The two stared at each other for a while, Li Kui was still unimpressed, but who was Li Kui afraid of?

He sleeps with his eyes open, he can not close his eyes or blink all night, who can be his opponent?

But there is also a disadvantage, Li Kui sometimes thinks sadly that when he dies in this life, he is afraid that he will die without turning a blind eye.

Just when Zheng Qi couldn't stand it, Liang Shijie ran over, handed the other party a drawing, and said excitedly: "Lord Zheng, our Military Command Bureau is going to take care of your business again." ”

"This is...... What kind of weapons? ”

Zheng Qi stared at the drawing, but couldn't figure out what kind of weapon was on the drawing? However, looking at the honeycomb-shaped structure, I was suddenly amazed, it turned out that the whole of the Military Command Bureau was not all greedy villains, but also some people were doing the right thing. Even a guy like Liang Shijie, who drills into the eyes of money, also thinks of inventing weapons.

The dignified iron supervisor Zheng Qi, a member of the fourth grade, shamelessly asked Liang Shijie: "Dare to ask Liang Yanei, what kind of weapon is this?" ”

"Lord Zheng is polite, how dare the lower officials call Yanei? Now that he is a newcomer to officialdom, please ask Lord Zheng to help him more. As for this? Liang Shijie was a little embarrassed: "This is not a weapon, but a cylinder for smashing honeycomb coal, it looks very complicated, but I asked Shang Jia, this thing is not troublesome to cast." However, in addition to the iron smelting workshop licensed by the imperial court, no one in the Great Song Dynasty had so much iron. ”

Zheng Qi was stunned, and a sentence came out of his heart: The country is about to die, and there will be demons.

The Military Command Bureau, a good central and important department, has been mixed with honeycomb coal all day long, and it seems that the Great Song Dynasty is really in danger.

"10,000, 10,000 for petty officials. Master Zheng, you have to give me a discount. ”

Zheng Qi glanced at Liang Shijie and muttered, "The capital can't use so many tools, right?" ”

"The merchants are determined to sell all over the Great Song Dynasty." Liang Shijie admired Li Kui and said: "Thanks to the bureau seat that inspired us to wait, such a sharp weapon was born." Merchants have tried, the same charcoal cake, this way out of less material, but the same burning. In the future, charcoal cakes will be sold on a piece-by-piece basis, rather than on a re-sale basis. This kind of business will inevitably be sold all over the world. ”

"You go and discuss this matter with Lu Dashi, the supervisor of the workshop, and charge according to the weight."

"Tell him there's no discount."

Liang Shijie insisted on not leaving, and he has always been very persistent on the road of making money.

"If you send a message to Lu Dashi, just say it...... The official agreed, and only accepted your materials and work, okay? In order to send Liang Shijie away, Zheng Qi can be regarded as bleeding. Fortunately, the iron supervisor is subordinate to the household department, and it doesn't matter if a workshop earns money or not.

Liang Shijie twisted: "How embarrassing is this? ”

"Wenda, you go and get busy first, the official and your family have something to say." Zheng Qi said with a headache, he can't offend Liang Shijie. Don't look at Cai Jingliang, but the Liang family's momentum is not bad now. Wenda is Liang Shijie's word. At the beginning, the elders gave him this word, most likely because they wanted him to be heard in the world. As for now, I'm afraid it's not possible in this life. There is hope for infamy.

Liang Shijie hurriedly confessed and left, he is like this, he can always take the initiative to make money, and he is never tired of it.

After Liang Shijie left, Zheng Qi shook his head and sighed: "What kind of sin did Bachelor Liang create, and he has such a descendant." ”

"Brother Zheng knows Wenda?"

Li Kui said curiously, even if Liang Shijie was working in the Military Unification Bureau, Li Kui didn't care too much about Cai Jing's son-in-law.

Zheng Qi said in surprise: "Your Majesty's living room is his uncle, don't you know?" He has a good relationship with Cai's ruling power. ”

Li Kui shook his head, there were more people in front of the emperor. The affairs of the housekeepers are similar to those of the eunuchs, and they follow the emperor all day long. However, Li Kui also has a heart, this person should be Cai Bian's cronies.

"Li waits for the system, don't talk about the Liang family, it's just a tiger father and a dog. Do you remember what you said before? ”

Zheng Qi came to have an important matter, but he didn't come to spread gossip to Li Kui.

Li Kui suddenly remembered and said in surprise: "The flintlock pistol has been made?" ”

"Flintlock pistol?"

Zheng Qi was stunned, the craftsmen of this thing had tried many times, but it was difficult to make progress. How can it be so easy to figure it out. From the assault rifle to the flintlock pistol at once, the span was too great for the craftsmen of the ironworks to do anything. The assault rifle is an artifact that is stuffed with gunpowder in a bamboo barrel and ignited to spray people's faces. The soldier used it on the battlefield before, and often did not hurt the enemy, but because the bamboo was unbearable for the instantaneous explosive power of gunpowder, the soldier exploded in his hand after lighting the fuse, and was disliked by the army.

Zheng Qi was helpless, so he had to say himself: "My lord, it's a cannon cast." We're ready to cast our guns. ”

Li Kuixin said, what are you going to do with me casting a cannon?

Li Kui's sail cruisers were all sunk, and the enthusiasm for artillery was extinguished almost overnight.

"Lord Zheng, this is your iron eunuch's business, right? Besides, the Military Command Bureau is busy with official business now, and I am afraid that it will lack skills. "Li Kui has ordered Zhu Fu and others to prepare to train spies, so that they can go deep into the forbidden army in various places to explore the combat strength of the army. As for the cannon, he couldn't think of it at all before the sail ship was built.

Artillery ships are standard. And the army, as far as today's artillery is concerned, is still too cumbersome to use, and the effect is not good. Unless the flintlock pistol is made, there is no head.

The sail ship is different, regardless of the multiple cannons, for a large ship, it is a negligible weight. Anyway, the industrial level of the Great Song Dynasty can't build a cannon of several thousand tons, at best, a few tons will reach the sky, is this a problem for a large ship with a displacement of thousands of tons, or even one or two thousand tons?

Zheng Qi is not easy to say, you are the artillery authority of the Great Song Dynasty! And the Military Command Bureau is busy, are you busy with business? is busy making money, since Cai Jing came to the Military Command Bureau, this yamen is almost the same as the household department, and he has lost money.

If you don't go, do we dare to cast cannons indiscriminately?

"My lord, this batch of artillery was ordered by the Western Army, and Zhang Longtu repeatedly asked that the best materials must be used to build the strongest cannons. And if you don't go, we don't know the bottom of our workshop! ”

Zheng Qi then expressed his intention.

Li Kui suddenly realized that this was such a matter, but he was not an authority: "Lord Zheng, casting cannons, you go and ask the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the original bronze cannons were all cast by them, and they must be more experienced in this." As for me, I'm not going. ”

"Li Beizhi—"

"But I can say a little bit about what I asked of a craftsman in the first place. It is important that the cast cannon does not have trachoma, and once there is trachoma, the cannon is in danger of exploding. The artillery that exploded on the battlefield is basically for this reason. The second is to grind the inner wall, if it can be ground with a waterwheel, the effect is better. ”

"Just these two items, if you can do these two, basically the quality of the cannon cast will not be too bad. Unless, iron can't. By the way, how much wrought iron can your blast furnace produce a day today? ”

Zheng Qi replied: "Thirty thousand catties." This is already the limit, unless the number of iron ying is increased, otherwise the difference will not go up. But basically let the Privy Council take it. Recently, the Privy Council's armory workshop has also been working in full force to replace the weapons of the forbidden army. ”

"That's a good thing!" Li Kui said with a smile.

Zheng Qi echoed: "Please also ask Li to take a look at this picture, otherwise the official's heart will be hanging and he will not be able to fall." ”

His eyes swept over the drawings, and Li Kui did not have a clear judgment in his heart, whether the cannon is good or not, the key is the bore pressure that the barrel can withstand, the shorter the barrel, the more durable. And the longer the barrel, the longer the range. Seeing Zheng Qi's pitiful appearance, Li Kui secretly told him the secret: "Brother Zheng, come here with your ears." ”

"Li is really a pedant."

"A little trick that doesn't go into the flow. But don't be too short, otherwise you will really become a sitting tiger, which can roar, but can't hurt people. ”

"Don't worry, save your brother's heart."

……

After sending Zheng Qi away, Li Kui pondered. Going to war?

This batch of artillery was ordered by Zhang Qi, indicating that Zhang Qi wanted to strike at Western Xia again. Obviously, Zhang Dian now has the intention of destroying Western Xia. Suddenly, a decisive battle is unlikely, but sending troops to Youzhou is probably imperative.

I don't know if the imperial court will let him go to the northwest.

With this question, Li Kui visited An Tao, who was most likely to know about the military situation.

It's a pity that An Tao didn't know to fight.

As for Zhang Kai's order for artillery, he was clear. However, this is the ordnance requested by the Western Army last year, and it was cast this year, and there is no problem at all. But Li Kui doesn't think so. Although Zhang Qi and Zhang Dian are not very close, they are brothers after all. Especially when Zhang Dian did not trust the Privy Council, it was very likely that he would directly bypass the Privy Council and order Zhang Qi to attack Western Xia.

After An Tao sent Li Kui away, he immediately went to Li Qingchen's house.

The two Wenchen studied the Song-Xia border map for a long time, but they couldn't see any problems.

And Cai Jing was in a bad mood that day and sent away the creditor who came to ask for debts, and the patent fees earned by his son-in-law before they were not covered by him, they fell into the pockets of the creditors. This made Cai Jing very annoyed, and said to himself in the backyard: "Thousands of precautions, it is difficult to prevent thieves!" "If it weren't for the traitor in the family, how could it be that the creditor would come to the door as soon as the son-in-law sent the money?

Cai Jing originally hoped to use this money to make money, make a big deal, and block all the deficits at once. But I never thought that the plan would fall through.

"Master, Zhang Yushi is here! Do you want to see it? ”

Cai Jingxin said that where did he know the imperial history surnamed Zhang, Zhang Shangying offended Li Kui at the beginning, and then went to the northwest, so naturally he couldn't make the imperial history. I've heard of it very unsatisfactory. But he didn't believe it, and this thing dared to return to Beijing without being called.

"Nope!"

"Yuan Chang, why did an old friend visit, why did you do it behind closed doors?"

"Tianjue, why are you so bold?"

Cai Jing opened his mouth and was shocked, and hurriedly ordered someone to go outside the hospital to check if anyone had seen it.

Zhang Shangying didn't care, but sat opposite Cai Jing with a big grin, and said with a bright face: "Yuan Chang, I am the observer of Yan Yanlu. ”

"Observer?"

Cai Jing then remembered the embarrassing identity of his old friend. It's an idle errand, basically nothing to do all year round, but I need to go back to Beijing every year to play. In fact, it is a small report to the emperor, a character who is disgusted by dogs.

Cai Jing relaxed at this time, he was really afraid that Zhang Shangying would ignore it, and as soon as his brain twitched, he would do something that the officialdom could not tolerate. When this product was still the official of Kaifeng Mansion before, he wrote an article saying that the Empress Dowager was high-minded - not abiding by women's morals.

Even if the Great Song Dynasty treats civil officials preferentially, but for goods like Zhang Shangying, they are definitely not among the preferential treatment.

Just one charge of defamation of the Holy Judge is enough for Zhang Shangying to be assigned to Salmon Island.

And the distribution of Salmon Island is definitely a dead end. Especially for a civil official. Salmon Island is actually not mysterious, it is off the coast of Dengzhou. The people who sent this island are all the most heinous people. But this is not the most dangerous reason, because Salmon Island only allocates enough money and food for 500 people every year. In fact, more than 1,000 people are assigned to Salmon Island every year. And that's not even counting the people on the island.

The governor of Salmon Island has the right to kick 500 people into the sea and drown them before going to the island.

But the miraculous thing is that Zhang Shangying's goods miraculously survived. Not only that, according to Cai Jing's opinion, this product is also quite happy. Especially now, Zhang Shangying confidently bowed his head to Cai Jing and whispered: "Yuan Chang, Li Kui is dead." ”

After saying that, the arrogant laughed out loud......

Cai Jing's heart suddenly tightened, Zhang Shangying pinched Li Kui's fatal handle.