Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 413 Extortion
Thousands of dollars to buy horse bones.

The power of role models is enormous.

As real money and silver were scattered, the craftsmen's ideas immediately became active.

Someone improved the kerosene and added nitrate powder, carbon powder, and linen cloth to it, which made it burn more violently. If the Thunderbolt car mastered the launch timing, it would have a certain explosive effect.

Someone improved the siege ladder and made it detachable. Soldiers could carry it with them at any time and assemble it under the city.

Some people also built a crossbow cart based on the bed crossbow. Two strong men used a winch to string the crossbow. Special crossbow arrows, called stepping arrows, could be nailed to the city wall in rows, allowing soldiers to climb up the city...

There are a lot of things, but the only problem is that mass production requires a lot of money.

Taking kerosene as an example, the production of saltpeter powder is quite difficult.

There are also ballistas. Many important components are made of copper and fine iron. The value of copper in this era is money. When attacking a city, the trampling arrows are shot and made of fine steel...

In the past, on Heiyun Mountain, I would rush up and kill someone with my bare feet and a knife.

Nowadays, when fighting a war, money is flowing like water...

However, for the great cause of unifying the Northern Kingdom, Li Yue gritted his teeth and took out the money and silk from the treasury.

It is reluctant that the child cannot catch the wolf.

If the money is gone, you can still make it again, but if the elite is gone, it cannot be recovered in a year or two.

Vigorously miracle.

It was not just siege equipment that was improved, but also armor and weapons.

Shanyang Tiefang had initially formed an assembly line under Cao Ning's management earlier. Over the years, masters have led apprentices, and various divisions of labor have been coordinated. Swords, spears, and armor have been produced on an assembly line.

According to Li Yue's personal preference, the armor is all in a fierce style, focusing on a silly, big, black and thick figure. From the head to the soles of the feet, it is covered with iron sheets, and even the mask is exposed.

The soldiers put it on and looked like a ferocious iron beast.

Not to mention fighting with them, standing face to face, I felt a chill rising in my heart.

The deceased is like a husband who does not want to leave day or night.

Get busy and the days fly by.

Although everyone in the Liang Kingdom did not know that Li Yue was secretly preparing for war, they could feel the increasingly tense atmosphere.

The Black Cloud Army conducted life-threatening training, and both ironworks were under strict martial law.

Ships of grain and grass were delivered to important towns such as Yecheng, Lukou, and Anyi.

The people of Yecheng went south to Yuzhou one after another to join Wang Meng's command.

From the day the Liang Kingdom was established, a hierarchical system was adopted, consisting of subjects, common people, children, and slaves.

A few years have passed and the results are good.

Almost all the members of the Heiyun Army family are citizens. They have enough food and clothing, and can eat meat from time to time to improve their health. Their physical fitness has also been greatly enhanced. They are all big and round, and can easily carry equipment weighing fifty kilograms.

With slaves in the family, the children can spare time to practice martial arts and take pride in killing enemies in battle.

These people are also the guarantee of the combat power of the Black Cloud Army, and they are similar to the good men of the Han Dynasty.

It was April in the blink of an eye, and everyone in the country, except for the Heiyun Army, went to work in the fields.

How the war goes next year has a lot to do with how the harvest is this year.

Li Yue specially built an altar to bathe and fast, worship heaven and earth, and beg God to bless him with good weather this year. As for going to the battlefield to kill people, Li Yue didn't bother God anymore and bless himself...

Zhou Qian restored the Datun farmland in Huaibei and worked without rest. Then he moved to fight in Qingxu and led his slaves to build countless water canals.

Any land suitable for large-scale farming was reclaimed by him.

Liang Guoneng has risen rapidly in a few years, and he has the greatest credit.

The key is extremely low-key, never participating in fights, and focusing on the fields.

Only the people of Guandong who had received his kindness called him "benevolent father".

With him around, Li Yue doesn't need to distract himself from farming.

Liang Guo was like a millstone spinning rapidly, and the whole country was tense.

This unusual phenomenon naturally aroused careful prying eyes from the other three countries.The pressure on the school affairs office has increased significantly.

Li Yue could only send them more manpower, and even the scouts were temporarily transferred to the school affairs office.

Yecheng even has curfews every night and martial law at intervals.

However, the more martial law tightened, the more unusual others felt. Even Daiguo sent people to ask if they were ready to take action.

Li Yue smiled bitterly.

These days, everyone is a fool, and no one alive today is a fool.

Even Tuoba Shi Yijian sent people to ask, and other forces naturally became nervous.

The State of Yan increased the troops in Shuzhou, Xiangguo, Zhongshan, Luxian, and Taiyuan. During spring plowing, a small group of cavalry was sent south to test.

Fu Jian built a Wubao city in Puban and wrote a letter asking: "If King Liang makes any move, my nephew is willing to send troops to help..."

This letter was actually asking for directions. Fu Jian just wanted to help, but it had nothing to do with him.

However, this also greatly eased the tension between the two parties.

Li Yue wrote back, telling him not to worry too much.

The biggest influence was actually not on the Yan and Qin kingdoms, but on Jiangdong.

When Wang Meng recruited a large army in Yuzhou, Huan Wen was the first to be alarmed.

Yuzhou is the ancestral home of the Jiangdong gentry and Huan Wen. They are inextricably linked, and the Black Cloud Army cannot hide every move they make.

To the west of Yuzhou is Nanyang and to the south is Jingxiang. Wang Meng was training his troops here, and Huan Wen couldn't help but think about it.

Then Zhu Xu and Shen Jin's troops were transferred northward and stationed in Wancheng.

He led [-] elite troops to station in Wuchang to support the east and west battlefields at any time.

Finally, he sent a letter to Li Yue to persuade him to calm down his anger, "The mainland of China is sinking, and the barbarians are still flourishing. If the King of Liang leads his troops southward and engages in war with his own roommates, his relatives will suffer and his enemies will suffer..."

Li Yue took the letter and read it for a long time before he realized that Huan Wen was begging for peace...

This also shows that Liang Guo has actually become the most powerful force in the world!
It was the time when the Gengxu army in Jiangdong was neither advancing nor declining. If we really sent troops to Jiangdong at this time, it would be enough for Huan Wen to drink a pot, and he might not be able to interrupt his innovation.

Li Yue's heart moved. Huan Wen was so rich. If you didn't give him a blow at this time, who would you hit?
But having said that, the two sides have not completely broken up with each other so far.

During the confrontation in the Yellow River, the two sides did not fight in the end. They only fought one battle in Yique, but Huan Wen gave up Yique immediately.

Huan Wen was able to dominate Jiangdong today only because the Black Cloud Army swept across Xun Xian, Yuan Zhen, Xie Shang and others. Jiangdong's elite were lost, and he had to give up power.

If you think about it this way, it's not a rip-off, but a deserved reward.

Li Yue slapped his thigh and immediately wrote a letter, mainly complaining about poverty and asking him to support him with some powerful crossbows, equipment, grain and grass. Liang Guo was also willing to exchange furs and livestock.

Originally it was just a try, but Huan Wen didn't expect that Huan Wen would actually send something.

But instead of crossbows, equipment, and grain, there were ten carts full of silk, gold, silver, coral, jade, and lacquerware. In addition, there were nineteen cardamom-age girls accompanying them...

It is said that the women raised in Jiangdong Water Village are very different from those in Mobei.

All of them have waists as thin as willows and graceful postures. They seem to have received professional training. Their eyebrows are springy and have a unique charm.

Huan Wen lived a simple life and only liked women. There was a romantic affair spread in Jiangdong.

In order to curry favor with Huan Wen, Yuan Zhen sent his concubines A Xue, A Guo and A Ma as gifts. Huan Wen settled the matter with one against three.

The three women watched together in front of the court and saw a star falling straight into the basin. Xue and Guo tried to pick it up with a ladle, but they couldn't get it. Amma finally picked up the star, put it into the ladle, and drank it. She felt pregnant and gave birth. Huan Xuan...

heroic nature.

In the past, I was wandering on the line between life and death every day, holding a knife all day long, and had no time to think about things in bed. But now that my great cause has become a small part, my anger is a little swollen.

"You lose your ambition by playing with things. Huan Wen's heart is extremely insidious. This is Sun Quan's plan to trap Liu Bei!" Chang Wei had piercing eyes.

Li Yue laughed twice, "Silk, gold, silver, coral, jade, and lacquerware rushed into the treasury, and beauties..."

Chang Wei's eyes became strange.

"Give it to Yue Ji for training." Li Yue must maintain the image of Wei Guangzheng.

(End of this chapter)