"I don't think we paid special attention to us! In my opinion, it should be the money we earned a year ago that made Empress Deng's family red. Liu Zhong secretly observed Liu Hong when he said this, and then said: "Although Empress Deng is also an official eunuch family, after all, Father Deng died early, and their family's foundation is too thin. Now that their status has improved, they want to find more income. Although the identity of our house can suppress other people, it is useless to Empress Deng's family, and when he saw that we made a lot of money, he paid attention to us. ”

"Looks like so!"

Liu Hong also felt that this explanation was reasonable, and slowly put his heart down. Anyway, as long as you don't pay special attention to him and don't affect his ascension to the throne, other things are trivial, so you don't have to care too much.

But small things are small things, and Liu Hong is not a surname who suffers, "Damn, your father died early, so that you have no education, this can't blame you!" But if you are in power to take my inheritance, then it is your fault! If I just put up with this breath, what will the people who follow me think of me, even if others don't look down on me, this breath can't come out, and it will definitely be uncomfortable! ”

Liu Hong was originally a violent temper, otherwise, he would not have become an Internet writer in his previous life because he didn't want to be regulated. So where can he stand this anger, he directly made up his mind to pay attention, this matter can't be counted like this anyway, at least he has to find some trouble for the Deng family.

The arrogance of the Deng family is quite famous in history. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs and relatives fought for power, and in addition to the famous Liang family, the main thing to talk about was the Deng family. Now that the Liang family has just died, Deng Mengnu has only become the queen, and there are still several years before she falls out of favor, and these few years are when the Deng family is powerful. Liu Hong thought about it, and he sadly found that with his current strength, he wanted to make trouble for the popular Deng family, and he was really a little self-conscious.

"Damn, I can't even deal with a relative, what kind of time-traveler am I, but I'm still complacent all day long thinking I'm the protagonist." Liu Hong was annoyed that he did not develop his strength as soon as possible. "No, this matter must not be left like this, no matter how much it costs, I must take this breath."

Liu Hong has been an orphan since he was a child, his surname is a bit ruffian, his temper is a little violent, he can't stand the slightest anger, and he can't afford to lose anything. If the Deng family can influence him to ascend the throne, he will eat this dumb loss, but the Deng family will be wiped out in a few years, it is completely a soy sauce product, and he was bullied by them, if he wants Liu Hong to swallow this breath, Liu Hong really can't do it.

"My strength is not enough, but I can borrow a knife to kill!"

Although the Deng family is now powerful, they have not reached the point of covering the sky with one hand, like those eunuchs are not afraid of them. Especially the "Five Marquis", who destroyed the Liang family, they are not only not afraid of the Deng family, their power is above the Deng family, and they have been pinching each other with the Deng family until Queen Deng fell out of favor and the whole family was destroyed.

"Since your Deng family came to trouble me first, I will provoke the eunuchs to trouble you." Thinking of this, Liu Hong said: "Uncle Zhong, you sort out a copy of the sugar decolorization method, find someone who can speak well, and send it to those eunuchs." This is a money-grabbing business, with the level of the eunuchs' greed for money, if someone robs them of business, they will definitely not be able to bear it, and they will definitely pinch each other. ”

"Little Hou Ye, good idea! A single decolorization method can provoke two big forces to fight each other, and it's wonderful that we can sit on the side and watch the excitement. And these two forces are not good things, no matter which force suffers, it is a good thing for us, little Hou Ye, you are definitely killing two birds with one stone. ”

For Liu Zhong's praise, Liu Hong felt quite harsh. It took so much effort to deal with a small relative, not only with the help of other people's forces, but also at the expense of so much interest. If there are really huge variables in the future, with his current strength, he can't just be slaughtered!

"This can't be done, how can my fate be in the hands of others, I must have the strength to protect myself!"

Liu Hong doesn't have any big ambitions, he just wants to be the emperor peacefully, so that he can enjoy the poor and luxurious imperial life. So all along, he didn't have a strong sense of urgency to build his own power or anything.

But through this incident, Liu Hong's paranoia of persecution in his previous life attacked, and he felt extremely unsafe. So he made up his mind to have the strength to protect himself as soon as possible.

"Rioter, I want to be a rioter, and then climb the technology tree, make a lot of money, and then riot ......" Liu Hong's mouth kept chattering, almost a little stunned.

In this era of war and chaos, if you want to protect yourself, the most important thing is to have an army. "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun", this is Taizu's wise saying.

But the army is by no means something that can be built. Although the Han Dynasty allowed the great nobles to have some private soldiers, but there has not been a Yellow Turban Uprising yet, and the Han Dynasty still has a very strict control over private soldiers.

"It's not easy to build, but it has to be built! I must have my own army! ”

After setting the goal, Liu Hong thought about it again and again, and finally decided that he could first divide the army into pieces and disperse them, so that he would not attract the attention of others. And when it's time to use it, as long as it is gathered, it is a powerful army.

Just do it, Liu Hong, who made up his mind, immediately asked the housekeeper to recruit displaced people in the name of praying for the Hou Ye. Although this will inevitably attract the attention of others, there is such an excuse, coupled with the actual situation of the Hou Mansion (a Hou Ye who is about to die of illness, a three-year-old heir), it will not make people pay much attention.

During the time of Emperor Huan, natural disasters [***] had already occurred continuously, and homeless people were almost everywhere, and it was really not difficult to recruit some homeless people. It didn't take long to recruit thousands of people, and if it weren't for the fact that the farm hadn't been done well, there really wouldn't be too many people, and it wouldn't have taken a few days to recruit a few more people.

Of course, it is impossible for these thousands of people to be trained into the army, not only can the recruited people not all be strong men, but there are also some old and weak and women. Moreover, getting so many soldiers at once is too eye-catching, and it will cause unnecessary trouble. Therefore, the army should be trained little by little, and it must also implement the policy of elite soldiers. But even so, with these people, Liu Hong's confidence is a lot more.

For the people who picked the rest, in addition to arranging for them to farm and work, Liu Hong also tried his best to cultivate them. After all, even if Liu Hong becomes the emperor, he needs a group of his own people. Now choose some young ones and let them learn, so that they can reserve some talents for their future.

To this end, Liu Hong deliberately compiled a variety of textbooks, including mathematics, physics and chemistry in later generations, all of which were divided into volumes according to their degree of difficulty and allowed them to study.

Training the army is what Liu Hong is most concerned about during this time, and everything else has to stand aside. To this end, Liu Hong not only figured out the training regulations of the special forces in later generations, but also adjusted the farm, turning the original ecological farm-type scientific research base into a semi-military and semi-scientific research farm-type base.

The army is there, but Liu Hong knows that if the army wants to have a strong combat capability, it is far from enough to let the army strengthen training. Having a good weapon will definitely multiply the combat effectiveness of the army, and the best weapon is definitely a hot weapon gun.

Speaking of guns, Liu Hong definitely can't make modern guns, at least in a short period of time, he can't make them. Because with the existing conditions, he can't get explosives at all, so even if he knows the practice of modern guns, he can only sigh.

Although he can't do modern guns, he can still consider gunpowder guns. The production of gunpowder guns requires gunpowder and steel, and the gunpowder formula is quite simple, one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal, which in the previous life, three-year-old children all know, and it must be difficult for Liu Hong. And when it comes to steel, Liu Hong can't help but thank God again.

Steelmaking requires coal and iron ore, both of which he has in Haixing, which is adjacent to the river, which saves him a lot of money. And Liu Hong also knows that there is oil in the underground of the river, and if this thing is done, it will definitely allow him to develop rapidly.

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