"Mini Eji, you said that the great emperor gave my unborn child the title of county king..."
Cewang Alabutan wore a python robe of the Ming Dynasty prince, bowed behind the American lady Anu, and walked step by step by the Xuanwu Lake beside the back garden of Shunyi Palace, even though Anu was only ten years older than him. His name is "Mini Eji", which means "my mother". He is really a filial son. If his father Seng Ge's soul in heaven knew about it, he would definitely be extremely happy.
Anu has been "trained" very well by Zhu Heji in the past two years. It is obvious at a glance that she has a body that is easy to gain weight. Of course, such a body is much better than the bean sprouts that can be blown away by the wind, but it can also easily develop into a fat man laterally, especially since Anu has given birth to two sons and one daughter. If the control is not good, then the Holy Scroll will be gone... So Zhu Heji asked Da Boling, who is also prone to obesity, to work out with her, and personally formulated a strict diet and fitness plan for them both. . Both of them have good foundations, have certain martial arts skills, and are both heroines who can wear armor and go into battle. So I was able to practice it, and I still maintain a good figure now. It belongs to the level of "fat but not greasy", plump but firm.
At this moment, Cewang Alabutan, who was following Anu, saw the back of his stepmother and sister-in-law, and he felt a little...missing his wife Ahai. Ahai and Anu are biological sisters. They are also fat but not greasy, and their faces are even prettier!
Before Cewang Alabutan left the Karasha Khan court, his wife Ahai was already pregnant with their second child. However, the birth of a son or daughter is not known yet, but Emperor Zhu has already been granted the title of Prince of Turpan County. No matter how you look at it, this is a bit outrageous!
Anu coughed lowly, waved her hands, and followed her several Mongolian maids, bowing and taking a few dozen steps back. Anu then turned around and looked at the heroic son left by Seng Ge. In terms of military capabilities and political skills alone, Cewang Alabutana far surpassed Galdan. It's just that Galdan is a great lama and has the blessing of divine power, so he can suppress Cewang Alabutan... but he failed to suppress him in the end.
But no matter how powerful Cewang Alabutan was, in the palm of Emperor Zhu Da's hand, no matter how he turned, it was useless.
Only that fool Galdan thought he could rely on the support of the Yellow Sect and the Mongolians' longing for the Genghis Khan Empire to fight against the Celestial Emperor... He didn't even look at the fact that Burni's grandfather was both Genghis Khan and the Golden Wheel. Now that he is the Dharma King, isn’t he still a wanderer? Then Burni had already invaded the city of Beijing, but in the end he just followed the Ming Emperor honestly?
And I... can't escape from the palm of the great emperor!
Thinking of this, Anu's face became hot, and he quickly calmed down: "Cewang Alabutan, let me ask you, do you think the Great Emperor is your father, and are you a minister of the Great Emperor? Is the land under my brother’s jurisdiction the territory of the Celestial Empire?”
Cewang Alabutan was stunned, "Mini Eji, of course I am a minister of the great emperor, and of course our Junggar tribe is a vassal of the Celestial Dynasty."
Anu breathed a sigh of relief: "In that case, let me tell you why the great emperor gave your unborn second son the title of Turpan County. He is trying to extend his favor!"
"Tweet favor?" Cewang Alabutan was a little confused.
Where is the grace?
Anu smiled and said: "The so-called extension means that the emperor distributes the land and population controlled by the princes and kings to the sons of the princes and kings as equally as possible... In this way, a large princely country can be divided into several small ones. The vassal states. This is naturally not a favor to the king or the prince of the large vassal state. But it is a favor to the other sons of the king who have no right to inherit the throne and land."
"But which king and prince can agree to this?" Cewang Alabutan asked again.
Anu laughed and said: "Nothing is better than destroying the country! If Galdan had agreed to give part of the land and population to you three brothers, why would we be in such a mess today? Cewang, Galdan is the reincarnation of the gods and Buddhas. If you always follow the rules, you will inevitably become arrogant and almost bring disaster to all of us. You lost your father when you were young and have experienced ups and downs. You should know that the world is difficult... You will not be like Galdan. Wouldn’t it lead to genocide for us Oirat people?”
Cewan Alabutan is of course not Galdan. He is a mortal body of flesh and bones, and Galdan is a "demigod".
"Mini Eji," Cewang Alabutan bowed to Anu, "please tell the great emperor that Cewang Alabutan will never imitate Uncle Galdan, and Cewang Alabutan is willing to give part of the land to the people. Son...Cewang will also make them loyal to the Celestial Empire forever and guard the border for the country!"
This is what Anu was waiting for, and he immediately smiled and said: "Cewang, you asked me to help you say bad things about General Ling before, but I didn't say it for you. So you haven't offended him yet, and we can still get along with him in the future.
By the way, you don’t want to put your palace in Karashaer. Go back to Yinli. That is the territory of Prince Yinli... Don’t think about opening up new territories and guard your territory. Land people! "
The Yinli Anu mentioned is not exactly the same thing as the Yinli in Xinjiang in later generations. The Yinli she mentioned covers the entire Yinli River Basin, even the Balkhash Lake (Lake Balkhash), plus a part of Chu A vast area of river basin land. Its western territory is close to the territory of Xiqing Suiye Mansion!
For Cewang Alabutan, being able to preserve this vast territory and pass it on to the descendants of Junggar is already powerful enough. If he wants more, he is afraid that he will lose everything!
Anu's tone became a little sad, "As for Galdan...you don't have to worry about it. If he repented, the emperor would not kill them all, including Yeerqiang, Kashgar, and Khotan." The land is reserved for him to raise lamas. If we really want to deal with him, General Ling will send troops."
"Cewang Alabutan understands!" Cewang Alabutan bowed again.
.......
In the Imperial City of Nanjing, in the shooting range behind Wuying Palace, someone was shooting with a gun at this time.
"Bah..."
With a crisp gunshot, a bullet made a big hole in the head of a human-shaped wooden target one hundred and fifty steps away.
"Okay! Grandma is really a sharpshooter!"
The person who applauded after the bullet hit the target was Su Zhanyang, who had just made the great merchant Jizhou Marquis. The one who fired the shot was Su Zhanyang's stepmother Ye Yuling. The look of admiration on Su Zhanyang's face... was definitely not flattery, it was admiration from the bottom of his heart!
After Ye Yuling heard his applause, she let out a burst of laughter like a silver bell: "Ayang, you are also an army officer with a professional background. How come you were deceived?"
"Deceived?" Su Zhanyang was confused, "Auntie, what are you talking about? This kind of musket is not accurate at hitting a target fifty paces away. What you just hit was a target one hundred and fifty paces away. Ah, your marksmanship is simply amazing!"
Zhu Heji was standing next to Da Boling at this time. He immediately reached out and took the flintlock gun from Da Boling's hand and threw it to Su Zhanyang. He said with a smile: "A Yang, you'd better see for yourself!"
"This is..." Taking the rifle thrown by Emperor Zhu, Su Zhanyang only glanced at it and was immediately stunned, "Is this a rifled gun?"
Because he found four spiral riflings at the muzzle of the gun.
"But my mother-in-law reloaded quickly. She didn't hit the stabbing bar with a hammer, she just poked it lightly..." Su Zhanyang still shook his head.
Of course he had played with rifled guns. Rifled guns appeared even earlier than flintlock guns, so early rifled guns all had match ropes. Although the accuracy of rifled guns is much higher than that of flintlock guns, due to the problem of air leakage when firing rifled guns (in fact, smoothbore guns also have the same problem), significantly smaller projectiles cannot be used to avoid serious air leakage when firing. , causing the projectile to be unable to obtain sufficient thrust.
Larger projectiles are easy to get stuck in the rifling, so it is very laborious to load. When the projectile gets stuck, you have to tap the stabbing bar lightly with a hammer - this is also very dangerous. If you are not careful, it will It will knock out sparks and ignite the gunpowder.
Therefore, the rifled guns of this era faced difficulties in loading, and the problem of extremely slow rate of fire could not be solved.
For this reason, rifled guns cannot become the muskets equipped by line infantry. It can only be issued to a small number of skirmishers with excellent shooting skills.
Su Zhanyang just watched the bullets being loaded into the large glass with his own eyes. She didn't put much effort into it. She quickly stuffed a round of fixed ammunition into the muzzle of the gun and tamped it down with a purge bar.
This is obviously loading a musket!
But what he holds in his hand now is clearly a rifled flintlock gun!
Is there something weird about this rifled flintlock gun?
Thinking of this, Su Zhanyang quickly picked up the flintlock rifle and studied it carefully.
As soon as I researched it, I immediately researched the way out!
Because he found an inscription on the wooden butt of the gun - Tianyi Shang, Jizhou Hou Supervisor.
Obviously, this is a rifled gun passed down from the Shang Dynasty...it's so chronological.
Moreover, this gun was made by the Jizhou Marquis of the Shang Dynasty.
The title of Marquis of Jizhou seemed quite familiar to Su Zhanyang. When I think about it more carefully, it seems that the person I have just been conferred is the Marquis of Jizhou!
"Master Qi, Auntie, what is going on?" Su Zhanyang looked at Zhu Heji and Ye Yuling in surprise, "This gun can't be passed down from the Shang Dynasty, right?"
Of course it's impossible. If the Shang Dynasty had such a gun, why wouldn't King Wen of Zhou and Jiang Ziya ask King Zhou of Shang to be shot?
"Hahaha!" Zhu Heji laughed again, "Ayang, what are you talking about? How could this gun be from the Shang Dynasty? Does it look like it has been buried in the ground for more than two thousand years?
Let me tell you, this is a Dagong seven-year rifled gun made by Nanyang Firearms Factory in Foshan. It has just been put into production and the troops have not been distributed yet, so you have not seen it. "
"But what's going on above..." Su Zhanyang thought for a while and then changed the question, "No, why is the rifled gun loading so fast? I just watched my mother-in-law loading."
"Ayang, you'd better take a look at this."
Ye Yuling smiled and took out a strange-looking bullet and handed it to Su Zhanyang.
Su Zhanyang took the bullet and took a look and found that it was a cone-shaped bullet. The bullet was made very finely. There were several grooves on the bullet body and there was a cork stopper on the butt of the bullet.
Then, Su Zhanyang took this strange-looking bullet and put it on the muzzle of the rifle and made a gesture.
It is indeed a size smaller, so it should be easy to fit in.
"The bullet is smaller, but won't it leak?" Su Zhanyang immediately asked the question.
"It's not leaking," Zhu Heji smiled and took the question, "Ayang, didn't you see the wooden plug at the bottom of the bullet? This wooden plug is inserted into a groove behind the butt of the lead bullet. Just press it hard. By lowering the stab strip, the bullet will expand a little, just enough to block the barrel of the gun. Wouldn't the sealing problem be solved?"
"That's right!" Su Zhanyang immediately felt a sense of enlightenment, "Isn't the problem of holding one's breath solved? And the smaller bullets must be easier to load... Now the problem of difficulty in loading rifled guns is gone. !
Mr. Qi, with this gun, my soldiers will be invincible... I can hit whoever I want from now on! Even if we take a taxi all the way to London and Paris, it will be no problem. "
This Su Zhanyang's heart is so wild that he has already thought of going to London and Paris to shop for zero dollars.
Zhu Heji shook his head and said: "Ah Yang, now is not the time to fight against London and Paris... Our top priority is still in the New World. That is the key to our long-term rivalry with the Westerners!"
Although the Ming Dynasty now has advantages over the West both militarily and economically, it is now an era of extremely inconvenient transportation. The Ming Dynasty's superior troops simply could not be sent to Europe, and Europe was also unable to deploy enough troops east of Malacca.
Therefore, this contest between East and West is expected to continue for a long time!
The key to determining the outcome of the struggle between East and West in the future will be the resources and living space of the New World.
Su Zhanyang became happy when he heard this, "Master Qi, do you mean to distribute these rifles and corks to the Yin merchant soldiers in the New World first?"
Zhu Heji nodded: "Ah Yang, I have already prepared 5,000 Shangfang-made rifled guns and 300,000 rounds of fixed cork bullets, as well as some spare barrels and molds for producing cork bullets. There are also lead materials. Take these with you when you go to the New World. As for how to use them, you must listen to Zhou Peigong.
This kind of cork bomb is still kept secret to this day. Not to mention Westerners, even few people here in Ming Dynasty have seen it. So it must be used at the most critical moment... In the New World, you and the Westerners will have a big battle to fight! "
At this point, Emperor Zhu's tone had become very serious: "The Westerners will give in easily in Malacca, but they will never give in easily in the New World, because that is the foundation for their European prosperity. So you must have Let’s fight the Westerners. We must be determined to beat them up and scare them!”
Hearing this, Su Zhanyang seemed to know his true mission, and he puffed up his chest and said to Zhu Heji: "Don't worry, Mr. Qi, my child will definitely make great achievements in the New World!"
Zhu Heji patted Su Zhanyang on the shoulder and said, "Ayang, do your best. I'll be waiting for your good news in Daming!"
