Chapter 135: Restless Hue 1
But no one knew about the princess's move, not only were the three thousand Nanban heads being escorted by a squad of new troops on their way to Hue, but also thirty Type 1628 revolvers and matching ammunition were on the way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Princess Info knew that these officials in charge of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War of Annan were all corpse vegetarians, and they could not do anything but intrigue every day. She once heard a joke in officialdom that there are only three people in Annan's Ministry of Industry now, and as a result, there are three factions in the Ministry of Industry, and they all calculate each other every day, and they all want to get each other down.
Annan is not comparable to the Wu Dynasty, the territory is not large, even if it is the opening of the imperial examination, most of the people who are admitted are those who only know it, and they are all laymen for such things as armaments. There were still many people in the Wu Dynasty who studied firearms, and she had several military books such as "The Book of Fire Dragons" and "Fire Attack Essentials", which discussed how to play the role of firearms more perfectly. However, after seeing the firepower output of the Chinese marines in the defense of Champa Port, she couldn't help but feel that these firearms books could be thrown before, and these Chinese troops had almost brought the power of firearms to the extreme.
However, every time she consulted Qian Longzhou, the latter always talked about him left and right, and never answered her questions directly. In fact, Qian Longzhou is hard to speak, these breech-loaded smoothbore rifles have already shocked Her Royal Highness the Princess, what if the Army has now begun to install the Type 1628 rifles? As for the tactics of the firearms unit, Qian Longzhou can't explain it, so how can this explain the tactics such as infantry and artillery coordination and infantry and tan coordination that will appear in the future? In the future, there will be three-dimensional warfare, the sky is carpet bombing, the ground is the roar of tanks, and the sea is a steel giant, such a war scene through the crowd does not care, but in the ears of the natives of this time and space it sounds like a myth, so these things Qian Longzhou has never discussed with Princess Ji, every time he talks about this aspect, the topic will inexplicably become a discussion that is not related to today's weather.
But at this time, the princess's enemy head and new weapons had not yet arrived, so no one believed that the princess's recital would be true, whether it was the Ministry of Works or the Ministry of War. You must know that at this time, whether it is Annan or the Wu Dynasty, it is a common thing to deliberately exaggerate the enemy's strength or exaggerate the results of the battle, as for the first rank, now the entire east of Annan is full of corpses, and this kind of thing is not easy to capture? It's like playing with a few thousand heads, and when the head is transported, you can identify it and expose the princess's cowhide in front of the emperor.
The scholars and servants of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War were all smiling at this time, and they were already celebrating with the crown before they had defeated the princess, but they didn't know that at this time, the eunuch of the palace was kneeling in front of the emperor and trembling all over.
There was also a book in the brazier in front of the eunuch, and this book was sent from the port of Champa at a glance, because since the port of Champa began to use the paper of the port of the east since the trade with the port of the east, the quality of the paper made by the paper mill and the paper of these handmade paper workshops in the territory of Annam is completely different. The eunuchs had never seen such white and strong paper, and these papers were not at all as permeable as the paper made in the paper workshop, the thickness was different, and a little bit of force would be poked out by the brush head on the paper. However, there was no fire in the brazier at this time, but a lot of water, and the book was wet and spread out in the middle of the brazier at this time, and the black paper ash was splashed everywhere by the tea that had just been poured in, and even the emperor's four-clawed dragon robe was splashed a lot.
The eunuch Bingbi was very fast, and as soon as he heard that the emperor was coming to the celebrant eunuch, he immediately began to burn the recital sent by the princess. The three Shangshu had explained to themselves that before the head sent by the princess was exposed to the truth, the book must not be handed over to the emperor. However, the palace of Hue did not cover a large area, and there were only a few steps from the main hall of the review and folding to the celebrant of ceremonies.
Ruan Phuc Yuan stared coldly at the eunuch Bingbi kneeling in front of him, this is an old eunuch about fifty years old, this eunuch who grew up with him since he was a child has accepted the right to approve the recital on behalf of the emperor since he ascended the throne. Sure enough, this eunuch is about to mess with the dynasty when he has power, and what he throws into the brazier and burns at the moment must be the recital and battle report sent by the daughter of Zhancheng Port.
"I really didn't expect you to be so bold!" Ruan Phuc Yuan couldn't help but sigh as he leaned down and picked out a part of the burned recital from the brazier. I opened it and looked at it, "Occupy the port of Zhancheng for a day, killed more than 3,000 Nanban soldiers, and the head was already on the way to Hue, and by the way, he presented a batch of Chinese-made tap fire wheels and handguns." ”
When the eunuch Bingbi heard the emperor babbling about the remaining parts of the recital, his whole body trembled like chaff, "How bold are you?" Ruan Fuyuan slowly paced in front of him, leaned down and flicked the paper ashes on the eunuch's body with his hand, "Do you want me to give you a Zen?" I asked you to help me read the recital, and you helped me burn the princess's recital, do you know what kind of crime this is? ”
"The slave and maid are convicted ......"
"And what kind of crime do you say it is?" Ruan Fuyuan stared at the trembling eunuch and said word by word, "This is the crime of bullying the king, and the family should be exterminated!" ”
"But the slave maid is worrying about the emperor!" The eunuch Bingbi was also desperate at this time, and suddenly stopped trembling, knelt up straight and stiffened his neck and replied, "Her Royal Highness the princess is a female streamer, and she should have children at home, but she wants to learn from those men to fight on the battlefield, how can you make a daughter?" In addition, tens of thousands of southern barbarian troops and tens of thousands of rebellious people attacked the port of Zhancheng, even if it was an iron bucket, it would generally be contributed, and Her Royal Highness the princess still insisted that killing 3,000 barbarian soldiers could not be true at all, it was nothing more than killing good and risking merit. In this matter, Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of War said that it was absolutely impossible for a few thousand people to hold on to the port of Zhancheng. Her Royal Highness the princess is so wanton and reckless in lying about the military situation, sooner or later it will shake the country's social system and destroy the government's program. ”
Ruan Fuyuan didn't say much, stretched out his hand and took out a few letters of music from the hand of the little eunuch holding a large handful of music books behind him, and opened a reading, "Break the southern barbarians under the city and kill countless ......" said and opened the next one, "Fight with the barbarians in the wilderness, kill more than a thousand barbarians, and pursue more than ten miles ......"
As he spoke, he threw the books on the celebrant's desk. "Okay, you said that my good daughter is fake, even if it is fake, are these letters fake? How can these braggarts get on? Can't the princess's boast be sent? As soon as I come to this celebrant of ceremonies, you will throw the princess's recital into the brazier! "The more Ruan Phuc Yuan talks, the bigger the fire." What's more, the barbarian heads that the princess sent when the new army defeated the barbarians last time were real, and there were so many captured giant beasts, how did they become fakes in your mouths? ”
"Your Majesty! The Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War Shangshu asked to see him. "A eunuch in charge of the arraignment trotted all the way into the celebrant eunuch. While announcing loudly, he knelt outside the door of the celebrant hall.
Ruan Fuyuan was stunned, what are these three Shangshu and the waiter asking to see now? At present, he glanced at the eunuch Bingbi who began to tremble again, and said loudly, "Don't do it, you eunuch Bingbi, for the sake of accompanying me since childhood, go to the imperial tomb to accompany the first emperor." In the future, all the princess's recitals will be sent directly to my table, and no one shall detain them, and those who violate them will be exterminated. With that, he turned around and walked out.
The imperial palace in Hue is not big, and after only a short walk, the emperor has already returned to the main hall, and at this time, six officials wearing official robes and hats are kneeling on the ground to worship Nguyen Phuc Yuan.
"What's the matter with you? Why did you come to me at this time? ”
"Your Majesty, the lower officials have something to report," the military department Shangshu straightened up and said: "The first-level subordinate officials sent by Her Royal Highness the princess have already been checked, and most of them are false, almost all of them are people who have starved to death. ”
"Your Majesty!" The Ministry of Industry Shangshu continued, "The lower official has checked the tap fire wheel sent by Her Royal Highness the princess, and the handcuffs are useless, and the princess is afraid that she has been deceived by a traitor." ”
Hubu Shangshu hurriedly picked up the sentence, "The lower official wants to ask the emperor, since the head of the barbarian soldiers sent by Her Royal Highness the princess is not real, will this reward be returned?" ”
Ruan Fuyuan was stunned, "What head?" What tap fire handcuffs? Why didn't I see anything? I'm still not the emperor of Annan? Why didn't I know anything about such a big thing? ”
"Your Majesty!" The squire of the military department hurriedly explained, "This morning, Her Royal Highness the princess sent three thousand heads, saying that they were the heads of the barbarian soldiers who were killed, and Lord Shangshu and the lower officials have already checked them, all of them are not true, they are all the heads of ordinary people. ”
"What? How did you check it? ”
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Wang Shilang has been inspecting the head for several years and has never made a mistake." The secretary of the military department hurriedly added, and several scholars on both sides hurriedly nodded yes.
Hubu Shangshu hurriedly said, "Her Royal Highness the princess's subordinates killed good people this time, and used a few pieces of scrap iron to defraud the treasury funds by pretending to be military weapons, this is a crime of defrauding the king, and it is really a heinous crime. Although Her Royal Highness the princess did not participate in it, it must have been a poor discipline, and asked Her Majesty to recall Her Royal Highness the princess to Hue, recruit horses as soon as possible, and stop letting Her Royal Highness the princess take charge of the power in the port of Champa, and also ask Your Majesty to let the officials send officials to govern the port of Champa, so that the tax revenue of the port of Champa can be returned to the treasury. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Nguyen Phuc Nguyen was speechless at this time, and since the conquest of Champa Port, he had been given a domain to his only daughter. Princess Ji has made outstanding contributions to the development and expansion of Champa Port. Since Champa Port is now the largest trading port in the South China Sea, the annual transaction tax is at least one million taels, which has been coveted by the household for a long time, and has always wanted to regain the fief from the princess. This time, the princess sent a battle report that killed three thousand Nanban, which immediately made these flies flying around Champa Port keenly smell the fragrance, thinking that it was a flaw in the princess, and wanted to take this opportunity to suppress the princess and force the emperor to recall the princess, so as to occupy Champa Port and pump water from the tax revenue of Champa Port.