Zhu Gaochi seemed to have been pulled out of his soul all of a sudden. Suddenly his eyes became moist. He just heard him whisper: "This...it's not my fault...it's my fault...it's you who wants to harm people and my family Anshi..."
Just then... the door to the hunting house opened.
But Deng Jian, who was waiting outside, heard the noise and quietly opened the door a crack.
When Deng Jian saw the scene inside, his legs became weak with fear.
Zhou Jing had fallen into a pool of blood.
And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince huddled in the corner and trembled, muttering intermittently: "If you die, no one will know about An Shi. I... have no choice but to..."
Deng Jian seemed to understand something.
He fell silent.
Then he walked silently to Prince Zhu Gaochi, took the arrow from Zhu Gaochi's hand, then went to Zhou Jing's body and pierced another arrow.
Deng Jian pulled out the arrow and pierced his calf with the arrow.
"Uh..." Deng Jian screamed, sweating like soybeans.
He ignored this and pulled out the arrow from his calf. He limped to Zhu Gaochi, endured the severe pain and hunched over and said to Zhu Gaochi: "Your Highness, the Prime Minister of Yingtian Mansion."
Jing was so audacious that he actually intended to assassinate His Highness. He injured the slave first, and then the slave fought back vigorously and finally killed the beast. Your Highness, you... are shocked."
Only then did Zhu Gaochi react suddenly, and he took a deep look at Deng Jian.
Deng Jian tried hard to endure the pain and tried to help Zhu Gaochi up.
Zhu Gaochi tried his best to stand up by holding on to the wall. His mood gradually calmed down a lot, and he only said: "Thank you for your hard work."
Deng Jian bowed and said: "This slave has ceased to be a human being since he entered the palace. It is his duty to share the Lord's worries."
Zhu Gaochi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his mouth, but found that his teeth were still trembling: "It goes without saying that he committed an assassination. If he committed an assassination, it would be a serious crime to destroy the three clans. He is already dead. I can't bear to teach him."
His entire family was buried with him."
Deng Jian shook his head: "Regardless of the guilt, we can try to rehabilitate him in the future, but if it is not an assassination, the matter will not be covered up."
Zhu Gaochi said painfully: "Hey... I was a little panicked at the time. He said that he knew that An Shi had made a big mistake, and he hoped to let me expose it in exchange for my father's approval. I was scared and angry at the same time.
.What I’m afraid of is that if I don’t agree, I’m afraid that this person won’t get what he wants, so he’ll change his family, stand up and expose An Shi. And he’ll be angry at this person for being so shameless...”
Deng Jian's face was calm, he frowned and endured the pain and said: "If you want me to die, I have to die. Your Highness does not need to take these things to heart, but...has something happened to Mr. An Shi?"
Zhu Gaochi said: "If what this person said is credible, then... this matter should not affect An Shi for the time being. This matter... you should treat it as nothing happened and no one can mention it."
"Here."
Zhu Gaochi glanced at his bleeding leg and said, "Go and call someone in. In addition... take good care of the injury."
"Here."
Soon, Deng Jian's horrified voice came from the hunting room: "Someone is coming, someone is coming, someone is assassinating His Highness, someone is coming..."
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The Yulin Right Guards are located between Bei'anmen and Ouchi. The guards stationed here mainly protect the safety of the north of the Forbidden City.
Originally, there was a high wall separating this place from Ouchi. On the surface, they were the imperial guards and were separated from Ouchi by a wall. But in fact, the nobles in the palace would never know the existence of such a military horse.
However, the current Emperor Yongle is the emperor on horseback, so he likes to come here most to ride horses and review his soldiers.
Today, Zhu Di brought Cheng Guo Gong Zhu Neng and Qi Guo Gong Qiu Fu to the camp of Yulin Youwei.
Zhu Di was in a good mood.
Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu were also in a good mood.
On the surface, they didn't care about their son in prison, but in their hearts they still cared about him.
A few days ago, I heard that my son was going to be sent to Qiongzhou, which was a false alarm, but today is the day that my son will be released.
When I think about my son finally breaking out of the prison, he can go home and have a good bath, and when I go back and give him a good beating, I feel a lot more comfortable.
But Zhu Di soon became unhappy.
The Zaozuo Bureau followed the prescription and created a gunpowder packet.
But a ridiculous problem soon arose.
After Qiu Fu understood the situation, he reported to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and Yu Lin Youwei conducted several trials, and found that this gunpowder bag... is of little use."
"Not much use?"
"The power of the gunpowder bag is indeed stronger, but because of its high power, if the soldiers throw it like the dog, they will definitely hurt themselves. The gunpowder was also lucky last time, and the gunpowder bag happened to be thrown into the wall, and then it exploded
, didn’t hurt myself.”
Zhu Di nodded: "The power is not small, and it is indeed not suitable for throwing. Then you can use a cannon."
"The problem lies with this cannon. I ordered people to try it with the current cannon. It was found that because the power of the gunpowder package was not small, once it exploded, the barrel could not withstand it. Among the three cannons, one cannon fired
The barrel of the cannon was broken, almost killing the soldiers and injuring two people. There was also one cannon, the muzzle of the gun had changed its shape, and it was considered useless. There was only one cannon, which was barely usable, but if it were exploded like this, it would injure the enemy.
Thousand, isn't it ridiculous to lose eight hundred?"
It's too powerful... but it also causes troubles.
Zhu Di was speechless for a moment, but he was good at military formations, so he understood Qiu Fu's meaning very well. He nodded and said: "Since ordinary cannons can't withstand it, why not try a mortar cannon?"
A mortar is a cannon with a short and thick body and a shape similar to a stone mortar. The advantage of this type of cannon is that the barrel is particularly thick.
The iron-making technology of this era was limited. Since the strength of the iron cannon was not enough, the thickness was used to make up for it.
After hearing this, Qiu Fu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I have also tried it, and ordinary mortars still don't work. There is a kind of mortar that can withstand it."
Zhu Di said: "In that case, it couldn't be better."
Qiu Fu said: "But the problem arises again. This mortar weighs one thousand three hundred kilograms..."
Zhu Di: "..."
Generally speaking, the lighter ones weigh two to three hundred kilograms, the heavier ones are indeed over four hundred kilograms, and some even weigh one thousand kilograms.
However, based on the current army supply and transportation conditions, artillery weighing more than a thousand kilograms is actually impossible to march with the army, because in the Ming Dynasty, ordinary horses can bear a maximum weight of about four to five hundred kilograms, which is already the upper limit.
"Such a cannon can only be used to defend the city. Even if it is to defend the city, the cost is staggering. It is a heavy weight of iron. If it is with the army...I am afraid it will not be used. Tens of thousands of troops are chasing the north. If you bring some of these cannons,
The big guy has become a burden."
Zhu Di shook his head: "What I want is to sweep across the desert and go straight to Longting. What kind of bird city can we defend? If we really want to defend the city, such artillery is of little use."
"So I thought that this new gunpowder... would be temporarily suspended..."
Zhu Di suddenly showed a look of reluctance: "Stop production? It's such a pity to stop production of such a thing. Hey... isn't there any other way?"
Qiu Fu became silent again.
Because he really had no other choice.
The Dukes, Marquises, and Earls of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion came together and pondered for more than half a month, and the generals below did not come up with any constructive suggestions.
It can be seen that this thing... is really useless.
Just when the monarch and his ministers were looking gloomy.
But a flying horse came.
A captain in Jinyi stopped his horse in the distance, rolled and crawled over quickly, got under Zhu Di's horse, prostrated himself and said: "Your Majesty... it exploded, it exploded again."
"It exploded..."
Qiu Fu suddenly had a bad premonition.
People who also feel bad are Zhu Neng.
"Where did it explode?"
"There is a village in Qixia Temple. The owner of the village is known as Shen Dashan. He has always been good at charity, but today... his village was attacked by a gunpowder bag."
After hearing this, Zhu Di frowned and said, "Who did it?"
"This..." The captain was speechless.
In fact, when Zhu Di asked this question, he had already begun to have a little suspicion in his heart.
As for Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng beside Zhu Di, the smiles on their faces have disappeared.
Gunpowder bag...
Damn it.
There are only a handful of people in the entire capital who have such a thing and dare to do it.
Who else could it be?
"Is he that little beast?" Qiu Fu was so angry that he asked the captain without caring about his courtesy.
"Jin Yiwei...Jin Yiwei said...I did see traces of Mr. Qiu nearby..."
Zhu Neng said angrily: "Is there... is there..."
The captain looked at Zhu Neng and nodded slowly.
Zhu Neng felt that his whole body was getting cold.
As for Qiu Fu, he stamped his foot and cursed: "Naughty son, evil son..."
Zhu Di was sullen in his heart, but kept his expression: "They weren't hurt, right?"
When Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu heard this, their bodies trembled, and they seemed to have thought of something terrible.
They already have a very thorough understanding of gunpowder bags.
This thing is extremely powerful. The last time it was thrown at Baihu Liangwu's place, it happened to be blocked by a high wall, so casualties were avoided.
But this time, is there such luck?
These guys really don't know how to write the word "death". This thing...can't be thrown at all.
And since there was such a big commotion, Jin Yiwei had already paid attention to it in time, which means that the power this time will never be less than the last time. If it is still like the last time, it will be either dead or injured.
Although they are very hard-hearted, even if their sons are sent to prison, they will not frown, but after all, this is because they understand Zhu Di and know that His Majesty is just giving these guys some suffering.
But if something really happened to this baby, he would really be on the verge of tears.
Qiu Fu turned pale with fright. He stared at the captain and said, "My son...my son...what's wrong?"
The lieutenant said: "This... I haven't seen any casualties among the three murderers in the capital. In fact, they have been controlled by the Jin Yiwei, and they are unscathed. It is said... it is said... that they were shot with cannons, and they were shot on two sides.
A hundred steps away."
Two hundred steps...
Zhu Di, Qiu Fu and others looked at each other.
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