Chapter 53

Moreover, he could not let the Han royal family die because of him!

"Ah!"

Zhang Liang was in pain; at that moment, he directly grabbed the fruit wine Ying Su had brought him and drank it in agony!

After finishing one bottle, he took another!

One bottle emptied, another one came!

In a short while, the five bottles of fruit wine Ying Su had brought were all drunk up by Zhang Liang!

And looking at the empty bottles on the ground, Zhang Liang smacked his lips again and again, actually feeling a sense of lingering satisfaction!

Sigh!

What a sin!

What a sin!

After coming out from Zhang Liang's place, Ying Su went straight to the Test Workshop of the Internal Treasury Office!

Why?

Of course, to find Cai Lun!

Just yesterday, Cai Lun had sent someone to find him, saying the smoothbore cannon had been made!

Moreover, using the saltpeter scraped out from the latrines, they had also produced five cannonballs.

It was agreed to test the cannon today!

"Test the cannon?"

"Smoothbore cannon?"

Outside the suburbs of Xianyang City, on a great mountain!

Here, densely packed, were tents everywhere!

And this place was precisely the training ground where Han Xin trained soldiers.

It must be said that Han Xin's methods of training soldiers really had something to them!

In just ten short days, he had actually recruited a new army of fifty thousand men!

Moreover, looking at these new recruits, they were actually trained quite properly.

Walking, military posture, rendering military salutes, their momentum was extremely powerful!

Fan Kuai, Lu Wan, Cao Can, and Xia Houying had also become his deputy generals.

At this very moment, everyone was drilling with the new recruits!

And upon hearing Ying Su say he had come to test the cannon, Han Xin, Lu Wan, Fan Kuai, and the others were instantly stunned!

Fan Kuai even boldly asked Ying Su:

"Emperor, Your Majesty, this... what is a cannon?"

"What is a cannon?"

Ying Su smiled, looking directly at Cai Lun; Cai Lun did not delay, directly having people load the cannonballs on the spot, and then handed the torch to Ying Su!

Ying Su aimed the torch at the fuse!

Instantly, a hissing sound!

The next second!

Boom!

A deafening sound began to resound.

This sound startled everyone.

But the scene in the distance was even more shocking!

Because... on the ground, a huge pit had actually appeared!

"This... this..."

This scene simply scared Fan Kuai senseless; he couldn't help but smack his lips in shock: "Oh my mother, if a person were standing there, wouldn't they be blown to pieces?"

His scalp went numb, while Han Xin's eyes sparkled brilliantly; he couldn't help but bow to Ying Su: "Emperor, Your Majesty, how many of these cannons are there?"

Ying Su knew what he wanted to do and smiled directly: "Don't rush; now is not the time to fight the Xiongnu. There aren't many of these things either; only five have been made so far!"

"Cannonballs..."

As he spoke, he looked at Cai Lun!

Cai Lun bowed and said: "All the latrines in Xianyang City have been scraped, and only fifty cannonballs have been produced!"

"To make more cannonballs, we can only search for saltpeter mines; otherwise, we would have to scrape all the latrines in Great Qin!"

"Sigh!"

Ying Su sighed!

Although Han Xin didn't understand words like scraping latrines or saltpeter mines, but... he knew this thing could manufacture cannons; at that moment, he bowed to Cai Lun and said:

"May I ask, my lord, what is saltpeter? May I see it? I will send a thousand men to search the world for saltpeter mines!"

"Without cannons, I estimate we need at least five hundred thousand men to destroy the Xiongnu!"

"But with cannons, at most two hundred thousand!"

"No! One hundred thousand!"

"One hundred thousand men can destroy the main army of the Xiongnu King!"

"Two hundred thousand men can kill all the Xiongnu soldiers!"

Han Xin's eyes sparkled brilliantly!

And with these words, not only did Cao Can, Fan Kuai, and the others' eyes light up, but even Ying Su's eyes sparkled!

The Xiongnu!

This has been a perennial thorn in the side of every dynasty; throughout all of history, only Huo Qubing, who sealed the Wolf Altar, truly crippled the Xiongnu.

Yet Han Xin claimed he could annihilate the Xiongnu, slaughtering every single one of their soldiers!

Hearing such words was simply exhilarating!

Facing Ying Su was thrilled; Cai Lun wasted not a moment, handing some saltpeter directly to Han Xin.

After studying it carefully for a while, Han Xin bowed to Cai Lun: "Thank you, my lord. I will immediately seek out this substance!"

Having spoken, he ran off excitedly to arrange for people to find saltpeter mines!

Facing Ying Su merely smiled; that military obsessive!

However, Facing Ying Su greatly looked forward to the scene of him attacking the Xiongnu!

It is hard to imagine what a magnificent spectacle that would be!

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045. The Great Qin's Number One Traitor, Seeing Ying Zheng! Usurping the Imperial Throne!

Great Qin!

Outside Xianyanggong!

Within the gardens!

Today, Seeing Ying Zheng was in high spirits!

No!

To be precise, for these past two days, his spirits had been consistently high!

Why?

He took out a sheet of linen paper for Zhijinxingguan!

"Your Majesty, the First Emperor, your subject Sima Yan has always been utterly loyal to our Great Qin, and equally loyal to Your Majesty, the First Emperor!"

"For many years, I have managed the Neishi Prefecture; even if I have achieved no merit, I have at least labored. Yet the new emperor, citing my advanced age, demands I resign and yield my post to a worthy successor!"

"But I am only forty-three this year, in the prime of my strength!"

"I beg Your Majesty, the First Emperor, to act as my advocate!"

After reading this sheet of paper, Seeing Ying Zheng laughed with delight!

Next, he grabbed another sheet of paper for Zhijinxingguan:

"Your Majesty, the First Emperor, while Sima Yan's case appears to be merely the new emperor dismissing Sima Yan, yet... in my view, this is actually the elimination of political opponents!"

"They say a new Son of Heaven brings a new set of ministers; we can understand all of this. However... he is treating old ministers far too harshly. In my view, even if he wishes to replace Sima Yan, he should first appoint Xiao He to a position within the Neishi Prefecture, proceeding gradually, and only replace Sima Yan once he has grown truly old and frail!"