Chapter 428: Chapter 246: Testing the Eighth Prince
No.
We can’t bring out the fire and powder for now.
We can only wait until he grows up and goes to the fief before bringing them out. Otherwise, if we bring them out now, he will definitely face dire consequences.
"Yao Yao, what is fire and powder?" Liang Run asked curiously and confusedly, noticing Zhao Yao’s sudden excitement. "Is it some kind of medicine?"
Zhao Yao calmed down, sat back in his chair, and shook his head, saying, "We can’t bring out the fire and powder now." He looked at Liang Run and explained, "Fire and powder is not medicine; it is a weapon, a very powerful weapon. Just a little bit of fire and powder can destroy a house..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Liang Run’s gasp: "What, it can destroy a house?"
"That’s right, with a bit more, it can even destroy a mountain directly."
Liang Run was filled with disbelief: "Impossible, no weapon can do that."
"It can, and it’s even more powerful than I said." Zhao Yao raised his hand to pat his forehead, looking somewhat vexed, "I almost forgot such an important thing."
Liang Run saw Zhao Yao’s serious expression, not seeming like he was joking.
"Yao Yao, is there really such a powerful weapon?"
"Yes, with it, many powerful things can be created." Zhao Yao made a gesture of a gun with his hand, "This thing is called a gun, it can kill opponents from a great distance, and its power is greater than arrows."
"More powerful than arrows?" Liang Run couldn’t imagine it.
"I’ll make it in the future and show you, then you’ll know how powerful it is, but we can’t make it now." Zhao Yao scratched his head and said, "If I bring out the fire and powder now, I would surely die." Even if the damn emperor protected him, he feared he wouldn’t live long.
Liang Run understood Zhao Yao’s meaning: "Then, Yao Yao, you better not make it." If fire and powder were as powerful as Yao Yao said, then Yao Yao, the creator of such a powerful weapon, would be coveted by princes and ministers.
Zhao Yao nodded and said, "We won’t make it for now, and wait to do it in Lingnan in the future." There are many mountains and forests in Lingnan, conducting fire and powder experiments there would not cause a stir or arouse suspicion. "Uncle, what were you about to say?"
"Yao Yao, you should know the Wang Family, right." Liang Run’s question was somewhat redundant.
Zhao Yao raised an eyebrow and asked, "What about the Wang Family?"
"Do you know Wang Siqi from the Wang Family?" Liang Run asked.
"Wang Siqi?" Zhao Yao had never heard this name, "What is this person to Wang Sixiu?" Wang Sixiu is the Princely Heir of the Anyang Marquis Mansion.
"He is the illegitimate younger brother of Wang Sixiu, a very ambitious and capable person."
Seeing Liang Run’s somewhat grim expression when mentioning Wang Siqi, Zhao Yao asked with a slightly somber face, "Uncle, did Wang Siqi approach you?"
Liang Run saw Zhao Yao guess correctly, nodded slightly, and said, "Yes, Wang Siqi wants to cooperate with me in business."
"Wants to cooperate with you in business?" Zhao Yao asked, "In what business?"
"Medicinal materials, spices, furs, horses, and cotton from the Western Regions."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Yao curled his lips into a cold smile and said, "He really dares to propose this."
"Actually, the terms he offered are quite good, but he is a Wang Family member." Liang Run gently rubbed the back of his left thumb with his right thumb, "He didn’t say much in front of me, but I could see his ambition in his eyes; he wants to take over the Anyang Marquis Mansion."
"It’s no surprise he wants to take over Anyang Marquis Mansion." Zhao Yao’s right hand gently tapped the table, "Being a child of the Wang Family, why should a legitimate son get to enjoy everything and be superior while the illegitimate son has to bow and scrape and be despised."
Hearing Zhao Yao say this, Liang Run was surprised and said: "Yao Yao, are you praising Wang Siqi?"
Zhao Yao smiled and said, "There’s nothing wrong with a person having ambition."
Liang Run was astonished: "Yao Yao, you wouldn’t support me cooperating with Wang Siqi, would you?"
Zhao Yao slightly shook his head and said, "I’m not supportive of you cooperating with Wang Siqi. If he weren’t a Wang Family member, it might be considered, but he is a Wang Family member."
After hearing this, Liang Run breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.
"I thought you were going to agree."
"Uncle, does he know your identity?" Zhao Yao had just asked this and felt the question was somewhat foolish.
"He knows." Liang Run had deliberately concealed his identity while acting in the capital, but his true identity could be found with some investigation. "He proposed a very interesting condition."
"Let me guess." Zhao Yao speculated, "Did he say that as long as you cooperate with him, he would support me in competing for that position in the future?"