Forbidden city.

A person dressed in a flying fish suit hurriedly walked to the Qianqing Palace, turning a blind eye to those who greeted or greeted him on the road, which caused a lot of speculation and doubts: Lord Qian is a popular person next to His Majesty, he is so sad, could it be that His Majesty has another trouble, causing the courtiers to be dissatisfied again?

"I said, Brother Qian, what are you doing with such a sad face? Hasn't it been peaceful lately? "When he arrived at the gate of Qianqing Palace, a fat man stopped Qian Ning.

Qian Ning was so worried that he didn't pay attention to who it was, he was about to have a seizure when he looked up, and when he could see the person clearly, he smiled bitterly: "Brother Gu, your reaction is too insensitive, right?" It's still too peaceful, it's clear that something big is going to happen. ”

"Big deal?" Gu Dayong was taken aback, "Brother Qian, don't scare the elder brother, what can be a big deal?" Long live the Lord hasn't even ridden a horse recently, is it possible that the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee are still unforgiving? At this, he began to get angry.

"It's not that this ......" Qian Ning lowered his voice, looked left and right like a thief, pulled Gu Dayong to a remote corner, and said: "Brother Gu, let me ask you, when did Your Majesty suddenly become quiet?" ”

"Isn't it just that last time I was making trouble to go to Xuanfu, and then I was reprimanded by the Queen Mother, and several scholars advised me, and then I ......"

"Yes, but it's not the first time these things have happened, which time did you listen to the persuasion before? Why is it so brilliant this time, could it be that the queen mother moved the family law or the university scholars learned the spell? Brother Gu, think about it. ”

"That's what I said, Brother Qian, you know that my brother is not bright, so don't sell it, just say it happily." Gu Dayong also realized that something was wrong, and urged Qian Ning a little anxiously.

"Actually, Your Majesty didn't give up last time!" Qian Ning's voice was lowered, and Gu Da's ears were almost close to his mouth, so that he could hear clearly. And Qian Ning's first sentence made Gu Dayong tremble, and without waiting for him to react, he just listened to Qian Ning continue:

"That day, His Majesty ordered the younger brother to tell the younger brother some things alone, and asked the younger brother not to say it, but the elder brother is his own person, so he will say it, so as not to be caught off guard when the time comes." Qian Ning waited for Gu Dayong to ease his nerves, and then said:

"Your Majesty instructed that the younger brother should send someone to keep an eye on Xie Hong of Xuanfu, and report everything about Xuanfu to him. The results of the last fight, as well as the old and new pianos a while ago, and the gambling and fighting with the hungry tigers of Xuanfu, the little brother has reported to His Majesty. That's fine, but the information I got today is a bit tricky, so I'm worried. ”

Gu Dayong looked surprised and said suspiciously: "It is said that Long Live Lord is already very tempted, why don't you make an order to summon him?" No matter how ...... the scholars are? You won't embarrass Your Majesty for such a trivial matter, will you? It does smell weird. ”

"Eh, my brother Gu, why don't you understand?" Qian Ning was anxious and said, "Your Majesty has been in and out with a guard of honor recently, aren't you surprised?" ”

"This ......" Gu Dayong hesitated, Long Live Lord does not like the honor guard the most, but recently he has been carrying a full guard of honor wherever he goes, and I heard that the ministers of the DPRK and China are still very praising this matter.

"Look at this ...... again" Qian Ning took out a paper roll from his arms, spread it out and handed it to Gu Dayong.

Gu Dayong took it and swept his eyes twice, and was a little casual at first, but after taking it, he suddenly shuddered, and said in a trembling voice: "Could it be that he ...... long live him?"

"yes!" Qian Ning also had a look of fear on his face, "That's what I'm afraid of, we will definitely have to follow when the time comes, and this crime of instigation can't be escaped, and the little brother is worried." ”

"What to do, what to do?" Gu Da rubbed his hands together, spun in circles on the spot, and suddenly seemed to think of something, turned around and grabbed Qian Ning's hand and said, "Brother Qian, you can't let the Lord Banzai know about this, otherwise let's go and tell the Queen Mother, didn't Liu Jin do this last time?" ”

"What are you two doing in the corner?" The two of them were trembling when they heard it, they were really afraid of something, and before they could discuss it, they were ugly, and the main owner arrived.

Zhengde looked at Gu Dayong with a suspicious expression, and said, "Dayong, I can hear it, what do you say you can't let me know?" Did you kill my monkey? Gu Dayong was in too much of a hurry just now, and forgot to lower his voice, Zhengde just came out of the Qianqing Palace, but he heard a few words.

"The monkey is good, the old slave is attentive, long live the lord just rest assured." Gu Da smiled all over his face.

"What's that makes you want to hide it from me?" Zhengde didn't giggle like usual, but his expression was a little serious, and his eyes were a little sharp.

"This ......" Gu Dayong regretted dying, why was he so careless, this is terrible.

"Your Majesty, in fact, there is news from the Xuanfu again, and Gonggong Gu is afraid of disturbing His Majesty's rest, so he stopped Weichen." Qian Ning's adaptability was much stronger than Gu Dayong's, and he presented the paper roll with both hands at the moment.

Zhengde was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly took the paper scroll, muttering while reading: "Dayong, you stupid, this is a big deal, next time even if I fall asleep, you have to wake me up, otherwise I will delay my big event, and I will definitely punish you to clean the stables......"

When Gu Dayong heard the word stable, he knew that Zhengde was not angry, and as soon as he wiped a cold sweat, he was startled by Zhengde again. I saw Zhengde's eyes shining, and he repeatedly chanted two words in his mouth: "Fireworks, fireworks, haha, fireworks......"

After a while, Zhengde came back to his senses, turned his head and asked Qian Ning: "Qian Ning, why is there no fireworks display in the capital?" On the contrary, there is a small place like Xuanfu? ”

Qian Ning was also clear about this, he bowed down and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it turned out that there was, but a few years ago, because of the fireworks, which caused a fire in the city, the ministers of the court and the central government asked the first emperor to cancel the Lantern Festival. ”

"Oh, is the fire burning? Whose house did they burn? Zhengde suddenly became interested and asked.

"The burning is not too big, but it was Xu Shoufu's house that was burned at that time, so it ......" Qian Ning was a little suffocated, Xu Pu was a scholar for six years during the Hongzhi period, although he has now become a scholar, but there are still many protégés and former officials in the court, and Qian Ning does not want to offend such a big man.

"Oh, I see." Zhengde nodded noncommittally, "Qian Ning, remember my orders, don't forget." He told him one more time, and then turned and walked away.

Looking at his back, Qian Ning and Gu Dayong were stunned for a while, Long Live Lord has been a little unfathomable recently, and he can't figure out what he is thinking at all, is this because he has grown up?

Gu Dayong came back to his senses, sighed, and said with some complaints: "Brother Qian, you just relieved my brother, and my brother is very grateful, but you shouldn't use the affairs of Xuanfu, in case Your Majesty is really the same as we speculated, wouldn't it be bad?" ”

Qian Ning shook his head: "Brother Gu, you still treat Your Majesty as a child, although Your Majesty is usually friendly to people and a little casual, but if he finds out that you are hiding it from him and thinks that you betrayed him, it will be a big trouble." ”

Thinking of the change in Zhengde's expression just now, Gu Dayong gasped and said in fear: "It's true that our family is different, but if Your Majesty messes around, it will be us who will be unlucky at that time?" ”

"What can I do then?" Qian Ning sighed, "Don't talk about the future of our brothers, even if it is Liu Jin's arrogant and domineering guy, don't you have to rely on Your Majesty in the end?" Without His Majesty's holy family, we would have been crushed into slag by the ministers, alas, let it be fate, I don't know where that Xie Hong jumped out, how can he make His Majesty pay so much attention to it, and even ......"

Gu Da covered Qian Ning's mouth with a handful, Qian Ning also found that he was speechless, the two looked at each other for a long time, and they both sighed, alas, Xie Hong, this bad guy is really harmful.

...... "Ahh Xie Hong rubbed his nose, he seems to have been sneezing a lot lately, could it be because the Xuanfu is too cold?

Zeng Zheng frowned, "Brother Xie, we're in the gunpowder pile, you have to be careful." ”

"Yes, yes." Xie Hong replied with low eyebrows, this big brother Zeng is usually very easy-going, but as soon as he entered the working state, he immediately changed into a person.

"Brother Xie, you see, arrange the order of the fireworks in this way, and then the gunpowder particles in each fireworks must be distributed in this way according to the size, plus ...... You can let the fireworks form a pattern in the air. After a few days of preparation, Zeng Zheng had already made the fireworks.

Xie Hong nodded again and again, only feeling that he had really lost the face of the traverser, but there was no way, who let himself never really touch this thing? I can't imagine that the level of craftsmen in this era is so high, and even the principle that the size of gunpowder particles affects the combustion rate is clear, which is really impressive.

"But that's not enough." The thing was made, but Zeng Zheng's brows still didn't open.

"Isn't it okay?" Xie Hong looked at the pattern formed by the fireworks in the sky, and was exclaiming, and was slightly stunned when he heard the words, at this level, it can be performed in the future life, it shouldn't be left behind, right?

Zeng Zheng sighed and said: "Brother Xian, you don't know, Brother Fool is best at firearms, gunpowder is just a bypass, listening to Brother Ma's words, it seems that the craftsmen in the Xuanfu Army are more skilled, and the fireworks released are colorful, in comparison, Brother Fool is probably not enough to do this." ”

"Yes, what I saw in the past years, the fireworks made by Brother Zeng are indeed quite inferior." Maang also looked up at the fireworks, and then he echoed.

"Color? Brother Ma, do you recall, is the color of the fireworks uniform? Or is it more cluttered? Xie Hong was not discouraged, his original idea was to work the color, but at this time he didn't dare to ignore it anymore, who knows if those military craftsmen would also understand the principle of flame color reaction?

"It should be messy, but it's really colorful and beautiful." Maang struggled to recall and gave a definite reply.

"That's easy!" Xie Hongdaxi, since it is messy, it means that the other party does not understand the principle of flame color reaction, or only has a superficial understanding, so as long as he makes a plan according to the weakness of the other party, then the matter will be done.

"Brother Ma, please go to Dongjiazhuang and get some materials to ......come back," Xie Hong wrote a list, "Some names may be different, I also wrote the characteristics on them." ”

"Xuanming powder? Patina, limestone ......" Zeng Zheng took the list first, glanced at it, and frowned: "Brother Xian, the things on your list have nothing to do with gunpowder, what are you doing here?" ”

"Xuanming powder is added to gunpowder, and after burning, it will produce a golden glow...... "Xuanming powder is sodium sulfate, which is a rare material that Xie Hong can directly call the name, of course, it is the name of this era, if you say sodium sulfate, I'm afraid no one will know."

"When you add limestone powder, you can give out a red ...... "Limestone is calcium carbonate."

"Patina...... Blue ...... "Xie Hong explained the principle of the flame color reaction, and he didn't twist his mouth, he didn't know the names of many things at all, he could only say some characteristics, and then find a way to find it.

“…… In this way, we only need to add the powder of these materials to the gunpowder and arrange them in the order you said, Brother Zeng, then we can have what color we want. ”

Finally finished explaining, Xie Hong's mouth was dry, eh, why didn't Brother Zeng give a reaction, didn't Brother explain it? If you don't understand, there's no way, brother, you can't just memorize the periodic table, and then give someone a chemistry lesson, right? Most of the chemistry knowledge has been returned to the teacher, and I want to take classes, but my brother doesn't have that ability.

He turned his head to look at Zeng Zheng, but found that Zeng Zheng was looking at the list intently, and he was still whispering something in his mouth. He didn't know what to say, this big brother Zeng was really a technology maniac.

"Brother Xie, didn't you say you don't understand gunpowder? How can you ......" The two horses were confused, Xie Hong's helpless appearance a few days ago didn't seem to be pretending, but everyone has seen Brother Zeng's ability, it's quite amazing, why did he take a list of Brother Xie and become like this?

Xie Hong smashed his mouth and began to make up nonsense again, "These are the ...... I see from ancient books"

Cut...... The two horses shook their heads together and said they didn't believe it, where did they come from so many ancient books, they all recorded things that were unheard of, and the previous piano and music scores were just that, and there were more of these things scattered among the people. But now it's gunpowder, how can ordinary people understand this thing? Not to mention what ancient books it is recorded in.

They didn't believe it, but some people did, Zeng Zheng came back to his senses and asked Xie Hong eagerly: "Brother Xian, where is that ancient book now?" Can you let the foolish brother take a look? ”

"It's been lost...... Xie Hong was just about to speak, but Erma snatched his lines in unison, Xie Hong was also a little embarrassed, patted his head and said: "It's really lost, but Brother Zeng rest assured, the content is remembered by the younger brother, and when he is free, he will slowly tell the eldest brother ......."

"Where can you wait? The foolish brother is in a hurry, the virtuous brother should talk about it quickly. Zeng Zheng looked eager, and exclaimed: "No wonder my grandfather praised the virtuous brother in the letter, the foolish brother was still a little unbelieving, but now what he saw and heard really opened the eyes of the foolish brother, the virtuous brother is really pedantic, and I hope that the virtuous brother will not be vulgar with the foolish brother, and give more ......."

Zeng Zheng completely lost his calmness at work these days, urging for a while, admiring for a while, Xie Hong almost thought that he was possessed by Yue'er, otherwise why did he suddenly become so difficult? You must know that you have eaten a lot of white-eyed people in the past two days.

"Brother Zeng, otherwise, let's go back and talk slowly, you give the list to Brother Ma first, and let him buy it."

Xie Hong is also helpless, he has been pestered by Dong Ping, and he also knows the way to deal with this kind of person, it is useless to be reasonable, as long as he tells them what they want to hear, then everything will be fine. When the time comes, even if they have something to do with them, I'm afraid they won't respond.

"No need, as long as Brother Xian explains to Brother Yu, these things are on me." Zeng Zheng said proudly: "Compared with the materials related to the identification of firearms, let alone Xuanfu Town, even if you look at the world, there are few people who can compare with Brother Fool and me." Brother Xian, you better explain it to Brother Yu first, what do you say this Xuanming powder is coming from......"

Xie Hong doesn't have much goods in his stomach, and he is not a chemist, but Zeng Zheng is the top gunpowder craftsman of this era. Therefore, on the way back to Xuanfu from outside the city, Xie Hong's poor chemical knowledge was squeezed dry by Zeng Zheng.

"I see, Brother Xian, the term "elemental" is really appropriate, Brother Fool thinks about it, it is actually a big gain." Xie Hong was originally worried that Zeng Zheng wouldn't understand, but after listening to it, he first thought deeply, and then suddenly his eyes lit up, and he laughed and said: "Brother Xian, the matter of fireworks is wrapped up in Brother Wei, you just have to rest assured." ”

With that, he went in on his own. Xie Hong smiled dumbly, but let go of his thoughts.

He was talking and laughing with Erma and was about to enter the door, when a person suddenly flashed out from the side, and when Xie Hong looked at it, he found that it seemed to be Jiang Bin's brother.

"Master Xie, eldest brother asked me to pass you a message."

"Oh? It was Jiang who commanded. Xie Hong raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically.

"Exactly." The man clenched his fists and said: "Shen Xun is not dead according to that person's thief's heart, it seems that he intends to use this Lantern Festival Conference to disadvantage Gongzi, what the eldest brother means, it is better for Gongzi not to participate." ”

"How do you know about such a thing?" Although Jiang Bin has been sold a favor, Xie Hong will not easily believe it to people who don't know the roots.

"Last time, I inherited the kindness of my son and helped the brothers recover their military salaries, and everyone felt that they could not repay it, and the eldest brother sent a few brothers who were scouts......" The man hesitated slightly, but still told the truth.

Xie Hong also suddenly realized, it turned out that it was Jiang Bin's people who spread the rumors, no wonder he could tell the rumors so clearly. Scouts who are fighting with the Tartars, isn't it easy to keep an eye on the city?

“…… When it is said that the one who spreads rumors is small, and the little one is called a crow. The crow continued: "Because of the rumors, the gang is much more cautious, so it is difficult to get accurate information, but there is definitely nothing wrong with their unfavorable things compared to Childe, so Childe had better retreat." ”

Xie Hong groaned: "Lantern Festival? What means can they use? ”

"Although I haven't heard the details, the little brothers are not all unfounded." Seeing that Xie Hong refused to give up, the crow said suddenly.

"Oh?"

"It seems to be related to the Gu Wang's Mansion, because Zhang Daming even said that he sent a lot of people to patrol the vicinity, and the eldest brother thought that they wanted to plot against the adult's house, and he also sent people to protect it secretly, but later it was found that they seemed to be going to the Gu Wang's Mansion."

"Xie was almost negligent, please thank Brother Jiang on my behalf when this brother goes back."

Xie Hong was scared into a cold sweat, although the other party didn't dare to make a move, but what if he really did it? With so many people in the family, Erniu may not be able to protect it alone, but fortunately, he sold Jiang Bin's favor, and with the help of his brothers, unless Shen Xun mobilized an army to attack, it was impossible to pose a threat.

It's just that they are plotting against the Valley Palace...... What kind of conspiracy is it? Speaking of which, Gu Wangfu is still Zhengde's home in Xuanfu in the previous life.

Looking at the majestic castle-like Valley King's Mansion in the twilight, Xie Hong fell into deep thought.

(To be continued)