"Huh?"

Li Jing followed the prestige, only to see a ragged and thin old man at the outermost part of the crowd come out, and his raised hand did not fall after all.

Zhang Wen sneered on the side: "Old man, you are also a fish on the chopping board now, at the mercy of others, why exchange you for the lives of these people?" ”

The old man raised his head and said proudly, "Just with the Eight Ox Crossbow!" ”

Li Jing withdrew his hand and asked, "You made the eight-bull crossbow on the gate of the wall?" ”

"Of course! In the old Sui military weapons supervisor master, Huangfu Yueming! ”

"Huangfu Yueming?" Zhang Wen seemed to remember something, and asked in surprise: "Huangfu Hao?" ”

Huangfu Hao nodded: "It's the old man!" ”

Zhang Wen hurriedly grabbed Li Jing's arm: "This person can't be killed!" He is the master craftsman of the old Sui military weapons superintendent, and he has been in office for more than forty years! ”

Li Jing was also surprised, he still knew how important an old guy who had been a master craftsman for forty years was.

"Master Yueming, let's talk about it, what a change!"

Huang Fu Hao stretched out his scarred arm and pointed to the bloody stockade and said, "The bandits in the stockade are all dead, these women have been taken captively, as for the children, can you do it?" If you dare to touch them today. Huangfu Hao pointed to the crowd: "I'll bite my tongue and kill myself!" ”

Li Jing nodded: "Your life is worth this price!" Good! I promise you! Let them come! ”

After speaking, Li Jing stretched out his hand and high-fived Huangfu Hao!

After the high-five was completed, Li Jing dodged and assaulted into the crowd, and cut off the head of a fat old man with one sword, taking advantage of the time when everyone was stunned, Li Jing had a few more swords, and a total of five old men and two young men were hacked to death!

After the death of these eight people, Huang Fuhao finally deflated and sat down on the ground, and the women also hugged the children and cried.

Zhang Wen was very puzzled by Li Jing's behavior, and couldn't help asking: "Didn't you promise the old man not to kill anyone?" How? ”

Li Jing shook the sword and shook off the blood on the sword, not wanting to talk.

Huang Fu Hao, who had breathed enough, struggled to stand up and explained: "That's because I played an anagram and a code with Marshal Li, and the whip wound on my arm that I exposed before means that my status is not high. said that he spared women and young children, but did not say that the old people and young people were spared, and finally pointed to these eight people to provide targets. ”

Li Jing said: "Most of the six old men among these eight people are the elders of the bandit leaders who died in battle, and the two young men are juniors. It's not appropriate not to kill! ”

Zhang Wen rubbed his head: "You are all shrewd people, I can't understand those twists and turns!" Old man Huangfu, tell me, why did you come here? ”

"The old man was originally ......"

"The old man originally took up his post in Chang'an, which coincided with the chaos in Chang'an, and the old Sui Guangsha was about to fall, and the old man was afraid that the new dynasty would not be able to accommodate the officials of the old dynasty, so he fled Chang'an with his family. I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, I've been a master over the years, and I've made a lot of money from top to bottom. I originally wanted to find a hidden place to end my life, but who would have thought that ......

was forced to be helpless, the old man could only make an eight-bull crossbow for them, otherwise, the lives of his family would not be guaranteed! ……”

In the cold mansion, Huangfu Hao burst into tears.

Leng Feng didn't expect that he just wanted to ask Li Shimin for a few good horses, and Li Shimin sent a giant elephant! In terms of this person's qualifications, Yan Liben only bowed his head in front of him to listen to the training.

"Old sir, according to the practice of the imperial court, the old Sui officials, as long as they did not commit crimes, can continue their previous careers in the new dynasty, and the official position will be given to them only after the size of the official position. But...... After all, you are accused of 'aiding and abetting', and if the official is reinstated, even the soldiers who returned to Beijing this time will not agree. ”

Huangfu Hao nodded, it was already a supreme kindness for the imperial court to save him from the sea of suffering, and he didn't think about reinstating the official.

"As for the punishment of you......"

Leng Feng's words made Huang Fuhao's heart immediately pinch up, after all, the Eight Bull Crossbow shot the marshal's personal guard, and he was to be held responsible.

"Twenty years of hard labor, this is the decision of the imperial court."

Huangfu Hao asked eagerly: "Is it just me or my grandson?" ”

"You're the only one, of course."

Huangfu Hao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, now that he is more than sixty years old, even if he dies, it is not an early death. His wife, sons, and daughters-in-law all left him one by one, leaving only one grandson. As long as the little grandson is okay, twenty years of hard labor is nothing! He did it for thirty years, fifty years!

Since he was already a person who was already serving hard labor, he couldn't talk to the main family like a guest, Huang Fu Hao stood up and waited for Leng Feng's order.

"Mr. Huangfu is a master craftsman of the old Sui Dynasty, and he has amazing attainments in organs and ordnance. It would be a waste for such talents to do hard labor. ”

Leng Feng took out a piece of paper and handed it to Huang Fuhao: "This is a contract, within twenty years, you will serve in the Arsenal Branch of the World Martial Academy, and your salary will be half of that of others, and it will last for twenty years." ”

Huangfu Hao was puzzled: "What is the salary?" ”

“…… It's wages! ”

He has served in the Ordnance Branch of the Tianxia Martial Arts Academy for 20 years, although the salary is only half of that of his peers, but this is much better than hard labor.

Huangfu Hao immediately agreed, signed the contract, and pressed his handprint.

After Li Jing returned, he only made one suggestion to the Tianxia Martial Academy, that is, to establish an ordnance branch. After the installation of the pulley block, he saw the leap in performance of the eight-bull crossbow. Since the Eight Ox Crossbow can be raised, is there no place to improve the ordnance such as ladders, battering rams, and catapults?

Among the many generals of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing was a very enlightened person, unlike Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong, who stubbornly believed that the bravery of the soldiers was the way to defeat the enemy.

The Turkic troops were scattered to all parts of the Tang Dynasty, and as long as they were dispersed, then there would be no threat to these majestic men on the steppe. A hundred years from now, who will remember what the steppe looked like?

The land of China is like a huge melting pot, and no matter how many foreign nationalities come in, they will become a part of it.

Doesn't Li Shimin also have Xianbei blood? But what about it? Datang still adheres to the Qin and Han cultures, rather than herding sheep together across the country.

The world says that Li Shimin is lustful, and he doesn't even let go of his sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and stuffs it into the harem, but this is an interpretation based on Han culture, and in the Xianbei bloodline, it is a tradition for a brother to die and marry a sister-in-law, and it is not a shameful thing.

The 1,000 soldiers that Leng Feng asked Li Jing for were sent to the cement workshop. Now the effect of cement is recognized by many people, even Li Yuan complained that the wooden house still needs to make a fire in winter, reprimanded Li Shimin for being unfilial, and did not take advantage of the time to build a cement house for himself in the winter!

After Pei Lian's incident, the relationship between Li Yuan and Li Shimin eased a lot, and the Turks were broken, and on the night of the emperor's banquet, Li Yuan, who had lived in the deep palace for a long time, also participated. Li Shimin danced in the audience, and Li Yuan beat the drum on the throne, and the scene was so harmonious that it was a mess.

In this world, the relationship between father and son is the most delicate, and if the son does something wrong, the father will eventually forgive no matter how angry and disappointed he is.

But now this one is a little unlucky, he did something wrong, was punched and kicked by his father, and rushed back to Chang'an.