Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Mercury fulminate is highly toxic and has poor stability.

If it weren't for Yang Xian's presence, I don't know how many people would have died just in the process of stabilizing the gunpowder.

Now there is only one minor injury and one serious injury, which is the best result.

For researchers who are injured during scientific research, the imperial court will bear all their expenses for the rest of their lives. Not only the court, but also Mingji will give a large amount of condolence money.

There is only one purpose for doing this, and that is to never make these people who have sacrificed for scientific research and national construction feel chilling and aggrieved.

So far, the four problems of metal-cased bullets, primers (detonators), propellants, cartridge cases, and warheads have been overcome.

Finally, there is one point that needs to be mentioned, and that is the production of copper sheets for primers. Fortunately, a certain industrial foundation has been laid in recent years. Otherwise, with the traditional and old handicrafts before the Ming Dynasty, it would be difficult to measure this paper-thin copper sheet. industrialization.

Now that everything is ready, the Ming Dynasty's breech-loading gun can finally be put into production.

at the same time.

Japan, Kyoto.

Ashikaga Takayoshi listened to his men's report on the latest research results on muskets, with a smile on his face.

According to this progress, Japan will be able to have its own new firearms next year at the latest.

Thinking of this, Ashikaga Nobuyoshi couldn't help but get excited.

The reason why the Ming army is so powerful is not because of these new firearms.

If both parties are on the same level and compete fairly, it’s not clear who will win and who will lose.

What Ashikaga Takayoshi didn't know was that in the great war of resistance that was recorded in human history more than 500 years ago, Japan had a completely overwhelming advantage in weapons and firepower, but they were still defeated in the end.

Not to mention that now, it is their side that is lagging behind.

In the future, a man will tell Ashikaga Takagi how ridiculous his thoughts at the moment are.

In the ten years of Hongwu, things have completely changed.

In the eleventh year of Hongwu, it was a trivial matter that seemed completely inconspicuous at first, and the curtain was drawn.

In the early years of Hongwu, almost all the princesses and consorts came from the families of the founding heroes.

Princess Anqing, the fourth princess and the second daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang, was the first princess to marry a commoner.

Her husband is Ouyang Lun.

A few years ago, Zhu Biao had a matchmaking session with Yang Xian.

When Yang Xian returned from the Northern Expedition successfully, Empress Ma asked Zhu Biao to pass a message on her behalf, saying that she planned to marry her most beloved daughter to Yang Xian.

After the celebration banquet.

With the help of wine, Zhu Biao brought up the matter.

At that time, after Yang Xian heard Zhu Biao's words, he squirted the tea used to sober up from his mouth to express to His Highness the Crown Prince not to harm me.

After becoming the princess's consort, he could not become an official. He could only live in the palace for the rest of his life and be raised like a pig.

In fact, in some ways, it's even worse than a pig.

In the Ming Dynasty, everything about the prince-in-law was strictly controlled. Even having sex with the princess had to look at the faces of the nuns who taught him. This life was as frustrating as it was frustrating.

Yang Xian said the matter tactfully.

After listening to Yang Xian's words, Zhu Biao remembered this matter.

It was obvious that this time it was not well thought out.

This is not harming Yang Xian, it is harming the entire Ming Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty cannot lose talents like Yang Xian.

And making an exception for Yang Xian alone would obviously not work, and Yang Xian was not the only consort.

Once this trend spreads, if others follow suit, it will violate Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention of setting this rule in the early days, which is to prevent the harem and relatives from interfering in politics.

The matter was settled.

Later, Princess Anqing chose her husband by herself, and she immediately fell in love with a scholar who was quite famous in Beijing, who is now Ouyang Lun.

To put it nicely, it was love at first sight, but in fact it was just love at first sight.

Male lust is also lust.

An interesting thing happened during the first year of their marriage.

On New Year's Eve of the first year, all the married sisters went back to her husband's house to celebrate the New Year. Only the newly married Princess Anqing felt that her husband's family was shabby and refused to go back to her husband's house because she was the youngest daughter of Queen Ma. She insisted on staying with her husband in the palace. Parents celebrate the New Year together.

Empress Ma, who has always been very strict with her children, persuaded Princess Anqing: "You are now a wife, so you should be filial to your parents-in-law and considerate of your husband. How they want to have a lively reunion with their new daughter-in-law!"

Faced with Queen Ma's words, Princess Anqing remained silent and tried to change the subject by acting coquettishly as before.

Seeing this situation, Empress Ma became a little angry, but she didn't show it on her face. Instead, she continued to enlighten: "You don't go back to your husband's house because you are the emperor's daughter. Although they can't say anything, they will know in their hearts. Are you happy? If we want to be fair, let’s put it upside down. When you become a mother-in-law, your daughter-in-law will be a princess. If she doesn’t reunite with you during the Chinese New Year, will you be happy?”

Princess Anqing remained silent.

In the end, Queen Ma put down the half-filled shoe soles in her hands, stood up and said, "My consort, you made your own choice at that time."

"As soon as I know the queen, I will go." Princess Anqing knew her mother's temper and knew that she had really made her angry.

Compared to Zhu Yuanzhang, Princess Anqing was more afraid of her mother.

After all this trouble, Princess Anqing finally returned to her husband's family.

But on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhu Yuanzhang was setting off firecrackers in the palace courtyard when he suddenly saw Princess Anqing and Prince Consort Ouyang Lun coming to pay them New Year greetings. Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself: Your mother sent you away last night, and you came again this morning, so he asked: "Have you paid New Year's greetings to your parents-in-law?"

Princess Anqing laughed and shook her head like a rattle. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious: "I am an emperor and I am a human being, and ordinary people are also human beings! Why don't you kowtow to your parents-in-law first on New Year's Eve, but you go all the way to the palace to worship us first?! Go! Go and pay New Year's greetings to your parents-in-law first, honestly. Just stay at home for a day to serve them, and come back tomorrow to wish us a happy New Year!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said that he went back to the study, wrote a couplet and handed it to his daughters, asking them to go back and think about it, and then kicked them out. Princess Anqing went back and opened the couplet, which read: "The sheep kneels down to breast, and the daughter-in-law respects the mother-in-law. Horizontal comment: It is natural and right." Later, this matter spread, and it was widely circulated that Zhu Yuanzhang asked Princess Anqing to enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the lunar month.

After that, the whole country in the Ming Dynasty designated the second day of the Lunar New Year as the custom for daughters to return to their parents' homes to visit relatives.

After this incident, Princess Anqing finally stopped making trouble and remained stable for several years.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that all princes-in-law were not allowed to hold actual positions because he was afraid that they would be obsessed with interests and one day be corrupt and bend the law, and he would not be able to do it.

Although this means that you cannot be an official, it does not mean that you cannot do business.

Ouyang Lun, the Prince Consort, has been feeling aggrieved in his role as Prince Consort in recent years. As a scholar, he considered himself to be as talented as others, but after being spotted by Princess Anqing, his future was ruined.

He is not Yang Xian.

As a civilian, he had no right to say no when faced with such "wealth and wealth".

Since there is no hope for his official career, for Ouyang Lun, the most important thing in the world to him is money.

In his mind, the reason why Princess Anqing disliked her husband's family was because their family had no money.

After that, because of Yang Xian's suggestion, the imperial court successively opened trade ports in various places.

Ouyang Lun saw business opportunities here, so he started an import and export trade business.

The business has been getting bigger and bigger in recent years. His temper also got louder.

In the eleventh year of Hongwu, spring begins.

Imperial Palace, Hall of Supreme Harmony.

On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a special case, because the case involved Ouyang Lun, a relative of the emperor and the current prince-in-law.

The memorial in Zhu Yuanzhang's hand was reported by the prefect of Guangzhou.

The content of the memorial is that Zhou Bao, the butler of the consort Ouyang Lun, had an argument with a political officer while drinking in Guangzhou, resulting in the political officer being seriously injured.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned.

He handed the memorial in his hand to Mao Xiang who was standing aside.

The reason for the conflict was not clearly written. If it was just a simple verbal friction, how could such a heavy move be carried out.

Besides, he is a housekeeper of the Prince Consort's Mansion. If he doesn't just stay in Jinling, why would he go to Guangzhou?

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, the content of this memorial was full of loopholes.

"The words here are vague." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

After reading the contents of the memorial, Mao Xiang cautiously said: "Regarding this matter, the Jin Yiwei over at the Guangzhou government office has come up with a secret report. The matter is not correct at the moment, and I will order my subordinates to investigate."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Whether it is true or not, first tell me what the secret memorial said."

Mao Xiang said: "The secret report said that Zhou Bao was smuggling goods at the Guangzhou Trade Port and was discovered by the political officer of the local Shipping Department. That's when the conflict broke out. Zhou Bao bullied others and killed the political officer on the spot."

Mao Xiang lowered his head and offered the secret music with both hands.

"The general is ordering his subordinates to investigate in detail. Maybe what the Guangzhou government reported is what happened."

After all, the matter involved the current prince-in-law.

And you must know that Ouyang Lun's wife is the fourth princess of the dynasty, Princess Anqing.

Princess Anqing’s biological mother is the current Queen Ma Xiuying.

The matter involves the Tian family, so even the commander of the Jinyi Guards, who has now made the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty change their minds, dare not speak nonsense.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and glanced at Mao Xiang, curling his lips.

What I'm thinking about is, when did your kid do this?

He exerted force on his right hand and folded it tightly together. His eyes flashed, he raised his voice and said, "Maybe?"

"Perhaps the Guangzhou government is protecting the Prince Consort, or perhaps they are flattering us?"

"Let the people under you take action. Be sure to find out the ins and outs of this matter." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Why are you still standing there? Go quickly!"

"Yes! I take my orders!"

After Mao Xiang retreated.

Zhu Yuanzhang called for Hu Weiyong, the left prime minister of Zhongshu Province.

He was given the same task.

That is to thoroughly investigate the beating incident of Zhou Bao, the housekeeper of the Prince Consort's House.

Hu Mansion.

Tu Jie, the political counselor of Zhongshu Province, had a worried look on his face and said: "Father, your majesty has specifically ordered you to investigate such a trivial matter as Zhou Bao, the housekeeper of the Prince Consort's house, hurting someone. Does your majesty know anything?" "

"Nothing is trivial in the Tian family." Hu Weiyong shook his head gently and said. "Although the person who hurt someone is just a servant, behind the scenes he represents the consort and the princess. It is normal for His Majesty to be more cautious."

In Hu Weiyong's view, this is just a coincidence.

Because regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, this is really just a trivial matter.

In today's Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang has many things to do every day and is busier than before. He has no time to care about such things.

However, when thinking of this matter, Hu Weiyong was still a little angry and said: "Zhu Liangzu can't even handle such a trivial matter, yet he even alarms His Majesty."

Originally, the best way to deal with the matter of Zhou Bao beating someone to death was to put things to rest.

Pay compensation if you should pay, and apologize if you should apologize.

The impact of things should be kept to a minimum.

Who knew that today's government officials are no better than subordinate officials in the past, and they are beaten to death at will.

On the day Zhou Bao beat someone to death, the government officials at the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Department were very excited and insisted on an explanation.

Even if Zhou Baoliang revealed his identity, in the end if the prefect of Guangzhou had not come to act as a guarantee, he would not even be able to leave the port at all.

But in this way, the housekeeper of the Prince Consort's house was completely committed to committing murder. So many pairs of eyes watched and so many ears heard.

Now that the matter has reached this stage, it is no longer easy to cover it up.

At that time, Daotong, the newly appointed chief official of the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Department, even threatened to go to Beijing to file a complaint.

The prefect of Guangzhou is not a fool. Could it be that he really followed the words of the reckless Zhu Liangzu and dealt with all these guys who knew the truth?

On one side is the pressure from Zhu Liangzu, on the other side is the pressure from the political officials below, and on the other side is his desire to protect himself.

Finally, the Guangzhou magistrate of the chicken thief came to the center and received such a memorial.

It was deliberately vague, but it brought this matter out.

The calculation in his mind was that he would not offend both sides, and he was not sure of His Majesty's attitude and intentions. After all, the matter involved the Prince Consort. In case Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't want to deal with his son-in-law, then his memorial is equivalent to understanding the holy will and easing the emperor's worries. At that time, not only may there be no punishment, but there may also be rewards.

To put it bluntly, even if Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude is to severely punish criminal acts, this matter will really be uncovered and dealt with one day in the future.

Upon further investigation, it turns out that he had at least reported the matter and abdicated his responsibility.

As for the situation he reported, the political officer was seriously injured, but the actual result was that he died. This is easy to explain.

He only needs to insist that when he reported it at that time, the political officer of the Municipal Shipping Department was still in the state of serious injury and treatment. As for the serious injury and death later, that was a matter later.

Inside the Hu Mansion.

Hu Weiyong pondered for a moment and made a decision.

He said: "I will say hello to the Ministry of Justice, but I don't worry about the others. Go to Guangzhou in person and watch Zhu Liangzu in person to handle this matter well. He can't make any mistakes this time."

"Yes, foster father." Tu Jie responded.

After explaining the matter, Hu Weiyong took the lead and walked out of the house.

"Father, where are you going?" Tu Jie asked.

"The Prince Consort's Mansion." Hu Weiyong said without looking back.

Guangzhou Prefecture.

Zhu Liangzu was furious about the behavior of the prefect of Guangzhou and called directly on his door. (End of chapter)