Salvaging the boats was not an easy task, especially when the boats were filled with water, and it took the soldiers more than two hours [unnamed fo] hours, and it was almost dawn for more than a thousand soldiers to tow the large fishing boats ashore.

The large wooden boxes were then carried out by the soldiers and placed neatly on the grass, all of which were wet, and some of them were constantly flowing outward.

Several soldiers used axes to split open a wooden box, revealing a large black iron can, but the mouth of the iron can was facing downward.

There was originally a very thin wooden shell round lid on the mouth of the jar, and under the continuous erosion and tumbling impact of the water, most of the wooden shell lids fell off or cracked, and none of them were complete, and all of them were filled with river water in the iron fire and thunder.

When the ship was pulled ashore, it was not lifted flat as a whole, but pulled up in a state of overturning, causing the large wooden boxes on the bottom to all fall and roll, so that the water in the iron cans was mixed with gunpowder and poured out.

"Lord Wang! The tin can is empty and there is nothing in it? ”

Tian Yue was stunned, and immediately ordered: "Open all the boxes!" ”

The soldiers took up their axes and split all the other nineteen boxes, and without exception, the tin cans were either empty or only half a jar of water.

Tian Yue immediately understood, this iron fire thunder was afraid of water, and it was all destroyed after entering the water.

He was so angry that he ordered people to go around and chase down the two men in black.

"Live or die, come and see you!"

At this time, Wang Yu came to the box, reached out and scooped a handful, and grabbed a lump of slimy wet mud, which he leaned close to his nose and smelled, and there seemed to be a smell of sulfur in it.

"Lord Wang, I'm afraid that Iron Fire Thunder is this thing."

Tian Yue held back his anger, stepped forward to take a look, and asked, "What is this?" ”

"There should be sulfur in it, and there should be toner, and I don't know what else is here."

"Both of these are flammable!"

Wang Yu rolled his eyes and smiled: "Actually, there is still a harvest, there are at least twenty iron cans, this should be the shell of iron fire and thunder, I heard that Zhu Zhu is also experimenting there, a little eyebrows, it is better for us to spend the capital to get the formula from Zhu Zhu, and then we will test it ourselves, and there are ready-made iron shells, which should produce results faster than Zhu Zhu." ”

These words made the anger in Tian Yue's heart dissipate a lot, and he sighed and said, "It's a pity that there are only twenty iron cans. ”

Wang Yu stroked his beard and smiled slightly: "Don't underestimate these twenty iron cans, its iron quality and thickness are particular, I believe that Guo Song They don't know how many times they tried before they succeeded, we directly have a sample, just draw a scoop according to the gourd." ”

Tian Yue said happily: "The military advisor is reasonable, I will entrust this matter to the military advisor, the stakes are very high, and the military advisor must get the formula from Zhu Jun at all costs." ”

Wang Yu nodded silently, he walked to Luo Sinan's corpse, frowned and said, "It's not easy to do!" I'm afraid that this time we will completely fight with Li Wujun. ”

"I'm afraid of him!"

Tian Yue spat heavily on the ground, and said hatefully: "When the Jin army cleans him up, we just have to accept his population!" ”

........

In front of the gate of King Zhao's mansion, Li Wujun faced the ten corpses that were rolled by the mat with a blue face, and when the soldiers opened the mat, Luo Sinan's miserable face was revealed.

A strong sense of anger and loss quickly occupied Li Wujun's heart, his fists were clenched and rattled, the people who killed him, robbed him of his things, his own planning for most of the year, and the payment of thousands of taels of gold, but in the end he was snatched away by Tian Yue's dog thief.

Li Wujun could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, tore the letter Tian Yue wrote to him to shreds, pointed to the south and shouted: "Tian Yue, I won't kill you, I swear not to be a man!" ”

Li Wujun's men rushed up and pressed more than a dozen Wei soldiers to the ground who had sent the corpses, and the soldiers shouted in fright: "Spare your life!" ”

Li Wujun's eyes burst into murder, he drew his sword, strode forward, raised his sword and stabbed it hard, in a terrible scream, the soldier was pierced through the back of the heart, and died tragically on the spot.

Li Wujun showed no mercy, one by one, killing all a dozen soldiers, "Throw them out of the city to feed the wild dogs!" ”

He turned and walked briskly back to the palace.......

Guo Song soon received an eagle letter from Zhaozhou, which was sent by Ying Caihe borrowing the eagle letter from Zhaozhou, with only six words, "The boat sank to the bottom of the Anyang River," and the payment was a lotus flower, which was the meaning of Ying Caihe's Taoist name 'Qinglian Heavenly Master'.

This news made a big stone in Guo Song's heart fall to the ground.

Guo Song immediately called Wang Yue and Guo Yuniang, and Guo Song said to them: "I just got the news that the ship carrying twenty iron fire thunders has sunk to the bottom of the Anyang River. ”

Wang Yue and Guo Yuniang glanced at each other, both of them breathed a long sigh of relief, Wang Yue was still a little uneasy and said: "If the rescue is timely, will it ......?"

Guo Song didn't wait for him to finish speaking, then interrupted him, "You don't have to worry about this, as long as the iron fire thunder encounters water, it will be completely scrapped, and at most there is only one shell available." ”

Guo Yuniang next to her didn't say anything, although King Jin didn't say who did it, but she knew that it must be Ying Caihe's shot, except for her, no one else can have King Jin's gold medal, not even herself.

Although Guo Yuniang is sometimes quite jealous of Ying Caihe, she also has to admit that Ying Caihe's reputation as the number one assassin of the Hidden Sword Pavilion is by no means in vain, and she is beyond her ability or martial arts.

Guo Song saw that Guo Yuniang was a little distracted, so he said lightly: "The next step is to need the Jin Wei Mansion to make a move." ”

Guo Yuniang was shocked, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "What do you need to do in a humble position, please ask Your Highness to command!" ”

"I need the specific details of this incident, this information should not be difficult to get, since it happened in Anyang River, it should be Tian Yue's action, and ask the Yuancheng intelligence point to quickly understand this incident, especially I want to know how Tian Yue dealt with the aftermath, and I also need to know Li Wujun's response, so the intelligence point of Xindu must also take action."

"Humble, remember!"

"Go ahead! I'm waiting for your news. ”

Guo Yuniang bowed and retreated, and Guo Song said to Wang Yue: "This time it is the master of the Jinwei Mansion Worship Hall, it is impossible for the internal guards to cross the line, but they can, don't you think about anything?" ”

"I don't dare to be humble, but I am ashamed!"

"It's a lesson to learn from this matter, in addition, Tian Yue should get twenty iron shells, he will not be reconciled, he will definitely do everything possible to find the iron fire and thunder formula, you have to find Tian Yue's military intelligence point as soon as possible, grasp their every move, you might as well repeat the previous method of dealing with Zhu Jun."

Guo Song refers to the fake formula given to Zhu Zhu, which seriously delayed Zhu Zhu's development, and has not been able to succeed until now.

"Ignorance, understood!" Wang Yue bowed and withdrew.

Guo Song sat on the wide chair, his index finger lightly pressed his forehead, he was still thinking about the contradiction between Li Wujun and Tian Yue, the last time Tian Yue refused to rescue, the two of them had already turned against each other.

Now although Tian Yue only got twenty Iron Fire Thunder Shells, Li Wujun and Zhu Jun will not believe it!

Can this be used to provoke a serious confrontation between the three? Or even the outbreak of war?

Guo Song paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, sometimes standing and looking at the roof, sometimes walking to the window, staring into the distance, he fell into deep thought.

.........

In the last few days of early February, a series of news about the imperial examination was issued one after another, which aroused the strong concern of all scholars, first of all, the scope of the examination was clarified, and the number of words in the Jinshi scientific examination of poetry, pasting scriptures, treatises, and strategies, and the number of words of the discussion and policy should not be less than 3,000 words, and calligraphy accounted for 20% of the scores.

The Ming Jing Department does not test poetry and strategy, but it is necessary to test the scriptures, ink meanings and theories, the so-called ink meaning, that is, to produce a scripture, you have to write its annotation and interpretation.

And sticking to the scriptures is to fill in the blanks, write a line in each context, and let you write out the missing part in the middle.

The theory is to produce a scripture, and the candidates should use this scripture to deepen and exert themselves, and explain the truth of being a person and doing things.

The Ming Jing also has to test calligraphy, calligraphy is the foundation of the reader, if he can't even write well, then he will be despised, and he himself is embarrassed to participate in the imperial examination.

Calligraphy accounts for 20% of the score, I am afraid it will become the key to the final ranking, after all, an article is benevolent, wise and wise, everyone will have different opinions.

But whether a stroke is written well or not, the standard is the same for everyone.

The gap between the Ming Classics and the Jinshi Department is literature and insight, that is to say, the scholars who are admitted to the Jinshi Department must not only be proficient in the scriptures of the Ming Classics, but also outstanding in literature and be able to write brilliant poems, in addition, they must have extensive insight, the depth of thinking about problems, and be able to discuss the past and the present, make sharp comments on military affairs, and express their own opinions.

If it is explained that the economics department is the level of primary school students, then the Jinshi department is the level of college students, and there is a huge difference, which actually shows the huge gap between officials and officials.

But what interests the scholars the most is that the examiner candidate has been officially announced, and this year's chief examiner is still the old Xiangguo Li Mi, who was once again invited by Guo Song to go out of the mountain and sit in the imperial examination to select outstanding talents for Guo Song.

For a while, the scholars in Chang'an City were talking.