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Zheng Zhi was riding on a horse, and his body was still followed by many people, and Jin Cuilian was sitting in the carriage with the child in her arms.

When he got out of the street of the Yamen of Jingluo Mansion, Zheng Zhi approached the carriage and said to Jin Cuilian in the window: "Xiaolian, hug Kai'er for me for a while." ”

Jin Cuilian didn't think much about it, and asked the coachman to stop, Zheng Zhi also stopped next to him, and Jin Cuilian handed the child to Zheng Zhi on the horse.

As soon as Zheng Zhi bent down to pick up the child, the big man cried again.

Jin Cuilian hurriedly took two steps forward and said, "Official, come and hug the slave." ”

Where can Zheng Zhi return this big man to Jin Cuilian, and said with a smile: "Xiaolian, I'll go first, you slowly follow behind." ”

After speaking, Zheng Zhi picked up Zheng Kai with one hand and put it on the back of the horse in front of him, and as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the unicorn beast ran away.

Seven or eight horsemen behind him immediately followed.

Jin Cuilian was in a hurry, crying with a sad face, hurriedly got into the carriage, and instructed the coachman: "Chase quickly, chase the officials quickly." ”

Zheng Kai cried louder and danced with his hands, but he couldn't get out of the control of Zheng Zhi's arm.

The horsemen came out of the gate in a moment, and their horses were faster, and they galloped up.

The wind blew so much that Zheng Kai was crying on horseback, and the one-year-old child was obviously panicked at this time.

Zheng Zhi was still laughing: "Son, isn't it cool to gallop on a horse." ”

Zheng Kai seemed to understand Zheng Zhi's words, and slowly stopped crying, obviously used to the feeling of being bumpy right away, and not as panicked as before, although his smart black eyes were blown by the wind, his eyelids were blown by the wind, but he also began to look around.

Zheng Zhi saw the child in front of him who slowly stopped crying, and slowly collected some horse speed, and said with a smile: "Men should be like this, the horizontal knife is immediately smooth, and life is happy." ”

Zheng Zhi doesn't care whether a child of this age can understand it or not, he is talking to himself.

The people behind him slowly caught up, Zheng Zhima walked more slowly, and said with Pei Xuan, who came out with him: "Old Pei, tomorrow send someone to Cangbei to bring a thousand horses, go to Dulonggang to transport grain, and send Han Wu to do this." ”

Hundreds of thousands of stones of grain can obviously not be transported in one trip, and a cadre must be sent to guard all the way, Zheng Zhi also thought of Han Shizhong, Han Shizhong's leadership ability, Zheng Zhi knew it in his last life, and he would definitely be able to handle this matter properly. Dulonggang to Cangzhou, the road is not far, but there is no danger.

"Xianggong, I knew about it yesterday, and it was a really good thing, but it was more than 400,000 stone grain, and the cash was not enough." Pei Xuan frowned and said. Today's Pei Xuan is the real master, Zheng Zhi only ordered to open up wasteland, dig canals, build docks, dig salt ponds, buy grain, etc., and his heart is also a little less. In the past few months, the continuous expenditures, the transactions opened by the Daimyo's mansion, the money paid back to Tong Guan, and the expenses spent in Cangzhou for several months, are really a little beyond their means.

Zheng Zhi listened to this, thought about it, and probably knew something, and replied: "How much can be transported on a trip, how much money can be brought with you." If you have money, you will go to more luck, and when you don't have money, you will make fewer trips. ”

Pei Xuan nodded, and said: "Don't worry, Xianggong, in the next few months, more wine will be sold, some business taxes will be collected, and some salt goods will be released, and the treasury will be slowly filled." ”

Zheng Zhi also nodded, but he knew in his heart that no matter how much money he had, it was not enough to spend, the time was pressing, and after only a few years of the war, he really couldn't allow himself to accumulate his net worth so slowly, and he would definitely want to think of other faster ways to get money.

And in a moment they were at the tent in the camp. Zheng Zhi had just sat down, and Shi Jin came with Ling Zhen.

Zheng Zhi opened his mouth and asked, "How about gunpowder?" ”

Ling Zhen's face was full of exhaustion, but he smiled happily and said: "Xianggong's formula is really the best, and the power is huge, with this sharp weapon, I will definitely show my might on the Great Song Battle Array." ”

Zheng Zhi didn't wrinkle when he heard this, war is not something that can be solved by black powder, and today's forbidden army, one person is issued with a submachine gun, but it can show its might, give some black powder, but I'm afraid it won't help. It is impossible for Zheng Zhi to spread this black powder.

"Take it with me." Zheng Zhi said.

Ling Zhen hurriedly took out a bull horn from his arms, uncovered the oiled paper wrapped in the horn, and slowly poured the powder inside onto the case in front of Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi saw the black powder powder in front of him, but it was still pitch black, and he was also wondering in his heart, the black powder in his impression should be the slightly silver-gray color in the firecracker, why the black powder that came out was still pitch black.

But Zheng Zhi didn't know that the black powder in the firecrackers in later generations was added with other things to have a silver-gray color, such as aluminum powder, which can increase the power and sound of firecrackers, and can also make the flash of the explosion stronger.

"Brother, don't you know, this night in the camp, no one really slept well, the whole night was rumbling, this Ling Zhen blew up a lot of big holes in the camp, it's really terrifying." Shi Jin said with a smile. Shi Jin also stayed awake all night last night.

"Go out and blow it up a few more times." Zheng Zhi had some doubts in his heart, and felt that the black powder he saw was not much different from what he had seen in the warehouse before.

Zheng Zhi was thinking about gunpowder, and suddenly saw Shi Jin step forward and stretched out his hand to sweep it into his arms, and said with a smile: "Good nephew, this thing can't be eaten." ”

Zheng Zhi looked down and saw that the big man in his hand actually reached out to the desk and grabbed a handful of gunpowder, obviously wanting to send it to his mouth, but was stopped by Shi Jin with a smile.

"Haha... Take the children out today to play, man, and play in the camp as much as possible, so as not to lose all your flesh. Zheng Zhi said with a smile.

Everyone talked and laughed, teasing the big man with birds, and slowly came out of the big tent.

A moment later, there was a loud bang in the camp, and the earth shook as if the ground was shaking, and then mushroom smoke rose. Zheng Zhi stepped forward and shouted loudly at the big pit that had been blown out on the ground.

It was also Ling Zhen who was full of medicine in order to show his power, and a whole large bag of gunpowder was ignited at one time to have such a momentum.

At this time, Jin Cuilian dared to go to the gate of the camp, and was shocked by this loud noise, and the horses pulling the cart were also frightened and restless.

Jin Cuilian was so shocked that her heart was beating wildly, but she suddenly remembered Zheng Kai again, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up... Hurry in and find an official. ”

Zheng Zhi looked at Zheng Kai, who was still looking around with his eyes open in his arms, and knew that the child was not afraid, but went around looking for the source of the sound, and said with a smile: "This child is with me, and he is used to hearing this kind of voice." ”

Zheng Zhi had heard a lot of these explosions in his previous life.

Pei Xuan was also dumbfounded, knowing that this thing must be a big killer weapon on the battle array, he took two steps forward and asked, "Official, how should this thing be arranged?" ”

Zheng Zhi put Zheng Kai on the ground, went to play with him, and replied: "Tell me to go down, let the caravans coming to Cangzhou bring more fire and sulfur to Cangzhou, we will buy them at a high price, recruit more craftsmen, and say to the caravans, craftsmen will be treated well when they come to Cangzhou." Pei Xuan, you send someone to find a remote mountain col, build a new camp, build the camp, and leave the rest to Zhu Wu to manage. ”

Pei Xuan nodded, and he was silently remembering these things in his heart.

Zheng Zhi turned his head and said to Shi Jin Ling Zhen: "In the last few days, don't bomb it at night, bomb it more during the day, and blow it up until these horses don't hear it." ”

Shi Jin and Ling Zhen naturally understood what they meant, that is, they wanted to familiarize the horses in their camp with the sound of the explosion, so they nodded in response.

One by one, the camp was built first, and then the cannons, gunpowder, and projectiles began to be cast. Naturally, Ling Zhen was still responsible for these things.

Zheng Zhi also knew that casting a real iron cannon was really not such a simple thing, and it was also a test of the casting process of the Song Dynasty. It is impossible to really hollow out a large number of barrels with large iron pillars one by one, so it is impossible to build a few in a year.

At this time, Jin Cuilian finally found Zheng Zhi in front of him, and Zheng Kai, who saw these big men running around at their feet, hurriedly stepped forward to hug him.

Zheng Kai is very happy, and it is the first time to walk around by himself in the wild, everything is novel, everything is interested. Even if you fall, you don't cry, and you can play with it for a while when you lie on the ground and pick up a gadget.

It was bitter for Jin Cuilian, and Zheng Kai, who was covered in dust, was already anxious, and he was afraid that he would have to teach a lesson when he went back.

Then there was a little exercise, hundreds of ironclad knights came and went like the wind, and hundreds of strong recruits had strict orders and neat steps.

Zheng Zhi sat on the podium and nodded again and again, and the training of these recruits was also according to plan, and there were not many mistakes.

Pei Xuan returned to Jinglue Mansion in the morning to arrange for Zheng Zhi to explain the matter. In the middle of the afternoon, he came back from the horse and handed over a letter from Tokyo to Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi took the letter and showed that there was no handwriting, and the back was tightly sealed with fire paint, and there was a Privy Council lacquer seal on it, and next to the Privy Council lacquer seal, there was also Tong Guan's private seal.

The fire paint completely sealed the entire opening of the envelope. This is known as a top-secret letter.

It is also necessary for those who have faith to carefully examine the traces of this fire paint to prevent it from being opened without permission, but if there is something wrong, those who handle it will be afraid that they will also bleed.

Zheng Zhi looked at such a letter, and looked at Tong Guan's private seal on the fire paint, and his brows were already wrinkled. Knowing this letter must be a big deal.

Zheng Zhi carefully inspected it, and saw that the envelope was intact and had not been opened, so he raised his hand and waved everyone away.

Everyone also knew that the matter was important, and stood on the left and right not far from the blade.

Zheng Zhi slowly peeled off the fire paint, the fire paint peeled off, and the two neat seals were broken, and the letters inside were taken out.

There are only two lines of handwriting on the letter: secretly build a sea ship, search for all-night waterway seafarers, and go to Liaodong to find a woman. The silver money craftsman arrived, the country was important, and it was completed in March, so it should not be neglected.

Zheng Zhi saw these two lines of handwriting, and he already knew what it meant. Tong Guan has returned to Liao, and the alliance on the sea is about to begin, and the imperial court sent envoys to cross the Liao State by sea and go directly to the land of white mountains and black waters to negotiate an alliance with the Jurchens, and the Jurchens are both Jurchens.

Originally, this sea ship was supposed to go out of Shandong, but now Zheng Zhi, who Tong Guan trusted very much, was in Cangzhou, and this sea ship also went to Cangzhou, crossing the Bohai Sea to Liaodong.

The matter of shipbuilding and the search for seafarers all came to Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi read the letter and slowly put it into his arms, this matter is really important. The Liao and Song dynasties formed an alliance and reconciled for a hundred years, and now the Great Song Dynasty is about to break the alliance and unilaterally tear up the contract and form an alliance with the Jurchens to attack Liao.

Zheng Zhi already knew that it was a blessing or a curse. The letter was so private, and it was clear that the matter had not really been discussed publicly in the court.

This matter must be concealed from many people in the court, and second, it must be concealed from the Liao State. Tong Guan Cai Jing is really powerful.

Zheng Zhi thought for a moment, knowing that he couldn't change the overall situation, but he slowly had some other thoughts in his heart. Cai Jingtong sent craftsmen to build ships for silver.

This thing seems to be a really good thing for Zheng Zhi. But how to build this ship, Zheng Zhi also has his own thoughts.