While Liang En was discussing Liang En in the Divine Capital, Liang En listened to the official recite the holy decree to reward him.

Just as he had guessed before. Because the technical level cannot be spread out for the time being, the true power of the steam engine cannot be reflected, so the reward given for these inventions of him is not very rich.

But the imperial court also saw the future contained in the knowledge he had contributed before, so the reward given may seem a little empty to ordinary people, but it is an extremely valuable thing to Liang En-

Liang En was given the title of Bachelor of Gezhi Academy. Unlike the Chancellor, this title does not have any rank, but it is full of honors.

Gezhi Yuan is a yamen established after the establishment of the New Song Dynasty, which is full of people who have invented important scientific and technological achievements and promoted progress, and the best of them will be elected as Gezhi Academy's bachelors.

This title does not bring any power or money to those who possess it, but they are considered to be truly wise men everywhere and enjoy great prestige.

From the contents of the decree read by the herald, Liang En understood that he was able to obtain this title because he had previously proposed a series of knowledge such as sterilization, allicin extraction, steam engines, new artillery, and so on.

Some of this knowledge has already begun to be widely used, while others have only been tested on a small scale. However, no matter what kind of knowledge, you can feel the wisdom condensed in it and the role it may play in the future.

Even if inferred from the most conservative point of view, these things will change the country on a large scale and improve the national strength of the entire country unprecedentedly, which is why Liang En was able to win this award.

According to tradition, after each scholar of the Gezhi Academy received this title, the imperial court would spread the news to the world through the palace, along with the contributions made by these scholars.

This is equivalent to the imperial court using its own credibility to endorse and prove that Liang En's contribution is about the same as the outstanding contribution of a certain scientist in the "XX Simulcast" in the modern world.

Perhaps in an ordinary world like the modern world, this kind of propaganda can only increase a person's prestige, and incidentally gain power or money. But in this world, these prestiges are equal to clear beliefs.

Unlike the way of letting information flow naturally, this kind of official propaganda will greatly speed up the speed at which Liang En can condense his faith, even if he does not practice Shinto, he can still improve his cultivation from the side.

That's right, he is indeed a cultivator who is open-minded, but the more cultivation resources there are, the better, and in the face of the incense sent to the door, he naturally does not refuse to come.

At least in the east of this world, cultivating gods and cultivating immortals are not completely contradictory, just like several heavenly masters are both immortals and gods. It's just that everyone who chooses to cultivate both must choose an emphasis between the two.

Even if he was willing, he could use these incense and the canonization of the imperial court to obtain the gods and become a god, so that even if he really failed to cultivate immortals, he could get a chance to do it all over again.

As for getting the canonization of the imperial court, it is not difficult to think of it, after all, since the imperial court is determined to reward Liang En in this regard, as long as there are no big accidents in the future, it will naturally not refuse to canonize him.

"Congratulations, Mr. Leung." After handing over the decree to Liang En, the herald arched his hand to Liang En in congratulations, and then said to him, while the others also bowed their hands to congratulate him.

"Rejoice, rejoice!" Liang En also smiled and returned the salute one by one at this time, and when everyone was polite, the soldiers who had been studying artillery over there also entered the tent.

"Mr. Leung." The general soldier of Ping An first hugged Liang En's fist, and then said seriously. "How many of these cannons are there, please? How many people know how to operate artillery?"

"There is only one artillery for the time being, and if you want to mass produce it, even if all the raw materials are ready, it will be half a year before the production line is established and officially put into production."

After closing his eyes and thinking for a few seconds, Liang En opened his eyes and looked at the chief soldier and replied very seriously.

"If I need it urgently, I can use alchemy to make artillery, even a day if the raw materials are sufficient

It's possible to make ten guns, but then the cost would be significantly exceeded."

"As for the number of artillery, it is not optimistic, and the more than 20 artillerymen trained now can only load, clean, and reset the artillery. I still need to take the most important measurements and aiming."

"So even if enough artillery is made, it will not be possible to find enough operators in a short period of time, and in this case, simply increasing the number of artillery pieces will not make much sense in terms of the results."

"Looks like time is still too tight." After hearing Liang En's words, the face of the general soldier of Ping An showed a regretful expression. "Artillery may not be useful in the next retaliation."

"Retaliation, what's that?"

Liang En was curious about what the retaliation in the mouth of the general soldier was referring to? After all, he has been either conducting academic exchanges or training his own militia recently, so he has not received much information from the outside world.

"That's right, after the last pirate attack, we started to trace the source of those pirates, and now we've identified a few culprits—"

When Liang asked what the retaliation was, a lower-ranking officer who confirmed his current status explained to him that the local army was preparing for the military operation recently.

According to the officer, it was not difficult to gather information about the attackers and their backgrounds, after all, the attackers were a rabble, and it was difficult to achieve true secrecy.

However, when the list of attackers is obtained, it becomes a bit difficult to retaliate, because there are so many forces involved in this large-scale attack.

Yes, although it is true that this group of people are all pirates in name, the problem is that pirates and navies of many countries are inseparable in this era, so the previous large-scale attack naturally involved the navies of several countries.

The invasion of another by one country's navy was undoubtedly a declaration of war, and as the superior state of the Celestial Empire, the nascent Great Song Dynasty was bound to fight back in the face of such provocations.

It's just that how to choose the target of the counterattack is a very high-level matter - first of all, the enemy must not be too strong, and the military operation that cannot be carried out will turn into a long tug-of-war.

Secondly, this enemy should not be too weak, and even if an enemy who is too weak wins, it will only make this operation a laughing stock, and it will not be able to achieve the purpose of deterrence at all.

In the end, this war cannot be just faceless and without substance, because once the war becomes a bottomless pit that devours money, materials and lives, then people will oppose similar actions happening again, which will affect the next national policy.

Therefore, after repeated trade-offs, everyone put the goal of the war on the Kingdom of Malacca, which sent a lot of pirates or navy.

This is a kingdom that has only been established for five years by the Rajah (king) of Singapore, which was wiped out by the Majapahit Kingdom seven years ago, and the internal situation is very chaotic.

It was precisely because of this confusion that the opposing navy joined the large-scale pirate attack on the mouth of the Yangtze River alone, and was completely annihilated in the counterattack, giving the Great Song military an excellent excuse to start a war.