It's the end of the year again. Although everything is bleak, it is also the spring sensation. Tianlai Novel

Due to a heavy rain last year that lasted nearly half a month, the red walls of Kunning Palace were really wet. By this time, some ivy had slowly climbed to the pepper room.

The sun shines into the lattice window, and the luster of the green leaves of the ivy awakens Zhu Youjiao, who is as thick as a beautiful and beautiful baby.

Zhu Youxiao opened his sleepy eyes and moved his palms away from the pair of soft peach peaks. Somewhere was still a little ready to move, but when he thought of going to attend the preparatory meeting of the Beijing University today, he suppressed his evil thoughts.

"Change clothes!"

The woman who was serving in the bed was an ordinary palace maid named Luo Ruo. It was a coincidence that Zhu Youxiao picked her sweetheart.

I originally came to Kunning Palace to see the Queen Zhang Yan and then took a look at the unique Hai Lanzhu, but who knew that Hai Lanzhu did not meet him, but instead met this palace maid.

Although Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, the folks in the harem could pick them at will, he was not absurd. He had to carry them to roll the bed sheets once. In order to save the expenses in the palace and to consider the future life of these palace maids, he also handed the younger palace maids to the inner palace supervisor to send them back to their original parents' home according to the principle of voluntary action.

Even in the nine years of the Apocalypse, 1,500 young palace maids were released, and for this purpose they even wrote a lot in the newspaper.

The reason why older palace maids over 20 years old are not given because of the customs of the Ming Dynasty, such women are already left-over women of older age and will not be happy even if they are put home. The best result is to die of loneliness, and the worst result is to become secret prostitutes.

Therefore, in order for these "older leftover women of the Ming Dynasty" who should still be young, they could still live a stable life without being disturbed by the contemptuous eyes of the outside world, Zhu Youxiao did not force them to leave the palace and seek a way out.

In fact, these "older leftover women of the Ming Dynasty" palace maids voluntarily stayed in the palace when seeking their opinions. They might also die of old age in the palace, but their lives are at least peaceful, and many companions can even play with food.

Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that many eunuchs in the palace were playing with food, but he did not strictly rectify them, and even turned a blind eye. Whether it was eunuchs or palace maids, they also needed emotional needs. If they were too strict, they would force them to deal with themselves, which Zhu Youxiao was unwilling to see.

Existence is reasonable, and there is nothing we can do about it. Zhu Youxiao even asked Empress Zhang Yan to allow eunuchs and palace maids to make friends with sisters and brothers (actually, it also admits food) but does not allow extra friends. Once the eunuchs or palace maids are closely concerned with more than two other people, they will be executed directly!

This is to prevent internal gangs from forming a threat to the emperor, so while allowing them to vent their emotions, they have to tighten the cage of internal rebellion.

Less gossip, Luo Ruo Nianhua is only twenty-one. She is pretty, but she is petite, cute and well-behaved. In modern times, she belongs to the national girl. She accidentally broke the tea cup while pouring tea for Zhu Youxiao, and in a hurry, she even cut her thumb. Zhu Youxiao put her bloody thumb into her mouth and sucked for a while. After sucking, she felt her thumb warm and gentle and friendly, so she couldn't help but stroke her hand on her face.

This basket of Ruo was also dodging and shy, and was stripped of all by Zhu Youxiao in a short while.

In this way, another harem woman fell into Zhu Youxiao's clutches.

Luo Ruo is just one of most ordinary women. By chance, she became a person around His Majesty the Emperor. She knew that she would be like this sooner or later, and even in a certain way, this is something she deserves to be happy about.

However, she couldn't tell what it felt like when she experienced this kind of personnel for the first time. Now that she has woken up, there is no need to nostalgia anymore. She still serves Zhu Youxiao gently and waits for Zhu Youxiao to change clothes.

"Where are you from, and whose name is?"

This is the fact. Zhu Youxiao is now like he went to the red light district and fell into depravity once. He didn't even know what the palace maid was named. He couldn't help but feel funny and could not help but blame himself for no reason.

"Your Majesty, I am from Wuzhou, my surname is Su, and I have no name. My mom asked the Empress to give me a name called Luo Ruo, and the daughter of the Yao family of the Immortal family."

Zhu Youxiao nodded. He didn't expect that this person was actually a woman from the Yao family, but he felt that this person was called Luo Ruo, who was quite honest. Because the division between Han and Yi would affect the treatment of the palace maids in the palace to concubines, he proposed it first, which seemed generous.

"Please keep this Nine Dragon Jade, I will reward you. If there is something wrong in the future, I can come to see me directly with this thing." Zhu Youxiao said that, and patted Luo Ruo on the shoulder, and then took Wang Chengen out: "Transfer the order to Liu Ruoyu, and ask the Dongchang to find the Yao family named Su Luoruo, and rewarded his family with three thousand silver dollars and one hundred silk pieces. At the same time, he also gave him five hundred silver and ten silk pieces, which was promoted to agreement."

"I understand," Wang Chengen responded.

"Let's go, go to Taiyechi. I'll see how Li Mingrui from the Ministry of Rites built the Capital University I had imagined. I've given him a year and spent a lot of money."

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "How is the negotiations on Zheng Chenggong going? Xiong Wencan can submit a memorial to Beijing. In addition, the situation of the mission to Ryukyu Kingdom is like this, there is the latest news."

"Not even yet, but according to Xu Xianchun, the Jinyiwei in Nanjing brought back the news that it seemed that fishermen who were fishing from afar came back and said that there were a large number of pirate ships passing by in the Jilong area, covering the sky and the sun. It seemed that there was a war to fight again, but perhaps it was a rumor, and it was unknown."

Zhu Youxiao was stunned when he heard this and immediately ordered: "Tell Xu Xianchun, be sure to pay attention to the rumors of these fishermen. Regardless of whether it is true or not, you must find out clearly!"

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Zhu Youxiao in the capital began to suspect that Zheng Zhilong and other pirates really dared to attack the court's First Fleet of the Beihai and cargo ships, in the waters near the Ryukyu Kingdom, the fierce battle between the First Fleet of the Beihai and Zheng Zhihu and other pirates had entered a fierce battle.

Zheng Zhihu didn't expect that he would get a shot behind his flagship, and the power of the shell was so powerful that he really scared him.

Moreover, at the same time, he also found that there was indeed a very strange ship behind his flagship. It was more like a soft sailboat driven by the Europa, but it was larger than the soft sailboat. There were two chimneys on the hull that were much thicker than the mast, and there were rolling black smoke.

Zheng Zhihu did not expect that the imperial court would have such a warship. Anyone would have an instinctive fear of strange things, and Zheng Zhihu was no exception.

Fortunately, although the Zheng He was wrapped in iron armor, it was not huge, and it was not even as large as his flagship, so Zheng Zhihu felt a little relieved. In addition, he obviously had a numerical advantage, so there was no reason to be afraid.

However, Gu Sanmazi also had problems. Although he had been a pirate and had experienced naval battles, it was the first time he was driving and commanding such a large and high-end warship that was considered high-end in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he was not very skilled and miscalculated the range, which caused the Zheng He to be too close to Zheng Zhihu's pirate fleet, so many shells did not explode into Zheng Zhihu's fleet because of their long range. Instead, they fell directly into the sea water, and had no other effect except for the fish frying.

This made Gu Sanmazi really depressed, so he had to order Zheng He to retreat for a distance immediately.

Zheng Zhihu didn't know the reason. After seeing the iron-armored monster in front of him began to retreat and even retreated to the range of the conventional artillery, he couldn't help but instructed: "It seems that he wants to anger us, let us press forward and rescue this side, and ask Zheng San to chase after him immediately. We will continue to control the wind position, and be sure to defeat the lucky ship here before sunset and capture the official alive!"

On this side, Gu Sanmazi observed the wind direction for a while, and determined the distance before ordering: "Snatch the upper hand and bombard the left and right wings of these pirates. At the same time, other light boats immediately carried liquid explosives when the Zheng He bombarded them in a flexible and quick way!"

After Gu Sanmazi's order, the Zheng He immediately turned around and opened the two guns, and suddenly roared towards Zheng Zhihu's fleet like countless shells with black smoke tails like cruise missiles.

The rumbling explosion sounded along with the surging sea waves.

Several warships on Zheng Zhihu's side ignited a fire in an instant, and Zheng Zhihu almost fell to the ground due to violent shaking. He was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword and rush over to fight the people on the iron armored monster for 300 rounds!

At the same time, Zheng Zhihu was also surprised. He did not expect the enemy's artillery to be so powerful and the range would be so long that he did not occupy the position in time just now, and now he has to be passively beaten.

However, before Zheng Zhihu's orders, his old pirates who had rich practical experience and were unwilling to suffer losses had already begun to fire shells and counterattack.

Countless iron bullets are constantly sprinkling at sea levels less than a few square kilometers like a celestial girl scattering flowers, but they cannot get to the Zheng He. There is no way to send shells directly to your deck within this distance, but you can let others see the performance of the waves.

At this time, the boats of the North Sea Fleet also rowed at Zheng Zhihu's warship desperately. Under the high-density shooting of the Zheng He artillery, they were simply slipperier than loaches, and they slid directly into the area where the vision of Zheng Zhihu's warship could clearly see the human face.

"Pay attention to these eagle ships and sand ships ahead and stop them!"

Zheng Zhihu also discovered these things at this time and began to worry. He was the history of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and was even more impressed by the water war in Poyang Lake. He naturally knew that these small boats, which seemed less than one-third of the hull of a large ship.

However, although several small boats capsized on the sea because of pirate shells, many of them had already hit Zheng Zhihu's warship directly.

The so-called liquid bomb is just a chemical bomb mainly made of nitroglycerin. This chemical substance is a very dangerous chemical substance and can easily explode due to vibration. It is also the precursor of TNT explosives, but the current Ming Dynasty will definitely not be able to produce TNT violent explosives.

But now with the assistance of Zhu Youxiao's information, I can make some nitroglycerin, although it took a long time to kill several experimenters.

The light yellow liquid was thrown directly on the pirates' boards. Some pirates didn't take this seriously at all, thinking that these were just ordinary tincture oil. The people from the court wanted to ignite the tincture oil and burn the warships slightly, so they still tried their best to prevent other small boats from approaching.

But who expected that the yellow liquid would explode directly when it fell on the boat board. Suddenly, countless flames burned, and countless black smoke came out, covering the entire sea level so darkly. Many pirates were directly bombed to death or buried in the sea of ​​fire.

At this time, the Zheng He continued to launch artillery fire. Moreover, because these Zheng pirates are experienced and skilled in operation, they can quickly change the direction of the hull to avoid the Zheng He gun position, which makes the Zheng He lose the advantage of the upper wind position and have to follow the direction.

But since this is the first actual combat of a steam-powered machine like Zheng He, both the steam-powered machine, the control equipment and the technicians are not smooth enough, so his reaction agility has not been fully reflected.

Otherwise, the Zhenghe would not still be with a few technical talents from the Ming Dynasty Shipbuilding Bureau. The purpose is to observe and record at any time, and prepare for future improvement of warships.

"Change the direction, seize the wind as fast as possible, and beat me hard!" Gu Sanmazi cursed and yelled. The Zheng He continued to change directions as if a compass floating on the compass was moving, and continued to send shells to Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

Due to the long range of artillery and the fast ship, the Zheng He still has an absolute advantage in naval battles, and the ships of these Zheng pirates continued to be passively beaten.

With a loud bang!

A large lucky ship of Zheng's pirate was bombed several times and was blown up by dozens of nitroglycerol liquid explosives, and it was directly broken into two halves and sank directly into the seabed.

It was one of Zheng Zhihu's most trusted brothers and the most powerful general of Zheng's pirates. It was named Shi Zhaoke, and it was the warship commanded by the elder brother of General Shi Lang who was praised to heaven in later generations.

Seeing Shi Zhaoke being blown up with incomplete limbs and only one head was still flying in the sky, Zheng Zhihu was so angry that his eyes were so angry that he was furious.

He was completely angry now. He didn't expect that he was in a situation of being beaten. However, this aroused his ruthless heart and directly ordered: "Flag words, let Zheng San rush up directly, and rush towards the iron shell at all costs, smashing him!"

On this side, Zheng Sanye, who was at the forefront, survived not many ships. As soon as he received this order, he rushed towards Zheng He just for fear of his life.

"Okay, this is definitely Zheng Zhihu's style. Give me instructions, turn the direction, penetrate the flanks, and be sure to defeat the warship that is in the forefront!"
Chapter completed!