After getting Liu Xie's permission, the eunuchs outside the palace dared to push the door in, and after Liu Jin took the tray, he asked him to retreat and personally deliver it to Liu Xie.

"Your Majesty, look."

As he spoke, Liu Jin opened the vermilion lacquer wooden box on the tray, but a snack placed in it was put aside by Liu Jin, but he picked up the box and knocked on the base, and there was a bang, and there was a mezzanine inside, and there was a note in the mezzanine.

"Your Majesty, take a look."

It turns out that the so-called "dim sum" is a code word for trickery, referring to secret transmission.

Liu Xie opened the note and looked at it, instantly understood everything, and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that Lao Tzu was put on a table today!" ”

"Huh?"

Liu Jin was very curious, and after taking the note in his hand and reading it, the same was true: "It turns out that Zhong Miao would make this kind of deal with Cao Pi, but now that Cao Pi's intentions are known, what is Lord Zhong Miao going to do?" ”

"I don't know."

Liu Xie shook his head and sighed: "Since it is not written on the Yin Kui, we might as well guess, I think maybe he wants to test my heart, but I don't know." ”

The note was written by Yin Kui, and the content was the relevant information about the meeting in the Tiankui Qing Pavilion after Cao Pi drank Zhong Xuan from the paddock, including what the two of them said, although it was not very specific, but it was also complete.

Liu Jin nodded, his eyes were a little complicated: "It's just that in this way, I don't know which type of courtier Zhong Miao should be classified into." ”

"It doesn't matter."

Liu Xie shook his head and looked relaxed: "The label is always changing with time, and it is not accurate to judge at the moment, so there is no need to rush to define it, today's spring harvest has made me tired enough, and I will be told that after bathing, I will go to the queen to rest." ”

"The slave understands."

……

The fact that Cao Zhang won the championship in Chun raised his status in the hearts of the imperial court military attaches to another level, which made Cao Pi and Cao Zhi anxious enough.

The two brothers were sitting in the school house, although they were facing each other, none of them spoke, and they were so upset!

Cao Pi is better, after all, he has the next goal, but Cao Zhi is different, he was put together by the two brothers on the spring harvest.

When he returned to the school office that day, Cao Pi took advantage of the topic to play a role, and while scolding himself, he forcibly took away one-third of the military power from his hands.

That's excessive!

But there is no way, who made him the head of the school government, and he is just his deputy.

Daddy, daddy, you really are, if you really hate him, why don't you put me in the position of supervisor, so that I don't have to suffer from his coupons.

At this moment, all of a sudden, I heard someone outside the door report: "Report to the eldest son and the third son, and ask the two of you to come out and see, there is an accident on our training ground." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Cao Pi got up resolutely, he knew that the school office was the biggest reliance in his hands, so he attached great importance to it, but Cao Zhi ignored it, and sat there as if he hadn't heard it.

Cao Pi ignored him and opened the door directly: "What's the matter?" ”

"In reply to your words, it was several of our brothers who tried their archery skills on the training ground, but they didn't want to miss the target with one arrow, and they actually shot another brother, who belonged to different departments, and they were facing off at the moment."

"Let's go, take me to see it!"

When Cao Pi came to the training ground, he saw more than a dozen soldiers facing each other in a tense confrontation, and next to them lay a corpse that had been shot through the heart by an arrow.

"Enough! Stop arguing! ”

Cao Pi scolded, the two sides looked at each other, and sure enough, they shut up, and then he stepped forward, leaned over and examined the corpse and asked, "He, who shot him?" ”

"If you go back to the eldest son, it's small." A soldier trembled at this moment, and stepped forward with his head bowed.

Cao Pi looked at him, then at the corpse on the ground, and was a little puzzled: "If I'm not mistaken, you should have been in the army for a short time, less than a year, right?" ”

"In response to your words, exactly."

"That's strange, you have such a big arm strength as a recruit? Come, show me your bow. ”

The soldier responded and presented the longbow he had just used, Cao Pi looked at it, and the suspicion in his eyes became even stronger: "This is even more strange, the bow you use is only five buckets of strength, how can you shoot through his breastplate, you are not lying, right?" ”

"The little ones don't dare!"

When he asked this, the man immediately knelt on the ground in fright: "The little one doesn't dare to deceive the eldest prince, if these people around him see it, the little one uses this kind of bow." ”

“…… Get up. ”

Looking at the longbow in his hand, and then looking at the corpse on the ground, Cao Pi ordered: "You don't have to argue here, you have all seen that he only used a five-bucket bow, so this must be an accident, and it is inconvenient for me to be responsible, just generously compensate the deceased, and then choose one person from his heirs and brothers to enlist in the army, do you remember?"

Cao Pi's words were more effective than the holy decree here, and everyone had no objections, while Cao Pi took the bow and the pierced armor piece on the corpse, and returned solemnly.

But he didn't know that at this moment, in the palace, Liu Xie was also holding a piece of armor.

Is this the standard armor plate installed by the army at the end of the Han Dynasty? Although the flexibility is good, the hardness is too low, and it is easy to be penetrated after being impacted, and the protection ability is really a bit scum.

In fact, about armor, Liu Xie has long remembered this, and when he first formed the armed eunuchs, he noticed this when he saw the armor on their bodies.

Although the relationship between the times and technology led to the fact that in the late Han Dynasty, although Bailian Steel and Shagang had been applied to the army, the Bailian Steel produced in this period could not be compared with later generations in terms of strength and hardness.

Just imagine, this hundred armored eunuchs are their closest and last armed forces, they are all halfway monks, and the training conditions are limited, it doesn't matter in the face of a small army, once the other party is overwhelmed, several times pressed, they will lose their combat effectiveness, of course, with the deepening of training, they will improve.

But for yourself, time is the most important thing.

Then it was necessary to use a more direct way to improve their combat ability, weigh the comparison, and considering the current technology and conditions, Liu Xie decided to use the cold forging technology that appeared during the Song Dynasty to improve it.

Just kidding, the Zhenrong army of Western Xia made the Great Song Dynasty suffer thoroughly.

The reason why they are so strong in combat, and even able to face the axe without retreating, is because of the protective equipment like an iron tower on their bodies, the cold-forged scarlet armor.

The resulting pieces of armor from this cold-deformation process are so hard and tough that they are arranged in order to protect the warrior to his teeth.

Once those armed eunuchs can wear such armor, it is not a fantasy to fight ten against one.

The most important one, the reason why the cold forging technology was chosen was because it was impossible for Liu Xie to make a blacksmith furnace in the palace!