After a year of rest, Li Xian became more and more skilled in marksmanship and archery. After all, when it comes to using guns, Zhao Yun is his ancestor. No matter what Luo family gun, Jiang family gun, or Gao family gun later, at the root it is still Zhao family gun.
However, some people are born to fight. No matter how skilled you are, you may not have a chance of winning.
During the Lantern Festival, it snowed, and the whole Chengdu was covered in snow. After drinking some warm wine, Li Xian started practicing marksmanship in his courtyard.
Unexpectedly, before I had practiced for half a stick of incense, I felt a tightness in the back of my neck, and my feet had already left the ground, like a chicken caught by an eagle.
"Master...Master..." Li Xianqing knew what was going on and shouted quickly.
"What are you bragging about outside?" Zhao Yun asked sharply.
"Master, if you have something to say, I'm not bragging... bragging." Li Xian quickly begged.
Zhao Yun then put Li Xian down and said slowly: "You know how much trouble you have caused me. Now in front of my house, people come to ask for words every day!"
"Master, you are wrong. I didn't say it was you who taught me. I was just talking nonsense to Mr. Zhao." Li Xian said hurriedly.
"There are so many surnames in the world, but you can only remember one named Zhao?" Zhao Yun pretended to be angry.
How can Li Xian say that this is the font of Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty? This will be made clear in a short while?
Zhao Yun waved his hand and said, "That's all, let the others do what they want. This Zheng Xuan wrote a letter asking for a letter. Please help me reply to him."
Li Xian thought slightly. This Zheng Xuan was a great Confucian from Yizhou. He was a great sage in the world. However, he was the leader of the capitulation faction, so he could only be said to be lacking in integrity.
"Then how should I reply?" Li Xian asked.
"Just write a few bird characters and that's it. The most annoying thing is dealing with these local scholars in Yizhou." Zhao Yun said impatiently.
"Okay, master, you have other things to do when you come today, right?" Li Xian asked seriously.
Zhao Yun nodded: "The Prime Minister has ordered that the army will set out for the southern expedition on the fifth day of May this year. He asked me to seize the time to prepare ordnance and come here to discuss it with you."
When Li Xian heard about the military affairs, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately asked Zhao Yun to go to the house to discuss it in detail.
"In this southern expedition, the Prime Minister plans to use me and Wen Chang as the vanguard to conquer Menghuo. What do you think of Hanxing?" Zhao Yun asked.
Li Xian slowly poured a cup of tea for Zhao Yun and said: "Master, the Prime Minister used you and General Wei as the vanguard. Obviously he knows that you two are rare and powerful generals in the world, but..."
At this point, Li Xian paused deliberately.
"But what?" Zhao Yun asked curiously.
"Master, think about it carefully. If you want to quell the rebellion in a small country in a barbarian land, you only need to ask the master to bring all the troops. It won't take half a year. Why should the prime minister go out in person?" Li Xian continued.
Zhao Yun listened for a while: "You mean, the Prime Minister has other deeper meanings?"
"The general believes that the Prime Minister did this for two reasons. First, the barbarians are unaccustomed to the teachings of the Central Plains and are capricious. They recruit one year and rebel next year; they recruit next year and rebel the next year. The Prime Minister wants to conquer the city once and for all. Focus on the heart first!" Li Xian then said the key point.
Zhao Yun nodded and continued: "What about the second one?"
"Secondly, to fight against the outside world, we must first settle the internal situation. If the barbarians submit, they will inevitably launch a large army to march north. This is the core point!" Li Xian said.
After hearing this, Zhao Yun suddenly looked happy and murmured: "Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition!"
"Han Xing, do you know that since our army's great victory in Hanzhong, there is not a day when I don't think about the Northern Expedition, and there is not a day when I don't think about galloping through the Central Plains with the late emperor again, drinking and talking with my second brother and third brother. It's a pity that I am already sixty this year. I'm afraid I won't be able to see Chang'an again!" The more Zhao Yun said, the more excited he became, "I think about how heroic I was back then, with 800,000 Cao's troops coming in and out, and four generals fighting fiercely in front of the Hanshui camp, why not attack the Central Plains again? , let those Cao Wei boys know how powerful this gun in your master’s hands was!"
"Master's arrogance is still as great as before. I'd like to propose a toast to you, my disciple!" Li Xian immediately raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.
Zhao Yun finished drinking the tea and said: "It's rare that today is the Lantern Festival. Today, our master and apprentice will be practicing spears together in this courtyard!"
"Okay!" Li Xian responded.
The two of them finished the Zhao family's gun dance in the courtyard, smiled at each other, took some wine, and became very drunk. Zhao Yun had a better drinking capacity, but Li Xian was already extremely drunk.
Li Xian began to talk nonsense: "Master, you...do you know that I have a song that I feel is particularly suitable for you and the Prime Minister."
Zhao Yun was very drunk, but he was still conscious: "Then come on!"
"Hum, it's so boring. I even wrote the lyrics. Listen, along the gentle curve of the ups and downs of the mountains and rivers, letting go of the love of the north and the south of the Yangtze..."
The first half of the song is melodious and ups and downs, like a picturesque landscape, and then it becomes impassioned, "I really want to live another five hundred years!"
As the drunken Li Xian finished singing, Zhao Yun was already drunk: "People say that you, Li Hanxing, are a literary and ink captain. In my opinion, your lyrics are too low-level, but the music is good and catchy." It's really good to sing with those big guys in the army."
The two masters and apprentices slept here for the whole night, but Li Xian let himself go completely at night, talking about hybrid rice, Newton's three laws, etc. Zhao Yun only thought that he was talking nonsense again, but one thing caused What caught Zhao Yun's attention was that Li Xian said something about the equation for large-scale steelmaking that night. He didn't understand much, but he secretly memorized the method of saying it.
Early the next morning, Zhao Yun got up and found that there were no servants in Li Xian's house. Basically, his mother was cleaning and taking care of the food in the house. He asked someone to send two maids over to serve Li Xian's mother, just in time to deliver the goods. Li Jun came back from the calligraphy and chatted for a few words. It turned out that Li Jun had fallen in love with Li Xian's calligraphy since the last time he saw it. However, he couldn't find the source after looking through the classics, so he had to copy it by himself. It doesn't matter if he doesn't practice his son's handwriting. Once he has practiced his own handwriting, his writing will be much more charming than Li Xian's own handwriting.
After leaving the Li Mansion, Zhao Yun immediately rushed to the workshop and ordered people to build a small steelmaking room in preparation for experiments according to the language Li Xian spoke in his sleep last night.
That afternoon, Zhao Yun looked at the super mini pocket-shaped dagger in his hand and was extremely confused: "Is it really steel?"
The craftsman asked happily: "Where did General Zhao come from this method? It is indeed steel. It saves nearly twice the time than before."
Zhao Yun waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, take me to report to the Prime Minister before making a decision."
The craftsmen had no choice but to retreat in dismay...
Yizhou Taixuan Hall.
"What do these words for birds mean, General Zhao?" Zheng Xuan slowly raised his hand to reply. But when I saw several big characters for "bird" written on it, I was extremely puzzled. The students were also talking about it for a while.
"Students think that General Zhao has mastered the essence of calligraphy. Almost every word "bird" is written differently. You see, the first bird is different from the second bird."
"Aren't you talking nonsense? Can you find the same two words in the world? I am telling the teacher that our teacher is the great sage of Yizhou, and he is the Kunpeng in the sky. There are so many birds, it is us, it is the teacher who protects us. s student."
"Can it still be explained in this way? Then why not write about swallows instead of eagles? Students think that General Zhao has a fierce nature, which we Yizhou scholars can't look down on, so they ridicule us for singing bad words every day, chirping like birds. "
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Inside the Prime Minister's Mansion in Chengdu.
"What General Zhao said is true? If there is such a way to make steel, wouldn't it mean that God would bless me as a man?" Zhuge Liang's eyes showed surprise, but he was playing with the pocket dagger in his hand. It was made of iron, but it was brighter than all the swords around it. This was obviously due to the reduced carbon content.
"If this method is used to make armor and weapons, it will definitely greatly improve the combat effectiveness of our army." Ma Di couldn't help but be surprised when he looked at these weapons.
"This iron is so bright, do you have a good name for it?" Zhuge Liang also had a whim.
"Prime Minister, why don't you just call me Mingguang?" Ma Su said with cupped hands.
"Mingguang Armor, Mingguang Spear, Mingguang Sword, what a good name. Please order your sergeants to make three thousand pieces of armor as soon as possible." Zhuge Liang said to Ma Su.
"Yes!" Ma Su said goodbye and went straight out of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Zilong, these three thousand armors will be given to the Destroyer Camp first. Providing this method is really a great achievement, so let him use it himself first."
"Yes!" Zhao Yun said with cupped hands.
