Chapter Eighty-Four: The Bell of the Last Days

When Zhu Weijiao arrived in Beijing, she immediately wanted to ask to see her father, but unfortunately, no matter how she pleaded, the emperor was unwilling to see this useless daughter.

Even though the princess knelt outside the palace and begged for almost a night, the emperor was still irritable and turned a deaf ear to the pleas of the palace people.

When I sent the princess to Chang'an, there was only one purpose, hoping that the princess could marry Yun Zhao, drag Yun Zhao, and buy a little more time for the precarious Daming, but this extremely simple task in the eyes of the emperor was not completed by the princess......

If it was the delicate princess before, Mo said that kneeling in the cold night for a night, even if it was a little contaminated with wind and cold, it was likely to die.

How can she get up and jump a few times like now, and then run around the palace a few times, and after sweating slightly on her forehead, there is nothing to do, and urge Gong'e to bring her a hearty breakfast.

When Queen Zhou saw her daughter eating breakfast like a storm, she said worriedly: "How are you doing well in Chang'an?" ”

The princess bit off half of the egg and said, "It's good." ”

Empress Zhou sighed and said: "Let you go to Cao Cao, Dong Zhuo's tyrannical hero, I really wronged you, you don't have to resent your father, he will let you go to Chang'an when there is nothing he can do." ”

Zhu Weijiao looked at her mother and said: "It's good to go to Chang'an, no one humiliates me, even if Yun Zhao sees me, he treats me politely, and there is no offense, the child lived in Yushan Academy to study when he was in Chang'an."

Queen Mother, if you say that the child has the most living days in this life, it is Yushan Academy. ”

Empress Zhou said: "My son should not be relieved to be a mother, that Yushan Academy is a land of tigers and wolves, how can my son live there safely." ”

Zhu Weijiao said: "If you put aside the fact that they are anti-thieves, the master in Yushan Academy is the most knowledgeable and kind person among the masters that the child has ever seen, and the scholars in the academy are also the most motivated and capable group of people in the whole Ming Dynasty."

From the first day of school, they vowed to study for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after they graduated, some of them went to the bitter cold land of Hexi with their bags and long knives, and swore that they would not break Loulan and not return it, and some people rode horses and swords, carried arrows and longbows on their backs, and went straight to the deserted city to compete with the Tatars and build slaves.

Some of them were born in the noble Yushan Academy, but they were willing to join the slaves, teaching them how to grow new crops, leading them to build water conservancy projects, and turning dry fields into fertile watered fields.

They also personally fought against small groups of local bandits, killed the robbers, captured the bandits, and restored the place to a clear image.

The child has been in Yushan Academy for three years, and has changed from a weak woman in the boudoir to being able to wield knives and sticks, and if she has a firearm in hand, her daughter can also go into battle to kill the enemy. ”

As he spoke, he took out a fist-sized grenade from his waist and put it in front of the queen mother and said: "This is Lantian's famous grenade, open this ring cable, the flint inside will ignite the fuse, and if you stagnate three numbers in your hand, you can throw it out to kill the enemy, even a weak woman can use this thing to kill the martial artist." ”

Empress Zhou trembled and pointed her fingers and said, "You went to see your father with such a murder weapon?" ”

Zhu Weijiao said: "It's a pity, I asked Yun Zhao for artillery, but he refused to give it, if he can bring back hundreds of artillery, his daughter can rely on these cannons to protect her father and mother."

Sure to bombard the bandits of Lee Hong-gi and his ilk to pieces! ”

After saying that, seeing the disbelief on his mother's face, he put down his chopsticks, opened the ring of the grenade, and casually threw the grenade out of the window, and then covered the ears of the queen mother.

There was a loud "boom", and a plum tree in full bloom in the garden was immediately engulfed in flames. The scattered fragments are like rain hitting plantains, and the warm pavilion on the side of the plum is full of holes.

Queen Zhou looked at her daughter in horror, and her body was about to slide to the ground.

But she heard her daughter say in her ear: "We are going to Jiangnan, and we can't stay in the capital to die." ”

The huge explosion soon attracted countless guards, eunuchs, and palace laves, and when they saw that there were only queens and princesses at the scene, everyone talked about it.

Zhu Weijiao snorted coldly and said, "Get out of the way." ”

The princess grew up in the deep palace, and her temperament has always been weak, but when she stood in front of the main hall at this time, she roared, and she was so majestic that people didn't dare to look at it directly. ”

After a while, the guards, eunuchs, and palace ladies knelt on the ground one after another, and even Queen Zhou knelt on the ground, only Zhu Weijiao was still standing in front of the main hall, waiting for her father to arrive.

"Did you learn to throw grenades in Chang'an?"

Chongzhen's feminine voice came from the corner of the side hall, and soon, Zhu Weijiao saw his father.

Originally, her heart was full of grievances and resentment, but when she saw her father, who had gray temples and was not like a thirty-three-year-old man, tears gushed out like a tide, and she took a few steps forward, threw herself into her father's arms and cried.

Chongzhen gently stroked her daughter's hanging hair, and whispered with tears in her eyes: "It's because your father is useless that he sent you into the tiger wolf's den." ”

Zhu Weijiao raised her pretty face full of tears and said resolutely: "Father sent it right, but it was sent a little late, if the child entered Yushan Academy at the age of six to practice, to this day, although the child can't compete with the world pirates at sea like Han Xiufen, at least he can protect his father and mother." ”

Chongzhen looked at the strong girl in his arms in surprise, asked Queen Zhou to stand up, took her daughter's hand, and re-entered the hall.

The guards, eunuchs, and palace ladies retreated like a tide.

"As for the grenade, take it out and show it to your father."

Zhu Weijiao came to a wooden box containing a grenade, opened the box, took out a grenade, and carefully placed it in front of his father.

Chongzhen picked up the grenade, looked at it carefully for a moment, and handed it to Zhu Weijiao again: "Throw it again." ”

Zhu Weijiao slowly pulled open the ring rope and threw the grenade out the window again.

There was a loud "boom", and the warm pavilion, which was already full of holes, finally collapsed in the firelight.

Chongzhen came to the place where the warm pavilion collapsed and looked at it, then came to the box containing the grenade and looked at it, looked up and said to Zhu Weijiao: "I first knew about the grenade, and I knew it from Lu Xiangsheng's recital.

At that time, I knew that this thing was very useful on the battlefield, but it was expensive, and it cost five taels of silver for one piece.

The second time I saw the word grenade, it was in the recital of Yuan Min of Jinyi Wei Qianhu, at that time, he said that the price of a grenade should be about three taels of silver.

The third time I saw these two words, I saw them on Sun Chuanting's recital, at that time, he hoped that the imperial court could purchase 100,000 grenades, so that he could completely defeat Li Hongji.

The fourth time was in the report of the late Liaodong Governor Hong Chengchou, who said that there was a serious shortage of grenades in the army and hoped that the imperial court would purchase them, and he also said that in order to crack down on Jiannu, Lantian Yunzhao would definitely sell the grenades to the imperial court......"

Zhu Weijiao frowned and said, "Why didn't my father buy it?" ”

Chongzhen put his hands behind his back, looked at the broken warm pavilion and said in disappointment: "No one is like the emperor to show me the true power of the grenade. ”

Zhu Weijiao gritted her teeth and said: "Father has another chance, this time the son will personally go to buy grenades!" ”

Chongzhen shook his head and said, "Yun Zhao hates me and doesn't die, he won't sell it." ”

Zhu Weijiao said in surprise: "Father, the child doesn't think so, although Yun Zhao, the thief, is not good, but he still respects his father."

The child is watching the play in Chang'an, the old man of the Yun family is here, Yun Zhao's two wives are also there, and Yun Zhao's three children are also there, but the people sitting in the upper seat are always children.

Whether it is the teachers of Yushan Academy, who are strict in teaching and respect for great gifts, or the scholars who are enthusiastic and arrogant, they also think that children should sit on the upper seat.

The weapons that my father sees now are all bought back from Chang'an, and the money to buy weapons comes from Yun Zhao's contribution to his father, as well as the contribution of Yun's Anren to his mother, the contribution of Yun Zhao's two wives to his mother, and even the money sent by several Zhu ancestors who stayed in Chang'an.

The child took matters into his own hands, and with this money, he bought 5,000 grenades, 500 guns, 1,000 catties of gunpowder, and 100,000 rounds of cannons in Tongguan.

Father, these things are enough to arm a battalion of five hundred men. ”

Chongzhen raised his head suddenly, looked at his daughter and said, "Can you really buy it?" Including Lantian artillery? ”

Zhu Weijiao said: "The child is going to ask someone, he is more familiar with Lantian than me." ”

"Who?" Chongzhen's voice suddenly became louder, and a cold meaning appeared in his eyes.

Seeing that his father was still suspicious, Zhu Weijiao sighed slightly in her heart and said, "Mu Tiantao, the son of Mu Wangfu!" ”

Hearing that it was a person from Mu Wangfu, Chongzhen's vigilance slowly faded, and he nodded and said, "Mu Wangfu is still my good minister." ”

Zhu Weijiao said again: "He has entered Beijing to participate in his father's talent ceremony this year. ”

Chongzhen nodded again and again when he heard this: "Okay, good, good, after all, Daming still has a loyal minister and filial son, and he ordered him to come to see me, and I want to teach me in person." ”

Zhu Weijiao immediately ran out happily.

Empress Zhou looked at her daughter's distant back and said to the emperor: "This prince of Mu Wangfu is afraid of deep daughter's heart." ”

Chongzhen said coldly: "I only know when I see it." ”

Empress Zhou said in a low voice: "The country is difficult, and the concubine knows that if the mandate of heaven cannot be violated, why doesn't Your Majesty entrust Wei Jiao to this person." ”

Chongzhen glared at Empress Zhou and said: "I have been the emperor since Emperor Taizu destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, the country name is Daming, the twelfth generation, the sixteenth emperor, the two hundred and seventy-five years of national ancestry, after countless ups and downs, through countless storms, how can I lose my own ambition because of a few streams."

Since she is my daughter, she must obey the orders of her parents, although Zhou Shixian died innocently, if there is a need, she can still marry the person she needs, and this matter will not be mentioned again. ”

Queen Zhou said in a sung voice: "Your Majesty, if the Ming Dynasty dies, let the concubine accompany Your Majesty to ask the ancestors and ancestors for their guilt, and you will spare your daughter and let her live." ”

Chongzhen laughed bitterly and said, "The country is broken, where is home?" ”

Chapter I

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