NovelTags Chapter 168
Chapter 168
Chapter 0168 Want an excuse for the Northern Expedition? Yan King Zhu Di sent it!!
Early the next morning, Zhu Li took a large family of children to the hot air balloon base in the suburbs again.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, they have already taken a hot air balloon more than once, and they don't have the freshness of the first hot air balloon.
But the feeling of flying high is still very enjoyable and nostalgic!
Chen Youzi, this girl, is riding a hot air balloon for the first time, and she has always been quite excited, pulling Xu Miaojin to ask questions non-stop.
The main thing is that Zhu Li has been walking side by side with the old man, and when the father and son say this, she doesn't have the guts to bother.
In fact, Zhu Li also used the old man as a shield, since he saw Chen Youzi's jealous personality, naturally it was impossible to give her any chance!
Some women must be properly snubbed and kept their distance, otherwise they will give some color and open a dye shop!
Zhu Li didn't want such a thing to happen in his backyard, so he would rather not give Chen Youzi any chance to fantasize!
Even when riding in a hot air balloon, it was Zhu Li and Zhu Yuanzhang father and son who sat on one, and the other female dependents took Zhu Yuanqiu to sit on the other!
The disappointment in Chen Youzi's eyes was obvious.
She also wants to ride a hot air balloon with Zhu Li!
But she didn't have the guts to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang for a position!
Moreover, Concubine Zhou and Xu Miaojin are all with her, even if she has grievances in her heart, she can't say anything!
She had a feeling that Zhu Li seemed to be deliberately keeping her distance, except for the day of the candlelight night in the cave room, Zhu Li also stayed in Xu Miaojin's room for the past two nights, and did not come to her at all!
In fact, this is normal, Bi Xu Miaojin is the right wife!
The eldest wife's stomach has not moved, how can it be her turn as a little wife?
However, the grievances were only temporary, and when the hot air balloon slowly lifted off from the ground, Chen Youzi was immediately attracted by the scenery in front of him!
Watching herself fly higher and higher with the hot air balloon, slowly overlooking everything in the distance, the spectacular feeling has deeply shocked her, how can she think about other things?
On the hot air balloon on the other side, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Li's father and son were also chatting.
"Fight Mobei, where do you think you should start?"
"The business between Varabu and Hanzhong has been quite hot recently!"
"If you let the sons choose, it is most appropriate to take the Tatar department first!"
"If the Tatar Ministry can just send a reason for Daming to send troops, it will be even better!"
Zhu Li26 pondered for a moment and then spoke his thoughts.
Since Zhu Di swept the north and surrendered the Northern Yuan imperial lieutenant Nai'er Buhua, the Tatar Ministry began to rise, and now the overall strength of the Tatar Department is still stronger than the Walla Department!
Whether it is the Vara or the Tatar Division, it is a remnant of the Northern Yuan!
And the reason why Zhu Li chose to do business with the Vara tribe, not the Tatar tribe, was to balance the power between the two tribes.
And now the Watt Ministry has business with him, but the Tatar Ministry does not.
Taking the Tatar part is undoubtedly the best choice!
In other words, if he can destroy the Tatar department, it will be easy to solve the Tatar department!
With the relationship between the Varabu and the Hanzhong side now, if Tatar is destroyed, then there are two possibilities!
One is to rely on this relationship and want to fall to the vermilion oak, and the other is to have a cold lip and want to resist!
These two possibilities are not single, the Walla Department is so large, as long as there are different sounds inside, it will aggravate the tearing of the Tile Thorn Part, and they can easily disintegrate from the inside!
Zhu Li told Zhu Yuanzhang these thoughts bluntly.
"Well, you have a point!"
"The Vara Master is unknown, but it is much simpler to start from the side of the ministry!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded thoughtfully.
The main thing is that there is the existence of Zhu Li and his Hanzhong army here in the northwest, and the Varabu is not to mention how weird it is now!
In addition, Vara is now doing business with Hanzhong, and he can rely on war horses or cattle and sheep to exchange resources with Hanzhong Mansion, and he is not afraid that life will not go on!
Especially after the Western Regions were defeated, the cavalry of the Varabu disappeared directly from the Daming border!
This is the deterrent power of Han King Zhu Li!
In this case, if Zhu Li wants to directly mobilize troops against Wala, it is inevitable that he will be nameless!
People are so well-behaved, why are you embarrassed to do it?
On the contrary, the Tatar side will have to jump more!
Although Beiping Prefecture has Yan King Zhu Di guarding the town, there will still be traces of tartars operating on the border in the past few years, and from time to time they will go south!
Zhu Yuanzhang is also more inclined to use the Tatar Department to open a breakthrough!
"If you take the Tatar part, then you can't bypass the territory of the third and fourth!"
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, then opened his mouth to remind Zhu Li.
To attack the Tatar department, it must be from Shanxi and Hebei to the north, which is the territory of the Tatar department!
Unless the Varabu dares to directly let Zhu Que's Hanzhong army pass through their hinterland and then attack the Tatar Army, this is obviously an impossible thing!
"Is Father Emperor worried about Fourth Brother?"
Zhu Li immediately understood what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.
With Zhu Di's arrogant character, how could he not intervene in the Northern Expedition?
He, Yan King Zhu Di, has always been guarding Beiping Mansion, facing the Tatar tribes!
The name of Hehewei left by the King of Yan when he swept the north has now faded a lot, if Daming wants to march north, but directly bypasses him, the King of Yan, who has made great achievements in Mobei, is it not equivalent to making him lose face?
"Let's not worry about this bastard!"
"According to the character of this bastard, even if you don't let him go, he will definitely go!"
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but snort coldly!
What he was more worried about should be that Zhu Di might trip Lao Jiu!
When Zhu Li heard this, he didn't say anything more.
He didn't care about Zhu Di, in fact, now he didn't have to put Zhu Di in his eyes at all!
In the face of absolute strength, all intrigues and tricks are just paper tigers!
Soon, the two hot balloons also returned to the ground.
Chen Youzi took a hot air balloon for the first time, her little face was full of excitement, and she looked a little unfinished.
"Sister, if my sister wants to take a hot air balloon on weekdays, can she come over and sit?"
Chen Youzi asked Xu Miaojin.
"Naturally, it's no problem, you just need to say hello to Butler Yuan and order him to arrange it!"
Xu Miaojin nodded with a smile and said.
"How boring is it to sit alone?"
When Chen Youzi heard this, his eyes couldn't help but glance at Zhu Li on the other side.
Obviously, she would prefer to sit alone with Zhu Li once!
Xu Miaojin naturally saw Chen Youzi's expression in his eyes, and immediately felt helpless.
"Sister, Your Highness is too busy on weekdays, sister I also have to take care of the business of the textile factory, or when we have time, let's come together!"
Xu Miaojin persuaded Chen Youzi.
If Chen Youzi pestered her, it was nothing, what she was most worried about was that this girl didn't know how to bother Zhu Li, then the matter was really a big deal!
"Okay then!"
Chen Youzi nodded with some disappointment and agreed.
Xu Miaojin was relieved.
Fortunately, although this girl is greedy for fun, she should still know the proportions!
Then the other problems are not a problem.
"Your Majesty, eight hundred li urgent!"
At this moment, Jiang Ying suddenly came in a hurry and sent an urgent piece of information in his hand to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Where did you send it?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his face changed slightly.
Eight hundred li expedited is not commonly used, unless there is any emergency, it must be sent to the emperor as soon as possible, and then it will be used to expedite eight hundred li!
"Datongfu!"
"A total of two eight-hundred-li urgent, one sent to Yingtianfu, and one was sent to your side!"
Jiang Ying explained.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't ask more, now the others are in Hanzhong Mansion, this is something that everyone knows, if there is urgent information at the border gate, in addition to sending it to the center of the imperial court, he, the emperor, must also send a copy over!
"Father, what happened?"
As soon as he heard that it was an eight-hundred-li rush sent by Datong Mansion, Zhu Li's heart suddenly moved, and he stepped forward and asked.
"See for yourself!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang read the urgent information in his hand, he directly handed it to Zhu Li.
After Zhu Li took the information and looked at it twice, his face suddenly became strange!
The Tatar army gathered 50,000 cavalry to loot the towns around Datong?
If you really want to sleep, someone will send pillows!
He was still telling Zhu Yuanzhang just now, if only the Tatar Ministry could send a reason for the Northern Expedition, but he didn't expect it to be sent to him immediately!
"It's not normal!"
"It's already spring, and these tartars have just gone south to hit the grass valley, which is a bit abnormal!"
Zhu Li turned his head to look at Zhu Yuanzhang and reminded.
"Yes, at this time, Tatar will also go south on a large scale, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who we didn't expect, nodded thoughtfully."
Generally speaking, when the tartar goes south to hit the grass valley, it will be chosen after the autumn harvest and before the winter!
Because they want to spend the winter, they all come to grab the winter materials, and when they finish robbing, they go deep into the desert, turn around and run!
And it is about to enter winter, even if Daming wants to pursue, but also take into account the weather factors, the winter in the Mobei grassland is full of snow, and it is not suitable for making a big move at this time!
But after this spring, it seems very abnormal to go south to hit the grass valley!
When the Daming army was angry, it was not impossible to chase them all the way back to Mobei!
The brains of this Tatar people are in the water?
Beiping, Yanwangfu.
As Zhu Di guessed before, this time Yao Guangxiao went deep into Mobei and really waited until after the beginning of spring to come back!
However, it did not disappoint him, Arutai, the leader of the Asut tribe, gathered 50,000 cavalry to attack Datong south, and fought and ran, and had already retreated without giving Daming's side time to react!
"Monk, good job this time!"
"King Ben will fold the son and ask for a greater victory!"
Zhu Di was thinking of marching north as soon as possible at this moment, and this time let Yao Guangxiao lobby the people of the Tatar department to go south, isn't it an excuse for a famous division?
Since the last sweep of the north and surrendered Nai'er Buhua, the Tatar Ministry and Zhu Di have maintained a warm relationship.
To put it nicely, they are trading with each other, each taking what he needs!
To put it ugly, it is that he Yan King Zhu Di raised Kou with self-respect!
Even if Zhu Di had the ability to directly cripple the Tatar Ministry, he would not do so!
The existence of the Tatar Department can make his Yan King Zhu Di enough to be valued by the imperial court, and it is best to go south from time to time to invade the border, which can even more highlight the role of his Yan King's existence!
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Li felt that it was wrong for the Tatar Ministry to go south at this time was because it was the result of Yao Guangxiao's lobbying in Mobei!
It's just a play, and they and King Yan have cooperated more than once, naturally it is quite tacit understanding!
Going south, not only can they grab what they need, but Zhu Di will not really bite them, even if they want to fight.
However, this time, the Tatar Ministry was directly sold by Zhu Di!
They probably didn't expect that Zhu Di didn't plan to act, but wanted to fake the drama and take advantage of this opportunity to destroy the Tatar Ministry in one fell swoop!
Now Zhu Li has laid down the Western Regions, making Zhu Di like a cattle in his throat!
Zhu Di thought of also taking the territory of Tatar, at least on the bright side, he could still compete with the King of Han!
So the two twists and turns of sending troops to the north departed from Beiping Fu and were sent to Hanzhong and Yingtianfu respectively!
"King Ben doesn't believe that this time the old man can still endure and prevent us from mobilizing troops against Da?"
Zhu Di looked at the messenger who was speeding away, and his face showed a smug look.
He thinks that this scene is seamless, and he will definitely achieve his goal soon!
A few days later, Hanzhong Mansion.
"Father, the first batch of mortars has been made, and the sons and daughters are going to try the power today, do you want to go and see it together?"
When Zhu Li returned to the palace, he smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang, who was writing about the plan to move the capital.
"Huh? So fast? So what are you waiting for, hurry up and take us over! "
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately stood up excitedly!
Then the father and son left the Han King Mansion directly and came to the shooting range in the suburbs, where Zhu Li specially prepared to train the soldiers to use flintlock guns, when the father and son came, the Hanzhong Army generals who had been equipped with the first batch of flintlock guns were practicing shooting accuracy in front of the target!
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the flintlock guns in the hands of the soldiers, although he felt that it was novel, but the 470 was similar to the fire bolt in the end, and it was not too unusual.
After a brief visit, Zhu Yuanzhang urged Zhu Li to quickly take him to try the mortar equipped with the wind!
Soon, in an open field, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a row of twenty mortars that were ready.
"Just such a small thing? Is it as powerful as you say? "
"Isn't this a little bigger than your flintlock gun, and it's much smaller than the Shenwu cannon."
Looking at the mortar in front of him, which was only the thickness of an arm, Zhu Yuanzhang asked a little speechlessly.
The main thing is that this thing is too small, and I really can't see how powerful it is!
"Father, this mortar is different from the Shenwu cannon, the most important thing is the shell, not the barrel!"
When Zhu Li heard this, he explained confidently.
Saying that, Zhu Li directly took out a mortar shell from the small wooden box on the side!
"This is a cannonball?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the so-called cannonball with a pointed head and a strange tail in front of him, and his eyes widened in surprise.
"That's right, it's too easy to make mortar launch tubes, and the real trouble is the shell itself, but it took a lot of effort to produce it!"
Zhu Li nodded and explained.
In order to be able to manufacture mortar shells, Zhu Li also specially bought several machine tools and equipment in the system mall, after all, this thing relies on the current industrial system of the Ming Dynasty, it is no problem to manufacture it, but the efficiency is too low!
Without professional equipment, you may not be able to get a few in a month!
And now the several professional machine tools prepared by Zhu Li can ensure the productivity of at least 10,000 shells per month!
Getting three hundred shell casings a day is not a problem at all.
In addition, the ratio formula of gunpowder!
"How do you use this thing?"
"How far can this little thing hit?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the mortar shell in Zhu Li's hand and asked with a curious look.
"The longest range of this mortar is about three thousand meters!"
"The distance is set according to the angle at which the gun body is fired!"
"Father, you see, there is still a ruler on the body of this cannon, and the scale has been drawn!"
"Adjusting the angle here means that the range is the maximum three thousand meters!"
"This scale is..."
Zhu Li then began to explain to Zhu Yuanzhang about popular science.
Although the power of this 80 mm caliber mortar is not great, it is absolutely crushing the existence of any weapon in this era!
The effective radius of destruction of mortar shells is about 25 meters.
"Don't say so much, hurry up and let's see the effect!"
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately urged Zhu Li.
Anyway, he doesn't have to go to the battlefield himself, he doesn't need to learn so carefully!
"Then Father Emperor will see!"
Zhu Li replied with a smile, then adjusted the angle of the mortar, aimed at a target five hundred meters away, and directly put the mortar shell in his hand into the muzzle!
Rumble!!!
After a loud bang, Zhu Yuanzhang's whole person was stunned on the spot!