In the gossip furnace of the Daomen, Jia Cong was not surprised to refine anything.

But what is the difference between using gunpowder as an incendiary object to make alchemy like Niu Geng and throwing an oversized grenade into the house.

A huge amount of gunpowder, a confined metal space, and all kinds of strange things thrown inside, the power of the explosion can be imagined.

If he hadn't rushed to the sky and blew up for unknown reasons, Niu Geng would have been shocked to death on the spot even after hiding in Tongding.

This product is also a geek, he can configure gunpowder by himself, and he can save dozens of catties, it is really an old cow to open the door and get home.

Sending the people from the Changping Prefecture Yamen who came to inquire, Niu Geng took Jia Cong to visit his "workshop".

This guy is really a genius, seventeen or eighteen years old, proficient in carpentry, blacksmith work, can also weave, embroidery, in the workshop there is a textile machine made by himself, during the demonstration Jia Cong found that it is more efficient than the latest single loom of the Ministry of Industry, and the cloth woven is better.

Genius!

But this was not the most surprising thing for Jia Cong, when Jia Cong saw a pile of firearms thrown in the corner of the room, his whole body was numb.

"Uncle, these are all students' casual works, and the range is a little bit farther than the standard firearms in the army, and the power is a little greater......

Jia Cong picked up a musket, the body of the gun was smooth, and it was still using a flintlock mechanism. If you look closely, damn it, this thing is rifling......

Looking at the small gun, there is also a near-perfect rifling in the barrel.

It's just rifling, and this musket and artillery still use breech charges.

"How did you get this rifling?"

This time, Niu Geng was confused, scratched his messy hair, and muttered, "Rifling? ”

Jia Cong was also confused, didn't you make this thing?

"Is it the barrel, those lines in the barrel? How did you get it? Hand rubbing? ”

I only heard Niu Geng say: "Oh, it turns out that Uncle said this." The student went to visit his father in Xuanfu before, and found that the projectiles shot out of the firearms in the army were always deflecting, so he thought to see if there was any way to improve them......

It turned out that this guy likes to think about it when he has nothing to do, and after watching the firearms in the army, he went home and pondered about improving firearms.

Not to mention, he fooled around and found that just by carving a few lines in the barrel of the gun, the range and power of the firearm could be increased to a greater extent, and the accuracy was also doubled.

This discovery made Niu Geng overjoyed, and he devoted himself to studying the effect of rifling on firearms in the "workshop".

The transition from straight rifling to spiral rifling took Niu Geng less than ten days. As for breech loading, it is purely because after the use of spiral rifling, the front charge is a little laborious, purely for the convenience of loading the charge.

After Niu Geng finished studying these, he quickly lost interest in firearms, turned his head to study his steam boiler, and even forgot to send these firearms to Xuanfu to his father.

As a result, there was a bunch of firearms in the corner of the Niu family's workshop that were enough to increase the military strength of Great Xia several times, but no one knew about it.

Eight months, a whole delay of eight months!

As soon as Jia Cong remembered that these advanced firearms were left in the corner of the workshop, he wanted to grab Niu Geng's neck and knock him on the skull.

Although Niu Geng's rifling method and the creation of firearms are more time-consuming, the idea of breech guns, guns and rifling is too advanced, which can completely allow the Ministry of Industry to speed up the research.

There is also iron-making, steel-making, and gunpowder ratio, this guy is a proper "bomberman"!

I want it from the Ministry of Engineering!

"This is a student-developed thresher specifically designed to thresh corn ......"

"This is a blower developed by students, which is more labor-saving and practical than ordinary blowers......

"This is a Kong Ming lantern, uh...... Kong Mingqiu, the student thinks that he should be able to take someone to the sky, but the insider is not allowed, and the student has not tried it......"

"Manpower fume extractor, used to extract the fumes generated during cooking in the kitchen......"

"Rotate the mandarin duck shovel, the hot oil will never splash on your hands again......"

"Husband and wife harmonious bed, uncle, you see, as long as someone turns this outside, there will be a wooden support in the middle of the bed...... Uh, this ...... This is an ordinary bed, and Uncle doesn't have to pay too much attention to it. ”

"Awesome!"

"What is?"

"I just sigh that you are very powerful!"

"I see......"

Jia Cong had to sigh that Niu Geng's brain was bright, although there were many strange inventions in the workshop, but just those firearms and the artifact of threshing corn were enough for the emperor to be crowned an official.

The servant who had lost half of his arm due to the explosion of the alchemy furnace was rescued, and Niu Geng's worries went to three points, and the remaining seven points came from his wife Tian.

He blew up his house again, and even the best and most virtuous people had to be irritable.

Fortunately, Tian knew that her husband was entertaining the henchman of the Son of Heaven, Yongfeng Bo Jia Cong, suppressed his anger, arranged for someone to clean up the mess, prepared a banquet, and planned to leave Jia Cong for lunch in Niufu.

Jia Cong also wanted to finalize Niu Geng's entry into Beijing to go to the Ministry of Industry as a "cow and horse" as soon as possible, so he stayed, and asked people to go to Changping Prefecture to learn to pick up Daiyu over.

When the princess arrived, the original anger in Tian's heart went back to three points, and when the news came from the front hall that Yongfeng Bo had invited Niu Geng to Beijing and planned to recommend talents to the emperor, all the anger disappeared.

After the husband and wife sent Jia Cong and Daiyu out of Niufu, Niu Geng peeked at his wife's face with anxiety, and saw that he didn't mean to get angry, so he said cautiously: "Madam, Uncle Yongfeng said that he wanted me to work in the Ministry of Industry......

Tian raised his eyebrows: "Husband doesn't plan to continue the imperial examination?" ”

Niu Geng scratched the back of his head, a little dazed: "Uh, this...... The main thing is that I don't know if the officials of the five grades can participate in the scientific examination. ”

"Five pins?"

Tian covered his mouth and exclaimed, her father-in-law is a fourth-grade military attaché, and her husband's encounter is too rebellious.

……

Jia Cong held a delicate handcuff in his hand and played with it over and over again, which was a gift from Niu Geng.

Made of stainless steel, it has a wooden handle and a reload wheel that can be fired five times in a row. According to the test in Niujia, the range is more than 50 paces, and less than 20 steps is fast and accurate.

Jia Cong fell in love with this handcuff at first sight...... No, it should be called a revolver.

Sure enough, this is a man's toy!

Daiyu curiously inquired about Niu Geng, and when she heard that this talented man was actually a "great inventor", she was shocked and happy for Jia Cong.

"This Niu Geng is really a genius, his brain is spinning extremely fast, and his research on firearms alone is fifty years ahead of the Ministry of Industry. This person, I'm going to decide, he can't snatch his father away when he comes! ”

Jia Cong's admiration for Niu Geng surprised Daiyu a little: "So powerful? ”

"The Ministry of Industry's research on firearms has been bottlenecked for almost a year, except for the limitations of technology, mainly because those craftsmen do not have the ability to innovate, and they are always trying to find answers in the pile of old papers."

The decades of rule of the steppe peoples in the former dynasties over the Central Plains have hurt the culture of the Central Plains too deeply. Much of the lineage was severed, and only a few words can be found in books.

If Jia Cong hadn't used his limited memory to draw scribbled sketches, Great Xia's firearms would soon be left behind by Westerners and suppressed for hundreds of years.

"And the steam boiler he made, if this thing is done well, Great Xia will achieve a qualitative leap......

When Jia Cong accompanied Daiyu to inspect the Gyeonggi Prefecture, Niu Geng and his wife had already packed up their things in Changping and went to the capital.

Niu Geng's vein and the Zhenguo Mansion have not yet come out of the five suits, and after entering Beijing, he naturally wants to go to the Zhenguo Mansion to meet him.

When the people of the Zhenguo Mansion learned that Niu Geng had won Jia Cong's appreciation, was recommended by him to the emperor and promised the official position of Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Labor, they were surprised and asked the reason.

Niu Geng did not hide it, and told the whole thing in detail.

The head of the Zhenguo Mansion was angry, not because of Jia Cong, but because of Niu Geng's father Niu Chang, the old Niu family finally came up with a genius, obviously put all the credit at home, but ignored it and was intercepted by Jia Cong.

Firearms are more and more used in the army, as long as the old Niu family presents the firearms built by Niu Geng, not to mention the feudal marquis, at least they can make more viscounts and barons for the old Niu family.

It's okay now, Niu Geng will indeed be reused by the emperor, but in the eyes of the emperor, the biggest credit for this matter still falls on Jia Cong's kid.

It is estimated that in the eyes of the emperor, Jia Cong, who is discerning and talented, is much stronger than Niu Geng.

At this time, in the Fengzao Palace, Emperor Liu Hengsheng arrived, and today he was going to have dinner with Concubine Xian.

"Jia Cong, this kid is really my lucky star, look, this has brought me a genius boy again!"

"That's also Shiro's insight, otherwise Brother Cong would have a chance to be virtuous for the country!"

Liu Hengmei showed off to Yuan Chun the thousands of horses he found to find thousands of miles for him, and Yuan Chun of course attributed all the credit to the emperor.

Look at what Yuan Chun said, and it suddenly scratched the itch of the emperor. This double happiness made the emperor feel good, and he rewarded those who didn't need money to send them to Rongguo Mansion.

Yuan Chun put his son to sleep and handed it to his grandmother to loosen his clothes for the emperor.

The graceful and luxurious concubine is now the emperor's favorite, and she pulled her over and hugged her into his arms.

Yuan Chun took advantage of the situation to rest his head on the emperor's solid chest, and buried his face in half shyly.

This kind of shyness that still holds the pipa and half-covers his face is placed on the beautiful Yuan Chun, not only does not have the slightest sense of disobedience, but it makes Liu Heng, who has never liked women very much, shake his head.

After a cloud and rain, the emperor in the state of a sage hugged Yuan Chun and gossiped about it.

happened to talk about Jia Yu again, and Liu Heng also told him about the reprimand of the old man of the sage of Longshou Palace.

"The concubine felt that what the saint said made sense, but it wasn't that the concubine spoke for the uncle...... The concubine herself is the daughter of the Wuxun family, and she knows very well what kind of life the generals live. The most impressive thing about the concubine is that whenever my grandfather returns from the expedition, the people of West Street will look nervously at the intersection of Ningrong Street......"

"The worst time, every house on West Street hung white flags, and every household was crying......"

"The soldiers who died in battle are not the numbers in the documents of the Ministry of War, but the sons of old women, the husbands of women, and the fathers of children......"

"The Jia family is like this, let alone those ordinary people?"

"Southern Xinjiang has just been annexed, and the flames of war have not yet been extinguished, Zhou Ge Lao is doing this, who else will dare to give his life to His Majesty in the future? The loyalty of the generals will not change, but their courage will be consumed little by little with the suppression of Wenchen. ”

"Fortunately, Shiro Shengming made a timely disposal, otherwise it would have ......"

Although Yuan Chun's words were not finished, the emperor had already heard the meaning of her words.

If he does not suppress the unhealthy trend of suppressing military generals in time this time, those civilian officials will then test the bottom line little by little and gradually suppress the power of military generals.

At that time, the cabinet will overwhelm the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and under the imbalance between civil and military, the generals' spirit of being able to fight, dare to fight, and want to fight will be slowly polished by the civil ministers, and Daxia will eventually become the former Song Dynasty......

Two days ago, he hadn't discovered this problem, and he just looked at the civil and military dispute from the emperor's point of view.

Today, I was reminded by Yuan Chun, the daughter from the Wuxun family, and finally figured out one thing.

The style of martial arts is not just words, and the pride of martial artists needs to be taken care of. This person who has the ability and responsibility to protect the pride of the martial arts is not him, the Emperor of Great Xia?

"Yuan'er, you really see the most clearly!"

Liu Heng laughed, gently stroked Yuan Chun's smooth back, kissed him on the face and said, "Tomorrow, I will ask the Ministry of Rites to prepare a ceremony to welcome the heroic souls who died in the southern Xinjiang to go home!" ”

……

"Uncle, Your Majesty has ordered you to return to Beijing as soon as possible!"

The dragon guard sent the emperor's handwritten letter to Jia Cong's hand, and Jia Cong opened it and asked in surprise: "Why did Your Majesty suddenly remember the office festival?" ”

"The last general doesn't know, I heard that His Majesty dreamed of the heroic soul who died on the battlefield and wanted to go home......

Jia Cong didn't believe it at all, the emperor was a pragmatist, and a grand ceremony would cost hundreds of thousands of millions of silver, and with this money, the emperor would definitely use it on the blade.

For example, it is directly sent to the families of the martyrs, which is much more than any public memorial ceremony.

Strange is strange, Jia Cong still returned to Beijing with Daiyu quickly.

After returning to Beijing, the two learned the truth from the old lady.

It turned out that this incident was triggered by the impeachment of the old man by civilian officials, and the struggle between the Chinese and armed forces of the DPRK soon entered a white heat.

Wu Xun continued to express his dissatisfaction, and the second saint temporarily suppressed this unhealthy trend after disposing of several civil officials.

In the end, Yuan Chun couldn't help but blow the pillow wind at the emperor's place, which made the emperor think of holding a public sacrifice ceremony.

And the emperor's thoughts, Jia Cong also guessed that Yuan Chun's words meant the same thing inside and out, whether the warriors could fight, whether they dared to fight, and whether they wanted to fight or not depended on whether their spirit was still there.

And the suppression of martial artists by the Chinese officials of the DPRK is the most exhausting of the martial arts.

Jia Cong sighed with some concern: "Big sister is really ...... It's a bit reckless, I'm afraid this will offend many people in the DPRK! ”

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That's all for tonight, continue tomorrow, good night!

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