I want to be emperor

On June 11th, the 47th year of Chengshun, Singapore was the most important strategic port city in the Nanyang region, the most economically developed and most populous city.

The Governor of Malacca, the Patrol Governor, the Annan Governor, the East Dan Governor, the West Dan Governor and other local civil officials as well as the main generals stationed in the area gathered at the dock.

Although it is already midsummer and Singapore is located near the equator, even though the sun is very strong at noon, dozens of major civil and military officials and hundreds of mid-level civil and military officials are still wearing formal Hanfu official robes and standing in the scorching sun. Next wait.

Because right in front of them, a large group of ships had arrived outside the port. They were the ships inspecting the fleet. These ships were entering the port in an orderly manner.

Earlier, many troop transport ships escorted by multiple warships had docked in advance, and more than 3,000 soldiers from the First Guards Division disembarked.

These more than 3,000 Guards soldiers, together with the Guards soldiers who arrived in Singapore seven or eight days ago to take over the defense and perform preliminary security tasks, will be responsible for the defense of the port and even surrounding areas, ensuring Luo Zhixue's safety. The inspection will be conducted without any interference and avoid any potential threats.

Singapore itself is an important military base. It previously stationed a large number of armies and marines. However, in order to meet the inspection, these more than 10,000 troops have been dispatched to other places in advance to take charge of security affairs in peripheral areas.

During Luo Zhixue's inspection, no military force other than the Guards could appear near any inspection location, not even the army and navy, armed tax police, or armed patrol police.

This is not a question of trust or distrust, but to avoid any surprises that may arise.

At this point, it was not even Luo Zhixue's own decision, but the unanimous decision of the nine ministers of the Council of Ministers and more than 20 co-organizing ministers.

Except for the Guards Fleet, the 1st Guards Division, and the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment, which have been strictly screened and selected in advance, other forces are not worthy of trust during this critical and sensitive period.

The high-ranking officials of the empire were unable to admit that any accident had occurred...even the army and navy generals themselves could not bear it.

You know with your toes that if something unexpected happens, for example, a garrison officer in a certain inspection area, or even just an ordinary soldier, is complaining and wants to do something big to shock the world.

He doesn't even need to do anything more. He only needs to pick up a rifle, which is enough to snipe him within a range of several hundred meters... By the way, the Da Chu Empire had already developed the first weapon in the early 1940s. It is a modern sniper scope. This thing was initially mainly used to distribute to a very small number of precision shooters in elite reconnaissance units to carry out individual long-distance sniping missions. The sniper rifle used with it is a Type 24 rifle. The standard version, that is, the long barrel version... As for why the Type 26 rifle is not used, it is because the Type 26 rifle produced by Chu State takes into account the production cost and does not have high accuracy requirements... Ordinary medium-range rifles There is no problem in combat, but it is not suitable for sniper operations that pursue high precision.

Relatively speaking, as the main rifle of the Navy, the Type 24 rifle also used by the Army has higher shooting accuracy, especially the shooting accuracy at medium and long distances of more than 400 meters, and the rate of fire is also faster. There is a long barrel version with a longer effective range.

Taking all things into consideration, the precision rifle used by the precision shooters in the Chu army, the long-barreled version of the 24-rifle commonly used, with a double scope, has a very high shooting accuracy from 300 meters to 600 meters... Of course, this also requires excellent skills of the shooter, and also requires luck!

Otherwise, it should be a miss or a miss!

If you want to say that this Type 24 sniper rifle is useless on the battlefield, that would definitely be wrong. But if you want to say how useful it is, it is actually very difficult... After all, there are very few of these things.

The optical lenses used in the sights are very high-tech and have very high requirements on raw materials and processing. The production and processing of the sights are naturally very expensive... This thing is more expensive than ordinary binoculars for officers. It’s expensive!

At the same time, the specially matched Type 24 sniper rifle adopts many designs of the Type 24 long barrel version, but it has also been improved a lot. The most important thing is to use better materials and processing technology to further improve shooting. Accuracy requires careful selection, and the yield rate of the barrel is very low... This also leads to the price of this gun being more than ten times that of ordinary rifles.

The combination of the two means that this thing cannot be equipped on a large scale... At present, only a few snipers in the elite reconnaissance troops are equipped with it, and the number of equipment in the entire army will not exceed a thousand.

The emergence of sniper rifles has given the indigenous people greater military pressure, but also brought some security threats.

Although the control of sniper rifles is very strict, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to get this thing... But if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of the eventuality. What if a thief gets a sniper rifle and teaches it to Luo Zhi hundreds of meters away? If they were shot in the head, countless people in the empire would lose their heads or even be exterminated by their entire family.

Therefore, even for the sake of their own wealth and life, many civil and military ministers of the empire attach great importance to Luo Zhixue's safety, even more than Luo Zhixue himself.

Especially for the army and navy... In order to prevent any fools under their command from causing any trouble to implicate themselves, they unanimously decided to simply withdraw all the army and navy forces from the inspection site... and handed over all security work. Responsible for the Guards.

In this way, even if something goes wrong, it has nothing to do with their army and navy.

Of course, the Guards did not relax their supervision... In fact, in order to carry out this inspection and security mission, the Guards began preparations three years ago.

In particular, the selection and review of personnel are even more detailed to every soldier!

The Internal Affairs Section of the Hanlin Academy, the Military Intelligence Department directly under the Military Academy, the Investigation Bureau of the Patrol Department, the Administrative Department of the Inspectorate, the Special Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Taxation, and multiple intelligence or law enforcement departments formed a joint investigation and review team.

A comprehensive investigation was conducted on every Guardsman, naval advisor, and other accompanying staff member, officer, etc. proposed for selection.

Then the list is finalized and monitored over a long period of time.

In addition, local civil and military officials in the planned inspection area are also within their monitoring scope.

Although many of these security tasks are not known to the general public, they do exist and are very important.

And these are all to ensure that the inspection schedule is foolproof, to prevent any accidents... and to save the lives of countless people!

The issue of Luo Zhixue's life and death has never been his issue alone, but a major event related to countless lives and deaths, future and destiny, the rise and fall of the family, and even the stability of the country.

Most of Luo Zhixue's ministers are more afraid of seeing any accidents than Luo Zhixue... Of course, you can't rule out that there are people who are dissatisfied with Luo Zhixue, or who want to use some accidents to achieve something undesirable for themselves. The purpose of suing someone.

After all, Luo Zhixue is not a gold coin and cannot be loved by everyone... In fact, as a profit distributor, every policy issuance and every redistribution of interests will bring beneficiaries and losers.

It’s hard to guarantee that there won’t be extremists among those who suffer losses!

In fact, many intelligence agencies of the Dachu Empire have recently captured many conspirators who are ready to take action... These people have all been caught by the empire's intelligence agencies before they have even planned basic actions. Then he gave all the ashes to Yang.

Singapore is no exception. Just yesterday, someone in the urban area that was already under martial law tried to sneak close to the port area, and they were still carrying firearms... After being discovered by Guards soldiers enforcing martial law, a brief exchange of fire broke out, and they were Killed on the spot.

Now the agents from the Internal Affairs Department of the Hanlin Academy are looking for clues all over the world to arrest people.

It is impossible for ordinary people to know what happened behind the scenes, not even the many local civil and military officials who participated in the inspection or came to greet the Holy Emperor.

Now they are on the dock, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Holy Driver.

At around 12 noon, people on the pier could clearly see the huge figure of the Royal Princess outside the port.

Soon, the Royal Princess slowly entered the port and berthed at the pier with the assistance of guide ships and tugboats.

As soon as the ship docked, the governor of Malacca and the Nanyang garrison commander and other important civil and military officials from the Nanyang region arrived at the dock and lined up.

But at this time, although the Royal Princess has docked and the disembarkation corridor has been set up, the first people to disembark were not Luo Zhixue and other members of the royal family, but a large number of royal guards from the Guards Office of the Palace Affairs Department. .

Most of these royal guards are wearing black dragon-patterned uniforms, and a few are wearing casual clothes!

But without exception, they were all armed with live ammunition and wore pistols at their waists. Some of them also carried military Qiming shotguns or Type 24 rifle plates on their backs. These people in uniform did not go out. Instead, they stood on the pier after getting on the pier, isolating a group of ministers. At the same time, some imperial guards carrying rifles were looking for the commanding heights nearby. After finding the commanding heights, they directly raised their guns... These people's Type 24 rifles are also equipped with scopes.

Hundreds of imperial guards in plainclothes quickly dispersed into the crowd, and then directly searched for every official present... to prevent these people from entering the venue with weapons... Although this possibility is negligible, but What needs to be done is still done.

Not only did they do it, but they also informed the people who came to meet the driver in advance... They would be searched on the spot, so don't bring anything you shouldn't!

Many complicated security procedures are actually not meant to detect potential threats, but to deter... Clearly tell those with evil intentions that when the Holy Spirit comes, the security force will exceed your imagination... Even if You want to play assassination, but don't do it...because you won't have any chance of success.

Luo Zhixue's series of security procedures are similar to the law...the purpose is to deter people from committing crimes...As for punishing criminals, the purpose is not to punish the criminals themselves, but to show others: This fool committed murder and was shot Oh, you must not imitate him. Even if you want to kill someone, you have to hold it in for me!

More than three hundred imperial guards were busy on the dock for almost an hour before it was over. During this hour, they checked everyone, checked the surrounding situation, and seized the commanding heights.

Under such circumstances, a group of people were once again welcomed into the hatch of the Royal Princess.

The first ones to walk down the stairs were a few imperial guards wearing ordinary and inconspicuous official uniforms, followed by two secretaries from the Hanlin Academy Secretariat. Both of them were carrying briefcases... It was possible to learn from Luo Zhixue on such an occasion. The secretaries of the Hanlin Academy who appeared together were no ordinary secretaries.

The rank coat of arms on their chests shows that they are of the third rank. One is a bachelor's lecturer at the Hanlin Academy and concurrently serves as the director of the secretariat. Some people among the people will also call those who hold this position a great privy... Those who can hold this position Civil servants are definitely the most trusted ministers of the emperor in the Great Chu Empire.

Another one is a bachelor's degree student at the Hanlin Academy, and concurrently serves as the section chief of the Internal Affairs Section of the Hanlin Academy... It can be seen from this part-time job that this person is actually a spy chief, and he is also an absolute close official of the emperor.

In the entire Hanlin Academy, these two people are actually absolute close ministers of the Emperor. When it comes to His Majesty's favor, even the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is not as good as them!

Because the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is actually a member of the imperial ministers and one of the nine counselors, often out of political considerations such as balance and interests, Luo Zhixue will not hire people from the perspective of confidants.

But the director of the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy and the chief of the internal affairs department are different...people who are not absolute confidants cannot hold these two positions.

As soon as people saw these two absolute confidants of the Emperor appearing, they knew that His Majesty was about to appear.

Sure enough, the two people who walked out of the cabin stood on the left and right at the cabin door. About ten seconds later, they saw Qiu Qishui, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and the director of the secretariat, took a deep breath and said loudly: "Your Majesty Come on!"

Later, the accompanying officials from the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs who disembarked from other cabins in advance to prepare, sang: "Your Majesty has arrived!"

After the voice fell, the civil and military officials below all bowed their heads. Ma Changqing, the governor of Malacca, who once served as the right minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and had the highest seniority and political status among the people present, took a step forward, took a deep breath and raised his voice. Qi said: "My ministers, Ma Changqing, and others respectfully welcome the Holy Emperor. Long live my emperor!"

After the words fell, a group of civil and military officials behind them also shouted in unison: "I respectfully welcome the Holy Emperor, long live my emperor!"

Amidst the cheers, Luo Zhixue's figure also appeared at the cabin door!

He was seen wearing a summer dragon-patterned Confucian uniform. This crown was only made in recent years. Luo Zhixue preferred to wear it on a daily basis.

This is an Ushalon crown inlaid with many precious gems. The gem in the middle is a fine ruby ​​from Myanmar Province. This ruby ​​was mined and polished by the Royal Jewelry Company and weighs more than two hundred carats. The most important thing is It is extremely pure in color and is one of the top gemstones among rubies.

In the surrounding area, there are many other rubies, diamonds, sapphires, etc....and without exception, these gems are all from overseas.

There are diamonds dug by oneself from Myanmar and other Southeast Asian regions, as well as diamonds picked up from Africa, and indispensable diamonds stolen from Europe and India.

There are a total of nine gems on it, all of which come from the overseas territories that the Chu Empire has gradually expanded.

In a sense, this crown represents the overseas expansion achievements of the Chu Empire.

Of course, this is just the crown Luo Zhixue wears every day...

In fact, the Royal Jewelry Company created another tiara for formal occasions, well, it is also commonly known as a crown.

That is the symbol of global imperial power in the true sense. Because it has to follow tradition, the style cannot be changed much. However, the designers of the Royal Jewelry Company have focused their ideas on the crown. It's on the bead curtains in front and behind the crown!

The designer found 108 jade stones, which are mainly produced in the traditional native hinterland, that is, the eighteen provinces in Guan Nei.

In addition to the eighteen provinces in Guanhai, the designer also set ninety-five various gemstones on the hat.

Every jade stone represents a place, each one has a clear origin, and quite a few of them are precious gems with origins...

Because most of the gems were removed from the crowns of those indigenous rulers.

At the same time, nine-five itself means the honor of nine-five. Nine is the extreme number, five is the middle number, and nine-five is the emperor!

One hundred and eight jade stones and ninety-five various gemstones are gathered together on a crown, which means that the person wearing this crown is the emperor of the eighteen provinces in Guan and overseas provinces, administrative territories, and colonies... …Furthermore, he can be said to be the emperor of the world.

This should be the crown with the most magnificent meaning in the history of mankind, because in the history of mankind, there is only one person who has conquered the world, and he is Luo Zhixue!

Except for him, no one dares, and no one can create such a crown... This is not a matter of shamelessness. It is impossible for others to search for such precious gems around the world... Those ninety-five gems , most of them were removed from the crowns of indigenous monarchs from overseas!

You can't do this without conquering the world!

However, Luo Zhixue would not wear such a ostentatious crown on weekdays. This thing is too formal and is part of the highest standard of emperor's attire in Chinese tradition: the crown.

Generally, it is only used in the most formal occasions, such as court gatherings, enthronements, weddings, worshiping heaven, worshiping ancestors, etc.

On the other hand, this thing is actually very heavy, with a total weight of more than five kilograms... Just a lot of gems is not light. Who would wear this thing every day for nothing, and don't even need their neck... In the same way, what Queen Wang said The phoenix crown he wore was also very heavy, weighing more than four pounds.

Regardless of whether these formal attires are good or not, Luo Zhixue doesn't wear them on a daily basis...it's too uncomfortable.

In daily life, he mainly wears a lightweight dragon-patterned hat, which is part of his daily attire just like the Wusha Yishan Crown he wears today.

After he appeared, he did not rush down the stairs, but stood and looked down... The ministers were still saluting, and he had to wait for them to finish saluting.

The group of officials below, under the guidance of officials from the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, repeatedly bent down and saluted five times, and Luo Zhixue said something in time.

This ceremony is finally over.

After the salute, Luo Zhixue walked down the stairs accompanied by several Hanlin Academy officials and imperial guards. After Luo Zhixue got off the boat, a group of ministers, co-organizers, and senior officials who were accompanying him got off the boat one after another and followed him. .