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Zhuang Lingti, the minister of imperial history, the master of the Qincha personally appointed by Tang Ling, did not dare to breathe in the atmosphere under the reprimand of the holy woman, and did not dare to reply, and left the divine pond with a disgraced face, and returned to Shangjing to report to Tang Ling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Holy Maiden of Shenchi made such a protest, Tang Ling had nothing to say, the current Wind Country was chaotic enough, there were enough people who opposed her, she really didn't have so much energy to offend Shenchi again, and let Shenchi stand on the opposite side of her.

On the second day after Zhuang Lingti returned to Shangjing, Tang Ling ordered the Central Army to immediately evacuate the surrounding area of Shenchi and lift the blockade of Shenchi.

After Shangguan Xiu learned of this, he did not continue to go to the imperial court, and directly transferred the second army of the Zhenjun Army and sent it to Shenchi to replace the central army and continue to blockade the various transportation arteries leading to the outside world in Shenchi.

Tang Ling was very happy to hear about this, the Zhenjun army is not the central army, and the Zhenjun army often does not listen to the control and dispatch of the imperial court, and now the Zhenjun army sends troops to continue to besiege Shenchi, the matter is done, the responsibility is not on his head, Shenchi wants to find, and he can't find himself, so he can only go to Shangguanxiu.

The central army around the Shenchi was withdrawn and replaced by the Zhenjun army, and the situation was exactly the same as before, nothing had changed, and the remnants of the tens of thousands of rebels were still trapped in the Shenchi and could not get out.

Shenchi is only a small place, not as large as the Shangjing area, and the territory is mostly high mountains and dense jungles, only Shenchi Castle is located in a plain area between the mountains. One chapter has been updated

It looks like a fairyland, with clouds and mist, magnificent mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery all year round. But there is not a group of immortals living in the Divine Pond, they are all normal human beings with flesh and blood, they also need to eat, and they also need daily necessities, and these are not available in the Divine Pond.

There is no arable land, no raw materials, only a small amount of handicraft production in the territory of Shenchi, and the grain of Shenchi is supplied by the Imperial Court of the Wind Country. There are tens of thousands of people in Shenchi, and the food supplied by the imperial court is also fixed, and now tens of thousands of rebels are squeezed in, and in a short period of time, Shenchi can still rely on the previous reserves to distribute some food to the rebels, but after a long time, the reserves are exhausted, and the people of Shenchi themselves are almost out of food, where is there any surplus food to distribute to the rebels?

But now, the passage from Shenchi to the outside is completely blocked by the Zhenjun army, and even if Shenchi has enough silver taels in his hand, he can't buy food from the outside world. So for Shenchi, the blockade of the Zhenjun Army will not only make the rebels hungry, but also make the Shenchi people themselves hungry.

In this case, Shenchi could only send people to Shangjing and demand that the imperial court must immediately withdraw its troops and lift the blockade. This time, Tang Ling also behaved very 'innocent', and bluntly explained to the Shenchi envoy that it was not the Central Army that blocked Shenchi now, but the Zhenjun Army, for the Zhenjun Army, her orders and the orders of the imperial court were not very effective, only Shangguan Xiu's order was the most effective, Shenchi came to her, she really found the wrong object, and she should go to Shangguan Xiu.

Tang Ling kicked this problem of offending Shenchi to Shangguan Xiu's head.

The envoy of Shenchi had no choice but to return to Shenchi and go to the commander of the Second Legion of the Zhenjun Army. Zhan Xiong personally received the envoy of Shenchi, and he was also entertained by the above guests. But for the request for withdrawal of troops made by the envoy of Shenchi, he said that he could not do anything, he was just a corps commander, and he was also acting on orders, acting without authorization, and disobeying military orders, so he would be dealt with by military law. Of course, it was no problem for him to withdraw his troops, he had to see the military order from the imperial court.

Zhan Xiong threw the key to solving the problem back to the imperial court. The envoy of Shenchi was not a fool, seeing that the court and the Zhenjun army were passing the buck to each other, and no one was willing to withdraw the troops, he reluctantly returned to Shenchi and replied to the holy woman.

After hearing what happened, the saint was furious, but it was not so much, for the saint of the divine pool who had been cultivating her mind all the year round, she would not be so easily provoked, and it was true that she was quite depressed in her heart.

She instead sent a female official beside her to the Zhenjun Army camp in the north of Shangjing, met with Shangguan Xiu, and asked Shangguan Xiuda to give the order to withdraw the troops.

After this toss, the Zhenjun Army and the Central Army have besieged the rebels for more than 20 days. During this period, the dying rebels also made several breakthroughs, but because of their small scale, they were easily repelled by the Zhenjun Army and the Central Army.

On this day, the Zhenjun army received a large number of logistical supplies, and it is worth mentioning that in this batch of supplies, there were 500 firearms, and these 500 firecrackers did not come from the forging workshop, but from the second forging workshop.

During the three months that the Zhenjun army fought in Shangjing, Qingyuan had built a factory next to the iron mine in Zhenjun, and the factory has now been officially put into use.

All the parts on the fire gun are made by molds, rather than hand-made by manpower, and the iron smelted by the second forging workshop is more refined than the iron smelted by the forging workshop, with fewer impurities.

At the same time as transporting 500 firearms, Qingyuan also wrote a letter to Shangguan Xiu, proposing to introduce five more steam engines from Tia to further expand the scale of the factory.

The steam engine currently used by Zhenjun is a personal gift from Shangguan Hongdu, not bought by Shangguan Xiu with money, but if the steam engine is imported from Tia, it will have to be exchanged for silver.

Qingyuan made it very clear in his letter that the value of a steam engine was 100,000 taels of silver, but because Shangguan Xiu and Tia had an agreement, the Tia court would give him certain concessions, but even so, each steam engine would cost 50,000 taels of silver.

A steam engine costs 50,000 taels of silver, this is still a special discount given to him by the Tia court, Shangguan Xiu secretly smiled bitterly, he felt that the weight of a steam engine may not be 50,000 taels of silver, Tia's steam engine is simply made of silver.

However, even if he knew that Tia's court had made a profit, he could only grit his teeth and act as a wronged man, there was no way, the steam engine was indeed easy to use, not only greatly saving manpower, but also producing things of high quality, Fengguo could not make it himself, so he could only buy it from Tia.

In the reply letter to Qingyuan, Shangguan Xiu agreed to Qingyuan's request, saying that he was willing to take out 250,000 taels of silver to buy five steam engines, as for the silver, he could ask Liu Yun, the county guard, to ask for it, in addition, he proposed to Qingyuan that he recruit qualified young people in Zhen County and teach them the relevant knowledge of steam engines, and he would produce his own steam engines in the future.

After writing a letter to Qingyuan, Caidang and Ziyin walked in from outside excitedly. When he came to the handsome case, the two of them bowed their hands and said in unison: "I belong to the lord." ”

"Hmm. Shangguan Xiu nodded to the two of them, dried the written letter, folded it, stuffed it into an envelope, and handed it to Xiao Jue beside him, so that he could send it back to Xijing. After finishing his work, he smiled at Dang and Ziyin and asked, "Have you tried all the firecrackers you brought this time?"

"Lord Hui, I've already tried it. Cai Dang said with a smile: "The quality of this batch of firecrackers is very high, and it seems that improvements have been made, and the range is a little longer than that of the firecrackers produced before." ”

Shangguan Xiu nodded and said, "This batch of fire guns is produced by the Second Forging Workshop. ”

"Forging the second workshop?" should be taken aback by Ziyin, the former asked curiously: "My lord, when our army set out on the expedition, the factory of the second forging workshop had not yet been built, according to the time calculation, the factory of the second forging workshop was just built this month at the earliest, and in less than a month, five hundred firecrackers were made?"

"Ten days. Shangguan Xiu corrected: "These five hundred fire guns were made in only ten days in the second forging workshop. Before, they also produced a batch of firecrackers, but a certain link went wrong and they were all destroyed, and these were rebuilt by them. ”

"It's amazing! It only took ten days to make 500 firecrackers, so the second forging workshop can make more than 1,000 firecrackers in a month?"

"This is only the effect of one steam engine, I have already approved Qingyuan's request to bring in five more steam engines to Tia. Shangguan Xiu said with a smile: "In the future, the establishment of our army's firearms battalion will become larger and larger, and it will form a firecracker corps, or even a firecracker regiment, which should be hidden ......."

"Belong!" should be when the two of them suppressed the excitement in their hearts, and both intervened to give a salute.

"You two are the leaders of the first generation of the firecrackle battalion of our army, and they are also the first to come into contact with firecrackers, and they are most familiar with the performance of firecrackers and their application on the battlefield. Shangguan Xiu said calmly.

His tone was calm, but listening to the ears of Dangdang and Ziyin, their hearts were beating so fast that they were about to jump out of their throats. He bowed down and said, "Don't worry, my lordship, I will do it...... He Ziyin will do his best for the adults and die. ”

Shangguan Xiu nodded with a smile. Ziyin, who was silent, suddenly spoke: "My lord, both belong and should be willing to join the Shura Hall. ”

"In my eyes, you two have long been members of the Shura Hall. Shangguan Xiu's eyes flashed with a flash of appreciation, he turned his head to look at Wu Yufei, who understood, took out two gold medals from his arms, walked to the front of Caidang and Ziyin, and handed them to the two of them.

As more and more people joined the Shura Hall (most of the Zhenjun Army were already members of the Shura Hall), the hierarchy of personnel was determined by the hall card. The first level is the jade medal, so far, there is only Shangguan Xiu, the second level is the gold medal, and there are only a handful of people who have a gold medal, the third level is the silver medal, most of the middle and low-level generals of the Zhenjun Army hold silver medals, and the fourth level is the iron medal, which is also the most, and the ordinary soldiers of the Zhenjun Army are basically iron medals.

Seeing the gold medal handed over by Wu Yufei, it should be that He Ziyin's heart beat wildly, and the two first bowed to Shangguan Xiu and said, "Thank you for your cultivation!" When they spoke, both of them were in a trill, and then they respectfully took the gold medal from Wu Yufei's hand and hung it on their waists.

In the Zhenjun Army, the general's token is nothing, and the hall card of Shura Hall is a symbol of status, without a hall card, even if there is a high position on the top of the head, it will not be truly respected by the soldiers. Now it's time for Kazukuin to get the gold medal in Shuratang, and I feel that it will be windy to walk in the barracks in the future.

The two of them straightened their waists, and they couldn't bear to look down at the gold medal hanging from their waists.

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