Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 835 Your Majesty is stunned

Relying on their physical strength, horses and unique way of life, the nomadic peoples on the grasslands live by water and grass and don’t need to be trapped in one place. They settle down wherever they go.

Although the agricultural peoples have advanced production methods and their social organization structure is more perfect and reasonable than the nomadic peoples, their physical strength and combat methods make them completely at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the nomadic peoples, and they can only passively defend themselves. beaten.When the dynasty was prosperous and the soldiers were strong, they could occasionally defend and counterattack, giving the nomads a painful blow, but once they encountered natural disasters and man-made disasters, the dynasty declined or even the centralization collapsed.

It's not that the combat effectiveness of farming peoples is much worse than that of nomadic peoples, but that the innate survival methods of both sides determine that one side can attack wantonly, hit with one blow, and flee thousands of miles away; while the other side can only passively defend and be beaten everywhere.

Farming civilization, nomadic robbers, and farming people have contributed the most to the development and progress of human civilization. Nomads are attacking and eliminating farming peoples when they are weak to maximize their benefits. Farming civilization has a great impact on human history. The impact is positive, and nomads are often negative. They are too low-level, and they don't understand and don't want to produce and just want to plunder.

However, with the rise of hot weapons, especially body weapons, the offensive methods that the nomads are proud of have completely lost their effectiveness, and the advantages of coming and going like the wind and being unscrupulous have also disappeared.

With powerful and easy-to-operate barrel weapons, an untrained farmer can easily kill a Turkic cavalry who has trained hard all his life and is covered in armor...

The era of cavalry is coming to an end, and the rise of thermal weapons is unstoppable.

The "Manufacturing Bureau" test site resounded with the sound of a cannon in this world. The gunpowder exploded in the nearly airtight barrel space, releasing huge kinetic energy to push the solid shells out of the gun barrel. The solid shells were unstoppable on the soft ground. It burst out, plowed a deep ditch on the ground, and then plunged obliquely into the depths of the soil.

The craftsmen who witnessed this scene on the testing ground were stunned and dumbfounded...

What would happen if such a solid iron pellet was shot out by a cannon and fell into the enemy's camp?
What if there were ten such cannons?
What about a hundred gates?
What a fart cavalry charge, what a fart bow and arrow projectile!

As soon as the cannon fired, the enemy's bones were broken and flesh and blood flew in an instant!
The craftsmen have not yet recovered from the shock, Fang Jun has already begun to tell Wang Erxiao beside him: "Hurry up, make five bronze cannons, and strictly test them one by one to ensure that they will not explode. Then I will hand them over to you Create more solid shells, shotgun shells, and chain shells. The navy has begun to secretly investigate the pirates' equipment, personnel, and travel patterns. They will go to sea to suppress bandits in about five days. This is a good opportunity to experiment with the power of various shells. .”

Wang Xiaoer quickly nodded in agreement, keeping it in mind.

Even though he has long been familiar with Fang Jun's various miraculous methods, but now the "cannon" made by himself can have such infinite power, Wang Erxiao is still shocked and can't believe it...

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His Majesty Li Er, who is the most impatient of heat, did not want to leave Kunming Lake. Kunming Lake is vast and vast, and Yuzhang Terrace is surrounded by water.It's just that the sailors who were practicing again were all driven away by His Majesty Li Er, and they became angry when they saw their sluggish fake moves...

Sitting barefoot on the brocade couch with a mat, loosening the neckline, he took out a pear that had been chilled for a long time from the silver basin filled with ice beside him, put it in his mouth and took a bite, it was sweet and sour. The pear meat and pear juice has been sedated cold, it cools down the throat and relieves heat, and it also produces body fluid to quench thirst.

One of the pears was not finished, and the servants reported that Ma Zhou begged to see him.

His Majesty Li Er waved his hand casually, the servant left, and Ma Zhou walked in.

As a member of Zhongshushe, Ma Zhou is the "No. [-] Secret of Tianzi" next to His Majesty Li Er, so he naturally has to accompany him here to handle government affairs for the emperor.

Holding two battle reports in his hands, Ma Zhou presented them respectfully, "Your Majesty, the battle report just arrived from Huating Town."

His Majesty Li Er was taken aback, but swallowed the pears in two mouthfuls, wiped his hands with a brocade handkerchief, and said strangely: "That guy Fang Jun is fighting again? It doesn't make sense..." After thinking about it carefully, Fang Jun is now fighting Jiangnan His prestige, no one would provoke him blindly. The Shanyue people's rebellion has just been wiped out, even if it is impossible to eradicate the grass, but without a few decades of recuperation and recovery, it is impossible to play tricks.As for the pirates, a battle report has been sent a few days ago, and they won a big victory, and the amount of money and goods seized is quite considerable, but the navy should focus on training the gentry when it is first established. But it is unlikely to want to wipe out all the pirates in one brain, there must always be a gradual process.

Ma Zhou looked a little weird, hesitated for a moment, and said, "This...is not a battle report."

His Majesty Li Er lowered his face: "Didn't you just say that this is a battle report?"

The emperor was angry, although he didn't burst out, but the aura of coercion was really terrifying.For Ma Zhou, His Majesty Li Er admired and loved Ma Zhou very much. He kept him by his side and focused on training him, hoping that he could become a pillar of the country in the future.

But the more important it is, the less we can tolerate some small mistakes.

You just said it was a battle report from Jiangnan, but now you say it's not a battle report?
Ma Zhou realized his slip of the tongue, felt guilty, and said with a wry smile, "Your Majesty, forgive me, it's a slip of the tongue. But although this is not a battle report, it was sent to the capital by the head of Fang Da in an expedited eight hundred miles..."

Expedited eight hundred miles is Datang's highest-level information circulation method, and it can only be used when transmitting battle reports.Fang Jun used the method of delivering a battle report to deliver an official document that was not a battle report, which caused Ma Zhou to fail to straighten out his thoughts and make a slip of the tongue.

His Majesty Li Er's face was very ugly.

Fang Jun, this stick!

Did you start to feel complacent after making some achievements in Jiangnan?To use [-] li to expedite the submission of official documents is to act recklessly and lawlessly, and to regard the imperial system as nothing!

nasty boy...

He stretched out his hand to take the official document presented by Ma Zhou, and unwrapped the sealant with a curse: "This little bastard is really a headache! You talk about Fang Aiqing, a gentleman and sage who is so prudent, how could he give birth to a man?" Such a son of a mallet..."

Ma Zhou couldn't laugh or cry, and felt in his heart that Fang Jun's move was inappropriate, but he couldn't agree with His Majesty Li Er, otherwise, he might be misunderstood as a villain who "tricked up small reports".

He secretly observed His Majesty Li Er's face to see if His Majesty Li Er was really angry.Unexpectedly, the expression on His Majesty Li Er's face shocked him a lot!

I saw His Majesty Li Er took out the letter paper from the envelope with one hand at random, but after a few glances, the cursing in his mouth disappeared, his eyes were straight, his face was full of disbelief, and he even squeezed the letter. Paper's hand was trembling slightly...

Ma Zhou's heart skipped a beat, and he wondered if this Fang Er had caused another big incident in the south of the Yangtze River?What is it that can shock His Majesty to such an extent?

He had a good friendship with Fang Jun, and he was very worried, so he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, what did you say in the letter?"

His Majesty Li Er didn't seem to hear him, staring at the letter paper with straight eyes, it seemed that there was a beautiful "Yan Ruyu" hidden in the letter paper...

Ma Zhou secretly blamed Fang Jun, you said you just stay in Jiangnan honestly?With your identity, status, and background, as long as you can train a navy, even if you can't achieve the task of integrating Jiangnan assigned by His Majesty, it will be a great achievement. Why do you refuse to live in peace and always make troubles every now and then?
Footsteps came from behind, a little messy, obviously not alone.

The servant at the door said: "Duke Zhao, Duke Ying, and Duke Liang are asking to see you..."

His Majesty Li Er did not respond.

The waiter was sweating a little, but the emperor didn't say anything, he didn't know whether to shout again, or simply quit and tell the emperors that he was gone...

(End of this chapter)