Two days later, Chen Hao and the others arrived in Hanyang, and he went to Xu Jianyin's mansion non-stop to ask for a meeting, and the porter said that Xu Jianyin was testing gunpowder at the Hanyang Steel Pharmaceutical Factory. This mission is quite variable, Xu Jianyin may die at any time due to the explosion of gunpowder, so he did not dare to delay in the slightest, and immediately rushed to Hanyang Steel Pharmaceutical Factory to ask for a meeting.

Xu Jianyin heard that Ma Duyun sent a letter to bring Chen Hao in, and Chen Hao saw this historical celebrity for the first time. Xu Jianyin was wearing a three-grade official uniform, his figure was a little fat, and he looked very kind.

If Chen Hao asked to see him as a fellow acquaintance of Yingkou Zhili Hall, it was estimated that he would be able to convince Xu Jianyin, but when he received the task, the system had already prompted that he could only complete the task as Cheng Zihao, so he could only find another way.

"Cheng Zihao, a grass man, has seen the superintendent."

Xu Jianyin waved his hand to signal Chen Hao to get up, and said with a smile: "That kid Ma Duyun actually remembers me, he learned shipbuilding by my side back then, but he was an impatient boy who was not suitable for science and technology, so he simply let him become a soldier, where is he now?" ”

Chen Hao hurriedly said: "Teacher Ma is now working as an instructor in the Kaiping Martial Arts Academy. ”

"Not bad." After Xu Jianyin finished speaking, he took the letter, and after reading it, he sighed and said: "It's rare that this little guy is still thinking about me, I don't know that it is dangerous to do gunpowder tests, but if everyone is afraid of danger, this smokeless gunpowder cannot be developed." ”

Chen Hao hurriedly said: "How can the body of an adult's daughter make medicine himself?" As long as adults use a small amount of gunpowder for experiments, why don't you leave things like tinkering to others? ”

Xu Jianyin said with an unhappy look on his face: "Who is not raised by his father's biological parents?" I was mainly responsible for making smokeless gunpowder, and I couldn't do it because I was greedy for life and afraid of death and let those craftsmen take risks. ”

Chen Hao said with a straight face: "The villain has one more mouth, and there are only a handful of 40,000 people in the entire Qing Dynasty who can be as proficient in military engineering as adults." The lives of ordinary craftsmen are equally precious, but the loss of a country can bear, if an adult encounters an accident, I am afraid that no one in China can make smokeless gunpowder. The so-called daughter body does not sit in the hall, the villain's words come from the bottom of his heart, and I hope that adults will take care of their bodies, only in this way can I rejuvenate the country with science and technology without being controlled by foreigners. ”

Xu Jianyin praised: "What a science and technology to rejuvenate the country!" This is Xu's lifelong belief! It's just that the gunpowder test is extraordinary, and if I had personally commanded it, the risk would have been much smaller, and if I wasn't there, those craftsmen would have had an accident, so there was no need to say anything about it. ”

Chen Hao just tried his best to persuade him, and he knew that it was impossible to agree even if he persuaded Xu Jianyin, after all, the task would not be so simple. Just as he was about to continue the conversation to find clues to the next mission, Xu Jianyin's personal soldiers ran in and said, "My lord, there is a stranger Huo Quai, who said that he came to deliver a letter on the order of the governor. ”

Chen Hao couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, the Huo family was powerful in Jingbei, and he decided to compete with Huo Quai, but he didn't want to go head-to-head. Huo Qubing also came to deliver the letter, representing Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and the content of the letter he sent must be related to the task of saving Xu Jianyin.

Chen Hao hasn't gotten the clues for the next task yet, if he leaves now, he will lose the opportunity, and suddenly said goodbye to Xu Jianyin, as if he had a ghost in his heart. If he ran into Huo Qubing when he was leaving, he would ask Xu Jianyin about it, and he would be secretly calculated by Huo Qubing if he was exposed.

After figuring out the joints, Chen Hao calmly sat on the chair, waiting for Huo Qu's illness to arrive. After a while, Xu Jianyin's escort led a young man in, he had a face with Chinese characters, giving people a sense of loyalty, but a pair of eyes were bright.

Huo Quzhi saluted Xu Jianyin and handed over Zhang Zhidong's letter, Xu Jianyin smiled dumbly after reading the letter: "What a coincidence, I actually received two letters with the same content today, both of which advised me not to participate in the gunpowder test, could it be that the Governor and my student can know that I will be in danger?" ”

Huo Quzhi was stunned at first when he heard Xu Jianyin's words, and then glanced at Chen Hao who was sitting in the chair, and quickly understood the joints. Zhang Zhidong's letter took a lot of effort for his subordinates to get it, so he felt that the reward for the task of saving Xu Jianyin was not easy, so he ran to do this task himself, but unexpectedly met a competitor.

When two people have exactly the same mission in the game, only one person will win the event, and the reward for this crash mission is very unusual. After a short silence, Huo Quzhi smiled and said to Xu Jianyin: "My lord, this friend should be a stranger like me, right?" Did he also come to deliver the letter? ”

Xu Jianyin pointed at Chen Hao and said, "Let me introduce you, this is Cheng Zihao, my former student asked him to send a letter." This is ......"

Chen Hao smiled and said: "Boss Huo in Jingbei is famous, I have heard of it. ”

It is not surprising that Chen Hao knows himself Huo Quai, his base is not as good as Benxi of Xuanyuan Sword, but he is also famous in the game. There has been no shortage of attention to the bases established by several major families in Kyoto, and the player named "Cheng Zihao" in front of him can call his name, and Huo Quzhi takes it for granted.

"Cheng Zihao......" Huo Quzhi felt that this name was a little familiar, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "You are the player who made Eagle Feather deflated on the forum these days, haha!" Eagle Feather has always been arrogant, and I'm very happy to see him being played around by you. Brother Cheng Zihao, aren't you in Kaiping Wubei Academy? How did you come to Jingbei? ”

Xu Jianyin, who was next to him, said: "My former student served as an instructor in the Kaiping Martial Arts Academy, and he asked Zihao to send me a letter, just like the letter from the Governor, to persuade me not to do gunpowder tests myself. ”

Huo Quzhi said with a straight face: "Lord Xu, the gunpowder test is very dangerous, I heard that there have been gunpowder explosion accidents in other machine bureaus many times......"

Huo Quzhi began to persuade Xu Jianyin, he obviously made careful preparations, and cited many examples when persuading. After he finished speaking, Xu Jianyin repeated what he had said to Chen Hao before, saying that he would continue to do the experiment, and Huo Quzhi also did not get the desired task clues.

Huo Quai's efforts for a while had no effect, he no longer entangled, and said goodbye to Xu Jianyin: "The letter from the governor has been delivered, and I hope that Lord Xu will be more careful, and the villain will leave." ”

Huo Qubing tried many times but failed to find clues to the task in Xu Jianyin, so he had to leave, but he suspected that Chen Hao, who came before him, might have gained something. Before leaving, he smiled and said to Chen Hao: "Brother Cheng Zihao, you and I are here to deliver letters, and meeting is also a kind of fate, why don't you leave together?" ”

Chen Hao also felt that there was no need to continue to stay, he nodded and said, "That's exactly what I mean." ”

After leaving the Hanyang Steel Pharmaceutical Factory, Huo Qubing said tentatively: "The reward for this mission should be related to gunpowder, and the Cheng Zihao brothers rushed all the way to Jingbei to do the mission, so they are also preparing to establish their own base?" ”

Chen Hao smiled bitterly and said: "I have hundreds of oceans all over my body, and I will be satisfied if I can buy a good gun, where I have the money to build a base." I came to Hanyang because the instructor issued a task, and the learning task of the Wubei Academy cannot be refused, otherwise it will be difficult to receive the task next time, so I rushed to Jingbei. I originally thought that it would be too much to reward only one attribute point so far away, but after meeting Xu Jianyin, I found out that there might be a follow-up task, but unfortunately I didn't get the clue of the task. ”

Chen Hao explained to Huo Qubing that he was afraid that Huo Qubing would suspect his identity, and later the sentence "It's a pity that I didn't get the clue of the mission" was to tell Huo Qubing that he would not give up the mission. Listening to his words, Huo Quzhi's expression did not change, and he said lightly: "Since Brother Cheng is not ready to develop the base area, then don't participate in this task anymore, how about I pay you some benefits after I finish it?" ”

Chen Hao said with a difficult face: "I guess that the reward this time may be related to the recipe of smokeless gunpowder, if I complete this task to obtain the drawing, I will take it to auction and it will also be a large amount of income......

Chen Hao's words made Huo Quzhi's face appear a little unhappy, the Huo family is not short of money, but it is impossible to give it to people indiscriminately. Now Chen Hao only has the opportunity to participate in the task, not really obtained the gunpowder formula, he deliberately said that a large amount of money is to show the attitude of not giving up, Huo Quzhi wants him to give up the task has to pay a sum of money that meets the value of the gunpowder formula.

Huo Quzhi was originally going to use hundreds of oceans to make Chen Hao give up the task, but Chen Hao was naturally unhappy when he opened his mouth like this. Huo Quzhi is confident in his game ability, and he believes that even if someone participates in the competition, he is 90% sure that he will complete this task. Wanting to pay some benefits to make Chen Hao give up the mission, he wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong, because the formula of smokeless gunpowder was too important.

Huo Quzhi's face quickly returned to normal, and he said lightly: "Brother Cheng is right, the reward for this mission may indeed be valuable, but the task is also very difficult. Brother Cheng came to Jingbei alone, and he didn't have any capable manpower, so it would not be easy to complete this task! ”

Chen Hao nodded and said, "Thank you Brother Huo for reminding me, if you need to fight this mission, I will give up if I can't do it." However, the content of the task is to persuade Xu Jianyin not to personally participate in the gunpowder test, if you are lucky, you may be able to get away with it, if you get the gunpowder formula auction, I will not be short of money in the game in the future. ”

Huo Quzhi couldn't help but be speechless, the guy in front of him seemed to be in the eye of money, and made it clear that he would not give up the task without taking out a lot of money. Huo Quzhi was too lazy to entangle with him anymore, anyway, Jingbei was his territory, so he didn't believe that under his interference, this Cheng Zihao could successfully complete the task and get the formula.

"I talked to Xu Jianyin for a long time just now without any clues, I don't know if Brother Cheng has gained anything." After failing to persuade Chen Hao to give up the task, Huo Qubing began to try.

Chen Hao shook his head decisively and said: "There are no clues, it is estimated that this task is a water mill, and you need to persuade Xu Jianyin every day!" I first found a place to settle down, and then went to Xu Jianyin every day to see if I could persuade him to change his mind and not to test gunpowder. ”

(To be continued)