Things did not end after that, and unexpected people came, Tang Zhouwei's thirteenth son, Tang Ping, and his beautiful daughter of fourteen or five years old.

Li Ye was indeed surprised. When Fatty Tang asked him, he said it was very nice and moved. He even deceived himself by him, thinking that he was a real mathematician rather than a politician... As a result, he disappeared as soon as he finished his work. He had never seen anyone since then, but now he asked his son to come to pay New Year's greetings.

But Li Ye soon realized that something was wrong. Tang Ping was here to promote his daughter rather than saying New Year greetings. How can he not leave his daughter? He is only fourteen or five years old, you are a scumbag! But if you think about it carefully, it is not uncommon for girls to get married in this era...

Li Ye understood that Fatty Tang came with the idea of ​​marrying their royal family. He had to sigh that Tang Zhou was a second-rank official in the court. He was a very smart person in the Ministry of Revenue. He wanted to marry and not look for a big family and a big business. He looked for a declining Prince Xiao's Mansion?

When he found that Qiu'er Yue'er's eyes were not right, he hurriedly responded to a few words and then gave them a bottle of General Jue to send them away. As De Gong said, Tang Zhouwei looked like a good man, but in fact he was very cunning and cunning, and he didn't want to deal with him more.

After sending Tang Ping away, no one who greeted the New Year until the afternoon came to the door. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he had a lunch with Qiu'er Yue'er, and ended up being relieved. Li Ye and Qiu'er Yue'er grind a can of toner, then filtered the plum blossom perfume and replaced the plum blossoms soaked in it.

The Wei family and his party were also very busy today. Chaoren took Wei Yuyu and his brothers to visit the officials who had spoken for him one by one, and then presented thank-you gifts. Although they didn't speak much at the beginning, their tone changed, and many people spoke for him. This is a large number of people, and they were busy.

However, the most unexpected thing is the first person to come to pay New Year's greetings in the afternoon, he is actually from the General's Mansion!

Wei Chuan, the fourth-rank general of the dynasty, also gave him a gift. The one he said was not a self-righteous statement, but was really thin, but only a dozen pounds of fresh mutton, saying that it was the sheep that the general slaughtered himself this morning, and sent it to him for taste.

Li Ye was covered in black lines. Why are there few normal people coming to pay New Year's greetings today? This general is not common. According to custom, fasting on the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is not advisable to kill animals. But this general of the current dynasty, the Privy Councilor Zhong Daoyu, didn't care at all. Think about it, he didn't know how many people he killed. Will he still look at the days when he killed a sheep?

Forget it, I was too lazy to care about it. Li Ye received the mutton and gave it back to the General's brew as usual. He was very surprised. He had no intersection with Zhong Daoyu, and he had never seen him before. He didn't know what the general looked like in the dynasty. Why did the General's Mansion come to pay New Year's greetings? But it was useless to think too much, because he couldn't figure it out at all. Maybe the old general would have a whim.

......

Then He Qian, who was so angry, also came. She changed her usual casualness. The little girl was wearing a formal outfit, with jade hanging around her waist, and her leather boots were brand new and shiny. She was full of vitality and heroic appearance.

Others always greet New Year's greetings first, say some good things, and then the host gives New Year's money or give gifts back. She will ask for New Year's money directly when she comes up.

Li Ye had no choice but to take a gold ingot to give it to her.

"I don't want it, I don't need money, I want something else." The little girl was not grateful: "Tell me what you are doing?"

"Make firecrackers." Li Ye said truthfully.

As soon as he finished speaking, He Qian became interested, "Firecrackers! I want to see how to do it."

"Aren't you going to pay New Year's greetings?" Li Ye asked: "There must be other places to go besides the royal palace. You should have many relatives in He's residence."

"I got up early in the morning and ran away from all my relatives' houses. I came here at your last time. I would do whatever I want to do in the afternoon." The girl said proudly.

Li Ye helped out, and he said why this girl came in the afternoon. It turned out that she had planned it for a long time...

.........

A carriage swayed out of the Meridian Gate. The person who drove the car was Wei Li, the commander of Shangzhi's guard. Fu'an sat sideways in the car. The old man was really the emperor. At the midday ceremony of the Heaven Sacrifice, Meng Zhiye pointed at the Ministry of Rites again, which made the emperor very angry, but it was hard to say anything because he was the imperial teacher.

As soon as the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven was over, the emperor left in anger.

Behind the carriage were several similar carriages, with Jinwu Guards wearing casual knives.

"Your Majesty, which minister's house should we go to..."

The emperor said impatiently: "Which minister has never been to the family? I will never go out of the palace. What famous restaurants and tea shops are there in the capital? Let's sit and see my people."

"Yes, I'll ask now."

"Don't go, it's easy for people to recognize it, let Wei leave." The emperor stopped him, Fu'an understood what he lowered his head. As a eunuch, he might indeed be exposed if he asked...

Wei Li received the order and asked almost back a while later: "Your Majesty, the famous restaurants in the capital include Wangjiang Tower, the Yongyue Pavilion of Hanlin Grand Secretary Chen Yu, and the most famous Xiaowang Mansion Tingyu Tower, the brothel has Fumeng Tower, Zuichunxuan..."

He reported a lot of reports in one breath. The emperor was unhappy at this moment and waved his hand casually: "You can drive the car and go anywhere."

"Yes!" Wei Li said as he got into the car and drove the horse.

......

"What is this? Is it salt? But it doesn't look like it." He Qian was so curious that she almost stuffed her little head into the jar.

Li Ye grabbed her and kept her away: "This is saltpeter."

After weighing saltpeter, I poured out some sulfur powder in the jar, and I had to distract myself from this curious baby He Qian. Saltpeter is non-toxic, but sulfur is toxic. Fortunately, Qiuer Yueer helped weigh the toner.

Li Ye used a small scale for weighing medicinal materials, saltpeter, sulfur, and toner according to the weighing ratio is about 7.5:1:1.5. After weighing, the three powders are placed in a wooden bowl and mixed thoroughly.

The whole process is made of wooden utensils. Iron utensils that are too hard may produce sparks, which is very unsafe.

"Can firecrackers be created in this way?" The little girl was still very curious. In her heart, Li Ye seemed to be able to do anything.

"Hahaha, this is much better than firecrackers." Li Ye smiled proudly, saying that while carefully shaking and mixing, then tilting the wooden bowl, carefully pouring it on oil paper, and wrapping it with oil paper. This is the original black gunpowder.

After weighing the weight, Li Ye estimated that it was about one pound. He spread out the paper and put it under the warm sun to bake it for a while to remove the moisture, and then carefully put it away.

"Okay, now you can start making firecrackers." Li Ye shook the things in his hand.

The little girl could not wait long ago and looked excited.

Li Ye took them to the barren mountain in the backyard of the royal mansion, wrapped gunpowder with cotton thread as a lead, then used dry bamboo tube as a shell, and finally sealed the clay.

Clay is an important material for firing brick and tile cement. It has strong plasticity and high hardness. It is a good material for sealing. In this way, the combustion of black gunpowder will generate a large amount of gas and heat and will be sealed in a small space for a short time, bursting out suddenly, greatly enhancing its power.

However, the wet clay will also cause the leads to be extinguished, so after Li Ye putting the gunpowder and clay hard, he still had to let the sun bake it for a while to let the clay dry and not prevent the lead from burning.

While everyone was waiting in great enthusiasm, Yan Shen came to him sweating profusely, and the Prime Minister's Mansion was greeting him!

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Ye thought to himself that he didn't know if De Gong had come. If he came, it would be just right, after all, gunpowder was prepared for him.

"How many people have come?" Li Ye asked.
Chapter completed!