal Highness King Yan is wise, in Beijing, after my father saw that Guo Changshi's calcined transparent glass was used as a window, which could make the house much brighter, he admired Guo Changshi's talent very much.

Later, I heard that transparent glass can also be used to grow vegetables in the cold winter. My father bluntly said that Guo Changshi is the real sage of craftsmen in the world, and the things he studies are all for the livelihood of thousands of people, and he is far from it.

Subsequently, not long ago, I saw the stone wall made of cement calcined by Guo Changshi, and found that neither the fire system nor the general's cannon could blow it up in the slightest.

Then, the house made of cement is the safest house for the people in the world, the wind does not fall, the snow does not collapse, and the father is even more ashamed.

In other words, Guo Changshi was afraid that the people would suffer from wars and natural disasters, and he solved the shelter for the people, and he was a model for the world's craftsmen.

Therefore, he specially sent two grass people to come and learn from Guo Changshi the way of the real craftsman......"

On the throne, Zhu Di looked strange.

As for Guo An on one side, he was even more dumbfounded.

In my mind, an honest old man's face inexplicably appeared, but behind it was a cunning and cunning look.

Guo An asked, "Can you two develop firearms?" ”

Hearing this, Tao Yiping and Yang Ting couldn't help but have a trace of pride on their faces.

"Back to Guo Changshi, the grass people have been following behind their father and brothers since they were children, developing firearms and gunpowder, and firearms and gunpowder are as simple as eating for the grass people!"

"Very good!"

Guo An's face was happy, "In recent days, the fishing boats of the Yanwang Mansion have been fishing in the Bohai Sea, and there are often Japanese robbers attacking and harassing, I wonder if the two of you can find a way to break the Japanese thieves?" ”

"This ......"

Tao Yiping and Yang Ting were stunned for a while, the two of them were just craftsmen, how could they fight?

However, in the face of Guo An's test, Tao Yiping frowned and thought for a long time, and then said slowly: "The grass people heard that Guo Changshi once loaded huge fishing nets on sea boats to catch marine fish in the sea.

The grass people felt that they could also weave some more fishing nets one zhang long, and when the Japanese ships approached, they could only use the combined efforts of two soldiers to cover the Japanese boats.

More than a dozen fishing nets went down, and those would-be robbers became turtles in the urn, and they were not allowed to climb the boat or shoot arrows, and they were allowed to be shot by the soldiers of our ship.

Then, carry some more bowls on the ship, and when the thief ship approaches, you can directly use the bowl mouth tube and the thistle to blow it up, and teach the Japanese to blow up the powder and bones. ”

Zhu Di's face was full of excitement when he heard it, "Sure enough, he is worthy of being the son of ten thousand households, let's send someone to the Commander's Mansion tomorrow to ask Song Guogong for some thistles!"

As for the fishing nets used to cover the ships of the pirates, they were bothered. ”

Tao Yiping and Yang Ting were overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed, "Thank you Your Highness for your trust." ”

"Very good ......"

Zhu Di nodded happily, chatted for a while, and then let Ma He take the two of them down to rest first.

(End of chapter)