In addition to being insidious, Pang is also very handsome, he has the kind of weird hairstyle that the Tangut people are used to, and his naturally beautiful sister is a species.

Now there is news that the Queen Mother is not dead, and she is also returning to Xingqing Mansion with the Iron Harrier Army with great fanfare. Then after King Ming was injured, he was carried back to Chengtian Temple and closed his door to thank the guests, and no one was seen.

This made him very nervous. Although he is a hero, he took the initiative to bite people as a poisonous snake but did not succeed, and the internal situation cannot be known, which always makes people panic.

In other words, from the time he decided to assassinate the Queen Mother's sister, he had fallen into passivity.

Did the Assassin Cao Qing get caught by her? Is there a confession? Will the queen mother's crazy woman be angry at the crown and directly start a large-scale war after she comes back?

These problems have completely become the heart disease of the unscrupulous.

"It's a pity that she didn't die. So in the next winter, it is destined that Xingqing Mansion will not be peaceful. ”

He muttered to himself, and expected what would happen to the crazy girl after she entered the Xingqing Mansion.

An open war should not be enough. Because theoretically, she cares more about the safety of Xixia than anyone else, whether this country is good or bad, it is theoretically his son's country. Although she has the Iron Harrier Army, after all, there are not many of them, and they have no advantage over the guards.

And there is one most important problem: the guards are almost all the children of the Western Xia noble family, and they are the ones who have a vested interest in stability. If the mad girls openly challenged the guards, it would almost be equivalent to a war with the entire Western Xia elite. Shouldn't she be so stupid?

Thinking like this, Pang is two points more stable, but he must also be fully prepared.

The Iron Harrier is the last trump card in the hands of the Queen Mother, and their ferocity is known to almost every Tangut person, although the number is small, but they are elite dead soldiers who have been cultivated by natural selection since childhood, and are equipped with the strongest cold forging armor and divine arm crossbow in Western Xia.

Ninety percent of the number of Divine Arm Crossbows in Western Xia was in the hands of the Iron Harriers, and there were not many other troops.

Therefore, even if he made a judgment that he would not openly fight, he had to prepare for this. So I thought of the flintlock pistol drawings that Li Fugui got from Funing County in the Song Kingdom before, and took the drawings out of his arms to watch.

Frankly speaking, when I got the drawings in the early days, although Li Fugui made a guarantee, this was an artifact used in war. But Wu Zang Pang did not see the effect with his own eyes, and he did not find anything magical from the drawings, and then the failure of the Huaixi plan also made Wu Zang Pang's trust in Li Fugui extremely limited.

So at that time, just like the legendary "loyal ministers die and sink into the sea", although Wu Qian Pang accepted the drawings sent by Li Fugui and regarded it as a success of an espionage operation, he did not study it immediately, nor did he take it too seriously.

The R&D plan for the flintlock pistol was refrigerated by Master Tai like that.

It is only when disaster strikes that people think to grasp the straw and try it.

After thinking about Li Fugui's personality carefully, unlike his younger brother Li Shougui, Li Fugui may have limited ability but is not a person who likes to be exaggerated.

"It's hard to say useful. Idle is also idle, and summon all the top blacksmiths in Xingqing Mansion to try to secretly build this so-called flintlock pistol. ”

He wasn't sure that the flintlock pistol was really effective, but when there weren't enough Divine Arm Crossbows, if it was really as close to the range and power of the Divine Arm Crossbow as Li Fugui said, and it was in the hands of the guards, he wouldn't be afraid of the crazy girls with the Iron Harrier in extreme cases.

"By the way, as soon as possible, instead of the original minister, the order will be sent to the border army, and the harassment and provocation of Song will be stopped immediately." Didn't say anything, Pang said again.

"What is the reason for this move? The Queen Mother is at odds with you and is anti-war, seeing that you have achieved the allegiance of the border army through various means, which will trigger a strategy against the Song Dynasty, but stop at this time, that is equivalent to doing it in vain? "The scheming adviser doesn't know why.

He said: "Because at that time, I thought that everything was under control, and I thought that I could make my unsuccessful sister disappear, so I was in charge of state affairs when the emperor was young." Obviously, the crazy girls will not be able to survive after they survive, if they continue to implement the harassment policy, once it really triggers the national war, and the border troops loyal to me fall into the quagmire of the war against the Song, that is the opportunity for the crazy girls to be mad. Because once the greatest strength of the prime minister is dragged by the Song army, if he can't go north to 'King Qin' when needed, this is the reason for the crazy girl Handsome Iron Harrier Army to trigger a civil war. Therefore, if you don't start a war against Song for the time being, the border army is in a state of mobility, so that the crazy girls will not dare to make mistakes. Because she doesn't want me to die in Western Xia yet. ”

"Since the Taishi has already made a move, and the people have already offended, why not continue to carry out the assassination strategy?" The confidant strategist said curiously.

He sighed and said, "I can't." The same strategy always becomes less effective the more you use it, and the more you draw hatred. With a plan or not, he planned carefully, and finally said that the old fox of King Ming was moved, but in this case it failed. Now that she has the awareness and defense, in addition to the increasing probability of failure in the future, she can only gradually let others betray her relatives. After all, this is a thing that will not see the light of day. King Ming's old fox is obviously also a typical example of shrinking his head when he misses a blow, and he has failed with his help, and now he has made it clear that he pretends not to know and draws a line with his true appearance. So I really can't. ”

……

The coldest season has not yet arrived, and while waiting for the appointment of the envoy, Wang Yan is making full preparations.

The latest batch of flintlock pistols is version 1.7, which is a big improvement over the previous ones. Standard lead bullets have been finalized and assembled, and many of them are very cheap.

The important thing is that gunpowder is already a second-generation and a half-generation process, compared with the previous performance has been greatly improved, and now the gunpowder pushes the 1.7 version of the flintlock pistol, even if it is a mass-produced reduced version, the effective range has broken through to 550 steps.

In view of this, Han Qi wrote a letter to praise him.

After satisfying Han Qi's production capacity for the recent guns, Dayan's own Funing County also purchased a batch. I am going to take the envoy with me.

The envoy can bring the Song State's own troops, and the size of the establishment depends on the face, to see whether the Western Xia is generous, and at most an army can do it, but even if there is a battalion in Hanqi, there will still be permission.

In the north of this season, the Song Dynasty's divine arm crossbow is basically unusable, and must be preheated by baking or boiling water, otherwise it is easy to break the bowstring, and it is easy to break the bow arm when it is hard.

No matter how you deal with those materials, you can't jump out of the physical limit of relying on elastic telescopic shooting, and even so, at such temperatures everything will harden and embrittle.

The performance of the flintlock pistol will also be affected to a certain extent, but it can still be used efficiently thanks to the second-generation and a half gunpowder process.

In addition, going to the Western Xia to diplomacy and carrying the Divine Arm Crossbow is also too hateful, after all, it is a technology stolen from the Western Xia.

In addition to the equipment of the first musket battalion, the rest of the supplies are also abundant, and they are all packed and prepared. These things are meant to be sold or given away.

Diplomacy must bring something, but this time the warehouse is not well prepared, so only Da Yan himself will prepare these, but the cost will be counted in the account of the Ministry of Rites, and then send a bill to the masters of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites will send the bill to the three divisions to resist the amount of taxes that should be submitted by Funing County, which is the common practice.

In mid-November, the confirmation document under the Zhongshu Gate arrived in Funing County, and Wang Yan was appointed as a temporary member of the Ministry of Rites Wailang (deputy director level).

This is not a holy decree, it is just a document under the door of the Chinese book, and it is only signed by the governor Fu Bi.

This phenomenon shows that the emperor has a lot of problems, and he really doesn't care about affairs. Then Wen Yanbo always distrusted Wang Yan, so Wen Yanbo did not sign.

But the fact that the document can be sent to Funing County also shows that Wen Yanbo has no objection by default.

The rules of the Great Song Dynasty are like this, the deputy position is not an ornament, and Fu Bi, the governor of the political affairs, is also one of the rulers, as long as Fu Bi signs, it can be implemented, of course, the premise is that it is not vetoed by Wen Yanbo.

Therefore, signing this document is also a test for Fu Bi, and signing is a responsibility. But the old man still trusts Wang Yan in general, so he acted at this juncture.

With Wang Yan's level, the appointment of the Ministry of Rites Wailang was somewhat irregular. However, under the rights and interests, now the emperor does not ask about affairs, and this is not a position that needs to be appointed by the emperor, so in order to avoid war, they have no good way for the time being, so they can only accept this blackmail.

It's really blackmail. Now that war is on the verge of breaking out, there is absolutely no one who wants to leave Beijing to visit Western Xia at this time. But if you want to send an envoy, the staff is the lowest system, which is already a bit of a contempt for the Western Xia, and if it is low, it will be an insult. So they had to add Wang Yan as a minister.

What's interesting is that it was Sima Guang who tried to ensure Wang Yan's promotion. That guy's urine is afraid of war, and he will do it in order to avoid war and cede the country, not to mention adding an official title to Wang Yan, who is willing to use diplomatic means.

The official rank that matches the outside is generally from the sixth rank, and it can be moved up and down one level. That is to say, depending on the situation, people who are in the seventh grade or the sixth grade may add this affairs officer.

But the big goose is now the eighth grade, and it has jumped three levels. So these guys made up the word "temporary" in front of the title.

Then it generally means two situations, if Wang Yan's results are not good, then the official department will withdraw the title after the envoy, or if the envoy achieves results, he will sit in this position. But in order to sit in this position, at least Wang Yan must be promoted to the seventh grade, which is legal.

So there was no surprise, Fu Bi also scolded people in the attached private message, accusing Wang Yan of saying that this was political blackmail.

By the way, Fu Bi also sold Li Shen, and said in the letter: "I hope you have organizational discipline and political consciousness, and don't pull hatred." Li Shen spared no effort to impeach you, Wen Yanbo is not a soft-eared person, but he was originally a little repulsed by you, so Li Shen, the commander of the Northwest, now speaks ill of you every day and curses you every day. When this situation becomes a habit, no matter what, you are the 'Diao Min' in the eyes of the imperial court, and you will slowly form a unified understanding of you by the literati group of the Great Song Dynasty. In the long run, everyone will follow Li Shenzhong's words and say, 'Why didn't the cold in the northwest freeze you to death, and the people in Huaixi didn't poke you to death in the backbone'. If such a common word is formed, you will be abolished. You know what it means, right? ”

This is how Fu Bi wrote at the end of the letter. So after reading the letter, the big goose jumped like thunder!

Damn, young master, am I so hateful, these guys actually hope that the cold weather in the northwest will freeze me to death, and the gangs and underworld that were looted in Huaixi will poke me to death in the backbone?

Of course, Wen Yanbo doesn't look at Da Yan like this, Lao Fu means that it is only Sima Guang and Li Shen who look at Wang Yan this way, but in the long run, the soil environment will change, just as someone will believe in a slogan after shouting more, so after the backbone is poked more, everyone will slowly think so.

There is always a group of people who want to harm "me".

Didn't the young master cut one or two thousand underworld in Huaixi, didn't he go to the traitorous minister's book to engage in a wave of Hubei? They actually cursed the master like this, and they were not generous and elegant at all.

Of course, these are not the point, if this envoy does not come out of the moth, and after the summary report of Jiayou Year enters Beijing, it will definitely be able to scare this group of NPCs to death. Eventually, then, their skepticism became a controversy.

It's just a controversy. The greater the controversy, the greater the prestige. And controversy will not be easily set by the Great Song Dynasty rule.

Speaking of which, the goals of the big goose and the old masters are different, each of them wants to go down in history, but the big goose just lives in the moment without heart and lungs.

Just as I said to Little Bell at the time, even if I go to hell, don't think that I am incapable of building hell into heaven. The archdemon can also hang the archangel. The rule is: if you win, you are an angel.

So in late November, with the invitation letter of the Ministry of Rites and the Western Xia Imperial Court, Wang Yan officially opened and left the nest with a musket battalion of 200 people......