Sun Ce waved his hand again, signaling the carpenters not to get excited.

"I'll give you a month, whether you're building a faster ship, adding new weapons to it, or making it stronger. Like them, the first place will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars, the second place will be rewarded with five thousand dollars, and the third to fifth places will be rewarded with three thousand dollars. ”

The carpenters looked at each other. Blacksmiths can try knives, how do they try? A month is not enough to build a ship, and it requires a lot of timber to build a ship, so it is impossible for them to try it casually.

"I don't need you to build a real ship, I just need you to make a model ship. Even if you don't have time to make a model ship, you can draw a drawing. As long as everyone agrees, I will be rewarded. Okay? ”

The carpenters looked at each other and responded in unison. "Obey the general's orders."

Huang Yueying rolled her eyes, quietly retreated to the back, and pulled Cai Ke's sleeve. "Auntie, do you want to earn this money?"

Cai Ke watched from a distance as Sun Ce scattered the Cai family's money like a loser to fool the Cai family's craftsmen, and his heart was so distressed that he felt like he had cut meat, how could he be in the mood to talk to Huang Yueying, and turned around and left with a snort. Huang Yueying thought about it, turned around and ran towards Cai Wei's courtyard.

After Sun Ce gave the craftsmen the reward, Huang Zhong also came, and was very surprised to see that the three warships had been repaired and equipped with ramming horns. Yesterday, when Sun Ce said that he would be able to have five warships in today's battle, and asked him to arrange the manpower, he was still a little skeptical, but now he is completely convinced.

"Money makes the devil grind." Sun Ce said with a smile: "Five warships are given to you, it is up to you whether you can cut off the connection between Xiangyang and Fancheng and assist the general in attacking Fancheng." ”

Huang Zhong was grateful. Sun Ce is creating an opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions, and if he wins this battle, he will make a name for himself and will not be treated as a newcomer. After knowing each other for less than half a month, Sun Ce's appreciation and respect for him made him unable to repay him, and the only thing he could do was to fight and repay Sun Ce with his military exploits.

"Please rest assured, General."

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Five warships sailed out of Caijia Dock, waving flags and high morale.

The Jingzhou Navy Division watched from afar, and did not even have the courage to approach and reconnoitre. Huang Zhong didn't entangle with them, went upstream, and went straight to Fancheng. Sun Ce did not go with him. With five warships and a thousand elite warriors, Huang Zhong had enough ability to control the water, and he didn't need to be in charge. As for attacking Fancheng, with Daddy Sun Jian's ability and strength, there should be no big problem, and there is no need for him to steal the limelight.

The only regret is that it failed to achieve the original expectation, and in the end it ended up being attacked. Nine times out of ten, things in the world do not go as expected, although Liu Biao is not a hero, but he refuses to bow his head and worship, he is really a little embarrassed. Fancheng is okay to say, after all, it is only a small city, and only Huang Zu led more than 1,000 people to defend it, and after the reinforcements in Xiangyang were cut off, it should be ready to go. Xiangyang is still a problem.

What Sun Ce has to think about now is how to solve this trouble. If Xiangyang is also going to attack, it will be really embarrassing to go home.

However, as far as the military literacy he has at the moment is concerned, his biggest role is to play psychological warfare, divide Liu Biao and Kuai Yue, and in terms of command, he is still a newcomer, maybe not as good as Sun Fu.

I'm not a genius after all.

In the afternoon, Sun Ce was sitting in the hall waiting for news, Huang Yueying suddenly rushed in with a bunch of bamboo slips, went to the hall, and before she could stand still, she couldn't help but shout happily: "General, I found it." ”

Sun Ce raised his head, inexplicable. "What did you find?"

Zhang Pingzi's article. "Erjing Fu", "Nandu Fu", "Returning to the Field", but I think you should like this the most. Huang Yueying held up a silk book, and her eyebrows danced. Zhang Pingzi's hand-annotated manuscript of "Examination of Work Notes", he made the drum car and guide car are all skills learned from this book. ”

"Zhang Pingzi's hand-annotated "Examination Record"?" Sun Ce was surprised and delighted, got up and went to Huang Yueying's hands to pick it up. "Examination of the Work Record" is one of the few technical books in the pre-Qin period, and later generations have different views on the era when it was written, but their value is unanimously praised and respected. He flipped through a little, but he didn't know that he could travel at the time, and he wasn't very interested in purely technical ancient books, otherwise he would have to memorize a few inventions desperately.

As far as "Examination of Work" is concerned, he only has the impression of words, no pictures, and now there are not only pictures, but also Zhang Heng, a generalist, who is hand-annotated, and the value is considerable.

"General be careful." Huang Yueying was startled and hurriedly took a step back. "This silk book has been going on for some years, and it has been bitten by insects, so be careful."

Sun Ce saw that the silk book was yellowed, and there were some holes, which looked indeed a little broken, so he didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly pushed the things on the case aside. Huang Yueying unfolded the silk book, Sun Ce glanced at it, and was a little disappointed. The silk book used two kinds of lines to draw some parts, gears, levers, and some things that he didn't know what they were.

What the hell is this?

"That's it?" Sun Ce has the impression that although the content of "Examination of Work" is not much, it is not such a few words.

"Of course not, that's only part of the story. That year, Ah Weng wanted to build a keel car, so he found a copy of it, and put it in the study when he was finished. I saw it when I was a kid and was a little impressed. The general had mentioned Zhang Pingzi and asked the carpenters to build ships, and I thought it might be useful, so I hurried home to get it. ”

Sun Ce's heart moved. This girl is clever, she can understand a little, and before I paid attention, she fell in love. No wonder he can make a great god like Zhuge Liang obedient, and he doesn't even dare to take a concubine.

"Do you have any research on these?" Sun Ce put the atlas aside and chatted with Huang Yueying. In his opinion, Huang Yueying is much more valuable than this broken silk book. "You also built a keel car, what kind of thing is that?"

"Keel car? Draw water. Driven by river water, no talent is needed to draw water to irrigate the fields. The general hasn't seen it? ”

It turned out to be a waterwheel. However, in his impression, there has been such a thing as a waterwheel for a long time, and Huang Chengyan still has to learn from Zhang Heng's hand-annotated "Illustrated Description of the Examination of Work" in order to build a waterwheel?

"Do you know Du Shi? It is the Du mother who has been the Taishou of Nanyang and is known as the Du Mu who summons the male Dumu. ”

"The general wants to say that he made a water drain, right? The keel car does have some similarities with the water drain. However, when I built the keel car, the water drain had been lost for many years, otherwise it wouldn't have been so troublesome. ”

"Why is the water drain such a good thing to use, why is it lost, shouldn't it be used all the time?"

"The water drain is used for iron smelting, and it has always been controlled by the iron official, and the folk craftsmen do not know it. The craftsmen in the official may do it, but they can't write, they can only be passed on by word of mouth, and they can't be drawn into a map. ”

Sun Ce sighed: "There are so many people who read the scriptures, and there are also a lot of people who study the "Examination of the Work Record", maybe they have also annotated tens of thousands of words, and they are the truth, but no one pays attention to the things around them, so that they are lost, it is really useless and a waste of food." ”

"General, reading is the way of preaching saints, and making is the last skill of craftsmen, how can they be confused." There was a chuckle outside the door, and Huang Chengyan walked in slowly with his hands behind his back. When he passed by Huang Yueying's side, he glared at Huang Yueying quietly. Huang Yueying turned around and stuck out her tongue.

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