Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 569 Romance Between Men and Women
In the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao returned to Yecheng from Xuchang in February.

This time, not only Cao Cao returned to Yecheng,
He even took several of his adult sons: Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, and Cao Zhi, and they all followed him back to Yecheng.

Soon after, the Cao family will officially move their family to Yecheng, and his sons will need to adapt to the place where they will live in advance.

Cao Cao is already forty-seven this year, and the perennial battles and irregular work and rest still make him gray at the temples; coupled with his iconic beard, Cao Cao looks more beautiful than he actually is. Older.

Cao Cao's official position is unsealable, but Cao Cao doesn't care about these now.

After returning to Yecheng, Cao Cao made people start to follow the various etiquette manuals for sealing the son.He is now the number one vassal in the world, and the Cao family has naturally risen and become a formidable wealthy family.

Now almost all the government and power of the entire Han court are in Cao Cao's hands. Cao Cao is naturally cautious about him and his successors.

Fortunately, Cao Ang has always been a very good successor.Not only is he outstanding in everything from literary to martial arts, he is also quite heroic in character, bold and careful, and good at taking care of others.

What's even more rare is that Cao Ang doesn't have Cao Cao's suspicious and fickle shortcomings, or these shortcomings were quietly worn away by Lu Yan, Xun Yu and other people who taught him. In short, everything about Cao Ang seems to be a weakened and improved version Lao Cao.

It does not have the distinctive characteristics of Lao Cao, but it does not have the more obvious and fatal shortcomings of Cao Cao.

As the saying goes, how much water a barrel can hold does not depend on the longest piece of wood, but on the shortest piece of wood.If Cao Ang has no obvious shortcomings, his future achievements may not be able to surpass Cao Cao.

The preparations for the son canonization ceremony are very cumbersome, and it cannot be done in a few days.

But these are Lao Cao's family affairs, and Lu Yan doesn't want to take care of them, and he can't take care of them.

General Hussar's Mansion, in the study.

At this time, Lu Yan was thinking about whether he should start building a navy.

If Cao Jun goes south, the first thing he will face will undoubtedly be the problem of big rivers.

There are 20 sailors in Jingzhou. If they are in the Yangtze River, they will be Cao Jun, a group of landlubbers who can only ride horses, and it is difficult to fly even with wings.

Moreover, if Liu Biao is not dead, it is impossible for Jingzhou to surrender.

Lu Yan remembered that Liu Biao died in 208, that is, the 13th year of Jian'an. It is only seven years since Jian'an, and if he wanted to wait until Liu Biao died by himself, it would be a long wait.

Not to mention that Lu Yan was unwilling to wait for six or seven years, Cao Cao, including most of Cao Cao's subordinates, could not agree to wait for such a long time.

You must know that Cao Cao is now ruling a vibrant scene. In less than two years, he can even pull up an army of one million and prepare a very sufficient amount of food and grass.

It is impossible to wait, but if you are impatient, you may not be able to eat hot tofu.

The rivers and rivers in the south are crisscrossed, and the fighting methods are quite different from those in the north.If you don't do your homework and go in hastily, it is very likely that there will be another defeat like Chibi in history!
As for the candidate for the commander of the navy, there is no doubt that Gan Ning is none other than Gan Ning.It's just that the head of the navy is there, but there is a huge gap in the manpower of the navy.

For the past two days, Lu Yan has been writing and drawing in the study.

Earlier, he had obtained two drawings about the hull structure: one was a very ordinary fishing boat, and the other was a very classic three-masted warship.

Don't think that there were no sailing ships in the Han Dynasty, or that sailing ships only appeared in the Jin Dynasty.
In the book "Shiming" written by Liu Xi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is recorded: "Raising the curtain with the wind is called a sail, which makes the boat flutter."This has shown that sails are the usual propulsion tools on board.Moreover, this book also records the rudder, a tool that is closely related to sails and controls the course.

The three-masted battleship, also known as the "sail battleship", is the maritime overlord in the age of sail and the pinnacle of warships after the era of great navigation.Its hull is also basically built of wood, but some will be wrapped with copper below the waterline.

The main source of power for a three-masted warship is the sail. When there is no wind, the lower deck can also be driven by manpower; when there is wind, the sail is pulled up, and by adjusting the angle, it can use the wind from all directions to break through the waves.

However, the weapons of warships in the [-]th century were basically artillery. The three-masted warship on this blueprint is obviously the structure of a warship of that period, but the problem is that there is no shadow of artillery now.

If it is improved, it is not impossible to fight only with bows and arrows, but how can a man's romance be lost at will?

"Fire the cannon and blast his mother!"

"Cannons and giant ships! This old man must get you out!"

Lu Yan's hair was disheveled, and there was an ink stain at the corner of his mouth, as if he had suffered a stroke, he frantically scribbled something on a clean and white piece of paper.

Under such circumstances, generally no one would dare to disturb Lu Yan.Even Guo Jia would only cautiously walk around Lu Yan's study at such a time.

In the study room that had been silent for several days, a sudden burst of noise erupted.
"Hahaha!"

"Wow~hahaha!"

"The old man is finally done! It's done!"

There was a burst of arrogant laughter in the study, and then seeing Lu Yan holding more than half a sheet of blueprints, he ran out in a hurry.

Although the structure of the cannon is not complicated, it is really not an easy task to draw a more accurate structural diagram and explain the principle.

In the mansion, Lu Lingqi, who finally came back, heard Lu Yan's big laugh, and suddenly smiled wryly: "I don't know what new things my husband has tinkered with."

Zhao Xue is already a person waiting to be married, and in two months, that is, in April, Gan Ning will hold a wedding with her, and the media is getting married.

Recently, Lu Lingqi, Zhou Yan and the others were all busy preparing for Zhao Xue's wedding, that is to say, they were free today, so the three of them returned to the Hussar General's Mansion to take a rest.

The two of them naturally did not dare to comment on Lu Yan.
Zhou Yan first glanced at Zhao Xue enviously, then looked at Lu Lingqi, and said, "Sister Xue is about to have a husband with a bright future; let alone Sister Lingqi, she is the envy of all the women in the world. , I don’t know what kind of man I will marry in the future.”

For Zhao Yun, it's not that Zhou Yan has never dreamed of it.But Zhao Yun is too dazzling, the longer and more contact with her, the less hope in her heart.

"Don't worry, you are Zilong's junior sister, and you will never be worse in the future." Lu Lingqi patted Zhou Yan's shoulder and comforted her.

It's just that Zhao Xue looked at Zhou Yan's eyes, but with a hint of playfulness, "When will I go to the elder brother to find out what's going on?"

Zhao Xue's sudden words stunned both Lu Lingqi and Zhou Yan.

After a while, Zhou Yan finally came to his senses, and his face turned red immediately, like a hot iron, "What are you talking about?"

Even if Lu Lingqi didn't know how to understand, she still reacted at this time. She stared at Zhou Yan's dodging eyes and said, "No way! You can do it with such a familiar person?!"

"Ah! I'm going to die! Don't talk about it!" The three of them made a fuss as they talked.

Laughter turned into laughter, after the three of them had joked, Lu Lingqi's face turned serious, and said: "General Zhao is a rare good man in the world, if you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

The embarrassment and smile on Zhou Yan's face also gradually disappeared, but she didn't answer Lu Lingqi's words directly, but just gave a soft "hmm".

(End of this chapter)