Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 155: Conferred the title of Grand Master!Ranked among the top three!
"Is this really something human beings can do? It's simply a miracle!"

Among the crowd, I don't know who said this.

Lan Yu also took a breath of cold air, "The power of this new artillery is so terrifying! It's like it's going to destroy the world!"

"No wonder the noise last night was so loud!"

The mushroom cloud in the distance rose higher and higher, until it was [-] meters high in the sky and then gradually dispersed...

Everyone looked at the open space in the distance ahead, and a large crater several feet deep had been blown out!
If there was anyone nearby, they would definitely be dead!

Everyone is still frightened!

Looking at Cao Wei who was standing next to him again with a calm expression, no one knew what to say.

Praise Cao Wei for his outstanding talent?

They couldn't even think of the right words to say.

The new artillery that Cao Wei improved this time shocked them from the inside out!

I can't describe the shock in my heart for a moment!
No one had imagined that the mediocre artillery with solid shells could have such earth-shaking changes after Cao Wei's improvements!
If they weren't both called artillery, they wouldn't even look like the same type of weapon!
Cao Wei smacked his lips and only fired one shot, which was a bit unsatisfactory.

Then he ordered Wang Hu,

"Change the angle and fire a few more cannons from near and far. Your Majesty is here, don't be stingy with these gunpowder shells."

"promise!"

As soon as Wang Hu responded, he and several craftsmen around him adjusted the angle of the barrel, then took out the cannonball from the wooden box and loaded it again.

"hiss--"

As Wang Hu lit the artillery fuse for the second time, everyone present couldn't help but take two steps back.

The power of this artillery is so terrifying!

"Oh!"

The gun barrel flashed with flames again, and the shells flew directly out.

This time, the angle of the barrel was increased, and the shells flew farther.

A long parabola was drawn in the sky, and everyone below looked up at it.

The artillery began to fall, everyone covered their ears in advance, and their hearts were in their throats again.

The cannonball hit the ground and exploded instantly!
"Bang!!"

The soil was blown away again, rising several feet in height. The center of the explosion was immediately shrouded in darkness, including the blown soil and the smoke after the gunpowder explosion.

Between lightning and flint,

Another magnificent mushroom cloud emerged and slowly rose...

Before anyone could recall it, Wang Hu and the others on the other side had already started adjusting the angle, loading the shells, and lighting the fuse for the third time.

"hiss--"

Hearing the sound of the fuse burning, everyone came back to their senses and looked at the majestic artillery. Many people's faces turned pale again.

"Oh!"

Everyone felt it more clearly. The moment the cannonball was fired, there seemed to be an invisible power passing over their bodies.

That's because the barrel is lengthened. When the cannonball is fired, it is subject to high pressure generated by the combustion and explosion of the internal gunpowder. This high pressure will cause the cannonball to always have an acceleration in the barrel and be launched spirally along the rifling.

When the cannonball rushes out of the barrel, the strong pressure is released instantly, forming a small shock wave.

in the blink of an eye,

The cannonball has reached its destination and detonated immediately!

"Bang!!"

Before the mushroom cloud formed after the explosion of the previous shell dissipated, another mushroom cloud rose from high on the ground!

This scene stimulated everyone's eyes and shocked their thinking!

Several more shells were loaded and fired in succession!
"Bang!!"

"Bang!!"

"Bang!!"

Even Lan Yu, who has experienced hundreds of battles, can't help feeling cold when he sees the mushroom cloud rising in front of his eyes!

At this time, the barren slope in the distance had been completely flattened by several consecutive rounds of artillery shells, and exploded into a downward depression!
This scene was like the end of the world, making Lan Yu's heart beat violently and her throat dry!
This is called artillery!

This is worthy of being called a thunderbolt!

It turns out that war can still be fought like this?
Compared with this terrifyingly powerful thunder cannon, the artillery they used before was just like playing house!

Of course, ordinary solid iron bullet artillery can also injure people with extremely strong impact.

Iron balls or rocks weighing dozens of kilograms rush into the battlefield with terrifying impact. They will be injured if they are rubbed, and they will die if they touch!

But the iron ball will not explode, and the enemy is not a dead object and will run to avoid it.

As long as you avoid the impact path of the iron ball in time, the power of the solid shells will be greatly reduced!

Generally, the most common use of solid shell artillery is during sieges or water battles, when shells are used to hit enemy walls and warships.

But compared with the thunderbolt artillery that Cao Wei improved at this time, the damage caused by solid cannonballs to city walls and warships is not enough!

An ordinary solid cannonball can at most make a hole in the city wall, and it is still a weak city wall. If the city wall is made of enough stone, it is usually several meters wide. If a solid cannonball hits it, at most some bricks will fall off.

At this moment, the thunderbolt cannon in front of him, according to Lan Yu's estimation, even the city wall with the largest project and the most abundant materials can directly open a hole in the city wall with only two cannonballs!
Not to mention warships. Ordinary solid cannonballs would leave a hole in the hull at best, but one shot from a thunderbolt cannon is enough to blow up a small warship!

The power of the two is simply incomparable!

"Sir, all the shells have been fired!"

Wang Hu reports to Cao Weihui.

Since they were working hard last night, they only made these six or seven cannonballs.

Cao Wei nodded and came to Zhu Yuanzhang,
"Your Majesty, all the artillery shells have been fired. Because they were successfully developed yesterday, only so many were made in a temporary rush."

Zhu Yuanzhang retracted his gaze to the sky in the distance and said "hmm".

Then he walked slowly to the front of the cannon, with a trace of smoke coming from the muzzle.

Looking at this majestic and domineering big guy, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were full of joy.

The power of this thunderbolt cannon is extremely powerful. With this cannon, who does Ming have to fear?

The Mongols, the Jin people, the Yuan people, let them come together, don't say that the Ming Dynasty bullied them!
"With this artillery, we can sit back and relax!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, staring at the artillery in front of him with burning eyes.

Then he turned his attention to Wang Hu and others.
"You guys did a good job!"

Wang Hu and others immediately knelt on the ground and respectfully replied:
"Thank you for your praise, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang burst into laughter, "Reward! Reward them all! We will reward each of you with a hundred taels of silver! Hahahaha!"

Wang Hu and others were immediately overjoyed, and their voices became even louder,
"Caomin thank Your Majesty for His grace!"

"Get up." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and looked at Cao Wei again, the look in his eyes was indescribable satisfaction.

"Cao Aiqing, when you talked about improving the artillery, we didn't care. We just told you to be careful. But I didn't expect you to give us such a big surprise! Hahahaha!"

Cao Wei cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, you are so complimentary!"

"This is not ridiculous!" Zhu Yuanzhang stared, "The thunderbolt artillery you improved is an unprecedented weapon, more important than the continuous artillery!"

"You have made a huge contribution to the Ming Dynasty by building this thunder cannon. It makes us truly feel at ease for the future of the Ming Dynasty."

"As long as we have this thunder cannon, if the Ming Dynasty has a war with other countries in the future, it will be guaranteed not to lose, no, it will win!"

"You have troubled us!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said with emotion.

"Tell me, you have made such a great contribution, how do you want us to reward you?"

Cao Wei cupped his hand again and said, "I don't dare to boast, your Majesty will just decide."

Zhu Yuanzhang had expected that Cao Wei would say this, and turned to face the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.

"Then you tell me, Mr. Zhong Guogong has done such a great job that our Ming Dynasty will never be afraid of foreign enemies. How should we reward Mr. Zhong Guogong?"

The civil and military ministers looked at each other, but did not say a word.

They could tell that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted Cao Wei to mention it further.

Cao Wei's achievements in improving artillery are indeed enough.

But at this time, Cao Wei was already the great pillar of the Ming Dynasty, and he was the three princes above him. Even if they knew that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to do this, they could not open their mouths and make this decision for Zhu Yuanzhang.

at this time,

Zhu Xiongying suddenly said,

"Zhong Guogong's contribution to the improvement of artillery has benefited the Ming Dynasty for generations to come. He can be ranked among the three great masters and is respected and worshiped by future generations."

In fact, the biggest characteristic of the position of Sangong is that he has high prestige in the court and does not have much real power.

However, the Sangong of the Ming Dynasty was slightly different from that of previous dynasties.

In fact, it was also because Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

In the imperial court, there is no prime minister, the most powerful person who is less than one person and more than ten thousand people. Whoever is close to the emperor will have power in his hands!
The Third Duke is the position closest to the emperor in the entire court. In the past, there was a prime minister to check and balance the Three Dukes, and the Third Duke was just in name. However, in the Ming Dynasty, without the prime minister, the Third Duke had some real power under the false name.

Although it's not much, it's similar to the emperor's secretary, but it has a high status!
In a broad sense, all the ministers in the imperial court work for the emperor and can be regarded as the emperor's secretaries, but the three ministers are the highest among all positions!

Cao Wei originally belonged to the Dazhu Kingdom, and now that he was granted the title of San Gong, everyone could directly regard him as the emperor's agent!
You want power and authority in your hands, and you want status and status!
Except that he is not like the previous prime minister, who can arbitrarily decide some government affairs, there is no difference in other aspects!

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slowly,
"What Ying'er said makes sense."

"Cao Wei listens to the seal!"

"I'm here." Cao Wei bowed immediately.

"You did not hesitate to risk your life this time to improve the thunderbolt artillery for the Ming Dynasty. You have made great contributions and are worthy of praise and admiration. We will confer you the title of Grand Master today and assist our grandson Zhu Xiongying in ruling the world in the future."

"My lord, accept the order!" Cao Wei replied respectfully.

So far,

From Cao Weiguan to Grand Master, he has no title.

All the civil and military ministers present cast envious glances at Cao Wei.

I heard that Cao Wei and Zhu Yuanzhang's fourteenth princess Zhu Hanming are having a fierce fight these days, and I'm afraid they will become a family soon.

At this time, he also conferred the title of Three Dukes from Dazhu Kingdom. From now on, Cao Wei's status will be respected by no one except those princes!

While they were envious, everyone only hated themselves for not having the wisdom and brains of Cao Wei, and why they couldn't do anything that others could do.

But some people feel relieved after thinking about it deeply.

Cao Wei dared to risk his life to improve artillery for the Ming Dynasty. How many of them could do this?

Don’t blame Zhu Yuanzhang for marrying his daughter to Cao Wei, it’s really Cao Wei who really worked for the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget his previous contribution to the production of assembly lines. Feng Songping and Zhao Heng both started working under Cao Wei from seventh-grade official positions.

Song Ping and Zhao Heng immediately knelt down to express their gratitude to Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this time,

The soldiers returned with Zhu Yuanzhang's chariot.

No horses…

At such a close distance, the continuous roar of artillery fire made the horses completely frightened and crazy. They were completely out of control and ran in different directions, directly pulling down the frame of the chariot.

In the end, the horse pulled the chariot and ran wildly. The chariot fell to the ground and rubbed. It was a soldier who cut the horse's rope to prevent the chariot from further damage.

The soldiers worked together to push the chariot to Zhu Yuanzhang. They thought Zhu Yuanzhang would blame him, but they did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he saw the broken chariot.

"It's worth trading our useless chariot for such a magical weapon as the Thunderbolt Cannon! We wish we could exchange it a few more times."

Many ministers below also burst into laughter.

"Your Majesty, I have something unclear and I would like to ask Master Zhong...Cao."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked and saw that it was blue jade.

"What's the matter? Ask."

Lan Yu looked at Cao Wei and said:

"I know that thunder cannons have been used on the battlefield before, but those thunder cannon shells are usually ignited by fuses, and the time for the shells to explode is different, so there are certain ways to deal with them."

"But Grand Master Cao's improved artillery, no matter the distance or the launch angle, all the shells can explode instantly after landing. How is this done?"

Cao Wei asked Wang Hu to go to the courtyard to get a cannon head without gunpowder, and brought it to Lan Yu to explain it to him.

"The reason is very simple. We add such a primer device to the top of the shell, and then fix the steel balls to detonate, like this..."

As Cao Wei spoke, he suddenly took the cannon head and knocked it against a stone at his feet.

At the moment of impact, a trace of fire flashed from the inside of the shell case, followed by a thin plume of smoke.

"As long as it hits the steel ball, the primer will be triggered and ignited, and it will explode along with the gunpowder inside the shell. No fuse is needed."

Lan Yu's eyes widened.

Cao Wei said it was simple, but this method was so ingenious that even if he had given him a hundred brains, he wouldn't have been able to come up with it!
"Your Majesty, the production of this artillery must be stepped up," Lan Yu turned her head and asked Zhu Yuanzhang again,
"When I go to the battlefield again in the future, I can use this artillery to blow up their motherfuckers!"

Everyone laughed.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally ordered people to make such a good thing as a thunderbolt cannon.

"Cao Aiqing, you built this artillery. In order to distinguish the old and new artillery, it is up to you to give it a resounding name. After that, you still have to arrange the manufacture of the artillery." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Cao Wei was stunned.
naming?
He's not good at this!
All he could think of was the louder name "Ultimate Invincible Dragon God Cannon".

But such a name is a bit abstract.

Calling them Sky Monkey or Fairy Stick seems inappropriate...

(Who among the brothers has a famous name? Let me collect some ideas and agree on it first. It’s not that Diaozi can’t think of it, but I want to see what the brothers have in mind...)
(End of this chapter)