Chapter 27 Expansion of Xiangping
Liu Ze returned to Xiangping, and before he entered the mansion, Wan'er, the maid beside Cai Wenji, hurried over and said to Liu Ze: "My lord, Madame is retching. Liu Ze was frightened, hurried to the bedroom, and saw Cai Wenji half-lying on the kang, his hand touching his chest, looking sick, Liu Ze held up Cai Wenji's wrist, pressed it on the pulse, and after a while, he was ecstatic, hugged Cai Wenji and said: "Hahahaha, Wenji, you are happy!! "Ah, the concubine is pregnant?" "yes, yes." Cai Wenji was shy, patted Liu Ze and said, "It's all your fault, it's all your fault!" "Hahaha, where do you blame me?" "You..." Liu Ze kissed Cai Wenji and said, "Take care of your body." Cai Wenji said: "This is nature. "I'm going to write to my father-in-law so that he can be happy too." Cai Wenji said with a smile: "It's so late at night, don't rest quickly, it's not too late to write tomorrow morning." Liu Ze was told by Cai Wenji that he felt tired and took off his clothes to rest.
"Lang Jun, the concubine has something to discuss." "Well, let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm sleepy." "Don't sleep, that's the thing." Liu Zemi glared at Cai Wenji and said; "Madame, please." "Lang Jun, I can't serve you in the future, I think... I see..., you can take Wan'er and Shuang'er. "Okay." Cai Wenji was secretly sad, Liu Ze was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What did you just say?" Cai Wenji turned her worries into joy and said angrily: "I want to go." Liu Ze recalled Cai Wenji's words and said, "Madam, you and I are in love, how can you act like this?" A year of endurance has passed. Cai Wenji was overjoyed, her husband was really a bare-hearted man, but before she got married, her aunt repeatedly taught her that if she was pregnant, she should raise the fetus with peace of mind and avoid sexual intercourse. Men almost don't need it every day, and the two dowry girls are replacing themselves after they are pregnant. Cai Wenji is proficient in poetry and music, and she is also a maverick woman in love, although she loves Liu Ze very much, but the world is like this, I have to say, seeing that Liu Ze is not allowed, she is naturally happy, and she turns her head and thinks about it, it will take a year, I don't know if Liu Lang can bear it.
At noon on the second day, I don't know how the news got out, a large group of people congratulated Liu Ze, and the opera Zhicai Guo Jia Xu Shule Jindian Wei Xu Chu Shi Ah Tai Shi Ci was even more happy. Liu Ze thought, my wife is pregnant, why are you so happy? When I have a child, I just need to prepare a red envelope, I want a big red envelope. said: "A few of you, you have a wife and children, hurry up, if you don't have a wife, hurry up and find a wife, and if you have a wife, work hard and make children." It made a few people except Dian Wei laugh, and the others were extremely embarrassed. Under the mediation of Cai Wenji, Guo Jia, who is a drama talent, finally has a crush, Lejin is busy, and he has not found it yet, Xu Chu is five big and three thick, extremely strong, and it is not easy to find a suitable one. Shi Ah also has it, but he hasn't married yet, and Tai Shi Ci has just arrived, so it is estimated that he will not be allowed to have it. How did Liu Ze know that Xi Zhicai and others followed Liu Ze and regarded Liu Ze as the future lord, Cai Wenji was happy, and there was a successor to the lord, can you not be happy? Besides, in case..., but in case, I don't dare to say it.
After laughing for a while, Liu Ze said: "It just so happens that you are all here, there are more and more people in Liaodong, and more than 100,000 Yellow Turban captives have been settled, because the remnants of the Yellow Turban are poisonous, and there are many people from the mainland who come to Liaodong." I intend to expand Xiangping City. In the warm spring of the coming year, let the soldiers and officials whose families are in other places take their families to Xiangping and make proper arrangements to relieve their worries. The people rejoiced and said, "This is how it should be." "Now that the weather is cold, we have started to prepare materials, recruit people, and distribute wages, and we can't let the people work in vain." Everyone discussed for a long time, discussing the scale of expansion, the offensive and defensive facilities of the city wall, the division of functions inside the city, the relocation outside the city, the depth of the moat, how to construct the water source, and so on. Liu Ze remembered the city wall built by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty to guard the border and draw it for everyone to watch. Liu Ze thought of Qi Jiguang, and immediately thought of the saber he made, the mandarin duck array, the distance carriage, etc., and secretly complained to himself, Qi Jiguang is known as an undefeated general, whether it is against the Japanese or the Tatars, he has never tasted defeat in his life, and he has to be busy this winter. Liu Ze saw that the discussion was almost over, and said, "Fengxiao, you are responsible for this matter." "Ming Gong, you see, lecture in the martial arts hall, enter the grassland to trade goods, Wen Qian's barracks still need me to help make a sand table, and a large group of people are still waiting for me to take the idea, as well as Feng Ming's order, make children, Feng Xiao is incompetent, and he lacks skills." A group of people laughed, Guo Jia's eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "Ziyi is new, he has the title of captain in the barracks, and he doesn't have many affairs, Ming Gong, do you see?" Liu Ze smiled: "Ziyi dares to do this? "How could Tai Shi Ci have thought that such a heavy responsibility would be given to him? He immediately said, "Ci will never disgrace his life. ”
After Tai Shi Ci was instructed, he recruited manpower and prepared materials. After more than three months of preparation, the stone is like a mountain, the wood is like the sea, lime, firewood and grass, and even thatched houses have been built a lot, just waiting for the spring to warm and thaw, and start construction.
In Lejin's weapons camp, Liu Ze was holding a saber, waving it, dancing to the xing, a knife was chopped out, and a wooden stick with a thick arm was broken by the knife, Liu Ze smiled and said: "Wen Qian, if the cavalry is equipped with a saber for close combat, what do you think?" Le Jin said: "In the past, General Wei fought against the Huns, and the Han army fought with swords, and the casualties were equal; How the saber is, let the cavalry test it. "Mm-hmm, make it in large quantities, let the cavalry try it out, and see how powerful it is?" At this time, the head of the craftsman, called Wang Da, said: "My lord, this knife needs to be made of refined steel, and the arsenal is short of manpower." Liu Ze looked at Le Jin, and Le Jin said: "The weapons camp involves secrets, and there are too few suitable craftsmen. Liu Ze nodded, the ordnance battalion was formed based on more than 100 craftsmen from Luoyang, and then recruited a lot of people one after another, now there are only 700 people, more than 700 people make weapons to supply more than 100,000 troops, and they are really too busy, and they come from time to time to make trouble. suddenly remembered that with the help of water and wind, he ran to find Guo Jia in a smoke. Lejin and a large group of craftsmen were left dumbfounded.
Hard work pays off. Liaodong is close to the sea, there are often strong winds, the first windmill finally set up, under the blowing of the wind, cheerful rotation, the wooden gears connected at the bottom transmit power, drive the hammer, waving up and down. Liu Ze, Guo Jia and the people who developed Cao shouted excitedly, and on a cold day, they drank wildly while holding the wine gourd.
When the New Year came, the good news continued, and the windmill successfully entered the ordnance camp, replacing manpower; Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Fei were forbidden, and they successfully controlled the soldiers and horses of the four counties, and the training was almost complete; Liu Song frantically amassed wealth in Luoyang, with an annual income of 1.5 million yuan; Liujiazhuang was affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but under the leadership of Liu Hu, he successfully repelled several waves of remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and now Liu Hu also has a team of thousands of people. Liu Ze and Xi Zhicai Guo Jia and Xu Shu planned to take a five-day holiday on New Year's Day and let everyone go home for a good year.
Winter goes to spring, and the warm spring breeze greens the rivers and mountains. Outside the city of Xiangping, Tai Shici commanded nearly 10,000 migrant workers to build the city, a scene in full swing. As a result of the preparations, the walls increased in height day by day.
Liu Ze lay in the warm quilt, stroking Cai Wenji's bulging belly, Cai Wenji closed her eyes happily, feeling the joy of the fetus. Liu Ze has endured it for more than half a year, and the bottom is already like iron, Cai Wenji stretched out his hand to shake it, and said shyly: "Spring is warm, Lang Jun should take Wan'er Shuang'er." Liu Ze was 10,000 willing in his heart, but after enduring it for so long, he still wanted to save face, and said, "Forget it." Cai Wenji was a reluctant person, listening to what Liu Ze said, and said with a smile: "If you die, you will have to suffer the crime." He turned around, greeted Wan'er Shuang'er, and said, "You two clean up the master's study, and the master will go to the study to rest tonight." Liu Ze smiled: "Are you driving me away?" "Lang Jun, you are tossing blindly, and the concubine is also thinking about spring, so it is not good for children." Liu Ze had no choice but to follow the arrangement.
When she came to the study, Wan'er Shuang'er cleaned up neatly, picked up the bed tent, and a pair of jade people were lying on the bed, Wan'er Shuang'er was well-behaved, and when she heard Cai Wenji's hint, she was very happy in her heart, and the two of them knew that they would be Liu Ze's people sooner or later, so they didn't resist. Liu Ze has been depressed for a long time, looking at the flowers in front of him and answering shyly, waiting for picking, where can he bear it, scream, and rush to bed, the scenery of the night, there is no need to say.