Yan Yan had already discovered the queen mother's hesitation, and when she saw that the queen had diverted the conversation, she hurriedly kept up with her rhythm, "Thank you for the queen's memory, it's a big holiday, I haven't honored a few elders but deviated from the queen's things first, it's really time to fight, just right, I came today to bring you some gadgets." ”

After speaking, Yan Yan called out to Qingyu, and Qingyu hugged her a package from outside the door.

In the package are small items such as purses, sachets, slippers and other small items that she made for several masters in the palace, which has become a convention, and the pattern of each year is the zodiac pattern of the coming year, which is a unique pattern.

When everyone was discussing this year's new tricks, the eunuch at the door said that Gonggong Liu was coming, and Yan Yan hurriedly got up and stood up, saying that he had something to do with the emperor.

Yan Yan didn't know that after she went out, several eldest princesses and eldest princesses were still discussing her, they were curious about what she was looking for the emperor, how she trained Lu You, and how Lu You could be better than Lu Ming?

Fortunately, this topic is not very sensitive, the Queen Mother did not pull her face anymore, but talked to everyone about Yan Yan when he was a child, and talked about Lu Jin.

Everyone present knew that the emperor had given a piece of dragon pendant to Lu Jin, and now Lu Jin had become Li Ran's companion, so they wanted to know what the queen mother and queen thought in their hearts.

But this topic is more sensitive than the topic of the Yan and Lu families, so the queen can't tell the truth, so she turns the topic to Li Sui, who is not yet married.

Yan Yan didn't know this, but when she entered the south study, Li Cong saw her coming in with a package, and thought she was here to give a New Year's gift, so she smiled and quipped, "What good thing refuses to put it here directly, and you have to hand it over to me in person?" ”

"If you don't show Uncle Huang, I'm afraid that Uncle Emperor won't sleep well if he finds out." Yan Yan playfully replied.

When Li Cong heard this, he quickly guessed that the contents of the package were not New Year's gifts, and his gaze at Yan Yan was a little grinding.

Yan Yan opened the package, first took out a letter and handed it over, and then opened the two boxes and the large cardboard box containing the gourd.

"What do you mean?" Li Cong glanced at the leader of the letter and asked first.

"Back to the emperor, I don't know, I found it at the gate early this morning, I didn't see who sent it, and I didn't understand what this person meant, I haven't had a deep friendship with him, why does he miss me so much? Also, I don't understand what he meant when he said that he couldn't turn back if he wanted to, and what he said that he would see you again one day, could it be that he had a premonition that this war was going to end? ”

Yan Yan knew that Li Cong was stepping up the production of cannons, and he also knew that Lu You had taken Youzhou, but this was far from the end of the war, because the Khitan did not give up Youzhou, and it is said that another 100,000 troops were gathered to take Youzhou back.

In addition, there was another accident on the Gyeongju side, and the Western Xia people made a comeback, and the Yanmen Pass generation is still in the hands of the Khitans.

In short, the direction of this war is not clear, so Yan Yan does not know where the other party's pessimism comes from, unless he knows that Da Zhou has already developed more powerful artillery.

"It's not good, there must be Khitan fine works in the capital." Li Cong thought of this first.

If you can send things in quietly, the capital must have an internal response.

"Back to the emperor, this is not to be feared for the time being, the mechanism of the artillery is not something that a layman can easily understand, as long as we don't leak out the drawings, it is impossible for them to develop it in a short time. What I'm more concerned about is, if the Khitan proposes peace talks, what will the emperor do? Yan Yan asked straight to the point.

Because she felt that Zhou Lu must have this meaning, and for Yan Yan personally, she didn't want this war to go on endlessly.

Li Cong didn't answer Yan Yan, but first read Zhou Lu's letter, and then pondered slightly, and then asked, "If it were you, what would you do?" ”

"Uncle Emperor, I'm a boudoir woman, can you not embarrass me so much, what can I understand?" Yan Yan protested.

"Say it boldly, I believe you." Li Cong was not angry, but boldly encouraged her.

Seeing this, Yan Yan pondered for a moment and said: "Back to the emperor, your original intention is the sixteen states of Yanyun, if the Khitan agrees to return the sixteen states of Yanyun, why don't you stop here, with the Khitan here, it can also help us deal with the Jurchens and Mongolia, we can spare a few years to recuperate, in the past few years, the life of the people is hard enough, and the soldiers have been caught twice, and even the labor of farming is difficult to support." ”

"What do you think this is?" Li Cong didn't answer Yan Yan, but took out a book from the table and handed it to her.

Yan Yan didn't want to take it, because she knew that the fold was easy to read, but Li Cong stuffed the fold into her hand, so she had to take it, it was the front-line battle report, which was sent by Lu Ming, saying that the Great Zhou suffered heavy losses in the battle of Yanmen Pass, because the Khitans also used gunpowder, and they caught the Great Zhou by surprise.

"Didn't they say they didn't understand gunpowder?" Yan Yan asked.

"That's why I said that there is a detailed work, I didn't understand it before, but now that they have overcome this difficulty, the war will become more and more difficult, and now it depends on this artillery."

This war report has just been received, so today's court meeting will be longer than in the past, and the topic of discussion is how this war should be carried out.

"Uncle Emperor, I have an idea about artillery, since the artillery is to be fixed with a tripod, why don't we fix it directly on two wheels, so that it is easier to transport." Yan Yan made a suggestion.

She was not afraid of arousing suspicion outside, because the previous stone thrower was very laborious to transport, requiring one or two hundred people to push, and later it was said that it was pulled away by a large flatbed truck.

It's a pity that Li Cong has no intuitive understanding of these mechanical things, so he didn't understand Yan Yan's words.

Yan Yan saw that he was going to find someone from the Ministry of Industry again, so he hurriedly stopped him, "Uncle Emperor, as long as you say this, they will definitely understand, and I don't know how to do it, I just heard that the previous stone thrower was too cumbersome and inconvenient to transport, so I thought of this method, but this method is not good to use, and I am not sure whether it can make it or not, only if I try it." ”

Yan Yan saw that Li Cong listened to his persuasion, so he didn't cling to this topic anymore, and turned back to Zhou Lu, and learned that the Khitans also used gunpowder, Yan Yan once again doubted Zhou Lu's identity as a traverser.

If this is the case, there will still be a war to be fought, and how many lives will be destroyed by then?

Will she be able to convince him?

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