Smuggling Daming

The officers in the small training ground saw Gu Dayong and Zhou Zhong coming together, and they stopped shooting arrows. Before Gu Dayong could introduce, they saw the Jinyiwei officer with excellent archery skills laughing and walking forward to salute. : "Eunuch Gu, you are here, His Majesty is waiting for you!"

When the other party said this, he turned his head to look at Zhou Zhong who was next to Gu Dayong, and immediately saluted again: "This must be Mr. Zhou Zhong. I am the Commander of Jinyiwei, Qian Ning, and pay my respects to Mr. Zhou!"

"Qian Ning!" Hearing this name, Zhou Zhong was also shocked, and at the same time couldn't help but look him up and down.There were three powerful ministers in the Zhengde Dynasty, namely Liu Jin, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin. There are many records about this Qian Ning in history, among which there are records about his good archery. I just saw Qian Ning's arrow skills. It seems that the history books The records on the Internet are not wrong, and now that Liu Jin is dead, it is the golden age of Qian Ning's rise. Unfortunately, he later colluded with King Ning, and was finally killed by Jiang Bin, who was recommended by himself.

Zhou Zhong recalled the historical records about Qian Ning in his mind, but on the surface, he smiled back and said without hesitation: "It turns out that it is Commander Qian. Zhou has heard Wu Shan talk about your lord a long time ago, and he treats you very much in his heart." Admiration, but unfortunately, I have never had the chance to meet each other, today I finally saw the demeanor of your lord!"

For Zhou Zhong's compliment, Qian Ning was extremely happy, and immediately had a few polite words with Zhou Zhong, and then introduced the people around him, and when he introduced the positions of those young Jinyiwei officers, But Zhou Zhong was taken aback, because these people were either in charge of colleagues, or in charge of things.The lowest is the Zhenfu envoy. It can be said that almost all the officials above the fourth rank of Jinyiwei are here, and these people are all about the same age as Qian Ning, and the oldest is about 30 years old.

In fact, what Zhou Zhong didn't know was that Qian Ning himself was relatively young. After he was promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei had some opinions on him taking power at such a young age. In order to establish his own prestige, Qian Ning dismissed several Jinyiwei high-ranking officials who opposed him.Moreover, he also replaced the top management of Jinyiwei with young people like himself, so that no one would dare to point fingers at him anymore.

After Qian Ning and Zhou Zhong said a few polite words, they immediately took them to see Zhengde, but Zhou Zhong followed Qian Ning to the direction of the cannon test and walked for more than a mile.I finally saw the place where the cannons were tested. I saw two Francophone cannons fixed on the gun mounts, and the gunners were constantly bombarding a city wall built in front. The city wall was already scarred by shells. It is full of cracks, and even some shells are directly embedded in the city wall.It didn't look like it would be long before they were knocked down by artillery.

Dozens of paces behind the two cannons, a group of royal guards stood there protecting a young man in armor.Because of the distance, Zhou Zhong couldn't see the young man's appearance clearly for the time being, but he must be the great emperor Zhu Houzhao who is famous for his absurdity!

Tall and handsome, this is Zhou Zhong's first impression of Zhengde. Before, he only knew that Zhu Houzhao was very young, but he didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao was actually a handsome guy, if it was in later generations.Definitely qualified to be an idol star.And now that Emperor Zhengde is wearing armor, he looks a little more heroic.If he hadn't known it in advance, Zhou Zhong would not have believed it anyway. The heroic young man in front of him is the absurd Zhengde.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao also saw Zhou Zhong and the others, and saw his gaze sweeping over Gu Dayong, Qian Ning and the others, and finally fixed on Zhou Zhong, his eyes suddenly burst into light, and he began to look up and down at the same time Looking at Zhou Zhong, there was even a look of excitement on his face, but he quickly covered it up.

"Craftsman Zhou Zhong, I greet His Majesty the Emperor! Long live, long live, long live!" Zhou Zhong knelt down in front of Emperor Zhengde in military uniform and saluted.In fact, he is still very repulsed by the ritual of kneeling. Apart from kneeling to Wang Lun and Aunt Wang when they got married, this is the first time he has kneeled to someone else, and the other party is a young man not much older than himself. This made Zhou Zhong very uncomfortable.

"Haha, this is not the palace. Zhou Zhong, you don't have to do this big gift. Hurry up and watch the last few cannons with me. The city wall in front of me was bombarded with cannons for a few days, and it is finally going to collapse today. !" Emperor Zhengde looked very happy after looking at Zhou Zhong, and he laughed and helped Zhou Zhong up himself.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao's words fell and Zhou Zhong got up, he heard a cannon in front of him, followed by a loud "bang", the city wall that was used as a target finally couldn't support it anymore, and was shot The last shell collapsed at once.

Seeing this, Emperor Zhengde laughed happily again, and even pulled Zhou Zhong forward regardless of etiquette, apparently ready to personally inspect the collapse of the city wall.Regarding Zhu Houzhao's move, Gu Dayong and Qian Ning looked at each other, and they couldn't help showing a cautious expression in their eyes, and at the same time, they had a higher evaluation of Zhou Zhong in their hearts.

Zhou Zhong couldn't help feeling flattered that Emperor Zhengde treated him so affectionately when he first met him, but he came from later generations after all, and he didn't respect imperial power as much as people in this era, so after the shock, he soon also He calmed down, and followed Zhu Houzhao to the section of the city wall that had been bombed down to check it out, and he soon discovered that not far from this section of the city wall, there was another section of the city wall that had already been bombed down. It was also destroyed by cannonballs.

I saw Emperor Zhengde looked at the ruins of the city wall for a while, and finally pointed to the part of the city wall that was bombed not far away and said excitedly: "Zhou Zhong, look at the city wall over there, it is the city wall that I made The gunner used our Daming cannon to bombard it. The shell size of this kind of artillery is similar to that of the Franco cannon you sent. Although it is more powerful than the Franco cannon, the rate of fire is extremely slow, and the gunner spent a lot of time. It took four days to blow down the city wall, but the rate of fire of the Frang machine artillery you sent was several times that of the Daming artillery, and it only took one and a half days to blow down the city wall. The artillery is more than twice as powerful as Daming's original artillery!"

Zhou Zhong couldn't help being surprised when he heard that Emperor Zhengde used this method to measure the power of the two types of artillery, because he only knew that the Flang machine artillery was stronger than the Ming's artillery, but he could only use the speed of fire to measure the power. However, I did not expect that Zhengde would use such an intuitive method to prove the pros and cons of the two types of artillery.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong took a step forward and said: "Your Majesty is wise, although the power of the Franji cannon is lacking, but the rate of fire is extremely fast, so it can not only make up for the lack of power, but even have some strength in overall power." In addition, the biggest advantage of this kind of artillery is that it is not easy to explode, which is a huge advantage for our Daming iron quality is poor!"

The Franc machine gun was one of Zhou Zhong's great gifts to Zhengde. He naturally wanted to praise this kind of artillery, and what he said was true. I believe that with Zhengde's attention, this kind of artillery will definitely be able to be used in the Ming army. It will be promoted soon.

Hearing Zhou Zhong's praise of the advantage that the Franco cannons are not easy to explode, Zhengde also nodded in satisfaction. In the past few days, he used two Franco cannons to fire hundreds of shells in a row, but the two cannons were still intact. The Daming cannons used for comparison before were worn out several times, so he also attached great importance to this advantage of the Franc machine cannons.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations to Your Majesty, our Ming army has obtained this sharp weapon, and in the future we will be able to drive the Tatars to Mobei in one fell swoop, and reproduce the bravery of His Majesty Chengzu!" At this time, Qian Ning also stepped forward to congratulate.

As a close confidant of Zhengde, Qian Ning naturally understands that what Zhengde hopes most is to establish invincible military exploits, so the Emperor Zhengde who flattered him this time smiled openly, and Zhu Houzhao said at the moment: "Qian Ning, what you said is a little bit To be more serious, His Majesty Chengzu beat the still very powerful Remnant Yuan into a cripple back then, and this allowed me to enjoy peace for hundreds of years. The unification of the northern grassland is definitely not good news for me, Ming, if I have the chance, I will definitely defeat the Tatars on the battlefield in one fell swoop, so that they will never dare to come here again!"

When Emperor Zhengde said the last word, a resolute look flashed in his eyes. Although he didn't like to deal with government affairs, and he was also very playful, he had an unusual interest in military affairs. He even wanted to lead troops to fight in his dreams. Unfortunately, After all, he is the emperor of Ming Dynasty, so he cannot leave the capital easily.Of course, the historical Emperor Zhengde finally ran to the front line of the Xuanfu without authorization, and even fought with the little Tatar prince, and even won the battle without superior military strength. Dare not to raise troops anymore, and can only do business with Daming honestly, but the current Emperor Zhengde has not yet the courage to escape from the capital.

However, although Emperor Zhengde dared not compare with Chengzu in his words, Qian Ning and Gu Dayong had the cheek to flatter Emperor Zhengde and praised Emperor Zhengde to the sky one by one. If they were disrespectful, I'm afraid they would have directly praised Zhu Houzhao as a hundred times wiser than Zhu Di, and at this time Zhu Houzhao showed a bit of intoxication amidst the flattery of everyone.

Listening to the flattery of Qian Ning and others, Zhou Zhong finally knew why history would call Qian Ning and Gu Dayong these people as sycophants. Among other things, the Emperor Zhengde listened to these people's flattery every day, and I am afraid that he would really think that he was very good at the end. It's amazing, and naturally he won't realize his mistakes. No wonder Zhengde in history is such a jerk, and he probably has a great relationship with these people around him.

In order to let Zhengde absorb less spiritual opium, Zhou Zhong suddenly opened his mouth and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, there is another gift here from Caomin, which is also of great use to the army. If it is used properly, the effect is no worse than that of the Franc machine artillery." !" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)