Compete for the Song Dynasty

The three of Wang Anshi, father and son were talking about their excitement, and heard the old family member Zhao Bo report that Chen Yuan came to the house to look for Wang Pang, Wang Anshi looked at Wang Pang and Yuan Ze, only now did he realize that it was really troublesome for them to have the same name.Seeing his father looking at him, Yuan Ze pointed to Wang Pang and said to his father, "Hey, he must be looking for my brother. This Chen Yuanwai is the one I just mentioned to you. He was sent on a job and almost went bankrupt." People. Now that I have found the mansion, I wonder if they are here to pay back my brother's silver taels?"

After Wang listened, he stood up and said to his father: "Father, Mr. Chen has an account book in his hand, which shows the taxes owed by each household in the county. If he doesn't come today, I will go to him."

Wang Anshi nodded: "Then go and see what's going on, don't be rash, and ask as many questions as you can."

With Wang Anshi's words, Wang Pang was relieved. He stood up and gestured ok to his father Yuanze, then turned and left the study.Wang Anshi and Yuan Ze looked at each other, Wang Anshi asked Yuan Ze: "What does that gesture mean?"

Yuan Ze thought for a while, then shook his head and smiled: "Maybe I'm going to talk to Yuanwai Chen for three hours, Father, you don't know, my brother is different this time when he comes back." [

Wang Anshi nodded in agreement after hearing this: "I also feel that if this is not what we thought earlier, I would be relieved to see that he is not discouraged when he encounters setbacks. While he is not here, tell me that he is here again recently. What did the capital do?"

Yuanze then told Wang Anshi about Wang Pang's return to the capital, the bee typesetting in Kaifeng Mansion, and the new hot pot in Jinxiu Building.The father and son were chatting like this, and when they talked about something interesting, Wang Anshi squinted his eyes and stroked his beard and nodded.At this time, Wang Pang had already gone downstairs and walked to the front yard. Before he got there, he heard some noise in the front yard, and there was a child's voice inside. The little guy didn't know who he was fighting for, so he heard: "Give it to me! Give it to me quickly!".Wang Bang walked around the corner gate, and the scene in front of him made him laugh.

Chen Yuanwai was limping in the courtyard, running in front of him with a limp, while Tong Guan was chasing after him.Don't look at him limp, but he can't run slowly.Go around the plum tree.Seeing that Tong Guan was about to catch up, Wang Pang shouted: "Guan'er, you're not polite."

Hearing Wang Pang's shout, Tong Guan immediately stopped, and reluctantly walked in front of Wang Pang: "Daddy, he robbed us." Then he turned his head and greeted Liu Qi who was standing on the porch: "Liu Qi , you are here too, tell my dad if this is the case?!"

Liu Qi hurriedly walked up to him, standing there was much more disciplined than Tong Guan, and respectfully saluted Wang Pang: "Second Young Master, hello." After speaking, he tugged Tong Guan.

Seeing that Liu Qi didn't speak, Wang Pang knew that the two boys must have a secret. Now that there are guests, he turned around and asked the two boys what the hell they were doing.Wang Pang said to Tong Guan with a serious face: "Aren't you going to study soon?" What else did Tong Guan want to say, Liu Qi tugged him again, Tong Guan took a look at Mr. Chen, snorted, and dragged Liu Qi away Went to the study hall of the inner house.

He looked into the courtyard, and Chen Yuanwai did not follow, but squatted on the ground, mixed the lumps of things in his hands with the soil, and turned some frozen hard soil from the ground, and buried them under the ground.After Chen Yuanwai finished these things, he got up, dusted off the dirt on his body, saw Wang Pang standing in the corridor of the hall, and hurriedly limped towards Wang Pang.

Chen Yuanwai came up to Wang Pang, and Wang Pang saw that he was out of breath, with panic on his face.Wang Pang let him into the room with a smile: "Little boy, Mr. Chen, don't take offense." Wang Pang said so, but he thought in his heart that although this Tong Guan was young, he was a bit overbearing.And maybe Mr. Chen was a little nervous when he heard Tong Guan call him dad just now.

Chen Yuanwai wiped the cold sweat that came out of his forehead, and said in shock: "No, no, but this kid doesn't understand the power of gunpowder. If he gets hurt, it will be difficult."

Wang Pang wondered, where did he get the gunpowder at home?Not to mention my own home, since I arrived in the Song Dynasty, I haven't seen the shadow of gunpowder yet. "My family has never had gunpowder. Where did this gunpowder come from?"

Chen Yuanwai took a deep breath, lowered one hand, and touched his lame leg, "Maybe I'm timid and scared by the past. People say that once bitten by a snake for ten years, I'm afraid of well ropes." , I think I’ve been afraid of being stained with gunpowder and brimstone all my life.”

Wang Pang thought about it carefully, just now he did see that the two children of Tong Guan were hiding something, at that time he went to the study with his father without paying much attention.But Yuanwai Chen wouldn't talk nonsense, he asked calmly, "I don't know what that kid was doing that surprised Yuanwai Chen so much?"

"Firecrackers!"

Wang Pang was overjoyed when he heard it, but he stopped smiling immediately: At first, his first reaction was that as the New Year approached, every household had firecrackers, and firecrackers could scare Chen Yuanwai, even Chen Yuanwai was timid.But Wang Pang suddenly realized that too much firecrackers can still hurt people, and there is no joke, the Chinese invented firecrackers, but foreigners made gunpowder to invade China.

The change on Wang Pang's face was instantaneous. Naturally, Yuanwai Chen didn't notice, his hand was still rubbing on his lame leg.

Seeing this, Wang Pang said with a little shame: "Children don't know the power of firecrackers. I just thanked Yuanwai Chen. I will discipline him strictly later. Yuanwai Chen came to the house today, what can I do for you?"

Member Chen waved his hands, but his expression was not relaxed: "Young master, I don't know. My leg was injured by the gunpowder back then. Just now, I watched you take apart the firecrackers, put together the gunpowder of several firecrackers, and make a big firecracker. I am afraid that this ratio will seriously hurt the child, so I stop it."

Wang Pang gave a soft oh, if Tong Guan got into trouble, it would be a big deal, if he hurt himself, he might hurt others. "This kid, I'll teach him a lesson later."

Chen Yuanwai smiled wryly. He has personally experienced the power of gunpowder, otherwise he would not have suffered from this disability. Now he has heard the gunpowder's discoloration, and he didn't know where he got his impatience just now. When he saw Tongguan Liu Qi The two children fiddled with each other and tried their best to grab it.Chen Yuanwai took off a cloth bag on his body, and said while undoing it, "Little boy, just talk about it." After speaking, he took out a wooden box from the cloth bag. [

Looking at Yuanwai Chen's actions, Wang Pang thought to himself that I gave him a piece of silver on the street, is he going to return a box?Chen Yuanwai held the box in his hand, and handed it to Wang Pang with both hands: "Young Master Wang, I have a few booklets left by my father. I dare not touch these things. Now that you are kind to me, I will Entrust these things to the young master, maybe the young master will come in handy in the future."

Book again? !Wang Pang's head was getting bigger when he heard it, especially the ancient prose. Before the Song Dynasty, they were all parallel prose, and they couldn't read them as smoothly as the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties.Wang Pang looked at the wooden box, but said: "How embarrassing, I just happened to happen today. This is left by Mr. Chen, and it should be kept well." Then he returned the box to Mr. Chen. .

Chen Yuanwai put the box into Wang Pang's hand again, seeing that Wang Pang was not moved by money at all, he didn't even look at what was inside, so he was determined to give it to Wang Pang.Chen Yuanwai said in a very firm tone: "Master must take this thing, and I don't expect Mr. Gao Pan, so you can keep it as a souvenir. This thing is useless in my hands, but maybe it will be useless in my hands." It's the same."

Wang Pangxin said that except for the time machine and the stone that can travel through the past and the present, it is useless to have anything in his hands.However, seeing Yuanwai Chen being so earnest, he felt somewhat curious.What exactly is this, can make Chen Yuanwai insist on giving it to himself.

The box next to the king turned out to be a few books.He took out the book and doubled it at will, Wang Pang couldn't help being stunned. There were pictures and words in the booklet: the first few books were all about the proportions and production methods of various gunpowder, and there was "the method of putting fire and brimstone". Recognized some chapters that read: "There are people who burn sulfur, realgar, saltpeter and honey, and the flames burn hands, noodles, and ashes of the house." When the three yellows are burned, disasters will be seen immediately. If the saltpeter is put on the fire, try it on the red charcoal fire, and the one that turns into oil will fall into the fire if it does not move. . Refers to sulfur, realgar and orpiment).

Wang Pang's gaze was immediately attracted by these pamphlets, which also recorded that the Song Dynasty used "artillery" when attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty.In addition, there are gunpowder method, cupping method, caltrop fireball, thunderbolt fireball; this is not counted, there are also pictures of how to make Zhentianlei and fierce fire oil tank.

Especially this is called Zhentianlei: the body is rough and the mouth is small, gunpowder is contained inside, the outer shell is wrapped with pig iron, and the fuze is installed on it. When using it, the length of the lead wire is determined according to the distance of the target.After detonation, the pig iron shell can be blown into pieces and penetrate the iron armor.There are two kinds of thunderbolts, one is ignited with fire, and when it is used, it is launched by a trebuchet and explodes in the distance; When he came to the king, he laughed loudly: "Isn't this just a grenade?"

When he looked at it carefully, he forgot that Chen Yuanwai was still beside him. Chen Yuanwai was taken aback by Wang Pang's sudden laughter: "What is a grenade? I think these books are almost memorized by heart, and I don't know the book. Are there any grenades?"

He followed Wang Pang's gaze. Wang Pang was seeing Zhen Tianlei, and hurriedly explained: "Young master, this is Zhen Tianlei, didn't you say that name? If you slipped your hands and blew up your own people, then Wouldn't it hurt the team?"

Wang Pang closed the book, looked at Chen Yuanwai's serious expression, and said with a smile: "This is not a hand slip, it's a grenade, hey! It sounds the same anyway, you should just call him Zhentianlei." After finishing speaking, Wang Pang With a heartbeat, he seemed to be able to memorize the book by heart just now.Moreover, this book does not seem to be passed down by ordinary folks. The proportions of various sulfur and realgar marked in the book are very accurate, and even the decorations such as the fierce fire oil tank are clearly marked. How could there be such a book in his family? Book?

Wang Pang put the book back into the box, put the box on the table next to him, pointed to the box and said to Chen Yuanwai: "Chen Yuanwai, I dare not accept your book. This is not the ordinary fireworks, firecrackers and gunpowder that are spread among the people." I wonder if Mr. Chen can tell the truth about the origin of this book?"