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Chapter 76 Exaggeration!A cannonball worth ten thousand taels of gold!
When she heard that Yang Yanzhang was going to sell the cannonballs to the Turks, Mrs. Zan became anxious!

"Don't, don't! It's a bit expensive, but it's good stuff!"

"In this way, I brought the little tribute this time. Please allow me to see with my own eyes the power of the cannonball. If it is true, I will immediately send someone back to Tibet to report it and ask them to send money immediately!"

Yang Yanzhang laughed: "You can report the news immediately. We in the Tang Dynasty never talk empty words! However, if you want to see it, you have to wait until tomorrow."

"Why is this?"

"Because this is the treasure of our country, the Tang Dynasty. It has been sealed in the mountains all year round. Now that I want to sell it, I still need to send someone to get it. It will take some time to go back and forth."

When Po Zan heard this, she was shocked again: This thing is indeed an important weapon of the Tang Dynasty!It's not even placed in the imperial city, but hidden in the mountains!But people from Tang Dynasty would sell such treasures to me in Tubo. What fools and prodigals they are!

She was laughing in her heart, but Mrs. Zan kept nodding her head: "So that's it, then I'll just wait, don't be in a hurry."

So Zanpo immediately sent someone back to Tubo to report the news, asking Tubo Zampo to prepare money.

Yang Yanzhang also hurried to the Ministry of Works, called all the craftsmen who knew how to make gunpowder, and ordered them to prepare saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal separately.

Wu Zetian was still waiting for the good news about Yang Yanzhang, but when the eunuch came to report that Yang Yanzhang did not come to the palace, but went to the Ministry of Works, she couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"Come here! Go and ask Yang Yanzhang immediately if the deal with the Tubo people has been concluded!"

But when Wu Zetian's people arrived at the Ministry of Works, they realized that Yang Yanzhang had left the Ministry of Works and headed outside the city.

"Going outside the city again? What on earth is this guy doing? Why didn't you say anything to me??"

Wu Zetian was waiting anxiously, and couldn't help but feel annoyed when she couldn't see Yang Yanzhang.

In fact, in order to avoid leaking the secret and to avoid blowing up Luoyang, Yang Yanzhang specially ordered people to take the things outside the city and prepare them himself.

"Get away from me! No one is allowed to light a fire, and don't even create any sparks for me!"

While Yang Yanzhang was preparing the medicine, he also warned the people around him cautiously.

There is no way, this black powder is extremely scary, it will explode when it sees sparks!

And in order to surprise the Tibetan envoys, he made this medicine package very big!
The craftsmen around him only knew that his gunpowder used these three items, but they did not know the specific proportions, so this technology was still in his hands.

In order to test the results, Yang Yanzhang first made a smaller medicine bag and buried a long lead. After lighting it, the palm-sized medicine bag directly blew up a towering tree by its roots.

Looking at the surrounding craftsmen, all of them had earth-colored faces. Many of them knelt on the ground and bowed to the sky, murmuring prayers, and even said that something extraordinary had been exploded at that time, which had attracted the wrath of heaven.

Yang Yanzhang was very happy in his heart. Such a small amount of black powder could make such a big noise, so how powerful must the medicine bag as big as a basket he prepared be!
Of course, such a large medicine bag cannot be fired from a cannon.

"I fired an ordinary artillery shell here, but in the distance I ordered someone to quietly detonate black powder..."

"Zan Po, this idiot, doesn't understand fame at all."

Yang Yanzhang couldn't help but laugh as he thought about it.

"Afterwards, I will sell him a piece of ordinary cannonballs. When he goes back and tries it to no avail, I will tell him that it failed due to moisture, and he is not allowed to buy another batch?" After making up his mind, Yang Yanzhang saw that the explosives were almost done. He just went back and didn't bother to go to the palace to report, but went back home to take a nap.

At this time, it was already midnight, and Wu Zetian was waiting in the palace with a dark look on his face.

"I don't know what I did outside, and I didn't even know to report to me when I came back in the evening! Does this Yang Yanzhang still have eyes for me? Does he think I am easy to bully?"

The more Wu Zetian thought about it, the angrier she became. On impulse, she wanted to send someone to arrest Yang Yanzhang in the middle of the night.

But at this moment, several eunuchs came in panting: "Queen Mother! We found out! Today Yang Yushi took some craftsmen from the Ministry of Works to the outside of the city and blew down a big tree!"

"The dignified censor Zhongcheng hasn't seen anyone for a whole day just to do this? Is he out of his mind?"

Wu Zetian couldn't help but complain in the air.

"The Queen Mother Mingjian, this is really no ordinary explosion!"

The leading eunuch looked solemn, without any hint of joking.

"Oh? How can you see it?"

"Queen Mother, the roots of the tree were blown out and broken into several sections. The bark of the tree was exploded and the trunk was cracked! The land around the big tree was turned up several feet. Deep! That scene is truly terrifying. It is something we have never seen in our lives and cannot even dream of!"

Wu Zetian was stunned: "Is there such a thing? Why does it sound a bit mysterious?"

"It's quite mysterious. I asked the accompanying craftsmen and they said that today Yang Yushi ordered them to prepare saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, and then Yang Yushi mixed these things together outside the city, and soon there was That explosion! Yang Yushi told them that it was man-made, but the craftsmen also said that although it looked like it was done by Yang Yushi himself, the earth-shattering movement at that time could only be caused by ghosts and gods! Mortals, not It’s possible to create such a movement!”

Hearing this, Wu Zetian thought thoughtfully: Yang Yanzhang told me about selling cannonballs. Could it be that this was the reason for him to sell cannonballs to Tibet at high prices?Perhaps, this movement is not caused by God, but is actually his masterpiece!

Thinking about the throbbing of being bombed during the day, Wu Zetian suddenly frowned: "If it is really such a powerful artillery shell, then if it is sold to Tubo, wouldn't it be my soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who will suffer in the end? If there are really our soldiers If I was injured by a cannonball, wouldn't I be scolded to death?"

But then I thought about it, Yang Yanzhang shouldn't be that stupid, but I still couldn't figure out what Yang Yanzhang was up to.

"Forget it, I'm tired. Let's have a good sleep today and then ask him for details tomorrow!"

Early the next morning, Wu Zetian did not even go to court, but directly sent someone to summon Yang Yanzhang into the harem.

"Yang Yanzhang, what are your plans? How did you talk with Tubo? Why did you go home yesterday without reporting to me?" After meeting, Wu Zetian asked.

However, Yang Yanzhang was calm and responded calmly: "Of course we have already settled this trivial matter! With his sharp tongue, Wei Chen successfully persuaded Po Zan to buy my Tang Dynasty artillery shells, and he has already sent people back to Tubo is asking for money."

When Wu Zetian heard that Zan Po had sent someone to ask for money, she was overjoyed and her eyes gleamed: "So, how did you sell the shells? How much does it cost to sell one?"

Yang Yanzhang deliberately whetted her appetite: "Then Queen Mother, tell me, how much money do you want?"

Wu Zetian's eyes flashed with a thick red light: "One piece, 100 taels of silver!"

(End of this chapter)