After galloping on a horse in the northern grassland, Lu Bu felt that his heart was open, so he turned to Youzhou.

Accompanied by Yan Rou, the assassin of Youzhou, and Zhang Yang, commander of the Youzhou Military Region, Lu Bu traveled eastward and came to Xiangping.

Sun Gong, the Taishou Gonggong of Liaodong County, had already gone out of the city fifty miles long ago to greet His Majesty the Emperor.

Gongsun Gong once accompanied his father on Lü Bu's ship, and when he met Lü Bu, he saw Lü Bu again, and first pleaded with Lü Bu and asked Lü Bu to forgive Gongsun for the rebellion.

Lu Bu comforted him with kind words, telling him that Gongsun Yuan had confessed his guilt and surrendered to the law, and that his Gongsun Gong had no faults and merits, so he was relieved to be the Taishou of Liaodong County and was optimistic about the Goguryeo people for the Han Dynasty.

After inspecting Xiangping, Lü Bu turned to southern Liaoning, boarded a ship and crossed the Bohai Strait, and arrived at Huang County in Qingzhou.

Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, and Yu Ban, the commander of the Qingzhou Military Region, have been waiting in Huang County for a long time.

Lu Bu first went to Gaomi and Jimo to inspect the industrial base here, which is now the largest military production base in China, and a large number of artillery and rifles are produced here.

Ma Jun has been waiting here for a long time, and he has a secret weapon to offer to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu saw such a secret weapon with his own eyes in the shooting range of the military factory, and was deeply shocked, this is exactly the weapon that the army dreamed of, and it was really made, although it was not the best, but it was invincible in this era.

Ma Jun told Lü Bu that such weapons were no more troublesome to make than artillery, and even as simple as making rifles, so he had prepared a large number of new weapons for this expedition to Rome.

It is not only equipped with the Royal Forest Army and the Rongyi Division, but also equipped with several main divisions of the Haotian Army and the National Defense Army.

Lu Bu caressed this secret weapon with great affection, and the cold metallic texture seemed to tell others how he killed without blinking.

Lu Bu felt that with the help of this weapon, he would definitely win a great victory on this expedition, which was of epoch-making significance!

Lu Bu came to Jiaozhou Bay again, the construction here is more prosperous, far better than when he first came to Jiaozhou Bay, the harbor is like a forest of masts, and there are many large and small ships.

Among the warships that were full of walls, one warship occupied a dock alone.

It is huge, slender, and most importantly impressive in its distinctive three-tiered deck and its large bow and stern.

Xu Sheng, the commander-in-chief of the navy who accompanied him on the visit, introduced to him that this was the latest generation of first-class sail battleships of the Han Imperial Navy, the "Xinghan".

It uses the latest large-caliber naval guns, all of which are breech-loading rifled guns, copper-shelled shells, and split charges, although the number is not much more than that of the previous Empire, but the power has increased significantly.

On the top deck were fifteen eight-inch naval guns, and they were long-barreled naval guns, with a range of more than 2,000 zhang.

There are twelve ten-inch naval guns on each of the two decks below, which are also a new design with long barrels, and the firing range is more than 2,300 zhang.

The bow and stern of the ship are equipped with a turret with three eight-inch guns, which can rotate 270 degrees, and the power and range are more powerful than those of the Empire-class warships.

These eighty-four guns made the Xinghan a mobile fortress on the sea, and also became the flagship of Lü Bu's expedition to Rome, with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, creating many firsts.

Before the advent of steam power, this battleship was probably the limit of sail-powered battleships, and the navy did not dare to add steel armor to this battleship, otherwise the weight would be too heavy, and it would be a huge test for the hull structure.

Lu Bu also has an inexplicable complex for big ships and cannons, and he is even more obsessed with the inability to use steam power to build ironclad ships, but unfortunately there are too many things beyond this era after all, and technology cannot reach them.

After visiting the naval base in Jiaozhou Bay, Lu Bu went to Jizhou by land to inspect various places in Jizhou.

Zhending, Guangzong, Chaoge, these places that Lu Bu had been to back then, he revisited them one by one.

In recent years, the war in the Kanto region has stopped, the people are no longer displaced, many water conservancy facilities have been built in various places, crops are growing well, and the ability to resist disasters has been significantly enhanced.

The people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the taxes were reasonable, and both the population and agricultural output were growing rapidly.

The extensive road network has also accelerated the circulation of people and materials, and the compulsory education of children led by Lu Bu has also enabled the Han people to become literate from an early age, and the illiteracy rate has been greatly reduced.

When the overall quality of the people is improved, they will be able to pay more to the country and the nation, will they be more assertive, and will they pursue something of a higher spiritual level.

From Jizhou to the south, Lü Bu first arrived in Yanzhou, Yanzhou joined the Han Empire late, and the main thing here was the implementation of the tuntian system and semi-military management.

Many of the government officials were newly recruited Yanzhou children, who had attended a new-style school, not only Confucian culture, but also geography, arithmetic, and ideological education.

Therefore, they are completely a new generation of scholars, and there is a great difference between them and the older generation of scholars, and there is a huge difference between the two sides in terms of thinking and way of thinking.

In terms of governing the country, Lü Bu advocated the rule of law and Legalism rather than Confucianism.

Inspected Yanzhou, and then inspected Xuzhou, Yangzhou, these coastal areas are very well developed, are very rich, the Han Empire is not closed to the country, encourage the maritime Silk Road, there are a number of prosperous ports along the coast.

In particular, the old land of Wu such as Yangzhou, because of the large number of people from the north who moved in and developed it, as well as the more moderate minority policy of the Han Dynasty, greatly reduced the confrontation between the South Vietnamese and the Han Chinese.

The Han people and the South Vietnamese people are of the same language and species, and they are originally the same ancestor, and after the promotion of Han culture and the increasing frequency of intermarriage between the two sides, the two ethnic groups are naturally integrated together.

Lu Bu set out from Yangzhou, took the warship of the Yangtze River Fleet, and traveled upriver from Yangzhou to Xiangyang, Jingzhou, for Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liao and others, there are more memories here.

Accompanied by Zhuge Liang and others, Lu Bu personally visited Mr. Shui Jing, who was over 70 years old, and went to the Jiangling Martyrs Memorial Cemetery to offer flowers.

From Jingzhou, Lü Bu's parade army continued along the waterway of the Yangtze River, passing through the Three Gorges and reaching Jiangzhou.

Ma Chao insisted on paying tribute to Ma Dai, and Lu Bu also went with him, and built a martyr's cemetery on the side of the plank road by the river to commemorate the hundreds of Han soldiers who were buried by explosives along with Ma Dai in that war.

Ma Chao gave Ma Dai all kinds of tributes, and then talked about the recent situation of Ma Chao's brothers.

Lu Bu was also a little embarrassed, among the senior generals of the Han army, it was the Ma family who sacrificed the most, and Ma Teng, Ma Dai's uncle and nephew all died young.