Cao Fang thought for a moment, looked at Ma Jun, and said seriously: "This matter must not be hidden. The news of today's test explosion will soon reach Chang'an."
Ma Jun also nodded slightly.
The sound of explosive test explosions cannot be concealed. This is different from other weapons development, which can be done secretly. This thing must be tested, and the experiment will make noise.
In addition, Ma Jun is responsible for the development of weapons and equipment, and must be the subject of the Han spies' constant attention. Even if he wants to stay away from Luoyang and go to an uninhabited place to develop secretly, it will be difficult to do so.<
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"Ma Aiqing!" Cao Fang looked at Ma Jun and asked, "If I want to throw this thing into the battlefield, Aiqing, how long do you think it will take?"
Since this matter cannot be concealed, there is no need to think about what to hide, and we can directly take the countermeasures as if the Han knew about it and immediately used force against the Wei Dynasty.
Ma Jun was silent for a moment, then bowed to Cao Fang and said: "If there are enough manpower, I can have this thing put on the battlefield within half a year, which can ensure the supply of the battlefield."
When Cao Fang heard this, he immediately waved his hands and said: "No, half a year is too long. If the Han Dynasty takes action in advance, the Han army will have already invaded Luoyang before Wei Dynasty used explosives in the war." He also said with a look on his face
With a sad face, he stared at Ma Jun and said: "I can only give you three months. In three months, I want the Wei army, and I can use explosives."
Before Ma Jun could reply, Cao Fang said again: "As long as I can finish it in three months, I will satisfy you twice as much, no matter the person or thing!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Ma Jun did not refute, and immediately thanked him.
"How many people are needed?" Cao Fang asked.
Now for the Wei Dynasty, time is the most precious, and it can be described as racing against time, because the Wei Dynasty has just developed it, but the Han Dynasty has already used explosives on the battlefields of the Western Regions and won a great victory on the battlefield of Soochow.
Time waits for no one.
"Back to Your Majesty!" Ma Jun said immediately: "Three thousand people are enough. If Your Majesty can send 3,000 people to assist me, I can guarantee that I, the Wei Dynasty, will have rocket launchers in three months."
"Three thousand people?" Cao Fang paused and said loudly: "I will give Aiqing 10,000 people and start mass production immediately. The sooner the better."
"No!" Ma Jun immediately said in admiration: "Wei Chen will do it now!"
With that said, Ma Jun exited the imperial study, while Cao Fang looked at Ma Jun's back and said to herself expectantly: Ma Aiqing, I hope you will not disappoint me or Wei.
At this time, Cao Fang placed all her hopes on Ma Jun.
He hoped that Ma Jun could develop a large number of advanced weapons in a short period of time. Only with enough advanced weapons could the Wei Dynasty be able to compete with the powerful Han Dynasty.
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Cao Fang's guess was correct. On the fifth day after the Luoyang test explosion was successful, the Han Emperor Liu Chan, who was in Chang'an, received the news.
Xuanshi Hall.
Liu Chan slapped the imperial desk and angrily scolded the kneeling people in front of the palace: "Who leaked the formula of gunpowder...Who?"
The people in front of the palace were all trembling with fear. The leader was Fu'an, the eunuch in charge of the palace. He was Liu Chan's personal eunuch in Chengdu and had always been deeply trusted by Liu Chan. After all, he was the emperor's personal eunuch.
After moving the capital to Chang'an, Fu'an would watch many of Liu Chan's novel research and development.
Over time, Liu Chan directly handed over the responsibility for the preparation of gunpowder to him for supervision. Now that Cao Wei has developed gunpowder, it is no wonder that Cao Wei must have obtained the formula from the Han Dynasty.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to know how to prepare gunpowder based on the war between Han and Wu.
"Your Majesty!" Fu'an said tremblingly: "The formula was stolen. It's the old slave's crime, and it's the old slave's crime. Please punish me."
As a supervisory eunuch, Fu'an didn't know who leaked the secret.
But he is the supervisory eunuch. If the formula is stolen, he must bear the main responsibility.
Liu Chan looked at Fu'an and roared angrily: "You are indeed guilty, and it is a big crime. The gunpowder formula was stolen. In the future, our Han soldiers will lose their lives on the battlefield."
"Fu'an!" Liu Chan called.
"The old slave is here!" Fu'an responded.
"I give you three days..." Liu Chan looked at Fu'an with a livid face: "Within three days, you must find out who leaked the secret and find out who leaked the gunpowder formula, otherwise... hum!"<
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"Promise, I obey the order!" Fu'an immediately agreed.
When Fu'an and others exited the Xuanshi Palace, Liu Chan fell into deep thought.
There were not many people who knew the formula of gunpowder. In total, there were no more than ten people. In addition to himself, there were also the prime minister and the prince, and the rest were a few chamberlains headed by Fu'an.
Naturally, Liu Chan would not doubt that the prime minister and the prince were both virtuous prime ministers of the Han Dynasty, who devoted their whole lives to allowing the Han Dynasty to unify the Central Plains as soon as possible and restore the former Han Dynasty.
The other is his own son, the crown prince of the Han Dynasty, and the future emperor of the Han Dynasty. It is even more impossible for him to leak the formula of gunpowder.
The spies must be among a few servants.
Liu Chan temporarily handed over the investigation of the spy to Fu'an. He could not think about it for the time being. What he should think about now is how to deal with this matter.
The emergence of gunpowder itself is a product that changes the times.
For example, in the history of the past life, when gunpowder became the protagonist of war, the world structure and the human structure will undergo qualitative changes.
"Come here!" Liu Chan suddenly called.
A chamberlain walked in slowly, Liu Chan wrote quickly, wrote a letter, handed it to the chamberlain, and said seriously: "Send this letter to Wuchang immediately and hand it into the hands of the prime minister!"
"No!"
The servant did not dare to neglect. The emperor had never communicated with the prime minister in this way. In the past, when the prime minister needed to be summoned, he could just send someone to invite him, or he could just tell the emperor orally that he wanted to summon him.
Today is different, the emperor wrote a letter directly.
The matter is serious.
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"Let's talk about it!" Fu'an looked at everyone in the room and said in a deep voice: "Who was lax and leaked state secrets?"
None of the chamberlains dared to talk to each other. This matter is no small matter.
The crime of leaking state secrets... must be punished by the nine tribes.
Seeing that several people were silent, Fu'an looked around one by one with a livid face, and said with a cold snort: "Whoever leaked the information had better come forward. If I find out, I will make sure that he lives or dies.
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Still no one answered, but it is certain that the leaker is among them, because they all know that apart from the emperor, prime minister, and prince, they are the only people who know the formula of gunpowder.
As for the production workshops, they are divided into several batches. It is impossible for them to know the ratio of gunpowder, so the leakers will only be among them.
It is impossible that the prime minister was too busy, the emperor was self-righteous, or the emperor was stupid and leaked such an important secret.
"Who did it?" Suddenly a chamberlain roared: "Since you have done it, you should be brave enough to do it and not hurt other people."
"Hmph!" As soon as that person finished speaking, another person stood up and snorted directly: "Could it be that thieves shout to catch thieves?"
"Li Quan! You!" The man suddenly became furious: "What do you mean? Do you mean that I, Deng Yu, leaked secrets?" As he spoke, Deng Yu cupped his hands in the direction of Xuanshi Palace and said, "I, Deng Yu, have been deeply favored by the emperor.
, even if you go up a mountain of swords and go down a pan of oil, there will never be any leakage."
"Haha!" Li Quan smiled and said lightly: "Only you know this."
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This chapter has been completed!