On the sixteenth day of the first month of the second year of the middle and second year of the Great Middle Kingdom, news from Tokyo came one after another. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When they heard that Zhao Huan really wanted to do something about the imperial expedition, and also served as the crown prince to supervise the country, and even counted Wang Huang among the auxiliary ministers, everyone was surprised.

Of course, this "everyone" naturally includes Huang Jie, although he knows very well how Wang Hao got together with Zhao Huan, but Zhao Huan's ability to believe Wang Hao to this point is still much beyond his expectations.

Although Tokyo and Huangzhou are thousands of miles apart, after so many years of arrangement, Huang Jie's channel is not much better than the government's 600 miles of expedited and the army's 800 miles of flying, and a thousand miles a day is also idle, so the edict issued on the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and on the morning of the sixteenth day of the first month, Huang Jie also knew that the emperor's guard of honor who set off from Fengqiu Gate at noon also rested in Fengqiu that night.

Zhao Huan seems to be determined to drive the expedition in person, according to the regulations of the emperor's patrol in the past, it should have been to send a forward to explore the road before traveling, and then the leading troops of the emperor's guard of honor will defend the road, and then the four armies will be in the column, escorting the emperor's chariot to move forward slowly, and it can travel twenty miles in one day, which is considered a speed.

And this time he came directly to force the army, and even took 15,000 guards and went straight to Fengqiu County, which was thirty miles away from Tokyo.

Although some of the seed masters who got the news were a little anxious, Huang Jie told him not to be in a hurry, anyway, outsiders didn't know about his secret coming to Huangzhou, and Zhao Huan's edict to promote him to the deputy capital of Hebei Zhulu would take at least a month to go to Xiongzhou and turn back, but he was really not in a hurry for a day or two.

On the sixteenth, Huang Jie also took the group of seed teachers and his party, and took a turn in Longshan Academy, and only in the morning did he drive a long car to lead them to Leishan in the morning.

At this time, in the Leishan Courtyard, there was still thunder rumbling, and Huang Jie was not ambiguous, and directly led everyone into the academy's artillery hangar, and pointed to dozens of shiny brand-new copper cannons in the warehouse and said: "After the first battle of the Linqing Dynasty, the artillery workshop stepped up casting day and night, and all the income is here!" ”

Everyone looked forward to it, but when they saw that there were almost more than 30 light and heavy guns in the warehouse, they made everyone naturally look at their eyes, but after the two of them looked at it, they were happy, and after looking at each other, Zhe Keshi also said: "Virtuous nephew, but all of them are waiting with me?" ”

Huang Jie nodded and said: "There are a total of thirty-two, ten heavy artillery, twelve light artillery, and ten long-range cannons, how to distribute them is naturally decided by the Grand Duke of the Seed Family." In addition, all the artillerymen who had graduated from this academy were brought with them, and although there were only sixty men, they were enough to handle the thirty-two guns. ”

The planter was happy to hear this, and couldn't help but come up to take a look, caressing the body of a heavy cannon and couldn't help asking: "This thing is very sharp, it can be described as a national treasure, but it is too complicated to cast, my brother found a lot of casters and coppersmiths in Xiongzhou and wanted to try to imitate them, but there were a lot of injuries, and none of them were cast." ”

Huang Jie didn't think much when he heard it, and nodded: "This thing is not easy to achieve, even if it is only one out of ten in Huangzhou, the cost of one is almost 10,000 yuan, not to mention the cost of ammunition is also expensive." ”

Then Huang Jie led everyone to the ammunition depot to check, but saw that there were all kinds of ammunition in the depot, and there were a lot of them, in addition to weapons such as earth-shattering thunder and gunpowder arrows.

After leading everyone to look at the warehouse, Huang Jie led everyone to the workshop to check, and then saw that the workshop that made all kinds of artillery and gunpowder weapons was located in the depths of the Thunder Mountain, far from each other, especially the workshop specially used to cast artillery, and it was in the belly of a huge mountain in the Thunder Mountain, which was called the underground fortress of the Iron Furnace Fort.

After entering the Iron Furnace Fort, everyone also saw that the Iron Furnace Fort occupied a very large area, and it was even more crowded with people, shouting and shouting. Seeing such a scene, even the planters were stunned, and they also wondered and asked, "How many people did you need to build this artillery?" ”

Huang Jie explained to everyone: "To cast a cannon, it must go through the processes of mineral processing, grinding, smelting, configuration, refining, juice, casting, tempering, grinding, polishing, testing, etc."

As he spoke, he led everyone to a huge smelting room, and he felt waves of heat gushing out of the room. Since it was still in the first month, the weather in Huangzhou was also cold, and everyone was wearing heavy winter clothes, but now that they were blown by this heat wave, they suddenly sweated all over their bodies.

Huang Jie didn't dare to let everyone in, so he explained from afar: "This is the smelting room, and the copper required for casting artillery is the copper powder ore from Zhongliao Field in Shanghang Purple Mountain. ”

Looking at the solemn face of the planter, Huang Jie also smiled and said: "The Grand Duke found a coppersmith and directly made a mold and cast it with cooked copper juice?" ”

The face of the seed master was embarrassed, but he also admitted: "At first, I was looking for a famous craftsman in Hebei, and he directly used the copper in the treasury to cast, although the cannon was cast, but he couldn't bear the power of the medicine explosion, and he was going to crack and deform after putting it a few times, and then my brother found a few masters from Henan to cast money, and now he is still studying......

Huang Jie also smiled and said: "When the Grand Duke proposed to imitate, the kid deliberately didn't borrow the craftsman, not to cherish the secret skills, but to borrow the hand of the Grand Duke to see if he could find a new method, and now it seems that this matter still needs the kid and some help, the second duke will go back this time, and he will bring some craftsmen from the Iron Furnace Fort back together!" ”

After that, Huang Jie took a group of sweaty people around the Iron Fort again, and led everyone to see with their own eyes that the casting of this cannon was really not easy, and then he returned.

After returning to Huangzhou, because the breeder was anxious to return to Hebei for Zhao Huan's northern hunting, Huang Jie naturally couldn't do much to keep him, so he also set up a banquet to see him off.

During the banquet, the planter was very drunk, so he also took Huang Jie's hand, and boldly asked with drunkenness: "Ziying, can you tell the old man the truth, is there anything you don't know in this world?" ”

Huang Jie also smiled: "Astronomy, geography, six arts, and hundreds of crafts, it is very easy to know, but it is difficult to know only people's hearts!" ”

On the 25th day of the first lunar month, the planter also gathered nearly 500 men and nearly 100 carts of supplies, and then he also rode north and galloped away.