Wang Ju's excitement was understandable. He was the first to participate in this small Tiance Mansion. Perhaps he was disgusted when he just served Qin Shaoyou, but when he got along with each other and gradually integrated, he had already become a part of Tiance Mansion.

He was the main planner of Princess Taiping's affairs, and he had already prepared two plans. Now that the overall situation has been decided, there are more things that Tiance Mansion can do now.

Wang Ju was serious about his strategy and never careless in details. Soon, he tailored a plan for Qin Shaoyou.

Although the essence of this plan is to expand its strength, the most important issue is to ensure the independence and autonomy of the entire Tengce Mansion.

In other words, even if the Tiance Mansion completely cut off any contact from the outside world, it can operate independently. The soldiers' weapons can be built by themselves. There must be enough food, iron, cloth and other materials in the treasury. All craftsmen in all walks of life must have them. The top priority is to increase the use of gunpowder.

Qin Shaoyou needs saltpeter to make ice, and saltpeter can make gunpowder. Gunpowder has indeed been available in Tiance Prefecture. Part of it is used for military purposes, such as replacing tino oil, and the other part is used for opening mountains and quarry.

Of course, the gunpowder made in this simplest way is obviously not enough to truly exert the power of gunpowder, but Qin Shaoyou was not in a hurry to make an iron cannon to greatly improve the power of gunpowder, because for Qin Shaoyou, he always encountered a problem, that is, this is the first time. Once it attracts attention, I believe that these things will no longer be theirs in the near future.

Wang Ju had already conducted a survey on the Tiance Mansion earlier.

He came to a conclusion that if Qin Shaoyou wanted to obtain absolute security, he could never rely on the trust of the emperor, nor could he cultivate his confidants to penetrate into the court. The former was very unreliable. You should know that being with the king is like a tiger. Today you can use this thing to make a fortune, and you may be able to take your life tomorrow. As for the latter, it took too long, and it would take at least several generations of management to be managed by those wealthy families, and through the context of relationships, it would gradually be born and influenced. Qin Shaoyou's origin was very low. Obviously he was not his strength.

Then the only way is the Tiance Army. Of course, this does not mean that the Tiance Army has the strength to dominate the world, but can achieve a certain subtle balance, that is, when the Tiance Army encounters strong pressure, it can have the strength to severely damage the court. The Tiance Army does not need to fight with hundreds of thousands of troops and win a complete victory. However, it is necessary to ensure that it can seriously weaken any opponent in the pass, and this opponent even includes the court. In this way, this balance can be achieved, making Qin Shaoyou invincible.

It is just a matter of thousands of soldiers and horses, if you want to severely damage hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, it is simply a matter of a long time to achieve this vision. You must have a killer weapon.

Qin Shaoyou's killer weapon is his gunpowder and his unique way of using gunpowder.

The imperial court has not paid much attention to this thing. This is because the power of gunpowder on the battlefield is, to some extent, just a cannon filled with tinder oil. But what if artillery appears? Use artillery to maximize the power of gunpowder, and not to the city towers in the city, with the help of high walls and cannons, the elite Tiance army, and the recruited civilians, are enough to make Mengjin's confidant place solid.

Qin Shaoyou's idea coincides with Wang Ju.

But when making artillery, the difficulty lies in the process, but in the time. If it is built early, there will definitely be people coveting it. Once the court sees the power of artillery, it will definitely kill you to hand over the recipe for gunpowder. Since I can also make gunpowder, the manufacturing of artillery is nothing more than copper and iron. If your Tiance Army can have 100 artillery pieces to assist in defense, then the court can easily create a thousand. After all, behind the court, there are nearly infinite resources.

But it is too late. Once you encounter a problem, even if you create it, you don’t have enough trained gunners. The effect is still barely enough. After all, it is not worth it.

Now, Princess Taiping's marriage has given Qin Shaoyou the opportunity to be "unrestrained".

Almost all craftsmen are ready-made. Yang Wulian has made great contributions in this regard, so that Qin Shaoyou never cared about his money and grain expenditures in building cities and craftsmen, because for Qin Shaoyou, money is the easiest thing to get, but what he really needs is talents. During the process of building cities, Yang Wulian cultivated many talents, including many craftsmen with excellent skills and capable of forging hundreds of forged steel.

Qin Shaoyou drew his idea of ​​artillery into a drawing according to his memory, and then handed it over to Yang Wulian for use. What Yang Wulian had to do was to find a few craftsmen with superb skills to make a model, then conduct a certain degree of test firing, and then make improvements. Improvement is necessary. Although the artillery depicted by Qin Shaoyou was actually the most primitive and completely at the level of the Ming and Qing dynasties. At most, he drew on some advantages of the red-clothed cannon, but he did not have much knowledge of artillery, and many things he neglected must be corrected through repeated experiments.

However, Qin Shaoyou's "strange ideas" immediately attracted Yang Wulian's interest.

The follow-up work of building a city has actually been on the right track, and everything just needs to be done step by step. So Yang Wulian put his mind on the cannon.

His workplace was in Xiamuar, Hebei. It has begun to be reclaimed here one after another, and many refugees have also been stored. Some of them are relatives of the craftsmen here, but a special open space has been opened in the center.

Here, Yang Wulian almost never sleeps and tried to build more than a dozen cannons with some craftsmen, and these cannons were not very satisfied with the result.

If it is too heavy, it will be inconvenient to move, and calibration will be extremely difficult, but it will be too light and thin... it will be even more dangerous. Because a cannon exploded, Yang Wulian lay down for three days. At this time, Yang Wulian realized that the cannon was such a big risk. He no longer greedy for merit and made progress. Instead, he began to calm down and summon a skilled craftsman, and began to seriously summarize and conceive better plans.

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Compared to Yang Wulian, Qin Shaoyou's affairs were obviously much easier.

Anima entered the palace and was quite harmonious with Wu Zetian. Then the Qin family began to write a letter to propose marriage, with almost no interval, and the decree was issued.

Qin Shaoyou is going to be the prince consort.

Although this news is unacceptable, it did not cause much trouble no matter what.

For Cui Feng and Di Renjie, they were tired. They had already spent too much effort on opposing the princess' marriage to the Wei family. If they jumped out to oppose Qin Shaoyou at this time, it would be obvious that it would be unwise, because although Qin Shaoyou was not the one they liked, at least, both sides had not yet reached the point of never ending. What's more, what they were really wary of was the appearance of the second Wu Zetian, which would never allow it. A woman like Wei became the second current emperor, and Qin Shaoyou was just a chef after all, and he was at most a powerful minister.

On the other hand, there have been rumors in the market that Qin Shaoyou and Li Lingyue have an affair. They have both an affair. Even if they have a high-sounding opposition, what can they do? It just makes people feel sick.

There was surprising silence inside and outside the government.

Even when a marriage edict drafted by the Menxia Province was sent to the Secretariat for review, Cui Xu read the decree and only confirmed that there was no omission in the statement, so he put it aside.

At noon, he would have tea and some pastries with Zheng Rong and Di Renjie as usual. Cui Feng suddenly smiled bitterly: "Thank you for so many hard days, I actually made wedding dresses for others. I seem to be really old."

The sudden sigh that Di Renjie and Zheng Rong felt like a mirror in his heart, and of course he knew what Cui Xu was talking about.

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Actually, Qin Shaoyou has made many contributions on weekdays, and he is not a fool. Although he has benefited this time, it is nothing. Princess Taiping is not close to His Highness."

The following sentence is the core point that Di Renjie pointed out.

Li obviously did not like Princess Taiping, which means that once Your Majesty dies and His Royal Highness ascends the throne, Princess Taiping will not have much influence in front of the new emperor. The reason why they fear the Wei family is because the Wei family can control the prince and then control the entire world. Now, inside and outside the court and the country, the place where they are at the new emperor, and no one will work hard for the last short time of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

So for Di Renjie, since that is the case, what's the matter if Qin Shaoyou married His Highness Princess Taiping? It's just that he has an extra status as a prince consort. There are more prince consorts in the Tang Dynasty, so it's not to be afraid of.

Zheng Rong was a little alert, and he couldn't help but say, "I heard that Meng Jin is recruiting troops again."

Cui Yue smiled and said, "He... is the same as us."

There is mystery in this sentence. Of course, he is Qin Shaoyou. Like us, he is nothing more than planning for the future. At present, no one can stay out of what will happen in the future.

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Chapter completed!