Chapter 1644: Sharp Weapons Looking at the situation outside through the crystal window, Zhu Houzhao became more and more curious.
In fact, at this time, he had heard from the report of the factory guard that the Zhenguo Mansion had enclosed land on the outskirts of Beijing and built a high wall, with a radius of several miles and a strict prohibition.
Originally, the meaning of this factory guard was that it was very dangerous for the Zhenguo Government to do this, this is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the important land of Gyeonggi, you enclose the land to build a wall, not to mention, and idlers are exempted from entering, which is a little taboo, who knows if you are raising dead soldiers and preparing to rebel It's just that Zhu Hou took care of the report and didn't care at all, and it was just Ye Chunqiu who went.
At this point, Zhu Houzhao is very clear, he is not like his ancestors, but he does not suspect people and does not use suspicious people.
He trusted Ye Chunqiu.
If it weren't for that, how could there be the legendary Eight Tigers at the beginning, wasn't it because they got Zhu Houzhao's unconditional trust that they were rampant Now, Zhu Houzhao was really brought into the high wall that this idler was free from, and Zhu Houzhao had countless questions in his heart, what was in it, was the weapon workshop or But Zhu Houzhao thought about it carefully, if it was just a workshop of ordinary weapons, why should he go around so quickly, it would be too extravagant.
Even if you try artillery, it is not appropriate, because it is too easy to hurt the innocent, so under normal circumstances, the weapon workshops of the Zhenguo Mansion, especially sharp weapons such as artillery, are transported to the ring side of Tianjin Wei for test firing.
Zhu Houzhao kept guessing in his heart, but he didn't have a clue for a while, he just felt that the carriage had been walking here for a long time and finally stopped.
Ye Chunqiu, who was in front, had also dismounted, and when he approached Zhu Houzhao's car, he said, "Please get out of the car, Your Majesty." ” Zhu Houzhao got out of the car at this time, and suddenly, he didn't have time to smile with Ye Chunqiu.
I saw that in front of him was a behemoth, nearly three people tall, covered in iron sheets, with a chimney on its head and a row of wheels under it, all cast in stainless steel, and two tracks under the wheels.
Zhu Houzhao looked at this behemoth in surprise, and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
After a long while, his eyes sparkled, and he said in surprise: "What is this?"
"Steam car."
Ye Chunqiu replied: "Thanks to Your Majesty's blessing, the craftsmen of the Zhenguo Mansion have raised it for two years according to the idea of the younger brother, spent hundreds of thousands of silver taels, and hundreds of craftsmen have worked hard, this steam car has just come out of the sky, and the younger brother has been improving and experimenting with it for half a year, and now, it has finally been finalized, this steam car, the younger brother intends to name it Zhengde, I don't know if Your Majesty is willing."
Zhu Houzhao still didn't quite understand what this was, but looking at this steel behemoth, the momentum was incomparable, and he suddenly thought that if such an ironclad car rushed into the Tatar cavalry formation, it would be so magnificent and terrifying So Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask excitedly: "This is a sharp weapon against the Tatars."
Ye Chunqiu smiled and said: "No, Your Majesty, this is a sharp weapon against all enemies, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, but some people regard my Daming as an enemy, Your Majesty can use this steam car to defeat it."
It's just that its role is not for battlefield killing. ” Zhu Houzhao was stunned, frowned puzzled, and said: "If it doesn't rush to kill, how can it kill the enemy?"
Ye Chunqiu said: "He can make hundreds of thousands of troops, within half a month, from the Beijing Division, to Ningxia, thousands of miles away at any time, so that once Qinglong is attacked, it only takes one day, and the vanguard military horses of the Beijing Division can arrive at Qinglong to help."
Your Majesty, do you still remember the southern expedition during the Yongle period?"
Of course, Zhu Houzhao knew that this was a war in which Emperor Wen conquered Annam.
Ye Chunqiu said: "In May of the fourth year of Yongle, he issued a letter to him, to levy against Annan, and to send troops, but in December, my Ming army's horses, only entered Annan, just gathered the army, prepared grain, it took seven months, Your Majesty, seven months, if there is this steam car, as long as Your Majesty makes up your mind, an edict, within a month, countless troops, can be on the border of Annan, at any time, all the grain and grass, can also be supplied sufficiently, endlessly, sent to the front line, Your Majesty thinks, this steam car, is not much sharper than artillery. ” Ye Chunqiu's little story made Zhu Houzhao suddenly realize that he finally knew the role of the steam car.
At this time, I heard Ye Chunqiu say: "In addition to being able to transport quickly, more importantly, the biggest benefit of this steam car is to save people's labor."
The people's strength is precious, and any war, 200,000 troops, need to levy hundreds of thousands of people to help in the war, which not only makes the people suffer from forced labor, but also makes many young and strong laborers delay production, which can be said to be a waste of labor and money, and now, all this can be solved.
Your Majesty, with this steam car, there will be no more earth emperors in the sky who are far away from the emperor of the sky, this is Amaterasu. ” Ye Chunqiu blew the sky wildly.
Zhu Houzhao was stunned when he heard it, how could he feel like he was fooling me if he was so powerful Ye Chunqiu knew Zhu Houzhao well, and when he saw Zhu Houzhao's stunned expression, he understood in his heart, and he was afraid that Zhu Houzhao would not believe it, so he said: "Then, please ask Your Majesty to board the car." ” Testing novelties has always been Zhu Houzhao's favorite thing, not to mention that the person next to him is Ye Chunqiu, Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate, and directly followed Ye Chunqiu to the carriage behind the front of the steam locomotive.
When he arrived at the car, Zhu Houzhao was surprised again.
This carriage is huge, rows of chairs are fixed, but it is very uncomfortable to sit, Zhu Houzhao felt that his ass was panicked, and he was annoyed for a while, at this moment, the carriage suddenly began to shake violently, Zhu Hou couldn't take care of this, his face changed, from the crystal glass window, he saw the smoke billowing outside, the huge white smoke rising into the sky, just when Zhu Houzhao didn't know what to do, he sat down and suddenly began to move, like a rickety old cow, began to move slowly, under the carriage, Make a clicking sound.
Before Zhu Houzhao could react for a while, he saw that many scenes outside the window began to retreat, retreating faster and faster, faster and faster, and the shaking of the carriage was reduced at this time, but the rumbling sound was still continuous.
Zhu Houzhao's entire jaw was about to fall, and this thing actually moved He couldn't help but face Ye Chunqiu and said, "There are no horses in front of this." ” Ye Chunqiu nodded and said, "Your Majesty, there are no horses." ” Under the constraints, the noise of the steam car in this era was extremely high, and Ye Chunqiu almost yelled at Zhu Houzhao to let Zhu Houzhao hear it clearly.
Zhu Houzhao was shocked and subconsciously said: "Without a horse, who will pull the cart?"
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