Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45 Persuasion and Preparation

After knowing the power of the red cannon made of iron, Sun Chuanting asked the craftsman camp to continue forging two of them every month and put them in Tongguan.

For the rest of the artillery, there are not many requirements.

Because of the accumulation of the train battalion over the years, coupled with local places, there is no shortage of tiger squatting guns and Fran cannons.

Of course, Zhu Yixi concealed the flintlock.

In charge of the life and death, money and wealth of the craftsman camp, no one dared to oppose Zhu Yixi, nor dared to report the letter. Many people even thought that the flintlock was ordered by Governor Sun.

However, Carpenter Ying still buys two to three hundred guns per month. In fact, because the operation of matchlock guns is too complicated, no one else likes to use them except Train Ying.

After the cannon test was over, Wang Wei continued to get busy, and Zhu Yixi was alone with Sun Chuanting.

After hesitating again and again, Zhu Yixi had no choice but to persuade: "Duxian, you must not leave Tongguan so easily?"

"Why?" Sun Chuanting didn't feel disobedient, but asked calmly, "What's the reason?"

"Duxian!" Zhu Yixi sighed, and said, "The Qin army is in the pass, and the intruders dare not move. If they go north, they must be afraid of being cut off. Therefore, it is better to be quiet than to move."

"Do you think Qin Jun can't defeat the intruders?"

Sun Chuanting turned his head and said seriously.

"My subordinates dare not!"

"You dare not say it!"

Sun Chuanting shook his head, then looked at the boundless wilderness, and said softly, "I don't know how hopeless it is."

"However, the pressure from the imperial court is getting tighter. Last month, His Majesty almost entrusted me with half of the titles on my body. What can I do?"

Zhu Yixi opened his mouth, but he still couldn't speak.

Emperor Chongzhen's handwriting really used his name to suppress others, but it was just too much for Sun Chuanting.

The king's kindness is like a mountain, and the ruling and opposition parties are full of urging voices.

He thought about it for a while, unless it was a real rebellion, no one could bear the pressure from the government and the opposition.

However, if Sun Chuanting really rebelled, is he still Sun Chuanting?

As he said that, Sun Chuanting raised his head, looked up at the sky, and murmured: "The world slanders me for separatist Guanzhong. If I don't take any action, I'm afraid I won't even be able to stay in Xi'an for long."

"But—" Zhu Yixi said helplessly.

"Nothing but."

Sun Chuanting shook his head and said earnestly: "Since you are in charge of the craftsman's barracks, you should properly produce ordnance. I will allocate all the supplies and money, and prepare more."

"Obey!" Seeing that Sun Chuanting had no intention of continuing the conversation, Zhu Yixi stopped persuading him and did his job well.

"Duxian, I think the General Medical Office should be placed in Tongguan. Wounded and sick soldiers can recuperate in Tongguan, which is much more convenient than being dragged down by the army or staying in Xi'an City."

"You are right."

Sun Chuanting was quite satisfied with this sentence, patted Zhu Yixi on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "It's really good that you have such thoughts."

Immediately, Sun Chuanting left slowly.

Watching him leave, Zhu Yixi suddenly felt a little lonely.

In the face of the general trend, it is still difficult for him to change the established trajectory.

And the training in the Qin army has become more and more intensive, and the loss of food has also doubled. Obviously, this is to prepare for the war.

And Zhu Yixi was also preparing for how to deal with Sun Chuanting's failure.

After thinking about it, it is still necessary to strengthen yourself.

Zhu Yixi was startled when he searched for his family.

After two robberies, more than 20,000 taels of gold, silver and jewelry, now except for more than [-] taels of silver, the rest are jewelry, which is difficult to sell.

"It's not enough to have a flintlock, you have to have armor."

Zhu Yixi was quite helpless.

Armor and crossbow arrows are both heavily prepared and filed in detail, and they are also expensive.

Let the craftsman camp do it, and now they are busy preparing to send troops, and the logistics are so heavy that there are no redundant craftsmen.

"How did you get the armor?"

Zhu Yixi thought about it, and suddenly remembered Qin Wangfu.

In the early Ming Dynasty, before the Battle of Jingnan, the King of Qin had three guards, 1000 people, and with the continuous reduction of the vassal, there were less than 3000 people.

Even these 3000 people are not worthy of the name. Half of them are paid for empty pay, and the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled.

However, after all, it is more than 200 years old. Not to mention, there are really a lot of armor and weapons.

In view of this, Zhu Yixi hurriedly selected a few treasures from the treasury, which were worth about 6000 taels. Anyway, they couldn't be circulated, so it's better to give them away.

Shi Zhang Shijiong, the head of Qin Wangfu, was very happy about Zhu Yixi's arrival: "I heard that Governor Sun is preparing to go east. You have many jobs and you should be very busy. Why did you come to see me?"

"I haven't seen my brother for so many days, I miss him very much!" Zhu Yixi said from the bottom of his heart.

"Then come and see me more!"

Looking at the gifts in the hands of the two teenagers behind Zhu Yixi, Zhang Shijiong smiled brighter and brighter.

Immediately after some pleasantries, Jingtai porcelain, red agate, and pearl necklaces were placed on the table.

"If you have something to say, just speak directly, why send these!" Zhang Shijiong said with a pretentious gesture.

"Hey, you go to dredge, don't you want money? You can't let your brother pay in advance, can you?"

Zhu Yixi smiled and pushed the gift back, making Zhang Shijiong's eyes brighter.

"Here, brother, tell me, what do you want, as long as the Qin Palace has it, I will give it to you."

Zhang Shijiong looked desperate.

Zhu Yixi couldn't help admiring this kind of generosity of giving up others and speaking so righteously.

"You also know that Governor Sun decided to go east and got busy. I was unprepared for a while, and I was in a hurry. There are two or three thousand armors missing..."

"Armor?" Zhang Shijiong thought for a while and said:

"There are quite a few armors in the palace's treasury. For hundreds of years, they have been broken and repaired. It shouldn't be a problem to make up a thousand pairs. But there are few new ones and many worn ones. You need to mend more."

"No problem." Zhu Yixi was overjoyed, nodded quickly and said, "It would be even better if there were crossbows and arrows."

"Crossbow bolts? Don't you have artillery? Crossbow bolts have long since died."

Zhang Shijiong shook his head and said, "The bed crossbows are too bulky. Except for those used in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the rest of the time have been discarded. Now there are only dozens of double flying crossbows."

The double-flying crossbow is a simplified version of the bed crossbow, used to defend the city, and Zhu Yixi has heard of it.

Seeing this, he was rather disappointed.

But there is no way, for example, the god arm crossbow and the enemy crossbow in the Song Dynasty, in fact, craftsmen could make them, but they were defeated by the bird guns one after another.

A simple god arm crossbow, at least dozens of taels, is enough to need more than ten times as many bird guns.

However, at present, the Carpenter Camp, which fell to the ground and belonged to the Qin army, was enough to stealthily make flintlock guns, and it would be impossible to make crossbow arrows.

The next day, with the help of Zhang Shijiong, thousands of worn-out armors flowed out of the Prince Qin's mansion without anyone noticing.

Zhu Yixi's two thousand anti-epidemic soldiers have begun to show their strength.

(End of this chapter)