"Bang."

After a gunshot, a stupid rabbit dozens of meters away with a gray probe probing its head bloomed a blood flower and fell to the ground.

"The accuracy of this thing is okay, but it still can't be fired, you tell me that I pulled the bolt seven or eight times before firing such a shot, this is thanks to the rabbit, if the enemy would not have killed it early." Wu Yuanqing pouted speechlessly.

"This gun is good, basically every shot can be fired, and the range is also good, it is better to use than a bow and arrow." Li Chengqian waved the Migne gun in his hand and said.

"Big brother, of course I know that this gun is good, but this is a front-loading gun, and my brother-in-law said that the front-loading gun will be eliminated sooner or later." Li Tai said with a wry smile.

"But except for our Datang, no one else can have this thing, how can it be eliminated?" Li Chengqian asked puzzled.

"Uhhh

Li Tai was speechless when asked, it seemed to be this Li'er.

"Fool, is it a matter of being eliminated sooner or later? It's a matter of cost and manufacturing difficulty, well, you can tell me that you have gathered the best craftsmen in the country, and even my craftsmen have been asked to go, but how much can this gun be made in a year? How much trouble do you have to fix if something goes wrong?" Wu Yuanqing glanced at Li Tai with disdain and said.

Lee Tae was despised with a blushing face and a thick neck.

"You still have to think about how to make the steam engine better, that thing is done, you can convert steam into kinetic energy, we can make a simple lathe, then the cost of this gun can be reduced, the manufacturing speed will be greatly improved, and the army can be realized." Wu Yuanqing continued.

Li Chengqian was confused when he heard the lathe or something, Li Tai heard Wu Yuanqing say it, and he probably understood what it was and what it did, but the specifics were still unclear.

For Wu Yuanqing, the lathe is a small meaning, he learned machinery in his last life, not only system design, but also practical operation, all kinds of lathes, milling machines and so on, he has personally operated, dismantled. Automatic CNC lathes mainly learn programming.

CNC lathes can't get it out, but manually operated lathes or something are still very simple.

In fact, even if he didn't have a steam engine, he could make a lathe, but he didn't look down on the so-called lathe, which had no machine power, and was purely hand-pulled or pedaled, rotated the workpiece through a rope, and cut with a tool in hand.

For example, when he first made paper, the waterwheel could also provide power for the lathe, but at this time, the waterwheel provided the power like that, and the final parts were not much better.

Therefore, Wu Yuanqing thinks that it is better to wait for the steam engine to come out and then raise the lathe, now, let's use manual parts, after all, compared to the parts made by the original lathe, which are not very good, the craftsmen hand-made are not much better.

While chatting, several people continued to march deeper into the woods, and several of them liked the feeling of hunting with guns, although the guns had been tested, they still did not plan to go back.

After returning from hunting that day, Wu Yuanqing and the others who used the gun gained a lot, and there were only one or two fewer than Li Shimin, who was skilled in archery and horses, but in terms of size, Wu Yuanqing's harvest was stronger than Li Shimin.

This also made Li Shimin interested, and the next day he also used a gun when hunting, Wu Yuanqing and a few people persuaded that the gun might explode and failed to stop it, and a few people had no choice but to follow the wayward emperor for a long time.

Why did you say that he only ran for half a day, because Li Shimin only used the gun for half a day and was impatient because of the problem of firing rate, and felt that it was more convenient to use a bow and arrow.

Wu Yuanqing They are finally different all the way to their hearts, and they are in a better mood and start to move freely again, and when they go back at night, they directly surpass the prey that the emperor has hit in terms of quantity and quality.

After hunting for ten days, Li Shimin drove back to Beijing.

Two months after the end of the year, the fangmin once again set off a small upsurge of rebellion, and a total of four or five prefectures and counties had a fangmin rebellion.

I don't know how these fangs are doing, now the Tang Dynasty is politically harmonious, the people live and work in peace and contentment, eat and sleep warmly, and they are treated with special preferential treatment, and the taxes are a few points less than those of the Han people.

With such a good treatment, they rebelled all year round, just like they had no brains.

Perhaps, it is really the poor mountains and bad waters that come out of the people.

In December, the largest rebellion of the fang people of this year was extinguished, which happened in Bashu Bizhou, Zuo Wuhou general Shangguan Huairen won a battle, capturing more than 10,000 men and women of the rebel fang.

Many of the more than 10,000 people are family members of the rebels, and it is not enough to say that they are innocent, and it is not enough to say that they deserve it, at least they can't all be cut.

After the report reached Chang'an, Li Shimin and the ministers discussed it and made a decision, they were all distributed, and they were all distributed, and they were not distributed far away, so they were sent to the plateau, anyway, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and more than 10,000 people were scattered, that is, dozens or hundreds of people in a town.

Generously allocating them is to let them support the construction of the plateau.

At the end of the year, another branch of the Turks, the Western Turks, split.

The Western Turks have always been the biggest obstacle to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, but compared to the Eastern Turks next to the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks are much farther away from the Tang Dynasty.

Previously, the Western Turkic Khan lost the hearts of the people and was attacked by his subordinates Tutun rebels.

At the beginning, he was defeated and retreated, and his younger brother Bu Lishi retreated to defend Yanqi.

The rebellious Tutun Chunfeng was proud and wanted to support the establishment of the Great Khan, which was the son of the Eastern Turkic Shibi Khan, that is, the son of the Jieli Khan.

This should be placed in the Central Plains Dynasty, which is a proper heir to the throne, but not in the Turks, after the death of his father Shibi Khan, he was succeeded by his uncle Tong Lifushe, and became the Chuluo Khan.

After the death of his uncle Chuluo Khan, he was succeeded by another uncle, Ashina Dubi, who was Jieli Khan.

After Jieli Khan succeeded to the throne, it sounded the death knell of the Eastern Turks, the Eastern Turks were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and his uncle Jieli Khan was also captured alive.

The dignified son of the khan can only defect to the Western Turks of the same sect like a lost dog, but after all, he is the son of the Eastern Turkic Khan, and his identity is still very noble, so he did not dare to succeed to the throne as a khan after the rebellion of Tutun, so he could only support the desire to be the khan with the blood of the khan.

It's a pity that Tong Tutun was killed by someone because of his bad fate, and the troops of Desire Valley were also defeated, and the old land was regained.

Desire Valley set lost a great opportunity to unify the Western Turks, but he did not catch nothing, and the rebellious Western Turks finally supported Desire Valley as the Khan of Ebilu.

After the throne of the Khan, there was a fierce battle with Lishu, and there were many casualties. So they divided their territories into two from the middle, and from the west of the water of Ile belonged to the land of Ebi, and to the east belonged to the loss of profit.

At this point, the Western Turks were completely divided.

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