Emperor Chongzhen actually knew for a long time that he was ordered by Lu Xiangsheng to ask this question, so he was not surprised at all and had already prepared.

He heard him say to Zheng Zhilong: "I have learned that Jianlu wanted to open sea routes because of the destruction of the Shanxi merchants. If you destroy Jianlu's navy, you will lose the hope of Jianlu's sea routes, and instead force Jianlu to try all his ways by land routes. I don't want to see this."

Speaking of this, he saw that Zheng Zhilong seemed a little confused, so he explained in detail: "At present, the army on the Ming continent, to be fair, if the field is in battle, the strength of Jianlu is still stronger. But on the sea route, the Jianlu Navy could not compete with the Ming Navy. Therefore, in order to reduce losses, I hope to consume Jianlu's national strength on the sea route."

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he couldn't help but suddenly realize: "Your Majesty's meaning is to ensure that Dongjiang Town is rebuilt, so that Jianlu feels that my Ming navy is not very strong. As long as they work hard, they may be able to defeat my Ming navy. Just hold Jianlu like this, so that Jianlu can consume their limited supplies on the navy?"

Emperor Chongzhen laughed and added to him: "Don't forget that if Jianlu had a ship, he could still trade with illegal merchants in the Ming Dynasty. This is also a major factor that tempted Jianlu. In addition, I will let Jianlu know that the coastal defenses along the Ming Dynasty were slack. If the Jianlu Navy was strong enough, he might be able to cross the sea to invade the pass."

Speaking of this, he concluded: "As long as I give Jianlu enough reasons, I believe Jianlu will go to their navy."

"So that's the case, I understand!" Zheng Zhilong nodded quickly when he heard this, "This is called using one's strengths and attacking the enemy's weaknesses. When Jianlu understood that there was actually no hope at the sea, they had already squandered a lot of supplies, right?"

"Yes, the time spent can also make my Ming army stronger." Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile, "My army is being rebuilt, and it is time to lack. When Jianlu wakes up, I believe that my army is already strong enough!"

In fact, a key link in this plan is that Wu Zhong is the factor.

Although Emperor Chongzhen could not know whether Wu Zhong had rebelled at this time. But I don’t know that after Wu Zhong set foot on land, he would have seventy-two changes from Sun Wu Zi. Because of the existence of eavesdropping seeds, he could not escape his Five Finger Mountain.

As long as you master the Wu Zhong link, you can send fake information back to Liaodong, seduce Huang Taiji, and influence his judgment, so as to allow Jianlu to consume resources on the navy.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen actually had another plan and did not tell Zheng Zhilong because there was no need.

He looked at Jiangnan, who resisted the verification of the exemption of officials and gentry limits. He had a lot of money and silver at home but still wanted to arrears of taxes? If there was such a person, let Wu Zhong visit him.

For the sake of profit, such a person dares to fight against the court, and he will definitely not be able to resist the temptation made by Huang Taiji. If he has big business to do and big profits to make, he will not believe that such a person will not take the bait.

As long as he got on Wu Zhong's ship, he would become the second merchant of Shanxi. Emperor Chongzhen didn't mind and would kill pigs again.

In Wuying Hall, the king and his minister were happy. But suddenly, Zheng Zhilong's face disappeared again, and he showed a hint of worry and said, "Your Majesty, although this plan is good, I think there are still details that are inappropriate!"

"Oh, what is the inappropriate detail?" Emperor Chongzhen asked with a little strange when he heard this.

Zheng Zhilong heard this and hesitated a little, but he quickly replied: "Your Majesty, the Mo General has a little reputation on the sea. Therefore, the Mo General is worried that the people on the Jianlu side have heard of the reputation of the Mo General. If they know that the Mo General is led by the navy, they will definitely know that with the strength of the Liaodong Jianlu, no matter how they are, they will never be my Ming Dynasty opponent!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but smile.

Zheng Zhilong was the pirate king of this period. It was he who unified all the pirates and included them under his command and wiped them out without accepting them. In this way, he could earn more than 10 million yuan in silver by just issuing the flag within a year. If Emperor Chongzhen did not consider this detail, it would be strange!

When Zheng Zhilong saw the emperor's smile, he thought the emperor was a little dissatisfied. He felt that he was bragging for him, so he quickly explained: "Your Majesty, it's true. There are even Koreans in the fleet under the Mo General. In Korea, Japan and other places, if their ships want to go south to do business, they must have the agreement of the Mo General. This... The Mo General's meaning is that although Jianlu is in Liaodong, he may still hear of the reputation of the Mo General. Even if the Mo General guarantees that there is no possibility of leakage on the Navy, if the Dongjiang Army goes ashore to join the war, it is very likely that the news will be leaked. It is the Mo General who leads the Navy."

"Zheng Qing misunderstood!" Emperor Chongzhen heard this and smiled, "Of course I believe your statement, but it doesn't matter. If the Dongjiang Army joins the war, even if Jianlu knows it at that time, it doesn't matter."

Speaking of this, he remembered something and said to Zheng Zhilong with a smile: "Let's go, follow me to the three camps and let you see something."

The emperor's idea was full of imagination. He was just talking about Jianlu, so why did he take himself to the Three Camps to see things in a blink of an eye? Zheng Zhilong was a little puzzled, but since the emperor had already said that, he had no choice, so he immediately followed the imperial guard to the Three Camps.

He did not look at the three camps under the Imperial Horse Supervisor before when he was in Jinan Prefecture. Therefore, this time, he walked into the military camp with the Imperial Veteran and naturally took a good look.

Needless to say, Zheng Zhilong could see the elite of the three major camps at a glance that there was no need to compare the local army, which was much better than the bandit army under Governor Lu's command.

According to common sense, this is certain. After all, those thieves were surrounded and annihilated by the three major camps.

However, during the period when Zheng Zhilong stayed in Dengzhou, he saw with his own eyes that the bandit army had undergone great changes under the training of Governor Lu. Therefore, he thought at first that it should be similar to the three major camps.

However, unexpectedly, the result was still not as good as that. It was obvious that while the bandits' army was improving, the three camps did not rest, and were also making progress.

Zheng Zhilong was watching silently while walking, and he also discovered several unusual ones, at least in Fujian, who had never seen them before.

It was the car that the soldiers of the Panshi Camp were training, with various shapes, and there were artillery on it. Some were advancing quickly, and some were connecting the cars quickly to make a defensive posture. The mix of cavalry, chariots and infantrymen opened the eyes of Zheng Zhilong, whom he saw for the first time.

It is rarely seen in Fujian in the training grounds of the Cavalry Camp. Teams of cavalry soldiers are organized, charge, harassing, or practicing riding and shooting, etc.

Finally, he followed the Shengcai to the training place of Yongwei Camp, where most of them were practicing long-range weapons. Teams of soldiers, even spearmen, had bows and arrows. When they saw them inserted their spears to the ground, they shot out all the arrows in the quiver in just a short time. There was no need to be accurate, only speed was required.

Zheng Zhilong saw that there was a feeling of a rain of arrows covering the sun. Seeing the arrows in front of these soldiers filled with dense arrows, he could feel that if the enemy wanted to rush into the snorkeling, he would at least suffer a lot of casualties.

However, on the way, Zheng Zhilong could also estimate that such training consumed a lot of supplies every day. It seems that the emperor spent a lot of money to train a strong army that could fight against Jianlu.

As he looked, he almost realized that the emperor had stopped.

Following the emperor's eyes, he saw about ten teams of soldiers from the Yonggu Battalion, each with ten people, shooting "bangbang".

At the beginning, because of the smoke of gunpowder, Zheng Zhilong couldn't see clearly. But he always felt that something was wrong.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew away the rising smoke, and he suddenly realized that it was indeed wrong, because these soldiers were not holding a coercion gun, but self-generated musket!

Speaking of this self-generated musket, Zheng Zhilong, as the pirate king of the Ming Dynasty, naturally, someone has contributed it to him.

He has played with it, but he thinks it is not practical and the cost is too high, so he doesn't care.

But when Zheng Zhilong saw this, he immediately felt that this self-generated musket was different from what he had played with. These ten teams were always soldiers and took turns to shoot, almost achieving uninterrupted shooting. You can imagine that if the power of this self-generated musket was as powerful as that of an excellent mesh rope gun, how could the enemy on the opposite side rush over? The arrow rain over there was always a stop, but the shooting of this self-generated musket could not stop for a long time!

At this moment, he immediately remembered that if he was equipped with these self-generated muskets on the warship, such as this, wouldn’t it be much easier to kill and damage the enemy at once and then go on the war to jump to the war?

The soldiers who were training were all under the command of Lu, the general general of the Yongwei Battalion. Emperor Chongzhen nodded at him.

So, Lu Da immediately issued a military order to stop the training of the soldiers who were shooting and stand in line. A special person also brought the targets in the distance.

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said to Zheng Zhilong: "These are self-generated muskets improved by Bi Qing in the Military Affairs Bureau. I call them flintlock rifles. The power has met the requirements in "Ji Xiao New Book", and there is no fuse, and the ignition rate is about 80%. You can go over and see the power of this flintlock rifle by yourself."

Bi Maokang's improvement was mainly on the bolt. In fact, the most important part of the flintlock rifle is the bolt.

The flintlock rifle that Zheng Zhilong saw was quite different from what he had offered to him before. Needless to say, he was very surprised.

While being extremely happy, Emperor Chongzhen poured a basin of cold water on him: "The most difficult thing about this kind of flintlock rifle is that the main spring on this bolt must have sufficient force to ensure the possibility of sparks after firing. I would rather build this flintlock rifle slowly than ensure the success rate of sparks when firing. Therefore, the current output of these flintlock rifles is still very low."

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Because he knew that if the yield was not high, he would definitely not be equipped with a navy for him.

Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen continued to say to him: "However, I can allocate three hundred self-generated muskets to Lu Qing, one hundred of which are used for training and the other two hundred for war. When the output of this flintlock rifle will increase in the future, I will be equipped with all the troops, whether it is the army or the navy."

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong was delighted. Before he could speak, Emperor Chongzhen said again: "I just lack time. As long as I can hold down Jianlu and give me more time, this kind of flintlock rifle can be built more, and the strength of my Ming army can be stronger."

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he finally understood that the emperor's purpose of bringing him here was not to give Governor Lu three hundred flintlock rifles, but to let him see with his own eyes and give him more time to improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

After understanding this, Zheng Zhilong immediately said that he would definitely give Jianlu hope.

In fact, this is indeed necessary for him to deeply understand. Only in this way can Zheng Zhilong grasp the degree of this when he fights with the Jianlu Navy in the future.

Afterwards, Emperor Chongzhen asked someone to bring something and a ball framed by a vine. Zheng Zhilong took a look and probably realized that it was also a gunpowder weapon. However, he didn't know what it was.

I heard Emperor Chongzhen introduce him to him: "This thing is the enemy recorded by Song Qing, the Kaiwu Department, in "The Heavenly Works of Kaiwu", which is very useful in the battle to defend the city in the north. I will let them test it for you. Let me see if it can be used for the same gang jump battle after the warship is approaching?"

When Zheng Zhilong heard that there were good things for him, he immediately became expectant. After seeing what happened to this enemy of ten thousand people, he was immediately overjoyed and told Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, this enemy of ten thousand people can be used. After the two ships approached, let the powerful man ignite the enemy of ten thousand people and throw them onto the opponent's ship, which will not only kill the enemy, but also greatly reduce the morale of the enemy."

"Oh, that's good!" Emperor Chongzhen said happily when he heard this, "then you think about whether you need to improve this enemy of ten thousand people in view of what you think. I will ask you to change the military battle situation and give you some trials."

This is to rely on the big tree to enjoy the cool air. If you are a pirate yourself, you might do these things. Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed and quickly agreed.

So, when Zheng Zhilong returned to Dengzhou, he brought three hundred flintlock rifles, fifty thousand enemies, and ten flintlock rifles instructors, that is, soldiers from Yongwei Camp, back.

By the time he returned to Dengzhou, it was already mid-February of the 13th year of Chongzhen. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen learned through eavesdropping seeds that Wu Zhong from Liaodong, with his men, left Jinzhou by boat and came to the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!