The guards were holding turtle-dove guns. The turtle-dove guns were mounted on stands at three o'clock and one line. Everyone's eyes were looking at the target plate placed seventy steps away, with a red heart painted on it.
"Wait a minute."
Hearing Lin Jing's voice, everyone couldn't help but look at the prince with some doubts.
Lin Jing smiled slightly and said: "I heard that the turtle dove gun can wear heavy armor a hundred steps away. I want to see it today. Go and hang the iron plate on the target plate."
Soon, several sergeants walked quickly to the target plate with iron plates and hung the iron plates on it.
Under the gaze of everyone, the guards couldn't help but feel a little nervous. They breathed lightly and stared at the iron plates in front of them, as if those iron plates were Houjin soldiers wearing heavy armor.
After giving the order, the guards pulled the trigger one after another. The snake rod on the turtle dove's gun sank slightly, and soon the gunpowder was ignited, making a "chichi" burning sound, followed by a loud noise.
Thick white smoke appeared around the guards, but it made everyone's noses slightly itchy.
Lin Jing ignored the acrid smoke and raised his head to look at the target in the distance, but couldn't see clearly, so he asked: "What's going on?"
Several sergeants hurriedly ran over. They checked the four target disks respectively, and then began to report the results one after another.
"Target No. 1 hits the target, but the iron plate has not penetrated!"
"Target No. 2 missed—"
"Target No. 3 missed—"
"Target No. 4 hit, the iron plate penetrated!"
When the news was reported, the expressions of the first three of the four guards suddenly changed, while the last one looked ahead silently, seemingly unaffected by the news.
Soon, the sergeants brought over the two hit iron plates. Lin Jing stepped forward to check, and saw a small groove on the first iron plate, with the marbles embedded in it.
After actually passing through, a very clear big hole appeared on the second iron plate.
When he saw this scene, Lin Jingcai nodded slightly and said to Tang Ruowang and Bo Jue on the side: "Look, even if we all use turtle doves, it will be difficult to cause serious casualties to Houjin's heavy-armored dead soldiers. This is also
It shows that we urgently need flintlock muskets to make up for the lack of firepower."
"What His Highness said is that we have understood the importance of the flintlock gun. We will definitely produce the first prototype gun within half a month at the latest."
Bo Jue nodded slightly, of course he understood how tight time was at the moment.
"Okay, with your words, I feel relieved. As for the rifling part, there is Master Laotang."
Lin Jing said softly: "To forge the barrel, you can choose to use a hydraulic forging hammer... to speed up the hammering. You can solve this problem privately."
The hydraulic forging hammer is not a very high-tech thing. In fact, the principle of the water hammer that has been used since the Han Dynasty is similar to the hydraulic forging hammer. In addition, Tang Ruowang is no stranger to the hydraulic forging hammer. Therefore, Lin Jing did not solve this problem.
No need to say too much.
When he returned to Duanben Palace, Lin Jing had not rested for a while when he saw Li Jizhou coming forward and softly reported: "Your Highness, Lord Luo, commander of the Jinyi Guards, is here..."
Luo Yangxing? What is he here for? Is he planning to attack Wu Changshi?
Lin Jing was overjoyed. Ever since he visited the capital this time, everything he saw about the Ming Dynasty made him feel disappointed. Among them, Zhou Yanru played a significant negative role, especially those under his sect.
During that time in Wuchang, he even reached out to the Jingcheng Iron Works and Anmin Works.
"Please come quickly, Tairu!"
Lin Jing stood up quickly, but after he just said these words, he continued: "Please Tairu come to my study immediately, and ask Li Ruolian to come over immediately."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Although Li Jizhou didn't understand the reason behind this, he was also keenly aware of something wrong.
Soon, Luo Yangxing mysteriously followed Li Jizhou into Duanben Palace, and then Li Ruolian also entered the study. The three of them muttered in the study for a long time, and finally saw them coming out together.
With a smile on his face, Lin Jing held Luo Yangxing's hand meaningfully and said, "Tauru, it's all thanks to you this time. If it's all done, you will be the first to do it!"
"I don't dare. All this is thanks to Chitose's plan and Chengfu's information!"
Luo Yangxing smiled and said politely. Although he didn't want to take credit, the smile in his eyes lingered.
Li Ruolian quickly said politely: "Master Luo is really too polite. I just did something that I should do."
Lin Jing laughed, "You two, don't be humble, I'm just waiting for good news this time!"
"Yes, Your Highness, I will honor your orders!"
In mid-May, the already turbulent court of the Ming Dynasty once again caused an uproar. However, this time the center of the turmoil was not Prince Lin Jing, but the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Yanru, and his disciple Wu Changshi.
It turned out that Hao Chang was responsible for impeaching Wu Changshi and Zhou Zhonglian, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, claiming that Wu Changshi and Zhou Zhonglian had stolen power, accepted bribes for personal gain, secretly drafted cabinet votes, and predicted everything. In short, these two people were separated from Zhou Yanru, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty.
Regardless of the relationship, Zhou Yanru is the sinner of the world, and Wu Changshi is the sinner of Zhou Yanru.
This memorial undoubtedly dropped a big stone on the originally unquiet court, but before Chongzhen could react, the imperial censor Jiang Gongchen also wrote a memorial to enumerate Wu Changshi's crimes, and mentioned in it that Wu Changshi and Zhou Yan
Dong Yanxian, a Confucian scholar, was a treacherous person on the outside, took bribes and perverted the law, presided over the provincial examination, accepted bribes, and even openly promised that so and so could be on the imperial list. Even illiterate people could win the exam as long as they paid money.
The key is that these contents have not really angered Chongzhen completely. What really ignited Chongzhen's anger is another news, that is, Zhou Yanru "tong nei"!
Of course, the so-called "Tong Nei" is not the shoe embroidery case between Zhou Yanru and Tian Fei as written by later generations, but Zhou Yanru had a good relationship with Zhou Kui, the Marquis of Jiading, and often sent his retainer Dong Shanren to bring heavy money to Zhou Kui's son Zhou Jian to gamble.
, and deliberately lost all the gold and silver to Zhou Jian, and then Zhou Jian had a very good relationship with Dong Shanren, and often had meals with him, so Dong Shanren got a lot of confidential information from Zhou Jian, and provided
Zhou Yanru.
Obviously, Zhou Yanru, as an important official of the imperial court, was associated with his relatives. This made Chongzhen deeply fearful and completely caused Chongzhen to lose his trust in Zhou Yanru.
At this time, everyone inside and outside the court was quietly waiting for the results of Chongzhen's handling. This chapter has been completed!