When Li Lizhi came to Lishan on horseback, it was already nearly evening, and a team of about 35,000 soldiers and horses was outside Lishan Village.

A general held a token in his hand, and was blocked by Li Xiaogong and Li Tai in front of him.

"By Your Majesty's order, inquire about Lishan!"

Li Li rode her horse to stop in front of the army, and the war horse raised her front hooves again and neighed, she pulled out the horizontal knife at her waist and shouted: "I see which of you dares!" ”

The soldiers stood in front of the village and were stunned by Princess Changle's drink.

Li Xiaogong signaled Li Lizhen not to be impulsive, but just stepped forward and asked, "Why did Your Majesty ask, where is Hou Zhangyang of Lishan County now?" ”

"There will be no comment."

Li Tai gritted his teeth, "You are so bold! ”

"Please also ask His Royal Highness the King of Wei, don't embarrass the last general."

When the two sides were at a stalemate, Li Yuan walked out of the village, he had white hair, his steps were steady, and he said loudly: "What's wrong with Erlang?" Let's inquire about Lishan. ”

The other party replied again: "Emperor Taishang, the last general will be on the orders of His Majesty." ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "If you ask, you will ask, what are you doing with so many people." ”

"This ......"

Li Yuan said again: "I am here to retire, what does he mean?" Whether to inquire about Lishan or to attack Lishan. ”

"The last general will not dare to disturb the emperor, but His Majesty's will will will be difficult to disobey."

Li Yuan sighed: "Look at the top and bottom of this Lishan Mountain, what a good place, I live here well, you come to inquire about Lishan now, I will not let you go afterwards, disturb my leisure." ”

The soldier stood in place, neither advancing nor retreating at this moment, but just said: "I will wait here for the time being, if Your Majesty will come again, the last general can only disturb the emperor." ”

Now there is still room for reversal, and if His Majesty's will comes again, they will rush into Lishan whatever they say.

Li Xiaogong sat down tiredly and said in a low voice, "What the hell is this kid doing?" ”

Li Tai's expression was depressed, "Uncle Wang doesn't have to worry too much, brother-in-law has never been a person who will suffer." ”

"I hope it's okay, otherwise the old man can only fall to the ground with his kid, I have thought of this day for a long time, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly."

There was a stalemate in front of Lishan Village, and Li Tai had already asked his guards to call Niu Chuang, and by the way, he mobilized the villagers of Lishan to defend here.

To be honest, if you do this, you will probably provoke the anger of your father, and you will definitely not be able to stay in Chang'an in the future, and you may be driven to a fiefdom, or you will be degraded.

Li Tai doesn't care about these anymore, Lishan is also his hard work, even if this King of Wei is inappropriate, he has to keep Lishan.

He smiled bitterly, "Father, can't you really tolerate such a small piece of land as Lishan?" ”

At this time in Qujiangchi, the conversation between His Majesty and Zhang Yang was still continuing, and his son was already asleep in the stroller.

The daughter sat under the eaves eating dry food and whispered, "How can Daddy talk to the emperor for so long?" ”

Li Yue tightened her coat for her, "What your father is talking about with the emperor now is very important." ”

Xiao Qingqing raised his eyes and said, "How important." ”

"Well......" Li Yue thought about it and replied: "It's about whether we live in Lishan or Chang'an City in the future." ”

"My daughter wants to go back to Lishan." Xiao Qingqing hugged his mother's arm, "Mother, let's go back now, okay." ”

Li Yue comforted: "There are some things that you always have to face, you can hide for a while, you can't hide forever, you have to become a person who can face difficulties in the future." ”

"Someone like Daddy?"

"Your daddy." Li Yue picked her up and put her on his knees, held her in his arms and whispered: "Your father has never been a person who will give up easily, just like when he failed to make tofu, he said to give up on the surface, and he will always read some agricultural books to learn from experience when he is idle, your father found out that there was a king of Huainan in the Han Dynasty, and he had experience in making tofu back then, maybe he can make tofu in a few days." ”

"Mother, is the tofu delicious?"

"I don't know, my mother hasn't eaten it either."

The mother and daughter looked at the water pavilion in the Qujiang Pond, it was already night, the lights in the water pavilion were lit up, and it was His Majesty and Zhang Yang who were sitting in the water pavilion.

The conversation lasted from noon until late at night.

After a while, Xiao Qingqing also fell asleep, and Aunt Yang took her and wrapped her in a bear blanket, so that the child could not catch a cold, "Her Royal Highness the princess should also sleep for a while." ”

After holding the child for a long time, both feet were already numb, Li Yue struggled to stand up, "It's okay, how can I sleep at this time." ”

Xiao Wu also looked at the water pavilion intently, and she also wanted to know how the master and the emperor were talking and what would happen in the future.

The night is dark, and from here you can only see the lights of the water pavilion from a distance, and you can't see the people in the water pavilion, and you can't hear what the monarchs and ministers in the water pavilion are talking about.

Li Shimin looked at Zhang Yang busy working, "Can this thing really break the city?" ”

Zhang Yang said with a smile: "You should congratulate Datang, from now on, you don't need to use human lives to pile up the city." ”

It is true that it takes human lives to break down the city, and it takes three to five times as many people, and if it is a large city, it needs more.

The prince came back, and he whispered a few words in His Majesty's ear, but Li Shimin looked gloomy and didn't say anything more.

Zhang Yang put the bamboo cannon battle he had just made under a pile of stones, and after lighting it, he only heard an explosion, and the pile of stones exploded.

"That's it?" Li Shimin frowned and watched.

"Otherwise, how complicated does Your Majesty think?"

There was still some stone powder on the ground, Li Shimin frowned and looked at it for a long time, "Just rely on these stone powders, you can break the city and destroy the enemy?"

This is just the amount of an artillery battle, Zhang Yang touched his nose stupidly, and said that it is not appropriate to use artillery to fool the emperor.

But the current material, still made of flintlock pistols, can only be made like this.

Zhang Yang explained: "The amount is still too small, if you can use more medicine, in other words, you can blow up the city wall with a relative quantity, if you feel that it is not enough, you can prepare some more margin, if it still doesn't work, you can blow it up a few more times." ”

Li Shimin looked at the mess and felt a little hungry, drank the fish porridge and said: "Quickly write down the secret recipe of this thing, and I will crown you as the prince of the country." ”

I usually don't see him so unscored, a prince of the country said that he was sealed, and this emperor changed his sex?

Zhang Yang sat down again with his hands and asked, "I take the liberty to ask more." ”

Li Shimin's eyes were still looking at the marks that had been blackened by the high temperature, "You asked." ”

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, what do you want to do after you get this thing?"

"I want this thing for the sake of Sheji!" Li Shimin said so loudly that he almost swore a poisonous oath to the sky.

A pot of fish porridge has bottomed out, and the last bowl was drunk by His Majesty, Zhang Yang had to continue to drink tea and drink more water to make his stomach not so hungry.

I don't know what time it is, it's just past the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon should be the roundest tonight, but the night sky is dark, and the rain keeps falling.

On a rainy night, the two continued to talk.

Zhang Yang said again: "Your Majesty got this thing, Sheji will only be heavier, and more people will die in the Central Plains, because no one can restrain Your Majesty from now on, for example, the five surnamed Zhongren, as long as Your Majesty blows it up, the threat of the family gate valve can be eliminated." ”

"From now on, everyone in the world will be afraid of Tian Khan, Wenchen's right to speak is lower, and Tian Khan has obtained a killing weapon, just like a mad cow that has lost its shackles, who can guarantee that there will not be more crazy things in the future, can Your Majesty dare to guarantee it? If that were the case, I would like to seal it forever as if it had never existed. ”

Li Shimin sank his face, "You dare!" ”

Zhang Yang still sat quietly without being surprised, "The person who casts such a firearm in Lishan has no second person except Niu Chuang, and Niu Chuang only knows the casting but does not know the core secret recipe, and the secret recipe has always been in my hands, just like something like just blowing up a pile of stones, no one in this world can make it except me." ”

"Of course, maybe in a few hundred years, the times will be different, and there will be people who can specialize in it, and that will be a matter of the future, but if this thing will lead to social chaos at the moment, I would rather forget about it."

Li Shimin was so angry that he overturned the table, "Zhang Yang, why are you forcing me!" ”

"I have never forced Your Majesty, but Your Majesty has been pushing me."

"What does it take for you to give this thing to me!" Li Shimin almost popped out this sentence from between his teeth, his eyes were red, and he was about to kill the son-in-law in front of him several times.

Keeping Zhang Yang alive is the thing he regrets the most since he became emperor.

But if he had been killed two years earlier, how could he see such a creature now?

"Whether Your Majesty gives me the title of Duke of the Kingdom or rewards me with money and beauty, I cannot give Your Majesty the method of making this thing."

The table was overturned to the ground, and the tea was spilled on the floor.

"I promise you that I won't kill people indiscriminately when I get this thing."

"Hehehe......"

Hearing Zhang Yang's contemptuous smile, Li Shimin was angry in his heart, and pulled out the horizontal knife of the guards on the side, "Zhang Yang! How daring! Is there still me in your eyes? ”

Zhang Yang stood up abruptly, holding a flintlock pistol that had been loaded with medicine in his hand, and aimed it at the emperor in front of him, "I was born and grew up in Si, although I have no intention of overthrowing the Tang Dynasty in this life, but I know very well the suffering of all the people in this world. ”

"Zhang Yang, you are presumptuous!" The prince screamed.

The guards in the rear all drew their horizontal knives and rushed in, aiming their knives at Zhang Yang.

Li Shimin said in an urn voice: "Get out of here." ”

"But Your Majesty ......"

"Get out!" Li Shimin shouted furiously.

A group of guards withdrew from the water pavilion one after another, but they did not dare to retreat too far.

Zhang Yang pointed the gun in his hand at the emperor and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I have seen many powerful people in my life, under their influence and teaching, I have no other ambition in this life, but to establish a heart for heaven and earth, and a life for the people!" This is what Lishan has been doing, maybe in the eyes of His Majesty, I am just for my own ambition, regardless of the court, regardless of the society, selfishness, even if it is infamous and stinking history books, I will never hand over such creations to Your Majesty. ”

"But Datang is too difficult, people are exhausted when they ask for food and clothing, I want the elderly to die well, I want the children to be able to thrive."

"Why don't I want to, how can you reassure me."

"How can I rest assured of Your Majesty? Once the secret recipe of this thing is passed out, this war will sweep the Central Plains, and the war of hot weapons is several times more cruel than cold weapons, compared to the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it is just a small way, and hot weapons will make more and more people die in the Central Plains. ”

"Does Your Majesty want to see such a situation? How did you become an emperor, can't you tell the difference between the important and the important in your heart? ”

"I don't need you to preach!" Li Shimin roared angrily, and the spittle stars were floating in the air.

The emperor threw away the horizontal knife in his hand, picked up Zhang Yang's clothes, and wanted to pick it up, but found that this kid couldn't move at all when he was standing.

Zhang Yang also put down the gun in his hand, and the two monarchs and ministers looked at each other angrily and were speechless for a long time.

The rain was much heavier, and this water pavilion could not stop the rain, drenching the clothes of the monarch and the ministers.

On the other side of Qujiang Pond, Li Yue, Aunt Yang, and Xiao Wu walked into a pavilion in Qujiang Pond with their children in their arms to hide from the rain.

It seems that the rain has calmed both of them down a lot.

Li Shimin finally let go, turned around and sat down again, "You can kill me at any time just now." ”

Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "I can't guarantee that the bullet will definitely hit Your Majesty, and as soon as the chamber of the gun goes off, I will also die on the spot." ”

With an inexplicable smile, Li Shimin looked at the rain falling from the night sky, making the lights here flicker on and off, and this autumn rain stopped for an hour or two and then drifted down, and the rain became even stronger.

"Can't you kill me at such a close distance?"

"Well, the accuracy is not enough, and I can't master it myself."

After both of them came up with a desperate posture, they understood a lot.

"Thanks to this rain, I have calmed down a lot, and it seems that this thief thinks that I am wrong."

"Your Majesty hasn't made a mistake yet." Zhang Yang sighed, "It seems that this tea can't be drunk." ”

"How can I not drink it?" Li Shimin waved his sleeves and said: "Come and clean up, cook tea, I want to drink with Zhang Yang until dawn." ”

The guard, who was standing in the rain with a knife, was still stunned, and after a long time of His Majesty's words in his ears, he came back to his senses and hurried to prepare tea.

The monarchs and ministers in the water pavilion stopped talking again, and the guards and palace people hurriedly cleaned up the place, the table was set, the kettle was placed on the stove, and a small box of tea was prepared.

It was as if there had been no quarrel here, and both the monarch and the minister sat down again.

Li Shimin knows the human heart and human nature best, and after calming down, he thought about it carefully, Zhang Yang's words were not necessarily wrong.

The prince poured the tea again, and the rain fluctuated greatly and lightly, and now it was much lighter.

At this moment, both the monarch and the minister took off their disguises, revealing their truest intentions.

Li Shimin said in a low voice: "Even so, you don't want to shoot, it seems that you will not rebel in the future." ”

"There is a way to be an emperor, none of them are good things, I don't want to be an emperor, I hate that position."

"Hahaha......" Li Shimin smiled heartily: "I didn't expect that the only person I can trust the most is you." ”

People's hearts and human nature are the most difficult to control, and Li Shimin, who stepped on the throne with blood stains from Xuanwu Gate, knows this very well.

As Zhang Yang said, once the shackles are lost, the status quo will only be bad.

No one can guarantee that the person sitting on the throne must be Mingjun, and this is what the son-in-law in front of him is worried about.

At first glance, it seems that it is not easy for him, how he has controlled his ambition and anger, how he has come over all these years, I have made him suffer so many grievances.