Please ask me to be the emperor

It was the first time Ma Yingniang saw such an exquisite and gorgeous weapon, and she loved it very much. Afraid that Zhang Shun would regret it, she asked again: "For me?"

"Yes, here you go." Zhang Shun smiled and said, "I'm not very good at this. You can practice more when you have time, and you can help me with the musket later!"

"Okay, okay! It's better to obey orders than to be respectful." Ma Yingniang agreed and put away the weapon happily.

When Han Lin saw that Gao Yizhi had been abducted by Zhang Shun, he only said that Zhang Shun had completed the task. He secretly took a few steps back, looking for a chance to escape.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun saw his little move at a glance, and walked over with a smile and said: "The priest has gone with me. As a devout believer, Mr. Han, don't you want to accompany him for a while?"

Where does Han Lin want to accompany him? He didn't know how to refuse, so he could only say with a sad face: "I have a mother above me, and a wife and children below me."

Zhang Shun didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and threatened in a low voice: "You are coming with me today. There are believers who can cover you up. I just say that you were caught by the bandits and you are nowhere to be found."

"If I are forced to enter Jiangzhou City and capture you, there is no doubt that someone will slander you to the court and say that you are a 'thief'! Then not only will you not have any good fruits to eat, but you will also bring trouble to your family and your descendants!"

Han Lin had no choice but to agree in a low voice, and followed Zhang Shun out of the church with Gao Yizhi dejectedly.

Now that the matter is over and an additional "Italian" priest has been coaxed, Zhang Shun is very satisfied. He was afraid that something might happen if he stayed away from the city, so he hurriedly prepared to return to the city.

Fortunately, Gao Yizhi and Han Lin traveled extensively, preached everywhere, and were also quite proficient in riding skills. Zhang took them by the way and returned to Luoyang City in five or six days at high speed.

At this time, the outside of Luoyang City was much deserted, and almost all the markets, houses, and workshops outside Luoyang City were gone. There were even fewer people watching the excitement outside the city.

Someone saw another group of people running outside the city, standing sparsely in the shade of the trees and watching. They would point and point from time to time, but it was obviously much less noisy than when Zhang Shun left the city before.

Only the earthen wall outside the moat to block horses still quietly guarded the outside of Luoyang City. This earthen wall was built in the fourth year of Chongzhen. Because of the peasant uprising, the imperial court was worried that it would harm the Fu domain, so it imposed labor services.

Outside the moat of Luoyang, build a series of earthen walls to block horses, about one foot high and thirty-three miles long in total. They also took the opportunity to divert water into the trench, turning the Luoyang trench into a moat to enhance the defense of Luoyang City.

Unexpectedly, the horse wall could not stop Zhang Shun's horses, and the moat could not protect the city of Luoyang.

These defense facilities were built one after another by the imperial court with money and corvee labor for more than a year. In the end, Zhang Shun was given an advantage.

Although Gao Yizhi and Han Lin were reluctant to follow Zhang Shun, they were both here now and wanted to show off their talents.

In particular, although Gao Yizhi was not very proficient in building "Western fortresses", he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs running away. He had full confidence in Zhang Shun, who was willing to adopt "Western fortress" city-building techniques, to defend the city.

When Zhang Shun arrived in the city, Lady Hong, Song Xiance, Zhang Shenyan, Governor Zhang and others quickly put down their work and came to greet him.

Everyone sat down in order of superiority. Zhang Shun didn't have time to take a breath and quickly asked about the situation inside and outside the city and the preparations for city defense.

Among the crowd, only Governor Zhang had experience. He quickly replied: "There were originally 50,000 shi of grain in the city, but more than 11,000 shi were confiscated by the officials in the city. The rebels originally stored grain and transported 5,000 shi to buy the grain and grain stored in the hands of the people. There are four thousand shi of grain in other places around, and the total amount of grain is 70,000 shi."

Zhang Shun calculated in his mind that he now has about 1,700 bodyguards and cavalry under his command, Xiao Qinhu has brought 3,600 infantry, Jiang He has 500 swordsmen and shieldmen, plus Zhang 300 soldiers. He bought a thousand "hair gourds", although the training has not been completed, they can be used to defend the city.

There are more than 5,000 infantry in total, plus cavalry and civilian staff, and there are almost 7,000 people to eat. If the people in the city are not considered, there will be enough food for three years. Zhang Shun still didn't believe it. The imperial court had the ability to besiege Luoyang City for three years.

So Zhang Shun nodded and indicated that the food preparation was barely enough.

The governor continued: "Lushi has a lot of sulfur. Previously, the craftsmen refined four thousand kilograms of sulfur besides making iron. As for charcoal, there are countless people because of the burning of wasteland. One hundred thousand kilograms can be transported from Baodu Village More than that. Only saltpeter is in short supply, so I have to smelt and buy it from multiple sources to make up 10,000 jins."

"The remaining pig iron also contains more than 100,000 kilograms and 20,000 kilograms of wrought iron. They are all made from charcoal and have excellent texture, which cannot be compared with charcoal iron."

Zhang Shun frowned. He didn't know what the best ratio of black powder would be in later generations. The commonly used ratios in this era were 1 liang of saltpeter, 1 qian and 4 cents of sulfur, and 1 qian and 8 cents of willow charcoal.

If we use sulfur as the standard and don't pay attention to charcoal, we can basically prepare 40,000 kilograms of gunpowder. But if we use saltpeter as the standard, we may only be able to prepare 13,000 kilograms of gunpowder.

Zhang ordered by the way: "There is still too little gunpowder. Ask Li Baihu to go to the mountains to buy it. Lu's has many mines, and mines and mines often use this stuff. Even if the quality is not good, you can buy some in large quantities to avoid running out of gunpowder."

Afterwards, they discussed several more issues. After Zhang Shun dealt with them one by one, the four of them, Hong Niangzi, Zhang Shenyan, Governor Zhang and Song Xiance, were left to introduce Gao Yizhi and Han Lin to everyone.

Zhang Shenyan, Governor Zhang and Han Lin had heard about each other, and the three of them couldn't help but exchange polite greetings before entering meditation.

Governor Zhang took the lead and introduced: "I have personally led people to measure it. It is eight miles and 345 steps around Luoyang City. It is four feet high and has a wide base. The trench is five feet deep and three feet wide. The city gate has four It is called Jianchun in the east, Lijing in the west, Changxia in the south, and Anxi in the north. The four gates of the city are covered with heavy towers, a moon city is built outside, and four turrets are constructed, with a total of thirty-nine platforms."

In the Ming Dynasty, 360 steps were equivalent to one mile, which is about 560 meters in later generations. Luoyang City is nearly square, with a city wall usually about 800 paces long, which is about 1,200 meters in later generations.

Gao Yizhi is not like Han Lin, so there is no psychological burden. He hurriedly said: "I haven't had time to survey the city yet, but I'm just judging it based on common sense. For an ordinary square city, you need to set up an enemy tower at each of the four corners, making them all triangles. The old horse-faced platform is not legal and needs to be changed to a triangle. become."

When Zhang Shun heard that he seemed to understand something, he ordered someone to bring him pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and asked Gao Yizhi to draw a sketch.

Gao Yizhi did as he was told, and Zhang Shunyi couldn't help but feel happy. It turns out that this so-called enemy platform is a triangular horse face.

However, its frontal shape is triangular, which can reduce the threat of artillery to enemy platforms. The back of the triangle is sub-waist-shaped, and the artillery can be hidden behind it to fire artillery calmly and attack the enemy sideways, which is very clever.

Zhang Shun couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly took them to the city wall to inspect Luoyang City in order to improve the Luoyang city system according to the actual situation.