Royal Hunting Ground.

Li Jundu stood in the open space and watched calmly as a group of officers operating the giant object called a hot air balloon. The huge balloon was filled with gas and gradually floating up. Four cables were tied to wooden stakes, and the end of the rope was tied to a hanging basket, and the distance between the hot air balloon and the ground was controlled through a pulley set.

"Your Highness, after years of experimentation, this is the only hot air balloon that can be carried out in actual combat. It can carry four people up and can be suspended at a maximum of fifty feet high. Of course, the hovering height is affected by the wind. The stronger the wind, the lower the suspension. Generally speaking, the whale oil stored on it can ensure suspension for more than two hours. In theory, two hot air balloons can ensure continuous high-altitude alert!"

Li Jundu nodded slightly. Everyone understands the principle that the higher you stand, the farther you look. If the weather is good, the lookout hand equipped with a high-power telescope can control the field of view of more than fifty miles around. The only thing that is dissatisfied is that this thing has controllable flight capabilities for the time being, so it can only be used on the front battlefield, and cannot fight with a cavalry with a strong maneuverable force.

"What's the fancy thing on it?" The hot air balloon rotated slightly under the breeze. He originally thought that the messy pattern of splicing was revealed into a whole. It looked like a Buddha statue, but it was different from the one in the Central Plains Temple.

"When you go back to your highness, the Great Black God is drawn on it, a god and Buddha in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs. The Mongolians seemed to be afraid of them, so they painted it. The craftsmen hoped that this thing would fly in the sky and could shock the morale of the Mongolians."

Li Jundu nodded, feeling that it should be of some effect. He walked under the hot air balloon and looked at his hand on the hanging basket. Li Jundu found it interesting and said, "I will go up and take a look."

"Oh, no, Prince Ying, it's too high and very dangerous." The guard persuaded.

Li Jundu smiled and said, "Danger, what danger? Didn't it mean that it can be used in actual combat?"

The guards quickly asked the officer in charge of this matter for help. Although the officer wanted to be recognized by the King of England, he did not dare to let Li Jundu take the risk of climbing the hanging basket. He took out a folded certificate from his arms and said, "Your Highness, according to the order of His Majesty the Emperor, you need to climb the hot air balloon to climb the sky."

Li Jundu took a look at him casually and smiled and said, "You can just start one for me."

The officer shook his head repeatedly: "I dare not, I dare not, I don't have this ability. This is a proof of ascending to heaven. If it weren't for the special approval of Your Majesty, who would dare to be rash!"

When Li Jundu saw him saying things seriously, he felt a little ridiculous for a moment, but he remembered that the four big words "Respect the Heaven and the Law Ancestor" hanging high in the Qianqing Palace? Although the empire has no national religion, the Law Ancestor of Heaven and the Law Ancestor is the core of the belief of the imperial subjects. The so-called "Respect the Heaven and the Law Ancestor" has no other way.

People like Li Jundu who have received new education and new ideas since childhood do not have much awe for God, but in the eyes of imperial subjects, heaven is a sacred and undesecrated existence. Not to mention ascending to heaven, if you look at the sun and the moon for a long time, you will be regarded as rude.

When I looked closely at the certificate of heaven, the seal behind it was actually the seal of the emperor's son of heaven, but when I thought about it seriously, the subjects of the imperial country feared the heaven. Who dared to do the act of ascending to heaven? Only the emperor is the emperor, can others be allowed to ascend to heaven.

"Well, it's okay, I won't go to the king." Li Jundu waved his hand and had to give up.

In fact, Li Junduo didn't know that this certificate of heaven was not a rule set by Li Mingxun, but a certificate of hot air balloon strongly requested by the emperor to issue it. If the emperor had not allowed it, they would not dare to act rashly. Li Mingxun, who was the emperor at that time, asked back, "In the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of households ascended the sky with rockets, could they ask the Emperor Ming at that time for the certificate of heaven?"

Li Junduo did not insist, so the officers could demonstrate it for him. The ground and in the hanging basket were prepared. The person driving the hot air balloon pulled the pull rod, and the whale oil sprayed out. The flame was ten feet high, filling the hot air balloons made of sheepskin to the extreme, and then floated up quickly. The people on the ground operated the pulley set and set the hovering height according to the officer's order, which was quick and effective.

"Where is the communication? How should the people above report the enemy if they find out?" Li Jundu asked.

The officer walked up and pulled a communication rope. Soon, he slid down a copper tube along the rope. After opening it, the information written by the hand was read inside. This method is much more reliable than shouting. When uploading the order, he put the order in the copper tube and pulled it up with a pulley set.

"Not bad, not bad." Li Jundu was very satisfied after seeing it and nodded: "Even if this hot air balloon has passed the acceptance, the Northern Ordnance Bureau will be ordered to speed up the production and set up twenty sets first, and deliver them before winter comes. In addition, you must cultivate both the lookout and the operator properly. In front of you, one of the skilled teams must be left in each major position, forming the most appropriate team. When your Majesty requisitions, just do it like this."

After giving the order, Li Junduo returned to the pavilion to rest. Seeing Lin Xitang waiting here, he waved to let the rest of the people retreat and asked, "Why are you chasing here?"

"Prince, there is a secret matter..." Lin Xitang whispered: "About the prince, the day before yesterday, the prince and King Cheng were scolded by the emperor in the imperial study room, and Long Yan was furious."

"Oh, did you find out why?" Li Jundu immediately became interested. The emperor was angry with the prince and King Cheng, which was rare.

"No........."

Li Jundu was immediately dissatisfied: "You also came from the attendant's room. Use the relationship between the emperor and the emperor as long as you should. Don't be afraid of spending money. Haven't I ever told you?"

"No, Prince, I have mobilized all kinds of relationships and asked, but I can't get the accurate letter. The people in front of me are very strict this time, and I just know that it is related to someone. The emperor wants to kill him, but he is screwed up by the prince and the prince Cheng." Lin Xitang revealed the ambiguous news.

Li Jundu heard the clouds and mist, and had no idea: "What kind of confidential news is this, nonsense."

Lin Xitang then said: "Prince, if something happened like this, Bei Zhi decided to go out to relax after being scolded by the prince. After the prince was scolded, he would go out to relax and meet a woman in a garden. The woman was the orphan Zhu Ming who had been in contact with several times."

"What!" Li Junduo stood up immediately, completely unbelievable. His first thought was that the prince had a relationship with the orphan of the former Ming Dynasty. He was assassinated by the prince a few years ago. But after thinking about it carefully, it was wrong. The prince was underage, so how could he manage such a thing? Moreover, when he was assassinated, the prince, King Cheng and the third brother were all in the ceremonial guards. The assassinated man used a lot of firearms, and if he was accidentally killed, he would die on the spot. How could he put himself in a dangerous place when assassinating others?

"You are sure that the woman is the orphan of the former Ming Dynasty. Maybe she is just a charming woman who can cover Jun Hong and the prince. How old are they? This beautiful woman may not be able to control her." Li Jundu thought about it, but was still a little suspicious.

Lin Xitang made a promise and said, "After the assassination of Chaoyangmen, there was no news. The emperor handed over the case to King Cheng, but did not urge at all. It seemed that this incident had never happened. For the sake of His Highness's safety, Bei Zhi could not care about it. He followed King Cheng, surely, the woman's father was the suspect caught by Chaoyangmen. King Cheng did not let anyone go, but just let him go, and pretended to be a small pawn of the Security Bureau. He met several times in private and arranged a strong man to secretly monitor it. This was clearly because he wanted to use a long line to catch big fish. Your Highness, King Cheng has always been cautious in doing things. Although Bei Zhi didn't know how he was sure that the father and daughter were orphans of the former Ming Dynasty, if not, how could King Cheng take so much effort to arrange it?"

After hearing the causes and consequences, Li Jundu had to believe it and asked: "Has King Cheng dug out the real murderer behind the scenes?"

"It shouldn't be, otherwise it's time to close the net." Lin Xitang said immediately, but seeing Li Junduo's face full of eagerness to try, he asked, "Does your highness have any idea?"

"The orphan of the former Ming Dynasty, a restorationist, haha, don't you think this knife is very interesting? If it can be held in my hand, it will be convenient for both internal and external use. No matter what you do, you can take the blame for me, right?" Li Jundu said meaningfully.

Lin Xitang was stunned for a moment. Indeed, even members of the royal family dared to attack, so what did you dare not do? In the process of fighting for the throne, this was both a good knife and the best candidate to take the blame.

"But Your Highness, the father and daughter are not high-level officials, and they can't be used. Why not find an opportunity to contact us and see if we can get to the real upper class through them?" Lin Xitang asked carefully.

Li Jundu shook his fingers, obviously feeling that the plan was not that good, but said, "No need to be so troublesome. Please let your subordinates pay attention to whoever the father and daughter are in contact with on weekdays. Since they are one of them, they will not not contact others. If they contact, you will catch anyone to question them. You can always find the contact person."

"But...if you catch the wrong one or alert the enemy..." Lin Xitang obviously felt that this method would be too rough.

Li Jundu smiled and said, "That's also a good thing for the bad King Cheng, it's not mine. If you really mess it up, just do what you said and find someone who pretends to be a fleeing scholar-official. If you don't, catch the father and daughter!"

"Okay...Okay." Lin Xitang had no choice but to respond.

Two days later, Ouyang Yunyi was walking home with a whistle. He suddenly felt a pain behind his head and fainted. When he woke up, he was already on the torture rack with a cloth covering his face. He could only see the leaping fire in front of him. He wanted to shout, but found that his mouth was sealed. The person standing in front of him ignored it and beat the whip soaked in salt water, making blood red after blood on his body.

After a beat, the rag stuffed in his mouth was pulled down. Lin Xitang lit a cigarette, took a sip, and said, "If you tell the truth, you won't have to be beaten. If you are not honest..."

"Good man, please spare me, a villain is just an ordinary ordinary person..." Ouyang Yunyi shouted.

The mask on the head was taken off directly. Ouyang Yunyi saw clearly that this was a torture room, with red-burning soldering irons, whips, various knives, hot hot oil, and various punishments. Lin Xitang said coldly: "Come here, please invite this guy to visit us, Mr. Ouyang, I don't know if you are an ordinary person, but I know that if you can get all eighteen sets and don't change your words, I will believe you. Come here, bring the red-burning soldering iron and mark it on Mr. Ouyang's face first. This white and tender little face is really pleasing to you...."

Seeing the red-burning soldering iron getting closer, Ouyang Yunyi finally collapsed: "I've called it, I've called it. My father is Ouyang Zhi, who was ordered to come to Beijing to assassinate..."

Changchun Palace.

Li Mingxun, who was rare in the day, accompanied the queen to have lunch. After eating half of it, Wu Yifeng walked in and whispered a few words in the emperor's ear. The queen didn't want to interfere in government affairs, but when she heard the words "Crown Prince" in her words, she became alert for a moment and couldn't help asking: "Emperor, is the prince causing some trouble?"

Li Mingxun waved his hand and signaled the queen not to speak for the first time, and asked the attendant: "Are you sure you see clearly?"

"Yes, I can see clearly. On the day of school, the prince talked and laughed with the woman. I saw it again today." Wu Yifeng said.

"Well, let's go down first, and if you see it in the future, you will pretend not to see it." Li Mingxun said.

Wu Yifeng asked: "The people below are worried. I asked if I should check the woman's identity and background."

Lee Mingxun hesitated for a moment: "Don't, let's talk about it in a month. Even if I messed up in the end, I can't mess it up. Do you understand? It's the first time after all."

Wu Yifeng nodded and retreated.

"Is something wrong?" the queen asked again.

Lee Mingxun said: "I told you that you have to be able to pretend to be ignorant."

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" the queen continued to ask.

"You have to swear that you won't say it out, or show it out." Li Mingxun said again.

"Okay, I swear. It's mysterious......"

Li Mingxun put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "The people below saw Junhua and a female student alone, and more than once."

"Really?" The queen also put down her chopsticks.

"Really! Our son is very happy anyway, it seems there is a way." Li Mingxun joked with a smile.

At this moment, the female official outside reported that the prince had arrived, Li Mingxun sat upright, giving the queen a wink, and the queen understood it.

Li Junhua walked in with his head down, staring at his toes, a little nervous. Since he was scolded by Li Mingxun that day, it was the first time he saw the emperor. He was nervous and didn't know if he had calmed down. Did he not get close to him since then?

"My son bowed to the emperor, and the emperor was holy to Jin'an."

"Get up..." Li Mingxun's heavy voice sounded, but when he saw his son's face, he remembered that this kid might be in love, and the excitement and pride in his heart could not be suppressed. His smile could no longer be hidden. He could only try to hide it by speaking: "The prince has improved a lot during this period, Queen, do you think?"

"Yes, I have grown a lot." The queen confided.

"Haha, I've grown a lot..." The emperor left with a smile.
Chapter completed!