In the next two days, Ziqi has been thinking about improving the long-handled weapon, but the topic raised by Li Jiao really can't be avoided. The two armies fight each other for life and death, and the weapons in their hands are the lives of the soldiers and the life and death of the army.

He also thought about replacing the wooden handle of the spear with a bronze metal handle, so that the spear could be made into a single piece, but problems also arose.

First of all, the weight of the long-handled weapon is not a little bit, and it is naturally not a problem for a strong man like Li Jiao, but when equipped to the whole army, it goes without saying that it can swing freely on the battlefield, even in the march, the sergeant holds such a big guy in his hand, which is a burden.

If the barrel is made thinner, the weight is down, but it is extremely inconvenient to use. Not to mention a weapon, it's a farm tool and you have to pay attention to the sense of hand, holding a spear like an embroidery needle in your hand to charge? Stop it!

As a traverser, of course, Ziqi also thought of replacing the wooden handle with a bronze metal pipe, but it was not a solution in one sentence. It's not that Yin Shang can't reach the level of casting technology, like Simu Xin Dafangding can be cast, and making a bronze pipe is a fart.

However, a lot of data needs to be considered and tested repeatedly, such as length, wall thickness, weight, etc.

Ziqi went to discuss with Shang Rong, and Shang Rong saw that his future son-in-law had something to ask for, and he couldn't wait to grow two more legs to operate.

Shang Qingjun saw it in his eyes, smiled secretly, glanced at Ziqi affectionately, but was embarrassed to speak, and went out to the shop.

In today's words, Shang Rong is just a manager, and he is not clear about business matters. He had no choice but to send the old servant to find Gongzheng (the workshop supervisor) and bring the master of the bronze workshop with him.

The two of them listened to the sub-period's narration, were silent, and looked at each other. Gongzheng's small eyes looked at the master, "Liao (Yin Liao) more (Yin Geng), do you have a way?" ”

It turned out that this person's surname was Yougen, and Liao was less than forty years old, and he was dirty. At first glance, he is a person who is not good at talking, "It's not difficult! ”

Ziqi was overjoyed when he heard it, "Tell me, what are the good ideas!" ”

Liao's thicker lips squirmed a few times, "The bronze pipe is cast according to a specification, and the middle can be filled with mineral sand, and the weight is adjusted with mineral sand. ”

Although there are not many words in Liao, the sub-period suddenly becomes clear, and sure enough, the wisdom of the ancient working people is endless.

Zi Qi patted his head, why didn't he think of it, the gun skills originally included the stick method. After the barrel of the gun is added with mineral sand, it will flow to one end as it is shaken, greatly increasing the killing force. It seems that he has learned physics and mechanics in vain, and he is not as good as a craftsman who can't read big words.

He pointed to Liao and asked Gongzheng, "I want this person, how is it?" ”

Although Gong Zheng looked reluctant, he still smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness is polite, if you like to call him, it is also his creation, and the villain dares to disobey his fate?" ”

The sub-period and the liao more for a while, because of the inspiration of the liao, the sub-period is also full of inspiration. Finally, the style, size and weight were determined, and the spearhead was a sharp triangular pyramid, one foot and two inches long, with three blood grooves and three blades. There are three ring grooves at the junction of the spearhead and the barrel of the gun, which are used to hang the gun tassels. The spear is one zhang and eight inches (2.61m) long, and weighs 12 catties after being filled with ore.

Ready to equip the Flying Tiger Army with all this weapon, this weight is already very high. What kind of weapons are talked about in romance novels, they are 180 pounds at every turn, which is pure nonsense.

He also instructed Liao Geng to make three handles, one weighing 18 catties for Li Jiao, and two weighing 16 catties for himself and Li Hong.

Zi Ji gritted his teeth and asked Liao Geng to process 900 sticks together, although this was already a big investment at that time, but for Zi Ji, he was not bad at all.

After explaining everything, he said goodbye to Shang Rong and the others and returned to the Hou Mansion.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Ziying chasing Li Hong all over the yard. Li Hong jumped up and down, how could she catch up with a little girl, and she stomped her feet angrily, "You stop!" ”

Li Hong grinned and said, "Why should I stop? ”

"Let me hit you!" Ziying shouted confidently.

Li Hong stood on the wall with an innocent expression, "Little princess, can you be reasonable?" You didn't let go of your rabbit, so why did you hit me? ”

Ziying pointed at him and shouted, "If you didn't help me catch it, you should be beaten." Come down and let me hit you! ”

Li Hong smiled, "I'm not that stupid, why did you take the initiative to beat me?" ”

"Ziying, why did you come here, the queen mother didn't give you a grounding?" Ziqi walked over and asked.

Ziying was a little embarrassed when she saw Ziqi, "Brother Siwang, my mother saw that my father had recovered, and I didn't have time to look at me when I was happy, I secretly came to see you, and you didn't come to see me when you came back from Xiqi!" ”

Ziqi stroked the top of her head, "I haven't seen you for more than a month, and I've grown taller again!" ”

Ziying was even more embarrassed, stuck out her tongue and grimaced. When Li Hong saw Ziqi coming back, he jumped down from the wall and asked, "Why did my brother come back so early?" ”

Zi Qi was just about to speak, Zi Ying stretched out her hand to Li Hong. Frightened, Li Hong ran away, and the two ran into the garden one after the other.

Li Jiao was practicing his gun at the shooting range, and when he saw Ziqi, he stopped and greeted him, "Second brother, the marksmanship you passed on to me is going to be used to train the Flying Tiger Army." But I think it's too cumbersome, and there are some flashy tricks, which are not suitable for battlefield fighting at all, and have no actual combat value. I simply changed it, and chose the nine-style marksmanship to simplify it, you can see if it is feasible? ”

Ziqi pulled out the gun from the gun rack and held it in his hand, "Okay, let's try it!" After saying that, he held his gun with both hands and made a defensive posture.

Li Jiao shouted "Be careful" and raised his gun straight to the door. The sub-period waved a gun to "see the sun" just blocked out, Li Jiao took advantage of the situation to return to the horse, and the round gun swept and took the sub-period down.

Ziqi shouted "yes", and hurriedly used the body of the gun to use a flirtatious trick to block the incoming gun, and the gun back stabbed Li Jiao's waist.

Li Jiao did not dodge or dodge, and used the word entanglement to make a move "white ape hanging branches", and circled the barrel of the gun in the pillar period. Then the gun was struck horizontally, breaking the defensive position of the sub-period. The barrel of the gun is not in or closed, and a "diagonal single whip" is whipped to the right shoulder of the sub-period.

The two exchanged guns and fought for thirty or forty rounds. Li Jiao only uses the nine-style marksmanship, but he has offensive and defensive skills, and his movements are smooth and continuous. Ziqi admired him so much, some people are born to practice martial arts, you teach him a move, he can draw inferences from one another, create a new legend, Li Jiao is this kind of person.

Li Jiao put away the gun and asked, "Second brother, what do you think?" ”

Zi Ji even shouted several times, "Brother, you have touched the essence of these marksmanship." In the future, the Flying Tiger Army will practice this nine-style marksmanship, let's give it a name! ”

Li Jiao said with a smile: "Second brother, you should come to the name, I can't do this, I will only fight!" ”

Ziqi thought for a while, "Our military guard is called the Flying Tiger Army, and this gun is called the Tiger Wei Nine Guns." In the future, you will teach them as a compulsory subject for the whole army. ”

The brothers were chatting happily, and Tu Chang, the head of the inner guard, followed him. Ziqi hurriedly greeted Li Jiao to greet him. "Uncle Tu, why did you come from the palace? Could it be that his father is ill? ”

Zishou's face sank like water, and he looked helpless. Tu Chang also had a bitter gourd face, "Your Highness, I can't do it, the king asked me to pass on the message." Taizhu Taibu and the two adults entered the palace to start playing, saying that the Eastern Emperor Taiyi appeared and increased the king's longevity by borrowing the hand of the child. In order to thank God for his grace, he ordered His Royal Highness to go to the palace of Fei Xian and Yi Shu, two domestic slaves, to make human sacrifices to worship the Eastern Emperor Taiyi. Two days later, His Highness sent people to the altar in the eastern suburbs, and the words of the old slave could be brought to His Highness, so Your Highness can do it yourself! ”

"What?" The sub-period was like a lightning strike, and Li Jiao looked at each other.

Wu Du was following behind Zishou and the two of them, and sat on the ground with a butt of voice, stunned.

Ziqi grabbed Zishou, "Brother Sanwang, what's going on?" Why is that? ”

Tu Chang's face was solemn, "Your Highness, the holy will has been decided, Your Highness should prepare early, don't let down the king's favor to His Highness." The old slave is already redundant, farewell! After speaking, he walked out of the courtyard door step by step.

Ziqi roared angrily: "No, I'll go to see my father." Obviously, I saved my father, what do you say about the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, a bunch of nonsense! ”

Before he could lift his feet, the quilt was grabbed and slapped in the face, "What are you yelling about?" Come inside and talk! With that, he picked him up and walked into the main hall. Li Jiao helped Wudu from the ground, and the old man burst into tears and walked towards the back house tremblingly.

The sub-period quilt was beaten so dizzy that he looked at the sub-shou.

Zishou sighed, "Ziqi, don't blame my brother for beating you!" Are you too confused, what are you standing in the yard shouting? Are you afraid that the world will not hear it? When Taizhu met Taibu, I was in the palace. Bigan went with Wei Ziqi and Wei Zhongyan. ”

Zi Shou asked Zi Qi to sit down and continued: "I told my father at that time that there are many slaves in the city, and they can be chosen at will. The child has just had a mansion door, and there are few people around. Before his father could speak, Taizhu said that this was a divine decree and should not be disobeyed. If not, he would have liked to have his slaves offer them and pray for the king! Since my father has issued an edict that the raw rice has become cooked rice, you should arrange it! ”

Ziqi said bitterly: "Brother Sanwang, but they are only in their teens, this is not fair!" It is said that there are immortals, who has ever seen a fairy walking, and who has heard a fairy talking? This is all too much to wish them to pretend to be gods and ghosts, and take the opportunity to harm people! ”

He said this justifiably, but at the time it was really a big rebellion. In the Yin Shang era, no matter the monarchs and ministers, no matter the common people, no one dared to speak like this. The clergy clan went from antiquity to Yin Shang and even two weeks. all have a supreme status, so they have a place above the court.

The reason why these people dare to do anything wrong is because there is a god behind them to rely on. You can question it behind your back. But if you want to provoke in front of the public, not to mention that the court and the priests can't spare him, even a group of ordinary people can trample him to death. There is only one reason, that is, the common people at that time were ignorant and superstitious.

It wasn't until the Eastern Han Dynasty that there was a cow named Wang Chong, who wrote a book called "On Balance" and called the gods a board.

Zishou sighed, "Ziqi, don't talk crazy, stay at home honestly for the past two days and don't run around." Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, if you dare to let them go, neither my father nor I can save your life. By doing so, you are not only against your father, but also against the entire court and your subjects. If you comfort and appease them, if you have any requirements, even if you meet them, and do your duty as a servant, they will not blame you. ”

Zishou stood up after speaking, "I have to rush back to the palace, don't come nonsense." I'm telling you, they're desperate for you to do something right now! ”

Ziqi's heart felt like a stone was pressed, "Brother Sanwang, I just can't figure it out, they hate me for coming to me, why bother harming two innocent girls?" ”

Zishou approached him, "Although you are extremely smart, you still can't see through the things in the court, don't let me down!" ”

After he finished speaking, he fell into Ziqi's ear, "There are some things that can't be said and then done, and some things can only be said when they are done." But this time I'll tell you first, you remember, if I sit on the throne once, and I am the first to take the Taizhu sword, and abolish human sacrifice and human martyrdom, I will speak my word! ”

Ziqi looked up at Zishou, Zishou nodded, turned around and strode away.

When the child returned to the back house, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he didn't know how to face the two girls, Fei Xian and Yishu.

There was a murmur in the back house, apparently already aware of the news.

As soon as Ziqi entered the room, Lai'er threw herself into his arms and shouted: "Bai Ganzi, you quickly think of a way, I know you have a way, save the two sisters!" ”

Ziqi reluctantly wiped away the tears on her face, he knew the pain in Lai'er's heart best, she had escaped from the altar, but she didn't expect that this time it was Fei Xian and Yishu's turn.

Fei Xian and Yishu were surrounded by several girls in the middle, Fei Xian had tears on his face, his eyes looked at Ziqi without blinking, his expression was not a trace of fear, but full of anger, and he still stubbornly held his head high.

Ziqi didn't dare to look her eyes directly, and Yishu's petite body was trembling, lying in Xiannong's arms.

The door slammed open, and Fei Zhong staggered in. His face was so pale that there was no trace of blood, and his already cold face was even colder, and his eyes were blood-red.

Fei Xian jumped off the bed and threw himself into Fei Zhong's arms. Fei Zhong's hands trembled, and he held Fei Xian's shoulders, "Sister, go, I'll take you away!" After speaking, he pulled up Fei Xian and was about to rush out.

Fei Xian desperately broke free, "Brother, don't be stupid!" This is not Chongcheng, we can't escape. Even if we escape, we will inevitably die in the end, not only will we catch you in vain, but even the two Highnesses will be affected. You have to live well, you can live to avenge your parents and avenge me. ”

Fei Zhong raised his head to the sky and howled, hitting his head against the door frame fiercely. Fei Xian grabbed him, tears rained down, "Brother, don't be like this, take care of yourself, our Fei family has no bad seeds!" ”

Fei Zhong grabbed Fei Xian, "Sister, come home with me, brother will accompany you for the past two days!" ”

Fei Xian shook his head, "Brother, no, you can go, remember to avenge me." I'm going to accompany Your Highness, you know, those people aren't just trying to harm us, you go back and do your own thing. ”

The blood on Fei Zhong's forehead and the tears in his eyes flowed down together.

He glanced back at Ziqi, "Your Highness, take good care of my sister!" Accompany her well these two days! With that, he staggered out.

The feet of the child were nailed to the ground like a chicken, and all this was too sudden.

Fei Xian walked up to Ziqi, raised his face and smiled, smiling with tears in his eyes, smiling bitterly but brightly. She took Ziqi's hand, "Your Highness, do you remember the butterfly you caught for me?" It's still in ......" and tears flowed down my face.

Ziqi nodded vigorously, "Remember!" ”

"Come on, let's take another look at it!" Fei Xian pulled up the child period and walked into his bedroom, and the child period followed behind him like wood.

The sunlight poured into the house, and the window was bright, and the huge butterfly was still nailed to the window lattice. Fei Xian gently leaned on Ziqi's arms, "Your Highness, you told me before, I still don't believe it!" You see, you're right, although we crucified it, it really doesn't rot and will be beautiful forever. ”

Ziqi picked up her face and just helped her wipe away her tears, and the tears flowed down again, and they dried and dried and flowed again.

Fei Xian wrapped his arms around Ziqi's neck, "Your Highness, the first time Xian'er saw you, you are you, not Your Highness yet." Do you know how much Xian'er loves you? After I'm gone, let this butterfly accompany you, when you see it, you will think of Xian'er! ”

Ziqi didn't dare to let her say any more, so she kissed deeply, kissing the eyes full of tears, the hot and trembling lips, and the tears on her face were so bitter when she sucked them into her mouth.

Fei Xian broke free and wiped his face, "Your Highness, do you remember that day in Shouwang's Mansion, you promised Xian'er that you would take Xian'er to the suburbs to see the peach blossoms." Although there are no peach blossoms now, the plum blossoms have bloomed, you take me there! ”

Ziqi nodded, walked to the door and shouted, "Li Hong, Li Hong!" ”

He Bu hurriedly ran over, "Your Highness, Li Hong sent the little princess back to the palace!" ”

Ziqi hurriedly urged: "You go and prepare the car, I will take Fei Xian and them to the western suburbs!" ”

He Bu immediately turned around and went to the front yard, Ziqi turned around and asked Xian Nong to put on their fur clothes for them, Yi Shu trembled, not as strong as Fei Xian, and his feet were unstable.

Layle took out her beloved bunny hat and put it on her, and took her in her arms, and Yishu trembled in Layle's arms.

He Bu drove the carriage directly to the door of the back house, Ziqi gently picked up Yishu, put him in the carriage, and helped Fei Xian into the car. He Bu and others also entered the carriage before lowering the curtain and sitting on the wheel.

As soon as He Bu drove out of the city, someone rushed into Taizhu Mansion. Taizhu drank tea while hugging a bewitching slave girl and laughing at the table. Seeing that the chamberlain almost crashed into the door, he scolded angrily: "What are you panicking about? Desperate to find death? ”

The person who came from outside the door said: "Lord Hui Taizhu, the fourth prince drove out of the West City Gate with the car, do you want to follow?" ”

Taizhu sneered, "No, they won't run, we wish they could run away!" The farther you run, the better! ”

The person who came answered outside, and was just about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Taizhu, "You pay more attention to the people of Shouwangfu and Haocheng Houfu, if there is anything unusual, report it immediately!" ”

The person who came responded immediately ran out of the Taizhu Mansion.

He Bu drove the car to the foot of the mountain and opened the curtain. Ziqi jumped out of the car, hugged Yishu and Fei Xian out of the car, let He Bu watch the car at the bottom of the mountain, and took them up the hill.

There is still unmelted snow on the hillside, and the cold wind brings a faint fragrance. A tree on the slope was blooming, Fei Xian took a deep breath and ran into the forest. Ziqi pulled Yishu to follow behind, and walked into Merlin one after the other.

Golden flowers, wisps of faint incense. Ziqi suddenly felt that Merlin was so big, the heaven and the earth were so big, standing between the heaven and the earth, and he was so small. Although I used to be proud of the world, I now feel that I am so weak and powerless that I can't change anything.