After rebirth, I tortured the scum and strived to become the empress

"The temperature is so high that it's time to go into the water. Shen Lao Er and Shen Lao Qi, you two come out, take off your armor and dive in to take a look."

Although Shen Li is a cautious person, he is not one who can get into trouble. If he doesn't understand something, it won't affect what he needs to do at the moment. He doesn't hesitate anymore and gives the order immediately.

"Yes." Following Shen Li's instructions, two people from the ten-man team stood up. With the help of others, they first took off their coats and then their armor and plunged into the water.

"Li Si, Wang Jiu, you two go outside to pick up some firewood and come here to make a fire!"

Although Tan Shui is not cold, people still need to be heated by fire after soaking in the water, and wet clothes also need to be dried. Otherwise, people will really freeze in this weather. Shen Li still cherishes his men.

"If you light a fire here, is it possible for someone to see it?" He asked Liao Youcai. Even if he wanted to light a fire, he would still maintain a cautious attitude.

"No, no, not to mention that this Gobi Desert cliff is deserted and no one will come here. Even if someone passes by and sees smoke, others will think it is caused by the fog in the valley! And if there is an open fire, there will be no smoke. It's very smoky... The old family owner used to burn it often, and no one has ever discovered it."

"That's good!"

Shen Li stood by the pool and waited for about two cups of tea. Li Si and Wang Jiu also came back with firewood. A pile of open fires was also lit in the cave. Sure enough, there was no smoke from the open fire. At this time, there was a noise under the water.
"They're back."

Sure enough, after a while, Shen Lao Er and Shen Lao Qi emerged from the tan.

"Come here, pull them up." Shen Li ordered.

"Yes." Two soldiers pulled them up respectively.

"How's the situation under Tan and on the other side?"

"Report to the captain, Tan Xia can indeed leave, and everything is as usual on the other side..." Shen Laoer replied. He first said that Tan Xia could leave, to confirm that Liao Youcai had no idea what to do. He was also implying that everything was as usual on the other side. There is no ambush on the other side.

Although the Liao family seems trustworthy, there is nothing wrong with being careful...

"Captain Shen, we can go!" Liao Youcai heard two soldiers calling him Captain Shen Li, and he no longer called him General Shen.

Shen Li did not reply to him. He looked at his ten-man team and said, "If any of you are not good at water, please step forward."

However, as Shen Li's words fell, no one stood up.

The ten people Shen Li selected this time are all elites among the scouts. To spy on the battlefield, scouts often need everyone to be able to climb mountains and water, ride horses and shoot arrows... and even lurk and disguise. There is no one who can't do this. It can be called A little expert in the army.

"Okay, since there aren't any, the four people in the front row are here to take care of the armor, and the four people in the back row are disarming each other and getting ready to go into the water."

"Yes, Captain."

Then he said to the two people standing aside who were still wringing their clothes: "Shen Laoer, you come with us, Shen Laoqi, you stay!"

Shen Li then said to the two people who were still warming up by the fire. They must bring someone who is familiar with the other side to go over.

"Yes."

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"The soldiers around Captain Shen are really elite! I have traveled all over the country with the family leader, and I have never seen such soldiers." When Liao Youcai saw him coming out of Tanshui, he immediately seized the advantageous position to observe the five soldiers around him. On fire, he said with emotion.

And because I couldn't think of any good adjectives to describe it, I had to use "such soldiers" to describe Shen Li's team.

Because when they took off their armor, Liao Youcai discovered that everyone was wearing iron armor under their clothes!This shocked him.

"Of course, we are all the lord's personal soldiers, how could we not be elites! Because we have the important task of protecting the lord, being cautious is just a habit."

Shen Li knew that human nature is awe-inspiring and unethical, not to mention that the Liao family is a family of merchants and is best at adapting to the situation, so he did not hide the identities of his group...

Sometimes, you have to let others know your identity in order to do things better. This is also the experience he learned when he was a scout and caught enemy spies or questioned the people.

"Oh, it's unbelievable that General Shen is actually the captain of Duke Shen's personal guard. Such a young and talented man! How disrespectful and disrespectful."

Sure enough, Shen Li's identification was still useful. Liao Youcai not only changed his title, but also flattered Shen Li. He also smiled with a smile on his face when he spoke, his tone was respectful, and his body felt three points shorter...

"There, there." Shen Li said modestly, but actually he was very proud in his heart.

"General Shen is the captain of the Duke's personal guard. I wonder who the chief Wei is?" Liao Youcai trotted up to Shen Li and squatted beside Shen Li walking beside him. He tried to show his closeness by saying, "Can you drive General Shen to do things?" , she should have a very high status in the county government!"

"Don't ask about things that you shouldn't ask about!" Shen Li didn't know how to make up his lord's identity, so he had to say this to stop Liao Youcai from inquiring.

"Yes, yes, I'm talking too much!" This time Liao Youcai heard Shen Li's obviously scolding words. Instead of losing his temper, Liao Youcai smiled and apologized.

What I was thinking in my mind was: 'Although the person in front of me is very kind, he is the captain of the county's personal guard. As the saying goes, 'the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door! 'Not to mention the county's personal guards?It's my Meng Lang. I've made him angry by asking too many questions. I can't talk too much in the future...

I hope he won't care about the past and present...' As expected, he agreed with Shen Li's opinion, fearing power but not being immoral.

"Everyone's clothes should be dried!" It was cold and freezing. Even if the water didn't freeze people, they couldn't do anything in wet clothes. It would freeze people to death.

"All done, Captain."

"Okay, turn off the heat, grab the knife, and let's go." There is also firewood here in the cave, which the Liao family often leaves in the cave for emergencies.

Turn off the engine, set off, be alert, and hit the road, all in one go...

Speechless all the way, after passing through the underground waterway, Shen Li followed Liao Youcai for a while through the cave, and then came to a cliff one mile away from Huangshagu...

"General Shen, look, opposite is the Huangsha Valley where the Liu family hides and trains their troops... As long as we remove the stone blocking the cave entrance, we can see it."

Liao Youyin said enthusiastically, without stopping, he quickly stepped forward, picked up the stone blocking the entrance of the cave, and began to move...

"Come here, let's move the stones together." "No, no, no, there are only a few stones, I can just move them myself." Liao Youcai thought about refusing to move the stones by himself, but he saw Shen Li and the other six people each carrying a stone or two at the entrance of the cave. The blocks have been moved.

After leaving the cave, Shen Li hid on the mountainside and took a closer look. He found that, as Liao Youcai said, there were indeed hidden soldiers in the canyon in front. Even at the wind outlet, the sound of their drills could be heard, but he had no idea how many there were. unconfirmed.

Because the Liu family is very vigilant, there are sentries in all directions within five miles of Huangsha Valley, with light and dark posts alternating. Patrol teams are also arranged to patrol in all directions. Once anyone comes within ten miles of the vicinity, they will be hunted down and killed regardless of the reason.

To tell the truth, if they had not taken the waterway through the cave passage and directly bypassed these sentry patrols, some of them would have had no chance of getting close...

The cat observed in the dark for an hour, looking at the setting sun, thinking that it took them about an hour and a half to come, so it would also take an hour and a half to go back, and nothing could be found here for a while. Shen Li He said, "Let's go back."

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Wuwei County Government.

"My lord, after walking for about an hour from that path, we arrived at a cave. It seemed that there was no path. However, there was a pool of water in the cave that was warm all year round. From now on, you can sneak into the depths of the cave and resume your journey in the mountain. In about a quarter of an hour, we arrived on the other side of the mountain...

After exiting the cave, we stood on one side of the mountain and looked across. There was indeed a large canyon on the opposite side. There were sentries and patrolling horse teams widely outside the canyon. We couldn't get close, but there was the sound of soldiers and horses practicing in the canyon! "

"Are you sure it's the sound of men and horses practicing?"

"Back to my lord, it's true! Although the Liu family is heavily guarded and we can't get close and can't determine the number of people, the military officer can tell by the sound that it's a cavalry trained in secret... because of the sound of horseback riding and shouts of killing in the valley... the horses The chirping of children comes and goes..."

"In this case, you must find out the number of soldiers and horses in the valley as soon as possible!"

"Yes, my lord."

"Well, you've had a hard night today, so go down and rest first! It won't be too late to do things tomorrow!"

"Thank you, my lord."

After Shen Li left, Shen Qingjun looked at the piles of information about the Liu family on the table, and then thought about everything Shen Li said, and murmured to himself: "Obviously, the family has already raised [-] bodyguards, which is far more than Specifications...A cavalry was secretly trained in the canyon..."

"The Liu family... are very ambitious and have different aspirations..."

'But where did they get the confidence to rebel?Even a prince with [-] elite soldiers, [-] ambushes, and a county and a fiefdom would not dare to have this intention? ' Shen Qingjun thought in confusion.

'I thought it would be easy for me to get the title of Duke of County, but I didn't expect that after fighting two rebel kings, I would have to bring my own food to fight a family with secret traces of rebellion... As expected, His Majesty is not such a generous king...' She said to herself Said.

After receiving Shen Qingjun's order, Fang Jiwei immediately went to see and buy horses. Of course, he was accompanied by Xu Zhong, the commander of the Flying Cavalry Army.

This time Xu Zhong not only went into battle in person, but also brought more than 100 soldiers who knew horses to help him watch. With so many people watching, more than 2 horses were selected in less than a day...

As expected by Shen Qingjun, there are only more than 9000 horses suitable for use as war horses, and the other horses are inferior... The other more than 1 horses are either too short, too small, or too timid, and are not suitable for cavalry riding. of……

However, even the inferior and unqualified horses were all bought back by Fang Jiwei. If you can't become a war horse, you can still sell goods... Anyway, you can't lose.

Moreover, Fang Jiwei was also a good negotiator at lowering the price. At the end of the day, when Fang Jiwei showed her the account of the horse purchase, Shen Qingjun felt like it was so cheap!With one stroke of the pen, all the materials needed to buy the horse were given away.

Moreover, Shen Qingjun was very lucky. Only five days after buying the horse, the snow in Wuwei County began to melt. When the spring breeze blew, the earth changed every day.

After more than ten consecutive days of good weather, the woods outside the city have become lush and green, and the grass has grown into a lush green...

It is still a red cloud-covered chariot pulled by four black horses, but this time compared to the first time, curtains are added around the frame...

Under the escort of three guards and [-] guards, they first walked through streets one after another... and finally left the city through the east gate and paraded around the city wall...

A month after the Duke of Wuwei came to her fiefdom, she went out for the first time and patrolled the city. Apparently, she wanted to announce her existence to the people of Wuwei and let the outside world know that they had changed owners... to show off her martial arts.

Secretly, I want to see if I can draw out the Liu family's lurking forces in Wuwei City...

Moreover, she has people to patrol the streets with great fanfare, and even goes out to patrol the city.

Zhao Jiexian's blast furnace ironmaking, under the supervision of Gao Lingying, has successfully produced a pot of molten iron in Wuwei County, and used this pot of molten iron to create a sword and a piece of armor tailored for her, and the rest of the pot The molten iron made fifty more complete sets of armor before they were all used up...

This goes back to five days ago, when Gao Lingying came to tell her that the first furnace of molten iron was about to be finished, and asked her if she wanted to watch the process of making the molten iron in person. Shen Qingjun naturally wanted to do it in person.

In the tightly guarded construction site, she watched with her own eyes as the molten iron flowing out of the furnace was put into the mold. After a while, it took shape...

With just a few simple beats and blows, a sword was successfully made... And the process of making the originally complicated armor was so simple that Shen Qingjun couldn't believe it was so simple...

In less than two hours, the finished product was delivered to Shen Qingjun. When she touched the sword and armor, she could still feel the temperature on them. Of course, it was the result of the hard work of dozens of co-workers, but the main thing was The power of the new blast furnace!

And the subsequent tests of the sword and the performance of the armor shocked her even more...

The sword made from this pot of molten iron blew hair and cut hair, cut iron like mud, and cut through more than a dozen standard swords of the Wei Dynasty without curling the edge, and it still looked cold...

Even if you use an ordinary sword to make hundreds of cuts in the armor, you won't be able to leave a single hole in it...

The key is that they have not been tempered by craftsmen, they are just shaped with grinding tools and then hammered into shape. This means that this method can quickly and large-scale manufacturing of swords and armor...

Shen Qingjun, who had thought about this clearly, stood there blankly, unable to recover for a long time. Gao Lingying, who was watching all this happening, had his hands trembling. Obviously, he had also thought of this, but he was completely frightened. .

Only the unreasonable craftsmen on the side were still congratulating Shen Qingjun, because they had spent their whole lives working in iron and could not imagine the seriousness of it...

After rewarding the craftsmen and once again instructing Gao Lingying to keep the secret, Shen Qingjun hurried back to his home. After returning home, he was still in a daze and didn't even eat dinner...

It took a whole day for Shen Qingjun to calm down. She came to the construction site again and ordered the blast furnace to be stopped immediately!
But because the craftsmen boiled two more pots of molten iron during the day when she was sorting out her emotions, all three pots of molten iron were made into armor and weapons. In the end, a total of 250 pairs of armors equipped with weapons were obtained, and then the furnace was completely closed!