Zhao Shijian can ask Zhao Shijian to write the memorial for him. The Ministry of War has already communicated with him.

The memorial was returned to him only four days after it was submitted. Someone from the Ministry of War sent it back to him respectfully. There was only one word of "accurate" in the official instructions, so he must have not read the content.

The approval from the Ministry of Public Security was only three words: "Jianzhunxing". With Li Gu giving the green light, the memorial was approved in just a few days.

Shi Congyun was overjoyed. This meant he could use the two small stone houses outside the city, plus Feng Jisheng and eight laborers he hired to work for the court.

So starting from the ninth day of the first lunar month, Shi Congyun ordered Feng Jisheng to direct the laborers to make gunpowder according to his formula.

His formula wasn't very clever. It was just removing all the messy things, leaving only saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, and then letting them combine in different proportions to test their power.

At the same time, he spent his own money to ask Gao Jisheng to purchase more raw materials and recruit more workers, expanding the original eight people to thirty-two. He also invited the craftsmen of Daliang to build another one in the open space to the west of the two stone houses.

Six stone houses to speed up the efficiency of production experiments.

On the other side, Shi Congyun was also busy.

The officials were hesitant about whether to attack Nanping. After all, Nanping Jiedushi was very submissive and sent troops to help them attack Huainan and persuaded the Southern Tang Dynasty to surrender.

A few days ago, they sent people to pay tribute, and later they sent people to persuade Shu to surrender. Although they were rejected righteously, Shu said that they were in danger of mountains and rivers and had hundreds of thousands of troops, so they were not afraid of Zhou Dynasty at all.

Gao Baorong sent all these letters to Daliang to express his loyalty. After seeing the letters, the officials began to hesitate.

Shi Congyun thought this was a good excuse, so he used this excuse to attack Shu, and then destroyed Nanping along the way.

However, no matter what the official thought, the previous war preparation order had been issued, and he was ready to send troops in June and began a large-scale training of the entire army.

This training mainly focuses on the navy, crane-controlling army, and cavalry army of the Wave Controlling Army. These are all the troops of the Dianqian Division. And once a fight breaks out, his idea is that the land forces will be dominated by the crane-controlling army, and the waterways will be controlled by the controlling force.

Straight waves are the main thing.

At the same time, he wanted to test the power of gunpowder on the battlefields of Nanping and Wuping. There were still six months left. By then, it should at least be useful.
Chapter completed!