Chapter 1453: Su Zan's Sorrow

The hill is not very high.

But for Su Zan now, it is still too strenuous.

Finally, Yun Zheng showed the spirit of respecting the elderly and loving the young, and directly carried Su Zan onto the mountain.

"It is a great honor for me to be able to carry you on my back..."

Su Zan leaned against a weathered stone on the hill with a smile on his face.

Yun Zheng smiled, "Although the Prime Minister and I have different positions, I also admire the Prime Minister!"

Yun Zheng really admired Su Zan.

Even from the enemy's perspective, it did not affect his admiration for Su Zan.

"I admire you for being a prince. I will die without regrets."

Su Zan's smile was particularly bright, "I only regret that I am too old to fight with the prince on the battlefield!"

"We have fought each other on other battlefields."

Yun Zheng shook his head and said, "You have defeated me, and I have defeated you."

"That seems to be the case."

Su Zan smiled brightly.

I don’t know if it’s because of his different state of mind or a sudden burst of energy, but Su Zan now looks much more energetic than when he just woke up.

While they were talking, Lin Ji brought over two wine bags.

Yun Zheng opened the wine bag for Su Zan and handed it to him. He also opened his own wine bag and sat down next to Su Zan. He lightly touched the wine bag in his hand and then took a sip.

Su Zan brought the wine bag to his mouth with some effort.

"Old man, do you want me to help you?"

Yun Zheng turned his head and looked over.

"Why do you need help with drinking?"

Su Zan chuckled and said jokingly, "Your Majesty, please don't act like you and I are drinking from the same cup of wine together."

"Well, you bear with it."

Yun Zheng still shook his head and smiled, "Don't disgust me. I'm a handsome young man, why would I want to drink wine with an old man like you?"

At this moment, they seemed not to be enemies, but just friends regardless of age.

Su Zan smiled cheerfully, "I don't want to drink wine with you either!"

As he spoke, he still struggled to bring the wine bag to his lips and took a sip, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

When he put down the wine bag, Su Zan said, "I have a question that I don't understand. I hope Your Majesty can help me solve it."

"That's it!"

Yun Zheng smiled, "How can I refuse the request of a dying man like you?"

Su Zan smiled and asked, "Daqian already occupies a large area of ​​fertile land, and Xiqu is no longer a threat to Daqian. Why does the prince insist on occupying the barren land of Xiqu?"

"No reason."

Yun Zheng shook his head and said sternly: "Between people and between countries, no one can escape the rule of the jungle!"

"Xiqu is indeed not a threat to Daqian now, but that doesn't mean there won't be a threat in the future."

"I can't see the future, I can only see the present!"

"I don't want to be an emperor, but I have to consider the rulers of future generations!"

"I have to help my son eliminate all the major threats, so that I can comfortably be the emperor!"

Listening to Yun Zheng's words, Su Zan was speechless.

It seems that I was indeed overthinking it.

There are not so many whys in this world!

The strong prey on the weak; this is the law of nature.

If he were in Yun Zheng's position, he would definitely try his best to destroy Xiqu.

"It seems that I am obsessed."

Su Zan smiled to himself, "By the way, what is the name of the weapon that can destroy the world in the prince's hand?"

"That's called dynamite, also called gunpowder."

Yun Zheng said frankly: "Now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you. I didn't have much gunpowder before. I scared you once and my gunpowder stock was emptied. I wanted to scare you into surrendering, but I didn't expect you to be so resistant to being scared. You have seen the power of gunpowder, but you still don't surrender..."

Speaking of this, Yun Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Faced with their own hot weapons, they were unable to sing or dance!

I have to say, Xiqu is indeed quite stubborn.

"There weren't a lot before, does that mean there are a lot now?"

Su Zan's face suddenly showed worry.

Yun Zheng nodded gently: "Soon there will be a lot, and there will be a better way to launch them. From a mile away, they will be enough to destroy the city!"

Destroy the city from a mile away?

Suzan's eyes widened in shock.

"It's nothing to be shocked about."

Yun Zheng said calmly: "When this kind of weapon develops to its peak, it will be able to easily destroy cities thousands of miles away, not to mention one mile away. Just one shell will turn a hundred miles of area into scorched earth, leaving no grass behind!"

"..."

Listening to Yun Zheng's words, Su Zan couldn't help but open his mouth stupidly.

He really wanted to laugh at Yun Zheng for bragging.

But at this point, is it necessary for Yun Zheng to brag in front of him?

Is there really such a weapon in the world?

Once this kind of weapon comes out, how will we fight wars in the future?

Su Zan couldn't understand or imagine it.

But there was a voice in his heart telling him that what Yun Zheng said was true.

For no apparent reason, an unprecedented bitterness spread throughout Su Zan's body.

They are still working hard on patterned steel.

But Yun Zheng was already working on weapons that could destroy the world.

Isn’t this an irony?

"Then why didn't the prince wait until this kind of weapon was produced before threatening Xiqu?"

Su Zan came back to his senses and looked at Yun Zheng in confusion, "If the prince lets people see the power of this weapon, I'm afraid no one in the world will dare to fight Daqian, right?"

"This one……"

Yun Zheng laughed in silence, and after a long groan, he said, "If we really want to develop such a weapon, I guess it will take hundreds or even thousands of years..."

"what?"

Su Zan was stunned. After a long while, he asked curiously, "How can the prince know things that will happen hundreds or even thousands of years later?"

Yun Zheng smiled and asked, "If I say I came from a thousand years later through time and space, would you believe me?"

"Do not believe!"

Suzan answered without hesitation.

"Isn't it over then?"

Yun Zheng smiled helplessly and poured another sip of wine into his mouth.

Su Zan also struggled to pour a mouthful of wine into his mouth again.

This time, it was much bigger than the previous one.

"Cough cough..."

After drinking the strong liquor, Su Zan couldn't help coughing again.

Yun Zheng wanted to advise him to take it easy, but after thinking it over he decided not to.

We are all dying, what's the point of saying this?

"Is the map that the prince showed me real?"

After recovering from the shock, Su Zan asked Yun Zheng again.

"Half truth and half lie!"

Yun Zheng no longer concealed it. "Although a large part of the map is my imagination, I can tell you for sure that there are indeed large tracts of fertile land overseas! I didn't lie to you. I really want to go overseas and see how big the world is..."

Is that so?

Su Zan looked up into the distance, with hope in his eyes.

"How about, when I die, Your Majesty, chop off my head, and take my head with you when you go out to sea in the future, so that I can also go overseas to have a look?"

Su Zan withdrew his gaze and spoke to Yun Zheng half-jokingly.

"You might as well let me scatter your ashes in the sea, so that you can travel the world in another way."

"Well, Your Highness's idea is quite good! I'll trouble you then."

"I'd better return your body to Xiqu! Let you be buried on the land you've always loved..."

"We have defended this piece of land to the end, but it is all in vain!"

"You are considered enlightened, are you still dead?"

"Even if the person is not dead, the heart is dead. What is the difference between death and life?"