Chapter Fifty-Eight: I Want to Go Home and Farm
Liu Che put down the report, and his eyes lit up.
"It seems that Zhang Yuan has come up with something new, which can stir up the fire of this uncle of mine, which is obviously a good thing.
I'm tired of watching the music today, so let's go out and see what tricks they play. ”
"Whoa."
Zhang Yuan and the others didn't wait for Liu Che to summon them, and waited directly for Liu Che to walk out of the Jade Hall.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
Liu Che waved his hand and directly interrupted Tian Wei.
"The prime minister doesn't say much, I'll just accompany you on a trip."
Then he walked in the direction of the front hall.
Zhang Yuan and the three of them glanced at each other, and then quickly followed.
After running in Weiyang Palace for half an hour, someone must have told Liu Che about this matter first, which is not surprising.
When the group walked to the square outside the front hall, Ji Fu also arrived in the square with twenty death row prisoners with their heads covered.
Because of these death row prisoners, Wei Qing brought a hundred armor soldiers to surround him, and Ji Fu had Tian Wei's token in his hand, and Wei Qing couldn't stop it just now if he wanted to.
"Your Majesty, just now the Prime Minister's Mansion Guest Fu held the Prime Minister's token and forcibly entered the palace, and the minister couldn't stop it."
"It's okay, just stand aside and see what they do."
Why did Ji Fu and Tian Wei choose to enter the palace as soon as possible, in order to be able to give Liu Che a sensational feeling.
There is no way, embroidered messengers are everywhere, if the speed is not fast, nothing will surprise Liu Che.
In front of Liu Che, only Jifu has the lowest status, and the matter of calling falls on him, and Zhang Yuan can also have a time to watch the play on the side.
In a few moments they were all ready, and the twenty prisoners stood side by side, while the three-bowed bed crossbow was placed two hundred feet away from them.
Ji Fu commanded the movements of the soldiers to be extremely crisp and neat, and after a while, Zhang Yuan saw the arrow in the middle galloping out.
Then, almost instantly, all twenty prisoners fell to the ground, and the arrows flew out a hundred feet before falling to the ground.
"Two hundred zhang pierced twenty people?"
Everyone was still shocked even if they watched it again, but Zhang Yuan hoped that the prisoners did not feel pain when they died.
Most of the death row prisoners in Chang'an City are not extremely vicious, and even many of them are found by the nobles to atone for their crimes.
"Your Majesty, not only the holes, but all of them have been cut in half."
After Wei Qing stepped forward to check, he ran back and said to Liu Che.
At this time, Zhang Yuan remembered the blade feather on the arrow.
"Why was he beheaded?"
"Your Majesty, the feather feather on that arrow is a blade made of stainless steel, and with such a great momentum, and it is too sharp, it will cut off all those death row prisoners."
"Clean up.
The prime minister, the imperial doctor, and the court captain and the left eunuch followed me back to the Jade Hall, and let's talk about what's going on. ”
Everyone's efforts, including the death of these twenty death row inmates, were all to attract Liu Che's attention, and now although Liu Che was lukewarm on the surface, he was already churning in his heart.
Only such a weapon can be called a weapon of war.
"Whoa."
Subsequently, Zhang Yuan and the others followed Liu Che back to Yutang.
Liu Che sat upright on the top position, and Tian Wei and Han Anguo also sat down on both sides, looking like they were going to interrogate Zhang Yuan. Wenxin School
"Prime Minister, the three-bow bed crossbow was created by Zhang Yuan?"
Tian Wei turned around, stood up and preached to Liu Che.
"Back to Your Majesty, it is indeed Zhang Yuan's improvement on the basis of the existing bed crossbow, after presenting it to the minister today, the minister realized that this will become the secret weapon of my Han, and he is in a hurry, so he directly brought Zhang Yuan to Jianzhang Palace to see you."
Liu Che nodded, his face was still calm, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry.
"Zhang Yuan, I ask you, can these three-bow bed crossbows be made on a large scale, and where can they be used on the battlefield?"
Zhang Yuan bowed his head and replied.
"Back to Your Majesty, with the current national strength of my great man, not to mention tens of thousands of bed crossbows, thousands of bed crossbows should be able to be manufactured within a year.
As for its greatest usefulness, it is in the defense of the city and siege warfare, but now the territory of the Han Dynasty is calm, and it cannot show the maximum power of the three-bow bed crossbow.
The minister thought that His Majesty could take a three-bow bed crossbow and try it on the Huns. ”
Ji Fu didn't tell Tian Wei and Han Anguo that this crossbow was made by Zhang Yuan to deal with the Huns, and this time it was like a stone falling on the surface of a calm lake, causing thousands of ripples.
"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this crossbow does not need to be made on a large scale with too much national strength, and now the Huns are making peace with my Han Dynasty, and there will be no war in a few years, so the old minister thinks that it is enough to build dozens of crossbows and send them to the border pass."
Without waiting for Liu Che to express his opinion, Han Anguo immediately expressed his opinion.
If the Xiongnu started a war with the Han Dynasty, Han Anguo would bear the brunt of the attack, and Tian Wei, the person behind him, might not have anything to do.
"Doctor Yu Shi doesn't need to be so excited, the Imperial Commander Zuojian is just a suggestion, and I didn't take it, did I?"
"Your Majesty is wise."
Seeing that Liu Che was about to play his old trick again, Zhang Yuan immediately took out the long-prepared horseshoe from his arms.
"Your Majesty, the minister still has something to present to Your Majesty, with this thing, my Han cavalry will not consume too many war horses on the grassland."
The matter of the horseshoe, Ji Fu doesn't know, let alone Tian Wei.
Zhang Yuan is the only one in the world who knows that although Xiong Da has created four horsesshoes, he doesn't know what Zhang Yuan wants to use them for.
Liu Che squinted at the horseshoe in Zhang Yuan's hand, and then asked Wang Sui to come forward to get it.
When he placed the four horseshoes on the desk, he asked slowly.
"Can these four pieces of iron do what you say?
Do you know that the crime of deceitful kings will affect the nine clans? ”
"Your Majesty, when has the minister deceived Your Majesty, the minister will never joke with his life."
What Zhang Yuan had to do was to strengthen Liu Che's determination, and even let himself plan Ma Yi's plan a year later.
Now that he is directly picked up in front of Han An Guotian Wei, it can also give Dahan an extra year to prepare.
"Then let Wang Sui go with you to do this, and I will wait to see the result.
If what you say is true, what do you want? ”
"The minister wants to resign and go home to farm."
Zhang Yuan said this sentence without hesitation, Liu Che didn't expect Zhang Yuan to be so straightforward.
"Prime Minister, is this your idea?"
Tian Wei originally thought that Zhang Yuan would propose a change of position, but he didn't expect him to directly say that he would resign.
"The minister didn't know beforehand."
It is naturally good to be able to stay at home and farm forever, but I am afraid that every once in a while, His Majesty the Great Emperor will assign a task.
"This matter is postponed, you can make individual requests, and now that the big man is employing people, you must not have the idea of being lazy."
Liu Che gave Zhang Yuan a rare space to bargain, and Zhang Yuan naturally wanted to make good use of it.