"Wu Chang, give the sword!" Wu Zetian raised his hand to Wu Chang, who was standing on the right side of Yu Long's desk.

"Yes!" Wu Chang agreed, turned around and entered the study to get the sword.

After hearing this, Shangguan Wan'er was very disappointed and her eyes became dim.

Zhang Lin felt a little disappointed. He was originally looking forward to let Shangguan Wan'er give him a sword so that he could touch her a little, but when he thought that his relationship with Ye Yu had come to Shangguan Wan'er and Ye Yu was beside him, he could only regretfully give up this imprudent idea.

Wu Chang reappeared, holding a brilliantly carved sword with extremely exquisite carvings in both hands, walked respectfully to Zhang Lin, and said with a smile, "Marquis Ganglie, please receive the sword!"

"Eunuch Xie Wu!" Zhang Lin knelt on the ground, raised his hands above his head, and respectfully took over Shangfang's sword.

Zhang Lin was embarrassed to hide it when the emperor valued him so much and solemnly told him, "Your Majesty, I have built a crossbow cart with a range of 800 steps. If I can put a large number of crossbow carts into the war, then I will defeat Li Zhaode's rebels in less than half a day."

Originally, Zhang Lin wanted to wait until the war was more tense before launching the crossbow to Wu Zetian. On the one hand, this was his strategy. Any powerful ability appeared too early and could not show its light. Only when it reached a critical moment could it show its true value; on the other hand, he was worried that it would not readily agree to mass-made crossbows. The sample crossbows had consumed Zhang Lin's eight thousand taels of silver, and to truly form a huge combat power, at least one hundred crossbows were built. One hundred would require eight hundred taels of silver. Will the emperor be willing to give up?

"Bandao? The range of 800 steps? Is this true?" Wu Zetian was surprised and happy when she heard this, and did not believe it very much. Although she didn't know much about military affairs, as the commander of the 16 guards of the three armies, she was still familiar with the limits of the range of various bows and crossbows. The accurate range of a single bow with a horn arm is 100 steps, and the upward shooting can reach 150 steps. The farthest winch crossbow is 450 steps, and the upward shooting can reach 700 steps. The crossbow that Zhang Lin said was 100 steps more than the winch crossbow, which exceeded the range limit at that time.

Ye Yu and Di Guangyuan, who were standing next to Zhang Lin, were also very shocked. The range was 800 steps, which was so great!

"It's true! I've already gone outside the city to conduct a test shot!" Zhang Lin said with a certain tone.

"That's great!" Wu Zetian was overjoyed.

"However, a single crossbow can only act as a threat and cannot form combat power. To form huge combat power, at least one hundred units need to be built."

"What are you hesitating about? Hurry up and make it!" Wu Zetian raised his hand and waved his hand and said impatiently.

Zhang Lin raised his hand and touched his nose, "Master, it takes a lot of copper and iron and rhino tendon to build a crossbow, which cannot be made in just one or two sentences. This crossbow has almost spent all my savings."

"How much gold and silver is needed, just say it! I agree." Wu Zetian smiled happily, looking extremely generous. She knew in her heart that almost all the money in the silver treasury was obtained by Zhang Lin for her, and he could spend whatever he wanted.

"This crossbow cart costs 8,000 taels of silver, so it will take 800,000 taels to build one hundred units." Zhang Lin said in a calm tone. He knew that Wu Zetian was very generous on the surface, but in fact, he was very obsessed with money. He used to reward him with a thousand,800 taels, which seemed generous, but she would definitely not be willing to let her take out 800,000 taels in one go.

As expected, Wu Zetian immediately became hesitant when he heard that he wanted such silver. These days, Zhang Lin contributed far more than this amount of gold and silver to her, but they were already useful, and the rest were almost the same. As for the calligraphy, paintings and antiques found from Gefu, although they were also valuable, they could not be used immediately for cash.

She really couldn't make up this decision if she wanted to take out all the remaining gold and silver to build a crossbow. Once the gold and silver were stored, they would have roots. They had to take them out, especially if they were taken out, which would be very painful.

She was thinking that Li Zhaode's rebels may not be able to defeat my 100,000 army. The crossbow chariot seemed not so urgent. It would be better to wait until the gold mine of the Little Qinling Mountains was captured. However, she did not say this, because once she said it, the Tibetan area of ​​the gold mine would be exposed. If it aroused the covetous people and was dug up in advance, it would be a huge loss.

"Let's do this, aren't you going to search Li Cheng and Cao's three mansions today? No matter how much gold and silver copied from the three mansions are used to build crossbows!" Wu Zetian raised his hand and slashed in the air, looking extremely generous and generous.

"Thank you for being generous!" Zhang Lin laughed. It was already very good that Wu Zetian had such an attitude. The gold and silver retrieved from the three palaces were also money. According to regulations, they should be charged into the imperial treasury. If Wu Zetian did not have the will of Wu Zetian, it would probably not work. When searching the Ge Mansion, even Wu Zetian, who had not arrived at the scene, was as clear as if he had seen her in person. For her, she could not hide anything from her, who had many eyes and ears.

However, it is still unknown how much gold and silver can be found from the three palaces. These three people deliberately made plans and were prepared for it. Maybe it is unknown if they left you a clear soup and water!

Li Cheng and Cao were different from Ge Fuyuan. Ge was a civil servant, and only had mansions in gods, and nothing could be hidden in his own mansion. Cao Cheng was both a general and had barracks everywhere. To a certain extent, barracks were their mansions. It was safest for them to hide the most precious things in the barracks. Although Li Zhaode was a minister of the cabinet, he was also a general who led troops in the past. It can be said that the barracks belonging to the Six Guards were his territory and his treasures.

On the way back to the Dongchang, Ye Yu looked at Di Guangyuan and mocked him, "Guangyuan, your loyal minister in your mind killed two generals and made public plans. What do you think about this?"

Di Guangyuan raised his hand and scratched his head, looked ashamed and sighed, "Oh, it's me that I don't have any vision, it's me who saw the wrong person!"

Ye Yu said earnestly and sincerely, "If you know your mistakes, you can correct them, and there is no greater good!"

When he returned to the East Factory, Huang Shengyan greeted him with a smile and said proudly, "Congratulations to the Marquis for being given the Shangfang Sword. Now our East Factory is even more majestic!"

"Oh, we have been awarded the Sword of Shangfang, and we must do our best for the emperor. How can we show off our power as a person or a yamen?" Zhang Lin scolded with a hypocritical reprimand.

"What the Marquis taught us is that we must do our work for the emperor more carefully." Huang Shengyan restrained his joking expression and said seriously.

"What's going on with Li Zhaode's Mansion?" Zhang Lin asked casually.

"Mr. Marquis, our factory guards are staring at Li Zhaode's mansion day and night to monitor, but the Li family has no movement at all, which is really strange. Could it be that Li Zhaode really treats all his family as abandoned children?" Huang Shengyan rubbed his hands with an incredible expression on his face.

"There is another possibility that Li Zhaode has made arrangements long ago. How could a cunning person like him wait for us to confiscate his house?" Zhang Lin was a little worried. This time, he might not be able to catch any useful people or find any valuable things.

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Chapter completed!