That night, in the Library of Proton Mansion, Baili Yan picked up the lamp to read at night, and He Kuan waited by the side:

"Uncle He, add two more lamps to my son."

"No!"

When He Kuan turned around, he was stopped by Bailiyan:

"Remember, add as much meat oil as you use for the two extra lamps, and add as much meat oil to the bucket, neither more nor less."

"No!"

In these years, candles are still luxuries, the amount of paraffin wax mining is very small, only the princes and nobles and the rich eunuchs have, the ordinary eunuchs have a little reserve at home, and the commonly used is still animal fat to participate in tung oil, and the oil lamp made of cotton and linen core is obviously not bright enough. Proton Mansion has a limited budget, so in order to save money, there is no candle stockpiling.

Using two more oil lamps out of thin air will consume more lamp oil per month, and it will inevitably be known by the King of Jin for a long time, and it must be a problem to use so much oil for no reason. So Baili Yan added chicken skin, chicken fat, pig fat and rabbit fat to the lamp oil to increase the amount used.

The set of "Literature Models of the Nations" given by Ximenhua is a bit old, and it is a model reading material for teaching and educating people in the same book garden, and it is read very frequently, and many pages are obviously damaged.

The content is also eye-opening, from the table of contents, the articles included are mainly based on the history of the Liang Kingdom, famous ministers, allusions and social phenomena, natural common sense, it is an authentic textbook, the content covers astronomy, earth, nature, humanities, scenery, history, quite rich.

Of course, except for the historical content and the text itself, other contents are of little use to Bailiyan, if it weren't for literacy, he wouldn't be too lazy to take care of this broken book.

So from this day on, Bailiyan "worked hard" and strived to master the whole Chinese script in the shortest possible time.

Just three days after buying the book, Bai Liyan entered the palace for the first time after being diagnosed with a heart attack. The news that Wu Suan and Sai Qian were invited into the palace by King Jin spread for a while, and what worried Bai Liyan was whether Wu Suan had talked to him or not, whether he had told King Jin and Gong Shukuo to know.

Although the problem is simple, the key is that it is not simple in the context of this era. Uncle Kuo is quite a city, and if he knows about it, he will definitely kill himself.

However, after entering the palace, I didn't see King Jin, and I saw Uncle Kuo in the side hall of the court:

"Xiangguo!" Baili Yan gave a deep salute:

"The prince is exempt. Today, the king summoned the distinguished guests and ordered the old man to ask the prince a few questions on his behalf, and the prince should know everything, know whether he knows it or not. ”

"No."

Bai Liyan pretended to be naïve, and looked at Uncle Gong's broad face, and he didn't seem to have any bad intentions.

"The prince went to the Tongshu Yuan three days ago to ask for the "Literature of the Nations", and the prince can read it."

"I haven't understood it, I'm still studying."

"Since you don't understand, why don't you ask Mr. Yu for advice, why hide in the house."

"This son of the world was born with the Holy Body and Divine Thoughts, and he can read through the expo in March and May, so why should Mr. teach him."

Bai Liyan continued to exaggerate and boast about herself, although Uncle Kuo's face was completely blank, he was actually very contemptuous in his heart.

"The old man asked the son again, did Master Wu Shu ask three questions, how do you answer?"

Hearing this, Bai Liyan thought about it, whether the old guy Uncle Kuo knew or didn't know. If he knows, he will pretend to be stupid, he will definitely be murderous, if he doesn't know, he will say the result, he will also be murderous, and it will be unfavorable to Wu.

Unless he didn't know, and Wu Suan, Ximenhua, and Sai Qian didn't say it, Uncle Kuo wanted to know what he asked at that time, and deliberately deceived himself as a child.

Bailiyan weighed it again and again, and was sure that Uncle Kuo didn't know:

"Back to Xiangguo, I can't remember what happened three days ago, so I'd better ask something else."

"Oh, I can't remember. Fang Cai Shizi also said that he was born with a holy body, and his divine thoughts were added to his body, so he had such a good memory, why did he forget it! ”

Uncle Kuo's face immediately became stern, and his eyes were terrifying. Bai Liyan pretended to be frightened and cried:

"Uh......h Grandpa Xiangguo is so scary, I don't know if I don't know ...... in this life."

Bai Liyan sat on the ground and immediately began to cry. Seeing this, Uncle Kuo had no plan in his heart, so he said:

"Since the son of the world doesn't know, the old man will no longer be embarrassed by you. But keep in mind that the prince must study carefully, and the next time you enter the royal city, the old man will test your knowledge, if you can't answer it, a question is ten bamboo strips, and the prince can be clear. ”

"Woo...... Clearly, I want to go home, I want to go home......"

"Shizi, please!"

Uncle Kuo motioned to the palace people to help Baili Yan out of the palace, and then went to the apse.

On the way out of the palace, Bailiyan secretly pondered:

"Uncle Kuo is really insidious, it seems that Wu Suan, Ximen Hua, and Sai Qian should not have revealed their tone, otherwise there would be no follow-up just now. Can you force yourself to read "The Literature of the Nations", do you want to test something? It won't be wrong, the old thief is murderous, he must have failed to get the truth from Wu Suan, and he was worried that Wu Suan would hide something, so he made this plan to plot against me. ”

Uncle Kuo assisted three generations of kings all his life, and under the Warring States where the weak and the strong eat the great powers, he single-handedly helped the Jin State on the road to a strong country, without means and strategies, it was obviously not possible. With Uncle Gong's broad city, after testing Wu to no avail, he will inevitably target himself with his backhand.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, and he has always been at ease with himself, and he must suspect himself or disagree with the country.

But he had no reason to doubt a child, at least until he was twelve or thirteen years old, and there was no reason to doubt that a child could have extraordinary courage, and his motive was either to test the masters in the Proton Mansion or to test his own intelligence. In this way, forcing yourself to read "The Literature of the Nations" is obviously a poisonous ploy.

When the time came, Uncle Kuo asked, and if the answer was fluent, it happened to fall into his arms. If you continue to pretend to be stupid, you can't talk about it if you don't know anything, but it will deepen Uncle Kuo's doubts. In this way, only the vague line between ambiguity and clarity can deceive Uncle Kuo.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan began to wonder how to fool this old bastard.

Just when Baili Yan left the side hall, the king of Jin in the apse asked Yu Wu Shu:

"Master Wu Shu inspected the naval army camp for several days, and I don't know if the master can give me a good plan to Jin Guo to strengthen the prestige of my Jin army."

"If the king of Jin wants to win the water war, he should place the water army in the East China Sea, place it in the inland river to form an army, and at best raft in Xiaohu'er."

Hearing Wu Suan's words, King Jin was unhappy.

Pingtang City is built by Menghan River, a large village of the water army is placed, the capital city is guarded by arch, to the east can go along the Menghan River to the east to enter the East China Sea for 4,500 miles, to the west hundreds of miles to the Lianwang River, go along the river to the north to the Xianguo into the North Sea, or go against the water to the south into the Song Kingdom, the geographical position is very superior.

Wu Xuan is good at designing warships, and after being invited into the palace by his uncle Kuo three days ago, he and Saiqian went to Dazhai with Saiqian to inspect the warships and combat tools of the Navy. King Jin asked Wu Shu what way to make the Jin army's naval division stronger, and Wu Shu suggested that King Jin should let the navy become a navy and go to the East China Sea to train in order to be regarded as a water army, of course King Jin was not happy.

Even though he was not happy in his heart, King Jin still endured it and did not have a seizure on his face:

"It is often said that Master Wu Shu is good at building warships, but I don't know if Master Wu Shu can help the widow to build an invincible fleet to meet the Central Plains."

"Dare to ask King Jin, who is the overlord now."

"I am a country, how can I have others."

"Since Zhiguo is the overlord, and the Jin State has no river and no canal to pass through Zhiguo, why does the King of Jin fight against Zhiguo with water."

"This ......"

Wu Suan said a word, the king of Jin was speechless, although the Jin State was next to Zhiguo, there was indeed no big river to communicate the two countries, the existing river leading to Zhiguo was only accessible to small boats, and it was difficult for warships of more than 1,000 stones to pass, let alone the entire fleet.

When the King of Jin was embarrassed, Uncle Kuo entered the hall:

"Let's answer this question old man."

Wu Suan followed the prestige to:

"I don't know what Xiangguo's plans are, please give me advice."

Uncle widened his long hair and laughed:

"Hehaha, the hegemony of the Jin Kingdom is really the Liang State, if Master Wu Shu can help me with the Jin Kingdom, the day of the Jin King's hegemony in the future will be the time for the Liang State to exalt its might. What does Master Wu think? ”

"Hehe......" Wu Shu smiled without saying a word, then took a sip of the rice wine on the table, and said differently:

"It's easy to build a warship, but it's very difficult to train a navy, dare to ask your uncle Xiangguo, but you can find a candidate for the governor of the navy."

"As long as Master Wu Shu can build ships, there will be capable people in the Jin Kingdom to lead the army."

Uncle is broad-minded, but Wu Suan is not optimistic in his heart.

Uncle Kuo's mouth is good, in order to be able to wade into the sea to go to Liang in the future, and support the national prestige for Liang Guokuang, it is actually a method of inbreeding and long-distance attack, crossing the sea to attack Qi Guo, and taking the second son of King Qi Baili Yan as a hostage, it is nothing more than wanting to garrison Qi Guo in the name of Bai Li Yan in the future and then swallow it up, Wu Suan is of course very clear in his heart, but he can't say it thoroughly.

Due to the actual situation, the geographical location of the countries, the strategy of distant communication and close attack is not very effective, the big countries and the big countries are next to each other, and the population is also large, and it is impossible to be like the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, the two countries raised a total of more than one million troops from the whole country, and as a result, the Qin army killed 450,000 Zhao troops. Let Zhao Guo's men over the age of sixteen and under the age of forty-five disappear. In this day and age, it is simply impossible.

As long as it is a big country, it is a big country in terms of population and land, and it has a population of 40 or 50 million, and the land is vast and horizontal, even if 300,000 or 400,000 people died in the first war, it can be replenished immediately. Logistics supply support is also a problem, and the farther the distance, the more difficult the logistics. Not to mention tens of thousands of miles away, logistics are simply impossible to talk about.

Therefore, Uncle Kuo had a plan back then, inbreeding and attacking from afar.

It first occupied the country west of the mainland by sea, then encroached on the country, and then divided the east and west of the mainland to alleviate the logistical problems of the mainland. So nominally, it's just an excuse to divert attention.

Because everyone knows that the current Zhiguo is a sick tiger under the river, and it is not only the Jin State that wants to trouble him, when the countries join forces to attack the Zhiguo, the Jin State only needs to stab Zhiguo in the back to make Zhiguo lie down.

But if you start a war with Zhiguo now, no matter which country wins, it will not be able to swallow the other party for a while, and the result will be that several other big countries will take advantage of the situation from across the shore, so the method of inbreeding and long-range attack is not easy to use in these years.

However, the method of long-distance and close attack is relatively realistic, at least Uncle Kuo takes it for granted that it is feasible, because it can take advantage of the geographical span and the long coastline to greatly reduce the difficulty of logistics supply.

It should be known that the longer the distance, the efficiency of shipping is hundreds or thousands of times that of manpower, so the method of inbreeding and long-distance attack has its certain truth.

Such as the West Sea Weiguo, such a large landlocked country, surrounded by small countries such as the Qi State, separated from the Jin State by several large countries, located in the westernmost part of the plate, the Jin State is in the easternmost point, the Jin State can use the sea channel, to transport troops to the Qi State, and then annex the Qi State, and then use the Qi State as a fulcrum to attack the Yan State, the Chen State or the Wei State, and the Wei State can only be succumbed inland.

Even if the vanguard is defeated, it is the unlucky one who is Qiguo, and the Jin State will only lose troops at most.

This strategy is only suitable for the Jin State, which is located at the easternmost end of the plate, with an endless sea to the east, and Zhiguo to the west, which is bordered by the powerful Sun State and the middle princes of Xianguo to the northwest, and the Xu State to the west, and the Song State, a potential power in the future, which can be described as a strong enemy, which is very unfavorable to the Zhiguo.

Compared with the great power of Weiguo, it is located inland and has no access to the sea, and there is no sea channel, once the Jin State sends troops from the Qi State as the base, the battlefield is in the Weiguo, in the West Sea, the Jin State can not fight, and it can immediately withdraw to the sea and escape, no matter how bad it is, it can also beat the Weiguo to a pulp.