Su Mingyu walked out of the main hall, her heart pounding with anxiety.
She had heard of firearms before, but had never actually seen one. When the abbot of Guangsheng Temple was traveling the world, he had encountered this weapon of immense destructive power in an unnamed foreign land. It was said that a single person wielding a firearm could hold off an entire army. However, the manufacturing process was incredibly complex.
Emperor Chen, fearing that such a weapon could shake the foundations of Daxia, had once tried every possible means to procure one from overseas. He had then ordered the Ministry of Works to replicate it, but after five years of effort, the Ministry had only managed to produce the outer casing; they remained completely at a loss as to what kind of powder was used inside. Eventually, the project was abandoned.
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