"Stop talking nonsense and speak quickly!" Li Yuanzhao raised his eyebrows.
Mo Xiaohu said reluctantly: "In addition to the usual guns and cannons, there are also mines and grenades."
"What is that?"
"To put it simply, a landmine is placed on the ground and explodes when stepped on. A hand grenade is thrown and explodes. It is no problem to kill five or six people at a time."
"So powerful! Why didn't Lao Fang take it out earlier?" Li Yuanzhao was overjoyed.
"There are still some problems with this mine. The success rate of triggering it is not very high. As for the grenade... you have to use a fire starter to light the fuse before throwing it out. Our master said it is not perfect and needs further research."
"Damn! Old Fang, that bastard! He has such an awesome thing but he didn't tell me... Wait a minute!" Li Yuanzhao suddenly had an idea. He came close to Mo Xiaohu's face and asked with narrowed eyes, "It's hidden so deeply. Did you guys make the cannons and muskets a long time ago? Tell me the truth when you made them!"
Mo Xiaohu's face turned grim. He closed his lips tightly and took two steps back.
"Don't worry, you will suffer the consequences. I will ask Lao Fang to give you to me as a companion for my son." Li Yuanzhao said with ill intention.
Facing Li Yuanzhao's relentless pressure, Mo Xiaohu said with cold sweat: "Five or six years...seven or eight years?...I can't remember..."
"Fuck!!!" Li Yuanzhao yelled, "Old Fang is such a loser, I would rebel if I were him!"
Mo Xiaohu: “…”
What kind of rebellion is this? You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until you run the household. Those cannons in the early years were made by tightening our belts, and the raw materials were all bought from other places. Wouldn't it be better to live a good life?
"Old Fang is so damned bold, ten heads wouldn't be enough for him." Li Yuanzhao pinched his chin, looked up at Mo Xiaohu again, pointed at him and said, "You kid can't keep your mouth shut! It's fine if you just told me about this, but if you dare to go out and yell at others, I'll make you a companion!"
"No shouting, absolutely no shouting!"
Mo Xiaohu shook his head violently, crying silently in his heart.
If I didn't know what your relationship with our master is, I wouldn't tell you even if you kill me!
Li Yuanzhao said regretfully: "Since the internal test failed, just take as many grenades and landmines as you have. Report the number of them."
"There are not many mines, more than twenty. Grenades..." Mo Xiaohu suddenly fell silent.
"How many grenades are there?" Li Yuanzhao asked urgently.
"Five hundred boxes, twenty pills per box."
"......" Li Yuanzhao was stunned on the spot.
Five hundred boxes, ten thousand bombs! One bomb can kill five or six people, so five hundred boxes can kill fifty or sixty thousand people?
"Didn't it fail the fucking internal test? Tell me the truth, not a single mistake!" Li Yuanzhao said in astonishment.
Mo Xiaohu had a wooden expression on his face. In order to avoid being a companion, he had already made a desperate move: "It failed the internal pricing test. The master said that although it is incomplete...not perfect, the Ministry of War will accept it. And the county is poor, so we need to make more weapons and sell them for money, and strive to get rid of the label of a poor county within 50 years."
The county is poor... a poor county? Is this how he positioned Taoyuan County?
The corner of Li Yuanzhao's mouth twitched.
This is really Lao Fang's style.
But with five hundred boxes of grenades and three thousand elite Jinyiwei soldiers, can't I walk around the grassland with ease?
Thinking of this, Li Yuanzhao's breathing began to become heavy. He stepped forward and grabbed Mo Xiaohu's collar, and said excitedly: "Anything else? Anything else? There must be other treasures hidden, right? Defective items will do!"
"There's a defective product... an iron shoe filled with gunpowder. When you kick someone, you pull a wire to trigger it, and the sole will explode. It's not very powerful, but if you add some poison, it will be useful."
"Tsk! What a crap thing! It sounds useless. Who can wear the moving iron shoes?" Li Yuanzhao asked doubtfully, "Are there any more?"
Mo Xiaohu wanted to cry but had no tears: "It's gone! It's really gone... The firearms institute is still developing new firearms, but they are not practical."
"If you really want to find someone, Your Highness, go find Wang Meng. I heard that guy has the plague... maybe it can be used."
"Huh!" Li Yuanzhao looked strange. "What did you say? Plague?"
"Ah... Two years ago, there was a plague in a small village near the capital. Wang Meng found out and went to collect some pus and blood from the patients for research. He came back and said that this thing could infect the plague... This thing is good for fighting wars! The army is so densely packed with people, one person can spread the disease to ten people, ten people can spread the disease to a hundred people, isn't it much more useful than firearms?"
"Uh..." Li Yuanzhao showed a disgusted expression: "Wang Meng is too perverted!"
"Our master also said so. He ordered the destruction of those jars of pus and blood. I guess Wang Meng must have hidden them! He is bolder than a donkey's egg. He is not a normal person."
"Forget it. This thing is against nature. What if something goes wrong? Besides, it has been put away for almost two years. How can it still be used?" Li Yuanzhao curled his lips.
I have to stay away from Wang Meng from now on. No, I have to find Lao Fang and ask him to teach him a lesson. Isn't this unscientific and crazy?
Mo Xiaohu said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, I have already disclosed all the information I should have disclosed. I have nothing left. If you really see me, don't tell me what I told you. Just say that you saw it in Taoyuan County. I didn't hide it from you. You can wander around Taoyuan County freely, and everyone has moved to Dongjiao University one after another."
Li Yuanzhao waved his hands impatiently and said, "Alright, alright, no one is tight-lipped than me! You did a good job, I'll give you a great credit!"
"I will arrange the next steps for you. I will write a letter of loyalty, saying that I am willing to lead the attack on the Jin Kingdom. You will take my letter and contact the Jinyiwei one by one in private to sign and stamp the letter. Give it to me tomorrow at the latest."
"Tomorrow I will take the petition to my father. Then I will show him my martial arts skills and he will have to agree to it no matter whether he agrees or not!"
......
The next day, at the door of the imperial study.
Li Yuanzhao took deep breaths while holding the petition.
My father was busy discussing the war plan until yesterday morning, and I didn’t expect that meals would be arranged in the imperial study.
I guess he was eating while judging the food, and this was the only time he had time to be alone.
When you go in, pay your respects first, behave respectfully, then play the victim, and finally hand in the petition and express your wishes and it should be done.
No, that's not right! This is wartime! You should act arrogantly, go in, throw the petition on the table, and then demand to go to the battlefield with full momentum.
If he starts to consider it, then I can persuade him with emotion and reason, saying that my father was already on the battlefield when I was my age, there is no reason not to let me go! If that doesn't work, then I can say that I admire my father when he was young... Hiss, what did Lao Fang say?
....
Li Yuanzhao prepared a speech in his mind and mustered up the courage to knock on the door of the imperial study.
When I entered the house, I saw Emperor Jing reading memorials while eating.
When he entered the room, Emperor Jing only glanced at him and asked calmly, "What's the matter?"
Li Yuanzhao's face fell, and he showed a flattering smile: "Father, your son is here to pay his respects."
"Well, let's go back."
"....." Li Yuanzhao hesitated for a moment, carefully handed over the petition, and whispered: "Your son..."
"No need to say more. If I ask you to be the regent, you should do it obediently. If you say another word, I will ban you from the East Palace!"
"???"
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