"This ......" Sha Chongyi was just ordered to prepare in such detail except for biting? was caught by Zhang Jiuling and had a sore foot, and immediately messed up.

However, after all, he has been a royal historian for many years and has rich experience in tongue warfare. quickly regained his composure, and decisively frowned beside him, "That's right, Sha has not seen the picture scroll or tried the sample, but Sha can deduce it from the cost of ordnance supervision to make gunpowder." ”

In order to prove his point, he said as he turned his gaze to Zhang Qian, "Thief Zhang, you can have the courage to tell your colleagues present how much money did it cost to build a medicine refining pot in your gunpowder workshop?" ”

The four pots and their accessories are all made of pure copper. Many people have visited it, and they don't need to ask to know that the cost of it is not too low. Therefore, Sha Chongyi has long regarded it as a handle and kept it in his heart. I was going to throw it out again at the critical moment, and I was caught off guard by killing Zhang Qian. Unexpectedly, today he was forced by Zhang Jiuling to lose ground and had to show his hole cards in advance.

Even so, he still believed that as long as Zhang Qian told the cost of the alchemy pot, it would definitely make many people give up their sympathy and support for him.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Qian listened to his questioning, he actually said bluntly: "You said that you are a thief and shout to catch a thief, but you still refuse to admit it." The four refining pots, plus the iron pot and stove at the bottom, cost a total of about 4,000 hangs. However, Zhang thought that such an expense was definitely worth the money. ”

"Just for the sake of just four alchemy pots, you spent four thousand hangs. Do you say that it is not a plan to exhaust the country? Sha Chongyi immediately grabbed the figure of 4,000 hanging money and made a big fuss. And how much gunpowder have you refined in this month? It's just a handful of pounds! Each catty of gunpowder is nearly half a penny, so what army can afford to consume it? ”

"Ah, so much money?" Sure enough, as he expected, before his words fell, the surrounding eight or nine small sesame officials were all stunned.

You must know that although four thousand hanging money is not a big number for Zhong Ming Ding Food House. But for these "technical" bureaucrats who are in charge of specific departmental affairs, they can definitely make their eyes red with jealousy.

Especially for Qingshui yamen like Qin Tianjian and School Clerk, the annual expenses of the whole prison are probably not enough for 1,000 yuan. And Zhang Qian's ordinary firearms department is a big level lower than the prison, and it actually costs others four whole years of funds in a month, so how can everyone maintain a balance in their hearts?

In fact, it is not only this group of "technocrats" who are in charge of specific affairs who have been hit by the huge expenses of the Firearms Agency. Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty, heard that a pound of "gunpowder" was equivalent to 500 copper coins, and he was so distressed that his heart only twitched.

Back then, he was pushed down from the emperor's position by Wu Zetian, and when he was the king of Luling, his family was so poor that he had to rely on Princess Wei's weaving to afford winter clothes. Although he is now the head of a country and has a big business, he does not dare to tolerate such wanton squandering in a certain department.

The word "wanton squandering" appeared in his heart, and Sha Chongyi's previous sentence of "tired country" made him more and more vigilant. Immediately, Li Xian's brows furrowed, and he turned his knife-like gaze to Zhang Qian, waiting to see the latter give everyone a reasonable explanation!

However, what made him angry was that in the face of Sha Chongyi's accusations, Zhang Qian actually put on a nonchalant look, and just shrugged his shoulders lightly: "Four thousand hangings, how much?" After the alchemy pot is made, it will be available for at least twenty years! Four thousand hangs are divided into twenty years, which is equivalent to two hundred hangs per year, such a simple account, can't Sha Yushi count it? ”

"This ......" Li Xian was stunned, and the anger that had just rushed to the top door plummeted in an instant.

"You just need to use money for making the medicine pot, the commissions of the craftsmen in the future, the wine, firewood, and charcoal, and daily care, where do you not need to use money?" Since Sha Chongyi dared to talk about the cost of the medicine refining pot, he naturally would not be easily refuted. Hearing that Zhang Qian spread the cost evenly over twenty years, he immediately began to calculate other costs with him.

"Sha Yushi, can't you drink the wind and drink the dew plainly? It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, you have always heard of this sentence. Since the imperial court wants to use gunpowder, can it be that if there is no labor and raw materials, Zhang can conjure alcohol out of thin air? If the master of Sha will, he might as well demonstrate it on the spot, Zhang will definitely bow down! In terms of sophistry, Zhang Qian admits that he is not the opponent of professional trolls, but he is not afraid of any trolls. With a simple sentence, Sha Chongyi's accusation was blocked.

"Sha is the imperial history, and supervising hundreds of officials is Sha's responsibility." Of course, Sha Chongyi didn't know how to play tricks, but he still insisted that Zhang Qian was deliberately extravagant and wasteful. Stiffening his neck, he added in a loud voice, "And you, as the chief bookkeeper of the Gunpowder Administration, do not know anything about frugality. Take advantage of Your Majesty's trust in you to squander your father-in-law. It's just a medicine refining furnace, what can't you do with it, you have to use pure copper? If the five prisons and offices are all squandered like you, how much savings do I have to accumulate in the Tang Mansion to support it? ”

The Gunpowder Department is only a sub-department under the Ordnance Supervision. There are probably seventy or eighty sub-departments like this, in the five prisons and nine temples of the Tang Dynasty. If a department spends 4,000 hangs, if it is 4,000 hangs and multiplied by seventy or eighty, it will definitely make the household member Wailang, who is in charge of the imperial court's branches, jump up and fight with others.

The number was thrown, and immediately, Emperor Li Xian's face was gloomy and cold. And looking at that dive again, it is still a light and breezy appearance. smiled, and suddenly asked in a low voice: "Since Sha Yushi knows everything about my Gunpowder Administration, do you know where the Gunpowder Department is leaning on?" ”

"The north wall of the Imperial City, of course!" Sha Chongyi didn't know why Zhang Qian had this question, and responded in a low voice with vigilance.

"Do you know, then, why the Holy One gave alcohol the name of gunpowder?" Zhang Qian took over the conversation with a sneer and continued to chase after him.

"It's a wound-cleaner, but it's also extremely flammable!" The warning in Sha Chongyi's heart became stronger and stronger, and he quickly replied, and then turned on the defensive, "You don't want to talk and change the topic." What is the name of gunpowder, and what does it have to do with your wanton squandering? ”

"Since you know that gunpowder is flammable and explosive, behind the ordnance supervisor is the wall of the imperial city. If you want Zhang to try his best to save, what is his intention? Zhang Qian unceremoniously took over the conversation and fought back.

was grabbed by this person, even if he was a clay man, he had already held back a bit of earthiness. What's more, there is also the grandfather of the Ruby Maiden present at this moment.

Therefore, even in order to show Yang Lao Fox his ability, Zhang Qian did not dare to retreat again and again. After dragging Sha Chongyi into the field of junior high school physics and chemistry, which he was relatively good at, he immediately killed the killer.

"This ......" didn't expect that Zhang Qian actually ambushed such a hand, Sha Chongyi was caught off guard, and when he boarded, his brain couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

And Zhang Qian, who succeeded in one blow, immediately chased and fought fiercely according to the habit of practicing free fighting before, "Behind the ordnance prison is the imperial city, and there is only one wall between the imperial city and the ordnance superintendent, which is the Sanqing Palace. Alcohol is an extremely flammable and explosive substance, and the slightest carelessness can cause a fire. Zhang thought that it was natural to spend a little more money in exchange for the safety of the Imperial City and the Sanqing Palace. And you, just thinking about fighting in the name of frugality, but putting Sanqing Hall in danger, but you don't know what Ande's intentions are?! ”

The Sanqing Hall is not a dormitory, but it is Lao Tzu Li Er who is enshrined inside. The Tang Dynasty royal family also regarded himself as the descendant of Li Er. In order to save money, the courtiers put the place where the emperor's ancestors were enshrined in danger. That's not just a reputation for fame, it's just that you don't take the Tang Dynasty seriously at all.

Suddenly, in the Zichen Palace, from the front row to the back row, almost two-thirds of the officials looked at Sha Chongyi like fools. In addition to disdain, there is also a bit of sympathy.

And Nasha Chongyi was beaten dizzy, but he refused to let go. With a dumb voice, he opened his teeth and claws, "You are talking flatteringly, Sha doesn't believe it, if you don't use pure copper to build a medicine refining pot, it will definitely catch fire." In addition to making a medicine refining pot out of pure copper, you can't refine that gunpowder with anything else?! ”

"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if. Why the Imperial City is safe, how careful, can not be exaggerated. Gently slapped this "mouth cannon party" with his eyelids, Zhang Qian sneered again and shook his head gently, "If Master Sha wants to be cheap, it's very simple, as long as an iron pot, a jar, a lid and a bamboo tube, Zhang can refine alcohol." The question is, Zhang dares to practice, do you Sha Yushi dare to let Zhang start work in your house? The soldiers on the front line took the shoddy gunpowder, did they dare to pour it on the wounds? Sha Yushi is an official, but he has nothing to do to figure out my alchemy pot, what is the picture? Today, Sha Yushi had to force Zhang to come up with a cheap way to refine alcohol and make it public on the grounds of high cost, but who instructed him? Which country do you want to guide the craftsmen of the country?! ”