Although the weather is cold, Tiewang Mountain is full of jubilation.

Beijing is lively and lively, but it is still a lot worse than the arbitrary freedom of Iron Net Mountain.

Especially for the women who are "confined" in the back house, whether they are enjoying the scenery, galloping on horses, or playing ball with friends, the free breath in the wilderness seems to be sweeter.

Daiyu's body has been much stronger in the past two years, and she was tightly wrapped by Mrs. Xing, and was pulled by Tu Siqi to swim around the periphery of the Iron Net Mountain.

After lunch, she used two poems to push the poetry competition to a climax, Yingchun won eight games in a row, and advanced to the finals strongly, and the two had a tendency to win the three tripods.

As for the polo match, they did not participate, but they also came to the court to cheer for Tu Siqi, who was swinging on the horse.

"Your girl makes people look hot, quiet, dignified, and beautiful, let alone talented. It's not like the girl in the main palace, who is either dancing with a gun or playing with a stick, and she doesn't look like a lady."

Mrs. Xing sat on the right side of Liu Shule, the eldest princess of Deqing, and heard Her Royal Highness praise her daughter and was honored.

She said with a smile: "Where is Your Highness, the county lord is heroic, my brother Cong once said that his sisters and sisters should also move more and learn kung fu. Not to mention that killing the enemy in battle can also strengthen the body. The concubine thought about what that sentence was about...... By the way, Brother Cong said that life lies in sports, and he has taken the girls at home to play five poultry plays in the past two years."

"This is true, Qi'er has rarely been sick since she was born, and she doesn't even have a headache and brain fever when she runs around in the winter."

The smile on Liu Shule's face was even worse, Tu Siqi had reached the age of looking at each other, but because of her personality different from that of ordinary nobles, she had not been able to find a suitable candidate.

Those noble ladies in Beijing often spoke ill of her behind her back, what Tu family girl did not look like a lady, but she looked like a wild child......

Mrs. Xing is stupid, but she has a temperament.

She looked at Tu Siqi who was like the wind on the polo field, and said enviously: "The county lord has a lively personality, which woman in Beijing is not envious."

While!

When the gong sounded, Tu Siqi rode around the field and waved excitedly at her mother and girlfriends in the stands, which was already her third goal after the opening.

The emotions of Daiyu and Yingchun in the stands were also mobilized by Tu Siqi's heroic figure, and everyone cheered.

A polo match was hearty, Tu Siqi wiped the sweat on her forehead, ran to the stands and asked her mother for credit.

"Mother, I won!"

"Okay, let's go back to the tent and wash up and change into clean clothes, so that you don't catch a cold. When you return to Beijing, my mother will take you to Concubine Xian's provincial garden."

Tu Siqi's eyes turned into a crescent moon, nodded and pulled Daiyu and the others back to the tent they set up temporarily.

Liu Shule settled her daughter, and then said apologetically to Mrs. Xing, "This girl heard that your garden was well built, so she wanted to take a look. Madame also knew that because of that incident before, it was not easy for this palace to take her over to disturb ......."

"What is there to disturb here, Your Highness can come, and the Rongguo Mansion is shining."

Mrs. Xing hurriedly invited, "There will be a banquet at home in a few days, and Your Highness will ...... I must come with the horses and the lord of the county."

As soon as he said this, Liu Shule remembered the happy event of Rongguo Mansion, and said, "I almost forgot to congratulate Madame, the Marquis of Rongguo was feasted, how could this palace not come to the door to congratulate in person. It just so happened that the colt met your brother a few days ago, and I want to discuss something with Ning Gong."

The tiger was successful in the first battle, and the prestige of the Great Xia army soared.

The lords and envoys of the vassal states all trembled, showing humility and respect when they met the emperor.

Only the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom shamelessly wrote to ask for a performance, wanting to send students to study in the country, and said that the Japanese Kingdom was often harassed by Westerners and pirates, and begged the Celestial Empire to send divine weapons and firearms to help the Japanese Kingdom fight against the enemy.

They also said that if the Celestial Empire agreed, they would be willing to return the Ryukyus to the Celestial Empire......

It was the night when the emperor's tent was brightly lit, and the Emperor Taishang smashed the music of the Wa Kingdom to the ground, and scolded: "It's really shameless, if it weren't for the lack of a sailor

, I will definitely send troops to the Japanese kingdom, so that this group of Japanese slaves knows what the majesty of the Celestial Empire is."

"Father, the son has sent the Ministry of Rites to apply for the Japanese envoys, and urge the Japanese to return the Ryukyus to the Shang clan."

The emperor's disposition could not make the old man angry at all, but became even more angry.

"What's the use of that? In the final analysis, it is still a question of whether the fist is hard or not, since the Shang clan has asked for you, then let the Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War draw up a plan and send troops to Ryukyu."

"But Father, most of the sailors were transferred to the South Vietnamese side, and those left behind had to be guarded against the invasion of pirates. The country of Japanese slaves is weak, but there is a very strong sailor......

The emperor hesitated, to say that the Great Xia Sailor was really worse than the Japanese slaves? At least five or five is no problem.

However, the territory of Great Xia is vast, and the sea territory stretches for thousands of miles, so it is necessary to deter Fanbang and guard against the pirates, and from time to time to assist the land division to quell the rebellion and suppress the thieves.

The Wa Kingdom really took a fancy to the weakness of Great Xia, and took the opportunity to secretly control the Ryukyus, and in the past few years, they have stationed 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Ryukyus, which is enough to deal with the Fujian naval division of Great Xia.

Emperor Taishang gradually calmed down, and no matter how angry and unwilling he was, he could not give up the war against South Vietnam.

Jia Cong suddenly patted his head: "Sage, Your Majesty, we still have a strong army on the sea!"

Well?

The second saint and the fourth prince Liu Hong looked at Jia Cong with glowing eyes suspiciously, but saw Jia Cong rushing and said, "That King Chenghai, the king of the Three Seas, still holds the official title of the commander of Zhenhaiwei, and he has received the official of the imperial court, so he naturally has to do things for the imperial court. Your Majesty might as well issue a secret decree and let Wang Chenghai wave his army north and attack the Ryukyus by surprise."

Before, Wang Si ...... Wang Zanghai quietly entered Beijing as a special envoy, got in touch with the imperial court, and surrendered on behalf of Wang Chenghai.

The emperor decreed that Wang Chenghai was appointed as the commander of the Haiwei of Daxia Town, and placed the families of Wang Chenghai, Wang Zanghai and other high-level officials in Suzhou Mansion.

Wang Chenghai has a lot of people in his hands, and after removing some people who are unwilling to accept the court's recruitment, the total number of soldiers and horses reported to the palace is still 42,000.

There were many old and weak among them, but the emperor still pinched his nose and admitted it.

In order to keep secrets, the emperor took out a lot of silver from the inner treasury and sent it to the sea, Wang Chenghai reciprocated the favor by sending his eldest son Wang Shengwen to the capital, and now he is on an errand in front of the emperor.

The old man slapped the table and snorted coldly: "It's so decided, fourth, you personally write the secret decree and send it to Wang Chenghai's hands quickly." Tell him that he will be leveled with Ryukyu and crowned as a military attaché. Conquer the Wa Kingdom, and I will be knighted and given land. Didn't Xishan build a lot of new artillery? There is no doubt about employing people, you let people send twenty gates, and let Wang Chenghai give me the peace of the Japanese country!"

The winter hunt in Iron Net Mountain was carried out in an orderly manner, and the matter of the Ministry of Rites' application for the envoys of the Wa Kingdom soon spread, and the courtiers of Great Xia were mostly mocking, and the rest of the vassal states gloated or waited for the development of things.

The appearance of the flintlock pistol made these people covetous, but unfortunately the people of the Ministry of Rites had already received instructions from the emperor, saying that the flintlock pistol had only been equipped in Tiger Ben, Yulin, and Donggong six rates.

If the feudal lords wanted firearms, there were a lot of firearms in the arsenal of the military department, and they wanted two hundred and fifty taels of silver each......

Well? Robbery!

How far can the old-fashioned firecracker be? The reloading speed is slow, and the chamber is not moving at every turn, so a fool will spend so much silver to buy!

Ah, it smells so good!

Although the old-fashioned firecracker has been outdated, it is still an extremely advanced existence in the eyes of the feudal clans. In particular, Gaochang, who faced the Warat and Timurid khanates, and Goryeo, which was often harassed by the Japanese state, gritted their teeth and ordered thousands of them.

When the envoys heard the news, they immediately protested to the officials of the Ministry of Rites. It is said that Goryeo often invaded the Japanese kingdom by taking advantage of the power of the Celestial Empire, and now that it has the firearms of the Celestial Empire, wouldn't it be like a tiger with wings?

At the same time, Tian shamelessly proposed to buy the Celestial Empire's flintlock pistol again, and asked the Celestial Empire to agree to send students to Beijing to study.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites rejected the protests and requests of the envoys of the Japanese state, and only said that they could sell the firecrackers to the Japanese state, and the price could be a little lower, just two hundred and forty-nine taels of silver per rod!

Jia Cong couldn't help but laugh out loud directly after hearing the news, he couldn't help but be happy

Zhi inquired about the follow-up of the matter.

I only heard Liu Hongle say: "The host and guest of the Ministry of Rites, the Qing official Shiro, Nakato Keekiyo, arranged the mission of the Japanese Kingdom and the mission of the Goryeo Kingdom in the same camp. He first went to the Goryeo mission to negotiate the list of firearms, and then went to the Japanese mission. After gritting his teeth and buying 3,000 guns, he returned to the Goryeo mission and told him about the matter, so the lord of Goryeo bought 2,000 guns again and overpowered the Japanese state. As soon as the Wa Kingdom heard that Goryeo had overpowered him, he invited Fuji Seekyo to the tent again......

This operation is shameless enough...... Uh, that's amazing! My lord Langzhong!

Liu Hong handed a document to Jia Cong, and at first glance, Jia Cong admired the five-body throw on the ground.

Gao Chang only ordered 2,000 strokes, Goryeo actually ordered 5,000 poles, and the Wa Kingdom was not to be outdone, and had already increased the order to 6,500 strokes.

According to the set price, Goryeo alone would cost 1,250,000 taels of silver to order the firecracker, and the Wa Kingdom would cost 1,600,000 taels of silver.

The cost of a firearm will definitely not exceed twenty taels, and in just these two days of negotiations, Daxia will make a net profit of three million taels of silver.

Sure enough, the most profitable business in the world has to be arms!

But......

Jia Cong asked suspiciously, "Fourth brother, are there so many firecrackers in the arsenal of the military department?"

"Of course not."

Liu Hong said with a smile: "According to the rules, they have to pay half of the deposit first, and then they will send someone to the capital to pick up the goods. It would take months or even a year to go back and forth, and with this silver, it was enough for the Ministry of Industry to build a flintlock pistol. When the stock is insufficient, the outdated firearms of Shenwu, Zuowu, and Youwu will be sent directly to the Wa Kingdom."

Hiss!

"Who came up with this idea? That's a loss!"

"Your father, Marquis Rongguo!"

Jia Cong coughed twice and grinned, "My father is so smart, he can come up with such a brilliant idea, it really makes me admire!"

The firecracker is indeed outdated, and the price of Great Xia is a little more outrageous.

But whether it is Goryeo or Wa, they simply do not have the technology to build firearms. Western countries have been equipped with more advanced artillery and arquebuses, but like Great Xia, firearms, a weapon of mass killing, are forbidden to be exported abroad.

They had no other channels than to buy from the Celestial Empire at a high price.

Jia Cong doesn't have to worry about imitation by these three small countries, the research and development of firearms is not just about rubbing an iron pipe and stuffing gunpowder.

Iron-making and forging steel, configuring gunpowder, each of which is a top-notch technology, Daxia himself doesn't understand it very well, and he is still improving while making and using it.

After three days of continuous busyness, the old man finally gave Jia Cong a day off.

The winter hunt has entered the final stage, the fifteenth battalion competition decided the top six, Yu Linlang temporarily ranked first, Hu Ben second, the imperial front three guards temporarily ranked third, Xuanfu Wei fourth, Yan Suiwei fifth, Donggong six rate two consecutive games, temporarily ranked sixth.

Yu Linlang is worthy of the first iron horse in Great Xia, and his performance is obviously a big step ahead of Zhu Wei. Tiger Ben did not use firearms, and was able to rank second because of strict military discipline and already strong defensive capabilities.

The other Wei brothers are all in a tiger formation, like a solid turtle shell, which can't be broken. This is not a pejorative meaning, but they really have no way to defend the Tiger Benwei.

Only the Yulin Iron Cavalry won several disastrous victories with its strong penetration ability, and the rest could not get close to the defense line of the Tiger Benwei at all.

The sixth rate of the East Palace is considered to be most of the tiger guards, and the method of training soldiers is the same.

But after all, there is no tiger Ben's bravery, and in the face of Yu Linlang and other strong troops, he can't help but be caught by others in a hurry.

On the morning of the fourth day of the winter hunt, Donggong Liuyu finally lost to Xuanfuwei and stopped in the top six. Although he lost, Liu Hong and the two saints were still very satisfied with this newly formed army, and gave meat and silver money, which made the camp of the sixth rate of the East Palace happy.

In this competition, Xue Pan, as a member of the six rates of the East Palace, performed extremely brightly.

Especially this guy was born with a tendon, and he was born with divine power, holding a heavyweight lance and dancing vigorously, and broke into the Xuanfu forcefully

Wei's Chinese army almost smashed Liu Changqing, the commander of Xuanfu Wei, in Malaysia.

Liu Changqing was not only not angry, but praised Xue Pan a lot, pestering Liu Hong to ask Xue Pan over.

Where would Liu Hong be willing to be an honest child like Xue Pan, and asked for a holy decree from the emperor, and since then Xue Pan has become the youngest of the six rates of the East Palace.

Hearing this, Jia Yu specially called Xue Pan to Jia's tent, and told Xue Pan to be cautious from now on......

Xue Pan got the five-rank real military attaché, and he was still the henchman of the future East Palace, and the news soon spread throughout the entire camp.

Ning Rongjia's family was naturally happy, but some people were unhappy.

Wang Ziteng's wife once rumored in the circle of noblewomen, saying that Xue Pan, the nephew, was a bastard since he was a child, unfilial, and bullying......

Anyway, there was no good word, which provoked the prince Teng, who heard the news from the palace, to return to the camp and scolded Mrs. Wang angrily.

The nephew won the appreciation of the future prince, and the discerning person knew at a glance that Xue Pan was in the eyes of the emperor. No matter what the future holds, the Wang family is now in an awkward position, and his prince has a position of nine provinces, but he does not have much real power in his hands.

is already walking on thin ice at the moment, if you can pull the Xue family to the Wang family's carriage, at least you won't have to worry about money......

This stupid woman is really more than enough to succeed.

He looked at his wife with a solemn face, and sighed after a long time: "You go back to Beijing immediately, and prepare to go to Rongguo Mansion to visit the third sister with a generous gift. I said that I showed Bao Yatou a good family, and asked her to bring Bao Yatou to the house after returning to Beijing."

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