As soon as Li An arrived near the courtyard, he saw Li Yu and Li Li, sitting side by side on the railroad tracks, with a cucumber in their left hand and a small jar in their right hand, eating and drinking happily. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the past, these two people only ate a few cucumbers at a time, but since Li An's five steps were reversed, they have added one, eating cucumbers while drinking spirits, and they come to eat and drink almost every morning, which makes Li An have the illusion that they are abused in Baisun Courtyard, and if they can't eat or drink, they will run to eat and drink.

"Li Shilang, we're all ready for you."

Li Yu put down a jar of spirits in his hand, took out a small jar of spirits and a cucumber behind him, and handed them to Li An.

Li Ang glanced at the two of them, took the five steps and cucumbers, and sat on the railroad tracks as well, eating and drinking heavily.

Not to mention, sitting on the railroad tracks, drinking spirits and nibbling cucumbers at the same time, it is still very nice and very comfortable.

"You guys are quite good at enjoying it, running around every morning to eat and drink, if Your Majesty knows, what will happen?"

Ang Lee asked with a smile.

"As long as Li Shilang doesn't tell the secret, His Majesty won't know, and we all know that Li Shilang will definitely not be secretive, right?"

Li Yu said with a smile.

"Hey, do you two know me well? Eat me. ”

Li An smiled helplessly, of course he wouldn't go to Li Longji to tell the truth for such a trivial matter, if he was so magnanimous, then what could he do, and he would be despised by Li Yu and Li Li.

"Li Shilang, when we came this morning, we met a veteran from Shuofang, and he said that he knew you and came to ask for wine."

Li Li said.

"Veterans from Shuofang, where are the people?"

Li An looked around, but he didn't find the so-called veteran, and besides, he had already guessed who it was.

"Oh, he went to the R&D center, and he said he was going to see it for a long time."

Li Yu scrambled to answer.

"R&D center? It's not for anyone to just go in. ”

Li An had already told the soldiers guarding the door that no idle people would be allowed to enter, no matter how big the official was.

"Li Shilang, it is His Majesty's will, he takes His Majesty's will, of course he can enter."

Li Li replied.

"Oh, then let's eat and drink quickly, and go to him after eating."

Li An gulped the cucumber and drank a few sips of spirits, because the wine was too strong, each jar was only prepared an inch deep, about half a catty, no matter how much it would definitely get drunk, Li Yu and Li Li still knew it.

"Let's go to the R&D center and see what the veterans are doing?"

Li An took Li Yu and Li Li and strode to the R&D center.

"I want these five hundred solar cookers, hurry up and pack them, I want to bring them back to Shuofang, the army needs this good thing."

From afar, Ang Li heard a loud voice, and it was a very long-lost voice, who else could there be besides Guo Ziyi.

"That's not good, these are all Your Majesty's, and you can only give them to your Majesty if Your Majesty agrees."

Yu Chaoen's opposition soon came.

"You pack it for me first, Your Majesty, I'll go and ask for my life."

Guo Ziyi grinds hard foam.

"No, it's not good, you have to agree with Your Majesty before I can pack it for you."

Yu Chaoen didn't let it go at all.

"You just said that it only takes three days to make five hundred, just three days of solar stove production, will Your Majesty disagree, you pack it for me first."

"General Guo, I kindly asked someone to demonstrate the function of the solar cooker to you, you can ask for it all in one mouth, don't say that Your Majesty has not agreed, even if Your Majesty agrees, I am not happy?"

Yu Chaoen just didn't give it, this is the industry he is responsible for, the oil and water are very large, of course he is not willing to send it to the army without earning a penny, unless the emperor orders it.

"The fish are given, the desert is short of forage, there are a lot of sunny days, and the army is now under great pressure to levy forage, and this thing is lacking? Your Majesty will definitely agree. ”

Hard no, Guo Ziyi's tone has obviously softened a lot, and she looks like an old slippery head.

"General Guo, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, I will prepare it for you, how much time can you waste, why rush for a while?"

Yu Chaoen felt very puzzled.

"Hahaha! General Guo's meaning is to pull these sun cookers and secretly run back to Shuofang, and when the time comes, His Majesty will have to agree if he doesn't agree. ”

Li An strode over and pointed out Guo Ziyi's purpose sharply.

"Guo Ziyi, you dare to ......"

Yu Chaoen was very angry, if he hadn't insisted on his opinion, he was afraid that the five hundred solar stoves would have been deceived by Guo Ziyi.

"Don't be angry with the fish envoy, General Guo is also thinking about the army, you can't blame him, haha!"

Li An comforted Yu Chaoen and looked at Guo Ziyi: "Why, Your Majesty disagrees." ”

Guo Ziyi took a step forward and whispered: "Your Majesty said that after the solar stove increases the output, we will consider meeting the needs of the army, but the army really needs it." ”

"So, you came to lie, have you ever thought about how serious it is to offend the eunuch?"

Li An lowered his voice and warned.

"Hahaha! Li Shilang, I haven't seen you for a long time, the last time I saw you, I was still the white nephew of the handsome, it has only been more than a year, and he is the squire of the imperial court, which is much higher than the humble official position. ”

Guo Ziyi changed the topic loudly, although he is old enough to be Ang Lee's grandfather, but Guo Ziyi has not received too many opportunities for meritorious service, for this reason, the official position has not been promoted, and the current position is even below Ang Lee, and it is not inconsistent to claim to be inferior.

"That's because General Guo has never had a chance to perform, and with General Guo's talent, there is no problem in sealing the envoy."

"I'm old, I'm still Guo Ziyi, how capable is it to lead troops to fight, the solar cooker invented by Li Shilang, Lao Guo definitely doesn't have this ability, and all the things here, Lao Guo definitely can't get it, by the way, I heard that Li Shilang is developing a weapon that can make a big iron ball throw a thousand steps away, I don't know when it will be able to get it?"

Guo Ziyi is a general, so he is naturally more interested in weapons.

"This is called artillery, and it will definitely be finished within a year, and it will definitely equip the army at that time, so that my Datang army will be invincible in the world."

Li An said proudly.

"Haha! That's really good, Lao Guo is waiting for this day, I heard that the imperial court has laid the railroad tracks, in the future, will it be paved to Shuofang? In that way, it will be much more convenient to go to the capital from Shuofang. ”

"Of course, of course, Shuofang is an important town in the Tang Dynasty, and of course the railway will be opened in the future, I don't know why General Guo is free and came to the capital?"

Ang Lee asked.

"Isn't there nothing to do? The Turks are completely finished, they have been fighting infighting for more than a year, and they have no time to go south, and our Shuofang army has no battle to fight. ”

Guo Ziyi complained that his military career was too boring and that there were too few opportunities to fight big battles.

"Yes! The Turks are coming to an end, and in a little more than a year, there will be no more Turkic states, and the Uighurs will rise. ”

Li An said with a sigh.

"The Turks are coming to an end, the Uighurs are about to rise, and Li Shilang still has the ability to be an uncertain prophet."

Guo Ziyi looked at Ang Li in surprise.

"There is no uncertain prophet, it is just speculation, the Turks have been tossed like this, how long can they hold on, and the Uighurs have been increasing in strength in recent years, and in the future, they will inevitably replace the Turks and become the overlord of the new generation of the steppe."

Ang Lee gave a prediction.

"Well, at this point, after returning from the humble position, you must remind the marshal."

Guo Ziyi's face was solemn, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

"General Guo, since you can't get the sun cooker, I can't let you return to Shuofang empty-handed, I'll give you something!"

Li An looked at the ordnance supervision workshop in the distance and spoke.

"Send me something, what?"

Guo Ziyi hurriedly asked.

"Helmet."

"Helmets, Li Shilang, there is no shortage of helmets in the army."

Guo Ziyi was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly came to his senses: "Li Shilang shouldn't have invented a different helmet!" ”

"Haha! General Guo went over to take a look, and it would be clear. ”

Li An strode towards the ordnance supervision workshop not far away, Guo Ziyi followed, and Li Yu and Li Li followed in with the same curiosity.

"General Guo, please see, this is a new helmet, that is, on the basis of the original helmet, a tempered medicinal jade is added, and there is a structure that can adjust the angle."

Li An took out the primary product he had just developed, the structure was too simple, almost equivalent to the mask of the battery car helmet of later generations was taken over, but this mask was a little heavy, some thick, made of tempered glass, which can completely resist the effective attack of swords and bows, and even, there is a certain degree of windproof and sand ability, so that the Tang soldiers who served in the desert can relieve their pain a little.

"Yaoyu? Isn't this thing very fragile? Can you stop the enemy's crossbow attacks? ”

Guo Ziyi picked it up directly and put it on her head.

"General Guo, this is a tempered medicinal jade, it's not so easy to break, why don't you try it."

Ang Lee is confident in his R&D results, and he believes that the products he designs will be able to withstand the test.

Fifty steps away, a wooden shelf had already been prepared, and the tempered medicine jade helmet was hung on it.

"Bring a bow and arrows."

Li An took the bow and arrow, aimed at the mask of the medicinal jade helmet, and shot the first arrow, which hit the mask, but it was bounced away, and did not cause significant damage to the tempered medicinal jade mask.

"General Guo, you try it too."

Li An handed the bow and arrow to Guo Ziyi and said with a smile.

Guo Ziyi took the bow and arrow, and aimed at the medicine jade shield is an arrow.

Without the slightest accident, the arrow was bounced off, and the medicine jade mask did not shatter.

Guo Ziyi looked at everything that happened in front of him in surprise, his expression froze, he obviously didn't expect that the medicine jade mask could actually block the attack of the arrows.

"Bring the helmet."

After Li An took the helmet, he put it in front of Guo Ziyi and said softly: "General Guo, please see, there are two slight damages on the surface of the mask, and in addition, there are two shallow scratches, which are the injuries caused to the mask by the arrow we shot just now." ”

"Amazing, this mask is really powerful, if the whole army is equipped with this kind of mask, when the war is fought, there will be a lot of fewer soldiers."

Guo Ziyi's old face was filled with excitement, and he couldn't wait to go back with tens of thousands of helmets immediately.

Of course, the reason why this tempered medicine jade mask is powerful is because the strength of the tempered medicine jade is relatively high and it is not easy to be broken, and the second is because the mask has amplitude, the middle is high and the sides are short, so that after the arrow hits the mask, it will easily be bounced off, and the energy suffered by the hit point can be better decomposed, thereby further reducing the damage.

"General Guo, this is just a primary product, you only need to improve the original helmet, and in the future, there will be helmets with better defensive performance."

Ang Lee proudly introduced.

"Li Shilang, how many such helmets are there now?"

Guo Ziyi asked expectantly.

"There are only two that have been completely done, both of which were given to General Guo, in addition, there are a hundred sets of tempered medicine jade masks and attached adjustment parts, as long as there is a helmet, it can be done soon, and it will also be given to General Guo, and there will be no more."

Li An said arrogantly.

"Haha! Great, then Lao Guo is welcome, as long as you have it, it's better than nothing! ”

Guo Ziyi was not polite at all, and accepted it directly.

"Well, there's nothing to see here, let's go out for a drink! Let General Guo taste the spirits I made in five steps. ”

Li An pulled Guo Ziyi out of the R&D center and walked in the direction of the vegetable greenhouse, how can you drink wine without the small dish of cucumber.

"Five steps down, as soon as you hear the name, it's a good wine! Ha ha! Be sure to drink more. ”

Although Guo Ziyi is old, she is not weaker than young people, and the amount of alcohol is certainly not worse than that of young people.

Ang Lee and Guo Ziyi drank a lot and talked a lot, including military topics, science and technology, and international strategic issues, and even talked about astronomy.

Although Guo Ziyi is a lot older than Ang Lee, when talking about these topics, he almost always listens and agrees, after all, his knowledge is still too far behind Ang Lee, and he can only be a qualified listener.

When leaving, Guo Ziyi did not forget to bring the helmet and mask given to him by Ang Lee, but Lao Guo's expression was a little complicated, his thinking was still stuck on many strange things depicted by Ang Lee, and sighed that Ang Lee had such a powerful insight at a young age.

A month later, the railway line from Chang'an City to Luoyang City was officially determined after Li An's acceptance.

The imperial court immediately requisitioned labor on a large scale and began to build the roadbed along the railway line, divided it into five locations, and began laying railroad tracks at the same time, in order to complete the railway line as soon as possible.

As the technical director of this project, Li Ang naturally has to supervise and guide the project responsibly to prevent problems with the quality of the project.

During the inspection a few days ago, Li An also carried a responsible attitude and meticulous inspection and guidance, but he found that the technical officials of the household department were extremely conscientious and responsible, and considered all things very well, which made Li An save a lot of trouble. (To be continued.) )