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Chapter 377 Please seal
Royal Palace Garden.

Li Zheng stood aside with a solemn expression, watching a group of young eunuchs messing with something.

"Your Majesty, in addition to some normal gunpowder used for firecrackers, there are also some black powders that are too small to be seen in the fireworks of Lord Liu."

"These fireworks are so loud, could it be related to these black powders?"

"I don't know this slave, it's powder from fireworks, please have a look, Your Majesty." The eunuch held a piece of rice paper the size of a palm and handed it to the emperor.

Li Zheng carefully took the rice paper handed over by the eunuch, and with Zhang Leyi's finger pointing black gunpowder under his nose, he sniffed it. It smelled of firecrackers, and Li Zheng couldn't figure out what it was.

Throwing the rice paper in his hand to the little eunuch, Li Zhen looked at the snow scene in the imperial garden in a daze: "The sound is so loud, if the fireworks are placed on the top of the city to face the cavalry who are charging, the sudden loud noise will definitely turn the cavalry frightened people over. Time is sure to mess up."

If Young Master Liu knew the emperor's thoughts, he would be stunned. Li Zheng's military vision is really quite advanced.

Even if the fireworks do not have a huge lethality, the loud noise will frighten the horse, and the bursting flames will instantly blind the horse.

Moreover, the premise that fireworks are not lethal is that they have no lethality in a large area. If they explode on a person's face, they will be disabled even if they are not dead.

Li Zheng gently fiddled with the wrench in his hand, with his eyes slightly closed, recalling the beautiful fireworks that day.

"Beautiful things can also kill people, it depends on how to use them, come here, pass the guardian Zhang Kuang into the palace to face the saint."

"Observe the order." Zhou Fei hurried towards the outside of the Imperial Garden after a while.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the guardian of the country is waiting to see you, and he has arrived outside Linde Hall."

Zhou Fei, who hadn't gone far, hurried back again.

Li Zheng was taken aback, and smiled lightly: "It's really a coincidence that there is no book, I just wanted to summon him, and he came, and he came to the Hall of Virtue."

"Your Majesty is coming to the Hall of Virtue."

Li Zheng followed a large circle of court ladies and eunuchs and hurried towards Linde Hall.

"My minister Zhang Kuang sees the Holy Majesty, long live my emperor."

"Calm down, Fuhai, show Hu Guohou a seat."

Sitting on the chair brought by Zhou Fei, he clenched his fists wildly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for granting the seat."

Li Zheng sat on the dragon chair and casually folded his arms to prevent the dragon case: "Zhang Aiqing, you are not in the army to supervise the training of the new army. Why did you come to me? I have approved the memorial you came up. Could it be that you are here?" What went wrong?"

The excerpt mentioned by Li Zheng is exactly the problem of pouring plate armor arrowheads from stone molds submitted by Zhang Kuang.

"I have already received the note. This time I entered the palace to show His Majesty the results. Now all kinds of weapons and armor are waiting at the gate of the city. Your Majesty's decree should be passed on."

"So fast?"

"It's about military affairs. The minister dare not be sloppy for a moment. The first reason for entering the palace this time is to let His Majesty see the results, and the second is to let His Majesty ask for money."

Li Zheng was a bit annoyed when he heard that Zhang Kuang asked for money to be honest: "Zhang Aiqing, the Ministry of Households has allocated a certain amount of silver to the six guards over the years. Now Longwuwei's reserve silver should be more than 100 million taels. The treasury's You are also aware of the situation, it will take two months for the tax money from various places to enter Beijing, and you still plan to ask for money? No."

"Your Majesty, I don't want to. If you don't want Yin Zichen's [-] soldiers in Yingzhou, you won't be able to replace the armaments. According to the experience of previous years, the Turks will go south in a month or so. You can't let the ministers and the soldiers under your command use their fists to fight the Turks. Let's have a fight?"

"Nonsense, madness, madness, are you deceiving me to be foolish? The Ministry of War has just replaced the six guards' armaments in less than three months. In order to get together the armaments of your six guards, I have to make up for it. Now I only have two dishes and one soup for the royal meal for a day, do you know? The emperor’s royal meal is only two dishes and one soup, which is worse than ordinary people, and it costs money. Look at how much my dragon robe is worth. I will take it off for you Take it for it."

"Your Majesty, let's take a look at what the minister brought."

"As long as you don't talk about money, I don't see any problem."

Zhang Kuang took out a book from his pocket: "Your Majesty, this is the account compiled by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Statistics, please read it, Your Majesty."

Zhou Fei took it naturally and handed it to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng opened the book dubiously and looked at it, his expression became more and more serious. After a while, Li Zheng closed the book with a snap and looked at Zhang Kuang seriously: "Zhang Aiqing, is the record on it true?"

"Things are just outside the city gate, His Majesty can see them at a glance."

"Come in."

"According to the order."

About half a stick of incense, two ox carts creaked and creaked into the palace through the side door.

After the bullock cart came to a stop, Li Zheng lifted the canvas above it, and various weapons and armor were placed on the entire cart.

Li Zheng took off a Mo Dao and started to play with it: "All men and horses are broken? Is it so powerful?"

"Your Majesty, I have tested it myself."

After about half an hour, everything on the bullock cart was put aside.

The emperor held a hammer in his hand and looked at the better eight-ox crossbow in front of him.

"Your Majesty, come here as an old slave!"

"I'll test it myself." After speaking, he waved the hammer in his hand without hesitation, and the crossbow arrow flew away from the string, pierced the sky, and shot towards the target.

"The target is broken."

"The target is broken."

Li Zheng dropped the hammer in his hand with a cold expression when he heard the news from the guards.

"Your Majesty, everything has been tested, how does it feel?"

"Big killer, how much money do you need to replace them all?"

"Two million taels!" Zhang Kuang reported an amount calculated by the Ministry of Accounting.

"200 million?" Li Zheng frowned and wandered, closing his eyes and meditating for a long time.

"Change equipment, take out 200 million taels of emergency silver stored in the treasury, madness, I have shaken off all my family fortunes, don't let me down on the war in northern Xinjiang."

Zhang Kuang knelt down on one knee: "I will not refuse to die."

"Get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, I don't know about the matter of asking for a reward for Liu Xiaozi?"

Li Zheng frowned: "Let's think about it."

(End of this chapter)