Wei Ba finished inspecting the shipyard, went out, got on the horse, and greeted the attentive Chen Zhiheshou... "Bongzong, after I came this time, I may not be able to come here for a while, so I will leave it to you.
, I hope that next time I come, I will see that ship launching to the water and testing voyage. If I could take a sea boat to Yunan, I think the prefect of Xiahou would be very happy, and the merchants from Wei and Wu would be very satisfied.
When you get a name, it’s better to do business. But don’t rush the construction period. You and I are doing practical things, and some things are not in a hurry."
Chen Zi nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, General, I will take care of it."
Wei Ba smiled and bowed again, said goodbye to Chen Zhi. Under the escort of the martial soldiers, he gently urged the war horses and galloped forward. After turning a corner, a carriage parked on the side of the road, Xiahou Xuan sat in the carriage.
Going up, he leaned his body, his eyes were blurred, I don’t know if he was trance or was a scheming person.
"Taichu, why have you been in Yuenan for so long and still have a celebrity style?" Wei Ba tied the reins beside the car and joked.
Xiahou Xuan took back his mind, looked at Wei Ba with a smile, and snorted: "Chen is just a villain."
Wei Ba blinked and added: "He is a useful villain."
"A useful villain is also a villain." Xiahou Xuan said angrily.
"Yes, but it's better than a useless gentleman." Wei Ba shook his horse whip and said with a smile: "Everyone has a desire for profit, and only those who have no worries about food and clothing can be indifferent to fame and fortune. Taichu, in fact,
You don't seem to be able to do it, right?"
Xiahou Xuan was frustrated and was silent for a while: "I just remind you not to regret it in the future."
"I know your intentions very well, but who is perfect in the world with the strengths of people? I can't wait for the perfect talent from ten thousand to appear before doing things." Wei Ba knocked the mud with a horse whip: "
Get down, ride on your horse and go to the beach with me. It’s not better than sitting in this car? By the way, are you going to introduce it to my friends?"
Xiahou Xuan slapped his forehead and blamed himself: "Look at me, I have forgotten this." He turned around and said to a middle-aged scholar in another car: "Xuanmao, come and see General Zhennan.
.”
The scholar got out of the car, took a square step, came to Wei Ba, raised his head, squinted his eyes, and looked at Wei Ba: "Why don't you get off the horse?"
Wei Ba sat upright on the horse's back, shaking the whip, looking at the scholar who was covered in dust but could not hide his arrogance, and grinned: "It's not that I don't get off the horse, it's because I don't know if you're worth my get off the horse."
Xiahou Xuan saw it and was a little anxious. He quickly got out of the car, bowed to Wei Ba, and gave a wink: "Ziyu, this is my friend Deng Xuanmao, Deng Yang, Nanyang, and a descendant of Deng Taifu. I heard that you are recruiting talents.
Nashi, then I received my letter and rushed to Jiaozhou from afar."
"It turns out that it is also one of the four Congs." Wei Ba still did not dismount and looked down at Deng Yang condescendingly: "Since he is a famous scholar like Taichu, I must have heard of my question. I wonder if Deng Jun can give an answer?
”
After hearing this, Deng Yang's original aloof face suddenly felt embarrassed.
When Wei Ba saw this, he smiled silently, and then asked: "Looking at Deng Jun like this, there will be no answer for a while. Can Deng Jun answer my other question?"
Deng Yang coughed and bowed: "Please tell me, General."
Wei Ba pointed at the horse whip: "Can Mr. Deng see the ship in the distance?"
Deng Yang looked along Wei Ba's horse whip and nodded: "You can see it."
"Then can you get to the sails further away from this ship?"
Deng Yang nodded again.
"Then please look at Deng Jun, and keep seeing the ship arrive at the port, and then tell you what you saw." Wei Ba bowed: "If the answer satisfies me, I will immediately give the position of prefect and ask Deng Jun to surrender.
, OK?"
Deng Fei's eyes lit up when he heard this. Xiahou Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief. This question sounded a bit irrelevant, but it was the appetite of these famous scholars who talked about the Tao. Deng Fei's thinking was quick and his knowledge was not bad. I guess he would
It will definitely satisfy Wei Ba. If Deng Yang can become the prefect at once, his referee will also be faced.
Xiahou Xuan winked at Deng Fei and raised his hand to invite him: "Xuanmao, go to the car and sit and watch."
"No, I'll wait here so I can't get off the bus later." Deng Yang waved his sleeves casually: "You can accompany General Zhennan to have a walk, I'll go ask you for advice later."
"Okay, Xuanmao has to worry." Xiahou Xuan held a horse from his personal guard, stepped on the stirrups, and chased Wei Ba.
The horse's hooves stepped on a bunch of hoof flowers on the beach, and then washed away by the sea.
Xiahou Xuan caught up with Wei Ba, gently pulled the reins, and said with a smile: "Ziyu, you are becoming more and more popular now. As soon as you open your mouth, you will be the prefect of the Two Thousand Stones."
"Of course, I'll give you face." Wei Ba turned his head and said with a smile: "But I think he can't do it."
"You won't have some tricky problems again, do you?"
"I never have any tricky questions." Wei Ba sneered: "You famous scholars are only willing to imagine, but are unwilling to do some real knowledge down-to-earth. By the way, isn't Zhuge Dan coming too? Why is it Deng?
A man in the air?"
"Zhuge Dan went to Guanzhong." Xiahou Xuan said apologetically: "He probably wanted to join Prime Minister Zhuge. After all, he is the same clan and is much closer than me."
"I'm afraid this may not be." Wei Ba raised his eyebrows: "Prime Minister Zhuge's younger brother is just a free job now, so what is the cousin's worth."
"If he wants to go, I can only let him go. If Prime Minister Zhuge refuses to use him, wouldn't that be better?"
Wei Ba smiled and asked about the political affairs of Yunan. Xiahou Xuan was in Yunan, and being the prefect was secondary. No matter how the barbarians were doing, they would be most stable, but if they were controlled tightly, they would easily cause problems. Xiahou Xuan was in Yunan.
The most important thing in the south is to develop rice market. It is the south, and Jiuzhen is facing west, which is the later Thailand and Laos. The weather is hot and the three-ripening year is the real hometown of fish and rice.
However, in places with good external conditions, most people are lazy. As long as they have food and clothing, they have no intention of opening up land and reclaiming land and increasing production. Xiahou Xuan’s task is to open up this business road and stimulate the barbarians to expand reproduction. To expand production, it is necessary to
Xiahou Xuan collected all kinds of advanced farm tools and planting techniques to exchange rice produced with the barbarians, and gained a lot of benefits. After the war last year, there was almost no problem of food shortage under Wei Ba's rule. Xiahou Xuan
It is of great success.
Of course, Xiahou Xuan also made a lot of money from it. Not to mention anything else, every ship of grain transported by Cao Fu from Jiaozhou can be exchanged for ten times the profit in Luoyang. This is still sailing near the sea, and it is inevitable to encounter pirates and thieves.
In this case, when Xiahou Xuan heard that Wei Ba was going to build a sea ship that could sail far away, he mainly came from Yuenan.
After listening to Xiahou Xuan’s work report, Wei Ba smiled and said, “Apart from selling farm tools to those barbarians, have you passed on the classics of the saints?”
"I compiled some simple elementary school textbooks and selected some clever barbarian teenagers to study." Xiahou Xuan shrugged: "But I'm too busy and don't have much time to explain, so I came back this time and wanted to see if there is any suitable school in the school.
I want to take a few people away. However, I am afraid they are unwilling to go there," he said.
"It doesn't matter." Wei Ba pondered: "I just make some adjustments to the policy. Taichu, educating the barbarians was also expanding territory. If they accept our culture, they may accept our rule, and it will be far away.
It is said that at least our businessmen will be more convenient to do business there. Do you think? When the conditions are ripe in the future, we will set up counties and counties there and resist less.”
"Haha, the Central Plains has not been taken down yet, so you should think about these wild places first?"
"The wilderness?" Wei Ba shook his head: "In less than ten years, the Central Plains will be pacified soon, which is something that anyone with a discerning eye can see. But we have to see further, not only ten years later, but also
We must see thirty years later, fifty years later, or even a hundred years later. Once the world is unified, after a hundred years, all kinds of stagnation will inevitably accumulate and turn into cancer. If we do not prepare in advance, this kind of
The cycle of rise and fall will inevitably come again. You have the wisdom to understand people and the eyes to learn from the past. How can you follow the trend?”
Xiahou Xuan did not respond to him, but sighed softly: "Ten years, the national destiny of the Great Wei has only been ten years?"
"The fate of Wei State is probably less than ten years." Wei Ba smiled and said, "But don't worry, your Xiahou family still has good luck."
Xiahou Xuan shook his head dejectedly and said nothing.
At this time, Deng Yang came over on a horse. Xiahou Xuan quickly cheered up and asked Deng Yang with his eyes. Deng Yang nodded vigorously, confidently.
"Looking at this, Mr. Deng has gained something." Wei Ba smiled and bowed: "I dare to ask for advice."
Deng Yang coughed, and a slightly reserved smile appeared on his face: "General, you have just been to Wancheng not long ago, and you must have visited Zhang Pingzi's tomb."
Wei Ba was stunned: "Who is Zhang Pingzi? Is it very famous?"
Deng Yang was stunned, the smile on his face disappeared, and he became a little uneasy. He looked at Wei Ba and asked hesitantly: "The general doesn't know the former prefect of Nanyang, Zhang Pingzi of Xi'e?"
Wei Ba said in surprise: "Should I know him? I am just a prefect of Nanyang."
Deng Yang was embarrassed and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Xiahou Xuan coughed, interrupting the silence. "Zhang Pingzi is Zhang Heng. He not only served as the prefect of Nanyang, but also wrote "The Second Beijing Fu". More importantly, he was proficient in astronomy, geography, mechanical and mathematical techniques and wrote "Spirituals"
Xian, "Suanwang Lun", and also made an armillary sphere, but the most famous one is the Fengfeng seismometer..."
"Wait!" Wei Ba suddenly knew who Zhang Pingzi was. It was the peak in the history of Chinese science. He knew that he was from the Han Dynasty, but he didn't know that his tomb was next to Wancheng. If he knew, he would not be able to
Don't go to worship. In his opinion, the prefect of Nanyang is not worth mentioning, but Zhang Heng's scientific achievements are admired.
"Are you familiar with Zhang Pingzi's knowledge?"
"General, don't forget, I am from Nanyang." Deng Yang was a little confused. He felt that Wei Ba's reaction seemed to be too strong, not knowing whether it was a blessing or a disaster. "For the predecessors in the village, I certainly admire the shadow of the shadow."
"Do you know the design of the Houfeng seismometer?"