Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Early the next morning, the Ministry of War was the first to release the news.

He assembled the 50,000 troops stationed in the capital and headed to Lingnan to suppress the remnants of the Luo Sect.

As soon as this news came out, everyone in Daqian smelled the smell of war.

Qin Ming also soon received news that the court wanted him to surrender his military power.

Especially the soldiers of the Wuwei Camp need to be brought under the management of the imperial court.

However, at this time, many people have actually understood that Qin Ming will never hand over the military power.

"Your Highness, are we going to fight?"

Cao Chuan and Liu Chuang found Qin Ming. At the same time, Wu Qingye, who was guarding the mine in Nanman, also returned to Lingnan.

The number of Qin Ming's soldiers jumped to nearly 40,000.

"You need a legitimate reason."

Qin Ming spoke slowly.

It is not an easy task to mobilize an army of 50,000.

It's estimated to arrive in a month.

During this period, Qin Ming had enough time to find an excuse.

As the person who passively started this war, Qin Ming was actually more prepared than them.

"understood."

Cao Chuan and his companions planned to use newspapers to build momentum.

This can quickly help you stand at the top of public opinion.

The difference between the court and them was only one newspaper, so the difference was huge.

At least in terms of having a legitimate reason, they are definitely no match for Qin Ming.

Soon, Qin Ming's newspapers were distributed in Lingnan and surrounding areas such as Huxi and Jiangnan.

Many people were filled with righteous indignation after seeing the court's oppression of Qin Ming.

The court had never expected such a thing to happen.

So the court issued another order to send the imperial edict to Qin Ming.

"Your Highness, the imperial court's order has arrived again!"

While Qin Ming was making intensive preparations, Chang Baishan brought things from the court to him.

"Is it still the same as before?"

Qin Ming checked the ammunition of the musket and asked with a smile.

"Yeah, nothing fancy."

Chang Baishan nodded slowly.

The court's demand has always been that Qin Ming give up his military power and split up his industries.

But how is this possible?

Seeing this, Qin Ming shook his head and said:

"And I replied to them with what I had prepared before."

"Yes!"

Soon, Qin Ming's reply came back again.

Emperor Qian finally couldn't help it and ordered the soldiers in the capital to start moving.

Of course, their reason was to suppress Luojiao.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows who is being suppressed.

In order to suppress Qin Ming, Emperor Qian and high-ranking officials of the Ministry of War even recalled 50,000 troops stationed on the northern border.

Including the soldiers in the capital, there are already a total of 100,000 people.

At the same time, garrisons in various places are constantly gathering.

It would be extremely difficult for Lingnan to fight against the entire Daqian on its own.

But Qin Ming was not afraid at all.

With the arrival of the musket, he had already started to research artillery in the workshop.

The Lingnan army, which entered the era of firearms ahead of time, would cause great damage to them.

Of course, the imperial court was unaware of all this.

"How's the research going?"

That day, Qin Ming came to Lingnan's workshop.

Several craftsmen gathered around him and whispered:

"Your Highness, the principles of artillery and musketry are actually similar. We've even come up with a very useful improvement."

The production of cannons and muskets is just one big and one small.

After each loading and firing, they need to clean the inside of the barrel and then reload.

"Oh? What innovation?"

Qin Ming immediately became interested and looked at them curiously.

"Look!"

As they were talking, they carried out a gun barrel.

There is a handle under the barrel.

A craftsman said to Qin Ming excitedly:

"See this handle?"

Wow...

He pulled it, and what looked like a small drawer came out.

Qin Ming's eyes widened instantly.

"This can...quickly clean up the burned gunpowder?!"

"Yes, we wanted to try it originally, but unfortunately there were no breakthroughs in materials, and too many of the products we made were broken."

"Recently, we've made a breakthrough in metal material research within the workshop. We've tried hundreds of different material ratios and finally forged the right metal!"

Everyone spoke excitedly.

It is really a good idea to put a small drawer that can be pulled open under the cannon.

But the power of a gunpowder explosion is likely to destroy this thing.

In addition, after this small drawer is made, the bottom of the artillery barrel will definitely become thinner.

Each time the gun is fired, a huge impact force is generated at the bottom, affecting its durability.

But everything changed after they tried new materials.

Now it is enough to just load the gunpowder and shells, eliminating the step of cleaning up the burned gunpowder!

It will be faster!

But at this time, Qin Ming thought of another problem.

"By the way, since your material research is progressing so quickly, why not upgrade the musket as well?"

If the musket can get rid of this method of firing and clearing once, it can also show excellent results on the battlefield.

"No, no, no, that's definitely not possible!"

Unfortunately, after Qin Ming took the initiative to speak, everyone shook their heads.

"The musket is already thin enough. If you add a mechanism to quickly clean out the burned gunpowder, it will easily break."

"Well, let's do this for now."

Qin Ming smiled and nodded slowly.

In the past few days, they have made more than 30 cannons.

Song Dingsheng and Fang Qingyuan were arranged by Qin Ming to take over more than a dozen main cities in Lingnan.

This time they went there with soldiers.

After taking control of these areas, Qin Ming will be able to make defensive deployments throughout Lingnan.

They did not seize it by force, but with the help of the imperial court.

Since the imperial court has said that it will wipe out the remnants of the Luo sect.

Qin Ming also used this reason to let his soldiers enter major cities in advance.

"Send these artillery pieces to Cao Chuan and Liu Chuang later, and have them go to the border between Lingnan and Huxi to provide support."

"Yes!"

Several craftsmen nodded quickly.

Then we prepared to continue production.

Walking out of the workshop, Qin Ming looked at the vast sky and earth, and felt a throbbing in his heart.

“I never thought that one day, I would be able to start conquering the world.”

"Coming to this world, I have finally reached this point."

When he first came to this world, Qin Ming originally wanted to control the military power and become a free and easy prince.

However, he was surrounded by powerful enemies, and as a former crown prince, he couldn't even live in peace.

Since you can't do it, let's fight!

Clenching his fists, Qin Ming slowly walked towards Linjiang City with his long sword on his back...

At the same time, the imperial court's vanguard troops also arrived in Huxi and joined forces with the local general Huangfu Taiping.

There are nearly 30,000 troops stationed in Huxi.

Together with the 20,000 vanguard troops of the imperial court, there are already a total of 50,000 people.

At this time, nearly 100,000 soldiers recruited from all over the rear of the court were gathering here.