Chapter 249 Who cares about Soochow, why not vote for Jingzhou?
Chapter 249: Whatever Soochow, why not join Jingzhou?
Author: milk sugar sugar sugar
Chapter 249: Whatever Soochow, why not join Jingzhou?
Jiaozhou, the junction of Yulin County and Cangwu County.
Lu Jiajun's camp.
After seeing off Lu Meng and Bu Zhi, Lu Xun returned to his military tent. Sun Ru looked at the edict and the wine bottle on the altar table and asked: "Wu Hou gave these to you? What does it mean? Although it is winter now, you can pay the state's spirit.
Nuan, it seems you don’t need this ‘turtle-free hand medicine’, right?”
"hehe--"
Lu Xun sneered lightly, picked up the bottle of dogwood wine, and poured out a glass, "Madam, your second uncle wants to kill people but is unwilling to see blood. He keeps asking me to go back and drink with him during the winter solstice, but where can I go during the winter solstice?
There is also dogwood wine, the chrysanthemums have faded. This wine and the turtle-free hand medicine tell me that if I don’t return at the winter solstice, I will give in and become the general. If I take over this army, I won’t have to go back.”
After that, Lu Xun raised his glass and was about to drink it, but Sun Ru quickly took action and knocked the glass over.
Lu Xun smiled and said, "This is the wine given by Marquis Wu? How has my wife ever been so courageous?"
Sun Ru said coldly: "If I were brave enough, I wouldn't have let my mother and brother disappear in the first place... Now, he wants to harm my husband again, should I just sit back and wait for death?"
Lu Xun replied calmly, "One month, this has just begun..."
Sun Ru asked with a worried trembling voice: "But what about one month later? The patriarch of your Lu family will be in Jiaozhi, unless...unless your husband doesn't care about anything!"
"You are a swordsman, and I am a fish and meat." Lu Xun opened his mouth with difficulty, "For now, we can only wait."
Sun Ru asked: "What are you waiting for?"
Lu Xun looked gloomy and said coldly, "Wait until someone can steal Lu Ji out! As long as he comes back alive, I will be the real patriarch of the Lu family... If not, then..."
Sun Ru was shocked: "This... you are gambling with your life!"
Lu Xun said firmly, even a little fiercely, "Under the current situation, we can only gamble this time. This may be the time when we put our entire future as a bet!"
At this point, Lu Xun lowered his tone and asked, "It's possible that this will be my, Lu Xun's, last bet."
this…
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold, which made Sun Ru feel more and more uncomfortable the more she thought about it.
She gritted her teeth and asked, "What will happen if the Lu family's army still stands still after one month?"
"Didn't you hear what General Bu Zhi said?" Lu Xun's tone was filled with infinite sadness and pathos: "Now the food of our Lu family's army is in the hands of General Lu Meng. On one side is Jiaozhou's mortal enemy, and on the other side is General Lu Meng.
With the food in my hands, who would have thought that I, Lu Xun, would be forced to this point and be in a dilemma!"
etc…
Listening to her husband's words, Sun Ru suddenly thought of something. She suddenly opened her mouth, "Husband, actually...actually...there is another way?"
"What road?" Lu Xun looked at Sun Ru, but there was no color in his eyes.
Sun Ru quickly checked the doors and windows to make sure no one was eavesdropping. Then she walked up to Lu Xun and lowered her voice and said, "Second uncle is unkind, but we can also be unjust. No matter what Soochow or Jiaozhou, my husband and I
Why not take the Lu family army to join Jingzhou!"
Sun Ru's words came out one after another in a firm tone: "I don't believe it...I don't believe it. My husband has thirty thousand Lu family troops. Will Guan Yunchang accept him? Will he treat my husband as an honored guest?"
this…
Sun Ru's words shocked Lu Xun.
He quickly covered Sun Ru's mouth, his eyebrows instantly condensed, and he exclaimed again and again:
"Madam, are you crazy?"
Sun Ru's martial arts skills were far superior to Lu Xun's. She quickly broke away from Lu Xun's restraints and straightened her chest.
His tone became more determined: "Look at General Xu Kun, look at Zhou Gongjin, the governor of Zhou, and look at General Tai Shici... If my husband insists on staying here, then... he is really crazy!"
Lu Xun covered Sun Ru's mouth again.
He looked at Sun Ru as if begging, his lips trembling.
"Now... now... we can't reach this point yet -"
However, Sun Ru's eyes became more determined, as if she had made some kind of decision.
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In the Han Dynasty, apples were called "氰".
The "Nai" in the Han Dynasty was not as big and plump as the apples of later generations. The taste was not particularly sweet, it was about the size of an egg.
It's red and very attractive.
Of course, it doesn't matter whether the apple is delicious or plump.
The important thing is that October is the season when apples are ripe.
At this moment...under an apple tree in Mianshui Villa.
Apples the size of eggs fell down, and Liu Ye used his head to catch them, and one after another they hit his head.
Liu Ye was not hit by the apple accidentally. He stood here on purpose, waiting for the apple to fall.
The reason for this is that Guan Lin proposed to him the concepts of "gravity" and "gravity".
At this moment, Liu Ye was stroking his forehead while looking at the fallen apple, and then said with emotion:
"Is this the 'gravity' and 'gravity' that Mr. Yunqi mentioned? It is indeed thought-provoking!"
He frowned slightly, as if he was thinking for a moment, and then, while chirping, he took out the "Pictures of Strange Weapons" given to him by Guan Lin from his arms.
I couldn't help but sigh: "The book says, 'What weight is heavy? Every body that falls straight down must reach the center of the earth.' Is this the so-called gravity?"
Speaking of which, "Illustrations of Qiqi" was compiled by Wang Zheng during the Ming Dynasty, and it already has a definition and explanation of gravity.
I can say with great certainty...
This definition of gravity was nearly forty years earlier than Newton was hit by an apple and realized "gravity".
As an aside, considering the great voyages of the Ming Dynasty, Newton's theory of "universal gravitation" was plagiarized from the "Pictures of Strange Weapons" written by China. This is a matter for the beholder.
Of course, this is not important. What is important is... Liu Ye seems to have a new understanding.
"If we follow this theory, does it mean that under a fixed acceleration, as long as the Eight Ox Crossbow increases its gravity, the range can continue to increase...and even break through 800 steps and reach 1,200 steps?"
Liu Ye studied it to this point.
It seems that this "Illustrated Description of Strange Weapons" already has the flavor of being unintentional on the part of the giver and intentional on the part of the reader.
without any exaggeration…
——Gravity, mass, gravitational acceleration and even resistance...
This series of nouns is like opening a door to a whole new world for Liu Ye, allowing him to daydream about it, and allowing him to verify many possibilities that already existed in his mind from the book.
——It’s not that the ancients were unintelligent, it’s that they didn’t have a broad vision.
——Once guided by the ancients, they can often burst out extremely terrifying learning abilities and creativity.
A "Pictures of Strange Weapons" may seem like nothing to ordinary people, or even people of later generations.
But for Liu Ye, a man who can skillfully use the "leverage principle" and build a thunder car, he is simply a "plug-in".
——"Click!"
As if he suddenly figured out something, Liu Ye took a bite of the apple and said, "It's the height...yes, yes, it's the height! This Eight Ox Crossbow can further adjust the height to find the optimal gravity acceleration."
', reduce the resistance in the air...yes, that's it...that's it..."
After understanding this, Liu Ye took one last look at the apple tree and hurriedly ran back to the workshop.
During this time, all his thoughts were focused on the workshop.
As for his understanding of craftsmanship and the manufacturing techniques of these large-scale ordnance, he learned extremely quickly and was always able to make improvements and strive for excellence...
Many times, Liu Ye's improved ordnance made Huang Chengyan, the successor of the Mohist machine arts, feel inferior to him.
Yesterday, when Guan Lin came to Mianshui Villa, he specifically asked Huang Chengyan.
——Ask him how Liu Ye is doing?
Huang Chengyan's answer was that within ten years...I am afraid that Liu Ye will be able to change the entire battlefield style on his own.
Guan Lin was shocked, as if this was something he needed to focus on training!
Therefore, he wrote out the Ming Dynasty physics work "Pictures of Strange Instruments" overnight and sent someone to deliver it to him early in the morning.
But when Liu Ye entered the workshop.
Huang Chengyan is taking inventory of the newly made Eight Ox Crossbow.
These are twenty eight-oxen crossbows...
The Jiaozhou Shibian family has sent people to receive it, and the money has been received.
According to the agreement... Huang Chengyan will deliver the goods today.
Seeing Huang Chengyan, Liu Ye hurriedly ran to him. His conversation with Huang Chengyan was like a discussion between two academic masters: "Mr. Huang, I have an idea. According to the book "Qi" that Yun Qi gave me,
According to the theory in "Qiu Tu Shuo", I think... in this eight-oxen crossbow, as long as the height of the 'Three Strong Bows' is raised to a certain extent, the height of the 'three strong bows' is lowered, the straight line is changed to a slight inclination, and the aim is slightly corrected, then... this
The energy that the Eight Ox Crossbow can store will be greater, and the shooting distance will be further...perhaps it can...be able to reach..."
Liu Ye didn't wait for the last five words of "One Thousand Twelve Hundred Steps" to be finished.
At this moment...Shi Wu and Shi Hui happened to arrive.
Shiwu, as Guan Lin's bodyguard, and Shi Hui, as Shi Xie's son, were extremely concerned about the Eight Bull Crossbows.
I saw eight oxen crossbows being transported.
The warriors were quite excited. "Senior Huang, Master Yunqi told us that he can give us twenty eight-oxen crossbows today...but seriously?"
The words came out of my mouth...
Shi Hui also looked forward to it. His father Shi Xie had urged him countless times. He was extremely looking forward to bringing back the Eight Bull Crossbow as soon as possible.
At the same time, due to the weight of the Eight Ox Crossbow, it is not fast to transport it even by waterway.
Therefore…
The scholar family decided to send a wave of people to transport the Eight Bull Crossbows back first, and another wave of people to continue practicing in Jiangling. Finally... half a month later, they would meet in Jiaozhou, and the human crossbows could be combined into one, so that they could land in the battle against the Lu Family Army.
On the battlefield.
The warriors and warriors in front of me, their badges...
Huang Chengyan is no stranger.
We have been talking to each other a lot these days, and the two sides have a pretty good conversation.
The most important thing is that the Shi family was unintentionally generous and gave Huang Chengyan a hundred bottles of fine wine from the Jiaozhou area as soon as they met. Huang Chengyan admired it very much and felt that Yun Qi was a good ally and worth it.
Immediately, Huang Chengyan stroked his beard and said, "Since Yun Qi said so, the Eight Ox Crossbow can be delivered today..."
Before the word "pay" came out of his mouth, Liu Ye quickly stopped him, "Huang Lao... I can't hand it over, I can't hand it over..."
His tone broke: "I... I only need, with just a slight change, I can increase the range from 800 steps... to at least 1,200 steps... Give me a few days, you believe me... Give me a few days...
"
Liu Ye said so confidently that he felt that his thoughts had never been so clear before.
He just needs to try it now, and then make individual improvements...and then make large-scale improvements.
He was sure it would be completed within five days.
only…
Shiwu quickly said: "Mr. Liu just said? How many steps can the range be improved to?"
"One thousand two hundred steps." Liu Ye said firmly.
Shi Wu and Shi Hui waved their hands in unison.
"Oh, how can it be used so far... Eight hundred steps will be enough, eight hundred steps will be enough..." Shiwu said with a smile, "If Mr. Liu wants to make changes, then the next batch will be changed. These twenty eight-oxen crossbows
, my eldest brother is...but he wants to see through it!"
Shi Hui also echoed: "Yes, don't say how many days, just how many hours... I'm afraid even my father can't wait."
this…
Liu Ye scratched his head slightly. He is a person who strives for excellence, but he did not expect...
In the eyes of Jiaozhou scholars, eight hundred steps was far enough, far beyond their psychological expectations, which inevitably made Liu Ye feel a little embarrassed.
"Haha..." Huang Chengyan said with a smile: "There are still eighty more to come. Besides, Yunqi still needs a lot in Jiangxia. Ziyang, there is a chance, there is a chance."
Huang Chengyan spoke softly to Liu Ye, and he was completely trained as a "successor" of the Mo family's organ skills.
Speaking of which, my daughter is not around anymore...
It was necessary to find a "reliable" successor. Liu Ye, who was newly persuaded by Yunqi to surrender, was quite to Huang Chengyan's liking.
"Okay... Then I'll go to the back mountain and give it a try first." Liu Ye said goodbye...
Looking at his back, Shiwu blinked his eyes and sighed: "If this eight-oxen crossbow can really shoot a thousand, two hundred paces away, then... when it comes to fighting, does it matter whether you are brave or good at commanding troops?"
Hey…
Shi Wu inadvertently asked this question, which attracted Huang Chengyan's side eyes.
yes…
In Huang Chengyan's view, Guan Lin's drawings and Liu Ye's intensive research and improvement, these two boys are a perfect match, and the result is...
Thinking of this, Huang Chengyan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva after hearing a "gudong" sound.
He murmured in his mind:
——"If we continue like this, the future battlefield will have nothing to do with bravery and commander-in-chief!"
——"Is this what Yun Qi calls 'learning martial arts can't save a big man'?"
…
In this compartment, twenty eight-oxen crossbows are being handed over.
Over there, on the outskirts of Jiangling West City, Diao Chan came to the farmhouse here to buy herbs. Suddenly... he met a woman by the river.
The woman is about thirty-five years old, with a clean and ethereal appearance. She is the kind of beauty that no one can forget after just one glance...
Even Diao Chan couldn't help being surprised.
I murmured in my heart, if this happened fifteen years ago, when it came to beauty... I'm afraid she might not be able to beat this woman, right?
This woman is Da Qiao who came to Jiangling.
Speaking of which, just yesterday, Sun Shao sent his mother Da Qiao to Jiangling.
He had heard that there was a very famous Mianshui Villa on the outskirts of the west city.
And because of Mianshui Villa, the suburbs of the west city were lively and safe, so... Sun Shao settled his mother Da Qiao in a farm on the outskirts of the west city of Jiangling.
Originally, Sun Shao planned to buy some maids for his mother, but Da Qiao was afraid that his identity would be revealed... and he refused.
Sun Shao couldn't resist him, so after settling in, he had no choice but to leave.
This was originally nothing.
Da Qiao is in his thirties, has lived in Jiaozhou for many years, and has no problem living alone.
But when you are here for the first time, you inevitably want to go out and have a look and get familiar with the surrounding environment.
But she never thought that when she walked to the river, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach... At this moment, she was half-kneeling by the river, holding her stomach, looking extremely uncomfortable.
Because there were no people by the river here, so... no one came to help her.
Seeing her pain, Diao Chan quickly put down the medicine basket and ran quickly to Da Qiao's side.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"I...I...I don't know..." Da Qiao Qiqi Aiai replied, and she held her stomach.
"Blood?" As Zhang Zhongjing's adopted daughter, Diao Chan's medical skills are outstanding among women, and her powers of observation are also extremely keen. She immediately noticed the blood left on Da Qiao's leg.
She quickly said: "It's 'abdominal pain caused by moon water', don't worry, it's nothing serious..."
Abdominal pain caused by menstrual fluid is the name of a pathology that only women experienced in the Han Dynasty. It was called "dysmenorrhea" after the Qing Dynasty...
As a woman, Diao Chan understands this kind of pain best. She asked with concern: "You...can you still stand up? I will help you back..."
"Can...can..."
More than ten years of hard work in Jiaozhou made Da Qiao extremely perseverant. She gritted her teeth and stood up slowly with Diao Chan's support. She pointed hard at the mud house she had just purchased, which was neither simple nor luxurious.
"Thank...Thank you, madam."
"It's okay." Diao Chan helped Da Qiao, "Let's walk slowly, and I'll check it for you when we get to the house..."
Yes, this disease...
I can only check inside the house.
"Oh..." Diao Chan suddenly remembered something, "I forgot about it. You put this on first..."
As she spoke, Diao Chan handed a "Blood Not Wet" to Da Qiao.
Da Qiao looked at this strange object with small wings. For a moment, he didn't know what it was? How to use it?
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Shuzhong, Chengdu.
In the study of General Zuo's Mansion, Zhuge Liang had been talking with Liu Bei for a long time.
It's just...the topics of conversation between the two were nothing more than two things.
First, Zhuge Liang's empty city plan drove Cao Cao away. After several investigations, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang figured out the whole story.
It turns out that Cao Cao wasn't timid, it wasn't that he wanted to go back to deal with the internal battles and the candidates for succession.
——But the great changes in Jingzhou!
It was the Xiangfan battlefield. Guan Yu fought several beautiful battles one after another. He not only killed Wenpin, Man Chong, Niu Jin, Lu Chang and others, but also completely recovered the north of Jiangxia.
This is equivalent to the fact that the entire Jiangxia in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River now belongs to Liu Bei. This directly threatens Cao Wei's economic center and the important grain-producing Nanyang County.
This is infinitely close to the core and lifeblood of Cao Wei...
If Nanyang and Xiangfan fall, Cao Wei's situation will inevitably take a turn for the worse.
It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao did not dare to launch an attack or get stuck in the battlefield in central Shu, and immediately returned to Jingzhou.
Undoubtedly, this bought the most valuable development time for Shuzhong.
Secondly, it is this rare development time and a series of decrees implemented in Shuzhong...
To the surprise of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, the establishment of the Commerce Department and the collection of commercial taxes achieved unexpected results.
Because only merchants who join the Commerce Department can do business.
And because businessmen in the Commerce Department can get rid of their low status!
This caused a large number of merchants to flock in, and the collection of commercial taxes was a matter of course.
And because merchants all need to be restrained by the Commerce Department, soaring prices and hoarding have been alleviated to the greatest extent.
In Sichuan, the turmoil in Sichuan and the shortage of grain depots were successfully solved without casting small coins and "one hundred baht".
Because of the establishment of the Commerce Department and the improvement of the status of merchants, it is inevitable that some farmers will want to do business.
To a certain extent, this will affect the agricultural output in the Bashu region.
There are other messy and annoying things!
If it were anyone else, they would definitely be exhausted...
But who put Zhuge Liang in charge of the Commerce Department?
Under his coordination, there are thresholds for doing business, and the transition between farmers and businessmen must go through strict inspections. The Commerce Department is not just accessible to anyone who wants to.
And this requires complex and cumbersome systems and constraints!
However, these... are not a problem for Zhuge Liao.
Compared with leading troops to fight and arranging troops in formation, Zhuge Liang is more powerful in governing the country!
Zhuge Liang handled this kind of "worrying" problem as if it were "pediatrics", and he was very good at it.
certainly…
Whether it is the first empty city strategy and the great victory at Xiangfan, or the second positive chain reaction triggered by the Commercial Office, these can be found in battle reports, secret letters, and dispatches, and they are all inseparable from the name of one person:
——Guan Lin Guanyun Banner!
Naturally, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei have been chatting and praising this name for a long time today.
The words of praise that need to be said have already been said.
At this moment, there is another decree closely related to Guan Yun Banner - the arrow is on the string, but it will not be launched.
The expressions of Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei also became unusually solemn.
Zhuge Liang asked meticulously: "Master, are you ready?"
Liu Bei paused for a moment, nodded heavily, and pondered: "Yun Qi is only fifteen years old, but he still has such courage to work for the welfare of the people. I, Liu Bei, have been fighting for my whole life? How can I be timid at this age?"
Liu Bei's tone was firm.
Zhuge Liang asked again: "Master, if you really take this step, there will be no turning back."
"Hahaha..." Liu Bei smiled lightly and said calmly, "Have I not always walked on thin ice in my life? How have I ever turned back? I agree with the two sentences in Yun Qi's answer sheet the most, and I agree with them the most.
The most thought-provoking thing is that the so-called 'people are prosperous and the country is strong', and it is also said that 'water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it'!"
Having said this, Liu Bei held Zhuge Liang's hand tightly.
He seemed to have made the final decision.
He said solemnly: "In all the cities and counties of Liu Bei, we must abolish the poll tax and implement the method of apportioning people into acres. This matter of Kong Ming will be left to you!"
——Serious, awe-inspiring, upright, only virtuous and virtuous.
Making this decision is tantamount to Liu Bei making a choice.
Winning over clans with more energy and faster results!
Or stand firmly among the broadest number of common people and fight side by side with thousands of common people in this world!
He firmly chose the latter!
He wants to unite... the thirteen states in the world, the most extensive, the most humble, but containing the most powerful energy - the power of Li Shu!