The sun hangs high, and the sun shines through the glass window and reaches the bed. .

Li Chao was awakened by the sun.

He stretched his waist, picked up a pillow to put his back, Li Chao lie in a different position, yawned, wiped his eyes but didn't want to get up. Sleeping in in winter is the most comfortable thing. Besides, sleeping in a warm kang is so comfortable that the bed in the morning can't get out.

He reached out to pull the news bell by the bed. After a while, the door rang, and Li Chao called out and came in.

Two maids came in.

They were resting in the outer room of Li Chao's bedroom. The rope at the head of Li Chao's bed was connected to the bell on the outside wall. If necessary, just pull the rope directly, and the bell outside rang, and the maid naturally came in to serve.

A maid held a basin of warm water, toothpaste, soap and towel. The other lady held a meal plate, including milk, porridge and side dishes, and newspapers.

Li Chao was too lazy to get out of bed, so the maid took care of her and washed her face and brushed her teeth by the bed, and then got into the bed.

A delicate and light breakfast table was directly placed outside the quilt, and Li Chao leaned against the head of the bed, lying in the quilt to eat grass, reading newspapers while eating breakfast.

His wives, concubines and children are still on the way, and Li Chao is now considered a bachelor in his mansion.

Although no one in the bachelor can warm up the bed, at least in the morning, you can sleep as long as you want without any disturbance.

The army had been thrown to Wang Chengen, the envoy of Guanjunying, and there were servants stopping guests at the gate of Li's mansion.

Li Chao is now closed and does not see guests or go out. He spends his days at home. He sleeps until the sun is shining in the morning, and then drinks morning tea and reads the newspaper. The whole morning passes.

Finally got up at noon, took a walk, and then hid in the greenhouse after lunch and continued to bask in the sun and read.

When the sun sets, Li Chao went back to the house and made himself a delicate and simple supper. After eating, he went back to the room to read and write something, and then went to bed. The day was over.

This kind of life is actually quite comfortable.

Everything was about to return to the right track, and he began to plan when he would go back to Liaodong. After the last temptation, he found that the private fleet of the nobles had the strength to take down Beisha City. By taking down Beisha City, the entire top of the Liaonan Peninsula could truly control it.

By then, the construction of Lushun and Dalian Ports will not only become an important commercial port supply point on the Shilla Channel in Dengzhou, but also a forward base for plundering Goguryeo.

While having breakfast, Li Chao was flipping through the newspaper.

Hanjing was controlled by the Restoration Party, but several newspapers under Li Chao's name have never stopped. Now several newspapers such as Times and Banyuetan are published in Xiangyang.

There is a lot of news in the newspaper, mainly good news for quelling the rebellion.

Taiyuan has been taken down, and Pei Ji, Duan Lun, and Zhi Shi Si's power have all been captured. The damage suffered by Taiyuan City is not large, and the entire restoration force in Hedong has been suppressed, and the others have been silent.

Now Li Ji has arrived in Luoyang to join the emperor's army, and Luoyang City is just around the corner.

Perhaps it won't take long before the emperor can lead a large army south to Hanjing.

"Mr. Wang, Eunuch Wang is here and has invited you to the living room for tea." The servant came to report.

Li Chao was a little surprised when he heard that Wang Chengen had arrived. He got up and went to the front hall slowly. Along the way, he was guessing in his heart that Wang Chengen's purpose was coming at this time. According to his previous actions, he should have gone south after the emperor pacified Luoyang.

It takes five hundred miles from Luoyang to Dengzhou.

Luoyang has not yet been pacified, shouldn’t Wang Chengen continue to clean up here?

In front of the flower hall, a team of soldiers stood.

They were wearing bright light armor, with Tang swords on their waists, and double inserts on their shoulders, with bows and arrows on their backs.

Li Chao looked at these people and must have been trained, all of them were tall and big. But these people should not be from Li Chao's more than 10,000 Huai Army. Wang Chengen seemed to be quite responsible and did not directly reach into Li Chao's army.

Wang Chengen unexpectedly wore a set of armor.

This is a set of half-body armor, produced by the Military Armor Bureau, and is shiny and composed of multiple components such as breastplate arm armor helmets. This armor is thinner than iron armor, but is stronger. It uses a steel produced by Li Ji Steel Factory and is then processed with a hydraulic forging hammer. This is a brand new material, a brand new process, stamping and forging, and then made from thousands of hammers.

The Armor Bureau is actually only responsible for the final assembly. This kind of half-body armor is extremely popular once it is launched. The emperor specially used it to reward the generals in the army. It is said that the emperor intends to build a batch of his imperial guards in the future to equip his imperial guards.

It is surprising that Wang Chengen, a eunuch, was wearing such armor.

"This is what Your Majesty sent someone to reward us. It is said that the armor was designed by King Yue himself, and it is indeed very good. Although there are many parts and it is troublesome to wear, it is very light after being put on, but the whole person is like being surrounded by steel and becoming a body of steel.

In terms of form, half-body armor is iron plate armor, but not full-body armor, but half-body armor style. The biggest feature of this kind of armor is that it is riveted into armor parts. The breastplate, helmet, arm armor, hand armor, etc. are all composed of multiple plate armor pieces, which makes the defense performance higher.

However, the advantage of this plate armor is that it is relatively lightweight, because it uses new steel sheets, which are lighter and stronger than traditional iron armor. Especially the new stamping hammering technology, which uses hydraulic power to greatly improve the production efficiency and thus makes this armor equipped.

Wang Chengen's half-body armor also uses gravure pattern decoration, making the armor very beautiful. He also uses gold plating technology to create conspicuous navy blue, silver, gold and other gorgeous and conspicuous colors.

These armors are not only an excellent armor, but also a magnificent work of art.

In fact, when Li Chao was designing, he did not intend to make the armor too fancy. What he heavier was practical performance, which was why he did not use bulky full-body armor but half-body armor.

But after this thing came to the emperor, it was not used to equip soldiers, but to reward equipment to the generals and school officers. Even generals of different levels had different patterns and gilded colors on the armor of the reward equipment.

"This set of armor is only 30 kilograms, which is simply unbelievable. If it were made into such a plate armor with iron materials from the past, it would have to be more than 50 kilograms." Wang Chengen liked this set of half-body armor very much.

Li Chao also admired him very much. He didn't fight and came to see guests, but he was wearing something weighing 30 kilograms.

But it is said to be thirty kilograms, but it is not heavy, because this set of armor is actually divided into multiple parts.

Including helmets, iron gloves, iron boots, shoulder pads, breastplate, and even thigh armor and neck protection.

Originally, normal half-body armor should not have so many accessories, so there must be no iron boots and thigh armor, and some iron gloves are not available.

It’s a bit simple, a helmet, a chest pad, an arm guard, and a shoulder pad can be considered half-body armor.

If that is the case, the weight can actually be reduced a lot, and it can be reduced to twenty kilograms.

"Your Majesty personally gave the armor, and Eunuch Wang is good at supervising the army." Li Chao said with a smile.

"The credit is all for King Zhao, and our family is just a message." Wang Chengen smiled. Although he said this, he could tell that he was still quite happy in his heart.

"King Yue, Your Majesty has an order to give us." Wang Chengen put away his smile, "Your Majesty ordered us to lead our troops north immediately and recover Hanjing."

"Now?" Li Chao asked.
Chapter completed!