The struggle inside and outside the imperial court has reached a critical moment, and every step is very important. Historically, the Donglin Party, which took great advantage of the Hongwan case and completely dominated the manipulation of the palace transfer case, will let Wang An make a second mistake at this time? If he doesn’t believe it, he really doesn’t believe it, there must be something fishy about this matter.
Zhu Youxiao cheered up and thought about the important figures in the palace: his father, Li Xuanshi, Concubine Zheng, Wang An, Cui Wensheng...
Ah! I almost missed a key point.
The fifth brother, Zhu Youjian, is his younger brother and the Chongzhen Emperor in history.
Immediately ask the Jin Yiwei on duty to pay more attention. Sure enough, there is something wrong.
The Jin Yiwei were already good at this, and they discovered Cao Huachun under Wang An without leaving any traces, and kept introducing Zhu Youjian to the situation in the court.
Cao Huachun praised the righteousness of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others in his words, which gave Zhu Youjian the feeling that there were many good people in the civil service.
Zhu Youxiao secretly marveled, this Donglin Party can do it~
Let Wang An continue to act stupid and introduce Yang Lian's memorial in a high-profile manner in front of Li Xuanshi in Taichang.
This was a smoke bomb to attract attention, and his confidant Cao Huachun on the other side attracted Zhu Youjian.
With Wang An's little mind, he certainly couldn't come up with such a plan to hide the truth. It must be Wang Wenyan and other Donglin Party members behind it.
Zhu Youxiao felt angry in his heart, and of course he wanted to go directly and deal with Cao Huachun.
But Jin Yiwei added: "Your Highness, the situation at that time seemed to be that Cao Huachun said less and the emperor's fifth son said more."
"Oh?" Zhu Youxiao was more cautious.
"What was my fifth brother's expression like at that time?"
Jin Yiwei, who was on duty, felt relieved. If he said what was said at that time, he really didn't hear much, but when it came to his expressions, he could see them one by one.
"Back to the prince, the two of them didn't look unhappy at all."
"Well, I understand. I've done a good job of doing my duty this time. I'm just worried about someone trying to trick my fifth brother. It seems I'm a bit overly worried. I'll just keep an eye on whoever sees him and what his or her expression is. There's no need to listen to the entire conversation.
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"Yes!"
After seeing that the Jin Yiwei believed in their attitude very much, they took the order and left without anyone around.
Zhu Youxiao's heart was thundering, his expression flashed with a hint of determination and ruthlessness, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up, and his eyes were bloodshot.
He looked extremely scary, even if his close relatives saw him, it would be hard to believe that such an expression appeared on his face.
"As expected of brother Youjian!"
"As expected of Chongzhen who is decisive, extreme, and impatient!"
"As expected of you who have trusted Dong Lin. My brother wants to give you a good gift. Will you like it..."
He suddenly stopped his expression, and suddenly smiled normally. He must be deep, mature, and even as strong as steel, and he must wipe out his enemies like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
The Donglin Party's onslaught was quite powerful, so I ignored him and focused on Jin Yiwei's study and training.
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August 19.
Yang Lian was not afraid of severe punishment and directly beat the Dengwen drum and requested an audience with Emperor Taichang.
The Dengwen Drum was set up by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. It could be sounded whenever there was an important matter, and the emperor would personally summon him to deal with it.
Later, although I didn’t handle it myself as soon as I heard the news, I definitely paid great attention to the content of the report.
However, if you have nothing important to do, you will inevitably have to go to the terrifying prison.
Yang Lian was so bold that he directly beat the drum.
Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, and Luo Sigong, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, personally led people to ask Yang Lian why he was beating the drum.
Yang Lian was upright and expressed without fear that he must move Concubine Zheng to the palace and request an audience with the Holy Emperor. Qianqing Palace is where the dragon veins are located. The Zheng family lives here and His Majesty is not in the middle. It is inconsistent with the etiquette, which is an unknown sign. Please order it. The Zheng family moved to the palace.
Wang An and Luo Sigong were also on the side of the civil servants. They expressed their condolences and trotted to deliver the memorial to Ciqing Palace.
However, Emperor Taichang was seriously ill and neither wanted to personally summon Yang Lian, who was playing the drum, nor did he want to move to the palace while he was ill.
When Concubine Zheng moves out of Qianqing Palace, he will move into Qianqing Palace.
Dragging a seriously ill body for more than a mile from the East Palace to Ciqing Palace will directly accelerate the condition.
Although Taichang did not accept it, Concubine Zheng felt tremendous pressure in the Qianqing Palace.
No one outside the palace supported him, and even his nephew Zheng Yangxing had no news. Inside the palace, the prince had promised him before, but he didn't see any action. In the end, it was Li Xuanshi who communicated with her...
Zhu Youxiao saw all this and continued to direct the Jin Yiwei to drill, especially the drills to use the four Luzon heavy artillery.
No shells?
It doesn't matter, let's all train out of thin air first, and don't make any wooden cannonballs. If we really need cannonballs, the study break group is preparing.
He spends half of his time practicing this group and half his time studying this group. His recent learning tasks are the use and disassembly of muskets and the use of gunpowder and ammunition.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao and Liu Qiao arranged the heavy artillery drill, they came to this group to provide guidance.
"Your Highness, here are the best fire blunderbuss, such as bird blunderbuss, Lumi blunderbuss, son-in-law blunderbuss, thunder blunderbuss, three-eyed blunderbuss, turtle-dove foot blunderbuss, etc."
Zhu Youxiao saw various types of firecrackers borrowed by the Jinyiwei from the Ministry of War, the Military Staff Bureau, and the Tengxiang Four Guards. This team of Jinyiwei were all learning to use them and understanding their structure and ammunition loading methods.
I saw that the ammunition of various fire cannons is also different. For example, the bird cannon has the smallest bullet, which is estimated to be about 7 millimeters in later generations. The turtle dove foot cannon has the largest bullet, which is estimated to be more than 20 millimeters, which is simply the level of a small cannon.
"That's it~"
He pointed at the bullets of more than 20 millimeters for the turtle dove's leg gun, and said to the group of students: "Just start making bullets for this kind of gun in the palace, and the size should be basically the same as it."
Liu Qiao looked slightly embarrassed. Although he hesitated for a moment, he still persuaded: "The turtle-dove muskets are very expensive and very rare. There are less than 30 of them in the entire capital. It would be a waste to make so many bullets."
"The Turtle Dove Gun is indeed expensive and rare, but its bullets can be used for various trainings. Let's start building it. I have borrowed the furnace for casting bullets. The actual operation is also one of the learning tasks." p>
"Yes!"
According to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, he borrowed the furnace for making bullets from Huang Kezuan, who had served as the Minister of Military Affairs, Industry, and Punishment.
The bullet of these muskets is just an iron ball, and no lead bullets are needed.
The furnace for making bullets is not big, and the temperature does not need to be high. The mold is special, and the molten iron can be melted to make bullets directly in the palace.
After receiving the order, everyone immediately found the mold for the turtle-dove's musket bullet and prepared to start casting iron bullets.
"By the way, how many bullets does it have now?"
"Thirty rounds."
Zhu Youxiao found thirty rounds of turtle-dove-foot gun bullets, and also found hemp rope and paste. He directly wrapped the bullets with the hemp rope, and after half an hour, he made it look like a grapevine. Thirty rounds of 20 mm bullets
Stick together like grape seeds.
Invite everyone to watch the grapevine so that everyone can see it clearly, and then tie the cast bullets into grape shapes in this way.
A group of thirty rounds, like a bunch of grapes, is as wide as a standard circle, just enough to fit into the barrel of the Luzon Big Bronze Cannon.