Huanglongfu, Northeast China. Looking at the Liao tribal army that was sparsely pulling the formation, a tall and stout Ah Guda in his early forties, rode his horse past the formation.

Turning around and stopping the horse, the horse neighed, and the square-like Jurchen army was silent. Looking at the three thousand Jurchen athletes he had gathered, Ah Gu was full of spirit and shouted loudly: "Warriors of the Jurchen tribes, the Liao people have bullied me for a hundred years, and the Khitan people have humiliated me for a hundred years!"

The echo faded, and Ah Guda had already reached the other side of the military formation. "The mountain ginseng, pearls, animal skins, and sea greens that the gods of Changbai Mountain have given us in exchange for moldy food that we can't eat enough and endless humiliation and whipping. They take away our property,* our wives and daughters ......"

Listening to Ah Guta talk about the Jurchen's "history of blood and tears", the three thousand Jurchen armor soldiers gritted their teeth and clenched their weapons, and many young people breathed heavily.

"The gods of Changbai Mountain testify that their bows and arrows are no longer powerless, and their fighting spirit has been tainted by the production of the northern tribes..."

"Last night, I dreamed of the god of Changbai Mountain, who was an old man with white hair and a hundred wounds, looking at me kindly. He slapped me on the forehead three times and told me that as long as I won three times, the Jurchen warriors would be invincible. Today is the third battle of our army, you say, will the Jurchens win? ”

Looking at the hesitation and timidity on the faces of some Jurchen warriors, Ah Guda's heart suddenly burst out, and his voice was hoarse: "Open your eyes and look at these Liao people, they come from various tribes in Liaodong, they don't have credible backs, their formation... Now tell me, will the Jurchens win?! Ah Gu rode his horse up, and the sound was like a bell. On the opposite side, many horses in the Liao army were frightened and there was a commotion.

The bravery of Aguta and the cowardice of the tribal army of the Liao State finally ignited these Jurchen warriors, simple savages who have been struggling in the deep mountains and old forests all year round, and their fear of the huge Liao State was briefly thrown out of their brains.

With the shouts of "follow Aguta" and "protect the gods of Changbai Mountain", 3,000 Jurchen warriors swept through the 20,000 tribal coalition forces of the Liao State. Take the Huanglong Mansion in one fell swoop and slaughter the city.

Aguta issued a Jurchen convening order, and all Jurchens came to vote. The Murowei people, Xi people, and other ethnic groups that had been oppressed by the Khitan for many years began to surrender, and the Jurchens began to control the entire Liaodong.

The news of the defeat reached the capital of Liao, and the whole country was shocked. The young Emperor Tianzuo summoned 100,000 tent troops, 100,000 tribal troops and 250,000 servant troops, known as 700,000 troops, to slaughter the Jurchen clan in one fell swoop, and a great war was about to break out.

The news of the defeat of the Liao State in Huanglong Mansion reached Bianjing, and the Great Zhou court was jubilant, and some important ministers took advantage of the situation to propose to join forces with the Jurchens to destroy Liao. Not surprisingly, the Great Zhou court quarreled again.

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Turning his gaze back to Mingyue Village, there are still ten days before the Spring Festival, and most families in the village are involved in mining, iron-making or working in the workshops of artisan households. Each family should have at least one or two sets of simple winter clothing for outdoor activities. Mingyuezhai finally has some vitality in winter, and it will not be like most of the countryside in this era, which is dead and silent every time it is cold.

Li Xiang and Liu Susu walked towards the artisan camp, and the two of them were bulging and wearing new gadgets that Li Xiang called "down jackets". This is designed by Li Xiang according to the down jacket of later generations, combined with the style of Hanfu.

First, use chicken, duck, goose feathers or wool to make two layers of warm mats. Then the inside and outside are separated by two layers of homespun cloth, and the middle is separated by thick linen cloth, and finally small squares are sewn with twine.

The overall style of this monkey version of the down jacket is very rugged but very practical, and it comes with a matching hat, gloves and warm boots. Li Xiang, Liu Susu and a group of high-level officials use goose feathers, and the smell of chicken and duck wool is too great, which is generally worn by ordinary villagers, of course, it has to be the kind that has surplus grain at home.

Along the way, whether it is the soldiers or the villagers, they will stop when they meet Li Xiang. Turning to the side of the road, he respectfully saluted Li Xiang, and called him "Master".

In the face of the politeness of the villagers, Li Xiang always nodded solemnly, which made Su Su next to him laugh. Finally arrived at the alley near the craftsman's camp, Liu Susu couldn't hold it back.

"Hahaha... It's serious, it's really presentable, and it's not ashamed. Liu Susu laughed while counting Li Xiang. But it is rare, Li Xiang made a look of worrying about the country and the people, and Liu Susu couldn't understand it at that time.

"Don't look at me like that, why do they respect me so much, you know? Is it because of the discovery of iron ore? Or teach them how to make winter clothing and down jackets? As he spoke, Li Xiang hugged Liu Susu's slender waist.

"Their days are slowly getting better, so respect me. But it's not me who really creates wealth, it's them, they are tired and tired, shouldn't life be better and better? Slowly, Li wanted to pull Su Su into his arms.

"They used to work every day, but why were they forced to go to the mountains and become aliens? Now that I have only kept their right to work and live a good life, the villagers respect me from the bottom of their hearts and rely on me... There is a problem in Da Zhou, I can't see what the problem is, maybe I will understand better when I go out and see it in the future......"

"Li Xiang, I can't quite understand what you say, but like you... Does it matter? Liu Susu was held in Li Xiang's arms, her face was so red that she didn't dare to move. Li Xiang knew that something was wrong, and his hand quickly became dishonest.

"Ahem, Susu, listen to me tell you......"

"Smack!"

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Li Xiang was slapped, but he wasn't annoyed, he just looked at Su Su who was twisting his fingers.

glared at Li Xiang a few times in shame, and finally Liu Susu broke the silence, "You are really, how can you be seen." Hey, it's snowing again. It's almost the New Year, oh, are you ready for a gift? Liu Susu looked forward to it, and looked at Li Xiang with big eyes shining, seeing Li Xiang's little heart fluttering.

Su Su held his hands together and pestled them in front of Li Xiang's eyes.

"What a gift, how I don't know ......"

"Don't you say that in your hometown, boys have to give girls gifts during the New Year's holidays?"

"But that's my hometown, and it's not our big week. Besides, in my hometown, men and women have to open a house during the New Year's holidays... Ahem, anyway, the customs are different. ”

Su Su's little hands began to tremble, and her big eyes were full of heartbreak. "Do you mean that I can't compare to the girls in your hometown, or do you dislike me for being tall, or do you think that I can't be a female celebrity and can only fight and kill. Do you dislike me..."Liu Susu twisted her fingers and turned her back to Li Xiang, a little crying.

Li wanted to surrender quickly, "Where do I have it, I just want to... Forget it, it's okay for you at the Chinese New Year's Eve feast. ”

"I want two."

"Three of you!"

"You have to give it, I didn't force you."

"Forehead ......"

Carpenter Zeng and Zhang Qingping looked at the little master Li who was half swollen and the eldest lady who was blushing, and looked at each other. Zhang Qingping, who had experienced many vicissitudes, quickly understood what was going on, and immediately changed the topic, alleviating the embarrassing atmosphere.

Zhang Qingping is a craftsman who joined Mingyuezhai relatively late, and it is said that he came from the north. After arriving at Mingyue Village, Zhang Qingping was good at repairing bows and arrows, so he had a good life.

Zhang Qingping admired Li Xiang with a mysterious background, and at the same time was also very curious, how could this little master be so interested in craftsmanship and miscellaneous science.

A month ago, the artisan household camp in Mingyuezhai finally set a new weights and measures, and now there are only length, weight, volume and angle units, which will be added and modified in the future. All adopt the metric system proposed by Li Xiang, such as the length is set to meters.

Li Xiang then took the opportunity of making cold-proof clothing for the Zhai soldiers and Mengxue to promote standardized production and primary assembly lines in the artisan household camp. Most of the workshops, including spears, shields, knives and bows and arrows, and clothing-making, have already been initially renovated.

Zhang Qingping, Liu Yuan and Liu Sheng cooperated to contract a bow and arrow workshop, and hired more than a dozen women from the village to carry out standardized production. Taking arrows as an example, the production process is divided into steps such as material selection, splitting, grinding, upper arrows, and installing tail feathers, which greatly increases the output, gradually reduces the tolerance of arrows, and more than doubles the cost.

This time, Liu Susu and Li Xiang came over, mainly because Zhang Qingping, Zeng Carpenter, and He Mingjiang cooperated to research the straight bow, which finally made important progress, and Li Xiang attached great importance to it.