In fact, it’s not that Liu Mingqi wants to make a fortune with a wooden grenade.

But the young man considered before that if the price of this wooden grenade was too low, the court would probably not cherish it. After a large-scale purchase, the supervision would not be strict, and thus the reselling would occur.

If you sell it to those maritime merchants, it would be fine for merchants to protect themselves from their safety.

If it was sold to the barbarians on the grassland, just like the Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, that would be a real sin.

As long as the Shiwei cavalry had more than 100,000 wooden grenades, they could gallop all the way to the south of Dakang!

In terms of field battles, they are not afraid of anyone.

With the wooden grenade, it is even more powerful in the mobile warfare.

At that time, will it not be the Dakang army and the people who are suffering?

However, now that the cannon is almost made, it is natural to gradually reduce the price of wooden grenades in the next step.

Of course, the price will not be reduced in one step, but will need to be done slowly.

In the first step, Liu Mingqi thought that seven taels of silver was appropriate.

When next year is six taels, five taels will be reduced to one shining silver in the year after year, it will become the norm.

After all, wooden grenades need to be continuously optimized and continuously increased their power, which can be considered a further price reduction.

This can also avoid losses caused by leaks from wooden grenades. The next generation of wooden grenades will always be more powerful than the previous generation. Based on the current one, it will be modified every three years and the power will be increased by 20%.

In fact, the ministers in the court also understood that Liu Mingqi would not care about money at all.

Because he is the emperor, everything in the world belongs to him, why did he open a small treasury and make so much money?

The imperial finances have been bankrupt, so the emperor needs to fill the holes themselves?

Therefore, Luo Nanjing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, did not press on again and again.

On the way back, a group of people sat on their own carriages, laughing constantly.

Not only the generals, but also the ministers.

Liu Mingqi told them that the cannons could be arranged to defend on the city wall in the future.

Through what they saw at the gun range, the power of cannon volleys was definitely a hundred times greater than that of catapults.

With the wooden grenade and hell cocktails, it is conceivable that within ten years, even if Dakang does not attack outward, there will be no enemy to capture Dakang's city.

Take the damaged Jinzhou City as an example. After the construction and the defense was neat, the Shiwei coalition forces came to another 500,000 people, all of which were in vain.

A great prosperity is as stable as Mount Tai, which means that the people can rest and recuperate without suffering from military disasters.

It also means that Dakang can concentrate on various constructions so that the people can eat and drink enough and live a good life.

Once an unprecedented prosperous era was formed, all of their names would be recorded in history books and would be praised by later generations thousands of years later.

What else can attract more attention than being famous in history when you become an official?

...

The huge convoy slowly entered the imperial city through the imperial road.

The only one who is responsible for protecting the emperor is the Qianniu Guard, and in an emergency, it can be the Yulin Guard.

In addition, even the other six guards of the imperial guards are not qualified.

This is also the greatest glory of Qianniu Guard and Yulin Guard.

Therefore, according to common sense, there were no way for Liu Mingqi to continue to protect him by the 300 Tubo heroes brought back from Tubo.

But Liu Mingqi thought of a solution and directly organized them into Qianniu Guards, making Xidan Dunzhu the captain of Qianniu Guards, and continued to command his compatriots to protect Liu Mingqi.

These Tubo heroes never expected this group of Tubo.

It was already the emperor's kindness that they could be favored by Prince Dakang and become his personal bodyguard.

As a result, His Highness the Prince has now become the emperor of Dakang and the most noble person today, but he still wants them to keep them safe!!

This strong feeling of being trusted made them one by one like they were injected with chicken blood, and they wanted to die for Liu Mingqi.

And they became the most loyal guards because of this, and everyone was willing to block the knife and gun for Liu Mingqi, or even block the wooden grenade.

Every time Liu Mingqi travels, the Tubo guards will be accompanied by at least fifty people.

Today is no exception.

They are different from other Yulin Guards and Qianniu Guards' entire convoy, and they only stay by Liu Mingqi's side.

Not only did Qianniuwei be jealous of this, Yulinwei was also jealous of this.

Both generals talked to Liu Mingqi several times, but Liu Mingqi smiled and did not respond.

Do you want to say that these Tubo guards are very powerful?

This is not necessarily the case. Qianniuwei still has many who are better than them.

Then why does Liu Mingqi insist on using them?

This involves the issue of Liu Mingqi's desire for national integration.

In the future, there will definitely be many other ethnic groups and tribes in the territory of Dakang.

When they knew that Liu Mingqi had close Tubo guards around him, his unfamiliarity and uneasiness could reduce a lot!

This is the power of leading by example!

It's also very useful.

At this moment, these Tubo guards escorted Liu Mingqi from the imperial city to the palace again.

As soon as he got off the carriage, Liu Mingqi saw Gao Jing waiting beside him.

"Your Majesty, we caught a big fish!!" Gao Jing said in a low voice and a little excited, "It's about Zhou Ming!"

"Um?"

The boy nodded, "Go in and say!"

Gao Jing was stunned and instead admired the emperor's calmness.

He has been busy for so long, and today he has made a breakthrough and has a little bit of joy.

Seeing this, he quickly calmed down and followed Liu Mingqi into the imperial study room.

The military generals had long dispersed, and the ministers and the prime ministers also went to work on their own. Now there are only Liu Mingqi, Gao Ying, and a few close eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial study.

Even Xidan Dunzhu and Jiang Hu were just standing at the door.

"Please look at your Majesty, this is the record of our recent actions." Gao Jing first handed over a document, and then slowly said when Liu Mingqi was watching: "After we were constantly checking and tracing upwards, we finally caught this big fish hidden in the secret!"

Liu Mingqi listened while watching the records.

From Zheng Shuangxi to the murdered Korean, to the Korean contact with a mysterious man... This mysterious man wearing a hat came and went in a hurry, leaving no trace, but he was so secret that once the standard thousand-layer cowhide boots in the police yamen he wore were seen by a pervert.

Then he dug up the line of the police yamen and kept checking according to his height and body shape. After more than ten days, several neighbors who had seen mysterious people finally recognized him from the walking posture of a policeman.

After arresting the police, things became clear.

After some torture, the police officer with a weak will, revealed his behind-the-scenes commander Xing Yushu, the head of the police officer in the Imperial Court.

So Gao Jing greeted Ge Songdao and arrested Xing Yushu directly during his office.

Next is Xing Yushu's detailed confession, who tells the story of everything, including a story that began many years ago.

At this point, the clues and ins and outs of the tragedy, as well as the ins and outs of Emperor Jing He, the two princes, Zhou Ming... and others, have all been cleared.

Liu Mingqi looked very serious, but at the end she frowned: "Didn't Zhou Ming catch it?"

"No."

Gao Jing was also very regretful, "According to Xing Yushu's confession, we rushed to Zhou Ming's residence outside the city at the first time, but there was no one there... but it had disappeared long ago. Judging from the traces of the use of that thing, I'm afraid we left in the past or two days."

"I don't know how to contact him again?" Liu Mingqi asked.

"I know, it's a secret way to make an appointment. We have already set up a plan and are ready to capture him." Gao Jing said, "It's a pity that it's been two days, but there's still no movement. I guess he found some clues, so he wasn't fooled."

Liu Mingqi pondered for a while and asked, "Did you keep Xing Yushu locked up?"

"Yes...ah!"

Gao Jing had just answered and immediately realized, "Oh no!!"

He understood.

Zhou Ming must have seen the mark.

But Zhou Ming did not go to the agreed time to meet up as soon as possible. He probably went to the Imperial Court Office. When he did not see Xing Yushu going in and out as usual, he noticed something was wrong, so he immediately evacuated!

This is very likely!

"You go to the police yamen to inquire." Liu Mingqi ordered: "Don't miss all the details. Anyone who has asked them for Xing Yushu must strictly check it!"

"yes!"

Gao Jing bowed in shame and ran out.

If he wasn't so excited, he would definitely think of this if he wanted to set a trap to catch Zhou Ming.
To be continued...