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Chapter 15: Opening the door (1)

Seeing that the three major steps of military reform had been arranged and it would take some time to implement it, Zhu Zhi put down his work in Liaoyang and rushed back to Guangning.

It has been more than a month since Zhu Zhi left, and Zhu Zhi really missed her Guo Xiu a little. As soon as Zhu Zhi returned to the mansion, he rushed to the room without waiting for the disciples to spread it. As soon as Guo Xiu saw her husband, he was already pressed on the bed. Zhu Zhi kissed him with passion, making Guo Xiu blush and ears hot. She used her strength to push Zhu Zhi away and said, "Look at you, why are you so anxious."

Zhu Zhi smiled wickedly: "I want to die, my good Xiu'er, come on, let's do things like husband and wife."

Guo Xiu pushed his hand away again and said, "I don't even look at what time it is, I know how to make the bad things."

Zhu Zhi said: "Bad? Haha, if a man is not bad, women don't love him, I can't even care about our husband and wife's affairs."

Guo Xiu lowered his head and said something like a mosquito: "Stop moving, I, I have it."

"What, what's there." Zhu Zhi didn't recall the smell for a while. Guo Xiu buried his head in the quilt in shame, "Ah, look at me, you are happy?" Guo Xiu nodded in the quilt.

Zhu Zhi jumped up with excitement: "Is it true?"

Guo Xiu said: "I have taken my pulse for the doctor. I said it's almost three months. It's all you. When did you spend your time on the way to Liaodong?"

"Haha... I, Zhu Zhi, have children too." Zhu Zhi was excited for a moment and almost let out a word, "I mean, there is a child again. Look at me, I'm so happy that I'm incoherent."

Guo Xiu said: "Mother-in-law's advice seems to be really useful. It hasn't been heard for a year, and I'm still worried."

Zhu Zhi said excitedly: "What are you worried about? I, Zhu Zhi, is wise and powerful. This little thing is not easy." As he said that, he hugged Guo Xiu lovingly and caressed him gently. It's really not easy. It seems that after Zhu Zhi's body changes, it took him a whole year to come normally. Zhu Zhi was indescribable to be excited. This is the first child of his two lives.

Zhu Zhi immediately found his father-in-law. When Guo Ying saw Zhu Zhi's eyes were smiling in a line and said, "Congratulations to Your Highness."

Zhu Zhi said happily: "It's a blessing for Lord Taishan to raise a good wife for me."

Everyone was joking for a while, Guo Ying said, "Your Highness, I came to build a royal palace for you at the emperor's order, but Your Highness used all this money for his own way, but I don't know when the royal palace will be built."

Zhu Zhi said: "Why, Lord Taishan feels sorry for money? Haha, but I think I have to spend the money. Liaodong has a weak foundation and many places to use money. As for the royal palace, I don't think it's necessary, and it's comfortable to live in the military camp."

Guo Ying said: "That's right, it's just that Xiu'er lives in the military camp in a way that is not convenient. Besides, there will be another child now. Your Highness thinks it is..." It doesn't matter where Zhu Zhizhu is, but Guo Ying still feels sorry for her daughter and grandson.

Zhu Zhi slapped his forehead and remembered this and said, "Haha, I'm so busy, so busy. I didn't expect that Lord Taishan would forgive me for this floor. Since that's the case, please ask Lord Taishan to find a place in the city and build a house. It doesn't need to be so luxurious and practical. It's enough to live in. I think it's almost enough to spend 5,000 taels of silver. In addition, after the repairs are made, I'll have to trouble Lord Taishan to build a villa in Jinzhou."

Guo Ying said: "Your Highness does not want to be extravagant, I understand. It's just that why you have to build a villa in Jinzhou? The Japanese pirates invade frequently there. If your Highness stays there, it will be very unsafe."

Zhu Zhi said seriously: "It is precisely for this reason that I hope that the generals of Jinzhou can strengthen the military preparations of Jinzhou in order to defend my mansion. This time I walked around and felt the slackness of Liaodong's military preparations. Therefore, I have begun to reorganize the Liaodong army. Lord Taishan has been marching for a long time, so I should help me more."

Guo Ying then suddenly realized that the King of Liao had thought for a long time. But he was also a little confused. Where did the confused prince go before?

Since Guo Xiu became pregnant, Zhu Zhi was unwilling to go out and travel around, so he just wanted to stay at home and spend more time with his wife. That day, Zhu Zhi suddenly remembered that he hadn't visited Jiao Zilong for a long time, so he ran to the craftsmen in the city to see the situation.

Lao Jiao's progress is pretty good. He has created an amplified trigger connection device, but it is too big. The gun made with this thing is probably similar to a small cannon. Zhu Zhi once again told Jiao Zilong not to worry, in order to change his mind and avoid suffering. Zhu Zhi suddenly had a whim, so that he might as well make a grenade first. The ancient grenades were actually something like the "Sheng Thunder" of the Song Dynasty. They stuffed black fire and iron nails into the iron sheet, ignited with fuses, and threw them into the enemy group to explode. The Song army had played a great power in the battle against the Mongols' defense of the city.

The "grenade" designed by Zhu Zhi was an iron hollow ball with a handle inserted into it. After igniting it, it will be delayed for about ten seconds and it will be thrown out and exploded. This thing is simple in craftsmanship, and Jiao Zilong can understand it at a glance. Within two days, he tinked out three samples.

Zhu Zhi and he took it to the suburbs to test it, and found a circle of open spaces that were several meters square with wooden boards. Zhu Zhili found a low depression hidden in the fifty or sixty meters. Of course, this dangerous thing was to let a soldier do it. He lit the fuse with the fire pleats and ran over like a flying field. After a few seconds, there was a dull "bang" sound, and it was successful!

Zhu Zhi went over and saw a lot of iron slag and nails splashed on the surrounding wooden boards. My goodness, if it was thrown into the crowd, how many people would be unlucky? Next, I tried to make a long shot. The powerful soldier who had just seen was unwilling to do it. Zhu Zhi finally used both soft and hard, and finally impressed him with a tael of silver.

He was on the other side, holding the fire pleat in the back of the mound, trembling and trying to stop. Jiao Zilong cursed: "You coward, when did the things I made have hurt people? Hurry up and throw them into that circle." The soldier made up his mind, ignited and threw them into the wooden circle. After throwing them, he turned around and lay under the mound.

After a while, why didn't there be any movement? Jiao Zilong showed his head and looked at it. Zhu Zhi grabbed him: "You don't want to die." He knew how many people in later generations were killed by squins. Sure enough, with a "bang" sound, it finally exploded. Zhu Zhi said: "What's wrong? Is this lead too long?"

Jiao Zilong smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, go to Your Highness, this line is longer because it requires human testing." Zhu Zhi almost fainted. Everyone ran to the front and saw that the effect was not as good as before. It may be because the charge was too small. The iron sheet only exploded a few pieces, and the lethality of the iron sand was significantly reduced.

On the way back, Zhu Zhi said, "I said, Fengyun, the difference between these two is too big. If they are all like this, the soldiers will dare to pick it up and throw it out."

Jiao Zilong said: "Your Highness, my subordinates really don't understand how far you can throw such a small thing. If the other party was a cavalry, the soldiers would probably have been scared away at this distance."

When Zhu Zhi heard this, he said that this thing was thrown at most thirty or fifty meters. If it was used to deal with the opponent's cavalry, it would be cold. He couldn't help but feel sad. It seemed that those YY novels used to make grenades even though they kept moving, so why was it not the case when they came to him?

Just as he was depressed, Jiao Zilong said, "But there is no way. If we use the crossbow bed to launch it, it will be fine if we throw it three hundred steps."

When Zhu Zhi heard this, yes, why didn't he expect it? He could make a simple crossbow. As long as it had enough elasticity, it was thrown far away, and the cost was low. Zhu Zhi was so excited that he grabbed Jiao Zilong and shook wildly: "Fengyun, Fengyun, you are such a genius." Jiao Zilong looked at the prince depressedly, but he didn't dare to move. The prince's strength was so strong.

Zhu Zhi asked Jiao Zilong to be tired of studying muskets, so he might as well do the design of the bed crossbow. This thing is quite useful when he thinks of it: "You must be careful that this bed crossbow cannot be too bulky, as long as it can hit 400 steps." Zhu Zhi considered that more than 500 steps can be bombarded with cannons, "grenades" can be bombarded with three to 300 to 150 steps, and two or three rounds with muskets within 150 steps. Damn, how many people can pass such a wonderful firepower configuration. Zhu Zhi imagined this bloody scene, his eyes were shining. Who can withstand such fierce firepower in this era, and who can, the Mongolians, Jurchens, or Zhu Di's Yanshan cavalry? Haha, you're going to kill you.

"Your Highness, this money has been spent almost the same amount. You see, if you want to continue to study these, you have to buy the materials, and the carpenter has to recruit some..." Jiao Zilong interrupted Zhu Zhi's crazy idea inappropriately.

Zhu Zhi stared at Jiao Zilong with his eyes and slapped him in the head: "Don't pick up any pot without opening it, how much does it cost?...What?! Five thousand taels!! Don't run away, stop for me, are you corrupt? The money I gave last time was spent so quickly... Come back..." Even though that said, Zhu Zhi still sent Jiao Zilong three thousand taels of silver.

Seeing that he had to spend money everywhere, Zhu Zhi could only think about how to make money. Why is it so easy for those YYs to make money? Or he wasn't diligent enough. Zhu Zhi thought about it, but had an idea and went into seclusion in the big tent.

Half a month later, Zhu Zhi ordered Yu Yi to recruit all the big merchants in Guangning to the military tent, saying that they had something to do. The prince was destined, but no one dared to refuse. There were only four families in Guangning City who were qualified to be called big merchants. The masters of the four families were sitting in the big tent at this time, and everyone was thinking about what the Liao King sold in the gourd.

"I said, I heard that the King of Liao sent more than 10,000 newly moved people to Gaizhou and spent 20,000 taels of silver. The King of Liao treated the people like his son." said a one-eyed man.

"Yes, but at this critical moment, could it be because I used too much money and wanted to ask us to donate some?" a fat man replied.

"It's another donation. The 5,000 taels of silver borrowed by Liaodong Dusi last year have not been paid back. The business is not easy this year, and I have no money." A businessman with a white-faced scholar looked like a businessman.

"Okay, Wanda Rich Man, who has no money in your family? Do you dare to say no? That's why you think of us." The man in Qingyi, who was sitting at the door of the tent on the left, said. Look at me, I look at you, suddenly stop talking, drinking tea, and making small plans in his heart.

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