In May of the seventh year of Jian'an (202 AD), after Ye Zhao calmed down the situation in the state, he left Xu Rong as the general of Zhenbei, sat in the town and merged the state, and then submitted a table to the imperial court, established the state pastor, and returned to Chang'an.

Ye Zhao's return to Guanzhong also relieved Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, who had been worried, Ye Zhao stayed in Bingzhou, even if there were not many soldiers and horses around him, it was enough to bring a huge sense of oppression to Liu Bei and Yuan Shao who were close to him, and now that Ye Zhao has returned to Chang'an, this pressure has also weakened a lot.

However, when Ye Zhao returned to Guanzhong, he called Lu Bu and Liu Biao, the two princes who were neighbors of Ye Zhao, nervous.

However, after Ye Zhao returned to Guanzhong, he did not pay attention to the Central Plains, and the Shengong Battalion had done a lot of things in the year since he left.

The previous rat car was finally eliminated by the Shengong Battalion, the workmanship was too complicated, hundreds of rats, and the conveyor belts needed alone would be dozens or hundreds, the power system was too complicated, and the load capacity could not be increased, and it was soon replaced by the Shengong Camp with other things.

The new is a rickshaw, which is powered by manpower, using levers, conveyor belts, and gears, which are simple to operate, and now the lever cart only needs two people to stand on it and press the lever in turn to make the car move forward.

However, if it is a long-distance march, it can be used as a means of transportation for the army in large quantities, and the workmanship is not complicated, and it can be mass-produced.

After all, even if Xiliang and Hetao have been taken now, and there are a large number of horse sources, if it is a march to fight, it is impossible for all troops to rely on horse-drawn carriages to pull, and lever vehicles can speed up the march, up to two hundred or even three hundred miles a day, if a car carries five people, not only can it rest alternately, but the speed of the army can be five to eight times faster than before.

Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious, this kind of car is more difficult to steer, and it is not suitable for driving in places with complex terrain.

In the school field in the west of Chang'an City, watching more than a dozen new lever cars rushing around the school field under the control of craftsmen, Cai Yi, who was standing next to Ye Zhao, cheered and wanted to give it a try.

"If this thing can really be built in large quantities, once our army enters the Central Plains, it can appear anywhere in the Central Plains within five days!" Beside Ye Zhao, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao and other generals looked at the lever car in front of them, their eyes lit up.

Saving the marching time is equivalent to saving a lot of grain and grass, when Ye Zhao led the army out of Sichuan to defeat Li Dao and Guo Yan, it took less than two months, but it took nearly half a year to gather troops and march before.

This is still the strong discipline of the troops under Ye Zhao's command, the march is fast, if it is an ordinary army, just prepare to go out of Sichuan, with the terrain of Sichuan and Shu, there is no year that it will not be able to come out.

"The problem is like what Ma Jun said before, the direction is difficult to control, and if the army uses this object to march, the speed must be basically the same, and the gap between vehicles must be considered, and this thing can run like a fly on the concrete ground, but if the ground is uneven, it is difficult to be like now, right?" Ye Zhao looked at Ma Jun.

"The Lord's Eye!" Ma Jun smiled: "That's true, this is also the main problem of the current research of the Shengong Camp. ”

"Try to tie it up, widen the body, five or ten cars together, increase the power output, and give it a try." Ye Zhao thought for a while and said, this is somewhat similar to a train.

Ma Jun's eyes lit up and nodded, although Ye Zhao said this, there are still many problems that need to be overcome, but many times, it is not that people can't do it, but that there is no direction at all, Ye Zhao is now proposing a general direction, and next, there are naturally people from the Shengong Battalion to work in this direction.

"Before the successive battles, whether you are the generals or the soldiers of the three armies, they are already quite tired, this time I wait to return to the dynasty, is to recuperate, but the war can happen at any time, I hope that you can be tired during this time, go to the academy more, and cultivate more talents for my Han." Ye Zhao smiled and looked at the generals.

Now under Ye Zhao's command, there are gradually more talents, but more are concentrated in the younger generation, the first to be discovered Zhang Ren, Guan Ping, Gan Ning and Huang Quan are now the main generals of one side, and then there are more talents who have not been named in history, but their ability is not weak at all, most of these people are serving as county commanders in various places, and those with higher ability have now reached the status of Taishou, and in the army, they are also backbone generals such as captains and captains, which is also the reason why Ye Zhao is not worried about the rebellion of the generals.

Even if the generals rebel, these young generations of generals who have entered the army will not listen to them, and further down, the two academies of Chengdu / Du and Chang'an are still providing Ye Zhao with a steady stream of talents, and with the expansion of Ye Zhao's governance and the continuous prosperity of people's livelihood, there will be more and more talents, Ye Zhao's talents are now showing a blowout state of development, not only on the official career, but also in industry and commerce. There is no need to care too much about the attitude of the scholar class as before.

Now there are also families in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, Xiliang, and Bingzhou, but it is difficult for these families to shake Ye Zhao's status anymore.

As a top talent in the art of war under Ye Zhao, Ye Zhao hopes that there will be more generals like Guan Yu, Xu Rong, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Liao, so when there is nothing to do, Ye Zhao will encourage the generals under his command to go around the academy.

"Wait for the order!" Guan Yu and the others bowed, and then dispersed.

When Ye Zhao took Ye Zheng and Cai Yi back to the Taiwei Mansion, he happened to meet Xi Zhicai who came in a hurry.

"Zhicai is in such a hurry, but what's the matter?" Ye Zhao waved his hand to signal his two sons to leave, and looked at Xi Zhicai suspiciously.

"Returning to the lord is indeed an important matter." Xi Zhicai bowed to Ye Zhao and said: "I have a friend who can outperform me ten times, and I am willing to recommend it to the lord." ”

"Recommend?" When Ye Zhao heard this, his eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Go in and say." ”

Recommended by Xi Zhicai, it will definitely not be an ordinary talent.

The two returned to the mansion and sat down in the study, Ye Zhaocai said, "I don't know who Zhicai recommended this time?" ”

"This person is a friend I made when I was in Yingchuan, and he has the talent to go through the heavens and latitudes, and his talent is ......."

"That's it!" Ye Zhao rubbed his temples and said: "Don't say anything if you are ten times better, if that's the case, either he is an immortal, or you are a fool, just say who he is, right?" ”

"Uh......" Xi Zhicai smiled embarrassedly and said: "This person's surname is Guo Mingjia, his expression is filial piety, and he assisted Yuan Shao before, but unfortunately Yuan Shao is so resourceful and indecisive that he abandoned it, and he received his letter yesterday, and he is willing to defect to the lord, I don't know if the lord is willing to be contained?" ”

"What about people?" Ye Zhao looked at Xi Zhicai and said with a smile.

When he first received the drama Zhicai, he had the intention to win over Guo Jia through the relationship of the drama Zhicai, Xun Yu and Xun You, these Xun talents, Ye Zhao didn't dare to think about it, but Guo Jia's words, he felt that he could still compete.

It's a pity that he was quietly rejected by Xi Zhicai at the beginning, thinking about it, Xi Zhicai also felt that with Ye Zhao's pattern and situation at that time, it was difficult to recruit Guo Jia, but time has changed, and now after ten years, Xi Zhicai took the initiative to recommend Guo Jia, which made Ye Zhao feel like Feng Shui was taking turns.

"It's a little trouble." Xi Zhicai smiled bitterly.

"Tell me about it." Ye Zhao knew that it was not so easy: "He doesn't want to see me?" ”

"That's not it, the lord of the curtain has been filial piety for a long time, and he has long been like-minded." Xi Zhicai shook his head and said: "This time I came by letter, and I am afraid that the lord will have to go to Xuchang to invite him." ”

Ye Zhao didn't understand this, looked at Xi Zhicai and smiled: "I'll go to Xuchang to invite?" Can you still get it back? ”

That is Cao Cao's base camp, although he has a good relationship with Cao Cao, but Ye Zhao can be sure that if he runs to Xuchang at this time, there will definitely be no return, unless he brings the soldiers and horses directly over now.

"The lord misunderstood, in fact, it was Fengxiao who had encountered some trouble and wanted to come to Chang'an, but he was placed under house arrest by Xun Yu in the Xun family and was not allowed to come out, so he wrote to me for help." Xi Zhicai hurriedly said.

"I see." Ye Zhao nodded, frowned at Xi Zhicai and said, "It's just that if I'm not mistaken, Fengxiao and Wen Ruo seem to be friends." ”

Ye Zhao was in Luoyang back then, and he and Xun Yu were nodding friends, and they didn't have much friendship, but they were very clear about Xun Yu's social circle, otherwise they wouldn't want to recruit Guo Jia through Xi Zhicai.

"Wen Ruo wanted to promote Fengxiao to Cao Cao, but he was based on Fengxiao, and it was a ......" Xi Zhicai sighed, he could also understand Xun Yu's thoughts, even if it was himself, if Guo Jia was in Chang'an now and wanted to vote for Cao Cao, Xi Zhicai would probably do the same thing as Xun Yu, after all, this top strategist has so many in the whole world, especially a genius like Guo Jia, which is even rarer.

However, Xi Zhicai also knew that Ye Zhao had a force that was good at sneaking in, so he came to Ye Zhao for help, since Guo Jia intended to defect to Ye Zhao, the two would not only be friends in the future, but also colleagues, and Xi Zhicai naturally wanted to rescue Guo Jia.

"Now Meng Deshang is in East County." Ye Zhao rubbed his fingers, frowned slightly, and said: "It's indeed an opportunity, okay, don't bother with this matter, leave it to me immediately." ”

"Whoa!" After Xi Zhicai bowed, he said goodbye to Ye Zhao and left.

After Xi Zhicai left, Ye Zhao tapped his fingers on the tabletop, pondered for a moment and said, "Where is the secret guard?" ”

"See the lord!" The two figures came in quietly and saluted Ye Zhao.

"Inform Zhang Yue, I want to see her!" Ye Zhao said in a deep voice.

"Whoa!"

Also as the first batch of old men to follow Ye Zhao, Zhang Yue's sense of existence is very low after entering Shu, but the role of Ye Zhao is very important, and now the intelligence system in Ye Zhao's hands is almost all handed over to Zhang Yue to preside, and at the same time, the spy agency under Ye Zhao's command, the dark lines in ambush everywhere, are also controlled by Zhang Yuelai, this time, Ye Zhao is ready to let the secret guard take action.