"Your Highness, Xia Guan is not thinking about this, but thinking that there are now Qingzhou Army engineers, logistics troops, and navy, these military branches are not available in the Great Yu Kingdom, and the implementation of military reform His Royal Highness seems to be confident, for this reason, Xia Guan is really puzzled. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Xiao Ming smiled, the military system of the Great Chongqing State was still in the era of cold weapons, and the sudden transition to the era of hot weapons naturally caused a lot of opposition.

It's just that Xiao Ming had to do this, because in the era of musketeers, the Western army had embarked on the road of regularization, and logistics troops and engineering troops had already appeared.

He's just catching up now.

He said: "When I was in Chang'an, the king explained to my father the origin of artillery, and the reform of this army also came from the warning of a Western priest, because today's Dayu State is no longer the previous Celestial Empire, but has become a country that is poor and weak and can only be bullied by barbarians. ”

Pang Yukun was silent, it was Xiao Ming who developed the artillery at the moment of crisis to defend Cangzhou City.

He suddenly found that his knowledge could no longer keep up with the footsteps of the prince of the Great Yu Kingdom, perhaps what he was thinking about was nothing but despicable in his eyes.

And it turned out that what Xiao Ming was doing was right, and after hesitating, he decided to choose to believe Xiao Ming.

"It's that Xia Guan thinks too much, after all, this army reform involves a lot of things, and Xia Guan believes that everything His Highness is doing now must be for the people of the fiefdom." Pang Yukun is colorful.

Xiao Ming nodded, "If you can trust this king, this king will be at ease, lest a group of civil and military generals go to the palace to make trouble with this king." ”

Pang Yukun smiled dumbly, Xiao Ming was afraid that he would lead a group of officials to prevent him from carrying out such a dangerous reform of the army like he did in Chang'an.

After all, he had done such things a lot when he was in Chang'an, and it was precisely because of this that Xiao Wenxuan was particularly disgusted with Pang Yukun.

"Today is different from the past, His Highness is a master!" Pang Yukun's eyes flickered, and there was a hint of difference in his voice.

Xiao Ming was immediately alert to this, and he looked at Pang Yukun, who just looked at him with a smile.

In Pang Yukun's eyes, he saw a kind of hope, which was the eyes of the loyal ministers in the TV series who persuaded their loyal princes to compete for the throne.

In the past, Pang Yukun might not dare to think about it, but as Qingzhou became stronger and stronger, he didn't know what the officials and generals under him were thinking now.

As if realizing that he had behaved inappropriately, Pang Yukun suddenly smiled and said, "Your Highness, Yue Yun has been going to sea for more than a month, and I don't know how he is now?" ”

"yes." Xiao Ming's heart is now most worried about Yue Yun's fleet, are they dead or alive now?

When the two were worried, Yue Yun, who was sailing on the sea at this time, sneezed.

A seaman came up to him behind him and said, "Captain, that red-haired ghost is awake." ”

"Go and call the interpreter." Yue Yun rubbed his nose and looked at the sea in front of him.

Leaving Dengzhou, they headed for the Strait of Malacca, where they encountered a number of pirates who tried to rob them, but they buried them with artillery.

It's just that the farther west they go, the more ferocious the pirates they encountered, and even the pirate ships they encountered with the same guns.

They were shocked by this discovery, but in order to be able to complete the task assigned by Xiao Ming, they tried to avoid fighting these pirate ships.

And the pirates don't seem willing to take huge risks to attack them armed to the teeth.

In addition to pirates, they often saw the wrecks of warships drifting over at sea, and today they even saw the wrecks of a dozen large sail warships.

There were corpses floating everywhere in the water, these corpses were dressed in strange red clothes, and their faces were different from those of the people of Dayu.

At this moment, he finally understood that Xiao Ming was not talking nonsense in the academy, it turned out that there really were Western countries in this world.

And they also had sail ships, artillery, and even a strange weapon in the shape of a stick.

As they passed through what seemed to be the site of a naval battle, they caught a lot of strange things, and this one was one of them.

Entering the cabin, Yue Yun saw the Westerners who had awakened.

At this time, the interpreter also arrived, glanced at Yue Yun, and asked in English.

When the Westerners in red dresses heard this, they immediately replied.

"What did he say?" Yue Yun scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously.

"He said he was British, part of the Third Fleet of Great Britain, and was the first mate of the navy, and that they had been attacked by the Dutch in this sea, and asked if we could send him to the nearest colony, India," said the interpreter. ”

A trace of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Yue Yun's head, and he then picked up the stick and said to the translator: "Great Britain, isn't this the United Kingdom in the mouth of His Highness?" What is it, you ask? ”

The translator said again, looked at Yue Yun strangely, and then said a few words.

"He said it's a flintlock pistol, and if you like him, you can give you a lot, as long as you send him to India." The translator said.

Yue Yun's heart suddenly sank, when he went to sea, Xiao Ming had already told him a lot of things, and now these things have come true one by one.

"You tell him we can send him to India, but he needs to answer some of our questions." At this time, Yue Yun gave a booklet to the translator, with the questions listed by Xiao Ming.

The interpreter took it and began to ask them one by one, but the British did not seem to resist.

In an hourglass time, the translator asked all the questions and handed the booklet back to Yue Yun.

Yue Yun opened it, and the answers on it were filled in by the translator, and after reading these messages, Yue Yun's face became extremely ugly.

He said to the interpreter, "You told him that we don't need a flintlock pistol, if only potatoes, peanuts, corn seeds, can he provide them?" ”

The interpreter asked a few questions, and the Englishman replied with a relaxed look.

"He said it was very simple, there was a lot of grain in the Indian colonies, and those grains were potatoes, peanuts and corn and things like that." The translator said.

Yue Yun pondered for a moment and said: "Send him to India, if we can get what His Highness wants, we will return immediately, now that Ryukyu is occupied by the Dutch, and the Dutch are trading with the Japanese Kingdom, we have to go back and tell Your Highness about this." ”

The crowd nodded, their purpose was not to travel around the world, but to gather information.

Now that they have what they want, there is no need to sail far, after all, the more he goes inside, the more dangerous it is, and he wants to keep the only three Galen ships in Qingzhou.

(To be continued.) )