[It's late again, but there's another chapter below]

Zhao Ji was on the Xuande Gate, sitting uncertainly, waiting for Han Gang anxiously.

Although with the political wisdom of Zhao Ji as the Son of Heaven in the past ten years, he also faintly felt that there was something wrong with the fact that the Ordnance Supervisor had made a big show of tying the iron ship into lanterns this year. But Han Gang has brought him so many surprises in the past, and now he is in the position of the superintendent of weapons that he forcibly won over, and it will not be without unexpectedly good news. "Buoyancy Tracing the Source" has been written, no matter how you think about it, Han Gang should be confident.

The concubines beside him didn't care much, and a sea of lights under the city didn't bother to watch. In the sound of silk and bamboo music, the communication between the courtiers, Zhao Ji did not pay attention. Just kept looking at the staircase of the upper city, impatiently waiting for Han Gang to come.

After more than half an hour, he finally waited for Lan Yuanzhen to hurriedly come up and pay the order, "The official family, Han Gang is already under the city, waiting for the official family to summon him." ”

Zhao Ji hurriedly said, "Announce him to the palace quickly." "Inadvertently, I even said the wrong thing.

Han Gang walked up to the Xuande Gate and glanced at the city, where there were millions of stars, and it was indeed a rare beauty. Walk in front of the Son of Heaven and pay homage.

"Flat!" Zhao Ji hurriedly summoned Han Gang, "Han Qing, tonight, when I looked at the city, I saw that the lamp mountain of the ordnance supervisor was in the shape of a ship. Presumably, most of the Qing family already has an eyebrow on the iron ship. I wonder how much time it will take? ”

Han Gang bowed: "It will take about fifteen to twenty years to return to Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Ji was shocked when he heard this, and even thought that he had heard it wrong. Looking at Han Gang again, his attitude was frank and open, and he didn't feel guilty or cowering at all. It must have been misheard, Zhao thought to himself. "How much time?" He asked again.

"Fifteen to twenty years!"

Han Gang's tone did not fluctuate at all, and the words were clear, so that Zhao Ji finally heard clearly.

'What?! ’

A lowly noise rang out from the banquet set up by the Son of Heaven himself. The wine glass in Feng Jing's hand was almost not steady, the expressions on Han Jiang and Wang Jue's faces were also sluggish, Wu Chong was about to jump up while holding on to the table, fifteen to twenty years, it was really a shame that Han Gang dared to say!

Han Gang's four words of bullying the king were still on the lips of several important ministers, and the face of the Son of Heaven changed, and he heard Han Gang continue: "Pig iron is brittle, wrought iron is soft, and it is necessary to use rigid and soft steel to make keels and ship ribs, just as the beams and pillars of the house must be made of solid and rigid wood. Nowadays, steel is scarce, and the method of steelmaking must be improved; Stainless steel is difficult to refine, and if you want to get a suitable keel and rib, you must improve the casting method; Ship plates and decks, although they do not need steel, require large iron plates, which requires new means of forging; Iron rusts when wet, and when the boat travels on the water, there must be anti-rust techniques, and it is necessary to find out the principle of iron rust in order to deal with it. In addition, in the past, shipbuilding was made of wood, and it was difficult to change to iron, even if it was a decades-old shipwright, it was difficult to learn from scratch. Carefully calculated, ten or twenty years is the result of everything going well, and the imperial court needs to continue to invest manpower and material resources. If there are twists and turns in the middle, it is possible even thirty or fifty years. ”

Han Gang's words are as peaceful as a lake in spring, without any waves. But these words were like a basin of ice water, so cold that it was as if it had just been scooped up from the Jinshui River, and it immediately froze Zhao Ji's excitement and shrunk down. And the raging anger began to burn in my heart.

It's just that he still has a glimmer of hope, and Han Gang's calm expression is not ashamed at all, maybe there is something else hidden: "Han Qing, the iron boat lantern outside the Xuande Gate, could it be that someone made it behind your back?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty's words. This year, the lanterns of the iron ship in the prison have been approved by Weichen. Han Gang shouldered the responsibility. He treated the inside story as if it didn't exist, and he wasn't ready to complain to Zhao Xu. Han Gang is sentenced to be a military weapons supervisor, the chief of a prison, and he is not a proper person to say what he is doing by villains.

Zhao Ji felt that he had been teased by his courtiers, and Fang Cai's impatience seemed so ridiculous now, and the anger in his chest rose up, and it took a lot of effort to be forcibly pressed down by him. At this time, Zhao Ji laughed angrily, and his voice was much softer: "Could it be that Han Qing plans to put that lightship outside the Xuande Gate every year for ten or twenty years, or even thirty or fifty years?!" ”

Wu Chong finally got up with the case, and asked sharply with the Son of Heaven: "Han Gang! Do you want the Son of Heaven to wait for an iron ship for ten or twenty years?! Even if the Yellow River is diverted, as long as the imperial court is willing to mobilize people and husbands and allocate money and grain, it will only take one year to return to the right path. After more than ten or twenty years of allocating money and grain, the embankment of the Yellow River can be as tall as the iron tower of Kaibao Temple. ”

"Your Majesty!" Wang Jue also stood up, "Han Gang bullied the king, and his crime should be punished severely!" ”

"Definitely." Han Gang shook his head, ignored Wu Chong and Wang Jue, and said to Zhao Xuan, "Your Majesty has misunderstood. The iron ship is the culmination of the weapons of the world. If you want to build an iron ship that can sail on the water, the arrows and stones cannot be damaged, and the oil and fire cannot be burned, it is indeed necessary to continue for more than ten years or even decades, and constantly invest manpower and material resources in forging and smelting before it can be built. However, every bit of progress in forging and smelting has a use, and the so-called getting new day by day does not necessarily wait until decades later to make contributions. ”

"Oh? I don't know what Han Gang is talking about, what is it that is getting newer? Feng Jing spoke slowly, "Is it the forging hammer you used to scoop rice with a hundred bounties?" ”

This is one of them. The forging hammer transformed from Chungmi's foot hammer is more stable than a two-handed hammer, and it is easier to build armor. You must know that many places still use pestles to scoop rice, which is far less fast than stepping on the hammer. ”

"It's a good ...... day by day," Zhao Ji said word by word, Han Gang really gave him a 'surprise'.

Seeing that Zhao Ji's face was already as black as the bottom of the pot, Han Gang knew that the time was almost up, and it was not good to overuse the means of wanting to promote and suppress first. Before the Son of Heaven attacked, he bowed his hand: "So that Your Majesty will know." Just like now, although there are only a few forged hammers in the ordnance prison, the weapons that have just been created with these forging hammers are no longer inferior to the Divine Arm Bow. ”

As soon as Han Gang's voice fell, there was an uproar in the hall.

Zhao Ji changed color when he heard this, and Feng Jing, Wang Qi and others sneered.

Not inferior to the Divine Arm Bow?!

Does Han Gang know what Lu Dao is talking about?!!

The Divine Arm Bow is a real militaristic heavy weapon - the maximum range can reach 300 steps, and the iron armor is pierced 70 steps away, and one or two hundred Divine Arm Archers gather in formation, and the arrows are dense like rain. In terms of range, power, and firing speed, it is far better than the heavy crossbows of the past. It is a sharp weapon for the forbidden army to protect itself in the face of the northern captive iron cavalry, and it is also the confidence of the court in the forbidden army to completely overwhelm the party cavalry.

On par with the Divine Arm Bow? This cow can't be bragged!

Although Han Gang is not a talker, how many days has he been in the Ordnance Prison? How is it possible to conjure up something at once?

Listening to what he said earlier, he had to forge a hammer, and most of what he could take out was iron armor. However, among the fifty-one works of the Ordnance Supervisor, there are eight works related to iron armor, nail hairpin, iron body, gang armor, soft armor, wrong grinding, scales, and nail head Mou.

Lu Huiqing sat down at the bottom, seeing the surprise on his face that he didn't have time to hide, he really didn't know what to do!

Not to mention that a collar of armor can't be made in dozens of days, how many processes, how can Han Gang, who has just taken office, have this time?

And how can the iron armor compare with the god arm bow?

If Han Gang can't prove that the iron armor he created is better than the Divine Arm Bow, then it is a clear deception! And the crime of bullying the king and nailing him in front of a group of important ministers, even Zhao Ji could not help him recover.

Feng Jing's face was still sinking like water, but he was already overjoyed.

Even the iron armor that Han Gang took out was stronger than the armor in the past. But different utensils are not easy to compare, and they can only be made by feeling. As long as he insisted that it was not as good as the Divine Arm Bow, what could Han Gang do?

The seat was full of Zhu Zi, and there was only Wang Shao who would really support Han Gang.

Han Jiang, Wang Qi, Lu Huiqing, Wu Chong, Cai Ting, which one will stand up and support Han Gang to the end? None of them!

Han Gang can't afford this crime, let alone wash it off!

Wang Shaoan sat in his seat and looked coldly at the chaos at the night banquet in the city tower. If it comes to understanding Han Gang, Wang Shao, who recommended Han Gang from Buyi to an official, is of course far above everyone.

In the past few years, Wang Shao has made it very clear that Han Gang just has a bad habit of liking to use Su Zhang's technique, and he has set a trap between his words, and he doesn't know how many people have been trapped. But the more he plays with his verbal skills, the more confident he is. If you are not sure, how can you speak like that?

It's just that Wang Shao is still a little worried, after all, it may not be impossible to open his eyes and talk nonsense - this is not referring to Han Gang, but to Feng Jing, Wu Chong and others. If it was something that Han Gang took out, they insisted that it was not good, Han Gang was not clever and self-mistaken, but there was a possibility that he would be condemned by the Son of Heaven. The eyes of the privy deputy swept away everyone at the banquet, and his heart even felt a little chill. Han Jiang, Feng Jing, Wang Qi, Lu Huiqing, Wu Chong, Han Gang's enemies are a little too much.

The courtiers had their own thoughts, and so did the Son of Heaven. Zhao Ji looked at Han Gang silently for a long time, looking left and right, still not sure whether Han Gang had confidence or was pretending. After the last moment, he gave up his guess and looked at Han Gang suspiciously: "Han Qing, is this true?" ”

Han Gang's demeanor was still calm and steady, and the attacks of Feng Jing and Wu Chong seemed to be like flowing water over stones, which did not cause fluctuations in his heart at all, and he was indeed a prime minister: "Weichen originally thought about Shangyuan and played several other things together." However, since His Majesty asked today, Weichen will go to get it now and present it to His Majesty. ”

"What the hell? I will help you go to Xingguofang to get it. Zhao Ji was in no mood to wait any longer.

Han Gang spit out two words very succinctly: "Plate armor." ”