Strength, only in front of people, is called power, always leave the hole cards in your hand, who knows you have hole cards?

Li Chengqian did not know how to evaluate the statement that the eight-bull crossbow could not be used in military affairs, and it was estimated that after the power of gunpowder was demonstrated, there would still be people who would judge this thing for hurting the heavens and peace.

Because of this, Li Chengqian did not tell the Manchu ministers about gunpowder. In the eyes of Fang Xuanling and others, the prince just made the mistake that smart people would make - too confident. If the crown prince himself was defeated, they would have a reason to deprive the prince of his power to command the army. After all, the crown prince, who has 2,000 troops under his command, is the only exception in the court.

"Hehe, Lone will let you know what it will be like when the strongest soldier is combined with the strongest weapon."

muttered, walked out of Chengtianmen, got into the carriage, and set off towards the Cheng family's restaurant.

Since he ordered courtiers who did not have a position to go to court, many people in the military continued to be otaku. This is also something that can't be helped, if it weren't for the court, there would be a lot of people in the military who went to the court, and they were just napping. Du Ruhui occupies the position of the secretary of the military department, which is a hint from the emperor to the generals. In the future, the development of civil servants will overshadow military generals, as long as there is no war on the border, if you want to seek merit, you can only start from government affairs.

However, correspondingly, the reward for the title was also canceled by the emperor. It is difficult to be knighted without military merits, this is the new rule.

The carriage soon arrived at Cheng's restaurant, and the soldiers had already entered first and controlled the whole field.

As the inviter, Li Jing greeted the generals who were still in the capital at the door. They did not resist the request of the soldiers to search their bodies. It's all the rules, and inviting royal people to eat and drink is no different from hanging your head on a kite.

"Your Highness can take the time to come, and Weichen is extremely grateful."

Glancing at Li Jing's posture of arching his hand, Li Chengqian sighed and returned the salute.

Before entering the restaurant, Li Chengqian turned his head and said to Li Jing and the generals who followed: "If you have something to say, just say it, do you need to spend so much effort?" ”

Niu Jinda smiled: "Now I have no excuse to go to court on weekdays, and I want to discuss things with you, so I can only invite you out of the palace." ”

Li Jing and Niu Jinda, as Li Chengqian's masters, are the main lobbyists today.

After entering the box and taking their seats, Li Chengqian said straight to the point: "I believe you all know, the Guhui will send the prince to the Goryeo border to ask for the guilt and help you breathe a sigh of relief." ”

"Your Highness, there are only more than 2,000 people in the personal rate, and more than 2,000 people including the military Sima and others, how can they confront the 100,000 soldiers and horses on the border of Goryeo? This can't work, once the pro-rate rate is destroyed, cough cough, isn't my Datang even more embarrassed? ”

Zhang Gongjin's reaction was the same as that of the ministers in the court, as a general, he knew very well the advantages and disadvantages of numbers, and sometimes it was not something that equipment could make up for. Although the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are good at winning more with less, when the disparity in strength reaches this level, any equipment and any conspiracy are ineffective.

Li Jing thought for a while before he said: "The pro-rate rate can be regarded as the old man's training, proficient in all kinds of battle formations, proficient in various formation changes, 2,000 people against 10,000 people is already the limit, and there will be great damage." One hundred thousand, completely impossible! ”

Li Ji actually carried a map with him, pointed to several cities on the border of Goryeo and said: "Your Highness, don't look at the scattered forces of Goryeo, in fact, with the help of the terrain, they have cleverly formed a killing array, if they rashly enter the territory of Goryeo, tens of thousands of troops may be swallowed up by their cooperation, and they want to deal with it, unless one city is uprooted." The city of Goryeo is not much weaker than the city of our Tang Dynasty. Your Highness, your personal rate is only 2,000 people, how can you break the city? ”

Surprisingly, Lee Hyo-kung was also there. Li Xiaogong took Li Ji's map and said to Li Chengqian: "Hu Lai, all we want is to advance the progress of sending troops to Goryeo. Now that the treasury is empty and there is a catastrophe in the localities, we still understand the reason why we cannot send troops. The reason why the Wenchen group was persecuted was that they would slowly wear out the hatred of the Tang people towards Goryeo through time. ”

Li Xiaogong's words can be regarded as a bottom-up of the military. They either want to send troops now, or they want the civilian clique to promise to send troops to Goryeo sooner or later.

After taking the teacup handed by the attendant and taking a sip of tea, Li Chengqian said: "Lone is not a fool who doesn't know the art of war, so he naturally knows that Goryeo is not easy to deal with. However, it is too much for the Koreans to use the remains of the former soldiers as bargaining chips to blackmail us. If it was Tibet, Lone would naturally not be so angry, but he dared to be so presumptuous as a small border country, so he naturally couldn't get used to it. Rest assured, Lone is very confident in the pro-rate. When they sent troops this time, they could at least uproot one or two cities. The newly equipped weapon is used to attack the fortifications, and it has a miraculous effect! But what the hell, please forgive me for not being able to tell me, it's a weapon that is more powerful than the Eight Bull Crossbow. ”

The eight-ox crossbow has been transformed, and now it has become an artifact-like existence, and these generals still know it. More powerful than the transformed Eight Ox Crossbow? What kind of powerful method is it? It's curious!

However, the prince has talked about it to this extent, and they naturally dare not continue to ask. If you know too much, you will likely be suspected of rebellion. When it comes to militaristic heavy weapons, it is best to avoid them far away.

Thinking of this, everyone stopped talking about the matter of improving beauty, but began to inquire about the college exam. There are also many children in the general's family studying at the academy, and there are now more than 100 graduates of the first batch. If the children of the military general's family can take up full-time civilian positions, they are still happy to see it. After all, the battle will be fought one day, and if a family wants to continue, it is the most correct thing to occupy a place among the ministers.

"When will the assessment of the academy start, and how to assess, it is all a matter of the father, how can Lone call the shots? But you can rest assured, the children of the military generals family have performed very well in the internship this time. The results of the big exam are important, but the results in this internship can also greatly affect them. ”

Datang is not the end of the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao's idea of "taking talent but not virtue" has no market in Datang. Through this internship, we can see the character of these students. But fortunately, the grades are good, except for the second sons of several big families, there have been no students who pull their hips.

Li Jing said with a smile: "Dejian himself has a lord, and now after the education of the academy, it is not a problem to enter the court to serve." But then again, Your Highness, how many people will be recruited for this year's college admissions? ”

Feeling the gaze gathered, Li Chengqian smiled mysteriously: "This time, we won't enroll students, Daodaofang, Wannian County and County Ya." The movement near the county government in Lantian County, I don't believe you don't know. This time, the academy will separate the task of teaching literacy within three years and hand it over to the schools in these three places. Only after coming out of these three academies and passing the college's big examination can you enter the academy to study. In the future, the college will be a place for students to further their studies. ”

Although I was confused, everyone understood that the academy would become more powerful in the future!

Eating with the generals is actually very boring, except that fighting wine is fighting wine. Even if it was like Li Jing, he was so drunk that he turned red and couldn't walk steadily. No one dared to get drunk with Li Chengqian, so when he left the restaurant, there was basically no one standing inside.

After coming out of the restaurant, Li Chengqian did not go back to the East Palace to deal with government affairs, but got into a very ordinary carriage and left Chang'an City under the escort of the soldiers who had changed into civilian clothes. After inspecting the arrowheads made by the craftsmen led by Li Tai from the academy, he continued to move forward under the guidance of a spy from the Hundred Cavalry Division.

The secret stronghold of the Hundred Cavalry Division, the road is naturally complicated, at least Li Chengqian is not confident to remember how to go through the dozen or so forks.

The road is complicated, but it's not far. It didn't take long to arrive at their destination, the former stronghold of the Hundred Cavalry Division, and now the gunpowder workshop.

Duan Yunzhi waited at the door, and when he saw the prince arriving, he waved his hand, and immediately a member of the Hundred Cavalry Division came to check, even the prince was no exception.

"Your Highness, don't be angry, this is the rule of the gunpowder workshop, formulated by Ouyang Shuo, after learning the stakes, his subordinates feel that this rule cannot be disobeyed."

Li Chengqian nodded and said, "It's about the safety of the gunpowder workshop, and you can't be too cautious. The more dead the rules, the safer they are. The rules formulated by Ouyang Shuo should be set forever, and the owners of the workshop cannot change them in the future. ”

As they spoke, the two of them walked into the workshop.

Now that the stronghold of the Hundred Cavalry Division has been completely transformed, these craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervisor have very strong hands-on ability, and in a very short period of time, they have made the tools needed to configure gunpowder according to their own ideas. How to configure it is their business, Li Chengqian has no interest, and can only suggest that they try the production method of the assembly line.

"Your Highness, you see, this is the finished product made by the lowly duty this morning, and it has been removed from the dampness."

Holding up the black powder particles with his hands, Li Chengqian nodded, the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty have never made a makeshift statement, and the gunpowder particles they made are much better than the ones they made.

The most shocking thing was that in this very short period of time, Ouyang Shuo had already made a suitable fuse, and the burning speed was neither fast nor slow, exactly the length of a finger's width in the blink of an eye.

"You know the formula for gunpowder, so it's your business to improve it! Lone plans to pair the prince with a gunpowder weapon recently, and go to the battlefield to test the actual power of the gunpowder weapon. Therefore, those arrowheads and ceramic bottles that Gu shipped today, you must hurry up and make enough black powder and fuses. ”

Gunpowder weapons don't need to be controlled, they only need to control gunpowder, and without gunpowder, ceramic jars and arrowheads are just decorations. If the forging of the utensils is also handed over to the gunpowder workshop, the people who need it will be gone. Li Chengqian did not intend to deprive so many people of their freedom.

"Xiaguan knows, it just so happens that Xiaguan wants to try the iron grenade today, I wonder if His Highness is interested in taking a look?"

This one.... Naturally, you have to take a look!

I watched Ouyang Shuo use a funnel to fill a granule gunpowder into an iron grenade, and then sealed the already small mouth, and it didn't take long for an iron grenade to be made.

Black powder still can't be compared to high explosives like TNT, so when it is used on a tin grenade, it can only increase the amount and reduce the thickness of the tin frenad.

Because the venue was sufficient, Li Chengqian could watch the effect of the grenade explosion from a long distance.

Ouyang Shuo lit the fuse long enough and trotted all the way out of the field. Ever since he saw the power of black powder with his own eyes, he has put life preservation at the top of the list of precautions in his research.

"Your Highness, it's almost over, this time the iron subordinates have chosen the thinnest one, and it will definitely explode."

As soon as Ouyang Shuo's words fell, Li Chengqian saw a burst of firelight, smoke rising, and in the blink of an eye, a loud noise was transmitted to this side.

The power of gunpowder does not disappoint, and as you can see from the sand and gravel that is still falling to the ground, the blasting power this time is really good.

It wasn't until the smoke cleared and there was no falling rocks that Li Chengqian approached the test site under Yu Tai's escort 1.

The pit on the ground was so obvious, around the pit, the planks were covered with pieces of iron sheets, and on a large piece of pork, the iron sheets penetrated it and nailed half of the planks.

"This is the best charcoal, the power of gunpowder made from purified nitrate, Your Highness, you forgot to purify saltpeter."

patted Ouyang Shuo's shoulder, Li Chengqian smiled: "You are right, Gu did forget this stubble at that time, but fortunately you made up for it." In fact, the power of black powder is not enough to completely blow the iron shell into pieces, and this can be started by improving the structure of the shell. As long as the difference in thickness is artificially made, the shell can be evenly broken, and the increase in power is still considerable. ”

Ouyang Shuo nodded again and again: "Your Highness said the same as I thought, and the lower officials also think that this is the most effective." After all, the shell of the ceramic cannot cause damage to the iron armor ...."

Seeing that the crown prince was going to have a detailed discussion with Ouyang Shuo, Zhang Yun could only stubbornly remind: "Your Highness, if you don't return to the East Palace, you will delay today's political affairs." ”

Hearing Zhang Yun's reminder, Li Chengqian finally came to his senses and told Yu Tai to prepare to go back.

Before leaving, Li Chengqian said to Ouyang Shuo earnestly: "Gunpowder is a double-edged sword, it is indeed a great sin to use it to kill people, but it is also very meritorious to use it to open up mountains and bomb mines, so don't take it too seriously." ”

Ouyang Shuo smiled and nodded: "Your Majesty knows, thank you for the enlightenment of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Chengqian smiled before returning to the carriage.

The appearance of gunpowder, with a lot of old stubborn arguments, is to hurt the peace of the heavens, but this thing also has advantages and disadvantages, at least from the standpoint of the Tang people, regardless of its pros and cons, it will only bring benefits to the Tang Dynasty....

During the day, it was cool to herd sheep for a while, and returned to the study crematorium.

Seeing the piles of folds on the table, Li Chengqian remembered that it was the last day of June. Tomorrow, it's the Great Pilgrimage....

"I can only stay up late to review it."

With a wry smile, Li Chengqian could only drink a pot of hot tea and fold the bar.

On the first day of each month, it is a big court meeting, and at the time of the big court meeting, all civil and military officials have to go to the court, and anyone can speak freely about the things discussed in the court.

Before the end of the day, Li Chengqian was woken up by Zhang Yun and began to prepare for the court.

The folds that were processed last night have been sent back to Zhongshu Province, and only those who need civil and military officials to come up with ideas together will be put forward at the court meeting.

Naturally, all the civil and military officials were present, and unlike usual, after the hundred officials bowed and saluted, Li Chengqian did not return the salute.

The Tang Dynasty did not bow down, but during the great court meeting, the officials usually bowed to the emperor. Li Chengqian is the crown prince, but it is enough not to return the courtesy.

When everyone was seated, Fang Xuanling said: "Your Highness, the old minister has something unclear, and I ask Your Highness to give advice." People can't afford to buy coal, and the usual burning is firewood, and there is so much dry firewood, so cutting down trees is not a big deal, why do you want to issue a ban on logging? Also specifically around the Yellow River? ”

There is no need for Tang Jian to remind him, Li Chengqian had already written out the Prince Sect and sent it to Zhongshu Province yesterday, so Fang Xuanling asked today.

"It's just that I can't understand what I said, so I passed it to Zhang Yun and asked him to bring over the model that Gu made a few days ago."

With the summons of the Yellow Gate, Zhang Yun led people into the hall with a large box, and two showers in his hands.

The ministers looked at each other, not knowing what this meant.

Walking to the field, under the beckoning of Li Chengqian, everyone gathered to see how the prince would explain the ban.

"Ladies and gentlemen, look at this model, do you see the clear water in the middle? This is the Yellow River. Compared with the Yangtze River, the Yellow River is turbid because it is mixed with a large amount of sediment. I don't know if I have been a magistrate in the Yellow River basin and found that the more rainy the day, the more turbid the water level of the Yellow River will be. In fact, this is mainly due to the fact that a large amount of soil is carried into the Yellow River by rainwater. Zhang Yun, sprinkle water on the grassy side of the hillside. ”

Zhang Yun arched his hand, took the shower and began to sprinkle water on it.

This side with a lot of grass will bring some muddy water down, but it is not serious. Looking at the slightly yellowed bottom water, no one would associate it with the Yellow River.

"Sprinkle it on the hillside where there is no grass on the other side."

With Zhang Yun's sprinkling, a large amount of turbid water flowed into the bottom, and soon, the younger brother river in this model became the appearance of the Yellow River water.

"Your Highness, do you mean that only when the vegetation is vigorous can the soil be protected from being washed into the Yellow River by the rain?" Fang Xuanling reacted the fastest, and immediately exclaimed.

Li Chengqian nodded: "That's right, that's the reason, the Yellow River flows through the plateau area of Hedong in Longyou Guannei, where there is little vegetation, so it is so turbid." The river carries a large amount of sediment and accumulates downstream, which can easily be clogged and diverted. This is only temporary, as time goes by, if we don't want the river to overflow and threaten the surrounding people, we can only keep raising the river bank so that it flows according to the original river. After a long time, there will be an above-ground river, and if you don't solve this problem from the root, you will be left behind for future generations! That's why Lone has to issue a ban on logging. Not only that, but grazing is prohibited in the Yellow River basin, and even near its tributaries, so that the river can be protected. ”