Besides, after Lu You entered the palace, he originally wanted to go to the south study to meet the emperor, but when he arrived at the palace gate, he was told that the emperor had not yet gone to the court, so Lu You went to the Ministry of Industry again, and when he was talking to Master Yang about the threshing machine newly developed by Yan Yan, the eunuch suddenly came and said that it was the emperor's intention and asked him to go to the court immediately.

Lu You looked at the civilian clothes on his body, which were quite neat, and followed the eunuch into the court, this was Lu You's first time entering the court, because the civil officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty must be Beijing officials above the third grade, and the military generals have one more than one Beijing official above the third grade, and the sons of these princely families must also participate after the weak crown.

Although Lu You has the title of General Sipin Xuanwei, as soon as he comes down from the battlefield, he automatically classifies himself as a civilian, because he has always thought that it is expedient for him to go to the battlefield, and he does not really intend to do it all the time.

Therefore, after entering the main hall, Lu You was a little at a loss, because there were several queues standing in the middle of the court, he glanced at it, and there was a black press, as if there was no acquaintance, and these people looked at him with a little scrutiny, so Lu You couldn't help but be nervous.

Li Cong on the stage saw Lu You look at the door and lowered his head again, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed, he didn't expect him to go out and practice for a few years, and he commanded so many battles large and small, how could he turn back into the stupid boy who shrunk his head and tail before when he entered this hall?

However, disappointment is disappointment, Li Cong didn't show it, for fear of scaring this kid again, but said gently: "Lu Aiqing, you take a few steps forward, I have something to ask you." ”

Seeing this, Li Sui in the audience took the initiative to walk beside Lu You, and stopped when he walked to the third row in front, Lu You was just about to kneel, Li Sui grabbed him and told him in a low voice that if he didn't want to admit his mistakes to the emperor during the court meeting, he didn't need to kneel, just stand up and answer the questions.

Lu You nodded, clenched his fists with both hands, took a deep breath, raised his head and said loudly: "Your Majesty, boy, no, grass people... ”

"What grass people, what a boy, what a stupid boy, I personally gave you the title of General Xuanwei of the Fourth Grade, what is your bestowal from me?" Li Cong couldn't help but laugh.

On such a serious and formal occasion, a sentence of "silly boy" popped out of the emperor's mouth, and the officials in the audience glanced at each other, some smiled, some looked at each other, and some were worried, but at this time, most of the eyes in the audience looked at the young figure standing at the head of the generals.

And after Lu You heard this "silly boy", he relaxed a lot, because he heard the good-natured ridicule and maintenance from the emperor's voice, so his hand was no longer clenched into a fist, and he changed to a long salute, "Back to the emperor, the minister thought that it was a temporary expedient measure, and it was needed in wartime, and now that the war is over, the minister should return to the minister's duty as a student." ”

"Nonsense, what are you doing, this official can be if he wants to, and if he doesn't want to be, he should be?" Li Cong was a little unhappy when he saw that Lu You hadn't opened up yet.

"Your Majesty, the minister, the minister doesn't mean that." Lu You was a little panicked again.

"General Lu, the theme of today's court meeting is the Western Xia peace talks, the DPRK and China are now divided into two factions, one faction advocates selling this artillery to the Western Xia and signing this peace negotiation agreement, and the other faction is not in favor of selling artillery, and you can continue to fight with the Western Xia until the Western Xia admits defeat, you have been to the front battlefield of the Western Xia, and participated in the peace talks with the Western Xia, what is your opinion?" Prince Li Ji opened his mouth to get to the point.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are in favor of selling artillery, but not gunpowder prescriptions." When Lu You heard that this was the question, he hurriedly replied.

It happened that Yan Yan discussed this matter with him this morning, and it was also this matter that he entered the palace to meet him.

"Oh? What do you mean by that? Li Cong leaned forward.

At the court meeting, the people on both sides argued for almost an hour, but no one mentioned this gunpowder recipe, everyone's attention was on this artillery, and the faction that agreed to sell it felt that this artillery involved a lot of opportunities, and it would not be so easy for Xixia to build it.

In addition, the smelting technology of Western Xia is much backward than that of the Great Zhou, and the output of iron and copper is far inferior to that of the Great Zhou, in other words, the Western Xia can build a hundred gates, and the Great Zhou can make a thousand gates.

Not to mention, it won't be long before there are capable people here in Da Zhou who will research an improved version of artillery and gunpowder, which is more powerful than the previous one, what else is Da Zhou afraid of?

And the opposition's proposition is not only because of artillery, but also because of the villain behavior of the Western Xia, because at the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou, the Western Xia obviously relied on the Great Zhou to be a vassal state of the Great Zhou, but later saw that the momentum of the Liao State had come up, and in a blink of an eye, he defected to the Liao State, and followed the Liao State to invade the Great Zhou State many times, therefore, the generals did not want to endure it, and wanted to take advantage of the Khitan national funeral to take care of themselves, and to clean up the Western Xia, or simply destroy it directly.

Therefore, because of the main battle or the main peace debate in the morning, Li Cong thought about finding Lu You, he knew that Lu You went home last night, and Yan Yan must have told him some thoughts about this peace talk, so he found Lu You in the court.

No, Lu You really didn't disappoint him.

"Back to the emperor, the production of gunpowder is still unknown to the Western Xia, so even if they research out artillery, it is not easy to make our gunpowder shells." Lu You replied.

"Back to the emperor, the minister did not dare to agree, the Liao State has already produced gunpowder, and it has also been used on the battlefield, the minister thinks that with the relationship between the Liao State and the Western Xia, this gunpowder prescription will sooner or later come into the hands of the Western Xia." Lu Ming stood up.

"Back to the emperor, the ammunition of the artillery is different from the gunpowder or gunpowder we use to ambush the buried ground, take a step back, even if Xixia has mastered this technology, we don't need to panic, because this artillery is not without nemesis, since we can develop it, there must be a way to restrain it." Lu You bowed and replied.

"What's the method?" It was Zhu Jin who was asking, and he was purely curious.

"Back to Zhu Shizi, any strategy and tactics are not static, and they need to be adapted to local conditions." Lu You replied lightly.

"Your Majesty, no fighter is immutable, and opportunities are fleeting." Lu Ming stood up again.

"Back to the emperor, the minister also feels that the opportunity cannot be lost and will not come again, so we should take the Western Xia in one go." Wu Zhe stepped forward to help.

Li Cong saw that these little characters were arguing again, so he hurriedly leaned back and found a more comfortable position, he wanted to see if Lu You's eloquence had grown in the past few years, and whether he could deal with these people.