Ming Dynasty: Huddle in Beiping as Magistrate County Chapter 154 A migrant worker comesLatest URL: "Oh?"
Zhu Di immediately looked at Guo An with curiosity on his face, "I wonder what kind of firearm it is?"
Guo An replied: "Your Highness, it should be a kind of burning gunpowder made from stone powder. I still need to discuss with the craftsmen how to make it."
Zhu Di thought thoughtfully, "Is it dangerous?"
Guo An said seriously, "Your Highness, anything related to gunpowder is very dangerous. Therefore, I kindly ask Your Highness, if Your Highness becomes interested and wants to visit the gunpowder workshop, you must bring Wei Chen with you."
Go.
In addition, for the safety and confidentiality of the gunpowder workshop, you must ask His Highness to arrange for confidants..."
As he said that, Guo An subconsciously looked around, walked up to Zhu Di, and whispered: "Gunpowder is extremely powerful. If used by bad people, it can endanger the safety of His Highness and even the capital.
Therefore, I advise Your Highness that the gunpowder workshop must at least guard against the Jin Yiwei!"
Zhu Di was a little startled, looked at Guo An with some surprise, and asked: "Is it so serious?"
Guo An looked solemn, "We can't guarantee that it has not been developed. However, if it is developed, Weichen can guarantee that not to mention mere Japanese pirates, even if His Highness leads the three guards of Yanshan to attack the Japanese country, they can easily defeat it."
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Now, Zhu Di was even more suspicious, "Is Guo Qing trying to trick us?"
Guo An said helplessly: "Your Highness is aware that I have never deceived Your Highness once!"
Zhu Di nodded slightly, "That's true."
Although he often dislikes Guo An, Zhu Di's trust in Guo An is similar to that of Zhu Fu, or even more than Zhu Fu.
After all, no matter what he did, Guo An never deceived him.
Even whatever Guo An said he wanted to do, he could do it in the end.
Thinking about it, Zhu Di said: "Don't worry, Guo Qing, we will send Qiu Fu to defend the gunpowder workshop."
"Your Highness is wise!"
Qiu Fu is a simple and honest man, with a stubborn character and very bravery. The most important thing is that he is from Fengyang and is loyal to Zhu Di. Guo An is also relieved when Qiu Fu defends the gunpowder workshop.
After resigning to Zhu Di, Guo An happily found Xu Yun and Zhuang Guang, the two chief officials of the Gongzheng Institute.
Ask the two of them to go to the firearms workshop at the Gongzheng Station to separate a small courtyard and set up a gunpowder workshop.
He wants to develop new gunpowder and make sure those Japanese bandits never come back.
When they heard that they were dealing with Japanese pirates, Xu Yun and Zhuang Guang were very happy to kill twenty guards of the Yan Palace, but the whole Yan Palace was gnashing their teeth against the Japanese pirates.
So, Xu Yun and Zhuang Guang did whatever Guo An said.
A few days later.
Xu Xiang took eight large ships, as well as ten shuttle ships and eagle ships, and set out to sea again.
On the boat, there was also a bowl-mouth gun that was only one foot and one inch long and weighed only more than a hundred kilograms. As for the range, it was only a hundred meters.
Moreover, there are no sights on it. If you want to hit the target, you completely rely on experience.
But the power of the shells fired is extremely powerful. As long as it hits the ship, it can blow a big hole in the wooden ship.
Obviously, they went specifically to deal with those Japanese pirate ships.
After looking at this mini artillery, Guo An's eyes widened. With this kind of artillery, why should he worry about the Japanese pirates coming again?
Seeing this, Zhu Di told Guo An another thing. From the 10th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty to the 19th year of Hongwu, Japanese pirates would plunder Goryeo every year.
Every time Goryeo was plundered, it was a large-scale robbery involving more than fifty ships. If you could win, you would attack the city and plunder. If you couldn't, you would escape and change places, or plunder villages!
Therefore, all the Japanese people are bandits!
Kou's instinct has penetrated deep into their bones.
Nowadays, a Li Chenggui has risen in Goryeo, who can repel those Japanese bandits.
However, the Japanese bandits could not plunder Goryeo, so they could only come to the Ming Dynasty...
Guo An's expression was solemn. He understood Zhu Di's worries. The six hundred Japanese pirates were probably only a small part of them.
Therefore, the development of gunpowder was stepped up.
As the fishing fleet led by Xu Xiang went to sea, a month later, the Japanese pirates came again.
Fortunately, the fleet was fully prepared this time. Even if the number of Japanese pirates doubled this time, they were repulsed again and more than 500 were killed.
As for the guards on the fleet, twelve of them died.
Regarding this, Zhu Di was happy but also a little distressed.
"Guo Qing, these Japanese pirates are really a scourge. If we catch a sea fish once, not only will we get nothing, but we will also injure more than ten soldiers, and then we will give out tens of thousands of taels of silver in rewards and pensions."
"Your Highness, within this month, the amount of money sold from the sea fish caught by the fishing fleet has been close to 20,000 taels of silver, hasn't it?"
Guo An said with relief: "Therefore, Your Highness did not lose any money. However, it is a pity to lose these soldiers."
Zhu Di felt better, then changed the topic and asked through gritted teeth: "Guo Qing, when will the kind of gunpowder you developed be successful?
These Japanese pirates dare to come to our fishing boats again and again to cause trouble. I really want to lead the Yanshan Guards to ambush in the sea and kill them all in one fell swoop!"
"Your Highness, forgive me, it will take some time!"
Guo An replied with a straight face.
A trace of regret flashed across Zhu Di's face.
At this time, Li Wang walked in from the outside and reported to Zhu Di with a happy face: "I am reporting to His Highness King Yan that there is a man from Tao Yiping and a man named Yang Ting who claims to be a descendant of Tao Wanhu.