Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 409
In the evening, the afterglow of the sunset in Hong County is really beautiful:

when night falls
halo mottled
sunset dotted the sky

in the hazy twilight
towering city wall
And under the city wall, there is boundless murderous intent, corpses, residual blood, severed limbs, and a piece of head Quan Wanji's flowing beard was also burned. Standing on the city wall, he looked at Guo Xinke's rebels not far away.

At this time, Guo Xinke's rebels are cooking.

After half a day of siege, Guo Xinke was also shocked. He really didn't expect that this Hong County would be so difficult to attack. At this time, Guo Xinke had already left the corpses of three thousand soldiers under the city.

This is what Guo Xinke did not expect. This is a shame to him, an unprecedented shame, so tonight he wants to attack at night. As long as the night attack is successful, he will definitely slaughter the city first.

This is Guo Xinke's confession to the soldiers who died in battle.

"Servant, take a bite too." On the city wall, Gu Sangui, the county magistrate of Hong County, came to Quan Wanji with a piece of mustache.

After taking the cake, Quan Wanji asked wearily, "How many people did we lose today?"

"Hey!" With a sigh, County Magistrate Gu said slightly: "Today's siege is really bad. We lost more than 300 soldiers, and more than 100 civilians are now in Hong County. Every household is doing this funeral. .”

Quan Wanji swayed slightly.

Here, Gu Sangui quickly supported Quan Wanji: "Minister, you must take care, our Hong County has nowhere to go now, everything depends on your leadership to defend Hong County, and then wait for the court's rescue. Our deaths matter."

"I know...!" Quan Wanji stood up straight again, looked at the rebels in the distance and said, "No matter what, I will definitely die before Hong County is breached."

Chang'an Dunhua Square.!

"Look, what is that...?"

A hot air balloon appeared in the sky of Dunhuafang. It was Li You trying out this hot air balloon in advance. Originally, Li You was planning to test it the day after tomorrow, but he thought he was not familiar with this burner, so he had to try it out in advance today.

However, what I didn't expect was that it was actually a success.

"Ahh...!" Di Renjie and Xiao Baoer shouted excitedly on the hot air balloon.

"Teacher is really flying, look, look, this is the whole of Chang'an, like a chessboard, so square!" Di Renjie was very happy.

Xiao Baoer also hurriedly said: "The people below have all turned into little ants, and the scorpion can't be seen at all. Teacher, you are really amazing. Will there be gods in the sky?"

Seeing the curiosity of his two students, Li You said speechlessly: "There are no gods in the sky, only boundless cold, well, I didn't let you two come up to see the scenery, you pay attention to the direction and height, This is the first time your teacher and I have made this thing, if it is over, we will be completely over."

"Oh...!" Di Renjie and Xiao Baoer nodded repeatedly.

This hot air balloon is not like an airplane, which can be controlled freely. The hot air balloon controls the direction by changing the height in the air.

Because the wind direction is different at different heights, it can be used to change the direction.The power of the hot air balloon is the burner, there is no rudder, and its direction of movement must be with the wind.

At different heights, at different times, and in different locations, the wind direction is different. If you want to adjust the direction, you need to find different wind layers.If you can't meet the wind in the direction you need to go, you can only fall to the ground and wait for the wind to come.

The rise and fall of the hot air balloon are related to the temperature inside the sphere. When the temperature inside the sphere is high, the gravity of the balloon decreases. When it is less than the buoyancy, the balloon rises. The temperature of the air inside the sphere drops. decline.

Remember the flight time of the hot air balloon. Generally, when the sun just rises or one or two hours before the sun sets, it is the best time to fly a hot air balloon, because the wind is usually calm and the airflow is very stable at this time.Strong winds and heavy fog are not conducive to the flight of hot air balloons.

"It's really flying!"

Beneath the hot air balloon, Quan Zhixi, Xue Rengui, Su Dingfang and others looked at the hot air balloon that had already flown into the sky with expressions of horror and sighed because they had never seen it before, or even thought about it. It is really incredible that hot air balloons can really fly into the sky.

Oh. By the way, there is only one person who is not terrified at this time, but is showing off his power very much. This is Li Mingda. She was going to go on the hot air balloon today, but she was driven off by Li You.

One must know that when the hot air balloon was not completely stable, how could Li You let his sister go up.

Because of this, Li Mingda was still very angry, but there was nothing he could do about it. The boss of the entire Dunhuafang was Li You, not Li Mingda. Although she wanted to, but unfortunately she really wasn't.

"My God!" Cui Jue on the side smiled and said, "His Royal Highness has earned too much this time."

"Haha!" Li Mingda said with a giggle, pointing at Xiaoman's waist, "Of course. I am extremely intelligent, how can those idiots of the Imperial College have the wisdom of me.

However, they are not at a loss, after all, they can go to the sky once.! "

"Hehe...!" Zhang Jing smiled slightly: "Only before dawn and in the evening can you go to heaven. Her Royal Highness has collected money from so many people. I think it's just queues, and some people have to queue to death.!"

"Eh!" Li Mingda couldn't refute this, but the little guy was very rascal: "Then it has nothing to do with Bengong, I just promised to let you go to heaven, but didn't say when to let you go to heaven.

If you can't wait until you die, there is nothing I can do to help you. "

"Pfft!" Zhang Jing was speechless, while Shao Yiyi gently pulled Zhang Jing, Zhang Jing didn't want his brother and the princess to have any quarrel, and Li You liked this younger sister the most, which made her angry Li Mingda is young, if it makes Li You unhappy, that would be bad.

Zhang Jing also knew what his sister was thinking, so he didn't say anything later. However, when everyone was feeling emotional, suddenly, a person came running from a distance. This person was a bad person, and came in front of Zhang Jing , Whispered a few words in Zhang Jing's ear.

Zhang Jing's face changed, and then he looked back at Quan Zhixi. At this time, Quan Zhixi happened to be looking at Zhang Jing. Although the four eyes intersected for only a second or two, Quan Zhixi didn't know why, but never Zhang Jing saw a trace of worry about himself in his eyes.

"Immediately shake the rope. Let His Royal Highness King Qi come down from above!"

"how?"

Xue Rengui came to Zhang Jing's side.

"It's a big deal. Guo Xinke is against you!"

"What..." When Quan Zhixi heard this, she almost lost her footing, because Quan Zhixi knew that her father belonged to Guo Xinke who went to investigate! Guo Xinke has turned against him, so what should his father do?
"Shuai Zhang!" Quan Zhixi looked at Zhang Jing.

Zhang Jing said: "Princess, don't worry. According to our information, Quan Shilang is still alive, but he is not very optimistic. Well, it is not convenient to say more here. The princess will wait a little longer. My commander will enter the palace. Please come down soon, Your Highness." Quickly enter the palace!"

After speaking, Zhang Jing turned around and left.

With a swipe, Quan Zhixi burst into tears.

"Sister Quan!" Shao Yiyi hurriedly came to Quan Zhixi's side.

"Yiyi. You must help me!" Quan Zhixi was already in chaos at this time. You must know that Quan Zhixi grew up with Quan Wanji since she was a child. The relationship between the two is very deep. It can be said that they have suffered together. .

Some people say that Quan Wanji is an official, how can he suffer.

Is it because wages were too low in Zhenguan, so everyone is too poor?
This is not true, Quan Wanji used to be the long history of Li Ke, the king of Wu, and the son of Quan Zhuoyu, the governor of Kuangzhou in the Sui Dynasty. He also had some wealth in his family, but Quan Wanji was really good.

From the detailed historical materials, we can see that Quan Wanji is really an upright and staunch teacher, and it is his long-term imperial literacy that has created his character.Therefore, under his supervision, Wu Wang Li Ke restrained a lot and won the reputation of respecting his teacher.

But apart from being upright and strong, Quan Wanji is also a kind person. At the beginning of Zhenguan, the country had no savings, so he used his salary to make some.After the war, many corpses were not buried, so he paid his own money and hired people to bury these bones. This could be done by the state, but he did it himself.He first served as the magistrate of a county, and when he went to take office, he caught up with the local drought.

In the first year of drought, this year it happened to be in short supply. Everyone went out to beg for food, but if they went out to beg for food again this year, there would be no hope for next year.What can Quan Wanji do?
He can't do much, the family has no savings, the government has no savings, and he is a literati, so he can only sell his carriage and buy seeds to distribute.This is the story of the famous Quan Wanji selling a carriage.

Without a carriage, you have to walk. Quan Wanji felt sorry for his daughter, so he hugged Quan Zhixi and walked to the place where he took office. When he arrived at the place where he took office, Quan Wanji's feet were covered with blood blisters.

You said how could Quan Zhixi not feel sorry for her father.

That year was blessed by God, the people were very upbeat, and finally the county ushered in a bumper harvest.Later, because of Quan Wanji's meritorious service, Li Shimin knew that there were no slaves in Quan Wanji's family, so he rewarded Quan Wanji with one hundred slaves at a time.

Slaves can be sold for money, and the slaves bestowed by the emperor are of course property.But Quan Wanji said to these one hundred slaves, you are all born as good citizens, and because of the war, you were plundered and sold as slaves, how can I sell you?
On the same day, one hundred slaves were liberated and returned to good.

This is Quan Wanji, and it is precisely because of this that Quan Zhixi has suffered a lot with his father, Quan Wanji, but it is because of these hardships that the relationship between Quan Zhixi and Quan Wanji has become stronger.

Knowing that her father's life and death are unknown, how could Quan Zhixi feel at ease? Shao Yiyi tightly hugged Quan Zhixi, who was already in chaos, in her arms to comfort her: "It's okay, it will be fine.!"

(End of this chapter)