After the performance was completed, Li Zhongyi deliberately left Li Hu behind and led him to visit Li Qiniang.

Li Hu is an honest man, his mouth can't say witty words and flattering words, and he is grateful to Li Zhongyi to death in his heart.

Li Qiniang, who had a big belly, suddenly saw her father Li Hu coming, and she almost jumped up with joy.

"Daddy, I miss my daughter." Li Qiniang wanted to squat down to salute, but she only squatted halfway through, and she couldn't squat.

Li Hu was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and in a hurry, he knelt down on his knees and stumbled and said, "Niangniang, Niangniang, it's a bad deal...... Don't dare to be a ......"

Li Zhongyi waved his hand and said with a smile: "My father-in-law is my elder, and he is different from outsiders. "Got Li Hu into the pile of good guys.

During dinner, Li Zhongyi accompanied Li Hu to eat and drink, and Li Qiniang looked at them with a smile on the side.

Li Hu's mouth is not very bright, but he understands in his heart that Li Zhongyi is indeed different from ordinary people to him.

After dinner, Li Qiniang dragged Li Hu to chat, from the study layout when she was a child, to the blind purchase of rouge gouache, it was all an interesting past.

Li Zhongyi knew that as long as he was present, Li Hu would be difficult to get rid of his restrained attitude. Therefore, Li Zhongyi deliberately gave Li Hu and Li Qiniang a chance to be alone under the pretext of changing clothes.

"Daddy, did my brother come home often?" Li Qiniang naturally cares about Li Anguo, who is a fellow mother.

Li Hu grinned and said, "Go home often, go home often." Alas, your brother can be regarded as a long-term skill now, and he has a future, thanks to the emperor's fierce grinding of him......"

"Grandfather's body is okay?" Li Qiniang is very concerned about Li Qiong's physical condition.

Li Hu said with a smile: "Your grandfather's body is very strong, and he can eat three bowls in one meal so far." ”

At this time, Li Zhongyi led the stable woman who had been determined early, and inspected the delivery room and the midwifery equipment at the same time.

There are four women in the family who are pregnant, one is Li Qiniang, one is Li Cuixuan, one is Peony, and one is Ye Xiaolan.

Among them, Li Qiniang, Peony and Li Cuixuan are the first children, and Ye Xiaolan is the second child. In this era when the level of medicine is not very prosperous, a woman who gives birth to her first child is equivalent to breaking through the ghost gate.

Ye Xiaolan's treasure field is indeed fertile, she already has a badger lang, and there are not many opportunities to sleep in the recent period, but she is pregnant again, which is really lucky.

Han Xianglan, who has never dealt with Ye Xiaolan, has no such a good fate, she only has a daughter Xiangniu under her knees, and her stomach has no movement.

It's really true, people are more angry than people!

It's just that Peony's pregnancy completely broke Li Zhongyi's original arrangement. Originally, after Du Qinniang became pregnant with his seed, Li Zhongyi's plan was to falsely claim that both men and women were picked up on the road, and brought into the palace to be raised by Peony, who had never given birth.

Now, after Peony is about to have her own son or daughter, Li Zhongyi's original plan has completely failed, and he must make new arrangements.

Du Qinniang means that she spends a lot of time alone in the empty room, so it is better to leave the child by her side, and her mother takes care of her biological child in a meticulous manner.

Li Zhongyi used to always worry that his species was in the people, which was not good for his mental health. Now, Li Zhongyi can be regarded as having figured it out, even if the women around him are hurting other people's children, after all, they have a limited amount of love.

Therefore, after Peony was also pregnant, Li Zhongyi's mind changed, so it was better to stay by Du Qinniang's side and be raised by her personally.

After inspecting the delivery room, Li Zhongyi went to visit Li Dahe again, Li Dahe's condition was good and bad, and he didn't know how long he could last.

After Li Zhongyi diagnosed Li Dahe's pulse, Li Dahe suddenly gasped and said, "Da Lang, I'm afraid I won't live long, and I will leave Erlang's marriage to you." ”

To put it bluntly, Li Zhongyi really doesn't want to touch Li Zhonghao's marriage. Originally, Li Dahe's attitude was to wait for Li Zhonghao to succeed in his studies and pass the Jinshi examination, and then consider marriage.

However, now that Li Dahe's body is not as good as day by day, he doesn't have the heart to wait too long.

"Daddy, the second brother has never been very close to me, if I make the decision for him, I am afraid that in the end I will harm other people's little ladies."

Although it is said that the eldest brother is the father, however, Li Zhonghao is not close to Li Zhongyi at all, let alone the so-called brothers, friends and brothers!

Li Dahe is an understanding person, if Li Zhonghao's wife is Li Zhongyi's big matchmaker, it will definitely turn against him.

Li Zhonghao definitely didn't dare to disobey Li Zhongyi in person, but if he beat and scolded Li Zhongyi's wife who hired him, Li Zhongyi, as a brother, would not only lose face, but also find it difficult to intervene.

"Alas, I have already found a family for him, but I am sick, and people are a little unhappy!" Li Da sighed for a while.

Li Zhongyi is also uncomfortable, people are willing to marry their daughter to Li Zhonghao, in the final analysis, it is because Li Zhonghao is Li Zhongyi's younger brother, which is the so-called royal brother.

To put it bluntly, Li Zhongyi really doesn't want to get involved in Li Zhonghao's marriage, it will be a typical thankless task, and the two ends are not people!

However, Li Dahe's condition deteriorated day by day, and he asked Li Zhongyi again, and he had to express his position.

"Father, did that family have a marriage contract with our family before?" Li Zhongyi didn't want to care anymore, and because of Li Dahe's face, he had to intervene hard.

"There is only a verbal agreement, and there is no letter of appointment yet, so it's no wonder that people want to regret it now." Li Dahe said bitterly that he complained about himself, "It's all my fault for not being good, I didn't set the little lady of that family as soon as possible." ”

Li Zhongyi thought for a while and asked Li Dahe: "Daddy, I don't know which family it is?" ”

Li Dahe gasped and said, "It's the third daughter of Jiang Tianyou of Weiwei Temple." ”

Weiwei, in the Qin and Han dynasties, was a very important position. However, since the Northern Qi Dynasty was changed to Weiwei Temple, its power has been declining day by day, and it has gradually become an idle job to eat dry food and support idlers.

In the Later Zhou Dynasty, the grade of Weiwei Temple was from the sixth grade, far from the level of important ministers of the imperial court.

Li Zhongyi understood as soon as he heard it, the Jiang family was willing to marry his daughter to Li Zhonghao, I am afraid that the drunkard is not in the bar?

However, it was impossible to say this clearly in front of Li Dahe, so as not to hurt his heart.

"Daddy, why don't I send someone to test the Jiang family's thoughts?" Li Zhongyi can only do this step, and if he goes deeper, he is afraid that it will arouse Li Zhonghao's rebellious psychology even more.

Li Dahe was waiting for Li Zhongyi's attitude, and he immediately nodded and said, "This is very good, and I am relieved." ”

Coming out of Li Dahe's bedroom, Li Zhongyi stood in front of the stairs with his hands in his hands, thought about it carefully, and then ordered Gao Qiang: "You go to find Li Yanqing." ”

Not long after Li Zhongyi returned to the inner study, Li Yanqing rushed over and whispered: "The second son has rarely gone out of the house recently. It's just that he bought a few singers, and the sound of silk and bamboo in the house is always endless. ”

Li Zhongyi understood as soon as he heard it, now is an extraordinary time, Shi Shouxin was also arrested, Li Zhonghao had no place to have fun, so he simply bought a singer to play in Cidi.

"The details of Jiang Tianyou of Weiwei Temple, you go and check it!" Before Li Zhongyi's voice fell, he saw Li Yanqing arch his hand and said, "Your Majesty, this Jiang Tianyou is actually from a donor official......

Maybe Li Dahe had contact with the Jiang family, but Li Yanqing didn't wait for Li Zhongyi's order to come down, but had already checked the details of the Jiang family.

Li Zhongyi narrowed his eyes, thought about it carefully, and then instructed Li Yanqing: "Keep an eye on the Jiang family, no matter how big or small, I want to know." ”

"Whoa." Li Yanqing is known for his good memory, as long as it is something that Li Zhongyi ordered, he never forgot the record.

In the following days, as long as Li Zhongyi was free, he traveled in micro-clothes, looking at the ordnance supervision and the nitrate-making field.

Unlike the Khitans, who were good at arching horses, the Southern Tang Dynasty had an extremely large inland water division, and Lin Renzhao, the governor of the Tang army, was an extremely difficult general.

Based on the possible water war scenario in the future, Li Zhongyi gave the Ordnance Supervision Artillery Institute the task of increasing production.

Generally speaking, heavy 12-pounder guns, because of their long range and high power, are indeed an indispensable weapon for defeating the enemy on warships.

In the final analysis, in a possible future water battle, the more 12-pounder guns equipped on the ships of the Qiang Han Dynasty naval division, the more advantageous it would be.

Today's forbidden army of the Qiang Han Dynasty is only equipped with two kinds of artillery, one is a 6-pounder gun that is easier to carry by cavalry, and the other is a 12-pounder gun that is the main equipment on the warship.

In addition, the improvised trebuchets and "devil's cocktails" commonly equipped in the infantry were equipped with at least five sets of each ship in the sailors' fleet.

Due to the gradual increase in the number of artillery, the raw material of black powder, saltpeter, gradually became insufficient.

According to the book "Shennong's Materia Medica" written in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Pu Xiao" that "can transform seventy-two kinds of stones" is saltpeter according to its "fossil" nature.

Li Zhongyi was forced to have no choice but to adopt the measure of soil method to make nitrate, mixing the collected horse manure, cow dung, pig dung, and human dung together, and pouring it into hundreds of large pits dug in advance.

After a period of fermentation, the edge of the pit is covered with smelly soil with nitrate. This special soil is collected, placed in wooden barrels, and soaked in water. After filtration, the filtrate is boiled or dried to obtain saltpeter crystals.

After repeated experiments, after scraping off the nitrate, the plant ash should be sprinkled on the collected nitrate, otherwise the nitrate will evaporate.

In the end, the nitrate-making process made great progress, but it was an alchemist who cheated money and was caught.

This alchemist, also named Yuan Tiangang, has been relying on divination and fortune-telling to cheat some money and spend money.

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet. By chance, Yuan Tiangang failed to deceive, but was sent to the official by a wealthy man.

Li Zhongyi's policy was not to support idlers, and after Yuan Tiangang was sentenced, he was sent to a labor camp to participate in labor reform activities.

Coincidentally, Yuan Tiangang was assigned to his incomparably smelly nitrate-making field. As a result, the level of nitrate-making technology in the Qiang Han Dynasty has taken a big step forward.

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