This is a very big honor, the four lords have already arrived in the capital, but the emperor only summoned Fang Xiaoyu alone, which shows that the emperor attaches great importance to Fang Xiaoyu.

Following the eunuch, Fang Xiaoyu came to the Imperial Garden again, and Xiahou Ying was sitting on the stone bench in the Imperial Garden, drinking wine in small sips. Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects, and Xiahou Ying smiled and said: "Fang Aiqing has really worked hard to switch to the north and south in the past year, just sit down and talk." ”

Fang Xiaoyu excused himself and sat in the next position. Xiahou won and said: "I wanted to help when the Chinese leader and the Cossack Empire were at war, but the ministers of the court and the central government all spoke out against it, saying that your strength is weak and you will definitely lose, so the court might as well stay out of the matter, and if you lose, you can mediate from it." ”

Fang Xiaoyu listened to Xiahou Ying's words and sneered in his heart, this emperor actually had a jealousy of himself, and planned to use the hand of the Cossack Empire to attack him, but now that he failed, he said such high-sounding words to appease himself, he really treated himself as a child, no matter what, he was already at odds with the emperor now.

Since the emperor wants to calculate himself, if he wants to overthrow the rule of the Xiahou family and establish a new regime in the future, he will not have any psychological burden. Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't bring it out on his face, Fang Xiaoyu quickly pretended to be sincerely frightened and got up and saluted, putting on a grateful look.

For Fang Xiaoyu's performance, Xiahou Ying was very satisfied, and said in his heart that children just wanted to deceive, this time he was also confused and listened to Cheng Yuhuan's words, but fortunately, he came back with a lie, thinking that Fang Xiaoyu could defeat the strong with the weak this time, and completely defeat the Cossack Empire, he was also faintly jealous in his heart.

Looking at Fang Xiaoyu, who was still sincerely afraid, Xiahou Ying couldn't help asking: "I heard that Aiqing broke the 300,000 army of the Cossack Empire with 100,000 soldiers, I don't know what kind of basis Aiqing has to rely on." ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled secretly and said, this emperor wants to see his hole cards, just to get some more benefits. Fang Xiaoyu pretended to be frightened and said: "I was able to defeat the Cossack army this time with two magic weapons, and Weichen was about to sacrifice to the emperor to strengthen the strength of my Lanfang Empire." ”

"Oh?" Xia Hou Ying was interested when he heard it, the lever rifle last time had already surprised him very much, Fang Xiaoyu had just delivered all the goods in the first two months, but he didn't expect him to bring good things again. "Speak quickly and listen to me." Xiahou Ying said in surprise.

Fang Xiaoyu explained: "One of these two things is called a train, and the other is called a machine gun. ”

Fang Xiaoyu explained in detail: "The use of this train requires the construction of the train route in advance, and the train travels on the route. The train can travel hundreds of miles a day and carry thousands of tons of cargo. It was by train that our army was able to travel thousands of miles, quickly mobilize troops and supplies, and crush the Cossack army. ”

Xiahou Ying nodded and said: "This is indeed a sharp weapon, I don't know if Lu Dao Aiqing will sell it or not." Fang Xiaoyu said: "The laying of this train route requires professional craftsmen, if the emperor wants me, I will send someone to lay it, the train is made by my workshop, as long as the emperor agrees, I will start building it immediately." ”

Xiahou Ying was pleasantly surprised: "This is great, I want to overhaul the railway in the empire, and first build a railway from the northwest through the Central Plains to the East China Sea counties." ”

Fang Xiaoyu was startled when he heard Xiahou Ying's words, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there are thousands of kilometers to build such a long railway, and it will take at least three or five years to build it, and it will cost a lot of money. ”

Xiahou Ying didn't understand the cost issue at all, and when he heard that it cost a lot, he asked directly: "How much do you calculate?" Fang Xiaoyu roughly calculated and said, "At least 100 million." ”

"So expensive?" Xiahou Ying was also shocked when he heard this, now due to Fang Xiaoyu's industrial rise, the country's commercial prosperity has been caused, and the country's tax revenue is much more than before, but it is only 280 million per year.

Even such a tax is the result of the high tax revenue of the empire, otherwise with the annual GDP of the Lanfang Empire of 2.5 billion yuan (excluding the four major territories, and the industry of the great nobles still has a tradition of concealing profits and evading taxes). How is it possible to have so much money.

Xiahou Ying secretly thought about it and said: "Otherwise, it will be shorter, and the capital will be connected with the northwest counties first." Fang Xiaoyu shook his head secretly when he heard this, this emperor only thought about strengthening the construction of the border and guarding against strong enemies in the west and north.

If Fang Xiaoyu chooses the train route, he will definitely connect the coastal counties first, after all, the country can only be strong if the economy develops well. Fang Xiaoyu said: "That's fine, and it takes several years to build the railway, this money can be invested in annual installments, and it won't be too much every year." ”

Xiahou Ying nodded: "That's it, this matter still needs to be paid more attention to by Aiqing." ”

"Wechen must live up to his mission." Fang Xiaoyu said that he would not fail in his mission, and he had already begun to calculate how much money he would have to kill the emperor this time to make up for the trauma of his young heart.

The matter of the train was thus decided, and Xiahou Ying asked again: "What is your other magic weapon called machine gun?" Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "This is another new gun, I asked the guards to bring one and wait outside the palace gate." ”

Xiahou Ying hesitated a little and said: "Aiqing, I just spent a huge amount of money to replace a batch of firearms, so you don't need to look at this new gun." Fang Xiaoyu knew that this was the last time Xia Hou won to change his gun, and it cost a lot of money, and it hurt a little.

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Your Majesty, this time is different from the last time, this time the weapon is a support weapon, not a single weapon, it does not need to be equipped with every soldier, it is enough for an army to be equipped with a hundred." ”

Listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Xiahou Ying was very interested: "Since that's the case, let's take a look." Soon the heavy machine gun was moved into the Imperial Garden, and Xiahou Ying pointed to a target on the opposite side and said, "How about Aiqing test fire?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, that target is too small to experiment with the power of this gun." ”

"Oh?" Xiahou Ying was a little surprised: "What kind of target should I use?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "Just use sandbags to build a wall." Xia Houying was also interested in hearing such a peculiar shooting experiment, and he immediately asked people to build a sandbag wall with a length of three meters and a height of two meters and a thickness of three meters with sandbags.

Fang Xiaoyu personally tested the gun for the emperor this time, he walked to the heavy machine gun, squatted down, held the grip with both hands, aimed the crosshair at the sandbag wall and pressed the trigger fiercely.

The rapid and continuous sound of shooting startled the guards all over the courtyard, and they saw that the muzzle of the gun continued to spray blazing flames, and the sound of shooting continued to rise and fall.

The canvas chain twitched rapidly, filling the chamber of the gun and ejecting the cartridge casings from the lower part of the barrel, and in just half a minute, the three hundred rounds of the chain were consumed, and the bullet casings had already accumulated a thick layer under the tripod of the machine gun.