Chapter 88 Where to Escape

If you want to popularize soaps, if you cannot electrolyze salt water without electricity, it is impossible to produce more alkali. The soda ash from the Tang Dynasty came from a salt lake and was naturally formed, and the amount would not be very large. However, for Chen Wanrong's Chen's Chemical Industry, it is still infinitely large and absolutely enough, so Chen Wanrong only needs to increase his manpower to make more soaps.

Perfume is different, it requires essence oil. When chemical synthesis cannot be carried out, essence oil can only come from flowers and be refined from flowers. It is precisely because there are not enough flowers, which limits the mass production of perfume. Chen Wanrong is not good enough.

Zheng Qing also understood Chen Wanrong's distress and comforted her with a smile: "Don't worry too much. Didn't the princess say that she would give us her flowers. She will be sent here in a few days, and we can make more perfumes at that time."

Princess Jinxian was next to her and said with a smile: "Chen Wanrong, say I'm OK, I'll help you find a solution."

Chen Wanrong knew her a little, knew that she was straightforward, and smiled and said, "The princess is good, so I need to praise her."

"Not energetic!" Princess Jinxian was very bored and muttered: "Ignore you."

Zheng Qing was very interested and asked, "Princess, what are you doing?"

Princess Jinxian muttered a few words in Zheng Qing's ear, and Zheng Qing's eyes suddenly opened wide and she hurriedly said, "This won't work, this won't work, it won't work."

Chen Wanrong saw it inexplicably and asked, "What can the princess do?"

Zheng Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "The princess is saying that there is a large flower bed in her Taoist temple that can be used for us. How can we agree to this?"

Ruizong loved his two daughters very much. Last year, he practiced Taoist temples for them, and it was magnificent and built them. He also built a flower garden and planted a lot of flowers.

Chen Wanrong agreed with Zheng Qing’s handling: “Yes! Princess, we can’t ask for this flower.”

"You can take my aunt's, why don't we? Are you afraid that you will feel bad? Well, give me fifty bottles of perfume every month to pay off my debt." Princess Jinxian also imitated Princess Taiping's method: "My flowerbed is not as big as my aunt's, fifty bottles are worth it."

Princess Yuzhen said, "There is mine. My flowerbed is similar to my sister's. Fifty bottles of perfume will not be a disadvantage for you. I have to use dozens of perfume every month to pay off my debts with flowers, which will benefit you and me."

Their Taoist temple is not just a Taoist temple, but also many maids, singers, dancers, and palace maids who have retired from the palace. It is normal for them to use dozens of bottles of perfume every month.

"Are you too much of a loss?" Princess Jinxian was a little dissatisfied.

Chen Wanrong weighed and said, "Since the princess said that, if I disagree, it would be too pretentious."

Princess Yuzhen was much more cheerful: "Chen Wanrong, please find someone to prepare today. I will ask someone to send you flowers tomorrow."

She was really resolute and Chen Wanrong thought for a while and said, "Qing, you can deal with this matter. I'll go to the military weapon supervision."

Zheng Qing thought for a while and said, "It's better to follow the previous method to ask Uncle Wu and others to recommend people. But these people just don't have the money to support their retirement."

Chen Wanrong said nothing: "I will follow you. You can deal with it, I'll leave first." He jumped onto the horse and went straight to the military weapon supervision under the escort of the Longwu Army.

Princess Yuzhen was a little unhappy and pouted, "It's true, we helped him, and we didn't even thank him, it was like chasing the soul."

Princess Jinxian comforted her and said, "Sister, don't talk nonsense, he has something to do."

Princess Yuzhen muttered dissatisfiedly: "Sister, you always talk to him."

Chen Wanrong came to the military weapon steward, jumped off his horse, and went directly to the place where Ye Tianheng and the others were busy. Kou Yibing noticed him from a distance, waved at him, and smiled: "Mr. Chen, are you back so soon? Is the matter done?"

"I've been asked about it, and everything has been done. How are you doing?" Chen Wanrong asked.

Ye Tianheng came up with a crutch: "My friend, don't worry, can you still have something to do? The most important casting has passed. Isn't it easy to clean and polish it?"

"The gun mount will be done in a while." Liu Huaide reported on the progress.

Ye Tianheng was a little dissatisfied and took the conversation and said, "Don't just talk about the cannon mount, I'll be fine in a while. My friend, you can get the cannon done today. When will you try it?"

Chen Wanrong pondered for a moment and said, "Do it first. If you make sure there is no problem, we will report to the prince. The time for this shot test is to wait for the emperor to make an idea."

Kou Yibing hurriedly came up with an idea: "Mr. Chen, why don't we find a place first and try it? If we don't try it first, if something goes wrong, it will be a big deal!"

It is good to confirm first, but there is only one thing, there is no place. Li Longji's handwriting is needed to pull the cannons to be tested, otherwise the army would definitely not use the cannons for them. Chen Wanrong was in trouble again: "I want to test the cannons too, but there is no place, there is no way."

Liu Huaide said excitedly: "Isn't there a place for our military weapon surveillance? Isn't it just a shot?"

Ye Tianheng and Kou Yibing immediately agreed. If the cannon is tested here, something will be wrong. You must know that the range of the cannon can reach three to five miles, while the yard in Chang'an is usually only one mile wide and narrow. If you monitor the cannons in military weapons, you still don't know where the shells will fly. If you don't have a good time, you will blow people to death, which will be a big trouble.

Chen Wanrong said with a solemn face: "Don't think about this. The artillery will take three or five miles away, and the military weapon surveillance area is not big enough."

Ye Tianheng and the others were just happy and forgot about this section. When they heard this, they were stunned. They pondered for a while and kept shaking their heads: "Forget it, forget it, let's wait until the emperor makes sure before talking."

That's all, Liu Huaide nodded with regret. It's so regretful that he couldn't experience the power of the cannon as soon as possible!

When it was almost dark, the cannon stand was ready. Chen Wanrong saw that the cannon stand was very well made, flexible, sturdy and durable. With the cannon stand, the maneuverability of the cannon was greatly increased, and Chen Wanrong was very satisfied.

After fixing the cannon on the cannon, the first cannon of the Tang Dynasty was completed. Looking at the bronze cannon, Chen Wanrong was extremely excited and proud.

What I am proud of is not only the first artillery in human history, but also the war against Tubo in the Tang Dynasty was about to begin, and Chinese history was about to turn a new page. If Tubo was included in the territory, it would be a great honor.

Liu Huaide looked at the cannon and said happily: "What a good thing! So beautiful! Lord Chen, when will I tell the prince?"

Chen Wanrong thought for a while and said, "Let's go tomorrow. Tonight, we will have a drink first and have a good celebration."

Of course, no one would object to this proposal, and Kou Yibing and others agreed.

Chen Wanrong smiled and said, "I will treat you tonight. Everyone let go and drink, don't stop drunk!"

At that moment, I decided to finish the work and went to a restaurant that Ye Tianheng and his friends usually like to go to, and had a good meal. After the artillery was successful, everyone was happy and let go of it and did not dissipate until they were over.

What surprised Chen Wanrong was that Ye Tianheng and the others were happy, but from beginning to end, no one mentioned artillery. This strong sense of confidentiality made Chen Wanrong amazed.

The stone castle city in the dark night looks like a goshawk with wings spreading, and it is extremely bluffing.

Around Chiling, nearly 100,000 Tang troops set up camps, connected by camps, no less than dozens of miles wide. In the dark night, a group of Tang troops were patrolling, and occasionally there were sounds of deception.

Apart from the soldiers who were patrolling the Luo Luo and the sound of scammers from time to time, there was no other sound, and the Tang army had fallen asleep.

A black shadow was holding his body and leaning towards the stone castle city. The black shadow was quick and good at it. What was even more rare was that it was very alert. It stopped every section of the line, hid in the dark, looked around for a while, and then continued to move forward after confirming that it was fine.

After a long time of hard work, the black shadow passed by the Tang army camp and came to the valley. The valley was full of strange rocks, and when I looked at it on the dark night, it looked like tigers squatting.

The black shadow squatted down by the valley, hid behind the stones, looked around carefully for a while, and listened to the sound of the penis, but did not notice any abnormality. Then he lowered his body and touched the stone castle city not far away.

Everything went well. In just one breath, I passed through the river valley and came to the mountain path under the cliff. The black shadow stood up and let out a long sigh. It only took a while to arrive at Shibao City and everything was safe.

The black shadow did not breathe, and only heard a loud shout: "Stop!"

With the shout, a team of Tang soldiers appeared in the river valley where there was no one. The black shadow was shocked and spread his legs and rushed towards Shibao City. With a wave of the fire hand, ten Tang soldiers chased after him.

Every ten people in the Tang army called fire, and there was a fire chief, which was equivalent to the current squad leader.

"Long fire, let's light a torch to chase after you." A Tang army suggested.

Huo Chang shouted: "Nonsense! If we chased after open fire, aren't we telling the Tubo people that this is our enemy? Can they sit idly?"

The soldier was a little confused and asked, "Long Fire, what should I do? We are a long way from this man. When we chased him, he would have entered the Stone Castle City."

Huo Chang thought for a while and said, "Come out some noise and make the Tubo people think we are attacking at night."

While trying to find a way, I chased him quickly. But the black shadow was almost at Shibao City, and it was useless to chase him. Fortunately, the fire was smart enough, so he screamed with a scream, grabbed a stone, threw it down the county cliff, making a thunderous sound, which sounded particularly obvious in the quiet night.

The Tubo soldiers in Shibao City were awakened and thought there was an enemy situation. They shouted loudly: "The Tang people are here, the Tang people are here! Come on the battle!" The soldiers ran around. After a while, the lights on Shibao City were brightly lit, with bows and arrows, looking like a big enemy was attacking.

The black shadow rushed to the front of the stone castle city and shouted at the top of the city: "Open the city gate!"

He was talking about Tubo dialect. When the Tubo soldiers heard this, their attitude improved a lot and said, "Wait, I will report it to you now."

This black shadow was Dabu who was ordered by Gesang to return to Tubo to report the news. He rushed to Chiling in the afternoon and found a hidden place to hide it, hoping to pass through Shibao City at night.

Although the Tang army did not attack Shibao City, they did not relax their vigilance. Especially since Gesang went to Chang'an, Guo Qianguan sent a lot of people to closely monitor Shibao City and prevent Gesang from reporting the news to Tubo.

Tubo was very proactive in obtaining Shibao City and took advantage of it. Of course, everything has its advantages and disadvantages, that is, once the Tang army blocked the passage in front of Shibao City, Tubo would not get any news.

As a famous general of a generation, Guo Qianguan wanted to go to Chang'an to "convene peace" and he had no control or stop him, so he had to let him go. However, there was no problem in blocking Gesang's news.

When Dabu arrived at Chiling, he carefully observed and found that the Tang army sealed the stone castle city very tightly. It was impossible to pass during the day, so he had to wait until night. He was careful all the way and actually arrived at the front of the pass smoothly.

According to Dabu's idea, as Gesang's messenger, as long as he arrived at the Stone Castle City, the soldiers guarding the pass would definitely let it go. When he heard that the soldiers had to report it first, he couldn't help but be slandered and shouted: "What a big deal!"

"If you have tokens, please let you go, if you don't have tokens, please wait." The Tubo soldiers answered very simply.

Dabu hurriedly took out a token from his arms and threw it onto the city wall: "I see clearly, this is the token given to me by Lord Gesang."

Gesang was an envoy of Tubo. If he told Jib, of course he knew who Gesang was, but the soldiers didn't know which green onion Gesang was at all. They looked through the token, and didn't know so they shouted at Dabu: "Wait, I'll go and verify it for Lord Jib."

"This is Zamp's token, you don't even know this?" Dabu was so depressed that Tang Jun's footsteps came, and he was eager to rush into the city immediately.

Zamp's token is of course very effective, but where can the soldiers tell the truth? It's like taking out the emperor's jade seal from ordinary people, and it's hard for him to tell the truth. If the soldiers don't ask Jibu to confirm, who else can they find?

Dabu thought about this festival and wanted to slap the soldiers twice, shouting: "Don't you understand what I said? I'm talking about Tubo!"

The soldier sneered: "The spies of the Tang Dynasty are not worse than you. They are wearing our Tubo clothes. In your outfit, who knows if you are a real Tubo?"

Dabu almost vomited blood when he returned from Chang'an to deliver a letter. Can he wear Tubo clothes? That's not asking for death!

"You are a bastard! You are a bastard!" Dabu was so angry that he jumped up and cursed.

Under the leadership of the Fire Chief, the Tang army chased after him, which made the Tubo soldiers on the city even more suspicious, thinking that Dabu was a disciple of the Tang Dynasty and intended to earn the barriers. He pointed at Dabu and accused him: "You are indeed a spy!"

Dabu roared: "Call Lord Jibu!" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of breaking through the air. It was Tang army shooting arrows at Dabu. After a rain of arrows, the Tang army rushed towards Dabu.

Dabu dodged left and right, and was shot in an arrow in his left chest. Before he could meet the battle, Tang army rushed to the front and slashed Dabu at the horizontal knife in his hand. Even if he could not capture him alive, he would still kill him.

Jibu rushed over and shouted to the soldiers angrily: "Hurry up, open the door, please enter the city!"

"What a Zamp's token?" The soldier couldn't believe it.

Jib slapped him in the face and shouted, "You don't know the right thing!" The soldier covered his face and did not dare to say anything.

Dabu slashed Huo Chang on his shoulder with a knife, which was very injured. Huo Chang wanted to capture him alive, otherwise he would kill him with one knife.

Jibu was anxious and shouted, "Hurry up, rush out, the escort envoy enter the city." As soon as the city gate opened, Jibu personally led a team of Tubo soldiers to rush over.
To be continued...