Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 474

Chapter 478
However, after all, Chu Suanzi had experienced great storms, she smiled and said calmly: "Who does the Duke of Nanjun want to recommend?"

"Du Jiong, Master Du!" Huan Wen said.

Hearing this, Chu Suanzi's face darkened.The Taoist priest who recommended poison pill to Sima Dan during the palace ban was Du Jiong's apprentice, how could Chu Suanzi accept it with pleasure.

Chu Suanzi said: "Others can still lead Yijun Duke, but this one is the only one, absolutely not!"

Huan Wen persuaded again and again: "Empress Dowager, don't hesitate to decline, wait for the Empress Dowager to see this person's ability, and then make a decision before it's too late!"

Chu Suanzi sneered, looked at Huan Wen and said to himself, "What else do you want to play today?"

Huan Wen asked Du Jiong to invite Du Jiong. After a while, Du Jiong, with his sleeves fluttering, was full of smiles and saluted Chu Suanzi, "See the Queen Mother!"

"No!" Chu Suanzi's voice was three points colder than the Siberian cold wind.

Du Jiong's job is to observe words and demeanor, and he also knows that Chu Suanzi doesn't like him, and he didn't flatter Chu Suanzi, but said to Huan Wen indifferently: "I don't know what it means for Da Sima to ask the poor Taoist!"

"Please Taoist Master, let the queen mother see the thunder from the sky!"

Chu Suanzi is so smart, after a little thought, she realized that this divine thunder must not be a clever spell, otherwise Du Jiong, a man with a brilliant spell, would have been made ashamed by Ran Ming!
Du Jiong was about to let a dozen Taoist boys protect the Dharma, but before he could take his Yu steps, Chu Suanzi said: "Don't show off the false ones, Aijia depends on your real means!"

Du Jiong was very depressed, but he had to bow his head under the eaves. He still hoped that Chu Suanzi would reward him with a bite of food.

The Fuhuo Dan in Du Jiong's hands is actually the most primitive prototype of gunpowder. It not only contains dozens of medicinal materials, but also has an incorrect proportion. Apart from making loud noises and a lot of thick smoke, its lethality can be said to be very low.

A big gourd, containing at least five or six catties of Fuhuo Dan, can explode loudly enough, but it only rots the gourd in half.Du Jiong, who was five steps away, was in a daze.

Although Chu Suanzi didn't come to the Mufu Mountain battlefield in person, she got the news that Ran Ming's blow could kill and injure hundreds of people.

Du Jiong saw that Chu Suanzi didn't show a surprised expression, and said embarrassingly: "The poor way is not as good as Ge Xianweng, and this Fuhuo Dan is not as powerful as Ge Xianweng's Fuhuo Pill!"

"This divine thunder was created by Fuhuo Dan!" Chu Suanzi asked.

Du Jiong nodded: "The Queen Mother is wise!"

"Whenever you make the more powerful Fuhuo Pill, the Ai family will have a great reward!" Chu Suanzi and Huan Wen entered the Chinese army commander's tent, and after waving everyone away, Chu Suanzi said: "Since you are here, I just mourn you!" There is one more thing I want to ask Huan Qing!"

"The Empress Dowager intends to kill this humble official!" Huan Wen said, "Please show me the Empress Dowager!"

"Huanqing must have heard about it too!" Chu Suanzi said, "This bastard Zhuge You, the prefect of Mount Tai, actually provoked the Wei-Jin War again and led his troops into Wei. I don't know what Huanqing thinks!"

"There must be a battle between the Jin and Wei Dynasties sooner or later!" Huan Wen said: "The minister thinks that a late battle is worse than an early one. The sooner the decisive battle is, the more beneficial it will be for our great Jin, and vice versa!"

Huan Wen went on to say: "Chen Yuan once thought that taking advantage of the intractable battle between Yan and Wei, he would lead his army northward and recover the Central Plains. However, due to the incident of thunder from the sky, the army's morale was unstable, so we dared not take any action!"

Chu Suanzi said: "Using Du Jiong now, can it restore morale?"

"Perhaps it's okay!" Huan Wen wasn't sure, after all, the Xifu army had been wounded in the battle at Shogunate Mountain.The army of Xifu defeated the Kingdom of Shu, and the morale of the army of Xifu after the destruction of Shu was like a rainbow.In the Battle of Luoyang and the Battle of Shogunate Mountain, they lost consecutively, and their morale suffered a serious setback. Now, most of the entire Xifu army has changed their face when they heard of Wei Wei.

"Since this is the case, let's wait for death, why not give it a go!" Chu Suanzi said: "Instead of letting the Wei army cross the south of the Yangtze River in the future, it is better for our Jin army to go north. Even if it fails, there is still a buffer."

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Just after Zhuge Youlianke's five cities, his offensive was blocked.The main force blocking the Jin army is not the Wei army, nor the Wei government, but merchants that no one can think of.

Qingzhou has gathered more than half of the production capacity of merchants in Wei State, and factories of various sizes and types are established here.If the land is the lifeblood of the gentry, whoever touches their gentry will fight for their lives, but factories are also the lifeblood of merchants, whoever moves their factories will fight for their lives.

Merchants in Wei State are not in a state of disunity. Under Ran Ming's leadership, they have formed an alliance of interests.Liu Yuan, Chen Ying, Zhang Xun, Wang Cheng and other big businessmen in the Wei state met and came to the conclusion that "at present, only under the rule of the Wei state can their interests be guaranteed. Qingzhou is not lost."

With the same goal, merchants began to work hard.All major merchants stopped working in Qingzhou factories, and organized all craftsmen, self-managers, caravan guards, and bodyguards recruited by major merchants to defend the factory.

There are more than [-] artisan households in Qingzhou, and most of them are young and middle-aged. No matter how low the combat effectiveness is, Zhuge You can be killed by a pile of people.What's more, during this period, workers, the newly derived proletariat, and the capitalists who exploited them have not yet had a conflict of interest.

The common people in China are the most simple. The Central Plains has lived in war for a long time. They are refugees with nothing. If someone can take them in and give them a bite to eat, they will be very grateful.What's more, merchants paid wages in order to compete with those big landlords for labor, which was far from being comparable to tenant farmers.

One month's income of an adult craftsman in Qingzhou is enough to buy a family's food for half a year.Although this kind of salary is lower than that of workers in later generations, in the past, they worked as tenants of the landlord and worked hard for a year, not to mention exhausting themselves, but barely making ends meet.This comparison is debatable.

If the factory is destroyed, they will lose their jobs and become tenants?Whether you can eat or not depends on God's will.Therefore, these craftsmen are also very attentive.

When Zhuge You attacked Ju County, Chengyang County, Qingzhou, he encountered difficulties.

Because Ju County is rich in various mineral resources, especially iron, copper, and clay.Speaking of clay, maybe everyone will sniff it. This kind of thing is everywhere, so where is the lack of clay?In fact, this is a misunderstanding.Clay is not ordinary soil, but an important mineral raw material.Clay contains various elements such as alumina, magnesium, iron, sodium, potassium and calcium, and can be used to make ceramic products, refractory materials, building materials, etc.

Since the clay in Ju County is rich and highly malleable, and it is not easy to be deformed and scrapped during the firing process, the Huaxia Business Alliance has built more than [-] kilns of various sizes here, and nearly [-] craftsmen of various types live here.In addition to kilns, there are three iron factories in Ju County. When they learned that Zhuge You was about to lead an army to Ju County, merchants in Ju County spontaneously donated their various building materials for free.

In particular, the city gate was not only replaced with an all-iron iron gate, but also cast and welded to death with molten iron.Unless the iron gate is burned with fire, the city gate cannot be opened at all.

With the concerted efforts of more than [-] craftsmen and the people of Ju County, the city wall of Ju County, which was originally low, has almost increased by one foot.They also urgently built four turrets, archery towers, gate towers, horse faces, and city defense facilities at the four corners of the city wall.

Zhuge You looked at the majestic and majestic city walls in the sky, and was speechless for a long time.The air is filled with the smell of glutinous rice and earth, as well as the traces on the city wall that have not been completely dried, all of which show that the city wall is the product of emergency repairs.

On this tall and solid city wall, there are densely packed guardians holding weapons.These people don't have any armor, and they don't have any weapons at hand. The weapons in their hands can be said to be varied, including hunting bows, military-style spears, spears, guns, knives, and sledgehammers, axes, guillotines, and kitchen knives. Sickles, forks, poles, and a large number of sticks.Some used a door panel as a shield, and some used a millstone as a stone ring. What's more, someone burned a pot on the city wall, and there was a foul smell in the pot. No need to ask, Zhuge You knew it was A biochemical weapon for defending the city made of oil, feces, and arsenic-golden juice!
As long as the golden juice boiled by the fire is splashed on people, it will not only cause severe burns, but also cause secondary trauma to the injured due to various toxins contained in feces and arsenic.The golden method does not hit the enemy's body, but also hits the enemy's morale.You must know that after being scalded by golden juice, the wound will become inflamed and fester, and the pain is almost unbearable.

Dai Lu said: "Looking at the formation of the bandit army in Ju County, there may be 2 people!"

"3 people is just a lot!" Xun Xian said: "However, don't worry about joining the army, no matter how many people there are, it's just a bunch of dirty people.

Liu Zhuang, the prefect of Gaoping, said with a smile: "General Xun's words are very true. I only need [-] soldiers and horses, and I can beat the shit out of them!"

Zhuge You looked at Dai Lu and said, "Anqiu, this city is not easy to fight, what good strategy do you have?"

This Dai Lu named Zhuge You joined the army and belonged to the staff.However, in fact, Dai Lu entered the post with bravery, just like Lu Buchu was Ding Yuanzhu Bo.Dai Kui, a famous hermit in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is said to be Dai Lu's brother in "Shi Shuo Xin Yu", and "Dai Lu's brother" in "Book of Jin". (Cheng Zhi is not a historian, please don't worry about this issue.) Dai Kui's brothers are all powerful and powerful.

"I don't know what the general plans for Ju County." Dai Lu said indifferently, "If the general just wants to plunder, it is not difficult to destroy this city. If you want to govern this place for a long time, I'm afraid it will take a lot of trouble!"

"Govern Ju County for a long time?" Zhuge You said: "It's best not to even think about this idea. It is impossible for Dajin to govern Ju County again. Now these unscrupulous people have long been bewitched by Ran's hypocrisy, and they are willing to follow the thief. , How can you obey me Da Jin?

(End of this chapter)