When Xiao Hei heard this, he was immediately angry, and shouted: "Okay, Brother Shaoyang, it turns out that you didn't come to me for a drink! That bearded old man is so addicted to alcohol that you actually brought him such a good wine." Slow down, I'll have to change two bottles for you!"

Liu Shaoyang was secretly amused in his heart, but he pretended to be anxious and said: "Xiao Hei, you and I have also been brothers for many years, how can there be a reason for you to send things to me and then change them, and you are stingy! Xiao Hei, I'm busy leaving, let's talk about it, I will definitely look for you for a drink when I come back in a few days!"

Xiao Hei heard Liu Shaoyang's words, and shouted anxiously: "Liu Shaoyang, I thought you were going to ask me to drink, so I took this good wine." You're not here to drink with me, I'll change two bottles for you, why are you stingy!"

Before the words fell, Liu Shaoyang laughed, turned around and walked out of the house in a flash. Xiao Hei chased a few steps and then tried to stop it, but in the blink of an eye, there was still Liu Shaoyang's shadow, and he muttered angrily: "I know that thinking about that drunkard old man, I am really not righteous enough, and I am bored!"

Liu Shaoyang "shook" the wine from the small black place, and then came to the stable to lead a brown-haired horse, stepped out of the courtyard gate, and went to Lushou Villa on the edge of Hongze Lake.

After walking for more than an hour, Liu Shaoyang hit his horse and came to the foot of a verdant mountain range that stretched east and west. There are farmers cultivating the ridges of several levels in front of the ridge, and the trees and bamboos on the mountain are luxuriant and forested, and the green branches are lush.

The mountain ridge is not high, about more than 100 zhang, a piece of house appears at the top of the fast, reflecting the emerald green of the mountain, revealing the corner of the eaves, the buildings, the green tile and the clouds have been stretching to the peak.

Liu Shaoyang immediately turned over and led the horse, and walked along the mountain road to the village. After walking more than 100 steps along the road, I saw two woodcutters in linen and gray sitting next to the mountain road.

Lu Zitong took two steps forward and shouted at a person: "Tian Laosi, I have been in recent years, how is my master and his old man doing recently?"

Seeing that it was Liu Shaoyang, the fourth elder of Natian hurriedly got up and shook it to the ground: "My subordinates have seen Liu Zuo's envoy! I haven't seen Liu Zuo's envoy come for a long time, Fang Zun's old man is fine, and now he is in the village." ”

Liu Shaoyang smiled and said, "That's good, I'll go into the village to see his old man." You and this brother have worked hard to stand guard, so use the money to buy wine and drink. As he spoke, he took out a few taels of silver from his sleeve, and Tian Laosi and another man hurriedly thanked him.

Walking up further, he saw two more patrols, and Liu Shaoyang came to the main gate of the village. The plaque on the door is engraved with the words "Lushou Villa". When Lu Zitong and other cadres of Zhang Shicheng's old department hid in the past, they bought this mountain forest on the shore of Hongze Lake and built this Lushou Villa.

Over the past few years, there have been a number of iron foundries and armories in the village. The granary has rice grain and ten thousand stones for military ration all the year round, and there are more than 100 tenants employed in the terraced fields on the edge of the ridge, and all kinds of vegetables are planted. The villa is controlled by "Zhizun" Fang Tianlu, which is really the capital of the comeback and the revival of the Great Zhou.

Liu Shaoyang took two steps forward and knocked lightly on the courtyard door, and the iron door knocked twice, three short and one long, and then three long and one short.

The sliding bolt of the courtyard door sounded, and at the sound of "squeak", a man in Xuanyi on the left and right slowly pushed the door open, and a white-clothed scribe wearing a square scarf and thick eyebrows and a long face greeted him from the courtyard.

Liu Shaoyang stepped in and said to the white-clothed scribe who came over: "Steward Lu hasn't seen you for a long time, I came to visit my master and his old man." ”

The white-clothed scribe walked all the way, smiled without saying a word, and arched his hand: "Liu Zuo has become more and more handsome after not seeing him for a year, and the lord also talked to you a few days ago, saying that you will not come back, and no one has been drinking and chatting with him for several days." As he spoke, he walked closer and whispered, "The Venerable Lord has been in the secret room under the Daozang Pavilion for the past few days, and his subordinates will lead the left envoy forward." ”

There are many dark rooms and secret halls in Lushou Villa, which are connected by underground corridors. Each other formed the shape of the acquired gossip, like a ground array, and the secret room of His Excellency Daozang occupies an important position in Taiji. The structure of these secret rooms and secret passages were all drafted and designed by "Zhizun" Fang Tianlu, and there were many secret doors during them. Those who do not know the situation inside are mostly struggling.

The two walked towards the depths of Zhuangzi one after the other, passed through the courtyard and turned left and right, and walked to the top of the mountain in front of a four-story octagonal green tile attic with a radius of more than ten zhang.

But seeing that the door was closed, the housekeeper Lu stepped forward and knocked a few times, the pavilion door opened slightly, and a seven or eight-year-old round-faced boy in a Taoist uniform walked out.

When Steward Lu saw this little boy, he turned around and said to Liu Shaoyang: "Liu Zuo, my subordinates won't go in." There are still trivial matters to be arranged in the village, and the subordinates who have nothing to order from the left envoy will retire, and when there is something, he can only send a person to the ward. ”

Liu Shaoyang nodded and said, "Steward Lu is polite, just go and be busy with you." Steward Lu said goodbye, and the boy who opened the door reached out and pulled Liu Shaoyang's sleeve into the attic, and shouted: "Brother Shaoyang hasn't come to Lord Fang and Xuanqing for so long, Xuanqing misses you." ”

Liu Shaoyang looked at Xiao Tong and said with a smile: "Your brother Shaoyang went out a few days ago and came back a few days ago. I haven't seen you for so long, has Xuan Qing studied hard?"

When the little boy Xuanqing heard this, he pouted and said: "You never take Xuanqing when you go out to play, those Taoist metaphysics, of course Xuanqing watches it every day, and the lord often praises me." ”

Liu Shaoyang smiled and pouted: "Ah, since Xuanqing is so well-behaved, of course he must reward him." This is what your brother Shaoyang brought to you when he went out this time and passed by Jiujiang Mansion. As he spoke, he took out a puppet shaped as the King of Tota from his arms, and pulled the 'King of Tota' a few times, and handed it to Xuan Qing's little hand.

Xuanqing's child's temperament, when he saw the puppet, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "This thing is so beautiful, hehe, Brother Shaoyang still remembers Xuanqing when he goes out." Liu Shaoyang was happy to see Xuanqing, and then said: "Brother Shaoyang went to see the master, and he will come out to play with you later." ”

Xuan Qing held the puppet in one hand, stretched out his hand and turned the wall panel to secretly bracket, and the floor in the center of the pavilion was a few feet wide and flipped to the side with a "bang", revealing the downward stone steps.

Liu Shaoyang walked down the stone steps for more than a hundred steps, and a road appeared in front of him, and a stone door was closed at the end of dozens of steps. Liu Shaoyang stepped forward and twisted the mechanism to open the stone door, there was a world in the door, a hall was very wide, and dozens of lights illuminated the hall brightly.

In addition to a few tables and chairs, the hall is full of bookshelf molds and various instruments. At the end of the hall, an old man with hair was standing on the ground, looking at a few drawings on the low table, and he looked up when he heard the sound.

Under the light, the old man's beard is black and white, with long hair and a kind face, and two clusters of thick eyebrows are slightly upturned.

Liu Shaoyang shouted as he walked: "Master, the apprentice has come to see your old man!" Fang Tianlu saw that it was Liu Shaoyang, his slightly tightened brows immediately relaxed, and he smiled and said: "You ghost spirit spirit has not come to see your master for many days, when your uncle came to see me more than half a year ago, he said that he had sent you to do an important matter, and it would take a while to come back, but he didn't want to go for so long." ”

Liu Shaoyang saw that Fang Tianlu was looking very good, and said with a grin: "Master, I also want your old man to be tight, this time I just came back when I had free time, and Xiao Hei was pushed by me to ask me for a drink." If I stay a few more days, I'm afraid that Master will still annoy me. ”

Yesterday, when I went to Huai'an City, Shaoyang specially bought the sauce chicken that Master loved, and got two pots of his daughter Red Wine from Xiao Hei for decades to honor Master. ”

Fang Tianlu saw that there was good wine and deliciousness, and laughed: "It's still you, as an apprentice, who understands the master's temperament, like Xuanqing's hairy child, who even wants me to mumble when I drink." Master is studying these drawings these days, and you are also participating in the research. Come on, come on, sit down, let's talk while the master and apprentice are drinking. ”

Liu Shaoyang stepped forward, also took a cushion and sat down cross-legged, put the wine and food on the low table, and brought the wine utensils to pour for Fang Tianlu.

After a few drinks between the master and apprentice, Fang Tianlu took a drawing and handed it to Liu Shaoyang, and said, "This thing was sent by Xuanyuan half a year ago, but your uncle spent a lot of money to find someone to rub and draw it from the Jinling Ordnance Bureau." ”

Liu Shaoyang took the drawing and saw that it was an artillery drawing, with the words "General Hongwu's Iron Cannon Casting Drawing" written on the top. Looking at it again, the whole iron cannon structure is clearly drawn, the cannon is five feet long, the barrel is several hoops, the size of the cannon chamber, the medicine chamber, the trunnion, the fire hole and other structures are also marked one by one, in addition to the construction of the gun carriage car is also drawn.

Fang Tianlu drank another cup, stroked his beard and sighed: "Back then, Lord Shicheng didn't listen to your master's words, and refused to spend silver taels to build firearms, so that when he fought with Zhu Yuanzhang's army and horses, he lost more than he won, and finally lost the country. If the lord's old subordinates want to restore the country, they really have to work this crossbow and arrow. ”

Liu Shaoyang looked at it for a long time, and suddenly said, "Master, the apprentice has followed you to see a few such drawings over the years. This cannon is built according to this drawing, to say the least, there are nearly 1,000 catties, and if you want to be flexible when you turn it around, you are afraid that you will have to think about it a little more. The structure depicted on this drawing is not ingenious, but it is not without room for improvement. ”

Fang Tianlu smiled and said, "You baby is sharp-eyed, and your words are really not bad. This cannon weighs a thousand pounds when built in this way, although it is a lot of improvement over previous years. But after all, there are many shortcomings, and your master changed this drawing a few days ago. ”

As he spoke, he handed over another drawing, and continued, "This drawing was revised for the division, and was cast into iron cannons by the craftsmen in the village a few months ago. Hehe, although the smelting and casting room in the village is far inferior to Zhu Chongba's Guard Weapons Bureau, the artillery made here is still like that, and it can be used. There was a lot of excitement between the words.

"Oh, the iron cannon drawings that the master transformed, I have to take a good look at it as an apprentice!"

Liu Shaoyang took the blueprint that Fang Tianlu had changed, and saw that the artillery on this piece of paper was very different from the one just now. The medicine room and the fire hole have been changed, which is not only more convenient when filling and ignition, but also making the gunpowder more powerful.

The wall of the gun has been thinned, and the hoop is more reasonable, presumably to reduce the weight of the gun and avoid exploding. The projectile is no longer put into the muzzle, but is inserted through a separate machine door on the side of the barrel, so that after several improvements, the projectile will inevitably miss even further, and I can't help but admire the wisdom of the master.

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