my awesome king

Chapter 80

Ji Xiaomo sent Shen Mo to secretly smuggle arms, and by the way approached Ji Hengyuan who had already been hooked, and let him plant one on the arms.

Mu Shuiqing knew about their plan, but felt that it was too dangerous for Shen Mo to break into the enemy's interior.Ji Xiaomo's odds and ends add up to no more than 3 people, which is nothing compared to Ji Hengyuan's hundreds of thousands of troops.Even if Shen Mo is asked to sell some fake weapons to weaken part of his combat effectiveness, overall Ji Hengyuan still has a huge army and crowd tactics.

However, when she saw the weapons of this era, she suddenly had a plan in her heart.This era is still at the time when bronze was casting knives, spears, and battle-axes, and metallurgy has not yet been used.The casting of iron and steel to make weapons is a crucial project, and it will even reform the entire era.

In fact, Mu Shuiqing regretted that he didn't learn this before, otherwise he would learn how to make gunpowder, guns and mines, etc. in the book, and kill those cold weapons in one blow, and quickly blow open the city gate. He was afraid of those crowd tactics ? !Now, she doesn't know how to make them, but she can only tell Ji Xiaomo that she can spend more time on making weapons, armor and chariots.

For example, at this time, iron and steel had not been used by people. Steel weapons were far sharper and more resilient than bronze weapons, making them more effective in repelling enemies, and changing their shape and design improved their lethality.

In terms of protective equipment, the Xixia Kingdom is still stuck on the lightness of leather armor.If you use the armor made of iron armor, pockets, and iron shields, although they are a bit heavy, they can be protected against swords, and leather armors are sure to pierce weapons made of iron and steel.

Secondly, on horse gear, such as the widespread use of stirrups and the improvement of saddles, people can master riding skills faster, facilitate galloping and long-distance marching, and improve the combat capabilities of cavalry.Therefore, Mu Shuiqing suggested that both human armor and harness should be mainly made of iron, supplemented by leather.Among the weapons, horse halberds are still used at this time, but if a long double-edged horse halberd is used, the effect of penetrating armor will be enhanced.

For Mu Shuiqing's unique whimsy, Ji Xiaomo was very surprised when he heard it. He was not sure whether what Mu Shuiqing said was a fairy tale or whether steel could forge weapons. In a secret place some distance away, a few skilled craftsmen in this area were invited to start forging and casting.

At this time, iron is more expensive and difficult to smelt, so the continuous failures and low success rate have almost consumed most of Ji Xiaomo's assets. Everyone is trying to persuade Ji Xiaomo not to put all his eggs in one basket, but he still hoards nearly a small mountain of iron. Useless steel, ordered people to forge weapons and armor one by one.

After Mu Shuiqing found out, he trusted Ji Xiaomo unconditionally, and his heart warmed. He racked his brains even more to think of ways to help, modern advanced weapons, and Sun Tzu's art of war.But her memory is too bad, and the effect is very little, so she can only think of ways to raise money for Ji Xiaomo every day, work hard to make money, open new stores, and try to raise funds for Ji Xiaomo.

"Shuiqing, you've been too tired recently, take a break." Ji Xiaomo saw Mu Shuiqing's dark circles under his eyes, his heart was full of worries, and his heart ached. He knew she was willing to help him, but he was so exhausted. It's not good to be broken.Seeing her forehead sweating, he hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe her, but found that her hands were terribly cold.He held her hand nervously and warmed it in his palm, and asked with concern: "Why are your hands so cold?"

"It's okay, it's been a little windy recently."

Ji Xiaomo listened, and naturally untied his fur-embedded robe, and then naturally put it on Mu Shuiqing's body, wrapping her tightly.

He rubbed her cold hands, tilted his head and asked, "Do you want some ginger soup? I'll let Qingzhu prepare it." His series of movements were smooth and gentle, and the thick leather robe was full of his warm body temperature, which was wonderful. against the cold outside.

At the moment when they put it on, Mu Shuiqing had the illusion for a moment, as if they were an old couple who had been married for many years. In fact, it has only been more than seven months since they met, but they have experienced a lot. It feels like a century. generally long.

When Ji Xiaomo was bringing ginger soup for her, Mu Shuiqing suddenly caught a glimpse of his limping right leg, thinking about his experience of betraying relatives, his nose was sore, and he nestled his head in his sadly. Rubbing in my arms.

Ji Xiaomo went in without knowing, thinking that she didn't want to drink ginger soup, so he quickly put down the bowl in his hand, and hugged her in his arms.

Mu Shuiqing said sullenly: "Xiao Mo, is it true that the poison in your body cannot be cured? Is there no antidote?"

Ji Xiaomo froze, and said softly: "The poison is suppressed now, as long as you don't use your internal energy, it will be fine."

Mu Shuiqing understands what he said and doesn't get in the way.But his understatement does not mean that this matter is easy to resolve.The poison is currently suppressed on the right leg. If one day the poison occurs and he wants to survive, Ji Xiaomo must abandon his entire right leg and become a real cripple... At that time, he will be a real weak person...

"There is no other way?"

"Physician Ning secretly found a lot of prescriptions and folk prescriptions in order to treat me. However, the poison has accumulated in the body for two full years, and it was too late to discover and treat it, so I have been taking the antidote for the past three years with little effect. Now There must be no cure..." Ji Xiaomo's words revealed helplessness and a little bit of discouragement.

Seeing Mu Shuiqing's eyes were red, Ji Xiaomo pinched her face, and said with a light smile, "Do you regret seducing me that day? Now, I will depend on you for the rest of my life. In the future, hemiplegia, you can Take care of me day and night, don't run away!"

After he finished speaking with a teasing smile, seeing Mu Shuiqing bowed his head silently, his heart skipped a beat.The bright smile immediately subsided, and he said softly: "Are you regretting it? After all, my body..."

"Regret." Mu Shuiqing choked up a bit, looked up at Ji Xiaomo who was stunned, and said word by word, "I will regret not curing you. From tomorrow on, I will not only help make money, but also save the books. Read the medical books in the book carefully."

"You!" Ji Xiaomo wanted to persuade her to take a good rest and stop tormenting her body all the time.He will figure out his own way for money, and he knows better than anyone else how his body is.There is no cure, which is the result of several years of rectification. No matter how much medicine is taken, it will only delay the spread of the poisonous gas.But seeing Mu Shuiqing staring at him with firm eyes, it seems that even if he disagrees, she will be tough to the end.He understood her stubborn character, he rubbed her hair helplessly, and said with a smile, "Okay, it's up to you."

At the end of January, the first iron weapon and the first iron armor were successfully produced under the stumbling and continuous rush.Ji Xiaomo and Bai Ye conducted experiments on iron weapons and leather armor, bronze weapons and iron armor respectively.The fact is, as Mu Shuiqing said, steel weapons are far sharper and more resilient than bronze weapons.Leather armor was easily pierced, and bronze weapons were vulnerable when they collided with iron weapons.

Lian Ji Xiaomo was very excited by this joyful discovery, and decided to use steel weapons and armors in all battles to ensure the quality of weapons and improve the practicability of military equipment.

During the period from January to mid-February, Mu Shuiqing read nearly a thousand medical books, such as "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", "Qian Jin Fang", "Mai Jing", "A and B Classics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion", "Ji Zhu of Materia Medica" and so on.

The poison Ji Xiaomo was poisoned by was a chronic poison called nuxonum. Despite the ugly name, it was a very insidious poison.A small amount can also be used as a good medicine for rheumatism and other diseases, but once an overdose, the body of the poisoned person will weaken day by day, and the time of death of the poisoned person can be controlled according to the amount of poison, causing him to die of palpitations, similar to the illusion of modern chronic heart failure .

Therefore, the imperial physicians were unable to find out the poison of nuxonum.What's more, Ji Xiaomo was seriously ill at that time, when his qi and blood were weak, so the harm of this poison was even more serious.

Initially manifested as headache, dizziness, irritability, followed by stiffness of the neck, tightness of the whole body, even opisthotonos, clenched hands, closed teeth, and a convulsive smile; in severe cases, it can cause coma, shortness of breath, and dilated pupils. Big, irregular heartbeat, resulting in circulatory failure and death.

Ji Hengyuan ordered the number of people to increase slowly according to a small amount, so he didn't kill Ji Xiaomo in an instant, but watched him in pain on the sickbed.And this poison is extremely difficult to excrete, so the accumulation of two years has become a deadly poison.Although Ji Xiaomo took the antidote afterwards, the poison had become a stubborn disease and it was difficult to completely eradicate it.

The reason why Ji Xiaomo can't drink alcohol is because when the poison meets alcohol, the alcohol will enhance the drug's effect, and the drug's effect will be even worse, causing convulsions all over the body, and the poison will dissipate.His light diet, less salt and less oil these years is also the main reason for controlling the spread of poison.

In modern times, if poisoned, you can wash your stomach with potassium permanganate to dissolve the poison in your body, but in ancient times, Mu Shuiqing felt worried.

After seven days of external application of herbal medicine was ineffective, Mu Shuiqing switched to acupuncture.

One day, when Mu Shuiqing smiled and threw Ji Xiaomo who was reading a book onto the bed, this time Ji Xiaomo learned to be smart. Lying down in large size, watching Mu Shuiqing sitting on him and taking off his clothes, he felt all kinds of joy and anticipation.

(End of this chapter)