Tang's dining table

Chapter 1282 No oil can be extracted without squeezing it out

Hearing what the eunuch in black said, Li Hong stood under the eaves and thought for a moment, then turned and returned to the bedroom.

Naha, who had just closed her eyes, was awakened. She looked at Li Hong who was standing in front of the bed, lifted the quilt and said, "Come in quickly."

Li Hong helped Naha tuck the quilt back and said softly: "Sleep well, I won't sleep tonight."

When Naha saw Li Hong starting to put on his armor, she sat up and said, "Is something big happening?"

Li Hong tightened the armor silk ribbon with all his strength, and hung the horizontal sword on his belt. After it was neatly draped, he said to Naha: "My son-in-law is patrolling the city, and my son is guarding the palace. I think my father will be less uneasy." ”

Naha, who had already put on her clothes, said: "Let's go together."

Li Hong thought for a moment and said, "If you're not sleepy, then let's go together."

Naturally, Naha also had armor. It was a female armor specially made for her by Yunchu. However, she had not worn it for many years, and her body was much plumper, which caused the laces of the armor to not buckle tightly. Li Hong complained: "You Getting fatter."

Naha said angrily: "Yesterday you said I was plumper and more beautiful, but today you are calling me fat?"

Li Hong finally helped Naha put on her armor. He tapped the round armor with his knuckles and said, "It's better to be fatter on the bed. It's more advantageous to be lighter on the battlefield."

The couple talked noisily and carried the horse to the door of the emperor's palace. Seeing Ruichun's guarded face, Li Hong said: "Don't worry, we are just the husband and wife. I heard that my father was disturbed by thunder. Came here specifically to protect you.”

After that, no matter how Ruichun reacted, she and Naha stood at the door of the dormitory and stood guard seriously.

The eunuch and Chun immediately reported the news that the prince and his wife had come to stay in the guard to the emperor who could not sleep.

Li Zhi looked up at the door, said nothing, and lay down to sleep again.

When the day was about to break, the downpour turned into soft raindrops. The person Yunchu was waiting for still didn't come, but Mother Chun, who was covered in mud, came.

Seeing that Yun Chu had not dismounted, Aunt Chun sat on the horse that was also covered in mud and said, "The queen asked me to ask you, what does the general want?"

Yun Chu glanced at Aunt Chun, waved her hands and said, "Get off the horse and talk."

Aunt Chun said stubbornly: "Don't dismount easily when we are still divided between the enemy and ourselves."

Yun Chu looked at Aunt Chun's increasingly rounded face and said, "You mean, if my answer doesn't meet the Queen's liking, are you going to start a war with me?"

Aunt Chun said expressionlessly: "Young Lord, think twice."

Yun Chu looked at the cavalrymen who accompanied Mother Chun, narrowed his eyes and said, "Is it just your few cloves of rotten garlic?"

Aunt Chun pulled out the horizontal knife with a clang, pointed at Yun Chu and said: "Today is the day to be loyal to the queen."

Aunt Chun shouted twice in succession, but the knights behind her remained motionless. Aunt Chun gritted her teeth and urged her horse to rush toward Yunchu.

Then, Mother Chun was captured alive by Yun Chu, who even carried her belt to a dark tent.

Aunt Chun, who was thrown to the chair by Yun Chu, saw a lot of food on the wooden table in front of her. She immediately grabbed a pancake and wolfed it down. Yun Chu brought her a bowl of cold rice porridge and said, "Slow down. Eat, the pancake is too hard and it hurts your throat.”

Aunt Chun, who was working hard to eat with her head down, raised her head and said with tears in her eyes: "Can't you worry less? If you keep going like this, you will be fine, and those of us who are slaves will be exhausted."

"Isn't it reasonable for me, an important official of the imperial court, to go see the emperor?"

"Why don't other important ministers go at this time, but you are the only one who is so troublesome?"

Yun Chu rubbed the mustache on his lips and said, "Others only owe you a share of glory and wealth. If you don't pay back the debt, others will just laugh at him and call him a rogue."

I'm different. I still owe His Majesty a debt of friendship. If I don't repay this debt, wouldn't it be a shame for the world? "

When Aunt Chun heard what Yun Chu said, she jumped three feet high, pointed at Yun Chu and said, "You owe His Majesty the friendship you owe him, but where is my friendship?"

Yun Chu smiled and pushed away Grandma Chun's fingers and said, "Next time, next time."

Aunt Chun slowly sat back on the stool, picked up the pancake and continued to eat it. She burst into tears as she gnawed, and sobbed: "You just keep lying to me."

Hearing what Aunt Chun said, Yun Chu no longer wanted to inquire about the queen from her, and said seriously: "Go back and tell the queen that I just want to visit the emperor at this time, so as to ruin the friendship between our monarch and his ministers."

Aunt Chun sneered and said: "The Queen also asked me to tell you that there are more than 130 elite soldiers and generals from the sixty-seven military prefectures in Hebei Town, Shandong Town, and Hejian. Can you please give me a call?" Destroy it?”

Yun Chu smiled lightly and said: "Hebei, Shandong, and Hejian have no less than one hundred military states. Why are there only sixty-seven military states? Did the queen say there are too few?"

Aunt Chun said: "Some people don't want to come."

Yun Chu said: "Oh, I don't want to come. Do you think there is a possibility that those people are His Majesty or the Prince's people? If the Queen transferred her people from those places, does it mean that the Queen has lost Control over those places?”

Aunt Chun shook her head and said, "There are still many local nobles who have taken refuge with the Queen."

Yun Chu nodded to show that he understood. When he saw that Aunt Chun had finished eating, he picked her up again and threw her into a carriage. He said to Aunt Chun's entourage: "Take her back, slow down."

Aunt Chun poked her head out of the carriage, looked at Yun Chu and said, "Don't die."

Yun Chu agreed with a smile, slapped the horse on the butt and let the carriage leave.

As the day dawned, Yun Chu said to Yin Erhu: "Send everyone in your hands to clear the way. If you encounter any obstacle, kill them without mercy!"

Yin Erhu turned and left, and many men carrying long black boxes followed him.

Yun Chu also carried a black box and returned to an empty tent.

After opening the box, a familiar rifle appeared in front of him.

His fingers slowly slid across the wooden buttstock and finally landed on the sight at the end of the barrel.

The buttstock is made of walnut wood, and the barrel is slightly rough because it was bitten by strong acid. However, after being painted with black paint, the entire barrel is dark and full of industrial style beauty.

Compared with this rifle that is only one meter and two meters long, the box of thirty yellow bullets neatly arranged in the box is the highest achievement that the current technology of the Tang Dynasty can achieve.

Black gunpowder has appeared since the fourth year of Yonghui. It has only been twenty years since then. Under Yun Chu's tireless pursuit, black gunpowder has evolved into smokeless gunpowder.

The second workshop invested a maximum of 200,000 strings of cash in research every year. Over the past 20 years, the second workshop alone has burned through millions of strings of cash from Yunchu.

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For scientific research, as long as you know the right direction, have sufficient funding, and have researchers with outstanding skills, it is only a matter of time before you can achieve results.

Over the years, God knows how many wrong directions Yunchu has shot down on the research path, which has allowed the real rifle that Yunchu has long dreamed of to be released in small batches.

Yunchu picked up the rifle and stuffed bullets into it from the holes on the side of the rifle, one, two, three... until eight bullets were stuffed into the rifle, Yunchu pulled the handle under the trigger, and with a click, a bullet was loaded and ready to fire.

This is the most accurate, safest, and most convenient lever-action rifle in the Tang Dynasty. Although it can only fire one bullet at a time, as long as you are proficient in using it, eight bullets are enough to satisfy a short confrontation.

What's more, Yunchu's marksmanship is very good, and he can hit the target within a hundred steps.

He picked up the rifle, aimed casually around, fastened the safety lock, put the rifle in a cloth bag with a shoulder strap, and left the small tent.

It was at the moment when he got on the horse that Yun Chu realized that he was the best general in the world. Even now, with Xue Rengui's ability, it would be difficult for him to survive a round.

Just as Yun Chu led the people of Chang'an to continue to march towards Jiucheng Palace, the person he had been waiting for for a long time finally arrived.

Obviously, Jin Manru had also been riding a horse for the whole night. Compared with Nanny Chun, Jin Manru looked even more embarrassed. When she saw Yunchu, she immediately threw away her muddy cloak, grabbed the reins of Yunchu's warhorse and said, "Wait a minute, my lord."

Yunchu sat on the horse and looked down at Jin Manru and said, "I just ordered that anyone who stops me will die."

Jin Manru took off the bag on her back and handed it to Yunchu with both hands and said, "My lord, what if I use this thing to ask you not to get close to Jiucheng Palace?"

Yunchu hesitated, looked back around, and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he took the bag and opened it to take a look. Inside were the potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and two burnt yellow leaves that he had been thinking about for a long time. He put it to his nose and sniffed it. Yunchu immediately crushed a dry leaf, found a piece of paper, tore out a piece of paper, folded the paper and poured the crumbs into it, and skillfully rolled the paper into a stick-like thing.

He raised his hand to pinch off the paper on the bottom of the stick, quickly stuffed it into his mouth, and could not wait to take out the fire starter, light one end of the stick, and took a deep breath. Then, a thick smoke came out of his mouth and nose.

Although his body seemed unable to accept the smoke, his old soul enjoyed it very much.

In a violent cough, Yun Chu called Yu Xiurong, threw the bundle brought by Jin Manru to Yu Xiurong and said, "Take it, this is our family heirloom."

Yu Xiurong had never heard her husband say that something could be called a family heirloom. Since the ugly things in the bundle were called heirlooms, she immediately hugged them tightly in her arms. From the moment her husband said heirlooms, Yu Xiurong had no intention of giving this thing to anyone, even the emperor!

Jin Manru looked expectantly at Yun Chu, who was sitting on his horse and smoking, and said, "Are you satisfied, my lord?"

Yun Chu spat out a mouthful of saliva with cigarette residue and said, "Have the Silla people actually reached the land belonging to the Sun God?"

Jin Manru said, "There are no Silla people in the world anymore, only Tang people."

Yun Chu took another puff of cigarette and said, "Where are the people who brought these things back?"

Jin Manru said with a gloomy look, "They have been killed by the Queen."

Yun Chu nodded and said, "The sea chart was left behind, right?"

Jin Manru whispered, "In the hands of the Queen."

Yun Chu nodded again and said, "That's right, such a treasure cannot be humiliated by the hands of slaves."

Jin Manru said: "Since the Lord is very satisfied with the gift from Her Majesty the Queen, you can probably stop moving forward."

Yun Chu thought for a while and said to Yu Xiurong: "This old woman has made great contributions to our Yun family. What do you think about taking her into the Yun family's backyard?"

Yu Xiurong looked at Jin Manru carefully in front of him and said somewhat dissatisfiedly: "Taking a concubine or a beauty, the Lord will be ridiculed by others if he takes an old woman into the backyard."

Yun Chu laughed in the crowd and said: "I have always loved old women. Everyone in the world knows that. I'll choose her."

Yu Xiurong said helplessly: "As long as Mr. Lang likes it."

After saying that, he pulled out a curtain fence from behind and threw it into Jin Yuru's arms and said: "Jin family, today you are my concubine of the Yun family. Take the curtain fence with you quickly. Don't let others laugh at me, the concubine of the Yun family." There are no rules in the house.”

Jin Yuru hugged Muli and said in surprise: "That's not the case."

Yu Xiurong said angrily: "How dare you, a humble maid, be so ignorant of promotion? If someone comes, tie her up and throw her into the carriage. Wash her and skin her so that you can learn how to play with her when you have time."

Seeing Jin Yiru being tied up and thrown into the carriage by several strong wives of the Yun family without any resistance, the Hwarang disciples who came with Jin Yiru stepped forward to stop him.

Yu Xiurong's eyebrows were cold, and he just looked at Fei Jiu, and a group of strong men with swords came out. In just a moment, they slaughtered all the twenty-odd Hwarang disciples brought by Jin Yuru.

Regarding Yunchu's behavior of robbing women, the wealthy people of Chang'an who were watching did not take it seriously. Even if more than twenty living Silla slaves were killed on the spot, they felt that this was not a big deal. Silla maids, a group of Silla slaves, not to mention such an old Silla maid.

They were just surprised by the unique taste on the king's bed. As for killing people? Who will judge the king?

The large group of people continued to move forward. Yu Xiurong held the baggage and walked side by side with Yun Chu. Occasionally, he looked back at the quiet carriage that Jin Yuru was riding in. He couldn't help but whisper: "Husband, just kill her too, watch. An eyesore.”

Yun Chu snorted coldly and said, "You know what the heck, this time, our family has made a lot of money. The prince's agricultural improvement and demonstration for more than ten years may not be able to match our harvest this time."

Yu Xiurong said: "It seems that there are also some at Potato Prince, but the yield is not good and it is easy to get sick."

Yun Chu smiled and said: "That's because the seeds are not good. There are a few fist-sized potatoes in it that are really good."

Yu Xiurong nodded, agreeing with her husband's point of view, but she immediately said: "Do you really want to accept that old woman?"

Yun Chu sneered and said: "That means there is one more person to eat in the back house. When your husband and I were young and romantic, we were very protective. Now that we are middle-aged, wouldn't it be a big loss to nibble on an old woman?"