In Daxing Mansion, Emperor Liu Sheng of the Han Dynasty met Li Xingfu in the most luxurious bedroom of the palace.

As soon as they met, Liu Sheng circled around Li Xingfu and said with a smile: "You are the royal bloodline, and I am also the royal bloodline, I don't know who has a more noble bloodline between you and me?" ”

"Of course, His Majesty's blood is noble." Li Xingfu smiled.

"No...... No, no! Liu Sheng raised his index finger and shook it: "It's better to verify this kind of thing." ”

"How do I verify?"

Liu Sheng smiled mysteriously: "I have a leopard, very psychic, as long as I meet a person with noble blood, I will prostrate on the ground and bow my head to worship, I have tried it myself, why don't you try it too?" ”

Li Xingfu changed color and hurriedly said: "How dare you compare with Your Majesty, I'm afraid that I will be eaten by that leopard!" ”

"That's not necessarily, I'm very optimistic about you, right?" Liu Sheng patted him on the shoulder and said loudly, "Send Li Gongzi to the Leopard Park." ”

"Your Majesty spare your life, Your Majesty spare your life!" Li Xingfu knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.

"Hahaha......" Liu Sheng laughed loudly, hugged his stomach and said, "Look at your cowardice, I am teasing you!" ”

After a pause, he put away his smile and said lightly: "Lu Yuan promised me a truce with Wu Yueguo, which is very face-saving for me, so I won't kill his people, you stay in Han for the time being, and when Lu Yuan asks me for someone, I will let you go." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Xingfu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the experience of facing death in the past few days made him deeply feel the difficulty of recovering the country.

At Liu Sheng's orders, Li Xingfu was detained in a small courtyard in Daxing Mansion.

One night two days later, Li Xingfu was reading a book in the courtyard when he suddenly heard something, got up to look, and found that the door had opened a crack.

He stepped forward and looked outside the door, but found nothing.

Closing the door, as soon as he turned around, he couldn't help but tremble, only to see a man in black in the room.

Seeing that he was about to speak, the man in black hurriedly spoke: "Don't be afraid, Master Li, I'm here to save you." ”

As he spoke, he pulled down his mask and revealed a handsome face.

"General Xuan!" Li Xingfu was surprised and said that the person who came was Xuanfei, and Li Xingfu had a few words with him when he was in Fujian.

"I'm just a minor official of the Han State now, and I'm still a general." Xuan Fei smiled bitterly.

"What did you mean by saying you were going to save me?" Li Xingfu asked.

Xuan Fei knelt on the ground and arched his hand: "I am willing to follow Gongzi's side, and I also ask Gongzi to take him in." ”

Li Xingfu was slightly taken aback, and his eyes flickered: "You want me to recommend you as an official in Wu State, right?" ”

"Yes." Xuanfei bowed his head in acknowledgement.

The corners of Li Xingfu's mouth raised, he sat down on the chair, and said lightly:

"My sister is Senior Sister Wu Wang, in fact, she is similar to my own sister, if I recommend you as an official in Wu State, it is not a big deal. But I don't understand one thing, you can also be an official in the Han Kingdom, why do you have to go to my Wu Kingdom as an official? ”

"Childe, do you know that there is a condition for being an official in the Han Kingdom?" Xuanfei gritted his teeth.

"You mean castration?" Li Xingfu suddenly realized.

Xuan Fei nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Emperor Han has issued an order, requiring us to be castrated within a month, how can I be humiliated like this." ”

Li Xingfu snorted coldly: "This kind of absurd country, sooner or later I will personally lead the Wu army to destroy him." ”

"Li Gongzi, this place is still dangerous, you and I should leave here first."

"How do I leave?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Feng and I have arranged everything, please come with me."

"Wait." Li Xingfu said in a deep voice: "I still have two subordinates, I have to take them with me." ”

"Son, rest assured, Emperor Han has already released those two people and wants them to go to Hangzhou to report the news."

"They're gone?" Li Xingfu was surprised.

"No, they didn't go to Hangzhou, but found me and Mr. Feng."

"What the hell is going on?" Li Xingfu was even more confused.

Xuan Fei sighed: "Actually, if it weren't for the family named Changsun Wen under Gongzi to wake me up, Xuan would probably have fled Daxing Mansion and missed the opportunity to serve Gongzi." ”

Li Xingfu was overjoyed, no wonder Xuanfei would take the initiative to serve himself, it turned out that it was the eldest grandson Wen and Cheng Yuanshan who were instigating behind his back, he no longer had any doubts, and said loudly: "Then let's go." ”

Xuanfei took Li Xingfu out of the courtyard over the wall, and after walking a few steps, a carriage came in front of him.

"Feng Xie meets his son." A middle-aged scribe was also in the car.

Li Xingfu returned the salute with a smile, very proud in his heart, if you don't die in a big disaster, there will be a blessing in the future, presumably this is the case.

Feng Xie and Xuan Fei had already taken care of everything, and the carriage traveled smoothly all the way, leaving Daxing Mansion smoothly and heading towards Hangzhou.

Xuan Fei didn't know that the escape planned by him and Feng Xie had harmed others.

After learning that Li Xingfu had fled, Liu Sheng was furious and sent troops to chase Li Xingfu while sending people to investigate the reason for his escape. After an investigation, he found that it was the generals Xuanfei and Feng Jiefang who ran Li Xingfu, and in a fit of anger, he wanted to demote the officials of Fujian State to the crime together.

Chen Hongjin and Wang Baoshan led their old troops to resist and fled overseas, and had no choice but to become pirates.

……

A few days later, on the official road on the Han border, Li Xingfu called Xuanfei and Feng Xie into the car.

"Both, after my observation over the past few days, I believe that you are indeed truly committed to me, so I intend to tell you a big secret." He said in a low tone.

"Childe, please speak."

"Actually, I went to Fujian on the orders of King Wu to disturb Fujian from within, so as to prepare for his future unification of Jiangnan!" Li Xingfu looked solemn.

Xuan Fei and Feng Xie looked at each other, if what Li Xingfu said was right, then his task could be said to have been completed quite perfectly.

Li Xingfu sighed: "His Royal Highness King Wu has just sent another order, asking me to go to Shu and continue to implement the same plan. ”

"Won't His Royal Highness King Wu let you take a break?" Feng Xie was puzzled.

"You don't know the situation, although there are some talents in Wu Guo now, they are not as good as me. What's more, the king believes in me the most, he trusts me so much, what is my hard work. Li Xingfu is righteous and awe-inspiring.

"Then we ......" Xuan Fei hesitated how to speak.

"I have already told your lord about it, and the king ordered you to assist me in ascending the throne in Shu, as long as this plan is successful, you will make great contributions, and you will be rewarded when you return to China in the future!"

"I see." Xuan Fei nodded.

He thought very clearly, if it were not for Li Xingfu's recommendation, it would be difficult for him to excel in Wu State, and now that he is alone, it is better to fight.

"I am also willing to assist the son, I only hope to make contributions in the future, and the son will not forget the two of us." Feng Xie and Xuan Fei thought about the same and decided to be loyal to Li Xingfu.

"Don't worry, as long as the big thing is done, this son will never treat you badly." Li Xingfu said loudly.

……

Hangzhou, a suburb in the east of the city.

Looking at the artillery in front of him, Lu Yuan sighed.

It has been more than a month since the artillery was built, and after that, Qi Guangzi and his blacksmiths polished and smoothed the muzzle and chamber of the cannon, and drilled out the fire door and the light door, which took more than half a month.

At the same time, Li Muyi also made ten solid iron balls, each weighing ten catties (about twelve pounds).

According to the drawings of the gun carriage he gave, Lu Yuner also successfully made a gun carriage.

In fact, the drawings given by Lu Yuan were incomplete in many places, and only indicated what functions needed to be achieved next to them, but Lu Yun'er perfectly realized Lu Yuan's requirements and showed extraordinary skills.

The gun carriage she made was very close to the style of the gun carriage of later generations, with two half-man high wheels on the left and right, supporting a rectangular plank in the middle, and a circular groove in the middle of the plank, on which the cannon was placed.

A bracket extends from the back of the plank to hold the cart, and there are several wooden sticks in the circular groove that can be moved up and down, and there are mechanisms next to it to control the gun to lower the top of the gun and adjust the firing angle.

When Lu Yuan saw the artillery on this gun for the first time, the joy was indescribable, and he immediately decided to pull the artillery outside the city for test firing.

However, before that, Lu Yuan still asked Qi Guangzi to improve the wooden car. After all, Lu Yun'er had never seen the power of artillery, and the sturdiness of the wooden car was still a little lacking.

When Qi Guangzi strengthened the iron bars of the wooden cart, Lu Yuan led his military officials to a flat ground on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city to prepare for the test firing of artillery.

This test launch was also a demonstration.

Lu Yuan knew that many officials had recently been a little puzzled and confused about his behavior in the Engineer Academy, and he wanted to make them understand through this test launch that he was not idle.

In addition to the officials from the Privy Council and the Engineer Academy, there were only four officials who accompanied the test, Qin Youyu, Sun Shaoqing, Zhang Dezhong, and Su Qingzhe.

When the soldiers placed a target in armor a hundred meters away, Lu Yuan slowly spoke: "Let's start." ”