Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 489

[Chapter 489 Rifled Gun]

“Who?”

Xu E looked overjoyed after hearing the first half of the sentence, but fell into worry again at the second half.

“You don’t need to know for now.” Zhao Xu said after pondering for a while.

Nodding her head, the worry on Xu E’s face eased slightly.

In today’s Great Song, only King Yan can save Princess Changle.

She is well aware of this.

After the emperor sent the marriage decree to Prince Chun’s mansion, Changle did not eat a drop of water for three days and three nights, and did not eat a single grain of rice.

If you want to starve yourself to death, you are willing to make love.

In desperation, she advised the princess of Changle to come to Yanzhou for rescue.

If King Yan can rescue him, Princess Changle will wait with hope.

If she still went to the grassland to make a kiss, she would have to die.

“Thank you, Your Highness, then I will ask you to write a letter now, and then I will wait in Tianxiang Tower.” Xu E said, “If Your Highness can save the princess, my master and servant will have nowhere to go. Live under the protection of His Highness.”

Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, what Xu E meant was that she and Princess Changle would live in Yanzhou from now on.

But also, it seems that they have nowhere to go.

He didn’t care about that.

On the one hand, she saved Princess Changle to repay Princess Changle’s favor.

No matter what her original purpose was.

After all, without her help, he would not be able to gain a foothold in Yan County.

The second purpose is to avenge Beidi.

The two of them are in a state of war, Beidi can humiliate him like this.

Naturally, he can also humiliate Beidi, coming and going without indecent assault.

As for protecting the two of them, he might offend the imperial court, and he is not afraid.

The power and clan are all separatist with great fanfare, and it is only a matter of time before Da Song falls apart.

In this state, there is no need for him to be restrained in doing things.

After all, Zhao Heng has to rely on him for Da Song to survive for a while.

“This is naturally excellent. Yancheng can only have two more beautiful beauties, and they can only flourish.” Zhao Xu smiled lightly.

When Xu E heard this, she smiled, and there seemed to be autumn water in her eyes.

Then I thought of something, and suddenly dimmed again.

After saluting, she said: “Your Highness, it’s getting late, so I won’t bother you.”

“Well, Feng’er, send Miss Xu off.” Zhao Xu said, looking at Xu E strangely.

In the past, this little girl wanted to hold on when she came, but now she seems to avoid suspicion.

Shaking his head, Zhao Xu no longer thinks about it. A woman’s heart and a needle in the sea cannot be guessed by a straight steel man like him.

Not half an hour after Xu E left, Xu Ke arrived at the palace.

“Your Highness, there are more than 30 people in Tianxiang Tower, and the officials are already eye-catching.” Xu Ke said.

Zhao Xu nodded when he heard the words, “How did you check, King Chun?”

“After the people from the Fourth Court arrived at the capital, they have been staring at King Chun, but King Chun has been eating, drinking and having fun, and found nothing unusual. Princess Changle and Xu E There have been a few intensive trips, which seemed mysterious.” Tsui Hark said.

“Is this King Chun really hiding too deep, or is he really innocent?” Zhao Xu couldn’t help frowning, “Keep staring, and the states and counties controlled by powerful clans such as the Dou family will have to Let’s investigate together, and we want to provide the king with a summary document every three days.” Zhao Xu said, the more chaotic the situation, the more important the information.

After a pause, he continued: “This king will ask Liu Fu to allocate another sum of money to your Fourth Court. Your information must be faster and more accurate.

” .” Tsui Hark suddenly felt a pressure.

This made him very guilty, he thought that the Fourth Academy was not good enough.

It is far less important than the role played by the royal army and the government office, and even worse than the newly established Black Shark Pirates.

“My lord knows what you’re thinking. Careful work involves a lot of work, and failure is commonplace. But don’t be discouraged. A good hunter sometimes loses a few rabbits.” Zhao Xu laughed.

Zhao Xu’s words reminded Tsui Hark of when he first joined Yanwei.

At that time, I was not afraid of anything.

“Xiaguan will definitely be the best hunter.” Tsui Hark gritted his teeth.

He believes that as the personnel under the control of the Fourth Academy become more and more sophisticated.

The ability of the Four Houses to obtain intelligence will become stronger and stronger.

The two are talking.

At this time, Feng’er came to report that Wang should invite him to the Military Division.

Thinking of what, Zhao Xu’s sense of humiliation provoked by Beidi because of his marriage disappeared instantly.

After getting on the horse, he went straight to the Bingzhang Division.

If he guessed correctly, Wang Ying should have improved some flintlock guns and turned them into rifled guns.

really.

After Zhao Xu arrived at the Military Division, Wang Ying immediately led him to the school grounds.

“Your Highness, this rifling is really difficult to pull.” Picking up a rifled gun, Wang Ying pointed to the spiral rifling inside and said, “Your Majesty asked three craftsmen to pull them day and night, and it took half a month to pull out a rifle. A gun barrel.”

Zhao Xu took the rifled gun and looked into the barrel.

The concave rifling lines are smooth and the twist distance is equal, which meets the standard of rifled guns.

Hearing this, he said, “Are you worrying about the improvement anymore?”

“I really can’t hide it from Your Highness. There are more than 100,000 flintlock guns in the current army. Even if the lower officials arrange 3,000 people to be responsible for the improvement, it will have to be close to It will take two years to complete the improvement, not to mention the tapered lead bullets His Highness wants.” Wang Ying couldn’t help shaking his head and sighing.

But when he spoke, his eyes wandered here and there.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu rolled his eyes, “Your king should want me to hand over the first batch of steam engines I made to your military commander, right?”

Wang Ying has never been good at lying, and he can detect it at a glance.

As the saying goes, the moon is the first to be near the water, and Wang Chong is the son of Wang Ying.

Wang Ying definitely knew the great power of the steam engine, so he was naturally envious.

Right now, Wang Chong’s compound steam engine has been successfully developed, and the next step is to produce each one.

He, Wang Ying, was naturally greedy.

“You don’t need to tell me, the first batch will definitely go to your military commander.” Zhao Xu said.

Picking up the rifled gun, he said, “But before going again, I want to try the rifled gun to see if you have mastered the engraving of the rifling.

” On the wooden bench, a broach is fixed at the other end, and it is pulled back and forth continuously.

This is hand drawn rifling.

Rifled guns appeared in the fifteenth century, but were also commonly equipped in the nineteenth century.

The cost of rifled guns is also one of the reasons why it has not been able to be equipped on a large scale.

After all, the material of the broach itself was not easy to manufacture at that time, let alone a gun barrel, which usually took a month to make.

“Please, Your Highness!” Wang Ying immediately asked for gunpowder and lead bullets.

Rifled guns are loaded in the same way as flintlock guns.

So, Zhao Xu just played with the cone bullet and stuffed it in.

This conical bomb is similar to a top, but is slightly recessed at the bottom of the top.

In this way, when the gunpowder explodes, the bottom of the bullet will be enlarged to seal the chamber and achieve maximum power.

“Bang…”

Aiming at the wooden board in the distance, Zhao Xu pulled the trigger.

After the white smoke and the huge roar ended, his body shook.

(end of this chapter)