Fall In Love with the Technology Tree

    It is summer and June, and the sun is shining. The sky almost faded from blue under the illumination of the day, and under this unsightly scorching sun, it was a golden field.

    "How's the harvest this year?" Ah Sheng stood on a hill in Weihai Port, Qingzhou, relying on the shade of trees to escape the heat.

    The one who came to report was Taishi Lang, the magistrate of Changyang County. Before he spoke, he had a smile on his face. "It's been a good year this year. As long as the summer grains are collected before the rain falls, Weihai can also have three years of grain storage."

    Asheng put a straw hat on his head to shade his head, and while walking, he listened to Taishilang's report on various data of Weihai, and at the same time compared with the figures of the Ministry of Maps and the Ministry of Espionage in his heart. She will only accept the confessions from the three places.

    "Although there are few fields in Weihai, the water conservancy is perfect, the farm tools are sharp, and the intensive cultivation is combined, the harvest is 20% higher than that of other places; this year, there are several acres of land for trial planting of rice and corn in the south, and the growth is gratifying. The old minister thought it was more than double the amount of corn, but the specific harvest will be calculated after the end of the harvest."

    Tai Shilang calls himself an "old minister"?

    Asheng glanced at him subconsciously, seeing his natural expression, he couldn't help but chuckle: "When you sent grain seeds to the plains, did you see Brother A?"

    Tai Shi Lang broke into a cold sweat when he heard the words, and quickly fell back half a step to show his respect: "...Meng Degong is a hero, but he is not as sympathetic to the lord."

    A Sheng was silent for a moment, and then patted Taishi County Magistrate on the shoulder: "It's my question that is inappropriate, you continue to say. I see that the population of Shanren has increased by 23,000. What's going on?"

    "Ah," Taishi Lang wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It was last year that the remnants of the Yellow Turbans fled into the mountains and killed many people. The savages in the deep mountains couldn't, so they went down to the mountains."

    A Sheng's footsteps stopped: "The Yellow Turbans escaped into Laishan, how come I never heard of it?"

    "Master, if our side has less than 100 casualties, it will be decided by the local people. There is no need to report it." Qin Liu, who followed behind, reminded.

    "Oh, yes. Those yellow scarves?"

    "Fucked out!" Taishi Lang proudly held out his chest, "No outsiders were allowed to enter the fruit forest belt. The three mountain villages, Jushui, Pingfen, and Xiangye, have made great contributions, and they have also been rewarded with pensions. It's all implemented. It's just that they want to pave concrete roads in the village, and I can't control this..."

    A Sheng nodded: "You write an application and I will approve it for you."

    Tai Shi Lang was overjoyed and bowed to salute: "I thank the Lord for the grace of the lord for the mountain people."

    "Paving roads and building bridges, canals and dams is what the rulers should do, and they are not grace."

    Tai Shi Lang was even more happy. When Ah Sheng went to inspect the farmland, he ran back and forth to deliver tea and water without stopping for a moment.

    Although Weihai is small, there are many small things like mountain people wanting to pave the way, or managing greedy eggs. Ah Sheng was busy until the end of Xia Zhong, and then he finished the work of checking and filling vacancies.

    She lives in Weihai Wubao, with green trees on the mountain for shade, and spring water and ice cubes, which is far cooler than the mountain. As soon as there is news of Tai Shilang, he will run up the mountain, just for the coolness of the day.

    "Lord... lord, it's not good, Luoyang has another solar eclipse."

    "My lord, my son has just been filial and honest. How can he be the prefect. Think again, lord."

     "My lord, Meng Degong led an army to attack Dong, and borrowed food from me. Should we borrow it or not?"

    "My lord... turmoil broke out in Beihai Kingdom, what should we do?"

    A Sheng, who has been motionless as a mountain, only reacted when he heard the last sentence: "North Sea Kingdom? I remember that Beihai Kingdom Prime Minister is..."

    A Sheng was interested, got up and moved his muscles and bones. "Tell me." It was too hot, so she only wore a single shirt, her sleeves rolled over her shoulders, and the cotton socks banged on the mat.

    "Gongsun Du wanted to send troops to ask Dong, but the Beihai clan insisted on not giving them neither men nor food." Qin Liu said.

      ?"

    Qin Liu raised the corner of his mouth: "The Duke of Beihai secretly welcomes Kong Rong, and wants to use Kong Rong as the prime minister of Beihai. We know who Gongsundu is. He directly surrounded the Liu family's wedding banquet, More than 280 scholars were present, and all of them were killed. Afterwards, each family took revenge and fought Gongsundu in the city, and the fire did not go out for three days."

    The human tragedy.

    A Sheng raised his eyebrows: "Since it was a secret welcome, how could Gongsun Du know about Kong Rong? Who disclosed the news of the Liu family's banquet to Gongsun Du?"

    Qin Liuyi spread his hands: "Gongsun Du and Dalang are good friends. Since I received the news, I naturally want to help him."

    "You're getting more and more rascal." Ah Sheng sighed and burrowed into the report of the spy department, "I'm busy these days, so you don't remind me. Such a big thing."

    "Since we have taken root in Xuando County, Gongsun Du will definitely not let him go back to Liaodong. If he knows that his hometown has become our Fushun City, then we will have to kill him. If you die sooner or later, it is better to die with some value."

    A Sheng turned to the report on the Beihai Incident, which was written in more detail. Gongsun Du died in the war, and the Beihai clan suffered heavy losses, especially the Liu clan, who was almost wiped out. On the contrary, Kong Rong was clever and ran away in time to save his life.

    "What do you mean by value?"

    "In the past, the North Sea Toshi tribe were like thorns everywhere; now it's like a bush of thorns just caught in a fire, and you can move in with a simple cleaning."

    "Beihai..." Ah Sheng pondered.

    "Beihai is the hometown of the great scholar Zheng Xuan. He has been cultivating books for the master in Jiaozhou for many years. Don't he miss home at all?"

    A Sheng took a sip of tea and tapped on several cases with his fingers. "Beihai, I won't go for the time being," she said finally.

    This time it was Qin Liu's turn to be surprised: "Why?"

    "Jiaozhou we have expanded the land tenfold at once. Youzhou, Goguryeo, Xuandu, and Liaodong all need to consolidate the city defense. Now it is too greedy to reach out to Qingzhou. And my brother is also in Qingzhou, Beihai is more efficient for him than for me."

    Qin Liu squinted his eyes, not knowing what he was calculating in his dark pupils.

     "Calculate for yourself, the spy department must guard against Xianbei and Wuhuan in the north, and supply the entire territory of Jiaozhou in the south, is it enough?"

    "The lord thinks about the problem more long-term than me." Qin Liu was convinced.

    A Sheng closed his eyes: "I have always been long-term."

    A Sheng, who was thinking about the problem for a long time, did not go to the front line to seek Dong immediately. She was waiting for a special shipment from the south.

    July is still hot. In such a hot weather, an ox cart that exudes cold air is particularly abnormal. And the person pulling the ox cart, with a black hat and a black veil on his head, is even more abnormal. Fortunately, he used the banner of Cao's family, and he came from the port, otherwise he would have been arrested by the villagers before he walked half a mile.

      The mountain road twists and turns all the way to the back mountain that is inaccessible.

    At the end of the road, there is a narrow stone wall, behind which is a stone house.

    The man in black showed the seal, and the guard at the gate raised his hand to salute: "Master Gong, the master has been waiting for you for a long time."

    The three layers of white cloth on the ox cart were untied, and the bottom turned out to be ice cubes, piled up like a hill.

    The man in black known as Master Gong climbed the iceberg, Bara for a long time, and found a sealed iron box from it. He carefully held the tin box in his hand and entered the room.

    A Sheng was the only one in the room, sitting on a black lacquered seat.

    "Master." The man in black knelt down and kowtowed deeply, "I am guilty. Twenty-five students from Sanya Gewu Institute... 11 died and 8 were injured." He took off his black hat, revealing A badly burned face, with the left ear and nose all gone, only scabbed wounds and new growth, twisted together ugly. Tears flowed from the crevice of the left eye that could not be opened, because the path on the face was too tortuous to fall.

    A Sheng's eyes were red, but her face was hidden in the shadows, making it impossible to see: "You are guilty. I said that soaking mixed acid with cotton is one of the absolutely forbidden items."

    The man in black fell to the ground: "The master has a talent and knowledge, and knows what is forbidden by heaven and earth. It is me and other mortals who are not afraid."

    A Sheng got down from his seat, leaned over and picked up the iron box, and after fiddling with it a few times, he unlocked the Luban lock. Iron box set with iron box, set with copper box, set with kraft paper, sealed layer by layer, and dried with activated carbon.

    In the innermost part, there is a large mass of compacted cotton soaked in alcohol. The snow-white color is just like ordinary cotton.

    "Good job." Ah Sheng sighed, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have imagined that such pure nitrocellulose could be made in this era. It still hasn't decomposed after floating at sea for a month. sign."

    She began to re-seal the nitrocellulose layer by layer, and finally restored it into a tin box.

    "How much is left?"

    "According to the owner's book, more than 150 catties of all dangerous goods have been destroyed, and the remaining three catties of cotton wool are stable and high-grade, I really can't bear it..."

    More than 150 catties of nitrocellulose, the explosive power is equivalent to 300 catties of gunpowder. Ah Sheng rubbed his forehead. "You can't bear it, so what?"

    "They will help the master!" The man in black, called Master Gong, was suddenly excited, "Master, you know fire cotton, you know they are very useful on the battlefield!"

    "I know, but—" Ah Sheng shouted sharply, "Once this kind of thing is used to kill people, the casualties will be innumerable."

    "Master, master. Sin slave..." He lay on the ground and burst into tears.

    "How old are you this year?" Ah Sheng asked suddenly.

    "The slave is..."

    "You are a second-term student, from Qingzhou Pingyuan County, and you are thirty years old this year."

    The man in black was stunned. "Master..." His hair was thinning from the burns, but the only ones were all white. Thirty years old, looks older than fifty years old.

    "Only this time. Take your scary children and we'll go to Luoyang."

    The author has something to say: nitrocellulose, the product of the reaction of absorbent cotton and nitric acid (sulfuric acid as a dehydrating agent), is flammable and explosive.