Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 186 Li Huan: I have a way in the Han Dynasty, I am three and you are seven

The process of making brown sugar from sugar cane is simply simpler and easier than paper making.

Li Huan discovered that in the eyes of the Han people, the south was a barren land. Even Sima Qian's writing about the south in the Historical Records was mediocre, but in his own eyes, the south was full of money!
The sugar of this era... It's hard to describe in one word. Apart from my favorite honey, which has an extremely pure taste, let alone anything else. Emperor Liu Che never took a bite of white sugar that was available to every household in later generations...

If you promote the brown sugar you brew, what kind of terrifying income will it be?The only one in the country?Just thinking about it makes me smile.

Although the art of making sugar is essentially a matter of skill, and it is not difficult to imitate, but my boss is Liu Che, so I can definitely take this business into my arms easily. It is equivalent to a disguised official camp.

If it was completely turned into an official camp, Li Huan believed that Liu Che would not do such a stupid thing. He would not have time to settle accounts, but Sang Hongyang would definitely have enough time to settle accounts.

After the official camp, officials at all levels will also get a bit of an oily smell from their hands.

But what if you put it here?He can hand over [-]% of the net profit to Liu Che's own pocket. How much can the income after the official operation be as high as the pure [-]% profit he gave?

After all, brother-in-law Liu Che's embroidery messengers were counting money for Liu Che with their eyes wide open. Liu Che didn't need to do this habit of giving his own money to others.

Sima Qian pricked up his ears, waiting for Li Huan's next words, but Li Huan drank honey water and was unwilling to say anything.

"Master Marquis, are you planning to take your subordinates to Huainan Kingdom?" Sima Qian couldn't help but ask.

Li Huan shook his head and said: "How can I, the Taishi Ling of the Han Dynasty, go to Huainan Kingdom? You don't want to take this official position anymore?"

"How could it be?" Sima Qian smiled apologetically: "My family has been a historian for generations. If I don't do this, what else can I do? It's just..."

"Do you want to ask me if I will have any incredible new inventions after arriving in Huainan Kingdom?" Li Huan grinned: "This is simple. You can just pick an insignificant person and follow us to Huainan Kingdom. His Record everything you see and hear and bring it back to you."

Sima Qian almost nodded, but when he thought about this person, no matter how much he trusted, Li Huan might capture his heart - either to seduce his mind with money, or to suppress his body with authority, or both. use……

So, can we still trust what this person recorded?
He saw that a warrior like Zhang Tang gradually sank beside Li Huan, not to mention a warrior like Gongsun Ao who fought on the battlefield with a sword. , Drinking in the vast sea of ​​horses" has become "Today has nothing to do, go out and listen to music. Tomorrow will be fine, go out and listen to music, and the day after tomorrow will have nothing to do, so go out and listen to music..."

Fortunately, this person would not be with His Majesty for a long time in the future. Otherwise, Sima Qian was worried that this extravagant style would make the Emperor lose his enterprising spirit.

"Actually, as long as it is a major matter that benefits the country and the people, it is not a bad idea to be demoted..." Sima Qian's attitude became more and more humble. He looked back at the busy fields, smiled at Li Huan, turned around and joined the autumn harvest again. Go to the army.

"Does this guy have a stupid head? Do you still think that by following you, you can get promoted and get rich?" Gongsun Ao sharpened his sickle and felt that Sima Qian was really strange. Then he raised his head and looked at Li Huan with an extremely evil smile: "Still He is as good as Long Yang, and he has already taken a liking to you?"

"You are so disgusting!" Li Huan looked down upon him, shook his head and said, "This is a good official. If we big men can have more officials like this, the people's lives will be easier."

"You don't know so much, why don't you go and do the cutting?"

"I won't go." Li Huan muttered: "With this feeling, I suddenly became very interested in poetry and wanted to write a poem..."

"As long as you are not horny and want to wet your hands, it will be fine!" Gongsun Ao held the sickle and smiled mischievously: "Tonight, let's go to Goulan to listen to music and see how I wet my hands!"

Li Huan strongly despised: "This song of mine is to be passed down through the ages. What do you know? Rude!"

"Hahaha..." Gongsun Ao didn't care at all, he laughed and walked into the fields to cut wheat.

Before Li Huan's idea of ​​harvesting wheat had spread, the letter from King Huainan appointing Gongsun Ao as the general of Huainan had already arrived.

Gongsun Ao made a show of gesture and made King Huainan's envoy kneel for half an hour. After paying his respects, he went out to greet him.

After he hurriedly said goodbye to Li Huan, he was already on his way to Huainan Kingdom.

At this time, Li Huan realized a question. Could Gongsun Ao's strange method be given to him by Emperor Liu Che?
He really couldn't figure out how this person with a straight gut could come up with such a way to make King Huainan both love and angry?

what is this?Buy one get one free?

After the autumn harvest is completed, drying grain has become the first priority in Anyang County, along with keeping birds away.

This year, there are smooth cement floors everywhere when the grain is being dried, and every household of the people is happy to smile from ear to ear.

The county magistrate was already exhausted at this time...

This was really exhausting. It was perfectly fine for Marquis Anyang to show off in person, but the county magistrate always felt that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him, so he, who had never done farm work before, harvested in the fields day and night. The lack of food almost caused a group of petty officials to collapse.

What kind of work do you do on a daily basis?
Then, after the county magistrate collapsed from exhaustion, one after another the petty officials also collapsed from exhaustion.

Li Huan specially asked someone to check it out. They were really exhausted, including the small officials...

When he went to bed at night, the county magistrate was always in pain all over his body and could not sleep. The painful moans often continued even in his sleep.

Li Huan originally wanted to go to offer condolences in person, but Wei Shaoer strongly opposed it, saying that it would be easy for this little official to be promoted to an official and leave Anyang County. Some time in Anyang County is a blessing for the people of Anyang County.

Li Huan thinks there is no such truth in the world?He is a good official, but you don't want him to be promoted?Do you have to be at the bottom?

But... after thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized that what his wife said made sense.

Depending on what position a person reaches, it is not his conscience that determines what he can and cannot do. More often than not, it is really the position of his butt that determines what his head should think.

So, he asked someone to send some silk to the county magistrate as a compliment, and also sent some money and food to the tired clerks as a condolence.

On harvest days, Li Huan started shooting birds every day again. He could not say that he had perfected his archery skills, but he rarely missed even when shooting sparrows that were frightened into flying.

Bald Qiang felt that Li Huan was a natural vulture shooter and had excellent talent for archery. If he continued for many years, he might be able to kill the vulture shooters among the Huns.

What level is the Condor Shooter?
Bald Qiang said that Li Guang is capable of shooting the Condor Shooter to death...

Li Huan immediately knew that it was unlikely that he would become a sharp archer of Li Guang's level in this life.

But shooting birds is really fun...

Newly modified chariots and horse-drawn carriages for civilian use were launched at the same time.

Inspired by Li Huan, Sima Qian divided the carriages into three types: transporting people, transporting goods, and chariots.

The chariot is the original kind of carriage with multiple layers of shock-absorbing steel plates. The war horse is covered with protective gear with iron spikes, only a pair of eyes are exposed. There are iron buckles on the driving bar in front of the carriage, and there are spikes. There were more than one war spears coming out. Looking from a distance, they were so densely packed that Li Huan himself felt his scalp numb.

If the Huns' cavalry dared to collide with such a chariot, they would be torn apart immediately!

In the rear compartment of the chariot, except for the fixed canopy above the head to block the rain of arrows, the rest of the layout is no different from that of a normal chariot, including the driver and deputies on the left and right sides.

The only difference is that on such a four-wheeled chariot, there can be several more assistants. Li Huan has calculated carefully that he can place up to six people with spears, crossbows, and stone throwers!
This still takes into account the reason for the need to place weapons, and when standing on top of the chariot to kill the enemy, you need to leave enough space, so that when the chariot rushes to kill the enemy, the distance between each other is too small, Restraining each other.

What surprised Li Huanfei was that most of his six hundred guards liked to use bricks to embarrass others...

They believe that when the chariot rushes into battle, although the Chang Ge's lethality is sufficient, if the sharp blade hooks the enemy's body, especially if it hooks on the armor, it is very likely to be released immediately, or even break one's own hand. And if he doesn't let go, he himself will most likely be dragged off the chariot.But the bricks are different. As long as you shine this thing on the Huns' face, you may not die, but you will definitely fall off the horse, and even smash half of your face to pieces. At that time, no matter how awesome the person is, in Qianjun When thousands of horses charge into battle, they cannot see, and if they fall off their horses, there is only death.

Li Huan still felt that Chang Ge was easy to use. The length of the sword was astonishing, its power was violent, and it was completely designed to destroy!But when a soldier wears armor and stands on a high-speed charging chariot, he consumes a lot of physical energy and does not last until the end of the battle.

The final result was that Huo Qubing erected straw figures and wooden stakes on a school field at the foot of the hillside, and led his men to simulate a charge in a chariot.

As a result, Li Huan really discovered that this group of people liked to use bricks, and they hit the bricks hard and accurately.

So, on the chariot of six deputies and one charioteer, two more brick-hands had to be added...

Li Huan's expression was very complicated. Although he had accepted in his heart that most of his guards were Street Fighter masters, he didn't know how Liu Che felt after reporting this matter to Liu Che.
The majestic chariot deputy of the Han Empire, you don't shoot arrows or wield a long sword, you just throw bricks... What's more terrible is that you throw them so accurately, within thirty steps, you come roaring and hit wherever you point; Within twenty steps, any bird that flies to steal food cannot escape these people's flying stones. Within ten steps, it is fast and accurate. When practicing on the school field, it can be accurate every time. It hit the dummy's head, and even the helmet fixed on the dummy's head was directly thrown away.

If this were a real person, there would be no way he could survive.

In addition, the archery skills of the guards who have been shooting birds for more than half a year are also much better than before, to the point where almost any one of them can hit a flying bird.

The three archers among the six deputies on the chariot, the arrows shot out instantly from the high-speed charging chariot, I dare not say that they are [-]% accurate, but nine times out of ten, they can nail the moving target bullseye. .

During the Han Dynasty, there were no movable targets, which meant that many soldiers in the army could shoot ten out of ten during training. However, on the battlefield, the enemy was not dead and stood still for you to shoot, so the accuracy would be poor. Reduced a lot.

So, Li Huan dug a deep ditch, put up wooden boards, left a gap, and made two kinds of movable targets, one for running quickly to the left and right, and the other for running forward and backward.

Then let the soldiers ride their horses and stand on the chariot to shoot arrows like this.

Sima Qian's eyes almost popped out when he saw this method of training soldiers. He had traveled to many places in the Han Empire and had never seen anyone who could train archery in such a targeted way.

Naturally, as the emperor's loyal henchman, such a training method was immediately sent to the emperor Liu Che's case.

Soon, this training method became popular in the Han army camp.

What made Wei Qing feel more embarrassed was that, standing on that shock-absorbing carriage, he actually missed the moving target twice...

I didn't think it was wrong before, because on the chaotic battlefield, it was difficult to see whether the arrows I shot were effective in killing the enemy.

However, this strange training method can just make up for this kind of experience on the battlefield.

This is how the lively training in the Han army camp began.

Li Huan still urged Sima Qian to improve the carriage. It should not be too heavy for simply pulling people. Sima Qian pioneered the idea of ​​a strong bow full of elasticity...

Perhaps after watching people shoot birds and arrows for many days, he actually thought of making a steel plate into a bow and then mounting it on a carriage as an experiment.

The result...it's done!
This kind of carriage has a small load-bearing capacity and can only be used to pull people, especially dignitaries, merchants and landlords, and people who just want to enjoy themselves. The comfortable feeling when the carriage is walking on the road is far more than the reduction caused by the superposition of steel plates. The vibration is more exciting and enjoyable...

Since then, Li Huan has personally seen more than one merchant, and he always likes to take his concubine in this kind of carriage... He also tried it with Bai Zhi himself. .

Sima Qian never imagined that his groundbreaking invention would lead to such bizarre things...

The orders for carriages shipped from the Anyang County factory have been growing at an extremely exaggerated rate, especially this kind of strange carriages specially customized for dignitaries...

Not only that, even cement roads have been built all the way south along the Zuogushui River to Chenggu, an important town on the Han River, and are quickly extending towards Nanzheng to the west of the Han River and Xicheng to the east, which is the county seat of Hanzhong County. .

Until now, the Hanzhong County Sheriff still dared not come to see Li Huan... Probably because someone once asked for a hundred cattle, but someone didn't give them. Now that Anyang County has developed, his county defense has become like a tiger. , neither above, nor below...

However, Li Huan didn't take this matter to heart at all. Now, after he had sacrificed to the God of Autumn and watched the wizards perform strange dances for several days, the God of Autumn seemed to have returned to the Heavenly Palace with unfinished thoughts. Li Huan You also have to take your own marriage into consideration.

Cuihua's belly has begun to show her pregnancy, and the time she spends walking every day has not decreased. Even her food intake has increased. Therefore, after the former little loli gained a little weight, she began to worry about whether her husband would dislike it. of myself.

However, every time she looked at her husband's loving eyes, she could always dispel this worry in Cuihua's heart.

The Hou's mansion began to be cleaned up and down, and every inch of the place was carefully scrubbed by the servants.

Li Huan really liked the feeling of being served by the embroidered messengers. With just a look from him, these people knew what should be done and how it should be done to satisfy him.

Shengda's wedding will be held in this three-story building on the [-] steps.

The giant mountain-like water wheel has become a unique and beautiful scenery in the square outside. The water circulates day and night, making the entire Anyang City look extremely clean.

The hall on the first floor had already been decorated extremely festively. All kinds of nobles from Chang'an City came here one after another. Even Gongsun Ao, who had just arrived in Huainan Kingdom and became a general, also He rushed back in a hurry.

At the same time, he also brought the tenth request from King Huainan...

Li Huan had to sigh, this is really a persevering old man.

Therefore, Gongsun Ao, who had regained his identity, began to welcome these nobles from Chang'an City on behalf of Li.

Not long after, Wei Qing also arrived. With His Majesty the Emperor's decree of canonization, he added another thousand households to Li Huan, and eight thousand households of top nobles were born.

It was probably Sang Hongyang, the accountant of his brother-in-law, who settled the accounts for him. After discovering that this brother-in-law was really the God of Wealth... it would be unreasonable not to reward him with something.

After Wei Qing arrived, Li Huan's two cheap uncles Chen Xi and Chen Xu were as late as Queen Chen.

When Empress Chen arrived, the old nobles, as if they had secretly discussed it, walked out of the place where they were staying and went to greet her. However, these people had all stopped, and they were just shouting to welcome the noble lady.

This made Gillian, who was sitting in the new-style carriage, suddenly have a strange psychological feeling that she had when she was still a queen.

Li Huan hurriedly stepped forward, bowed his hands and said, "My son, I have met my mother!"

Gillian, who was in a daze, smiled slightly, looked at Li Huan and said, "My son, grandma is tired from traveling, please lead the way for grandma."

"Here!" Li Huan cupped his hands and turned to look at the many old nobles who were still kneeling on the ground to greet Gillian. His expression was slightly depressed. Da Changqiu, who was beside him, caught Li Huan's eyes and said in a high voice: "Okay. ——”

The many old nobles who were kneeling on the ground stood up one after another, retreated to both sides of the spacious road, and welcomed Gillian into the city.

Li Huan rode a horse and walked beside Gillian's carriage, whispering something to Gillian.

"Eight thousand princes, if they have military merit, they will be the princes of [-] households."

"What's wrong with Wanhu and me?" Li Huan shook his head: "Mother, what happened after you returned to Chang'an? Why do these old guys give me a feeling that something is wrong?"

"Did you feel it?" Gillian's beautiful brows wrinkled for a moment, and then she said with a somewhat weird smile: "My mother thought it was you, and asked people to find your two incompetent uncles. Incite the old nobles to write to His Majesty to appoint the queens of the East and West Palaces to set an example for the world."

"Huh? Is there such a thing?" Li Huan's eyes were stunned: "It's really not me who is responsible for this..."

(End of this chapter)