Daqin: My weak and virtuous minister

Chapter 170 Scaring the Taoist Priest to Cry

After seeing off the Mo family, Zhang Yuanqing asked Ada to send the wool to the embroiderers so that they could make warm clothes.

"Boom"

The loud noise was accompanied by vibration.

The soldiers guarding the perimeter were startled and quickly drew their swords.

"Quick, notify General Meng Wu."

"Come with me and take a look."

"promise."

The houses that were neat and tidy before were now a little dilapidated. Xu Fu and others stood in the yard in a daze.

"What happened?"

Meng Wu hurried over, followed by a group of people.

However, after leaving the ruins, no one answered Meng Wu's words.

Meng Wu walked to Xu Fu's side, "Xu Fu."

"What happened?"

Xu Fu looked at Meng Wu blankly, as if he didn't understand what he said.

Meng Wu gripped the hilt of the sword in his hand and spoke again: "Why is it like this here? But is the gunpowder ready?"

This time, Meng Wu spoke with obvious urgency. If Xu Fu didn't answer, he would take action.

"This," Xu Fu raised his hand and pointed at the ruins, opened his mouth but did not utter a complete sentence.

Just as Meng Wu's patience ran out, someone finally spoke up: "Explode!"

Upon hearing this, Meng Wu stared at the alchemist with his eyes as sharp as torches.

"It's done!"

"Wow~"

The Taoist priest did not answer Meng Wu's words, but sat on the ground and cried miserably.

It was as if some kind of switch was turned on, and the others also let out a "wow" and started crying.

Meng Wu and the soldiers looked at each other.

What's going on here?

Are you so happy to have completed the Right Prime Minister's order?

The yard was filled with deafening cries. Meng Wu looked at a group of grown men crying loudly, their brows furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly.

He turned his eyes away in disgust, took a deep breath, walked forward, grabbed Xu Fu's collar, and lifted him up from the ground.

"Talk nicely, why are you crying?"

It's really shameful for a grown man to behave like this.

Xu Fu was frightened by Meng Wu's momentum.

It took a long time to calm down.

He casually wiped his tears with his sleeve and rescued his collar from Meng Wu's hand.

"We came here to develop gunpowder at the order of the Marquis, but the Marquis didn't say it was a furnace explosion."

Thinking of what just happened, Xu Fu couldn't help but shiver.

"No, this is much scarier than a frying pan. This isn't a frying pan."

Although Xu Fu spoke incoherently, Meng Wu had already figured out what was going on.

These people were frightened by the power of gunpowder.

Meng Wu looked at the collapsed house and said, "Go, go in and see if anyone is alive."

"promise."

The soldiers quickly cleared the things at the door and moved out a lot of obstacles. Finally, they carried out three corpses and a dying person from inside.

This man had lost an arm, was blind in one eye, and one side of his face was covered with scars.

Tragic, really tragic.

"Wow~"

Seeing the man's miserable condition, the Taoist priest burst into tears again.

"We're leaving."

“We’re not doing this anymore.”

While crying, she stood up and prepared to go out.

The soldiers drew their swords and stopped the crowd.

"This matter is a secret of the Qin State. Since you have participated in it, there is no reason for you to leave midway."

Meng Wu looked at these people with an expressionless face, but his words were chilling. Then, he pointed at the three corpses and said, "They are the only ones who can leave."

"Why, have you all thought it through?"

After saying this, he drew his sword and waited for the alchemists' choice.

The alchemists looked at Meng Wu, the soldiers, and then the corpses lying on the ground. They were overwhelmed with grief and collapsed to the ground.

"Wow~"

The miserable cries resounded through the sky.

The same is true for Xu Fu.

Originally, he just wanted to come to Xianyang to steal some treasures, but who would have thought that not only would the scam be exposed, but now he would have to do such a deadly thing.

She cried even more miserably at that moment.

Meng Wu and other soldiers looked at each other in confusion.

This……

Perhaps because he was crying too hard, after a while, someone fell to the ground and fainted.

Meng Wu had no choice but to have the unconscious people carried away and then go to ask a doctor to treat them.

As for the others, let them cry, as long as they don't leave.

"Send more troops to protect this place. There must be no mistakes."

"promise."

Meng Wu arranged the guards again and then left for the Prime Minister's Mansion.

At this time, Zhang Yuanqing was still studying systematic books in the study.

See what works and prepare to copy it down.

The Qin Dynasty also had a calendar, but it was slightly inferior to the calendars of later generations.

Zhang Yuanqing is working hard on this "Taichu Calendar".

He planned to copy down the calendar and hand it over to a professional.

"My Lord, General Meng Wu is here."

"Quick, please invite General Meng Wu in."

"promise."

Zhang Yuanqing had just put away the books when Meng Wu strode in with a sword in hand.

"Greetings to the Marquis."

"General, please take a seat."

"General, are you here today to make any progress on the gunpowder?"

Speaking of this, Meng Wu thought of the group of alchemists who were still crying, and his brows furrowed.

"My Lord, the gunpowder is indeed extremely powerful."

"The experiment is out!"

Zhang Yuanqing stood up excitedly and immediately prepared to go out to check out the workshop.

"My Lord, I don't know much about gunpowder, and I don't know if this counts as an experiment."

"Today, several alchemists were preparing gunpowder when suddenly there was a loud explosion. By the time I arrived, the house had been blown to pieces. Of the four alchemists, three were killed and one was seriously injured."

"The other alchemists are so frightened that they are crying and clamoring to leave."

Zhang Yuanqing stopped walking out, and after a while, he sat back down.

"Those who died were properly buried, and if they had families, their families would be compensated as much as possible. The families of those seriously injured were also compensated, and he didn't have to worry about the medical expenses."

"promise."

"Come on, I'll go with you. After all, I was the one who asked them to do this, and now that something has happened, I should go and take a look."

When Zhang Yuanqing arrived, the alchemists had stopped wailing and were sitting on the ground in the yard in a daze and listlessly, neither getting up nor returning to the house.

Now when they see those things, their hands tremble and they are afraid.

It was as if the next moment I became one of those four people.

When Zhang Yuanqing stepped into the yard, Xu Fu saw Zhang Yuanqing first. He hurriedly stood up and ran over, trying to catch Zhang Yuanqing.

However, Ah Da waved the blow away and almost pushed Xu Fu to the ground.

"My Lord, Lord Xu Fu didn't mean anything else. I was just, I was just too excited to see you."

When the others heard the noise and saw the Marquis coming, they also hurriedly got up from the ground, not even bothering to brush off the dust on their clothes.

"My Lord, please let us out."

"My Lord, we don't want to die here."

"Master Hou."

The pairs of fearful and pleading eyes made Zhang Yuanqing silent for a long time.

A Da and A Er held their swords in their hands and stared at the group of alchemists.

After everyone quieted down, Zhang Yuanqing pushed Ada's hand away and bowed to the alchemists.

This scared them all.

Everyone hurriedly dodged.

"Is it my fault for letting you all come here to do such a dangerous thing without telling you about the risks involved?"

"I apologize to everyone."