Three Kingdoms: I, the eldest son of Cao, a loving father of a great man!

Chapter 234 Inviting Lu Zhi, It's Not Easy
Time flickers.

It is two months later.

The entire northern land has completely entered the cold winter.

Even in the Dongjun territory, there have been several snowfalls one after another, and the Yellow River section north of Puyang City has also entered a frozen state that will not be unsealed until next year.

For ancient dynasties.

Every twelfth lunar month of winter means that we will face a challenge. Before winter comes, poor people who cannot store enough food and winter clothes will fall into a cold and hungry situation.

As a result, a large number of population losses occurred.

If it was a peaceful year, then the Han Dynasty court, as a strong executive government, would naturally organize the whole country to carry out corresponding disaster relief.

But now the Han court collapsed.

Therefore, only localities can support themselves.

Fortunately, Cao Ang is living a well-off life now. The large amount of wealth brought by Princess Wannian allows him to live without tightening his belt.

Therefore, the people's livelihood work in the entire East County was carried out in an orderly manner, and did not bring too much pressure to Cao Ang.

And it's worth mentioning.

Due to the coming of winter.

Zhang Liao's work of suppressing bandits has also made great progress. He returned to Puyang City earlier than expected, and is going to continue to sweep south.

The main reason is that when winter comes, the bandits and bandits have no food left over, and they basically live on a tight schedule. If they can keep people from starving to death, it is considered a relatively well-planned and well-organized village.

So as soon as Zhang Liao's army of begging thieves arrived.

These thieves and bandits hiding on the top of the mountain didn't even need to send troops to conquer them. They rushed down the mountain to express their surrender as soon as the flag was raised.

It depends on the transmission of the Eight Classics.

After all, if you hang out with the government and the army, you can still have something to eat. Even if the government wants to hold them accountable for being thieves and bandits, most of the boards will hit the leaders. What does it have to do with the minions? It's better than starving to death powerful.

Under such a background.

Zhang Liao quickly quelled many chaos in the north and captured a large number of bandits and bandits.

If the family is in the local area, and there are not many bad deeds in the process of being a thief, a ration will be directly distributed and sent back to the hometown, allowing them to fend for themselves.

Those who committed serious crimes and had many lives on their hands were executed according to their status in the cottage.

After eliminating the two types of people, the high and the low, the remaining middle section, which accounts for the majority, is also classified as members of the military camp, and continues to add vitality to the military camp and land reclamation.

……

In the prefect's mansion.

Cao Ang stayed alone in the study.

Looking at the official documents presented to him by Xun Yu and others, there was a look of relief on his face.

All the big and small places in the county mansion basically received good news, and the entire East County was thriving and developing vigorously.

Cao Ang is naturally satisfied that politics, economy, military, and other aspects are advancing hand in hand.

It is with such a steady development of the basic market that Cao Ang can have enough confidence. In the next time, he will go north to compete with Yuan Shao and others.

And according to my recent observations.

In the whole city of Puyang, there is quite a momentum of prosperity. Many people living in nearby villages and settlements, taking advantage of the approaching of the New Year, come to the county town one after another to go to the market.

Merchants who didn't come here from far and near also took advantage of the festival to rent stalls in the city and set up stalls to sell various items.

While pondering.

Cao Ang suddenly thought of something.

Maybe I can take advantage of the New Year's Eve and use that thing?

Think about it here.

He collected the last document.

Then he got up and came to the secret door, twisted the mechanism to open the dark room, and walked in.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see a huge prism-shaped object on the ground.

It looks like a huge square box, with amazing dimensions in terms of length, width and height, occupying a large space in the small darkroom.

On the surface of the prism, two other things were additionally placed.

A set of scrolls.

and a drawing.

These three items were all obtained by Cao Ang's hard work and unremitting efforts for two consecutive months, and only then did he get the precious opportunity to board the boat and fish them from the river.

Except for Dong Bai and Yin Shi each taking one chance, the rest is an extra chance after the boat traveled 500 meters.

……

That's right.

The big ship advanced another 500 meters.

And the reason is precisely because of Cao Ang, he won the title of Marquis of Wei Xiang.

In the words displayed on the stele at the bow of the ship, the title of Marquis of the Township corresponds to a territory the size of a county.

So the distance traveled is equal.

This discovery really surprised Cao Ang. After all, the administrative division system of the Han Dynasty only had three levels: states, counties, and counties.

Although it can be expanded to the whole country in the end, even breaking out of the boundaries of the Han Dynasty.

But that's all in the future.

However, the current reality is that it takes a long time to go from the county level to the state level. If there is no other measurement system, Cao Ang does not know when he will be able to move forward.

Under the background that the river section where the boat is located is linked to the guaranteed quality of the rewards caught.

Naturally, the more ships advance, the better.

Therefore, the promotion of the title can also make the ship move forward, which is naturally great news for Cao Ang.

When the matter in Jizhou was resolved, he tried to get Dong Zhuo to give him a whole county.

After the little emperor Liu Bian has been promoted to the position of emperor, and he has occupied most of the north, he can find a way to make a king.

For example, the title of "King of Wei" is quite good.

……

Get rid of these thoughts in your mind.

Cao Ang first checked around the prism left and right, and touched it up and down with his hands, after confirming that there was no sign of damp.

Only then did he put his heart back into his stomach.

To say that among the three things I got this time, the function of this thing, although it ranks the last.

But in terms of novelty, it definitely beats the other two items, and it can be used directly without any research and creation.

Recalling the many markings on this object on the stele, Cao Ang couldn't help feeling a lot of anticipation in his heart, and really wanted to order it directly.

"Item name: 1088 giant fireworks

Function: Ignite him, and you will see the wonderful scene in the world.

Remarks: In dry weather, be careful with candles. When igniting this thing, please stay away in time, and be careful not to set it off in densely populated places. "

As written on the stone tablet.

This prism is a box of fireworks, and it is a giant firework with 1088 rounds. It is not surprising why the body is so huge.

……

When catching this thing from the river.

Cao Ang's first consideration was whether it was possible to deduce the proportion of explosives from the large amount of gunpowder contained in fireworks?

But after thinking for a long time.

Cao Ang gave up this impractical idea.

The main gunpowder ratio is a very complicated process, how to burn, how to deflagrate, and how to explode.

The proportion of various compounds, if there is a slight difference, the effect will be completely different.

Simply collecting the gunpowder contained in the giant fireworks and using them as one-off explosives is somewhat reliable.

But if you want to rely on these things to do research.

The truth is a bit whimsical.

Instead of thinking about this unreliable method, it is better to wait quietly, and then directly fish the gunpowder configuration plan from the river.

Isn't it easier than this?
And after giving up such an idea.

This box of giant fireworks naturally only had its original function left, and it suddenly bloomed in the sky.

This is what Cao Ang had in mind.

Since it can't be used for research, it's better to play with it happily. It just happens that Dongjun is thriving now, so why not set it up in Puyang City at the end of the new year.

It can be regarded as the respectable prefect of Dongjun, and his people, had a great time.

……

Now that I have observed the fireworks.

Cao Ang picked up the scroll and blueprints as well. Compared with entertainment items, the actual effect that these two things can bring is somewhat obvious.

Among them, the scroll is "Jizhou Geographical Topographical Map".

This thing comes from the same source as the "Yanzhou Geographical Topographic Map" that I got before, and it belongs to the same series of kit items.

The mountains, rivers, topography, and even the distribution of mineral resources in Jizhou are also clearly marked above.

There is no need to say more about the importance of this thing.

Whether it is crushing the moment, the accuracy of various crude maps, or the marking of the distribution of various hidden minerals, it can be said to have a huge effect.

As long as I control the territory in Jizhou and participate in the disputes in Jizhou, this geographical topographic map will come in handy.

And it's worth mentioning.

When the map of Jizhou encountered the topographic map of Yanzhou, the two were automatically merged into one. Now on this scroll are the topographic maps of Yanzhou and Jizhou.

As you can imagine.

As I get more and more maps of Dahanzhou County, this scroll will be made up more and more complete until the thirteen states in the world are integrated into one.

Naturally, it will also be able to unlock the "special effect" mentioned in the previous remarks.

……

After removing the previous two things.

The last item, which looks like a blueprint, is what Cao Ang attaches the most importance to.

It can also be said that Cao Ang has gained the most from fishing from the boat in the past two months.

"Item Name: Technical Analysis of Steel Filling Method"

Role: to learn and master
Remarks: A master of rivers and lakes went through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, went through countless twists and turns, lost a lot of manpower, and finally found the famous sword thousands of years ago.

However, in the next fight with the enemy, the master of the rivers and lakes was cut in two by the touch of the enemy's fine long sword because of the thousand-year-old sword in his hand, and ended up dying on the spot.

After all, the forging technology has been rapidly iterating over the millennium-long period. If we blindly pursue it for a hundred thousand years, the effect may be counterproductive. "

Ignoring the exquisite little story on the note for now, Cao Ang turned his attention to the Guangang method itself.

Although he is not familiar with science and engineering knowledge.

But how could Cao Ang not know about Guangangfa, which is famous in history books?

As the name suggests.

This technique is used when forging steel.

It is a higher-level version that is more advanced than the mainstream steel frying method of this era.

Steel is essentially an iron-carbon alloy. If you want to create high-quality steel, you must control the respective proportions of iron and carbon.

Less carbon content will result in soft texture and easy deformation.

On the contrary, the plasticity of the steel will be poor. Although it is hard, it is also brittle and easy to break.

Only when the carbon content is not too much or too little, within a reasonable range, the finished product is of the best quality.

……

The current mainstream steel forging methods mainly include the frying method and the forging method.

The former is to reduce the carbon content in pig iron by constantly stirring like cooking.

The latter is understood literally, that is, beating, folding, and beating again.

Both of these methods can produce finished steel, but even with the advanced steel frying method, the forged steel still has a large amount of impurities.

The law of pouring steel is different.

What is used is to dissolve pig iron and wrought iron into a liquid state, and then pour them into the same container in a certain proportion to each other, and stir them evenly.

Then beat it again.

An ideal carbon content can be achieved.

The hardness and plasticity of the steel forged by this method are much higher than those obtained by the old method.

……

The real difficulty with this method.

It is the ratio of pig iron to wrought iron.

If you don't have a general understanding of this ratio, you can only conduct experiments through a lot of trial and error, and finally get a relatively reliable data.

Therefore, although Cao Ang knew something about it before.

But it never occurred to me to get started right away.

But it's different now.

The entire analysis cheat book was delivered directly to him, and he just copied it directly to it.

top priority.

It is to find a trustworthy person who can be mainly responsible for forging steel.

Then pass on this method and turn the theory into a practical product.

As can be expected.

As long as the steel filling method is circulated in the workshops under his control, and a large amount of high-quality steel is forged for the Cao family's army.

It won't be long.

In the army controlled by myself and my father Cao Cao, the weapons of the soldiers can be updated one round.

And with the continuous expansion of the proportion of high-quality weapons.

Once you start a war with the enemy.

Equipping this item alone is enough to kill the enemy explosively, and the opponent will run away with his head in his arms.

As the saying goes, fighting for the world cannot be achieved overnight, especially if one's own side does not have the upper hand by nature.

Then you have to make up for it in other ways.

And as long as the advantages and strengths are accumulated enough, it will gradually form a tendency to overwhelm.

At that time, would it be very difficult to win the world and change the surname of the Han Dynasty?

thought here.

Cao Ang couldn't help but slightly raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a meaningful smile.

………………

And when Cao Ang was thinking about who he should choose to check for him and take charge of the forging for him.

Shanggu County, Youzhou, thousands of miles away, is located on a flat land in the middle of Jundu Mountain.

It lasted nearly three months.

Le Jin and his team have gone through many hardships and tribulations during this period, and even fought bloody battles with several waves of people with malicious intentions.

Finally reached their destination.

The seclusion of Lu Zhi and Lu Zigan.

Looking at the flat land in front of me, there are several bamboo houses arranged in sequence, and a large number of chickens, ducks and other poultry are raised with fences on the left and right.

Le Jin couldn't help but let out a long breath of relief.

Starting from Puyang County in the East Commandery, they crossed the whole of Jizhou successively, crossed Zhuojun and half of Shanggu County, and finally arrived at Jundu Mountain.

However, Jundu Mountain is a large mountain that runs from northeast to southwest. Le Jin spent a lot of time inquiring about the news and asked many local people before he learned that Lu Zhi lived in seclusion here.

But no matter how hard the process is.

As long as he finally arrives at the destination and successfully completes the important tasks entrusted to him by General Cao, he will live up to the deep expectations that were placed on him.

That's all worth it.

Thinking of this, Le Jin couldn't help groping in his arms for a while, and then found the well-sealed letter box, and carefully checked the wax on it.

After confirming that everything is fine.

He stepped forward and knocked on the bamboo door of a bamboo house.

…………

In a house at the moment.

Lu Zhi was wrapped in a thick coat and was lying on a soft couch, a little drowsy.

It wasn't until a disciple walked in with food that he opened his eyes in a daze.

"Teacher, disciples have reheated these meals three times, you should get up and eat something."

"It's freezing cold, if you don't eat on time, how can you resist the cold?"

Listen to the persuasion of the disciple earnestly.

Lu Zhi just waved his hands casually, and didn't intend to get up to eat, and still said in a somewhat old voice.

"Go ahead and take it down. I'm not hungry right now, you don't need to heat it up anymore. When I want to eat, I will naturally tell you."

Lu Zhi was very prestigious among his disciples.

Students dare not not listen to his words.

Therefore, even though he knew it was not good, his disciples still took their meals and retreated respectfully.

After the students left, Lu Zhi was the only one left in the room, so he opened his slightly cloudy eyes.

The whole person looked at the roof with a little dejection.

"I'm afraid time is running out..."

……

It has been more than a year since he left Luoyang City in a hurry and came to live in seclusion here in Jundu Mountain.

On weekdays, I lead a group of students to work in the fields, raise chickens and ducks, and give lectures to the students most of the time. In my spare time, I can study various scriptures and write several articles on learning.

The days were quite fulfilling.

But since he celebrated his 51st birthday a few months ago, Lu Zhi felt that his body was getting worse.

In just a few months, it has deteriorated a little seriously, and a strong lack of energy has begun to appear.

Insomnia at night, drowsiness during the day, loss of appetite, and wandering concentration.

When I give lectures to my disciples, I often stop at a certain point when I talk about it, and I don’t know where my attention has wandered.

Even before that, the daily work with the students was completely cancelled, and the disciples did it themselves, while he hid in the room and snoozes.

Such a huge change before and after.

How can Lu Zhi not understand that something is wrong with his body, most likely the end is approaching.

If you want to say let go now.

There is nothing unacceptable to Lu Zhi.

But after counting it down, there are really too many regrets in his life, which he failed to realize and complete.

After all, it is impossible to wait for the day when the traitor Dong is killed, the Han Dynasty is restored, and the emperor is still in the old capital.

At the same time, the grand wish that runs through his life will probably also be brought into the grave with him.

……

"Teacher, there is someone outside the hut asking to see you, saying that Cao Ang, the prefect of Dongjun, has come to deliver a letter to you!"

While Lu Zhi was feeling lonely and sighing.

Suddenly, I heard a disciple say so.

His thoughts were interrupted immediately.

"Cao Ang, Governor of Dongjun?"

"Could it be Cao Mengde's son, Cao Zixiu who once reprimanded Dong Zhuo in the court and defended the dignity of the emperor?"

"Hurry up and ask someone to come in and meet you!"

Lu Zhi is meticulous and serious.

If the person who came to visit today was someone he didn't know, or someone with a bad reputation, then he might have closed the door to thank the guests.

As for Cao Ang and Cao Zixiu, although he was only a young junior, his good reputation in Luoyang City made Lu Zhi willing to meet his messenger.

Get up with difficulty.

After tidying up his attire and hair, Lu Zhi walked slowly to the table and sat down.

Not long after.

Following the sound of footsteps, a short but imposing man appeared at the door of the bamboo house.

……

"Under the command of the prefect of the Eastern Commandery, the family of the Wei Kingdom, Le Jin, met Lu Shangshu!"

Le Jin saluted respectfully.

And Lu Zhi smiled back.

"You don't need to be too polite, the old man is no longer a minister, now he is just a hermit living in the mountains, just a farmer."

"You said you were under the command of the prefect of Dongjun, so this prefect is Cao Zixiu, the son of Cao Mengde?"

Le Jin dared not neglect.

Answered truthfully: "The Lord of my family is the son of Lord Cao. Now Lord Cao is the shepherd of Yanzhou, and the Lord of my family is appointed by the court to serve as the prefect of Dongjun County."

Hearing this, Lu Zhi immediately nodded happily.

There was a look of relief on his face.

"good very good!"

"Sure enough, you are young and promising. When I was in Luoyang, I saw that your family's lord is a young hero. Now things are really as I expected."

After exchanging a few pleasantries.

The smile on Lu Zhi's face restrained a little, and then he asked quite quietly.

"Since you are here to deliver a letter to me for Cao Zixiu, then I don't know where the letter is. Do you know why you sent this letter?"

Le Jin handed over the letter box with both hands.

At the same time, he explained solemnly in his mouth.

"To tell you the truth, my family's lord ordered me to deliver the letter. He actually wanted you to come out of the mountain and help him restore the Han Dynasty and bring peace to the world."

"Save all the people in the world from water and fire, and relieve the people's lives, that's all!"

……

Lu Zhi was slightly surprised when he heard this.

He glanced at Le Jin in surprise, then shook his head helplessly.

With a bit of a wry smile, he said: "There are some things that the old man might as well just say straight. Before you came here, Bohai Governor Yuan Benchu ​​and my student Fenwu General Gongsun Zan both came to see me one after another."

"They all hope that I can come out to help, and they all talk about restoring peace in the world and restoring the Han Dynasty."

"It's just that I rejected all of them. Based on these few words, I really don't want to leave."

The meaning of rejection is a little obvious.

After all, even Yuan Shao, who was the fourth generation and the third father, and even Gongsun Zan, who was Lu Zhi's student, were unable to invite this old comrade out of the mountain.

Then why can Cao Ang do it?

Le Jin was speechless for a moment.

He is not a person who is good at refuting or eloquent, so naturally he can't say any big truths that can move people's hearts.

So after a little hesitation.

Le Jin could only bow to Lu Zhi, and speak earnestly and sincerely.

"The blunt tongue of the mouth is not enough to express the meaning of my family's lord. Minggong might as well read the letter. The above is what my family's lord wrote in his own handwriting."

"After taking a look, whether you go out of the mountain or not, it all depends on your will."

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(End of this chapter)