Chapter 863

Luoyang, the capital of gods.

There is a side hall for the imperial officials.

It's totally different here.

Outside the official palace, Night Breeze ordered people to build a dike-like thing that was as high as the palace.

Its thickness is even exactly the same as the city wall.

It was also just a small door opened, and the small door only allowed carriages to pass through, which seemed extremely mysterious.

This was actually a fire embankment specially built by Night Breeze.

After all, in the future, gunpowder will be developed here. Once an explosion occurs due to improper operation, there will be a fire embankment, so it will not spread to other palaces and cause a large-scale fire accident.

There are only two official palaces here, one official palace is basically used as a warehouse, and the other palace is the place where the Taoists of the Danding School brought by Xu Gui work.

The place where they work is also different from other official palaces.

Each alchemy furnace is separated by steel plates, and the middle is filled with extremely fire-resistant clay.

As for the warehouse, this is even more so. There are even quantitative signs on the walls. In short, the raw materials cannot exceed the specified quantity. These are some safety measures.

As for the place where they rested, it was no longer in this mysterious palace, but outside the thick "city wall", an official palace guarded by special personnel.

The large scale simply flattered the group of Taoists.

The leader is Xu Gui's confidant Xu Qingfeng.

This is to show that Xu Gui attaches great importance to this. After all, the emperor treats him with the utmost benevolence. For an overseas Chinese, he knows that it is not good to repay him.

Obviously, the name Xu Qingfeng has not been affected by Wang Mang's double-name rule.

But when they came back, they heard about it.

Ever since. Xu Qingfeng changed his name to Xu Feng.

easy to understand.

When they walked to the official palace inside the city wall, each of them was beating drums in their hearts.

"Hey, Boss, tell me, why did His Majesty ask us to come here?"

"Isn't it? I've never heard of it. Alchemy needs to be practiced inside the city wall. Isn't it safe for the emperor?"

"Look at these guards, all of them are outside the city wall. Anyone who dares to take a step closer will be blasted away. Are we under house arrest?"

"Impossible, after all, the place where we live is not here, and there are not as many guards there as there are here."

"It's really strange. Why did I encounter this kind of thing just after returning to China?"

"Since it is here, let it be safe."

While everyone was discussing, a voice came from outside the hall: "The emperor is here."

Xu Feng and others immediately bowed respectfully, bowed their hands and waited for the emperor to arrive.

Night Breeze wore the Nine Dragon Robe, majestic and domineering.

Xu Feng immediately shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Night Breeze waved his hand: "Stay flat."

Everyone: "Long live thanks."

Night Breeze said calmly: "I heard that one of you is a relative of Xu Hudao?"

Xu Feng immediately bowed his body and cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Cao Min is Your Excellency's nephew."

"Uh." Night Breeze responded briefly, "In that case, I will order you to be the person in charge of gunpowder research, and work with Mr. Shen to develop gunpowder as much as possible."

Shen Kuo flashed to the side: "Master Xu, I am Shen Kuo."

Xu Feng frowned slightly, and asked awkwardly: "Your Majesty, I'm just an alchemist. I don't understand what gunpowder is. You asked us to do this, it's really..."

"It's okay if you don't understand."

Night Breeze said softly: "Master Shen has studied this a lot. When the time comes, Master Shen will tell you what to do, and you will do it. It only takes two or three days for you to understand."

"this……"

Xu Feng also had no choice. After all, the other party was the emperor. He had no choice but to dare not object, so he could only nod his head and say, "Well, I hope Lord Shen can give me some advice."

Shen Kuo bowed and said, "I can't talk about teaching, and it's just pure theoretical knowledge. The real practical part needs to be mainly in charge of adults."

"Okay, the specific things, you two come down and discuss."

Night Breeze said calmly: "Let me talk about the specific incentive measures. If you can develop gunpowder within a year, one of you will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, and I will seal the official position. "

Everyone's eyes widened.

They originally thought that going to the emperor's official alchemy was a trap, and if they couldn't make the elixir of life, they would be killed.

I never thought that here not only does it not need to refine the elixir of life, but you can also get rewards. If His Majesty does not make a move, he will be rewarded with ten thousand gold if he makes a move. How can he be an official?

Nima!

Simply refreshing rhythm.

"but……"

Ye Feng turned around and said: "If you can develop gunpowder within two years, then each of you will only be rewarded with eight thousand gold, and there will be no official position except for Xu Feng."

Although everyone was a little disappointed, they were still satisfied.

"Eight thousand gold is not a lot, enough to be a rich man."

"Isn't it? Being unofficial is considered light. I just like money."

"Of course, if you can get ten thousand gold, we definitely don't want eight thousand gold."

The corner of Ye Feng's lips curled up with a hint of prey: "But if it takes you three years to develop gunpowder, then I'm sorry, the reward is only five thousand! If it takes more than three years to develop gunpowder, the reward is three thousand !"

"I keep my promise, what kind of reward you want, you need to put in what kind of effort, especially Xu Feng, you are the core figure of the entire team, and you have to pay ten times, or even twenty times more than others s hard work."

Xu Feng immediately clasped his hands together and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, Caomin will definitely go all out."

Everyone bowed their hands in unison: "We will definitely go all out."

Night Breeze hummed, quite satisfied with this: "Since that's the case, Mr. Shen will stay here first and discuss the details of the gunpowder with them. After all, you have other things to do. I ask you to wait at least two days. Come here once."

"Of course, if Xu Feng encounters technical difficulties here, he can also ask Mr. Shen for help. He just needs to talk to the guards outside."

Xu Feng and Shen Kuo clasped their hands together and said, "No!"

Night Breeze let out a long breath: "The matter is properly arranged, then I will leave, you two have a good chat."

After getting out of the fire protection, Night Breeze walked all the way in the direction of Jiade Hall.

on the way.

Night Breeze suddenly heard something in the imperial garden.

"See, that is His Majesty today, so handsome."

"Yeah, I thought His Majesty would be an old man, but I didn't expect him to be so handsome."

"He has style and temperament, he is simply a perfect man."

Night Breeze was slightly startled, and glanced at the garden.

Dian Wei beside him bowed his body and cupped his hands: "Your Majesty, they should be women who have entered the official election."

Night Breeze hummed: "Have you entered the palace so soon?"