Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

"If you can clearly see people and objects dozens of miles away, what a wonderful feeling that would be!"

As soon as he said this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly remembered that the guy in front of him had later made a telescope and installed a telescope on a bronze cannon, which greatly improved the hit rate.

You can do it!

With this guy here, there's hope for my eight-fold scope!

"If there is nothing blocking it, it is possible to see that far. Not to mention twenty miles, you can even see the moon in the sky clearly."

He said it lightly, but to Bo Jue it sounded like thunder.

"What the dean said is true!"

Bo Jue is an astronomy enthusiast, and he became even more interested when he heard that he could see the moon clearly.

"Of course, I am the emperor, and I never joke."

“What methods and tools can be used to achieve this?”

Zhu Youxiao tapped on the glass that served as the battery casing with his fingers.

Said: "Lens combination."

Although today’s glass craftsmanship cannot be compared with that of the past, it is not uncommon for the Ministry of Industry.

Bo Jue came from the Ministry of Industry and was naturally familiar with glass craftsmanship as he was interested in it. He even rubbed glass by hand.

But he had never heard of this term and was a little confused.

"What is a lens?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "This glass is actually a kind of lens. A lens is a nearly transparent material that allows light to penetrate."

Bo Jue's eyes lit up: "I have seen it! Through some glass mirrors, we can magnify the objects behind it and project them into our eyes."

"Yes! This is the refraction phenomenon that occurs when light passes through a spherical lens."

"It makes things that originally look small at a very far distance magnified and projected into our eyes, so that we can see distant things more clearly."

After all, he was a talented person in this area. Bo Jue understood everything immediately. The more he listened, the brighter his eyes became. He immediately bowed and said:

"Thank you for your guidance, Dean. I have suddenly realized something. I will go and do the experiment now. Goodbye!"

Before I could reply, the other person had already run away.

Zhu Youxiao quickly reminded him, "Pay attention! The material of the lens is also critical. Try a few more!"

Watching him disappear in a moment, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile and shake his head.

People who have achieved something should be able to get into work mode anytime and anywhere!

It feels good to work with such people.

"Wei Daban!"

"The old slave is here!"

"I will use one million taels from my treasury to establish the Shanhe Innovation Award to reward the major innovative inventions of the teachers and students of Shanhe Academy."

"According to the order!"

The people from the academy present were overjoyed upon hearing this and thanked him in unison.

"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao continued, "Wei Jinyu has made great contributions in inventing the generator and telegraph. He will be awarded 10,000 taels of silver individually! The research and development team will be awarded 5,000 taels of silver."

Wei Jinyu, Mr. Zhao and the other three assistants were overjoyed and bowed together: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!"

Zhu Youxiao then warned: "Wei Jinyu, I hope you will guard against arrogance and impatience, and keep up the good work to make the telegraph smaller and the communication distance longer!"

Wei Jinyu replied solemnly: "I will definitely go all out and make a higher breakthrough as soon as possible!"

"Okay, you guys continue to be busy. I will go to other colleges to take a look."

Next, Zhu Youxiao visited other colleges and encouraged the teachers and students.

In the evening, after the farewell banquet, Zhu Youxiao and his party set out on the journey back to Beijing.

The weather has turned cold, and white snow is falling suddenly.

He looked up at the sky, stretched out his hands to catch the falling snow, and couldn't help but say softly: "It's snowing!"

Wei Jinyu was in the farewell team, watching Zhu Youxiao and others gradually disappear in the snow.

She couldn't help but think of the person who once played with her in the snow.

"I don't know how Shi Lang is doing now..."

Chapter 469: Yanni Gorge

At the end of September in the eighth year of Tianqi, a cold wave hit during the Little Ice Age.

The cold air came earlier and more violently than in previous years.

The first snow has just fallen in Qi County, Henan Province, which is extremely far away in the northeast.

Further north than Nugandusi is the coldest eastern Siberia, which is now covered with thick ice and snow.

The only things that add a touch of green to this white world are the forests of spruce and pine trees.

Even in such a forest, the branches are covered with thick white snow. The white color on them merges into one with this world of ice and snow. At a glance, it seems boundless and extremely magnificent.

The snow has stopped but has not melted, and is well protected by the cold weather.

The snowfield here is right next to the ice sheet of the Bering Strait. It is sparsely visited by people. Even the blind bears hide away for hibernation. The whole place is white and silent.

The eagle circled in the air, as if it had discovered something, and let out a cry, startling the sky and the clouds.

----

A few breaths later, hundreds of riders suddenly appeared from the south of the forest and galloped eastward.

Ta-da-da-da...a dull sound of horse hooves rang out, breaking the tranquility of the snowy field.

For a moment, the snow was covered with dust, and a road three or four meters wide was trampled out on the flat snowfield. The horse hoof prints on it looked like small waves on the snow.

The three hundred riders drifted towards the Bering Strait ice cap like a black cloud.

The leader of the team was Dorgon, who was fleeing in Liaodong.

After being defeated in Liaodong and left with only seven personal guards, he fled all the way north.

However, Dorgon was worthy of being Dorgon. With only seven personal guards, he was able to capture three hundred people from the Xihai Jurchens as his subordinates.

At this time, his personal guard Guarja Kudang asked:

"Great Khan, are we really going to continue heading east? I'm afraid the journey will be long and arduous!"

Hearing this, he couldn't help but sigh:

"How could this be what I wanted?"

"It's just that Nurgandusi has now been re-controlled by the Southern Ming Dynasty, and there is no place for the Khan in the Southern Ming Dynasty anymore."

"Even here, I'm afraid I can't escape the pursuit of the Jinyiwei."

Thinking of this, Dorgon couldn't help but curse angrily:

"Damn it, that damn Jinyiwei lunatic!"

"If he hadn't been chasing me since the beginning of the year, I would have been able to gather tens of thousands of troops from the Jurchens of the West Sea and the East Sea!"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, and the louder he swung his whip!

The horse felt pain, neighed, and ran away for its life.

He continued to curse:

"Why did I let this lunatic run into me? Damn it, he's chased me for thousands of miles, and he still won't give up!"

Seeing that he was a little depressed, Kudang hurried to comfort him.

"You don't have to do this, Khan. Victory and defeat are common in the military. Khan is a hero of our Great Jin. He can create great achievements wherever he goes. When the time comes, we will lead the army to retake our ancestral home and wipe out the Southern Ming!"

"That's right! We are in a desperate situation and will soon be able to regroup, retake our ancestral temple, and wipe out the Southern Ming!"

The fighting spirit in Dorgon's eyes was rekindled.

Soon he led three hundred cavalrymen to the edge of the Bering Strait.

Kudang pointed to the endless ice field and said, "Great Khan, we have reached the ice cap of Yanian Gorge!"

“Oh…”

Dorgon reined in his horse and looked back, finally glancing towards the southwest.

His eyes were full of loss and unwillingness, like a stray dog ​​being driven out of its own territory.

Finally he gritted his teeth, turned forward, and snapped his whip.

"go!"

Following the order, he rushed out first, leading three hundred Jurchen cavalrymen into the ice field and heading east.

Half a day after they left.

It’s still that snowfield, and still the south side of that forest.

“Gee! Gee! Gee!!!”

Another group of people and horses came galloping and gradually stopped at the edge of the forest.

This group of people was much smaller than the previous Dorgon group, with just over a hundred people.

However, they were all big and strong, covered in animal skins, and riding deer instead of horses.

The two men in the lead were wearing bear skins, and they were none other than Dusha, the young chief of the Tungus tribe.

The other was wearing a tiger skin and had an embroidered spring sword on his waist.

The purple birthmark covered half of his face, but he did not look ferocious, and his eyes were full of determination and coldness.

He is none other than the man Wei Jinyu has been thinking about day and night, Shi Bowen.

Since receiving the mission to pursue Dorgon, he was the first one among the Jinyiwei to track down Dorgon.

But Dorgon was too good at escaping, and he had no time to wait for other Jinyiwei to come to support him. He could only leave marks along the way and chase after them.

We happened to pass by the Tungusic tribe on the way.

When the clan leader Duoma heard that they were going to pursue the remnant of the Jiannu army, Dorgon, he gave his full support without hesitation.

He immediately sent his son Du Sha, leading a hundred elite tribesmen, to accompany Shi Bowen in pursuit of Dorgon.

With the help of the Tungus people, Shi Bowen finally started the pursuit, otherwise it would have been difficult for him to deal with 300 people.

However, after entering Nurgandusi, he found the weather too cold, which made him very uncomfortable.

Moreover, the days here were too long, sometimes there was no night for several days, so he couldn't even tell how many days he had been chasing...

At this moment, seeing the shallow horse hoof prints on the snow, it meant that he was not far from Dorgon.

"Master Shi, judging by the weather and the horseshoe prints, it should take less than half a day for the Jiannu to get there."

"Looking at the direction, it's heading towards Yanian Gorge."

"Let's go, let's chase it!" Shi Bowen took the lead and rushed forward to catch the deer.

Although he has been riding deer for a month or two, he still finds it difficult to get used to it. If he has a choice, he still prefers riding a horse.

However, the deer is indeed faster than the horse, but the rider is shaken too much...

They continued to toss and turn, and soon arrived at the edge of the Bering Strait.

Du Sha pointed to the ice field ahead and said.

"Sir, the Yanian Gorge is ahead."

"The ice period is from September to March of the following year. Now that it has frozen over, we can cross the strait directly. Judging from the traces on the ice, the Jiannu should have already gone to the other side of the strait."

"Sir, what should we do? If we continue to chase them, we will be chased out of the Ming Dynasty. Should we continue to chase them?"

Looking at the boundless ice field, Shi Bowen was shocked when he saw it for the first time.

He also never expected that Dorgon could run so fast that he even ran to the other side of the sea...