"Military merit?"

Zhao Guangyi's eyes widened.

You should know that he had enough achievements in the water conservancy of Huainan in cultural governance. Everyone in the court understood that when the water conservancy of Huainan was completed, it would be the day when he officially became king.

It is precisely because of the Huainan Water Conservancy that he chose to punish Sun Chunming for a small punishment and was still willing to see him. Otherwise, if he had been so ungrateful before, he would have turned against him.

However, no matter how great the contribution of the water conservancy is, it is still a merit of civil governance. It still cannot change the fact that Zhao Guangyi has never fought a war and has no military achievements. In the morning court, I said that you have never fought a war so I don’t understand. How frustrated he is!

It can be said that he was crazy about military merit!

"Military merit? My brother cannot agree to me on the battlefield. Even if he is fighting the Northern Han Dynasty, it is not my turn to lead the troops himself. Besides, with my current status, it would be useless if I don't lead the commander all the way. Where did I get the military merit for me?"

Sun Chunming said confidently: "Who stipulates that if you don't go to the battlefield, you will have no military achievements?"

Zhao Guangyi was overjoyed and grabbed Sun Chunming's hand and said, "Is there such a solution? Tell me quickly!"

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "I remembered it, but Xia Guan was hungry for a day and didn't eat anything. He was a little empty-minded. What am I trying to say?"

Zhao Guangyi laughed and scolded, "Why, you still have any reason, right? Do you still remember my grudge?" He said, "Madam, Madam? Go and let the kitchen, steam a few more crabs for Chun Ge'er to eat, and pick the mother's cook."

After a while, Fu came out with a tray of crabs himself, and without retreating, she simply sat next to her.

This was naturally a joke made by Sun Chunming. Zhao Guangyi did not let Fu retreat. Although the cracks between the two had been planted, Sun Chunming also knew that Zhao Guangyi could not trust him as much as before, but both of them tacitly chose to pretend as they were and try their best to pretend that everything was the same.

When Sun Chunming ate two big crabs weighing half a pound in one breath, he drank half a bottle of rice wine with satisfaction, and finally got so beautiful. Zhao Guangyi smiled and said, "Are you full? Do you remember?"

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "Just about to report to the Second King, the lower official has a firecracker factory in Langzhou. Does the Second King know?"

"I know, what's wrong?"

"Xiaguan has made a lot of money over the years, but the second king thought he knew that most of this money was spent on gunpowder improvement and glazed improvement. At present, the glazed improvement has not yet been seen, but the gunpowder improvement has already made a name for itself. Because of the research of this new type of gunpowder, hundreds of people have been killed in half a year. Fortunately, this thing has been researched in Dasong."

"Oh? Well, Sun Chunming, why are you talking about a coincidence? Did you only develop your new gunpowder today?"

Sun Chunming smiled bitterly and said, "The two kings Mingjian, the new gunpowder was indeed not researched today. To be precise, it has not been researched until today. First, the output cannot keep up, and only a dozen kilograms are produced in a day. Second, the safety problem is still not solved. People will be killed from time to time during the production process. Although it is getting fewer and fewer, it is still inevitable. Alas, I will pay 80 kens of money to kill a worker. In the past few months, I will pay tens of thousands of dollars for life alone. I originally planned to take it out after the technology is truly mature."

"Oh? Then what does it mean to take it out now? What does this have to do with the military merits you mentioned?"

"The new gunpowder of the second king, Xiaguan, is not the same as the ordinary gunpowder before. In fact, there is no easy use of ordinary gunpowder on the battle formation. Moreover, the number is very small, so it is impossible to equip the army. It will not take long to use it. If you want to apply it in the actual field, there is still a long way to go. At present, the main application direction of this thing is to open mountains and build roads."

"Create mountains and build roads... and attack Shu?"

"Yes, when we go back to the two kings, it was the attack of Shu. Jiange was majestic and magnificent. It has never been broken from the front in history. No matter how we attacked, Jianmen's natural danger is a hurdle that our Song army cannot overcome. With this danger, it is difficult for the Song Dynasty to enter Shu as if it is ascended to the sky. But the same is true, as long as we break Jianmen Pass and the fertile land of Sichuan Mansion, it will be all in our pockets. This object may help the army to break Jianmen!"

Zhao Guangyi was very interested when he heard this. Even if he didn't understand military affairs, he knew that the difficulty of attacking Shu was the difficulty of Jianmen. Whoever could break the Jianmen Pass was the best achievement. He heard this and said anxiously: "Tell me in detail."

"Please follow me to see the power of the new gunpowder, you will know at first sight."

“Where to go?”

"We have to leave the city. It's a bit late today. Why don't we go tomorrow?"

"No, just today, now, take a walk and make arrangements right away."

Seeing Zhao Guangyi being so anxious, Sun Chunming had to let him go. An hour later, Sun Chunming and Zhao Guangyi appeared on a barren mountain more than ten miles outside Kaifeng City with only a small number of followers.

It was autumn in the middle of the night, but there were still many mosquitoes in the wilderness. Zhao Guangyi felt extremely unhappy about this and said impatiently: "What do you want me to see?"

"Okay, the second king, I'll introduce it to you."

As he said that, Sun Chunming introduced a middle-aged man who seemed quite rustic and said, "The Second King, this is a manager of my Langzhou factory. This new gunpowder is carried with him. Let's retreat, it's dangerous."

Zhao Guangyi said disdainfully: "Do you think I haven't let go of the cannon? How dangerous can it be?"

Sun Chunming smiled bitterly and said, "The Second King, it's really dangerous. You'd better retreat quickly. This new gunpowder technology is not yet mature, and even he himself cannot guarantee that he will survive after tonight. The reason he asked him to come and try is because he signed a life-and-death contract with me. You'd better retreat. If you are injured, I can't afford to take it."

Seeing that Sun Chunming said so seriously, Zhao Guangyi was a little nervous. After thinking about it, he stopped showing off his heroes and followed Sun Chunming to stay away from the craftsman.

But the craftsman did not take out the new gunpowder, but instead took out a hammer and chisel, and chiseled it up on the mountain with a twitch.

"What is he doing? Didn't he say he wanted to demonstrate new gunpowder?"

"The two kings will be there in a moment."

After waiting for a while, the craftsman trembled and carefully took out a huge package from his body as if he was pilgrimage. He opened it carefully and it was actually... still a package inside.

Open it again, it's a package.

Just fight like this, fight for a quarter of an hour, and finally took out a small box from the big package that was half a person, which was not much bigger than a human head.

"No, I'm sick, right? I've put more than forty layers of packages in it and just put them in such a small box."

In response to this, Sun Chunming had to smile bitterly, "There is no way, who made this technology immature?"

When Zhao Guangyi opened the box, he found that it was just a metal tube about two feet long inside, and he couldn't help but frowned slightly.

If Sun Yue was here and saw this thing, he would turn around and run. He would run as far as he could. Then it was clearly a detonator!! It was also an extremely unstable type, because with the technique of the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to produce nitroglycerin with sufficient purity.

In other words, that thing is an irregular time bomb that no one knows when it will explode.
Chapter completed!