This woman is crazy! This is Zhang Zhao's only feeling. If she goes out like this, she will be finished! Waiting to go to Samaro Temple!
But...if Cao Yuanxin really does this, Zhang Zhao will be done with it!
No matter how much Li Shengtian loves Wujiwu, he can't cover up such a thing in full view of the public, and he will never tolerate it. It's not about truth or falsehood, but about a man's dignity.
Seeing Cao Yuanxin pulling out a second pearl hairpin, Zhang Zhao got cold feet! He understood that Cao Yuanxin was scaring him, but he just didn't dare to gamble. If this woman was really crazy, all his plans would be in vain.
"If you have any conditions, please tell me. As long as my nephew can do it, I will definitely comply!" Okay! Under the threat of Cao Yuanxin, the cousin became a concubine.
Cao Yuanxin smiled faintly and showed a look that meant you knew someone.
"My cousin's request is very simple. Zhang Erlang, you can only choose one of the Great Sage Emperor and Gui Yijun!
Either way, I don’t care how you please the Great Sage and the Emperor. From now on, you will stay in Khotan and inherit the status and bloodline of your mother, Princess Fengtian.
Either you go back to Dunhuang now and try to trick the Great Sage and the Emperor into helping you regain your family property. Don’t even think about it. There must be no discord between the Great Jin Kingdom and the Guiyi Army! "
Damn, Zhang Zhao really wanted to complain. Cao Yuanxin scared him into a cold sweat just now, just because of this.
He had no intention of provoking a conflict between Khotan and the Guiyi Army and profiting from it!
"Don't worry, Madam Jin, I'm here to make contributions to Khotan, not to sow discord. King Ling Gong also knows about X's ambition. Otherwise, how could I come to Khotan with a gift of soldiers?"
"Your Majesty may have reasons why he has to let go, but that doesn't mean he believes you. What can't you men do for the sake of power?" Cao Yuanxin stood up and glanced at Zhang Zhao with disbelief.
"Don't blame my cousin for acting like this today. Yutian and Guiyijun really can't mess up. In this world, if the two families unite, there may be a possibility of self-protection. If there is a feud between these two families, we will all be doomed. .”
Zhang Zhao was speechless. Why, in the eyes of everyone, would he resort to any means to regain the Guiyi Army foundation that originally belonged to the Zhang family? He obviously had no such plan!
But this can be regarded as a reminder to Zhang Zhao. He thinks he can live in peace with the Cao family, but it does not mean that others see it that way.
He finally understood where Cao Yijin's loneliness came from. I am afraid that except for him, Cao Yijin and half of Cao Sanniang, almost everyone in the Guiyi Army has forgotten the original intention of establishing the Guiyi Army. It is to open up Ganliang, connect with Tang Dynasty, and return to the motherland.
This was also the first time that Zhang Zhao clearly realized how arduous and difficult the road he was going to take was. Without the vision of the traveler and certain available technologies, such as gunpowder, it would have been impossible to go on this road. Sex, infinite equals zero.
"Cousin, don't worry, even if Mr. Zhang Erlang wants to take back Mr. and Mrs.'s family property, he will not use the lives of the last hundreds of thousands of Han people in Hexi and Anxi to take it away. He will use his own methods!"
"It's quite heroic indeed!" Cao Yuanxin nodded in admiration.
"But my Erlang cousin, you seem to know too little about men and women. You think that if you send two girls who have not yet reached the age of hair to the emperor, and also give them a way to educate them, the emperor will wait until a few years later. Fortunately for them?
too naive! Don’t you know what flower testing is?
A girl of 11 or 12 years old, the wind blowing on your pillow is even more incomprehensible. You dare to send your enemies to the side of the Great Sage and the Emperor. You must know that you are their father-killing enemy!
However, perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Great Sage and Emperor believe in you even more.
Thank you very much for my cousin. They are now under my tutelage. They will not appear on the pillow of the Great Sage and the Emperor within three years. "
Only then did Zhang Zhao discover that the two Sanpoba daughters he presented to Li Shengtian were actually among Cao Yuanxin's maids.
A little girl of eleven or twelve years old! You ancients still know how to play, so you are resigned to being the loser!
While talking, Cao Yuanxin walked out of the door, and Zhang Zhao followed her respectfully to see her out.
When he came out, he knew that he was frightened by this woman, because there was no one outside the door except a few internal servants.
Both ends of the street were controlled by a large number of palace guards. Even if Cao Yuanxin ran out with disheveled hair, no one could see him.
"Cousin Erlang, cousin, please remember what you said. If you really just want to make achievements in Khotan, then you'd better follow the path of making achievements and don't make the wrong step!"
As he said that, Cao Yuanxin glanced at the two Sanpoba daughters. The threat was obvious. She could help Zhang Zhao take in these two women, and she could also let them out in advance!
. . . .
After a speechless night, the depressed Zhang Zhao hurriedly left Khotan City and ran to his own Yaotougang.
Yesterday, Li Shengtian went to Samaroo Temple to worship Buddha and stayed there for one night. Cao Yuanxin hurried to Samaroo Temple and did not forget to stop by to give Zhang Zhao a slap in the face.
As for Li Shengtian, does he have any special hobbies? How did Cao Yuanxin win over Li Shengtian's heart? Zhang Zhao no longer dares to think about it!
Now he just wants to let Li Shengtian see the power of black powder and quickly return to his favorite battlefield. Only on the battlefield can he feel a sense of belonging that belongs to him.
. . . .
The city wall in Yaotougang has begun to take shape. It is more than three meters high and five meters thick. It is basically similar to the Shule City Wall.
Fortunately, this is the Western Region. If it were in the Central Plains, a fortified city with a height of more than ten meters, a base of more than fifteen meters wide, and a top of 12 or 13 meters wide would be completely exploded by ordinary black gunpowder without digging a tunnel for several months. Not open.
Dundup was waving a shovel and digging. Under the newly built city wall, they had dug out a small hole, which seemed to be used to place black gunpowder.
Zhang Zhao suddenly felt something was wrong. He was planning to use the cave to blast the Shule city wall in a simulated war.
But in wartime, how could the enemy let you dig under the city wall so calmly? This kind of approach would not make much sense to Li Shengtian!
Dunzhu touched his head in confusion. He was reluctant to dig a hole in this place. If he dug from a distance, he really didn't know much about it.
Cao Yanming, who was looking at the two female slaves Zhang Zhao brought him, suddenly turned around.
"Erlangjun! Not only do we have no one here who knows how to dig holes, we don't even have the tools to dig holes. Dunzhu, if you ask him to chop people, he can do it. If you ask him to dig holes, he probably won't be able to find the direction."
Zhang Zhao was right. He made the matter of hole blasting simple. Historically, Yang Dongwang's move was always successful because he had a group of elite miners under his command. They were not only experienced in underground operations, but also not afraid of death.
More importantly, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom happened more than 900 years later. The experience and working methods accumulated by miners from generation to generation at that time were far from comparable to this era.
Also, are the miners under Yang Dongwang extremely hard-working Chenzhou miners, or are they selected from thousands of people? Can these idiot miners of unknown ethnicity he has obtained from Khotan compare with them?
Damn it, how do you ensure that the mine tunnel doesn’t deflect? How to top it? How to ventilate? The sophistication of the tools requires a lot of effort!
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao wished he could stand up for two people. He had to go find Li Shengtian now.
In addition to getting the miners in place immediately, an additional blacksmith is also needed. Because he is planning to build a batch of professional tools, such as Luoyang shovels! Miners' hoes and other things must be started immediately.
