The wharf was completed about a week later, and Yang Li originally wanted to take advantage of everyone's enthusiasm to study the hydraulic mill, but the cold snap finally came in full swing, and Los Angeles ushered in the first snow.

After the heavy snowfall, the people who worked went back to their homes to find their mothers, the temperature dropped below freezing, and the Luohe River was not yet frozen, but it was expected to be soon.

Yang Li was roasting in front of the fire in the castle, looking at the snow outside, there was no coffee, Mao Mei's vodka had already been dried up, and there was not even a decent drink this year, except for some fruit wine.

Moreover, Yang Li has already issued a ban on alcohol.

Wine is made from grain or fruit, every barrel of wine made, may have to consume two barrels of fruit or grain, the role of grain is naturally needless to say, the country should be based on agriculture, this is the foundation, slaves can be abused, deprived of freedom, but if you can't even eat, then it is easy to rebel.

As for the fruits, they should not be used to make wine now, because they are scarce in winter, which is an important source of vitamins for humans.

Most animals can synthesize vitamins in their bodies, so carnivores don't touch a trace of fruit and don't have ulcerated gums, etc., but humans have lost this ability in the process of evolution, because fruit is really a low-hanging fruit for the increasingly combative human race.

It was not until later that European sailors suffered from nautical diseases that the best use of vitamins was taken seriously.

So there was no ale wine in Los Angeles, and even the fruit wine was stored in the past.

Of course, Yang Li will not be bound by Prohibition, and he does not want to lead by example.

Yulia asked, and he immediately found a good role model, Cao Mengde.

Yang Li told stories with Zhen Mi, and Mao Mei and Xue Bijiang were also listening.

"Say, ancient...... Well, a long time ago, there was a chieftain named Apu, who banned alcohol in order to improve the living standards of the people and increase food production.

"However, there are some things that are very important, and it depends on drinks to help the fun, such as writing a poem in a crosshair, killing someone in a dream, and crossing the Yangtze River with 800,000 troops...... Where is the Yangtze River, you ask? A few miles to the south, not far away, in short, Comrade Apo had to drink for the needs of his work. ”

Yang Li picked up the small wooden bucket, filled it for Yulia and herself, and then gave her a glass of boiled water in Zhen Mi's confused eyes: "That's the story, so I, the leader of Yang, still have to drink a drink." ”

"Oh." Zhen Mi said.

Yulia looked disgusted: "You can pull it down, don't you just don't have Coke Sprite and orange juice, and make a bunch of excuses." ”

Yang Li hurriedly put on a serious expression and was about to preach again, but saw Mao Mei hug Zhen Mi, put it on her knee, and said earnestly: "Remember, don't look for a man like Yang who is unruly and desperately finds a reason to excuse him when he marries in the future." ”

There's no way, when there are no outsiders, this girl will tear you down.

There is no news of the caravan that went to the north of the Dugu clan to exchange and investigate, Yang Li estimated that it was difficult for them to travel in the heavy snow, and they didn't care too much, the new big cousin, the second cousin of the original black blood clan, Jiang Bin, is said to love peace, be kind and charitable, lend materials to other tribes, and only charge ten percent in the coming year.

However, such a conscientious new chief may not be a good thing for him, so Yang Li still decided to wait for the caravan to come back and interrogate him properly.

The north is calm, but the Xuanyuan clan in the south is very active, since they got the ploughing cattle, they are out of control, and two heads come over in three days to say that your livestock is good, how many more?

Yang Li said that there are no ploughing cattle, and we ourselves are not enough, so we don't give it.

Xuanyuan Decheng said, it's okay, I know you have a secret recipe for taming cattle, watch me catch some bison to tame for you.

Yang Yu said okay, but he told Xuanyuan that it was difficult to tame the bull, and it would be good to tame one of the five cows.

This is one of the reasons why Yang Li has been eating beef shabu shabu every day recently, and the remaining four cows have basically entered Yang Li's stomach.

Hmph, Luocheng didn't prepare enough hay, as soon as it snowed in winter, the cattle couldn't find anything to eat, and they still had to starve to death, it's not that Yang Li didn't want to raise more, but there was no economic foundation for the time being.

However, Xuanyuan Decheng was still very satisfied, he always sent people to invite Yang Li to be a guest, but Yang Li just wanted to roast in the castle.

Again and again, it's really hard to be warm, Yang Li said okay, okay, it's a winter trip out, as a training.

As the leader, he would not do anything like walking alone and then being stabbed to death with a spear by the doorman, because the one who was stabbed to death was also known as having the courage of ten thousand people, and he still died because of his appearance damage, not to mention his own appearance was like that.

This time he went to visit the Xuanyuan tribe, and Yang Li brought the cavalry, that is, the Guards.

Compared to when the cavalry was first established, the equipment of the Guards has changed slightly.

The bronze helmet began to be used, and thanks to the documents in the notebook, Yang Li skipped the original bronze helmet connected with metal pieces, and directly smelted the overall helmet, and added a nose guard at Yulia's suggestion.

Xue Bijiang was reluctant to equip a helmet, saying that it would affect his vision, but Yang Yu said obediently, you haven't learned the method of daytime tribulation yet, and when you have completed your cultivation in the future, you will be able to kill the immortal realm and the god realm in another dimension.

Then there is the armor, the malleability of bronze is not able to make plate armor in any case, and it is difficult to do scale armor and piercing armor, because these kinds of armor have to be perforated to the armor, and they are connected with rubber bands, if it is steel, it is still strong and tough after piercing, but bronze is relatively easy to crack, although the toughness can be strengthened by adjusting the ratio of copper and tin, but the reduction in hardness is not worth the loss.

Therefore, the current armor is still thick leather armor, and there is no way to do it for the time being, which is also a deficiency in the barbaric period.

As for the Greco-Roman form of one-piece bronze armor, Yang Li also considered it, although it has the defect that it is inconvenient to bend over after wearing it, but the protective effect will be a little better than that of leather armor.

But bronze production has not yet risen, and the pits in the Chongdu River basin will not be able to produce until next year.

The long weapon is a unified big gun, the tip of the spear is a bronze spear like a willow leaf, unlike most of the guns of other civilizations, the Chinese spear abandons the techniques of splitting and sweeping, only retains a thorn, and the power of the thorn technique is maximized, although it goes to the extreme, but it also makes the lethality of this gun technique multiplied.

As for the short weapon, Yang Li used a more awkward method - directly making a slight transformation on the basis of the original bronze sword, replacing the original normal handle and putting on a longer one, so that the length of this strange weapon was lengthened from sixty centimeters to about one meter, which was close to the length of the half-sword in later generations.

So everyone said that they were finally able to cut things right away.

Yang Li said that your way of thinking is not right, the elite group in our Han cavalry should try to avoid fighting with swords and horses, and always use big guns to pick and kill is the king, you see that your leaders don't need to change swords.

Saying that, they looked at the bronze sword in Xue Pijiang's arms, and the handle of his bronze sword was wrapped in a light yellow animal skin, which was very good-looking, it was Jiang Rongrong who got it for him, and Yang Jiao wanted to change his sword hilt, so he naturally refused to live or die.

The armor was there, the long and short weapons were also prepared, the horses were dressed in animal skins, and a heavy cavalry team looked so imposing.

It's just that Yang Jiao knows in his heart that if they let them charge, it will not be much better than the last time he hedged with the giant hyena, not to mention a general like Qin Qiong, the commander of the Xuanjia cavalry, I am afraid that it is much worse than the knights who have been trained since childhood in feudal Western Europe.

The reason for this is that the difficulty of the big spear technique is very high, and the so-called gun of a lifetime of knives and moon sticks is how easy it is to get started with these weapons.

So at the invitation of the Xuanyuan clan, Yang Jiao organized an outing, in the name of a friendly visit.

Mao Mei put the big sniper on her shoulder and said young man, I will protect you.

Yang Li said helplessly, don't worry, the Xuanyuan clan is not in a good situation now, and more than 20 of us estimate that it will be no problem to kill him seven times in and seven out.

What happened, or the sequelae left by Xuanyuan Guang when he was kicked out.

He wanted to make a lot of money, and sold all the stone axes and stone spears of the Xuanyuan clan, which seemed to make a lot of money, but in fact, it was equivalent to automatically removing the armed forces, so that those people were currently using wooden sticks and spears as weapons, which was very sad.

It will take time for the flint weapon to be rebuilt, and the clan that has pitted Xuanyuan Guang is watching from the outside, the Xuanyuan clan is not unarmed, but if they fight, it will be like they are holding a novice village weapon against other people's Karazhan graduation purple suits.

Moreover, according to the current trade and cooperation relationship, Yang Jiao is embarrassed to annex the Xuanyuan tribe, and it is difficult to make this trip dangerous.

Prepare thick clothes, food and water, pile the baggage onto the ox cart, take the lively Zhen Mi, Xue Pijiang leaned on the horse and said goodbye to Jiang Rong, and the group left Los Angeles, entered the snowy wasteland, and marched towards the Xuanyuan clan in the southeast direction under Yang Li's pathfinding skills according to the sun's positioning.