Xiao Maha and Yang Su were the top people after all, and they quickly recovered from the excitement just now.

Apparently they also realized that there was still a long way to go before this kind of thing could be fully turned into a combat weapon, but at least it showed them a way to bridge the current demographic gap between the two sides.

"It's been a good year." Li Xinchen said with a smile.

The Battle of the Northwest stabilized the situation of the Han Dynasty in the west, completely forming an encirclement situation in Guanzhong, and the appearance of gunpowder meant that Li Xinchen finally found the means to break through the opponent's biggest barrier.

All that remains is to hope that the time can be delayed as long as possible, as long as the firearms can be hunted on a large scale, even if it is only a small-scale weapon as a striker, it is enough to give the enemy the maximum damage in a short time, and this kind of damage is not so much physical, but more mental and morale.

After all, no one wants to fight against a group of fire-breathing monsters.

According to Li Xinchen's vision, in fact, the development of firearms has three directions as in history, from the earth-shaking thunder and thistle terrestris used in throwing and melee combat, to the firearms and muskets used by foot soldiers, and finally artillery in the real sense, not trebuchets.

However, this is just Li Xinchen's idea, how to implement these things from paper to reality, it depends on the ability of the Ministry of Industry. However, Li Xinchen is still very confident in this, the Chinese nation has not completely fallen into the complacency of the "Heavenly Empire" in this era, and it can even be said that the three hundred years of broken mountains and rivers have made this nation more aware of the importance of innovation and tolerance, which has laid a solid foundation for the later Sui and Tang dynasties.

And it is also in this era that famous figures in history textbooks such as Zu Chongzhi, Li Daoyuan, and Jia Siqian emerged.

Therefore, the craftsmen of this era do not lack the pioneering spirit, they just lack people who can support them, and now as long as Li Xinchen gives them what they want, then they can naturally give Li Xinchen rich returns.

The gunpowder in front of you is actually a testament to it in itself.

It's a pity that the people in power often can't see it clearly in many cases, and even think that this weapon that has fundamentally changed the course of human development is a trick of ingenuity, but they don't know that the Western imperial powers also relied on firearms to start and dominate the world for hundreds of years. If the original Song Dynasty could make good use of firearms, it would be as weak as before, I'm afraid it's hard to say.

At this moment, the timeline related to gunpowder was distorted in Li Xinchen's hands, and gradually extended to a new path.

"In the report to the province, all of them will be dealt with according to military merits." Li Xinchen said lightly.

In this era, there is still a big difference between military merit and the rest of the merit, military merit is the hardest and the most solid merit, and it is also the most recognized by the world, Li Xinchen directly counted the merit of these people as military merit, and obviously has clearly indicated the next use of gunpowder. The Ministry of Works, the Taiwei Mansion and the entire army have always been in the same vein, so this is not a big deal.

The Ministry of Industry and the military already have too many opportunities to cooperate with each other, if they always have contradictions with each other, then Li Xinchen may have a headache, and with the household department in charge of money and food standing on the opposite side of them, it is difficult for the Ministry of Industry and the military to really do anything behind Li Xinchen's back.

"The end of the year is approaching, and I don't know if our two neighbors are also in such a good mood." Li Xinchen said with a smile, turned around and walked out, he came out today and got a few other places to take a turn, it is impossible to stay in the Taiwei Mansion and the Ministry of Industry all the time, so there will be people who have opinions.

Xiao Maha and Yang Su glanced at each other, and Yang Su smiled and said, "This year is not a good year for them. ”

"It's not destined for next year." Xiao Maha answered.

Two men who are no more than ten years apart and are enemies of life and death in history look at each other and laugh.

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"This is the Lingnan movement, and it must be sorted and distributed within three hours!" Standing under the eaves, the head of the province under the door, Pei Yi, the waiter, commanded loudly.

The cold wind blew through the courtyard, and boxes of official documents were being nervously sorted and transported. Menxia Province not only has a special piece of music presented to Li Xinchen, but also official documents that need to be approved by the central government, including cross-border transportation of grain and grass, manpower, etc., even if it is implemented in a tight time, it must be left in the imperial court here later.

Now that the end of the year is approaching, according to the rules, some unimportant official documents in the first half of this year will be sealed, and space should be made for new official documents next year.

The entire province was so busy that no one even felt the cold. Even Pei Yi, who is already old, is only wearing a coat.

"Your Majesty!" At this time, there was a sudden exclamation at the door.

The people in the courtyard looked over in amazement, only to see a young man dressed no different from ordinary children of the family walking into the courtyard quickly, if there was anything different in appearance, it should be that his clothes were embroidered with a coiled dragon, and his open claws seemed to be ready to tear the enemy in front of him apart at any time.

"Your Majesty!" Pei Yi hurriedly walked out of the crowd, "Your Majesty is coming, the minister is not welcome, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me." ”

"Please forgive your majesty!" At this time, the people in the courtyard hurriedly saluted.

And Li Xinchen smiled and helped Pei Yi up: "I didn't send someone to inform me when I came, no wonder you are busy with your own families, I just came to visit when the New Year was approaching." ”

Many of the people present have actually never seen Li Xinchen, but of course they have heard of Li Xinchen's various things, this majesty is slightly different from what he imagined, he is not angular, nor mellow and rich, he exudes an approachable temperament all over his body, he is not a saint.

But he is not a mortal at the same time, he is approachable, but it doesn't mean that this true dragon emperor is the same as these mortals, thinking of how this majesty fought all the way to this position, who doesn't feel a chill behind him?

The literati's mind is more than that of the military generals, if you want to say that there is nothing important in this year's pass, what is Your Majesty going to Menxia Province to do?

You must know that Menxia Province should be the most idle department among the three provinces, mainly responsible for collecting, screening and distributing official documents, of course, there are also foreign exchange departments such as the Tongshu are also hung in Menxia Province, but most of the civil officials actually don't know what this Tongshu is for, only know that when the war is over, they will go out to be responsible for peace talks and wipe their butts.

"Is there still a backlog of official documents and recitals this year?" Li Xinchen strode into the meeting hall. Unlike the council hall he was used to, the council hall here also hung a map, but this was mainly based on the land of the Han Dynasty, and each place name was also marked with words to indicate how many official documents were sent from there.

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