Zheng Tai hurriedly introduced: "This is my brother Zheng Hun, the word Wengong, now twenty-five years old, because of his obsession with the art of family casting, his reputation is not good, he has not been able to raise filial piety, and he is still white. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

When Jin Liang heard that this person was Zheng Hun, he hurriedly said: "Gongye, your brother is a great talent, please introduce me to him." ”Zheng Hun, this is a remarkable figure, the only person in the history of the Three Kingdoms to be recorded in history as a craftsman, and the greatest mechanical inventor of this era, Ma Jun, is a disciple of Zheng Hun. Historians at that time attributed Zheng Hun's historical merits to his implementation of a series of administrative measures to develop agriculture and improve people's livelihood, and completely ignored Zheng Hun's outstanding contributions to weapons smelting.

Zheng Hun came to Jin Liang and was about to salute Jin Liang, but Jin Liang hurriedly helped him up: "Duke Wen, I was about to send someone to recruit you, but I didn't want you to follow Brother Nai's side, this is really a great talent from heaven and my Jin Liang." ”

When Zheng Hun heard Jin Liang's words, he was simply grateful: "Xian Ting Gong has a reputation, Zheng Hun really doesn't dare to be it." ”

Zheng Hun often heard people sarcastically ridicule him as the son of a family but he practiced the skills of a lowly craftsman, so even if he had a good character, he had never been raised to be filial piety, and he was still a white body in his twenties, compared with his brother Zheng Tai, who was in the center of the official position at a young age, he was very unsatisfactory. Suddenly hearing such a big figure with him in such a way, he couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.

Jin Liang looked at Zheng Hun with a smile, and when Zheng Hun's mood stabilized, he asked, "I heard that Brother Nai said that you are obsessed with the art of forging weapons in the family, but I don't know what are the characteristics of the Zheng family's art of forging weapons?" ”

When it comes to the field he is good at, Zheng Hun changed his original Mu Ne panicked, and his spirit soared: "My ancestor is named Ma, originally a descendant of the Zheng family in Runan County, good at building weapons, and has always been the imperial general of this dynasty as a minister, but the ancestor later offended the powerful and was exiled to Gaochang County, Xiliang, the ancestor combined the forging process of the Western Regions with the forging process of the Central Plains in Gaochang, and used the steel from the Western Regions to create a weapon that was extremely sharp, and people called the steel refined by the ancestors as hemp steel. Later, my ancestors were forgiven and moved to Xingyang, so they passed on this steel forging technique. How can the later Zheng family gradually dislike forging weapons, to Confucianism heirloom, the Zheng family then more pen and ink Wenchen almost no will be a minister, if not for the ancestors left a few volumes of books, this exquisite forging steel technique is almost lost. I have to inherit the ancestors, and after several years of painstaking research, I finally got the way of casting soldiers, first of all, steelmaking, pig iron impurities are very many, it needs to be calcined by wind and fire, burned into molten iron, and then add iron powder, constantly stirred, and then remove the slag, so that, continuous circulation, you can remove some impurities in the iron, and then repeat the vigorous forging, and the hundred forgings become a divine soldier. ”

Jin Liang nodded and praised: "Duke Wen's inheritance is the ancestral divine art, which is really gratifying. I think these two methods can be called, one is fried steel, the other is a hundred steel, Naizu combined these two methods, greatly improving the speed of casting soldiers and the texture of weapons, it is really a wonderful process, but ......"

Zheng Hun asked anxiously: "But what?" Please make it clear. ”

Jin Liang said with a smile: "The method of frying steel is complex and not easy to master, and it is labor-intensive and time-consuming to make steel. Can only be used as a weapon for forging gods. It is used to equip tens of thousands of horses, but it is not enough. ”

Zheng Hun also frowned. He knew what Jin Liang meant, Jin Liang had already made up his mind to recruit himself, but he was worried about the defects of the steel-making process, Jin Liang couldn't make up his mind, thought for a while, and said: "Xian Ting Gong can recruit more blacksmiths, and I will teach them the method of casting weapons from my Zheng family, as long as there are more than 1,000 blacksmiths." Tens of thousands of weapons are not difficult. ”

Jin Liang smiled: "More than a thousand blacksmiths? Duke Wen laughed, searching the entire Jingzhou, it would be good to have a hundred blacksmiths, most of the blacksmiths were attached to the family, and it was impossible to serve the imperial court. ”

Zheng Hun saw that there was a shortage of manpower and was helpless, so he asked, "What is the good plan of the virtuous prince?" ”

Jin Liang remembered some things he had seen in that time and space, and said with a smile: "It's better to use the method of filling steel." ”

Zheng Hun's eyes lit up: "What is the method of filling steel?" ”

Jin Liang gave him an analogy: "First choose iron essence stone with more iron content to smelt good pig iron, and then burn the pig iron into pig iron." Molten pig iron is poured over wrought iron and smelted several times. It becomes pure steel. After the steel is made, wrought iron is used as the back, steel is used as the blade, it is repeatedly forged, and it is quenched with livestock urine and grease. The steel knife that came out of this way was so sharp that I estimated it could cut through more than thirty pieces of armor stacked on top of each other. ”

Zheng Hun thought about it, and then said happily: "This method is very feasible, and when I get to Yecheng, I will build a furnace for trial." It's just that I don't know how Feng Xiangong knew that there was such a method of filling steel. ”

Jin Liang once read the record in "Northern History-Art Biography", "Qi Wuhuaiwen made an iron knife, and its method burned pig iron essence, which was heavy and soft, and several nights became steel." Take the soft iron as the spine of the knife, bathe with the drowning of five animals, quench the fat of five animals, and cut the armor over 30 times. ”

It's just that Jin Liang would never be able to tell Zheng Hun this truth, so he said sophistically: "When I went to the expedition before, I got a book Jane, which recorded the method of steelmaking, which seems to be like this, but the book is broken and discarded by me. ”

When Zheng Hun heard Jin Liang say this, he said with disappointment: "Originally, I wanted to see the detailed record of the method of filling steel in the book, but it was broken, it's a pity, it seems that I can only explore it on my own." ”

Jin Liang said with a smile: "With the excellence of Gong Wen, we will be able to find a better way to make steel." ”

Zheng Hun bowed to Jin Liang again: "Keep improving!" I encourage myself with the words of the Virtuous Thunder Prince, and I will definitely offer a more subtle steel-making method for the Virtuous Thunder Prince. ”

Jin Liang said in a deep voice: "Not only the method of steelmaking, but also the method of making all kinds of weapons, such as crossbows, such as catapults, such as gunpowder, such as fire oil, these must be presided over by Gong Wen for me." Duke Wen has no official position, so it is better to join my shogunate and be the ordnance Cao under the command of General Zhennan, responsible for all ordnance building. ”

Zheng Hun looked at Zheng Tai, who had already walked away, and there was a slight hesitation in his eyes: "Zheng Hun still wants to be like a brother, being recommended to be filial piety to the court, and he doesn't want to be with iron all day long." ”

Jin Liang saw Zheng Hun's hesitant demeanor, and said with a smile: "Duke Wen's talent is different from his brother, why sacrifice his own strengths and take his own shortcomings!" ”

Speaking of this, Jin Liang lowered his voice and gave Zheng Hun a reassurance: "Duke Wen can know that in my Han system, the real power is not in the Sangong, nor in Jiuqing, but in Shangshutai, if the Sangong does not receive the Shangshu affairs, it will be like a decoration." I want to suggest that the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven adjust the position of Shangshu, preset six departments, one of which is set as the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry in my mind is not the Ministry of Works, but you are young and shallow, you can first be my Zhenbei General Ordnance Cao, and then transfer to the middle of the Lang after the six departments are complete, and then move to the Lang Lang, and then move to the position of the Shangshu, so that he and his brother Zheng Tai go hand in hand, I don't know what Wen Gong will? ”

Zheng Hun learned from his brother Zheng Tai that Jin Liang is now the favored minister in front of the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven, and is the mastermind of this move to Xiangyang to set up another central government, although the official position is not very high, but he holds military power, and is the first minister of the new court, as long as he says a word, he can definitely get rid of the white body, a big man like him will not make a promise, as long as he follows him, the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry will be his own sooner or later, his brother Zheng Tai has always looked down on what he does, but he still does not want to be on an equal footing with himself, thinking of this, Zheng Hun's chest is full of happiness and excitement, hurriedly thanked Jin Liang: "Zheng Hun is willing to do his best for the general, even if he is full of liver and brain, he will not give up." ”

Jin Liang hurriedly helped Zheng Hun up: "Now that there are many people, it is not appropriate to talk too much, let's slowly discuss how to make steel in the future." ”

Zheng Hun understood and stepped aside.

Jin Liang exchanged pleasantries with Huang Wan, Ma Riyan and other officials of the same dynasty, and then ended the apprenticeship ceremony and went to meet the Empress Dowager He and the Young Emperor Liu Wei. Empress Dowager He encouraged Jin Liang in a high-sounding manner. said that he would follow Lord Lu Zhi to learn the art of Confucianism and Taoism. To go one step further on a 100-foot pole. Young Emperor Liu Wei was in a panic in the cabin. I had to let Jin Liang take him to the deck on the first floor to see the surging momentum of the Yellow River, but he was stopped by the Empress Dowager He.

After meeting the Empress Dowager and the Young Emperor, Jin Liang was invited by Lu Zhi to go to the meeting, and Yang Biao and Huang Wan had already strengthened their determination to assist the Young Emperor Liu Wei, so they were impatient to discuss the future policy. When discussing national affairs with these old guys, Jin Liang couldn't take out the chair and let these old antiques sit on the old food, so he could only kneel there like a kneeling needle felt, without squinting. Hold your breath and concentrate, behave properly, and don't move.

Lu Zhi and the others were very surprised, they originally thought that Jin Liang came from the side, he was uneducated, he should not know etiquette, and his sitting posture was crooked, who knew that Jin Liang sat more well-behaved than these Confucian scholars, and they couldn't help but be impressed.

Jin Liang sighed in his heart, there is no way. Now the prestige of the buddy is still light, and he can't convince the public. I still have to rely on you old guys, so I have to perform better in front of you.

Lu Zhi said sadly: "I received a rumor that the thief Dong Zhuo has led his troops into Luoyang, the Xiliang thief has taken control of the palace, and King Chen Liuwang is also controlled by Dong Zhuo. ”

Everyone was shocked, but Jin Liang was the only one who was calm, because he learned this information first, and Wu Amaranth, the chief envoy of the royal secret agent, had already sent a message from Pegasus and told him what had happened.

Just as Jin Liang's army had just withdrawn from the small Pingjin camp, Dong Zhuo's military advisor Li Ru saw the emptiness of Luoyang City, and said to Dong Zhuo: "Father, look at Jin Liang's previous posture, increase thousands of troops to the west gate of Luoyang, thousands of troops to the palace, and thousands of troops to the north gate, there is definitely fraud, there are only 8,000 people in the state under his command, and he has increased troops in those places, how many soldiers and horses do he have left, Jin Liang has always been selfish and selfish, and he will definitely not be willing to hand over the soldiers and horses to the imperial court. Previously, he spared no expense to reward all his subordinates, just so that he could take these troops away today and support his own troops. The child dared to say that there must be an empty defense in Luoyang City, and the commander of Luoyang West Gate City was by no means Jin Liang's cronies. ”

Dong Zhuo shook his head, a little unconvinced, because the scouts he sent all reported that Jin Liang had sent five or six thousand men and horses to various places to reinforce him, with great fanfare and gongs and drums, which could still be fake.

Li Ru smiled and said: "Father still remembers that winter in the first year of Zhongping, my father devised a clever plan to escape the Qiang people? ”

Dong Zhuo laughed: "Of course I remember, for my father to lead the army to pursue Bian Zhang and Han Sui, even after the battle, I got carried away, and I committed the taboo of 'poor men do not chase', and was surrounded by tens of thousands of Qiang people on the way, and I went deep alone and fell into the Qiang people's division and encirclement." The reinforcements in the rear were delayed, our army was exhausted of food and grass, and Zhou Shen's troops were completely defeated, so I was calm and composed, and ordered my soldiers to build a high embankment in the river, cut off the flow of water upstream, and pretend to catch fish and shrimp in the dam. The Qiang people thought that our army was running out of food and had to rely on catching fish and shrimp to satisfy their hunger, so they relaxed their vigilance and only besieged and did not attack, trying to trap our army. Haha, the real purpose of my dam is to confuse the enemy, to use it as a cover, and then wait for the opportunity to retreat quietly, and the Qiang people went to pursue, but because I opened the dam to open the water, the river suddenly rose very high, and the Qiang people could not cross the river, and our whole army was spared. This is one of the proudest things in my father's life, and I have said it many times for my father, but I wonder why you still mention it? ”

Li Ru also smiled: "My father is witty, and the child admires him very much, but my father thinks about it carefully, Jin Liang's strategy of increasing troops is not as appropriate as my father did back then, and the increase of troops is to confuse us, so we use this as a cover, and then wait for the opportunity to retreat quietly." Father can send someone to investigate, if Jin Liang has already left the camp, Luoyang City must be empty, father can not miss the opportunity again, to enter the city as soon as possible, as soon as possible, the overall situation. ”

Dong Zhuo thought about it carefully, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly sent someone to investigate in the direction of Xiaopingjin. Half a day later, the scouts came to report that the Xiaopingjin camp was full of flags and the camp was strong. Dong Zhuo looked at Li Ru with dissatisfaction, how do you judge?

Li Ru smiled and said: "Sure enough, as I expected, the little thief Jin Liang used to be brave and ruthless, and he never disdained to use some conspiracy, but somehow, he suddenly became so treacherous when he entered Luoyang." You wait to get closer to check, I expect that Ding Jinliang has already withdrawn, leaving only an empty camp to confuse us and others. ”

The scout was ordered to investigate again, and after another half a day, the scout came to report: "What the military advisor said is extremely true, there is a flag empty in the camp of Jinliang, but it is empty inside. All the soldiers have been withdrawn. All the grain, grass and baggage were carried away. ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed. Ordered to pull out the camp, and the whole army advanced to the west gate of Luoyang. Outside the west gate, Li Ruxiu wrote a letter and shot the letter into the city. Zhao Rong, who was deliberately arranged by Jin Liang to guard at the West Gate, was a mediocre talent who was good at eating meat, and after reading Li Ru's letter, he was stunned by Li Ru's intimidation between the lines, and hurriedly opened the door and surrendered.

Dong Zhuo's army smoothly entered Luoyang City. Shi A, the tiger servant who led a group of young masters from Luoyang to guard the palace, saw that the situation was not good, and followed Jin Liang's prior instructions. first straightened out the palace up and down, and then surrendered directly to Dong Zhuo. Under Li Ru's advice, Dong Zhuo did not directly lead the troops into the palace, but still asked Shi A to guard the palace, and Dong Zhuo submitted the table to him. The reply in the palace was passed by Shi A, saying that the Son of Heaven occasionally felt cold and needed to be raised for a few days, and the Queen Mother was inconvenient to see foreign generals, so she ordered the Taifu Yuan Kui to deal with Dong Zhuo's affairs with full authority. Of course, Lu Zhi and the others couldn't get such detailed information at all, and Jin Liang didn't want to share his intelligence source with them for the time being.

Although Lu Zhi had been mentally prepared. Still couldn't suppress the sorrow in his stomach: "Princess, what should I do?" ”

Yang Biao sneered: "Then what else can I do?" Wait. You were evacuated from Luoyang. I didn't have this psychological preparation for a long time, that is, I just sat and watched Dong Zhuo and Yuan Kui fight, so you can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”

It seems that Yang Biao still has opinions on Lu Zhi, Jin Liang and others coercing the Empress Dowager and the Son of Heaven to withdraw from Luoyang.

Huang Wan said angrily: "Yang Wenxian, do you have such a disdainful statement? ”

Yang Biao suddenly woke up, except for Jin Liang, everyone else here was a loyal minister who supported the Han family, if it wasn't for the queen mother's will, their group would not leave Luoyang and go to Yecheng, he just said that, faintly slandering the queen mother, so he shut up.

Lu Zhi smiled and said: "Ziyan, don't be annoyed, Wen Xian is indeed the truth." Dong Zhuo led more than 100,000 tigers and wolves, Yuan Kui had the help of protégés and old officials all over the world, both of them were wolf ambitions, and the Queen Mother's son of heaven staying in Beijing would be a dead end, and there would be a glimmer of life when he left Beijing and went to Yecheng. It is already obvious whether it is right or wrong to leave Luoyang, and there is no need to argue more. What we're going to be talking about is what to do next. Although we know that it is the work of a wise man to temporarily avoid the front, but the people of the world will not see it this way, they will only see that it is the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven who abandoned the society and left, we can't bear such a public opinion, how to eliminate such an impact? ”

The ministers looked at each other, and even Lu Bu was a little at a loss, yes, although the analysis must break free from the sandwich of the two great careerists, but the people of the world can't see this clearly, how to convince the people of the world, if you can't convince the people of the world, then the justice of the Xiangyang court will also be greatly reduced.

Jin Hao thought about the historical records, and it seemed that he could only wait for Dong Zhuo to make a mistake, but it was very unreliable to base his victory on the stupidity of the enemy.

Jin Liang found more and more that the sense of historical superiority brought by crossing over almost destroyed him. If you can respect history a little, don't go to great lengths to persuade the Queen Mother and Lu Zhi to evacuate from Luoyang, just rely on the great merit of saving the Queen Mother's Son of Heaven to get the official title of a certain county guard, and then immediately leave the right and wrong circle in Luoyang, recruit troops and buy horses to gather grass and grain, wait for Cao Cao and others to discuss Dong Zhuowen, and then gain some fame when crusading against Dong Zhuo, and fish in troubled waters after the alliance breaks, everything will be much simpler, and you don't have to calculate and calculate like you are now, but you almost count yourself into a dead end.

All the ministers looked at Lu Bu with hopeful eyes, and Jin Liang couldn't think of how to solve this problem, so he could only say mysteriously: "Please wait and see what happens, and in a few days, you will see." ”

Sikong Liu Hong hurriedly said: "Lord Jin, why are you so sure? ”

Jin Liang smiled slightly and said, "I have arranged everything in Luoyang City, you can just take a look." ”

Another day later, the fleet passed through Wen County, Hanoi County, and Jin Liang stood in the bow of the ship and looked at the fiefdom that was supposed to belong to him with another polished telescope. Originally, this time the Queen Mother also promised to make herself the Marquis of Wen, but she was afraid of the views of the Yuan family, and her Wenhou was in vain, so she could only wait for the future to make meritorious contributions and then ask for the title of Marquis Wen.

There is a very remarkable character in Wen County, Sima Yi, although he is only a child now, it is said that he already has the appearance of a traitor who looks at the wolf and looks at the wolf. Jin Liang secretly made up his mind that if Dewen County was a fiefdom, he would definitely get rid of Sima Yi's family. If there is no Sima Yi, there will be no five nonsense, whether this reasoning is correct, Jin Liang can't say for sure, but he hates the thick and black careerist very much, and hates the Sima family who has been confused for several generations by the second generation of the smart people, and his hatred is even more than his hatred of Cao Cao and Liu Bei. To the north of Wenxian is the undulating and majestic Taihang Mountain, and Jin Liang stands on the deck, holding a telescope to enjoy the magnificent scenery of Taihang Mountain.

Looking at it, Jin Liang's face suddenly became solemn. Between the Yellow River and the Taihang Mountains is a large area of low hills, lush vegetation, originally very inconspicuous, but Jin Liang saw that in that large area of lush mountains and forests, it seemed to hide a murderous aura. (To be continued.) )