Li Yueji had to go to Zide Hall every few days, and she had to say hello to the two queens in etiquette, and there would be some distribution of money, because she was in charge of a palace affairs in name.

When she saw the queen come out, it was already noon. The sun was covered with spots of sunlight under the dense shade of summer. The bright sunshine did not make Li Yueji feel bright, she just felt confused.

I happened to meet the eunuch Wang Zhong. This eunuch was a great eunuch from the Eunuch Province. Li Yueji remembered that the palace wife said that the eunuch from the Eunuch Province knew a lot, so she called Wang Zhong.

The eunuch was clever, so he stood up and bent down and smiled, "Empress Xian, what instructions do you have to do to me?"

Li Yueji looked around and looked at the scene of people coming and going from place to place, and she was not familiar with the eunuch. After pondering for a moment, she asked, "What are the officials busy with these days?"

Wang Zhong smiled and said without a smile: "Empress Xianfei, the official family has been patrolling the firearms in the Jianjiafang. I heard that the people below have made new cannons!"

Li Yueji asked: "Is it very awesome?"

Wang Zhong said seriously: "Of course it's amazing. I heard that if you shoot, the military camps a mile away will be wiped out!"

When Li Yueji heard that the emperor was busy with military affairs, she became more and more worried. She wanted to ask Wang Zhong whether the court wanted to use military forces against Xiazhou. However, as her imperial concubine, it would be okay to ask the emperor what he was busy with. It would be inappropriate to ask about military and national affairs.

...The bank of the Bianshui River is abundant at this time, and the Zaojiafang, which is like a few cities, is noisy and the sky is filled with black smoke. The Zaojiafang city was originally intended to forge armor, but a complete smelting workshop was built here, and firearms were also manufactured here.

The casting of bronze cannons is not complicated. The craftsmanship can cast bells, but no one thought of making them like this before.

The new bronze cannon was tested in turn, and the size was finally determined. The gun body was about five feet long and the single gun barrel weighed about one thousand kilograms. It mainly fired iron bullets weighing ten kilograms, named "Tiger Xiaotian Font".

This bronze cannon weighs more than twice the weight of the previous iron-cast "Dragon Roar Cannon", but can only fire ten kilograms of shells; while the iron cannon weighs hundreds of kilograms, but can produce hundreds of kilograms of shells.

The difference is that the iron cannon is a large-mouthed mortar cannon, which can only be shot up like a stone throwing cart, and it is the weight of the stone bullet falling down to smash the wall; while the bronze cannon can fire flat!

Guo Shao stood behind the female wall, covering his eyebrows with his palm, blocking the sunshine on his head, and looking into the distance with concentration.

Suddenly, a "boom" sounded, and a fire flashed in the white smoke. In a moment, a black shell flew across the ground. The angle of the shell flat flew was very small, and it immediately bounced up on the ground and continued to fly forward. It jumped far away before falling to the ground and rolling on it.

"The further you go, the worse your head is." Zan Ju Run said, "It's probably not easy to hit a target. However, if there are crowds in front of you, you will definitely hit a bunch of people!"

Guo Shao looked a little excited and said, "This is not a weapon used to attack the city and smash a pit. It doesn't matter if the correct head is not important, what you need is deterrence. In the future, even if the enemy gathers in an array a mile or a little outside, it will be within our range!"

Zan Jurun took out another drawing and said, "The official said, use two wheels as the cannon stand. We tried it, but it didn't work for a while. It was too heavy and it would be dispersed and deviated. However, the military weapon supervisor remade a pair of things. Please see, this is a cannon cart, which can be pulled by a horse; when transporting the cannon body and cannon stand on it. When setting off the cannon, eight people lifted the cannon down and placed it on the cannon stand, and then fixed it with the cannon iron frame, so that it can be placed."

Guo Shao said: "You need eight people to carry it?"

Zan Jurun said: "It's not possible to weigh a thousand pounds. The folk way to carry coffins is to lift eight people away easily."

Guo Shao: "..."

Although this cannon is stupid and heavy, there is no way. What Guo Shao wants is to bounce flat. The initial velocity of the shell should be high, otherwise the angle is too small and the initial velocity is too low, and it will land as soon as it is out of the bore. In this way, the chamber pressure of the gunpowder detonated in the bore will be high, and the bronze cannon wall should be thick, otherwise the chamber will be exploded. More than 30 people will be killed or injured during the test bore, but the casting will be too thin and exploded!

However, because of the high pressure, you can fire shots nearby. I tried gravel shots in the iron cannon before, but it was useless because the hole of the mortar cannon was too large and the pressure of the loading shot chamber was too small.

The military system is based on weapons and tactics. The conventional army has more than 20 people and more than 30 people in a team of match-rails, which are not suitable for artillery troops. The artillery and horses are equipped with a cannon cart, fifteen mechas, and horses, and several long and short weapons. In order to reduce the need to equip armor, there are only helmets. Because there are at least eight people to carry the cannon, and there are also firemen who need to take care of horses for mixed work, firecrackers and other living people when carrying the cannons, as well as reserve personnel after death and injury. The artillery troops, one city, eight cannons, one hundred and twenty people, and one commands the five city and six hundred people.

Guo Shao saw the combat power of the artillery with his own eyes, and felt relieved. He returned to Jinxiang Palace and started to deploy recent military and political ideas.

He first summoned Wang Pu and Wei Renpu, the important officials of the military and national affairs, and then summoned Zan Jurun, Lu Duoxun and others one after another, preparing to formulate a complete set of external strategies.

After hearing Guo Shao's intention, Lu Duoxun spoke: "When I was on the mission to Xiazhou, I saw Khitans traveling in Xiazhou. The imperial court could use this as an excuse and ordered the Xiazhou Jiedushi Li Yiyin to hand over the envoys of the enemy country and escort Tokyo to punish him."

Guo Shao said: "This battle is very good for the time being."

...After a whole day, Guo Shao returned to Wansui Hall at the Youth hour. He did not sleep in the main hall and cleaned up a house in a corner of Wansui Hall.

As soon as he entered the Wansui Palace, he heard Wang Zhong report: "Concubine Li Xian is waiting, wanting to see Your Majesty."

After hearing this, Guo Shao said, "Please come in."

Generally, in the palace, the emperor took the initiative to summon him if he wanted to serve the bed, and the concubines asked for him. There should be something wrong. There are only five queens and concubines (usually four), and they are still very important people.

Wang Zhong did not leave, but instead stepped forward and whispered: "Today, Concubine Li Xian asked the official family what they were doing. I tried it and saw her panic. I was afraid that he had heard that His Majesty wanted to use military force against Dangxiang."

"Oh..." Guo Shao suddenly responded.

Guo Shao sat down and waited in the living room. Soon, he saw Concubine Li Xian coming in. She was not wearing Dangxiangren's clothes, but she was wearing a regular dress with her hair combed into a horse-drawn temple. Li Yueji had black hair and black eyes, and her face was not much different from that of the Han people. She looked good, with white skin and concave and convex figure. She could wear a half-arm streamer on the skirt, but it still didn't taste that way, and it was a bit weird.

Guo Shao remained silent. Last time, he was dug a blood mark on her nails. When he still thinks of Guo Shao, his skin is hot.

But Li Yueji made a happy blessing, "I will pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"No need to be too polite, sit down." Guo Shao said.

Li Yueji said softly: "Thank you for your majesty to give me a seat."

Guo Shao rubbed his forehead: "Why do you think something is wrong?"

Li Yueji said: "Don't your majesty's women always respect your majesty like this?"

Guo Shao nodded.

After a brief silence, he was a little unlucky after the greetings. It was mainly because Guo Shao was negative and did not take the initiative to find topics. This woman had no feelings for him as a "interracial" and did not like to stay in a foreign land. Otherwise, she had already become famous at the beginning, so how could she try her best not to let Guo Shao touch it?

At this time, Li Yueji's face was bright and she finally spoke, with a humiliating feeling, "When I was in Lingzhou, I ran away privately and almost got hurt by a wolf... I have always wanted to ask one thing, that day-shooting arrows to save me, is it Your Majesty?"

Guo Shao recalled for a moment and nodded, "That's right."

Li Yueji whispered: "Thank you for your help."

"No need to do this, just a simple task, just a chance to meet him." Guo Shao said, "I don't want you to be bitten by a wolf."

Li Yueji was silent for a while and said, "It's all my fault that I didn't know what to do. I actually hurt Your Majesty. Your Majesty is tolerant of me..."

Guo Shao said: "It's just a trivial matter, I still have this little mind."

"Your Majesty..." Li Yueji looked at him a little embarrassedly.

In fact, Guo Shao already understood what she meant. He was dissatisfied with the marriage before, but now he was forced to be helpless, afraid that the court and Xiazhou would have a strained relationship, which would cause disaster for her and her family.

She had no choice, even if Guo Shao was a pig, she had to please him. Moreover, Guo Shao didn't seem to be so annoying.

Guo Shao sighed slightly.

However, when he looked back, Li Yueji was actually very innocent. Even all Dangxiang people could not be said to be bad people... In their own opinion, it was not wrong to break away from the control of the Central Plains dynasty and expand their territory for their own people; it was just that their disparity and ambition were not conducive to the Daxu Dynasty. It was just that there was an extra threat to the border, which was a pressure on any dynasty and increased military defense expenses.

Li Yueji is just a woman who was sent to a foreign land thousands of miles away to marry. She is already unfortunate. Now she is like this for survival, and it seems to be understandable.

After Guo Shao thought about it, he called out with a gentle voice: "Concubine Xian..."

"Hmm?" Li Yueji raised her head and looked at him with some expectations.

Guo Shao comforted: "The Virtuous Concubine is just a woman. Don't take everything to yourself. Who can bear that heavy responsibility? Since you are my concubine, don't worry too much."

Li Yueji was slightly moved after hearing this: "Your Majesty treats people very well, why didn't I figure it out before..."

Guo Shao thought to myself, I am good to everyone around me. The saint said it well, wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance. These people stay in my harem and often get close to me. How can you resist and make yourself unhappy?

He suddenly found that her neck was red, her hands were tense, and she silently grabbed her clothes. Her voice seemed to be about to cry, and she said in a humiliation: "Your Majesty, since I am your woman, I have been in the palace for so long, Your Majesty...Your Majesty wants me!"

Guo Shao stood there and sighed: "Concubine Xian, it really doesn't have to be like this."
Chapter completed!