If Li Kui could hear the conversation between Lu Dafang and his son, he would definitely laugh.

Wen Yanbo?

Even if Wen Yanbo's reputation is not very good, in the Northern Song Dynasty, he is also a famous appearance. Li Kui's original dream was not to be a prime minister under one person and above ten thousand people, but to mix up an official and a half-job and get out of a small mountain village. Later, I found that it was quite difficult to study, and if I couldn't pass the exam, I might be able to take the Yangshan route.

After all, where is the benefit of doing business more than black eating black?

Such a person, one day a former prime minister who used to be high and powerful said that he was the second in Wen Yanbo, wouldn't Li Kui want to laugh?

Even if the ability is not as good as others, even if the age catches up with others, it is enough to make people happy. Wen Yanbo is now in his nineties, and he can still eat and sleep, which is a blessing that ordinary people can't envy.

Like Li Kui, Wen Yanbo once had a precedent of being slightly offended by a military man and beating a military to death.

Of course, Li Kui's identity cannot be compared with Wen Yanbo, when Wen Yanbo whipped the military and killed the soldiers, and killed the chickens and monkeys, Wen Yanbo was already a high-ranking official at that time, and now Li Kui has become a low-level civil official because of his death.

Chen Kuang reminded Li Kui: "According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, after an official loses or unintentionally damages an official document, he should return to the official department to receive punishment and then wait for the next appointment." ”

"What Qianfu said makes sense, I have to know Beijing." Li Kui is not clear about this charter. He belongs to the kind of guy who completely degenerates after passing the Jinshi examination. Besides, Li Kui never thought that his official documents would be torn up one day. He didn't even know what to do with the trouble.

And Chen Kuang is different, the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty matured, that is, about a hundred years, the era of Taizu Taizong is not counted, and the real perfection is still in the Zhenzong period.

The imperial examination provided a large number of talents for the Great Song Dynasty, and also gave the common people great hope of rising to the scholarly class. But most of the people who came to the end of the imperial examination were still the children of official eunuchs. At most, 30 percent of the children of commoners have any hope of obtaining official status through the imperial examination.

And Chen Kuang is the son of an official eunuch, and he knows much more about officialdom than Li Kui.

If you say something else, forget it, it is absolutely impossible to let Li Kui return to Beijing. But there was a person who couldn't agree to this matter, Hao Sui jumped up, and almost pointed at Chen Kuang and scolded: "Our family already has a safe way, you have a small Lantian County order, do you still have to manage our family's head?" ”

Chen Kuang spread his hands, and he was not angry, but he gave people a helpless expression: "But the official has lost his official identity before taking office, and he is already an alternate official according to the rules, and the officials will arrange it as appropriate after the report is approved." Generally, the grade will be downgraded, and then appointed, and it is necessary to go to the capital to file a waitlist. ”

"Renjie's official identity document is issued by the secretary of the province, stamped by the metropolitan hall, and written by the ministry. Do you think it's as simple as the destruction of ordinary official documents? Hao Sui sat on the seat angrily, didn't look at Chen Kuang, and drank the cold tea soup and gasped, obviously angry.

Li Kui didn't think that returning to Beijing would cause much trouble, and of course, this outcome was extremely risky for Hao Sui. He immediately took out the gold medal and warned Li Kui: "Renjie, even if you want to go back to Beijing, please go back to Yangquan County safely and securely, and then you won't be able to harm our family." Our family holds this gold medal to see you take over the job in Yangquan County with our own eyes. ”

The gold medal is very simple, and even the golden dragon with teeth and claws is not carved on it, and it looks very plain. However, the power represented behind it still allows Li Kui to accept it.

He was very frustrated, he was even a county lieutenant mixed up, and it seemed that Shaosheng was not very friendly to him in the first year.

And Chen Kuang stared directly at the gold medal in Hao Sui's hand, and his gaze shifted with Hao Sui's movements. There was a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart, and he was still regretting Li Kui's misfortune before. The moment he saw the gold medal, he found that even if Li Kui became the first Shaosheng Jiaxuke to be demoted in the same year, his status in the emperor's mind was much higher than him.

Even Chen Kuang somewhat guessed that Li Kui's derogation was said to be derogatory, and it was more likely that the emperor protected Li Kui. At the same time, he was also very curious, how much trouble did Li Kui make in the capital, so that the emperor used the royal gold medal to escort Li Kui to office?

As for the identity of Li Kui's alternate officer, it is not important at all.

Alternate officer, for most officials, is definitely a very difficult experience.

Especially the Enyin official, after waiting for a period of time, there is no follow-up.

There is no such situation for Li Kui, he is a Jinshi, although the redundancy of the Great Song Dynasty is serious, he will not deliberately make things difficult on the head of the Jinshi. After all, for the Great Song Dynasty, it was already a national policy for scholars and emperors to govern the country together. Jinshi is the most elite talent among scholars, and any waste of talent is an unbearable loss for the imperial court.

Hao Sui is not afraid of anything else, he is afraid that Li Kui will go back.

How did Li Kui get out of the capital, others don't know, Hao Suineng doesn't know?

The Queen Mother pretended to be sick and threatened the emperor with death...... It would be reasonable if this person was the prime minister, but what kind of official was Li Kui at that time? Seven-grade civil officials only.

If this goods returns to the capital, Hao will be escorted by this openly escorted and secretly escorted by the prison guards, and he will be unlucky.

Chen Kuang cautiously glanced at Hao Sui, and then looked at Li Kui, inexplicably sad for himself, is this the gap between Jinshi and Jinshi's background?

Issued by the secretary province, this is easy to understand, Li Kui is an official of the secretary province, before the post of the direct secretary cabinet was not removed, his transfer needs to be issued by the direct yamen, and there is no problem at all. However, the seal of the metropolitan hall is also reasonable, although the metropolitan hall is the official office of the prime minister, but the current prime minister and the right servant of the secretary is still the right servant, and the officials of the secretary province must nod their heads when they transfer the prime minister, and as for the last official department, it is also a normal process.

But together, it made Chen Kuang envious.

People are different.

If Li Kui was replaced by Chen Kuang, Hao Sui wouldn't care at all.

But Li Kui is different.

If this goods went to the capital and pretended to be sick to the Queen Mother, she might really be bedridden with anger. The queen mother is not happy, she wants to make trouble, the headache must be the emperor, if the emperor is not happy, the officials of the court will be counted, but Hao Sui, the eunuch, will definitely have to bear all the consequences.

Therefore, Hao Sui had to be anxious, for the emperor, Hao Sui was useful, so he would give away some power. But once Hao Sui's usefulness can't be withdrawn, but he still embarrasses himself, then there is not much need for Hao Sui to live.

Li Kui, who was stopped by Hao Sui's fate, finally settled in Lantian to settle down.

It can't be said that he is peaceful, but he was attracted by some strategic materials collected by Hao Sui.

Assault guns.

It's fun, it's like fireworks, and it's definitely fun to play at night. Li Kui's family was poor when he was a child, and he remembered that in his memories in later generations, when he saw other people's children setting off fireworks, he only had a share of envy. And the assault rifle, as a weapon, is definitely a failure in weapons, the originator of fireworks, and it is very appropriate to regard this as a very classic firework in the memory of later generations - the pearl of the night.

The only disappointing thing is that as a weapon, the killing distance of the assault rifle is only one or two feet, and this thing is lit like a troll, spraying gunpowder out in one go.

It's not easy to hurt someone, but it can be good to scare people. Although the assault rifle is a failed weapon, the status of the assault rifle cannot be ignored, and it is the prototype of the firecracker.

There is also the earth-shattering thunder.

Since gunpowder has been developed, it is natural that there will be no shortage of canisters that light the fuse and throw it out to explode. Again, because the craftsmen added too much rubble, the power of this weapon was greatly reduced. And it can only be used as a city defense. The battlefield of Western Xia has become a testing ground for the new weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, although the effect is not good, but the Great Song Dynasty does not seem to care.

Li Kui even met a big guy - Rocket.

The rocket is not the rocket of later generations, but more like the rocket artillery of later generations. It has to be said that there was no shortage of imaginative craftsmen in the Great Song Dynasty, and after hollowing out with long-haired bamboo poles, primitive rocket artillery with gunpowder as a booster appeared.

But it's also not easy to use, and after it hits the ground, this thing won't explode, it can only burn.

At this time, Li Kui was bored and arguing with the head of the craftsman: "Why don't you add a gunpowder bag to your head, and when it falls, there will be an explosion?" Killing a large area in one blow? ”

Li Kui, who had been a young man for a few days, was used to being admired by the craftsmen, but he met a stubborn old man and craftsman. The other party did not have the consciousness of craftsmanship at all, but was like a proud inventor, with the pride of wisdom in his eyes, and instead of thinking about adopting Li Kui's suggestion, he disdainfully said: "This is not used to explode people!" ”

Li Kui stared at the craftsman with wide eyes, he couldn't figure it out, aren't rockets good? If you have to make an unreliable incendiary bomb, it will not make any sense at all until napalm and white phosphorus appear.

The other party was still very complacent: "Adults don't understand gunpowder, so don't suggest it." ”

After speaking, the old man took care of himself and walked away with a big Song-like rocket.

In fact, there is also a type of rocket, which is a gunpowder weapon that is tied to an arrow and fired with a bow.

Again, it has no lethality, and the only purpose is to attack with fire. Most of the targets of the attacks were grain and grass. But the Song army couldn't get close to the grain and grass stacks in Western Xia at all. Also useless weapons.

The same is true with the advent of rockets.

This made Li Kui very dissatisfied, when was he despised by the craftsmen of this era?

Walking up to the old man, he said leisurely: "If you really aim at the grain and grass pile, do you dare to guarantee that you will be able to shoot?" ”

No kidding, it's simply impossible. Although the rockets of the Great Song Dynasty have the same concept as the rockets of later generations, they are very rough in craftsmanship. Don't look at the attack distance of more than a mile, but because the composition of the gunpowder is unstable, the amount of feeding is biased, and even because of the unreliable appearance, the Da Song version of the rocket often flies out and can't even see a shadow, not to mention the accurate landing point, and the assault gun, this is also a bluffing thing. The rocket of the Great Song, once ignited, the attack length is uncertain, it may be one mile or two miles. It depends on whether the gunpowder charged by the rocket is very magical.

Able to make gunpowder weapons, the old man is definitely a top-notch existence among craftsmen. But if you want to make the thermal weapons of this era reliable, you can't do it.

After Li Kui asked the old man, he turned his head and dropped a sentence: "In a few days, the master will give you the whole big toy and let you understand that gunpowder is not used by you like this, and it is a waste to put such expensive materials in your hands." ”

Without official documents, Li Kui could not go to Yangquan County, so he could only delay in Lantian.

He estimated that it would take at least a month for the messengers to and from the capital to bring new official documents.

In the days that followed, Li Yun led people to train. And Li Kui was completely silent in the joy of playing with gunpowder.

In later generations, a boy did not dare to say that he had a childhood without blowing up a thatched house with a slippery cannon. In the Great Song Dynasty, the military generals who couldn't play gunpowder were also old-fashioned who couldn't keep up with the times.

Bronze smelting is very simple, as long as you can cast the temple's bell, you can cast a qualified fire gun. Large-caliber muskets are mortars, filled with gunpowder and added with stones, this seemingly inconspicuous weapon can cause pieces of lethality in a short period of time, which is a height that the assault rifle can never reach.

The grenade is also lighter than the defensive Earthquake Thunder, and it will be thrown farther. The point is that the stability of the grenade has also been greatly improved by casting the shell.

As for rockets, assault guns and stuff.

Li Kui didn't have any hope for it at all, so he threw it away. The army of the Great Song Dynasty did not look at the killing effect of gunpowder, but the amount of use was very amazing. Li Kui's renovation plan was not rejected by the craftsmen, but was accustomed to it. Because the craftsmen also often suffered from the wrath of the generals of the army, and changed all kinds of gunpowder weapons. The assault rifle is a flamethrower with a bamboo tube stuffed with gunpowder, and it often injures its own people. As for other strange weapons, they are always more dynamic than effective, and for the army, they are also better than nothing.

Finally, a month and a half later, Li Kui left Lantian County with twelve bronze fire guns the size of bowls and an astonishing number of fire thunders. The soldiers had a great fear of the dangerous weapons of gunpowder. As for why Li Kui did not use iron as the casting material for firearms, the main reason is that the iron of the Great Song Dynasty is too poor in fineness, and the strength is not as high as that of bronze.

Starting from Lantian, you don't need a guide to go to Yan'an Mansion at all, just go all the way north.

In fact, that's what Li Kui did, he had a map in his hand, and he had also been to the northwest in later generations, so it was not uncommon to bring a guide at all. But as he walked, he found that something was wrong, after a few days of marching along the Luohe River, it was supposed to be almost Yan'an Mansion, but he found that it seemed to be wrong, why didn't he see the Loess Plateau?

Why can't that desolate memory match?

Even Li Kui didn't expect that there were still trees on the Loess Plateau of the Great Song Dynasty, although they were sparse and not into pieces, but they were really trees.

After checking the luck of the map, Li Kui put away the map and said confidently: "It's almost there!" ”

But in a panic, he was lost. In later generations, he drove through northern Shaanxi several times, and he could find a place with his eyes closed, but now he was stumped by a map of only a few small hills, can he afford to lose this face? What's even more annoying is that the 50-year war between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia Dynasty completely turned the northwest into a mess, and there was not even a question for directions on the road.