marquis of jingan

Chapter 455 The Emperor's Way

It has to be said that, as a woman who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, Queen Mother Sun's insight is still very keen.

Almost instantly, she saw that her son had other plans for coming here today.

Seeing what his mother had said, the little emperor coughed in embarrassment, then looked at Shen Yi, and said, "Shen Qing, tell me."

Shen Yi sighed in his heart.

This is the advantage of being a leader. You can directly pass on to your subordinates what you don't want to say.

But there was no way, the leader spoke, Shen Yi had no way to refuse, he stood in front of the queen mother, after sorting out his thoughts, he lowered his head slightly and said: "Go back to the queen mother, the incident is caused by the pirates along the coast."

As soon as he said such a sentence, Empress Dowager Sun frowned slightly. She looked at Shen Yi, then at the emperor, and said lightly: "Since it is a matter of the outer court, the emperor is in charge. It has been two years since the Ai family I haven't asked much about court affairs."

The little emperor took a deep breath, and said, "It won't be too late for the mother to finish listening to him."

Empress Dowager Sun still attaches great importance to her son. After all, among the three sons of the late emperor, only this son is her own.

Ever since, she nodded, smiled at Shen Yi and said, "Shen Hanlin, let's continue."

Shen Yi said "um", and probably told about the suppression of the Japanese.

Then he said slowly: "Your Majesty, if you want to wipe out the pirates and unblock the sea routes, you must have a big ship, and it's a warship."

"In addition to warships, we also need to have enough firearms."

"Therefore, I wrote to Your Majesty, asking the imperial court to build a dock and manufacture large ships in the coastal areas of Taizhou and Wenzhou, and at the same time move a few firearms workshops from the Ministry of War to produce firearms nearby, so that we can defend our Dachen coastal defense and strive for five years. Within, wipe out all the Japanese pirates along the coast."

If there are enough warships, and most of the people along the coast are familiar with water, the anti-Japanese army will be able to form a fleet of its own in a maximum of three years, so that not only can the Japanese pirates be wiped out from the sea, maybe...

Maybe you can go to Dongying Island to enjoy the autumn wind.

At that time, Master Shen will also have the opportunity to become the "Five-Star Emperor".

Empress Dowager Sun was drinking tea, when she heard the words, she glanced at Shen Yi indifferently, and asked, "Is Shen Hanlin's idea his own, or the son of Jin's?"

Sure enough, women are more sensitive to this kind of thing.

Without hesitation, Shen Yi directly lowered his head and said, "Back to the Queen Mother, the imperial envoys don't know about this yet."

"Ah."

Empress Dowager Sun glanced at her son, smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, my son can decide on his own, why did he bring this offspring here to ask his mother?"

The little emperor slightly lowered his eyebrows and said: "The queen mother said so, and the ministers there can make their own decisions."

Empress Dowager Sun shook her head slightly.

"There is nothing wrong with the Ministry of Industry going to the coast to build docks and ships, but my mother thinks that the firearms workshop should still be in the hands of the Ministry of War. The southeast anti-Japanese army..."

When talking about the word "Anti-Japanese Army", Empress Dowager Sun paused for a moment, and then said lightly: "A Japanese island in Japan, some uncivilized savages, when will the imperial court need to use the word "Anti-Japanese Army" to form an army?"

After she finished saying this, she smiled slightly at the little emperor: "But since it's what the emperor meant, then forget it. What Aijia means is that if the anti-Japanese army has any needs for firearms, you might as well write to the court, to write a letter." The Ministry of War, the Ministry of War distributes firearms, and the firearms workshops are placed locally..."

"Something is wrong."

The little emperor frowned and didn't speak.

Shen Yi took a deep breath, and said, "The Empress Dowager, all the firearms in the Ministry of War cannot meet the requirements of naval warfare. I want several firearms workshops to be built together with the dock, so that the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War We can communicate with each other, and try our best to build small ship cannons that can be boarded, and when designing warships, we can also leave gaps for artillery in advance.”

Empress Dowager Sun glanced at Shen Yi with a smile.

"There are so many firearm workshops in the Ministry of War, and I haven't heard of any improved firearms for so many years. How can Shen Hanlin be sure that he can make new firearms?"

Hearing this, Shen Yi took a deep breath, then bowed his head, and stopped talking.

Because he really wasn't sure.

He knows almost all forms of gunpowder weapons, and also knows what the limit of gunpowder weapons is, but advanced firearms in another world must have corresponding industrial support to realize them, such as lathe milling cutters and the like...

For example, a seamless steel pipe formed at one time.

In this era, there is basically no industrial support.

Therefore, the space for him to improve firearms is actually not particularly large.

More importantly, he didn't learn specific weapon making, he just heard about it.

It is also difficult to explore slowly.

Therefore, Shen Yi's most important direction now is to integrate the ship and the gun, and to truly transform advanced firearms, those craftsmen must do it.

or…

Try to find a way to catch a few foreign devils, and ask what the current technological progress in the West is...

Seeing that Shen Yi stopped talking, Empress Dowager Sun glanced at her son again, and said with a smile, "What does the emperor think of this arrangement?"

The little emperor lowered his head, was silent for a while, and then sighed slightly: "Mother, my son wants a new navy."

Hearing his words, Empress Dowager Sun was taken aback, and then her expression changed slightly.

She glanced at her son with a serious face, and then waved to Shen Yi: "Shen Hanlin, you wait outside the palace first, the Ai family and the emperor have something to say."

Shen Yi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, then hurriedly bowed his hands to the mother and son, and exited the Kunde Palace.

After arriving outside the palace, two maids from Kunde Palace brought him a small chair, brought out some sweets and pastries, put them on a small plate, and placed them in front of him.

Said it was brought by the empress dowager.

After Shen Yi bowed his head and thanked him, he put the plate of pastry in his hand and didn't dare to eat it.

The little maid beside her was about fifteen or sixteen years old, she opened her eyes wide, looked at Shen Yi curiously, and then said softly: "You are so young, how did you become an official?"

Obviously, she recognized Shen Yi's official uniform, but probably she had never seen such a young official, and she had not been in the palace for a long time, so she was a little curious.

Shen Yi smiled dumbly, glanced at the little palace maid, and said with a smile: "I have been taking exams, and gradually became an official."

"Then you are amazing."

The little maid said sincerely: "When I was at home, I heard people say that you have to be a Jinshi to be an official. In my hometown, there is not even a Jinshi."

After saying this, the little maid smiled at Shen Yi: "Wait here for a while, I'll go and get you some more pastries. This morning, the Imperial Dining Room brought a lot more. The empress rewarded us with some. It's delicious..."

After finishing speaking, the little maid turned around, first trotted for a while, then seemed to remember the rules in the palace, and trotted with her hands on her waist.

Shen Yi looked at the candy in his hand and smiled dumbly.

After waiting at the gate of Kunde Palace for half an hour, Shen Yi already had a plate full of sweets and pastries in his hand. At this moment, His Majesty the Emperor finally came out of Kunde Palace, and Shen Yi hurriedly greeted him and called him His Majesty.

The emperor glanced at him, then stretched out his hand, squeezed out a piece of pastry from the plate in Shen Yi's hand, threw it in his mouth, and said lazily, "I've been waiting for a long time."

"Not long."

Shen Yi asked with a smile: "What did you say?"

"Still unwilling to let go, saying that firearms can only be held in the hands of the Ministry of War, and cannot be used as fake hands."

After saying this vaguely, the emperor swallowed the pastry in his mouth. He glanced at Shen Yi and said with a smile: "But the Queen Mother has the Queen Mother's thoughts, and I also have my thoughts. I already have a way to deal with it." gone."

After saying this, he squeezed another piece of pastry from the plate in Shen Yi's hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

Shen Yi felt a little distressed.

Because of these pastries in the palace, he was going to take them home for his wife to taste.

Fortunately, there was still a lot left, so Master Shen didn't say much, but asked, "What is your Majesty's solution?"

The emperor looked back at Shen Yi and smiled.

"Since the mother does not let the firearms leave the Ministry of War."

"I'll put you in the military department."

(End of this chapter)