"These two guys don't have a fuel-efficient lamp!" Listening to the footsteps that were gradually moving away, Zhang Qian closed the window and shook his head slightly.

Zhou Jianliang was bent on bringing more alcohol back to Shuo Fangjun, and Guo Nu knew the real production capacity of the Gunpowder Administration and really wanted to help him. However, as the newly appointed head of the Gunpowder Administration, Guo Nu did not dare, nor was it convenient to double the output of gunpowder at the beginning of his tenure!

Especially when the former chief secretary is still his senior brother and top boss, Guo Nu needs to be even more cautious. Therefore, he and Zhou Jianliang tacitly fought a fight today to show Zhang, the new young eunuch.

In this way, the losing side can claim that its skills are inferior, and have to take the craftsmen under its command to temporarily work overtime to fulfill their promises. And the side that wins the battle also feels at ease when it pulls away twice as much "gunpowder" as it was pre-approved in advance.

After Zhou Jianliang leaves, the production capacity of the Gunpowder Administration can be reduced back to about 10,000 catties per month, who wants to let the Gunpowder Administration work overtime like Zhou Jianliang, please refer to the precedent and knock down Guo Nu with his fist.

Both brothers are very smart, and they all know how to take care of the balance and not embarrass him, the newly appointed young eunuch. But he didn't think about it, Zhou Jianliang pulled away 20,000 catties of "gunpowder" at once, and the Ying Tianshen Dragon Emperor in the palace still couldn't sleep?

Ten days ago, when the Shenlong Emperor was chasing the dynasty, after hearing Zhang Qian mention that the Gunpowder Department was backed by his Daming Palace, that night, he couldn't wait to order the Weapons Supervision to move to the Weiyang Palace Forbidden Garden outside the city within a month on the grounds that "the military is heavy and heavy to prevent outsiders from prying eyes". For this reason, he even did not hesitate to stroke a large pen and allocated a quarter of the forbidden garden, along with the palace buildings inside, to the ordnance superintendent for use! (Weiyang Palace was a royal garden in the Tang Dynasty, thirty miles from east to west, twenty miles from north to south, and the Imperial Forest Army was stationed here all year round.) ）

"Whew-" Thinking of Li Xian's suspicious and fickle and seriously insecure appearance, Zhang Qian put down the third alcohol furnace that had just been assembled and exhaled a long breath.

On that day, Sha Chongyi, Lu Xuan and Jiang An slandered one after another, and they were all refuted on the surface, but in fact, in the end, a thorn was buried in Li Xian's heart. Li Xian, who was seriously insecure, although he gave Zhang Qian a few levels of promotion on the surface, in the mainland, he was cut off from the possibility of entering the court in the short term.

The young superintendent of the ordnance superintendent, a senior official of the fifth grade, and a doctor from the fourth rank of the Taizhong doctor. On that day, the dragon of the saints who fell on Zhang Qian's head was the same for a while. enough to reward him Zhang Qian for his dedication to windmills, machine shafts, and sacrificed his life to protect him.

However, unlike the original ordnance supervisor Zuo Cheng, he also served as a low-level Langzhong in the military department. Zhang Qian, the young superintendent of the armament superintendent, is a real young superintendent, except for being in charge of the three departments of armor staff, bow and crossbow, and gunpowder, there is no need to bother with anything else.

In other words, Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty, although he was very grateful to Zhang Qian for sacrificing his life that day to lead away the crazy giraffe, he also recognized Zhang Qian's great ability to make alcohol, windmills, and machine wells. But he didn't think that he was qualified to enter the court and participate in the decision-making of national affairs. Therefore, he made use of his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, handed over the entire ordnance prison to him, and let him, the young prisoner, toss hard.

Anyway, if the toss is broken, Datang will lose tens of thousands of dollars at most, and it will not shake its foundation. And if you toss it well, and then make a weapon more powerful than "gunpowder", the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will definitely praise in unison: the saint knows people and makes good use of them!

Besides, it is impossible for Zhang Qian to toss or pick a child. Just six days ago, the chief supervisor of the Ordnance Prison told him to return to his hometown on the grounds of his old age. As usual, the new supervisor was appointed by a squire from the Ministry of War. And this squire is Zhang Shuo, who once had the grace of recommending Zhang Qian!

"If you don't concurrently serve as Langzhong, you won't concurrently do it, Lao Tzu is happy to be idle!" Placing the three assembled red copper hot pots in a row, Zhang Qian shook his head and began to assemble the fourth one.

Nine days ago, when he found out that Zuo Cheng, the former young superintendent of the ordnance prison who handed over to him, had one more part-time job from Wupinlang than himself. In addition to expressing his admiration for Li Xian's imperial mental skills, he himself will inevitably feel a little pantothenic acid in his heart.

However, in the past few days, when I think about it, I have a lot of money, few things, and a high status, and I don't have to worry about being caught lazy by my boss, isn't it exactly what I dream of?

As for the decision-making of major national events, he became a military department and participated in the court meeting, who will listen carefully to what he says?

has no qualifications, no foundation, and does not belong to any faction, so when he goes to the court meeting by himself, what else can he do except kneel at the door in a daze?

What's more, the current chaos in the Tang Dynasty may not end until after the death of the Divine Dragon Emperor Li Xian. During this period, the more often he appeared in the court, the less his life safety was guaranteed. It is better to honestly hide in the ordnance superintendent, with a group of craftsmen who can be called "national treasures", engage in new product development, and make a little money.

Of course, while making money, it would be better to find a way to erase the Ruby Girl's marriage contract.

The king of Tubo is only four years old this year, and it is really a bit unreasonable to find a wife who is thirteen years older than him. The age gap between the two parties is too big, their beliefs and eating habits are definitely very different, and they are tired of each other when they get married. How could it be better to help him change to a Turkic or Uighur wife, so that the three views are similar, and they can still have a common language?

And if you want to help the Ruby Maiden erase the marriage contract, it is definitely not enough to pay tribute to the windmill, the machine well, and help the emperor lure away the giraffe. With Yang Qi's status as a servant, there is nothing that can be done, and the young superintendent of the ordnance prison will definitely not be able to change it.

Therefore, Zhang Qian must find foreign aid as soon as possible. And foreign aid must be the kind that can give the Shenlong Emperor confidence and confidence, so that he doesn't have to worry about the military elders who came to invade the territory in Tibet!

So far, this kind of military veteran, Zhang Qian has no relationship. His toilet water business, although with the full support of Ren and Guo, has swelled rapidly. However, at present, the influential major shareholders of the Liushen Commercial Bank are still limited to the three national mansions that initially joined forces to consign the "miracle medicine". Moreover, the depth of entanglement between the interests of the other party and him is far from reaching the point of diving for him at any cost.

According to Zhang Qian's private understanding in the past few days, the Baoguo Mansion, the Kuiguo Mansion and the Qianguo Mansion do not have the slightest influence in the Tang Dynasty military. Duan Zhixuan, the first Duke of Baoguo, died early, and his descendants also followed his instructions and took the initiative to withdraw from the Tang Army. The other two were just restored under the auspices of Li Xian two years ago, and the honor has not yet become a climate.

Therefore, picking and choosing, Zhang Qian found that he wanted to expand his network, and the only choice was Shuo Fangjun.

At present, Datang has no war in the east, south, and west directions. Only in the north, the Turks revived, constantly trying to cross the Yellow River and seize the land in the clouds, as a foothold for his continued southern invasion in the future. The Shuofang army of Zhou Jianliang, the commander of Guoyi, was in the way of the Turks going south.

After the continuous internal struggle of the Wuhou Dynasty, famous generals such as Xu Shiji and Cheng Mingzhen and their descendants were either wiped out or relegated to the land of Lingnan Miasma, and the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army was not as good as before. And the Turkic tribes, under the leadership of their Mosi Khan and Ashina Huan, became more and more courageous.

Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty and the Turks are repeatedly tugging at the bend of the Yellow River for several natural ferries. Although the Tang army still won more and lost less, it is basically a fool's dream to reproduce the glory of Li Jing and Xu Shiji who captured the enemy chieftain in one battle!

Especially in winter, when the Yellow River froze, the Turks divided their armies into multiple groups and could launch sneak attacks anytime and anywhere. However, the Shuofang army suffered from the fact that the defense line was too long and was passive everywhere.

Zhang Renyuan, the governor of Shuofang, had written to the imperial court many times, requesting that the forces of the entire north be concentrated and the Turks should be resolved in a war, but Li Xian refused on the grounds that "the treasury was empty and he was unable to support too many soldiers and horses". In desperation, he asked the imperial court to allocate funds to build a city along the Yellow River to hold important places, but the imperial court did not respond.

"Guarding the cornucopia, but not even being able to make up the money to build the city, isn't it unjustly panicked?" Put the assembled fourth red copper hot pot together with the first three. Zhang Qian suddenly smiled and turned to look at the stove near the window, where chicken soup was cooking.

The furnace was made of wrought iron, because the problems of wrought iron thinning and chimney rolling could not be solved for a while. Therefore, this stove, which was rushed out by craftsmen on the spot, looked very ugly.

But the ugly appearance does not affect the efficacy of the stove. In particular, after the hearth was filled with fragrant charcoal specially supplied to officials, it not only roasted the whole room in a hot wave, but also took into account the appetite of the new young eunuch.

The red copper hot pot is just a gift to Zhang Renyuan, a commander and a senior officer, and it is also a way to connect with feelings. Today, what he really wants Zhou Jianliang to discover and beg for him to give away is actually this ugly-looking furnace.

The process of this material is simple, the cost is low, and it is suitable for large-scale promotion. After entering the Shuofang Army, it can immediately solve the winter cold protection problem that has plagued the soldiers for many years.

And once this thing was popularized in the north of the Tang Dynasty, the place where the Shuofang army was stationed immediately became a golden mountain.

Asia's largest open-pit coal mine, the Jungar coalfield, is lying under the buttocks of the Shuofang army at the moment, shallow enough to wash the raw coal out of the surface in a flood.

As for labor, since the Turks have crossed the Yellow River, they can't let them go as soon as they want. Instead of killing them every time they capture a captive, let them dig coal.

And next to the mining area is the Yellow River. With the current abundance of water in the Yellow River, except for the Hukou Waterfall, most of the rest of the river can be navigated.

"When ships full of coal go down the river...... Hehe...... "Thinking of the Shuofang army, which cries poor every day, and suddenly becomes the richest army in the Tang Dynasty, the dark clouds on Zhang Qian's face are swept away.

At that time, even if Zhang Ren is willing to help him speak, the other generals in the Shuofang army will not forget who is guiding them, right? What's more, after the coal is transported to the junction of the Wei River and the Yellow River, if you want to realize it, you must be inseparable from a knowledgeable buyer!