His head ached faintly, and he didn't want to deal with government affairs, Liu Zhang concentrated on teaching Liu Xun to write, and Wang Xu came in and said, "My lord, Fa Zheng, Wang Fu, and Qin Mi are asking to see each other." ”

"Let them in."

The three of them walked into the house, and Liu Zhang said without raising his head: "If you have something to say, just say it, but don't say too much if it's useless." ”

Fa Zheng hesitated for a moment, and bowed: "Lord, although the lord doesn't want to listen, but Fa Zheng still wants to say, in fact, the lord doesn't have to worry about the ministers, the lord likes Miss Xiao, which has nothing to do with marrying a wife or not, ordinary people may take concubines for fun, but since the lord likes Miss Xiao, even if Miss Xiao is a concubine, he can also enjoy the favor of his wife, so that he can not only appease the ministers, but also round the fate of the lord and Miss Xiao, why not?" ”

Liu Zhang did not answer, but continued to guide Liu Xun to write, Fa Zheng stood awkwardly awkwardly, Wang Fu and Qin Mi glanced at each other, and they didn't know what to say, at this time a clerk came in: "Lord, Xu Chang replied." ”

Liu Zhang took the bamboo slip and asked casually, "Who handed it over?" ”

"Huang Quan."

"What about people?"

"Lord Huang has left."

Liu Zhang's brows furrowed, he opened the bamboo slip and read it from top to bottom, he was furious, and threw the bamboo slip on the ground: "How can this be true, this official is a clan relative of the Han family, when today's prince is an uncle, with more than 100,000 armor, supporting the fertile field for thousands of miles, with the momentum of the great victory in Hanzhong, please watch the Marquis of Shu, but was rejected, and said that the official is not clear in cultivation, excessive killing, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, heaven and man are angry, wait for the official to take Jingzhou, and vow to dig the ancestral graves of the three generations of the Cao family." ”

Liu Zhang's anger shocked Wang Fu and Qin Mi, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became cold, Fa Zheng slowly squatted down, picked up the bamboo slips on the ground, put them back on the platform, waved to Wang Fu and Qin Mi, and the three of them retired together.

"Daddy, is it okay to accompany Xun'er to Luzhuping on the third day of the next month?" Liu Xun saw that Liu Zhang's anger had not subsided, so he diverted the topic.

Liu Zhang let out a sigh of relief and said slowly: "Xun'er, if you want to go out to play, take some guards out, Daddy has a lot of things to do, and I can't accompany you." ”

"Daddy......"

"Be obedient and obedient."

Liu Zhang left the room after speaking, he also needed to breathe, Liu Xun took the pen and looked at the door where Liu Zhang left, his little face was full of loss, and he muttered: "Mother, Daddy even forgot the day you died, Xun'er's birthday also forgot, Xun'er is so sad." ”

Wang Fu and Qin Mi left the pastoral mansion, but Fa Zheng did not leave, but found Huang Yue, Fa Zheng said abruptly: "The lord can't persuade me, today the lord uses Shu Hou to allude to his marriage, and has given a warning to us to admonish the masses, and then persuade him, I'm afraid the lord will really kill him, Miss Huang, we can't do anything, and now we can only rely on you." ”

"Me?" Huang Yue said in surprise: "What can I do as a little woman?" You can't persuade adults, and adults can't listen to my little girl's words. ”

Fa Zheng sighed and said: "Miss Huang, I have a plan, I can be ninety percent sure that the lord will not marry the Xiao family, but if it fails, it may delay Miss Huang's life, it depends on whether Miss Huang is willing to sacrifice herself." ”

Huang Yue's delicate eyebrows raised slightly, she was silent for a while, looked at the scenery of the garden, and said quietly: "Mr. Fa, to be honest, when I first met Miss Xiao and saw that adults treated her like a lover who had been in love for many years, I became jealous, and I also tried to hope to have the same relationship as adults, but that time on Elm Street, I was completely desperate.

For him, I am willing to do whatever I can, but I don't think there is anything wrong with Miss Xiao, if I stand up and implement Mr. Fa's plan, it will not be good for adults, but it will break up the marriage between Miss Xiao and adults, how do I face adults, how do I face myself.

Mr. Fa, I am really scared sometimes, I followed Mr. Fa to Chengdu, because I really want to help adults, or my jealousy is at fault, if it is the latter, I will not be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life. ”

Fa Zheng was silent, swallowed the plan to his mouth, looking at this woman who was full of misery but firmly guarded her bottom line, such a woman could not become the main wife, and she would be the mother of the world in the future, let alone anyone?

For the sake of the great cause of the lord and the persistence of the woman in front of him, Fa Zheng felt that he should tell the strategy, and when Fa Zheng finished speaking, Huang Yue's eyes widened, and he was really desperate.

The wedding date was scheduled for November 20, and in the early morning of the third day of November, Liu Zhang went to the craftsman's camp in the west of the city early in the morning to see how the white gun prepared for Xiao Furong was made.

The artisan camp gathers hundreds of outstanding craftsmen from all walks of life, among which blacksmiths and carpenters are the most, some skilled are responsible for designing and renovating, and others are responsible for realizing samples.

Even the crossbow and siege vehicles have been improved, but the improvement is very limited, the crossbow is on the original basis, the launch is simpler, the range is longer, the actual cost is still high, and if the army is formally equipped, can not achieve a crossbow and five shots.

In addition to the crossbow, the well bar in the siege equipment rushed to the city trebuchet, Liu Zhang easily thought of the war horse equipment, looking at the current cavalry, although the Yizhou cavalry is not as good as the north, but the appearance is similar, the saddle stirrup and horsehoe have not been invented, the saddle is still a thick cloth, the stirrup is a stepping hemp rope, and the horseshoe is even more gone.

If you have stirrups and saddle horseshoes, not only will the cavalry of the Han army have a great increase in cavalry and archery skills, they can use weapons of mass destruction such as throwing guns, but they can also form heavy cavalry, and if there is a heavy cavalry that forms combat power, the plain field battle can be invincible.

But Liu Zhang doesn't plan to hand these over to the craftsman battalion now, Yizhou is mostly mountainous, and the next target, Jingzhou, is covered with a dense water network, and the cavalry can't be of much use at all.

In addition to these military equipment, it was a young man named Ma Jun who designed a waterwheel that attracted Liu Zhang's attention, and after Ma Jun's explanation, this waterwheel could draw water from the stream and water the fields evenly. This was very useful in ancient times when there were no pumping machines, which could greatly increase the reclamation of sloping land.

In addition to the waterwheel, a new type of loom was also designed, the loom is a loom controlled by the body threading and pedals, which was invented at a very early time to replace artificial weaving.

But the previous weaving machine body wiring is too complicated, pedal control is not easy, and easy to fail, after Ma Jun's transformation, through the six-disc ring wiring, double pedal cycle control, not only simplifies the operation, but also increases the pattern of weaving, speed and quality are greatly improved.

Liu Zhang immediately decided to mass-produce the waterwheel and the weaving machine, one for the reclamation of land in the west of Chengdu, and the other for the assembly line workshop for cloth, and rewarded Ma Jun with one hundred taels of gold, and promised to return Ma Jun's commission as the income of the assembly line workshop increased in the future, which really envied other craftsmen.

These craftsmen used to be in the village and township, and they couldn't fight for a few dollars all year round, but they didn't expect Ma Jun to design two things, and they got a hundred taels of gold, and there was a commission from the workshop.