I am the carpenter king

Chapter 54 Family Dinner

"Returning to Your Majesty, I know the flintlock gun. I saw the Frankie use it when I was in Macau. It is much more advanced than our Daming's shotgun. It is incomparable in terms of shooting speed and shooting range." Xu Guangqi did not expect Emperor Tianqi I also have an understanding of firearms, so I will definitely get twice the result with half the effort in doing things in the future.

"Xu Aiqing, after the establishment of the firearms factory, you will make this kind of flintlock gun for me. You must not only learn from the Frankies, but also improve it, and try to make better guns." Emperor Tianqi, the son of the Eight Banners, still knows Yes, the Ming army is weak at this time, and it is tantamount to dreaming to defeat Houjin's Eight Banners with swords.But if it is possible to build an army in the modern sense, that would be a different matter.

"I obey the order." Although Emperor Tianqi seemed to interfere too much, but Xu Guangqi could feel the anxiety in Emperor Guangqi's heart, so why not?After pondering for a while, he said again: "Your Majesty, making firearms requires a lot of things, and most of them are things that the court prohibits the sale of civilians. If Your Majesty wants to manufacture them quietly, what should we do with these things?"

"There will never be a shortage of bold people in this world. Aiqing may not know that there are many people who mine privately in the southeast. The imperial court does not have as much salt and iron as them every year. They sell a lot of salt and iron to the grasslands. These People are very courageous, just buy some." At this time, Emperor Tianqi's tone was very casual, and many people knew these things, maybe everyone in the world is hiding it from the emperor alone!

Sure enough, hearing what Emperor Tianqi said, the expressions of Luo Sigong and Wei Chao changed, and they looked at each other with horror in each other's eyes.Only then did they realize that the Emperor Tianqi in front of them really knew everything, and they were a little more afraid of Emperor Tianqi.

"Eunuch Wei, I will leave this matter to you! I think that with Dongchang's ability, such a matter is not a problem, and it must be invisible." Emperor Tianqi cast his eyes on Wei Chao who was behind him. , such private work is obviously the most suitable for him to handle.

"Your servant has written it down. Since His Majesty said there is no problem, then there is no problem." The Wei Dynasty really had such connections. There were many guarding eunuchs in the southeast, and the Wei Dynasty had received filial money from these people in the past few days.For the eunuch who just took office as the admiral of the East Factory, these eunuchs outside naturally wanted to curry favor, and it was not easy to get these things.

"From now on, you have to obey Master Xu's orders, and you will get him whatever he wants, even people. I will give you money for the things I asked you to buy, but the money is Is it the price of the money in the internal treasury?" Emperor Tianqi looked at Wei Chao more meaningfully at this time, and his role as Emperor Tianqi during this period of time was naturally clear.Maybe he didn't want to hide it from Emperor Tianqi at all, maybe this is the unspoken rule of Ming Dynasty for a long time!

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, how dare your servant let Your Majesty spend money? Of course someone will pay for it." From Wei Chao's point of view, isn't it easy to get something from those local tyrants and wealthy gentry?

"That's not necessary, you just need to keep the price down. In addition, it's better to let them stop doing business with people outside the Great Wall. You can let people buy all those things." Now Emperor Tianqi can only use this method Block this line, otherwise these people will smuggle such things as pig iron, copper, salt, and grain into Hou Jin's hands, and things will become more and more troublesome.Such things happened in history, and the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not unrelated to this.

There was a gentle breeze and a bright moon. The Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty was already flickering with lights and figures flickering. The huge palace seemed extremely lively.After a tiring day, Emperor Tianqi couldn't take a break after returning to the palace, because there was going to be a family banquet in the palace.

Although Emperor Tianqi was reluctant to be called to the Palace of Compassion, there was nothing he could do now. He must have enough respect for his nominal mother, Emperor Tianqi.In fact, in retrospect, what I did was already too much. The concubine Zhao of Emperor Taichang, the empress dowager at this time was okay with Emperor Tianqi.But since he was conferred the title of empress dowager, the Emperor Tianqi seldom came over, not to mention greetings every three days.

Emperor Tianqi should have prepared well for this family banquet, but he felt very tired after discussing firearms with Xu Guangqi in Huangzhuang for a day.However, he had to force himself to come to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, looking at Concubine Zhao sitting there, Emperor Tianqi respectfully saluted: "I have seen my mother, and I have neglected my mother for a while, and I still look at her. Forgive me."

"What did the emperor say? The queen mother is happy that you are a diligent emperor who loves the people. How can she blame you!" Concubine Zhao still has a good impression of Emperor Tianqi. Where is it, how can there be the position of the current empress dowager!Besides, I only have one daughter, so if I have such a son, I will naturally raise him as my own son.

"Quickly, the emperor's son will come to the empress's side." Emperor Tianqi could naturally hear Concubine Zhao's concern for him. At this time, he also felt that his lonely heart seemed to have received a little comfort, and his tired body seemed to feel a little lighter.

Without saying a word, Emperor Tianqi obediently went to Concubine Zhao's side, listening to her constantly talking about the past, he also felt a little warm in his heart.At this time, the Emperor Tianqi seemed to have gradually abandoned everything in the past, and he was really the Emperor Tianqi.

When he was talking with Concubine Zhao, the food and wine had already been served. After drinking a little wine, Emperor Tianqi didn't remember anything.

Looking at the sleeping Emperor Tianqi, Concubine Zhao felt distressed. She stroked Emperor Tianqi's hair and said slowly, "It seems that the emperor has worked very hard, why is he so tired?" When Chen Hong came with Emperor Tianqi, he asked, "What did you do with the Emperor today? Why are you so tired?"

Hearing the empress dowager asked Chen Hong slightly, he didn't dare to tell the truth, Emperor Tianqi attached so much importance to that matter, if he leaked the news from himself, he would definitely lose his head.He couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said: "Don't dare to lie to the Queen Mother, Your Majesty once said something, no matter what it is, the slave is not allowed to say it, so the slave."

Chen Hong didn't finish his words, but Concubine Zhao understood, she nodded lightly and said: "The Ai family knows that if you don't keep secrets, you will lose your ministers, and if your ministers don't keep secrets, you will lose. Your majesty did the right thing. You did it." That's right. Go down! The emperor is staying here today."

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