Akagi lit a stick of incense first, approached the big stone with the incense, bent down to light the fuse, and quickly walked away.

After a while, only a "boom" was heard, and the stone was lifted, and the place where the gunpowder was put splashed with debris splintered.

Even though Gonggong Wu and the imperial guards listened to Du Jinning's words, they were still startled by this movement, and quickly came up and surrounded Zhao Yu. It wasn't until they saw that the debris was far away from here, and they were standing upstairs again, completely unharmed, that they breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's ...... Gunpowder? Zhao Yu frowned and asked Du Jinning.

"Exactly." Du Jinning nodded.

To be precise, black powder.

After black powder was invented by alchemists in the Tang Dynasty, it was originally used in pyrotechnic acrobatics, and was widely used in wars in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was made into rockets, fireballs and other gunpowder weapons, so Zhao Yu saw at a glance that it was gunpowder just now.

After getting Du Jinning's affirmation, he was very puzzled in his heart, and he didn't know why Du Jinning wanted to show the power of gunpowder in front of him.

"Don't you think that this gunpowder is extremely useful in digging mountains and opening roads? In addition, if we let people study gunpowder and improve it, and use its explosiveness and fireability, can we make it better used in warfare? Du Jinning said.

In Du Jinning's previous life, the Jin and Mongols successively learned the use and production of firearms in the course of their battles with the Song Dynasty, which made a great contribution to the Mongol iron cavalry to conquer almost the entire Eurasian territory.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Shizu's army was routed in the battle against Syria, and the Arabs captured gunpowder weapons such as rockets, poison fire canisters, artillery, and earth-shaking thunder, thus mastering the manufacture and use of gunpowder weapons. And in the war with the Arab countries, the Europeans gradually mastered the technology of making gunpowder and gunpowder weapons.

Ironically, in the late Qing Dynasty, Europeans took gunpowder weapons invented by the Chinese, broke the door of China, and reduced China to a semi-colonial society.

Du Jinning is a woman and a peace-loving person, she once hesitated to give guidance on the use of gunpowder, and she did not want ancient China to quickly change from the era of cold weapons to the age of extremely lethal hot weapons.

Later, she also figured out that instead of letting the Mongols occupy this country with the firearms invented by the Chinese, and the Europeans repeated this action again many years later, it was better to improve the firearms and use firearms to protect the country, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Guan Lehe felt that Du Jinning was a little dangerous when he said this topic, and he didn't know if Zhao Yu would think that she had different intentions and interfered in the army's firearms. He was eager to protect his disciples, and quickly pulled the topic back: "Aren't you going to reform the imperial examination?" So what do you just mess up have to do with the imperial examination? ”

Zhao Yu's thoughts were pulled back by Guan Lehe's words. He also looked at Du Jinning suspiciously.

"Let's go back to the main courtyard and sit and talk." Du Jinning made a gesture of please.

The group went downstairs, returned to the main courtyard and sat down, Du Jinning let people serve hot tea and snacks, and then said: "Brother Huang, I originally said that science and technology are the primary productive forces. As you have just seen, if we make a machine and use steam power, it can play a great role in production and life. Maybe one day, we can finish plowing the land without oxen plowing and hoeing; Perhaps one day, cotton yarn can be woven into cloth without women weaving. ”

"Now we have a high grain yield, and we have a high-yield crop like corn that we have brought back from overseas; In the future, we will realize the scenario I just mentioned, the Great Song Dynasty is getting rich day by day, do you think about it, will the countries in the southwest, northwest, and Japan want to invade us and bite off our piece of fat? What do we use to defend ourselves against the foreigners? We don't have good horses, we don't have the courage and good fighting of the people on horses, and the people are used to living comfortably, can we beat them? Only by being prepared for danger in times of peace can we achieve long-term peace and stability. ”

Zhao Yu, Guan Lehe, and even Qi Muyuan were all shocked by Du Jinning's words, and a sense of crisis arose.

Especially Zhao Yu, he only felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

In the past ten years, the Great Song Dynasty has not been invaded by foreign enemies, and Xia Jin has also harassed many people in the frontier, only because of the small action, it will invade and grab some food when it is difficult to survive in winter and spring, and there are generals such as Yasukuni Gong stationed in the frontier, after Zhao Yu ascended the throne, he paid more attention to the stability of the government and the construction of people's livelihood.

Now that Du Jinning reminded him like this, he was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

Without Zhao Yu to speak, Du Jinning could also feel his mood at this time, she did not stop, and continued: "Developing the economy internally and resisting external enemies externally is the premise of the prosperity of our Great Song Dynasty, and it is also the guarantee of prosperity. But now, what are the smartest and most knowledgeable people in our Great Song Dynasty doing? They were studying the Four Books and the Five Classics. ”

She looked at Zhao Yu with a sharp gaze: "Four Books and Five Classics, is it really that important?" ”

For another emperor, she would never dare to ask so bluntly. But Zhao Yu was a very pragmatic emperor. He is hard-working, goal-oriented, action-oriented, and good at listening to others' opinions. When he met such a Ming Jun, Du Jinning boldly put forward his own ideas.

She knew that Zhao Yu was not superstitious about the Four Books and the Five Classics. Whatever is good for the development of the Great Song Dynasty, he advocates it, just as she denied the heavy agriculture and suppression of business at the beginning, he thinks it makes sense, and will adopt her opinion.

Seeing that Zhao Yu was deep in thought, she didn't speak again, made a silent gesture towards Guan Lehe and Qi Muyuan, and sat there quietly drinking tea.

After a full meal, Zhao Yu woke up from his sleep.

He sighed, stood up, walked in front of Du Jinning, and took a deep look: "Thank you for the royal sister's words for waking up the dreamer." ”

Although Du Jinning didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him being saluted, he also knew that in this era, it would be absolutely rebellious to let the emperor salute him. She quickly got up and turned sideways, avoiding Zhao Yu's salute.

"Brother Huang, as a citizen of the Great Song Dynasty, and as a third-grade official awarded by the emperor, he has the obligation to make suggestions to the emperor. The emperor's gift, Jin Ning can't accept it. ”

Zhao Yu didn't dwell on this, he turned around and sat down, motioned for Du Jinning to sit down as well, and asked humbly: "Then what does the imperial sister think the imperial examination should take?" ”

"The Four Books and Five Classics naturally have to be examined, but the proportion can be reduced, and in addition to arithmetic and law, other disciplines can also be added, such as physics, chemistry, biology and so on." Du Jinning said, "However, people's energy is limited and limited by talent, so the minister suggested that the content of each stage of the imperial examination is different, and the higher it goes, the more subdivided." ”

She pointed to herself: "Take the minister as an example, the minister's talent lies in agriculture. When testing Xiucai, it is important to assess the minister's literacy and hyphenation ability; When examining people, some basic subjects related to biology are examined; When taking the entrance examination, only the knowledge of biology can be examined, and after being admitted, it is directly a talent in the planting of the Ministry of Industry, and can work in the Ministry of Industry, or go to the local government to be in charge of agriculture. ”

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