Zhao Jin was quite helpless, "I have always made clear rewards and punishments. Are you trying to ruin my reputation by doing this?"
"But..." Xu Shangqing tried to argue a few more words.
Zhao Jin interrupted directly: "No matter what the reason was, I chose you brothers, but now you have surrendered to me."
"If you do a good job, you will be rewarded, and if you do a bad job, you will be punished. There is no principle of balancing merits and demerits here, so there is no need to accumulate these rewards."
When Zhao Jin reached this point, Xu Shangqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also knew that he couldn't refuse.
"Caomin, thank you, sir." The young Taoist priest, without holding Fuchen or wearing a Taoist robe, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed to Zhao Jin.
"Get up."
After saying that, Zhao Jin turned around and walked into the inner room. He took out a box from a hidden compartment beside the bed.
Xu Shangqing was waiting outside and saw Zhao Jin coming out holding a flat wooden box.
Zhao Jin placed the wooden box on the table, unlocked it with a click, and opened the box. There was a thick pile of paper lying quietly inside.
They are all the best rice paper and can be stored for a long time.
Zhao Jin flipped through it casually, hesitated for a moment, then simply took out all the rice papers and handed them to Xu Shangqing.
Taking a stack of papers, Xu Shangqing flipped through them briefly. There were some strange-shaped things on them that he had never seen before. They seemed to be made of iron.
"Sir, this is..."
"Tuk! Tuk! Tuk!"
Xu Shangqing's doubts were interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Come in."
Zhao Jin was not surprised. Before Xu Shangqing came, he had already sent someone to call Liang Qian in the military camp. It happened that Xu Shangqing also brought good news, so Zhao Jin simply explained it together.
"Sir." After Liang Qian greeted Zhao Jin, he saw Xu Shangqing holding a stack of rice paper in his hand. He nodded and called out, "Taoist Master Xu."
After finishing his words, his eyes glanced at the rice paper held in Xu Shangqing's arms.
"You came just in time." Zhao Jin raised his chin toward Xu Shangqing, "You guys look at these papers together."
"There are guns and cannons here, and they are all made of explosives."
"Liang Qian." Zhao Jin's eyes fell on Liang Qian.
"You have to quietly find some blacksmiths and find a place to make all the firearms above."
Zhao Jin paused and said, "You have to build your own furnace. The temperature of the explosives is extremely high, so you must use good steel. The steel from the private sector will not work."
The steel from the Foundry Bureau, which he had picked up once before, was acceptable, but it was impossible for them to get steel from the Foundry Bureau.
These are his real trump cards and cannot be known to anyone.
Liang Qian was slightly startled, "Build your own stove?"
"Yes." Zhao Jin pointed at the rice paper in Xu Shangqing's arms, "It's all there. If you don't understand, just ask me."
"I have written down the new method of refining steel in detail."
Liang Qian found the two pieces of rice paper and looked at them carefully. The writing was indeed very detailed, even a layman like him who had almost no understanding at all could understand it.
This time it is more difficult than dynamite.
Liang Qian did not hesitate, "Yes!"
"These are our trump cards."
Zhao Jin breathed a sigh of relief, "Whether it's Prince Liang or His Majesty, we are sandwiched between them, and Beili is watching outside. These guns and cannons must be hidden. They can save our lives at the critical moment."
Liang Qian knew about Zhao Jin's current situation, but Xu Shangqing didn't, but he didn't refute it.
Your Excellency is the eldest prince of King Liang, but he is not the crown prince. The subtlety of his identity has already explained many problems.
"This time there is no need to use Taoism as a cover. The explosives have been stabilized. The difficulty in making firearms is actually how to refine suitable steel."
Zhao Jin frowned slightly, "We must pay attention to the fact that these firearms and cannons cannot be exploded. In other words, the explosives explode internally and directly blow them up."
The most important reason why it was difficult to manufacture firearms and cannons in ancient times was actually the problem of steel.
Just pushing bullets or shells out of the trajectory is not a problem for them.
It should be noted that in this aspect, the ancients were smarter than the people of later generations. Their technology was backward and they mostly relied on these mechanical skills to achieve the effects of later generations.
After carefully telling some things to pay attention to, suddenly.
“Tuk-tuk-tuk!”
There was another knock on the door.
"Sir, there is news from the capital."
Capital City?
Zhao Jin's eyebrows moved slightly, it seemed that Zhao Qian was there.
Calculating the time, Zhao Qian should have finished reviewing the essays he submitted.
"Come in."
Yang Xu walked in quickly, walking like a dragon or a tiger, but his expression was not very pretty.
"What happened?" When Zhao Jin saw Yang Xu's expression, he guessed that something might have gone wrong with his previous plan.
The reason why Zhao Jin agreed to Qi Yunche telling Zhao Qian about the explosives was not only to make concessions, but also to make Qi Yunche relax his vigilance, so that he would not attract their attention again if he secretly manufactured firearms and cannons in the future.
Another reason is to dispel Zhao Qian's suspicion.
Now he and King Liang will officially break up at any time. If he breaks up with Zhao Qian again, he will inevitably be attacked from both sides, which will be extremely difficult, so Zhao Jin needs to stabilize Zhao Qian.
Moreover, Zhao Jin guessed that the time when he and Prince Liang would break up was not far away.
The day when King Liang raised his troops was the day when they officially stood on opposite sides.
"The news about the explosives has spread."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jin frowned and said, "Has it spread? How could it be..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Jin suddenly came back to his senses and said, "Is it your Majesty?"
"Yes." Yang Xu said with a stern face, "Your Majesty tested the fourth prince with the explosives issue. Because the fourth prince didn't know about it, he sent people to investigate, and your Majesty..."
Yang Xu's voice paused, "Your Majesty did not stop it."
Obviously, their Majesty did not take the explosives developed by Zhao Jin seriously, so he unscrupulously used them as a tool to test his son.
Even though Zhao Jin had mentioned it implicitly in the memorial, His Majesty did not take it to heart.
"Ha!" Zhao Jin twitched the corner of his mouth and revealed a sneer, "Our Majesty is really a good strategist."
Zhao Jin knew that Zhao Qian would definitely go to find out whether Zhao Xingzhi knew that he had developed explosives.
He and Qi Yunche deliberately did not tell Zhao Xingzhi, firstly to prevent Zhao Xingzhi from being jealous of Zhao Qian, and secondly to avoid being jealous of Zhao Qian themselves.
But Zhao Jin thought that Zhao Qian would just test Zhao Xingzhi a few times, but he never expected that not only would he ask directly, but he would not stop Zhao Xingzhi.
Zhao Jin did not believe that His Majesty was unaware of Zhao Xingzhi's actions.
Regarding explosives, once someone secretly investigates, the information will be easily leaked out.
Zhao Jin pressed the roof of his mouth and felt the anger rising out of him, unable to contain the anger all over his body.
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