My father Yong Le Emperor, you let me keep a low profile

Chapter 42 The object of science and technology first service is war! (Kneeling for further reading, investment, collection!)
When Wang Jin mentioned guns, Zhu Gaoyu remembered.

Before he went to sea, he recruited several artisans to study new guns and artillery.

He had always kept this in mind, but too many things happened today, so he forgot about it.

Thinking of the drawings he left for the craftsmen before he left, Zhu Gaoyu couldn't sit still.

Let Wang Jin watch here, and he returned to Jinling with his guards.

By the way, he also brought back his personal belongings and two beautiful little maids.

"Your Highness, you are back!"

Uncle Zhang, who had just arrived at the entrance of the palace with Zhu Gaoyu, happily ran over to greet him, and personally led the horse for Zhu Gaoyu.

"My servant pays homage to His Highness, and congratulates His Highness on his safe return!"

The servants who lined up on both sides of the gate of the palace, hurriedly prostrate and see you!
Zhu Gaoyu waved his hand, and said to Uncle Zhang: "My personal maids are on the carriage, arrange them next to Chun'er's room, and find a mother-in-law to teach them the rules of Ming Dynasty and choose clothes that suit their status."

Zhang Bo quickly nodded and took notes, and followed Zhu Gaoyu into the opened middle door.

"There is a family banquet in the palace tonight, so there is no need to prepare our dinner."

After waving to the maids saluting in the courtyard, Zhu Gaoyu confessed and went straight to the right house.

This is the forbidden area of ​​the palace, except for the servants who serve here.

The servants of other mansions entered without notification, and the guards guarding the gate could directly kill them.

"Your Highness, someone wrote a letter of impeachment last year, saying that you are here to raise private soldiers with the intention of plotting rebellion."

Walking into the right house, waiting for Zhu Gaoyu to have no other servants around, the old housekeeper Zhang Bo reported a situation.

Zhu Gaoyu, who was thinking about how far his masters had studied, stopped slightly.

"who is it?"

"Censor Jianghan, the right-hand capital of the Procuratorate!"

Uncle Zhang announced his name and official position in a low voice.

"Has someone checked it out?"

Zhu Gaoyu frowned, recalling the memory of this person in his heart.

Although there are many court officials, Zhu Gaoyu thinks he has a very good memory.

As long as he has met people with both sides, he can almost remember them clearly.

But this Zuoqian capital censor, he has no impression at all.

This is a little strange.

According to what the other party said, he was also the censor of Zuoqian capital of the fourth rank, and he was no longer a petty official. How could he have no impression at all.

"He was just promoted after you went out, as for the people behind... don't know."

Noticing that Zhu Gaoyu frowned slightly, Zhang Bo quickly told the other party's situation.

Zhu Gaoyu suddenly realized.

He just said it.

He can almost call out the names of officials above the fifth rank of the imperial court, how could someone suddenly appear that he doesn't know.

"Hmph, it doesn't matter if you don't know, if you dare to show your head, you can kill him directly. I think he has a few heads enough to beat him."

Don't look at Zhu Gaoyu's cowardice in front of the old man, in fact, he is a very tough person, and he is also a narrow-minded person.

For this kind of person who dared to frame him, Zhu Gaoyu's response was to slap him to death.

"That, Your Highness, no need, he is already dead."

Seeing that His Royal Highness was a little annoyed, Zhang Bo quickly told the other party's fate.

Zhu Gaoyu turned around in astonishment.

"died?"

Zhang Bo nodded.

"He died that day, and was executed by His Majesty on charges of slandering the prince and disrupting royal relations."

"I went to see the corpse, it's so old..."

Zhang Bogang was about to tell the other party's tragedy, but Zhu Gaoyu's murderous eyes stared back at him.

Zhu Gaoyu took a deep breath, "Have you found the mastermind behind it?"

Old Zhang shook his head.

Zhu Gaoyu pointed at him.

"If you have nothing to do, go to the back kitchen to help pick vegetables and wash dishes..."

Zhu Gaoyu was speechless.

Everyone is dead, why are you still talking about this, are you idle and boring?
He was beaten to death because of an impeachment memorial, and the real murderer behind the scenes did not continue to investigate. Zhu Gaoyu could guess with his toes, who the murderer behind the scenes was probably.

To make the old man so angry, there must be no one else except those three brothers.

But speaking of it, Zhu Gaoyu was really curious.

Which brother is it that intends to take advantage of his absence to attack the palace?

Glancing at Lao Zhang who left in despair, Zhu Gaoyu pushed open the closed courtyard door and strode in.

This is an empty courtyard without any vegetation decoration.

The ground was rammed with loess, and several blacksmith furnaces glowing red were burning fiercely.

Next to the blacksmith's stove, there were several shirtless men, under the protection of soldiers, vigorously striking the iron with their hammers.

"Stop it all, Your Highness is coming down!"

Noticing that the door was opened, an old man who was watching everyone's work quickly asked them to stop.

"Meet Your Highness!"

All the people in the courtyard, including the soldiers, quickly fell to the ground and saluted.

"Get up, I've been away for more than a year, thank you everyone."

Zhu Gaoyu is very polite to these capable people.

Not only did everyone stand up with a smile, but he also personally helped up the old man who was talking.

"Master Li, how has your research progressed over the past year?"

Know that these craftsmen are low-level people.Not good at building relationships and communicating, Zhu Gaoyu went straight to the topic and asked about the research results of the other party over the past year.

Master Li, who had only met Zhu Gaoyu a few times, was indeed a little nervous.

Originally, he was still thinking about how to communicate with Zhu Gaoyu so as not to offend this big shot and lose his job.

Unexpectedly, the other party went straight to the topic without talking nonsense.

Speaking of his expertise, Master Li relaxed a lot. While talking about the situation, he warmly invited Zhu Gaoyu, and walked to the next room, which was guarded by soldiers and locked.

"Your Highness, according to your drawings and the principles you explained to us, we have produced some samples."

"It's just because the place is not suitable, we didn't test it, but according to the old man's experience in making guns for so many years, there is absolutely no problem with firing."

Leading Zhu Gaoyu into the house, Master Li opened one of the long locked boxes, revealing the contents.

Zhu Gaoyu was in no mood to talk to Master Li at this time, and his whole attention was attracted by the things inside the box.

This is a nearly perfect flintlock rifle.

According to Zhu Gaoyu's visual inspection.

The barrel is about 120 centimeters long, and the caliber is estimated to be 20 millimeters.

The overall shape is close to the most perfect state of the flintlock.

Perhaps in order to make the gun look better, the craftsman also carved patterns on it.

As a later generation, Zhu Gaoyu's understanding of guns in this current world is second, and no one dares to be the first.

Zhu Gaoyu didn't like Daming's firecracker at all, it sounded good, so let's forget about killing the enemy.

Although he prefers to build a kind of assault rifle that can chug, it can be done with Daming's current manufacturing capabilities, let alone assault rifles, it would be difficult to pull the rifling of the gun.

At the next best thing, Zhu Gaoyu chose a smoothbore flintlock, intending to use it as the main equipment for his future army in the early stage.

Although Zhu Gaoyu is not a fan of the military, he is also a little interested in guns, and he has read some materials while watching the video.

After coming to this world and gaining hands-on ability, he relied on his own memory to copy those materials to prevent accidental forgetting.

Ten years have passed now.

These materials, which were only graphics and text, finally became real objects, displayed in front of his eyes.

(End of this chapter)