Although Liu Xiu's worldview has changed greatly, once he breaks away from philosophical metaphysics and considers specific things, he often habitually returns to the original thinking structure. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After being reminded by Xun You, he realized that for the people of this era, witchcraft is not far away, but is close by.

In fact, Liu Xiu is no stranger to these, before the popularization of science, the vast majority of the Chinese people believed in witchcraft, witches and gods have never been extinct among the people, even in the 21st century when science is prosperous, there are still people who believe in witchcraft among the highly educated servants of the people, and they will invite a feng shui gentleman to come and see before building a government building, so as to bless themselves to be able to increase their official fortune and prosperity.

Jingzhou originally belonged to Chu, and Jiangling was the capital of Chu. After the state of Chu was broken by the Qin general Bai Qi, the capital was moved to Shouchun, the Chu people believed in witches, Jiangxia, Nanjun, Wuling counties all have barbarians, they and Ba County's Ban Yu barbarians have the same origin, and later because of the war to move to various places, but the customs are very similar. Lady Lu's witchcraft was equally useful to Ban Yuman, as well as to Jiangxia Man and Nanjun Man.

Among the county soldiers of Jiangxia and Nanjun, many of them were originally barbarians, and they went out to settle in the mountains, but their customs did not change much. Believe in ghosts and gods, believe that death is only the beginning of life, believe in witchcraft more than Confucianism. After all, for ordinary people, Confucian classics are still very unfamiliar, not to mention that even Confucian scholars do not reject witchcraft, and the great Confucians in the Bashu area are more familiar with weft magic.

Liu Xiu wrote down this matter, and after discussing official business with Xun You, he personally rushed to Mrs. Lu's big tent. Mrs. Lu lived in the Chinese army barracks, and there was only a big tent between Liu Xiu and the Huwei camp. Liu Xiu took Zhang Wei out of the big tent. It's a few steps away.

In front of Mrs. Lu's big tent, there were two circles of Heavenly Master Taoist priests holding dust tails, and there were eighteen cadres in the outer circle. That is, male Taoists, there are six Kun Dao next to the big tent, that is, female Taoists. All of them were brought by Mrs. Lu from Yizhou, a total of eighty-one Gandao and thirty-six Kundao, and one hundred and eight knights led by Zhang Xiu, the number of which was of course determined according to the number of techniques.

When Liu Xiu walked outside the tent, he smelled a faint aroma, which was sandalwood transported from Jiaozhou. Sandalwood is not produced in the Central Plains, which was specially sent from Jiaozhou by Liu Yuanqi, the king of Chu, in order to thank Mrs. Lu for her great kindness in saving Liu Xiu. Mrs. Lu liked the aroma very much. Take it with you.

Liu Xiu nodded to the female Taoist priest standing at the door, and the middle-aged female Taoist priest returned the salute and entered the house to report, and soon, Lan Lan opened the tent door and walked out, and said with a smile: "The national teacher invites the general to enter the tent." ”

Liu Xiu saluted again, and then bowed his head and entered the big tent. Inside the tent was a banner on the ground. There were all kinds of runes painted on it, and Liu Xiu was a little dizzy when he looked at it.

"It's ......"

"Recruiting flags." Mrs. Lu, who was kneeling on the ground to draw talismans, straightened up, rubbed her waist, and put down the cinnabar pen in her hand. He smiled: "I drew these flags, hoping to add a little momentum when the general goes to war." ”

"This ...... Effective? Liu Xiu said with some puzzlement, can the talisman be used so far?

"Just try it." Mrs. Lu stood up, put on her shoes, and stood a little farther away with a banner with Lan Lan, asking Liu Xiu to stand as far away as possible, and then look at the flags in their hands. Liu Xiu looked at it for a moment, but he didn't see anything, and was about to give up, when suddenly his eyes scattered, and the banner seemed to move, feeling like a team of soldiers walking in the dust raised, and it was like the ground in the desert was steaming, the light and shadow flowed, and the figure seemed to be blurred inside. He must have been a god, and those were gone, except for a banner painted with all sorts of incomprehensible lines.

Liu Xiu smiled, he understood the function of this flag. On the battlefield, the two armies are separated by at least a hundred paces, which is a stone's throw away. After a hundred paces, there is a battle formation, and the battle formation is about a hundred paces, so that even the warrior standing in the front can see the rear of the opponent's formation two hundred paces away. When you see these flags two hundred steps away, it is difficult to distinguish whether they are illusions or real ones, and it is easy to produce psychological hints that the number of people on the other side is unimaginably large.

The so-called recruiting banner should mean this.

After listening to Liu Xiu's speculation, Mrs. Lu was a little surprised, and she was silent for a moment: "Maybe." I only saw it from the Taoist book, but I didn't think about the truth in it, but when I think about it, it should be what the general said. People always say that seeing is believing, but in fact, the eyes are also the easiest to deceive, and the spell can work, probably because of this reason. She chuckled: "The spell is not right for the deaf, the spell is not right, this is the truth." ”

Liu Xiu smiled dumbly. He explained his intention, since Mrs. Lu was already preparing, he didn't need to say anything more, just discussed with her what methods to use to boost morale when she was in battle, Mrs. Lu responded one by one, and said some methods commonly used in Taoism, Liu Xiu picked a few suitable ones, and asked some doctors and craftsmen about their preparations.

Speaking of the medical craftsman, Liu Xiu was a little emotional. He knows best about the miracle doctors of the Three Kingdoms is Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo has not been found, but Zhang Zhongjing is from Nanyang, but after finding Zhang Zhongjing, he was greatly disappointed. Zhang Zhongjing's famous machine, which was driven away by Sun Jian a few years ago, is now living in his hometown in Nanyang, and he is still immersed in the frustration of losing his official position. As soon as he heard that Liu Xiu was looking for him, he immediately came over, but unfortunately his medical skills were very average, and he did not write the medical classic "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", and his interest in being an official was obviously greater than his interest in practicing medicine. Liu Xiu was originally very surprised, but later thought about it and realized that the reason why Zhang Zhongjing worked hard to study medical skills may be because after Cao Cao's red cliffs, Jingzhou became the main battlefield of Wei and Wu Shu, the epidemic was epidemic, and many people died in their family, so he injected a lot of energy into medical skills, and finally wrote "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", now such a history has not yet appeared, although Nanyang has fought for several years, but the casualties are far less tragic, and it is reasonable that he can't write "Treatise on Typhoid Fever".

I don't know if this is fortunate or unlucky, but Liu Xiu doesn't regret it at all. He hopes that no one in the world will need to seek medical advice.

Lan Lan was constantly busy with Mrs. Lu, looking like a little Dao girl, with a peaceful and quiet smile on her face, it could be seen that she had gained a lot by Mrs. Lu's side during this time.

"You don't regret staying, do you?" Liu Xiu quipped.

"No regrets." Lan Lan smiled lightly: "This is my biggest opportunity after the feathering of the master. She glanced at Mrs. Lu gratefully: "Thank you for the guidance of the national teacher, I have broken through a lot at once." ”

"What is the situation now?"

"The lion's roar is high-level, and it will soon break through the tiger's roar."

"The lion's roar." Liu Xiu pretended to be worried and shook his head, "It's better to break through as soon as possible, Hedong Lion is not a good thing." ”

Zhang Wei interjected: "General, the tigress is not very good." ”

Liu Xiu laughed. Mrs. Lu and Lan Lan understood the tigress, but they didn't understand the Hedong Lion, and asked blankly, Zhang Wei said the allusion that Liu changed his head to him, and Mrs. Lu and Lan Lan also laughed dumbly. Lan Lan said: "That's okay, anyway, I have no home in Dao, so I plan to cultivate the Tao for the rest of my life, and I don't want to start a family." Whether it's a lion in Hedong or a tigress, it's okay not to hurt people. ”

"That's not right." Liu Xiu shook his head and said: "The Tao is divided into yin and yang, yin and yang are not in harmony, and heaven and earth have changed." If you don't get married, what if you become a Taoist? Unless you live forever, you still need it. There is only the main road Kun Dao, there is no little Taoist priest, and there is no successor. ”

Lan Lan couldn't help laughing, and Mrs. Lu also smiled and nodded in agreement.

……

Huang Chengyan circled around the freshly installed stone throwing machine twice, nodded with satisfaction, and waved his hand to Cai Mao, who had been watching from the side: "Give it a try." ”

Cai Mao responded, and asked people to step forward to prepare for a test launch. He looked at Huang Chengyan, who was dressed in a short fight and was full of energy, and suddenly said, "I said brother-in-law, you are now changeable." ”

Huang Chengyan didn't raise his head, he watched intently at the gunners loading stones and winding them, and asked in a casual voice, "Where has changed?" ”

"You weren't that good at talking before." Cai Mao smiled: "Liu Biao has invited you many times, but you haven't even met in person." You went to Chengdu once, and not only sold yourself, but even Achu promised the general of the Che Cavalry. I know you're not the kind of person who envies wealth, but how do you explain that? ”

"There is no need to explain, it is just that the Tao is different, and they do not conspire with each other." Huang Chengyan walked to the back of the stone thrower, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, stretched out his finger to measure the distance, and commanded: "Add another stone." ”

The gunners immediately carried another stone and put it in the gondola, Huang Chengyan stepped aside, watched the gunners swing the wooden hammer, hit the string machine, the gondola sank violently, the thick rope with the stones in the net pocket rotated, threw the five-stone stone far into the air, flew over a distance of nearly 300 steps, and with a bang, smashed near the target ship, hitting a splash more than two people high.

"One more time." Huang Chengyan commanded without changing his face.

This time, the stone hit the target ship accurately, and after a splash, the bow of the target ship that had been smashed shook a few times and slowly sank. Cai Mao was taken aback, and then she was ecstatic: "So powerful? ”

"There's nothing to say about the strength, it's just that the head is a little bit off." Huang Chengyan said lightly: "I will equip you with two more improved crossbows, and you will send people to practice carefully to ensure that when the time comes, you will kill whoever you want." ”

Cai Mao nodded again and again, suddenly a little surprised, thought about it, slapped his head, and shouted to Huang Chengyan, who had already walked a few steps away: "Brother-in-law, you are so murderous!" ”

Huang Chengyan didn't answer him, and sighed secretly in his heart, do you think I'm willing, I'm also forced. The Mo family is not attacking, the city defense technique is first-class in the world, most of the Mozi organ techniques talk about the equipment of defending the city and how to deal with the opponent's siege methods, and the means of attack are also said, but far from so much. But Liu Xiu said, there is offense and defense, the way is to win, the best defense is to attack, to let the other party know that I am powerful, dare not attack, this is called winning without a fight. Huang Chengyan had no choice, so he had to bury his head and study the siege equipment, fortunately, the principle is the same, with his ability to immerse himself in Mozi mechanics for many years, it is not difficult to become a master of both offense and defense.

It's just that this seems to be a testament to Mozi. As soon as he thought of this, Huang Chengyan was a little uneasy.