Daming: Dad, you are really not good at governing the country

Chapter 329 Look, someone is waving a flag in the sky
The Lan Cang envoy said in disbelief: "Just now, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that the range of the three-bow crossbow can reach at least one and a half miles.

But as far as I know, the human eye can only see things within 100 steps at most.

Even if an archer's eyesight is much better than that of an ordinary person, double that is only 200 steps.

How do you calibrate the target if you want the three-bow crossbow to have a range of one and a half miles?"

In the 13th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, Mengsao merged the small Thai states of Mengzhang, Mengchuankuang, Mengzhan and others to form a Thai alliance state - Mengnanzhan.

Its territory is all in the Lancang River basin, so it is also called Lancang Kingdom.

The country stretches from the Truong Son Mountains, which later formed the boundary between Laos and Vietnam, in the east to Mengrun and Mengsu in the west.

It borders Zhenla in the south and Mengle in the north.

Regarding the establishment of the Lan Xang Kingdom, Qiong Sai pointed out in his book "History of Laos".

"The most famous fourth-generation Nanzhao king, known as Piroge by the Chinese, ruled from 729 to 749.

He left behind seven sons, all of whom were sent to rule various parts of the empire.

It is well known that Kunluo was sent to rule Mengnanzhang and became the ancestor of that dynasty, which continued to control Laos until modern times.

Other brothers were sent to rule Yunnan, Annan, Lanna, Ayutthaya, Khammouane and Xieng Khouang.

However, the actual situation is that the founding monarch of Mengnanzhang was named Faang.

He was born in Mengsao Wa in the third year of Yuan Yanyou. His father, Zhao Fajiao, was the son of King Panazhanpeng of Mengsao Wa.

Later, Zhao Fajiao offended his father and fled to Zhenla with his son.

Faang grew up in Chenla and married the daughter of the King of Chenla.

In the 12th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Faang led 10,000 soldiers given to him by the King of Zhenla back to his homeland.

He successfully defeated his grandfather and took control of Mengsaowa.

In the 13th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Faang proclaimed himself king in Mengsao Wa.

The country was named Mengnanzhan, and it unified the Laos region in later generations.

In the 18th year of Zhizheng, Theravada Buddhism was introduced to Mengnanzhang from Zhenla.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Faang was expelled and died in Nanfu.

The nobles of Mengnanzhang unanimously supported the enthronement of Faang's son Wu Hean, who was known as Sangsentai.

Because he had heard that Jin Wang Zhu Gang had killed more than 200 monks in the "Yixing Case", the envoy of Mengnan believed that the Ming Dynasty intended to destroy Buddhism.

In view of this, the envoy of Mengnan, who had preconceived ideas, was the first to question the range of the three-bow crossbow.

Zhu Biao saw that the other party openly questioned the Ming Dynasty's level of military equipment manufacturing when seeing it with his own eyes.

He did not show any anger. "Please look up to the sky. I believe you will find the answers you want soon."

When they first spotted the large spherical aircraft floating in the air, all the envoys from the vassal states who were holding single-cylinder refracting telescopes showed an almost dazed look on their faces.

“It looks like there’s someone waving a flag up there!”

Following that empty cry, other envoys from vassal states holding single-cylinder refracting telescopes also discovered Liang Jing who was flying the hot air balloon.

Today's improved hot air balloons can accommodate up to 16 people.

The driver is in the middle, and the rest of the space is divided into four grids, each of which can only accommodate four people.

You can imagine sixteen people standing in the basket of a hot air balloon. The space available to each person is actually not very large.

However, faced with the huge temptation of flying, all participants showed great enthusiasm.

Considering safety issues, Zhu Gang only allowed Liang Jing to bring eight people to the spacecraft each time.

After training new hot air balloon pilots, Liang Jing is now basically responsible for communicating with ground troops through flag signals. Putting down the single-cylinder refracting telescope in his hand, Zhu Gang sighed.

“In fact, the best time to fly a hot air balloon is when the sun has just risen or one hour before it sets.

The wind is relatively calm at this time, and the airflow is relatively stable, which can ensure the smooth flight of the hot air balloon. "

Zhu Di turned to look at Ping An, "In this case, let's hurry to the next location where the three-bow crossbow is placed.

We will follow the previous deployment and leave behind 100 plate-armored soldiers to work with the Royal Guards to complete the final work."

Due to the usage mechanism of the "Jackdaw Arrow", it is quite similar to the shotgun of later generations.

Therefore, after the installation of the three-bow crossbow, Zhu Gang evacuated all residents within the range.

In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of the assassin, Zhu Di arranged in advance for the Jinyiwei to dress up as peddlers.

Now that the second group of assassins has been wiped out, compensation and appeasement work must be carried out for all residents within the range.

With the two bases being breached, the assassins sent by the Jiangnan Family Alliance to carry out the mission have now become frightened birds.

Especially those weakest assassins among the five groups of assassins, they all turned their attention to the leading female ninja.

As a female ninja trained by the Mochizuki family, Nakazato Kazusa not only masters powerful ninjutsu, but also has a beautiful face.

Her public identity is the leader of the Japanese dance troupe, who leads the troupe on a tour in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Nakazato Kazusa's real identity is a Japanese intelligence spy who takes advantage of the performance in Ming Dynasty to collect intelligence.

In order not to reveal their identities, female ninjas cannot perform missions in traditional ninja costumes.

Therefore, Nakazato Hesa ​​was disguised as a concubine and given to Li Ziwen by Su Zhao, the old patriarch of the Su family who had experienced many vicissitudes of life.

She thought she could get close to the other party and thus achieve the purpose of spying on confidential information and facilitating assassination.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Nakazato Kazusa's true identity was discovered by Yao Guangxiao, and she was eventually chosen as the leader of the assassins by Zhao Hu, the deputy commander of the Hidden Dragon Guard.

To prevent Nakazato Kazusa from falling in love with the target person and thus committing an act of betrayal.

There are often ninjas responsible for communication and surveillance who work with her.

If the ninja in charge of surveillance detects any possible betrayal from Nakazato Kazusa, he will kill her immediately.

Therefore, for Kazusa Nakazato, her current situation is no different from her previous life.

"Captain Zhong, something seems a little strange outside!"

Although I don't understand why Li Ziwen's concubine became the assassin responsible for carrying out the assassination mission.

However, the assassin who spoke still showed the most basic respect.

Nakazato Kazusa wrote on the note: "Disguise yourself and disperse."

After about half an incense stick of time, the place was deserted.

Only Nakazato Kazusa, dressed as a maid, was left sitting there waiting for the final outcome.

At this moment, Zhou Haomiao, the third-class guard of Longxiang Pavilion, came nearby with Zhu Jiantong.

"You said before that the assassins here are the weakest. Now you are responsible for going in and recruiting them to surrender. I will stay here to support you."

Zhu Jiantong, who had barely survived the fight between assassins, was frightened out of his wits when he heard this.

"Guard Zhou, it's not that I'm afraid of death, it's just that it's too risky to go alone.

If anything goes wrong, I wish my life would be worth dying.

If we delay the important matter of His Royal Highness Prince Jin, I am afraid no one can bear the responsibility!"

(End of this chapter)