Finally, he got away with it. Zhang Yong felt that his back was wet. Fortunately, he was smart, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang Xiaogong, the emperor asked you two to go to meet the saint quickly. Gao Baihu has made great contributions again, and the emperor is very happy!"

When the little carpenter heard that it was the emperor's grandfather who wanted to call him over, he had to reluctantly put down the carpenter's work and went with Zhang Yong to the Qing Palace to meet Emperor Wanli.

Walking into the Ganqing Palace Hall, Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Yong knelt down, and even the little carpenter knelt down to Grandpa Huang honestly.

Emperor Wanli sat upright in the middle, with Concubine Zheng sitting next to him, and the old eunuch Lu Shou stood beside him. Lu Shou wore a steel fork hat and a big red high-grade eunuch robe. The tonic was a bullfighting tonic, which meant that he was the highest level of the eunuch.

The battle report sent by Liaodong was placed in front of Wanli's table. It can be seen that Wanli was in a very good mood and had a smile on his face. Seeing the three of them kneeling in front of him, Wanli said, "The emperor, two companions, flat!"

Wanli was playing with a short flintlock gun in his hand, pulling the trigger one after another with interest. With a series of crisp metal impacts, the flint stuck on the faucet continued to hit the iron plate in front, spewing out bursts of sparks. It was obvious that Wanli seemed to like this short flintlock gun very much.

"Sun son, did you make it yourself?" Wanli asked with a flintlock gun.

"It was made by my grandson himself, but Mr. Zhang helped a lot." The little carpenter replied quickly.

"This thing is so ingenious and exquisite!" Wanli sighed.

The little carpenter said: "Grandpa Emperor, this gun is much faster to load gunpowder than bird guns and turtledove guns, and there is no fuse to get in the way. My Ming soldiers can arrange dense formations to welcome the enemy with guns. Why worry about the immortality of Jiannu!"

"Isn't it the same to load ammunition? How much time can you save a fuse clamping action soon?" Wanli smiled.

The little carpenter quickly replied: "There is a fixed ammunition, and it only takes six to ten breaths to load it."

"It's so magical? I want to see it." Wanli was very interested.

If you want to test the gun, you must not be able to test it in the Forbidden City. You can only go out of Xuanwu Gate and go to the open ground of the imperial city to test the gun. Emperor Wanli asked someone to bring the other two long-pipe self-produced muskets made by the little carpenter, and with one short, two long and three muskets, they went to the open ground beside the Taiye Pond to the west of the Silijian in the Forbidden City to test the muskets.

Emperor Wanli had a bad feet, so Lu Shou ordered an eunuch to prepare a carriage. After he was ready, he ordered two eunuchs to support Wanli and stand up and walk outside.

The two eunuchs almost carried Emperor Wanli to the chariot, and then thirty-two little firemen raised the chariot, crossed the central axis of the Forbidden City, and walked outside Xuanwu Gate.

It was not easy for the emperor to leave the imperial city. As long as the emperor left Chengtian Gate from the south or went north to the north, the censors in the court would have a frustration. Therefore, the gun test could only be found in the imperial city.

Sure enough, as soon as Emperor Wanli's carriage left Xuanwu Gate, he saw several censors on the roadside pointing fingers.

Zhang Yong gently pulled the little carpenter's arm, pointed at the censors and said, "My uncle, it seems that those censors are very excited! If the emperor walked north and left the imperial city, those censors would probably be in a state of great success!"

The little carpenter was a little angry: "Is this Ming Dynasty belonging to our Zhu family or those censors? Even where Grandpa Huang is going, they have to take care of?"

Zhang Yong continued to instill poisons in the carpenter to harm the upright scholars of the Ming Dynasty: "My master, for more than two hundred years, these civil servants have been spoiled by the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty! They really regard the Ming Dynasty as their own, not from the Zhu family! Do you know why the emperor refused to attend court for thirty years? If you have the chance, you can ask the emperor, the emperor is afraid of being scolded by the civil servant!"

The censors of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most comfortable and free censors in all dynasties. No matter they are officials, emperors, nobles or royal relatives, they dare not scold them. They not only dare to scold the emperor, but even the emperor's wife and mother, they dare to scold them, clamoring to have a super friendly relationship with the emperor's wife and mother, but they never saw them killed by the emperor.

Although there is a system of court sticks, and the emperor gets angry and can let the eunuch beat the ministers' sticks, every minister feels honored that he has been beaten by court sticks.

In fact, when fighting a court stick, eunuchs can decide the life and death of ministers. For example, when fighting a court stick, the toes are facing outward or inward, and the Jinyiwei who takes action will know how to hit it. The toes are facing outward, which is "real" and looks like they are hitting, but in fact they will not hurt the internal organs. After the attack, they will lie on the bed and keep it for a while and be injured and jump around again; but if the toes are facing inward, they will be "striking with care", which is fatal. Basically, if more than ten sticks are hit, they will be beaten to death on the spot.

If the eunuch wants to deal with some annoying censors, he will turn his toes inward, let the Jinyiwei beat him carefully, and directly kill the censors.

But there are really many censors who are not afraid of death. In half of the cases, eunuchs dare not kill a censor. If they beat them to death, the court will be in trouble. Moreover, the censors who were beaten to death are famous in history in the civil service group, and their families are still protected by the entire civil service group. His descendants will still be taken care of in the future for the imperial examination.

Because I can leave my name in history and my family and future generations will be taken care of, the censor is not afraid of being killed on the spot.

Wanli could not walk out of Bei'anmen. All he wanted was to see with his own eyes how powerful the muskets made by the emperor's grandson were. The eunuchs were carrying the chariots that were almost at the Sili Superintendent, so they turned west and stopped on the open ground beside the Taiye Pool.

The Jinyiwei had already arranged the spotlight and opened a shooting range by the lake.

Two eunuchs helped Wanli down the carriage. The eunuchs over there handed over two long guns and a short gun. The little carpenter took the short gun and asked someone to put the two long guns on the ground.

Seeing that the little carpenter picked up the short gun and was about to load the ammunition, Zhang Yong quickly dissuaded: "My master, I'd better try it. Master, if the musket explodes, I can't afford it."

"Will the musket I made myself explode?" The little carpenter laughed confidently.

Wanli felt sorry for his grandson and walked up and said, "Grandson, I'm still listening to Zhang Xiaoban. I'm not afraid of ten thousand, but I'm afraid of it."

The little carpenter had no choice but to resist the intense age of playing with guns and reluctantly handed the musket to Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong took the short gun and quickly took the fixed gunpowder paper shell bullet of the short gun from the hand of the eunuch. He bit the tail of the bullet, then stuffed the bullet into the muzzle, and then compacted it with a strip. Then he took off the pointed-mouth pot from his waist, squeezed the lead-in medicine into the medicine pool, and covered the medicine pool cover. Then he held the gun in one hand, aimed at the wooden target twenty steps away, held his breath, and pulled the trigger.

When the trigger is pulled, under the action of the linkage mechanism, the faucet moves backwards, and the cover of the medicine pool is automatically opened. Then the faucet hits forward under the action of a spring, hitting the iron plate, spraying out sparks, igniting the drug.

A deafening roar sounded, and a scarlet tongue of flames spewed out of the muzzle, and white smoke rose from the muzzle and the medicine pool.

"Hit the bull's eye!" shouted the Jinyiwei who reported the target.

Several Jinyiwei and eunuchs shouted: "Eunuch Zhang is good at gunning skills!"

"It's very soon, in less than six breaths, the short gun was loaded." Wanli said, looking at the pocket watch in his hand.

"Emperor, I will try the long gun again." Zhang Yong stepped forward and bowed.

"Go and try it, I'll watch it." Wanli nodded.

Zhang Yong picked up the long gun from the ground, and then took a paper bullet casing from the eunuch. He bit off the tail of the bullet casing, stuffed the bullet through the muzzle, and then compacted it with a strip. Then he opened the cover of the medicine pool, squeezed the lead medicine with a pointed-mouthed pot, and covered the cover plate. He then picked up the musket, aimed at the target seventy steps away, and pulled the trigger.

A "boom" sounded, and white smoke filled the air.

Zhang Yong fired this bullet, quickly turned the muzzle, loaded another paper shell bullet, opened the cover of the medicine pool, squeezed in the lead-in medicine, turned the musket again, aimed at the target and pulled the trigger again.
Chapter completed!