Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Baizhifang is located in the southwest corner of the inner city, and there are more than a dozen folk papermaking workshops, large and small, hence the name.The Gunpowder Bureau of the Ministry of War is also located here, making and storing gunpowder for the distribution of army firearms and ammunition.

Su Yan saw that the explosion was astonishing, followed by several thunderbolts, which should be the second explosion after the rest of the gunpowder was ignited. However, he didn't know how serious the damage to Baizhifang was and how far it spread, so he could only look anxiously to the southwest.

With great difficulty, he waited until the string sound and shock disappeared, and he asked Shen Qi: "What should I do?"

Shen Qi said: "The explosion was loud and could be heard several miles away. It must have alarmed the heavens. The imperial court will dispatch the army to put out the fire and rescue people, and send a commissioner to investigate the situation. Afterwards, the scene will be cleaned up and the victims resettled. It will involve the military, industrial and household departments , this is a big deal."

Su Yan saw that the disaster response mechanism was roughly the same as that of later generations, not to mention the efficiency, at least it would not be left alone, so he calmed down and fell into deep thought.

Commander Wang hastily bid farewell to them: "When the incident happened, the officials under their jurisdiction will go to investigate the situation. His Royal Highness Prince Yu and all the lords, please forgive me."

King Yu waved his hand to signal him to go quickly.

The more Su Yan thought about it, the more dizzy he became, and he couldn't help feeling nauseated while holding the rockery.

Shen Qi had secretly checked her injuries before, every time she inhaled her chest was stretched out, she felt a tingling pain, she felt that the ribs were not broken, it was probably a bone fracture.The fracture can heal on its own, but it will be painful for a period of time. He didn't want Su Yan to worry, so he didn't say anything.

King Yu looked at the injury obviously, but in fact it was only a flesh injury. After the bleeding stopped, he was in better condition than the two of them.He said to Su Yan: "Your carriage is still parked outside the gate, go, I'll take you to Yu Weng for treatment."

Su Yan passed out and vomited for a while, wiped the tears that overflowed involuntarily, and said in a low voice: "I'm fine, I have a mild concussion, and I'll be fine after lying down for a few days... The prince hurriedly treats the wound to avoid infection."

Shen Qi reluctantly supported Su Yan, and said to King Yu: "I will send Mr. Su back to the mansion, Your Highness will not worry about it."

King Yu saw that he was injured but didn't tell the truth, and smiled: "Nud Bodhisattva still wants to cross people across the river?"

Neither of them wanted to leave first, so they got into the carriage together with Su Yan.

Su Xiaobei was standing by the car, anxiously waiting for his adults to come out, when he saw the three of them crammed into the car awkwardly, he looked bewildered.

If it were Su Xiaojing, he would definitely be screaming.Su Xiaobei was a bit better than Su Xiaojing, he was very good at reading eyes and situations, and when he knew it was not time to talk too much, he just asked, "Are you going back home, or where are you going?"

Shen Qi: "Go back to the house."

Yu Wang: "Go to the doctor's house."

Su Yan: "...to the Meridian Gate."

Shen Qi Yu Wang: "What are you doing at the Meridian Gate?"

Su Yan: "It's the fourth watch, just in time for the palace gate to open, I want to enter the palace to face the saint."

"You can just rest!" Shen Qi and King Yu supported his shoulders, lifted his feet, and pushed him onto the bench.

Su Yan lay down, but the wheels rolled, shaking his head and making him dizzy again, moaning: "I still want to vomit..."

He even vomited up all the yellow water just now, how could he vomit anything, King Yu hurriedly sat over and put the back of his head on his lap.Because of the pain in her chest and ribs, Shen Qi slowed down by a step, her eyes turned cold, after all she cared about Su Yan's body and did not attack immediately.

Su Yan endured the dizziness with his eyes closed, and groaned to divert his attention: "I want to install a speed-up and shock-absorbing system for the carriage... Rolling bearings, rubber tires... and springs... The Tiangong Institute can be opened in a few months... "

King Yu was still pondering over the strange words in his words, when he suddenly heard him ask about Tiangongyuan, he replied: "April. No, March, hurry up, March should be fine."

Su Yan's voice was weak: "March is the best, before I leave Beijing for Shaanxi. I have some ideas and suggestions..."

"Are you still going to Shaanxi?" The other two men in the carriage were unhappy at the same time, "With so many officials in the court, no one can take over?"

"Yes, I can. I have set up the framework, and the details are being gradually improved with the assistance of Governor Wei. But I'd better go there again to make sure that the future mazheng censor does not go astray when he takes over. I promised the emperor that I will leave in March after the Longevity Festival is over."

Shen Qi's face was ugly, and King Yu's face was even more ugly.

One is jealous of the emperor's self-serving, and loves Su Yan even more because he travels around and works hard.

The other loves Su Yan for his hard work, and even hates the emperor's selfishness. He even wants to use it as a name for the Longevity Festival, and he doesn't know what he will design as a birthday gift at that time.

Look, I'm so dizzy, I still want to enter the palace to meet the Holy Spirit!King Yu took a look at Shen Qi: This king told you earlier that when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman wins.

Shen Qi remained silent in a gloomy manner.

King Yu said: "The Tiangong Academy was first established, and there are many things to be raised. As the founder and dean, how can you leave? It's better to stay in the capital. If you don't want to say this, I will go to the emperor to mention it. .”

For the first time, Shen Qi sincerely agrees with King Yu's statement, even if it's just one sentence.

Su Yan said: "I can't be the dean, at most I can be an honorary dean. As for me, I have a lot of ideas, but my professional level is not good. Only when a prince sits in charge, can he not be attacked or eaten away by the old pedants of the Ministry of Rites, and become the second Imperial College.

"In addition, we must invite a recognized master to serve as the dean in order to convince the public. The master should preferably come from the "right way" of the imperial examination, which is beyond reproach by civil servants, but he must also have outstanding achievements in Gephysics...it's difficult. "

King Yu said: "This palace has previously recruited a group of talented people who study things. You can see if there are any suitable ones."

"Okay. I still remember a few people's names, but I don't know... Parallel... Butterfly..." Su Yan lost his voice as he spoke, as if he had suffered a brain injury, and fell asleep due to lack of thoughts.

The other two people in the carriage unconsciously held their breath, for fear of disturbing him, they asked Su Xiaobei to drive slowly.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Su Yan woke up because of a jolt, and shouted: "——Dust Explosion!"

"what?"

"But had a nightmare?"

Su Yan sat up with the support of the two, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "The explosion in the underground hall is not gunpowder. Because if the gunpowder is pre-buried and there is no timing device, the other party cannot accurately detonate when we enter, unless Leave a dead man as the detonator."

"At that time, there was no one else around the hall except us. I can be sure of that." King Yu said, "That's why I took you in with confidence."

Shen Qi also nodded.

Su Yan knows that after cultivating internal strength to a certain level, the hearing and eyesight are much more sensitive than ordinary people, and he can even sense the mysterious "sword intent" and "murderous aura". It belongs to another realm, and has nothing to do with him, a scholar who has no power to restrain a chicken.

Since King Yu and Shen Qi both said that there was no one else nearby, then there should be no one else.

Ah Zhui, Fuyin, and the behind-the-scenes person Fuyin was going to meet had already left.And they were delayed by digging the entrance from the ruins, and they didn't catch up.

But before the behind-the-scenes person left, he left a big gift for the pursuers——

As soon as Su Yan thought of this, he began to look at his skirt and sleeves, but if he didn't find it, he began to untie his belt again.

"What are you doing? Put it back on quickly!" Shen Qi immediately pressed his hand and said with a frown.

Su Yan ignored him, and went to pull his belt and skirt.

"...If you really want to do something, we'll talk about it when we get back home." The corners of Shen Qi's eyes were red, as if they were holding back, but also as if they were burning, "The timing is wrong, the location is wrong."

After King Yu came back to his senses, he looked at Shen Qi sideways, as if he was about to make a move in the next moment, and threw him out of the carriage: "The number of people is also wrong."

Su Yan scolded: "What the hell do you have in your mind other than yellow waste!"

He picked out some white powder from the seam of Shen Qi's clothes, stretched out his finger and said, "Identify it?"

Shen Qi sniffed, then licked his fingertips, "... flour."

King Yu's fist wind went directly towards Shen Qi's front, trying to make his nose bloom.Shen Qi dodged sideways, pulled her cracked ribs, and let out a muffled snort.

Su Yan thought he had hit him, so he slapped King Yu's arm: "Why did you hit someone suddenly? Is it reasonable?!"

King Yu was afraid that he would be hurt by the shock of his true energy, so he withdrew his energy quickly.

The slap on the arm didn't hurt at all, but King Yu felt depressed, and his tone of annoyance revealed a bit of grievance: "It's okay for him to be rude, but I can't teach him a lesson?"

"He's a dog." Su Yan wasn't thinking about being jealous, so he casually added a sentence, and asked again: "You also check if there is any powder on your body, is it flour?"

King Yu suddenly sneered, "This king is also a dog." Immediately, he grabbed his hand, licked another finger that was stained with powder, and made a very erotic sucking sound.

Crisp, numb, itchy, like an electric current rushing from the fingertips all the way to the lower abdomen, Su Yan's face turned red, his eyebrows were furious.

Before he became angry, King Yu let go, sat back in his seat, and replied very solemnly: "It is indeed flour."

Shen Qi stood up with the knife, afraid of accidental injury due to the narrow space, so she slapped it with the scabbard.King Yu blocked with one hand, and bent his elbow to hit his waist and eyes with the other.

The carriage was bumped again, and Su Xiaobei called out on purpose: "My lord, are you okay, my lord? Did you get shaken?"

Su Yan took a deep breath, told himself to be calm, it's not worth getting angry over the two dogs, and said in a low voice, "Sit back! If you hit me again, get out of my carriage!"

He straightened his clothes and fastened his belt, and when he saw the two of them finally sat down resignedly, he let out a sigh of relief, "I'm dizzy, what did I say just now?"

Shen Qi: "Flour."

King Yu: "The dust... exploded."

"That's right. Before the man left, he triggered the mechanism in the hall. As long as the door leading to the secret passage of Linhua Pavilion is pushed open from the outside, a lot of flour will be sprinkled on the roof. In the semi-enclosed space, people who meet The open fire in the hands of the soldiers caused a dust explosion."

The dust explosion is powerful. In his previous life, he had seen a sugar dust explosion in a sugar factory. The four-story building was turned into ruins in an instant, and all the steel and concrete were blown to pieces.Of course, the explosive power is not comparable to the same amount of TNT, but compared with the black powder of this era, it is not inferior.

"Moreover, after the first dust explosion, the air waves will blow up the dust accumulated on the ground, triggering a second explosion. The dust concentration of the second explosion will be higher than that of the first explosion, and the power will be more violent."

Su Yan still remembers the scientific explanation he saw on the Internet in his previous life, saying that it was because the center of the explosion would form an instantaneous negative pressure zone, the air would flow to the center of the explosion to be fully oxidized, and the raised dust would form multiple dust clouds around it, causing a series of explosions. until the concentration decreases.

King Yu nodded: "The imperial court strictly controls gunpowder and firearms. Except for making fireworks and firecrackers, the folks are not allowed to mass-produce gunpowder. Even if it is prepared, the purity is low. This king also has some doubts. The Seven Killing Battalion, how can they get a lot of gunpowder?"

Shen Qi asked: "The explosion of the powder magazine in Baizhifang, could it be also a dust explosion?"

Su Yan shook his head: "I'm not sure about that. But the gunpowder depot is a dangerous place and must be heavily guarded. If the opponent can sneak into it and detonate the stored gunpowder, maybe there is an internal response."

Shen Qi said: "I heard that there are frequent changes at the border. Da Ming may go to war with Oara and Tartar. At this delicate juncture, the gunpowder in the Ministry of War exploded, the preparations for the war were short of ammunition, and the disaster relief wasted manpower and material resources. No matter how you look at it, I feel that the other party is paying attention sinister."

Beizhen Fusi is good at assassination and well-informed. Su Yan didn't ask him how he learned about the border military situation, and nodded in agreement: "Two birds with one stone... Maybe there are more than two birds..."

The carriage stopped at this moment, and Xiao Bei called out: "My lord, I'm home." He jumped off the shaft and went to move the steps.

Su Yan stood up, his ears were ringing, his eyes went dark for a while, and he didn't know who was holding him.

He murmured: "This concussion is a bit serious. I seem to have forgotten recent events... I can't remember, where did I go tonight? Why did I go?"

Shen Qi and King Yu looked at each other, and saw the nervousness and worry in each other's eyes.

Shen Qi helped him sit down slowly, and said in a gentle voice: "You and Ruan Hongjiao went to Linhua Pavilion tonight. After I found out, I was worried, so I went too."

King Yu said: "This king followed Yin Fu to Linhua Pavilion, met you, Shen Qi, and Jing Hongchai who was disguised as 'Red Girl'."

Shen Qi cursed inwardly: "I just feel that the red girl is very seductive, but it really is that grass-roots woman's dress, who is trying to force Qing He to groom him but fails."Thief thing, sooner or later he will be done!

Su Yan remembered most of it in a trance, and said, "Yes, Ah Zhui pretended to inquire about it because of Fuyin. The night he found the blood lotus mark at the bottom of the wall in the dark alley, Fuyin would go to Linhua Pavilion, so tonight—"

The following words came to an abrupt end, Su Yan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly punched the wall of the carriage, Shen Qi and Prince Yu both used their palms to cushion it.

Su Yan gritted his teeth and said, "——a good chess move!"

"how?"

"What did you think of?"

The more Su Yan thought about it, the more depressed he felt that he shouldn't have made this mistake, "Tonight, you, me, him, Ah Zhui, Fuyin... have all become that person's pawns and are held in this corner. Everyone's attention They are all in this Linhua Pavilion, even the emperor is no exception. The Nancheng Bingmasi's brigade came to accurately catch prostitutes, isn't it because of the order from above? It also unintentionally weakened the night patrol power of Baizhifang. "

"Cultivating plank roads in the open, keeping Chen Cang in the dark." Su Yan sighed, "Last time in the Kunning Palace round, he played 'violent', and I played 'filial piety', which won him a hand. This time I didn't check one, but he pulled it back Bureau, using Linhua Pavilion as a cover, blowing up the gunpowder magazine. I... I'm depressed..."

Shen Qi persuaded: "Since it's a game of chess, it's inevitable that each will win or lose, and the other party is in the same layout, intertwined. I won't check for a while, and then break the game and fight back. Don't be too upset."

King Yu also said: "The hundred secrets are sparse, and people are not gods, so how can they be prophets?"

Su Yan was still depressed, and supported the door frame and got out of the car step by step, chanting: "Leaving the teacher - before winning - dying first, the envoy - the hero - burst into tears..."

King Yu looked at Shen Qi, and said in a low voice: "This incident has dealt a big blow to Qinghe, what should I do?"

Shen Qi frowned and thought: "He met a strong opponent, lost a move and was injured, I'm afraid it will be hard tonight..."

"Someone has to be with you, untie, untie."

Shen Qi became vigilant, "The lower officials will do their best, don't bother the prince."

King Yu laughed and said, "You will be stopped by the imperial guards after three steps, believe it or not? Only this king can go in, and they dare not stop you."

The two were saying goodbye to each other, Su Xiaobei moved the step ladder back to the car, and muttered: "I miss you too much."

"What do you mean?" King Yu and Shen Qi turned to stare at him.

Suddenly I heard Su Yan's voice coming from inside the door: "Xiao Jing, is breakfast ready? I'm starving to death! I won't eat spring pancakes, enemas, or spicy soup today. I want porridge with vegetables and eggs. Master, I just vomited it. Nourish the stomach."

After a pause, he added another sentence: "At noon, eat roast duck and stewed lamb chops with wolfberries. After nourishing the stomach, you need tonic."

Shen Qi Yu Wang: "..."

Su Xiaobei: "Let's just say you two are overthinking. Your Excellency is fine. You can eat and sleep, and you can continue to work."