The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 554 The red cannon is extremely shocking

The South Vietnamese court.

When they learned that the pig iron business had begun in the Northeast City of South Vietnam, the entire court was stunned.

Only now do they know that the reason for poverty in South Vietnam is not that there is no money in South Vietnam. On the contrary, there are many resources in South Vietnam, but you don’t know how to develop them.

People can make money and earn a steady stream of wealth from Han merchants, but your South Vietnamese court does not have this ability.

In the final analysis, it is the gap in national talent.

At that time, the South Vietnamese people always felt that the Han Dynasty was too corrupt. They spent so much money on training for imperial examinations and even made so many rules to find talents. Why?

Only now do they understand that a country’s talents are the guarantee for a country’s future development!

Although the South Vietnamese were very jealous of Weining's profitable business and the batch of iron ore, they could only look back and sigh, and couldn't help but start to pick up the wisdom of others and organize people from the court to dig for iron ore.

After all, there is still no business innovation. They don't think about how to make money besides iron ore. They just follow the trend when they see others making money. How is this the normal state of a country's normal economic development?
Gongsun He gave them advice and took a path. They can't see the benefits now and it will take a long time. They don't pay attention at all.

The development of the port will bring many benefits in the future, but they just don't pay attention to it. This is a matter of national decision-making and foresight.

Although they agreed to cooperate with Gongsun He, they still didn't pay much attention to the development of the port. It seemed that it would come to an end soon.

It was too wasteful of money and manpower, and they simply couldn't bear it. People in the South Vietnamese court suggested many times that they want to ban the cooperation with Gongsun He and stop spending effort on port construction. Even the old South Vietnamese Prime Minister did the same.

Zhengxi was a little unsure for a moment. She wanted to stick to her own opinion, but the current national conditions and financial resources did not support her willfulness.

So the old South Vietnamese Prime Minister went to Gongsun He and expressed his apologies. They no longer wanted to spend a lot of money and manpower on port construction.

Gongsun He had no choice but to inform Weining about the matter, and Weining ordered Gongsun He to negotiate with the other party. They could spend money to buy all the land in the port!
Note that you have bought it and have the land rights.

They also spent money to buy the small town in the Northeast, but they also signed a contract and they did not want the land. In other words, once Weining returns to Han Dynasty, the land in the Northeast will still belong to you, Nanyue.

But the port is different. Even if Weining and the others return to Dahan in the future, this place will still belong to them. This is the difference.

Gongsun He discussed with Sang Hongyang and finally gave him 30,000 taels of silver to buy the port, which was converted into 5,000 square meters of land.

This was not a small amount of silver. Money transactions between South Vietnam and the Han Dynasty were conducted in silver. South Vietnam had its own currency, but silver was universal.

The South Vietnamese court was in a bit of a dilemma. There were indeed a lot of immediate benefits. This money could enrich the national treasury and do a lot of things. However, they were afraid that the port would really be developed in the future. They were a little conflicted for a while.

But in the end, they gritted their teeth and reached this cooperation because they couldn't see any future benefits at the port.

……

Three more months have passed, and it has arrived in June of summer in the first year of Zhenghe.

In the Northeast City, Lu Chongguo looked excitedly and found Weining and discovered it!
Yes, the red cannon was invented!

They hadn't tested the effect yet, so Lu Chongguo found Weining immediately and hoped that Weining would try it in person.

Wei Ning didn't expect it to happen so soon. He asked people to summon Wei Qing, Li Ju and others, and then took them to the mountain together.

Thousands of soldiers surrounded the mountain and no one was allowed to enter the mountain. All the common people and workers temporarily took a day off. No one knew what happened. Anyway, the mountain was closed today.

Even Wei Qing and Li Ju didn't know what Wei Ning was doing before they went up the mountain.

Li Ju couldn't help his curiosity and asked Wei Ning and Lu Chongguo: "What are we doing?"

"Lao Sang was asking just now why the people were not allowed to go up the mountain?" "Who can explain it to me."

Lu Chongguo glanced at Wei Ning and saw that Wei Ning didn't say anything, so he said, "Test new weapons."

what?
Invented a new weapon? Why don't I know?

But now the most powerful weapons have been invented during the Han Dynasty. What new weapons are there now? What weapons can be invented that are more powerful than fire guns and thunderbolts?
Li Juhu looked at Wei Qing with a face on his face. Wei Qing shook his head and said he didn't know.

The craftsmen at the rear pushed out the red cannon. Both Wei Qing and Li Ju stared at the iron lump on the red cannon, wondering what it was.

Li Ju walked up, sticking his butt out and looking left and right, but didn't find anything special.

"what is this?"

He looked at Lu Chongguo and asked with a puzzled expression.

Lu Chongguo shook his head and said, "It's the blueprint given by His Highness. Let's see how it works after it's launched."

"But it's best to cover your ears. The movements should be loud, so don't be scared."

Li Ju laughed and said, "I've never been afraid of anything! How could I be scared? I want to see what kind of medicine is used to cover my ears. I don't cover my ears. I'm not afraid!"

Lu Chongguo didn't force him. He glanced at Wei Ning and then asked, "Your Highness, do you want to launch?"

Weining nodded and said, "Let's launch."

Wei Qing squinted and discovered that the dark iron bump was aimed at the top of the mountain in the distance. It looked like it was a thousand or two thousand steps away.

What's the meaning? You can't blow up the mountain, right?

The sound of fire slowly sounded, and everyone stared at the hole of the red cannon until there was a boom, like dry thunder.

A sound of thunder on the ground scared Li Ju so much that his soul left his body, and he just stared blankly at the top of the mountain not far away.

An even more shocking scene came, the mountain was almost flattened!

hiss!
Li Ju couldn't help but gasp. His ears had been blasted so hard that he couldn't hear anything. He could only open his mouth slightly and stare blankly at the power of the cannon.

My mother!

This is too cruel!

This weapon... is too cruel!

What would be the result if this hit the crowd?
Li Ju shook his head vigorously. He couldn't bear to think about how such a weapon was invented. This was too amazing!

Wei Qing was also completely shocked by this scene. The power of this kind of weapon was something he had never seen before in his life. If he was shocked when he saw the Fire Gun and Sky-shaking Thunder, he was shocked to the extreme now!

Because in his philosophy, this kind of weapon should not have been invented!
It's outrageous!
It’s nothing more than a fairy handiwork, right?

He looked at Wei Ning and Lu Chongguo infatuatedly...

In fact, Lu Chongguo was still confused until now. Although he had prepared his mind well, he still couldn't help being deeply shocked when he saw this scene.

Only Weining, whose expression was as calm as ever, just nodded and said: "Not bad."

(End of this chapter)