The steward held the paper and left the room with a somewhat wandering step.
Xiao Han returned to the table and sat down, picked up the water glass on the table and drank again.
Are the salt sellers being killed here today? How come the food is so salty?!
"Xiao Han!"
Seeing Xiaodong and Lengzi getting up, packing their lunch boxes and walking out of the room, Ren Qing, who had been silent all this time, suddenly called Xiao Han for the first time.
Xiao Han had just drank a large amount of water at this time. When he heard Ren Qing calling him, he was so surprised that he almost poured a glass of water into his nostrils!
"Ahem...what are you doing?!" He hurriedly lowered his head and wiped the water flowing out from the corners of his nose and mouth. Xiao Han looked at Ren Qing with gritted teeth.
Ren Qing still had the same rigid look, showing no other expression at all because of Xiao Han's embarrassment.
He just looked at Xiao Han seriously and asked: "You came all this way in person this time just to give him the drawing?"
"Nonsense! What else can we do?" Xiao Han heard this, shook the water on his hand, and rolled his eyes at Ren Qingda!
He thought the black-faced monster suddenly spoke because something big was going on! Who would have thought that just asking this made him almost choke to death on the water.
Ren Qing looked at Xiao Han and frowned slightly. He didn't care about his rudeness. He just said in a slightly puzzled tone: "For this kind of matter, as the person in charge here, you can just give an order. Why come so far?"
here?"
"What's your order?" Xiao Han took a breath, stared at Ren Qing like an idiot, and said, "What's your order? Get an official letter and tell them to stop playing with gunpowder. There's no way to play with it anyway.
What's the point of being famous? Why don't you change your career as soon as possible?
Do you believe that if I do this, they will leave you an empty workshop the next day?!"
After listening to Xiao Han's obviously sarcastic words, Ren Qing did not speak back, but fell silent again.
It has to be said that although he has been out of the military for many years, many times his thoughts are still the same as those in the military!
He always thought that everyone should obey the superior's command unconditionally, but he forgot that these people were craftsmen, or master craftsmen with extraordinary skills, and all of them had a higher eye than the top!
As Xiao Han said, if you don't explain things clearly to them face to face! If these craftsmen have bad tempers, even if there are guards outside to stop them from leaving, they will still give you up and stop working.
"So, that's it!" Wanting to understand the secret, Ren Qing took another look at Xiao Han in front of him.
He used to think that this kid was clear about big things and confused about small things! He never thought that this kid would think so delicately about small things.
"Why are you looking at me? Have you never seen such a handsome guy?"
On the opposite side, Xiao Han noticed his behavior and immediately put on a cynical and proud look, making Ren Qing, who had just looked at him differently, dumbfounded again.
Hey, this kid, what should I say to him?
Shaking his head helplessly, Ren Qing, who was sitting in his seat, suddenly remembered something again. He looked up at Xiao Han and asked: "By the way, there is one more thing I want to ask you: Are there any other holidays between you and Li Jing?"
"Li Jing?"
Xiao Han was stunned when he heard the name, and asked strangely: "We are neighbors, how can we have a holiday? Two days ago, his brother Li Shentong ran into my house and stayed there, and even the dogs couldn't drive him away! Or did he do it himself?
Come and sneak this guy back."
"You didn't celebrate the festival?" Ren Qing frowned. He believed that Xiao Han would not lie to him, but...
"Then the proportion of firearms under his command..."
Ren Qing only said half of this sentence, and Xiao Han suddenly understood why he asked about this.
It turns out that in the past few days, apart from being busy with matters in Zhuangzi, most of his energy was spent on equipping the Tang Dynasty's army preparing for the Northern Expedition with various firearms.
The armies of Liu Hongji, Chai Shao, and even Xue Wanche have successively received many firearms, and there are also dedicated people to guide them in learning how to use firearms.
But only the light cavalry led by Li Jing himself has not made any movement so far.
It is even said that Xiao Han did not write down the firearms given to him on the top-secret supply and demand list that only the Western Courtyard and the imperial court bosses could see!
This point in the eyes of other interested people would naturally lead to various speculations, but Xiao Han did not expect that even Ren Qing, who had never asked about this, was aware of this and then asked himself.
"Hey, Lao Ren, you have wronged me. It's not that I don't give it, but that he doesn't want it!"
After thinking about this clearly, Xiao Han sighed and said to Ren Qing with a wry smile: "This guy told me personally that he has secretly rehearsed every step of the conquest of the Turks countless times in the past three years!
Although our firearms are powerful, no one can be sure of their usefulness in actual combat! So to be on the safe side, he does not intend to use these new and uncertain weapons."
"But the power of firearms is obvious to all! Anyone who has seen it will say that it is a weapon that can overwhelm a city or destroy a stronghold!" Ren Qing became excited in a rare moment, and his dark face even showed signs of turning red. Maybe it was because of Li Jing's stubbornness.
, still excited that Xiao Han failed to persuade Li Jing to use firearms.
"Actually..." Xiao Han glanced at Ren Qing, who was a little out of character, and said in a low voice, "I don't approve of him using firearms either!"
"What?"
Ren Qing's expression finally changed completely! He looked like he didn't recognize Xiao Han, and stared at him with a pair of eyes.
The firearm was almost made by Xiao Han. Perhaps no one in this world knows its power better than Xiao Han!
He actually disapproved of using such an unparalleled weapon that could influence the situation on the battlefield in this battle that was destined to be crucial to the future destiny of the Tang Dynasty?!
"Why!" He gritted his teeth and asked these words. If Ren Qing hadn't known Xiao Han for many years, he would probably have regarded him as a Turkic spy!
In the past three years, the West Campus where he worked has been holding its breath, thinking about researching the best weapons to deal with the enemies of the Tang Dynasty!
Now three years have passed, and the West Academy has achieved a lot of results. It is ready to start this war and establish the West Academy's unparalleled status. But Xiao Han said no, so there is no need?
"There is no reason. If there is, it is that the current firearms are not what I expected."
Xiao Han sighed softly, avoided Ren Qing's eyes, and looked outside.
At the beginning, he proposed the three-year plan. At that time, he was optimistic and thought that in three years, even if he was good at picking, he would be able to pick out a gun.
But he forgot that nothing in this world is achieved overnight.
After consuming the little knowledge he had in his stomach, let alone a rifled gun, even a shotgun was limited by material issues and could not be produced.
Nowadays, the only thing that can be used, apart from various mines, is the iron pipe used in Yangzhou last time.
