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A piece of fine jade paperweight fell to the ground and shattered. The official kneeling in front of Yang Guang did not dare to reach out to wipe the blood from the wound on his forehead that was smashed by a paperweight.

Yang Guang held the table with one hand, stood behind the table, pointed to the kneeling official in front of him and said, "Wait for the rotten Confucian!" Traitor! When everybody gets it, it's punished. One day only to know that to impeach someone here is nothing more than grandstanding! Previously, you impeached Li Wenyuan, the governor of the Western Regions, to raise self-respect, to exclude dissidents in the Western Regions, and to appoint cronyism. However, I sent people from the Imperial Historical Observatory to see it, and only after visiting the people did I know that the Western Regions suffered a natural disaster last year. Thanks to Li Wenyuan's failure to forcibly use troops, the people of our Great Sui were not displaced and starved of food. If it is according to what you and others say, they forcibly used troops against Li Liang last winter. Mo said that now there are only four counties against him, I am afraid that the entire eight counties of the Western Regions will be reversed! At this moment, Li Liang has already led Hu Ren to put the saber on my neck! Day after day, you talk about how loyal you are to the king, how you love the country, and your so-called loyalty to the king and patriotism is to starve my people to death, force them to rebel, and then overthrow my country, can't you? ”

After Yang Guang vented his emotions, he sat back on the dragon chair and said: "You don't go deep into the people, and you don't impeach according to the facts." Those who say anything all day long are not guilty, and all day long they take those virtuous kings and kings who are good at admonishing me in ancient times to persuade me to lead by example. But you have fabricated some charges out of thin air in the court, and you want to impose them on my frontier ministers. Don't you really think that I am blind and deaf? Since you say that you are asking for the people's life, you care about the country's social welfare. Then you will go to Lingnan for me to preach the benevolence of my Great Sui and appease the people over there. Departure on the same day, there is no mistake. Let's go down. ”

Seeing the official in front of him retreat from his court in embarrassment, Yang Guang leaned on the dragon chair and closed his eyes to recuperate, also thinking about the recent movements in the court. Everyone knows that as an emperor, he holds the power of life and death for everyone in the court. But there are a few people who know that as an emperor, they have to face the competition between factions between the courts, as well as the confrontational relationship between the local government and the imperial court.

No matter how virtuous and holy the emperor is, he can devote his whole life to governing only a few places. Now the Great Sui rules dozens of counties in the world, relying only on these officials in the imperial court to help them divide and rule, but at the same time, they cannot be too close to each other, thus forming groups and factions against the emperor's authority. This is the most troublesome and worrying thing for everyone who is an emperor, just like the official who has just been demoted to Lingnan to inspect the hearts of the people. It's just a scapegoat pushed out by those Guanlong nobles to test their ideas.

Thinking of his third expedition to Goguryeo a few years ago, when the officers and soldiers of Minfu fled, the inaction of the officials in the army, and even when he was preparing for the fourth expedition to Goguryeo, these Guanlong nobles joined forces to openly confront him. Yang Guang's hand holding the handle of the dragon chair burst into green tendons, and the joints creaked because they were too hard. Thinking of those Guanlong nobles who controlled half of the court, Yang Guang still suppressed the idea of weakening Li Wenyuan's military power, opened his eyes and asked the eunuch beside him to call Yu Shinan to come and draw up the holy decree.

The decree clearly told Li Wenyuan to settle Li Liang within the time limit, and as for what this time limit was, Yang Guang was also well aware of the Turkic people's support for Li Liang. After thinking about it again, Li Wenyuan was given a two-year deadline. In these two years, it is not only necessary to clear Li Liang's rebels. It is also necessary to let the Western Turks restore their claim to the Great Sui and pay tribute, and send protons to live in the capital of the Great Sui to show their loyalty.

The will left Beijing in the starry night and rushed towards Wuwei County, where Li Wenyuan was located. But these are not the things that Li Wenyuan has to think about now. At this time, he was watching the first cannon made by his craftsmen at the test site, and this cannon was not something that Li Wenyuan gave to these craftsmen. It was the whim of one of the craftsmen who was making flintlock muskets to create a larger firearm to throw larger iron balls. to replace the catapult that had been used in the army for a long time, and this was made. This cannon uses a cast-iron barrel, unlike a hammer-forged one-piece flintlock barrel. The barrel of this cannon was cast in sections, and then spliced together one by one, and iron juice was poured at the joints to be glued.

The cannon's maker claimed that it could bombard the walls of the city at a distance of 300 paces, and that it could destroy the defenders' bed crossbows before they could work. This made Li Wenyuan extremely interested, and now he personally ran to the experimental site to watch the test firing of this cannon. If this kind of cannon can also be popularized in the army, Li Wenyuan is very curious about which city among all these agricultural civilizations in the world can withstand the attack of his own army?

Soon, the target three hundred paces away had been placed, and the gunpowder of this gun had been loaded. The lightly polished iron ball, carried by two soldiers, was slowly filled into the barrel. Li Wenyuan seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly stopped the ignition work of the test firing, and asked the golden shopkeeper to arrange for the test firing personnel to go 100 paces away from the cannon to ignite the gunpowder.

As the velvet burned slowly, a tongue of fire slowly licked the cannon's gunpowder. But at this time, I saw that the cannon suddenly flashed with fire. Then, it exploded like thunder, and the shockwave of the explosion rushed those who were a hundred paces away to the ground. The whole test site was in a mess, and afterwards, according to Qiu Niang, she also felt that the ground was shaking in Wuwei County, and at first she thought that there was an earthquake in Wuwei County.

But these are all afterwords, the dust and smoke cleared, and Li Wenyuan pushed away the guards who were blocking in front of him. He walked quickly over to the test shooters who had fallen to the ground, unknown of their fate and death, to take a closer look. Seeing that they were all still breathing and had no obvious external injuries, I knew that these people should just be suffocated by the wave of air brought up by the explosive power of gunpowder, and they passed out for a while. This was a sigh of relief, and then the doctors in the test range gave emergency treatment to these people, and finally woke them all up.

One of them, who seemed to be in charge of the production and research of this artillery, quickly knelt down in front of Li Wenyuan and said: "The villain has developed such a despicable object, which has caused the charge to collide, and I hope the head will forgive the sin." ”

Li Wenyuan shook his head and said, "You are guilty, but you didn't collide with me. Your sin is that you are not properly prepared to test shoot such things. If it weren't for my timely reminder, how many of you would have been alive at this time? But if you dare to innovate, I will reward you. Go to Guantun City in a while and receive your reward. But there are rewards and punishments, and you didn't think it through, and you almost killed so many people. I'm going to punish you to find out why this thing exploded, and I'll come back to me after we have investigated the cause. ”

Thousands of dollars buy bones, although this matter is outside Li Wenyuan's plan. However, Li Wenyuan took advantage of this incident to express his attitude to all the craftsmen who accompanied him: unlike the royal nobles who hired them in the past, he was willing to give a lot of wealth for them to practice and experiment with their innovative ideas. After all, Li Wenyuan's golden finger is not so exaggerated, and it is impossible to guarantee that the knowledge he knows is so accurate. It can only be so encouraging these craftsmen to innovate, after all, they are the ones who come into contact with these things every day, after all, practice makes true knowledge.