“weishenme？” After Sima Yi listened to Zhang Yan's words, he immediately asked, "I am the champion of the current department, according to the regulations of the Han Dynasty, I should be an official, and Weishenme still wants me to enter Taixue?" ”

Gao Tanglong and Fu Gan both looked at Sima Yi with surprised eyes, never expecting that Sima Yi would openly contradict the current Yan King. The two hurriedly knelt on the ground, Gao Tanglong even pulled Sima Yi with his hand, motioned for him to kneel down together, and said to Zhang Yan: "King Yan is angry, Sima Yi is young and ignorant, and openly contradicted King Yan, and please King Yan for the sake of Sima Yi is the champion, forgive him this time!" ”

"I'm not wrong! Forgive me what? If it was just because I was young and didn't let me be an official, then King Yan would look down on people too much. In history, Ganluo was ten years old as a minister, and I, Sima Yi, am seventeen years old this year, seven years older than Ganluo. Sima Yi said.

"Sima Yi! You are bold! Dare to directly confront His Royal Highness King Yan, you ...... You don't want to live anymore? After all, Gao Tanglong is a little older, and he is more tactful, it seems that he is accusing Sima Yi, but in fact, it is also for Sima Yi's good, and at the same time, he immediately put aside his front with Sima Yi.

Zhang Yan had a gloomy face, and when he saw Sima Yi standing there neither humble nor arrogant, and arguing with reason, he suddenly hahadaxiao.

When Sima Yi heard Zhang Yan's laughter, he felt a little creepy, and it was extremely uncomfortable, in this laughter, if there was a knife hidden, his Sima Yi's life would come to an end today.

However, things were unexpected by everyone, after Zhang Yan stopped laughing. said to Sima Yi: "This king doesn't want you to get involved in officialdom too early. It's also for your good. Since you are bent on becoming an official. and the king will make it perfect for you. From now on, this king will appoint you as the pavilion chief of Cangting, and you will take office immediately, and there will be no mistakes! ”

Champion as a pavilion chief?

This is a unique thing in history, the talented Sima Yi, after layers of selection, finally won the champion of this palace examination, but in the end. But he got just a small pavilion chief. If this spreads, I'm afraid that I will be laughed at by people all over the world!

Sima Yi's face was unusually calm, his deep eyes stared at Zhang Yan tightly, without the slightest hesitation, he directly clenched his fists and said: "Thank you King Yan for giving you the official, the lower official must be a good official!" The lower official will go to Cangting to take up his post and leave first! ”

After speaking, Sima Yi turned around and left, without looking back.

Zhang Yan looked at Sima Yi's distant back, but he had a different feeling in his heart.

At the time of the temple examination. Zhang Yan was always at the scene, but no one noticed him. Because he pretended to be a tiger warrior and mixed in the examination room, he saw every move of the candidates clearly.

Moreover, Zhang Yan had also investigated the list of candidates before, and when he learned that there was another person named Sima Yi among them, Zhang Yan arranged for Xu Sheng to secretly investigate Sima Yi. According to Sima Yi's usual experience in dealing with people, Zhang Yan made a conclusion to Sima Yi that the young Sima Yi is a piece of haode material, but he is too flamboyant in personality.

Moreover, Zhang Yan is very clear about Sima Yi's things in history, and in his opinion, Sima Yi is a double-edged sword, which can hurt both others and himself.

At this stage, Zhang Yan's account is full of talents, and there is no need for talents like Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Sima Yi, Xu Shu, etc. for the time being. These big bulls are not suitable for being involved in officialdom too early, so as not to disturb Zhang Yan's entire layout. Therefore, Zhang Yan asked Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others to research and develop weapons.

As for Sima Yi, Zhang Yan originally planned to hide it, but now it seems that Sima Yi's personality is too strong, so he can only try to polish it, and the more smooth the polishing, the easier it will be to use.

Therefore, Zhang Yan suppressed Sima Yi and only gave Sima Yi a position as the pavilion chief.

As for Gao Tanglong and Fu Gan, Zhang Yan treated them equally, appointed them to be county commanders, and went to Yongzhou to take office.

The remaining more than 200 bachelors were either appointed as county magistrates or appointed as county officials, and in short, they were sent to the grassroots level to fill the serious shortage of county-level officials.

Sima Yi was a champion, but he was only a pavilion chief, and after the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation, some people were upset about Sima Yi, and some were gloating, feeling that Sima Yi deserved it.

But then, Zhang Yan issued a holy decree, saying that Sima Yi had cheated, canceled Sima Yi's title of champion in the current department, and punished him for not participating in the next two palace examinations. And transferred the title of champion to Gao Tanglong's body, Tanhua Fu Gan became the leader, and the fourth place in the palace examination was postponed to Tanhua.

Zhang Yan even sent Jinyi Wei to secretly monitor Sima Yi, and from then on, Sima Yi began to hide for 18 years under the influence of Zhang Yan.

Sima Yi left Pengcheng with a trace of resentment, and went to Cangting to take office with a piece of paper, and at the same time his heart was full of hatred for Zhang Yan.

The matter of the imperial examination has finally come to an end. At this time, news also came from Puyang, after several months of hard research, Zhuge Liang, Ma Jun, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Wang Lun and others finally developed several new weapons, hoping that King Yan could take the time to go over and have a look.

After Zhang Yan got the news, he immediately asked Ayub to take out his white dragon, he only brought Ayub and Xu Sheng with him, and temporarily handed over the government affairs to Chen Qun and Zhang Zhao to deal with them on their behalf, and rushed to Puyang with great excitement.

From Pengcheng to Puyang, it usually takes three or four days to walk, but Zhang Yan and others only walked for two days to arrive in Puyang.

After Zhang Yan rode his horse to Puyang City, he went directly to the Tiangong Bureau, Zhuge Liang heard that Zhang Yan was coming, and he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly took all the staff of the Tiangong Bureau out to greet him.

After some pleasantries, Zhang Yan asked, "What about the newly made weapon?" ”

Zhuge Liang made a gesture to his officials, and the officials immediately brought over all the newly made weapons and placed them in front of Zhang Yan one by one, there were three kinds of them, namely repeating crossbows, firecrackers, and artillery.

According to Zhang Yan's requirements, the repeater crossbow can be fired one at a time, and ten crossbow arrows can be fired in a row, which is small and exquisite, easy to carry, and conducive to individual use.

As for the firecrackers and artillery, Zhuge Liang and others mostly crossed the river by feeling the stones, although Zhang Yan explained to them the principle of making these weapons, but after all, Zhuge Liang and others were in contact with these things for the first time, but in the actual research and development process, they consumed a lot of brain cells.

Fortunately, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others are all extremely smart people, plus Ma Jun and Wang Lun, two superb craftsmen of Jishu, as well as five hundred top craftsmen in various fields in the entire Tiangong Bureau, it took several months to finally develop the guns and artillery.

They have also shiyan a few times, and they think the effect is not bad, so they dare to take it out for Zhang Yan to see.

Zhang Yan glanced at the three weapons placed in front of him, and immediately said with a smile: "Let's go, pull it to the school field and try it out!" ”

Zhuge Liang and the others were also full of confidence in the new weapons, and sent people to bring the weapons to the school ground, and they followed Zhang Yan to the school field quickly.

After a stick of incense, the sergeant on the school field set up the arrow target in the distance according to Zhang Yan's arrangement, and Zhang Yan first picked up the repeater crossbow for test firing.

Zhang Yan picked up the repeater crossbow, only to feel that his hand was heavy, the crossbow machine was completely wrapped in iron sheets, and he couldn't see the structure inside, but he couldn't hold it with one hand, and he had to hold it with both hands.

The front end of the crossbow machine is heavier, and the bracket part of the rear part is lighter, giving it a top-heavy feeling.

But there is no way to do this, because there is a long box at the front end of the crossbow machine, and Zhang Yan only glanced at it and knew that this box should be filled with crossbow arrows.

Zhang Yan held the crossbow machine in both hands, and shot several arrows in a row, although the rate of fire is not as fast as a modern pistol, but it is much easier than repeatedly loading crossbow arrows, if a soldier has a crossbow like this, a thousand people can shoot 10,000 arrows, and truly reach the state of 10,000 arrows.

The crossbow arrows flew out, and they all hit the bull's-eye of the arrow target, and the soldiers on the side saw it, and they all cheered together, saying that His Royal Highness King Yan shot a miracle!

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yan stood a little farther away, just now at a place of fifty steps, this time at a place of eighty steps, when he also shot, he found that at a position of eighty steps, the crossbow arrow shot out, and also shot down the bull's-eye, but there was not much strength, it had become the end of the strong crossbow, and several arrows could not be shot on the bull's-eye, and fell directly to the ground.

Zhuge Liang hurriedly came over and said: "Your Royal Highness King Yan, the best range of the repeating crossbow is at the position of fifty steps, and only at about fifty steps can the power of the repeating crossbow be truly exerted." ”

Zhang Yan handed the repeater crossbow in his hand to Zhuge Liang and said, "Try changing the firecracker!" ”

Zhuge Liang ordered someone to bring the firecracker, Zhang Yan carried the firecracker, looked at it carefully, and only felt that this firearm was far from modern guns.

This kind of gun has only a long barrel, the gunpowder needs to be loaded from the head of the barrel, there is no trigger in the tail, there is no butt, only a lead, after igniting the lead, the gunpowder in the barrel will react, after violently expanding, forming a wave of impact air, and then the round projectile in the barrel is fired.

Such a rudimentary firearm is not a firearm at all, it can only be regarded as a launching tool.

Zhang Yan didn't like it very much, but he still carried out shiyan, and as a result, there was a little problem in the experiment, the fuse ignited, but the gunpowder in the barrel did not ignite, and the projectile in the barrel could not be fired, and it was directly stuck in the barrel.

Moreover, such a firearm can only be used on a sunny day, and in case it rains, it cannot be used at all.

Zhang Yan frowned, and looked at the artillery again, only to feel that this artillery was even more cottage than a cottage! The principle is the same as that of the firecracker, except that the tube is thicker.

Zhang Yan sneered, casually threw the firebolt on the ground, and said to Zhuge Liang unhappily: "The repeater is the repeater I want, the key is that the range is too close, as for the firebolt and artillery, they are not what I want, do you use these things to fool me?" (To be continued......)