And that one tael of silver! Who can organize a funeral that only costs one tael of silver!
If she really wanted to make things hasty, wouldn't it be more perfunctory to throw her father's mat into a mass grave? Since she had to sell herself to attend the funeral, it only cost one or two taels of silver!
Fu Bao was confused and couldn't figure it out.
"This can only mean that they are too anxious,"
Jiang Shou thought about his choice of words. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that today's spies from the Si Kingdom were indeed stupid. He couldn't help but echo Fubao's words.
"It's hard to say. I can only say that they themselves should be quite happy."
"By the way, Fubao, am I going to deliberately reveal some information to them?"
Xie Yan held Fu Bao's hand and said.
"Yes, we need to reveal some information to them to confuse them."
Fu Bao tugged on Jiang Shou's sleeve and then tugged on Xie Yan's hand, signaling them both to squat down.
"Actually, I have an idea..."
"Pfft."
Jiang Shou couldn't help but laugh.
"Fu Bao, it's really...if the spies from the Si Kingdom knew about it, they would probably hate you to death."
The sixth master of the Jiang family, the sixth brother of General Jiang, came out with Fubao, but when he came back, he brought a girl with him! Without a cup of tea, the news had spread throughout the general's mansion.
"Xiao Liu, is this woman the one you are looking for?"
After Jiang Shou arranged for Xie Yan to be sent into the house, Jiang Nian pulled Jiang Shou out and asked.
"Um."
Jiang Shou nodded.
"She's here to help us research ammunition, don't think too much about it."
Jiang Shou told Jiang Nian about Fubao's plan. Jiang Nian clapped his hands and praised Fubao for being an eccentric person.
"Don't worry, my second brother will never delay you!"
Three days later, the woman who sold her body to bury her father arrived at the door of the general's mansion on time. Needless to say, the servants took the woman to the general's mansion. Fu Bao just looked at her and asked her to serve Xie Yan.
Everything went really smoothly.
Until she changed into the general's clothes, the woman still felt a little unbelievable.
"Jade, have you changed your clothes? Miss Xie asked you to wait on me."
Not long after, a little girl wearing similar clothes to her poked her head in and shouted from the other side of the door.
"Hey, I'll come right away."
Jade didn't dare to delay, so she wiped her hair with water and followed the little maid.
She is not the only one serving Xie Yan, there is also a little girl named Pearl. She also looks like her name, she is white and plump, and she looks quite cute.
"Jade is here."
Xie Yan was changing clothes when she arrived, and it looked like she was going out. But her clothes were different from those in the past, they were clean and neat, and she even had a high ponytail on her head, without any extra accessories.
"You're here just in time, come out with me."
Sitting on the carriage, watching the scenery on the road becoming more and more desolate, and the sound of military drills coming, Jade's heart became more and more excited. This is Tianqi's military camp!
The horse carrying the Jiang family emblem traveled unimpeded to the depths of the military camp, and soldiers could be seen practicing on the road.
"Miss Fubao...this is Miss Xie, right?"
The person who came to pick them up was Lieutenant General Liu, who had eaten at their home last time.
"Yes, I'm here to look at the ammunition."
Xie Yan was not polite and told Lieutenant General Liu his purpose directly.
"Jiang Liuye told me a long time ago, please come here. Xiao Wang, our camp is not making rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice today. Please bring a bowl to Miss Fubao."
The people in the military camp used bowls for eating that were bigger than the basin Fu Bao used to wash his face. While she was drinking soup from a rice bowl that was bigger than her own face, she opened her round eyes to look at Jade.
As expected, this woman pretended to be nonchalant, but in fact her ears were pricked up sharper than anyone else's, and she remembered the conversation between the two of them clearly.
"Liu Lieutenant General, if we use saltpeter, the cost will be too high."
Xie Yan took the silver pick and carefully fiddled with the contents of the ammunition.
"Oh, how do you say this?"
"Saltpeter is difficult to mine and costs too much. In my opinion, it is better for us to reduce the proportion of saltpeter and increase the proportion of charcoal and sulfur. This will not only save money, but also cause the country to lose money."
There are dozens of saltpeter mines on the border between Si Kingdom and Tianqi. In recent years, the price of saltpeter has been rising due to ammunition. If the contents of ammunition can really be replaced with charcoal and sulfur, the artificially high price of saltpeter will only
Lower again and again!
"Is this feasible? I have been in the army for more than ten years and I have never heard of ammunition made of charcoal."
Lieutenant General Liu was extremely considerate and helped Feicui ask her what she wanted to know.
"Uncle Liu, Fubao has seen such ammunition."
Fu Bao put the basin-like bowl on the table with a loud noise.
"This kind of ammunition is more explosive than what we have now!"
"ah!"
Jade was so engrossed in what she heard that she forgot that she was pouring tea for Xie Yan. When she took it, the hot tea overflowed and sprinkled on her hands, making her scream in surprise.
"It's okay, Miss, I accidentally burned myself."
Seeing Vice General Liu and Xie Yan looking at her, Feicui hurriedly explained.
"Sister Jade, you have to be careful. This is inside a military camp. If you continue to be careless like this, be careful of being mistaken for a spy from your country!"
Fu Bao swung his legs and sat on the chair, scaring Jade.
It was Feicui who responded to Fubao with a slightly embarrassed smile. Fortunately, Xie Yan and Vice General Liu didn't pay much attention to this matter and just thought it was an accident.
"When I was traveling in the world, I was lucky enough to hear the recipe for this kind of ammunition. If Deputy General Liu is not afraid of the trouble, I can write it down and he can try it out."
"Of course I don't mind the trouble, as long as Miss Xie isn't afraid of the trouble."
Xie Yan's back was facing the direction of Fei Cui. She couldn't read a word of Fei Cui's words on the paper, and she scratched her head anxiously. After a while, Xie Yan handed the written formula to Deputy General Liu, and he opened it
The tent left in a hurry.
"Jade, come here!"
Xie Yan waved to her.
Maybe the brush given to Xie Yan was too thick, and there was a black mark on the paper underneath. I could vaguely see that the proportion of sulfur was more than half, and the previously highest amount of saltpeter had dropped a lot.
"Let me see your injury."
Xie Yan motioned to Fei Cui to roll up his sleeves, and after carefully looking at Fei Cui's wounds, he asked Fu Bao to give her a box of plaster.
"This was given to me by Jiang Shou when I was burned when I went to a restaurant to eat a few days ago. Now that my wound has healed, I will give it to you."
All the clues matched up. Everything Xie Yan said was exactly the same as what the restaurant spies told her. The last bit of anxiety in Jade's heart was relieved. She thanked Xie Yan and took the plaster.