Back at the Four Seas Palace, Tai Yue was already waiting outside the temple gate.

I beckoned him in.

After taking a seat, Tai Yue took out two things and presented them to me: "Your Majesty, the telescope and sextant have been made. ”

"Oh? It's pretty fast, show it to me. "I excitedly took two things, saying that they were two things, but in fact, the sextant was to be used in conjunction with the telescope, which was one thing.

But when I took the sextant and studied it carefully, my face instantly darkened: "You call this shitty sextant?" ”

Just now, from a distance, there is a sextant, but if you look closely, grandma drops, not only the elastic clamp is made of bamboo, but even the most basic margin, index difference, and vertical difference can not be realized! It's a bit wrong to say that it can't be realized, but this thing is like a car gear, you can only adjust a few fixed angles, and it's a fart!

Tai Yue was stunned and said carefully: "Your Majesty, this is all made according to the drawings you gave......"

My mind was dizzy, and after all, I paid by mistake......

"Look at it, the elastic clamp is bamboo! What is the situation at sea? The sea breeze is humid and the salt content is very high, your bamboo will rot in a few days, even if it is not decayed, the accuracy will be greatly reduced, can it be fixed in the moving mirror? And this adjustment shaft, I can't fly up when I pull it with my hand! And this drum wheel, slotted ......"

I originally wanted to pluck the drum wheel and tell him that this thing should be fixed at a certain scale, but I didn't expect that the drum wheel flew directly with force, and I went straight to the groove!

Tai Yue looked at the drum wheel that rolled to his feet with a clanging bell, and was also confused, is it appropriate to use such a sophisticated instrument so violently?

I almost laughed angrily, looking at his expression and scolding: "The sea is stormy, and the ship will sway from side to side, can you stop this thing from swaying?" If I take you to sea with this, I don't think anyone will come back alive......"

Tai Yue didn't know how to answer anymore, but after he made it, he tried it himself, and felt that he was really a genius who could make such a precise instrument, and now it seems that ......

Tai Yue's face flushed, and she said ashamedly: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!" ”

I put down the sextant and picked up the telescope again to look at it, this one is quite good, although the multiplier is not high, there is no problem with using it, but the seal is not very good.

"Forget it, it's hard for you. This telescope is not bad, I didn't expect you to have a hand in polishing the glass, but after you go back, you have to find a way to strengthen the seal, otherwise it is easy to get into the fog. The sextant is really difficult, more complicated than a flintlock pistol, and you can't be blamed. ”

Tai Yue wiped her sweat and arched her hand: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" After the minister goes back, he will carefully improve it! ”

I waved my hand: "Let's put the sextant first, you go back and tell the public to enter, let him find a way to improve the sealing of the telescope, and then make the telescope in batches." I gave him all the drawings, not only for the monocular, but also for the double-culular. As for the sextant......"

I have a bit of a headache, after all, everything they make now is a castle in the air, and I directly gave them the drawings to make according to the cat and the tiger, and they don't know the principle at all. For example, if they understand the principle that the sextant can judge latitude, it is easy to find the problem of several adjustment axes.

"In this way, you go back and tell Gong Zhijin, starting tomorrow, after Shen Shimo has eaten, gather the core craftsmen to come to the good hall in the palace, and your people, I will personally teach you a lesson!" It seems that I can only go out myself!

Tai Yue's eyes widened, flattered, the emperor gave a lesson in person, who has this treatment!

Hurriedly got up and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Your Majesty for ten thousand years!" ”

After Taiyue left, I took up the pen and wrote an edict.

"Qi Xuan, send this edict to Meng Tian quickly!"

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A day later, Meng Tian had received my edict.

After reading it, he handed the edict in his hand to Xi Qigu and instructed: "Xi Qigu, you order someone to quickly inform the Great Wall along the Great Wall, and start retreating today!" ”

Xi Qigu glanced at the edict and arched his hand: "Your Majesty actually agreed to the Huns' request for peace?" In this way, we will face the Huns again. ”

Meng Tian stroked the long sword in his hand and said slowly: "The Huns are asking for peace is a delaying tactic, they and we both know it, it is impossible for Your Majesty not to see it, since you promised them, you must have a plan." Face it head-on, face it head-on, after fighting for so many years, how can General Ben be afraid of them! ”

Xi Qigu returned the edict to Meng Tian, and said coldly: "The last general has long wondered, why the Huns can find the weak point of the Great Wall so easily, and also know the location of General Wu Jian's garrison, so that the Dayue clan can contain the cavalry, I didn't expect that there are really people in the north who secretly communicate with the Huns, something with a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs!" ”

Then he hugged his fists and said: "General, why don't I take people along the Great Wall directly, and check all the surrendered Hu people, Huns, as well as merchants and passers-by, and I can always find some traitors!" If I don't kill them to avenge my dead brother, I can't solve the hatred in my heart! ”

Meng Tian shook his head and said to stop: "No! His Majesty's edict only allowed us to retreat, and stressed that we must not go out quietly, because we must have found some clues, and if we act rashly, we are likely to be alarmed. And act according to His Majesty's edict, and do not make your own opinions. ”

When Xi Qi Gu heard this, he didn't say much: "Then let's do it!" ”

News soon spread around the Great Wall bordering the Xiongnu: the old land of the Xiongnu had been recovered by the Xiongnu from the hands of the Northern Hu, although Daqin and the Xiongnu negotiated peace, but the two countries did not exchange markets, so the retreat was closed on the same day!

Just as Xi Qigu was puzzled, when I heard that Mao Dun's plan was so targeted, I immediately reacted, I am afraid that there are spies within Daqin!

I didn't ask them to look into it with much fanfare, though, and it was almost certain that the businessman was delivering the news for them.

Sensible and righteous businessmen are always only a few, and more are greedy people who dare to sell everything for profit. For example, the eight locust merchants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, among them, the Fan Yongdou family not only had no family and country, but the massacre of Fenzhou killed 400,000 people, was there no one of his fellow villagers? But he was still happy to collect money, and in the end he was beheaded by the Qing court, and he really hanged himself for the sake of profit!

As for who the traitor is, it doesn't matter anymore. Before the Great Dynasty meeting, the Xiongnu will disappear forever, and it will be easy to find out those people when the time comes.

Recently, a series of events have made me impatient to completely solve the Xiongnu and conquer the Western Regions as soon as possible.

However, before the Xiongnu put pressure on the Western Regions for me, the Western Regions could no longer withstand it!

On the next day, news came from Zhangye: the envoys of the Western Regions gave up their accompanying materials and hurried back to the Western Regions, leaving only one person from each country waiting in Zhangye, begging to return to Xianyang for help!