Patting the jet-black cannon body, Gao Yuan looked at Ye Chong, "Although this thing has been made out, and the power is acceptable, this cannon body is inevitably too heavy, I'm afraid it weighs thousands of pounds, right?"

Hearing Gao Yuan say that the power is acceptable, the councilors behind him all showed disapproving looks, if this is only the power is acceptable, then what is the power of the power? In their opinion, this is already a rare artifact.

"The cannon body is a little heavier, but with our current domestic roads and the tires that have just been applied, it is no problem for two horses to pull this kind of cannon and walk a hundred miles a day."

"Could it be that we developed this cannon to fight at home?" Gao Yuan looked at Ye Zhong with a smile, "Have you taken into account that in the future, our combat battlefield will basically be on the enemy's land, as far as I know, there is no such accessible road in their country as our Han Kingdom, and even if there is, it is also very restricted by the weather, a rain falls, the road will be muddy, and then your cannon will not be able to move and become the target of the opponent."

"The king is right!" Ye Chong paused for a moment, and the joy of being immersed in the power of this cannon slowly faded, "Your Majesty understands what the king meant, and the weight of this cannon will go down."

"This is just one aspect, you can also open up your mind a little, study some other types of artillery, for example, infantry artillery, that is, the kind of small cannon that one or two infantry can carry and fly, although the power is small, but the application is actually very wide, right?" Gao Yuan said with a smile.

Ye Chong's face was embarrassed, "Your Majesty, I have been working on this thing for a year or two, and then I will develop a new cannon, I don't know how long it will take?"

Gao Yuan smiled and stroked the cannon body that was still warm: "With the foundation of success in research, it will be much easier to develop other categories. As the saying goes, everything goes. Just put down the bounty, and those who specialize in this stuff will do a good job that will surprise you."

"This time the security must be done well, there must be no more Mao Wei incident, don't we work hard to study this cannon here, turn our heads, and let people take it away." On the side, Wu Kai reminded.

"This cannon is not so easy to get rid of!" Gao Yuan smiled: "Gunpowder is only the most basic thing, the threshold is not high, but if you want to build this cannon, you need a whole set of related industries to cooperate, if their iron-smelting and steel-making technology can't reach our level, they can't make this cannon."

"That said, but be careful." Jiang Jiaquan thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, this time we are openly selling the mining rights of mineral deposits in the three counties of Liaodong, and the merchants have bought the mining rights, so naturally there will be supporting facilities to follow up for iron smelting and steelmaking, and it is not ruled out that there will be Qin Chu's spies in the meantime, and once the technology of iron smelting and steelmaking is opened, it will be much easier for them to learn."

Gao Yuan scratched his head, everything has its benefits, it is always impossible to do everything, open the mining rights of minerals, allow the private to participate, the lifting of the ban on the corresponding technology, will promote the great improvement of domestic production capacity, promote the development of the economy, and will also bring more income to the country, but the negative side will also be shown, just like Jiang Jiaquan said, some of the previous unique technologies can not be kept.

"Mr. is right, but this matter can only be seen in the move, this time the Supervision Yuan should sweep away the people of the Black Ice Platform in the Han Dynasty, if you want to restore your vitality, I'm afraid it is not something that can be done in a short time, I think when they have a little strength, we have already thrown them too far, this matter, I will let the Supervision Yuan pay more attention to this matter." Gao Yuan said: "When Tang He recovers, let him take charge of this matter."

"Tang He just had these leaks, and it would be okay if he didn't punish them, it was because he had worked hard and worked hard before, but he let him go out of the mountain to be responsible for such a big thing, isn't it a little ......" Yan Shenghao frowned.

"The Mao Wei incident is not only his responsibility!" Gao Yuan shook his head, "Tang He is capable, and he has fallen on this once, he is more experienced than others, only those who have failed are more alert and motivated to do this well."

Hearing Gao Yuan say this, Yan Shenghao also closed his mouth, after all, the Supervision Yuan is not under the jurisdiction of the Council, he is independently under the direct management of Gao Yuan, and the only one who has the right to supervise them is the Great Council.

With the excitement of the brain, a group of councilors flocked to Gao Yuan from the exercise ground back to Jicheng, the previous dissatisfaction with Gao Yuan dragging them out of the busy affairs has long disappeared, along the way, all are excitedly discussing the power of this cannon, Wang Wuyan is more concerned about the cost of each cannon, and has been pulling Ye Zhong to discuss this problem, hoping to reduce the cost of this cannon a little more.

Now the pattern of the Han Dynasty is that the councilors are in charge of a mess, busy to death, and the ministries and offices are under the watchful eyes of those idle councilors, and they are also tense up one by one, if you show some mistakes and have a little problem, in the big council, there will definitely be big councilors who will jump out to accuse you, and the accused ministries and offices have to send people to explain, if it is indeed a problem, then you have to come back to rectify it in disgrace.

So now the chief officials of various ministries and offices hate and fear the big councilors who are resident in Jicheng in these states, but they can't afford to offend, and they have to do the things in their hands carefully, so as not to be poked in the ass by them.

And Gao Yuan, who should have been the busiest in the Han Kingdom, is actually the most leisurely person in the entire Jicheng, holding a meeting with the councilors a week to determine the problems that even the councilors can't solve. As long as it is within your responsibility, you have to think of ways to do it well, and don't expect the king to stand up and support you. If you go to the king twice in three days to complain about your suffering, you will only leave a reflection of your limited ability to actually work.

There is only one month left before the opening of the annual big council, and all the councilors are busy to death, and the parliamentarians of various states are also beginning to enter Beijing one after another, and there are more eyes staring at various ministries and offices, and the heads of various departments dare not slack off.

This year is a year of earth-shaking changes in the Han Kingdom, first of all, the official implementation of the patent law, all inventors will obtain huge benefits because of the promulgation of the patent law, which also makes the newly established patent office become the busiest department, more and more people are pouring into the patent office, hoping to register a patent for a certain thing they invented, many things are ridiculous, but you still have to handle it for him, but Wu Kai was a shrewd businessman after all, and he has been in charge of the party for many years, experienced, After a short period of confusion, he brazenly ordered that when the inventor registered his patent, in addition to submitting the necessary materials, he must also pay the registration silver, which is as high as fifty taels of silver for each patent.

This threshold stopped many people at once, unless the inventor has full belief that his invention can be put to practical use and can produce higher benefits than fifty taels of silver, of course, if you have money and are willing to be a fool, the patent office will not stop you. Fifty taels of silver will be brought and you will be registered, and as for whether you can make a fortune in the future, it will be up to you.

In this way, the patent office has changed from a pure service department to a revenue-generating department, which made Wang Wuchang of the Ministry of Finance smile crookedly, and busily sent people to the states every quarter to review the income of each patent office to see if they had filled their own pockets, but it also added a lot of revenue to the treasury.

The second sensation in the country is Gao Yuan in the three counties of Liaodong public auction of all kinds of mineral deposits, as long as it is the Han people, are eligible to participate in the auction, of course, you have to pay a sum of silver in advance to fully prove your strength, to obtain the right to mine, no matter which dynasty and which generation, it is a profitable business, the Han Kingdom is not short of rich people, these years of land reform, the original big landlords have gathered a lot of money in their hands, especially the new return to the Han State of the original Qi land, the original Wei land of the big landlords, They have a large amount of cash because of the land reform, but the original commercial system of the Han Dynasty has been difficult for them to insert a foot into it, even if it is inserted into the harvest is not satisfactory, Gao Yuan's new opening, undoubtedly let them see the opportunity to increase their wealth on a large scale, naturally they are eager to flock to the three counties of Liaodong to participate in this feast. The scale of this feast is so large that the initiator Gao Yuan did not expect it, and I have to sigh that the people are really rich now, and such a project that needs to invest at least 100,000 taels of silver to benefit from it is also fighting for blood.

However, as for what the next thing is like to do things, Gao Yuan is too lazy to care, he just wants to see the final results, anyway, according to the situation reported by the Supervision Yuan, Sun Xiao of the Liaodong Metropolitan Protectorate is busy with the first three big, and the Great Council and the Supervision Yuan have also sent a lot of people over to ensure that this bidding is open, just and fair.

Gao Yuan needs to raise enough money in the three counties of Liaodong to ensure the connection of Guo Quan's east-west arteries, and also needs a large number of people to pour into the three counties of Liaodong to enrich the population there. When this hot money pours into the three counties of Liaodong, there will inevitably be earth-shaking changes in a short period of time.

On top of this year's Great Council, Gao Yuan is ready to throw out a bill that shakes the world again, that is, the property law on the inviolability of private property, if this law is passed in the Great Council, even the state, can not swallow up individual private property at will, this will be a far-reaching bill, will become a milestone in the law of the Han Kingdom. (To be continued......)