Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 219

[Chapter 219 New Firearm]

“What, Xiliang has surrendered to Beidi!”

Zhao Xu was shocked after hearing the news from Yanguan in the palace study.

According to Mo Yu’s words, Beidi’s envoys arrived at Yanguan, and Beidi’s troops once again suppressed the border.

Liu Fu happened to be there too, and he looked embarrassed, “It is said that Beidi has been conquering Xiliang, and the two sides have won and lost each other. They also fought back and forth with the imperial army and the Ma family in Jinzhou. Why did they suddenly surrender to Beidi?”

Zhao Zhao Xu frowned, looking at the map on the wall, his eyes roaming around the locations of Dasong, Beidi, and Xiliang.

“A high-rise building can’t be toppled in a day. It must be decayed inside. If you think about it, there are some clues. It stands to reason that Xiliang has occupied half of Jinzhou’s territory for ten years. However, Dasong has declined more and more in the past ten years, and Xiliang has not. There is an inch of progress, so it can be seen that the long years of war have made Xiliang strong outside the middle.”

Liu Fu nodded lightly, Dasong, Beidi, Xiliang, Xiliang is the weakest.

When fighting with Dasong in Jinzhou, he was conquered by Beidi, so he couldn’t sustain it.

Furthermore, Xiliang was at odds with Dasong because of the battle for the founding of the country.

Being attacked by Beidi, he never thought of forming an alliance with Da Song.

Between the two, it is natural to choose Beidi.

It’s just that in the east, Beidi already has a vassal state of Koryo, and now Xiliang has also become a vassal state of Beidi, and its strength has further expanded.

“It’s just that, Beidi will get help again, and his strength will increase greatly. I’m afraid his ambition to go south will continue to grow.” Liu Fu’s eyes almost overflowed with worry.

King Yan had just taken control of the four northern counties and was about to stabilize and develop. He did not expect such bad news.

In the future, I am afraid that the situation in northern Xinjiang will become more severe.

After all, Xiliang soldiers were also brave and good at fighting, and half of Jinzhou occupied by Xiliang fell into Beidi’s hands.

This is equivalent to the extension of the territory of Beidi to the territory of Dasong.

“Did they say what they were going to do in Jinling?”

It was already a fact that Xiliang surrendered to Beidi, and it was useless to be too annoyed.

What should be concerned at the moment is the purpose of Beidi envoys.

“They only said that they have important matters to discuss with the emperor, and they don’t want to talk about other things.” The soldier said.

Zhao Xu snorted, and said, “Tell Mo Yu to let

him go.” As the King of Yan, he himself did not have the right to refuse the envoys of the enemy country, so he could only let them go.

“Yes, Your Highness.” The soldier answered yes, turned and left.

When the figure of the soldier disappeared, Zhao Xu fell into deep thought.

Now that Dasong’s two traditional enemies have suddenly merged into one, the threat from the north has increased dramatically.

And now Liang has mastered the method of forging matchlock guns.

Of course he can’t fall behind.

In addition to artillery, flintlock guns that are more advanced than matchlock guns should also be produced.

Just like artillery, he will not follow the rules and repeat the development of these firearms.

There is no need for this.

Because the development of these firearms has many wrong paths.

With ready-made experience in his mind, he naturally wants to do it in one step.

With your existing technical capabilities, create what you can currently produce.

For example, skip the arquebus and go directly to the flintlock.

After all, these two firearms are just different ignition methods.

Matchlock guns are equipped with a long rope for soldiers. This kind of rope is like a mosquito coil, which can burn slowly after being ignited.

When fighting, just use the lighted match to ignite the gunpowder.

The flintlock gun uses flint, which is similar to the principle of a lighter, using the sparks generated by the impact of the flint to ignite the gunpowder.

But the difficulty lies in the firing device of the ignition.

One of this thing is material and the other is craftsmanship, which may take some time.

But it’s also a little faster than equipping an arquebus first and then a flintlock.

Thinking of this, he shook his wrist, took a piece of paper and started to draw.

…

Jinling.

Zhao Heng was taking a walk in the imperial garden, but beside him was Concubine Mi.

After the chaos in Yanzhou, he had lingering fears about the Yuan family.

And Zhao Xu stabilized Yanzhou and repelled the Beidi people, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Compared with the Yuan family, he still felt more at ease with his King Yan, so he decided to hand over the most important Yanguan to Zhao Xu, and then withdraw the imperial army from Yanguan after Zhao Xu’s recruit training was completed.

In this way, he can dispatch more imperial guards to guard against powerful clans.

However, he still remembers what his father said to him when he was dying.

As a king, the only thing you can trust is the power in your hands, and no one else can trust it, including your relatives.

But even so, it is a fact that Zhao Xu has greatly increased the royal prestige and made the Zhao clan proud in the capital.

Therefore, he still wants to show the greatness of the emperor’s grace and show his favor to him, so that King Yan can honestly guard the northern border.

After all, defense is defense, and grace is grace. For an emperor, this is not contradictory.

And the favor of Zhao Xu fell on Concubine Mi in the palace.

In recent days, Zhao Heng often took time to accompany Concubine Mi.

The two were walking together when an eunuch came over and handed a booklet to Liang Cheng.

Liang Cheng presented it to Zhao Heng again.

“It’s from Xu’er.” Zhao Heng pointed it out to Concubine Mi.

When Concubine Mi heard this, she immediately missed Zhao Xu, her smile was suppressed, and she looked unhappy.

When Zhao Heng saw her, he said, “My concubine misses Xu’er.”

“Speaking of which, Xu’er has been in Yanzhou for nearly a year.” Concubine Mi said, “There are so many honorable ministers who come to see my concubines these days. They all want to marry the daughter of the family to Xu’er, and Xu’er will be seventeen after the new year, and she is not young anymore, maybe it’s time to choose a princess for him.”

Zhao Heng nodded, and he said: “Now Fang Ping is in great chaos in Yanzhou, Xu’er must have a lot of affairs, after a while, when Yanzhou is settled, I will let him come back to visit his relatives.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.” Concubine Mi smiled immediately.

Zhao Heng looked at the memorial at this moment, and frowned when he saw Zhao Xu mentioning Zhunyiyan County Commercial Bank’s status as an imperial merchant, and frowned even deeper when he saw the maritime trade rights and the establishment of the Yanzhou Navy.

But in the back, when he saw that he said that he would send a batch of artillery to him, his brows suddenly relaxed.

Judging from the news he got, a large part of the reason why King Yan was able to retreat from the enemy at Yanguan was because of the artillery.

So, he didn’t say anything, but he had already thought about it in his heart.

At one point, he even wanted King Yan to hand over the casting method of the cannon.

But after thinking about it later, he dismissed the idea.

The reason is very simple, the current court is full of powerful people.

Wouldn’t he hand over the art of cannon casting from King Yan to the powerful clan?

In this way, isn’t he taking advantage of the powerful family, and the good things will naturally be given to his imperial army first.

So after some deep thinking, he didn’t want the casting technique.

But King Yan had to supply artillery to the imperial army.

Now that King Yan is so knowledgeable, it seems that he can’t refute King Yan’s face.

After all, King Yan’s request was not too much.

It’s easy to just talk about the status of the imperial merchants. I’m afraid that the powerful people will not let go of this maritime trade power.

(end of this chapter)