The farmer has a mall

Chapter 234 The Golden Mountain Detained by Li Mike
The city defense gun was two and a half meters long and weighed several hundred kilograms. It was temporarily mounted on two iron wheels.

The workers of the arsenal gathered in a circle, discussing the big drum that took more than ten days to build successfully.

"You said this thing can really be used as a weapon?" One of them elbowed his companion next door, with uncertainty in his voice.

The other person looked equally puzzled: "It should be possible, didn't the manager say that this thing is very powerful?"

The manager he was talking about was the subordinate brought by Gu Qing, who was in charge of everything in the arsenal.

"But why don't I look like it?" The man asked again.

"This thing is so big and heavy that no one can push it. Could it be a cart used to hit the city gate?"

"It shouldn't be. Didn't the manager say that this thing is guarding the city?"

Everyone talked a lot, and they were very curious about this strangely shaped weapon.

Gu Nanyan circled around the cannon barrel, nodded in satisfaction after checking.

Then someone pushed it to an open place outside the factory.

Su Wenfeng looked a little excited, watching her standing behind the barrel, stretching out his fingers and gesturing forward for a long time.

"Princess, do you want to test shoot?"

Gu Nanyan nodded, and bent down to pick up a lead bullet from the cart on one side.

She weighed it with her hands, it weighed about ten kilograms, and frowned somewhat dissatisfied.

"In the future, this projectile can be made of iron, and the weight of lead bullets is still too light."

These projectiles are only experimental products, and the quantity is not large. It is not a problem to temporarily change them to iron pellets.

Su Wenfeng agreed, and seeing her open the loading door above the barrel, he bent down to help.

Gu Nanyan first loaded some gunpowder into the barrel, and then put the lead bullets in.

She asked everyone to retreat to the rear, and ignited the fuse exposed on the barrel in anticipation.

As the fuze burned shorter and shorter until it burned out, there was a loud bang in the barrel.

Before everyone could recover from the shock of the noise, there was another roar on the hillside in the distance, followed by an earthquake and dust.

The onlookers were so frightened by this scene that they fell to the ground with pale faces, their ears buzzing with the sound of the explosion.

Even Su Wenfeng, who had been prepared for a long time, and the manager turned pale with fright, and took a few steps back reflexively.

Only Gu Nanyan still stood firmly in place.

"Find someone to go and have a look." She ordered in a cold voice.

Su Wenfeng came back to his senses, and ran over to check it himself without hesitation.

Due to the distance, he didn't run back until two quarters of an hour later.

At this time, Su Wenfeng's face had regained its color, but his spirit had become in a trance.

"How?" Gu Nanyan frowned and asked, completely speechless at his wandering look.

She thought that this guy, as Cui Yanping's eldest nephew, already knew the power of the sky thunder, so she didn't let him who was standing closest back away.

Who would have thought that he was not much better than the others, and now that he is in a daze, isn't it frightening?

Gu Nanyan didn't know, although Su Wenfeng had indeed heard his little aunt talk about the power of the sky thunder, but hearing it and seeing it with his own eyes were completely different things!
What's more, the vibration caused by this thing is like an earth dragon turning over, and it may be difficult for people who see it for the first time to calm down.

"Qi, Princess Qi, a large pit with a diameter of two meters exploded in front of it, and fragments of lead bullets were scattered all over the place within a radius of ten meters."

Su Wenfeng's voice trembled a little, he didn't know whether it was from fright or excitement.

Gu Nanyan nodded. Although it was not as powerful as her mortar, in the era of cold weapons, this thing was already quite heaven-defying, and it was completely sufficient as a city defense artillery.

She tried a few more one after another, and the distance was getting farther and farther. Su Wenfeng was sweating from running but never tired of it.

The chief of the arsenal also ran twice, and when he came back, he was in a daze, and stood there for half an hour without speaking.

The final test results show that the artillery can shoot up to ten miles, which is already very good.

Gu Nanyan was also quite satisfied, and after firing the last few lead bullets, someone pushed them back.

After explaining the areas for improvement to Su Wenfeng, whose hands were trembling with excitement, she flicked her sleeves and plunged into the princess mansion again, and there was no movement.

Su Wenfeng, who was blackened by the stove, said, "..."

When Gu Qing, who has been supervising work in the smelter these days, knew that Gu Nanyan was testing the city defense artillery, but didn't inform him, he was in a bad mood.

After seeing the big craters outside the factory that were blasted by lead bullets, he trotted all the way to the Princess Mansion, and sat in the hall complainingly looking at Gu Nanyan, neither eating nor drinking.

The corner of Gu Nan's mouth twitched, only then did he realize that he forgot to inform him of this.

"The lead bullets are not as powerful as iron pellets. I have already asked Mr. Su to change the materials. I think I can make a lot of them in the future. How about telling uncle to test them together?"

She cleared her throat in embarrassment.

Hearing this, Gu Qing hummed, picked up the cup of tea at hand and moistened his throat.

"Then don't forget to inform your grandfather..." He paused, then shook his head.

"Forget it, I'll send a letter over there myself, you girl is heartless all day long, maybe you will forget about it later."

He drank the herbal tea in the teacup and sighed comfortably.

"It's been a while since your father returned to Beijing, but did you receive his letter?"

Gu Nanyan shook her head: "No, as far as I know, my grandfather never received it."

She frowned, a little puzzled: "When he left, there was a peace talk here, what did Li Mi suddenly ask him to go back?"

Hearing his niece calling the emperor's name directly, Gu Qing's fingertips trembled, and just about to say a few words to her, he swallowed the words back for some reason.

"It should be a good thing, and you don't need to worry too much."

He looked at Gu Nanyan with complicated eyes, and he didn't know what to say in the face of this niece who had real abilities but was so bold and reckless that it caused headaches.

"I heard from my colleagues in Beijing that the wheat harvest in your Huangzhuang has been bumper, and the yield is [-] catties per mu." He sighed, looking at his niece with a look of sadness and joy.

"Sister Nan, you have done a great job."

He had known for a long time that she was not the second brother's biological daughter.

Not only he knows, even his mother knows.

The whole family has kept this secret for many years, desperately trying to find a way to make merit, just wanting to pay off when Gu Nanyan's identity is exposed.

So that Sister Nan can continue to live in the Gu family safely and happily.

Unexpectedly, this child made such a great contribution with his own ability.

Not to mention the steelmaking technique and city defense artillery.

Randomly releasing any one of these things would be enough to confer a king's honor, but she just took it out without making a sound!
Lu Qing didn't know whether to comfort her or call her stupid.

Gu Nanyan's eyes lit up when he heard that he had made meritorious service, and it was a great meritorious service.

"So that dog emperor is going to reward me?"

There seemed to be a treasure trove of gold, silver and jewels in front of her, rushing towards her at a speed of eighty miles.

However, this fantasy only appeared for a moment, and my mind was occupied by Li Mi's poor look.

Gu Nanyan: "..."

So, does she count as being deprived of a mountain of gold and silver by Li Mike?
Gu Nanyan gritted her teeth, and secretly decided to go to the palace after returning home, and never leave the palace until the dog emperor's small private treasury was emptied!

Lu Qing was so frightened by her "dog emperor" that he almost fell to the ground, coughed for a long time due to choking on his saliva, and almost suffocated.

"Sister Nan, you are too presumptuous!" He hastily scolded.

At the same time, he glanced warningly at the servant girl serving in the room.

Gu Nanyan's identity is still a secret, the emperor might pamper her and not care about her without knowing it.

But if one day this matter is exposed, there is no guarantee that there will be a settlement after the fall.

Lu Qing worriedly rubbed his forehead to ease his emotions, and wanted to persuade her to pay attention to the title of emperor in the future.

Gu Nanyan was lost in thought, when suddenly Gu Qing scolded her, and responded reflexively.

"Why is I so presumptuous? I just robbed a private treasury. If I didn't evacuate the national treasury, I would be considered a bodhisattva!" Gu Nanyan said angrily.

Gu Qing: "..."

(End of this chapter)