After Zhao Zhen and the others left Li Gengyun's house, Li Gengyun and Guo Feng had a long talk all night, and after the two talked about firearms, they didn't mention it anymore, and Li Gengyun was more communicating with Guo Feng about how to implement a constitutional monarchy, how to set up various departments, and how to distribute the power of all parties.

In the second half of the night, both of them couldn't support it, and finally they each lay down and fell asleep. By the time the two woke up, it was already the next day, and Guo Feng left Li Gengyun's house under the escort of the guards, but he already knew what Li Gengyun was going to do next, and at the same time began to secretly arrange people to gather all the skilled craftsmen in Xiangzhou to Xiangyang.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Li Gengyun quietly came to a secret place in Xiangyang City with Guo Feng, which was a secret base specially applied by Guo Feng, and he reported to Zhao Zhen that what was going on here would be a crucial thing to help her dominate the world in the future, so the people guarding this base were all elite soldiers personally selected by Guo Feng, and at the same time, the iron-striking tools and materials for making ceremonies in the entire Xiangyang City had been placed in this base.

After Li Gengyun entered this secret base, he saw seven people with different appearances, tall, short, fat and thin. However, it is still easy to distinguish what these people do, the dark-skinned ones are the blacksmiths, and the ones with dirty hands and pale faces are the craftsmen who make ceremonial flowers.

"See the Strategist!"

These people all knew that Guo Feng was a military advisor, and they didn't know who Li Gengyun was next to Guo Feng, but they were not stupid, and naturally thought that they could come with Guo Feng, and they must also be a big official, so after they visited Guo Feng, they also bowed to Li Gengyun, and shouted: "See your lord!" ”

"You're welcome!"

Li Gengyun said to everyone with a smile, and then the guards arranged a chair for him and Guo Feng so that they could have a place to rest.

"As you already know, we invited you here to develop a secret thing. Since it is a secret thing, it is naturally necessary to keep it secret, so we give you a very high salary, and your family has also arranged for them to live in Xiangyang. All you have to do is work out the cipher here with peace of mind. Li Gengyun said to all the craftsmen with a smile, he saw that three of them had calluses on their hands and very strong muscles on their bodies, that is, blacksmiths were born, he continued to the three blacksmiths, "Three blacksmith masters, I hope you can help me make something, which is almost an iron pipe like a reed pipe. The length of the pipe is about one meter. ”

"Iron pipes? A meter? ”

The three blacksmiths were also a little puzzled when they heard what Li Gengyun said, although they knew what the reed pipe looked like, they had never built an iron pipe. But what made them even more puzzled was the distance unit that Li Gengyun said, one meter? In this dynasty, there was no sense of one meter, and it was common to use zhang, inch, and ruler as the unit for calculating the length of a short distance, and if it was farther, it would be li.

"I see, it's about three to five inches long iron pipes, I believe you blacksmiths should have a way to make it!"

Li Gengyun also understood their doubts, so he converted it to the current distance calculation, which is three or five inches of iron pipe.

"You can try!"

The three blacksmiths are also veterans, and they have experience in creating hollowed-out objects even though they have never made iron pipes, so for them, building iron pipes should be similar to making hollow objects.

"Thank you very much!"

"There are also four ceremonial flower masters, you are all the best ceremonial flower masters in Xiangzhou, I believe you should have a very clear concept of the ratio of ceremonial flowers, but I want you to make not ceremonial flowers, but artillery that is more powerful than ceremonial flowers and can explode after ignition. Just light a few cannons and you can raze this place to the ground! ”

"Raze this place to the ground?!" The four ceremonial flower craftsmen were also surprised, they knew the power of the ceremonial flowers, and if they wanted to raze this place to the ground, it was estimated that it would be almost possible to get hundreds of ceremonial flowers, but what Li Gengyun said was to ask for a few, it was to be able to explode artillery, one of the craftsmen asked Li Gengyun very suspiciously, "This lord, what you are talking about is explosives, right?!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! It's explosives! This master, do you know how to make explosives? ”

Li Gengyun was also very excited when he heard the craftsman mention explosives, judging from what he and Guo Feng had learned, there was no such thing as explosives in Xiangzhou and even in the entire Great Song Dynasty, at most it was a flower cannon and firecrackers, and this term suddenly came out of the mouth of a craftsman, could it not make him happy?

"The small family lives in Nanyuan, and their ancestors have been making ceremonial flowers for a living. However, when my ancestors made ceremonial flowers, they all went to a separate place to make them, and lived separately from their families. I'm ashamed to say that since my ancestors and my generation, more than a dozen ancestors have died in explosions, so in our family books, there is a record of explosives. But we never dared to touch it. The ancestor said that this thing is God's punishment for us who make ceremonial flowers, and if we are greedy, we will be killed by explosives. ”

"Yes, there are also several ancestors in my family who were killed by this, this explosive."

"Yes, yes!"

While hearing the craftsman talk about dynamite killings, the other three craftsmen also talked about their ancestors being killed by dynamite.

"Uh, it's embarrassing!" Li Gengyun's heart was broken at this time, he really wanted to say, this is not because your ancestors are greedy, but because your ancestors are curious, this explosive will not explode if it does not encounter an open flame, it is very likely that those of them wanted to test it after making a powerful fireworks, and they were killed by the explosion.

"Don't worry, explosives are not a punishment, I want you to make explosives now, and the four of you work together, believing that you can complete several explosives of different proportions in one morning. All you have to do is hand over the explosives to the lead guard. I'll tell you first, if I can make the explosives I want in three days, then each of the four of you will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver. ”

"Of course, the same goes for the three master blacksmiths, and if you can make the iron pipes that I can accept within three days, you will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver each."

"I believe I told everyone before I came, your salary here for a year is one hundred taels of silver, five hundred taels of silver, but it is enough for you to work here for five years!"

"Five hundred taels! Is it true!? ”

"My lord, are you telling the truth?"

Everyone asked Li Gengyun incredulously, because their original workshop was a blacksmith and a ceremonial flower craftsman, and it was already a top day to earn fifty taels a year, but Li Gengyun invited them to come over for one hundred taels a year, and after completing the explosives and iron pipes, they could be rewarded with five hundred taels, which was enough for their whole family to eat and drink for a lifetime!

"I, Li Gengyun, do what I say!"

"Ah, it turns out that you are Mr. Li!"

"It's Mr. Lee! It's Mr. Lee! ”