This is not the Datang I am familiar with

Chen Fang's words obviously attracted Wu Meiniang's attention. In fact, Chen Fang diverted Wu Meiniang's attention at this time, so that her attention was not on herself and what was on her mind.

"what is that?"

"Your Majesty has already rested in the Qianling Mausoleum. When I return to the workshop this time, I will make this kind of thing as soon as possible. Your Majesty will know about it when the time comes. Now, if you say it now, your Majesty will not be able to tell the details."

"Well, let's deal with this matter as soon as possible. The Northern Han Dynasty has this kind of thing, so they have the heart to go south."

"Yes, I deeply felt their determination to go south in the Northern Han Dynasty, but the Northern Han army will not go south for the time being."

"why?"

"I destroyed most of the weapons and supplies they had accumulated. It will take time for them to prepare again. At least three to five years, and as many as ten or eight years. The Northern Han Dynasty will go south, but we have time to prepare early."

Wu Meiniang's expression changed several times, she looked at Chen Fang.

"How did you destroy these accumulated things? For such an important thing, the Northern Han Dynasty should have heavy guards."

"Your Majesty, 36 tricks, I used a beauty trick."

Wu Meiniang smiled slightly, and pinched Chen Fang lightly with her fingers.

"It's not a beauty trick, it's a beauty trick."

Chen Fang smiled, Wu Meiniang leaned in his arms and stopped talking, Chen Fang stroked her shoulders, at this moment he felt that the person in his arms really looked like Liu Yi, probably Liu Yi had been by Wu Meiniang's side for several years.Also contaminated some of Wu Meiniang's style of doing things.

However, Chen Fang also lamented that women in this era really don't have much strong possessiveness, probably this is due to the feudal ethics.

For the man they like, they don't have much idea that they must own it exclusively, and feel that it is good to share it with other women.

If this is the era in which equality between men and women is advocated in later generations, how can the little boy raised by a rich woman dare to go out to have fun, not afraid of being broken by three legs.

Uh, what I'm talking about, why does he seem to be a little face, Chen Fangjue doesn't admit it, he doesn't rely on a face, he has connotations.

Wu Meiniang was a bit greedy tonight when she returned to Tang Gongfang, so she insisted on keeping Chen Fang on the bed. Chen Fang originally wanted to go to Yiyang and continue to steal food, but it seemed that he couldn't do it.

You can't steal food from your wife, so Chen Fang will eat food from your mother, but you can't eat anything.

The moon and stars were scarce outside, it was almost mid-June, the moonlight was getting brighter day by day, and the white moonlight was falling, Chen Fang came to the window unconsciously.

Chapter 710

With the open wooden window and the thick window paper pasted on it, Chen Fang suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.At this time, looking at the moonlight outside, it seemed that he was standing in front of the small window of the stone castle again. With the moonlight shining down, he could see the whole Beigang.

Under the light of the stars and the moon, the steeple of the church in the distance looked quiet and sacred under the light of the stars and the moon, and the nearby stone buildings seemed to be covered with a thin layer of frost in the cold air.

Someone hugged him behind him and leaned on his body.

"Yi'er, you're messing around again."

As soon as the words came out, Chen Fangcai realized that this place was not Shibao, Beihan, Nangang, nor Beigang, and the one lying on him was not Liu Yi, but Wu Meiniang.

"Yi'er? Your heart is in Beihan."

Wu Meiniang stood up at this moment and stared at Chen Fang.Chen Fang was also slightly startled in his heart, he was indeed in a daze just now.

"Meiniang, my heart didn't stay in Beihan, but someone left a mark on my heart with a sword."

"Who is that Yi'er you mentioned?"

Wu Meiniang stared at Chen Fang with a bad expression.

"Liu Yi, Princess Jingnan of the Northern Han Dynasty, the little sister of the Emperor of Han."

"Forget about her, this is Datang, I don't want you to have a Northern Han princess living in your heart."

"Meiniang, I'm afraid I'll never forget it in this lifetime."

Chen Fang smiled wryly, sighed, looked at Wu Meiniang, and waited for her thunder and rainstorm, however, he did not wait for anything, only waiting for Wu Meiniang's hand to gently caress his shoulder.

"Chen Fang, do you know what Mei Niang likes most about you?"

"do not know!"

"That honesty, without hypocrisy, won't say things that Meiniang doesn't even believe in order to fool Meiniang."

Chen Fang pulled Wu Meiniang to her side, the beauty under the moonlight was extraordinarily charming, the word "Mei" in her name was vividly interpreted by Wu Meiniang.

Chen Fang caressed that waist and patted it a few times, loving it.

"In fact, everyone has secrets, including me, but Mei Niang, I will not lie to you with a word. You are the most important one in my heart."

"By the way, Mei Niang, just now you asked me if I knew what you liked most about me. In fact, I was thinking about the unparalleled spear skills."

"Chen Fang, I want to hit you!"

"Let's fight, except that you can't fight here, and it has to be used to serve you, you can fight anywhere else."

"But Mei Niang wants to hit where you don't want to hit."

"Take it easy."

The morning sun shines on the courtyard, and the bamboos in the courtyard sway gently in the morning breeze, and the shadows of the whirling bamboos are reflected on the whitewashed courtyard walls, like a moving scroll of black bamboo.

Wu Meiniang went to the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace, Li Hong fell ill, and there was no one to take care of the government affairs, so she was about to start to preside over the government affairs again.

In the past, he presided over the government for the sake of His Majesty and the late emperor, but now it is for the eldest son and the new emperor.As for being an empress, Wu Meiniang didn't have such thoughts at this time.Chen Fang also felt that it was tiring to let Wu Meiniang be the empress, so it is better to let Li Hong be the emperor.

Anyway, when Li Hong was the emperor, he still had to call Wu Meiniang as his mother, and when he encountered some important matters, he still had to ask his mother what she meant.

But there is one bad thing, after Li Hong ascended the throne, Wu Meiniang changed from queen to queen mother.Although only the title has changed, nothing has actually changed, but Chen Fang always feels that serving the queen is not the same thing as serving the queen mother.Hey, but there is no other way, since the new king succeeds, Wu Meiniang can only become the Queen Mother.

After Wu Meiniang left, Chen Fang didn't stop at Tang Gongfang, but called Dingyu and asked her to accompany him to the Military Weapons Supervisor in the Nine Temples and Five Prisons.

What the Military Arms Supervision does, like its name, is to make weapons, flags, military tents and so on.

As soon as Chen Fang and Ding Yu came here, the military supervisor trotted over to salute the son-in-law.The military inspector in the front is the name of this place, and the military inspector in the back is an official position, belonging to the imperial court official, and it is the fourth rank.

"My son-in-law, why did you come to the Military Arms Supervision today?"

"Use your place and manpower! Is it convenient?"

"The son-in-law will come anytime, anytime is convenient."

"Well, take me to the place where Tang knives are cast!"

"Please come with my humble post, my son-in-law. It's a bit messy here. Be careful, my son-in-law."

As the military inspector came to the workshop where Tang knives were cast, several blacksmiths were sweating profusely, and the sound of tinkling iron could be heard endlessly.

Tang knives are forged by Baotou Steel, and the process and process of forging are actually extremely troublesome.

Even after this craft was lost in the Tang Dynasty, later generations would not be able to cast Tang knives as recorded in the historical records.

The sharpness and toughness of Tang Dao can actually be seen from the later generations of Dongyang Dao. After all, the casting of Dongyang Dao originated from Tang Dao. Of course, compared with Tang Dao, Dongyang Dao can only be regarded as a half-defective product.

After all, the knife-casting skills brought back by overseas students back then were half-baked.It is also impossible for Datang to really pass on the casting technology of Tang swords to foreigners.

It can be said that the Dongyang Dao is only a semi-finished Tang Dao, just like a weapon sold abroad in later generations, which can only be called the monkey version compared with the one used in the country.

The casting process that Chen Fang saw at this time is the complete casting process of the Tang knife, and later generations cannot imitate it, or can only imitate the Tang knife with its appearance.

"My son-in-law, this is the place where Tang knives are cast. Just take a look, my son-in-law. If you have any good ideas, please let me know."

"Show me the leftovers from casting Tang knives!"

"Please come over to the son-in-law, the leftovers are piled up here, ready to be returned to the furnace!"

Chen Fang came to a pile of leftovers, randomly picked a piece of leftovers, tested the toughness with his hands, and asked Dingyu to test the hardness, then nodded.

"Army Supervisor, prepare some steel for casting Tang knives for my son-in-law."

"My son-in-law, there are several types of steel used for casting Tang knives, and my son-in-law knows that Tang knives are not cast at one time."

"The best steel!"

"Yes, my son-in-law! I will go and order you now."

"Don't worry, I'll bring you the Four Treasures of Fang!"

"Come here, prepare the four treasures for the son-in-law."

Fang Sibao, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, those used by the Military Weapons Supervisor are not of the highest quality, but they are still of the highest quality.

With the help of a ruler, Chen Fang draws a blueprint on the white paper.

During the few months in the Northern Han Dynasty, Chen Fang's greatest achievement was actually reading the notes left by senior Liu Naihe, which is a precious treasure for this era.The value of those notebooks cannot be overestimated.

With these few notebooks, Chen Fang believes that he can bring Datang into the industrial age. Steam engines, internal combustion engines, generators, and electric motors have no knowledge restrictions for Chen Fang at this time.

Of course, it will take some work to make them. After all, Datang is an agricultural society at this time. If Chen Fang is really going to make these, many techniques and infrastructure cannot be achieved.

The drawings Chen Fang drew at this time were actually fire paper. Chen Fang told Wu Meiniang last night that he would make the cannons and muskets for Wu Meiniang to see their power in the past few days.

Chapter 711

Good guns use good steel, so the first thing Chen Fang thought of was the Ordnance Supervision. The steel smelted here is the best in Datang. In fact, in the whole world, Datang's iron smelting technology is also top-notch.

This is not bragging. There are still so many famous sword makers in later generations who regret that they cannot make Tang swords, because the basic smelting technology is not up to the mark.

In fact, many technologies of the ancients cannot be restored by later generations. For example, weaving, the plain yarn clothes of the Han Dynasty, cannot be imitated by later generations, and the same is true for Tang knives. In the Qin Dynasty, later generations can only lament its exquisiteness. .

For example, the anti-corrosion and anti-rust technology used by Qin Jian was only studied and used in later generations and in modern times.The exquisite structure of the sword body and the ratio of copper and tin in the bronze are still amazing in later generations.

At this time, Chen Fang finished drawing the basic structure of the cannon, and then sighed, the senior's drawing skills are superb. Compared with his senior, this painting is simply graffiti.

A senior who can draw a world map by hand, Chen Fang thinks he is incomparable.

At this point, the drawing has been drawn, although it is not satisfactory, let's use it.

Chen Fang handed the drawings to the military supervisor, and the military supervisor took a look.

"Can the military inspector make it here?"

"My son-in-law, there is no problem with this casting, but this is the first time I have seen this thing as an official."

"As long as the casting is fine, remember, use the best steel. Also, is there any raw material for black powder here?"

"My son-in-law, yes, but the preparation of this thing is a bit dangerous."

"You prepare, I will come to pick it up in three days."

"Yes!"

At this time, Chen Fang was only casting cannons, and did not make muskets. Because casting cannons was not difficult, even without the notes left by his predecessors, Chen Fang could still make the most basic cannons.But with the senior's notes, Chen Fang immediately started casting the breech-loading cannon.

The reason why he didn’t make muskets is because Chen Fang didn’t plan to make basic guns such as muskets and front-loading flintlocks. He planned to skip it directly and make more sophisticated breech-loading flintlocks.

The meaning of the word "huo flint" is to use the impact of the flint on the hammer to generate sparks and ignite the gunpowder. The earliest way for guns to ignite gunpowder is to ignite it with a matchlock, which is called a matchlock gun.

After leaving the Military Weapons Supervision and returning to Tang Gongfang, Wu Meiniang had already returned. Chen Fang saw her haggard resting on the quilt on the bed, sat beside her, and rubbed her shoulders.

"Chen Fang, where did you go?"

"I was in the Military Weapons Supervision just now, and I wasted some time."

"Accompany me to Linqing'an Pavilion!"

"it is good!"

Just as Chen Fang responded, he suddenly heard noise outside, several maids were calling for His Highness, as if they were chasing His Highness.

"Xiao Lan, what's going on outside?"

"It's His Highness, His Highness is running with the little princess in his arms!"

"Taiping is running with Sisi in his arms?"

Xiaolan nodded, Chen Fang was taken aback, and Wu Meiniang was also terrified. At this moment, the two hurried out of the yard and chased after the sound.

Taiping, holding Xiao Sisi in his arms, has already run to the lotus pond.

"Taiping, stop messing around, put Sisi down quickly!"

"Sister Huang, I took Sisi to the lotus pond to see the lotus flowers. What a mess."

"Sisi is still young, what if she falls into the lotus pond?"

Princess An Ding had chased to the lotus pond at this time, and the imperial sister ran too fast, and she was out of breath at this moment after chasing her.

"Hurry up and give Sisi to Miss Huang!"

"No, I want to play in the lotus pond with Sisi!"

At this time, a large number of maids had already chased after her, but no one dared to come over and take Xiao Sisi back from Taiping.