Cao Cao's plan is actually not complicated, that is, to arrange a strong competitor for Wang Xiao.

Determining Wang Xiao's identity too early may lead to his arrogance and complacency, which is not beautiful.

And in Cao Cao's opinion, Wang Xiao is too young.

Although he showed his ambition to swallow the world early, as well as his super ability to make people stunned.

But being young means immature, and it means that the future is hugely uncertain.

Cao Cao wants to set up an opponent for Wang Xiao, let him continue to mature and grow, and show his real skills to let the whole world see it.

In this troubled world, if you want to calm the world, you can't do it without a strong heart.

Use Cao Pi as a whetstone to sharpen Wang Xiao's heart. This is Cao Cao's plan.

As for how many people will be ruined and killed, Cao Cao, who is a generation of heroes, doesn't care at all.

The great river goes east, and the blood of heroes is inexhaustible.

As long as the goal can be achieved, no matter how many people shed blood and tears, he will not shed a single tear for this.

After handling official business, Wang Xiao went to a dojo outside the city.

It is said to be a dojo, but in fact, a group of monks recruited by Wang Xiao are alchemizing here.

Alchemy is very popular in this era, and Wang Xiao's alchemy will naturally not attract much attention.

But in fact, he was not refining any elixir, but conducting experiments here.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, internal strife continued.

And those tribes in the northern steppes thrived without the suppression of the Han army.

By the time the Sima family took power, the tribes on the grassland already had the strength to move south.

And when it came to Ma Fang Nanshan, it was the beginning of that indescribable beginning.

Wang Xiao knew that if he wanted to make the tribes on the grassland feel at ease and be able to sing and dance, it was necessary to suppress it by force.

No matter how powerful a dynasty is, even if it is as strong as the Han Dynasty, it will inevitably perish after 400 years of Huanghuang.

Suppression by force can be suppressed for hundreds of years, but it only takes a few decades for people to turn over.

Therefore, Wang Xiao planned to cut off the opportunity for the rise of the grassland tribes from the root.

Steppe tribes with small populations and scarce supplies. The reason why it has been able to go south again and again has brought endless crises. The root cause is that almost all of them are soldiers, and they are all cavalry.

When the cavalry faced the Central Plains, which was dominated by infantry, it had a strategic advantage.

Wang Xiao's plan was to eliminate the strategic superiority of the cavalry more than a thousand years in advance.

The musket is an epoch-making weapon.

It eliminated cold weapons, but also cavalry.

Wang Xiao made this dojo to develop muskets in the name of alchemy.

The gunpowder formula or something, Wang Xiao had long remembered it clearly, and there was no difficulty.

The real difficulty lies in the quality of the steel.

The most important thing is to develop a new type of steel and improve the life and performance of muskets.

"What have been the results of these days?"

On the periphery of the dojo is an alchemy room, which is mainly used to mix gunpowder.

At the heart of the inner layer is a huge blacksmith shop.

The blacksmiths here don't make armor and weapons, but they just experiment again and again, and make good steel from one furnace.

"Back to the general." The person in charge of the blacksmith shop saluted respectfully: "During this time, thirteen furnaces have been produced, and one furnace has produced 100 steels. ”

In this era, Bailian Steel is definitely a very good raw material. It's a pity that Wang Xiao is still not satisfied with this.

"As I told you, the most important thing is to mass-produce steel filling. Don't always waste time and energy on forging fine iron and making steel. ”

Hundred steelmaking is a popular trend in this era, which is a kind of fried steel with a slightly higher carbon content, which belongs to the type of external force processing.

In terms of quality, it is definitely better than the previous block ironmaking. It can be time-consuming, and large-scale popularization requires large-scale investment.

And compared to steel filling, the quality is not comparable.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Xiao came up, he went directly to the topic and took out the steel filling that had just sprouted at this time for in-depth research.

The so-called steel filling is made of pig iron with high carbon content and wrought iron with low carbon content as raw materials. It is heated to the melting point of pig iron and smelted into steel.

In modern steel technology, this is commonly known as high-carbon steel.

Wang Xiao used the method of heavenly creation. That is, the pig iron is tied to the wrought iron sheet, which allows it to penetrate evenly into the wrought iron when it melts.

The bellows furnace supplies air to raise the furnace temperature, and when the iron begins to melt, use the iron tongs to turn the iron.

This method can play a good role in carburizing, and there is also a violent oxidation reaction. The slag in the iron block can be separated to produce high-quality steel with low slag content and uniform composition.

The steel filling method can greatly improve the output and quality of steel at the same time. And this quality is enough to make a musket.

With high-carbon steel, spring steel can be made by drawing and winding heat treatment.

Although the quality is completely incomparable with real spring steel in the modern world. It is enough to be used as a flintlock pistol.

What Wang Xiao did was to do it in one step and directly put forward the flintlock pistol out. Instead of the usual use of arquebuses.

With advanced fire gate technology, plus flint and gunpowder special treatment preservation technology. It can be used even on rainy days.

Plus internal engraved threads, standardized production and so on.

The flintlock pistol has a long range and is powerful and can be used around the clock once it comes out. The tribes of the steppe will no longer have the opportunity to go south to drink horses.

The technology is still in its infancy, and it will take a long time for the finished product to be realized.

However, Wang Xiao is not Liu Da'er who is being chased everywhere, he has plenty of time to wait.

We paid attention to the progress of various technologies, pointed out the wrong direction of research and development, and pointed out the correct technical route.

After finishing all this, Wang Xiao left the dojo on the way back to Xu Du and began to seriously consider getting money.

The sale of the loot obtained from the Battle of Hebei, as well as the rewards given by Cao Cao, as well as the dedication of everyone over the past few days, Wang Xiao almost smashed into this side.

Soon he will officially bring Zhen Mi to bed, not to marry into the family.

Daily expenses or something, supporting a family or something, all count on his income. And his money is not as high as he imagined.

And after Cao Cao showed his strong support for Cao Pi, the people who were willing to send him money to burn the stove suddenly became much rarer.

Many people turned around and went to take refuge in Cao Pi, who has been in the limelight recently, and gave a lot of money, just like when they knelt and licked Wang Xiao before.

As a mature actor, Wang Xiao just smiled indifferently at this.

Write down the names of these wall grass families in your heart, and you will definitely have a good chat with them in the future.

The dojo needs continuous investment, and Wang Xiao's income is not enough and he needs to support his family. It is definitely not possible to ask Cao Cao for money, and the hero made it clear that he wanted to increase the difficulty for him.

As for finding someone to borrow money or something. It's okay to say if it's less, and people won't borrow it if there's more.

It's not that it doesn't work, it's that I'm worried about being hated by Cao Pi.

After thinking about it, in the end, I can only rely on myself and find a way to earn it myself.

If you want to make money, in addition to making military achievements and getting rewards, you can only do business.

In this troubled world, the people are poorer and poorer. The three melons and two dates in his pocket Wang Xiao didn't want to earn them.

Most of the real wealth is concentrated in the hands of those famous families. If you want to make money, you have to earn them.

If you go to refine 50 scatters, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money, after all, the celebrities of this era are good at this.

It's a pity that the Divine Beasts outside the sky don't allow it, so I can only treat this matter as if I don't know.

In terms of spirits, there were many high-quality liquors in this era, and even wines.

Moreover, brewing spirits requires a lot of food, and in this era when Cheng Yu was required to make military rations a few years ago, this matter should be forgotten.

As for others, such as sugar making, handicrafts, glass, porcelain, freshwater cultured pearls, etc.

Either there is a lack of sufficient raw materials, or there is a lack of sufficient process accumulation and technology, or there is simply no big market.

After thinking about it, in the end, I can only work on the knowledge monopoly that is most valued by the famous family.

The Han Dynasty was an era when knowledge was monopolized.

Ordinary people may not have the opportunity to learn culture in their lifetime, and they are all illiterate.

Because the carrier of culture is books, and almost all the books in the world are in the hands of the Han court and famous families.

Everyone scolded Dong Zhuo for being cruel and unkind, and he was a wolf-hearted and dog-hearted.

To be honest, Dong Zhuo has done many bad things. One of the important reasons why he was still scolded as a brute after thousands of years was that this bastard burned all the books of the pre-Qin period that had been rescued by the Han Dynasty for 400 years.

Many of the books are truly unique.

If it's burned, it's really gone.

In this day and age, it is difficult to record knowledge, and it is difficult to disseminate knowledge.

So Wang Xiao decided that papermaking and printing would go together.

Cai Lun has successfully made paper, and what Wang Xiao has to do is to strengthen the technology again.

It is necessary not only to greatly increase production, but also to improve quality. In particular, soft paper is used as a substitute for bamboo chips that make people want to die.

In addition, Wang Xiao has always used cloth.

Because the paper is very hard now, it is really useless. Therefore, a large amount of money in his income is spent on this aspect.

And then there's typography. This time, I didn't go to engraving printing, but went directly to movable type printing.

It has only been a hundred years since the invention of Cai Hou paper, and it is far from being popularized on a large scale. The vast majority of books are still inherited by bamboo slips.

It is not an easy task to engrave and write on heavy and narrow bamboo slips.

And if you want to copy a book, you must be a literate person to do it.

It is not difficult for cultural people in these years to make a living, so hiring someone to copy books is a huge expense.

With more advanced papermaking, there was movable type printing. Wang Xiao can not only make a lot of money, but also greatly boost his reputation.

Cao Pi has done so many things before and after, and it can't compare to Wang Xiao's easy snap of his fingers.

Wang Xiao was thinking proudly, but there was the angry shouts of the guards in front of him.

His eyes fell, but he saw Guo Zhao standing in the middle of the road with a stubborn face.

Wang Xiao knew in her heart that she knew that she was about to marry Zhen Mi.

Turned over and dismounted, and walked directly towards the woman.

It's time to show the real technology.