Li Jie took the two people back to the house and ordered someone to arrange the two in the guest room. In the side hall, Li Jie asked the two in detail about their views on the court situation, and the two only said that they were pro-virtuous ministers and far villains, and could not say any constructive opinions. And Li Jie asked the two of them to account for farmland management, but found that although the two of them could not strategize, they were the cadres of the management side. I'm not satisfied, but it's better than nothing. chatted with the two about some things in the court, and Li Jie sincerely asked the two of them to introduce a poor scholar like them. Suddenly, Chen Ziqi's words caught Li Jie's attention: "Your Highness, it seems that someone else is resigning during this time." Li Jie hurriedly asked, "I don't know who it is?" Chen Ziqi said, "This person's name is Su Xiu, he is the head of the household and the Kurabe Shiro, what makes me strange is that he is not a poor family, I once asked others, he is after Wuxun." And it seems that he is not the only one on Wuxun's side who is resigning" Li Jie was stunned for a moment, and then shouted outside the door, "Someone is coming." A little eunuch came in, and Li Jie didn't wait for him to salute and said, "You go to the Qin Mansion and invite Qin Fang to come over, this king has something to discuss." "The little eunuch bent down to salute," the slave and maid commanded the prince. ”

Not to mention Li Jie, he continued to discuss with the two. It was said that the little eunuch took two guards and rode to the Qin Mansion, and when he arrived at the gate of the mansion, the Qin Mansion hurriedly came over to hold the reins, and the little eunuch got off the horse and said, "Go and spread the word, His Royal Highness King Shou has an edict to see Qin Fang's son." The subordinates of the Qin Mansion hurriedly went to spread the word, and the little eunuch was brought into the living room of the Qin Mansion by the subordinates. Qin Fang, the study of the Qin Mansion, asked, "Father, I don't know what happened to His Highness?" Qin Chong, who was sitting on the seat, stroked his beard, thought for a while, and said, "If my father is not wrong, Your Highness should know about our resignation, even so, you will tell Your Highness the truth, and it is time for Your Highness to see the determination and strength of my martial arts family." Qin Fang arched his hand, "The child knows!" Qin Fang came to the living room and saw that the little eunuch was looking around with his hands behind his back. As soon as Qin Fang entered the door, he arched his hand and said, "Father-in-law is hard, Qin Fang doesn't know what his father-in-law commands." The little eunuch looked at Qin Fang and said, "Young Master Qin, My Royal Highness said that please go over immediately to discuss something." Qin Fangyi stretched out his hand and stuffed a silver bean into the little eunuch, "I don't know what His Highness is doing?" The little eunuch smiled and said, "Gongzi Qin is polite, but our family doesn't know what's going on, so please ask Gongzi Qin to come with me quickly." Qin Fang said, "Father-in-law, please", when he came to the door, the Qin Mansion had already prepared a horse, and Qin Fang got on the horse and followed the little eunuch to the palace. After entering the mansion, the little eunuch went in to report, and Qin Fang stood outside the door and waited. After a while, the little eunuch came out and said, "Master Qin, Your Highness is invited!" "Qin Fangyi arched his hand" and "has Lao Gonggong." The little eunuch led Qin Fang into the hall, bent down and arched his hand, "Your Highness, Prince Qin is here." Li Jie signaled, and the little eunuch immediately withdrew from the house with the palace maid and eunuch.

Li Jie looked at Qin Fang at this time and said, "Young Master Qin, I don't know what to say when I see this king. Qin Fang arched his hand, "I don't know what His Highness called" Li Jie smiled, "I heard that many people in the court have resigned recently, and many of them are after Wuxun?" Qin Fang looked at Chen Ziqi and the others, and Li Qi said, "It's okay, these two people are close to me." The two hurriedly bowed their hands, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your grace." Li Jie waved his hand and looked at Qin Fang. Qin Fang arched his hand and said, "Since I saw the giant bow made by His Highness that day, the various martial arts families held a meeting in the clan, and it was agreed that the children of each family would withdraw from the imperial court one after another, and recruit about 5,000 elites from each family to train secretly in the deep mountains?" Li Jie and the three of them were shocked when they heard this, and Li Jie slapped the table, "What are you martial arts families doing?" Is there going to be a rebellion? Qin Fang hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Your Highness, we are just training, everything is under the orders of Your Highness!" Li Jie was stunned and said, "You mean, these 5,000 people are all under my orders?" Qin Fang kowtowed again, "Everything is up to His Highness's orders." Li Jie thought for a while, "Can you take this king to see tomorrow?" Qin Fang said, "Obey His Highness's order, and Weichen will go back to arrange it immediately." Li Jie nodded, "Well, you go!" "Qin Fang gave up" Weichen retired. “

Li Jie turned his head to look at Chen Ziqi and the others, and Liu Ziyu stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, you have to use it if you don't need it, at least to the outside world, they are already His Highness's people!" Li Jie nodded, "Yes!" Unexplainable, peep! Martial artists are so calculating! I'll wait for tomorrow to see and then think about it. Come! Outside the hall, the little eunuch just now ran in, and Li Jie ordered, "You go to Huangzhuang and let Xue Liang come for a trip!" The little eunuch took the order and left. Li Jie looked at the two of them again, "I don't know what these martial artists will do tomorrow?" Chen Ziqi thought for a while and said, "It must be greeted by a military formation." Li Jie smiled, "If that's the case, it means that they haven't put themselves in the right position yet." I am not Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and they don't want to be Dong Zhuo. Let's take a look tomorrow and think about it! I want them to see the king's methods! “

The next day, Li Jie took Chen Ziqi and the two out of the house, Xing'er and Manniang on the side of the carriage made everyone's eyes shine, the two girls were dressed as men, Xing'er was dressed in a white shirt, a long white coat outside, and a jade belt around her waist, and she was a handsome boy. Manniang was dressed in black, with a long black coat and a jade belt around her waist, and she was a handsome man with a heroic posture. Looking at Li Jie, who was about to drool, the two girls looked at each other and smiled and got into the carriage. At this time, Qin Fang had been waiting for a long time with his family, and Li Jie asked his guards to go back, because today's matter was too big and had to be kept secret. The carriage Li Jie got into the carriage, the team began to move forward, Qin Fang was in front, Chen Ziqi and the two followed behind the carriage on horseback, and an hour later they arrived at a valley, the woods outside the valley were dense and bushy, and at this time, a team of people dressed in black appeared holding sharp blades in front of them, Qin Fang showed the token and the man in black flashed to the side. A trail that can only be passed by a horse-drawn carriage winds its way. The march of the brigade suddenly opened up in the valley, and a large plain appeared in front of everyone. Thousands of people are training, and people are shouting that the horses are neighing. "Your Highness has arrived, line up!" A battle order was heard, and thousands of people began to form a formation, and thousands of people lined up with a stick of incense. The archers were in front of the pikemen and the back of the sword and shield men, and two groups of cavalry were guarding the wings.

A young general rode to the carriage and shouted, "Wake up, please watch the battle." Li Jie got out of the car and rode on his horse to follow the awakening horse all the way, but seeing those soldiers with their chests up one by one, wearing soft armor, but there was a hint of arrogance on their faces, Li Jie just didn't see it. Returning to the camp tent and taking his seat, Qin Fang stepped forward and arched his hand, "Your Highness, I don't know if you can be satisfied with today's view?" Li Jie asked, "Why did your martial arts family do this, and what are your intentions?" Qin Fang replied, "Your Highness, please forgive your sins, when thieves are rampant today, the eunuchs of the family bully the court and the people, and our martial arts family is favored by the emperor, and we can't bear the hardships of the people, and the court suffers, so I decided to obey His Royal Highness's dispatch to protect my Tang Dynasty and save the people from fire and water." Li Jie pointed to the military formation and said, "How did you do it?" Qin Fang arched his hand and replied, "The children of each family and the elites of each family were all transferred into the valley, and all of them disrupted the formation. Li Jie said, "You have done a good job, I have seen your sincerity, but this is not enough." What I need is a team that is completely obedient to me, not a team with selfish intentions. Qin Fang was stunned for a moment and said, "Your Highness, from the very beginning, we have made it clear to the soldiers that we must be absolutely loyal to Your Highness. "As I said, you're doing a good job, but it's not enough. This team must come from each family, and the rabbit will have other ideas. In this case, I will wait for you in the Huangzhuang in three days, you go and inform the heads of the families, and order them to come in three days, the more the better, I want them to see the means of this king, and then make a decision after seeing it, since you are very sincere, this king will give you another chance to choose, you go back and tell each family that there is only one chance! ”

On the way back, everyone didn't talk much, only the two girls talked and laughed all the way, and returned to the mansion and entered the study, Chen Ziqi arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, although this team is nominally based on you, but they are basically composed of people from the Wuxun family, I think many people still seem to have the intention of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and it is inevitable that there will be a big tail in the future. Li Jie said, "I have already thought about this issue, so I said that I would let them all come to see the king's methods in three days." Tomorrow you and I will go to Huangzhuang, I will prepare some things, these things will give them a big surprise! Li Jie immediately ordered someone to go to Humar's shop to buy some sulfur and miscanthus salt, and he went to whisper to Xing'er again.

At dawn, Li Jie rushed to Huangzhuang with a few people, followed by a car loaded with sulfur and miscanthus purchased yesterday and came to Huangzhuang. The steward greeted him. Li Jie ordered him to prepare a hundred catties of charcoal and asked for all of it to be ground into powder, and the steward went to prepare with a puzzled face. After a short time, the chief manager came to report that the charcoal was ready, and Li Jie told Xue Liang, "You prepare eighty catties of miscanthus salt, ten catties of sulfur, and fifteen catties of charcoal for me, and stir them together evenly." Li Jie said the recipe for black powder. Speaking of this gunpowder formula, it was an allusion that impressed him when he was still in high school chemistry, so he remembered it vividly. When reading books, when talking about the formula of black powder, he often mentions an allusion, that is, "one sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal", and Li Jie found that the chemical formula obtained according to such a ratio does not meet the basic conditions for explosion at all. The final result of such a ratio of black powder can only burn, but cannot produce a violent explosion.

So with this kind of doubt, Li Jie checked on the Internet, and finally got an answer that impressed him. It turns out that the popular allusion is "one sulfur, two sulfur and three charcoal", not the so-called "one sulfur, two sulfur and three charcoal", and the ancients said that "one nitrate" refers to one catty of nitrate, and "two sulfur and three charcoal" is 2 taels of sulfur and 3 taels of charcoal. In addition, the conversion formula of 1 catty and 16 taels in ancient times means that the formula ratio of ancient black powder is, 16 nitrate, 2 sulfur and 3 carbon, which is very close to the modern formula. Li Jie forgot the best ratio of black powder, but according to 80:10:15, it is absolutely no problem to mix the ratio of black powder.

Xue Liang did what Li Jie said, Li Jie ordered someone to find two bamboo tubes, filled the two bamboo tubes with gunpowder, and then loaded the hemp rope stained with fire oil into the two bamboo tubes, the hemp rope was seven or eight meters long, and then Li Jie told Xue Liang to seal the bamboo tube so that it could not leak. After doing all this, Li Jie put one into a wooden box and asked Xue Liang to arrange four guards to guard it closely, and no one was allowed to approach.

Li Jie sat in the carriage and put the bamboo tube away, let the two girls get into the car, and got into the car himself. The rest of the people rode to a far hillside, Li Jie asked Xue Liang to take the bamboo tube from the car and put it next to a big tree on the hillside, and then Li Jie led people to hide far away, telling Xue Liang to run hard after that, how far and how far to run. Xue Liang promised to run and light the fire, and after lighting it, the kid didn't run, but looked at the fire rope on fire, and the frightened Li Jie shouted, "Xue Liang, you run, or Lao Tzu will cut you!" Manniang saw that Li Jie was anxious and shouted in fright, "Brother, run!" Xue Liang was so frightened that he ran wildly, and ran out thirty or forty steps away, and a loud bang came, Xue Liang was suddenly shocked to the ground, his ears buzzed non-stop, and after a loud bang, a black smoke rose into the sky, which could be seen several miles away. The next day, a villager reported to the official, "A demon was born, the sound boomed for miles, and the demonic energy reached the sky!" ”