People in Zongwu: Starting with the Yin Gui Sect

Chapter 309

"Wang Daban, have you found the person I asked you to find?"

Two months later, Wu Yu asked Wang Chengen about the person he had asked Wang Chengen to find in the Qianqing Palace.

Wang Chengen was promoted to the position of the seal holder of the Silijian immediately after he ascended the throne. Even when he was not holding the pen, he sometimes took on the responsibility of wearing the red robe. As for the original Wang Tiqian, he had long been sent to other idle departments to retire.

At first, Wang Chengen was still worried about his lack of ability, but Wu Yu's words dispelled his doubts.

"It doesn't matter if you lack ability, just firmly implement my orders. As for the rest, the people below will naturally do it. You just need to manage those people well."

Getting back to the point, seeing Wu Yu asking this, Wang Chengen respectfully said: "Reporting to the emperor, except for General Cao who has not arrived yet, the other adults have already arrived!"

As for Wang Chengen, he originally thought that his own emperor would clear all the haze and ills as soon as he ascended the throne and let the Ming Dynasty regain vitality.

But I didn't expect that this emperor was no better than the previous Emperor Tianqi. Except for accepting the congratulations of all officials on the day of his enthronement, he didn't even attend the court for two whole months. Apart from asking me to find a few people, the rest of the time he was tinkering with things he didn't know.

As for the General Cao he just mentioned, it was Cao Wenzhao, the guerrilla general who originally followed Xiong Tingbi in Liaodong.

Although I don't know why the emperor asked me to find a little guerrilla general with almost no reputation, he is a smart man who knows what to ask and what not to ask.

"Then let Lu Aiqing come in first!"

Lu Xiangsheng, a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi, was once the head of the Ministry of Revenue and the deputy counselor. He is currently the deputy director of Shanxi. He is a rare general in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a round of greetings, Wu Yu went straight to the point, "Mr. Lu, I have heard that although you are a deputy minister of Shanxi, you have made great achievements in military affairs!"

Lu Xiangsheng did not expect that the newly enthroned emperor in front of him not only knew his name, but also knew about his military affairs.

"I dare not hide it from your majesty, I do know a thing or two!"

"That's good, I will give you a task now!"

Hearing that the emperor had a task to give him, Lu Xiangsheng immediately bowed and said, "Please give your orders, your majesty!"

"I hope you can train a brave and combat-ready army for me."

"Lead troops?"

Lu Xiangsheng did not expect that the emperor would ask him to lead troops.

Wu Yu nodded: "Yes, it's about leading the troops. You know something about the situation in the Beijing camp even if I don't tell you. After all, it's not a secret.

Anyway, I don't count on them, so I hope you can train a group of troops for me that can fight and win. Can you do it, Lord Lu?"

Hearing that the emperor really wanted him to lead the troops, Lu Xiangsheng immediately knelt down and kowtowed to thank him. Compared to being a civil servant, he wanted to be a general more. Now that he heard that the new emperor asked him to lead the troops, how could he miss this opportunity?

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to your grace and train a group of troops that can fight and win for Your Majesty!"

"Okay, then I will wait for this day. I can allocate funds to you now, but you need to recruit people yourself, preferably in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

There is a famine there now, and there are victims everywhere. Recruiting more young and strong people can also relieve some pressure on the government offices there.

As for the troops to be formed, let's call them Tianxiong Army. The number of people is temporarily set at 10,000. When I see the results, I will allow you to expand."

"Wang Daban!"

Wu Yu looked at Wang Chengen and signaled him to give him everything related to Lu Xiangsheng's leading troops. In addition, he specially allocated him 500,000 taels of silver.

Of course, this money came from his own treasury. Don't ask why he didn't take it from the Ministry of Revenue. The answer is that there is no money.

And even if there is, it is impossible to take it from that old man Bi Ziyan unless it is approved by the cabinet first.

It was Wu Yu's own idea to let Lu Xiangsheng lead the troops, and he did not discuss it with the cabinet at all.

After Lu Xiangsheng left, Wu Yu summoned Sun Chuanting and Zhou Yuji one after another. Their purpose was the same as Lu Xiangsheng, and even the number of people was almost the same.

After all three of them left, Wu Yu continued to order: "Summon Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang!"

Soon, the two came to Wu Yu and knelt down, "Your Majesty, your servant Xu Guangqi (Bi Maokang) pays respect to you!"

"Your Majesty, please stand up, my dear companion, please take a seat!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After the two sat down, Wu Yu said: "I heard that you two are very good at firearms!"

"Firearms?"

The two looked at each other, and then replied: "Your Majesty is right, we two have indeed studied this aspect."

Hearing the two admit, Wu Yu nodded, and then without further ado, he threw a howitzer model and a flintlock rifle from the system space to the two of them.

The two of them took a look at each other, and their eyes immediately lit up.

After the two of them finished reading, Wu Yu took the lead and said to Xu Guangqi: "Xu Aiqing, I heard that you know the Western missionary Mary Dou, so you must know what this cannon I gave you is like."

Hearing Wu Yu mention Mary Dou, Xu Guangqi was immediately shocked and was about to open his mouth to defend himself, but was interrupted by Wu Yu's wave of his hand.

"Okay, I understand what you mean. I don't care what your relationship with the other party is, and I don't care which god or Buddha you believe in, whether it's the Three Pure Ones, Buddha, or even Jesus God, but there is one thing I hope you remember, you will always be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing that Wu Yu didn't care about his relationship with Mary Dou, and didn't blame him for joining Catholicism, Xu Guangqi was slightly relieved.

"Your Majesty, rest assured. I will always be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. The reason I chose to join the Catholic Church is just to learn Western artillery technology. I will never do anything that will harm the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing Xu Guangqi's assurance, Wu Yu nodded. He believed this, otherwise he would not have summoned him to the palace today.

After talking about Xu Guangqi, he looked at Bi Maokang again.

Seeing His Majesty looking at him, Bi Maokang immediately said: "Your Majesty, this firearm is very different from the previous matchlock guns. Although I have never seen it before, I can see at a glance that this gun is far from comparable to matchlock guns in terms of range and firing rate. But why does this projectile have to be held by a paper shell, and it is also in the shape of a cone?"

"Yes, I call this gun a flintlock gun. The effective range is about 150 steps (one step in the Ming Dynasty is about 1.5 meters), and the maximum range can even reach 300 steps, which is two to three times farther than the original matchlock gun, and the firing rate is also higher than the ordinary It is about three times faster than a traditional matchlock gun (firing eight to ten rounds per minute).

As for why the projectile is cone-shaped instead of spherical, it is actually very simple. That is to reduce the resistance from the air, allowing the projectile to fly farther, and at the same time it can also increase the penetration to a certain extent. "

Wu Yu didn't think it was strange that Bi Maokang could see the extraordinaryness of this gun at a glance. After all, the flintlock gun in the Ming Dynasty was invented by this person in history, but he just made it ten years earlier, and even the appearance is almost the same.

The only difference is that this flintlock gun adopts a rear-loading design, plus gunpowder and rifling, so both the range and the rate of fire are far above the traditional flintlock gun.

As for where these two things came from, it's very simple-magic stone!