Yongding three years, the seventh day of the first month.

The weather was fine and the sun was shining brightly, only the monarch and his ministers were left in the huge deep palace.

Mrs. Wu went back to her hometown to visit relatives, and the little prince Yucheng also went with her.

The Wu family of Shanggong has been following Gu Xiu since he became the prince. Although they lost their husband and son, they still have relatives from their natal family. After ascending the throne is no exception.

As for why the little milk ball went out of the palace with Wu Shanggong, it all stemmed from a routine two days ago.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Shanggong Wu came back from receiving the reward from the Princess Mansion, and was bidding farewell to Gu Xiu and Han Mochu in front of the hall.

Xiao Yucheng, who was taking an afternoon nap in the inner room, suddenly ran over, wrapped his precious cloth tiger in a small bundle and hugged it in his arms, tugged at Shanggong Wu's sleeve and looked at her pitifully: " Aunt Wu, I will go too."

Wu hurriedly bent down and picked up the ignorant little meat dumpling in her arms, coaxing: "Little master will obediently accompany Father and Yafu in the palace, and Aunt Wu will be back in three to five days."

"Well, go! Cheng'er is going too!" Xiaotuanzi hugged Wu's neck tightly, repeating this sentence more and more stubbornly.

"No, the little master is a child in the palace, and Aunt Wu wants to go back to the countryside." Wu, who has always been unprincipled towards Xiao Tuanzi, immediately blushed with distress: "How can the little master go to the countryside with Aunt Wu? .”

Xiaotuanzi, who was repeatedly rejected, was unhappy, and patted the little bundle in his arms and began to cry: "Aunt Wu, let's go together, let's go together."

"Little master, my darling, Aunt Wu also wants to take my little master! But this is really against the rules!"

Xiaotuanzi cried, and Wu also cried.

This pair of non-biological grandparents and grandchildren are reluctant to say goodbye, and anyone who sees it will feel sad and moved.

The two monarchs and ministers who witnessed everything were drinking tea, but they had to put down the teacups in their hands after seeing this scene.

"Otherwise, Aunt Wu, you can take Yucheng back with you." Gu Xiu and Han Mochu's eyes intertwined, and they mentioned something very interesting.

"Ah?" Wu's crying stopped abruptly, and he put his arms around Xiaotuanzi who was still sobbing in his arms and tentatively said: "Your Majesty, this is not in line with the palace rules. The young master is the prince, how can the prince leave the palace so easily?"

"Your Highness is still young, so you don't need to pay too much attention to these vain gifts." Han Mochu took the teacup again and said with a soft smile, "You can take your Highness down, otherwise, if you are going out of the palace to visit relatives these few days, if this child is in a hurry If we insist on looking for you, His Majesty and I cannot coax you."

"Then... this is out of the palace... what if the little master is not used to it?" Wu wiped her face with a handkerchief, still hesitating in her mouth: "such a precious child will go to the countryside How do you say it in the village?"

"You just say that Yucheng is your adopted grandson in Beijing." Gu Xiu suggested a particularly feasible way: "Although Yucheng is the prince, it would be a good thing for him to meet the people outside the palace early in the morning. Next time, I will trouble Aunt Wu to take Yucheng to your village to recognize the winter seedlings, farm tools, cattle, and the thatched huts of the farmhouses, and gain a lot of experience."

As soon as this remark came out, both grandparents and grandchildren were overjoyed.

Especially the Wu family of Shanggong, holding the heavy little meat dumpling, he gave a big gift to the monarch and his ministers regardless of obstruction: "I obey the order! I will definitely take care of the little master well, and guarantee that there will be no mistakes!"

"Aunt Wu doesn't have to be like this, I trust you, go and pack for Yucheng."

Shanggong Wu got up without courtesy and walked all the way to Xingsheng Palace, where the prince lived, with the smiling little dumpling in his arms: "Little master, let's go! Go with Aunt Wu! Go back to the hometown and ride a big bull!"

The two monarchs and ministers looked at each other again, always feeling that the old and the young were just crying for them.

***

After Xiao Yucheng followed Wu Shi away, the noisy palace became quiet.

No one rode the squeaky wooden cart, no one shook the babbling wooden horse, and no one messed around with their legs when the two of them were holding books in their hands.

For a moment, the two of them were somewhat empty.

Fortunately, the two of them, monarch and minister, have always been restless.

Before they finished drinking a cup of tea in the morning, the weapon blueprints left by Mr. Yi Wei were spread all over the table by the two of them.

"Huang Lin sent word the day before yesterday that the first batch of Zhaojin battle armor has been completed, and it will be sent to the front line in southern Xinjiang at the earliest at the end of the month." Han Mochu stroked the paperweight and flattened the longest pair in the drawing, and took out A pair of mother-of-pearl crystal light-transmitting mirrors that Koguryo paid tribute at the end of the year carefully inspected every detail on the drawing.

"I gave him a month's grace leave, but he can't stay idle." Sitting beside Han Mochu, Gu Xiu also took a pair of gold-handled light-transmitting mirrors and looked at another blueprint: "Forget it, according to Ziran's today's plan." With his posture, he really won't be able to rest for a month."

The weapon drawn on the blueprint in Gu Xiu's hand looked familiar to him, but he couldn't remember where he saw it.

The weapon is a metal tube made of copper and iron, with a smooth bore installed in the tube. When using it, a large ball made of iron and lead is filled into the bore, and then ignited with a fuze, and the iron ball will fly out of the metal tube until Going to the target, the iron ball burst after hitting it.According to the example drawn on the blueprint, this weapon is more than a little bit stronger in range and attack power than the giant crossbows and catapults used in the original army's siege, and it is also smaller than all the giant crossbows and catapults in the current army. It is much smaller, and only two people are needed to operate it in wartime.If this sharp weapon can be used to attack the city, it can save troops and reduce casualties.

"Zi Ran, do you know what Mr. Yi Ji is drawing?" Gu Xiu put down the lens in his hand, and pushed the drawing to Han Mochu's side.

"Firearms." Han Mochu glanced at the blueprint and replied calmly.

Gu Xiudao: "Firearms? What are firearms?"

"Firearms, as the name suggests, use fire as a weapon." Han Mochu said with a warm smile, "Didn't your Majesty read the book of alchemy when he was young? You know that combining saltpeter with sulfur and heating it with a strong fire can cause deflagration."

"I have read it, but isn't that what is used in medicine and alchemy? Could it be that Ziran wanted to restore the former Emperor's Yuxuan Palace in this palace?" Gu Xiucai asked, and Han Mochu's ruler, which had not been released for a long time, hit Gu Xiu's. palm.

"The Beginning of Chapter 7 of the Essentials of True Yuan and Wonderful Way, memorize it." Han Mochu held a ruler in his hand with a stern face, looking businesslike.

Gu Xiu was so drawn that his palms burned, he spread his palms and frowned in thought. After searching for this uncommon book in his stomach for a long time, he slowly recited: "There are sulfur, realgar, and saltpeter... saltpeter..."

"There are those who burn it with sulfur, realgar, saltpeter and honey, and the flames burn their hands, face, and ashes to the house..." Han Mochu waved the ruler in his hand, and continued to recite where Gu Xiu hesitated. Going on, the relationship between the monarch and his ministers seems to have returned to the main room of Guiyun Palace 11 years ago: "Bringing saltpeter is suitable for all kinds of medicines, but too many medicines will defeat the medicine. If there is a fever that cannot be combined with three yellows, you will see disaster immediately. Your Majesty." I don't know who made the flame chariot when I was young, and how I taught it when I made it."

11 years ago, Han Mochu, who had just become a junior teacher, specially made a small chariot for Gu Xiu with bamboo tubes and bamboo strips in order to let Gu Xiu, a little wolf cub, remember the fire attack chapter in "The Art of War". The tube was filled with saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal powder that Han Mochu got from somewhere, and the phosphorus flame and fuze from the two fireworks were removed, and sealed at the end of the bamboo tube.

Han Mochu said that as long as the car is ignited at the fuze, the car can move by itself.

Experiments have proved that the small car made by Han Mochu not only moves by itself after being ignited, but also at an extremely fast speed.

Under the thrust of the flames, the car spun uncontrollably in the empty courtyard of Guiyun Palace, unable to stop at all, and almost burned the corners of the skirts of the little maid sent by Princess Qingzhao to deliver food.

In the afternoon of the same day, the saltpeter and sulfur that Han Mochu had dug and thieves in the entire Guiyun Palace were stolen by the angry Princess Qingzhao, and the blackened car was also stolen by Princess Qingzhao. Confiscated.

And ordered the whole palace to never provide Han Mochu with such dangerous toys.

"Of course I remember the flame chariot." Seeing that Han Mochu had put down the ruler in his hand, Gu Xiu retracted his flat left hand: "It's just that for a while, I didn't connect this firearm with that flame chariot."

"To put it simply, the flame chariot that His Majesty played with when he was young, and the firecrackers and fireworks that I used during the New Year's Day are all types of firearms." Han Mochu patiently pointed to the details on the blueprint and said: " As long as the paper rolls used for fireworks and firecrackers are replaced with large balls made of airtight iron and lead, and then the weight of the sound is mixed with the bright fire phosphorus, and adjusted according to the formula left by Mr. These cannons, rockets, sudden!fire! guns that can be used to siege cities and lands, and even flame vehicles can be scaled up proportionally, and the direction can be controlled by manpower. A row of sharp blades is added to the front end, so that the flame vehicles can charge instead of the soldiers. .”

"According to what Ziran said, if this firearm can be used, then my Dazhou can be said to have no strong opponent on this map of all nations." Gu Xiu raised his eyes and saw that it was carried from Baiming Mountain and had been hanging in the east. Looking at the map of all nations on an empty wall in the Nuan Pavilion, he couldn't help but look at the map of the Great Zhou that was marked red by the two of them, and then thought: "It's just that there are craftsmen who specialize in smelting iron and casting copper at present. , if you really want to develop firearms, I’m afraid there will be no talents available for a while?”

"Your Majesty also thought of what your majesty said." Han Mochu responded with a smile: "I plan to set up a firearms bureau under the Military Weapons Supervision in the next year, and then recruit a group of craftsmen who are good at making fireworks from the people. They are familiar with phosphorus fire! , and the sales of firecrackers and fireworks are the worst after the new year's festival, those craftsmen who have a way out will naturally be grateful to His Majesty and do their best."

"Since Ziran has already made up his mind, let's do it this way." Gu Xiu took out a blank sheet of paper from the pile of drawings and flattened it in front of him: "Today is the seventh day of the lunar new year, so I just ordered the officials of the official department For the record, this lawsuit will be set up for you as soon as the Shangyuan is over and the dynasty is restored. Then the Ministry of Industry will conscript [-] corvee workers to mine raw nitrate ore in Lingnan and central Sichuan."

"Your Majesty has decided on such a big matter just because I said this sentence? Your Majesty can even ask me one more question." Han Mochu couldn't hold back his smile and shook his head.

"That's right, I should ask you one more question." After Gu Xiu finished speaking, he made room for himself, picked up a pen and dipped the ink in the inkstone: "What is the name of this lawsuit, Zi Ran, can you think of it? How many people are in charge? Is there anyone in Ziran's mind?"

When Han Mo first heard Yan Junyi's eyebrows and eyes curved like crescent moons, he knew that Gu Xiu's answer was not to misinterpret his intention, but to let him do it with peace of mind.

"In Dazhou, the current case of building soldiers and armored tents is the military weapon supervisor. The new lawsuit can be called the firearms supervisor just like this official. As for the person in charge, the lawsuit is set up by the minister, and the minister naturally wants to occupy this position. One chief officer, and then go to the Ministry of War to select four competent and loyal chief officers to serve as deputies." Han Mochu very naturally talked to Gu Xiu who was drafting an edict: "By the way, Your Majesty, you mentioned that you want to go to the south of the Five Ridges to conscript Sergeant, I think of something."

"What's the matter?" Gu Xiu seldom raised his head when writing, which was his habit.

"A few years ago, the governor Lang Xiao on Lingnan Road and his ministers made a secret agreement, saying that Zhang Hua, the magistrate of Suolu County under the jurisdiction of Lingnan Xinzhou, took bribes privately and wanted to build a temple on the county ground with a squire. The minister carefully checked, and found that the person who gave Zhang Hua privately was not a squire but the Prince Duan Jing. The minister instructed them not to startle the snake for the time being, and leave Zhang Hua's position to wait and see. "

"Prince Duan has known what he has in mind since the day he became a vassal." Gu Xiu stopped writing, and sighed imperceptibly: "To build a temple, this is to prepare for him to be able to have something in the future once he becomes popular. It’s a statement of destiny. Ziran has dealt with it rightly, let him go for now, he will do many unrighteous things in the future, so I have a reason to deal with him.”

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Master and Gu Mengmeng are ready to start making cannons!

Today's little joke

"The Bandit"

He was originally a bandit who robbed his way.

One day, he robbed an official mission when he was full of food and drink, and he also snatched the young man under heavy shackles along with him.

The young man was barefoot, with whip wounds all over his body.

He immediately showed kindness, cut off the boy's shackles and carried him back.

Under his careful care, the teenager recovered after three months.

The cured boy summoned thousands of troops with a letter sent by flying pigeons.

Before he could ask a question, the young man put his arm around his shoulder: "Let's go, I will take you back to kill me."

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感谢在2021-07-1800:36:01~2021-07-1919:42:59期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: eat 3 fish;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of eating fish; 7 bottles of rabbit flying; 1 bottle of demon;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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