Gunshots rang out in Tsinghua Garden.

The sweaty emperor untied his shackles, sat on the pile of logs with the still smoking birds, gasped for breath, shook his head and waved his hands, and said, "I'm too tired, I'm not sure to fight, you fight." ”

"Whoever can shoot three shots and three hits, I will give him a bronze medal for divine shooting, and allow him to go north to participate in the war - water."

On the lake in front of Tsinghua Garden, under the twenty-mile willow embankment, Wanli took a bowl of cold white open from the eunuch Wang An with his knees, holding the water bowl with trembling hands, forcing himself to drink in small sips, the hair towel was wet with sweat, and the eyes next to the long hair were still sneaking over the edge of the bowl, looking towards the school field by the lake.

There's a scene of violent creatures there.

The alternating vertical and horizontal ditches have not yet been completed, piles of logs transported from outside the garden are piled up at will, thousands of peonies, tens of thousands of peony flowers were removed by the imperial guards, and the city of Beijing sold the famous flowers and utensils in the Tsinghua Garden for half a month, and all the silver in exchange was rewarded by the emperor to the foreign soldiers.

Various rare stones brought from Lingbi, Taihu Lake, and Jinchuan are now used as raw materials for bunkers, and some are even used as artillery targets.

There, there were dozens of brocade guards dressed in armor unicorn suits, each with embroidered spring knives on their waists and hips, holding the world's Taiping Hammer, their foreheads soaked with sweat, and shooting alternately at the wooden targets in the distance.

The sound of banging guns reached the ears, and pieces of gunpowder smoke drifted from the trenches, and the lead shots flew dozens of steps in an instant, but very few could accurately hit the horizontal log target.

They had just accompanied the emperor to run the twenty-mile willow embankment in Qinghua Garden, and the emperor was lazy today, he didn't wear armor, and his whole body was only a pair of leather pockets for decoration except for birds.

Now the Emperor's hands are so shaky that he can't even hold the bird's gun, and it's remarkable that they can barely let it go.

"No wonder the art of war says, if you are poor, you can't chase it, but if you still have a little combat strength and courage, you will be counterattacked if you catch up." The emperor drank most of the bowl of water, his breath calmed down a little, but his body felt more tired, his eyes no longer looked at the school field of the sea of flowers in the past and now the sea of trenches, raised his eyes to look along the embankment, and sneered: "Are they still competing?" ”

Wang An, who was on the left and right, also followed the emperor's gaze, on the embankment, several backward Jinyi guards could no longer maintain the correct posture of marching with the gun, some of the remaining physical fitness were jogging with the bird gun with both hands, and a few people were already unable to run with the bird gun, and the instructor Jinyi Qianhu was scolding loudly next to him, and the faces of several people who were behind the teacher were like mourning - their salaries were deducted.

Farther away, two little people jumped and chased, slowly jolting along the embankment as if they were falling apart, it was the two slugs of Zhu Yiyi, the king of Lu, and the little prince of Mongolia, Buta Shili, who were of the same age, and ran faster than the king of Lu.

They were all about to weep in anger - what about the weak limbs of the Senehans, who had been promised?

He didn't understand, even the Ming royal family, who had to hammer the button to let the eunuch send it when he was eating, how could he run so fast?

Speaking of which, this is also thanks to the emperor's blessing, Wanli stands on Huode Xingjun to punch when he has nothing to do, and King Lu is not used to Huode Xingjun, he is active by nature, let him sit on Huode Xingjun's back and watch the big thing move slowly is more uncomfortable than punching him twice.

The most common scene in the Forbidden City is the emperor standing on the back of Huo De Xingjun and punching him, and King Lu holding the sworn brothers above his head and running around Huo De Xingjun in a circle.

But in the end, the calves are short, and the legs of running the same distance are several times more than others, so they fall behind.

Taking advantage of the time when they came over, the emperor rested almost, and when the two villains were spread out in front of him, he rubbed his legs that seemed to be filled with lead, got up and stood up with the world's peace gun tied with wooden thorns, and casually ordered a eunuch, and said to King Lu: "Shi Li and I get on the boat, Zhu Yiyi, you are here to command the Jinyi Guard, seven wooden targets with different shapes are put over at one time, remember the distance, and let people collect the wooden targets when they are finished." ”

"Grandpa Emperor is coming on board?"

Wanli nodded slowly and stood up, although he was tired, he still raised his chin slightly, turned his head to look at the vast lake, he didn't speak, Wang An behind him had already pulled out a triangular inlaid dragon flag pinned to his waist, and waved it towards the wide lake on the willow embankment.

There are a few richly decorated painting boats parked on the edge of the lakeside trestle bridge, which are almost the few decorations left of the vast Tsinghua Garden in the northwest outside of Beijing that the Wanli Emperor confiscated from his grandfather, but it is not they that the emperor wants to ride.

Rather, it was a nine-foot steamship swimming in the middle of the lake, the shape of which was neither a shark ship nor a lucky ship, and there was not a single mast on the double deck, and the bird ship actually looked like a strange fish.

The tongue in the middle of the bow is a fresco of a dragon, and the side of the tongue and the sides of the bow are nailed with iron nails like teeth, the eyes are large, and there are also nail plates for decoration, and there are four closed gun windows on the left and right of the lower deck, and the chimney in the stern is whirring backwards with huge smoke.

Soon after Wang An waved the flag, the strange-looking boat circled around the lake in a beautiful deceleration arc, slowly stopped next to the trestle, and the military eunuch on the boat lowered the boarding board and supported the emperor on the trestle to board the ship.

The young Xu Guangqi was very excited when he stepped down from the stern, and bowed to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, this ship is very good, the modification of the Steam Bureau is extremely successful, the speed of the ship is too fast when there is no wind, and the past method of changing is no longer enough to determine the speed of the ship. ”

Xu Guangqi's costume was not neat, shuttling on the lower deck to determine the normal operation of the steam engine in the ship, his robe and hands were stained with engine oil, and his face was also covered with black marks from coal smoke, but his expression was extremely excited.

He was lucky, driving a steam car to crash the city wall, but he suddenly crashed himself into the emperor's heart, what is the emperor most interested in? Steam engine.

And he happened to work in the steam engine bureau, and also made a little improvement to the steam engine, in this era, anyone who made any improvement to the steam engine is qualified to go down in history, Xu Guangqi is one of the people who seized such an opportunity, the steam engine because of his design and no longer need to assign a special deflater, the machine has a defer valve that relies on gravity and cylinder pressure.

As long as the pressure is greater than gravity, the release valve will be jacked up, and after releasing too much steam, it will automatically fall, and the cycle repeats.

Although the inaccurate design will further reduce the power of the steam engine, which is originally very low in thermal efficiency, the safety has been greatly guaranteed - what should the emperor do with such great efficiency? Safety is the most important thing.

As he was reporting, Wu Ben had come from the bow of the boat with a cart about the size of the tape measure that Cheng Dawei used to measure the land, and there were hourglasses and a table clock on the car.

Xu Guangqi said: "We only sailed at full speed for a moment, put down the long ruler, from the bow to the stern, nine seconds, an hour about forty-two miles. ”

"If there were sails, it would be faster."

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