Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 145

(PS: The second update was delivered, the number of words is a little less, but Pure Wolf did its best.)
It is indeed a risky move to burn the list and letters to win people's hearts without authorization, but this risky move was made by Young Master Zhang after repeatedly thinking about Wei Zhongxian's mind and temper.In the decisive battle between Wei Zhongxian and the emperor's younger brother Zhu Youjian, the eunuch officials who had a better character were wise enough to protect themselves, and those with rebellious bones in the back of their heads simply defected to Zhu Youjian. Sudden death during this period, Wei Zhongxian must die!In such a critical situation, that is, Young Master Zhang will never leave to support Wei Zhongxian, advise Wei Zhongxian, work hard for Wei Zhongxian's downfall of Zhu Youjian, and even risk his life to publicly impeach Zhu Youjian-of course, in the eunuch party Young Master Zhang, who was too deep, had to do the same.But anyway, at the moment when Wei Zhongxian was most helpless, that is, Young Master Zhang did not abandon him. With Wei Zhongxian's shrewdness and small peasant character, he still couldn't understand who was the most loyal to him, who was the most reliable, and how he was willing to deal with Zhang Da Master?

In addition to supporting Wei Zhongxian's contribution, there is another reason why Young Master Zhang dared to do this, that is, no matter how bad and vicious Wei Zhongxian was, he aimed at the enemy, but he never dealt harshly with his own people, especially those who were useful to him. , the degree of jealousy and harshness is far less than that of Chongzhen.Therefore, although Wei Zhongxian, whose temper has been thoroughly grasped by Young Master Zhang, was furious, but after thinking about it in front of Young Master Zhang's weeping pleadings and rhetoric, Wei Zhongxian gave Young Master Zhang a hard kick, shouting : "Monkey boy, our family will forgive you this time! If you dare to do this next time, our family will beat you to death! Get out and tell those bastards, our family will spare their lives this time, if there is another time, our family will beat you to death!" Skin them all!"

Wei Zhongxian was persuaded here, and the gratitude in the eyes of the eunuch officials also accepted, but Zhang Yan, who was also peeping at the list, came to the door to make trouble again.Taking the opportunity of Young Master Zhang to report on the disaster relief situation, Zhang Yan called Young Master Zhang into the Kunning Palace under the pretext of asking about the resettlement of the victims and distribution of relief supplies, and asked Young Master Zhang in a low voice, "Where is the list? Here!" Looking around, there was no one there. , Young Master Zhang replied with a playful smile: "Empress Empress, I don't believe that no one secretly reported to you, have I already burned those lists and letters?"

"Don't do this!" Zhang Yan raised her brows and said angrily in a low voice: "I don't know your cunning temper? Holding that list is tantamount to holding the lifelines of the officials on that list! You Will you be willing to burn it? You must have kept the list quietly and reported it to Wei Zhongxian, saying that you burned the list, right?"

"Empress, when I got the list, I didn't even read a single word on the list, and I burned it right away - all the Dongchang Fanyu and Jinyiwei who accompanied the Weichen to search the Xinwang Palace can testify to this point." Young Master Zhang put He took a breath, and said seriously: "The Dongchang Fanyu and Jin Yiwei are both nine thousand years old's eyeliner, and I will not be so stupid as to drop my bag in front of them. I don't even know the person's name."

"Then you won't take reliable people to search the Xinwang Mansion? Don't think I don't know. By taking this opportunity, you have already placed your people in Dongchang!" Zhang Yan asked viciously .Young Master Zhang sighed, staring at Zhang Yan's beautiful eyes and said: "Queen, if you really want to be nine thousand years old, then I advise you, your level of playing tricks is still too low, and you are not suitable for it." To play conspiracies and tricks, only upright and lenient means are more suitable for you. Don’t even think about it, even if you get the list, how useful will it be? Can you interfere in political affairs? Can you show your face to form cliques? "

"I wouldn't give it to someone I trust to do those things for me?" Zhang Yan asked with a straight face and disbelief.Young Master Zhang smiled sinisterly, and replied: "Empress, I know who you are going to hand over to, but they can't, they are not the opponent of Jiuqian! There is only one person who can help you deal with Jiuqian, and that is I."

Zhang Yan's pretty face became even colder, and she hummed after a long while and said: "You have already defeated King Xin. That eunuch godfather of yours, let Ke Baba stop destroying it." Young Master Zhang also knew that the only way to help him is to let Zhang Yan give birth to a child as soon as possible and establish her status in the palace, so he immediately nodded and agreed .Mo La, Young Master Zhang said again in a low voice: "Queen, if we meet again like this in the future, I'm afraid others will become suspicious. It's better to arrange another stable communication channel."

"I've already thought about it." Zhang Yan said lightly: "After a few days, you will go to the British government to propose marriage, and ask the British government to marry your daughter to you. We will communicate through the British public transport in the future.  … things, get out!"

Zhang Weixian is indeed a rare old fox, as slippery as a loach, so that people can't grasp it. The letter king Zhu Youjian is fighting for power with Wei Zhongxian. He is obviously on Zhu Youjian's side, but he doesn't let Wei Zhongxian notice him. I have a little contact with Zhu Youjian, and I haven't found any hostility towards Wei Zhongxian in his bones-of course, this is also related to the credit of Feng Quan, a double agent of the eunuch party, so the relationship between Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Weixian is generally good. At least not publicly.But for young master Zhang, if he wants to marry Mei Qingyun, he must first obtain Wei Zhongxian's consent, lest Wei Zhongxian think that he has fallen for Zhang Weixian and doubt himself.

In order to achieve his goal, and for his parents to stop nagging and forcing him to marry a wife, Young Master Zhang thought hard for a long time, and finally came up with the idea of ​​using the power of Wei Liangqing and Fu Yingxing to persuade Wei Zhongxian. He stood up loyally and led Young Master Zhang to Wei Zhongxian to beg for mercy, saying that Young Master Zhang and Mei Qingyun went to the south of the Yangtze River together with deep feelings, and it would be inhumane to break them up.I never thought that Wei Zhongxian would agree without hesitation, and then asked Young Master Zhang with a smile: "Monkey boy, you marry a daughter-in-law and still use it to ask our family? Are our family such narrow-minded people? What's the matter? Is it because we are worried that Zhang Weixian won't take care of you?" My niece is marrying you, and you want our family to come forward to propose marriage for you?"

"I don't dare to bother my father." Young Master Zhang said respectfully, "The key is that Miss Mei Qingyun is Zhang Guogong's adopted daughter, and my boy is worried about Zhang Guogong's identity..."

"Do you think our family really doesn't know about Zhang Weixian trying to win you over with a beauty trick?" Wei Zhongxian blinked his treacherous mung bean eyes, and said with a sneer: "At the beginning, our family was worried that Zhang Weixian had no good intentions, but after the Our family has seen the matter of King Xin clearly. Zhang Weixian has no hostility towards our family, unlike Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Guoji, who only want to use Xin Wang to overthrow our family. The relationship between our family, so you can rest assured to go to Zhang Weixian's house to propose marriage, monkey boy."

"Old Man Wei came to such a judgment on Zhang Weixian. It seems that Feng Quan must have blown wind next to Old Man Wei's ear." Young Master Zhang muttered in his heart, but thanked him without words.However, Wei Zhongxian said casually: "Monkey boy, in about a few days, the main heroes of the Southwest and Liaodong victories will gather in the capital. When that time comes, you will go to Zhang Weixian's house to ask for marriage. Do you hear me?" Zhang Da The young master was full of confusion, he really didn't understand the relationship between his marriage and the Great Victory in the Southwest and the Great Victory in Liaodong.

In the next few days, the aftermath of the apocalyptic explosion faded away, and Young Master Zhang also began to free up his hands to arrange future plans.Under the repeated recommendation of Young Master Zhang, Xu Guangqi succeeded the unlucky Dong Kewei who was blown into a disability in the apocalypse explosion, and was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry; Waiting for Young Master Zhang to be promoted to governor of Jimen, we will reunite and start training the new army; then Wu Liuqi and Lu Xiangsheng jointly created the six-style bayonet and fighting tactics, and at the same time Xu Guangqi and Bo Jue also created the rifled bayonet that Young Master Zhang ordered— Young Master Zhang has a heart called poison. He skipped the straight-edged bayonet and asked Xu Guangqi and Bo Jue to make a three-edged bayonet. The most amazing thing about this kind of three-edged bayonet is that once it hits a human body, the wound will be completely dead without suturing. Unable to heal naturally, it is definitely a good tool for murder.

The knife technique and tactics of the bayonet are available, the three-edged bayonet that surpasses the times is also available, the rifled barrel and the Minie bullet are available, and they have all been put into mass production, but the flint part of the rifled gun has never been solved. The gun can only be ignited with a matchlock, which is extremely inconvenient and slow to fire. Just when Young Master Zhang was having a headache, Ming Xizong gave Young Master Zhang a big surprise.Ming Xizong, who was annoyed by the apocalypse and the big bang, went to the Royal Academy of Sciences he founded to relax. When he saw Master Zhang and Xu Guangqi and others bothering about the issue of musket ignition, he laughed and said, "A musket that doesn't use a matchstick to ignite? What's so strange about that?" Yes? There are quite a few muskets like this in my palace, and I will ask someone to show them to you right now."

"There are already flintlock guns in this era?" Young Master Zhang couldn't believe his ears.However, Ming Xizong quickly proved that his words were not lying. He asked the little eunuch to bring four muskets from his collection that could be fired without ignition—but these were not flintlock muskets, but German clocks. The revolver pistol invented by craftsman John Keefers in the 20s (invented between 1515 and 1517), the main principle is to use the sawtooth steel wheel to rotate, rub against flint to generate sparks, and the sparks ignite the ignition powder , and then ignite the propellant.As for whether these revolver pistols came from foreign vassals as tribute, or whether fishermen salvaged them from sunken ships and paid tribute to the court, even Ming Xizong himself didn't know.

Finally, there is a musket structure that can be fired without ignition. Although the rate of misfire is relatively high, it is still enough for Master Zhang to be inexplicably excited. gun.But Ming Xizong, a talented carpenter emperor, sneered at this, and said: "This kind of ignition structure is not good, and it is not easy to use. When I was bored, I once made a better flint musket." Then, Ming Xizong took out a musket from his sleeve as if conjuring, and pulled the trigger at a place where no one was around. The spring rattled, and sparks spewed out from the muzzle of the gun, and the rate of blind fire was much lower than that of the rotary Hit the musket.

The talented craftsman Ming Xizong improved the revolving ignition structure by himself, which is actually very close to the ignition structure of the flintlock pistol. He used a spring-loaded hammer, clamped a piece of flint on the jaw of the hammer, There is an anvil next to the fire hole. If you need to shoot, you pull the trigger. Under the action of the spring, the flint is hit heavily on the side of the fire door, sparks come out, and the gunpowder is ignited (that is, the percussion flintlock). ).Moreover, the process is simple and the cost is low, which is conducive to mass production.Seeing this primitive flintlock musket, Young Master Zhang was so excited that tears filled his eyes, and it took him a while to say something from his heart to Ming Xizong, "Your Majesty, in terms of craftsmanship, I firmly believe that even the Three Emperors and Five Emperors can't compare with it." on you."

"Really?" Ming Xizong happily replied, "I think so too."

(End of this chapter)