What Zhu Di didn't know was that his father was more interested in these two things than him. Zhu Yuanzhang knew the importance of these two things to Ming Dynasty.
With the flintlock in front of him, Zhu Yuanzhang had already started to pay attention to the machine gun when Zhu Gaoye started to load it.
When Zhu Gaoye was testing the Fran machine gun, Zhu Yuanzhang placed all his attention on the Fran machine gun and the gunner operating it.
What Zhu Di didn't notice was that apart from the high firing speed and the advantage of not exploding, there was also a very big advantage. That was, the range of this Franc machine gun was far further than the existing conventional artillery of Da Ming.
Da Ming had cannons that could shoot farther than the Franc Machine Cannon, but those cannons were far more deterrent than practical. Not only were these cannons heavy, but they were also extremely clumsy to operate.
Just moving the muzzles would require hundreds of soldiers to exert their strength at the same time. However, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he only needed two or three soldiers to push these cannons.
In ancient times, cavalry was more powerful than infantry. Other than the powerful horses, the more important thing was that the mobility of cavalry was incomparable to infantry.
With these long-range and fast-moving cannons, the cavalry's advantage would disappear.
Compared to Zhu Di, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, was more like a pragmatic person. He would consider everything from a practical point of view.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately discovered the advantages of the Franc machine gun.
In the original history, after Zhu Di succeeded in the war, he registered himself as the emperor and was named Yongle. He was called Emperor Yongle by later generations. Other than Zhu Yuanzhang, he was much more powerful than all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
Just like the second generation of founders in the future, although Zhu Di was already an excellent second generation founder, it was inevitable that he had the same shortcoming as the others, which was that he valued his own face very much.
Therefore, after he ascended the throne, Zhu Di even held a banquet of ten thousand countries and invited all the envoys from small countries to attend, creating a scene of a group of people coming to court.
As the birthplace of the Confucian cultural circle, the Central Plains Dynasty had long since spread to the surrounding small countries.
Those small foreign countries had been influenced by Confucian culture, and they all regarded the Central Plains Dynasty as their suzerain. During the Tang Dynasty, they submitted to the Tang Dynasty, and during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, they submitted to the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
When it came to this dynasty, these foreign countries would naturally submit to the Ming Dynasty.
However, although these small countries had submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty, their thoughts were not that simple.
As these small foreign countries were poor, the Central Plains Dynasty had always been rich. This made these small foreign countries jealous, but they did not dare to provoke the Central Plains Dynasty. After all, the strength of the Central Plains Dynasty was there. Even at its weakest, it was not something these foreign countries could provoke.
Therefore, these small countries took a different approach and spontaneously established a tribute system, expressing their willingness to pay tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty and voluntarily submit to the Central Plains Dynasty. As a return gift, the Central Plains Dynasty naturally would not be stingy with rewards.
To put it bluntly, it was like a poor relative of a rich family taking something worthless as a gift in exchange for something more valuable from a rich relative.
Therefore, it was true that he came to court, but because Zhu Di was addicted to the worship of these small countries,
They were cheated of a lot of real gold and silver by these small foreign countries with cheap annual tribute.
Counting the tributes from these countries and the return gifts from Great Ming, Great Ming was losing money every time!
However, Zhu Di had no choice but to swallow his pride and the Confucians 'way of returning the favor.
If Zhu Yuanzhang had been the one to do this, things would not have been like this. Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a low-class citizen, and he had already decided that he would never care about his face.
As long as he could live, he could even become a beggar or a monk. How could he lose something practical because of this little bit of face?
Therefore, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, the first thing he would do after he got the flintlock gun and the machine gun was to destroy the remnants of Northern Yuan and the Japanese!
Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang took over the world, the only threats to the Ming Dynasty were the remnants of the Northern Yuan in the north and the pirates along the southeast coast.
Although Lan Yu had already destroyed Northern Yuan, the remnants of Northern Yuan, such as the Arutai tribe, had always been a threat to Zhu Yuanzhang.
After the Mongolians took over the Central Plains, they did not work hard like the Han Dynasty to stabilize their regime. Instead, they treated everyone as their slaves, just like the tribes on the grasslands.
Under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the only compensation for killing a Han was a donkey.
The life of a Han was actually equal to a donkey. How ridiculous and laughable was this?
This was a common occurrence throughout the Yuan Dynasty. Apart from that, the Mongolians also tried their best to exploit the people.
This was also the reason why in just a few decades, the entire Central Plains had been filled with war, and the uprising troops had emerged one after another.
As the uprising armies grew more and more powerful, the Mongolians had long since made preparations to retreat to the grasslands.
When Chang Yuchun attacked Dadu, the Mongolians, who were already prepared, quickly left Dadu, which was now Beiping, and returned to the grasslands with a large amount of gold, silver, treasures, skilled craftsmen, and everything they could take.
After returning to the grasslands, these people once again established a regime called Northern Yuan, which was still equal to the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, they once again returned to the state of plundering for a living. From time to time, they would lead troops to sneak attack the border of the Ming Dynasty. After plundering, they would return to the grasslands.
Although Northern Yuan had been destroyed, the remaining troops of Northern Yuan were still valiant.
This was also one of the main reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang set up so many frontier kings and the Central Plains.
Compared to the Mongolians in the north, the Japanese pirates in the southeast coast were a problem for him.
However, even though the disease didn't seem obvious, if it was ignored, it would slowly turn into a chronic illness. Zhu Yuanzhang had never doubted this.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that these diseases had to be eliminated as soon as possible. He had issued the ban on the sea to protect the people along the coast, and to make these pirates lose their places of supply.
Without supplies, the pirates were like duckweed that had lost its roots. They would gradually become trapped beasts. Only then would he have a chance to get rid of these pirates.
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