Meng Zhiyu was irrefuted by Wang Huan's words, but he felt that every sentence seemed to be reasonable, but it was shocking, this argument was contrary to the education he had received in his life, monopolizing the grain trade, competing with the people for profit, how many emperors would not dare to do it. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

"My lord, but, when our grain depot is opened, can we compete with those big grain merchants? From the beginning of my Ming Dynasty, there are grain merchants, many or families, from the Song Dynasty to the present, some of them have meritorious service to the imperial court, the children of the clan have many official merits, we want to monopolize the grain trade, it is bound to conflict with them, as the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, I am afraid that it will be difficult at that time. And once the big thing is not accomplished, the grain depot is close to the small matter, the prestige of the adults is greatly damaged, and the big grain merchants are offended, they are united and united to raise the price of grain, we take a wrong step and make a wrong step, and thousands of mouths are waiting to eat food, maybe it will provoke a popular uprising, and the foundation of the adults is ......."

Meng Zhiyu didn't dare to say any more, thinking about the consequences of failure made him feel cold all over his body.

Wang Huan listened attentively, after all, Meng Zhiyu has been a magistrate for many years, has practical experience in politics, and has a certain understanding of the intertwined political and business relations in eastern Sichuan.

Nodding, Wang Huan agreed: "Yes, this matter cannot be implemented unimpeded by a government decree, so some means must be used." ”

Meng Zhiyu was confused in his heart, worried and hesitant, frowning and thinking about it, when he heard that Wang Huan was going to use means, he was surprised: "Means? ”

Wang Huan bowed: "Yes, this matter should be implemented slowly, what you said is very reasonable, once the grain merchants realize that their interests are threatened, they will inevitably resist stubbornly, even if we use iron and blood on our own territory, we will not be able to control the outside of the large production provinces, when the time comes, the grain merchants in other places will unify and not sell us grain, just rely on our own production and self-sale, it will not be able to meet the demand within two or three years, therefore, the official treasury should be built, but the action should not be too big, first with the situation of the official warehouse everywhere, and implement reliable people to manage, Hoard enough grain to monopolize it when the time is ripe. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhiyu breathed a sigh of relief, his hard persuasion finally paid off, so that things would have a buffer, and as for the future, maybe Wang Huan would have no idea when the time came.

Wang Huan also felt some emotion in his heart, originally thought that pushing the executive order, as long as there were soldiers in hand, it would be implemented strongly, but he didn't expect that there were so many concerns before and after, and it seemed that it was not so easy to take it for granted.

"Let's do this way, Mr. Meng has to bother to carry it out." Wang Huan rubbed the sun X.

Meng Zhiyu replied respectfully: "Yes, the lower officials obey the order." ”

The two of them asked questions and answers for a long time, and at this time they settled a matter, and the other people sitting in the hall, Ma Wannian, Chen Xiang, Zu Bian and others who had been staring at C with big eyes didn't speak, and they didn't understand much, and they didn't dare to talk much, which was very boring.

When he was bored, Wang Huan opened his mouth to the three of them, and he pointed to Li Huaien, who was sitting at the bottom near the door, and introduced to everyone: "This is Li Huaien, who was the former supervisor of the Imperial Military War Bureau, Lord Li, recommended by Lord Chen, to serve in our army from now on, I plan to use him to create a general manager of the Kuizhou Military War Bureau, you all come to know and get close." ”

The people in the hall were originally curious about what this wooden stake with an expression of Mu Na was doing, but when they heard Wang Huan talk about it at this moment, they realized that this person was still an internal official, since Wang Huan valued it, there must be a few brushes, and they immediately stood up and said something "long admiration" and "fortunate meeting".

Wang Huan introduced everyone's name and position to Li Huaien, Li Huaien really lived up to the true character of the wooden man, and replied to everyone with a stiff expression, using the words: "I have seen so-and-so adult", and there is no other word, as if saying one more word will kill him.

This kind of character really can't be mixed up in the inner prison. Wang Huan scolded, but he was very happy in his heart, he had to have such a person to engage in technology, and he was not at ease when he used goods such as courtesans.

Everyone saw each other, and the hall fell silent, Li Huaien's Mu Na simply assimilated all the people in the hall, and even the atmosphere became a little embarrassing, Wang Huan coughed, and asked someone to bring a bird and a bomb.

"Master Li, look at this bird system, how is the condition?" Wang Huan looked at Li Huaien and said.

Li Huaien took over the bird commander from his own soldiers, it was a bird commander captured to Zeng Ying's official army, the commander was black and shiny, and the varnish on the body guard was a little discolored, mottled and worn, and it seemed that it had been used for a long time.

The people in the hall were all staring at Li Huaien, watching his movements, Wang Huan was the same, and he was even a little nervous in his heart, full of expectations, this is to try Li Huaien's ability, listen to what he will say, it is related to the future major events of Kuizhou firearms manufacturing.

Li Huaien didn't notice that everyone's eyes in the hall fell on him, all his attention was on the bird, he put the bird's head flat with both hands, took a look, and then turned to look at the mouth, the bird's beak, and returned the bird's beak to the pro-soldiers.

"How?" Zu Bian was more anxious than Wang Huan, and asked.

Li Huaien was not shocked and arched his hand to Wang Huan, and then arched his hand to the ancestor who asked the question, and replied slowly: "Lord Hui, this bird system is made by Chongzhen's ten-year Ming Military Bureau, the total weight is seven catties and three taels, five feet and one inch long, and the hair is three taels of lead, and the fire is ignited with three coins of black powder, and S can be two hundred steps. However, the iron used in this system is uneven, the color is not good, and if you are a little careless when using, you will definitely blow up. ”

There was an eerie silence in the hall again, no one spoke, and all of them had the same expression: eyes widened, mouths open and dumbfounded.

As soon as the expert kung fu is shot, he will know if there is one.

Everyone has seen this bird before, there is no inscription on it, and there is no mark, Li Huaien just picked it up casually, looked at it back and forth, and after checking it, he could accurately say the exact size, and it was impossible for anyone sitting here to do it.

"That, Master Li, how do you know that this bird system was made by Chongzhen for ten years? There's no inscription on it. Zu asked, licking his lips.

Li Huaien sat still, only his mouth was moving: "Look at the color of the iron used in the unified body, you know, in the tenth year of Chongzhen, due to the insufficient output of iron ore in Shandong, the War Bureau used Hebei iron, and the forging heat is different, so the color of the unified body is different, and it can be distinguished." ”

Zu Bian still had some doubts: "But since it was a bird system made so early in Chongzhen's ten years, and it didn't blow up after using it for so long, isn't this quality very bad?" ”

Li Huaien glanced at him, and his lips moved: "If the Ming army doesn't fight, I'm afraid it won't be able to open a few unifications in a year, and in seven or eight years, this bird will not be able to send more than fifty times, as long as you are lucky and use less medicine, you won't blow up." ”

Completely speechless.

What is an expert, this is an expert.

Indeed, the Ming Dynasty's bird commanders, whether it is the Shenji Battalion or the local guard, almost no one dares to load enough gunpowder according to the requirements of the C Codex, if there is less, there will be less, and it is safer to fight far than to blow up.

After a short silence, everyone's eyes became hot, looking at Li Huaien as if he had seen a fairy, Wang Huan was even more fanatical, almost uncontrollably rushing down to give him a hug.

Fortunately, he suppressed it, endured the joy in his heart, and ordered his own soldiers to hand the exterminating bullet to Li Huaien: "Lord Li, you can take a look at this again." ”

Li Huaien looked at the bamboo tube in the hands of his soldiers in surprise, the bamboo tube was not big, but it was one foot long, and it was no more than three inches thick, both ends were blocked by yellow mud, one of which dug a small hole, and a fire rope was drawn out of it.

"Artillery fire?" Li Huaien shook his head and muttered to himself.

He held the bamboo tube, turned it back and forth and looked at it carefully, Wang Huan felt proud, his invention seemed to make this firearms master unknown, and a sense of accomplishment arose.

Li Huaien looked at the thin fire rope lead suspiciously, even more confused, approached and sniffed it with his nose, his face suddenly changed, and he quickly took out a sharp iron cone from his body, pierced the yellow mud of the bamboo tube, and poured the iron nail gunpowder inside on the hem of his clothes.

Yellow gunpowder and black gunpowder are very different in terms of color and smell, and anyone who knows a little can tell the difference, let alone Li Huaien, he twisted a little gunpowder with his fingers, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it carefully, and then put it in his mouth and tasted it, showing a look of surprise on his face.

It was not only Wang Huan who was proud, but the people sitting were very proud, as if the yellow gunpowder and extinguishing bombs were invented by them.

"It's ...... Gunpowder! Li Huaien finally raised his head, his face was shocked, his lips were still stained with a little yellow powder, and he looked as strange as eating yellow gunpowder: "How can there be this kind of gunpowder?" Who made it? ”

Zu Bian shook his head and showed off: "This is made by my family, you know Zeng Ying, right?" His army died under the enemy of 10,000 people in this bamboo tube, and my lord gave it a name, Kill Bullet! ”

Li Huaien looked at Wang Huan in surprise, his expression was the same as Wang Huan's expression when he looked at him just now, Mu Na's face was replaced with rich facial movements, which dispelled the doubts of those who suspected him of facial paralysis: "My lord, my lord, this kind of gunpowder villain is unheard of, can you let the villain take this bamboo tube back and study it seriously." ”

Wang Huan looked at Li Huaien, who was full of eagerness, and said with a reserved smile: "Don't worry, Master Li, I have a special place to manufacture this gunpowder in large quantities, and its effect is far better than black gunpowder." ”

"Far better than black powder?" Li Huaien had already stood up, and the iron nails on the hem of his clothes fell to the ground crackling.

Wang Huan nodded: "The workshop is in Shizhu Wanshou City, if you want, you can go over tomorrow, but, Lord Li, this kind of gunpowder is domineering, but there is no bird system that can send S it, I appointed you as the head of the War Bureau, just hoping that you can create a firearm that can use it, after all, it is just thrown by hand, the distance is too short, and the use method is too limited." ”

"Okay, good, adult, the villain is willing, don't wait for tomorrow, the villain will leave immediately." Li Huaien couldn't wait: "As for the firearms that use this kind of gunpowder, it is nothing more than thickening the control, but in this way, the body is too heavy, and the soldiers are inconvenient to use, so the villain has to use a lot of copper and iron experiments and take some time to develop." ”

"Copper and iron are not a problem, how much is needed." Wang Huan became more and more happy, and said without hesitation: "It's just time, we have to hurry, we are in a hurry, hahaha." ”

(End of chapter)