Chapter 866: Entering the Divine Machine Camp Again

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning, even in the morning of this great winter, it is also the most important time of the day. Therefore, a large number of people waiting to enter the city gathered at the city gate in the early morning, including woodcutters carrying firewood, vegetable vendors pushing carts, and ordinary farmers who went into the city to buy New Year's goods. In the alleys, except for those who reversed the day and night and sang slowly until dawn, the shops that did business also removed their doors and hung signs, intending to meet the first business of the day with full energy, so as to make a good start. So, the sound of footsteps, horses' hooves, and the sound of cars on the road in front of the door gathered together, which made people energetic and invigorated, and greeted the new day in high spirits.

After all, the people who can't see the sun rise today because of last night's events are only a handful of people.

Early in the morning, Zhang Yue also got up on time as always. After rinsing his mouth and brushing his teeth, he wiped his face with cold water, and the soap brought porridge that was heated on a small stove.

Scooping the lily red bean pork ribs porridge with a spoon, the family sent someone to make such a special trip last night, not only brought dinner, but even breakfast was prepared, he naturally felt ironed in his heart. After all, who wants to touch the things in the restaurant that are the same when they can eat home-cooked meals? Small flower rolls, crystal steamed dumplings, sesame baked cakes, pea yellow, four kinds of dim sum plus a big bowl of porridge, he ate warmly, and the wind swept it clean, and then put down the bowl.

He, who had to treat the yamen as a cousin at home, finished breakfast, wrapped himself in a big coat and walked a few steps to the courtyard to exercise and eat after breakfast, but he could see that the officials had come to work in twos and threes through the three gates - now that the emperor is no longer in the court, naturally only go to work. And Shangshu was not there, and Zhang Yue was exempted from seeing every day, so they were naturally more comfortable, and they didn't dare to delay the time to come to the yamen.

It's just that Zhang Yue hadn't walked around twice before he caught a glimpse of someone probing his brain outside the three gates, but it was Cui Fanzhi of Langzhong of the Arsenal Division.

"What's so dodgy."

"My lord, ...... out there There are a lot of brocade guards outside the yamen. ”

"Is it just our military department, or is it the same as the other yamen?"

"It's all yamen, and there are twice as many people at the gate of the Hanlin Academy!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but shake his head angrily: "Then it's over, since it's not our yamen, what is there to panic about, do your own thing, don't think nonsense." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, with your words, our subordinates will be determined, who doesn't know that you are the Dinghai God Needle?"

Cui Fanzhi is Zhang Yue's old subordinate, and he has been messing around with Wan Shijie for a long time, so he naturally contracted some of Wan someone's flamboyant temper, smiled and said a word, turned his head and made a gesture for nowhere, and then walked straight into the three gates. Seeing Zhang Yue frowning, he spread his hands helplessly and said, "My lord, it's not that I deliberately want to talk about the trouble so early, it's that I have secretly turned over some old accounts carefully these days, and I really saw some fame." ”

What Zhang Yue is most afraid of now is the word Mingtang, and his forehead, which has already become a Sichuan character eyebrow, almost didn't twist the knot. Fortunately, he didn't want to turn himself into a little old man who was not old and decrepit, so he quickly stretched out his finger and pressed it on his eyebrows a few times, and then asked, "What is the name?" There's been a lot going on in the military department lately, so don't give me a stick all of a sudden. ”

Cui Fanzhi is also in his early thirties, only five or six years older than Zhang Yue, so he has long been accustomed to this familiar tone when the two talk in private, but when he thinks of what he wants to say, his face is a little bitter: "It's about the Shenji Battalion." ”

Looking at Cui Fanzhi, who was a little cautious, Zhang Yue thought for a while, then beckoned and said, "Talk in the house." ”

After only a quarter of an hour, Cui Fanzhi went out of the house and hurriedly went out from the third gate, but after a while, he turned around with a burden, and after a long delay in the house, he left as usual. And Zhang Yue summoned Soap Li into the house and sent someone to Li Cheng, the head of the Ministry of Communications, and asked him to come to the Ministry of War.

Shenji Camp Campus.

The five military battalions and the Shenji battalion are equipped with a central army and left and right posts, all of which are commanded by the lords; Because the 3,000 battalion is cavalry, the number of people has been increased, so there are more horses, especially after the old wooden factory outside Chaoyangmen was converted into horse breeding, the number of personnel increased by 2,000. Compared with the dozens of Jingwei placed near the capital, these three battalions are the real elite. Among them, although the Shenji Battalion was built later, due to the gradual completion of today's firearms and repeated miraculous feats in wars, the Shenji Battalion is the first to allocate horses and even monthly rice money, and even military weapons and so on are also prioritized for replacement.

After Zhang Fu relieved the governor of the Chinese military capital, Zhu Yong, the prince of Chengguo, was edicted to take over the Chinese military governor's office. Although he is young, after all, he is the father of the father, and he is more trusted than the Duke of Wei and the Duke of Dingguo. This time, the matter in Beijing was urgent, and he also went out of the town to reorganize his military equipment at the first time, and he did not go home for two days and three nights.

He was only in his early thirties, and he was naturally extremely young among the military nobles, but because of his beard and beard, he was also quite majestic among the soldiers. Now the Dujing Battalion, the lords who are in charge of the 5th Military Battalion, the 3,000th Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion are at least superficially obedient, and the camp affairs are also well organized. Like Liu Sheng and others in the past, he also attaches the most importance to the Shenji Battalion, and this day he saw the corporal training below, and he bowed slightly from time to time when he stood on the wooden lookout platform.

"Grandpa Guo, Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of War and Director Li of the Ministry of Industry are here."

Only then did Zhu Yong withdraw his gaze from the school field. Others are outside the Beijing Division, but the news is well-informed, and someone at home regularly sends news every day, and the brother-in-law Mu Bin also sends the letter regularly, so what happened to the Beijing Division last night, he knows it clearly, so he trained the sergeant of the Shenji Battalion early in the morning, and also thought about whether he needed to go to the Jin Domain to quell the rebellion. At this time, when he heard that Zhang Yue was coming, he thought that he was coming to announce the decree or pass on the order, but when the name of the person in the back came into his ears, he was stunned.

"Master Li? Is that Li Cheng? ”

After receiving an affirmative answer, when Zhu Yong went down the wooden ladder to the lookout, his red face was tense. He didn't have the slightest good impression of Annan - if it weren't for his father's expedition, he wouldn't have died young. Therefore, for those who surrendered to Annan, he always stayed away. Although Li Cheng is in charge of firearms, he usually lets others deal with him. So, when he saw Zhang Yue, he still ignored Li Cheng and only nodded to Zhang Yue.

"What's the matter, you're here personally?"

Zhu Yongyu was close to the joke, and Zhang Yue also avoided seeing that, so he smiled and said: "I checked the documents sent to the Arsenal Division by the Shenji Battalion last night, and I just had time to spare, so I specially called Director Li to run together." After all, he knows how to deal with firearms. ”

When Zhang Yue was in the Arsenal Division, Li Cheng was sent on a business trip, and when Zhang Yue came back, he temporarily took a leave of absence because of his wife's funeral, so in addition to the time when they met in the previous dynasty, it was the first time for the two to work together. However, Li Cheng of the Shenji Battalion often comes over, and others are in the Ministry of Industry, even if they are not the first in the world in terms of the technology of manufacturing firearms, the top three can be ranked safely, so although the generals are not good to serve, they are also polite to him, but this point is unbearable in front of Zhu Yong.

After all, if it weren't for his Lao Tzu being the king in Annan, Zhu Neng would not have led an expedition and died in a foreign land.

Therefore, he didn't take it to heart when there was no one next to Zhu Yong, he was still respectful, and what was even more puzzled in his heart was what Zhang Yue said about testing the newly made firearms, and he insisted on letting him come over. But in the past few days, the affairs of the Jingshi have been one after another, how could this young master who temporarily acted in charge of the military department have such interest?

However, Zhang Yue and Zhu Yong went all the way to the barracks, and the two did not avoid him when they talked, and he gradually became more determined in his heart. It wasn't until Zhang Yue, who was in front of him, suddenly turned his head and asked a word that his heart, which had been put down, suddenly lifted.

"Chief Li, as you know, I spent some time in the Arsenal Division and once presided over the replacement of weapons. When I changed into Yongle handcuffs in the Shenji Camp before, I used to change a batch of old goods. There is something I want to ask, what is the approximate service life of the guns in the army, and can these old goods still be used? ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Li Cheng was taken aback, but even Zhu Yong remembered what had happened in the past few days, and frowned for a while: "Why, is it that the batch of firearms that the Shenji Battalion replaced has not been destroyed?" Is it the responsibility of the Ordnance Superintendent, or is it the problem of the War Bureau, or is it the Arsenal Division's Shenji Battalion? ”

As soon as Zhu Yong opened his mouth, he thought of the important place, and asked about all aspects related to this matter, Zhang Yue couldn't help but admire his old age. Seeing that Zhu Yong's entourage was only following from a distance, and only Li Cheng was obviously taken aback, he said bluntly: "Because of the previous cotton armor matter, although the Arsenal Division made a guarantee, several officials still transferred the scroll to carefully check it. As a result, the matter of cotton armor was not found out, but the matter of this fire gun was found. The firecrackers replaced by the Shenji Battalion were sent to the Ordnance Supervisor to return to the furnace, but the receipt was somehow very vague. ”

Among the six departments, the Ministry of Engineering is the most miscellaneous and humble, but it also has the most oil and water. Not to mention anything else, even a small ambassador of the Ordnance Supervisor can pick a large piece of meat from the raw materials allocated by the craftsmen and the imperial court. It's just that once you deal with the rest of the departments, you have to bend your waist low. A few days ago, Li Cheng's family had two more distant relatives from Annan, and the family affairs were enough for a headache, and at this time Zhang Yue's receipt was vague, and he, the little chief who was in charge of the weapons superintendent, only felt that his vest was in a cold sweat.

"Lord Zhang, although I was not there when I was dealing with that batch of things, the booklet was registered, and it had already been sent to the Military Bureau for reproduction. If you don't believe me, I can immediately go back to the Ministry of Industry to get a reply from the Military Bureau. ”

"Is it the beginning and end of the War Bureau?" Zhu Yong's frowning brows suddenly twisted into a knot even more, "If that's the case, then the eunuch in charge really has to investigate it carefully." By the way, didn't you say that there was a problem with a group of eunuchs sent to the palace? ”

......Seeing that Li Cheng was already sweating profusely, he bowed his head slightly, "Don't worry, after all, those things are replaced, and the range and power should be inferior to the current batch of handcuffs in the Shenji Battalion." But I also found in the account books of the Arsenal Division that the Shenji Battalion had scrapped a batch of twenty Yongle handcuffs a few years ago, because the number was small, and after the Arsenal Division inspected it, it was pulled back and sent to the Ordnance Superintendent, and it was informed that a new one was sent. ”

"Yes, those things were returned to the furnace by the Ordnance Supervisor, but sending them new is the beginning and end of the War Bureau, I remember not twenty...... It's ......" Li Cheng was sweating profusely, and his upper and lower teeth were actually fighting a little at this time, "I remember that the signed ticket on the file of the Ordnance Supervisor was written forty!" ”

It is also thanks to his excellent memory, and he is extremely attentive to the major events in these important places, and the numbers are actually remembered correctly, so Zhang Yue was slightly stunned, and then he smiled and said: "I don't know if I don't check, the arsenal is rough, if there are more, then it's not just that." For example, the loss of gunpowder is slightly exaggerated, or something else......"

"Don't talk about it yet!"

Zhu Yong interrupted Zhang Yue's words all of a sudden, not that he didn't want to listen, but that he had to calculate the consequences of this matter. He has not been in charge of the Beijing camp for a long time, and it is not impossible to shirk the responsibility, not to mention that it was originally taboo to take charge of the Beijing camp with the governor of the Chinese army, so he is just a formality, and the rest is still decided by the nobles who are in charge of each outpost. After thinking about it for a long time, he looked sideways at Zhang Yue.

"Have you played the Queen Mother about this? Or did you inform Jinyiwei and Dongchang? ”

"Not yet. However, I have a gold medal letter from the Queen Mother. ”

Zhang Yue slowly took out something from his sleeve. Li Cheng is just that, after all, Zhu Yong is a military general who leads the troops, and he has seen this gold medal letter more than once. It is five inches long and two inches five minutes wide, and the upper part of the hole is dressed in red silk, and the upper and lower points are engraved with flying dragons and unicorns. Only the letter used to dispatch troops on weekdays is different, and there is a line missing from the back, only engraved with "The unbeliever is beheaded". Zhu Yong was about to salute, but when he saw Zhang Yue shaking his head slightly, he rolled down his sleeves and took it with both hands. After checking it repeatedly, he felt an inexplicable shock in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, and cautiously returned it.

"I brought Director Li here today, not to check anything, but because the War Bureau and the Ordnance Supervisor had brought in a few new weapons not long ago." Zhang Yue used this excuse to call Li Cheng over, and seeing that his face was still full of panic, he smiled meaningfully, "Didn't the Ruan brothers and sisters live with you?" Someone was sent to call them in, and their opinion on firearms was quite extraordinary, so I had only put them first in the first class when I had exchanged them. Since you brought those things such as Shenwei arrows, you just happened to test them with Cheng Guogong, if the power is extraordinary, I can go back and write an inscription to ask for merit. ”