How did you, a prisoner on death row, become an important weapon of the country? Yecheng Gao Weiming

After Li Xin walked out of the palace, he did not return to Tianshou Mountain immediately.

He actually found an inn to change out of his official robe and put on a pair of coarse linen clothes, and then asked the bookboy who followed him to return first.

After all, I still don’t want to give up.

After some comfort from Baozhu, I finally no longer felt sad.

The purpose of changing clothes was to go to the Wanggong Factory Gunpowder Bureau on the west side of the south of the city to see if there was anything else that could be saved.

After walking all the way, by the time we reached the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Bureau, the sun had almost set.

Li Xin finally arrived near the Gunpowder Bureau. Seeing that the place was still lively, he felt helpless.

The Gunpowder Bureau in the capital is under the control of the Military War Bureau in the Twenty-Jiang District.

It has one eunuch to hold the seal, one eunuch to supervise the armory, and then there are positions such as management, gold book, chief secretary, writing, supervisor, accountant, etc.

Even though it is located in the capital city where land is at a premium, its scale is quite large.

According to historical records, this place can produce more than 10,000 muskets, more than 60 red cannons, and countless shells and solid bullets every year.

There are thousands of craftsmen in the bureau, and they always store large amounts of strategic materials such as copper, iron, and gunpowder.

When Li Xin arrived, the place was still in full swing.

It turned out that the great victory of Ningyuan inspired the entire Ming court, thinking that there was hope of expelling the Jiannu slaves.

In particular, the power of the Hongyi cannon also made the Chinese realize the power of thermal weapons for the first time.

Therefore, starting from the sixth year of Apocalypse, a large number of blacksmiths were sent here in an attempt to increase production and prepare for the upcoming war.

In recent months, overtime work has become commonplace, and even double shifts are not uncommon.

When Li Xin arrived, oil lamps had been lit here, and it was obvious that they would be busy all night long.

He walked around the gunpowder station, feeling increasingly heavy.

According to historical data, after nine o'clock tomorrow, this will be the place where the second big explosion occurs.

The debris brought by the heavenly thing landed in the Wanggong Factory Gunpowder Bureau, killing and injuring countless craftsmen on the spot.

Then detonate the huge amount of explosives stored inside.

The explosion became more and more violent, sweeping through the entire capital within seconds. The huge shock wave was like an atomic bomb explosion, taking away tens of thousands of living lives.

According to legend, this place was instantly razed to the ground and turned into a large pit more than ten meters deep and nearly a thousand meters long. It was not rebuilt until the second year of Chongzhen.

Looking at the huge gunpowder station and the thousands of craftsmen working hard, Li Xin found helplessly that he still could not find a way to save them.

You can't just yell and run, because tomorrow this place will be blown to the ground?

No one would believe him, and he would only be tightly surrounded by the soldiers and horses from the five cities and the Jinyi Guards who arrived.

If they dare to confuse the public with their monstrous words, Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian may really become murderous.

While he was depressed, he heard a sound that attracted his attention.

"The quantity is correct! There are a total of sixty-eight blooming bullets and thirteen solid bullets, for a total of seventy-one. Now put a seal on it and take it to the cargo yard..."

Li Xin turned around and looked, his eyebrows lit up.

But I saw a middle-aged man in his forties, with a depressed look on his face, standing next to an ox cart, counting the ammunition, writing a seal and pasting it on it.

Why does this person look so familiar?

and many more!

This is……

Sun Yuanhua!

Li Xin did not expect to see Xu Guangqi's apprentice Sun Yuanhua here.

In fact, four years after Tianqi, when he was building a large-scale construction project in Huangling Town, Xu Guangqi was dismissed from office and retired to Tianshou Mountain.

In the past two years, he has been acting as his deputy, learning all kinds of knowledge and participating in the construction of Huangling Town.

Li Xin remembers clearly that Xu Guangqi had an apprentice named Sun Yuanhua.

This person was a member of the imperial examination in the 40th year of Wanli. However, he failed to take part in the examination.

After giving up the imperial examination, he met Xu Guangqi and joined the Western sect with his teacher, becoming an alternative in the eyes of Confucian scholars.

This man is amazing!

Unlike his teacher Xu Guangqi, he did not study as much as he loved Western firearms.

He was the most famous weapons expert in the late Ming Dynasty.

Rather than saying that Xu Guangqi modified the Folangji cannon, it is better to say that it was built by Sun Yuanhua.

He is so crazy about Western weapons that he even joins a sect to learn those techniques.

In the Ningyuan victory, he followed Yuan Chonghuan to defend Jiannu and severely wounded Nurhaci with one shot.

Nurhachi sadly died a few months later, and Huang Taiji began to lead the Houjin Dynasty.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this person killed Nurhaci with his own hands.

It was a pity that after Chongzhen came to power, Sun Yuanhua mistakenly trusted his general Kong Youde, who led troops to rebel, leading to the fall of Dengzhou, and a large amount of artillery materials and construction technology fell into the hands of Jiannu.

Since then, the Eight Banners soldiers began to use artillery to attack the Ming army, causing the Ming army to collapse thousands of miles away.

The young Emperor Chongzhen was furious and refused to listen to Sun Yuanhua's explanation, so he beheaded him in public.

The weapons experts of the late Ming Dynasty sadly left the field.

only……

Li Xin remembered that this person should be in charge in Ningyuan City, Liaodong. How could he appear here?

And so down and out?

He quickly walked over and shouted softly.

"Brother Chuyang?"

Ok?

Sun Yuanhua, who had just finished counting the quantity and affixing the seal, heard someone calling out his name.

Sun Yuanhua looked back, his eyes slowly widening.

This is……

The emperor granted him the title of Guanshan Taibao, and also granted him the title of Prince Taibao, Mr. Xin Feng?

He hurriedly threw down the brush in his hand and trotted over with a look of joy on his face.

"Mr. Feng, you... why are you here? Oh, why are you wearing coarse linen clothes?"

"If you didn't call me, Chu Yang would really not recognize me."

Sun Yuanhua said embarrassedly, but also offered Li Xin a gift.

He visited his teacher in the fourth year of Tianqi and went to Tianshou Mountain in person, but he didn't know Mr. Feng's name.

Li Xin raised his hand to refuse and smiled.

"Brother Chuyang, weren't you following Yuan Chonghuan in Ningyuan City, Liaodong? Why did you stay here and become...the secretary of the Gunpowder Bureau?"

Sun Yuanhua's old face suddenly turned red and he smiled helplessly.

"Mr. Feng, after the great victory in Ningyuan, the court should have rewarded people based on their merits, but Governor Yuan and Lord Mangui Man and Lord Wang, ministers of the King of Liaodong Administrators, were at odds."

"After a confrontation between light and dark, I became a scapegoat. I was dismissed from office and demoted, and was sent to the Gunpowder Bureau to serve as a scapegoat..."

Sun Yuanhua said it easily, but Li Xin knew that the other party was wronged and was speechless at the same time.

Brother, you are such a scapegoat.

He has obviously made great achievements, but Yuan Chonghuan, a narrow-minded person who has been at odds with others all his life, has actually caused you trouble.

A few years later, your subordinate Kong Youde tricked you to death.

Tell me, why is my mother so unlucky?

Mr. Feng was speechless, but Sun Yuanhua was cheerful and cheerful.

"Hey...Sir, don't worry about me, that's fine."

"I was busy with the war in those years, and I didn't even bother to improve the muskets and Hongyi cannons."

"This time, after the practice of Ningyuan Victory, many flaws were discovered."

"It's a leisurely job to be a clerk here. I just want to improve the cannon so that it can hit a distance of 1,500 feet and kill the stubborn slaves..."

Sun Yuanhua said excitedly, without any hint of decadence.

But Li Xin couldn't see the desolation on his face.

Sighing at the same time.

If these loyal people had not fought tooth and nail to save the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Empire would have perished long ago.

and many more.

Clerk of the Gunpowder Bureau?

Li Xin was ecstatic, as if he had found a way to save the people.