Don't get into the county?

Lu Gongyou pondered this sentence in his mouth, he didn't understand what Wang Xiaolai meant, and just as he wanted to ask again, Wang Xiaolai had already smiled and said: "Okay, I won't say anything else, just here to congratulate Hou Ye on eradicating the traitor and returning to the dynasty with victory." ”

Lu Gong lobbied and thanked him.

The empress still looked at the two of them suspiciously, not understanding what the two were talking about just now.

However, doubts are doubts, but Lu Gongyou still chose to go on the expedition.

When he looked at the back of the army leaving, Wang Xiaolai stood in place and couldn't help but be a little stunned.

The empress stepped forward and looked at Wang Xiaolai's brain, and Wang Xiaolai, who was in pain, hurriedly turned around and complained: "Your Majesty, what are you doing!" ”

The empress snorted: "When will you return to Daxing City?" ”

Wang Xiaolai's eyes dodged when he heard this: "Big, about two days ago." ”

"Oh, since you're back in Daxing City, why don't you let me know?"

The empress's words seemed to have a taste of anger in them, Wang Xiaolai didn't know how to answer after hearing it, he shut up for a long time, and finally smirked: "Then Your Majesty, isn't it because you work hard day and night, I'm embarrassed to let you know." ”

"Go, young poor mouth, do you think I'm a three-year-old child? Go back with me. ”

"Go back? Where to go? Wang Xiaolai asked in surprise.

The empress turned around: "Shou'an Palace." ”

There are hundreds of civil and military officials around who are surprised when they hear this, and her mouth is so open that she can almost stuff eggs, Shou'an Palace, that is the Son of Heaven's Sleeping Palace.

also realized that she had lost her words, and the empress coughed twice, as if to explain what she had just said: "There is something about Tongguan, I want to ask you well, get in the car." ”

Saying that, the empress got on the dragon chariot by herself, Wang Xiaolai looked back, and saw that Shu Jiuchai and Hongxiang were looking at herself, so she made a gesture to let them not worry, go back first, and then got into the car and made a gesture to drive.

Who knows, but the empress lifted the curtain and said, "Come in." ”

Wang Xiaolai was stunned with a horsewhip in his hand: "No, what about me driving?" ”

The empress blushed: "Come in, let Narcissus drive." ”

As he spoke, he shouted at the east gate and refused to look back at the narcissus for a long time.

When the narcissus heard the empress's shout, she turned her head hurriedly, turned her mind, got into the car, and became a coachman.

As for Wang Xiaolai, he was pulled into the dragon chariot.

The eyes of the surrounding officials were called a gossip, and when Long Yuan drove away, these officials couldn't help it and began to whisper.

Liu Maolin couldn't stand it anymore, so he coughed dryly twice and said: "Ministers, if there is nothing to do, it is better to go back and think about supplying front-line logistics, which is far better than chattering in this place." ”

Among these officials, there were also those who had a close personal relationship with Liu Maolin, so they squeezed over and asked Liu Maolin: "Old Xiangguo, tell me, what is going on between Your Majesty and Wang Shizhong?" ”

Liu Maolin looked at him: "What do you think can be?" ”

The official laughed in a low voice, and then said: "Old Xiangguo, you don't have to hide it, in fact, I understand everything, Your Majesty's attitude towards the king's servants, as long as you are not a fool, you can see what is going on." ”

Liu Maolin snorted: "You guy, sooner or later, something will happen because of your mouth." ”

The official looked innocent: "I'm not the only one who thinks like this, the Manchu Dynasty knows what's going on." ”

Liu Maolin looked back in amazement, and sure enough, he saw those officials whispering in groups of three or five.

Liu Maolin: "···"

"You can't control what others do, but you have to remember to keep your mouth in check, and it's better not to say what you shouldn't say."

"Thank you for the reminder, hehe." The official laughed.

Liu Maolin shook his head speechlessly and turned around.

When the officials began to disperse, they stood in the same place.

The expression on his face at this time was unpredictable, and he sneered constantly: "Wang Xiaolai, hum, there is really you." ”

With that, he turned around and went.

···

In the middle of the dragon, Wang Xiaolai shrank in a corner of the carriage, looking at the empress who didn't know what to do, his heart was pounding.

The empress picked up the pastries placed on the table inside the dragon chariot, broke them, and handed them half to Wang Xiaolai.

Wang Xiaolai shook his head and said, "Then I'm not hungry." ”

The empress glared and said, "Less nonsense, take it." ”

"Eh, hold, hold."

Taking it from the empress's hand, Wang Xiaolai shrank his body again.

"Do you know what I'm calling you for?" The Empress asked.

Wang Xiaolai frowned: "I know, the news of my return should not be hidden from Your Majesty." ”

The empress was slightly happy in her heart, but she had a calm look on her face: "What I want to say is not this. ”

"Not this?" Wang Xiaolai was stunned.

The Empress nodded.

"Then what do you mean, Your Majesty? I'm stupid, you know, or would you give me a reminder? Wang Xiaolai said.

The empress hehe: "You are stupid? If you're stupid, I'm afraid there will be no smart people in this world, okay, don't pretend to be stupid with me. ”

As she spoke, the empress put down half of the pastry in her hand, changed a comfortable movement and half-lay down, and asked, "Tell me, what's the matter with the crossbowmen you sent to support Tongguan?" ”

Wang Xiaolai said excitedly: "Your Majesty, what you said turned out to be this, which scared me." ”

Empress: "···"

"Aren't I worried that Tongguan will be lost, so I will go back to Echo Valley and let Xian Jingyu lead the team to support, how about Your Majesty, I still think about the problem." Wang Xiaolai invited merit.

The empress nodded with satisfaction: "Well, yes, there is growth, and it is much better than before when it only caused trouble for me, but this is not what I want to ask." ”

"No, Your Majesty, didn't you just mention the matter of support?"

The empress straightened her body again: "Listen, what I want to ask you is, how did the equipment of the crossbow unit come from?" ”

Wang Xiaolai was stunned when he heard this.

The empress took out a fold from under the dragon table and threw it into Wang Xiaolai's arms, and said, "This fold is here, and I have read it more than fifty times, and I am very interested in the crossbow and the crossbow described above, so don't you plan to talk to me carefully?" ”

Wang Xiaolai grabbed his head and smiled wryly: "This, what is there to say about this, it's just an ordinary crossbow." ”

The empress slapped the table and snorted, "An ordinary crossbow? I've never heard of an ordinary crossbow that can fire dozens of arrows in a row, and I've never heard of an ordinary crossbow that can shoot twenty arrows in a crossbow. ”

Seeing that the empress was not angry, Wang Xiaolai hurriedly raised his hand: "Okay, okay, I said, I said it, Your Majesty, don't be angry, I said no, it's done." ”

The empress hugged her arms: "Speak, I listen." ”

Wang Xiaolai took a deep breath: "Actually, that's nothing, it's just the design drawings I made in my spare time, and some toys that Jiuchai helped me make." ”

The empress swiped it and grabbed it: "It's just these?" What about the rest, for example, the large-scale equipping of such crossbows into the army? ”

Wang Xiaolai sighed: "Your Majesty, you must know that that thing is still in the experimental stage, it is okay to use it for hunting, scaring and scaring people, and the rest is just an ornament." ”

"But it was this ornament in your mouth that suppressed Zhao Sui's strong attack for two days." Empress Dao.

Wang Xiaolai: "··· Your Majesty, it's not that I'm stingy, it's not that I'm modest, it's completely because Zhao Sui has no brains, or rather, he hasn't reacted yet, so he suffered a big loss from the crossbow and the crossbow. ”

The empress wondered, "What do you mean?" ”

Wang Xiaolai said: "Yes, the power of the repeater and the rushing crossbow is great, but Your Majesty, do you know how much a pair of repeaters cost?" And how much is a crossbow? Do you understand how useful they can be? ”

Hearing Wang Xiaolai's words, the empress shook her head dumbly.

"If you don't say, how do I know?"

Listening to the empress's words, Wang Xiaolai said speechlessly: "The repeater is indeed as His Majesty said, through my transformation, you can fire fifteen arrows in a row without ventilation, which greatly saves the crossbowman's physical strength, but the effective killing range of the repeater is a problem." ”

"Range?"

"It's the shooting distance that can kill people."

"Oh, I know, you go on."

"The effective killing range of the repeater, by calculation, at a distance of about eighty steps, eighty steps, any shield can resist the power of the repeater, if you want to play the left and right of the repeater, then you have to shorten the distance to thirty to fifty steps, compared to Sui Yang's conventional three-hundred-step range strong crossbow, Your Majesty, do you think the repeater still has an advantage?"