Deng Ji and his entourage left Liang County, but before they arrived in Luyang, Zhang Liao had to send people to report the bad news.

Gan Ning is gone, and his own naval captain Guan Cheng is dead.

Trying to survive in this troubled world, Deng Ji felt that he already understood what it meant to be unsatisfactory in the world, and nine times out of ten, he suddenly heard bad news again, and he should just experience this sentence again.

But what is the deep unwillingness and anger in my heart, as well as the faint pain?

I shouldn't have done anything wrong in this matter, right?

Deng Ji in the ox cart reflected for the first time, but he couldn't find what he did wrong.

After thinking about it a few times, he couldn't even sigh, but he was speechless for a long time, and his pistachio-like daughter Deng Wei teased him again and again, but he didn't pay attention to it.

Deng Wei felt bored, so he asked the driver to take his aunt Zhou Zhao's car instead, and played with Deng Qing.

No matter what happened to Yuyang, no matter how helpless Deng Ji was in the ox cart, the plan to go south at this time would not change, and the team continued to move forward until he walked more than ten miles, Deng Ji came back to his senses, and ordered the Black Iron Guard to spread the word Wancheng first, transport the body of Guan Cheng back to Luoyang, and bury it in Sankun Mountain according to the school captain's ceremony.

In the next few days, the procession marched in a dreary state, but fortunately, after crossing the river in the upper reaches of the river, Wancheng was not far away.

On the day of arrival, Han Song accompanied the army and went out of the city with Zhang Liao and Sun Guan to greet him.

For the majestic city of Wan, the Deng Zhong brothers are no strangers to it, and the place where their father died can still be found that day.

It's just that the ancestral tomb has not been sacrificed, and the official business should come first, and now is not the time to worship the father.

The most noteworthy thing in the city is the huge iron-smelting station, which is almost the largest in the world in this era, although the iron official has fled. However, the scale of the iron smelting plant is very large. After several turmoils. There were many blacksmiths who crossed the river and fled to Xiangyang, but there were still dozens of people left when Deng Ji became the master.

Deng Ji was not short of blacksmiths now, so he did not go to the iron smelting place to watch, and the team entered the Taishou Mansion first.

Deng Zhong, women and children went to rest in the pavilion arranged by Han Song, and the monarchs and ministers got together, so they inevitably talked about Gan Ning again.

Han Song sighed: "Han Fei talks about the five stupidities, and some scholars think otherwise, but look at this matter. It's not all unreasonable! ”

Han Feizi said that the first one is Confucianism, and the two families of Confucianism and Law are enemies, which is not surprising, and I don't want Han Song, a scholar, to sigh today by borrowing the words of a legalist.

Han Song sighed, Zhang Liao saw that Deng Ji was sad, and first diverted the topic: "The master sent the shipwright to Wanwan to try out the warp, and heard that the workers have gradually obtained the method, or take a look?" ”

Deng Ji had to clean up his feelings. Let's put aside Gan Ning and take a short rest. Together with Zhang Liao, Han Song and others, he went to the newly built dock by the north of Wancheng to see the progress of the warships made by the shipwrights.

Cao Cao's exchange of boatwrights led hundreds of carpenters, after this period of collective discussion, recollection, but also gradually groped out the way, the first trial production of the dragon skeleton, has been nailed to the bottom plank, faintly visible the prototype of the warship.

Deng Ji watched the shipbuilding site with Zhang Liao and Han Song for a long time, racking his brains, he lived in the mountains in his previous life, and he could not make any suggestions for the improvement of shipbuilding technology in this era.

It is also difficult to increase the speed and output of production by dividing labor and cooperation———— craftsmen are based on the length and thickness of the keel, depending on the situation on the spot to make the corresponding accessories, even if it is the same ship, the length of each ship is also different, except for the rudder, sail and other specific parts, can not be unified specifications.

After thinking hard for a long time, Deng Ji remembered that it is simple to unify the specifications, as long as the length and thickness of the keel are unified first, and the two shipwrights of Chen and Liao came and said: "When this ship is trial-made, all boatmen can be rewarded as good people, and you are the home of the two, and the third-class meritorious people!" After that, the keel is made in length, cut into six zhang, seven zhang, eight zhang (Han zhang, each zhang two meters three) three categories, the tail, the middle, the size of the head is agreed by you, and the rest of the ship pieces are precise size. After that, Yu no longer built, and only built these three types of longships! ”

As long as it can be separated and a unified standard can be formulated, each component can actually be made by ordinary carpenters, thinking about this section, Deng Ji was slightly excited, and said to Han Song: "Send the two scribes into the dock again, and all the shipwrights will measure in the future need to be recorded!" ”

Han Song, the shipwright and others all promised, and Deng Ji looked around twice, and couldn't think of any other good way.

The size of the warship can be fixed by regulation, and the parts are distributed to the carpenters to catch up, and finally they are nailed and solidified together.

Deng Ji couldn't help but sigh to Zhang Liao and Han Song: "You can get a good method, and the ship materials are also very insufficient. It is difficult to build many warships, and the management is dead, and the Hengjiang Navy does not know when it will be used! ”

Zhang Liao was also speechless, and Han Song said: "The lord is building a water division today, with the intention of Hanzhong, not Jingzhou!" Liu Jingsheng has tens of thousands of sailors, relying on the Jianghan and the lake, although there is no power to make a plan, but enough to defend its place, if it is not chaotic, there is no one in the world who can seek the south of the county, so it will be used by one or two water armies, and Jingzhou also needs to standby! The picture of the world is not a day's work, Liu Xuande won Hanzhong, living according to the water, Balong is steep and steep, it is extremely difficult to get through the dangerous plank road, and the victory and loss are also large, but the waterway or the same as Zhang Lu's light defense, the lord will spend three or four years, and the water division carries the soldiers upstream, and it is not too late to take it! ”

"That's all it has to be for now!" The soldiers are noble, and they don't want to go through the dangerous plank road to beg, Deng Ji didn't dare to risk entering the army like Liu Bei took Hanzhong before, so he could only wait for the sailors to become an army, and it was useless to be eager at this time, after sighing with emotion, Deng Ji told Han Song and Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan should make the soldiers guard the dock, and outsiders are not allowed to approach." Degao sent officials to supervise the construction of warships, so that the shipwrights measured the size of the ships to ensure accuracy, the officials recorded carefully, and the drawings also needed to be sealed and stored. ”

Deng Ji's admonition, Zhang Liao and Han Song obeyed the order.

After returning from the dock and resting in the city, Deng Ji couldn't forget about Gan Ning's killing and management, and Yu Taishoufu couldn't sleep at night, and got up in the middle of the night to put on his clothes, and called the black iron guard to take the lamp with paper, pen and inkstone.

Dian Wei heard the movement and came over to ask, Deng Ji said: "I suddenly feel something, I want to try my writing!" ”

Deng Ji has always been just like a martial artist, Dian Wei has been going on for a long time, what he sees on weekdays is an important document of instructions, and most of them are dictated by him, Tian Feng or Xu Shu to write, how have you ever seen him have the interest in making texts? Hearing the sound, he waited for the black iron guard to get the things, personally spread out the paper, soaked a soft pen, and sharpened the ink for him.

Deng Ji thought about it for a while, and then picked up the pen and wrote:

I am tired of reading poetry and books, I have nothing to learn, and I am born in troubled times, I want to save the people from danger with the foolishness of a reckless man, and I have been laughed at by the world for a long time, and I am ashamed! When I had nothing to do, I only drifted away, and I heard the five stupid words of the humane Han Fei, and I thought it was wrong and untrue! Confucianism is a studious person, who governs the people with benevolence and morality, expresses the importance of ethics, promotes loyalty and righteousness, and swings the spirit of the world, which is beneficial to the country; Those who sit on the horizon and speak arrogantly, deter the enemy country with one person, and reach the sword and soldiers, and make up for the benefits of government; Those who work for business, or create things for civil use, or connect the north and the south, are all convenient for the people's livelihood, indispensable, and also for the benefit of the country; The likes of the guests, in order to make a living and to avoid harsh government, are not what they want, and they follow the honor and disgrace of the Lord to live and die, which is not their sin. If these four are under my rule, they will be regarded as equal to the people as they should be registered, so there are also industrial and commercial households in Sizhou today who are among the meritorious people, which are different from the world, and although the people slander them, they cannot change their will. Han Feizhi said that none of the four is desirable, and it is difficult for those who are chivalrous to know their benefits. In my army, there are many rangers and athletes, and this generation is in conflict, although the body is broken and there is no complaint, I have admired it for a long time! However, there are many rich families in the world, who have no worries about their livelihood, but they gather their subordinates, noisy and intimidating in the market and countryside, claiming to be loyal and righteous, only bullying and humiliating the weak, killing at every turn, harming people's lives, only seeing all kinds of harm and not a benefit! There is a county Gan Ning, once served as a chivalrous in the township, robbed other people's capital to buy brocade as a sail, in order to show off his wealth, and has no shame, since Jiangxia led the crowd to vote, I heard that I am still happy, send subordinates to set up a banquet to treat it, but it does not meet its wishes, a word does not agree with my generals, fleeing south, the road is not quiet, has not been able to catch up, if fleeing to other places, the owner still thinks that heroic, will be courteous and generous. In this way, the world is polite, I have been puzzled for a long time, or I have heard people say: the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people, so he is fearless of life and death, and he has no hatred when he is powdered; Those who are chivalrous and humble only have strong selfish desires, seek fame with life and death, and seek the powerful to raise them. Hearing that I am enlightened, so there is this article, in order to recruit the world's heroes, fill my wings, help the ambition of the reckless man and please the crowd; In addition, those who hinder the world's chivalrous slight, the road is different, it is difficult to conspire with each other, please do not enter my realm, do not harm my people.

After writing it and reading it to Dian Wei, I remembered that Dian Wei was also a ranger, but I saw that he was just grinning and giggling.

In Deng Ji's view, the rangers of this era are similar to the underworld of later generations, or more like the gangsters of the mixed society, but most of them are good at martial arts.

Under the policy of the fourth-class people of Siliang and Liangzhou, most of the original chivalrous people have been selected into the soldiers, and the situation is much better with the constraints of the seven virtues of brave soldiers, and those who can't get along are also moved away, and the harm to public security is not great.

However, the sudden occurrence of Gan Ning's incident, Deng Ji was indignant, and thought that there was a huge gap in the soldiers, and it was difficult to replenish all the soldiers in the territory for the time being.

It's just that most of the rangers come from rich families, and I don't know how many people will be like-minded in the end, and a few people are even more hostile.

The article was written, Dian Wei, the former ranger, did not express disgust, Deng Ji asked Han Song to polish it on the second day, his own ugly words were unsightly, and when it was finalized, he recruited some scribes to copy it, first posted it from all over Nanyang, and asked Han Song to find merchants to help distribute this partial article to various places. (To be continued.) )