Fang Xie couldn't help praising the smell of the chicken soup in the bowl. The chicken soup was not greasy at all, because it added a lot of materials and smelled a faint fragrance. When cooking the chicken soup, Fang Xie saw Wu Yinyu scoop out the floating oil in the soup and discard it. The soup was a light golden yellow, beautiful and delicious.
"It's not easy to have such a level for the first time."
Fang Xie took a sip and praised.
Wu Yi glanced: "I've been drinking for six days..."
Wu Yinyu blushed and hung her head, afraid to see Fang Xie.
"I didn't want to involve you two, but after all, Yinyu has already reached the age of marriage. I know that all the women around you are excellent. Yinyu has no advantage over them, whether in appearance or knowledge... But as a father, I can't watch my daughter worry all day, but I don't do anything."
After sipping the wine, Wu Yidao said faintly, "the women around you are the same. Sooner or later, you have to give others a name. But this is my headache. Yinyu only has you in her eyes, so I didn't even advise. Only this daughter. If I choose a husband and intervene, she will hate me. So... Have you ever thought about how to arrange it?"
The question was quite direct, so Fang Xie immediately felt nervous.
He was silent for a long time and didn't speak. Wu Yinyu's face grew dim.
"Hou Ye"
Fang Xie took a deep breath, then looked up at Wu Yidao's eyes and said seriously: "Give me some time to think about these things. Why don't I know what hidden jade thinks of me? It's just... The little demon and qingfan have been protecting me since they were young. They have hardly separated. I can't ignore them. Wanyan Yun left his hometown for me, and I can't ignore them... But if I can't give hidden jade a name, I'm ashamed."
"You don't need to mention this. I didn't see it."
Wu Yi paused and said, "but I will never agree to let my daughter be a concubine. According to the rules of our Central Plains people, one Zheng and two Ping are for three wives. As for concubines, don't even think about it. I also have my bottom line."
Fang Xie nodded.
How could he possibly have wives and concubines for these women? That's why it's difficult to arrange. He knows that if he said it, Shen qingfan and Mu Xiaoyao won't fight, and they would not care about their position. As for WAN Yan Yunshu, she doesn't care. In her opinion, as long as she is with Fang Xie, she is already his wife. But the three of them don't care, doesn't mean Fang Xie doesn't care 。
"Well..."
Seeing that Fang Xie was really embarrassed, Wu Yidao smiled and said: "I can't even see where you can go in the future. So it's a little early to mention your wives and concubines. Anyway, you're not in a hurry to start fighting on beihui road. There are also some happy events in the camp, which makes the soldiers happy. It's better to get engaged first, and I'll be more generous... Let Yin Yu and Shen qingfan bathe their waist and WAN Yan Yunshu get engaged to you together, although it's against the rules You don't respect etiquette and law, but you don't have to be so fussy. "
"If you think it's feasible, I'll let wine, sex and money take care of it. He won't screw up these things. It's also his strength."
Fang Xie glanced at Wu Yinyu and then held her hand from under the table. He could feel it. Wu Yinyu's hand was a little cold. He knew that she must be uncomfortable because she didn't answer directly just now. The unruly and willful young lady had changed too much for herself.
Who dares to think that the eldest lady will become such a gentle and virtuous lady? For him, she went to the kitchen and ignored her practice. After all, she is a genius in practice. If she is willing to work hard, her achievement will be not low.
Wu Yinyu was gripped by Fang Xie. She looked at him subconsciously, but didn't take her hand back.
"Good!"
Fang Xie nodded: "I have no parents or blood relatives. The Marquis is my elder. It should be decided by the elders. Everything is arranged by the marquis."
"Okay, okay"
Wu Yi laughed: "That's how to do it. I've done this great event before starting the army, which can also improve morale. From tomorrow, I'll let wine, sex and money go to collect money. In your current position, you can't do it in a hurry. It's a beautiful thing to do. In the evening, I'll go to Luo Weiran to discuss. You don't have a close blood relationship between your parents, but you recognize him as a martial uncle. He is your elder, me and him, How about being able to manage these things in a proper way? "
"OK"
Fang Xie said with a smile, "it's just hard work, Hou Ye."
"How can I marry my daughter without hard work?"
Wu Yi drank up the wine in the cup: "Even if the matter is settled, you can choose a date and tell me and Luo Weiran. In addition, you can go around the workshop more. I have asked the businessmen of Dongchu to pick up Andrew and several rose people's families, but it's too far away, and the news can't come back. I can't guarantee whether you can pick up them. Firearms still depend on these people. Go and see more Good. "
In Fang Xie's mind, the tall rose man who had expressed his love for Wu Yinyu understood his feeling of missing and worrying about his relatives.
"I'll have a look after the wine."
Fang Xie nodded.
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The firearm workshop is built in a valley of Zhuque mountain, which is quite secret. The entrance of the valley is guarded by Xiaoqi school. No one is allowed to enter or leave unless necessary. In terms of the power of firearms, it is not a big killer, but it depends on how to use it.
The workshops in the Sui Dynasty were extremely advanced, and the technology of crossbow had reached the peak. In terms of firing speed, the crossbow is much stronger than the long gun made by Andrew and his team, but the range of the crossbow is shorter than the long gun. But now the Russians are good at making muskets, and their range has no advantage over hard bows. What Fang Xie was eager to let Andrew transform was the range and speed of the long gun. Although Andrew was very familiar with the manufacture of firearms, his thought had formed a pattern after all, and it was difficult to break through.
Fang Xie asked Wu Yi to entrust Dongchu merchants. They have been looking for experts in this field. Those who are good at firearms have to come from the other side of the sea.
At the beginning, the merchants of the eastern Chu Dynasty presented the firearm to the emperor Yang Yi of the great Sui Dynasty. Yang Yi just looked at it and threw it aside. He was quite disdainful. In his opinion, the firearm belonged to playthings rather than weapons. The founding of the great Sui Dynasty depended on a horizontal knife, a long bow and a crossbow, which he didn't like.
What's in the mind above, what's the situation below.
Because the emperor did not like firearms, there was no workshop in the Sui Dynasty to develop firearms. But after so many years, the craft of the crossbow has reached its peak, and there is no possibility of improvement. Fang Xie is not a man of this era. He knows that since firearms have appeared on the other side of the sea and take firearms as the main weapon, sooner or later the countries there will make more and more progress in the development of firearms.
If the Central Plains is still so complacent, say hundreds of years in the long run and decades in the short run, maybe those blonde foreigners will appear on the coastline of the Sui Dynasty with guns and cannons. The people of the Central Plains in this era have not experienced the pain of being invaded by foreign enemies, but Fang Xie knows that it is not only pain, but also humiliation.
The Han people in the Central Plains gave him a familiar sense of closeness. He didn't want those sad experiences in previous lives to be repeated on the Han people in the Central Plains.
However, Fang Xie knows that with the continuous progress of mankind, the closed side will always be bullied by the advanced and open side. Even if they try their best to resist, the resistance is so heroic but weak in front of powerful technology. At the very least, we should not let the Central Plains lag behind those foreigners too much.
After coming out of Wu Yidao's yard, Fang Xie went directly to the firearms workshop in the valley.
Along the way, he racked his brains to recall the knowledge he obtained when he was studying. Now he regrets why he didn't go to school well, so that how hard he tried to recall is empty. He is not an expert, scholar, or even a good student. He is just an ordinary person, so there is not much to help him in his memory.
He couldn't build artillery, warships, or even fire guns. In his previous life, he was not reading all kinds of professional books in his spare time, but playing games, watching novels, listening to songs and watching movies. These can provide little help.
But he knows that he can't do it because he doesn't understand. How many people give up their ideas because they don't understand, and finally become regret.
Go to the valley and guard the Xiaoqi School of the channel. When you see Fang Xie coming, you salute quickly. Fang Xie nodded slightly and went to the workshop at least two miles after entering the valley. Fang Xie was still far away and heard someone arguing in the distance. He didn't speak Chinese. He frowned slightly, turned around a forest and found that Andrew and the Ross were arguing fiercely.
It can be seen that Andrew was a little helpless and debated with several others. The craftsmen obviously reached an agreement, and Andrew tried to persuade and stop.
"What's the matter?"
Fang Xie asked the Xiaoqi school outside.
"General, my subordinates don't understand why."
"Translation."
"Over there"
Xiaoqi school pointed out. Fang Xie found that a man from Eastern Chu who understood Ross's language and was hired by Wu and paid a lot of money was squatting aside to read jokes, holding a cup of tea and eating melon seeds. He looked particularly relaxed and comfortable. He broke in from time to time, and Andrew glared at him.
Fang Xie walked over with a negative hand. Seeing Fang Xie coming, the East Chu man got up quickly and said something to the Ross people.
"What's going on?"
Fang Xie asked.
The people of Dongchu quickly smiled and said, "it's nothing, general. These people are arguing about technology. They do it every day. Don't worry."
"No!"
Andrew said loudly in broken Chinese, "they don't want to continue working here. They want to go home. I'm trying to persuade them, but they've already eaten the iron weight and don't listen to me."
Fang Xie was in a bad mood because of the performance of the East Chu man. Hearing Andrew's sentence, he felt much better immediately.
"Why go back?"
Fang Xie asked.
The East Chu man hurriedly asked for an interpreter. Fang Xie glanced at him and said faintly, "I don't need you, Andrew. Please ask them for me."
Among these Ross people, only Andrew especially likes the culture of the Central Plains, so he has learned a lot of Chinese, while others hardly communicate with the Han people.
"They feel they have made a lot of money and can go home and live a comfortable life."
Andrew said anxiously, "although this is an act of lack of professional ethics, I know they really miss home. Their relatives are still in Ross, maybe they are still bullied by bullies. They go back with their earned wages and can make their families live a good life. So..."
Andrew took a look at Fang Xie and apologized.
Fang Xie gave a sound and waved to the distance. At once, more than a dozen Xiaoqi schools strode over. The Ross people immediately changed their faces when they saw the guards running here. They all stepped back and looked at Fang Xie on guard. Fang Xie saw that some of them went to touch the short gun at the waist.
"Take off the clothes of the East Chu man and whip a hundred whips first."
Fang Xie said faintly that Xiaoqi school immediately came to hold down the East Chu man, put him up and stripped off his clothes. The East Chu man was so frightened that he struggled and asked why and begged for mercy from time to time. Fang Xie ignored him and didn't even look at him. Xiaoqi school held it down, and a man took a whip and beat it down. Without thirty lashes, the man had fainted.
Those Ross people were so frightened that they looked at Fang Xie with fear in their eyes.
Fang Xie turned around, glanced at the rose man who could pull out the short gun at any time, and then walked slowly. The man was scared back, but he didn't dare to pull out the gun. The solution came to him, pulled out his short shot and looked at it, then turned the gun to his left hand.
Bang!
The Ross people immediately screamed with fear, and even Andrew squatted on the ground.
Fang Xie opened his left hand and threw the flattened lead bullet in front of the Ross man: "Andrew, tell them... I've sent someone to pick up your family. There will be news soon. But before that, I need you to make something that can hurt me. I'm not stingy with gold and silver, but I don't like someone to break my rules. I know that you Ross men will show their courage with roulette. I respect you, so I use your way to solve the problem If you insist on leaving, let's play roulette. If you lose, stay, and if I lose, you'll leave. "
Fang Xie turned back to Xiaoqi school and said, "go get 50 short guns and install lead bullets."
He smiled and said to the Ross, "shall we finish it?"
Andrew opened his mouth and said, is this still a bet?