The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Regarding what Zhang Fan said, the ministers standing below would naturally be extremely shocked. However, apart from being shocked, they had no other thoughts. For them, the affairs of other countries had nothing to do with them. What's more, this seemingly barbaric way is definitely not what they want.

But Long Qing was sitting on the throne, meditating, and after a long time, Long Qing said: "Zhang Aiqing, what do you think these two Frangji people came to my Daming for?"

Hearing Long Qing's question, the ministers below also looked at Zhang Fan. Although what Zhang Fan said just now did let them hear some new things, but freshness is freshness, so that's all. So far, what they were concerned about was why the two envoys from Franji came to Daming so far away for such a war that obviously had no bearing on Daming.

"Your Majesty, that's the case," Zhang Fan said. "After all, they want to send troops to Tianzhu now, and isn't Tianzhu next to the commander of Wusi Zangdu? They are afraid that they will send troops without saying hello." Coming here will cause dissatisfaction in our Great Ming Dynasty, so we come here here to say that we have an audience with His Majesty, but in fact we just want to ask His Majesty for an explanation."

"That's it," Long Qing nodded after hearing this.

After hearing Zhang Fan's words, the following ministers also understood that the sentimental group of Franji people were afraid that Daming, a force they could not compete with at all, would join the battle. There is no doubt that they will be defeated. After all, with the status of the Ming Empire in the world at this time, they can be overwhelmed by just using human sea tactics.

After thinking about this, Long Qing and the ministers below also laughed, Daming, no, not only Daming, but also several dynasties that ruled the Central Plains, no matter which one, why did they ever worry about this? For this kind of thing, as the Central Plains dynasty, they rarely send troops to attack other countries, but even if they do, no one will discuss anything with the neighbors of the country to be attacked before sending troops.

Now the laughter of Long Qing and these ministers contains two meanings of ridicule and pride. The ridicule is naturally laughing at the lack of strength of those Franji people. Precisely because the neighbor they fear is their own country.

"Well, we can promise them this matter," Long Qing said with a smile, "Anyway, Tianzhu has nothing to do with us, and they are still like those Tartars, with countless tribes fighting in chaos. Since those Francines want to fight, let them fight."

"However, Your Majesty, are we..." Seeing that Long Qing agreed, Zhang Fan suddenly said, "...Are we pretending to be very embarrassed?"

"You mean..." Hearing what Zhang Fan said, Long Qing also became thoughtful.

And the ministers below have different expressions, some still have puzzled expressions, they don't know what Zhang Fan is talking about at all, and some people also reacted after Long Qing's words, just He put on a thoughtful expression, and those people who reacted very quickly already had smirks on their faces, obviously starting to make up their minds.

"Well, we can pretend that Tianzhu has been on good terms with us for generations, and our allies are being attacked by other countries. It shouldn't be good to turn a blind eye like this," Zhang Fan said, "If we reluctantly agree with them, we can learn from them. Scrape some oil and water down,"

"Zhang Aiqing, I can't see it," Long Qing said happily with a sudden smile on his face, "I can't see that Zhang Aiqing is young, and you haven't had much time to enter the official career yet, but It's also because of such thoughts, um, okay, it doesn't matter, but you have to pretend that you have something to do, and you have to scrape off his skin, Zhang Aiqing, you are indeed your teacher's disciple, and you have the demeanor of an official from the Ministry of Etiquette."

As soon as Long Qing said this, the hall erupted into laughter, but Zhang Fan and all the officials from the Ministry of Rituals were all blushing, with their heads slightly lowered, and there was only one Zhang Juzheng who was still the same as before, then Standing there solemnly, even his expression didn't change.

It’s really interesting to think about what Long Qing said. In fact, it’s not a bad thing that Zhang Fan has become so scheming not long after he first entered the official career. The country, and he is not alone.

And Longqing insisted on taking Zhang Juzheng with him, so that's all. After all, although Zhang Juzheng has not yet reached the peak of his courtiers, he is not far from that position. The only one who can rank in front of him is Gao Gong. There was only one Li Chunfang left, so no one would dare to laugh at anything.

But Long Qing wanted to bring in the entire Ministry of Rites. No matter what he said, it sounded like the people in the Ministry of Rites were all old, treacherous and cunning people who played tricks on their minds, alarmist and deceitful. No wonder the ministers present laughed.

But those people in the Ministry of Rituals were all blushing, as if they had done something wrong, and they all shouted grievances in their hearts. In their view, all these things they did were for the benefit of the country. Good thing, why does it sound like a good person now? Besides, if you usually use envoys to other countries, not all of them are officials from the Ministry of Rites. There are also many ministers, and even generals. Which one of them is not So, why put all this kind of thing on the head of the Ministry of Rites.

Moreover, these officials from the Ministry of Rituals were wronged, but they couldn't find someone to vent their anger on. They blamed Long Qing for saying the wrong thing and farting. The whole world belongs to him. Zhang Fan said something wrong, the problem is that what Zhang Fan said was not wrong at all, things should have been done this way.

"Okay, okay, it's just a joke, and it's all right for you Ai Qing to laugh. After all, with such a person, we Daming won't suffer, right?" Long Qing stopped first and said, but he said these words There was still a smile on his face.

Now that the emperor stopped laughing, the ministers below had no choice but to stop quickly.

"Zhang Aiqing, although your idea is good, but..." Immediately, Long Qing said to Zhang Fan again, "However, what are the benefits of Francine that are worth our doing?"

"Your Majesty, I have thought about this point too," Zhang Fan said quickly when Long Qing asked, "It's the same now."

"Oh, what is it?" Long Qing asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, didn't I already have contacts with those Fran machine guns decades ago, and bought a lot of Fran machine guns from them," Zhang Fan said.

"Well, it's true," Long Qing nodded and said.

"Wei Chen was thinking, back then we only bought dozens of cannons from them, although our craftsmen were able to imitate those cannons back then, and up to now, no matter whether it is the Shenji Battalion or General Qi's troops, the The Franco cannons are all made by our own, Daming," Zhang Fan said, "However, these cannons we built will always have more or less problems, although after decades of time, our The craftsmen have also improved many times, and now the chance of problems with this cannon has been greatly reduced, but there are still, Your Majesty, after all, this thing is for the army and used in wars, and now it seems that the number of times it has problems It is less, but no one can guarantee that there will be no problems with this thing on the battlefield in the future. I am most afraid that something will go wrong at the most critical time, which will affect the entire battle situation. This will be troublesome up,"

What Zhang Fan said, not only Long Qing, but even the ministers standing below fell silent, there was no need to think about it carefully, everyone in the line could know that a little bit of what Zhang Fan said There is nothing wrong with it. Armaments have always been the most important thing. Although the Ming Dynasty valued literature over martial arts, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di who established the pinnacle of the Ming Dynasty all built their country with martial arts, especially Zhu Di. , stationed in the city of Yanjing for decades, and fought against the Yuanmeng remnant party in Mobei for decades, he was extremely concerned about the war.

Because of this, Zhu Di has always been very concerned about military affairs. There was even a clear regulation in the Ming Dynasty that anyone who dared to do anything with military equipment for personal gain would be punished directly after being found out. And this has become an iron rule that every emperor and official of the Ming Dynasty must abide by. Of course, there are always exceptions. The arrows used by the army in the borderlands are really different to the extreme, so I have to mention it here.

"This is a bit troublesome," Long Qing frowned slightly after hearing Zhang Fan's words, and said, "Since Zhang Aiqing has already mentioned this matter, it must be..."

"That's right, I'm going to ask the Frang machine man for the casting method of the Fran machine gun," Zhang Fan said.

"Well, this is indeed a good proposal," Long Qing said happily after hearing this, "It's just that, for such a reason, it...isn't that a bit too much?"

"Wei Chen has also thought about this," Zhang Fan said, "so, when Wei Chen was in Jiangnan, he also asked them on the sidelines if they had any new inventions, although they were very good at it. Cautious, I didn't give Wei Chen a definite answer, but Wei Chen thinks they should have it, too."

"Well, that's good," Long Qing nodded and said, "We will let them come to the hall, we will promise them first, but after that, we will let..." At this point, Long Qing looked at Zhang Juzheng and said: "Zhang Aiqing, after It's up to you to talk to them, and it's best to get some good things back, "

After saying this, the ministers below laughed again, as if Zhang Juzheng had become a leader in bargaining with a perfect tongue.

"My minister obeys the order," Zhang Juzheng said, ignoring the laughter of the others,