It was already evening when he came out of the equipment division, and a touch of red glow wrapped in a man and a horse pulled out Xiao Ming's long figure on the loess road in Qingzhou City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Teaching technology is also very tiring, and now Xiao Ming's mouth is dry, but today is a historic step for him, and the pure steel lathe has been in practice.

When he came to this world, he was still a little confused, and now this confusion has been replaced by the passion of climbing the technology tree.

Xiao Ming never thought that an ordinary person could change an era, and he was very glad that he was a prince, not a passerby.

In the Great Chongqing Kingdom, the deep-rooted mentality of imperial rule and the small-scale peasant economy since ancient times made such things as equipment lack the power to be promoted.

The abundance of the population makes labor cheap, and the value of machinery is even more lost.

In modern times, if it weren't for the guns of the West knocking on the door of feudal imperial power, this kind of heavenly kingdom and self-sufficient agricultural economy would continue.

So in his view, industrial change needs to be driven by force, and he doesn't want this force to come from the outside.

This is also the reason why he is glad that he is a prince, because he is the supreme ruler of the fiefdom, and he can act as a force to promote industrial change, and the existence of the technology library provides this support.

Thinking along the way, when passing by a folk workshop, some sounds of silk and bamboo suddenly came into his ears, and Xiao Ming raised his eyes to look.

Opposite him is the Cuizhufang where the Wang family's mansion is located, and this situation, it is estimated that the Wang family's family banquet has begun.

As for the guests of this banquet, he didn't have to think about it to know that it must be the Qin family, the Wei family, and the Sun family.

In Qingzhou, these four big families have been in-laws with each other for a long time, and they have been in contact with each other quite closely.

Another woman's coquettish laughter came, Xiao Ming hurriedly drove his horse back, and refused Wang Shijie's invitation, he was really difficult to be a son of Liu Xia Hui.

At the same time, he comforted himself that this banquet was so absurd that it was not good to be sick.

Just as he was thinking to himself, a bowstring vibrating sound sounded not far from him.

Xiao Ming had a feeling that his hair was blowing up, the Great Yu Kingdom was established by martial arts, and this royal disciple had been trained in archery and horses since he was a child.

He was especially familiar with bows and arrows, and the laws of the Great Yu Kingdom stipulated that the people were strictly forbidden to possess weapons privately.

Now the sound of bows and arrows could be heard in the folk houses not far from him, and there was only one possibility—an assassin.

He instinctively rolled sideways to the other side of the horse.

At this time, a bow and arrow came and nailed straight to the dirt wall of the people's house.

"Assassin!"

The instinctive stress reaction in Xiao Ming's memory saved his life, and he immediately shouted for help.

At this moment, a group of cavalry patrolling the city heard the cry for help and immediately rushed over.

"Your Highness!" A cavalry led by him rushed over, but it was Lu Fei.

Facing life and death, Xiao Ming was still a little flustered, and when he saw Lu Fei and said, "Someone assassinated this king, take it down for me!" ”

Lu Fei saw the arrows on the wall at this time, looked at the direction where the arrows were fired, and shouted: "Immediately seal the city gate, no one is allowed to leave the city without my order, you two escort His Highness back, and the others come with me." ”

The two cavalrymen responded, protecting Xiao Ming left and right.

"I'm going to live." After the initial panic, Xiao Ming said coldly, someone wants to kill him, this is not a joke.

"Yes, Your Highness!" Lu Fei and the others immediately surrounded the opposite Minfang, and at the same time, a cavalry went to the various city gates to give orders.

Back at the palace, Qian Dafu saw Qin Le's embarrassed appearance covered in mud, and panicked, "Your Highness, you, you are ......"

"Someone wants to harm this king." Xiao Ming frowned, this Xiao Ming had done a lot of bad things before, and he couldn't even be sure of the most important suspect now.

Qian Dafu was frightened by Xiao Ming's words, and touched Xiao Ming up and down to check whether Xiao Ming was injured.

"It's okay, Captain Lu happened to pass by, and I wasn't hurt." Xiao Ming calmed down and said.

"That's good, that's good, scared the old slave to death, Your Highness, these two **** should stay in the palace and don't go out, and wait until the killer is caught." Qian Dafu's worries were on his face.

It's just that Xiao Ming underestimated Lu Fei's efficiency, and before he entered the palace, a rumble of horses' hooves came, and Lu Fei arrived with a team of cavalry.

Now that the mounts of Lu Fei and the others have all been replaced by barbarian horses, all of them are tall and strong, and the armor on their bodies is also shining, Lu Fei threw a person down from his horse at this time.

"Your Highness, the assassin has been caught."

"Dead?" The corpse that fell to the ground was a refined man, but there was a big hole in his neck at this time, and blood flowed.

"When he found him, he cut his neck when he saw that he couldn't escape, Your Highness, this is not an ordinary killer, he must have been trained, otherwise he would not have committed suicide so decisively." Lu Fei frowned and said.

After being silent for a long time, Xiao Ming said, "Then who will come to kill me?" ”

The general search for the motive for killing is basically to infer who can get the greatest benefit, and the local wealthy family will not want to die for the time being, because Xiao Ming was mediocre enough in the past, and there is still value in use.

And if Xiao Wenxuan kills him, it is very simple, there is no need to spend so much time, this kind of assassination is generally out of the struggle for the throne and internal seizure of power.

"Your Highness, this kind of arrow was only seen when I was in Shudi, and it is a cloud-piercing arrow from Shudi." Lu Fei handed Xiao Ming an arrow carved with clouds.

"Shudi, King of Shu?" Xiao Ming's face sank like water.

Among the princes, the relationship between the king of Shu and him is the worst, because of the same age, the two fought openly and secretly when they were in Chang'an, and the two once fought.

But Shu is thousands of miles away from here, would the king of Shu send an assassin to kill him?

"King Shu?" Qian Dafu's eyes rolled.

"Not necessarily." Lu Fei's thoughts were similar to Xiao Ming's, "Although the Cloud Piercing Arrow is a specialty of Shudi, it is not absent from other places. ”

"If I die, who will get the most benefit." Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.

Qian Dafu's body shook slightly at this time, and his eyes showed a trace of worry.

Seeing Qian Dafu's strange look, Lu Fei couldn't help asking, "Does Steward Qian know anything?" ”

After hesitating for a while, Qian Dafu sighed, "The old slave is just guessing, does Your Highness remember the third prince who has always been very close to the five princes?" ”

"I remember, the prince is incompetent, now the third prince and the fourth prince are the most favored, it is rumored that the father has the intention of abolishing the prince, and now the fourth prince and the third prince are fighting fiercely, but what does it matter to me?" Xiao Ming said.

"Your Highness forgot that when you fled back to Chang'an three years ago, who spoke up to the emperor to let the emperor spare His Highness." Qian Dafu asked.

"Four Princes!" Xiao Ming was suddenly angry and wanted to vomit blood, when Xiao Ming was rescued by the four princes, he was a voter.

This is tantamount to telling the other princes that he is mixed with the four princes.

"That's right, once the crown prince is deposed and the prince competes for the crown, I am afraid that the Great Chongqing Kingdom will be bloody again, and you can see the figure of the five surnames and seven wangs behind the princes." Qian Dafu said, "A few days ago, news came that it seemed that the five princes had also been assassinated in the fiefdom, and some people suspected that the four princes had done it in order to cut out the wings of the three princes. ”

Xiao Ming said slowly: "You mean that this time it is the revenge of the third prince against the fourth prince, and the wings of the fourth prince are also cut out-me?" ”