As the leader of the Ming Dynasty's martial arts, the British Duke Zhang Xun hurriedly entered the Xiyuan with a few guards. This scene made people think a lot.
Tongzhou.
Dongchang Hundred Household Office.
Early morning.
It was lighting up the fire in the barracks.
Now that Shen Lie has money in his hands, he feels more confident.
Very rarely did he put on his gorgeous bullfighting uniform early in the morning. He stood in front of the team with his hands behind his back, his young and heroic face full of majesty.
"Bai Youcheng!"
"exist!"
"Bai Chengli."
"exist!"
With a low voice, the Dongchang elite soldiers, mainly composed of the Bai surnamed sons of Tianjin Zuowei, also put on the unique brown clothes of the Dongchang Tiqi.
A line of young men from military families looked at the adults of their Qianhu family with awe, the bullfighting uniform that represented the majesty of the royal family.
This is already quite a bit enterprising.
Clicked Mao.
More than a hundred elite soldiers began to drill, and Shen Lie began to worry about the equipment of his elite soldiers, which was based on the establishment of a hundred households in the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.
The company under his command has a total of twenty swordsmen, thirty archers, forty spearmen, ten musketeers, and the rest are officers.
In the entire organization, the sword players in the front row wear heavy armor, and the back row wears cotton armor. If necessary, they can even wear double armor.
Shen Lie pondered.
Calculated in this way, the musket equipment rate of the mighty Ming army is even less than 10%. Such weapons and arms are obviously out of date.
Because this is basically the establishment of the Hongwu period when the Ming Dynasty was founded.
This organization has not changed in almost two hundred years.
That is to say...
As early as two hundred years ago, the Ming army had systematically used musketeers, but there was basically no development in the next two hundred years.
Two whole centuries of stagnation!
even.
The entire Tianjin Zuowei could not even muster ten muskets.
Even more so.
Shen Lie picked up a fire gate gun brought back from Tianjin Zuowei, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he almost fell over.
Is this also called a musket?
This is just a broken wooden stick with a broken bronze pipe tied to it. It doesn't even have a front sight, because it's patinated over time.
I wiped the patina with my thumb and looked carefully at the inscription on the broken pipe.
"Made in the second year of Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty."
Shen Lie looked bitter and counted with his fingers, from the second year of Yongle to the ninth year of Wanli...
"Dear mother."
This broken gun is really grandpa’s grandpa’s generation.
this moment.
Shen Lie had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the millions of Ming troops during this period. The combat effectiveness was still there, but the equipment was really poor, and the shortage was even more serious.
how so?
This is called the famous Tumu Fort Change.
It was after the disastrous defeat of Tumubao that the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out by other people. As a result, the civil servant group rose up, and the Ming Dynasty, which was founded by force, gradually entered an endless cycle of civilized nobles and military bases.
When the civil servants began to suppress Wu Xun, the millions of Ming troops lost their military spending, so they changed from garrison soldiers to farmers, and from farmers to tenants, and then continued to develop...
There will probably be a rebellion.
Touched his head.
Shen Lie threw the battered musket to the musketeer and began to think hard, where should he get a batch of muskets?
There is no hope.
Tianjin Zuowei originally had a craftsman camp that could make fire gate guns, but it had long since switched to farming, and the Ming Dynasty's fire gate guns were all made of copper.
Copper is money.
Why make muskets when people can't eat?
Think about this.
Shen Lie sighed quietly and comforted himself in his heart: "Take your time, don't rush."
He planned to write a memorial and first ask the emperor for a batch of armor, crossbows, and cold weapons. As for firearms, he could only think of ways to do it slowly.
At this time, the guards came to report that someone was coming from the palace.
Shen Lie hurriedly took Wang Hu and others out to greet him. He invited the little eunuch who delivered the order into the guardhouse and took over the order from the little eunuch.
This is not an imperial edict.
It's a secret edict.
So Shen Lie took the emperor's secret edict and couldn't help but touch his head.
This time it's not clear.
However, judging from the awed expressions on Wang Hu and others' faces, it seemed as if there were four bright characters engraved on Shen Lie's forehead.
The emperor's confidant!
Shen Lie instinctively took out a piece of broken silver and wanted to give it to the eunuch who passed the order.
The little eunuch was frightened and kept saying: "Don't dare, Master Shen doesn't dare to break the rules!"
He watched the little eunuch nod and bow before walking away.
Shen Lie touched his head again.
"okay!"
Your Majesty, this is a private chat.
Think about it.
Under the adoring gazes of Wang Hu and others.
Shen Lie then walked into the official hall with the secret edict, opened the gilded imperial edict, and carefully savored the emperor's regular handwriting.
Then Shen Lie was stunned again.
Not a commendation.
In the secret edict, the emperor scolded Shen Lie, roughly speaking: "Why didn't you tell me that you were short of money?"
Am I the kind of person who can't even afford fifty thousand taels?
He actually went to borrow money from Shanxi Bank.
Simply ridiculous!
Holding a secret edict in his hand.
Shen Lie was a little stunned by the scolding at first, and soon became speechless again. He took a deep breath and spouted out his hometown dialect involuntarily.
"What the hell!"
At this moment.
Shen Lie felt that the hairs on his body stood up.
Think carefully.
The 50,000 taels of silver he borrowed from the Shanxi Guild Hall had not yet been warmed up, but the emperor already knew about it, and the amount was exactly the same!
This shows what?
From beginning to end.
This is a game that tests him!
I think of Wang Chengxun and Wang Zongbing’s superb acting skills...
Shen Lie was so frightened that he was covered in white hair and cursed secretly in his heart. He was really an old fox. He had blinded such an elegant person for nothing.
He is indeed Wang Yangming’s grandson!
It's so stupid.
But I felt happy secretly in my heart. Thanks to my extra foresight, I wrote an IOU to the Shanxi Guild Hall.
What if...
this moment.
Shen Lie finally knew what it means to accompany a king like a tiger.
But think about it again.
Shen Lie's expression changed slightly, and he seemed to see Zhu Yijun's fat, fair, slightly honest face, looking at him with a smile.
But there were still several people standing behind the fat figure, and Shen Lie seemed to see an invisible net that had been cast.
Who is this website for?
Naturally, it was Zhang Juzheng and his party members.
His complexion changed again.
A sense of urgency arises spontaneously.
At this time, Wang Hu knocked on the door outside and said respectfully: "Report, sir... Mr. Li is here."
Shen Lie asked suspiciously: "Who is coming?"
outside the door.
Wang Hu responded softly: "Li Rusong, Mr. Li is here."
Shen Lie was speechless again and said quickly: "Please come quickly."
After a while.
Li Rusong, who was dressed in military uniform and led several elite Liao cavalrymen, walked into the Dongchang Hundred Household House with their heads lowered and roared hurriedly all night.
Let a few of your subordinates wait outside the hall first.
Then.
Li Rusong lowered his head and barged into Shen Lie's official hall with his hands behind his back. The man was really unambiguous and sat down on the Grand Master's chair with a carefree attitude.
Shen Lie was a little dumbfounded.
How come this man is so familiar to him? He really doesn’t regard himself as an outsider.
Those who come are guests.
Shen Lie could only cough lightly and said, "Here comes... some tea."
Wait until the guards bring the tea.
Withdrew again.
Closed the door.
Shen Lie asked tentatively: "Master Li, who is this?"
