"Your Majesty, Master Chen is here!" the eunuch announced from the front.
"Tell him to come in." Li Jingnan sat on the chair and said expressionlessly.
"Master Chen, the emperor calls you in." The eunuch went out and called Chen Yuan in.
"I am here to see you, Your Majesty." Chen Yuan raised his hand and bowed.
"You all go down first and guard the door for me. No other people are allowed in!" Li Jingnan ordered fiercely.
There were only two of them left in the imperial study room now.
The air suddenly became a little solemn. Chen Yuan looked at Li Jingnan: "I wonder why the emperor called me here?"
Li Jingnan turned over the memorial and said without raising his head: "There is a skyrocketing phenomenon in Dongshi, do you know?"
"I heard." Chen Yuan frowned slightly, wondering what the little emperor meant by calling him.
Li Jingnan did not speak. He put the memorial aside and raised his eyes: "There is something strange about the soaring prices in Dongshi. Go and investigate."
Chen Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "I obey your order."
"Is there anything going on with the Queen Mother?" Li Jingnan dragged his chin with one hand, feeling a little headache at the thought of the Queen Mother.
"No."
"Okay, okay, you go down first, remember to do what I asked you to do!" Li Jingnan waved his hand impatiently.
Chen Yuan looked at the moody little emperor, bowed his hands and left.
…
It was already afternoon when Hua Qingxue woke up. She stretched, took her clothes and put them on.
"Madam, are you awake?" Huan'er and Xi'er were playing with the children in the yard.
"Is it snowing?" Hua Qingxue opened the door and saw light snow starting to fall in the sky.
"Yes, these children ran out to play right after class!" Xi'er pulled a child for fear that she would fall.
She smiled.
Liang Wensheng and Su Shaowen were working on the Thunder Thunder in the laboratory.
"Master, how do you assemble this?" Liang Wensheng looked at the gun barrel made based on Hua Qingxue's manuscript and asked Hua Qingxue with some confusion.
He has never seen such a thing before, it is straighter than Zhentian Lei.
Hua Qingxue smiled. She still had some impressions of the assembly of the rifle: "I'll demonstrate it to you. You have to watch carefully!"
Liang Wensheng was a little dazzled by the quick technique, but he still remembered the assembly sequence of those things and how to assemble them bit by bit.
Liang Wensheng tried it aside, looking at the stiff rifle in his hand as if he had discovered a new world.
"Master, how do I use this?" Liang Wensheng asked her like a curious baby, still thinking about it.
Hua Qingxue was reminded by him and suddenly thought that the rifle was ready, but...the bullets were not ready yet!
When it came to making bullets, she thought about it. Gold was scarce in Qi, but iron and tung were still abundant. Iron was relatively hard, and bullets made from them would easily scratch the barrel and rifling, and they would also get stuck in the chamber and explode. It is easy to injure a soldier holding a gun.
Copper is different. Copper is soft and has high heat resistance. After the gunpowder in the cartridge case is burned, the temperature in the gun chamber is very suitable. If it is steel, it will be a little unbearable...
After comparing some iron and copper, Hua Qingxue decisively chose copper.
"Master?" Liang Wensheng saw that she was silent for a long time. He raised his head and found that she was lost in thought. He called her.
"Ah?" Hua Qingxue came back to her senses and looked at Liang Wensheng staring at her with some confusion.
"Master, you haven't told me how to use it yet." Liang Wensheng asked her. He was very interested in this rifle.
"After the bullet is loaded, the rifle is faster and more penetrating than a bow and arrow." Hua Qingxue explained to him.
"Bullets?" Liang Wensheng was a little confused, "But we don't have bullets."
"Prepare a large amount of copper and seize the time to make bullets." Hua Qingxue's eyes darkened, and she clenched her fists to get these things to Panshui before the war between the two countries started.
"Okay, I'll get ready now!" Liang Wensheng put down the rifle in his hand and went to prepare the materials Hua Qingxue needed.
After Liang Wensheng went out, Hua Qingxue's eyelids kept twitching, always feeling that something was about to happen.
It's probably because I didn't sleep! She comforted herself and rubbed her eyelids, but the uneasiness deep inside her heart made her unable to ignore it.
"Ma'am, letter!" Zhao Sheng came to her with the letter from Fu Tingye on his phone.
"The general sent it?" Hua Qingxue heard the letter and took it with a smile on her face.
"Yes, madam." Zhao Sheng did not miss the spring-like smile on Hua Qingxue's face.
Hua Qingxue opened it and read it. The content of the letter was very concise: I have arrived, don’t read it.
All the emotions I wrote were turned into the most concise words.
"What did the general write about that makes his wife so happy?" Zhao Sheng vaguely saw that there were only a few words in the letter.
"It's nothing." After being told this, her face turned red instantly. She said it with some embarrassment and left. Before leaving, she didn't forget to say to Zhao Sheng: "The housekeeper will help me reply to the general in a while!"
"What's the content of the letter?" Zhao Sheng asked her.
"Let him take care of himself in the military camp, I'll wait for him to come back!" After saying that, Hua Qingxue returned to the yard without stopping.
The smile on Zhao Sheng's face deepened a little when he saw it. He didn't know when the general would marry his wife.
Zhao Sheng went back and replied to Fu Tingye according to Hua Qingxue's wishes. The originally simple words actually made Zhao Sheng's words full of love and affection. The boy next to him couldn't help but smacked his lips after reading it. Why did the lady's intention become so explicit when the housekeeper came
"What are you looking at? Send it to the general quickly!" Zhao Sheng packed the letter and glared at the boy next to him.
"Butler, is what Madam said so... so affectionate?" The boy next to him took the letter and couldn't help asking more.
"What do you know?" The housekeeper was a little impatient and sent him off to deliver a letter to his general. He himself was in a good mood and ran to the accounting room to reconcile the accounts.
…
"General, what are you thinking about?" General Sea Cucumber looked at Fu Tingye in a daze and asked as he leaned to the side.
"I said you are squinting and making eyes. You have nothing to do, right? Do you want me to find something for you to do?" Fu Tingye lowered his face and looked at him with some displeasure.
"Okay, I'll leave now." Sea cucumber general was disappointed, but there was no need to think about it, he already guessed that he missed his wife.
"Why did you come out so quickly?" Qin Laowu raised his eyebrows and looked at the frustrated Sea Cucumber General with an expression of gloating on his face.
"He was kicked out by the general!" General Sea Cucumber rolled his eyes.
Qin Laowu couldn't help but want to laugh: "I think you are too talkative! Hahahaha!"
Seeing Qin Laowu rolling forward and backward with laughter, Sea Cucumber General's face turned livid and his eyes glared at him fiercely: "I think we haven't competed for a long time! Come on, let's have a fight!"
"No, I don't have time to make trouble with you. I have to go find the general." Qin Laowu stopped laughing when he saw his angry eyes and turned around and entered the tent.
Seeing him entering the tent, Sea Cucumber General snorted with a dark face and left.
"General!" Qin Laowu bowed his hands.
Fu Tingye raised his eyes and saw him, sitting upright, with a trace of seriousness on his face, and whispered: "How are things going?"
"Don't worry, general, we have secretly sent the little girl back. The Liao army probably won't find out any clues." Qin Laowu said with a serious look on his face.
"Well, all we have to do next is wait!" Fu Tingye put one arm on the table.
"Wait?" Qin Laowu didn't react for a moment and asked with some confusion.
"Madam's batch of new Thunder Thunders are still being produced. As long as they are delivered, there is nothing to worry about." A trace of tenderness flashed in Fu Tingye's eyes. Every time he thought of Hua Qingxue, he felt that his heart softened. It's full of tenderness.
Qin Laowu did not miss the flash in Fu Tingye's eyes when he mentioned Hua Qingxue.
"Since the general is fine, the general will leave first!" Qin Laowu retreated from the military camp knowingly.
The general's eyes were almost overflowing with tenderness. He snickered.
When the soldiers around him saw his snickering, they were a little bit gossipy: "What are you laughing at, Vice General Qin? You are so happy."
Qin Laowu said with a smile: "I was laughing at our general for thinking about his wife... Those eyes are so gentle that they would drown people!"
"Qin Laowu, get out of here!" Fu Tingye roared from the tent! Qin Laowu was so frightened that he trembled.
Qin Laowu shrank his neck, smiled and left!
The cold-faced general is becoming more and more affectionate now!
…
After Xiao Han non-stop transported Zhentian Lei back to the Liao Kingdom that day, he secretly transported Zhentian Lei to the army stationed at the border.
"Have you finished what I ordered you to do a few days ago?" In the barracks, Xiao Han sat in the upper seat, and Qi Liancheng sat beside him.
"Back to the prince, what you ordered is almost finished!" the producer said as he knelt on the ground.
"Speed up the progress. It must be completed within three days!" Three days is already the maximum time limit given by Xiao Han.
"This..." The producer was hesitant. Although it was almost completed, the construction near the end was the most complicated and detailed. Three days might be a bit rushed.
"What, do you have any questions? I have been tolerant enough to give you three days to complete the work! Is it possible that Zhang and Liao Kingdom have raised a waste?" Xiao Han looked at the embarrassed expression on his face, and his temper He came up all of a sudden, and he slapped the table, his dark face was very scary.
"Don't dare!" The people kneeling below were sweating profusely and did not dare to refute. Xiao Han's gloomy eyes made the clothes on his back stained with sweat. Three days must be a sleepless day for them!
The atmosphere suddenly dropped!
The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
"Why is the prince so anxious?" Qi Liancheng broke the tense atmosphere and asked with a frown, somewhat puzzled.
"The internal fighting in Qi State has never ceased. In addition, the prince is fanning the flames of the Queen Mother and Prince Ning. The Queen Mother's suspicious temper will definitely cause trouble..." Xiao Han's wishful thinking was quite good.
With his calm eyes and a hint of disdain at the corner of his mouth, the Liao Kingdom is bound to dominate the world!