Emperor Ming Yan looked at it carefully, and then Yan Shiyue took him to the high platform, handed him a clairvoyance, and put earplugs on him.
With a flag on the hillside ahead, the gunner demonstrated the entire process from beginning to end: loading, igniting, and firing. There were several loud rumbling noises, thick smoke billowing, the ground shaking underfoot, and the small hill opposite was razed to the ground in an instant.
This shocking effect...Emperor Ming Yan was speechless for a long time.
The prince had seen it several times, and was very calm. He bowed with a smile and said, "Congratulations, father. Great Yan has obtained this magic weapon, and it will surely last for thousands of years!"
Emperor Mingyan silently put down the Clairvoyance and patted him on the shoulder gently: "Okay, okay."
He waved to Yan Shiyue, who jumped over obediently. He gently held her shoulders and seemed to want to say something, but swallowed it back. After a long while, he said, "Da Yan is truly blessed to have my Yue'er!"
Yan Shiyue smiled and said, "Then Father, please give this cannon a name."
Emperor Ming Yan thought for a moment and said: "Let's call it 'Shenwei Cannon'!"
He held up his clairvoyance and looked for a while before stepping down from the platform. He gently stroked the still warm barrel of the cannon and asked, "Can it only be made of copper?"
Yan Shiyue said: "We can also use iron, but iron is easy to explode and break, and copper is hard to come by, so we can try an iron core and copper body to save costs. And this cannon is really too heavy and difficult to move, so it is good at siege and defense, but not good at field battles. The firing rate is also slow, and after each shot, it needs to be cleaned, wiped dry, and calibrated. And currently it can only fire solid bullets..."
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She paused. "Anyway, I'm actually not very satisfied. Everything needs to be improved."
Emperor Ming Yan quickly recovered from his shock and asked her, "What can be improved?"
Yan Shiyue said, "That's what I just said! Reduce the weight, increase the power, range, rate of fire, etc. There are areas that can be improved. Oh, and in the future, the ammunition can also be improved, such as being able to fire shotgun shells."
She measured it and said, "It's just a bullet with many small bullets inside. It will explode when it hits."
Emperor Mingyan looked at her, nodded, and asked the crown prince, "Have you checked everyone carefully?"
"Don't worry, father," said the prince. "After listening to Yue'er's detailed explanation, I checked everyone. A Jing's side was also thoroughly checked. Besides, the Shenwu Army was only patrolling and protecting, and they would not see how it was made. Only a few people were selected to make it."
Yan Shiyue said: "Its manufacturing itself is not complicated. If it falls into the hands of others, it will be easy to copy it."
Emperor Ming Yan nodded, and after a while, he suddenly smiled.
He asked the prince, "If I hint to the Mobei countries that I can sell this Shenwei cannon to them, what do you think they will do?"
The prince's eyes lit up: "They will try every possible means to buy it!"
Yan Shiyue also said: "Then we can ask for a sky-high price! And then sell all the garbage we don't want to them at a high price!"
Emperor Mingyan laughed repeatedly and said, "Yue'er's ability is my confidence."
The New Year is coming soon. The Crown Prince is the heir to the throne, and Yan Shiyue is a person with a very strong presence. Both of them followed Emperor Ming Yan back to the capital, and then Huo Qijing and his men continued to make the Shenwei cannon.
It was already the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month when she returned home. It was only then that Yan Shiyue realized that all the gifts she had sent... were successful.
To be honest, she was happy no matter what kind of good luck she had, except for the one about having a child. She felt extremely embarrassed and didn't want to admit it or continue.
Fortunately, by this time, no one would deliver invitations, and with their mother at home, everything was content. Even though Meng Min was pregnant, she still took care of things here. She sent all the New Year gifts that were needed, and also returned the gifts from others. She was quite polite.
Yan Shiyue always takes a nap after being busy for a while, so when she woke up, it was already New Year's Eve.
It is said that Emperor Mingyan had met with envoys from several small countries, including Mobei.
Then the next time they meet, it will be a grand court meeting. Only then will all countries present gifts, including Mobei, which will submit a letter of credence.
Yan Shiyue had thought that she could spend the New Year with Huo Qijing this year, and had even thought about sneaking out together to watch the street vendor fair, but in the end they were separated again...it was very miserable.
She went to bother Jia and the others, and asked them to go to Xishan in the middle of the night to bring him some food and a large plate of dumplings.
Actually, the food at Huo Qijing's place is pretty good.
Because her injuries had not healed when she and the prince came here, so she brought four imperial physicians and a large number of imperial chefs. Apart from anything else, Huo Qijing and the craftsmen all had dumplings to eat.
The people from Jiahe rode fast all the way, and the dumplings were already crumbed when they were delivered. Huo Qijing sat down with a smile on her face and ate a few, then sent the flower-shaped steamed buns that the imperial chef had brought back to her.
The young couple spent New Year's Eve in a sweet and affectionate manner, and then there was the New Year's Day grand court meeting.
She and the prince will both attend this grand court meeting, and the grand court meeting on the first day of the new year requires dancing!
This is called the dance ceremony.
It is said that in the previous dynasty and the dynasty before that, people would often dance at banquets, hunting trips and many other occasions when they disagreed with something, just like in Indian movies.
To be an official, one must first learn how to dance, and the emperor would dance along and have fun with his subjects... But during the Great Yan period, dancing ceremonies became much less common, and would only be held at grand court meetings in the New Year, or festive banquets such as the Qianqiu Festival.
After dancing for a while, they would shout "Long live the emperor!" and then bow their heads, which was called the ceremony of paying homage to the emperor. It was very grand and lively.
The prince's injury had not fully healed yet, so he did not leave the scene. Yan Shiyue also pretended that his injury had not healed yet, so he did not leave the scene. He sat at the top and looked at the demons below... The ministers were dancing wildly, and it really looked like the aunties dancing in the square!
The old men who were usually very serious in the court, who would hold their waists and cough a few times when walking, twisted their waists one by one, so flexible! So charming! Even Yan Shirui danced super well!! The hidden square dance king!!
She was really sorry that Huo Qijing didn't come... Aaaaa, she would definitely invite him to come next New Year's! She wanted to watch him dance!!
By the way, the father of the man with the iceberg face didn’t go down either, which is good, his character didn’t collapse.
She simply couldn't imagine what her cold-faced father looked like dancing! But what could she do if she really wanted to see it?
At this moment, a tall man, whose attire was obviously different from that of the court officials and who should be an envoy of some country, moved in front of her with his arms raised and dancing seductively. Then he suddenly knelt down, held her boots with both hands, and bent down to kiss them.
Meow meow meow!!!??
Yan Shiyue was really frightened. For some unknown reason, she suddenly thought of You Tanzhi. Afraid that he would bite her, she jumped up and pulled her foot away, dragging the prince in front of her to block him.
There was a subtle silence in the court.
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