Chapter 118

"Your Majesty, what are you doing here?"

Lancôme, who was calm on the surface and inexplicably happy in her heart, asked curiously.

Zhang Xun stretched out his hand and pinched a bunch of dark purple grapes from the fruit plate, and then said lightly: "Start class." ”

"Huh?"

Zhang Xun said with a smile: "Didn't I order to go down and summon trustworthy alchemists before, and now the number of people should be about the same, so I have to invite them into the palace now, I have already sent someone to find them, and then I just found that the weather is good, and the room is too stuffy, so it is better to talk outside." ”

"That's it, but what is that black plank?" Lancôme blinked.

"Blackboard. ”

Zhang Xun said as a matter of course.

This is a relatively large wooden board that he ordered to find, and then dyed it black with ink, originally the ink would not dry so quickly, but after a group of people were baking and blowing in the wind, and selected the fastest black ink in the world, it was really barely usable, this efficiency surprised Zhang Xun very much, he just wanted to try to see if he could do it.

Lancôme naturally doesn't understand what a blackboard is, or that both "black" and "board" are understood, but they don't know what it's used for.

"What about this?" Lancôme asked again, pointing to the yellow-white stones that had been improvised at Zhang Xun's request.

"Chalk...... Well, barely. Zhang Xun looked at these lime blocks, and also felt that the appearance was indeed very poor, but what made him more relieved was that the chalk thing did not need to be made temporarily after all, and the palace attendants did not know where to get a natural stone, the effect was much worse than chalk, but it was no problem to use.

Put up the blackboard and set up some stools in this open space in the garden, Zhang Xun was very satisfied.

The main reason is that time is not much, and this time, the budget he gave himself was two hours of Eagle Time, that is, less than four hours.

Soon, the summoned alchemists were brought into the palace.

Maybe it's because of the title of royal alchemist, or maybe it's because of the experience of entering the royal palace, in short, this team of alchemists is led by Ruhl.

When Lu Er led this group of alchemists who had generally entered the middle-aged and elderly range of the Eagle Yang standard into the Imperial Garden, Zhang Xun raised his eyebrows.

He was slightly dissatisfied, because the age of this group of alchemists was generally very large, and although age was often proportional to experience, he was also worried about whether these alchemists of this age would be able to fully comprehend what he said in such a short period of time.

Fortunately, there are a few younger ones after all.

"Meet Your Majesty. ”

Ruhl was the first to salute respectfully, and the rest of the alchemists bowed down in fear.

"Masters don't have to be polite, please take a seat. Zhang Xun smiled, seeing that Luer and the others were still hesitating, as if they wanted to say some nonsense that was in line with etiquette, Zhang Xun added, "I have limited time, so I don't have time to waste." ”

Dozens of alchemists looked at each other, and then their eyes fell on Ruhl.

Master Ruhr coughed, and the skin behind his beard turned a little red, so he could only hold on, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

The alchemists took their seats.

It was said that it was a seat, but it was just a bench placed in the imperial garden, which surprised the alchemists who had thought that they would meet the king in the main hall of the deep palace.

What surprised them even more was that the young King did not sit down, but stood in front of them, holding a stack of papers in his hand.

The king did not sit, but they sat down?

Ruhl suddenly rose in panic and stood up sharply, only to see His Majesty the King suppress him with a very disgruntled look, "I command you to sit still and not move. ”

Saying this, the alchemists really didn't dare to move.

Zhang Xun sighed helplessly in his heart, looked around, and stood guard everywhere in the Imperial Garden, after all, so many alchemists came in, and they needed to protect the king's safety.

Lancôme and some of the maids stood in the shade of the trees and watched curiously.

"Ahem. ”

In front of everyone's eyes, Zhang Xun coughed lightly, after all, he had no experience in speaking, but fortunately, not many of these people dared to stare at him, so the pressure was invisibly a lot less.

"I think you already know that I ordered to summon the alchemists who have the ability to enter the palace. Speaking of this, Zhang Xun instinctively wanted to say words like "I'm sorry for letting everyone run around here", but after thinking about it, as a king, if he said so, he would lose his majesty, so he omitted these words and continued, "I guess you are all confused, now I will make it clear to you." ”

"I know that the people already know about the friction on the border of the Western Kingdom, and it is not a secret, so I came here today for this matter, no matter what the Western Kingdom does, in short, as the King of Eagle Yang, I will not allow other countries to invade. ”

"Therefore, I ordered to increase troops to the border, and the two armies are fighting, the importance of weapons is self-evident, and the Minister of War also came to speak, saying that the weapons in the army need to be replaced, and originally, they will be changed, but ......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Xun suddenly took out a sword from behind him like a trick and threw it on the ground.

It was the one that came from the guards and broke the stone.

"When. ”

The alchemists' eyes were all focused.

Zhang Xun's voice suddenly sank a little, and said, "But I accidentally tried the weapons of the palace guards, and its quality made me extremely dissatisfied!"

"I really can't imagine what it would be like to use this kind of weapon in battle? I also checked the records of weapon replacement over the years, and found that it was indeed the case, weapons of this quality were scrapped very quickly, replaced very quickly, and consumed a lot of money and manpower, and the annual expenditure on weapon replacement was very huge. ”

"In the past, I was the prince and didn't know about this, but now, I am the king of Eagle Yang, so I will make up for it and allow this kind of thing to continue!"

The more Zhang Xun said, the more serious he became.

In fact, there is no need to say many of these words to these alchemists, and this is not something they should care about, Zhang Xun also gave an impromptu speech, and said what he thought in his heart.

However, for Zhang Xun's words, the group of alchemists below blushed, as if they wanted to say something, but they didn't dare.

"Luhr, what do you want to say?" asked Zhang Xun.

Ruhl hesitated before saying, "Your Majesty, we also know that these weapons are easy to destroy, but ...... Our Eagle Yang is already the strongest metallurgical among the five countries, and even these, the swords that you look poor on are stronger than them in the Western Kingdom. ”

"But that's not enough. Zhang Xun said lightly.

Not enough?

The alchemists were a little frightened, they suddenly had a terrifying idea, could it be that the new king had a whim, and wanted to force them to refine a large number of divine weapons?

As soon as this thought arises, it lingers.

All the alchemists who thought of this possibility turned pale.

Zhang Xun had already expected their thoughts.

So he tried to say in a calm tone: "Okay, I know what you're worried about, don't worry, I'm not trying to make it difficult, I know, even this kind of weapon is already the limit of what you can do, and there are better ones, but you can't do mass production, right?"

Ruhl immediately nodded: "Your Majesty Mingjian." ”

Zhang Xun said with a smile: "So, don't worry, I'm not trying to force you to do anything, you are all Yingyang, or the strongest alchemists in the Five Kingdoms, and you are also the pride of Yingyang." The reason why I have brought you all together here is that I just have some ideas that I want you to help me implement. ”

As he spoke, he shut his mouth.

The frightened alchemists finally calmed down, and then they began to wonder what the young majesty wanted to do.

Because of curiosity and Zhang Xun's eclecticism, most of them slowly put aside their nervousness, raised their heads, and looked at Zhang Xun, wondering what he was going to say.

There was a few smart ones, and their eyes had already crossed Zhang Xun and looked at the black wooden board behind him.

And then......

Zhang Xun finally turned around, picked up a piece of "chalk", and wrote a few words in the center above the black barely dried blackboard.

Standing not far away, Lancôme's blue eyes as blue as the sea reflected the small white words:

"Technological Innovation - Plan A!"