Wei Chigong was an impatient, especially when he heard that Datang had a new weapon, he suddenly couldn't hold it back.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the old minister wants to go to the Ministry of Military Industry now, I don't know if it's okay?"

"This ......"

Originally, Li Shimin brought hundreds of civil and military officials to greet Wei Chigong, intending to take him back to a celebration banquet, but now they proposed to go to the Ministry of Military Industry first, which made Li Shimin a little helpless.

But Wei Chigong's request can be regarded as a manifestation of concern for state affairs. Therefore, Li Shimin was not easy to refuse, and after thinking about it for a while, he had no choice but to nod.

"Well, since you want to see Jingde, let the prince take you there, I will have a banquet in Guanglu Temple in the evening, you come early."

"Yes, Weichen obeys!"

After getting Li Shimin's permission, Wei Chigong couldn't wait to go back to Chang'an with Gao Ming.

After returning to Chang'an City, Wei Chigong couldn't even change his clothes, and asked Gao Ming to take him to the Ministry of Military Industry while wearing a full armor.

Gao Ming couldn't resist him, so he could only agree.

The location of the Ministry of Military Industry is still the original ordnance superintendent, but the area has expanded more than ten times on the original basis, and Li Shimin has also sent heavy troops to guard it.

Seeing hundreds of heavily armed soldiers patrolling around the Ministry of Military Industry, Wei Chigong immediately frowned.

"This is too tightly guarded, isn't it? Isn't it a bit too much? ”

In Wei Chigong's opinion, there are some weapons and armor in the ordnance prison, and there is no need for so many people to guard them.

After hearing his words, Gao Ming immediately smiled and shook his head.

"The Duke of Eguo doesn't know that today's Ministry of Military Industry is no better than the original Ordnance Supervisor, not to mention anything else, if the fifty cannons in the Thunder Fire Prison alone are used by people with bad intentions, it can cause very big trouble to Chang'an."

Wei Chi Gong hadn't seen anything else, but he had just seen a cannon.

Moreover, Wei Chigong admired the cannon very much, otherwise he would not have told Li Shimin that as long as Li Shimin gave him ten cannons, he would dare to issue a military order to defeat Goguryeo within three months.

So as soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Wei Chigong's eyes widened.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you said there are fifty cannons inside?"

Seeing his surprised look, Gao Ming immediately smiled and nodded.

"Yes, does the Duke of Eguo still think it's necessary to be heavily guarded?"

"Yes, yes!"

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Wei Chigong nodded his head as if he were a chicken.

"It turns out that there is such an important thing inside, a hundred guards is too little, after I go back, I must ask the Holy Lord to send three thousand gold guards to garrison it!"

"Uh......"

Looking at Wei Chigong with a serious face, Gao Ming suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.

"That's not it, a hundred people is enough, okay, Eguo Gong will go in with me to have a look!"

"Well, that's fine!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Wei Chigong hurriedly nodded again, and then followed Gao Ming into the gate of the Ministry of Military Industry.

After entering, Gao Ming smiled at Wei Chigong again.

"E Guogong, today's Ministry of Military Industry is divided into three departments, namely the Ordnance Supervisor, the Thunder Fire Supervisor and the Steam Engine Development Supervisor, let's go to the Ordnance Supervisor first!"

With that, Gao Ming took Yu Chigong to the courtyard on the far left, which was full of freshly made armor, swords, bows and crossbows, and so on.

Looking at these things, Gao Ming smiled slightly.

"Duke E should have seen it, this weapons supervisor is actually still the original weapons supervisor, but in the future, my Datang will take the elite route, so I will reduce the number of weapons made and strengthen the quality of weapons and armor, so that soldiers will not lose their lives because of this."

For Gao Ming's words, Wei Chigong also agreed, and he immediately nodded.

"That's right, and with a siege weapon like a cannon, there is no need to fill the siege with the lives of soldiers in the future, and there is really no need for so many weapons and armor."

Speaking of this, Wei Chigong suddenly found that there was a box of strange things on the side of these weapons, which was a box of "U"-shaped iron pieces, and there were a few eyes on it.

Seeing this, Wei Chigong immediately frowned.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what is this thing? Is it for the soldiers to throw it out and hurt people? ”

Hearing Wei Chigong's words, Gao Ming turned his head to look, and when he saw the things in Wei Chigong's hand clearly, he immediately burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha, Eguo Gong laughed, this is not for soldiers, this is for war horses?"

"For war horses?"

Looking at Wei Chigong's puzzled expression, Gao Ming immediately smiled and nodded.

"That's right, this thing is called a horseshoe, and it's really for war horses."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming also picked up a horseshoe and began to explain it to Yu Chigong.

"Don't underestimate this horseshoe, as long as we nail this thing on the horse's shoe, it is like putting on a pair of shoes for the war horse, so that it can effectively prevent the war horse from grinding and cracking the hooves, and increase the service life of the war horse."

The reason why Datang's war horses are scarce is not because there are few war horses in Datang, but because of the wear and tear of horses' hooves, often a horse can not be used for a year or two, which makes war horses an expensive consumable.

But with a horseshoe it's different, compared to the money for changing the war horse every year, the cost of changing the horseshoe is simply negligible!

Wei Chigong also understood this, so after hearing Gao Ming's words, he immediately nodded.

"Well, I didn't expect this small piece of iron to have such a big effect, if it could appear earlier, my Datang's territory might be doubled!"

"It's not too late to show up!"

Gao Ming took Wei Chigong's words at the right time, and then shrugged his shoulders at him.

"Moreover, now the territory of the Tang Dynasty is big enough, whether a country is strong or not depends on its military strength, economic strength, scientific and technological strength, etc., not the territory of the Sui Dynasty, which was also very large, but it was not beaten down by us?"

As the founding father of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Ming's words were very much in line with Wei Chigong's appetite, so as soon as Gao Ming's words fell, he immediately burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, no matter how big the Sui Dynasty is, it is not the same as being beaten down by us? Hahaha......"

"Uh......"

Damn, do I mean this? You're not looking in the right direction, right?

However, seeing that Wei Chigong was so happy, Gao Ming couldn't spoil his interest, and waited until he was almost smiling, and then took him out of the ordnance prison and came to the courtyard next to him.

After entering this courtyard, Wei Chigong saw the cannons placed in the courtyard at a glance.

Fifty cannons are next to each other, the muzzles of the black holes are all facing one direction, and the barrels are painted with black paint by the craftsmen, which also makes the cannons look a little more solemn.

After entering the door, Wei Chigong's eyes were attracted by these cannons, and looking at him obsessively looking at these cannons, Gao Ming couldn't help laughing.

"It seems that I'm not the only one who likes cannons!"