The eunuch wrote the holy decree, used the seal, took it out and read it, and Lu Qi attached himself to give a salute.

Until Xie En withdrew from the imperial study, Lu Qi's head was still full of question marks.

Why so suddenly? I was fine when I set off from Yuxian, why can't I go back now?

But fortunately, the closer to the center of power, the closer to achieving what he wanted, Lu Qi straightened his waist.

Carrying the holy decree out of the door, and following the eunuch back, Lu Qi suddenly saw a familiar figure standing under the shade of the corridor over there, it was Mu Bin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard!

Lu Qi remembered that yesterday Mu Bin had already asked Gu Dayong about taking bribes and Zheng Duzhi taking empty salaries, and Jinyiwei was the emperor's pro-army, and Emperor Hongzhi must also know what Mu Bin knew.

Even so, Emperor Hongzhi still acquiesced in the hasty conclusion of this case, which shows that this case must be widely implicated, and it seems that this court is not something that can be cleaned up when the Son of Heaven is angry.

Lu Qi suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and stabilized his heart that gradually floated a little.

Back at the inn, Lu Qi sat on the couch, poured a breath of cold tea first, and asked Xiao Er to get some food to eat when he was full.

Xiao Er smiled and said, "I don't know what the guest officer wants to eat?" We have good wine and good food here, the south and the north fly and go, you just have to order it! ”

Lu Qi didn't have time to accompany him to chat: "Come to a bowl of Yangchun noodles, hurry up!" ”

"Okay!"

Chen Yin'er was packing her official uniform into the cabinet, and when she saw her hungry like this, she was puzzled:

"This palace doesn't leave you for a meal? I heard that there are a lot of delicious foods in the imperial dining room, and the craftsmanship of the master of our inn is passed on from the imperial dining room, and I heard it when I went downstairs this morning. ”

Lu Qi lay on his back on the couch and shook his head: "How can I have that merit and still be able to eat the food in the imperial dining room?" But today is indeed a promotion. ”

"Promotion?" Chen Yin'er was stunned for a moment: "The emperor has made you the master of the county?" ”

"Ahem, a little higher than that." Lu Qi shook his head: "From now on, I will be the prince's attendant and accompany the prince to study." ”

Chen Yin'er thought about it for a long time, she hadn't heard of this official position in the cross talk drama, but she was sincerely happy for Lu Qi from the bottom of her heart: "It's so good, I didn't expect that our family also has a big official!" ”

Chen Yin'er bowed in front of the deer lamp: "Thank you for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas, thank you for the blessing of the ancestors!" ”

After worshipping her, she remembered: "Then we will stay in the capital in the future?" ”

"yes."

The joy on Chen Yin'er's face disappeared half: "In the future, we will also stay away from our homeland and wander outside." It's okay! The two of us are in one place, and wherever we go, there is home! ”

……

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Qi deliberately got up early.

The shops on the street near the imperial city opened very early, most of them were for the ministers who were in a hurry to sell breakfast, and what they sold was nothing more than some steamed buns and the like, in order to minimize the urgency of urination in the early court, basically did not sell any soybean milk soup.

After Lu Qi had breakfast, he took his waist card to the East Palace.

This place is in the palace of the palace, in the north of the three city gates in the Donghua Gate, because it is in the east of the middle line, so it is called the East Palace.

Yesterday, the little eunuch had already led the door, and now he will not get lost if he comes again, Lu Qi straightened his clothes, cleared his throat, put on a posture of a decent gentleman, and Shi Shiran walked into the gate of the East Palace.

Then, with a clucking sound, a brightly colored and colorful golden pheasant flew out of the room and pounced straight on her face.

"I'll strangle you!"

Lu Qi was startled and almost burst into a foul mouth, but fortunately, the brocade rooster just flew out and was not frightened, otherwise she, the "Mei Lu Lang", would have turned into a big face.

I heard a young man's voice with a suppressed smile coming from the main hall: "Oops! Why are you so careless? I let my golden fly! Let's go out and see if it's hurting? ”

Then there was the sound of footsteps, and a young man appeared at the door, surrounded by three or four eunuchs.

I saw that he was wearing a brocade robe with red and gold, a Xuanhei patterned crane, and a pearl hairpin to tie his hair, acting like a young general, full of heroism.

It seems that this young man is the only son of the current Emperor Hongzhi, the future Emperor Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao.

"Huh?" After Zhu Houzhao saw Lu Qi, the smug look on his face suddenly disappeared: "It's you?" You are Lu Yun?! ”

The eunuchs took the brocade chicken away and looked between the two in confusion: "Does the prince recognize?" ”

Lu Qi arched his hand expressionlessly: "Weichen East Palace waiter Lu Yun, I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness is a thousand years old!" ”

……

"Lu Yun, I invite you to have a snack."

Zhu Houzhao handed over a plate of delicately styled cakes from under the table: "I didn't know that you were a new attendant, but those old scholars found me a chant again, it's annoying!" So if you think about playing tricks, you don't have to blame. ”

Lu Qi took it with both hands: "How dare Weichen blame His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"It's good not to blame!" Zhu Houzhao excitedly pulled Lu Qi and walked to the table.

"The day before yesterday, I summoned more than a dozen skilled craftsmen who made firearms in the War Bureau, and told them what you said, the guns with magazines." Zhu Houzhao took out two thick stacks of paper from the large porcelain painting jar under the table.

When you open it, you can see that it is full of sketches of various firearms, and there are instructions for how to use them, and the data is very detailed, from which you can get a glimpse of the level of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, which has developed to a very high level.

Zhu Houzhao pulled Lu Qi's arm, his eyes lit up:

"The craftsman only said that carrying a magazine is not conducive to ignition, and that it is not as safe as it should have been if it was stuffed in the magazine and did not know how to reload it. How to improve, please teach me! ”

Lu Qi's cold sweat ran down the corners of his forehead.

She didn't know that when she went out to drink tea, she would meet the emperor and the crown prince of the current dynasty? Now it's okay, she wants to fulfill the she boasted at the beginning, she is not an expert in firearms, how can she compare to the old craftsman who has been making firearms all his life in the War Bureau?

Facing Zhu Houzhao's expectant eyes, Lu Qi picked up the pen like a duck on the shelf, dipped it in ink, and drew it on the paper.

Fortunately, she liked to play video games in her previous life, and she also played a lot of shooting-themed ones, and she generally knew the appearance of some simple guns, and tried her best to recall and draw a few of them.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, with our level of firearms, it is still too early to study firearms with magazines, and research and development must be carried out step by step. This is called a flintlock pistol, why don't you let the craftsmen of the War Bureau try to make this first? Lu Qi put down the pen and took two steps back.

Zhu Houzhao came up and took a look: "Flintlock pistol? I haven't heard of it, come on, show these paintings to the craftsman! ”

Such a painting without any data and labels, it is a little embarrassing for the craftsman to make a new type of firecracker.

Lu Qi couldn't help it, so he grabbed the little eunuch and instructed again: "This flintlock pistol must have its own flint and fire sickle, and if it doesn't touch it at ordinary times, it will collide when the trigger is pulled, and the spark will fall into the powder pool, so it will be ignited and launched." ”

This is already all the information that Lu Qi has thought of.

"Lighting a flint with a flint?" Zhu Houzhao's eyes are getting brighter and brighter.

"In this way, there is no need to carry fire with you, the last time I was in trouble, Weichen found that the enemy had rushed to his eyes, and some of the soldiers were still blowing fire and delaying the military aircraft.

Of course, there were also reasons why the situation was urgent at that time and there was no time to prepare, but the main reason was that the gunpowder was not easy to use, and the weather was cloudy and damp, and some of the gunpowder was stained with water and lost its effectiveness.

Therefore, wouldn't it be better to have a fire gun that is easy to load, easy to fire, and not afraid of wind and rain? ”