At the hour of Hai... At around 9:00 p.m., Ang Lee came to the palace alone on his horse. When he saw Ang Lee, the palace guards gave in and walked slowly on the road in the palace. Ang Lee felt no slight turmoil.

Although he knew that if he came to this palace today, if he had a little mistake, he would be very likely to lose favor and even be killed.

But Ang Lee was not afraid... because Ang Lee knew that as long as he could be open-minded, there would be no trouble.

With a faint smile on his lips, Ang Lee looked at the Mingtang and Heaven standing in the palace and slowly walked into Wu Zetian's Jixian Temple.

"His Highness Prince Jie meets with him..."

The little eunuch said with a loud voice, and Shangguan Wan'er's voice came from it: "Xuan..."

Ang Lee walked into Jixian Temple and saw Wu Zetian leaning against the bed at first sight. Seeing Wu Zetian, Ang Lee immediately smiled and bowed, "Grandma...!"

"An'er is here... Come here quickly, come here quickly, how long has it been since our grandfather and grandson met?" Wu Zetian waved to Ang Lee enthusiastically.

Ang Lee walked over with a smile, then sat beside Wu Zetian and said, "It's thirty-four days in total... In fact, my grandson always wanted to go to the palace to see my grandmother, but there were too many things about the Shenjiwei.

Now the Divine Mechanic has exceeded 3,000 people...the combat power is quite considerable. I have to go and see it every day for training, otherwise I will not be very relieved. And more importantly, I am helping the Divine Mechanic find someone to try...!"

"The person who tried it...An'er, what do you want to do?" Wu Zetian stood up slightly and looked at Ang Lee and asked.

"Grandma... The army can definitely become an army that can win every battle by training. What the army needs is the baptism of blood. I have been looking for bandits for the Divine Mechanics to fight. I want to use the baptism of blood to turn the Divine Mechanics into the strongest shield to protect my grandmother."

"Oh...!" Ang Lee's words surprised Wu Zetian slightly because in the afternoon, Lai Junchen and Shenni came to find him one after another. Lai Junchen said that Ang Lee was suspected of rebellion because Ang Lee hid the army's weapons from him.

The god nun predicted that Ang Lee would continue to shrink in Zhenjia Village and recruit soldiers constantly in an attempt to strengthen his strength.

But now Ang Lee took the initiative to leave Luoyang and find bandits to fight, which was different from the prophecy of the god nun. For a moment, Wu Zetian looked at Ang Lee in a daze and asked, "An'er...will you continue to recruit soldiers?"

Without thinking, Li An shook his head and replied: "Grandma... I came here today to tell you about recruiting soldiers. Grandma trusted An'er and gave An'er the title of General Tiance.

To be honest, An'er is really a little nervous about such a title, because it is too big, but her grandmother is ordered to be in danger, An'er can only accept it.

But now An'er found that it was really unrealistic to recruit 30,000 soldiers, because An'er's money could not be held back for the time being.

In fact, An'er didn't dare to tell her grandmother about some things. An'er invented some weapons, which were amazingly powerful, but the price was also expensive. An'er knew that the treasury is now difficult.

Only I can bear it silently, but...!" At this point, Li An sighed slightly and said, "But now, An'er can't bear it anymore, so An'er wants to discuss it with her grandmother.

Now my grandmother is in full swing... So I think there is no need to recruit soldiers for the time being. We can maintain the three thousand gods and guards. When my economy eases, we will continue to recruit soldiers. It’s okay to train soldiers, mainly because my grandson’s weapons are too expensive."

"Ah..." Wu Zetian was slightly stunned and said, "Are your weapons expensive?"

"It's not just about spending money..." Ang Lee said bitterly: "It's just like eating money. A pair of crossbows costs hundreds of stagnant pieces, armor, weapons, war horses... It's really money like water. Because of this, I know that even if I don't give these to my grandmother, I can't use them, so I didn't say it.

It's really too expensive...!"

Many people may wonder how weapons are too expensive and the country doesn't use them. In fact, this is true. Everyone knows Modao... A large number of cavalry in the early Tang Dynasty was an important guarantee for victory in combat, while the Modao in the middle infantry was like a wall to advance tactics, which created the glorious war history of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and also created the myth of Modao.

From Wude to Tianbao, the Tang Dynasty was able to win in the founding war and the nomadic war with the cavalry and shooting. The use of the infantry's offensive weapon Modao cannot be said to constitute one of the main reasons.

The emergence and promotion of Modao are not an isolated phenomenon. It involves the internal policies of the Tang Dynasty and the changes in the entire military situation. It can also be said that the history of the use and promotion of Modao is an aspect of the history of the founding of the Tang Dynasty and the foreign wars and the Kaitian martial arts.

The participation of the Modao Army played a decisive role in any queried battle example. The Modao Army, as a separate combat strike force in the battle sequence, made great contributions to the Tang army's battle in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. The Modao Army was a key weapon to change its disadvantages of being poor and not good at horses in the war between the Han people and the nomadic people who were good at riding and shooting, and to give full play to the advantages of infantry.

Why is such a good weapon lost? It’s nothing more, and the production price is too expensive.

Modao is different from other ancient weapons, with a relatively high overall value. The most expensive of ancient weapons should be war horses. In the more than 200 years of the Tang Dynasty, the average price of rice was 10 coins per dou of rice, 10 coins per dou of rice was one stone, and one stone was one hundred coins. One hundred coins could buy 120 kilograms of rice today, and a one-man copper coins could buy 1,200 kilograms of rice. An ordinary farmer in the Tang Dynasty spent no more than 4 coins a year, even less than this.

The value of the Modao takes about hundreds of cents, and the price of a horse is nothing more than that. For ordinary people, after working for decades, they can almost buy a war horse or a Modao. At the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the Modao was only 20,000. How much is the 20,000?

The court could not afford it, so Modao prohibited burial with him.

"It turns out that the cost is too high, so you didn't report to me..." Wu Zetian showed a slightly relieved expression.

Ang Lee nodded and said, "Yes... because my grandson knows that even if I offer it, my grandmother can only worry. My grandmother has enough worries, so how can my grandson increase my grandmother's worries?

However, it’s also a big deal for my grandson. They invented some too expensive weapons. When I invented simple but powerful weapons in the future, I will definitely tell my grandmother as soon as possible."

After Ang Lee said that, Wu Zetian, who was standing on the other side, finally showed a smile from the bottom of his heart. Looking at Ang Lee, Wu Zetian regained his smile meaningfully and said meaningfully: "So that's how it is...!"

Ang Lee also laughed: "Grandma...Look at what I brought to you..."

As he said that, Ang Lee took out two porcelain bottles from his hand... Wu Zetian asked in surprise: "What is that..."
Chapter completed!