"Smack!" In the Li family ancestral hall, Li Chengan slapped Li Jie again, "Are you dizzy today?" Doing such a foolish thing on such an important occasion, my Li family's face has been lost by you. Say, why do you do this? ”

Li Chengan likes this grandson very much, usually Li Jie is not such a ridiculous person, he really doesn't understand why Li Jie is dizzy today.

"Grandpa, grandson did it on purpose." Li Jie knelt on the ground and said loudly, "What is he Qin forget?" also dare to be disrespectful to grandpa. The grandson is the woman who wants to move him and make him lose face. ”

Hearing Li Jie say this, Li Cheng'an was even angrier, "Stupid! Why haven't you thought about whose face you are losing when you bully the guests of the Li Mansion in the Li Mansion? Do you also want to forget Qin? The next time I see Qin Wang, you hide far away for me, if he catches the handle, no one will be able to protect you. ”

"Yes." Li Jie nodded reluctantly in agreement.

"Kneel here, when you figure it out and when you get up." Knowing that the arrogant grandson would not be convinced, Li Chengan knelt down.

"Li Xiang, don't be so angry, that Qin Forget is really too arrogant, don't say that Jie Gongzi can't bear it, and the old man can't bear it if he is a few years younger." Seeing Li Chengan walking out in an atmosphere, Fu Bocong said softly.

"It's really more popular than people, that Qin Forget is the same age as Jie'er, Bo Cong looks at others, and he may not be able to bargain for himself if he deals with it personally. Look at Jerle again, how could he be his opponent? Li Chengan frowned and said, "Benxiang is already old, he is still very young, he must kill him in Benxiang's lifetime, Benxiang has a feeling that sooner or later the Li family will be destroyed in his hands." ”

"Xiangguo doesn't need to be so nervous, in fact, it's not impossible to deal with Qin Wang." Fu Bocong said confidently.

"Oh? What is the best way to do it? Fu Bocong has been Li Chengan's confidant all his life, and he trusts Fu Bocong's ability very much, so he asked excitedly at the moment.

"Now Xiangguo can't move that Qin Wang, the main reason is that he is deeply favored by the emperor, but if we succeed in making His Majesty suspicious of him, our opportunity will come." Fu Bocong said on the ground.

"I also know this, this time the use of the Khitan and Dongying people is to arouse the emperor's jealousy of him, who knows that he shined at the parade, and the plan was ruined, which played a counterproductive role and made him go further." Li Chengan was very annoyed.

"But Li Xiang seems to have forgotten what the Khitans said?"

"How?"

The Khitans said that the hostile forces of the Khitans were all supported by Qin Wang, but Qin Wang flatly denied it, and the emperor did not believe it. However, the old man believed that the Khitans were not talking nonsense about this matter, and they must have discovered something strange in it. ”

"You mean that Qin Forget is really supporting those hostile forces of the Khitans behind his back?" Li Chengan exclaimed, "Can he have so much strength?" ”

"The old man thinks it should be." Fu Bocong nodded, "Just now he said that the emperor will allocate one million taels of silver to him every year to support the hostile forces of the Khitans, which sounds like a lot, but if the three messes are divided, it won't make any big difference?" The old man felt that Qin Wang's Chicheng Group must have spent money on this. ”

"So what?" Li Chengan was still a little puzzled, "Qin Forget has made a lot of money in the tea and horse market in two years, and he should pay it." ”

"But I haven't heard of him buying weapons and equipment." Fu Bocong explained, "It is useless to support those poor and white Khitan hostile forces with only money.

Those rebels in Liaodong have no weapons and equipment, only silver money. ”

"You mean Akagi's ability to produce weapons on his own?" Li Chengan is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart, and he immediately thought of the crux of the problem.

"Yes, and it can be mass-produced, otherwise he will use what to support the hostile forces of the Khitans, what to support tens of thousands of troops, and what to use to start a war with the Dongying people."

"Yes, yes. This is ignored by the Present Image. Li Chengan suddenly realized, "It's taboo to build weapons and equipment privately, so I'll let Li Yu investigate, and he, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, is justified in investigating this matter." ”

Yakushima Island is an island located 120 miles south of the Osumi Peninsula in Kyushu, Toei, and belongs to the Osumi Islands along with the neighboring islands of Tanegashima and Kuchielebujima. The island has about 14,000 inhabitants and is under the jurisdiction of Yakushima Town, Kumamo-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture. Yakushima Ku is a mountainous area, and the center area is more than three miles above sea level and seven high mountains are lined up, the highest of which is Mt. Miyanoura, which is four miles high. As the altitude rises, the entire island is covered with a variety of plants, which change layer by layer, making it extremely ornamental.

It's just that the current Yakushima is no longer the Yakushima of the Toei people, but the Yakushima of Qin Forget. As early as a year and a half ago, after the Fire Dragon King defeated Taira Kiyomori for the fourth time, he successfully occupied this important island that could threaten the mainland of Dongying at any time. The Fire Dragon King had 10,000 soldiers and 300 warships on Yakushima, ready at any time, as long as Qin Forgot gave an order, he could attack Dongying at any time.

Naturally, the people of Toei would not let the Fire Dragon King grow bigger on Yakushima, and they immediately stationed 10,000 troops each on Tanegashima and Eirabu Island, and attacked Yakushima as soon as they had time, vowing to completely eliminate the Fire Dragon King from Yakushima. Because he had not received the order from Qin Forget to attack the Dongying people on a large scale, the Fire Dragon King had always been mainly defensive, and the whole army was holding back their anger.

Today, the Fire Dragon King stood at the Yakushima pier, waiting for support from Akagi. Three days ago, he received a secret letter from Qin Wang, asking him to attack Dongying Territory with all his might, which made him very excited. Of course, Qin Forget didn't plan to let him rely on 10,000 people to kill Shangdongying, Qin Forget specially transferred Liu Jian from Chicheng, accompanied by 10,000 troops and hundreds of various ships and enough weapons and materials.

"General, here!" After waiting for more than an hour, Lin Qing walked to the side of the Fire Dragon King and pointed to the distance and said.

The Fire Dragon King looked up, and a huge fleet of ships slowly approached in the distance where the water and the sky met. Far away, the Fire Dragon King saw a huge battle flag fluttering in the wind, and the word "Liu" on it was majestic.

"Liu Shuai is here in person! Good guys, five-story ship! Seeing the huge hull of Liu Jian's flagship, Lin Qing exclaimed in amazement.

"It should be the general who got it from Da Chu." The Fire Dragon King's eyes were also full of envy, and his current flagship was only a fifty percent new four-story ship, so it was strange not to be envious. But he can't help it, there are 40,000 horses in the Akagi Navy, Liu Jian is the commander, he is only the deputy commander.

Now the shipyard in Chicheng doesn't talk about a five-story ship, it can't even build a four-story ship, Liu Jian's five-story ship was bought by Qin Forget from Da Chu at a high price, and it was just delivered to Liu Jian, but I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

"Dragon King, I'm tired." Before the boat docked, Liu Jian laughed at the Fire Dragon King waiting on the shore.

"Haha, Liu Dashuai, I didn't expect you to come in person this time." The Fire Dragon King also laughed, "It's great to have so many brothers with you. ”

"Dragon King, don't stand, get on the boat and show you something good." Seeing the ship approaching the dock,

Liu Jian warmly invited.

"Liu Shuai, I haven't seen you for more than two years, are you okay?" The Fire Dragon King strode up to Liu Jian and gave Liu Jian a military salute.

"Haha, good, all right." Looking at the Fire Dragon King, who had lost a lot of weight, Liu Jian's eyes were full of appreciation, "I heard that there is a big battle to fight this time, Lao Liu can't help it, the Dragon King doesn't blame me, right?" ”

"What did Liu Shuai say? This is the general's order, how dare the last general have any criticism? What's more, Liu Shuai personally came to command, and the general couldn't ask for it. The Fire Dragon King hurriedly said.

"Don't be like this to the Dragon King, the war against Dongying is still dominated by the Dragon King, no matter what, you have fought with the Dongying people for more than a year, and you know the enemy better." Liu Jian excused himself, he had no intention of seizing power at all.

"No, the snake can't be without a head, this war is still dominated by Liu Shuai. I and my subordinates know a little bit about the Dongying people, and we will give Liu Shuai appropriate advice. "How dare the Fire Dragon King go beyond his bounds, he said, "Don't hide it from Liu Shuai, those Dongying people are getting more and more difficult to fight, and it will be more and more difficult to deal with them." Liu Shuai has to take charge personally! ”

"Okay, let's talk about this later!" Liu Jian knew that it was impossible for the Fire Dragon King to accept his suggestion, so he didn't refuse, "Come, show you something good." ”

After speaking, Liu Jian lifted the rain cloth next to him.

As soon as the rain cloth was unfurled, a small and delicate crossbow machine was displayed in front of the Fire Dragon King. This crossbow machine is much smaller than a normal bed crossbow, and amazingly, it has three crossbow arms, which are close to each other from top to bottom. The crossbow arm is not very long, only four feet, but it looks powerful.

"Triple crossbow?" The Fire Dragon King exclaimed in surprise, "With such a small volume, how many units can this five-story ship fit?" ”

"This flagship of mine can hold a hundred of them, and three hundred crossbow arrows can shred any enemy at the slightest order." Liu Jian said with a smile.

"Good guy, just how about the strength?" The Fire Dragon King exclaimed, "The sea is stormy and rough, if you don't have enough strength, I'm afraid it won't work." The last general saw that the crossbow arm was not long enough and not hard enough. ”

"Why don't you try it?" Liu Jian suggested with a smile.

As soon as he pulled the bowstring of the crossbow on the bed, the Fire Dragon King's complexion changed greatly, don't look at the crossbow arm is only the thickness of a child's arm, it is extremely hard, he pulls it up with all his strength and does not move at all. Lin Qing was afraid that the Fire Dragon King would be embarrassed, so he hurriedly took five or six personal soldiers to get started, and they worked together to barely pull away.

"Good fellow, what a heavy crossbow. How? The Fire Dragon King wiped his sweat and said.

"The main body is stainless steel, Jin Xu's new work." Liu Jian explained with a smile.

"Stainless steel for crossbow arrows? Unheard of, hey, Jin Xu is really capable. The Fire Dragon King sighed.

After receiving a crossbow arrow weighing fifteen catties, half a zhang long, and the thickness of a thumb, handed over by Liu Jian's own soldiers, the Fire Dragon King was surprised again, he knew that this must be due to the strong wind on the sea, and the arrow was deliberately weighted.

With the "Bang! With a muffled sound, watching the target ship a hundred feet away being shot apart, the Fire Dragon King was excited, "Great, with this sharp weapon, the thin-skinned bean shell of the Dongying people can only be slaughtered." ”

"Haha, the thing is easy to use, but it's too expensive, and the cost of this crossbow arrow alone is one or two silver." Liu Jian smiled bitterly and said, "This crossbow machine costs a hundred taels." ”

"What kind of crossbow arrow costs a tael of silver?" The Fire Dragon King exclaimed, "Wouldn't the three hundred taels of silver be gone in that succession?" He felt his heart hurt.

"What kind of war is this, it's like smashing the enemy with silver." Lin Qing next to him also sighed.