In the courtyard.
Several middle-aged people dressed up by craftsmen were all overjoyed after panicking. One of them said excitedly: "Master craftsman, master craftsman, we succeeded."
"We succeeded!"
Ma Jun was still sitting on the ground. He was shocked by the loud noise just now.
Scared.
"Success!"
"Success!"
With the help of his attendants, Ma Jun stood up slowly and kept saying: "We succeeded, we succeeded."
As of two months ago, the emperor told him that the Han army's new weapons were made of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. After returning,
Ma Jun spent every day thinking about it in his room.
Half a month ago.
He mixed a small amount of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal together, and then ignited it.
There was a flash of fire in an instant, and a piece of his left hand was burned because of this experiment.
But he didn't care about the injury to his hand.
On the contrary, he was very excited.
It turns out that putting these three things together can produce such an effect.
In the next half month, he conducted different experiments, but the quantities were relatively small, so they did not cause such a noise as today. Even if nearby residents heard the previous experiments, they would at most think that firecrackers were being made here.
But today was different. He followed the emperor's instructions and used bamboo tubes to conduct experiments.
He filled this bamboo tube with almost three kilograms of explosives and some scraps of iron.
The experiment was placed in the open space in the middle of their yard to prevent danger.
They piled a lot of firewood on the bamboo tube, and after lighting it, everyone retreated to the distant room, and then watched the effect through the small window.
When a loud noise came out, everyone in the room was shocked.
The violent explosion shook the mud chunks on the ground, and the iron pieces in the bamboo tubes hit the surrounding buildings, making a thumping sound.
"Congratulations, master craftsman!"
"Congratulations, master craftsman!"
Everyone is very excited. They are all Ma Jun's subordinates and will participate in every invention of Ma Jun, including the water wheel, the modification of the three-bow bed crossbow, etc.
This time when developing explosives, Ma Jun still asked them to help make them.
Ma Jun and others came to the middle of the yard and looked at a pit on the ground. Ma Jun frowned slightly from time to time and sighed: "The emergence of this thing will change human wars, and more people will die because of it in the future."
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Hearing this, everyone was stunned.
One of them said: "Now the Han army has this thing. If we, the Wei Dynasty, don't have this thing,
They will surely kill you."
"Yeah!" Ma Jun nodded after hearing this.
Sighed and said: "Yes,
If we, the Wei Dynasty, do not have this thing, it will not be long before the Wei Dynasty will be destroyed like Soochow."
"Master craftsman!" Another person said again: "The successful experiment should be reported to your majesty immediately, and then we can mass-produce it." He paused and said with a sad face: "If the Han army knows that I am a master,
Wei also has this thing... I'm afraid... I'm afraid that the Han army will launch a war to destroy Wei in advance."
As soon as the man finished speaking, Ma Jun was startled and immediately said: "Prepare the car! Prepare the car! I want to enter the palace to meet His Majesty, hurry, hurry!"
This person reminded Ma Jun, because the loud noise just now may have been heard by many people in Luoyang.
The Wei Dynasty can send spies into Chang'an to find out the news, wouldn't the powerful Han Dynasty send people to Luoyang to find out the news?
...
Luoyang Imperial Palace.
In the royal study.
"Your Majesty!" Ma Jun said worriedly: "The news that Wei Dynasty has developed explosives may soon reach Chang'an."
Cao Fang was shocked when he heard this. As an emperor, of course he could think of this.
As the so-called empathy is concerned, Cao Fang knows this best.
For example, many years ago, when the late emperor was captured during his personal expedition, King Yan came to Beijing with the intention of ascending to the throne. At that time, an old eunuch told him.
His Highness now has to pretend that he has no interest in the throne, and especially does not want to be the emperor.
Cao Fang was puzzled at the time and asked the eunuch why.
The eunuch said, if His Highness were King Yan, would he allow a prince who had ambitions to become emperor? And this prince was also the candidate designated by the late emperor to be crown prince?
Cao Fang was still very young at that time. Although he didn't know much about court fighting, he felt that what the old eunuch said was reasonable, so he shouted in support of King Yan's ascension to the throne every day, especially when there was a group of people in the court who supported his ascension to the throne.
I am still pretending that I am too young to govern and may harm the country. It would be more appropriate for King Yan to ascend the throne. I do not want to be the emperor.
Because of his reactions, he temporarily fooled King Cao Yu of Yan.
Of course, what's more important is that less than half a year after King Yan became emperor, the late emperor led his troops back to Luoyang and drove away King Yan.
Later, every time Cao Fang encountered something, he could always look at the problem from the perspective of others. For example, when General Cao Shuang was in charge, he would stand in Cao Shuang's shoes and think about it. If an emperor was too assertive, Cao Shuang, as a general,
Will you be willing to serve a young emperor who is still young?
The answer is no.
Therefore, when facing Cao Shuang, Cao Fang always obeyed his advice and left all matters concerning government affairs to Cao Shuang.
Later, after the Gaoping Ling Incident, he thought that Sima Yi should be the same, so he obeyed Sima Yi's words. Although he could not control the government, he became a puppet emperor in name only.
But——
The puppet emperor, at least for the time being, does not have to worry about his life safety.
But as time went by, he discovered that Sima Yi was not Cao Shuang. Sima Yi had greater ambitions. Cao Shuang would at least respect him as an emperor on the surface, perhaps because they were both Cao's family members.
Sima Yi is different.
When Sima Yi took control of the government, he ignored him at all, even if he was too lazy to show off. Cao Fang once again took Sima Yi's position, and he felt scared, because if he were Sima Yi, he would treat the emperor with the same attitude.
What does this mean?
It shows that sooner or later he will be deposed as emperor.
Or, it will take his life.
Even the Cao family will change their surname to Sima.
Thinking of this, Cao Fang decided to strike first and seize the opportunity to capture Sima Yi and his son when Sima Yi first took charge of the government and there were still a large number of officials in the court supporting Cao.
Because Cao Fang naturally knew very well how the empire of the Wei Dynasty came about.
Emperor Wen could allow Emperor Xian to abdicate, couldn't Sima Yi and his son do the same?
Moreover, Emperor Wu Cao Cao had heard the saying that an eagle looks at a wolf while he was very young, so he got rid of Sima Yi and his son and formally took control of the military and political power of the Wei Dynasty.
Now Wei has developed explosives.
This thing was originally only available to the Han Dynasty. This thing was made by the Emperor Liu Chan of the Han Dynasty. Whether it was in the Western Regions or in the previous Han-Wu wars, the Han Dynasty relied on this thing to win.
As the same emperor, Cao Fang suddenly panicked... If I were Emperor Liu Chan of the Han Dynasty and learned that the Wei Dynasty had also developed explosives... how would I respond?
As soon as he asked himself, Cao Fang was shocked and said... I will definitely send troops to attack the Wei Dynasty in advance, and destroy the Wei Dynasty before the Wei Dynasty can officially use this explosive on the battlefield.
This will reduce the threat to the Han Dynasty.
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This chapter has been completed!