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"It's not a threat, it's just telling His Majesty the situation."

Facing the anger of the emperor, Li Xin looked calm and said indifferently: "At this time, Your Majesty let me go out of Beijing with Ye Mao, and then assigned me the four zhechong mansions in the north. I can help the court to quell the war disaster in the north. After the Ministry of Yuwen dies down, let’s talk about the imperial court and the southwest.”

At this point, Li Xin paused, and then continued: "What I want to tell Your Majesty in advance is that the Southwest must return to the old Nanshu Kingdom, and it will be a country of brothers if the court can accommodate it. If not, just as His Majesty said, each depends on his ability."

This sentence, Li Xin is purely fooling the emperor. Li Xing, the last clan of the old Southern Shu, has died in Li Xin's hands, which means that the line of Southern Shu has been broken. With the name of the old Nanshu, the corpse is just reborn. The Mu family... at least Muying has no feelings for family and country, and it is impossible to wholeheartedly want to restore the country.

Li Xin said this to imply that Emperor Yuanzhao had no ambitions in the Southwest, and that the Southwest just wanted to restore the old country of Southern Shu.

Anyway, Nanshu in the past was about as big as the 31 state capitals in Southwest China now, and Southwest China is no longer under the control of the imperial court. Not unacceptable.

The emperor sat back in his seat, pondered for a long time, finally he looked at Li Xin, and said: "The Southwest will stop here, and I will let Ye Mao lead four Zhechong mansions to help the northern border. You can deal with Xianbei people, and you don't need to worry about it like a teacher."

Li Xin grinned.

"That's it, Your Majesty and I will each take a step back."

"Didn't Your Majesty want the prescription for Tianlei? I don't have a prescription for Tianlei here, but there are more than a dozen Tianlei. I am willing to hand them over to Your Majesty. How about letting me go out of Beijing to lead the army?"

The emperor smiled coldly: "Teacher still wants to deceive me with the useless sky thunder? I have already been deceived once!"

"This time it's real, it can explode."

Lord Jing'an said solemnly: "I still have ten or twenty thunderbolts, which I will hand over to Your Majesty, and His Majesty can draw a few points from them at will, and naturally you can see whether it will explode or not."

The emperor was moved instantly.

In the first year of Yuanzhao, Li Xin once gave him two sky thunders, but they were fake medicines that could not be fired. The craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry have been pondering for several years with these fake medicines, and they just figured out some results. To get the real sky thunder, at most a year and a half, the court can grope for this thing...!

In a year and a half, even if the southwest goes out of Shu, it is impossible to hit the capital. When the Jin Dynasty has gunpowder, there will be no fear of a corner of the southwest...

Thinking of this, Emperor Yuanzhao's eyes sparkled. He looked up at Li Xin and took a deep breath.

"Teacher...won't you lie to me?"

Li Xin may not be particularly talented in literary and martial arts, but in terms of Xinsichengfu, he is definitely one of the best in the imperial court. A few years ago, the two cans of fake gunpowder were made by hundreds of craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry for more than three years. Useless work!

Li Xin got up and bowed slightly to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I never lie. Tomorrow I can hand over Tianlei to Your Majesty."

After a pause, he said, "Of course, Your Majesty must first issue an edict ordering me to lead troops to reinforce Jimen Pass, and then let me go out of the city, so that I can hand over Tianlei to Your Majesty."

The emperor's eyes flickered.

"Teacher, aren't you afraid that I will go back on my word after I get something?"

"So I'm going out of town first."

Li Xin's eyes were calm, and he said: "If your majesty regrets after getting the things, and then withdraws the edict, of course I have nothing to do with your majesty. Southwest, and the imperial court...each according to their own abilities."

"Each one depends on its own ability!"

Emperor Yuanzhao stood up and took a deep look at Li Xin.

"If the teacher is really willing to hand Tianlei into my hands, I believe that Southwest has no ambition to compete in the world."

Lord Jing'an also stood up from the low table. He lowered his head slightly and said with a smile: "Tomorrow afternoon, I will bring a sky thunder into the palace and blow it up on the school grounds for His Majesty to see, and then His Majesty will let Ye Mao out." Beijing, after promulgating the edict ordering the ministers to lead the army to the north, the ministers will hand over the other dozen or so thunders to His Majesty."

The Son of Heaven thought for a while, then nodded and said: "I will follow what the teacher said, but tomorrow is not necessary. Tonight, the teacher will bring a sky thunder into the palace and test it for me in the school grounds."

Li Xin raised his head, looked at the emperor's expression, and then chuckled.

"Then tonight, Your Majesty will go and fetch Tianlei into the palace later, Your Majesty."

The emperor stood up and said with a smile, "Tianlei is at the teacher's house?"

Lord Jing'an shook his head.

"If Your Majesty wants to have any wrong thoughts, the matter will not be discussed."

The emperor smiled and said, "Of course not."

"I'll just wait here, teacher, go and come back quickly."

Chapter 995 Do What You Should Do

After leaving the palace, Li Xin returned to his mansion to rest for a while, and then walked around Yonglefang again under the surveillance of many people, until he returned to the gate of Jing'an Hou's mansion , the sedan chair in the palace has been waiting for a long time, the eunuch Xiao Huai, dressed in purple, bowed and said: "Teacher, Your Majesty has been waiting for you for a long time."

Li Xin nodded, got into the sedan chair with his hands behind his back, and said, "Let's go."

The sedan chair quickly entered Yong'an Gate, but it did not stop at the gate of Weiyang Palace, but stopped at the big school yard in the palace. The emperor in blue clothes had been waiting in the school yard for a while, when he saw Li Xin's carriage coming, he He walked over in person, lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and said to Li Xin inside, "Teacher has finally arrived."

Li Xin walked out of the sedan chair shortly, and cupped his hands to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please wait for a long time."

The Son of Heaven narrowed his eyes, looked at Li Xin's cuffs, and asked, "Have you brought anything, Teacher?"

Li Xin nodded, took out a clay pot about the size of an adult's fist from his sleeve, and held it in his hand.

That is to say, the cuffs of clothes in this era are wide, and such a big jar can't be seen at all when it is placed in the cuffs.

The emperor took the pot in his hand, looked it over carefully, and then looked at Li Xin.

"Teacher, are you sure this thing will explode?"

Li Xin nodded: "Of course it will explode."

He stretched out his hand and said, "Your Majesty doesn't believe me, I can point it out and show it to His Majesty."

"That's not necessary."

The Son of Heaven looked at the clay pot, rolled his eyes, and said to Xiao Huai beside him, "Go get the dagger."

Xiao Huai immediately found a small knife, and put both hands in the hands of the emperor. The emperor held the clay pot in one hand, and pried open the seal of the pot with a dagger in the other hand, and then saw the black ink inside the pot. powder.

After doing this, the Son of Heaven raised his head and glanced at Li Xin, with a hint of complacency in his eyes.

Li Xin frowned first, and then looked at his nose and nose and his heart.

The emperor asked the eunuch to fetch a small porcelain bottle, took out half of the medicine powder in the pot with a dagger, poured it into the pot, and then resealed the pot. One piece, looks rather sloppy.

However, he looked excited, and turned his head to look at Li Xin with a half-smile.

"Teacher, if this clay pot can explode, it doesn't matter whether I want the rest of the sky thunder or not."

This is a flagrant breach of contract.

The emperor wanted to get the real object of Tianlei, so that he could get a sample of gunpowder and hand it over to the Ministry of Industry for research. He has now taken out half of the gunpowder powder in this pottery pot. If this pottery pot can be fried, that is It is said that these medicinal powders are real, and if there are real objects, it is not so important to want other sky thunders.

After he got the "sample", it was impossible for him to let Li Xin out of Beijing, and he would not even let Ye Mao out of Beijing!