"Your Majesty, there is one more thing about the minister, that is, about Ran Feng......"

"The Marquis of Qinghe is far away, there must be a lot of things in the house, and it is a new marriage, and the rest of the things will be discussed in detail in the palace another day! Ran Feng will be escorted to the prison of the Criminal Department for the time being, and wait for the Supervision Province to arrange for Yushi to go to Nanyang to investigate clearly before making a decision! ”

When Qin Shi Huang saw Chen Xu now, the worries in his heart were also swept away, so he was very considerate of Chen Xu's fatigue and decided to put the messy things behind and talk about it slowly.

Chen Xu thought for a while and didn't continue.

Originally, the matter of Zhao Gao's collusion with Ran Feng and Gongsun Beiyan could not be concealed from Qin Shi Huang, but if this matter is said now, according to Zhao Gao's identity and Qin Shi Huang's past practices, I am afraid that there will be many twists and turns.

What's more, the interrogation of Zhao Gao's subordinates in Wancheng was not smooth, although Zhao Gao's subordinates in the mountain temple at that time personally admitted their identities, but the bruises all over their bodies that were tortured during the interrogation did not say a word, and without a confession, it still needs to work hard to pull Zhao Gao in.

Therefore, in the emergency report sent to Xianyang last time, Chen Xu did not mention this matter.

Coming out of the palace, Chen Xu went straight to his home.

After entering the city, he went home, and he came to see the emperor before he had time to wash, in order to show the courtesy of the courtiers, and there were still a lot of things to be settled in the palace at present.

Ran Feng and the others who were escorted back had already been sent to the prison of the Criminal Department by the forbidden army, and Zhao Gao's guard secretly sent them to Meng Yi in advance before entering the city, but whether Meng Yi could get a confession was still unknown, and Meng Yi could only figure out a way.

The Qinghe Marquis Mansion is lively and chaotic.

Dozens of wagons had to be unloaded and sorted, and hundreds of people were running back and forth like ants.

After Chen Jiang washed up, he inspected his son's super huge Hou Mansion accompanied by several maids.

Xing'er and Xiao Yu Ji saw two cute giant pandas, and they were already excited to know why, in the company of a group of subordinates, they followed the two bears in the panda park to climb up and down on the wooden frame, shouting and screaming excitedly, a monkey jumped up and down, squeaked and screamed with bamboo shoots to keep throwing two giant pandas, expressing great anger at their fall from grace.

Therefore, when Chen Xu came back, it was the time when the yard was full of chaos.

Hearing that Chen Xu had returned home, Chen Ping from the newspaper, Zhao Qing and Zhang Cang from the Academy of Sciences, Yingbu and Hu Kuan from the factory, Huangfu Que from Qinghe Garden, and Fan Caiying all rushed over one after another to greet him.

By the time the busyness was over and quieted down, more than an hour had passed.

"Whew, I'm so tired!" Chen Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in the living room.

"Husband, please have tea!" Shui gently personally held the hot fragrant tea and delivered it to him, and then sat quietly next to him, constantly looking at this luxuriously decorated and antique room.

Although the Shui family is a wealthy businessman, no matter how rich he is, he can't compare to the original minister Lu Buwei, so everything in the Hou Mansion is much more luxurious and atmospheric than the Shui manor.

"Engong, what did the emperor say about Zhao Gao?"

After recuperating for half a month, Yu Wuya's complexion has improved a lot, but the injured organs and meridians have not recovered, his internal breath is not smooth, and his martial arts recovery is less than one percent, basically only about the same as the head of the guards of the Hou Mansion, and he can't exercise vigorously, just like a wasted person, but he is open-minded and has never revealed any anxiety, and he is sitting cross-legged on the kang playing with Chen Xu's fire gun at this time.

"This matter has not been told to the emperor yet, before I get a confession, I think it will drag on for a while, it depends on how Meng Yi handles it!" Chen Xu said with a frown.

"If you can't bring down Zhao Gao this time, I'm afraid there will be a lot of messy things in the future, Engong, now that I have this Taiyi God Musket, why don't I sneak to Zhao Gao's mansion at night and kill him with one shot!" Yu Wuya still hopes to use the easiest way to solve Zhao Gao's trouble.

In the past, when Chen Xu told him that no matter how high his martial arts were, he was a scum in front of the musket, Yu Wuya maintained great distrust, but on the way back this time, after Chen Xu demonstrated the power of the musket to him, Yu Wuya was sure that Chen Xu did not say anything big, because it was easy to kill a wild wolf with one shot, although the power of killing is not necessarily stronger than the bow and crossbow, but the most terrifying thing about this thing is that it does not require any strength, men, women and children can control it, and even four or five-year-old children can be proficient after training, which is the most terrifying part of the musket.

You must know that whether it is a bow or a crossbow, it is made of high-strength wood or even metal as the arm, and the rope woven by cowhide and cowhide is the string, in order to have enough range and power, the higher the requirements for the strength arm chord, the more difficult it is to open, so it also requires greater strength.

The Qin army is generally equipped with a light horse, with an effective range of about 30 zhang, but if you want to open the bowstring, you also need at least half a stone of strength, half a stone is sixty catties (fifteen kilograms), this strength is not said to be a five-year-old child, even many adult women can not complete, and even adult men can not open the crossbow continuously, after three or five times, the arm will be sore, so even the light bow is the least powerful long-range weapon, can not be used on a large scale in the army, can only be used as a supplementary means of attack when charging into battle.

The strength of the standard longbow in the army reaches about one stone, and the range is one hundred steps, but therefore it also requires greater arm strength to fully open the bowstring, so the archers of the army are selected to be tall and long-armed, and can at least open the bow more than three times in a row to become qualified archers, so the treatment of archers in the army is much better than that of foot soldiers.

As for the bow with higher strength, it also needs more and more powerful arm strength, in the army can open two stone strong bow archers are not one in a hundred, can use three stone bows are called archers, and can pull more than four stones is no longer human, called beasts, both hands 120 kilograms of arm strength, but also to ensure the stability of the bow, 10,000 archers can not find one.

However, as a long-range projectile strike weapon, the bow does not necessarily need to be accurate, so there is also a kind of big bow in the army, the length is more than six feet, and the largest can reach eight feet.

Of course, because the long-range attack attribute of the bow and crossbow is strong, the requirements for the range are also constantly improving, and the bow and crossbow are also constantly improving, and there is a kind of giant crossbow that uses cattle and horses to assist in opening the bow, called the cow crossbow, also called the bed crossbow, the arm is up to one zhang, fixed on the car, the bowstring has the thickness of a thumb, all of which are made of cow tendon and leather glue twisted together, and the bowstring can be pulled together with the assistance of cow and horse, and the strength reaches more than eight stones, and the diameter of the arrow is two inches long and one zhang, which is not an arrow at all, but a spear, and the range is naturally very terrifying, the maximum range reaches 300 zhang (about 700 meters).

Of course, with the progress of the times, the power of the crossbow is also increasing, to the Song Dynasty invented a kind of eight-bull crossbow nuclear weapons, made of three giant bows together, the range reached an even more amazing 1,500 meters, and this kind of crossbow even cattle and horses can not be pulled, when attacking the crossbow car pile nailed to the ground, need to use the winch to open, a crossbow needs seven or eight tall and strong arms burly soldiers to operate.

Although the bow and crossbow are far away and powerful, they are more and more widely used on the battlefield, but no matter what kind of bow and crossbow, they are based on strength, without super arm strength, the power of the bow and crossbow can not be exerted, so the more powerful the bow and crossbow, the less it will be on the battlefield, and because of the tolerance limit of arm strength, this also greatly limits the combat effectiveness of the archers.

But now this musket is different, it doesn't need strength at all.

Load the gunpowder and bullets, then break the hammer, gently pull the trigger, and the enemy is solved with a bang, which is simply effortless.

Looking at the fire gun in his hand over and over again, a feeling of sadness and despair emerged from the bottom of Yu Wuya's heart.

Engong is right, human qualifications are limited, time is limited, winter practice is three-nine, summer practice is three-pronged, more than ten years of hard training and hard work finally have the ability to split tigers and wolves, but no matter how strong the martial arts are, they still can't resist this little thunder fire, and they hang up with a bang.

If this kind of firearm can be produced on a large scale, I am afraid that the so-called martial arts masters will no longer have any use on the battlefield in the future.

Looking at Yu Wuya's lonely expression, Chen Xu smiled helplessly and said: "Although the Divine Musket is simple to use and powerful, this kind of thing has a slow loading speed, and if the quantity is not enough, it cannot form an absolute suppression for martial arts masters, not to mention what is the difference between using it to kill Zhao Gao and using explosives, you can't use strong to deal with Zhao Gao, you can only use strategy, and letting the emperor personally cut off his dog's head is the best policy!" ”

"Senior brother, what Chen Lang said is right, once Zhao Gao is assassinated by force, it will inevitably cause the emperor's suspicion and the panic of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs. The water whispered softly beside him.

Just as the three of them were drinking tea and talking, the steward guarding the door hurriedly came to report and said, "Master Hou, Master Mengyun asks to see you!" ”

"Please!" Chen Xu nodded.