Chapter 1172 Parade (24) - There is money to build tombs, but there is no money to expand the army
In his eyes, their lives are no different from the emperor's lives, they are all things that rush up and stab.
Those people can dig a pit and bury it casually, why can the emperor be special?
He wasn't against repairing the imperial tomb, he just didn't want to spend so much silver. It was not once that the king of Han proposed to the household and the imperial court to buy Xiyi's gunboats, artillery, muskets and other things to arm the Ming army.
But alas, it was dismissed every time.
As a battle-hardened general, he understood the usefulness of these weapons in warfare, but unfortunately no one heeded his advice.
And the reason given to him is also very perfunctory, that is, the perennial conquest of the national treasury is empty.
It cost millions of taels of silver to build a burial circle, but it couldn't take out a tael of silver to train and arm a new army.
On this point, Zhu Yunchang and the Han King are surprisingly consistent, if the Ming army is armed like that, the northern Warat is simply a live target.
Riding and shooting with a musket is much more powerful than with a bow and arrow.
The Han King even trained the formation of the musket team, and even had the soldiers fight and test it themselves.
The king of Han first tested the power of the musket with an iron plate, then selected some majestic horses, and then asked the soldiers to wear heavy iron armor that the musket could not penetrate, and then let them ride on the horses and charge at the musket team.
The musket team is divided into two rows, one in front and one in the back, when the soldiers on horses charge over, the musketeers shoot, after the fight, the rear team comes forward to continue, the front team returns to the rear team to charge and load the projectile.
As a result of the tests, three soldiers in iron armor died. Five people were wounded, and all the horses were killed.
The three who died were killed by a musket piercing the iron plate after approaching, and the wounded were injured by a fall on the horse.
As for the horses, they were all killed by the musketeers.
The Han King was surprisingly satisfied with this result, and he always imagined that if the Ming army was equipped with this kind of weapon, the cavalry with a huge target would be a living target for the musket team when facing the cavalry charge of the Warat and Tatars.
As for the power of the artillery, the king of Han was even more satisfied, and if those things were placed on the Great Wall, the cavalry of Wara would have been repulsed before they reached the base of the city.
But unfortunately, his suggestions have not been adopted, but there are some places that have been adopted, such as the imperial court funded the repair of the destroyed Great Wall, and the foreign guns and cannons bought were copied in the workshop.
As for King Zhao's opinion, he is somewhat neutral, and he even hopes that after he gets the throne, the restored mausoleum can be bigger than his father.
Now that the emperor asked Lou Yun for his opinion, the three kings were naturally very interested.
And Zhu Zhanji, the eldest grandson of the emperor, is not in the mood to listen to what the emperor's grandfather says to others, since the beginning of the parade, his eyes have not left Nangong Li.
He didn't expect Nangong Li to come, although he knew the relationship between Nangong Li and Lou Yun, but this did not prevent him from continuing to love this girl who had saved his life.
Even if this girl may be her "aunt".
For his son's eyes, the prince is a little angry, he now even feels that his son is a little muddy and can't support the wall, although he is talented and intelligent, and is deeply liked by the emperor's grandfather, but he is also a person who is high-spirited and obsessed with beauty.
The crown prince looked at the kings of Han and Zhao beside him.
King Zhao always seemed a little absent-minded, but the prince knew that King Zhao was just forbearing, after all, his wife had an improper relationship with him. And for this matter is almost an open secret in the capital, if it is just a concubine, maybe you don't need to take it to heart, but that woman is his princess, and that woman has also been touched by the King of Han.
Although the crown prince also had an affair with Princess Zhao, he only existed underground and never blatantly. The prince's tryst with her was only in the meditation room of the side hall when Princess Zhao went out to incense.
And King Han is different, he directly broke into King Zhao's mansion, and then walked to his younger sibling's boudoir, and directly corrected her in the boudoir, and after King Zhao returned to the house, King Han still left as if nothing happened.
Even so, King Zhao is still quiet, if it is someone else, they may think that King Zhao is a cuckold wreck, but the prince and the king of Han don't think so, after all, the three of them are brothers who grew up together, although their conduct and personalities are very different, but they are not fools.
King Zhao can have such a strength, it is not comparable to ordinary people, compared to the humiliation of the crotch, his wife was raped, but he was indifferent, this kind of humiliation since ancient times can bear the only person who can bear the last tyrant of the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Yue Goujian.
For this kind of energy, the prince is very admired, for the king of Han, the prince is even more afraid of the brother of King Zhao, after all, he has almost no fault, even if he is on the throne and becomes the son of heaven, there is no reason to punish him.
And the fact that Princess Zhao had an affair with him is almost known to everyone and is an open secret. If King Zhao didn't do anything, and he cleaned him up instead, he would be pointed out by Qianfu. Tens of thousands of people scolded, and even be compared to Emperor Yang of Sui who killed his brother ~ sister-in-law.
For the King of Han, the crown prince is not so jealous, because the King of Han is just a minister, and although he is not an idiot, he is also a rough man with a perverse personality and no formality. He is now in military power, and if the emperor gets rid of him, there will still be a valid reason. After all, the crown prince doesn't owe anything to King Han.
For his two younger brothers, he looked at his son who couldn't take his eyes off a woman, and the prince's heart was very angry.
The prince knew that his time was numbered, and his life would be three or five years long, and one or two years short. After his death, if there was no help from the emperor's grandfather, how could he, a son who was obsessed with beauty, compete for the dragon throne with his two uncles.
If it doesn't work out, the Battle of Jingjing may be staged again. But this time, maybe Zhu Zhanji didn't have the ability of Emperor Jianwen and fled.
After Lou Yun saw the prosperity of the imperial tomb, he said bluntly: "Please forgive the emperor for the sins of his ministers." ”
The emperor knew that he didn't have good words, but he wanted Lou Yun to say it, of course, Lou Yun's words were not what he wanted to hear, he wanted the civil and military courtiers behind him, the royal relatives and nobles to listen to it.
The emperor said: "I forgive Aiqing for not being guilty, but it doesn't hurt for Aiqing to talk about it." Today, you and I can speak freely. ”
After Lou Yun got the emperor's promise, he said: "The minister thinks that the emperor's move is very laborious and costly. During the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the courtiers wanted to raise a warm pavilion in Chang'an, but was rejected by Taizong, Taizong once said, "Breaking ground and building a lot of money, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty will raise the terrace, because of the pity of the property of ten families and give up." My merit is not as good as that of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and I should not waste the people's power. ’”
(End of chapter)