Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 160 The Great War on the Sea
Although Zhu Di was very dissatisfied with Guo An's lazy personality, he was in a good mood when he thought that there was another sharp weapon in the palace.

After returning to the palace, he quickly ordered He Zhong to send rewards to all the craftsmen in the gunpowder workshop.

Even Qiu Fu and a group of guards who guarded the gunpowder workshop also paid rewards. Although it was not much, it made Qiu Fu and other guards full of joy and made their inspections more active.

Then, Zhu Di thought of Guo An's advice on the carriage to pave the cement road from Beiping Fucheng to Shangzhuang Village's Iron Smelter, so he called Guo An over.

Unexpectedly, after Guo An finished listening, he shook his head repeatedly.

Zhu Di was puzzled and said: "This matter is what Guo Qing advised, and the cement road between Wanping County and Zhangjiawan Wharf was also paved by Guo Qing. Why is Guo Qing unwilling to pave this road?"

Guo An sighed softly, "Your Highness, it is a trivial matter to build roads, the officials who followed my ministers to build roads last time can do it.

How could His Highness use such a trivial matter to delay the research of this humble minister? "

Zhu Di was startled, and stared at Guo An closely, his eyes filled with anticipation: "Guo Qing means, can Guo Qing develop more good things?"

The corners of Guo An's mouth were slightly raised, and he said confidently: "Your Highness, forgive me, it is no exaggeration to say that my thoughts are like the water of the Yellow River, which cannot be exhausted at all."

"Very good!"

Zhu Di was overjoyed, "There is no need for Guo Qing to worry about paving and building roads. Let's leave it to Zhu Qing."

Guo An nodded slightly, "Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness, but Zhu Changshi doesn't necessarily know how to build roads, so His Highness might as well hand it over to the officials of Gongzheng Office to build it.

It is enough for His Highness to go to inspect it from time to time to prevent people from cheating and embezzling money and food. "

"good."

Zhu Di nodded slightly, then remembered something, changed the subject, and asked again: "Guo Qing should start the construction of the craftsman school that Guo Qing said."

Guo An slowly shook his head again, "Your Highness, I have never had experience in opening an academy.

And Tao Yiping and Yang Ting are Tao Wanhu's youngest son and disciple, they have the most experience, so it should be their responsibility. "

Hearing this, Zhu Di couldn't help feeling anxious, "Guo Qing forgot, Guo Qing gave lectures to our generals?
Those generals spoke very highly of Guo Qing's lectures, and now only half a year has passed, and each of those generals has already learned four to five hundred characters.

Now, they often talk in front of us that they want Guo Qing to give them lectures in her free time..."

Guo An couldn't help shivering subconsciously, "Your Highness, don't say any more, I don't want to teach people how to read and write in my life."

A trace of disappointment flashed across Zhu Di's face, "It's a pity."

Guo An hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't do this, the masters His Highness invited are truly learned people."

After speaking, Guo An got up directly and bid farewell to Zhu Di.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness. A very interesting object suddenly appeared in Weichen's mind. I urgently need to go to the public room to think about it and draw it out... Weichen will leave first."

After finishing speaking, Guo An left in a hurry.

Looking at Guo An's back, Zhu Di looked helpless.

However, Guo An did not lie to Zhu Di, and he did have a lot of thoughts in his mind.

It's just that it wasn't something he came up with suddenly.

On the second day, Guo An went to the glass workshop in person and handed over the two drawings to the glass workshop manager.

As for the Craftsman School, Zhu Di could only discuss it with Zhu Fu, and handed over the Craftsman School to Tao Yiping and Yang Ting.

Hearing this, Tao Yiping and Yang Ting felt as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. They wished to immediately drop the work in hand, personally select craftsmen and craftsmen's heirs, and make the Craftsman School of Beiping Prefecture like their Tao family.

Fortunately, Zhu Di issued an order that all craftsmen and descendants of craftsmen in Yanwang Mansion can study, but each family can only send one person, unless they are particularly outstanding.

Only Tao Yiping and Yang Ting stopped.

The location of the school is in the glass workshop next to the gunpowder workshop.

Zhu Di also ordered to build a new school next to the gunpowder workshop. As for the layout of the school, Guo An drew it himself.

At the same time, about Yan Wang's construction of a craftsman school to teach craftsmen and craftsmen's sons to read, caused an uproar in Beiping Mansion.

And quickly passed it to Yingtian City.

Soon, it caused dissatisfaction among many gentry and Confucian scholars.

In Beiping Mansion, many gentry or officials advised Zhu Di to change the school into a Confucian school. How could the sons of craftsmen deserve to be educated in the school?
Regarding this, Zhu Di scoffed and ignored it.

Later, Zhu Di disappeared all the officials who came to visit.

This time, Zhu Di's whole attention was focused on the Bohai Sea.

To be precise, it was placed on the generals of the Yan Palace, such as Xu Xiang, who was leading a fishing fleet on the Bohai Sea.

During this period of time, those Japanese pirates seemed to have figured out the rules of the sailing of Xu Xiang and other fleets.

More and more Japanese pirates came to harass, and they became more and more frequent.

Fortunately, there are eight large ships and more than 600 guards of Yan Wangfu. The sea ships are much taller than the Japanese pirate ships, and there are dozens of bowls and mouthpieces on board. Facing the invasion of Japanese pirate ships, they can protect themselves.

However, when did Xu Xiang and other Yan Palace guards suffer such humiliation, and were harassed by Japanese pirates from time to time, they couldn't pursue too deeply.

Although there is not much loss in itself, it is extremely disgusting.

But this time, when Xu Xiang came out of Beiping Mansion, his whole face was full of anticipation, wishing that he could meet those Japanese pirates as soon as he entered the Bohai Sea.

However, it has been two days since their fleet entered the Bohai Sea, and the Japanese pirates have not yet found them.

"Qianhu, can we really annihilate those Japanese pirates this time?"

Different from the self-confidence of Xu Xiang, the deputy thousand household and the other six hundred households, all the soldiers on board were a little apprehensive.

It is not afraid to fight them normally.

However, that Japanese pirate was like a madman, as soon as he got close to their big boat, he would desperately climb onto their big boat.

Moreover, the number of those Japanese pirates increased every time, as if they could not be killed.

Xu Xiang grinned directly, with a confident face, "Don't worry, when we wait for someone to come out this time, His Highness King Yan will wait for me with hundreds of incendiary bombs.

As long as those Japanese pirates dare to come, we will definitely be able to drive them into the sea to feed the fish. "

A general flag said again: "Qianhu, when the pirates came last time, there were a total of sixty ships, this time at least seventy ships.

We only gave [-] incendiary bombs on board, and there are not many other large ships. Can such a few incendiary bombs work? "

Xu Xiang glanced at the general banner, he knew exactly what his subordinates were thinking.

"You don't have to worry, one incendiary bomb and one pirate ship have given us peace of mind this time.

Coupled with the hundreds of two-foot fishing nets on the boat, combined with incendiary bombs, as long as the pirate ships dare to approach, they will not be able to escape.

This time, it will not be so easy for them to climb onto our big ship. "

The general flags and small flags surrounding Xu Xiang were relieved immediately, and each of them grinned and shouted: "Please don't worry, Qianhu, as long as those Japanese pirates dare to come this time, I will draw knives one by one. Kill them all."

"If you are wise and want to surrender, the last general and others will accept it."

"Hey, castrate them first, and then send them to the mine..."

"Hahaha……"

All the soldiers on the whole ship laughed.

……

Another two days later.

Suddenly there was a sound of war drums that made the blood boil.

On the vast sea, eight huge sea ships tightly protect the middle of ten small boats.

And outside the eight huge sea ships, there were nearly a hundred sea ships of different sizes, besieging the eight huge sea ships from all directions.

The Japanese pirates on the ship, like ants, rushed towards the eight large ships in the middle.

And on an inconspicuous ship on the periphery of the Japanese pirates, a few Japanese pirates looked at the center with eyes full of light. The faces of the eight huge sea-going ships were flushed, and their whole bodies were trembling with excitement.

Such a large sea ship, as long as they can bring back four ships, then they will no longer need to plunder in the sea so hard.

And this time.

On eight fishing boats.

Xu Xiang looked at the Japanese pirate ships that surrounded him, and those Japanese pirates with crazy faces, and smiled ferociously on his face.

"Order, all wrestlers prepare their fishing nets!"

"All the firemen tied up the incendiary bombs and fishing nets!"

"..."

"Light the fuse!"

"Throw a fishnet!"

"All bowls and mouthpieces, first bomb the outermost Japanese pirate ships! No need to save bombs and incendiary bombs!"

"Rumble..."

Following Xu Xiang's order.

From the eight large ships, huge fishing nets were quickly thrown out, with black iron balls emitting green smoke tied to them, covering the Japanese pirate ships below.

Some Japanese pirates, who were covered by the fishnet and struggled hard, were stunned for a moment when they saw the black bomb on the fishnet that was emitting green smoke and making noise.

Then he reacted, his pupils dilated directly, and his face deformed in shock.

"Baga, there is a bomb on the fishing net..."

While yelling, he wanted to tear off the fishing net on his body while rolling and crawling.

It's a pity that there are many Japanese pirates doing the same action as him. Several people pulled the same fishnet, not only did not tear off the fishnet, but even pulled it stronger.

"Boom~"

Until there was a loud noise, the bomb exploded directly, with white light shining and sparks flying.

The Japanese pirates who were affected were surprised to find that they were not killed by the bombing.

Everyone couldn't help but be overjoyed.

However, they soon felt a sharp pain in their bodies, and when they looked down, their faces changed drastically.

They were on fire.

Immediately, one by one jumped directly into the sea.

Then, the guards of King Yan's Mansion standing on the big boat saw that as the incendiary bombs exploded, the Japanese pirates who were covered by fishnets started to catch fire all over their bodies.

Afterwards, they all jumped into the sea one by one.

It's just that one didn't burn to death.

As for the burning boat, no one paid attention to it.

"Qianhu, how could this be?"

Seeing this, a general banner next to Xu Xiang couldn't help but feel unwilling.

At the same time, he drew the bow and arrow in his hand and shot towards the Japanese pirates in the water.

Xu Xiang shouted: "As long as the Japanese pirates jump into the water with fire on their bodies, as long as they don't approach me and the big boat, I don't care."

"Here!"

Although puzzled, all the soldiers on board obeyed the order.

At the same time, the same order was given to the other seven large ships.

All the soldiers were shooting at some Japanese pirates who were about to climb onto the boat.

At the same time, there were also large nets thrown towards the Japanese pirate ships.

For this trip to sea, hundreds of large nets of one or two feet were prepared on each ship.

Originally, those generals didn't pay much attention to these humble fishing nets.

However, this will make them more and more convenient.

……

(End of this chapter)