The two of them stared at each other with big eyes for a while, but Li Kui still had no impression, but who was afraid of Li Kui?

His problem of sleeping with his eyes open is that he can not close his eyes all night without blinking. Who can be his opponent?

But there is also a disadvantage. Li Kui sometimes thinks sadly that he will die with his eyes when he dies in his life.

Just when Zheng Qi couldn't stand it, Liang Shijie ran over, handed the other party a drawing, and said excitedly: "Mr. Zheng, our military commander-in-chief is going to take care of your business again."

"What kind of weapon is this?"

Zheng Qi stared at the drawings, but couldn't figure out what kind of weapon it was on the drawings? But looking at the honeycomb-shaped structure, he was immediately amazed. It turned out that the entire military command was not all greedy villains, and some people were doing serious business. Even guys like Liang Shijie who were fond of money also thought of inventing weapons.

Zheng Qi, a senior official from the fourth rank, asked Liang Shijie without shame: "Dare you ask Liang Yanei, what kind of weapon is this?"

"Mr. Zheng is polite. How dare you call the yamen? Now he is a newcomer in the officialdom. Please ask Master Zheng to support him. As for this?" Liang Shijie was a little embarrassed: "This is not a weapon, but a tube of honeycomb coal that looks very complicated, but I asked the merchants that this thing is not troublesome to cast. But no one in the Song Dynasty except for the iron smelting workshops licensed by the imperial court."

Zheng Qi was stunned, and a sentence appeared in his heart: If the country is about to perish, there will be evil.

The military commander and a good central key department actually mixed with honeycomb coal all day long. It seems that the Song Dynasty is really dangerous.

"Ten thousand, small officials want 10,000. Lord Zheng, you have to give me a discount."

Zheng Qi glanced at Liang Shijie and muttered, "There are so many tools in the capital, right?"

"The merchants are determined to sell all over the Song Dynasty." Liang Shijie admired Li Kui and said, "Thanks to the bureau's inspiration, this kind of weapon was born. Merchants have tried the same charcoal cakes, which produce less materials, but they are also resistant to burning. In the future, the charcoal cakes will be sold on a single basis and will no longer be sold on a repetitive basis. This kind of business will inevitably be sold throughout the world."

"You go to discuss this with Lu Dashi, the supervisor of the workshop, and charge according to the weight."

“Tell him there is no discount.”

Liang Shijie insisted on not going, and he has always been very persistent in making money.

"You sent a message to Lu Dashi and said... I agreed, only you can take materials and workbooks, is that okay?" In order to send Liang Shijie away, Zheng Qi was considered to have a heavy burden. Fortunately, the Iron Supervisor belongs to the Ministry of Revenue, so it doesn't matter whether a workshop makes money or not.

Liang Shijie said shyly: "How can you be so embarrassed?"

"Wenda, go ahead and do your job first. I have something to say to your elders." Zheng Qi said with a headache. He should not offend Liang Shijie. Although Cai Jingliang is no longer a bad reputation, the Liang family is not bad now. Wenda is the name Liang Shijie. When the elders gave him this word, they mostly hoped that he would be successful in the world. As for now, I am afraid there is no possibility in this life. There is hope that the infamous person is famous.

Liang Shijie hurriedly claimed his guilt and left. This is how he was. He always took the initiative to make money and enjoyed it.

After Liang Shijie left, Zheng Qi shook his head and sighed: "What kind of evil did Mr. Liang commit? He has such descendants."

"Brother Zheng knows Wenda?"

Li Kui said curiously that even though Liang Shijie was working in the Military Control Bureau, Li Kui did not care too much about Cai Jing's son-in-law.

Zheng Qi said in surprise: "The servant in front of His Majesty is his uncle. Don't you know? He has a good relationship with Cai Zhizheng."

Li Kui shook his head, there were more people in front of the emperor. The matter of the living sect was similar to that of the eunuchs, and he followed the emperor all day long. However, Li Kui was also very considerate, and this person should be Cai Bian's confidant.

"Li Wai-chan, let alone the Liang family, is just a tiger father and a dog son. Do you remember what you said before?"

There is something important about Zheng Qi coming, but it is not for spreading rumors to Li Kui.

Li Kui suddenly remembered and said in surprise: "Has the flintlock rifle been created?"

"Flintlock?"

Zheng Qi was confused. The craftsmen tried this thing many times, but it was difficult to make progress. How could it be so easy to make it? From the storm musket, they entered the flintlock rifle at once. The span was too large, and the craftsmen in the iron smelting workshop had no choice. The storm musket was a magical tool that could spit out the face after it was ignited. The soldiers used it on the battlefield before and often did not hurt the enemy, but because the bamboo could not bear the instant explosive power of the gunpowder, the soldiers exploded after igniting the fuse and were disliked by the army.

Zheng Qi had no choice but to say to himself: "Sir, it's a cannon. We are preparing to cast cannons."

Li Kui thought to himself, what's my business if you are going to cast a cannon barrel?

Li Kui's sail cruiser sank, and his enthusiasm for cannons was almost extinguished overnight.

"Mr. Zheng, is this your Iron Supervisor's business? Besides, the military commander is busy with official duties now, and I'm afraid it's too hard to do anything." Li Kui had ordered Zhu Fu and others to prepare to train spies so that they could go deep into the imperial guards in various places to explore the combat power of the army. As for cannons, he could not remember them before the sailing ship was built.

The cannon is the standard equipment. As for the current artillery, the army is still too bulky to use and the effect is not good. It will only cause trouble unless the flintlock rifle is created.

But the sailing ship is different. No matter how heavy the cannons are, they are all negligible for large ships. Anyway, the industrial level of the Song Dynasty could not build a few thousand tons of cannons, and at best it weighs a few tons. Is this a problem for large ships with displacement of thousands of tons or even one or two thousand tons?

Zheng Qi is hard to say, you are the authority of the artillery in the Song Dynasty! The Military Control Bureau is busy, are you busy with the business? Instead, you are busy making money. Since Cai Jing came to the Military Control Bureau, this yamen is almost as virtuous as the Ministry of Revenue, and he has lost money.

If you don’t go, will we dare to cast cannons randomly?

"Sir, this batch of artillery was ordered by the Western Army. Zhang Longtu repeatedly asked that the best materials must be used to create the strongest cannon. If you don't go, our workshop will be unsure!"

Only then did Zheng Qi express his intention.

Li Kui suddenly realized that this was the case, but he was not an authoritative person: "Mr. Zheng, casting cannons, you go and ask the officials of the Ministry of Works. They must have more experience in this. As for me, I won't go."

"Li Waijian--"

"But I can say some of the requirements I had for craftsmen at the beginning. The cast artillery did not have trachoma, which is very important. Once there is trachoma, the cannon will be in danger of explosion. The artillery that exploded on the battlefield is basically the reason. The second is to grind the inner wall. If it can be ground with a water wheel, the effect will be better."

"If you can do these two, the quality of the cast cannons will not be too bad unless the iron is not good. By the way, how much iron can your blast furnace produce per day?"

Zheng Qi replied: "Thirty thousand jin. This is already the limit. Unless the number of Tieying is increased, the difference will not be increased. However, basically, the Privy Council has taken it. Recently, the Privy Council's Ordnance Workshop is also working hard to replace the weapons of the imperial guards."

"This is a good thing!" Li Kui said with a smile.

Zheng Qi echoed: "Please also ask Li Huaijian to see this picture, otherwise I will be in a state of lingering in my heart."

When Li Kui glanced over the drawings, he didn't have a clear judgment in his heart. Whether the cannon is good or not is the chamber pressure that the barrel can withstand. The shorter the barrel, the more durable it is. The longer the barrel, the longer the range. Seeing Zheng Qi's pitiful look, Li Kui secretly told him this secret: "Brother Zheng, come here."

"Li Waijian is really a caderic person."

"A little trick that is not good. But don't be too short, otherwise you will become a tiger sitting on the ground, and you can roar but can't hurt people."

"Don't worry, I'll save you my heart."

...

After seeing Zheng Qi off, Li Kui started to think about it. Is it going to fight?

This batch of artillery was ordered by Zhang Yu, which means that Zhang Dun is going to take action against Xixia again. Obviously, Zhang Dun now has the intention to destroy Xixia. It is unlikely to have a decisive battle suddenly, but sending troops to Youzhou is probably imperative.

I don’t know if the court would let him go to the northwest.

With this question in mind, Li Kui visited An Tao, who was most likely to know the military situation.

Unfortunately, An Tao didn't know that he was going to fight.

He knew that Zhang Qing ordered artillery. However, this was the weapons requested by the Western Army last year. This year, there was no problem. But Li Kui didn't think so. Although Zhang Qing was not very close to Zhang Dun, they were brothers after all. Especially when Zhang Dun did not trust the Privy Council, it was very likely that he would go directly over the Privy Council and ordered Zhang Qing to attack Xixia.

After An Tao sent Li Kui away, he immediately went to Li Qingchen's house.

The two civil officials studied the border map of Song Xia for a long time, but could not see any problems.

Cai Jing was in a bad mood that day and sent away the creditor who came to ask for the debt. Before the patent fees earned by his son-in-law had been heated up by him, they fell into the creditor's pocket. This made Cai Jing very angry and said to himself in the backyard: "Do not be aware of it, it is hard to defend against the thief!" If there was no traitor at home, how could the creditor come to the door just after the son-in-law sent the money?

Cai Jing was originally hoping to use this money to make money and do big deals, blocking all the deficiencies at once. However, he never thought that the plan was disappointed.

"Master, Censor Zhang is here! Do you want to meet?"

Cai Jingxin said that he did not know any censor named Zhang. Zhang Shangying offended Li Kui and went to the northwest, so he naturally could not become a censor. He had heard that he was very unsatisfied. But he didn't believe it. He dared to return to Beijing without being summoned.

"not see!"

"Chief Yuan, my old friend is here, why did you keep a closed door?"

"Tianjue, why are you so bold?"

Cai Jing opened his mouth and was shocked, and hurriedly ordered someone to go outside the yard to check if anyone saw it.

Zhang Shangying didn't care at all, but instead sat carelessly opposite Cai Jing, and said with a gaze: "Chief Yuan, I am the Guyan Road Observer."

"Observation?"

Cai Jing then remembered his old friend's embarrassing identity. He was a free time, basically nothing happened all year round, but he needed to return to Beijing to report every year. In fact, he was a role that people disliked and tired of.

Cai Jing finally relaxed. He was really afraid that Zhang Shangying would do something that could not tolerate in the officialdom when he was a prosecutor of Kaifeng Prefecture. Before, this guy wrote an article saying that the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao - he was unfaithful to his wife.

Even if the Song Dynasty treats civil servants preferential treatment, even people like Zhang Shangying are definitely not among the preferential treatments.

Just one charge of slandering the Holy Prison is enough for Zhang Shangying to be exiled to Shaman Island.

The exile of Shaman Island is definitely a dead end. Especially for a civil servant, Shaman Island is not mysterious, it is just outside Dengzhou. The exile of this island is full of people with great sins. But this is not the most dangerous reason, because Shaman Island pays only enough for 500 people every year. In fact, the number of people who are exiled to Shaman Island each year exceeds 1,000 people. This is not counting the people on the island.

The Shaman Island Zhizhai has the right to kick 500 people into the sea before going to the island.

But what is amazing is that Zhang Shangying actually survived magically. Not only that, according to Cai Jing's opinion, this guy is still quite happy. Especially now, Zhang Shangying bowed to Cai Jing confidently and whispered: "Chang Yuan, Li Kui is dead."

After saying that, he laughed arrogantly...

Cai Jing suddenly felt nervous, and Zhang Shangying was holding Li Kui's fatal handle.
Chapter completed!