Zhu Zhi proposed the specific data parameters of the musket to Jiao Zilong and others. The weight should not exceed 16 kilograms (approximately kilograms, about 12 kilograms today), and the length should not exceed six feet (approximately 1 meter 5 today), and the range can be penetrated within 200 steps, and 200 steps is about 150 meters. Faced with such harsh technical requirements, Jiao Zilong also complained repeatedly, but who told him to take on the big bag after drinking? Now the prince gave him such good "scientific research" conditions, so he had to agree, but he also hoped to relax the development time. Zhu Zhi relaxed generously until half a year. If he could research it in half a year, Zhu Zhi wanted to give him a marquis.

Since the "Shuilou Ring Institute" moved into the Wang Mansion, the Wang Mansion has not stopped calm during the day, and the backyard is "ding ding dangdang" and is hitting it all the time. Guo Xiu was a little overwhelmed and came to complain to Zhu Zhi that his son's rest during the day was often disturbed.

Zhu Zhi couldn't say anything about his suffering. At the foot of the emperor, he wanted to find a clean place to study muskets. It was not so easy. Moreover, this technological revolution still needs to be kept secret. Apart from his palace, he couldn't think of any good place. He remembered that when his fourth brother gathered his strength to start the business in the future, he also built weapons in his backyard. But the fourth brother's house was big and occupied the palace of the former Yuan Dynasty, but it was just that big place. In order to cover up, he took out an underground arsenal in the palace and found a group of craftsmen to start construction day and night.

Even if the sound was too loud when it moved underground, I don’t know who came up with a bad idea. I finally covered up a group of geese. It was a pity that he could think of it. However, Zhu Zhi also admired the fourth brother’s urgent wisdom. Raising a group of geese not only covered up the sound but also covered up his desire to rebel.

However, Zhu Zhi's home is not as big as his, and he doesn't want to have a group of geese to pollute the environment. In the end, there was no way, so Zhu Zhi had to ask Guo Xiu to hold his son and go back to his parents' home for two days. It seems that he must think of a way to solve this problem.

The sound was small, and Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the matter was big. Zhu Zhi and Yang Rongyi had decided to tell the emperor that he would not be suspicious of Lao Zhu. Zhu Zhi immediately made a statement and visited the Shenji Camp a few days ago and felt that firearms had great potential. Liaodong has been a source of salt and iron since ancient times, and it happened to develop firearms. However, it is too troublesome to use firearms now. He and a few craftsmen were trying to find out whether the efficiency of the firearms could be improved. Please support the father and the emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang was amused by his son's memorial, so he criticized Zhu Zhi for being unemployed. If you have time, you will learn to deal with political affairs in Liaodong. However, no matter how old Zhu could think about it, he would never think that the fifteenth one is from the future. He just thought that he did not like to study or handle government affairs. Zhu Zhi has always been a playful person, so he would go there. This is a good thing. When Zhu Zhi passed the Lao Zhu barrier, he would not have to worry about being ginseng.

However, the research on flintlock rifle cannot be completed in one day or two. At the beginning, Zhu Zhi ran there almost every day, but helped them solve several technical problems. But later Zhu Zhi was lazy and let them do it. Anyway, people took it first, and he didn't want to solve these things in the capital. It would be too late to be able to successfully develop it in Liaodong in the future.

On this day, Zhu Zhi and Yang Rong were studying intelligence. Yang Rong sighed with a piece of information: "The four barbarians come to the court, which is a sign of good fortune. You can watch it. If you come to the court like this, it will sooner or later become a burden to our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Zhi said: "What made Mianren so moved?"

Yang Rong said: "A few days ago, a envoy from Dashi came to the court and paid 20 good horses from Dashi. The emperor was happy and issued an order to give him 5,000 taels of silver, ten jade belts, and ten boxes of official porcelain. He also allowed him to sell horses in Beijing. Such a cheap matter was started, and the four barbarians would come to pay tribute to him in the future. Although our Ming Dynasty had abundant resources, it would be a great burden."

Zhu Zhi highly praised Yang Rong's ability to think independently. These so-called historical ministers of the Great Food were probably just pretended to by several merchants. They were closed to the country in the early Ming Dynasty, and many merchants used this method to come to the world. At first, the Ming Dynasty was quite happy, but later, they found that it was not a problem.

However, in this matter, Yang Rong looked at it first, but couldn't see the second. Zhu Zhi had a different view. Yang Rong might not know what it was like to eat a horse. It was the best horse in the world. The Central Plains did not produce horses, and all horses had to be bought from the grassland. Therefore, the Han people always suffered from lack of horses in the fight with the northern barbarians for hundreds of years.

Zhu Zhi considered how happy Lao Zhu was when he saw such a good horse, so there was a reason for the reward. As for this, he allowed him to sell horses in the capital, he was more likely to hope to introduce these horses into China to form a certain amount of horse breeding.

When Zhu Zhi talked about these ideas to Yang Rong, Yang Rong immediately understood three points. Zhu Zhi said: "If the father has this intention, the sons should also share the worries of the father. Did the information tell me where to sell horses?"

Yang Rong said: "It seems to be sold in the West Market from today."

When Zhu Zhi heard this, he became scheming and quickly ordered the account room in the mansion to withdraw money and prepare to buy horses. During the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings basically had no income before they entered the vassal, and all the expenses were expenses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or were rewarded by the emperor. So basically, Zhu Zhi was still a poor man. Last time he paid 1,000 taels of research funds to Jiao Zilong, but now he had to scrape all the land in the mansion and only had more than 2,000 taels of land.

Zhu Zhi lamented in his heart why he couldn't make wine, why did he not make glass, oh God of Earth, why is a prince still so poor? There was no way, Zhu Zhi made his collection box and put out a few more jade items, which looked worth hundreds of taels. There was no way. For the sake of big things, he could only put the hobby of collecting jade items first. After packing up the things, he asked Xiao Chenzi to take the four guards with silver to the west court.

The west farm is located in the west Shicheng Gate of Nanjing City. It was originally a military camp where Yuan soldiers were stationed. After Zhu Yuanzhang successfully rebelled, it turned into a livestock market. Horses, cows, and donkeys were all traded here.

Zhu Zhi and his party came to the door and got off their horses and walked in. They saw a huge "farmhouse" bustling with people coming and going. Some of them broke open the mouths and counted their teeth, some of them put their sleeves together to find the price, and some took out a stack of treasure money. The other party's face immediately became less beautiful. Zhu Zhi entered such a large livestock market for the first time, and everything here was so novel, and he felt that his eyes were not enough.

Most of the livestock transactions in the south are cattle and donkeys, with few horses, and the horses sold in the only few stalls are not tall and mighty. The climate in the south is humid, and it is not an environment for horses to survive, and bacteria breed horses are prone to illness. This congenital climate and environmental conditions determine that the Han people cannot equip cavalry on a large scale in the main activity areas south of the Central Plains. In those YY novels, they often establish cavalry teams of tens of thousands of people in the south, which is purely nonsense.

When Zhu Zhi chatted with Xiao Ma Wang, he realized that there were only 200,000 horses in the entire 200,000 Beijing Guard. The highest horses were the Yulin Left Guard and the Mansion Right Guard. Both guards were 10,000, but they were only equipped with 6,000 war horses. Why did the King's Division in the Jingnan Dynasty fail to defeat the Yan army? The lack of cavalry is a very important aspect. The cavalry in the Yan army was trained by licking blood on the grassland, and dozens of people often dared to rush towards the formation. The Southern Army lacked horses and practical training, and it was strange that the kings who could beat the cold weapon era.

Liaodong is different. Although it is not a famous horse production place in history, it has unique geographical conditions. With a flat horse, there are so many lands that can be planted in horse grass and so many grasslands that can be used for horses to run. Establishing an excellent horse population has always been an important part of Zhu Zhi’s strategy of Liaodong. He believes that as long as he is willing to work hard and rely on the natural conditions of Liaodong, he will soon have his own "Guanning Iron Cavalry".

Zhu Zhi was immersed in the dream of thousands of troops galloping out, but was suddenly interrupted by a noise. He looked up and saw a bunch of people surrounding him, not knowing what it was.

The two of them walked quickly past and said, "Go and see, the expensive big-foot horse. It turns out that it's here. Zhu Zhi finally squeezed in through the cracks of the people. He was facing a black man, wearing a typical Arab robe, tall, wide-skinned and round waist, trying his best to stop people from squeezing in. A Han man next to him shouted, "Don't squeeze, go in one by one." Zhu Zhi felt uncomfortable when he looked at his triangular eyes. Why did he look like a foreign comprador, without the style of a great power in the Celestial Empire? It turned out that this was an independent yard, and it seemed that the big-foot horse was treated differently.

Zhu Zhi said angrily: "Where did Kunlun slaves come from? Show off." Although he changed into casual clothes, his bright clothes and royal nobleness were not something that ordinary people could pretend. The "comprador" was obviously also the master who was honed into a spirit in the business. When he saw the big customer, he quickly pulled away the black man and said: "This young man is so many people in this place, so there is no way."

Zhu Zhi didn't have the same knowledge as such people, so he brought people into the yard. There were also many people in the yard, and everyone came to the famous horses. Through the crowd, there were ten handsome men tied in the stable. People gathered around the stable and commented, and were in a warm mood.

Zhu Zhi slowly walked closer and observed carefully. The big-food horse is the so-called Arab horse, one of the best horse breeds in the world. Zhu Zhi is not an expert in the horse. However, outsiders can see that these horses have brighter hair and are majestic. They are all rare good horses. Although the mounts in the palace are also one in a hundred, they are all from Mongolian horse breeds, which are obviously not as good as these.

Zhu Zhi took a look at a white pony and was about to go up and question the price. Suddenly a voice came from next to him: "These big cannibals are not honest, they are all inferior goods when they are delivered."

Who was so angry? When Zhu Zhi turned around, the person in front of him was startled. He saw a tall, blond, blue-eyed man in his thirties standing behind him, commenting with disdain. He looked like he wanted to kill these slow horses. From the Yuan Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, it was not uncommon for Seminar people to be in the Ming Dynasty, but it was really strange that such standard Chinese popped out in his mouth.

Beside him was a young man who was not tall and somewhat thin. He had beautiful eyebrows and two sword eyebrows flying into his temples. He was such a handsome man who was smiling and listening to the noble arguments of the people.

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Chapter completed!