Tibet

‘Nitroglycerine? ’

Li Ye was startled and said quickly: "The nitroglycerin is in a small porcelain bottle. What if it explodes?"

"Please rest assured, your highness, we have done repeated tests and it will not explode when carried normally. Even if you accidentally drop it, as long as the bottle does not break, it will not explode. It will only explode under violent impact. As long as it is placed in the box , there is no problem with safety.”

Li Ye nodded, "Then how do you plan to use it?"

Hu Jiuling waved, and someone immediately brought a pair of crossbow arrows. Hu Jiuling took an arrow and handed it to Li Ye, "Your Highness, please take a look!"

Li Ye took the arrow and suddenly found that the arrow had no arrowhead. There was a groove at the arrowhead. He suddenly understood.

"Do you want nitroglycerine to be put in?"

"That's right. This is the principle behind the impact and detonation we thought of, and we designed this special explosive arrow."

Li Ye suddenly became interested. He took out a porcelain bottle from the box and stuffed it into the groove. It was very well designed and embedded very firmly in the groove.

Li Ye opened the crossbow and loaded the arrows. Hu Jiuling pointed to a wooden house a hundred steps away and said, "That wooden house is used for testing arrows."

Li Ye raised his crossbow and aimed at the wooden house, pulled the hanging knife, 'Click! ’ There was a crisp sound, the crossbow arrow was shot out powerfully, and ‘Boom! ’ There was a violent explosion and the wooden house collapsed.

"sharp!"

Li Ye gave a thumbs up and praised: "This is simply a great weapon in water warfare!"

Hu Jiuling was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said: "We didn't think of naval battles, we only thought of using them for scouts performing special tasks."

Li Ye has realized that this is an extremely sharp individual weapon that will shine in city defense, siege, street fighting or water warfare.

He said happily: "The scouts can use it, and the navy can also use it. I approve your mass production. You must test it repeatedly to ensure safety!"

"I understand the humble position!"

In a tavern in Chang'an West City, several young people were having a drink in the tavern to celebrate the beginning of their new life.

Wei Gao entered the White Tiger Hall and was appointed as an examiner to join the army. His official position was designated as the eighth-grade upper-rank Shilang. Su Hui gave up the title of Jinshi, so as an informal official, he had preferential treatment. Generally, an informal official is equivalent to Ming Jing Ke. , starting from the ninth rank official.

However, Su Hui was appointed as the chief secretary of the Ministry of Industry and promoted to Cheng Lang from the eighth rank. This made Su Hui very excited. Even though he failed, he felt that it was worth it.

Guo Jun, Miao Chun and Li Zhixiang all got their wish and entered engineering studies, but they were admitted after all. Therefore, as long as they enter the graduate school while studying in school, they will not only receive subsidies, but also officially count as professional qualifications. After five years of studying, they will be eligible. It is equivalent to serving for one term. This news greatly encourages all the math candidates. In official circles, years and seniority are the most important.

Generally, the Ministry of Civil Service has its own rules for appointing official positions. Young scholars who serve as officials for the first time will not be sent to local areas. Instead, they will first serve as basic officials in various official offices of the Qi Palace for a few years, and then be transferred to local areas to hone their skills for more than ten years. Then he goes to the capital to serve as a middle-level official or above, then goes to a local area to become the chief official of a state, and then moves up to become a senior official, or serves as a high official in a party, and if he is appreciated by the emperor, he can also serve as the prime minister.

Wei Gao picked up the wine glass and asked with a smile: "Brother Guo, I heard that you entered the Firearms Research Institute?"

Guo Jun nodded, "My grandfather asked me to study weapons. I think knives and guns are not interesting, but firearms are more challenging. When I went to report yesterday, I heard that we were going to use newly developed strong gunpowder to blow up the rocks in Sanmenxia. "

Wei Gao's imperial examination countermeasures focused on the description of Sanmenxia. He was very aware of the impact of Sanmenxia on the waterway. He was shocked: "If the rocks in Sanmenxia are blown up, then large ships with more than 3,000 stones can sail directly to Chang'an. It is incredible. ah!"

"So I wanted to sign up to see this spectacular scene with my own eyes."

Wei Gao sighed, he wanted to see it too! Unfortunately, there was no chance, so he asked Miao Chun again: "What does Miao Xiandi learn?"

"shipbuilding!"

Miao Chun smiled and said: "My supervisor is Wang Zhan, the commander of the Shipping Administration. He founded the Maritime Ship Research Institute. I have joined. Now I am mainly studying wheel propellers and replacing the current wooden wheel propellers with iron wheel propellers."

"Is the iron wheel paddle too heavy?"

Miao Chun shook his head, "It's a thirty-thousand-stone ship. The paddles are very small compared to the ship."

"Then you are going to Quanzhou?"

"I will definitely go, but it will be a few months later than my cousin."

Wei Gao was startled and asked Li Zhixiang, "Brother Li Xian is also going to Quanzhou?"

Li Zhixiang nodded, "I signed up to participate in the research on new rice. The research institute is in Quanzhou. We will set off early the day after tomorrow. There are twenty students in total. We will go to Jiangxia first, and then transfer to Quanzhou by boat from Jiangxia. The professor there is called Wei Qingyue.”

"ah!"

Wei Gao was surprised and said: "Wei Qingyue is my third uncle! Isn't he an official at Sinong Temple in Luoyang? Why did he go to Quanzhou?"

"I heard that His Highness the King of Qi hired three batches of more than 100 officials from the court to run an engineering school. There are no low-level technical officials in the court."

At this time, Su Hui whispered: "Actually, I have never figured it out. His Royal Highness the King of Qi's imperial examinations are exactly the same as those of the imperial court. He is also a Jinshi and a Mingjingshi. He is also the number one scholar, the second best scholar, and the third flower. Isn't this an arrogance?

Guo Jun said calmly: "Everyone knows many things well. Now many places call Chang'an the Western Tang Dynasty and Luoyang the Eastern Tang Dynasty. People all over the world recognize the King of Qi and think that he will come to power sooner or later. Otherwise, how could there be 40,000 people?" Six thousand scholars came to Chang'an to take part in the imperial examination. If Tian Chengsi held the imperial examination in Weizhou, how many people do you think would take part in it? "

Wei Gao shook his head, "No one will go. The feudal town won't last long. Who would go on a pirate ship at this time?"

At this time, Miao Chun poured wine for everyone, raised his glass and said with a smile: "Let's practice it for Zhixiang! Let's drink!"

"cheers!"

Hundreds of internal guards entered Xiangji Temple, one of the five major temples in Chang'an. It was large in scale, covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand acres, with 3,000 monks and more than 100,000 acres of fertile land.

An old monk wearing yellow Zen clothes led a group of monks out of the mountain gate to greet him. The old monk clasped his hands and said: "Amitabha, poor monk Huiding, presides over Bodhidharma Monastery, and is entrusted by the abbot to welcome the internal guards to the temple! "

The leader was a Zhonglang general named Guan Jie, who was the younger brother of Guan Pei, the deputy governor of Ganliang. He raised a silver medal and said: "The King of Qi ordered that the internal guards be responsible for checking the property status of the temples in Chang'an. General Guan Jie, please cooperate with me."

Several old monks were not surprised. Officials from the Hubu Department came to investigate before, but they refused to cooperate. The officials from the Hubu Department had to go back. Now it was actually replaced by internal guards to investigate.

"Welcome to Xiangji Temple, please come in and have a cup of tea first."

Of course, Zen Master Huiding didn't dare to challenge the inner guards, so he had to stabilize them first.

Guan Jie led a hundred soldiers into Xiangji Temple.