Li Chengqi laughed out loud. "Hahaha! Brother Yi, you want to take advantage of the opportunity. "
"If there's a date or not, let's just strike a couple of times. We'll transfer the army to guard the Yellow River. Su Lu and the White-clothed Abbasid Caliphate won't come back to fight, unless they think of a way to deal with the explosives and the sky-scraping monkeys."
Li Yi was not ashamed of extorting the enemy. He was a pragmatist.
The leader of the Khitans, Li Shihuo, had sent someone over to discuss the marriage and had not given them an answer yet.
"No. Tell him that the Li Family Zhuangzi will strengthen trade with him. As long as the trade is stable, we will not attack him."
Li Yi remembered. Li Shihuo was worried that the Tang dynasty would attack him, so he used the marriage method.
In history, Li Shihuo would die next year and his younger brother would succeed him.
This time, he did not know whether he would die or not. Anyway, it was immoral to force other people's children to get married.
Li Yi was willing to use trade to increase the volume of trade. This autumn, the Khitans, Xi, Bohai, and other places should be collecting a lot of mushrooms, hazelnuts, and pine nuts.
In addition, there were also platycodon, very hard walnuts, tussah cocoons, ginseng, all kinds of leather, and deer antlers.
Kerosene, iron pots, ceramics, kitchen knives, wax, asbestos tiles, linoleum, and so on.
Both sides took what they needed. When the trade caravans increased, they would naturally feel more at ease.
"I am afraid they will not be happy." Li Chengqi understood the thoughts of the other leaders.
Marrying the princess of the Tang dynasty was an honor, even if the princess was not the real one.
"In the future, the Tang dynasty will not marry anyone, let alone pay tribute." Li Yi did not care whether others were happy or not. The fist was the law.
"Fine!" Li Chengqi threw Li Shihuo aside. Not marrying the princess to you will save on the dowry.
"There are 500 new guns. Get someone to send the bullets over first. Remember to come back. There are too many Winged Knights ahead."
Li Yi was a little anxious. He wanted to solve the problem of the Yellow River as soon as possible.
The Winged Knights could not always stay in Tubo. They returned to Chang 'an and when needed, sent the Winged Knights to the northeast.
Three protectorates were being built in the northeast, and they were all located at key locations.
The rank of the Governor-General was higher than that of the Jiedushi, which proved that the Tang dynasty attached great importance to the northeast.
"Send Hao Lingquan to see him off. He's been studying ever since he became a general. Go to the front and follow Guo Zhiyun."
Li Yi thought of someone, Hao Lingquan.
Hao Lingquan knew all kinds of military operations, but she had never commanded a large battle before.
He had also learned a lot of theoretical knowledge. He could deepen his understanding of the battle between the Tang dynasty and Tubo.
Giving him a promotion was because he was afraid that he would be angered to death again. It was also to show the other generals that the imperial court would not treat a meritorious official lightly.
Since he had been promoted, he had to use him, and he had to be able to win battles. Otherwise, it would prove that the imperial court had given him the wrong position, and that Li Yi had been careless.
Li Yi didn't want to be the scapegoat. He hurriedly taught him everything he could.
Even if he couldn't achieve the same results as Zhang Xiaosong on the battlefield, he could at least be on par with others.
He told Hao Lingquan not to run up the mountain when they were setting up camp.
Li Chengqi didn't care who was sent to deliver the weapons. He wondered, "Why are there 500 guns?"
"The rest will continue to be used by the Winged Knights for training. I'll try to make a better alloy steel so that the gun barrels can be lighter and stronger."
Li Yi left the other 1,000 guns for others to train. The Winged Knights had to be proficient first.
The gun barrels were too difficult to make. They could be cast quickly, but they couldn't be used. Unless it was a cannon, the requirements for precision were not very high.
When casting, they had to be stirred and stirred to reduce sand holes as much as possible.
He was currently studying how to mix other things into the molten steel to make a broach. It was also difficult to make a gun barrel with a broach, but it was faster than smashing it with brute force.
Otherwise, the Li Family Zhuangzi wouldn't have only produced 1,500 guns so far. Many of the gun barrels were damaged during the processing process.
He didn't pay taxes when he sold bicycles because the cost of making guns was too high. He didn't have time to help Bi Goo make money.
"Do you have enough bullets?" Li Chengqi wanted to help make bullets.
"Big brother, ask the Workers' Union to help make the gun barrels. I'll provide the steel. Tell them the process and they'll process it."
Li Yi saw through Li Chengqi's thoughts. He didn't need to worry about the technology of making gun barrels being leaked because other people didn't have a large amount of good steel and gunpowder.
The ratio of gunpowder was different. The ignition, the launching, and the explosion were all different.
"Okay, you provide the blueprints and technical instructions. I'll bring the steel and ask them to help. Not a single scrap will be missing."
Li Chengqi decided to lock everyone up and give them more wages. They weren't allowed to take anything away.
"It'll be better after I make the flaming caps. We can also cast some mines. Pottery pipes are also fine."
Li Yi was preparing new weapons. There were problems with industrial production technology.
He could build his own laboratory. He didn't care about firearms that were too destructive.
The difference between using guns and arrows to kill people was the loss on one's side.
Guns were powerful and had great destructive power. Wouldn't it be over if the enemy surrendered?
Were atomic bombs powerful? After two bombs, the Japanese Empire would surrender.
They were helping the Japanese Empire, not harming the Japanese Empire.
Without the two atomic bombs, the war would have continued. All the males over 15 years old in the Japanese Empire would have been killed as long as the Japanese Empire continued to recruit soldiers and didn't surrender.
The Russians would have benefited from that. That was why the North Americans threw the atomic bombs when they saw that the situation wasn't good and they wanted to win the war.
After the two finished eating, Li Yi found Hao Lingquan and arranged for him to take the men of the 16 guards to deliver the bullets to the front.
The 16 guards sent 5,000 men in exchange for 7,000 Winged Knights.
They would also bring explosives, compressed biscuits, and canned fruits. Each person would ride two horses and simply resupply at the post stations on the way.
Hao Lingquan patted his chest and promised that he would take the guns with him.
The cavalry set off. Li Yi looked at the figures disappearing from his sight. He shook his head and moved a deck chair outside to bask in the sun.
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"There are too many of these kinds of wormwood this year. I hope they won't harm the Li Family Zhuangzi."
The people picking tea leaves and wormwood were working all the time. The quality of the tea leaves was getting worse. The leaves were getting bigger and there were bugs.
The wormwood was growing, and new ones appeared from time to time. The ones that were growing before were growing old.
The people picking the wormwood found a type of wormwood that they didn't think was good for mosquito repellent incense.
This type of wormwood was yellow wormwood, and there were a lot of them.
The Li Family Zhuangzi collected the seeds and sent people to secretly scatter them.
Yellow wormwood grew by the river, on the roadside, and at the foot of the mountain. They were used to make malaria pills.
The people picking the wormwood didn't know that the wormwood that Li Yi valued the most was the wormwood that they didn't think was good. They had no choice but to cut the wormwood, tie it into bundles, and send it to the Li Family Zhuangzi.
The envoys from other places gritted their teeth and bought it at a high price, especially Tubo. Tubo had more malaria in summer.
There was also malaria in the southwest and northwest.
Where there were mosquitoes, there was malaria. It had never been extinct.
The people from the Japanese Empire bought dozens of pills and asked the medical students to study them to see if they could figure out what they were made of.
"Wormwood!" The medical students knew that no matter how much honey there was, the smell of wormwood was very strong.
"I heard from the people of Tubo that it wasn't wormwood. They used the smell of wormwood to cover up the smell of the real thing. They tried to soak it in wormwood water, but it didn't work."
Takagi Junichiro denied it. When he went to question Boyao and Isinba about deceiving Murayama Shushu, they didn't admit it.
However, they told him a lot of secrets. For example, this medicine to treat malaria was different from the method of soaking wormwood water written in medical books.
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