A small river that is ten meters wide and narrow, crosses the river, crosses the village, dividing the field into two.

On the south bank of the river is a land slope with little height. The land slope on the left is Sun, and belongs to the imperial physician Sun Anzu. The land slope on the right was originally named Liu, but is now donated by his master to the Baima Shangshan Temple in Weinan. The monks built a huge altar with wood on the land slope, which is far away opposite the gate of the Zhang family...

Under the oil lamp, Zhang Qian lifted up the charcoal pen and based on the information collected by Guo Nu in the evening, he drew on a piece of white paper. His painting skills were very average and he could only describe the information he obtained. However, it was barely enough to deal with the relatively narrow and simple terrain around Zhuangzi.

The river is about 870 steps away from the Zhangjiayuan Gate, and the bridge is twenty-five steps long. After crossing the bridge, turn to the upper left and take about 270 to 80 steps before reaching the altar. However, if you draw a straight line, the distance between the altar and the Zhangjia will be greatly shortened. The shortest distance between the altar and the river bank is only more than fifty steps left.

An adult's step is about 1.5 meters, 80 steps, which is 120 meters. He picked up his pen again. Zhang Qian pointed out two points near the north bank of the river near the altar, and wrote 120 words. One left and one right, which was able to cross the altar. Then, he smiled and shook his head, and drew a simple cannon at the two positions.

Yes, it is a cannon, not a bell! Extended version of the bowl-mouth cannon! The peasant uprising army in the late Yuan Dynasty could cast copper coins by cooking stoves in the field. Zhang Qian did not believe it. He concentrated the best craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty and the best production conditions in the country. He was incapable of drawing only a gourd! (Note: the bowl-mouth cannon, the original cannon used by the peasant uprising army in the late Yuan Dynasty. It was named because the muzzle was bowl-shaped, and physical objects were unearthed in Shandong. Live or shotguns can be fired. The characteristics are poor casting quality and uneven thickness of the cannon jade.)

In fact, according to Zhang Qian's understanding of the technical background of the general supervisor, casting a bowl-mouth gun is much simpler than casting a copper bell. Casting a copper bell requires that the thickness of the clock bell is consistent, and the thickness of the clock bell itself does not exceed half an inch. The thickness of the barrel of the bowl-mouth gun can be more than three inches, and the thickness of the barrel is not required to be uniform.

When casting copper bells, the copper material used is often 700 to 800 kilograms, or even 1,000 kilograms. The extended copper cannon designed based on the bowl-mouth cannon he saw in the museum is expected to be used at most about 300 kilograms of material. It is not yet half of the current upper limit of the cap of the casting capacity that he will be used as a supervisor!

In addition, when Zhang Qian was preparing to cast the cannon, he did not consider long-term continuous firing, so the quality requirements could continue to be relaxed. At worst, he used the bowl-mouth cannon as a disposable gunpowder gun, which could still scare the monks chanting on the other side of the river to death!

"Hu" the window was suddenly pushed open, and immediately afterwards, Luo Huaizu's figure came in like a ghost.

"Why are you here in the middle of the night? Wouldn't you go to the main entrance?" Zhang Qian, who was thinking about how to scare the monk, was startled by the shock, put down the charcoal pen and asked in a low voice.

"Now, there are at least twenty hidden stakes from different yamen near your village. When I come in the middle of the night, I am worried about how to avoid them, let alone in the daytime?!" Luo Huaizu curled his lips, slapped the fine snow particles on his body, and complained unhappily. "As for the main gate, after I come in, aren't you afraid of being implicated by me? The priest you serve is the most suspicious one in the world!"

"Okay, okay, you're right!" Zhang Qian rolled his eyelids helplessly, pushed open the door of the house, and told Zijuan softly, "Don't worry, my fellow uncle is here. He will not do anything that is unfavorable to me now, go and cook a pot of tea for us."

Zijuan's face suddenly turned pale. However, she was unwilling to go against Zhang Qian's order. She picked up the heavy copper pot and prepared to cook tea on the earthen heating boiler outside. Before she could reach the door, Luo Huaizu had already chased after him, grabbed the copper pot, opened the lid, and sniffed it quickly with her nostrils towards the cold water, and then asked in a low voice: "Is this water well water or river water? If it is river water, replace it immediately. Be careful of the monks on the other side of the shore poisoning!"

"Yingshui!" Zijuan was startled again, her face turned paler, and there was a clear tremor in her answer.

Luo Huaizu didn't know that she had known him for a long time, so he just thought she was a girl's family and was naturally timid. He smiled at her kindly and comforted her softly: "It's good that it's Jingshui, it's clean. The monks only have those tricks. With me here, your master doesn't have to be afraid of them."

After saying that, he pulled Zhang Qian again and quickly returned to the master's bedroom, lowered his voice, and quickly added: "Send the order immediately. Everyone in the village should not drink river water, and it is best not to use washing clothes. The monks are so sinister that chanting scriptures is just a cover, and all the tricks you can trick you are in invisible places!"

"What?" Zhang Qian was also shocked and blurted out in surprise.

"You are actually a child of the Mo family?" Luo Huaizu was so angry that he rolled his eyes and yelled at him, "You Qin Mo was once the master of Qin. Has no one taught you how to use and beware of other people's tricks? These are the remaining things that our Mo family has played with, and the monks are just picking up people's wisdom! When our Mo family was in the world, who would want to kill, and use such mobilization? Use a few methods to come out and let the other party's whole family die clean!"

"We Qin Mo have long given up on the study of murder." Zhang Qian blushed when scolded, and explained embarrassedly with a grim tongue. His voice sounded very weak.

"Then do what I say!" Luo Huaizu glanced at Zhang Qian's terrain sketch, but could not recognize what the cannon was on it. He frowned and ordered in a deep voice: "First, no one, including the tenants in the village, would be allowed to drink river water. In the past month, everyone must drink well water, and people will be sent to check the well every day to prevent them from being thrown into dead mice and various corpses."

"You mean, monks are preparing to pollute the water source?" Zhang Xian was always wary of Luo Huaizu, frowned, and whispered to the bottom of the matter.

"It's not that I'm preparing, it's already done. If you don't believe me, you can send someone to the river to see after dawn. Are there many of the things that were released by the good men and women during the day that have died in the river?" Luo Huaizu confirmed that he was an amateur, rolled his eyelids and reminded him with a sneer.

Cold sweat immediately flowed down Zhang Qian's spine. Even if the water stove in the room was hot, he could not feel any warmth.

He originally thought that whether monks’ practice altar or chanting scriptures was at best a psychological pressure. As long as he didn’t believe in the monks’ tricks, he could be safe and sound. However, he never expected that monks’ chanting scriptures were just a cover, and their real killer moves were hidden in the animals that were released.

"Hmph!" Seeing his pale face and uncontrollable appearance, Luo Huaizu immediately snorted coldly in his nostrils, and his expression was very proud. "I am fortunately here today, otherwise you wouldn't know how to die. The second move is to divide the yard into an inner courtyard and an outer courtyard. The servants from outside are not allowed to enter the inner courtyard. From now on, the inner courtyard will only allow the person you trust the most. The monks' statements are the most confusing. Hundreds of foreign servants are wandering in your yard. As long as there is a kind man and a trusted woman hidden in it, you will be unable to guard against it."

"Thank you for your advice!" Zhang Qian had to admit that he was far less professional than Luo Huaizu in harming and preventing others. He bowed his hand and said thank you, then picked up the charcoal pen and recorded the other party's instructions on the record.

"Third, there are not so many servants in the outer courtyard. Unless you are planning to take them out to fight with monks, fifty people are enough if you stay at home. More than two hundred people eat and drink every day are not a small number, and they must be supplied from outside. The more times you supply, the more opportunities the other party can take!" He looked at Zhang Qian disdainfully, and Luo Huaizu continued to issue orders.

"Fourth, put the tiny dog ​​outside the farm and let the servants patrol every day. That is a hunting dog, not a guard dog. If you guard the house, buy a group of big geese in the yard, which is better than a dog!"

"Uncle Master, you..." Zhang Qian realized that Luo Huaizu had just sneaked into his house and did not alarm the dog. He immediately glared again.

"If you apply a little tiger urine on your body, you can't even hide. You don't have the courage to yell!" Without guessing, you will know what Zhang Qian wanted to ask. Luo Huaizu curled his lips and quickly gave the answer.

So that's it! Zhang Qian suddenly realized, and at the same time, he felt more and more that he underestimated the other party's professional level in crime.

"Fifth, strictly investigate the kitchen, rice warehouse and other places. Recently, I changed to vegetarian food. Don't always buy pork and mutton outside to eat. As a child of the Mo family, you will not die if you eat less meat." Luo Huaizu continued to roll his eyes and pointed out his omissions in preventing details. "The meat that comes in outside is the easiest place to do things. There are many poisons, and the silver needles cannot find out at all."

"Just rely on uncle!" Zhang Qian hesitated for a moment and nodded helplessly.

The silver needle can only test mineral poisons such as arsenic. Since monks even know the trick of using animal corpses to contaminate drinking water, some plant poisons and even fungal poisons have probably been mastered. The latter, especially fungal poisons, have the amount of two poisonous mushrooms, which ensures that they can see "villain dancing".

"Sixth, mix the remaining carbon ash with lime and sprinkle it along the courtyard wall for a whole circle, and sprinkle it on the inside and outside the wall. On the one hand, it can leave footprints for people entering and leaving. On the other hand, it can prevent poisons from invading the courtyard with the help of plants and trees!" Luo Huaizu's voice continued to come, making people feel even more creepy.

"Seventh, when sleeping, wind chimes are hung on the window. It's not for good looks, but when someone touches the window, the wind chimes will warn you. If the monks don't poison them, they will definitely send assassins in. When sleeping, don't be the only one of your beautiful maids in the outer room. Template a few strong servants to serve. You are young and your life is important. Don't just be greedy for lustful pleasure!"

"eighth……"

He said more than ten items in one breath, each of which was a safety omission that Zhang Qian had never noticed in the past. He smiled bitterly and was sweating profusely.

Luo Huaizu felt unsatisfied enough, and finally curled his lips and said loudly: "Don't think that you can survive by just being beaten and not fighting back. If they can't curse you for seven days and seven nights, how can they scare others in the future? I may not be able to think of some tricks. In short, it is better to take the initiative to attack if you just keep guarding the enemy strictly!"

"How to take the initiative?" Since the other party is a "professional", Zhang Qian is willing to listen to his suggestions and opinions more, so as not to be too wishful and underestimate his opponent as before.

"I have three strategies for top, middle and lower, which you can choose!" Luo Huaizu waved his scales on his chest and responded with a proud look, "The worst strategy is to let your two junior brothers lead the servants to cross the river early tomorrow morning and catch the monks off guard. Anyway, if you kill someone, you can also take the servants to blame them in the future. Since the court cannot restrain the monks now, it may not be ashamed to be serious with you in the future!"

Before Zhang Qian expressed his refusal, he paused and quickly added, "Zhongce, you can move to Chang'an City immediately to live to avoid the monk Fengying. Anyway, their target is you. If you leave, their altar will naturally be built in vain. Then you find someone to help me collude with the monk and hand over your Six Gods Trading Company to them. Maybe they will be happy and will reward you, a Buddhist guardian who practices at home."

When Zhang Qian heard this, he could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Not to mention the Liushen Commercial Company, it is no longer his own. Even if he is still alone, who has surrendered without fighting since ancient times, who has had a good ending? It is as far away as Liu Cong of the Three Kingdoms era, is it close? Another company in the 21st century, but it is not possible to move to Mars!

"As for the best strategy, it is my uncle who is the master who takes action himself. It is not that I boasted that the monks on the other side of the river are of many people. I want to take the lives of the bald donkeys who take the lead, but it is easy for me to take the lives of the bald donkeys who take the lead." I had long expected that with Zhang Qian's character, I would neither choose to fight hard nor surrender. Luo Huaizu shook his eyes again, and the old god was proclaiming on the ground. If the iron stick in his hand was replaced with a goose feather fan at this moment, it would have a bit of the taste of Sima Yi, the military of the Three Kingdoms. "But everything is fair. In our agreement at that time, no man personally took action to charge in the battle..."

"Young man, the tea is here!" Zijuan held a lacquer plate and walked in, putting two cups of just-cooked tea on the table beside Zhang Qian and Luo Huaizu.

In an instant, the scene of Zijuan's father's family being killed by Luo Huaizu flashed in front of him. Zhang Qian was shocked and made a cold war and waved his hand with a smile, "Uncle Master, there is no need. You just need to help out ideas. How to make those monks retreat when they see the difficulties? Zhang has his own way."

"Just you?" Luo Huaizu frowned, looking at Zhang Qian up and down repeatedly, but he couldn't see how the other party was dragging an injured leg, so he could touch the altar without knowing it and punish those who led the troublemakers.

"Let me try it all first. If I can't do it, I will naturally ask you, Uncle Master. At that time, Uncle Master will speak up!" Zhang Qian smiled and added with confidence. It seemed that there were still countless strange secret techniques hidden in his heart, but he didn't use them.

"Well, it's up to you!" Luo Huaizu was so angry that his teeth itched, but he knew that Zhang Qian was a soft and hard person, so he had to nod his head helplessly.

After saying that, he was afraid that Zhang Qian would think too simple. He curled his lips and quickly added: "Don't expect that the priest of yours is born to be a ungrateful person. No matter how great the contribution you made and how useful it was to the Tang Dynasty, he would not have conflicts with his wife for you. His wife is one of the few big bosses of the Baima Sect."

"I understand, thank you for your reminder!" Zhang Qian smiled and nodded with a sigh. Then, his eyes fell back to the sketch he had just drawn.

Originally, I just wanted to create some thunder, but I was scared by the monks. I saw that the other party was under great psychological pressure from chanting scriptures, but in the middle of the night, the pressure of thunder was always sounding inexplicably near the altar. Now, since the monks have started fighting biological warfare, the bronze cannon aims at the direction, so I have to make some adjustments.

Anyway, the distance is only about 200 meters. It’s not a worry that the altar is so big!

"Bao, sbang, sbang..." Outside the door, the snow particles suddenly became larger and were blown by the cold wind on the window guard panel, like shots of shots!

"Bao, sbang, sbang..." Xianxue hit the window of the study room, making people feel upset.

The Emperor Yingtian Dragon of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xian, turned his head, glared at his daughter Princess Anle, and whispered: "Don't say that he is still the fifth-rank priest whom I have just been granted a short period of time. Even ordinary vendors, you don't have the reason to take away his things without paying them? If my children all look like you, where is the majesty of the royal family?"

"My son is the king, he is the minister." Princess Anle proudly thrust her pink neck, and shed tears in her eyes. "If you have something to do, I should serve it with both hands. What's more, Mr. Chen didn't take his medicine in vain and agreed to give him ten thousand hang!"

"The only medicine in the world is priced at 100,000 yuan, you can take it away for 10,000 yuan, and you still say it's not for nothing?" Seeing his daughter's improper meaning, Emperor Yingtian Shenlong Li Xian felt more and more irritable. He took a big step forward and scolded condescendingly: "And it's not that you were injured. He was assassinated by the monk and didn't even want to take that medicine by himself..."

"He ate it, and he ate it in front of Erchen's noodles, and he even took half of it. The other half was because he was afraid that Erchen would force him, so he gave it to his father!" Princess Anle stuttered her neck and interrupted angrily, "If you don't believe that my father, can you ask about Huaijian again?"

"Of course I know that he was afraid that you would force me, so he gave the medicine to me." Thinking of Duan Huaijian's fearful look when he entered the palace to present medicine for Zhang Qian, Li Xian's anger even didn't hit him, raised his foot and kicked the brocade bench far away. "I still know who you are going to use this medicine on! I know that the White Horse Temple family extermination case has nothing to do with him, but I don't clarify it for him, just want to leave you with some face! You are good, take the initiative to deliver it to your door without asking for advice!"

"What does Father know?" Princess Anle was so scared that she was disgraced. She didn't bother to continue to sue Zhang Qian for a black lawsuit, and denounced him, "A maid of the son minister..."

"You are going to force my fifth-rank official for a maid? What do you think of the court as!" Li Xian's anger could no longer control, and he raised his arms high. However, at the moment of falling, he turned his slap into a finger.

His finger pointed at Princess Anle's nose, and his roar was like thunder: "When will a maid in your family have a higher status than my fifth-rank official? Who gave you the courage? If someone impeaches you tomorrow, how can I cover it up? Also, don't think that Wu Yanxiu is really venting his anger for you! He just can't stand his brother's body in a cold state..."

Halfway through the scolding, he was his daughter, and he had to keep some face. He gritted his teeth and changed his words in a hurry, "He was just watching Monk Hui'an cheat with your signature and insulting his reputation as Wu."

"Father, have you sent someone to monitor me?" Princess Anle's eyes widened even more, and tears rolled down, "You actually sent someone to monitor me? For you, I did not hesitate to feed the tiger and marry into the Wu family. You..."

"I don't!" Li Xian felt guilty when asked, and he avoided his eyes and retorted in a deep voice, "I don't have to send someone to monitor him, but I can also know that Wu Yanxiu is in and out of you all day long. Based on the movements of the Wu family on the night of the White Horse Temple family, I naturally know who you are going to get medicine for!"

"Father, send someone to monitor me!" Princess Anle couldn't hear a word, and continued to stare at Li Xian with tears in her eyes, repeatedly stressing. "Send someone to monitor me! surveillance your Gou'er! You are even guarding against me, you..."

"I said, I didn't!" Li Xian couldn't bear it anymore and roared again. Suddenly, his chest hurt and the sky turned dizzy.

"Prince, be careful!" Gao Yanfu quickly looked forward and immediately rushed forward, holding Li Xian firmly with one hand. The other hand stretched out his index finger and quickly poked Li Xian's key acupoints in Jiquan and Zhiyang.

"Father, what's wrong with you?" Prince Anle was also shocked and did not dare to continue to protest the possible surveillance of himself. He rushed forward and hugged Li Xian's waist firmly.

"Bring the elixir in the brocade box, get out! I don't want to see you!" Li Xian pushed his daughter weakly and whispered, "I don't want to see you again today. I have never monitored you, but don't think I am blind. Don't be someone else, they are all fools. You see Wu Yanxiu, when he heals, even if I marry him, I will not stop this marriage!"

"Father, my son knows that he is wrong, he knows that he is wrong!" Princess Anle got what she wished, but she didn't feel much happiness. She let go of her hand, knelt on the ground, and burst into tears.

She had never thought of marrying Wu Yanxiu. However, Wu Yanxiu was her minister and she could not watch Wu Yanxiu die of "poison".

In addition to Wu Yanxiu, she also needs many ministers. In this way, after his father's hundred years, she can be like her grandmother.

The reason why she tricked Zhang Qian into taking the jar for Wu Yanxiu today was just to turn Zhang Qian into her own minister and to better control this person.

Including buying Zhang Qian's medicine at a low price, it is also to bring the relationship between the two parties closer, creating the fact that Zhang Qian is already a minister under her command. Otherwise, with her wealth, how could she really lose 90,000 yuan in copper coins?

But the man surnamed Zhang dared to take two pills of medicine himself and deduct another four pills?

But his father didn't support him, but instead wanted to stand up for Zhang Qian?

...

"What's going on? Guer, are you angry with your father again?" Just as he was so aggrieved that he couldn't do it himself, Empress Wei's kind voice came from the gate of Zichen Palace, "Mom has told you a long time ago, don't always fight against your father, you just don't listen! Go back first, when your father's anger fades, it's not too late to enter the palace to apologize!"

After saying that, he took a bowl of medicine from the palace maid and walked slowly to Li Xian. "Oh, I've only been late for a while, and the two of you father and daughter became like this! Okay, don't be angry. What's the point of being angry with your daughter? Come on, take the medicine first, let's teach her a lesson slowly!"

"Yes!" Knowing that when his wife came, no matter what mistake her daughter made, she could no longer pursue it. Li Xian let out a long sigh and opened her mouth helplessly.

"Bapa, sbang, sbang..." Outside the window, the snow was like hail, and the more it fell, the more it became, and the more it fell, the more it became, and in a blink of an eye, it connected the heaven and earth into a vast white area.
Chapter completed!