#412 - cannon???
“Changtian, has Senior Zhang already left?”
It was night, and Xu Qingwan, who had been busy at Yingfengsheng all day, finally returned home.
While changing her clothes, she asked Wei Changtian, who was drawing a “cannon design” beside her: “Did he say when he would be back?”
“Come back?”
Wei Changtian replied without even raising his head: “He won’t be back.”
“Ah?”
Xu Qingwan was stunned when she heard this, and the movements of her hands also stopped.
It’s not that she was so reluctant to part with Old Zhang, but she was a little worried about Agou: “What about Agou? How was she today? Did she cry?”
“No, she ate and drank as usual.”
Wei Changtian curled his lips: “This little girl is quite good at holding back. I want to see how long she can hold it in.”
“You.”
Xu Qingwan, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, hit Wei Changtian lightly, still a little worried: “What if she gets sick from holding it in? Should I go and comfort her?”
“Up to you, but I don’t think she needs you to coax her.”
Wei Changtian stretched: “Some things will get better with time.”
“That’s true.”
Xu Qingwan nodded lightly, but still planned to go back earlier tomorrow to talk to Agou.
After a brief chat, the two continued to do their own things, and only some slight noises remained in the room.
Until Yuan’er and Qiuyun walked in with copper basins.
“Young Master, Madam, it’s time to wash up.”
“Oh.”
Nodding, Wei Changtian put down his pen and happily admired his “masterpiece.”
Yuan’er, who happened to walk behind him, also saw this “cannon design” and asked curiously:
“Young Master, what is this drawing?”
“A cannon.”
Wei Changtian casually gave the answer while washing his face.
Obviously, the word “cannon” was not in Yuan’er’s vocabulary reserves.
“Cannon?”
She looked up, down, left, and right, carefully examining the pattern that looked quite like a certain object: “What is a cannon?”
“Splash! Splash!”
Wei Changtian, who was busy washing his face, didn’t have time to explain. Instead, Xu Qingwan, who was next to him, replied with a smile: “My husband said it’s a kind of weapon.”
“Hmm? Weapon?”
Yuan’er pouted and muttered softly: “It doesn’t look like a weapon at all. It doesn’t look serious no matter how you look at it.”
“Pfft!”
Xu Qingwan and Qiuyun were immediately amused by this sentence, and they couldn’t stop laughing for a while.
Only Wei Changtian felt humiliated, so he snatched the towel from Yuan’er’s hand unhappily.
“What are you thinking about all day long!”
“Okay, I’m done washing. Go out quickly!”
“Yes~ Young Master~”
Yuan’er deliberately dragged out her voice, smiling as she picked up the copper basin and walked out of the room with Qiuyun.
However, just as she turned around to close the door, she blinked her eyes and said to the room.
“Young Master, does that mean Madam will be able to see your cannon tonight?”
“? ? ?”
“Come, come, come! Not only can she see it! You can see it too!”
“Giggle! I don’t want to see it!”
“Young Master and Madam, rest early~”
Damn it, if this thing is really made, then the biggest lethality is probably to laugh the enemy to death!
“Wan’er, does this really look like that thing?”
Scratching his head, Wei Changtian prepared to ask for Xu Qingwan’s opinion.
However, the latter did not answer, but just kept covering her mouth and laughing.
“What are you laughing at!”
Wei Changtian immediately became anxious: “I’m seriously asking you, tell me if it looks like it or not!”
“Hehehe, it doesn’t look like it.”
Little Xu laughed even harder, but at a certain moment, her face suddenly turned red.
She slowly picked up the pen on the table, and then, under Wei Changtian’s suspicious gaze, added a few strokes to the design.
After the cannon was modified, nothing else changed, except that the barrel became much longer.
“This, this looks like it.”
“? ? ? ?”
Nothing was said that night.
The next day, Ning Yuke and Qingxian returned from the south.
Wei Changtian was now a little afraid of this Empress, so he didn’t go to the palace. He just found an accompanying official and briefly learned about the situation in Datong City.
The new city has already started full-scale construction, and it is estimated that the city walls can be built in three months.
And as long as the city walls are built, it will basically be possible for the demons to start “moving in” one after another.
Of course, this matter definitely cannot be exposed so early, so let’s just build it like this for now.
Another day passed.
Du Chang sent back a message saying that the troops had entered the Shiwan Mountains according to the plan and had seen the ten thousand demons.
The demons were very cooperative, but there were also some minor situations.
For example, some demons were unwilling to become mounts for soldiers who were weaker than them.
For example, some soldiers were unwilling to ride demons.
For example, some soldiers fell from the sky while riding flying demons, and so on.
After all, it was the first time that humans and demons had cooperated, and there would always be an adaptation period, so Wei Changtian didn’t care too much. After asking Liang Zhen when he would be back, he stopped worrying about the details of training the new army.
Just like that, another day passed.
On the third day after Old Zhang left, Chu Xianping finally returned.
His negotiation this time can be described as a “great victory”. He borrowed a full 200,000 craftsmen and coolies from the surrounding four states.
Of course, saying it was borrowing was actually just taking. Wei Changtian never thought about returning these people.
In the future, these 200,000 people will enter Shu Prefecture in the form of “refugees” and then go straight to Datong to participate in the construction of the new city.
Wei Changtian will provide them with generous rewards and a piece of “private farmland” within the borders of Shu Prefecture.
With land and money, these people will most likely not go back, but will only think about bringing their wives, children, and elders to live in Shu Prefecture.
At that time, it will undoubtedly drive another wave of population influx.
Therefore, Wei Changtian, who had already realized the importance of population, was very satisfied with this and decided to personally “inspect” the booming construction of Datong City in the south.
However, his impromptu inspection ultimately failed to materialize.
Because just one hour before he was about to depart, a message suddenly came from Dafeng—
After several days of marching, the 400,000-strong army of Da Ning finally arrived under Fengyuan City yesterday.
After a night of rest, the army officially began a full-scale attack on the city at dawn today.
When the scout passed on this news, the first wave of siege battles had already ended. In just one battle, the number of soldiers killed on both sides was no less than 30,000.
But these were not the key points.
What shocked Wei Changtian the most was the last sentence of the intelligence.
The Dafeng Emperor Li Qi personally supervised the battle on the city wall, but was attacked by an unknown second-rank expert, seriously injured, and on the verge of death.
