Signing in to Datang: Rebellion at the beginning

Chapter 28 Visit My Country

You must know that fine salt is extremely strictly controlled in the Tang Dynasty. Except for wealthy families, ordinary people can't eat it, let alone afford it.

But Cheng Yaojin entered the Dragon Kingdom all the way, but he could eat fine salt everywhere.

This is almost impossible in Datang.

However, the price of meals made with fine salt is not too expensive.

One thing to note is that fine salt is almost equivalent to white silver in Datang.

Cheng Yaojin realized that this Dragon Kingdom probably does not lack salt at all.

So, continue on the road, and soon arrived at the imperial capital of the Dragon Kingdom.

At this moment, Li Ke is in the firearms factory.

He took a bomb the size of a head from a heavily guarded firearms store.

There is a thin hole in the bomb to which a fuse is attached.

After taking out the torch and lighting the fuse, Li Ke threw it out forcefully.

The bomb flew tens of meters and landed on a ground full of sand.

The next moment, it exploded with a bang, and the power of the flame erupted smoothly, with a range of about ten meters.

The flames that emerged also had a range of five meters, and the scattered bomb fragments were more than twenty meters away.

Whether it's the impact force, the flame burning range, or the bomb fragments flying around.

They are all horrific means of killing.

"That is to say, such a bomb with less than half a catty of gunpowder has a lethality of at least [-] meters!"

Li Ke asked the special forces beside him.

The special soldier said: "The production conditions are limited, and we can only make this simple bomb, but the power is already very good!"

Li Ke is naturally satisfied, don't underestimate the lethality of more than [-] meters.

If thrown into the enemy army, at least dozens of people would be killed.

Li Ke nodded and said, "Musket, can you make it?"

The special soldier said: "It is relatively simple and can be made, but it needs to be hand-filled with gunpowder and iron eggs. Bullets are almost impossible to make without good machines."

Li Ke said: "Then make it simple, you can fix the iron egg and gunpowder in an iron shell, and add flint to the bottom.

When using it, put it into the gun barrel as a whole, pull the trigger and hit the flint, then ignite the gunpowder with the flint collision, and push out the iron egg! "

In primitive muskets, gunpowder needs to be poured into the barrel for compaction, then an iron egg is placed, and the fuse is ignited to ignite the flame to rush out of the iron egg.

Li Ke's thinking is to directly fix the flame, iron egg and flint together with cloth or iron shell to form a simple bullet system.

After hearing this, the special soldier nodded immediately: "It is possible!"

Li Kern let out a sigh, and then continued to inspect other gunpowder in the firearms factory.

The materials of gunpowder are saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal.

The first two can be mined, charcoal is easier.

Therefore, the amount of raw materials is huge, and the daily production of gunpowder is also huge, at least several tons can be produced.

Therefore, there are more than 1000 bombs per day.

With the increase in daily reserves, there are tens of thousands of bombs in the arsenal.

As long as there are enough bombs piled up, Li Ke will not be afraid of any country.

So, after visiting the firearms factory, Li Ke was in an indescribably good mood.

However, just after returning to the palace, Wu Meiniang found Li Ke.

"Your Majesty, Tang State has sent someone again!"

Wu Meiniang looked at Li Ke with big eyes shining brightly.

At this moment, Li Ke is the most admired person in her eyes, like a god!
The original Li Ke told her that he was going to rebel.

At first, I thought it was young and frivolous.

But along the way, Wu Meiniang was completely impressed by Li Ke's resourcefulness, force, literary talent, and various shocking methods.

Today's Li Ke, in her opinion, is omnipotent.

She felt honored to be Li Ke's woman.

Li Ke scratched Wu Meiniang's nose and said:
"What did these guys say this time!"

"I haven't said yet, this time it's Lu Guogong Cheng Zhijie!" Wu Meiniang said.

Li Ke frowned: "Cheng Yaojin? Is this well-known good guy here in person?"

"Well, Duke Lu is a good person, and he seems to have said a lot of good things to you, Your Majesty, see you?" Wu Meiniang looked at Li Ke.

Li Ke smiled: "Of course I know he is a good man, um, see you."

With that said, Li Ke walked towards the imperial study.

Wu Meiniang waved to a court lady behind her.

The maid nodded and left.

Not long after, Lu Guogong Cheng Yaojin, with a gray beard, a little fat figure, and a simple face, walked into the imperial study.

"Foreign minister Cheng Yaojin, met His Majesty the Dragon Kingdom!"

Cheng Yaojin walked in, glanced at Li Ke who was sitting behind the table, opened his robe, and was about to kneel down.

Li Ke was holding a pen in his hand, and at this moment, with a stroke of the pen, he wrote a word!
The next moment, an invisible force was about to support Cheng Yaojin, preventing him from kneeling down.

"Duke Lu doesn't need to perform such a big gift!" Li Ke said.

Cheng Yaojin's eyes showed surprise, and he said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, you really have outstanding literary style. The foreign ministers didn't believe it at first, but seeing it today, it's too late!"

Li Ke immediately wrote with a brush and said: "Duke Lu is here to be a lobbyist for the king of Tang? If you let me bow down to the king of Tang and admit his mistakes, then I will avoid it in advance!"

Cheng Yaojin laughed and said:

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, there has never been an unresolved knot between father and son, let alone enmity. The sons of foreign ministers, hey, I am like enemies, but they are not father and son..."

"Lu Guogong, don't waste your time talking. If you have something to say, just speak up!" Li Ke interrupted Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Yaojin smiled awkwardly and said:

"This time, Your Majesty has also reflected on it, but because of face, he couldn't go down the steps, so he has been embarrassed to admit his mistake. So the person you sent last time misunderstood you.

So this time, His Majesty has admitted his mistake, and specially wrote a letter of confession, and asked the old minister to bring it to you in person, to show that His Majesty has admitted his mistake. "

Cheng Yaojin looked at Li Ke's face, took out the confession, and continued:

"You see, His Majesty has already admitted his mistake, so is there any unresolvable conflict between father and son? Why don't you reconcile with His Majesty, we are a family after all!"

Li Ke did not accept the confession letter, and said to Cheng Yaojin:
"Yes, coveting my Dragon Kingdom, I have no choice but to use the method of admitting my mistake!"

Cheng Yaojin was taken aback, and said: "No matter what, they are father and son, and they are all one family. Why do you bother?"

"Lu Guogong, I have always emphasized one thing, that is, I am not his son!" Li Ke said.

Cheng Yaojin smiled wryly, and was about to speak.

But Li Ke took the lead: "I didn't tell any lies about this matter. He, Li Er, didn't treat me as his own son. And I'm not his own son at all."

Cheng Yaojin opened his mouth, but saw that Li Ke was speaking very seriously, not like talking nonsense.

"This...how is it possible?" Cheng Yaojin didn't believe it.

Li Ke smiled: "There is nothing to explain this kind of thing. In short, it is right that I am not his son. So don't talk about father and son, or family, Lu Guogong, it won't do anything."

With that said, Li Ke got up and was about to leave. After walking a few steps, he spoke again:
"As for the so-called confession, I won't read it, and Duke Lu should stop mentioning it. Come with me and take a good look at the kingdom I conquered!"

(End of this chapter)