My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 74 The Emperor Can't Get It Right

  Zhu Gaochi seemed to be pulled out of his soul all of a sudden, his eyes suddenly became moist, and he only heard him whisper: "This...it's no wonder I... no wonder I...you want to harm people, you want to harm my family Anshi..."

   Just then... the door of the hunting room opened.

  But Deng Jian, who was waiting outside, heard the movement and quietly opened the door.

  When he saw the scene inside, Deng Jian's legs were so frightened that his legs went limp.

  Zhou Jing has fallen in a pool of blood.

  His Royal Highness curled up in the corner and trembled, chanting intermittently: "If you die, no one will know about An Shi. This palace... has no choice but to..."

  Deng Jian seemed to understand something.

  He was silent.

  Then silently walked up to Prince Zhu Gaochi, took the arrow in Zhu Gaochi's hand, and then went to Zhou Jing's corpse, and stabbed another arrow.

   Pulled out the arrow, Deng Jian stuck the arrow in his calf again.

   "Uh..." Deng Jian let out a scream, sweating like soybeans.

He didn't care about these, and pulled out the arrow from his calf, limped to Zhu Gaochi, endured the severe pain, bent his body and said to Zhu Gaochi: "His Royal Highness, Ying Tianfu Cheng Zhou You are so daring to assassinate His Highness, he hurt the servant first, the servant fought back vigorously, and finally killed this beast, Your Highness, you... are shocked."

  Zhu Gaochi reacted suddenly, and he took a deep look at Deng Jian.

  Deng Jian endured the pain hard, trying to help Zhu Gaochi up.

  Zhu Gaochi tried his best to support the wall and stood up, his emotions gradually calmed down a lot, and he only said: "Thanks for your hard work."

  Deng Jian bowed and said: "The slaves are no longer human since they entered the palace. It is their duty to share the Lord's worries."

Zhu Gaochi closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened his mouth, but found that his teeth were still trembling: "Needless to say that he committed an assassination, if he did, it would be a great crime to exterminate the three clans. He is dead, and I can't bear to teach him His whole family was buried with him."

  Deng Jian shook his head: "How about the crime, we can try to re-issue it in the future, but if it is not for the assassination, the matter cannot be covered up."

Zhu Gaochi said painfully: "Hey... I was a little panicked at the time. He said that he knew that An Shi had committed a serious mistake, and he hoped that he would expose it in exchange for the affirmation of his father. I was afraid and angry at the same time. What I am afraid of is that if this palace disagrees, I am afraid that this person will not get what he wants, change the family, and stand up to expose An Shi. I am also angry at this shameless person..."

  Deng Jian's face was calm, he frowned and endured the pain and said: "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die. Your Highness doesn't need to take these things to heart, but...is something wrong with Mr. An Shi?"

  Zhu Gaochi said: "If what this person said is credible, then...this matter should not affect An Shi for the time being. This matter...you should pretend that nothing happened, and no one should mention it."

   "Here."

  Zhu Gaochi glanced at his **** leg, and said, "Go and call someone in, and besides... heal the wound well."

   "Here."

   Soon, Deng Jian's horrified voice came from the hunting house: "Come here, come here, someone is assassinating His Highness, come here..."

  ...

  Habayashi Youwei is located between Bei'anmen and Ouchi. The guards stationed here mainly protect the safety of the north of the Forbidden City.

  Originally, there was a high wall separating this place from the inner palace. On the surface, they were guards, separated from the inner palace by a wall, but in fact, the nobles in the palace would never know the existence of such a military horse.

  However, the current Emperor Yongle is the emperor on horseback, but he likes to come here to ride a horse and review the soldiers.

   Today, Zhu Di brought Zhu Neng, Duke of Cheng, and Qiu Fu, Duke of Qi, to Habayashi Youwei's camp.

  Zhu Di is in a good mood.

  Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu are also in a good mood.

   On the surface, they don't care about their son in prison, but they still remember it in their hearts.

   A few days ago, I heard that my son was going to be sent to Qiongzhou. I was a false alarm, but today is the day my son is released.

  Thinking of my own son, who finally got out of the cage, he can go home and take a good bath, and when he goes back to have a beating, he feels much more at ease.

  But Zhu Di soon became unhappy.

  Zao Zuo Bureau made gunpowder kits according to the prescription.

  However, a ridiculous problem soon appeared.

  After learning about the situation, Qiu Fu reported to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and Yubayashi Youwei have tried several times, and found that this gunpowder bag...is not very useful."

   "Not very useful?"

"The power of the gunpowder bag is indeed strong, but because of its power, if the soldiers throw it like a dog, they will definitely hurt themselves. The dog was lucky last time, and the gunpowder bag happened to be thrown into the wall, and it exploded , did not hurt myself."

  Zhu Di nodded and nodded: "The power is not small, it is really not suitable for throwing, so you can use a cannon."

"The problem lies in this cannon. The minister ordered people to try it with the current cannon. It turned out that because the power of the gunpowder pack is not small, once it explodes, the barrel can't bear it. Among the three cannons, one cannon was fired. The gun was fired, and the soldiers were almost killed, and two people were injured. There is also a cannon, the muzzle has changed shape, and it is considered useless. There is only one gun, which is barely usable, but if this bombing method is used, it will hurt the enemy a lot. Thousands, self-defeating eight hundred, isn't it ridiculous?"

  It's too powerful...I actually have troubles.

  Zhu Di was speechless for a while, but he was proficient in military formations, so he understood Qiu Fu's meaning very well. He nodded and said, "Since ordinary cannons can't bear it, why not try mortars?"

   Mortar gun is a kind of gun with a short and thick body, which looks like a stone mortar. The advantage of this gun is that the barrel is particularly thick.

  The ironmaking process in this era is limited. Since the strength of the iron cannon is not enough, use the thickness to make it up.

  After hearing this, Qiu Fu smiled wryly and shook his head and said, "I have also tried it. Ordinary mortars still don't work, but there is a kind of mortar that can withstand it."

  Zhu Di said: "Since that's the case, then it's the best."

  Qiu Fu said: "But there is another problem. This mortar weighs 1,300 catties..."

  Zhu Di: "..."

  General guns are lighter by two to three hundred catties, and heavier ones are indeed more than four hundred catties, and some even weigh a thousand catties.

  However, given the current supply and transportation conditions of the army, artillery weighing more than 1,000 jin would not be able to travel with the army at all, because in Daming, ordinary horses can bear up to 400 to 500 jin, which is already the upper limit.

"Such artillery can only be used to defend the city. Even if it is to defend the city, the cost is astonishing. It is a thousand catties of iron. If it is with the army... I am afraid it will not be used. Tens of thousands of troops are chasing the north. If you bring some of these people Dude, it has become a burden instead."

  Zhu Di shook his head: "What I want is to sweep across the desert, go straight to Longting, and defend what kind of bird city? If you really want to defend the city, such cannons are not very useful."

   "So I think that this new gunpowder...is still temporarily discontinued..."

  Zhu Di suddenly showed a look of reluctance: "Stop production? It's a pity that such a thing has been discontinued. Hey... Is there no other way?"

  Qiu Fu didn't say anything anymore.

  Because he really has no other way.

  The Dukes, Marquises, and Earls of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion got together and pondered for more than half a month. The generals below did not have any constructive suggestions.

   It can be seen that this thing... is really a tasteless one.

   Just when the three monarchs and ministers were frowning.

   But a flying horse came.

  A school lieutenant in Jinyi stopped his horse in the distance, and ran quickly, rolling and scrambling. When he got under Zhu Di's horse, he bowed down and said, "Your Majesty... it exploded, and it exploded again."

   "It exploded..."

  Qiu Fu didn't know why, but suddenly had a bad premonition.

   People who also feel bad are Zhu Neng.

   "Where did it explode?"

   "There is a Zhuangzi in Qixia Temple. The owner of the Zhuang, known as Shen Dashan, has always been kind and generous. But today...his Zhuangzi was surrounded by gunpowder."

   Zhu Di frowned after hearing this, "Who did it?"

   "This..." The captain was silent.

  Actually, when Zhu Di asked this sentence, he already had some eyebrows in his heart.

  As for Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng who were beside Zhu Di, the smiles on their faces were gone.

  Powder pack…

damned.

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

   Who else?

   "Is it that little bastard?" Qiu Fu was furious and questioned the captain without caring about his appearance.

   "Jin Yiwei... Jin Yiwei said... he was nearby, and indeed saw Mr. Qiu's trace..."

  Zhu Neng resentfully said: "Is there...is there..."

  The captain looked at Zhu Neng and nodded slowly.

  Zhu Neng felt his whole body was cold.

  As for Qiu Fu, he stamped his foot and scolded: "Niezi, Niezi..."

  Zhu Di was sullen in his heart, but did not show his expression: "They are not hurt."

  When Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu heard this, their bodies trembled, as if they had also thought of a terrible thing.

   They already have a very thorough understanding of gunpowder kits.

   This thing is extremely powerful. When it was thrown at Baihu Liangwu last time, it happened to be blocked by a high wall, so no casualties were avoided.

   But this time, is there such luck?

  These boys really don’t know how to write dead characters, this thing... can’t be thrown at all.

  And since there was such a big commotion, Jin Yiwei has already paid attention in time, which shows that the power this time will never be smaller than the last time. If it is still like the last time, it will be death or injury.

  Although they are very hard-hearted, even if their son is in prison, they will not frown, but after all, it is because they know Zhu Di and know that His Majesty is just giving these guys a little bit of trouble.

  But if something really went wrong with this baby, she would really want to cry without tears.

  Qiu Fu turned pale with fright. He stared at the captain and said, "My son...my son...what's the matter?"

The captain said: "This... I haven't seen any casualties among the three murderers in the capital. In fact, they have been controlled by Jin Yiwei, and they are not injured. It is said... It is said... They were shot by cannons, two hundred steps away .”

  Two hundred steps...

  Zhu Di, Qiu Fu and others looked at each other.

  (end of this chapter)