The phoenix pattern is surging

Li Ran was suspicious, and took advantage of the situation, and at the same time, there was a clang sound, and the corner of the copper-inlaid table was cut off, and fell on the marble floor, making a muffled groan.

He stretched out his finger and touched the blade with disbelief, and immediately there was a blood-red gash on his fingertip. Ding Shun was startled, and was about to go forward to persuade him, but Li Ran asked in surprise: "Is it spiked with nickel?"

Master Yuan shook his head without knowing it. Li Ran thought for a while, and then put it in an easy-to-understand way: "Is it mixed with special materials?"

Master Yuan was stunned for a moment, and lowered his head, he said: "Caomin got a stone from outside the sky, and unintentionally melted it into an iron furnace, and only then did he forge this sword."

It turned out to be a meteorite. Li Ran stroked the blade of the sword with his thumb and said, "Meteorites are rare. Is there any material to replace them?"

Master Yuan nodded, took out a book from the box and handed it to Ding Shun, and Ding Shun presented it to Li Ran. Li Ran took it with a puzzled look and flipped through it. Yuan Mo glanced at the book in his hand and said: "Caomin has visited famous mountains and rivers all over the years, and found a variety of minerals in Danfeng, all of which are top-grade swords. In addition, my Nanliuwu placer mine makes swords that are much stronger and sharper than ordinary iron swords."

Li Ran looked at him in surprise: "Are you from Nanliu?"

"Caomin is a native of Fengdu. During the war, he was exiled to Danfeng and stayed for seven years. However, although he was exiled outside these years, he was not without harvest."

"It's a blessing in disguise." Li Ran smiled knowingly, and picked up a dark object from the iron box: "What is this?"

"This is the black sand mine."

Li Ran nodded, and casually picked up another translucent pale yellow stone: "What about this one?"

"This is silver stone. Adding it to the sword casting furnace has the effect of strengthening and anticorrosion."

He spoke eloquently. Li Ran opened the book in his hand and looked carefully while listening. As a result, he knew almost a few of the vast country. He waved to Ding Shun. Ding Shun leaned over and asked in a low voice: Order?" Li Ran handed him the book in his hand: "Read and listen."

Ding Shun opened it and looked at it, and was immediately dumbfounded, and then looked up with a distressed face: "Your Highness, this is Nanliu script, and this slave doesn't understand it."

"What?" Li Ran raised his eyebrows in disbelief. It can be seen that the boy's face was puckered, and he really didn't look like a fake. He had no choice but to take a book and slap him on the forehead. She glanced at him flatteringly, with an innocent look on her face.

Master Yuan lowered his head in embarrassment, Li Ran was hesitating how to speak so as not to cut his face, when the little six came in with a handkerchief, his eyes lit up, and he called, "Come here."

The kid came forward timidly, and Li Ran handed him the booklet in his hand: "Read it and listen to it, I'm too lazy to read it."

He never thought that this kid could be useful, so he took it to have a look, and then started to read it in a decent manner. After he finished reading, Li Ran whistled: "It seems that you are not useless at all, kid." After that, he gave Master Yuan a thumbs up in admiration. Master Yuan was taken aback by him, and it took him a while to recover.

When Jiang Jue came back, Li Ran was looking at the crystal in his hand, and Meng Zhaokun followed behind.

"Hi." Li Ran greeted the two of them without raising his head. The old man obviously couldn't get used to it. went?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, all the manpower is in place, but the northern part is vast and barren. If we want to get out, I'm afraid we will have to wait for some time."

He finished speaking without panting, Jiang Jue rubbed his eyebrows and eyes: "What good suggestions does the farmer have, can you solve the predicament as soon as possible?"

Meng Zhaokun shook his head: "Changing the quality of the soil is not something that happens overnight. In time, if His Highness's method of ecological agriculture can be achieved, it will definitely be effective. Right now, everything is still being figured out."

Jiang Jue pursed his lips and said nothing, and asked in a deep voice after a while: "Is it difficult for the capital to survive this year by storing food?"

Meng Zhaokun looked up at him in embarrassment: "This..."

The two of them discussed for a long time but it was fruitless. Li Ran listened to it and waved to Meng Zhaokun. The old man walked a few steps closer. Li Ran stared and asked, "To be honest, can you make it through?"

Meng Zhaokun sighed, and said in a low voice, "Returning to Your Highness, it has been more than three months since the Xianghua earthquake, and there is only so much grain left in the capital." After a long time, he said: "There is really no other way. Ask the farmer if he can grow potatoes instead."

"Your Highness, I wonder what these potatoes are?"

"Are you kidding?"

Li Ran stared blankly, apparently this answer left him speechless.No matter men, women, transsexuals, or old men, old ladies, aunts, and aunts on the earth know something, the old man actually asks him what it is?

Meng Zhaokun looked at him sadly, and said: "The old minister really doesn't know, I hope you can give me an instruction."

Li Ran scratched his eyebrows, speechless, then picked up a quill pen and drew a sketch on the paper. Meng Zhaokun took a closer look, and his expression relaxed: "It turned out to be potato." After finishing speaking, his brows and eyes frowned, He said with a look of embarrassment, "But this thing is mostly used to feed livestock. If people eat it, whether...whether..."

When those two asked, Li Ran only felt a pain in his liver. It turns out that brother has been fighting for rations with the animals for so many years?

When he was so speechless, Jiang Jue couldn't see it, and waved to Meng Zhaokun: "Go down, let's do it like this."

Meng Zhaokun responded with a blank face. If he did this, wouldn't it make people eat what was in the mouths of the animals?

But the emperor has already shown it, so what can he do?

One night ten days later, a torrential rain hit.Li Ran was in a drowsy sleep, and was suddenly awakened by a burst of thunder. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch his side, his hand was cold, and Jiang Jue wasn't there in the middle of the night?

He put on his clothes and stood up, avoiding the little six sons who were dozing outside the door of the hall, as soon as he arrived at the door of the outer hall, he heard a deep bang from inside the hall, accompanied by Jiang Jue's icy voice of gnashing his teeth: "What a Ji Suifeng! "

After a while, another person said in a deep voice: "30 troops are pressing down on the border, and Yuan Lie's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses probably have no chance of winning." Hearing the voice was obviously Qu Lie, Li Ran couldn't help but shudder, stopped and listened quietly.

After a long silence, Jiang Jue's voice was so cold that there was almost no emotion: "Unless it is absolutely necessary, Linyang soldiers and horses cannot move."

There was another long silence, only the sound of the rainstorm and the whistling wind rang in my ears.

After touching a cup of tea, one person said in a deep voice, "With his ability, it shouldn't be a problem to delay it for half a month."

"Delay is not enough to get things done."

"In this case, we have to plan carefully. In fact, this is not what I am worried about."

"Say."

"Huining's 30 soldiers should be the vanguard. I'm afraid Dongyue will make a big move in the near future. Whether it is approaching Danfeng or marching towards Ranma, the situation will drop sharply."

"Who will win or lose is still unknown. Now is not the time to be afraid. Since Yue Hengheng wants to deal with me, how can I let him down!" After finishing speaking, there was a muffled sound of palms hitting the table, and Li Ran frowned. , pain flashed in his eyes, but he held back and didn't make a sound.

After a while, Qu Lie said again: "Now there are good and bad things. I'm not afraid of the enemy's actions, but I'm afraid they won't be able to hold back. Huining has always been a serious problem for our country. This time, it's not without benefits , when the city is broken down in the future, if you want to blame Ji Suifeng, you can blame him for being self-indulgent and never complaining to others!" These words were almost chilling to the bone, Jiang Jue answered in a low voice.

Li Ran frowned subconsciously, and thought to himself that what they said was that there was a mountain of corpses on Ran's side.

It's true that life is cheaper than ants.

The hall returned to calm again. It was obvious that the two of them were talking in secret, and their voices were lowered a lot, drowning in the sound of wind and rain.

Li Ran stood outside the hall for a while, when the little boy found him not in the hall, he came looking for him in a panic, he was overjoyed when he saw him, and was about to make a sound with a mournful face, Li Ran narrowed his eyes, and looked at him like a warning. With a glance, he said in a deep voice, "Don't make noise."

Just this sound, I heard it clearly inside.

After a series of quick footsteps, the man in the dragon boots came out of the hall, he was obviously taken aback when he saw him, and then glanced at the little six behind him, the little six shrank his neck in fright, Jiang Jue held back Going to Surong, he winked at Qu Lie who was following behind him, and Qu Lie bowed and stepped back.

Outside the Minghua Palace, there was heavy rain pouring down, and the sound of howling wind raged in my ears.

Jiang Jue unbuttoned the dragon robe as he walked, and put it on Li Ran. He remained silent and did not speak. Li Ran walked into the hall with long legs, and asked as he walked, "Are you really planning to send troops to Huining?"

Jiang Jue helped him to sit down on the dragon chair: "Dongyue and Xiping don't send troops for a day, and Linyang's people and horses can't move."

"In case Yuan Lie can't hold on, the rear is almost an empty city. If something happens to Luocheng, what should we do? You can't imagine the consequences."

Jiang Jue nodded, with a look of determination in his eyes: "I understand that no matter what the price is, Ran Ji will never be lost. I have sent a decree to the past. If the border town is lost, let him come to see him."

Li Ran was shocked, and was about to speak when he suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, and subconsciously groaned, and this sound came to Jiang Jue's ears, which made him change color almost instantly.

"Is it hurting your mind to stand outside for too long?" He said while reaching out to rub Li Ran's lower abdomen. Li Ran closed his eyes and rested for a while, then waved his hand and said, "It's okay, continue."

"It's really all right? Do you want it?"

"Need not."

"It's getting dark, I'll figure out a solution for this matter, I'll help you go back to rest first."

"Nah, I slept too long during the day, and I can't fall asleep anyway, why don't we think of a way together."

"You don't have to worry about me."

"You think I want to?"

His expression was cold, but because of his pregnancy, there was a warm look between his brows and eyes. Under the light of Minghua Palace, it was faintly visible, like smoke and mist, which made Jiang Jue almost lose his mind.

Jiang Jue lowered his body and buried his head in his neck: "I don't want you to worry about it, and I don't want him to be troubled. Nothing is more important than the two of you."

"Nonsense is really not ordinary."

"How can it be nonsense?"

"Okay, let's get down to business."

"That's fine, but we have to go back to bed and talk. It's cool in the middle of the night, so we can't hurt our children."

Without saying a word, Jiang Jue lifted Li Ran from the throne and walked towards the inner hall. Li Ran struggled, but it didn't work, so he could only hold Li Ran in his arms with an annoyed face, and put his hands on his eyebrows Concealing his embarrassment: "You are not too heavy!"

"It's indeed a lot heavier, but it's okay, I won't dislike it."

"Fuck you!"

Time flies by like a horse, and the hustle and bustle rises, and it will soon be the beginning of autumn.

Yuan Lie guarded the natural danger of Ran with tens of thousands of horses, and miraculously survived. He fought more than ten times with Huining's 30 troops.

Jiang Jue breathed a sigh of relief when he received the report from the front line, and his face was more or less happy, but not long after the good news came, another spy from Linxi came to report, and his face changed almost instantly when he received the news.

It turned out that Dongyue sent 20 troops, divided into two groups. 6 troops had secretly sneaked to Ranyu the day before yesterday, and the remaining 14 troops came straight to Danfeng. On the contrary, Xiping stationed in Jujing. The defenders did not move a single soldier.

Li Ran picked up the secret report and read it several times, and finally threw it on the case: "You have to send troops to rush, otherwise, once the Dongyue army arrives, Yuan Lie can't hold it even if he has three heads and six arms."

"I'm afraid that if we send troops at this time, Linyang will be completely empty, and Marshal Li's army will not be able to support us outside. Our army will not be able to resist Dongyue's direct attack, let alone Xiping waiting for an opportunity in the rear."

"It's useless to be afraid!" Li Ran glanced at the flustered Shen Ze, and looked up at Jiang Jue with a firm look in his eyes: "If Ran Ji loses, Luo Cheng will definitely not be able to keep it, and returning to help at that time will only make things worse No help!"

These words obviously reached the point, everyone frowned in embarrassment, Jiang Jue thought for a long time with his hands behind his hands, and finally said in a deep voice: "The soldiers and horses must be dispatched, and the only way now is to let Zi Xin come back as soon as possible."

Naturally, there is no other way, Lin Zan nodded: "This subordinate also thinks the same way, only when Marshal Li's troops come back, can Linyang be safe."

Jiang Jue pondered for a while, and finally made a decision, and everyone took orders to leave.

After a while, Ding Shun came into the palace in a panic, slapped a thousand in a hurry, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, Your Majesty, the guards outside the palace gate came to report, and one of them claimed to be Huining's special envoy, asking for an interview."

"Special envoy of Huining?" Jiang Jue's face was as dark as water, Li Ran thought for a moment, and laughed at himself: "Could it be that Ji Suifeng sent someone to ask for peace?"

Jiang Jue snorted coldly, with a ruthless expression on his face: "If the two countries do not cut off their envoys, I will make an exception today!"