Dusk plans to give Xu Miaojin a wedding gift that is unique in the world.

But this gift is hard to make.

But for the sake of the beloved girl, she rose to the challenge.

Leaving Xu's Mansion, Dusk went straight to Zhu Di: There is a key material, and Zhu Di is still needed to help, without Zhu Di's approval, Dusk can also get it, but it is a crime.

Copper is needed for dusk.

After the eunuch reported, and waited for half an hour, the dog eunuch came out, and His Majesty had a decree to announce the dusk audience.

Go in at dusk and salute.

Zhu Di tiredly raised his gaze from a map involving the deployment of the entire Ming army, rolled up the map without a trace, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Dusk said directly: "The minister has something to ask for leave, and he wants to leave Yingtian for more than a month or so." ”

Zhu Di, "What's the matter?" ”

Dusk said: "Prepare for the wedding." ”

Zhu Di was puzzled, "You don't get married in Yingtian?" Do you want to go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors? ”

Ask for leave, you are a Nanzhen Fusi Zhenfu envoy and go directly to the Jinyi Guard to command Zhuang Jing, why did you skip the level and come to me.

Dusk: "......"

The ancestor of Mao, except for my uncle Huang Guan, I have no impression of the other clansmen of the Huang family, and I don't have a sense of belonging at all, but it's not good to tell Zhu Di directly what he is going to do, so I can only vaguely say that there is something wrong anyway.

Zhu Di hummed, "Go ahead." ”

But he did not move at dusk.

Surprised, he asked, "Anything else?" ”

Dusk smiled and said: "There is something I want to ask Your Majesty for help, after all, you are also Xu Miaojin's brother-in-law, for her wedding, it is not too much to do so much, right?" ”

Zhu Di's face was black, "I don't want money." ”

Dusk smiled, "I don't want money, I want copper and iron." ”

Zhu Di frowned, "This is a strategic material, it is expensive, and there is no market, I can't give it to you easily." ”

Dusk sighed: "Actually, you can buy it on the black market, but the minister is an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he can't know the law and break the law, let alone go to the ordnance supervisor because of this trivial matter, the bribery of officials will ruin the officialdom, so I have no choice but to come to Your Majesty to ask for it." ”

That's a beautiful statement.

Zhu Di likes it very much.

So he smiled and said, "How much copper?" ”

Dusk thought for a while, "There is a three-hundred-pound that is enough for the time being." ”

Zhu Di's face was black again, "So many?!" ”

Why use it?

Dusk sighed: "Your Majesty, don't worry, if you can't use it up, I will definitely return it to the ordnance supervisor." ”

Slander in my heart, how can I not use it up.

Zhu Di pondered for a long time, "Okay, wait until I'm busy, if you are iron, you will not be unable to buy it as the official position of the Nanzhen Fusi Envoy, you can buy it, as for copper, I will let the Ordnance Supervisor send you three hundred catties over, but it can't be given away in vain, when the scale of the commercial house in your era is set, half of the profits must be used to repair books." ”

Zhu Di still remembered this matter.

Dusk was also frank, and said with a smile: "Not only do you repair books, but you will go to the West in the future, and the ministers are your Majesty's most loyal supporters." ”

Zhu Di laughed.

This kid is on the road.

It's hard not to like it.

So he said: "Your marriage with Miaojin has a good date?" ”

Dusk said: "It's set, two months later." ”

Zhu Di bowed, "When the time comes, I and Queen Xu will definitely come over to drink the wedding wine." ”

Dusk was stunned, "You want to leave the palace?" ”

Zhu Di smiled deeply, "Why, I can't leave the palace?" ”

Dusk understood, "Want to fish?" ”

Zhu Di snorted and said, "Zhu Yunxi and a few others are still lying on the bed for the time being, and they may drive the crane west at any time, some people must not be able to sit still, but recently, I have been letting the people of Beizhen Fusi and Zheng He keep an eye on the city, and let the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies monitor the surroundings of Yingtian, and the garrisons in various places are also under control, and the one who can't find a chance." ”

Dusk muttered for a while, "It's just a bit of an adventure." ”

Zhu Di shook his head and smiled: "I dare to even enter and exit the battlefield, afraid of this sinister?" ”

Dusk thought about it too.

This is the only Yongle Emperor in history who personally conquered Mobei and fought so that the grassland cavalry could not find the north.

"The wedding date is approaching, the affairs are busy, and the minister retires." ”

Zhu Di nodded, "Go." ”

Not long after returning to Wu Pu's temporarily rented house at dusk, an official and five wrestlers came from the ordnance superintendent, bringing 300 catties of copper, and asked Dusk to sign for it and leave.

At dusk, he called Xu Yin and took a few people to send the copper to the factory in Zhongshan.

There's equipment over there.

After finding Lao Li and telling him like this, Dusk asked people to prepare an extremely long wooden plank, and asked the master with a steady wrist to chisel a slender and even channel on the wooden plank, which twisted and turned about four or five meters.

Then, using the cleaned furnace, a piece of copper was taken, melted at high temperature, and then poured into the channel on the wooden board, and after natural cooling, it was made into copper wire.

Later, Dusk confessed to Lao Li, leaving only ten catties of copper, and the rest was melted and poured into copper wires, and confessed that these copper wires should be connected into a whole line through the fusion method.

The plant equipment is enough to do this.

took out another drawing and asked Lao Li to use colorless glass to blow the kind of glass container drawn on dozens of drawings.

Dusk took the copper wire to Yingtian City, found the blacksmith shop, and asked the other party to pour more than ten rectangular pieces of iron according to the requirements, and the center of the iron block left a small hole of about two centimeters.

They were also asked to make more than a dozen sharp iron rods several meters long.

When these things are ready, it will be late.

Take these things home at dusk.

When the Wu Pu family, who were waiting for Dusk and Xu Yin to come back, they were all confused by the second monk, and Dusk didn't explain, only saying that they wanted to give Xu Miaojin a gift that was unparalleled in the world.

It's not that it's mysterious, it's that they can't understand it.

Early the next morning.

After getting up at dusk and washing, he said to Xu Yin: "I'm going to leave today, you go to pack your luggage, and then go to Xufu to call Qian Feng, and then go to Nanzhen Fusi to inform you, let Zhang Liang bring someone over and go on a business trip with me. ”

Xu Yin snorted.

When Xu Yin went to look for Qian Feng and Zhang Liang, he went to the Times Trading House at dusk, found Shen Xili, took a sum of money from him, and then went to rent two carriages.

After a long journey, dusk is never want to ride a horse again.

Then I went to the government again.

Because he had to travel far away and carried iron tools with him, he had to get the approval of the government, and because of the sale of the manor, Xiang Bao was praised by Zhu Di, and he had an excellent sense of dusk.

And everyone is an official, these things are tacit, not to mention that there is not much iron at dusk, so I happily gave the customs clearance paperwork and remarked the materials carried.

Everything is ready.

Go out at dusk.

Before going out, he wrote a letter and asked Wu Hebi to send it to Xu Miaojin to Xu Mansion, the content is nothing more than a meaty routine and local words, anyway, how to get tired of it.

I can see the wonderful brocade beauties in Xu's house, and the deer in my heart is bumping.

On a positive autumn day, the two carriages left Yingtian City, galloping through the starry night, and went straight to the direction of Guangdong.

Time is tight.

He must hurry up, and the two months he told Xu Miaojin are conservative time.