"Kill !!"

"Kill Sirenfa!"

"Capture Sister Yun's wood! Kill the dragon! ”

On 19 June, with the sound of shouts of killing sounding in the mountains of southwest China, the civil strife in Luchuan, which Zhu Gaoxu had been looking forward to, finally began.

Beside the Ruili River at the foot of the mountain, a group of tens of thousands of soldiers wearing armor and tattoos surrounded a prosperous city under the mountain.

This place is the Dai people's big Mao country at this time, and the Han people call it the capital of Luchuan, Yun Sister Mu.

Once upon a time, this was the place where the Mongolian iron cavalry broke and sank into the sand, even if the Dingbian was defeated that year, the Dai people did not let the Ming army hit the city of Sister Yunmu.

Luchuan, which had 100,000 troops, did not surround the national capital by the Ming army, which they regarded as enemies, but was surrounded by their own people in the ninth year after the Battle of Dingbian.

As the lord of the Dai Damao Kingdom, Silunfa, who was once high-spirited to conquer the entire Southeast Asia, was defeated by the then Xiping Marquis Muying in the Battle of Dingbian with a creative "three-stage" musket shooting method with artillery.

The 50,000 Luchuan army was killed and wounded by Mu Ying, and this battle also completely knocked out Si Lunfa's spirit, and he had to make amends to Daming and pay taxes.

After that, Si Lunfa became depressed and became obsessed with the way of the Buddha, and even made the status of the monk more than that of the chiefs of various tribes, including Daoganmeng.

This connivance eventually led to the rebellion.

Daogan Meng united some chieftains who were not satisfied with Si Lun Fa attacked Si Lun, and the 50,000 army surrounded Yun Jiemu tightly.

Among the four city gates of Sister Yunmu, someone couldn't bear the pressure, opened the city gate, and put Dao Ganmeng's army into the city.

Soon, Daogan Meng led his troops to approach the palace, where he was met with an attack.

Three thousand soldiers wearing armor and holding Dai knives marched to guard the gate of the palace.

"Throw guns!"

In the face of these 3,000 sharp soldiers, a general who rode a pony in western Yunnan gave an order, and even a large number of strong men in the army stood up.

They threw javelins with all their might, and they fell like a dense rain in the ranks of sharp soldiers, and blood was pouring in the enemy's formation.

At this time, the elephants came out of battle and completely disrupted their formation.

As the formation of sharp pawns was broken, hundreds of Yunnan horse cavalry rushed into the formation, expanding the results of the battle.

Under their stormy attack, the palace soldiers were quickly defeated, and 3,000 men were defeated.

Upon hearing the news, Si Lunfa, who was hiding in the palace, changed into the clothes of a monk, shaved off his beard and hair, disguised himself as a monk, and escaped from the palace in the chaos.

The next day, Daogan Meng Zhao told the leaders of the Luchuan tribes that Si Lunfa set himself on fire in the palace of Sister Yun Mu, and there was an uproar in Luchuan......

On June 22, under the pretext that Si Lunfa had attempted to rebel and was put down by himself, Daogan Meng sent an envoy to Kunming, asking for the succession of the peace and Burma envoys.

It's a pity that the Dao Ganmeng's people have not yet arrived in Kunming, and Si Lunfa, who is disguised as a monk, escaped to Golden Tooth with the help of several monks.

The commander of the Golden Tooth Guard made Wang Zhao get the news of the civil strife in Luchuan, and immediately sent someone to escort Silunfa to Kunming.

Knowing that Si Lunfa had survived and fled to Kunming, Daogan Meng began to clean up the leaders loyal to him, and stationed troops in Menglin Village to confront the Ming army Golden Tooth Guard Shuiyan Pass, and Golden Tooth Wei commanded Wang Zhao to lead 2,000 soldiers at Shuiyan Pass.

On June 30, Silunfa arrived in Kunming Mansion, and Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei stationed in Kunming Mansion, learned of this, and after discussing with Mu Chun, Marquis of Xiping, he decided to send Mu Chun to Yongchangwei and He Futun to fight for Golden Teeth.

At the same time, Xu Huizu took advantage of Mu Chun's prestige in Yunnan to transfer 7,000 troops from Tusi in Lijiang, Dali, Menghua, Yuanmou and other places, and he took Si Lunfa to Nanjing City to report the matter.

When the news reached Nanjing, it was already the fifth day of the seventh month, and Xu Huizu and Si Lunfa had just arrived in Chongqing.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang sat on a chair in a middle coat, emaciated.

Looking at the urgent recital on the desk, he only felt very irritable.

Just settled the matter of the north and south lists, the rich families in the world have not yet moved into Nanjing City in peace, and a rebellion broke out in the southwest.

More importantly, the big snow mountain of the Sichuan Xingdu Division also went down the mountain to make rebellion, the people of Litang, Batang, Daowu and other places also entered the Kou to seek provocation, the Guzhou barbarians in the south of Huguang rebelled again, and Guangxi also had Tusi who pulled the flag and rebelled.

For a while, the entire southwest seemed to be full of wolf smoke, such a situation in the past, Zhu Yuanzhang would not feel much trouble, but now it is different.

"Tell Mu Chun and He Fu to let them not act rashly for the time being, and at the same time transfer grain from Kunming to the front line, waiting for my will."

Zhu Yuanzhang instructed the eunuch on duty standing in the palace, and the eunuch also responded.

Before he could turn away, another eunuch walked in outside the hall.

Looking at his appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that there was another rebellion, but when he got closer, Zhu Yuanzhang who saw the smile on his face sorted out his mood.

"Your Majesty, Jilin City ...... good news"

The eunuch smiled and presented his hands to the song, and at the same time reported with a smile: "In June Gengyin, the king of Bohai led 3,000 people to the Songhua River, and went north along the waterway for more than 2,000 miles. ”

"The King of Bohai changed Kulawen to Heishui City, and set up a thousand households in Heishui to appease the Jurchens in the area of Kulawen, and at the same time prevent Ataiwailan from going south."

The celebrant and eunuch flattered the good news, and after Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, his face showed a hint of relief: "There is finally good news." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang reacted again, his will was to let this kid go to the north to patrol the Wuliangha ground, how did he run to the northeast, so he asked: "Did that kid have anything to say back to the military report?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, there is." The eunuch opened it and pulled out a piece of paper.

Zhu Yuanzhang took it and opened it and looked at it, the beginning of the letter was still the same, it was nothing more than Zhu Gaoxu saying how difficult it was for him, Jilin City was inconvenient, so it was not easy to write a letter to the south, and there was no merit in his hands, and he often wrote letters, worried about the criticism of the ministers of the DPRK and China, so he took advantage of this contribution to write a letter to his grandfather.

Although he knew that it was a polite remark, Zhu Yuanzhang was still very happy when he looked at the content of the letter.

He continued to look down, and this kid really talked about the matter and the importance of Blackwater City.

Not only that, but he also hand-drew a map of the outside of the gate for himself.

The craftsmanship of this map is exquisite, not to mention other places, just talking about this place in Liaodong, the painting is more accurate than the Liaodong Dusi's own painting, as for the map outside the Guan, the mountains and rivers, the hydrology are painted in an orderly manner, unlike the Hu painting.

"This kid, even dare to hand over such a picture to the imperial court......"

Lao Zhu was moved, and he knew very well what such a map represented.

It can be said that if this map is true, then Jilin City will be in turmoil in the future, and the imperial court can completely deal with Jilin City according to the terrain of this map.

In doing so, Zhu Gaoxu undoubtedly handed over his handle to the imperial court.

But it was his approach that made Lao Zhu feel a little uncomfortable.

He suppressed this child so much, but this child could still give this detailed map without reservation, he ......

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, and couldn't help but reflect on whether he had suppressed this child too much.

With a sigh, he continued to look down.

In the second half, Zhu Gaoxu explained the reason why he first attacked Atai Wailan, to put it bluntly, he wanted to mobilize more troops to go on a northern tour, so he defeated Laven and changed Andong City from the front line to the hinterland.

As for the Northern Patrol Uliangha, this time he will arrive in Zhaozhou City in early August and wait for the deployment of supplies in Zhaozhou City before setting off.

In addition, the number of soldiers and horses who went out on the expedition, he also wrote down in the letter.

Originally, he was going to transfer 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 horse infantry to the north, but after learning that the imperial court had transferred another 2,000 soldiers and horses, he decided to transfer 1,000 cavalry and 4,000 horse infantry to Zhaozhou for a northern tour.

The route of his northern tour was to go north along the Naowen River (Nenjiang), use boats to transport the baggage of the army for 50 days, and then rush to beat the grass valley like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves on the ground of Wuliangha before the winter, and then return to Zhaozhou City after the battle.

"This kid, after the siege of Jilin, he has a lot of inspiration."

Looking at the letter written by Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but praise him.

In his opinion, Zhu Gaoxu knew very well what the purpose of this exit was, and compared with King Ning, this kid was thick-skinned, and he dared to write "Grass Valley" on the letter to himself.

If such content were to be seen by those Confucian scholars, it is estimated that they would have to write several articles accusing him of cruelty.

However, Lao Zhu was very satisfied with this kid's statement, after all, he single-handedly founded the Saiwang system, and its purpose was to let the Saiwang half-nomadic and half-agricultural crowd the living space of the Mongols.

Because of this, he divided all the grasslands along the northern land to his sons, and gave them cattle and sheep.

Not only that, but he also wrote letters to all the vassal kings north of the Huai River, including Zhu Li, teaching them how to graze and how to take care of cattle and sheep.

Even if it was Zhu Hu in Henan, he carved out a piece of grassland for him.

After all, the grassland in the north is limited, and if the Mongols go south, they will inevitably seize the grassland in Monan, and the grassland in Monan is in the hands of the Saiwang, and the conflict between the two sides will inevitably break out.

The more kings in the north, the more stable the interior will be.

Instead of spending thousands of stones to raise generals to defend against the enemy on the border, it is better to spend 20,000 stones to raise a son to defend against the enemy on the border.

The king of Sai could not only prepare the borders, but also stabilize the place and suppress the rebellion, so he set up fewer vassal kings in places with many Han people, and more vassal kings in places with few Han people.

In places like Liaodong, he preset up two or three Sai kings, one to defend against the Jurchens and Koreans, and one to defend against the Mongols.

As for Beiping, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, there is one each, and Shaanxi is the best one to three.

However, in doing so, it is easy for the vassal king to sit on the throne, so it is necessary to install some weak vassals with a little more distant in the middle of the strong vassals to cut off their connection.

If it continues like this, it will only take forty or fifty years for the frontier to be completely secured.

In order to prevent the feudal kings from rebelling, he also set the rule of "only dividing the feudal lords and not giving land, and only listing the lords and not the people".

Under this rule, all the fiefdoms of the vassal kings were actually only the confines of their palaces and their pastures outside the fortress.

Even if the vassal king wants to make a rebellion, he must first develop the grassland, and then he will have enough strength to make a rebellion, otherwise with more than 10,000 guards in his hands, I am afraid that he will not even be able to take the city where the palace is located, and he will be suppressed by the imperial court.

As for being defeated by a vassal king with no more than 10,000 troops, Zhu Yuanzhang really couldn't imagine what kind of situation it was, I'm afraid that at that time, the Ming Dynasty was almost over.

With the 600,000 elites he has trained in the current 20 years of military training, as long as Yun Wei Xiao follows Cao Cao, there will be no problem for at least 30 years.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to feel that there was really no need for him to suppress Gao Xu's kid like this.

Looking at the letter in his hand, he thought for a while before he spoke: "This Blackwater City is extremely important, and in addition, the post road leading to 30,000 Wei in Jilin City is too long, so it is necessary to set up a thousand households to connect between the two." ”

"Spread my will, compile 1,000 households from Shandong and Lianghuai, and set up 1,000 households in Heishui."

"Send a decree to the King of Bohai again, so that after he comes to the north, he will choose a place to build a city and set up a place between Jilin City and Sanwan Wei, and move 1,000 households to be stationed in the coming year."

"The slave takes the command." The celebrant and eunuch agreed without thinking, after all, they were just eunuchs, and they didn't dare to get involved in any political affairs.

"Stand down."

Zhu Yuanzhang put the letter on the table, and the eunuch also stepped back.

It was only not long after he stepped down that the decree drafted by the celebrant was sent to the Chunhe Temple.

Zhu Yunwen, who was already preparing to rest in his middle clothes, got this holy decree and frowned slightly.

On the stepping bed, a pretty girl who had taken off her clothes was already lying down, and seeing that Zhu Yunwen had not put down the holy decree for a long time, she asked curiously: "Your Highness, what's wrong with this holy decree?" ”

"It's okay......" Zhu Yunwen didn't answer the girl, just picked up the pen and approved it, and then stamped it and let it be distributed.

After a while he lay back on the bed, but when the girl touched him, he turned sideways: "I'm a little tired today, go to bed early." ”

"Yes......" The girl's eyes showed a hint of loss, but she still lay down and hugged Zhu Yunwen.

Her hug was a bit of a hindrance for Zhu Yunwen, but he didn't care about it now, what he cared about was the fact that his imperial grandfather had added a guard to Gao Xu.

"2,000 the year before last, 2,000 last year, and 2,000 this year......"

"If this continues, year after year, won't it raise another strong domain?"

Zhu Yunwen had a lot of thoughts, after all, there are not many vassal kings with more than 8,000 soldiers, and Zhu Gaoxu counts the 2,000 soldiers transferred this time and the next year, and there are already 10,000 soldiers.

Although it is said that these 2,000 people are still households, Zhu Yunwen knows Zhu Gaoxu's talent, and if he can train 8,000 soldiers, he can train 10,000.

10,000 soldiers, this is not a small number.

Zhu Yunwen wanted to get up and think about how to balance Zhu Gaoxu, but he thought about it, now that Zhu Li and Zhu Hu have not been resolved, if they go to face Zhu Gaoxu first, it will put the cart before the horse.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yunwen slowly closed his eyes: "Gao Xu, let you behave for a while, the third uncle's side will be soon......"

"Bang!!"

When Zhu Yunwen had already fallen asleep, a glimmer of fire lit up in a mountain col in the north, accompanied by thick smoke.

"How?"

Next to the torch, Zhu Gaoxu's voice came from the smoke in the darkness.

When the smoke cleared, he was now wearing double heavy armor and holding an arquebus, similar in shape to a modern rifle.

The total length of this arquebus is four feet three inches, because Zhu Gaoxu stipulated that all craftsmen in Jilin City use cloth rulers, so this arquebus gun is about one meter thirty-seven long.

Zhu Gaoxu asked at the firelight in front of him, and soon two craftsmen brought a wooden stake.

This wooden stake is draped in a set of bright armor, and the armor piece on the left abdomen is obviously concave.

"Forty steps, one out of three, without wearing bright armor."

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to Meng Zhang, who was in charge of recording beside him, and Meng Zhang also hurriedly picked up the pen and wrote down the experimental results.

In the book he wrote, there were other experimental data.

"Try a heavy arquebus."

Zhu Gaoxu handed the arquebus in his hand to Wang Yuan, who was standing next to him, and Wang Yuan also handed over another arquebus that was so big that it was exaggerated.

"This is a heavy arquebus, six feet and two inches long, with a charge of one or two and a half cents."

Wang Yuan introduced the arquebus, and Zhu Gaoxu also took a look.

Well, it's a little taller than myself, but fortunately I haven't grown to two meters yet.

Zhu Gaoxu took the heavy arquebus to visually measure his height, and then placed it diagonally on the ground, and took two oil paper tubes, one large and one small, from Wang Yuan's hand.

The oiled paper tube had been torn open, and inside was a grain of black gunpowder.

Granular black powder and fixed charge, this is what Zhu Gaoxu and Wang Yuan said, and they should have made it out.

Since this heavy arquebus has not been test-fired, it is very clean inside the barrel.

Zhu Gaoxu first loaded the gunpowder into the arquebus's chamber, then closed the medicine compartment and poured a large barrel of propellant into the barrel.

After he finished doing this, Wang Yuan handed over a buckshot padded with a piece of paper.

Zhu Gaoxu took it and stuffed it into the barrel, and pulled out the strip from under the barrel to tamp the projectile and propellant in the barrel.

With all this done, he took the fire from his waist and blew it open, then lit the rope.

The arquebus burns slowly, and he has plenty of time to secure it to the arquebus.

Since the lid of the powder pool is closed at this time, there is no need to worry about the sparks of the arquebus igniting the ignition and causing the ignition to go off.

After doing all this, Zhu Gaoxu raised his gun and waited, pulling the trigger at the same time as the fire rope fell.

"Bang!!"

In just an instant, the primer in the powder pool 'exploded', the propellant was ignited, and the fire rope was bounced off the fire rope clamp by the explosion, and the fire and smoke rushed on Zhu Gaoxu's face.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu put down the gun, his face was a little dusty, but it was not in the way.

"Hit! Mingjia has been pierced! ”

Forty paces away, the light of the fire flickered, and a sound followed.

Hearing this voice, the people standing around Zhu Gaoxu, including himself, laughed, and Zhu Gaochu also said to the distance: "Test fifty steps!" ”

"Yes!" The flame flickered, then began to grow smaller.

"Beep!!"

After a few breaths, a wooden whistle sounded over there, which was a signal that the test could begin.

Zhu Gaoxu concocted the same method, and reloaded and fired, his speed was not fast, and he silently counted the numbers in his heart, and it took about 50 seconds to complete a reload shot.

"Bang!!"

The gunshots rang out again, and Zhu Gaoxu put down his gun and waited.

"If you don't shoot, you can continue!"

The voice came again, and Zhu Gaoxu was not discouraged in the face of the result of not shooting, after all, he knew that the accuracy of smoothbore guns was very poor, and it was difficult for rifled guns to standardize the production of barrels and bullets before entering an industrial revolution.

Therefore, the smoothbore gun is one of the few opportunities for Zhu Gaoxu to be able to climb the technology clearly.

The charge shot again, accompanied by a 'bang', and soon after the good news came from the firelight: "Your Highness, the shot was hit, and the front was pierced!" ”

"Wearn?!" Hearing the words of the man in the distance, Meng Zhang, who was in charge of recording, was shocked.

Sixty paces away from a distance to penetrate the Ming armor head-on, the power of this heavy arquebus is too terrifying.

"Go on, sixty steps!"

Zhu Gaoxu was not carried away by this result, after all, the heavy arquebus was not able to carry the armor at a distance of fifty paces, not to mention the armor, even the slightly thinner plate armor.

Soon, the person in charge of setting the target put the target sixty paces away, and the fire was already very weak at this time, and Zhu Gaoxu missed three shots in a row, and it was not until the fourth time that he hit the target.

Under this test, Mingjia was penetrated again, and Zhu Gaoxu also asked people to put the target to seventy steps.

This time, Zhu Gaoxu missed five shots in a row, and did not hit until the sixth time, but the lead bullet was stuck in the armor.

In order to know whether it was accidental, Zhu Gaoxu made more than 30 subsequent substitution shots, hitting six times before and after, either hitting the ground after shooting, or being stuck in the armor.

"It seems that the armor-piercing limit for a light arquebus is thirty steps, and for a heavy arquebus, the armor-piercing limit is sixty steps."

Zhu Gaoxu gave the results of this test, and said to Wang Yuan beside him: "It's already good, and then you only need to test its accuracy again." ”

"Precision?" Wang Yuan was confused, and Zhu Gaoxu explained to him how to test the accuracy.

"To be precise, the musket fires a hundred times at different distances, and then records the number of bullet hits."

"Like ten steps, twenty steps, thirty steps, forty steps, fifty steps...... And so on. ”

Zhu Gaoxu explained, and Wang Yuan also nodded hurriedly: "The grass people are clear." ”

"It's not a grass people, now you are the hundred household officials of the Jilin Wei Ordnance Institute." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted Wang Yuan and told him about the happy event with a smile.

When he was still stunned, Zhu Gaoxu also said to the craftsmen around him: "Although the flintlock pistol has not yet been developed, you can already receive a reward of ten yuan per person. ”

"Your Highness Chitose!!" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, the craftsmen around him cheered.

Seeing their appearance, Zhu Gaoxu also patted Wang Yuan, who was still stunned: "Tomorrow I will leave for Zhaozhou City, this arquebus you can build a workshop and prepare for mass production." ”

"It takes three months for the clay mold of the artillery to dry, right, I'll come back in three months, and I'll spend the winter in Blackwater City this year."

"If you can get this artillery, you will be the official of the Thousand Households of the Ordnance Institute, and all the craftsmen will be rewarded with ten times each......

Zhu Gaoxu said that, and motioned for Meng Zhang to follow him away, leaving only the cheering craftsmen and Wang Yuan, who had not come back to his senses for a long time.

"I'm a ...... of hundreds of households"

Wang Yuan muttered, shook his head slowly, and looked at the backs of Zhu Gaoxu and Meng Zhang.

At this moment, Wang Yuan's whole person came to his senses, and he shouted at Zhu Gaoxu:

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, the grass people will definitely study it as soon as possible!!"

After shouting, Wang Yuan also hugged the craftsmen who were grinning left and right around their necks: "Mother! Our more than 100 people are about to develop! ”

He was happy, and Zhu Gaoxu was also explaining to Meng Zhang beside him.

Turning over and getting on the horse, when the two of them and the soldiers were advancing towards Blackwater City, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Meng Zhang: "You are in Blackwater City, I promise you to act cheaply." ”

"As long as Blackwater City is not lost, whether you go to encircle and suppress other savage tribes or surrender them, in short, you can appease as many people as you can."

"Over there in Jilin City, I will let Yizha allocate food to you, and for every household that is appeased, I want you to train one person."

"This ......" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, Meng Zhang hesitated: "Isn't there a quota?" ”

Seeing Meng Zhang ask, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the road ahead without squinting, and then spoke.

"The more the merrier......"

"Records of Ming Shizong": Taizu ordered to go on a tour of the north, train troops in Heishui City, make firearms, and call the Shenji Battalion.

(End of chapter)