"Your Majesty, Cao Zhengyang has explained everything. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Entering the imperial study, Li San handed a confession to Xiao Ming.

Since Cao Zhengyang was arrested, they have been interrogated for a month, at the beginning, Cao Zhengyang's mouth was very hard, and he refused to admit that he was instructed by the Cao family to deliberately sabotage, even if Li San used some criminal laws, Cao Zhengyang still refused to say.

In the end, Li San had to put Cao Zhengyang in a confinement room, and wake him up whenever Cao Zhengyang was about to fall asleep, and after persisting like this for three days, Cao Zhengyang, who couldn't stand this mental torture, finally vomited out.

"Sure enough, it was Cao Kun's order." Xiao Ming glanced at the confession and said that Cao Zhengyang made it clear that it was Cao Kun who asked him to pass on the news.

In addition, Cao Zhengyang also gave some important information about the Chu State.

"The Merchant Council was established a month ago, and now Cao Kun is the speaker, and Cao Zhengyang's elder brother Cao Zhengtong is the long history of the Wei Palace, according to Cao Zhengyang, the Merchant Council is planning to gain military power, and if they succeed, the King of Chu will become a puppet." Li San was also a little shocked by these news, in his opinion, a businessman seeking government affairs has been shocking, and now he is trying to get involved in the army.

Xiao Ming was also a little surprised, "The King of Chu must be crazy, once he gets the military power, this Chu State is the Cao family's final say." “

"The State of Chu knows the West better than us, and the Cao family has talked to the King of Chu more than once about the monarchs of the West, and between life and death, he may believe in the Cao family more." Li San said cautiously.

Xiao Ming sighed, now the problem is in this place, no matter how he releases his kindness, the King of Chu has always refused to believe him, he now firmly believes that even if he surrenders Xiao Ming, he will eventually kill him, it can only be said that the State of Chu is too shrewd.

He said: "You are right, now the king of Chu does not believe in me no matter what, so he will not surrender to me at all. “

Li San laughed when he heard this, he said: "Your Majesty, this may not be a good thing, the King of Chu, we still have some scruples, if the Cao family controls the merchant council and then obtains military power, then the emperor does not have to worry about the King of Chu, whether the King of Chu is against or not, we have sufficient reasons to go south, if the emperor wants to make the Chu State appear as soon as possible, maybe the emperor can send secret guards to assassinate the King of Chu." ”

Xiao Ming also thought of this, now Li Chuyuan, the son of the king of Chu, is in Qingzhou, once the king of Chu is dead, Li Chuyuan must go back to succeed to the throne, this is the rule of the Great Yu Kingdom.

The king of Chu may be willing to share his rights with others in order to steal his life, but Li Chuyuan will not agree, after all, he is the next king of Chu.

"I also think so, since the king of Chu let me not live in peace, why did I let the king of Chu live in peace, as long as the king of Chu is dead, you can let Li Chuyuan go back to fight with the Cao family, I can't say that Li Chuyuan will ask me to send troops to save him at that time, what do you say?"

Xiao Ming made up his mind, the so-called soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must not be ignored, war can not be willful at any time, the contemporary United States in the Vietnam War, the defeat of North Korea is enough to illustrate this problem.

Advanced weapons do not necessarily lead to victory in war, or even victory comes at a heavy cost.

And this is not what Xiao Ming wants to see, so even if the Great Yu Kingdom is equipped with advanced firearms, he still plans and then moves in every war, trying every way to reduce losses, or directly surrendering without a fight.

"The emperor is wise, so that he can not only buy time for the deployment of the army, but also reduce casualties, and at the same time make the division famous." Li San said.

Xiao Ming continued to read the news confided by Cao Zhengyang, in addition to the parliament and the army, the Cao family and France were also hooking up and buying a lot of Western firearms.

At the same time, other merchants who supported the king of Chu were also sparing no effort to help the king of Chu in an attempt to get rid of his rule.

"It seems that I am going to have a serious talk with Li Chuyuan, and by the way, I will fan him." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

After a pause, he said, "Are you confident in assassinating the King of Chu?" “

Li San laughed twice, and he said: "Your Majesty, it is said that Song Changping is developing a musket that loads ammunition from the butt of the gun, this musket can be shot in any position, and the accuracy and rate of fire are stronger than the conquest musket, if the emperor can give this kind of musket to the lower officials, it is estimated that there is no big problem." ”

It was not surprising for Li San to know this secret, because Song Changping, Lin Wentao and others were under the surveillance of the secret guards, and it was too normal for Li San to get some information.

Even as soon as there was a movement on Song Changping's side, Li San would know, even earlier than he knew.

As soon as his words fell, a small eunuch came to the door and whispered a few words to Qian Dafu, and Qian Dafu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, this is really Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, Song Changping asked to see him outside the palace." ”

Xiao Ming squinted at Li San, and he said, "It seems that you already know." ”

Li San scratched his head with a smile.

After waiting for a while, Song Changping arrived outside the door of the imperial study, and when he saw Song Changping holding a musket in his hand, he was surprised: "Song Changping, this can't be a breech gun, right?" ”

Song Changping nodded, he said: "Exactly, Xiaguan has already tested it in the school field, this musket can use paper shell bullets to shoot directly, just because of the complexity of the locking structure, I am afraid that it is very difficult to modify the caption musket in large quantities, after all, there are sixty-three spare parts on the locking mechanism, and many of the parts are not the same, in order to produce such spare parts, more precise machine tools are required." ”

Xiao Ming understood, Song Changping did not come to invite credit but to complain, in fact, the closed structure requires high machining accuracy, which requires high-precision lathes to achieve, otherwise it cannot be mass-produced.

It is thought that the difference in the size of the parts is not possible to assemble at all.

As if to explain the breech gun in his hand, he said: "This gun was polished by Xia Guan himself, and it took a month to assemble it, and even then the combination of some parts did not fit very well, but on the whole it was barely usable." ”

Xiao Ming took the breech gun, the locking structure of this gun was still provided to Song Changping, in general, this gun is somewhat similar to the Sharps breech gun, this locking structure also uses a falling locking mechanism, and the thickened trigger retainer acts as a lever to drive a locking block that can be lifted up and down to open and close the chamber.

One of the most difficult parts is one of the hinge structures, which has many parts, and it is also the processing difficulty that Song Changping said.

"Originally, I was going to find you after I was busy with this currency." Xiao Ming said: "This gun is only used as a sniper rifle in the army for the time being, since it is difficult to artificially manufacture a small amount of equipment for the army, I asked Lin Wentao to think about this precision lathe." ”