Fifteen days later, three of the nine leaders and ten monsters of Chang Lao took office, and shook their heads outside the inspection of the imperial court's armaments and firearms, the imperial court has been at war in recent years, and after several mistakes in the war, the armaments, firearms, and armor have been lost too much, and the firearms left behind in the old time have also been old. Due to the emptiness of the treasury, in recent years, the casualties of soldiers have been too frequent and serious, the cost of the imperial court's pension and the border is increasing day by day, and the grain harvest has failed for many years to make the imperial court's income less and less, so the quantity and quality of the new firearms in the rush system are not as good as before, coupled with serious party disputes, frequent official transfers, serious deductions, and empty salaries, etc., this matter is extremely tricky.

Chang Lao Jiu ordered people to fire one by one to try, know its probability, and checked the gunpowder, and finally shook his head helplessly, reported his opinion to the emperor, the emperor immediately ordered, Chang Lao Jiu only do his own thing, all the required power and silver by him to solve, Chang Lao Jiu strictly control the research and development of firearms, and stipulate that all gunpowder must be pure and free of impurities to ensure its fastest burning speed, to ensure the maximum power while reducing the risk of explosion, prolonging the service life of firearms, the test standard is to place a certain amount of gunpowder in the palm of the hand, and then ignite the gunpowder, the gunpowder burns out and the hand is not injured, the red one is qualified, if anyone is lazy in it, or adulterated with impurities, then in the inspection, his hand will be burned first, and then he will face a more severe punishment, everyone complained for a while, but the gunpowder used in the imperial court in the past can indeed meet such a standard, and Chang Laojiu's own gunpowder can also be the same, they have nothing to say.

The treasury was empty and there was no silver to come up, so the emperor planned to put all the silver sold by Wu Jingguo and the party's mansion into the treasury and put it into the manufacture of firearms and gunpowder. The implication is that Chang Laojiu is a blacksmith, why can he become an official directly without studying, and the emperor also felt helpless, and after several discussions, it was agreed that half of the reissue would be reissued, and half would be used by Chang Laojiu to make firearms and gunpowder.

After this incident, the emperor suddenly found that his power was not as great as Wu Jingguo's power at the beginning, Wu Jingguo could say whatever he wanted, and he could do whatever he wanted, and the hundred officials didn't even dare to let go of a fart, and when it was his turn to take power to do such a normal thing, he would encounter the situation of 'rejection' of the holy decree.

When the emperor was busy selecting people, making firearms, making money, and dealing with things in the world, Liang Xie's injuries gradually healed, and the calculation time was almost late February, Liang Xie returned the house to the old couple, Yu Qibai paid the two daughters silver, and the next morning, the two hired a carriage to sway back to the 'Yang Dao League'.

At that time, it was the 'spring breeze' season, and it was only more than ten days away from the so-called 'spring March', and the inside and outside of the capital were still cold and icy and the snow had not been exhausted, and the wind and sand were desolate like winter, and there was no half of the green scene, and the capital was further north, out of the 'Tianmen Pass', it was the north wind howling, and the frozen people did not pay for their lives.

Back then' Qizong's Northern Expedition and the annihilation of the whole army is this season, the weather was even worse that year, that year they were thousands of miles north of the capital, perhaps the climate is not suitable for one of the important reasons for the defeat, it seems a pity, but defeat is defeat, no matter what the reason, the dead can not survive, the lost things have not been recovered, hundreds of thousands of families have been displaced, hundreds of thousands of women have no husbands, more than two million children have no fathers, the court's pensions are quickly spent, some of them ask for food, some are slaves and maids, and some sell their bodies to make a living, in the contemptuous eyes of the dignitaries and celebrities, and their families once protected the people of this country, as well as these dignitaries.

War is cruel, people who have no experience will never understand, there is no morality at all, there is no legal reason at all, the soldiers take that meager military salary and risk losing their heads at any time, day after day, year after year, defeating most of them, the military salary can not support themselves for a lifetime, but it is likely to leave a lifetime of pain and disability, defeated, the court's pension is not enough for their families to spend a lifetime, but their families are likely to beg for a lifetime, in fact, from ancient times to the present, no dynasty can come up with enough pensions to pay for the families of deceased soldiers, the bigger the country, the bigger the court, the more impossible it is, the reason is very simple, and the imperial court didn't have that much silver.

As long as there is a war, it will never be cost-effective, it will always be a loss-making business, just like this time, the price of the 'Yang Dao Alliance' is too heavy, and the price of Liang Xie is too heavy, his injuries are healed, his life is saved, but there is not much left in his skills, and now he can take him down with ten or eight bandits with mediocre martial arts, what 'twelve tips for hating swords', what 'Tiangen Jue', what secret weapons and light skills can't save their lives, what did they get by paying a lot? Of course, some countries go to war because the more they fight, the richer they get, after all, it is much easier and easier to grab things than to make them themselves.

Liang Xie had some feelings, which were much less than in the past, and he found that he was slowly changing, becoming less impulsive, less sentimental, and more understanding of others.

The car is the handlebar type, Yu Qibai and Liang Xie sit in the carriage and drink the few wines in the gourd, Yu Qibai is good wine, but not alcoholic, less drunk, Liang Xie used to be very good at drinking, and then he got used to it after a long time, and now he occasionally drinks two sips with Yu Qibai neither feel how to want to drink nor how to feel disgusted.

"What are your plans after you go back?" Yu Qibai handed the wine gourd in his hand to Liang Xie and asked, Liang Xie took the wine gourd and said: "'Xuanyiwei' can't be done, go back and see the senior brother, and then find a restaurant to be a shopkeeper or ......" He took a sip of wine, but couldn't help but pause halfway through his words, and said with a wry smile after a while: "Now I can't be a nurse, I can't do long-term work, I can't teach, I don't have eloquence in storytelling, and I don't have other skills, so I can only barely be a shopkeeper." ”

Yu Qibai smiled: "Are you going to break into the rivers and lakes?"

Liang Xie shook his head and said: "This time the vitality is greatly injured, the meridians are damaged, and there is not much internal force left. ”

Yu Qibai said: "It's only a matter of time before you recover your strength, so you don't need to be in a hurry." ”

Liang Xie said: "I know my own family affairs, my skills have risen sharply in recent days, although the 'Heavenly Root Jue' can make up for the defects of the previous unstable foundation, but after all, the time is too short, and it is not a moment to repair it back, not to mention that the skill is not necessarily better than the shop Xiaoer, maybe if you lose your skills, you can live with peace of mind, which is also good." ”

Seeing that Liang Xie's tone was a little lonely, Yu Qibai smiled bitterly, lowered his head and drank and stopped talking.

"What are your plans when you go back?" asked Liang Xie after a while.

Yu Qibai shook his head and sighed: "Alas, I don't know, when I was a child, I always thought that I was amazing, and thirty or forty years have passed in the blink of an eye but nothing has been accomplished. ”

"What do you think of you?" Liang Xie asked in disbelief.

Yu Qibai smiled but didn't answer, Liang Xie knew that he didn't mean it, so he smiled and didn't ask again.

The carriage swayed and walked slowly, heading towards 'Zhongzhou' and towards the 'Yangdao League'.

The two of them stayed overnight with the handlebar type Xiaoxing, walked and rested, and were not in a hurry to hurry, the car traveled for seven days, an endless mountain range was visible in the distance, the three of them walked south along the mountain range for a day, and the next day they traveled for half a day, and the mountains and ravines gradually became familiar with each other, and then the mountain range trend for half an hour, the ravines and rocks became more and more familiar, looking to the southeast, a city was far away in the city, and the houses seemed to be quite large.

"That city should be the 'Nine Liang City'!" Liang Xie secretly said in his heart, the two are far apart, and after his skills retreat, his eyes are far from what they used to be, he can only guess a rough idea, he often has to run hard day and night for half of his life, tired, like these few days, it is really the first time to rush like this, listening to the roar of beasts and birds outside the car window, watching the changes in the surrounding scenery, it is also a special taste to taste carefully, and even the bumps and fatigue along the way seem to be reduced a lot.

The road is still the same as before, and the people are still the same as before, and it feels like there is a world of difference. This time the repeated wandering between life and death made Liang Xie know how to cherish it more, Liang Xie thought that he would be able to return to the 'Yang Dao Alliance' for a while to see the senior brother, and there was some inexplicable excitement in his heart, this excitement was like the feeling of eagerness and anticipation when he was with Jiaxian when he got along, this feeling had been absent in his heart for a long time, and he couldn't imagine that he would appear on the senior brother until today, which made him a little crying and laughing.

The carriage walked for another two quarters of an hour, and it had arrived at the foot of the mountain of the helmsman of the 'Yang Dao League', Yu Qibai stopped the carriage and paid for the carriage, and the two took their baggage and walked away, and the handlebar type sent the two of them safely to ten taels of silver, this trip back and forth for almost a month, and he earned two or three taels of silver more than before, he collected the silver and turned the head of the car and galloped away.

Liang Xie took a breath of fresh mountain air, exhaled heavily, and said: "I'm finally back, it's good to have no sand, and I don't know if there is any leftover food in the gang after being hungry for a long time." With that, Liang Xie walked quickly.

Yu Qibai smiled: "Be careful, you are still injured, are you in such a hurry to go back to the gang to eat or meet someone?"

Liang Xie said: "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, and I want to see my senior brother even more." ”

"Do you want to see Lord Shao?" asked Yu Qibai with a smile.

Liang Xie was stunned for a moment, and then said with some worry: "Senior brother was slapped by the rainbow, I don't know if it's okay." ”

Yu Qibai saw that he talked about Shao Mingqian's injury, so he stopped joking at the moment, and said: "When you were unconscious, Shao Meng's injury recurred several times, and later the Taoist leader unloaded it with a false needle...... Unload...... What kind of acupuncture method will export the internal qi into the body for seven or eight points, and then the qi is dispensed with medicine, and with the martial arts foundation of the master of the Shao League, it should have been cured under the conditioning of several famous doctors in the gang. ”

Liang Xie nodded, thinking about it, the Chinese medicine skills of those Lang in the gang are really good, even if they are not as good as the 'Tianhu Dao people', they are not too far behind.

Yu Qibai took the burden from Liang Xie's hand, and the two chatted while walking, all the way to the mountain, what made the two of them more strange was that there was neither 'Xuanyi Guard' to inquire along the way, nor did there be a horn to warn, compared to the past, it seemed to be a lot slack.

"I didn't expect that such a diligent person as senior brother would be la......zy," Liang Xie said jokingly to Yu Qibai, he was halfway through his words, and suddenly found that Yu Qibai's face was a little dignified, and immediately stopped his mouth and looked in the direction of the general rudder, this look did not find anything, but there was an extremely awkward feeling in his heart, he didn't see any difference from the past, but there was a faint sense of ominousness.