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As soon as the third prince returned to his mansion, the expression on his face fell, and when he returned to the study, he immediately called his cronies and staff over.

"What the hell is Hechuan City all about, and why is all that gunpowder being transported there?" the third prince roared as he glared at his cronies and staff.

Although it is said that the third prince is in power now, the more things he wants, the more things he will pay, especially the gap in money is particularly large, and he is not like Duanmu Jing has Li Hui in the dark to support, and the three princes who are overstretched by this money will inevitably not use their brains in their hearts, so this sight is on the supply line to the army.

At the beginning, the third prince was not so bold, he only deducted a little material at most, but after finding that no one noticed this, especially when the demand for money on his side was getting bigger and bigger, his courage was getting bigger and bigger, and this hand was getting longer and longer, and in the end, he actually listened to the advice of his staff and started the idea of gunpowder, especially this piece of money came very quickly, so that he couldn't hold it at all.

However, the third prince's brain is still there, so he specially settled these gunpowder, although they can be sold secretly, but they are also specially settled, these gunpowder must not flow to Dayue, but now there is a big explosion in Hechuan City, and he knows that Hechuan City is a dark line leading to Dayue, which represents something that can be seen as long as you are not a fool.

As soon as he thought that the people under his hands did this behind his back, the third prince couldn't wait to pinch all these guys to death, although he really wanted to get his eldest brother down, and wanted to sit in that position, but he was not a fool, what he wanted to sit on was the emperor of Nanshu, a complete country, not a country that was crippled by others, and if he didn't win this war, then wouldn't he become a prince of a dead country, and at that time he would have nothing。

"Third Highness~~!" Mr. Guo, a staff member, touched his two mouse whiskers and stepped forward and said: "We don't know what is going on with this matter, but our gunpowder is directly handed over to those businessmen below to secretly shoot, and what they value most is interests, as long as the other party gives enough money, they don't care what the other party does, so this thing should be made by their people~!"

"Then return them all to the palace~~!" the third prince slapped the table vigorously and said.

Hearing what the three princes said, the individuals standing on the side exchanged glances with each other, obviously the third prince himself was unwilling to give up the gunpowder business, so he would just let them return the merchants below, instead of directly stopping the gunpowder business. In fact, in everyone's hearts, it is tacit in the face of this matter, what is this gunpowder for, it is not to cooperate with the artillery to fire shells, and now the only people who can use gunpowder in this way are their own side and Otsuki, and the formula of gunpowder on Otsuki's side is not perfect, and the power is much less than that of their own side, so they will make these gunpowder will be wanted, and the person who wants it is no one else except Otsuki, but although everyone knows about this matter, they are also silent, as long as it is like this, they are not betraying the country in this thing。

The third prince, who lost his temper, finally calmed down his emotions, he glanced at the man under him, and said with a stiff face: "Replace those unruly merchants, and don't do the gunpowder business first~!"

The third prince is not stupid, of course he knows the problem in his heart, he was also dazzled by those pieces of silver before, so he will steal the gunpowder out and buy it, but he also knows in his heart that these things will definitely fall into the hands of Da Yue in the end, but he deceives himself and pretends not to know, but now that such a thing has happened, how can he continue to pretend not to know.

Of course, this is more because the situation on the front line is really not very optimistic, Nanshu, which originally had an advantage, is now turning its advantage into a disadvantage because of the toss of the three princes.

In the past, the third prince dared to use the supply of the army, in fact, because he saw that the battle situation on the front line was very good, and he felt that even if he made some moves, it should not affect too much, but now that such a thing has come out, of course he is afraid in his heart, and more importantly, he also wants to sit on the dragon chair after killing his eldest brother, if Nanshu is defeated now, then he will have nothing.

After listening to the instructions of the three princes, Mr. Guo and those staff members hurriedly bowed their heads and agreed, but he was a little anxious in his heart, he was able to instigate the three princes to do such a thing at the beginning, which also implied that his identity is definitely not as it seems, in fact, he is a traitor planted by the Wei family around the three princes, and these things he did must not really be for the sake of the three princes.

"Mr. Guo, these three highnesses are unwilling to make the sound of this gunpowder, what should we do?" After leaving the study of the third prince, Mr. Chang, one of the staff members, came over and whispered to Mr. Guo in a little anxious.

"Sir, don't worry~~!" Mr. Guo glanced around, and then said to him: "I just got a pot of good wine there, I don't know if Mr. Chang is interested in having a few drinks with him~!"

"Since it is Mr. Guo who is so kindly invited, it is better to be respectful than to obey his fate~!" Mr. Chang said with a smile and stroked his beard.

After Mr. Guo saw that the dishes were all served, he waved his hand and said to those subordinates: "Okay, I want to have a few drinks with Mr. Chang, you all go down~~! If there is nothing to do, don't come and disturb~~!"

The maids and servants who served hurriedly retreated, leaving only these two gentlemen.

"Mr. Guo, what are we going to do? If you can't get these gunpowders, you'll be to blame~!"

Because Dayue and Nanshu do not produce sulfur, so it has become a problem to configure gunpowder sulfur, and Nanshu is okay, it must have been developed in the previous time, and a lot of sulfur was brought back from overseas, but Dayue is not good, the demand for sulfur completely depends on Nanshu, but the two current situations are hostile, how can Nanshu be stupid to say that the sulfur equipped with gunpowder is sold to Dayue.

And with the outbreak of the war between the two countries, Duanmu Shuxuan even issued a ban on the sea, which is equivalent to completely strangling Dayue's side. Without sulfur to make gunpowder, those cannons are just a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, so Otsuki really worked hard for this. And this line was even more difficult to get, of course, I don't want to give up.

"What are you worried about~~!" Mr. Guo took a sip of wine and said: "Can this matter be something that he says he won't do if he doesn't get it?" You don't care about this, arrange the following ones, go back and keep this thing secret, and others will find out~!"

Mr. Chang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but then he laughed, "Sure enough, Mr. is still smart~~!"

"But we have to do this thing secretly, you arrange people like this~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!"

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"There's a problem with this gunpowder, general~~!" The general in charge of the artillery battalion said angrily: "This gunpowder is completely different from what we used before, and it's not the previous ones at all~!"

It's no wonder he's so angry, you must know that although Otsuki also has artillery in this war, but their artillery is far behind his own side in terms of production technology and gunpowder, so although the battle between the two sides is very fierce, but his side still has the determination to win, but since a while ago, everyone's supply has begun to have various problems, and they have exhausted the advantages of their own side in the past, and now even the gunpowder used on the artillery has a big problem, so they will definitely lose this war~！

General Huai picked up the gunpowder presented to him by the artillery battalion and carefully separated it, in fact, he couldn't tell whether it was good or bad for him, but he knew that after the recent batch of gunpowder was transported, a series of problems such as squibs and dampness occurred, and such problems had not happened at all in the past.

"General~~!The current situation is not good~~!And this matter has caused the morale of the sergeants to be low, if it continues like this, I am afraid that something big will happen~~!" Adjutant Qi Feng, who was standing on the side, whispered to General Huai.

As a general, how could General Huai not know that the current situation was critical, and he had written to the court more than once before, but those news were all lost in the sea and there was no reply, which made his heart hang up.

"Qi Feng, I will now leave a letter to the prince, you disguise yourself, take this letter on the road, remember, don't say that you are a front-line military, and you don't need anything about the barracks, it is best for you to disguise yourself as an ordinary person, I will send you to the nearest town, and when you get there, you are buying horses!" General Huai pressed his hands on the shoulders of his adjutant and said: "This time, for the sake of secrecy, you can only go on the road alone~!"

"General, don't worry~!I will definitely hand this letter into the hands of the prince smoothly~~!" Qi Feng patted his chest vigorously and promised.

General Huai patted Qi Feng's shoulder vigorously, then took out a pen and paper to tell the current problems in the barracks, as well as some situations on the front line, and especially pointed out that he had sent a lot of messages to the capital before without any reply, whether there was something wrong, after all this was explained, he sealed the envelope with beeswax, and then handed it to Qi Feng.

At this time, Qi Feng had already changed into ordinary people's clothes, his hair was combed messily, coupled with his weathered appearance, people felt that he was a farmer who lived in the field, he put this secret letter close to him, and asked General Huai's two cronies to send him to a town closest to the barracks, where he did not rush to buy horses and leave, but lived there for two days according to his own temperament, and asked a caravan to leave here, he made a little silver, as if he was just an ordinary common man, and left with the caravan of this commercial house。

And Qi Feng didn't dare to rush too much along the way, but walked with others as much as possible, and waited until he walked almost two-thirds of the way to a little more, then bought two fast horses, and then galloped all the way into the capital, and when he came to the capital, he learned the news that the prince was imprisoned, and the prince's mansion is now guarded by layers, and he has no way to get close at all.

But fortunately, Qi Feng was a clever person, he observed outside the Prince's Mansion for five or six days, and finally disguised himself as a vegetable seller before blending into the Prince's Mansion.

"Father-in-law Tan~~!Trouble you~~!" As soon as Qi Feng saw Tan Zhi, he grabbed Tan Zhi's arm and said anxiously: "I have a secret letter to present to the prince immediately~~~!"

Saying that, Qi Feng took out a token from his arms, Tan Zhi knew as soon as he saw the token that this was the military badge representing the identity of the Nanshu sergeant who was currently fighting with Da Yue, and this token represented the general Huai Mingqi, although he was not sure about the exact identity of the other party and why he touched it here, but he also knew that this matter was not simple, so while arranging for someone to take a look at Qi Feng first, he handed over the letter and token that Qi Feng handed over to him to Duanmu Jing together.

When Duanmu Jing read the letter, he asked Qi Feng to be taken to the study, and when he carefully asked Qi Feng about the current battle situation in the study, his whole face was gloomy.

"General Qi, you have also seen the current situation in this palace, I am afraid that this letter will not be able to help you hand it over~!" Duanmu Jing smiled bitterly and said to Qi Feng, he knew that General Huai's intention in sending Qi Feng over was to hand this letter to his father through himself, but now that he has been imprisoned by his father, how can this letter be handed over from his own hand.

"Ah~~!His Royal Highness the Prince, if you can't help it, then how can it be good~~!" As soon as Qi Feng heard Duanmu Jing's words, a panicked look suddenly appeared on his face.