Chapter XXXVIII

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou tried his best to persuade Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi to let them support him to stay in Jingzhou, and let them find a way to obtain the official position of Jingzhou pastor for themselves. The persuasion continues:

"With the rich land of Yizhou and the continuous resources of our father, we can give it a go here. If you become famous, you will be famous in history, and if you lose, you will just return to Yizhou as you are now, what is the loss? Will the two gentlemen be willing to work with me on this grand goal? Liu Houdao.

Fei and Guo were going to continue to persuade Liu Hou to withdraw to Chengdu as soon as possible, but when they heard Liu Hou's words, their hearts moved, and they thought, yes, anyway, if the situation in Jingzhou collapses like this, no matter how bad it is, it will not be worse than now, and they have already prepared to give up Jingzhou and withdraw to Chengdu.

Even if you give it a fight and retreat if you fail, the loss will not be much greater than it is now. Jingzhou City now has less than 10,000 troops, and even if it is gone, it is not worth mentioning at all for the hundreds of thousands of troops of the lord. Then why not really fight for a future as the prince said, once successful, the prince will certainly be able to achieve great things, and the two of them will become famous ministers through the ages.

It's just that we must always pay attention to safety, leave a way back for everything, and send the prince back to Yizhou in time when things can't be done. So, the two who figured it out finally agreed that Liu Hou would stay in Jingzhou and continue to "pass through Jingzhou to map the Central Plains." ”

"To achieve this grand goal, first of all, I want to take the lead in Jingzhou, but the second uncle refuses to go back to Chengdu, what can the two gentlemen do to let my second uncle Guan return to Chengdu temporarily."

Hearing this, Fei and Guo were taken aback again, it turned out that the prince of the world was plotting for the position of Jingzhou Mu, which is too unbelievable, this kid is really small and ambitious.

Although surprised, the two had already decided to follow the prince to create a career, so they settled down and discussed together how to "get rid of" Guan Gong.

It's a pity that neither of them is good at intrigue and trickery, and they can't use force against Guan Gong either, and they can't think of any good way for a while. Time passed in this discussion, until Pan Jun appeared.

Pan Jun came to Liu Hou to report that the activities of the labor army were ready, and wanted to invite Liu Hou to attend the event. A few days ago, Pan Jun ran over to find Liu Hou and held a banquet to celebrate the safe return of Guan Gong and other officials, and also to celebrate the prince's repulsion of the sneak attack of Eastern Wu.

As a result, he was refuted by Liu Hou, Guan Gong obviously lost the battle, what else did he celebrate? With such a heavy loss, do you still have the heart to feast? However, after refuting it, I felt that holding a banquet also had its benefits, and the key was to change the name hall and the method.

Since the Jingzhou army was almost completely annihilated, the remaining soldiers were generally depressed, and their morale fell to the bottom. As a result, Liu Hou changed Pan Juntiy's banquet into a labor army activity.

According to the plan, Liu Hou first went to the people's hospital to visit the seriously wounded who had not yet been discharged, then went to the barracks to reward the three armies, and finally held a banquet with the generals.

The wounded and sick in the hospital and the soldiers in the barracks were naturally grateful when they saw Shizi personally come to reward him, and their morale soared. Liu Hou ordered that he be rewarded with wine, pork and mutton, and other food that had been prepared long ago, and each of them was given an extra two months' salary.

These salaries are basically derived from Uncle Fat Pig, Liu Hou just borrowed flowers to worship Buddha, so Uncle Fat Pig actually made a great contribution. Of course, Liu Hou is now wealthy, even if he doesn't copy Uncle Fat Pig's house, he can still get this reward.

After Liu Hou left the barracks, he went to the banquet hall under the leadership of Pan Jun. The banquet hall was located in the council hall of the prefectural government, and it was the only place where such a large banquet could be held.

At this banquet, the original Wenchen generals of Jingzhou City and the dignified figures brought by Liu Hou from Chengdu were basically all there. Guan Gong also came out to attend the banquet when his injuries improved, because he was the highest honorary governor in Jingzhou and Liu Hou's elder, so Liu Hou didn't dare to fight with him, so he let him sit on the main seat and sit down next to him.

Zhao Yun sat on the other side of Guan Gong, and Fei Yi, Guo Youzhi, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, Zhou Cang, Guan Ping, Zhao Lei, Wang Fu and other civil and military officials lined up on both sides. Pu Yuan, Zhang Zhongjing, and Hua Tuo had no status in the old society, but it was clear that they were valued in the Liu Hou Group as no less than the above-mentioned civil and military officials, and Liu Hou also invited them to the banquet.

At the beginning of the banquet, everyone had a small table in front of them, according to the practice of the Han Dynasty, everyone ate a meal, each person had a piece of wine and food, packed in a tray, and the maid sent it to the small table in front of everyone.

Liu Hou was not interested in making any leadership speeches, Guan Gongyi, a military general, although he had studied the Spring and Autumn Period diligently in the past few years, his eloquence was not very good, so he casually said a few opening remarks, and everyone began to eat and drink. For a time, the banquet hall was staggered, full of people, and it was very lively.

Pan Jun arranged the song and dance, clapped his hands and let the song and dance troupe come up to perform. Liu Hou is not curious about this form of watching live art performances while eating and drinking, all major princes often hold such banquets, although Liu Bei is relatively rare, but it is not nothing, among which Liu Hou has also participated in a few times, which is taken for granted, so now it is also a relish to watch. He also doesn't appreciate art, and only blindly criticizes various singers.

Pan Jun took the opportunity of the toast to sneak in front of Liu Hou and whispered to Liu Hou: Is the prince still satisfied with today's show? Liu Hou stared at the arms and thighs of these singers, and his eyes lit up, and he replied casually: "It's good, it's good." ”

"Jun also prepared a finale to ensure that the prince is more satisfied." Pan Jun flattered and authentic.

"Oh, there's something better. Then call them up. Liu Hou thought to himself, seeing Pan Jun's appearance, he wouldn't prepare any super-era programs such as Yi Dance to show us.

When Pan Jun heard this, he immediately smiled, made a gesture, and sent a signal to the subordinates on the other side, so the music changed, and the dancers who danced to the end of the field retreated like a tide, and another group of dancers Wan Tingting came on the stage.

I saw that this group of dancers was not like the group just now, with long sleeves and fluttering sleeves, but with short skirts on their upper bodies and short skirts on their lower bodies, their thighs and arms were more exposed, and each of them also held a bright short sword in their hands. Seeing this novel outfit, Liu Hou asked curiously, "Why is there still a sword?" ”

"Hui Shizi, this is a sword dance." Pan Jun replied.

Sword dance? When Liu Hou heard this name, he remembered Du Fu's poem "Guangongsun Auntie's Disciples Dancing with Swords", and thought to himself, Isn't sword dancing popular in the Tang and Song dynasties? How come the Three Kingdoms exist?

I didn't think much about it, I only heard the rumbling of the drums, and the women in the field gently soothed their willow waists and danced slowly, only to see the sword light shining in the field, like the sunset earth, and the dancing girls were vigorous and light, like a group of immortals flying with dragons. Sure enough, it's "a dance of swords and weapons moving in all directions".

Suddenly, the drum beat of the prelude suddenly stopped, as if Lei Gong had stopped his anger, and the dancers each posed in a graceful pose, and then their movements froze there motionless. A dancer stepped out of the crowd, stood in front of the dancers, and made a gesture.

Then the drum sounded again, and gradually became faster, and her posture danced faster and faster, like jade's plain hands lingering gracefully, and the short sword in her hand danced into a ball of flowers, making Liu Hou wonder if she was a master of swordsmanship. I saw her skirt fluttering, a pair of smoky eyes wanting to talk, streamers flying, the whole person is like a flower through the fog, like a Lingbo fairy, the beautiful figure quickly flashes in all corners of the venue, giving people a hazy and ethereal, unreachable feeling.

"This body method, tsk tsk, is it the legendary Yan Lingbo microstep? Or is it the right thing to do with the Flying Immortals? Liu Hou couldn't help but sigh.

At this moment, the leading dancer had flashed in front of Liu Hou, and just when Liu Hou thought she was going to turn around and flash to other places, he saw that this dancer was not stopping, and even accelerated her pace, and actually stabbed straight at herself with a sword.

The sudden change made Liu Hou so frightened that his body naturally fell backwards, his buttocks fell from the low stool to the floor, he supported the floor with both hands, and took a few steps back with his hands and feet. The back was pressed against the wall, and there was no way to retreat.

At the same time, the other dancers also moved suddenly, five pounced on Guan Gong, five pounced on Zhao Yun, two pounced on Pan Jun, and more than a dozen musicians also drew their weapons and slashed into the crowd.

Most of the generals present were military generals, who picked up the low tables, low stools and other objects around them to fight with the assassins, while the ministers dodged one after another, some played hide and seek with the assassins around the pillar, and some hid behind the generals to seek shelter.

Liu Hou's martial arts have not been practiced in vain in the past few years, at least his reaction speed has increased a lot, and after he retreated to the wall, he put his right hand into his arms, pulled out a handcuff, and pointed at the leading dancer who was chasing and killing.

Liu Hou's handcuff is no longer the single-shot pistol that Sun Shangxiang kidnapped him back then, this is a revolver! The structure of this revolver is very similar to that of later generations, the biggest difference is that the size is much larger, especially the roulette wheel and barrel, which are much thicker than those of later generations, and the other thing is that this revolver is made of pure copper, shining with a yellow-orange-orange luster.

The roulette wheel also contains 6 yellow-orange-orange bullets, which are real copper-shelled bullets, a copper shell contains a primer, a serum and a bullet, as long as the trigger is pulled, let the hammer hit directly on the bottom of the shell to encapsulate the primer, you can fire SE bullets.

This revolver represents the highest level of technology of the Ministry of Industry and is currently the only one. The material is brass, and the ancient people of our country have long known how to use the wet copper smelting method to smelt copper, and the purity of the copper obtained is very high, so the material problem does not need Liu Hou to worry about.

The mechanical part is not a big problem, Liu Hou put forward the basic structure diagram, there are Huang Yueying, Ma Jun these organ masters, three under two divided by two to complete the design and manufacture of the structure. Who made the revolver structure so simple.

The biggest problem was the primer, Liu Houyi gritted his teeth and instructed Zuo Ci to make thunder mercury. The manufacturing method of thundermercury is actually very simple, (you will know it at a glance, because the reason for the river crab will not be explained in detail.) The material is also available to them at the moment, (nothing more than mercury and nitric acid, etc.). As long as you are careful, it is not a problem to produce a little in small quantities.

With thundermercury as the primer, it is naturally not a problem to create this kind of copper-shelled bullet, the problem is that the sefusion is still black powder, and the power is a little small, so the bullet is made very large, according to Liu Hou's visual inspection, the caliber of this handgun is at least 12mm. So this revolver is much larger than the revolvers of later generations and looks bulky.

Although it is bulky, Liu Hou still can't put it down, and he will take it with him wherever he goes, and often take it out to play with. Looking at it, Liu Hou is like seeing the products of later generations of industrial civilization, and he has an inexplicable sense of intimacy. And the 6 copper-shelled bullets it contains give him a real sense of security. Liu Hou's belt is also very special, like the belt of the western cowboy in the United States in later generations, with a circle of bullets.

This can make it easier for Liu House to quickly reload after the shot. After Liu Hou got this revolver, he spent a lot of time practicing drawing the gun, aiming, shooting, and reloading the cartridge case, and trying to make the whole process as fast and smooth as possible.

It is said that Liu Hou pulled out his revolver and pointed at the dancing girl who pounced, and quickly deducted his thumb down and opened the insurance. This safety device was specially requested by Liu Hou to be added, and its main function is to jam the trigger, so that the trigger cannot be pulled down, and it cannot be struck. Because Liu Hou did not know what the structure of the so-called "one fire, two fires" of the revolver in later generations was, he used a simple method, which was to jam the trigger.

As soon as the insurance is opened, as long as the trigger is pulled to the end, it can be issued, and at this time, Liu Hou can see the appearance of the leading dancer clearly.

"Hey, it's you!" The dancer and Liu Hou let out such an exclamation at the same time. Do they know?

ps. Chapter 36 added a small paragraph.,Alas,It's really not suitable for this situation of uploading immediately after writing.,There is no later modification.,It affects the quality very much.,Helpless no manuscript to save.,That's the only way.。