Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 799 The Emperor's Daughter Worries About Getting Married
Chapter 804

Because of Huan Wen's involvement, the Jin Dynasty would never attack Wei State without resolving the unstable factor of Huan Wen.As for the Northern Han Dynasty, Ran Ming has no good solution.

Now the Northern Han Dynasty is completely different from the arrogant Xianbei people in the past. They don't meet the Wei army at all. As long as the Wei army goes north, they will move their family northward.

This is simply an unsolvable problem.Although Wei State has recovered its strength, it is not the best time to destroy the Northern Han State.

Ran Ming asked, "How is the new navy warship doing now?"

As for the Gupta Dynasty, Ran Ming wanted to move them a long time ago.But facing them, there are thousands of warships. With the combat power of the five-tooth warships, especially in the vast ocean, there is too much room for detours. Using the tactic of killing elephants with too many ants can completely consume Wei Guo. Not a strong navy.

Now Ran Ming is the prince of Jian Guo, and as Ran Min's health is getting worse and worse, he is getting closer and closer to the date of enthronement.For the battle of the Gupta Dynasty, it may be the last war that Ran Ming can fight in person.

Wang Meng said: "Seventy-eight new flying fish-class warships have been built, of which the three battalions of the Navy and Marine Corps have a total of 78 and have been training for a year and a half."

Although the five-tooth warship has a very cool name and impressive power, it was also the main battleship in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but the five-tooth warship is not a perfect warship.At least in Ran Ming's opinion, the five-tooth battle flag has many shortcomings.The first is seaworthiness. Since the five-tooth warship was developed from traditional warships (building ships), and the traces of inland river ships have not been eliminated, the five-tooth warship has adopted the traditional flat-bottomed, tall, but the center of gravity is unstable, and it is very difficult to meet a storm. easily subverted.

This is just bullying that the Eastern Jin Dynasty has no ocean-going warships, and it is also bullying their navy's rigid combat thinking.However, once the expedition to the Gupta Dynasty, tens of thousands of miles away, the chance of encountering a storm is very high.Ran Ming was afraid of a bad start and lost three points before the battle.That's why Ran Ming proposed the navy's main battleship idea, which is fast, flexible, and powerful enough. In terms of these performances, the shipyard's technicians led by Wei Meng and Xie Fei invented the Flying Fish warship.

The flying fish warship is actually an enlarged version of the flying shear ship, but it is not completely a flying shear ship. In addition to the speed of the flying shear ship, the Flying Fish-class battleship has a displacement equivalent to 370 tons in later generations. The crew of the entire ship is 650 people, including 77 auxiliary soldiers (including sailors, oarsmen, helmsmen, etc.). There are 33 soldiers (including heavy crossbow shooters, light and heavy crossbow shooters, and melee jumping soldiers), of which [-] are craftsmen (repairmen, doctors, pilots, psychological counselors, etc.), and the command system includes (auxiliary A total of [-] people, including Lieutenants of Soldiers, Lieutenants of War Soldiers, Combat and Marching Sima, Training Staff Officers, and Military Judges, etc.

As for the weapon system of the Flying Fish battleship, because the artillery test has not been successful, although Ran Ming knows the manufacturing principle of the artillery, he doesn't think much of the power of the solid artillery. Had to adopt the improved version of the heavy ballista.Although the ballista is called a cannon, its firing principle is completely different from that of a trebuchet. The trebuchets made in China are projectiles, and their functional efficiency is very low. It has to be admitted that in the same period of history, the power of Chinese trebuchets It is far inferior to the ballista of ancient Greece, especially the accuracy of the ballista, even the eight-ox crossbow is daunting.

As far as the technical complexity of ballista is concerned, in the eyes of modern people, it is no less than that of making artillery. However, Ran Ming only proposed the concept of ballista to Ma Ying, Wei Meng, etc., especially the concept of spring torsion group. Ying, a first-class craftsman who made crossbows based on family traditions, was greatly inspired. He replaced the ancient Greek bronze springs with refined steel, which greatly increased the power of crossbows.Especially the heavy ballistas loaded on the Flying Fish battleship, although each ballista weighs more than 30 catties, it can accurately fire stone bullets weighing [-] catties to a distance of [-] steps, and the radius of error range is not large. More than [-] meters.

The effect of this kind of ballista is much better than that of the trebuchet, which made Ran Ming want to cancel the equipment of the trebuchet in the flying fish class, so the whole ship is equipped with 72 heavy ballistas. Or gunpowder bombs, incendiary bombs.At the same time, 46 improved eight-ox crossbows were also equipped.The tension of these improved eight-ox crossbows has been increased by [-]%, and the accuracy has been greatly improved.

It can be said that a flying fish battleship can completely beat three five-tooth warships in terms of firepower. Even if such a flying fish battleship encounters an artillery battleship equipped with only six-pound cannons in the 78th century, it will not be a disadvantage.However, the cost of this flying fish-class battleship is too expensive. With the addition of weapons and equipment, the cost of one ship is as high as [-] gold. These [-] battleships cost more than half of Ran Ming's nine years since his rebirth.

Hearing Wang Meng said that the preparations are over, Ran Ming now has the confidence to challenge the Gupta Dynasty.

In the Imperial Palace of Ye City in the Great Wei Dynasty, a graceful woman leaned against the window lattice, holding a satin cattail fan, with a line of cursive on the cattail fan, the woman looked at the word, smiled at the corner of her mouth, and said to herself: "If I become nothing from now on, what will I do?" This pair of fans can be bought for a good price! I really can’t see why these words are so valuable?”

This woman is none other than the luthier that Ran Jingwen bought in Chang'an back then. Who knew that this luthier was Ran Min's daughter.

By chance, Ran Min met Tong Tang, and a scene of father-daughter recognition was inevitable.After Ran Min and Tongtang met each other, Tongtang was named the eldest princess of Chang'an.More than [-] households in Chang'an County were assigned to Princess Chang'an.

After meeting each other, Tong Tang's marriage made Ran Min worry.

Even though Tongtang is the eldest princess of Chang'an, as the emperor's daughter, she is also worried about marrying.The first is the age of Princess Chang'an. Tong Tang is already 26 years old, and she is three years older than Ran Zhi. There are quite a few unmarried people at this age in later generations, but she is definitely the best among old girls in this era.As an older eldest princess, there are quite a few people who are willing to be the emperor's son-in-law for the sake of wealth and honor, but this Tongtang has the blood of the Hu people. In this era, the issue of blood is very real. Non-Han family Miao descendants are not allowed to be the main wife, it is iron rule.

The children of the aristocracy looked down on Tongtang, an older princess who was not born in the same family, and Ran Min looked down on ordinary small families, which made Ran Min very anxious.

For Tongtang's marriage, Ran Min had a lot of banquets for the ministers. The ministers who are usually qualified to go to court are at least officials with five senses and above. Officials at this level will be equivalent to the hall level in later generations, and they can do it at the age of 30. Officials at this level are considered young and promising, not to mention the fifth-rank officials in the center, there is absolutely no one who has not married and established a career.

Naturally, Ran Min's plan to take advantage of this opportunity to recruit a husband-in-law fell through.

On this day, Ran Min invited Ran Ming into the palace to give a lecture.After some greetings, Ran Min asked Ran Ming to sit down.

Ran Min murmured, "Huang'er, now that the court of the Great Wei Dynasty is depressed, what can Huang'er do?"

Ran Ming is actually thinking about this issue too, power is like an addictive poison, as long as you hold power, who will give it up.There is no such thing as a retirement system in the Chinese era. Basically, officials are working until they die of old age.In fact, there is only one case for retiring from old age and returning home. If something goes wrong in office, it is synonymous with taking the blame and resigning.However, these old guys have rigid thinking, which is not conducive to Ran Ming's reform plan.But when it comes to personnel issues, Ran Ming never interferes.But Ran Ming is a smart person after all, how could he not think of what Ran Min meant.Ran Ming also vaguely felt that Ran Min's purpose was not in this, but to find a husband for Tong Tang.

However, there are no vacancies in these official positions, so it is impossible to find another person. Redundant officials are easy to appear, and it is difficult to manage them.

Ran Ming thought for a while and said: "I have an idea, you can use the imperial examination to select scholars, no matter whether the scholars are ordinary or not, the amount is applicable."

Ran Min said: "Is this like what you did in Qingzhou?"

Ran Ming bowed and said, "Father sees you!"

A look of doubt appeared on Ran Min's face. The imperial examination selection method is not suitable as a magic method to break the gentry's monopoly on talents. It's just that the imperial examination selection method, the selected talents are a bit unsatisfactory.In fact, neither Ran Min nor Ran Ming realized why only mediocre people were selected in the imperial examination.

This point is the problem of the opposing class of the gentry and the common people. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was the heyday of the gentry's clan politics, and it was also the period when the conflict between the gentry and the common people was the most violent.If the gentry had a banquet with the common people, the gentry would think it was an insult to them.However, the talents that Ran Ming passed the imperial examination were branded with Ran Ming's brand. If they were to be pushed down rashly, he would offend Ran Ming.So the gentry officials began to deal with those officials of the common clan, and some people acted as the guides of corruption for these officials of the common clan. Many officials of the common clan and poor families fell under the attack of sugar-coated shells. Once they broke the law, especially after they obtained evidence of corruption and bribery, they would turn their faces and be ruthless, so those officials selected by Ran Ming through the imperial examination system were dropped one after another.

The key is that Ran Ming never went deep into the officialdom in his previous life, so he didn't know the truth about it.As for how many officials are innocent, as long as someone advocates for them, builds momentum for them, and covers them up, these officials are capable and virtuous ministers, otherwise they are incompetent and greedy officials.After doing these things, Ran Ming once thought that poor families could not cultivate excellent talents.

Marriage pays attention to the right family. There may be examples of a prince marrying a Cinderella, but it is absolutely impossible to see it in China.Not to mention princes, how many of the high-ranking children will marry Cinderella.Similarly, it is too rare for a rich girl to marry a poor boy.There are not many examples in the 5000 years of Chinese history, which are almost like winning a 500 million grand prize.Ran Min also thought that Ran Ming's proposal was to recruit talents from poor families. This was not to increase officials for Wei, but to find a husband for Tongtang in the name of increasing officials.

"The emperor is worried about marrying" is no joke, especially after Zhenguan, Li's princess has become a scourge.

Ran Min was very displeased, and Ran Ming suddenly realized when he saw Ran Min's expression.Ran Ming said: "Father, can you ask the eldest princess what she wants at this time? Does she have a favorite candidate?"

Ran Min was taken aback, he had never thought about such a thing.The order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, isn't this the ancient Chinese marriage union model?
Ran Ming sighed and said: "Sister Huang has been living among the people since she was a child, and she has suffered a lot. She is used to seeing the warmth and coldness of human relationships. The world is cold and cold, why doesn't the father leave the matter of marriage to the emperor?"

Ran Min smiled slightly, then took a sip of tea, and said, "That's right, I owe Tong Tang too much. Tong Tang told the queen more than once that she doesn't want to marry. Now that the emperor mentions this, I'm afraid he already has a crush on her." selected."

Ran Min was very happy to solve his heart disease.Seeing that Ran Ming seemed hesitant to speak, he asked, "What else is there for the emperor!"

Ran Ming took out his own memorial, handed it to Ran Min and said: "Father, please open it. In the third year of Kaiyuan, Kai Development Company paid 76 and 59 gold for Wei through ocean trade such as Nanyang Development Company, but In the fourth year of Kaiyuan, there was only 52 gold, and in the fifth year of Kaiyuan, there was only [-] gold!"

(End of this chapter)