Wu Mingche and others were even more overjoyed, although the Ministry of Industry would bring some surprises from time to time, but these surprises were frightening many times.

After all, now with Li Xinchen's support, many craftsmen have begun to try to put some of their previous whimsical intentions into practice, but many ideas are ultimately groundless, so after becoming reality, there are indeed all kinds of forks, which is ridiculous.

In particular, the army is often a place where the Ministry of Industry experiments with these things, so after seeing some fright, when you see people in the Ministry of Industry, they are more likely to retreat.

But now that His Majesty said it himself, it means that the Ministry of Industry should have really come up with something reliable this time. Of course, Wu Huijue also knew that the equipment of the Ministry of Industry could only play an auxiliary role after all, and once the war really began, it would still rely on every soldier.

After all, this is not an era in which industry has developed to the point where it can influence or even determine the outcome of a war, and the key factor in winning a war is still people.

Therefore, in the face of the strong military superiority that the Northern Dynasty has always had, even if the Southern Dynasty strengthens the training of the army and improves the quality of individual soldiers as much as possible, there is nothing to be done, after all, the numerical crushing is indeed irreparable to a large extent, not to mention that the other party is not lacking some famous generals who can be the mainstay, and the army of the Southern Dynasty cannot be as invincible and unstoppable as the "Whip of God" of Mongolia in the future.

For such a long time, Nan Chen has the absolute strategic advantage of being chaotic in the north and watching from the sidelines, but he has been unable to open up the situation for a long time, which has a lot to do with the factor of people. Therefore, after Li Xinchen succeeded to the throne, he was almost trying every means to increase the population of the Han Dynasty, including the Ba people, the Nanban tribes, the Lingnan tribes, etc., which barely formed the current situation.

The 100,000 army in Huainan can be said to be made up by Li Xinchen with great effort, plus the soldiers and horses in Xiangyang, Hanzhong and the northwest, the available soldiers of the Han Dynasty are about 500,000, and in contrast, Yu Wenxian, who only has Hebei and Huaibei and other places, has so many soldiers and horses, and Yang Jian, who has Guanzhong, also has an army of 200,000, although the gap between the two sides in terms of numbers has been made up to a large extent, but it is not already equal.

Therefore, compared with the "whimsical ideas" of the Ministry of Industry, how to make the greatest use of the soldiers and horses at hand is what Wu Huijue and they should focus on now.

This also caused them to stop caring after they were interested in what Li Xinchen was talking about, and they didn't know what they had overlooked that could change history and the entire course of the war.

Li Xinchen took in the expressions of Wu Huijue and others, of course he didn't expect these generals who had never seen the power of gunpowder to pay much attention, not to mention anything else, even when the Ministry of Industry was developing gunpowder, it did not put the priority of gunpowder in front, but later when the gunpowder was tested, the roar of "earth-shattering" made the officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry realize what kind of devil they had released.

But Li Xinchen believed that once they realized the power of this thing, Wu Huijue would fall in love with it. Guns and germs have always been the best means for people to conquer their enemies.

After Wu Huijue and the others retired, Li Xinchen only took a few guards to the top of the city.

Maybe it's because it's sparsely populated, or maybe it's because it's closer to the north, Li Xinchen walks on the head of Zhongli's city, and he can feel the biting chill in the wind.

The cold spring is expected, coupled with the bleak scene under the city and on the other side of the Huaishui, people even wonder if this is still Huainan.

In the past three hundred years, how many people with lofty ideals in the south and heroes and heroes in the north want to cross this Huaishui and realize the unification of the world, but the cold reality is always like the waves that beat them the reef.

On both sides of the Huaishui, a famous figure in history came and went in a hurry, and only this Huaishui still witnessed the ebb and flow of history.

Now it is Li Xinchen's turn to stand on the south bank of the Huaishui.

Winter has just passed, so the amount of water in Huaishui is not large, and even some of the large warships of the sailor division have to be moored close to the center of the river - as long as there is a sailor of the Han Dynasty, the entire Huaishui is actually under the control of the Han. And it is this Huaishui that seems to be able to be crossed by a single boat, but for three hundred years it has been like a high wall, blocking the whole of China into north and south.

There are not no pedestrians on Huaishui, although there are a lot fewer merchants from the north and south because there is no business in spring ploughing, but there are always some who want to find some business opportunities while everyone is taking a breath in this period.

Li Xinchen subconsciously stood on tiptoe, wanting to look into the distance, but unfortunately there was a layer of hazy fog in the distance, blocking the scenery farther away in Huaibei, and Li Xinchen knew in his heart that in that hazy fog, there were Qingjiang Estuary and Luliang Mountain.

When I came here, I didn't even have the ability to take a look at the haunting place.

In an instant, Li Xinchen even felt that Zhongli City, where he was at this moment, was the real northernmost place, not only the northernmost part of the Han Dynasty, but also the northernmost part of his heart.

But sooner or later, I will have to cross this mountain and this water······

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In the north, the cold is more intense.

The howling cold wind raged across the streets, and even a thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the pond water, making people wonder if it was spring or a new winter.

Yuwen Shen walked in a hurry, passing through the winding corridor of the palace, and the more anxious he was, the more he felt that the road that could be completed on weekdays had become so tortuous and long.

Since the cooperation with the south was confirmed, the place where Yuwen Shenju and Yuwen Yun met naturally moved from the original hall to a more remote library pavilion. After all, Yuwen Yun summoned Yuwen Shenju so frequently, which was too public.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing the figure that was already waiting, Yuwen Shenju hurriedly said.

"What's the news from the south?" Yuwen Yun said impatiently, very dissatisfied with Yuwen Shenju's move of dragging him out of the gentle township.

But Yuwen Yun is full of expectations for being able to solve Yang Jian, the biggest enemy now, and holding this secret in his heart for a long time makes him very irritable, hoping to hear the good news from Yuwen Shenju as soon as possible.

"Thirty of the Han dead have already managed to infiltrate Chang'an City, and another thirty or so are on their way," Yuwen Shenju said, reaching out for some tea and drawing a rough map on the table.

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