"It's my turn. Don't show off. It'll be your turn later."
In a field next to Gaoling County, a man pushed another man aside and took over the work of filling the well.
It was not far from midnight. Everyone lit haystacks to drive away mosquitoes and took turns to fill the well.
The water from the well flowed out into the canals and then into the fields.
It had not rained for two months. Everyone was counting on the water from the well.
Every county was filling the well, including the fields outside Chang 'an.
Li Longji's family, Li Yi, and Guo Ziyi were watching the people fill the well at a place 55 miles south of Chang 'an.
The water network was not built here. They could connect to the water network at a place 40 miles away.
Guo Ziyi came back and returned the gun to Li Yi. His dead brothers were preserved with salt, burned to ashes, and buried in the Forbidden Garden.
A monument to the heroes of the Tang dynasty was erected in the Forbidden Garden.
Li Longji personally went to burn incense and paper for them.
The people of the Tang dynasty valued incense very much. They were afraid that no one would burn incense for them after they died. They would not have a good life in hell.
"Dongzhu, after experiencing the war, the brothers who survived are better at fighting. If we do it again, we will not lose more than 100 brothers."
Guo Ziyi blamed himself. He thought that he did not command well.
He did not wait for the enemy to completely collapse. The enemy had counterattacked.
He ran out of bullets and brought it back to Li Yi.
Li Yi disassembled and reassembled the gun. The magazine was full.
He fired two shots in the distance and held it for Li Longji to watch others watering the well.
Li Longji did not have the desire to shoot. He kept looking at the people filling the well where the fire was.
"Brother Yi, your steelmaking workshop in Zhuangzi has been redesigned. Wait for the good steel to come out and make it into a gun. How about this?"
Li Longji touched the position of the safety and calculated the changes of the Tang dynasty's weapons.
Li Yi asked people to set up the table and stools and set up the barbecue grill.
"Third Brother, whether a gun is accurate or not depends on the person. The guns we make ourselves can't be compared to the ones we have now. They can use paper shells, load the rear, and fire flintlock.
Without the rifling, it had an effective range of more than a hundred paces. The rifle had a range of more than six hundred paces.
With this gun, we can't contend against thousands of enemy guns. No matter how far the effective range is, within 500 paces, numbers will determine victory or defeat. "
Li Yi was in a difficult position. How was he supposed to evaluate this? Can you say which type of gun is guaranteed to be powerful?
When the paper shells first appeared, every gun was different. Shooters had to be familiar with their guns in order to have a high hit rate.
Guns could only be averaged. Humans were the most important.
For example, Little Guo's gun sense made people jealous.
Most of the time, he didn't even need to aim. When he saw that you were just a small dot, he didn't even need a scope. He just held the gun level and opened fire.
The key was that he could still hit the target. This was what he felt.
It was like shooting a basketball. The moment the ball was released, one would know whether the ball would go in or not.
Li Longji understood and said happily, "Then wouldn't the Tang dynasty be invincible?"
Li Yi shook his head. "It depends on what kind of army they meet. If the Winged Knights meet another army, they will still lose even if their weapons are twice as good."
"What kind of army is so powerful?" Guo Ziyi was not convinced.
"The rabbit army doesn't have the problem of being defeated. We will fight to the last man." Li Yi smiled.
"Even rabbits can form an army. Li Dongzhu really likes to joke." Guo Ziyi was joking, but his expression was serious.
"Yes, I'm joking. But I hope that the Winged Knights can do it. As long as the flag in their hearts doesn't fall, they will fight to the death and never retreat. "Li Yi's tone was very calm.
Laughter could be heard from time to time at the well.
Although they were tired, looking at the water flowing into the field, they felt a different kind of excitement at night compared to during the day.
"Let's go and have some barbecue." Li Longji suggested.
"Okay." Li Yi nodded.
The team went over. The people of the Li Family Zhuangzi quickly cut the meat and skewered it. There were frozen meat in the carriage.
The people working didn't understand at first, but when they saw the people of the Li Family Zhuangzi, they understood.
"Everyone, get up. Don't sleep anymore. Li Dongzhu came to see us. There are barbecue skewers to eat."
Someone called out to the people who were tired and sleeping.
The people who were called out were irritated at first, but soon they were no longer sleepy and tired. They waited for the skewers to be served.
Taohong and eight palace maids and eunuchs surrounded Shang 'er. Shang' er came. He had slept for more than four hours in the afternoon and was now very energetic.
He could eat barbecue skewers. He could eat barbecue chicken skewers and meat skewers as long as there were no tendons.
So now, he was eating noodles, instant noodles.
He used a small fork to pick and eat slowly. To him, all food was the same.
When the first barbecue chicken skewer was placed on the plate in front of him, he threw his fork away and reached out to grab it.
When he grabbed it, it was just nice that it was warm. He grabbed it with his small hand and suddenly turned to Li Longji, "Chee, chee!"
Li Longji paused for a moment, then ran over as fast as he could. He bent down and opened his mouth to eat the small piece of chicken.
"Hehehe ~ ~" The little guy was very happy.
Li Longji carefully chewed the chicken and swallowed it. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and kissed the baby's face, laughing with him.
His eyes were red. He had so many children, but this was the first time a child had given him food like this.
The palace maids and eunuchs were busy as usual, but they knew that the position of the Crown Prince was fixed.
Without Li Dongzhu's help, no one could take the position of the Crown Prince.
"Chee, chee." The little guy grabbed another piece of chicken and gave it to Empress Wang.
He waited for Empress Wang to eat before grabbing the meat to eat.
"You're not going to give me a bite?" Li Yi said with a hurt expression.
The little guy looked at him and giggled. He directly pushed a piece of chicken into Li Yi's mouth.
Li Yi quickly opened his mouth and ate the meat. He used his forehead to touch the little guy's head.
The little guy was addicted. He ate a bit and gave it to others. He passed it to Guo Ziyi.
Guo Ziyi knelt on the ground and ate the small piece of meat the little guy gave him.
Li Yi held the meat skewers with his hands behind his back and looked at the pressure well. When the little guy gave meat to the palace maids and eunuchs, the palace maids and eunuchs all knelt to receive it.
The people who came to eat skewers did not know that at this moment, a position was fixed.
The palace maids and eunuchs who ate the meat given by the little guy changed their positions. They did not care about others. Eight people, eight directions, surrounded the little guy.
Guo Ziyi reached out and took the gun from Li Longji's hand. He half squatted in front of the little guy.
"Sea, sea." The little guy wanted to say water, but his pronunciation became the sea.
Li Yi did not look back. He walked to the side of the pressure well and stretched out his hand to let others give it to him. He pressed down and felt the force of the water.
"Okay, there is plenty of underground water now. With the current pressure well, it can't be drained. There are many mosquitoes at night. Did you touch the toilet water? "
Li Yi sniffed and did not smell the toilet water.
"Toilet water is too expensive." The person standing next to him whispered.
"Soap is enough. Don't wash it too clean." Li Yi gave a solution.
"Li Dongzhu, can cotton be planted in this field next year?" The person standing next to him asked.
"No, only mulberry and hemp fields can be changed to cotton fields. The other fields still need to be planted." Li Yi denied.
"But some people have changed it in private and are preparing to plant cotton." The person said and complained.
"Which family? Tell me, I'll deal with him. "Li Yi asked directly. If he did not use a bureaucratic tone, he had the ability to deal with people.
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