Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 53 The Prime Minister of Guanzhong
Chapter 054

Ran Ming said: "Is it difficult to make a horse crossbow?"

Ma Ying shook his head, "I made this crossbow two years ago. Compared with ordinary crossbows, it is different in the crossbow mechanism. There are two more bronze mechanisms in the crossbow mechanism of this crossbow, which greatly reduces the weight of the crossbow. The force required to pull the string, coupled with the use of movable levers, makes the pulling force even smaller, which is only equivalent to the pulling force of the seven-dou light bow. The power of pulling the string is also used in the bed crossbow to increase the power of the bed crossbow, and I am also good at making large stone cannons and catapults!"

For professional personnel, it is not blindly rewarding him to be an official.Some people are suitable to be officials, like Ma Ying, he is only suitable to be a master craftsman.

Ran Ming looked at Ma Ying and said, "Although you are the general of Chu State, you can enjoy the treatment of a deputy supervisor. I hope that in a few months, you can make the large defensive weapons of Anmin City look brand new!"

Ran Ming is gone, professional things, of course, are left to professional people.Now Ran Ming's small imperial court has finally set up the shelf of the Military Weapons Supervision.As long as Xie Fei comes back, Chu State can put up the shelf of Dushuijian.

Although the city hadn't been repaired, the outline of the outer city had been raised. The outer city wall looked decent, but the inner city was in a mess, piled up with scattered stones, sand and wood, and the inner city wall was only half repaired.

There are busy people everywhere. These people are very simple. They know that Ran Ming is sincerely good to them. Although they are very tired every day, they can eat enough. Not only can they eat enough, but they can also eat meat. There is a lot of horse meat and a lot of fish, shrimp, and kelp.

These foods, even in the peaceful and prosperous age, with their identities, they have no chance to eat them!Now the land in Anmin City has been handed over, with [-] mu of land for each strong man and [-] mu for each strong woman.

However, Ran Ming is also aware of the problems. Because the Xianbei people are cruel and bloodthirsty, there are basically no healthy families among these tens of thousands of people. Either their wives or their husbands are killed. It's bachelors and widows!

They are all bachelors and widows, so they can't settle down at all, and they have to reorganize their families. Ran Ming let them communicate with each other intentionally, and let them combine independently on the basis of their willingness! !

While Ran Ming was aimlessly patrolling the city, he suddenly met Lu Yan.

Lu Yan said: "Your Highness, something is wrong!"

Ran Ming hurriedly stopped Lu Yan from yelling, dragged him into his tent, and ordered the soldiers outside: "Thirty steps without permission, no entry!"

"what's up?"

"We only have 20 days' worth of food left!"

"Isn't it enough for two months?" Ran Ming said, "It's only been [-] days, and it's so much less?"

"Recently, we are building a city in Anmin, and there are countless people coming from nearby after hearing the news. His Highness has ordered that all the people who defect to the people will not be rejected. Now the people near Anmin City are close to 17. The increase in the number of people consumes food faster. Now, if it weren't for kelp, fish and shrimp, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to last for a month!"

"It's just that I didn't think carefully! Sir, don't blame yourself!" Ran Ming asked with a frown, "What's the solution, sir?"

Lu Yan clasped his fists and said: "Yan thought that we could end the confrontation with Duan Kan and send troops to defeat the Duan Yu tribe in Hebei. Solve the current urgent need! In addition, His Highness still has a lot of gold and silver in his hands, so he can go to Jin to purchase food!"

Ran Ming nodded and said: "That's the only way to go, let's take one step at a time! As long as you stick to this year, next year will be fine!"

"Forgive me, Your Highness. I'm afraid the drought will remain the same next year." Lu Yan said dejectedly: "It's the rainy season, but there hasn't been even a light rain. The drought has already appeared, and next year's Anmin City may still be difficult. The harvest must depend on His Highness to provide food."

Ran Ming is also very depressed. People who travel through time are full of beautiful wives like clouds, with power all over the world. It's better for him. Although he is a vassal king, he has never lived a day of comfort!
Using war to support war can certainly solve the urgent need, but I am afraid that Duan Kan will fight his back and fight to the end with himself. If he wants to start a war, the food and grass will be consumed faster, and he will not be able to persist in the end.

Before Ran Ming could express his emotions, Jing Zhan suddenly entered the tent and told Ran Ming, "Your Highness, General Su Jue, please see me!"

Ran Ming said: "Let him in!"

A moment later, Ran Ming led Jing Zhan and other personal guards, and left Anmin City with more than [-] riders in Huxiao Camp, all the way west!It turned out that Su Jue told Ran Ming that someone was going to defect to him, but left halfway.

This person is Wang Meng.

Ran Ming has no impression of Lu Yan at all, but Wang Meng is different. Wang Meng is too famous. Wang Meng, who is 27 years old this year, is not famous all over the world at this time, but it is because of Wang Meng's assistant Qin that he can unify the north and have With millions of soldiers, the capital of going south to invade Jin!

"The only prime minister in Guanzhong is Wang Meng, all the people in the world look forward to Xie An!"

After the Three Kingdoms, Wang Meng was one of the two figures who could stand shoulder to shoulder with Zhuge Liang in history. Xie An didn't have to think about it, he would definitely not go to him.

As for why Wang Meng left, he didn't see himself.

Ran Ming could guess that Wang Meng had the world in his heart. Although he hadn't become an official, he already had a case like Zhuge Liang's opponent. His point of view was to occupy Guanzhong, rely on Qinchuan for eight hundred miles, and occupy Qinzhou in the west.Liangzhou.In the land of Hexi, go south to Guanzhong, Bashu.Go north to occupy Hetao and Bingzhou, go east to the Central Plains, and unify the north!

In history, Wang Meng saw that Huan Wen had no intention of ruling Guanzhong, so he abandoned Huan Wen and left.In fact, the main reason why Wang Meng was unwilling to follow Huan Wen was because the Eastern Jin Dynasty was dominated by the nobles.

At this time, Ran Ming's business focus is concentrated in Qingzhou, which makes Wang Meng very disappointed!

Disappointed, he didn't even have the heart to see Ran Ming!
Ran Ming traveled very fast all the way, everyone was equipped with three war horses, and the horses rested all the time. Fortunately, Bohai County was not controlled by the Yan Kingdom at this time. A small group of bandits and thieves, seeing Ran Ming's men murderous, had no time to hide. Will not take the initiative to provoke Ran Ming!

In one night, Ran Ming's troops ran for more than 240 miles, and the men and horses were all exhausted!Ran Ming was very anxious at this time, he knew Wang Meng's role, if Wang Meng could not be used by him at this time, Ran Ming would rather kill him than let him assist Fu Hong and help the clan unify the north!

At night, a Wei Jun scout reported: "Your Highness, you are living in the Town God's Temple [-] miles away from here!"

This is one of the 24 scouts that Su Jue secretly left behind to monitor Wang Meng. Ran Ming was able to track Wang Meng's whereabouts only by relying on the marks left by them along the way!

Ran Ming didn't care about taking a rest, in fact, he was also very tired, his buttocks were all red from the saddle!

"Come up!"

The horseshoes are rolling!For a distance of thirty miles, Ran Mingbu actually ran for nearly half an hour, which showed that they were already exhausted!
The Town God's Temple is far away.

Ran Ming shouted loudly: "Jing Zhan comes in with me, the others are outside!"

Jing Zhan didn't say anything, and according to Ran Ming's intention, he took a bag of wine, which was the best grain wine, and it was captured by Ran Ming when he was in Anxi, and grabbed a large piece of dried horse meat, and put the wine and horse meat together They were all stuffed into a big package, weighing at least tens of kilograms.Ran Ming swaggered into the Town God's Temple with his saber in his arms.

Due to the war, most of the people died or fled. There are no people nearby. At this time, the Temple of the City God is also dilapidated. There are big holes in the roof and no doors. The courtyard is full of weeds. When the lights are dark, there is a strange atmosphere .

Ran Ming also sighed, Wang Meng is really brave, sleeping here alone is not too scary!
Entering the main hall, Jing Zhan lit a torch, and Ran Ming looked at a person sleeping on the broken mat under his expression.This person is still asleep like he is unconscious!
Ran Ming was not polite, and he didn't care about the dirt on the ground, he sat down next to Wang Meng's broken table, and asked Jing Zhan to take out the wine and dried meat.

Ran Ming munched on the jerky and drank the wine!
After a while, Ran Ming saw that Wang Meng was still indifferent, and said, "Mr. Ming Dayou has rested, please forgive me, Mr. Jing Lue!"

Wang Meng knew that he couldn't pretend anymore!
When he got up and looked at Ran Ming, Wang Meng's eyes flashed a hint of surprise. What surprised him was that Ran Ming's aura, to use a very outdated phrase, was a "dominant aura". His body broke out.Human beings have qi, and different people have different qi.

He is the chairman of the Huaqing Group in later generations, and he leads tens of thousands of employees. The temperament he cultivated for decades immediately emerged around Wang Meng!
Wang Meng felt that Ran Ming's aura was very strong, and he almost couldn't help the urge to kneel down!

But Wang Meng, unlike ordinary people, his mind is quite mature and stable, and he stabilized his mind in just a moment.

Ran Ming said: "Sir, this wine is good, and the taste of the dried meat is not bad, do you want to pay back, sir?"

For more than ten days, Wang Meng has been hungry and full, and now he is extremely hungry, so he is not polite, he takes Ran Ming's wine and meat, and starts to eat.

Ran Ming said: "Ming, come to visit today! I must have guessed the clue." Wang Meng said: "Meng is just a rotten scholar, how can he know the purpose of the son's visit?"

Ran Ming laughed, and he stood up suddenly, looking at Wang Meng with piercing eyes.

Wang Meng's heart skipped a beat, he felt the coercion from Ran Ming!

Ran Ming said: "I don't want to say too much if it's superfluous. You are a great talent. If you help me, I will treat you like a teacher!"

Ran Ming showed his affection to Jing, and Jing Zhan immediately opened the package on his body, which contained gold, silver and jewelry.

Under the light of torches, these gold and silver jewels shine brightly. "This is a teacher apprenticeship ceremony, I hope you will accept it!"

Wang Meng's heart suddenly became confused, he treated him as a teacher, Wang Meng said coldly: "What if I don't want to?"

This is the highest reward for a poor scholar.The ancients learned from their father King Wu of Zhou treated Jiang Shang as his father and established the foundation of the 800-year-old Zhou Dynasty; Duke Huan of Qi Xiaobai regarded Guan Zhong as his father and created the situation of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period.Now that Ran Ming said such a thing, maybe he wanted it... Wang Meng shivered suddenly.

However, after thinking about it in a blink of an eye, Wang Meng said coldly again: "What if I don't want to?"

"Mr. is a great talent, but every great talent is like a magic weapon. It can hurt yourself if you can't hurt others. If you don't use it for me! I won't leave a strong enemy in the future!" Ran Ming slowly pulled out the knife, With a knife in hand, I have the momentum that I have in the world!

"If I don't obey, will you kill me?"

"Not bad!"

Wang Meng shook his head, "Scholars can be killed but not humiliated! Mighty and powerful cannot be subdued, wealth and honor cannot be licentious, a so-called man, a majestic man of seven feet, absolutely cannot submit to His Highness's lustful power!"

Ran Ming said: "Can I understand me, this is Mr.'s choice?"

"Also!"

"Very good!" Ran Ming's murderous expression appeared on his face, and he suddenly raised his knife and chopped off Wang Meng's head, "I will bury you with royal honor!"

Wang Meng couldn't help smiling wryly: He's really a refreshing person, refreshingly...so refreshing that people have no other choice.But being so decisive might actually accomplish something big.

"Meng is willing to serve His Highness, and to accompany His Highness for driving!"

Ran Ming laughed suddenly, and at this moment his knife stopped an inch away from the tip of Wang Meng's nose!

At this time, Wang Meng's back was already soaked in sweat.As soon as the breeze blows, I immediately feel a little bit of coolness!
Ran Ming immediately retracted the saber, possessed himself and bowed: "Master, please accept Ming's bow!"

(End of this chapter)