I write novels in the East Palace

"Western has a cannon with a long tube, thick wall and large caliber, adjustable height, long range, high precision, and extraordinary power. It is really a good weapon for marching and fighting." Zhou Chengyi talked eloquently, spit out all the advantages of the Hongyi cannon that he knew, Then he cupped his hands and said, "If my country Xiao gets this thing, Beihu will no longer dare to go south to harass the border people, and the coast will no longer be afraid of bandits and harassing, even the red-haired barbarian pirates will not come to invade the sea."

Let alone the emperor, everyone focused on him and listened carefully, for fear of missing something.

Princess Anyang asked, "Where is the western cannon you mentioned?"

"It's called Xiyang Pao, so it's naturally in the West." Zhou Chengyi smiled and said, "My son is no more than a mere prince. If he has the ability to cross the sea to Yizhou, he can only send someone to fetch it himself."

The emperor paused when he tapped his fingers on the armrest, and couldn't help laughing, his voice was low and he couldn't distinguish between emotions and anger, "You gave me a gift, but I still have to pick it up in person, what's the reason for that?"

"Could it be that Father is not satisfied with this voyage route map?" Zhou Chengyi said miserably, "I have worked hard for a long time and searched foreign books to make it. If Father is not satisfied, why don't you give it back to me?" .”

"There's no reason to take back the gift that was sent out." The emperor waved his hand, and Wang He immediately stepped forward to catch the scroll in Chang Xia's hand.

Zhou Chengyi immediately begged for the reward with a smile and squinted his eyes, "Since Father has accepted it, this reward?"

The emperor ordered a few things, all of which were coral pearls and other decorations. They were expensive and expensive, and they were worthless.

Unexpectedly, the emperor suddenly changed the subject again, "How about I reward you with another marriage?"

Zhou Chengyi was as quiet as a chicken, "No need! Father, these are very good."

However, Chinese New Year and marriage urging are mostly enemies in the past life and lovers in the present life, and they cannot be escaped or separated.

The emperor frowned, "When Laowu accepted the side concubine, all the officials wrote to ask for the appointment of a concubine, but you refused according to the order of seniority. Now Changkang has been married for a year, and his sons will be able to go to the ground next year. There are more than five or six concubines of five Liangyuans, but there is no female family member in your palace."

"You are twenty-two this year, if you don't want to marry a wife, when do you plan to get married?" the emperor asked.

22 is not yet the legal age for marriage!And now marrying into the East Palace will make people become a housekeeper like me?Zhou Chengyi complained in his heart, and said embarrassingly, "Father, don't talk about such unhappy things this New Year's Eve."

"Marriage and childbirth are the laws of nature and human relations. It's a happy event. Why did it turn out to be unhappy when it came to your mouth?"

Before the emperor finished speaking, Princess Anyang interjected, "Okay, let's stop during the Chinese New Year. Talking about things will not cause quarrels. Since I came in, my mouth has never stopped. According to you, this year's meal has to be eaten." It won’t be until noon tomorrow.”

The words were not only smoothing things over, but also a bit of reprimand. She was probably the only one in the audience who dared to speak like that.

Zhou Chengyi heard her words with a bit of sarcasm, at first he thought he had heard it wrong, but when he turned around, he saw Ding Guogong and Xiao Shizi comforting her with vegetables for the eldest princess of Anyang. I remembered that Princess Anyang had another marriage where she was forced to marry far away.

That's really not a happy thing.

The emperor probably thought of this too, but he didn't say anything more after all.

After dinner, it was much more peaceful. Although Zhou Chengan always wanted to find fault with Zhou Chengyi like a fighting cock, but Zhou Chengyi purely treated him as air, so he didn't rarely pay attention to him.

After the banquet, the music ended, Zhou Chengyi was left behind, and once again entered the emperor's study, and then saw an extra sand table in the south direction on the west side. The world map that was offered was close together.

Zhou Chengyi got a memorial.

"In late September, the Lingnan Naval Battalion sank a pirate ship in the territory, and salvaged several cannons made by the Southeastern Hongmaoyi. The description is similar to the Western cannon you mentioned." Although the incident happened in September However, it was spread to the middle of Beijing after winter, which coincided with the snowstorm in the north, so it was put aside for the time being.

Zhou Chengyi didn't expect this to happen, so he immediately opened the memorial and took a closer look. Looking at the description and drawings, it was undoubtedly the Hongyi Cannon.

It's a pity that most of these cannons are remnants, and they have been soaked in water for a long time, so they are all scrapped.

After Zhou Chengyi read it, he said without hesitation, "General Cao intends to imitate this thing, and it will take a long time, but time is not waiting for us. In the past, the barbarians in the southeast have been captured by the red-haired barbarians who came all the way from the west. Their ambition is obvious. Self-evident. If it targets our country, the loss may be even more painful than meeting the North Hu army."

No matter how advanced cold weapons are, they can only shoot one child at a time, but with the difference of hot weapons, a few rounds of bombing can kill hundreds or even tens of thousands of lives.

"Father, we must organize a fleet as soon as possible to exchange for armaments." Zhou Chengyi marked several important empires on the sea.

Research and improvement can be done slowly, but things must be in hand first.

The emperor also had this intention, "Ouroye's lecture has come to an end, do you have any recommendations for candidates for the envoy?"

Speaking of this, Zhou Chengyi naturally blurted out, "Fang Guanyan is very powerful. Not only is he proficient in the two languages ​​taught by Oroye, he also has mastered other languages."

The closer you get, the more you will understand each other.

Zhou Chengyi's making this nautical chart was not something that could be accomplished overnight, and Fang Guanyan also helped him, and he didn't know until recently that Fang Guanyan's mastery of languages ​​was no less than that of Oroye, but he kept a low profile and never showed it to the public.

Zhou Chengyi also asked about it out of curiosity, Fang Guanyan said, "The temperament of the whole family is more like that of the mentor, and they are used to traveling around, and the brothers and sisters can learn from each other, so they all learned a little bit, and His Highness laughed."

"It is better to travel thousands of miles to read thousands of books."

Zhou Chengyi praised him, and at the same time finally knew why Fang Guanyan was so good at studying, and his feelings were the same for all teachers.

Fang Guanyan smiled and said nothing, he didn't say that he was actually the only one left under his master's seat, and his saying that his temperament followed Tang Henian's was not considered a compliment.

It was probably to the extent that his senior brothers couldn't hold down the coffin board after hearing it, and wanted to jump out of the soil and yell "You slandered me".

"... You walked very close to him?" The emperor pondered for a moment, but his tone was inaudible.

However, Zhou Chengyi remembered what Zhou Chengyao said before, and said slowly, "Now is the time for employing people, it would be a pity if Fang Guanyan's talent cannot be entrusted with reuse."

Seeing him like this, the emperor seemed to see Ye Shulang from before, and it was rare for him to tease, "You respect him so much, Ye Hanlin made other people's wedding clothes with all his heart for you."

"I did hear Priest Ou's praise before, and specifically asked me to allow you to be his assistant to translate documents, which shows that it is not bad."

The emperor agreed.

During the New Year's Eve, red silk was hung all over Chang'an, it was lively and peaceful, but Fang Guanyan's mansion only hung a red lantern symbolically outside, only him and his old servant in the whole mansion, it looked extremely deserted.

Fang Guanyan spends festivals with his master every year, but he is more used to it.

However, on this day, the door reported that the prime minister was visiting—the carriage was still parked at the gate, and he walked in through the main gate in a fair and bright manner.

Fang Guanyan was quite surprised. Before entering the front hall, he saw Prime Minister Fang holding a bright yellow imperial decree. His heart beat uncontrollably. Is it the hopeless reuse that he has been waiting for all this time?Or was it the punishment that never fell on him back then?

He was a little afraid to go forward.

Prime Minister Fang was excited and nervous along the way, seeing him hesitate at this moment, he sighed in his heart, but his eyes were a little wet.

He pretended to lower his head and spread out the imperial decree, lowering his eyes to suppress the sourness revealed, "Fang Guanyan accepts the decree."

After reading the imperial decree and thanking him for his kindness, Fang Guanyan held the imperial decree and read it carefully for a long time, still a little dazed in his mind, "Your Majesty...do you really appoint me as an envoy to go to the West?"

The envoys of the Xiao Kingdom are different from a small editor. Although they are humble but powerful, they are inconspicuous, but they have a status that can be lifted as light as possible. When necessary, they can even act on behalf of the emperor, which is not something ordinary people can enter.

"I was stunned for a long time and couldn't believe it. I thought it was just a dream again." Prime Minister Fang said with a wry smile, "Your Majesty told me that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince strongly recommended you, saying that you are very talented in Mandarin. Burial is the loss of the country."

Fang Guanyan froze for a moment.

"Do it well and don't let us down." Prime Minister Fang patted him on the shoulder. He was already much taller than him, a little thin and tough.

He always thought of Captain Huai: Fortunately, even without his protection, he still has grown into such an excellent appearance, and once again stood in front of others with his talent.

Prime Minister Fang waved his sleeves, "I'm leaving, there's no need to send it off."

From the beginning to the end, the two have never been called father and son, and their attitude is restrained and alienated.

"Yes." Fang Guanyan replied solemnly, bowing down respectfully to see him off, and didn't straighten up until the sound of horseshoes at the door.

He looked down at the imperial decree in his hand, and clenched Yubai's fingers tightly, as if only by working so hard can he seize this hard-won opportunity, and said in a low voice, "Mr. One day, I will repay you, even if I die nine times, I will not regret it."

Zhou Chengyi's idea was very beautiful, and he even thought about the follow-up uncontrollably:

For example, after getting the cannon, set up a special research institute to further develop more advanced weapons, engage in blast furnace ironmaking, develop electricity, invent inventions, and industrial revolution, set up factories to develop energy, and continuously strengthen and strengthen, and then those guys at sea They were unwilling to be lonely and wanted to do something, but they were beaten violently, and then they marched into the world and dominated the sea...

The coolness of the plot has won the true biography of a certain cool literary genre in later generations-although it is a bit outrageous, daydreaming is not illegal.

He didn't sleep at night because he thought about it, so he got up energetically and drafted his manuscripts. Not only did he enrich the manuscripts of Farming Wen, but he finally finished writing the first [-] characters of "Glass and Jade Bone". First twist:

——The war was defeated, the vassal state was in chaos, and the lingering dynasty was finally overthrown, but the people were still living in the heat of the water, and Liuli ran around the world looking for ways to save the country.

Zhou Chengyi wrote it in imitation of the background of the Republic of China, but for the sake of his head, he will ambiguously "overthrow the feudal dynasty" into a normal "dynasty replacement".

All in all, he happily waited for the Hongyi Cannon to enter the country.

However, things in the world will not always go in the direction he expected.

The author has something to say: After reading the outline, the mystery of Zigu not being reused is about to come online.

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Zhou Chengyi: Dreaming is not against the law, I will do my best!

Fang Guanyan: Understood, sleep now.

Zhou Chengyi: ...?

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