Zhu Yunxi asked people to bring up the flintlock pistol.

Zhu Yuanzhang took it in his hand and looked at it, and said: "I heard your fourth uncle say, that day you went hunting in Yangshan and made a "flintlock pistol", and your fourth uncle praised it a lot. ”

Lao Zhu said, and took out the drawings submitted by Zhu Di under the table.

is generally the same as the flintlock pistol in Zhu Yunxi's hand.

Along with the drawings, there is also Zhu Di's recital.

In the recital, Zhu Di praised Zhu Yunxi's invention, saying that if the Ming army was equipped with a large number of equipment, its combat power could be doubled.

"The fourth uncle is too famous, and when he is idle and bored, he wants to pass the time."

Zhu Yunxi said modestly.

"Xi'er, it's good that you know this." Lao Zhu agrees with his statement.

"Although the weapon is good, it is only a craftsman's casting after all, you are a descendant of the Zhu family, and your main energy should be on governing the country."

"Let's hear your fourth uncle say that in order to discuss with the craftsman how to make a flint musket, he didn't eat for a day, which is a bit too much."

Zhu Yunxi smiled and touched the back of his head.

Lao Zhu did not value the flint musket, but it was difficult to rise to the height of later generations.

In Lao Zhu's view, this is just a tool after all.

No matter how powerful you are, no one else matters.

Zhu Yunxi knew that this was a moment, and it was difficult to persuade him to change his thinking and cognition, so he didn't say much.

"Grandpa Huang, let's try the power of the flintlock first."

Lao Zhu nodded: "Okay, let's try it together." ”

The two of them left the imperial study and came to the square outside.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Zhu Yunxi picked up the gun and fired two shots in a row, both of which accurately hit the target.

Lao Zhu's eyes lit up suddenly.

He snatched the flintlock pistol from Zhu Yunxi's hand, tried to fire two shots himself, and immediately laughed.

"Grandpa, the biggest advantage of this thing is that it is very easy to operate, a newly recruited soldier, after simple training, can replace a sharpshooter."

That's right.

This is the greatest role of guns in this era.

In fact, early firearms, limited by the craftsmanship, gunpowder, bullets and many other aspects, were not as powerful as a well-trained archer.

A powerful archer, able to pull a hard bow of one hundred and fifty pounds.

This kind of bow arrow is amazingly lethal, and the shooting distance is far farther than the guns of this era, and the power is naturally stronger.

The problem is in training and nurturing.

It's very difficult to train a sharpshooter.

Many modern archery enthusiasts learn to use compound bows.

This kind of bow has been modernized, it is easy to aim, and the pulling force is only a few dozen catties, so it is naturally much easier to learn.

But if you pull a pure ancient bow, you will know how much arm strength it takes to pull that kind of bow just to pull it away.

Only men in the prime of life, after a long period of training, can adapt.

Once the training does not keep up, the powerful hard bow will become an ornament.

For example, in the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, in the early days, most of the elites of the Eight Banners could pull out a hard bow of 1340 catties, and their combat effectiveness was amazing.

By the time of the Opium War, few people in the Eight Banners could pull this kind of bow, let alone rely on it to fight.

But guns are different.

Especially with the aiming baseline.

It can be said that any person, as long as it is a child who can afford a gun, an old man who is dying, or a woman who is congenitally weak, as long as they are given a gun, and after simple training, their shooting ability can be compared with that of a sharpshooter.

Moreover, the sharpshooter cannot fire too many arrows at once, as the arm strength will soon be overwhelmed.

But guns can fire much more bullets in a day.

It can be said that with a flintlock pistol, an ordinary army can become an elite full of sharpshooters in an instant.

The resulting bonus to combat power is terrifying.

This is the fundamental reason why guns can replace bows and arrows in the earliest days.

"Good! Good! Good! ”

Lao Zhu is such a smart person, he immediately understands the truth of this.

"Xi'er, you invented this thing, but you have made a great contribution to my Ming Dynasty."

Lao Zhu was very happy.

When Zhu Di was in the book before, he didn't expect this thing to be so powerful, and he felt that it was somewhat exaggerated.

After seeing the real thing and experiencing it in person, I found that it was far stronger than what Zhu Di said.

"Grandpa Huang, Xi'er doesn't dare to take credit, as long as Grandpa Huang'er is happy." Zhu Yunxi hurriedly said.

"You don't dare to take credit, but we can't help but reward it."

With a smile on his face, Lao Zhu suddenly asked, "Xi'er, if we put Daming into your hands, do you have the confidence to govern Daming well?" ”

Here it comes.

Zhu Yunxi's heart tightened.

There is no doubt that since Zhu Biao's death, Lao Zhu has been distressed about the matter of Lichu during this time, but he has not made up his mind.

But this matter cannot be delayed forever.

Lao Zhu's body can't be dragged anymore.

The court will also fall into turmoil because the prince has not been established, which is obviously not what Lao Zhu wants to see.

This time, in the face of Lao Zhu's question, Zhu Yunxi did not evade.

"Grandpa Huang, if Xi'er is seventeen years old this year, no, even if he is twelve years old like Ganluo, Xi'er has the confidence to govern the Ming Dynasty well."

His face was extremely solemn, and he said, "Xi'er is only seven years old. Xi'er thinks that she is no worse than anyone else, but civil and military officials and people in the world may not see it this way. ”

"In their eyes, I was always a seven-year-old."

Zhu Yunxi was blunt.

Lao Zhu is also very clear about this.

His answer is very important now, rather than thinking about it, it is better to reveal what he thinks with Lao Zhu and see each other sincerely.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him and asked, "Do you still want to recommend your fourth uncle?" ”

Zhu Yunxi shook his head: "Xi'er recommended the fourth uncle before, because he felt that the fourth uncle had a good way of leading the troops and a skill in controlling people, and he could be a generation of monarchs. ”

"But now it seems that I still don't think about it."

"If the fourth uncle is in charge of the country, there will be more than enough martial arts, but not enough literature."

Lao Zhu's eyes flashed with essence.

This coincides with what he thinks in his heart.

Zhu Di's whole mind is on leading troops to fight.

Let him take charge of the country, Lao Zhu has never been at ease.

"If the second brother is in charge of the country, he will just be the opposite of the fourth uncle."

"There are many Confucian scholars around the second brother, and since ancient times, Confucianism has used literature to mess with the law, and chivalry has violated the ban with martial arts."

"Now that I have established the dynasty, the most powerful people in the DPRK and China are the nobles, not the civil officials."

"But even so, there are also Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong and others, trying to empty the imperial power and conspire to rebel."

"The real crisis of the Ming Dynasty is in the civil officials and not in the honorables."

"These people are full of saintly discipline and moral articles, but in fact they are forming gangs."

"They're not alone, they're a very powerful force."

"If Da Ming doesn't restrict them, I'm afraid they will die at the hands of these people sooner or later."

The imperial grandfather can say, "Kill them all." But the emperors of later generations could not.

"From the center to the hundred officials, they are all their people, even the Son of Heaven is powerless to change."

In fact, even if Zhu Di was in charge of the country, Daming did not escape this road in the end.

That's for later, of course.

Historically, after Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, civil officials immediately seized the power of military generals.

The military department, which had no real power, was given heavy power, and the person in charge of the military department also became a civilian official.

Behind Fang Xiaoru, Qi Qin, and Huang Zicheng is the entire civil official group.

When Lao Zhu was alive, they were temporarily dormant.

As soon as Lao Zhu died, he took the opportunity to rise up.

Through Emperor Jianwen's ascension to the throne, he took full power.

If there was no Jingyan battle, the pattern of the Ming Dynasty would have completely changed as early as the Jianwen Dynasty.

"Okay!"

Lao Zhu nodded appreciatively.

"You can see this, it's really much better than your second brother."

He walked a few steps, touched his beard, and said, "Let's not be in a hurry to establish a prince first." ”

"We have decided, we will crown you as the king and let you take charge of Ying Tianfu."

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