What should come is still coming!

After three days of "thinking behind closed doors" at home, Wang Hou was once again carried to the Prime Minister's Mansion, which was still the three-step hall, but this time there were only Wang Hou and his father-in-law Cao Cao.

It seems that Mr. Cao's headache in history can't be fake, on the one hand, the military pressure from the north in the past few days, on the other hand, there is also the fault that Wang Hou found for him, leaning on the couch, his head is pillowed with his left hand, Cao Cao has a white silk scarf soaked in cold water on his head, and his old face with a beautiful beard is full of exhaustion.

However, in front of his case, Wang Hou's old cannon barrel and gun barrel were placed there upright, and there were a few more holes on the top of Wang Hou's head, and a few rays of sunlight shone obliquely in the lobby.

Looking at this scene, Wang Hou roughly knew what the main topic of the day was.

But there are mistakes, and the attitude of admitting mistakes must be good, without waiting for Cao Cao to turn over the old accounts, Wang Hou was already a rice cake party all of a sudden, and he gave the old man a New Year's greeting style and knocked his brain.

"The subordinates are lawless, violate the night fast, and intend to hijack the royal family sending team, the crime deserves death, please remove the official position of the subordinate officials, and go to prison to atone for their sins!"

Ignoring Wang Hou's nonsense at all, he rubbed his temples twice tiredly, and then Cao Cao sat up straight, and lightly tapped his fingers on the table a few times.

"If you want to apologize, go to the palace and talk to Hongxian! Honghua is still young, the responsibility that should have been shared with her on the Red Festival, now she is the only one to carry it, yesterday the old man entered the palace, she also cried with the old man, the old man was ...... in his heart, alas! ”

Wang Hou, who heard this, couldn't help but tremble slightly, but he was speechless, he was not a saint, if he was asked to choose again, he would still snatch Cao Hongjie out without hesitation, even if there was no Cao Cao to exonerate him! Although he felt guilty about this sister-in-law, Wang Hou could only say that he was sorry.

However, Cao Cao is Cao Cao in the end, a unique hero in the history of 2,000 years, and after only a moment of sadness, he walked out again, stretched out his hand, and lifted Wang Hou's old cannon barrel.

"How much grain does it cost to make a stalk? How many days? ”

In the end, it is an old military strategist, and at a glance I can see the advantages of this firearm compared with the traditional long-range cold weapon bow and arrow crossbow, indeed, if the bow and arrow are thrown, the farthest can be fired 150 meters, and even the British longbow can be projected 220 meters, but there is an old saying in Huaxia, at the end of the strong crossbow, it is impossible to wear Lu Minye! A crossbow arrow that shoots more than 100 meters can't penetrate the light and fluttering Lu Guosi, let alone a bow and arrow, and the real effective range of the bow and arrow is actually only twenty or thirty meters.

Tens of thousands of people fought and shot hundreds of thousands of arrows, and it is normal for only one hundred and ten people to be killed in one battle.

And don't think that archery is easy to shoot, a qualified archer must have at least a few years of training to come out, in order to maintain the longbow troops, the British in the western island countries even had to call for the whole country to practice archery since childhood, excavate the English tombs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, archery shot to the deformation of the spine, and cases of joint disease abound.

As for the crossbow, it is indeed much easier than the bow and arrow, but the value of a good crossbow is also several times that of the bow and arrow, otherwise Ju Yi's first camp, how could Gao Shun's camp be so many hundreds?

And the weight of the bow and arrow is also a problem, in the battle of Cressy where the western British longbowmen beat the French heavy cavalry, the average archer carried thirty-six bows and arrows, and at this time, the number of arrows of the Cao army archers was generally about twenty, that is, in a battle, the archers could only shoot twenty arrows.

But the musket is different, Wang Hou gave Cao Cao the gourd gunpowder is almost more than three catties, forty-eight taels, one tael for a shot, can shoot forty-eight times, and a cone bullet much smaller than a normal arrow is only a little more than a catty, if according to the weight of the archers twenty catties, a war, they can fire more than a hundred shots.

So now the only problem is the cost!

Now that he has become Cao Cao's son-in-law, Wang Hou also hopes that Cao Jun can be equipped with muskets and dominate the country as soon as possible, and then he will also be the founder of the country, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, at least now, it is extremely difficult to achieve!

"Prime Minister, the cost of the musket is not high, and the minister's stainless steel is made of steel, which is about the same as the manpower and material resources required for fifty sword training, and it is rougher, directly made of cast iron, and then opened with a water wheel, a musket, it can be made in ten days, but it is difficult to rely on the ammunition supplied!"

"Sulfur, the real estate of the volcano, the only place of origin that the minister knows now, Huashan Huaqing Pond has production, another medicine saltpeter is more difficult, the party that produces salt brine has production, and the only place of origin that the minister knows now is Bingzhou Salt Pond!"

"There is also a source of nitrate, that is, the accumulation of nitrate, all the people in the territory, pee together, over time into nitrate, boil it, you can get nitrate, but the yield is average! Refining for a year, enough for 10,000 sergeants to fight for half a day......"

Before the crossing, the great god of crossing could not move thousands of tons of gunpowder, ping pong and ping-pong exploded, how did they get nitrate Wang Hou didn't know, at least he was stuck in this nitrate-making pass.

In order to grab a Cao Hong Festival, he spent hundreds of silks, and all kinds of relationships only made a 200 catties of black powder, which cost more than 50 catties to blow up the corridor of the Xun family, and now it is about 80 catties stuffed into the corner of the escape route, and the remaining filial piety to Cao Cao, the old man, was sent by him to the house to go, and Wang Hou himself has a stock of about ten catties.

It is even said that before acquiring Morocco's saltpeter mines, the Queen of England sent people to scrape toilets in London every day, and saltpeter accounted for a large part of the resources plundered by Britain in India, which shows the preciousness of nitrate in ancient times.

Cao Cao, who listened to this answer, couldn't help but feel tired for a while, good guy, it is worthy of being Yexiang Cangcao, and the methods he came up with are all tasteful! But he also understood what Wang Hou meant, that is, this thing can't equip troops on a large scale.

Seeing Cao Cao's disappointed appearance, in order to show his value, don't let the old guy take Cao Hongjie's girl back, Wang Hou hurriedly made another move.

"Prime Minister, although large-scale is not possible, but small-scale can still be done, Jinyang Wang's family in Bingzhou is still some way, if the prime minister is willing to allocate money and silk, in the name of buying drugs from Yanchi to Xu Du, a few times a year, thousands of catties of gunpowder can still be made, to the time of the war, wrapped in a large pottery urn, filled with gunpowder and thistle, with a return cannon to hit the opponent's military town, boom, the lethality is not small!"

Looking at Wang Hou slapping him, Cao Cao's originally dim eyes also lit up, thinking back to the power of the Xun family's gatehouse that day, he couldn't help but nod his head excitedly.

"The prime minister will let the palace pay tribute envoys to Huashan, Yanchi, and ask for it in the name of medicine in the palace, and the prime minister's mansion will also increase the amount of purchases, and you will recommend people to guide the way, and you will buy it only when you go to the state! After that, I'll leave it to you! ”

"The subordinate obeys!"

Wang Hou is relieved here, since he helped Cao Cao, the previous robbery of the imperial concubine should be in the past, and there is no need to be beaten by the old guy anymore.

However, before Wang Hou relaxed much, Cao Cao's next sentence made him nervous and tense again.

"After you return home today, pack up, and in ten days, the prime minister will still have important tasks to send to you!"

"Prime Minister, the ice and snow melt in March, spring ploughing is coming!"

Dasi Nong Yang Feng went home to retire, he Wang Hou is Dasi Nong, equivalent to the Minister of Agriculture of the Han Empire, in order to prepare for spring ploughing, he wrote a lot of plans, at this juncture, Cao Cao wanted to transfer him out, Wang Hou almost didn't spit out a mouthful of old blood.

However, it was rare that Cao Cao did not open his mouth to reprimand, but sighed helplessly.

"I beg you to have talent, I know that if you are in peace, you will be a big farmer, and the great Changqiu will not be a problem, but now the times are turbulent, and Yuan Shao in the north is ready to move! Gongsun Zan was defeated, the Black Mountain thieves were frightened, and now Yuan Benchu was a troop dispatcher, and the soldiers and horses of the four states of Hebei were pressed together on the north bank of the Yellow River. ”

"Tuqiu, this phase needs a front line that can hold up!"

This is the first time that Wang Hou saw that Cao Cao could show such a tired look, and in his tone, it was no longer the boss who treated his subordinates, but there was a kind of intimate entrustment between relatives, and Wang Hou's eyes couldn't help jumping a few times, but then he didn't make a sound, and bowed down directly.

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In March, when the ice and snow melted and everything recovered, Wang Hou was promoted again! This year, he directly came to a triple jump, first with the position of the true 400 stone in charge of the 1,000 stone transfer envoy, and then promoted to the longer envoy than 1,000 stones, and now he has skipped the two levels of the true 1,000 stone and the middle 1,000 stone, and directly promoted to the position of the Taishou of more than 2,000 stones, even if it is the end of the Han Dynasty, it is enough to act as a small prince.

But this time Wang Houjin title, but there is no more noise in the court and the opposition, first of all, the rapping Prince Dong Cheng and others are dead, and secondly, although Wang Hou took Cao Hongjie back to the mansion and did not dare to do any marriage ceremony, after all, this is a robbery with the Son of Heaven to grab a woman, and then beat gongs and drums to make it known to the whole world, where is the face of the Son of Heaven? But Cao Cao personally handed over Cao Hongjie to Wang Hou, and this son-in-law of the Cao family was basically acquiesced by the leading figures of all families in Xudu.

Don't look at the despisis mentioned in later generations, it is quite contemptuous, but in this era, nepotism is really the fastest promotion, and it should be deserved! Just like the previous general He Jin, a butcher, who entered the palace with his sister, actually became a general of the imperial court, Dong Cheng didn't rely on the relationship of his daughter Dong Guiren to pull up a force, Wang Hou is the prime minister's son-in-law, one is more than two thousand stone Taishou, it is really not over-exalted, and even according to Cao Cao's own thoughts, it is a little low.

There is also a third point, Wang Hou is really not an enviable place, and the Taishou he appointed is the Taishou of Dongjun.

If Dongjun is unfamiliar, then talk about the Battle of Guandu in the three major battles of the late Han Dynasty! In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the battle of Guan Erye beheading Yan Liang and Wen Chou was in White Horse City, located in the west of the central part of Dongjun, and now Guan Erye is still working for Liu Bei, and the north bank of the Yellow River opposite White Horse City is really facing Yan Liang's more than 30,000 Hebei elite soldiers, which is almost the same as Xu Du's elite soldiers!

Then the main battlefield of the Battle of Guandu, Yanjin, the ferry where Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's more than 100,000 troops confronted, was still in the west of Dongjun!

Even the county seat of Dongjun is in Puyang City, because it is on the north bank of the Yellow River, it has been directly occupied by Yuan Shao at this time, and Wang Hou can only go to Baima to take office.

Cao Cao is now under the pressure of the northern military, and after Wang Hou arrives, he has to sleep with several guns under his pillow every day, this powder keg, it's too late to shirk! Wang Hou went to top this gun, who would dare to say a word? What if he is allowed to go!

Let Wang Hou go to Dongjun, but also after Cao Cao's careful consideration, Wang Hou in Cao Cao's view, the greatest talent is that this kid will farm, will govern the place, Tuntian and grain, the upcoming war with Yuan Shao will be a protracted war, fight not only the courage of the soldiers, but also the food, the real economic foundation, 30,000 people can not beat you Yuan Benchu's hundreds of thousands of people, then I will bully you from afar, grind you to death by eating, and wait for you to retreat from the army, and then follow up to explode your chrysanthemums.

In this way, it is very important to have a rear of the battlefield with abundant grain reserves and excellent strategic resources!

Put Wang Hou in Xu Du as the chief of the agricultural division, with his talent, he can indeed coordinate the agricultural production of the entire Cao Cao jurisdiction, but it is too slow to take effect, Prime Minister Cao Cheng is a utilitarian, so he still decided to "realize" Wang Hou's talent, let him directly use dung to produce grain in Dongjun, at least before the war, hoard hundreds of thousands of stones of grain for him!

However, under Yan Liang's military pressure, whether Wang Hou could create another miracle and get tons of grain for him was not something for him Cao Cao to consider.

Prime Minister Cao Cheng gave an order, and Wang Hou, who had only been at home for three months, had to pack his bags again, and this time, it was almost like moving!

Early in the morning, at the foot of Funiu Mountain outside Xudu City, the long convoy was busy, and the first to follow Wang Hou was him and Zhao Yun more than 400 parts, and then Wang Yuan also had to say goodbye to the blacksmith shop he had fought for more than a year and a half, and loved it.

Along with the miscellaneous items of the blacksmith shop, there were also seven or eight hundred pairs of curved steel plows for plowing produced by the Wang family's blacksmith shop this winter, and a cart of messy farm tools was loaded.

This time I went to Dongjun, I went to open up wasteland, Wang Houke wanted to go to the prime minister's mansion to stare at him, there were no tools, even if he had a million people under his command, he couldn't open a few acres of land, the only thing that made him depressed was that Cao Cao didn't approve the purchase of these tools, he was embarrassed, and he didn't dare to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to ask for it, so he could only grit his teeth and give Cao Cao a dowry.

Only now, Wang Hou really realized what kind of feeling it was like to be a big family, he was just a pseudo family head, but with a call, there were still dozens of Wang family clansmen who followed him north without hesitation, don't underestimate the dozens of people in this area, all of them are scholars, and they can give Wang Hou a monopoly when they go to Dongjun!

And Wang Hou's children's school, there is finally a decent teacher, in the shed, a young man who is also from the Taiyuan Wang family's partial house while sweating profusely looking at the traditional and simplified characters left by Wang Hou, while lamely writing on the blackboard Simplified Chinese teaching texts, more than 200 primary school students below are shaking their heads and reading along, this scene, Wang Hou doesn't know why, there is always a special sense of peace of mind.

"Old decay sends off the head of the family! The old man wishes the head of the family prosperity and prosperity! ”

Just when Wang Hou was distracted, an old voice suddenly sounded beside him, turned around, looked at the old Wang Fu who seemed to be a little older with a sense of complexity and reluctance, hugged his fists to say goodbye to himself, Wang Hou also had mixed feelings in his heart, and also hugged his fists heavily.

"Fauber, this side of the family, please leave it to you!"

Without answering, Wang Fu just bowed heavily again.

Over there, Zhao Yun was already carrying the reins of the Dawan horse in circles, and finally glanced back at the place he had called home for more than a year, turned around suddenly, and Wang Hou got into the carriage with difficulty.

However, as soon as he sat down, a pair of soft little hands grabbed his arm again, and he turned his head to look at Cao Hongjie, who should have been the last filial piety queen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a small face full of excitement about to start a trip, and Wang Hou, who was about to see it, couldn't help but nod with relief.

The sword mountain and the sea of fire are also fighting!