wild trail

Chapter 278 Corporal Li Xian
"I didn't think carefully about this matter, and I apologize to you." Wang Lang stood up from his seat and bowed to the expedition members.

This sudden move startled everyone, and they all stood up and said, "Your Majesty!"

Wang Lang straightened up and said to the expedition team members: "You have sacrificed so much for the country. As the emperor, I will not treat you badly. No one of you will reward you with five thousand copper coins. I will order the Ministry of Households to select healthy and beautiful people for you. I hope you will make more contributions to the tribe in the future."

The expedition team members were very excited at the moment. As the leader of such a big country, Wang Lang was able to show such a big gift to his humble status, and he suddenly felt like he would die for his confidant.

The strong man knelt in front of Wang Lang, choked up and said, "Your Majesty treats us like this, and I, Zhao Shui, swear to be loyal to His Majesty to the death."

The rest of the expedition team members also knelt down one after another, and said loudly, "I will swear allegiance to Your Majesty to the death."

Wang Lang hurriedly stepped forward to help them up, and said excitedly: "Warriors, please get up quickly. It is a gift from the gods to Wang Lang that I have you in Great Xia. I am proud of you."

After helping the expedition team members up, Wang Lang said: "Since your wives have remarried, this cannot be changed, but you can rest assured that your children and the tribe have taken good care of them, and they have not been subjected to any punishment." Hurt, I will return your children to you, this is your blood, I hope to teach your descendants well, so that they are as brave as you."

"I will follow His Majesty's order!" Everyone replied in unison.

Wang Lang nodded, and said to the guards: "Go ahead, prepare a good wine and food. Today I will treat these warriors well."

The guards looked at these ragged people enviously, and respectfully followed Wang Lang's instructions and went down to prepare.

"Shangshu of the Ministry of War, General Black Horn, you are also here, accompany me to entertain these warriors." Wang Lang said with a smile.

Lin Huo smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the people of our Great Xia are hardworking, our soldiers are brave, and our expedition team is brave. If this is the case, our Great Xia must be extremely strong."

"It's because the gods favored me in Xia Kingdom that they gave me so many brave men. Today we won't return if we're not drunk." Wang Lang laughed heartily.

As the food was served like flowing water, several people sat down separately. After three rounds of wine and five flavors, the expedition team members were not restrained at the beginning. They drank heavily and ate meat. It can be said that the imperial banquet is quite enjoyable to eat.

As the modern Wang Lang, he will not have the messy red tape like the ancient emperors. He has not been so relaxed for a long time. He was drunk this day, and he returned to bed in the evening with the help of his guards.

Fan Xing walked in and looked at Wang Lang who was like a puddle of mud, and asked the guard, "Why is Your Majesty so drunk?"

The guard replied respectfully: "Go back to the queen, Your Majesty is very happy today, and drank a few more glasses."

Fan Xing frowned, waved his hand, and told the guard to step down, walked to Wang Lang's side, and straightened the crooked one.

Seeing that Wang Lang was sweating profusely, he gently wiped his sweat with his sleeve.

In the morning, after Wang Lang woke up, he saw Fan Xing lying on the bedside and fell asleep, he smiled softly, and gently hugged him to the bed, without waking him up gently.

He rubbed his aching head, asked someone to bring clean water, and washed his face before he felt much more refreshed.

In view of the situation of the fourth expedition team, Wang Lang immediately added new regulations to the law. All Chinese nationals who have been out for three years and have not returned are listed as missing persons. If they exceed five years, they are considered dead. After five years, women are not allowed to remarry. Right, with this law, at least it can avoid the embarrassing situation yesterday.

Although the fourth expedition team brought news from the north, Wang Lang has no plans to develop there yet. The foundation of the country is not stable, and the reason why it is easy to mess up if you take too many steps is easy to understand. He will not fail to understand.

After breakfast, Wang Lang summoned the Secretary of the Household Department, ordered the rewards of the fourth expedition, and demanded that their children belong to these expedition members.

During the execution process, although the mothers of these children were unwilling in every possible way, the officers who came to enforce the law could not argue with them so much, and directly took the children away and handed them over to the fathers of these children.

Wang Lang didn't care about these small frictions. After finishing his work, he went directly out of the city to the secret production site of gunpowder.

The progress of making nitrate is extremely slow, the team of collecting sulfur has not returned yet, gunpowder production is still at the stage of proficiency, and part of the more than ten catties of sulfur has been wasted, but these workers are basically familiar with the production of gunpowder process.

Wang Lang checked the gunpowder granules and nodded in satisfaction. These gunpowders are of good quality, and as long as the raw materials are sufficient, large-scale production will begin immediately.

With gunpowder, it will be much more convenient whether it is digging mountains and paving roads or mining ores.

The craftsmen carefully accompanied Wang Lang to inspect the gunpowder workshop. They were basically isolated from the world when they came here. Although the rewards were generous enough, they had seen the power of gunpowder explosions before. The head is pinned to the waistband of the trousers, and if one is not careful, he will be blown to the sky.

"When producing gunpowder, you must strictly follow my instructions. This is not only for the gunpowder, but also for your lives. I don't want an explosion to happen here one day, and I will deal with your corpses." Wang Lang said seriously .

An official in charge said quickly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I'm watching here myself, and there will never be any accidents."

Wang Lang nodded, his sharp eyes swept across the faces of every craftsman, "Everything here must be kept secret, and whoever leaks a single word about the formula of gunpowder will be executed immediately."

The murderous words scared the craftsmen into a cold sweat, and they quickly swore that they would never reveal a word.

At this time, Mu Feng rushed over excitedly, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, it's done, the paper is done."

Wang Lang was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly said, "Go, take me to see it quickly."

"Yes!"

Mu Feng excitedly led the way, and after a while, the group arrived at the workshop of the Ministry of Industry.

The craftsmen of the papermaking workshop are waiting here respectfully.

Seeing Wang Lang's arrival, a craftsman quickly brought over the finished paper.

Wang Lang took the piece of paper and looked at the yellowed paper in his hand. Although it was a little rough, it could barely be called paper, even though the paper was no different from butt wipes.

"Your Majesty, how about this paper?" Mu Feng asked expectantly.

It took nearly half a year to achieve the current progress, and I am very much looking forward to Wang Lang's evaluation.

Although there is still a big gap between this paper and what I had in mind, in order not to discourage everyone's enthusiasm, I nodded and said: "You guys have done a good job. I am very pleased that you can achieve this step in such a short period of time. But you can’t let this slack off, continue to improve the papermaking process, try different materials, try to make a strong and flat paper, if you do it, everyone will reward you.”

When Mu Feng heard the words, he said happily: "Your Majesty, this paper is only made of weeds and corn stalks. Next, we will try to make it with wood. The basic craftsmanship is almost the same, and the rest is just to try different materials. That's all."

(End of this chapter)