Li Lizhi rode her horse to Lishan Mountain. It was almost evening, and she saw a group of about three to five thousand soldiers and horses outside Lishan Village.
A general holds a token in his hand, and is blocked by Li Xiaogong and Li Tai.
"According to His Majesty's order, we will inquire about Lishan!"
Li Lizhi rode her horse to stop in front of the army. The horse raised its front hooves and neighed again. She pulled out the horizontal sword from her waist and shouted loudly: "Let me see who of you dares!"
The soldiers stood in front of the village and were stunned when Princess Changle shouted.
Li Xiaogong signaled Li Lizhi not to be impulsive, but stepped forward and asked: "Why does your majesty ask where Hou Zhangyang of Lishan County is now?"
"There will be no final comment."
Li Tai gritted his teeth, "You are so brave!"
"Please also ask His Highness the King of Wei not to embarrass the general."
When the two sides were in a stalemate, Li Yuan walked out of the village. He had white hair and steady steps. He said loudly: "What's wrong with Erlang? Come and ask Li Shan."
The other party replied again: "The Supreme Emperor, I am following His Majesty's orders."
Li Yuan smiled and said: "If you ask me, I will ask you what you are doing with so many people."
"this……"
Li Yuan said again: "I am retiring here, what does Erlang mean? Is he going to interrogate Lishan, or come to attack Lishan?"
"The general will not dare to disturb the Supreme Emperor, but it is difficult to disobey His Majesty's will."
Li Yuan sighed: "Look at the beautiful places up and down Lishan Mountain. I live well here. If you come to inquire about Lishan now, I will not let you go afterwards and disturb my leisure."
The general stood there, neither advancing nor retreating at this moment. He just said: "We will wait here for the time being. If His Majesty's decree comes again, I will only be able to disturb the Supreme Emperor."
There is still room for turning now. If His Majesty's will comes again, they will rush into Lishan Mountain no matter what.
Li Xiaogong sat down tiredly and whispered: "What on earth is this kid doing?"
Li Tai looked downcast, "Uncle Wang, don't worry too much, my brother-in-law has never been a person who would suffer."
"I hope nothing happens, otherwise I will have to die together with his son. I have thought about this day for a long time, but I didn't expect it to come so soon."
There was a stalemate in front of Lishan Village. Li Tai had already asked his bodyguard to call Niu Chuang, and at the same time mobilized the villagers of Lishan to guard the place.
To be honest, if I do this, I will probably make my father very angry, and I will definitely not be able to stay in Chang'an in the future. I might be driven to a fiefdom, or demoted to a commoner.
Li Tai doesn't care about these anymore, Lishan is also his hard work, even if the King of Wei is wrong, he will still keep Lishan.
He smiled bitterly, "Father, is it really that we can't accommodate such a small piece of land in Lishan Mountain?"
At this time in Qujiang Pool, the conversation between His Majesty and Zhang Yang was still continuing, and his son had fallen asleep in the stroller.
The daughter was eating dry food and sitting under the eaves and whispered: "How come dad and the emperor can talk for so long?"
Li Yue tightened her coat and said, "What your father is talking to the emperor about now is very important."
Xiao Qingqing raised her eyes and said, "How important it is."
"Well..." Li Yue thought for a while and then replied: "It depends on whether we live in Lishan or Chang'an City in the future."
"My daughter wants to go back to Lishan." Xiao Qingqing hugged her mother's arm, "Mom, let's go back now, okay."
Li Yue comforted: "Some things have to be faced. You can hide for a while, but you can't hide forever. You must become a person who can face difficulties in the future."
"Someone like daddy?"
"Your daddy." Li Yue picked her up and put her on his knees, holding her in his arms and whispering: "Your daddy has never been a person who gives up easily. Just like when he failed to make tofu, he said on the surface
If you want to give up, you will always read some agricultural books to gain experience when you have nothing to do. Your father discovered that there was a Huainan king in the Han Dynasty. He had experience in making tofu back then. Maybe he can make tofu in a few days."
"Mom, is the tofu delicious?"
"I don't know, my mother hasn't eaten it either."
The mother and daughter looked at the water pavilion in Qujiang Pool. It was already dark, and the lights in the water pavilion were lit. Sitting in the water pavilion were none other than His Majesty and Zhang Yang.
This conversation lasted from noon until late at night.
Not long after, Xiao Qingqing also fell asleep. Aunt Yang took her and wrapped her in a bear blanket to prevent the child from catching a cold. "Your Highness, please take a nap too."
After holding the child for a long time, his feet were numb. Li Yue stood up with difficulty, "It doesn't matter, how can I sleep at this time?"
Xiao Wu also looked at the waterside pavilion intently. She also wanted to know how the master and the emperor discussed it and what would happen in the future.
The night is dark, and from a distance you can only see the lights of the water pavilion, but you can't see the people in the water pavilion, and you can't hear what the monarch and his ministers are talking about in the water pavilion.
Li Shimin looked at Zhang Yang's work and asked, "Can this thing really break the city?"
Zhang Yang smiled and said: "Congratulations should be made to the Tang Dynasty. From now on, it is no longer necessary to use human lives to destroy the city."
Going back and forth to destroy the city does require human lives, and it requires three to five times the manpower. If it is a big city, more will be needed.
The prince came back and whispered a few words into His Majesty's ear. Li Shimin looked gloomy and said nothing more.
Zhang Yang placed the newly made bamboo firecrackers under a pile of stones. After lighting them, he heard an explosion and the pile of stones exploded.
"That's it?" Li Shimin frowned and looked at it.
"Otherwise, how complicated would your Majesty think it is?"
There were still some stone powder on the ground. Li Shimin frowned and looked at it for a long time, "Can you defeat the city and defeat the enemy just by relying on these stone powder?"
This was just the amount of a firecracker. Zhang Yang touched his nose angrily, wondering if it was inappropriate to use firecrackers to deceive the emperor.
But the current materials are still made from spare powder bags for flintlock guns, and they can only be made like this.
Zhang Yang explained: "The amount is still too small. If more medicine can be used, in other words, the city wall can be blown open with a corresponding amount. If you feel it is not enough, you can prepare more. If it still doesn't work, just use more."
Blow it up a few times.”
Li Shimin looked at the mess on the ground and felt a little hungry again. He drank the fish porridge and said: "Hurry up and write down the secret recipe of this thing. I will make you the Duke of the country."
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Zhang Yang sat down again with his hands on his hands and asked, "I take the liberty of asking one more question."
Li Shimin's eyes were still looking at the black marks caused by the high temperature, "You ask."
"May I ask Your Majesty, what do you want to do after you get this thing?"
"Of course I want this thing for the sake of the country!" Li Shimin said so loudly that he almost swore a poisonous oath.
The pot of fish porridge had reached the bottom, and His Majesty drank the last bowl. Zhang Yang had no choice but to continue drinking tea and drink more water to make himself less hungry.
I don’t know what time it is now, but the Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, and the moon tonight should be the roundest, but the night sky is dark and the rain keeps falling.
In the rainy night, the monarch and his ministers continued to talk.
Zhang Yang added: "Your Majesty has obtained this thing, the country will only be heavier, and more people will die in the Central Plains, because from now on, no one can restrain your Majesty, such as the people of the five surnames, as long as your Majesty blows them up."
It can eliminate the threat of aristocratic families."
"From now on, everyone in the world will be afraid of Tian Khan, and civil servants will have even less say. And Tian Khan has obtained a killing weapon, like a mad cow that has lost its restraints. Who can guarantee that there will not be more crazy people in the future?
Can your Majesty guarantee this? If this is the case, I would like to seal this thing away forever, as if it had never appeared."
Li Shimin's face sank, "How dare you!"
Zhang Yang still sat calmly and calmly, "There is no other person who can forge such firearms in Lishan except Niu Chuang, and Niu Chuang only knows how to forge but does not know the core secret recipe. That secret recipe has always been in my hand, just like it was just exploded."
No one in this world but me can create such a thing as a pile of rocks."
"Of course, maybe in a few hundred years, times will be different, and someone will be able to research it. That will be a matter of the future. But if this thing will lead to chaos in the country now, I would rather forget it."
Li Shimin was so angry that he overturned the table, "Zhang Yang, why are you forcing me!"
"I have never forced Your Majesty, but Your Majesty has been forcing me."
"How on earth can you give this thing to me!" Li Shimin almost said these words from between his teeth, his eyes were red, and he wanted to kill the son-in-law in front of him several times.
Letting Zhang Yang live was the thing he regretted most since becoming emperor.
But if he had been killed two years ago, how could he see such creations now?
"No matter whether your Majesty gives me the title of Duke, or rewards me with money and beauty, I cannot leave the manufacturing method of this thing to your Majesty."
The desk was overturned and tea was spilled all over the floor.
"I promise you that after I get this thing, I won't kill people randomly."
"Hehehe..."
Hearing Zhang Yang's contemptuous smile, Li Shimin became angry and pulled out the guard's sword, "Zhang Yang! You are so brave! Do you still have me in your eyes?"
Zhang Yang suddenly stood up, holding a loaded flintlock gun in his hand, and pointed it at the emperor in front of him, "I was born and raised here. Although I have no intention of overthrowing the Tang Dynasty in this life, I am well aware of the suffering of all people in this world.
"
"Zhang Yang, you are so impudent!" Wang Gonggong screamed.
All the guards at the rear drew their swords and rushed in, aiming their swords at Zhang Yang.
Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Get out of here, everyone."
"But Your Majesty..."
"Get out!" Li Shimin shouted angrily like a madman.
A group of guards exited the waterside pavilion one after another, but they did not dare to retreat too far.
Zhang Yang pointed the gun at the emperor and whispered: "Your Majesty, I have met many powerful people in my life. Under their influence and teachings, I have no other ambition in this life but to serve the world.
To make a living for the people! This is what Lishan has been doing. Perhaps in the eyes of His Majesty, I am selfish and selfish for my own ambitions, regardless of the court and the country. Even if I am infamous and ruined in the history books, I will never
These creations are handed over to Your Majesty."
"But it was so difficult in the Tang Dynasty. People were exhausted just trying to find food and clothing. I want the elderly to die a good death, and I want the children to grow up strong."
"Why don't I think so? How can you reassure me?"
"How can I trust Your Majesty? Once the secret recipe of this thing is spread, the war will sweep across the Central Plains. War with hot weapons is several times more cruel than cold weapons. Compared with the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the chaos will be nothing more. Hot weapons will make
More and more people died in the Central Plains."
"Does Your Majesty want to see such a situation? How did you become the emperor? Don't you know the importance in your heart?"
"I don't need you to preach!" Li Shimin roared angrily, spittle flying in the air.
The emperor dropped the horizontal sword in his hand, picked up Zhang Yang's lapel, and wanted to lift it up, but found that the boy couldn't lift it even while standing.
Zhang Yang also put down the gun in his hand. The monarch and his ministers looked at each other angrily and were silent for a long time.
The rain became much heavier, and the waterside pavilion could not block the rain, and the clothes of the monarch and his ministers were soaked.
On the other side of Qujiang Pool, Li Yue, Aunt Yang, and Xiao Wu carried their children and walked into a pavilion in Qujiang Pool to take shelter from the rain.
It seemed that the rain had calmed both of them down a lot.
Li Shimin finally let go, turned around and sat down again, "You could have killed me at any time just now."
Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "I can't guarantee that the bullet will definitely hit your Majesty. I will die on the spot as soon as the barrel of the gun fires."
With an inexplicable smile, Li Shimin looked at the rain falling from the night sky, making the lights here flicker on and off. The autumn rain stopped for an hour or two and then fell again, and the rain became even heavier.
"Can't you kill me at such a close distance?"
"Well, the accuracy is not enough, and I can't master it myself."
After both of them put their lives on the line, they understood a lot.
"Thanks to the rain, I have calmed down a lot. It seems that this thief even thinks I was wrong."
"Your Majesty hasn't made any mistakes yet." Zhang Yang sighed, "It seems that I can't drink this tea."
"Why can't you drink it?" Li Shimin waved his sleeves and said: "Someone will come and clean up and make tea. I want to drink it with Zhang Yang until dawn."
The guard who was standing in the rain holding a knife was still stunned. After hearing His Majesty's words for a long time, he came back to his senses and hurriedly went to prepare tea.
The monarchs and ministers in the waterside pavilion stopped talking again. The guards and palace servants hurriedly tidied up the place. The table was set up, the kettle was placed on the stove, and a small box of tea was prepared.
It seemed that there had been no quarrel here, and both the monarch and the minister sat down again.
Li Shimin knew the human heart and human nature best. After calming down and thinking about it carefully, Zhang Yang's words were not necessarily wrong.
Wang Gonggong poured tea again, and the rain suddenly became stronger and weaker, and now it has become much lighter.
At this moment, both the monarch and the minister took off their disguises and revealed their truest feelings.
Li Shimin whispered: "Even if you are unwilling to shoot, it seems that you will not rebel in the future."
"Youdao says that no one who becomes an emperor is a good person. I don't want to be an emperor. I hate that position."
"Hahaha..." Li Shimin smiled heartily and said: "I didn't expect that the only person I can trust the most is you."
The human heart and human nature are the most difficult to control. Li Shimin, who walked on bloodstains from the Xuanwu Gate to the throne, knew this very well.
As Zhang Yang said, once the restraints are lost, the current situation will only become worse.
No one can guarantee that the person sitting on the throne will be a wise king. This is what worries the son-in-law in front of him.
At first glance, it seems that it is not easy for him. How did he control his ambition and anger? How did he get through these years? I have made him suffer so many grievances.