Chapter 38: Divine Gunpowder
If the emperor wants to see himself, Ye Jinyu has nothing to do, after all, he will have to eat on other people's territory in the future.
However, the emperor's attention to the gods greatly exceeded Ye Shenren's expectations. In order to wait for him to appear, he actually sent several groups of eunuchs to wait in many places such as the Shenren Mansion, the Taoist Temple of the National Teacher, and even the Xuanwu Gate; As soon as the god-man appeared, he immediately took the god-man to meet the emperor.
No, Ye Jinyu has only appeared for less than ten minutes, and the eunuchs waiting in the National Teacher's Mansion are already waiting outside the door. Ye Jinyu only felt that the emperor was making a bit of a fuss, but he didn't know that Li Yuan had regarded him as the navigator and lifesaver of the Tang Dynasty.
Under the guidance of the eunuch, Ye Jinyu turned around and headed towards the palace.
On the way, there is a god's house under construction, and the infrastructure construction speed of Datang workers is called a fast; The perimeter wall has been hollowed out, and a ring of façade is being erected, and it looks like the houses will be ready for use in a few days. This progress made Ye Jinyu very satisfied.
It's just that why are other people in the same square moving things outside, is the construction of shops disturbing the people?
Just wondering, half of the big man walked towards Ye Jinyu: "Are you the Raushzi godman?" There was no politeness at all in his tone, and Ye Jinyu was very unhappy when he heard it.
"How do you know I'm a man of God?"
"Humph!" The half-grown boy snorted lightly, obviously not at the height of Ye Jinyu's shoulders, but he just looked at Ye Jinyu with his head held high, and said, "Bald and beardless, white face and red lips, and strange clothes." ”
I don't know whose family this bear child is, and I'm really indebted. Lao Tzu is a board inch head, what is baldness? What a look. Ye Jinyu was secretly annoyed, but there were many people here, and it was not easy to teach a lesson, so he could only press down his anger and ask, "What's the matter with me?" I don't have sugar to coax you. ”
"What do you say? As I said, Aye, it was you who built a shop in this place, which turned us into a cheap city and had to move. The half-grown man said angrily.
Ye Jinyu was stunned, and asked the eunuch who led the way: "Does building a façade house here affect the appearance of the city?" ”
Where did the eunuch know such a thing, and it was difficult for him to speak when he heard the man of God ask.
At this time, a person came out of the god's mansion and relieved the eunuch, who was Sun Xin, the craftsman and supervisor who was responsible for supervising the construction of the godman's mansion; He happened to be in the courtyard when he heard someone at the front door coming out to check, and happened to see Ye Jinyu.
"Xia Guan has seen Ye Shenren." After arching his hand to Ye Jinyu, he said the reason why the people here moved: "In addition to the Divine Mansion, there are still several generals' mansions in this room; His Majesty intended to let the King of Qin go east to conquer Goguryeo; King Qin had received the order a few days ago, and a cadre army of Tiance Mansion would go to Luoyang first. I heard that these generals will be stationed in Goguryeo in the future and will not return to Chang'an. In the sale of the mansion. ”
As soon as Sun Xin said it, Ye Jinyu understood, it turned out that the half-grown son was obedient and only listened to half of it, and he didn't understand the situation. And Sun Xin only heard the gossip, and he didn't know the true destination of King Qin.
If it's just a general, there's no need to bring family members at all; The general will come back after the battle. I am afraid that Li Shimin is not going to be stationed in Goguryeo, but is preparing for an expedition to North America. If he goes to North America, it is estimated that he will not be able to return once or twice in his life, and only in this way will Li Shimin let the families of generals and even soldiers travel with the army.
In fact, Ye Jinyu's guess was roughly correct, but Li Shimin had another meaning Ye Jinyu didn't expect, that is, Li Shimin felt that if there was no Muzhou in this world, when Tiance Mansion wanted to continue to compete with the Prince's Mansion for the world, the general's family members would not become the prince's hostages if they traveled with the army and did not stay in Chang'an.
Since the family is gone, this house has to be disposed of, but Ye Jinyu's behavior of opening a shop has caused the style of this market to decline, and those who can afford this house are unwilling to be in the company of merchants, and those who don't mind business practices can't pay the price that the generals want.
After understanding the reason for the contradiction between himself and this half-sized family, Ye Jinyu was happy and said, "Isn't it that the house can't be sold at a high price?" This is simple, these houses I bought. Although he is a poor man in modern society, he is very rich in Datang. There are only three generals' mansions, and they are bought when they say they are bought, and they are very atmospheric; I am just preparing to engage in smuggling in time and space, and the place where I need it will be relatively large.
However, he asked Sun Xin again: "As soon as I buy such a large piece, will the emperor restrict the purchase and let me buy it?" ”
This Sun Xin can't be said, after all, there is a problem of overstepping the system, originally the Shenren Mansion was built on the scale of the palace, and now there are three huge generals' mansions; The problem of over-scale is not something that can be decided by a small craftsman supervisor.
However, the eunuch, who had never been able to speak, took a tone at this time and said: "Your Majesty has an edict: everything that happens to Ye Shenren can be done cheaply. ”
It means yes. Ye Jinyu smiled:
"It just so happens that I did business with the emperor and earned a few hundred taels of gold, which should be enough to buy a house in this square, right? If you can, please go and talk to these families, anyway, I don't use this money to keep it, so I can use it to buy land and buy a house. ”
Ye Jinyu gave Li Yuan more than ten maps twice, but Li Yuan did not break his promise, and bought them all at the price of seventy taels of gold, plus one hundred taels given by the crown prince Li Jiancheng; There are more than 1,000 taels, not hundreds of taels as Ye Jinyu himself thought. Because Ye Jinyu couldn't bring them back to the original time and space, the gold was all sent to the God's Mansion by the emperor.
Sun Xin, as the head of the superintendent of the God-Man Mansion, naturally knew about this; Originally, I wanted to wait for the Shenren Mansion to be built, and then hand it over to Ye Shenren along with the house.
Now that Ye Shenren has asked to use the money to buy a house, Sun Xin has no choice; In this way, not only did he do things for the man of God, but he also saved the generals from resentment towards them; You must know that those generals can't trouble Ye Shenren, and all the problems are attributed to him, a small overseer.
"If the three generals' mansions are acquired together, then the gods don't have to wait for the completion of the gods' mansions before they can move in; The three generals' mansions are now empty, and the gods can move in at any time. ”
There are such good things, Ye Jinyu wants to visit his own territory first; But looking at the eunuch looking at himself, he remembered that his big gold lord emperor was still waiting for him.
Continue your journey.
Finally saw the tall walls of the palace, and after walking for half an hour after such a journey, Ye Jinyu felt that the sequelae of running wild that night were about to be committed. Maybe I should move that broken electric car here.
When he saw the emperor, the emperor was eager to see through it; Someone had already reported to him that the man of God had appeared and was rushing to the palace, but he didn't expect to arrive for a long time.
"Ye Shenren, I intend to let the King of Qin and the Tiance Mansion go east to open up the passage to Muzhou; But the Turks have committed my Tang Dynasty, and they are like a bamboo, and now they have hit Lingwu; There is a strong army of Tiance Mansion missing; I don't know if gods and men can help the Tang Dynasty defeat the enemy? ”
Just yesterday, the emperor just wanted to ask Ye Shenren about the three nos of no farming, no work, no strength, no business, no wealth; I received a battle report early this morning, saying that the Lingwu Tang army had been defeated, and the Turkic army commander drove straight into Chang'an.
Originally, Li Daozong, the governor of Lingzhou, was guarding Lingwu, and the Tang army was strong enough to resist the Turkic army; But in order to prevent King Qin's dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry, Li Yuan secretly transferred Li Daozong back; Unexpectedly, the Wuling Tang Army was weaker than a step after losing Li Daozong, and the Turkic army changed the history of defeat and defeated the Tang Army.
The situation was already very urgent, and if the Tiance Mansion was not used, Li Yuan could no longer think of a better way; That's why today's dead horse is like a live horse doctor, looking for Ye Shenren for help.
Ye Shenren was also stunned, he had thought a lot about the reason why the emperor was in a hurry to find him, but he never thought that the emperor was looking for him to help fight the war. In his consciousness, the Tang Dynasty, like the Han Dynasty, is notoriously powerful in history, and has always been a strong presence in the face of surrounding countries, even if it is the famous Weishui Alliance in the history books, the Tang Dynasty was safe and sound in the end, and even was counterattacked by Li Shimin soon after, and the Turks were wiped out.
But I didn't expect that the Datang I encountered would have such an urgent time, and then Ye Shenren was stunned.
I know what it means to fight, I can't ride a horse, I can't use weapons, I can't go to the battlefield, and I can't be a staff officer. Do you want me to bring a pole AK to knock out the Turkic Khan? It's not that this is not impossible, but the question is whether AK can be bought, and whether it can be brought with it. The knife of the space-time gate is not allowed to take the urine sex, but I am afraid that it will be difficult.
However, when it comes to AK, it has been written in history that the gunpowder in these four major inventions seems to have appeared during the Tang Dynasty, and it was made by Taoist priests during alchemy. It shows that the Tang Dynasty already had the material conditions to make gunpowder.
What is the formula of gunpowder, one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal; These things should not be difficult to get in Datang, why don't you provide them to the emperor to help Datang? Thinking of this, Ye Jinyu said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I have something that can help the Tang Dynasty. ”
Li Yuan originally didn't want to get any way to defend against the enemy from Ye Jinyu, because in his heart, Ye Jinyu was at most an existence similar to the national teacher, at most, he knew that he had more mana than the national teacher and was stronger than the national teacher; When it comes to fighting, you still have to do it with real knives and guns. This time I told Ye Shenren about this more out of complaint, because it really bothered him.
Unexpectedly, the godman just lowered his head and thought about it, and when he thought about it, he immediately became interested, and asked, "I don't know what the godman said is ...... method?"
Ye Jinyu only knew that the gunpowder was composed of one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal, and the specific formula still needed to go back to Cha Du Niang; can only let Li Yuan make advance preparations first. So he said:
"Your Majesty the Emperor, the name of the thing I said is gunpowder, what is the specific situation, you can wait for me to come back; But now it is possible to command men to gather saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal; The more prepared, the better. By the way, I ordered someone to grind these three materials into powder. ”
Li Yuan ordered someone to write down Ye Jinyu's words one by one and collect them in the palace as soon as possible, and then asked, "I don't know what the use of this gunpowder artifact that the gods said?" Isn't it possible to breathe fire to destroy the enemy? ”
Of course, gunpowder can't breathe fire, but it's very dangerous, and it is made in the palace, and Li Yuan is not afraid of taking an earthen plane by himself.
Ye Jinyu said: "Your Majesty, when this gunpowder is used, the sound is like thunder, and the sky and the earth will collapse when it explodes. Put it in the palace to make it, but I'm afraid that I will accidentally blow up the palace. ”
"Ahh The emperor was startled, but then became excited again, and said, "I never thought that this artifact gunpowder would be so powerful that it could blow up the palace." Wouldn't it be easy to wipe out the Turks? ”
After wiping his palms, he said, "Such a dangerous thing cannot be put in the palace; But where to put it? ”
Of course, it is not safe to put it in the palace, but it is even more uneasy for the emperor to put it elsewhere; This kind of treasure is a sharp weapon in the hands of the emperor, but if it is in the hands of others......
Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said, "Why don't you put it in the god-man mansion." The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this idea was good, and said happily: "This thing was originally owned by the gods, and it was just right to be put in the gods' mansion, and the gods suppressed it, so I can't turn the waves even if I think of this gunpowder." It just so happened that the gods had just bought the mansions of the three generals, so it was better for me to buy one and give it to the gods to make this gunpowder. ”
Unexpectedly, Ye Jinyu had just decided to buy the General's Mansion, and the emperor would have known about it early.
Ye Jinyu really wanted to say that this gunpowder is just as dangerous to me! But the emperor didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued: "I will order someone to change the name of the Li Fang where the Shenren Mansion is located to the Shenren Fang, and the forbidden army will be responsible for defending it, and the specifications are equivalent to the imperial palace. ”