Chapter 74: The Emperor Will Not Be Able to Fix It

Zhu Gaoqi looked like his soul had been taken out of his body all of a sudden, his eyes suddenly moistened, only to hear him say in a low voice: “This …… this is not my fault …… is not my fault… . it’s you who want to harm people, to harm my family Anshi ……”

Just then ……… the door of the hunting lodge opened.

But it was Teng Jian, who was waiting outside, who heard the commotion and quietly opened a crack in the door.

Once he saw the scene inside, Deng Jian’s legs went weak with fear.

Zhou Jing had fallen into a pool of blood.

And the Crown Prince huddled in the corner shivering, mouth intermittently recited, “If you die, no one will know about Anshi, this palace …… also have no choice ……”

Ken Deng seemed to understand something.

He was silent.

And then silently walked to Crown Prince Zhu Gaoqi’s heel, took the arrow in Zhu Gaoqi’s hand, and then went to Zhou Jing’s corpse and stabbed another arrow.

Pulling the arrow out, Teng Jian then stuck the arrow in his calf’s belly.

“Uh……” Deng Jian let out a miserable scream, cold sweat like soybeans flowing out.

Not caring about this, he ruthlessly pulled the arrow out of his calf’s stomach again, limped to Zhu Gaoqi’s front, endured the severe pain and hunched over to Zhu Gaoqi, “Your Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness, Yingtian Prefecture Prime Minister Zhou Jing is bold and daring, and even intends to assassinate Your Royal Highness, he injured the slave girl first, and the slave girl fought back and eventually killed this fang, Your Royal Highness, you are… …were frightened.”

It was only then that Zhu Gaoqi reacted furiously as he looked deeply at Teng Jian.

Deng Jian struggled to endure the pain and tried to assist Zhu Gaoqi.

Zhu Gaoqi but his own efforts to hold the wall stood up, emotions gradually calmed down a lot, only said: “hard work.”

Teng Jian bowed and said, “Since the slave girl entered the palace, she is no longer a human being, and it is within her duty to share the Lord’s worries.”

Zhu Gaoqi closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he opened his mouth, but found that his teeth were still trembling, “There is no need to say that he committed an assassination, if he committed an assassination, then it is the great crime of exterminating three clans, he is already dead, the Palace can not bear to teach him to bury his whole clan.”

Teng Jian shook his head, “How the offense is, we can fight for a re-sentence later, but if it is not an assassination, things will not be covered up.”

Zhu Gaoqi painfully said, “Hey …… this palace was a little panicked at that time, he said that he knew that Anshi had committed a great offense, and he also hoped to let this palace go to expose it, in exchange for the affirmation of the father. This palace is afraid and angry. I was afraid that if my palace did not agree, I was afraid that this person did not get what he wanted, changed his mind and came forward to expose An Shi. Another anger is that this person is shameless ……”

Deng Jian s face was calm, frowning and enduring the pain, “The king wants me to die, I have to die, Your Highness does not have to take these things to heart, just …… has something happened to Duke Anshi?”

Zhu Gaoqi said:” If this person said words credible, then …… should this matter, for the time being, will not spread to Anshi, this matter …… you as nothing has happened, who must not be mentioned. ”

“Here.”

Zhu Gaoqi took a look at his leg that was bubbling with blood and said, “You go to shout people in, in addition …… to treat the injury properly.”

“Here.”

Soon, Teng Jian s terrified voice came out from this hunting room, “Come on, come on, someone assassinated His Highness, come on …….”

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The Right Guard of the Feathered Forest is located between Bei’anmen and Danei, and the forbidden guards stationed here are mainly responsible for protecting the northern part of the Forbidden City.

Originally, there was a high wall separating this place from the Great Nai, and on the surface, they were forbidden guards, separated from the Great Nai by a wall, but in reality, the nobles in the palace would never know that there was the existence of such a military horse.

However, today’s Yongle Emperor is the son of heaven on horseback, but most like to come here to ride horses and review soldiers.

Today, Zhu Di brought Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Neng and Duke Qi Guo Qiu Fu together to the camp of the Right Guard of the Feathered Forest.

Zhu was in a good mood.

Jounen and Chufu were also in a good mood.

On the surface, they disregarded their son in prison, but they still remembered it in their hearts.

A few days ago, I heard that my son would be sent to Qiongzhou, a false alarm, but today is the day of his release.

Thinking of his own son, finally broke out of the cage, can go home to take a good bath, and when he went back to beat up, his heart felt a lot more comfortable.

But Zhu was soon unhappy.

The Bureau of Manufacturing instead followed the prescription and built the gunpowder packs.

But a crowing problem soon arose.

After understanding the situation, Qiu Fu reported to Zhu Di, “Your Majesty, the Five Army Governor’s Office together with the right guard of the Fei Lin tried to practice several times, and it turned out that this gunpowder packet …… is not very useful.”

“Not very useful?”

“The power of the gunpowder packet is indeed stronger, but precisely because the power is not small, so the soldiers will inevitably injure themselves if they throw it like the canine son, and the canine son’s last time was also a stroke of luck, that the gunpowder packet happened to be thrown into the inner end of the enclosure, and only then did it explode and did not injure himself.”

Zhu nodded his head and nodded: “The power is not small, it is indeed not suitable for throwing, then you can use the cannon.”

“The problem lies in this cannon, I ordered people to try with the current cannon, and found that, because the power of the gunpowder packet is not small, once blown up, the cannon tube can not withstand, three guns, one gun opened, almost did not blow up the soldiers, injured two people. There is also a cannon, the mouth of the cannon changed shape, is considered to be ruined. There is only one, barely usable, but if such a bombing method, hurt the enemy a thousand, self loss eight hundred, is not ridiculous?”

Overpowered …… actually has troubles.

Zhu Di was speechless for a moment, but he was adept at military formations and understood Qiu Fu’s meaning, nodding his head and saying, “Since the unusual cannons can’t withstand it, why don’t we try mortar cannons, for example?”

A mortar is a cannon with a short, thick body, similar in appearance to a stone mortar, which has the advantage of having an unusually thick barrel.

This era of ironmaking process is limited, since the strength of the iron cannon is not enough, then the thickness to make up.

Qiu Fu heard, bitter smile and shook his head, “I also tried, general mortar, still can not, but there is a mortar, can withstand.”

Zhu said, “In that case, then it couldn’t be better.”

Qiu Fu said, “But the problem is out again, this mortar, weighing 1,300 pounds ……”

Chu: “……”

The average cannon, lighter two or three hundred pounds, heavier, indeed, over four hundred pounds, and even weighing up to a thousand pounds.

However, with the current army supply conditions and transportation conditions, then, weighing more than 1,000 pounds of artillery, in fact, simply can not follow the army on the march, because in the Ming, unusual horse up to four or five hundred pounds of weight up and down, which is already the upper limit.

“Such a gun, can only be used to defend the city, even if the defense of the city, the cost is also amazing, this is a thousand pounds of iron ah. If it is accompanied by the army …… I am afraid that it can not be used, tens of thousands of troops chasing after the dead, if they bring some of these big guys, it becomes a burden instead.”

Zhu Di shook his head, “What I want is to sweep across the desert and attack the Dragon Court, what bird city to guard? If I really want to defend the city, such a cannon is not very useful.”

“So I thought that this new gunpowder …… is still temporarily suspended ……”

Zhu Di immediately revealed a color of reluctance, “Discontinue production? Such a thing, discontinued how unfortunate, hey …… is there no other way?”

Churchford then stopped squeaking.

Because there really wasn’t anything else he could do.

Five military governor’s office of the dukes, marquises, counts get together, blind pondering more than half a month it, the lower military generals, there is no constructive initiative.

You can see that this thing …… is really a cockamamie.

Just as the three of them, the king and the minister, were worried.

But there came a flying horse.

A jinyi lieutenant stopped his horse in the distance, rolled and crawled quickly and came, reached Zhu Di s horse and bowed down, “Your Majesty …… blew up, blew up again.”

“Blown up ……”

Qufu somehow suddenly had a bad feeling.

Someone else who also felt bad was Jounen.

“Where did it blow up?”

“Qixia Temple has a manor, the owner of the manor, known as Shen Da Shanren, has always been charitable, but today …… his manor was attacked by a gunpowder packet.”

Hearing this, Zhu Di frowned; “Who did this?”

“This ……” said the lieutenant inarticulately.

In fact, when Zhu Di asked these words, he had already begun to have a slight frown in his heart.

As for the duo of Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng by Zhu Di’s side, the smiles on their faces were already gone.

Gunpowder packs ……

God damn it.

There are only a handful of people …… in the entire capital who have this thing and dare to do so.

Who else could it be?

“Is it that little brute?” Qiu Fu was furious, and not caring about his ministerial etiquette, he questioned this lieutenant.

“The brocade guards …… brocade guards said …… that in the neighborhood, they did see the trace of Prince Qiu ……”

Chu Neng said resentfully, “There is no …… there is no ……”

The lieutenant looked at Junen and nodded slowly.

Jounen felt his body go cold.

As for Qiu Fu, he stomped his foot and cursed, “Sinful son, sinful son ……”

Zhu Di huffed in his heart, but didn’t show his face, “They aren’t hurt, are they.”

As soon as Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu heard this, their bodies shook, and they seemed to have thought of something horrible as well.

This gunpowder pack stuff, they’ve learned a lot about it.

This thing is extremely powerful, and the last time it was thrown at Hundred Household Liang Wu’s place, it happened to be blocked by a high wall, so deaths and injuries were avoided.

But this time, is there such luck?

These boys, they really don t know how to write the word death, this thing …… has no way to throw.

And since it has made such a big commotion, the brocade guards have paid attention to it in time, which means that the power of this time, will never be smaller than the last time, if it is still like the last time, it is either dead or injured ah.

Although they are very hard-hearted, even if their own son into the prison, they do not frown, but after all, this is their understanding of Zhu Di, know that His Majesty is just to give these guys a little bit of suffering.

But if anything happens to this child, it would be a crying shame.

Qiu Fu is even more scared face white, he dead stared at this lieutenant said: “My son …… my son …… what?”

The lieutenant said, “This …… is not to see the three murderers of the capital have any deaths and injuries, in fact, they have been controlled by the brocade guards, and can be said to be unharmed. It is said that …… it is said that …… they were shot with a cannon, it was two hundred paces away.”

Two Hundred Steps ……

Zhu and Qufu and the others looked at each other in disbelief.