"King Zhao's messenger?"

Pang Yukun nodded and said to Xiao Ming: "Yes, this person claims to be the eldest son of King Zhao, Zhao Yuanliang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"Is that him?" Xiao Ming groaned for a moment.

Then he said to Yue Yun: "You continue to follow Zhang Liang to understand the structure of this Galen ship and how to control the Galen ship, and then someone will arrange food and lodging for you, and in the future, you will learn this seafaring skill in the Bowen Academy." ”

"Your Highness, you don't need to learn this, we are all experts." Yue Yun said confidently.

"Hehe, don't say this big thing now, when this king teaches you what navigation is, you will know the difficulties of this navigation." Xiao Ming said.

Leaving Yue Yun and the others, Xiao Ming instructed those fishing village children who were unwilling to stay to entangle them and let them go back on their own, and he rode back to the Qi Palace.

At this time, in the Qi Palace, a young man who was slightly older than Xiao Ming was waiting in the main hall.

Outside the main hall, the maple leaves in the palace of the king of Qi were as bright red as the sunset, looking at the servants coming and going in the palace, Zhao Yuanliang had a faint worry in his eyes.

"His Royal Highness, this Qi palace is much shabby compared to our Liangzhou palace, and this Qingzhou is not more than Erer, I think the people in the city are more inferior than the people of Liangzhou."

Zhao Yuanliang was flanked by a scribe in a gray robe and a square-crowned scarf, who was Zhao Kuan, a counselor under the command of King Zhao.

"This Qingzhou was plundered by the barbarians three years ago, and it is an overnight thing to recover, there has been no disaster in these six states in three years, and he has also removed the local wealthy clans, it can be said that this Xiao Ming is extremely not simple, this time my father specially explained, we must not neglect him, after all, we have a request for him this time." Zhao Yuanliang said.

"Yes, Xia Guan remembered." Zhao Kuan said.

The two were talking, when they suddenly heard movement outside the door, but it was King Qi who walked in with a person who looked like a civil official.

"Yuanliang, it's been a long time." Before he reached the door, Xiao Ming shouted.

Zhao Yuanliang and Zhao Kuan hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile: "Zhao Yuanliang see His Highness." ”

"No courtesy." Xiao Ming picked up Zhao Yuanliang and strode into the main hall, and Zhan Xingchang followed him into the main hall.

Motioning for Zhao Yuanliang and the two to sit down, Xiao Ming asked with an interested look: "Yuanliang, we haven't seen each other for about five years, I remember the last time I saw you, it was when you entered Beijing with King Zhao." ”

"Exactly, at that time, Yuan Liang was ignorant and collided with His Highness in the palace, and I hope His Highness will forgive me." Zhao Yuanliang said.

Five years ago, he followed his father into the palace to face the saint, and he met Xiao Ming, who was angrily reprimanded by Xiao Wenxuan, he accidentally touched Xiao Ming at that time, and was scolded by Xiao Ming.

At that time, they were both young and vigorous, and the two naturally refused to give in to each other, so they fought in the palace.

Later, Xiao Ming was pulled out by Xiao Wenxuan and hit the board.

If it weren't for the artillery this time, his father would not have sent him to Qingzhou in order to show his attention, after all, the two of them still had a holiday, but now looking at Xiao Ming's appearance, he doesn't seem to care.

"It's okay, this king was ignorant at that time, but it made Yuan Liang smile." Xiao Ming said that he knew the purpose of Zhao Yuanliang's visit, and after greeting him, he asked directly: "This time Yuanliang went to Qingzhou, I don't know what happened?" ”

Zhao Yuanliang said: "Your Highness, for the sake of artillery, above the court, my father promised that the northern vassal kings could purchase artillery from His Royal Highness to resist the barbarians, and like His Royal Highness, now Zhao Di is also facing the threat of barbarians, and Zhao Di is the barrier of the north of the Great Yu Kingdom, I hope His Royal Highness can take care of the safety of the Great Yu Kingdom and sell the artillery to us." ”

This artillery procurement was already within Xiao Ming's plan, but the artillery of the forbidden army had not yet been landed, so how could it be sold to King Zhao's artillery now.

He said: "Father and Emperor He have said this, I should naturally obey this artillery matter, but now this king is producing artillery for the forbidden army, I am afraid that there is no extra artillery for sale for the time being." ”

Zhao Yuanliang said with a smile: "Your Highness, what's so difficult about this, if Your Highness doesn't have enough manpower, why don't you sell me the technology of artillery, and we will produce it ourselves when we return to Zhaodi." ”

This time, Zhao Yuanliang naturally negotiated with Xiao Ming for this artillery, and naturally held several sets of methods in his hands.

"Yuan Liang joked, the emperor said very clearly at the court meeting, this artillery technology can only be in my hands, I don't believe you, but now the barbarians are seamless, if this artillery falls into the hands of the barbarians, Zhao Di may not even have the advantage of defending the city."

Zhao Yuanliang's eyes rolled, although he knew that this matter was impossible, he still had to try, and continued: "Your Highness, if you sell us artillery technology, we will naturally try our best to keep it secret, and my father promised to exchange five thousand good horses and five million taels of silver. ”

I have to say that this price made Xiao Ming quite excited, but it was impossible for him to hand over the technology of artillery casting.

Although he knew that it was impossible to forge a gun of his caliber without high-quality steel, once the technology spread, the quantity would be enough to make up for the quality gap.

"Yuanliang, it's not that this king doesn't agree, it's just that if this artillery technology is leaked, my father will really kill me." Xiao Ming shook his head, "Let's talk about something else." ”

Xiao Ming refused again, this method seemed to be unworkable.

Zhao Yuanliang continued: "In this case, can Your Highness provide artillery for the forbidden army and Zhao Di at the same time, Your Highness doesn't know, since His Highness repelled the barbarians, now this barbarian seems to want to regain face in Zhao Di, recently the barbarian cavalry has been active outside the city frequently, and my father and I are quite nervous." ”

"This ......" Xiao Ming pretended to hesitate.

Now that the technology of iron mold casting cannons has matured, and the military workshop also has a group of professional craftsmen who make artillery, whether they can increase the production capacity only depends on whether the materials are sufficient.

And he also wants to use this sale to expand the production scale of the military workshop, after all, if the military workshop can make a profit, it is natural to use this opportunity to expand the production line, maintain such a scale, and once the war comes, it will be like dumplings to produce a large number of artillery in a short time.

However, Xiao Wenxuan's imperial order was in front of him, and Xiao Ming did not dare to disobey it, he groaned for a while and said: "I can provide you with artillery in the second month after providing the first batch of artillery to the forbidden army, but you must pay in advance the silver taels needed to produce artillery." ”

"A month?" Zhao Yuanliang and Zhao Kuan glanced at each other.

"This is the shortest amount of time, and the artillery of the forbidden army must be the first to arrive." Xiao Ming's tone was firm.

Zhao Yuanliang saw that Xiao Ming's tone was so tough, so he no longer continued to dwell on this issue, but asked: "In this case, Your Highness, how many silver taels do you need for this artillery." ”

"This is not expensive, 20,000 taels of silver a door." , Xiao Ming lion opened his mouth.

(To be continued.) )