Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1079

On both sides of the iron gate stood ten black-clothed experts from the Ministry of Security, and there were several houses next to them, apparently for these people to live in. Seeing the crowd coming, a thirty-something man wearing an official uniform of the Ministry of Security ran out of the middle room. The [-]-year-old man recognized Ye Chen who was surrounded by the crowd at a glance. He couldn't help being startled. He quickly stood at attention and gave a military salute, followed by ten experts from the security department.

After the man in his thirties saluted, he said loudly: "Liu Haisheng, the Deputy Director of the Weapons and Equipment Production Base Branch of the Ministry of Security, has seen His Majesty!" system, and Ye Chen had already asked the military commander to make a rule that all soldiers who met him during work only need to salute.

Ye Chen nodded and said, "You have worked hard!"

Liu Haisheng's face turned red with excitement, and he said hastily: "Thank you, Your Majesty, I have not worked hard, and I am willing to go through fire and water for Your Majesty, and I will not hesitate to die."

"The ministers are willing to go through fire and water for His Majesty, even if they die." The ten masters, all of whom clearly have the honor of the captain, said loudly.

Ye Chen nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction, and said, "Sun Aiqing, how long have you led these people to be on duty here?"

"Your Majesty, we have been here for two years and one month." Liu Haisheng said quickly.

Next to him, Liu Dongming continued: "Your Majesty, Master Sun and the others have worked really hard. In order to keep this secret weapon from being known to too many people, they have never replaced others, so they are only divided into two shifts, and usually only change guards." Only then can they go out to the base for some activities. They have never been out of the base in the past two years!"

Ye Chen frowned slightly, and said: "It's important to keep this thing secret, but letting them stay here for more than two years is like going to jail... It's too unreasonable."

Liu Haisheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, after the minister received this task, Master Hu let me choose personnel in the ministry. All the ministers selected at the time were those who were absolutely loyal to His Majesty and the court and had no relatives at home. Your Majesty knows that we are safe." There are many orphans in the Ministry, and there are no relatives at home, so it is not difficult to choose some people who meet the conditions. So, your Majesty does not need to worry about this."

Hearing this, Ye Chen's expression softened a little, and he said: "I will pass on my will, from now on, the salary of all personnel responsible for the security of top-secret weapons will be doubled, and those who have not left the base due to missions for more than a year like Liu Haisheng will be paid every time they pass. It will be upgraded to one level in one year."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Liu Haisheng and the ten captains immediately expressed their joy and thanked them loudly.

"Master Sun, hurry up and open the door for Your Majesty!" Liu Dongming on the side laughed.

"Yes, Lord Liu! Wait a moment, Your Majesty!" As he spoke, Liu Haisheng quickly took out a special key from his pocket, walked quickly to the big iron gate, and opened the biggest lock Ye Chen had ever seen.This is not over yet, and then he tapped on the iron door lightly according to a certain rhythm.

In this way, Liu Haisheng knocked three times, and Ye Chen and others vaguely heard a sound from the other side of the iron gate. After a few breaths, the iron gate opened to both sides, and another passage appeared in front of Ye Chen and his group.

However, this passage was shorter, and within a few steps, the group came to a hall as big as a football field.

"Your Majesty, this is where the research on the secret weapon Your Majesty mentioned is done." Liu Dongming said at the right time.

"Hurry up and take it out, let me have a look!" Ye Chen said with bright eyes.

Liu Dongming personally held a larger box and walked over cautiously. Yu Wen stepped forward to open the box, and in front of everyone were small porcelain wine jar-like utensils.

"Your Majesty, this is a specially made porcelain that we have repeatedly researched. There will be no accidents due to friction. As long as the fuse is ignited and then thrown out, it can explode to the greatest extent."

Ye Chen sighed with emotion, ignored the obstruction of the people around him, picked up the most primitive grenade with his own hands, looked at it carefully, and handed it to the extremely curious Ma Wentao next to him!
"Let me see his power!" Ye Chen said with some expectation.

Liu Dongming immediately opened a small door. Ye Chen had already heard the movement inside, so it was no surprise that other people were surprised after seeing it.Because behind this small gate is a livestock pen, where dozens of livestock such as cows, sheep, and pigs are locked.

After Liu Dongming gave an order, a soldier who specialized in testing new weapons picked up the primitive grenade, ignited the fuse with a torch in his hand, and threw it towards the cattle pen.

The explosion of gunpowder has long been used by everyone, so it is not surprising. What everyone is curious about is the power of this small porcelain bottle. Go, in the livestock pen, the relatively smaller sheep, pigs and other animals have fallen into a pool of blood and were directly killed by the blast, while the relatively larger cows screamed terribly, as if they were in pain all over their bodies. Bleeding, if you look carefully, you will find that there are countless porcelain pieces stuck on the cow's body.Liu Haisheng motioned for a security expert to go up, and killed the seriously injured cow with a single knife, ending the screams.

"That's not enough!" Ye Chen shook his head, "The power of this kind of porcelain bottle is too small, you should start researching to make it with an iron shell from now on."

Liu Dongming hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we have studied making this thing with an iron shell before, but it is either made too thick and cannot be exploded at all, or it is only two pieces or only a few cracks, which is not lethal at all. Therefore, the minister waits." It was forced to choose porcelain as the shell."

Ye Chen pondered for a while, and said: "You must have seen the turtle shell! Next, when you cast the mold, make the iron shell like a turtle shell, piece by piece, and the joints of each piece are thinner than other parts. Some, in this way, when it explodes, it will explode directly from the connection, and each piece of iron sheet is a weapon for killing people?" Ye Chen laughed.

Hearing this, Liu Dongming's eyes were frighteningly bright, and he felt as if he was enlightened. He said pleasantly, "Your Majesty Jinkou Yuyan, what you said is very true. In this way, the killing and wounding of the iron sheet is already powerful, and we can even know each hand. When the grenade explodes, how many fragments can it blow up, and how much damage range can be formed. I know how to do it, don't worry, your Majesty, at most half a month, I will take out this thing made of iron shell."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and said: "After this thing is made, let's name it a grenade!"

Now the weapons and equipment production base of Xiangfu Country has been able to produce steel, which paved the way for Ye Chen to produce red cannons, tiger crouching cannons, bird guns, and Mauser guns in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties in the next step.If cannons can be made, it will be easy to attack cities and villages in the future, and even use them against cavalry in field battles is much more powerful than powder packs and grenades fired by trebuchets.But Ye Chen knows that there are too many problems that need to be tackled and solved. It is definitely not something that can be achieved by the science and technology mastered by the Xiangfu Guoxiangfu Academy and the weaponry production base. There is no accumulation of more than ten years, or even decades. Precipitation is impossible to create.But right now the Song Kingdom is divided into three parts of the world, and the world will be in chaos, but he can't wait for that time.

However, Ye Chen decided to provide some basic scientific principles and research ideas of artillery and guns to the Weapons and Equipment Research Department led by Liu Dongming, and let them study and toss slowly.

For this reason, Ye Chen stayed at the weapon equipment research base for an extra day, and asked Liu Dongming to summon several top master craftsmen to give them an enlightenment class on the principles of guns.

Yang Jiye was still busy with business, so he returned to Xia Jing that night, but Yu Wen wanted to stay, and Ma Wentao wanted to accompany Ye Chen to inspect places along the way, so he didn't leave.The two found that when Liu Dongming and the group of master craftsmen came out of the room where Ye Chen was in class, each of them looked weird, their eyes were bright and scary, and some of them even flushed and trembled slightly.The two looked at each other, but they were used to it. Your Majesty is a man gifted by heaven. Has there been a shortage of miracles since he came into the world?It is not surprising that His Majesty's every few words would shock these people and even trigger some miracles.

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Huayang County, as a transportation hub connecting Yanzhou and Lanzhou, with the gradual construction of the Xiangfu Kingdom official roads within the national prefectures and counties, coupled with Ye Chen's vigorous development of commerce, after two or three years, Huayang County will be compared with It was much more prosperous two years ago.

When Huayang County was still in the Song Dynasty, Ma Wentao used to be the county magistrate here.Ma Wentao is qualified for the post of prime minister, so it is no longer a problem to govern a small county. At that time, he had already laid a good foundation for this place, and it was also Ma Wentao who made very good political achievements in Huayang County back then. The starting point of career.Later, Ma Wentao was promoted in two years, and he had already been the transfer envoy of Yongxing Army Road for more than ten years. Unfortunately, he was unwilling to join the party of Zhao Pu, the Prime Minister of Song Dynasty, and was slandered by him in front of Song Taizu. Since then, his official career has been hindered.But Ma Wentao is arrogant and arrogant, he never bowed to Zhao Pu, and even uttered nonsense in front of others several times, satirizing Zhao Pu, and the result spread to Zhao Pu's ears, and Zhao Pu was narrow-minded, and later found an excuse to demote him .

Later, Ye Chen rebelled against the State of Song, established a state in the northwest, captured Ma Wentao, designed to subdue him, and gave him a heavy responsibility. Since then, Ma Wentao believed that he had finally found the enlightened master he had been looking forward to, and could fulfill his lifelong ambition. On the stage, he is loyal to Ye Chen and Xiangfu Kingdom, and he is working harder and harder. It can be said that Ma Wentao has contributed to Xiangfu Kingdom's great achievements in people's livelihood in the past two years.

This time Ma Wentao accompanied Ye Chen to inspect the place and returned to Huayang County, but he felt like returning home.

(End of this chapter)