46. Parting gifts
Cao Cao quickly distributed the 2,000 halberds to Xun You and Cao Zhang, and officially sent Man Zhong to assist the two in the grain transportation team, and Cao Cao asked them to set off in five days. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because the commander of the expedition must hang the name of a general, Emperor Xian directly gave Cao Zhang the name of a general of Yangwu, which belongs to the miscellaneous general, and has no substantive military power, but it sounds better, compared to Zhang Ji's hussar general, Yang Feng's chariot cavalry general is not a concept at all, as for Cao Cao to give Yuan Shao's general, it is even more different.
In addition, Xun Yu served as the supervisor of the army, and full of favor served as the guard, this day was the last day before leaving, Cao Zhang went to say goodbye to his biological mother Bian first.
Bian was already seven months pregnant at this time, and Cao Zhang couldn't figure out what this younger brother should be called, because the history books of the Three Kingdoms, whether it was "Three Kingdoms" or "Wei Luo", were chaotic, and Cao Cao was left everywhere, and it was also difficult for Cao Zhang to match the brothers and sisters in the history books one by one, and these two history books were also sorted out and recorded, and the authenticity may not be completely accurate, so Cao Zhang would not think much about his brothers and sisters.
Bian still loves Cao Zhang very much, because Cao Zhang was born out of phase, his sideburns and the root of his hairline are dark yellow, although the root of the hair is three inches behind is a jet-black hair, but it does not affect Bian's call him Huang Xu Er.
On this day, Cao Zhang came to Bian's room to say goodbye, only to hear Bian's say: "Huang Xu'er, my mother originally wanted you to stay in Xudu to see your young brother born, but you have to travel far away, and you are reluctant to give up for your mother, but you can share your father's worries at a young age, and you are relieved to be your mother. ”
Mother's encouragement reminded Cao Zhang of his parents in another world, he inexplicably started a wonderful life, I don't know how long my parents have to be sad for themselves in another world, touching this thought, Cao Zhang's eyes were slightly moist, and he replied with a salute: "The child is not filial and can't serve his mother." This sentence is more to say to my parents.
Bian smiled slightly and said: "Silly child, as a parent, as long as the children are safe, how can you be resentful because your children can't serve you?" Cao Zhang's heart felt a little better when he heard this, thinking that there were two brothers in that world who were better than him, and hoped that his parents could dilute their thoughts about him, but thinking about it, it seemed unlikely.
After saying goodbye to the Bian family, Cao Zhang walked out of Cao's mansion, and went to the blacksmith shop under the escort of the six tiger guards, the folk blacksmith shop can not make weapons, only some butcher knives and farm tools and the like, the place where the army builds weapons and stores weapons is called the arsenal, each arsenal has a manager of the arsenal order, and the others are craftsmen, the place with the most arsenals in Cao Cao's territory is Chenliu County, there are more than ten arsenals in total, and the equipment of the Cao Army's tiger and leopard cavalry and tiger guards comes from the Chenliu arsenal.
Generally, the arsenal will be guarded by heavy troops, and they are all built in dangerous places, supplemented by high walls and deep ditch defense, the person in charge of the arsenal of Cao Jun is none other than Cheng Yu, and the weapons of the arsenal without Cao Cao's military runes cannot be proposed, which is also a way to maintain law and order, so even if it is Cao Zhang, if you want to build metal utensils, you can only go to the iron shop.
After coming to the blacksmith shop, Cao Zhang shouted to a naked man: "Hammer master, have you finished what I want?" ”
Hearing this, the big man picked up something from the iron pier of the forging artifact and walked to Cao Zhang, and said respectfully: "Third prince, are you satisfied with it?" After speaking, spread out his palms.
Cao Zhang took it from the palm of his hand and looked at it carefully, in fact, this thing is a cylindrical steel needle about five centimeters long and only five millimeters in radius, one end of this steel needle is very sharp, and the other end is arc-shaped, Cao Zhang's hands are folded, and he pokes the steel needle on the ground, and the steel needle turns on the ground.
Seeing this, the big man sneered and said, "Third son, it took a lot of work to create this gadget villain!" It's really hard to fight, because I've never fought before. ”
"Well, you can see it, you are very attentive." Cao Zhang took out a bag of five baht coins from his sleeve and handed it to the big man, who immediately thanked him, picked up the steel needle on the ground and returned it to Cao Zhang, and then Cao Zhang went out with the guards.
When he arrived at the door, Cao Zhang said to a guard: "I want to enter the palace, which of you will go and ask the groom to drive my carriage over." ”
One of the guards agreed to leave immediately, the carriage came after a while, Cao Zhang let a few guards disband, got into the carriage and headed towards the palace, at this time Emperor Xian had just had lunch, and was watching a few guards bow in front of the first palace, and Cao Anmin was standing aside.
Seeing that Cao Zhang was coming, Emperor Xian immediately asked the guards to stop, greeted him and said with a smile: "Cao Qing, I heard that you are going to travel far tomorrow, it seems that I am going to see a period of time." ”
Cao Zhang said with a smile: "It is precisely because the minister is about to travel far away, so he wants to give His Majesty a gadget, so that His Majesty can entertain himself in his spare time." ”
When Emperor Xian heard this, he said, "What is it?" ”
Cao Zhang said with a smile: "Your Majesty first asked a craftsman minister who is skilled in carpentry to come here with a piece of mulberry wood that is one foot long and the thickness of his arm, as well as all the knives for carving, and this thing should be made on the spot." ”
Emperor Xian was interested when he heard this, so Cao Anmin sent someone to find a craftsman, Cao Zhang took out a piece of silk silk from his sleeve, with the image he painted, it was a fist-sized, round at the top and pointed at the bottom, and after explaining the production method to the craftsman, Cao Zhang took out the steel needle and said: "The tip of this wooden mound should open a hole, and the steel needle should be inlaid in it, leaving only the rounded end." ”
After hearing this, the craftsman was sure that this thing had no technical content, so he could make it in front of the palace, and Emperor Xian stood aside to watch, and in less than half an hour, the thing was ready, Cao Zhang took it and held it in his hand and smiled: "This is it." ”
Emperor Xian asked, "Cao Qing, how is this thing playing?" It looks unremarkable. ”
Cao Zhang smiled, asked the craftsman for a carving knife, cut his silk robe a meter long, two finger-width strips of cloth, and then rolled up the wooden lump with the strip of cloth, leaving only the end of the strip of cloth for himself to hold, and then pulled the strip of cloth The wooden lump flew to the ground, because the bare steel needle round end at the tip of the cone had a force after hitting the ground, and the wooden lump turned drippingly.
Emperor Xian looked at it and clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Wonderful! Cao Qing, what is this thing called? ”
Cao Zhang said with a smile: "Back to Your Majesty, this is called 'beating Dong Zhuo', Your Majesty can wrap a strip of cloth around a branch or a wooden stick, and whip this thing hard, he will keep spinning, Your Majesty can even ask the painter to draw Dong Zhuo's face on the top of this thing, so that the whipping feels more felt." ”
Cao Zhang now has resources to make full use of, naturally can not use the incomprehensible term spinning top to name this "invention", Cao Zhang can be sure, he said so, this very low-tech modern post-80s exclusive toy can make the emperor this 2B youth happy for a while.
"Haha, hahaha, wonderful, wonderful. Cao Qing, you are really loyal to me and loyal to the community! Emperor Xian praised Cao Zhang, who was only seven years old, from the bottom of his heart.
Cao Zhang sighed secretly, he finally understood why Yue Fei fought on the battlefield and made outstanding achievements, but he couldn't fight the courtier Qin Hui, people stuck to the emperor every day, slipped their whiskers and patted horses, drank and played, very intimate, how could a general who was away all the year round fight too close to his ministers?