The atmosphere in the Yizhen Research Institute is very depressing, after the Mao Wei incident, the security in the research institute has been upgraded again, and now all researchers are no longer allowed to leave the research institute, and the political affairs hall has put forward a proposal to build a new town outside the Yizhen Research Institute, and all the families of all these researchers will be immigrated to this town at one time, so as to prevent something like Mao Wei from happening again.

Of course, this matter is still brewing, Tang He, who was hit hard by the Mao Wei incident, fell ill after returning to Jicheng, and now Niu Ben is in charge of the security of the entire Yizhen Research Institute.

But the entire Han Dynasty did not cause much turmoil because of this incident, except for the Great Council because of this incident to express dissatisfaction with the Supervision Yuan, proposed to reduce the use of the Supervision Yuan, the other ministries and officials did not speak. And this mention of the Great Council finally disappeared because Princess Ning Xin came forward to take responsibility for this incident.

The calm of the whole Han may be attributed to Gao Yuan's speech to all the officials at a court meeting, which Gao Yuan said to Ning Xin, and this time it was reiterated in the court, but it was said more passionately.

The Han army never relied on the sharpness of its weapons to win, but more on the soldiers' incomparable will to fight. Otherwise, the Han army would not be able to go today, you know, from the Fufeng Army to the Eastern Army and then to the current Han Army, Gao Yuan's troops basically appeared in front of the world every time, they appeared as weak, until this time they defeated the Qin army in one fell swoop, and finally established the identity of the world's first power.

And another news revealed by Gao Yuan above the court made the Han Kingdom even more excited, gunpowder is only the most basic part of the Han Kingdom's research in this area, and next, the Han Kingdom will have more important weapons. Just like when iron tools first appeared, the Qin people stole nothing more than an iron embryo, while the Han kingdom already possessed a sharp sword. And polishing an iron embryo into a sword is still a long way off.

In Qin Chu's view, this may be just a tone of shame after this defeat of the Han Dynasty, or they have taken a step forward in the research of gunpowder, after all, Mao Wei is only the leader of a core group of gunpowder research, and he is not really the person who invented gunpowder, but whether it is the people of Qin or Chu, they are convinced that as long as Mao Wei can uncover the layer of paper in front of them for them, then in the next time, Qin Chu will not lack skilled craftsmen, and the Han people can make things. They will definitely be able to make it, too.

But I'm afraid they never imagined that the more powerful weapon Gao Yuan said was not the gunpowder itself, but the use of gunpowder.

Two horses dragged a carriage covered with felt cloth slowly drove out of a warehouse, and when the felt cloth was torn off, it was revealed in front of several important ministers in the government hall and the Ministry of Finance, Wang Wuyan, but it was a swarthy iron guy. This thing on the carriage was obviously extremely heavy, and if it weren't for the fact that the wheels of the carriage had already been replaced with tires that had just been developed by the Han Kingdom, I am afraid that it would have been crushed long ago, which can be seen from the deep ruts on the ground.

"What is this? An iron pipe?" Wang Wuyan looked at Gao Yuan with a puzzled face: "Your Majesty, just for this thing, in the past two years, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver have been going to the military workshop of Jishi City."

Gao Yuan made a gesture and motioned for him to be calm: "My Minister Wang, in a little while, you can see if this thing is worth the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver you allocated."

Ye Zhong walked in front of Gao Yuan: "Your Majesty, can you start?"

Gao Yuan nodded, "Let's start, let the councilors open their eyes."

The horses pulling the cart were quickly pulled away, and more than a dozen soldiers around the carriage pulled down iron pillars from the carriage and embedded it deep into the ground, so that the cart had become a base seat in the blink of an eye, and it was only at this time that everyone could see that the cart was also made of iron plates.

More than a dozen soldiers retreated, but what came out of the warehouse was some researchers from the Yizhen Research Institute, looking at the things they were holding in their hands, Wang Wuyan couldn't help but gasp, isn't this explosives?

The paper bag containing the explosives was filled into the tube, and seeing a researcher holding a pestle-like thing in the tube and constantly ramming it, several councilors involuntarily took a step back, they were all people who had seen the power of explosives, but when they saw Gao Yuan still standing there quietly and steadily, everyone couldn't help but blush.

"This thing should have been verified repeatedly when it was in Jishi City, right?" Gao Yuan tilted his head and asked Ye Zhong beside him.

"Yes, at first, because the explosives provided by the Yizhen Research Institute were the same in weight, but the power of the explosion was different, we lost a lot of cannons, but later, the power of each package of explosives they provided tended to be the same, and the error was very small, so that we finally tested the maximum resistance and the longest range of the current model of cannon. Ye Chong's face was a little regretful.

"How is the manufacture of the barrel progressing now?"

"This is more difficult, at present, the barrel of the cannon still needs to be polished by hand, but it still can't keep the trachoma inside, etc., the craftsmen are still thinking about improving the process, so they can only take their time."

"In other words, it is not possible to mass-produce Luo yet!"

"Well, I can do two or three doors a month! You can't be sloppy with this thing, or anyone who uses it will die!" Ye Chongdao." Your Majesty, you and a few councilors should retreat a little further."

Gao Yuan looked at the swarthy cannon that was more than ten zhang away from him, nodded, and led everyone to turn around and retreat, this thing was something that some military elites in the Jishi City Military Workshop had been collecting little by little after a year under their own guidance, and then he threw it behind himself, and handed it over to Ye Zhong to be responsible, there is really no certainty about stability, Gao Yuan didn't want to have any accidents, and with a bang, he handed over the King of Dahan and his group of important ministers to here.

After retreating dozens of feet, the soldiers of the Young Guards Regiment in front of him held high iron shields in their hands and blocked a group of people, Ye Zhong turned around and nodded at the researcher who was operating the cannon: "You can start."

Retreating to Gao Yuan's side, Ye Zhong said to Gao Yuan and a group of politicians: "Your Majesty, everyone, the target of our attack this time is the earthen city one mile away, everyone can see it clearly, right?"

Everyone looked up, and a mile away, a watchtower made of earth stood there.

"Is it accurate?" Gao Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"It should be no problem, these few people who operate the cannon, I don't know how many cannons they have fired in the past six months, and they are already very skilled at this point." YE Chongdao.

Jiang Jiaquan, Wang Wuyan and the others all opened their eyes wide and watched the dark guy gradually lift up when one operator kept shaking a handle next to him, and behind the cannon, another operator gave a thumbs up, kept gesturing at the target in front of him, and kept reporting some numbers in his mouth, and the muzzle of the cannon slowly moved up and down, left and right. Finally completely still there.

"Ignition!" The person who had previously gestured with his thumb said loudly.

The fuse hanging on the ground was ignited, and the sound of hissing and burning was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears, seeing that several operators next to the cannon squatted on the ground almost at the same time, covering their ears, Gao Yuan also smiled and raised his hands, blocking his ears, Ye Zhong on one side has experienced many such things, and has long been accustomed to it, stretched out his hands, there are already two more cotton flowers in his hands, glanced at Gao Yuan, and handed over the cotton flowers in his hand again.

Gao Yuan smiled and took it, "You should prepare a little more."

"Forgot!" Ye Zhong smiled, glanced at Wang Wuyan, and quickly flashed his eyes.

Seeing Ye Chong's expression, Gao Yuan smiled secretly in his heart, it's not that he forgot, it's that he wants to rectify Wang Wuyan, who made Wang Wuchang like an iron rooster every time he is on top of the appropriation, and the other councilors just suffered from the pond fish.

Gao Yuan gently touched Jiang Jiaquan beside him, and gestured slightly, Jiang Jiaquan looked at the appearance of Gao Yuan and Ye Chong, first of all, but immediately reacted, and blocked his ears tightly with both hands, others were not so vigilant, especially Wang Wuyan, who held the shield of the young guards in front of him with both hands, stared at the smoke cannon with wide eyes, he was just trying to see if the things that cost him hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were worth the price!

There was a loud bang, Wang Wuyan was so shocked by this loud sound that he sat down on the ground, his ears buzzed, and except for Gao Yuan, Jiang Jiaquan, and Ye Chong, the other councilors were shocked back a few steps back almost at the same time, and all of them were colorless.

The smoke cleared, and a mile away, the erect earthen watchtower was no longer there, and several operating gunners jumped up from the ground, raising their arms and cheering. Although they had practiced many times earlier, this time they were performing in front of the king and the ministers of parliament, and they didn't know how nervous they were. Fortunately, the .

Gao Yuan glanced at the young guards who stopped in front of him, these soldiers were also the first time to see such a scene, but what made him feel relieved was that although these soldiers were also colorless and their bodies were trembling, the whole formation was still not scattered, and the shields hit each other because of the trembling of their bodies, making a crisp sound.

Ye Chong walked over with a smile and helped up Wang Wuyan, who was sitting on the ground, "Minister Wang, is your hundreds of thousands of taels of silver worth it?"

Wang Wuyan was stunned for a long time, looked at the disappeared tulou in front of him, and then looked at Ye Chong, who was casual, and suddenly said angrily: "Ye Chong, you yin me?"

Ye Chong laughed, and was about to cover up the past with clever words, Wang Wuyan suddenly laughed again, stretched out his finger and touched his ear a few times, "But if these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are made of this thing, it will be worth it, if you make this thing in the future, I will give you how much it will cost!"

"Why did you become generous all of a sudden?" Ye Chong's eyes widened and he looked at him puzzled.

Wang Wuyan stretched out his hand and pointed at Ye Chong: "If this thing can equip the army on a large scale, then how many fewer deaths will our soldiers have, and how much less will we have to pay for each one less death?" Do you want me to tell you this account?"

Sure enough, it is still inseparable from money, anyway, in the eyes of this finance minister, as long as you can use less money, it is good.

"Soon, soon, at most two or three years of effort, our army can be equipped with this cannon." (To be continued......)