Ding Shiqing is older than Emperor Wanli imagined, and much quieter than he imagined.

Wanli once thought that Han Jin, who was born with a national character face and a short robe and muscular mass, was Ding Shiqing, and it seemed that such a person who grew up in the emperor's head was in line with the impression of the name Ding Shiqing in his heart.

Facts have proved that there are people who are brave and courageous in the world, but they do not necessarily have to be born brave.

To be honest, Ding Shiqing was quite scared, and the group was very scared, not just because this was an audience with the emperor.

They had long known that the place where the emperor summoned them would be the Qinghua Garden, but because of the name Tsinghua Garden, the people thought it would be a royal garden.

In fact now this is indeed royal, just not quite like a garden.

The steam engine has spread in various places, especially in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou, where there are many handicraftsmen and weavers, and they are all weavers, and they are very familiar with the humming sound of the steam engine hidden in the boat.

Waiting for the ship to dock is the place that is really dumbfounded.

The willow embankment blocked the view, it was a beautiful scenery from a distance, and when the boat got closer, it was found that the ground was full of trenches dug seven vertically and horizontally, and the artillery that the Son of Heaven personally trained the sergeant to usually practice was placed on the edge of the trench at will, and there was the sound of birds hitting and releasing the guns in the distance, and from time to time it was mixed with the movement of the grenade and the Shenwei machine arrow in the sixth year of Wanli.

A column of lightly armed patrol guards carrying stinging birds on their shoulders walked along the embankment, and when they saw the emperor, they did not kneel, and turned to the left neatly, and then took a step back from the two teams before and after, the front team squatted and raised the guns, and the back team held the bird guns in a standing posture and slammed in front of them with a coherent 'click' in front of them to prepare to charge, and the captain who took the lead raised his hand to block the emperor's queue, and then bent his left arm to make a falling shape, "Password!" ”

With a serious face, the emperor put his hand holding the list back behind his back, and his feet were naturally shoulder-width apart...... Don't get me wrong, the password has nothing to do with him, and at the end of the queue, King Lu, who was confused by the horseback, ran up all the way with his little short legs, and said crisply: "**Same wind, password!" ”

Although the prince was funny, the captain was professional, not only did he not laugh but also said very seriously: "Kyushu is coherent." ”

After that, the front team stood up and the back team returned, stood up with their heads held high, raised their chins one by one, and said in unison: "Meet Your Majesty!" ”

"Okay, okay, that's the spirit."

At this time, it was the emperor's turn to go out, and Ding Shiqing and the others suddenly found that their young emperor was laughing a little silly, his eyes were squinting, and he waved his hand to the patrol guards: "Listen to my command, turn right, go forward, and continue to patrol!" ”

The patrol guards saluted Wanli again, and then left in line, Wanli turned his head to Ding Shiqing and the others who followed behind him: "Look at this instrument, Wanli eight-year system of the world's Taiping guns, then the wooden support is beautiful, right?" I've tried it myself, and fighting people with this is no different than holding a short gun. Look at the dragon breastplate, it is called the dragon pattern mother-in-law breastplate, Wanli nine-year system. ”

"Don't underestimate it, this set of breastplate has three layers inside and outside, the inner steel armor, the outer brazing dragon, and the middle core armor material I won't tell you, the latest secret design of Xuanfu Wutang is only three and a half catties heavier than in the past, and you can't kill him with a bird gun sticker to five steps."

The emperor was purely entertaining himself, and the common people behind him were hardly interested in this thing, and even selling guanzi seemed meaningless.

In fact, the core of this set of breastplates is not magical, and a layer of mixed armor made of raccoon cloth and porcelain plates is added between the copper dragon and the steel cuirass.

Huanhuo cloth is commonly known as asbestos, which was only available in the Western Regions in the past, and later found minerals in Shu, because of its high temperature resistance, it is usually used in some places that need to be fire-resistant; Due to the need for further development of materials science in the Steam Bureau, the Telegraph Bureau, and the Ordnance Bureau, this task was finally assigned to be completed by the three major Ordnance Bureaus.

However, it was a coincidence that it was invented and put in the cuirass, Jingdezhen sent ceramic sample bricks of various thicknesses and various firing processes, and the surveyors smashed them in turn with bird guns, but did not pass through a ceramic tile wrapped in a raccoon cloth, and the lead shot broke the ceramic brick, but did not penetrate the outer cloth, which is very surprising.

The most surprising thing is that a lot of old researchers didn't recognize what this thing was, and sent a letter to Jingdezhen to figure it out, and searched for some of it to experiment, verifying that it is easy to be penetrated by the bird gun from all distances alone, but it can indeed play a good protective role when it is packed with ceramics, and only two points of thick ceramics and the same thick asbestos cloth can be stacked to block the bird guns from shooting twenty-six steps away.

And within twenty-six steps, wearing this alone will still be injured by the impact force, but it is not fatal When Emperor Wanli saw this when he saw the experimental report, he gave the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau a reward of one hundred taels of silver without saying a word.

Needless to say, this must have been someone tested for injury.

And if you put on the cuirass and then put it on, even if you get three steps closer, you can only leave a large indentation on the cuirass and you can't touch the body at all.

It also has a good defense against bows and arrows, but not as good as firearms, and after testing, the researchers of the martial arts believe that the arrows are sharp enough to cut off the asbestos silk, while the round lead pellets cannot be cut all of them, and come up with the theory of power transfer to tell the emperor that they are about to try on the armor.

When the lead shot hits the relatively soft copper dragon decoration, it will first deform and remove part of the force, and after penetration, it will continue to hit the asbestos cloth, and some of the asbestos threads will be broken, but the other part will be wrapped in lead bullets to crush the ceramic plate, and the force will increase through the cracks, just like the same power to swing the hammer and stab the spear, the spear pierces the soil but the hammer cannot be smashed into the soil, and finally the steel cuirass cancels out all the power.

However, this kind of armor has not yet been circulated to the troops, only the 2,000 Imperial Forest Army equipment in Wanlitun in Qinghua Park, and the three major ordnance bureaus are still experimenting with the design of more mature materials and shapes.

For example, the Guangzhou Prefecture Jiangwutang apportioned a firing of one-piece ceramic plates containing asbestos cloth to Jingdezhen last year, and has placed a large number of orders this year after the trial.

This year, the Beijing transport ship brought back to the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau to try to make the shell of the Tuanlong Zimu armor into a pocket-shaped report, believing that after being damaged, the bullet holes were melted with copper liquid, and a bulletproof subplate could be re-stuffed to defend again, which could reduce the cost of repair.

At the same time, the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau is also starting to redesign the helmet and ton, adding the application of this new material to the forehead and throat.

"Let me tell you, they are all trained by me personally, don't look at the fact that they haven't fought yet, they can do it, they are no worse than the soldiers trained by Chen Mu and Qi Jiguang."

The people looked at each other, what could they say?

Ding Shiqing wanted to speak and stopped, he especially wanted to ask the emperor why he wanted to train with his generals as an emperor.

Maybe it was a straight head, Han Jin kept giggling in strong inhibition, and only after Ding Shiqing glared at him several times did he say in a very small voice: "Teacher, the emperor is like us, and he wants to rebel!" ”

"I thought you were going to kidnap a few corrupt officials, but in the end, apart from this stupid governor, I looked at the list full of unofficial and unemployed squires? I'm not satisfied. ”

Waiting into the main hall of the front yard of Tsinghua Garden, the emperor waved his hand to a few people and said: "But it doesn't matter, the people from the Criminal Department haven't come yet, and I'm not in a hurry, looking for you In addition to this matter, there are more important issues You say, I want to be able to hear the voices of the people in the world, just like you this time, if I knew it early, you don't have to seize the telegraph room." ”

"I know that you have a reason, but it is always bad to do this, get up, I don't want to blame you."

As soon as the emperor spoke, Ding Shiqing bowed down and made a big salute, he bowed, and the people behind him all bowed, but Wanli didn't dare to speak, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to sit down, then sighed and said: "I want to set up a decree, so that the people in every place can tell me directly when they encounter difficulties." ”