Yun Da Shaoqing took Zhu Cang, who was born rebellious, and Miao Haichao also said goodbye to the Xiapi team he brought, and followed Yun Da Shaoqing to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to ask Emperor Yang of Sui for his guilt in person. Before leaving, Miao Haichao also thanked Chen Yingliang for his kindness, because Chen Yingliang had already explained the situation to Miao Haichao very thoroughly, saying that if Miao Haichao did not go to Luoyang to go through this scene, Chen Yingliang would not dare to reuse Miao Haichao even if he appointed him, and he would not dare to promote him at will in the future, and if Miao Haichao went to Emperor Yang of Sui to go through this scene, he could not only completely clear his previous charges, but also get more opportunities to soar.

felt that Chen Yingliang's words were reasonable, and he also understood that Chen Yingliang was really thinking about himself, Miao Haichao was of course grateful to Chen Yingliang, and when he left, he specially explained to the core old man he brought out from Xiapi, so that they could honestly obey Chen Yingliang's orders, not to embarrass themselves, and not to embarrass themselves, the Xiapi team that surrendered with Miao Haichao agreed with tears, and honestly accepted Chen Yingliang's disbandment and reorganization, and the wishful thinking of individual ill-intentioned people who wanted to form their own faction within Chen Yingliang's team also failed.

After defeating the external strong enemy and solving the internal hidden dangers, Chen Yingliang also gained a period of peace, and he could free up his hands to concentrate on farming and raising troops, so as to meet the chaos in the world that had gradually come. And the most important thing in internal affairs is the spring plowing of the ten years of the great cause.

As a general guard who is mainly responsible for the military, Chen Yingliang can of course kick such things as spring ploughing to the county commanders such as Taishou Xu Minlian and Dong You to worry about being responsible, but in order to buy people's hearts and establish a good image of loving the people like a son, Chen Yingliang still spent some effort to put on a show, what to visit the fields to comfort the spring ploughing people, organize the army to help the lonely and widowed old people plow and sow seeds, personally go to the field to help the hoe, and at the same time take out a batch of cotton seeds that he treasures, preach the benefits of cotton to the people, and encourage the people to try planting. and allocated special funds to prepare for the acquisition, all kinds of shows, and it was also very deceitful and deceived many kind-hearted people, so that they were moved to tears and said, "We have a good fate, we met a good dog official like Chen Yingliang." ”

As long as the matter of spring ploughing takes a little effort and time to put on a show, there are Xu Minlian and Dong You and others on top, and there is also the eldest grandson Wuji to help cook, there is no need for Chen Yingliang to worry too much, and Chen Yingliang has to spend both effort and energy on military affairs, and he has to spend effort to train the army, spend energy to brainwash and encourage the new army team, train their organization and discipline, and preach that if you follow yourself, you will definitely be able to drink wine and eat meat, and in the future, you will be promoted to the rank of wife and son to make a fortune, and at the same time, you have to soothe the soldiers to buy the army's heart, and deal with the internal contradictions of the army. Let them cooperate sincerely, this qiē has to make Chen Yingliang care and have to worry about it, fortunately, Chen Yingliang has brought out a horse Sanbao before, and the new lackey Kan Liang is also a person who pays great attention to military discipline, and they have helped Chen Yingliang a lot, so that Chen Yingliang can spare some time to solve the major matter of weapon research and development with Yuan Tiangang, a demonic staff.

In terms of weapon research and development, black powder has been secretly developed a long time ago, and it is produced in accordance with the optimal ratio of 75% saltpeter, 10% sulfur and 15% charcoal, and it is also made into granular gunpowder in one step. At the same time, Chen Yingliang was also very fortunate to remember that black powder needed to be sealed and stored, so he chose to use clay pottery jar oil paper to seal and store gunpowder, and store it in a dry warehouse, so that after the gunpowder was finally produced, it would not be scrapped because of moisture absorption.

At the same time, it was also the time to start casting the barrel, Chen Yingliang was extremely surprised to find that the iron casting in this era was still using coal or charcoal as fuel, and then Chen Yingliang did not hesitate, and immediately organized soldiers to build several kilns for soil coking, and put coal into the fire for coking, although this kind of coking speed is slow, low yield and pollution, but Chen Yingliang didn't think about it so much at all, and after more than ten days, Chen Yingliang finally obtained tens of thousands of catties of barely usable coke. When the pig iron is melted with coke with a much larger heat production than coal, the speed is not only faster, but the pig iron is also melted more thoroughly, ensuring the quality of the molten iron.

With the help of the demon Yuan Tiangang, Chen Yingliang, whose chemical knowledge has not been completely returned to the high school teacher, quickly reproduced the Western Han Dynasty fried steel that has been lost in this era, constantly stirring the molten iron with tools to accelerate the oxidation of impurities, and then constantly adding concentrate powder to improve the mass fraction of iron, and the result - a pot of wrought iron that made Chen Yingliang dumbfounded! Fortunately, Chen Yingliang and Yuan Tiangang did not give up, and tried to cut and extend the stirring time, but after sacrificing several pots of molten iron, Chen Yingliang and Yuan Tiangang finally discovered that as long as the flame of the molten iron turned pure blue, the molten iron would become molten steel, and if the time was longer, the molten steel would become mature iron due to decarburization.

After spending countless money and grain to make wrought iron, Chen Yingliang and Yuan Tiangang immediately began to try to cast weapons and guns with molten steel with the help of the blacksmith who had been trained, and the result was that Chen Yingliang and Ma Sanbao, Kan Liang and others were overjoyed that the horizontal knife and Mo knife cast by this molten steel can become extremely sharp, tough and not easy to break as long as they are slightly polished and quenched, and at the same time, they can also achieve mass production, and the speed of knife making is far faster than letting the blacksmith hammer slowly beat the iron embryo. If the materials are sufficient, there is no problem in making 500 good Mo knives in a month.

Then, after toasting with Ma Sanbao and Kan Liang and others, Chen Yingliang shamelessly named this process as Chen's steel-making method, and ordered the craftsmen to make every effort to create 800 Mo knives, and expanded the two regiments of Mo Dao teams originally planned to be formed into three regiments, but Chen Yingliang's temporary decision also made Taishou Xu Minlian very painful for a period of time - because Chen Yingliang only needed one sentence to expand the Mo Dao team, but it was poor Xu Minlian who paid for the food.

I encountered a lot of trouble when casting the barrel, and made a few barrels that would blow up the chamber, and for this reason, I also injured one of Chen Yingliang's personal soldiers, and Chen Yingliang didn't know that this was because the mud fan was not thoroughly dried, and the water evaporated caused too many bubbles in the barrel, and he was helpless for a while, but fortunately, when the big demon Yuan Tiangang was studying the barrel, he accidentally found that there were too many pores at the fracture of the gun wall, and then he found the reason for the failure.

Then, the great demon Yuan Tiangang built a clay fan directly with a clay fan as the core, and used a brass gun with excellent flexibility, which finally allowed Chen Yingliang to create dozens of copper barrels that would not explode, and then, the plan to cast a bronze cannon that was rampant in the nineteenth century also appeared in Chen Yingliang's plan, but casting a bronze cannon was too expensive, and it was estimated that even if Xu Minlian was forced to sell his wife, he would definitely not be able to take out so much money and food to build an artillery team, Chen Yingliang just asked Yuan Tiangang to try to cast a bronze cannon as a technical reserve, At the same time, we continue to trial produce iron barrels and explore the technology of manufacturing qualified iron barrels.

At the end of February, an astonishing news suddenly reached Chen Yingliang - Emperor Yang of Sui actually decided to launch the third personal conquest of Goguryeo, issued an edict to levy the whole army, march north with a hundred routes, and rush to Yijun to assemble the Hou Ming within a time limit. And the government soldiers of the five regiments of Qian County are all on the list!

After getting this news, Chen Yingliang didn't say anything for half a pillar of incense, and his face became extremely gloomy and ugly. Seeing that Chen Yingliang was in a bad mood, Changsun Wuji, who had gradually grown into a qualified staff officer, comforted: "Brother don't have to be depressed, the emperor is just transferring the government soldiers of Qian County, and we are not among the main township soldiers in the war, so it will not have much impact on us." Also, you don't have to worry about the mobilization of the government soldiers and the preparation of money and food, it is the matter of Xu Minlian and Duwei Fang Kuang, if you want, you don't have to meddle in this matter, out of sight and out of mind. ”

"I'm not worried about this, the requisition of government soldiers and the supply of money and food are the business of Xu Minlian and Fang Kuang, and I also know this." Chen Yingliang shook his head and said sullenly: "I'm just bored, the peaceful days we managed to fight are coming to an end, and our recruit team will soon have to go to the battlefield again." ”

The eldest grandson Wuji was stunned, and after a little calculation, he understood what Chen Yingliang meant, so he asked tentatively: "Brother, are you worried that the emperor's personal expedition will cause another wave of large-scale popular rebellion?" ”

"It's inevitable." Chen Yingliang sighed and said: "The first time the emperor personally conquered Goguryeo, there was a song in the world called "Death in the Waves of Liaodong", and the thieves Wang Bo, Dou Jiande and Hao Xiaode have not been pacified until now, and the second time they led out Yang Xuangan, Meng Haigong and Liu Yuanjin, this time, I really don't know how many big and small thieves will be introduced. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji nodded silently, agreeing with Chen Yingliang's prediction, and then comforted: "We should not be in the county, first, the money and grain situation in our county is better, the second is that Xu Minlian is quite benevolent in their governance, and they did not force the people to that step, and the third is that you have a good way to quell the rebellion, and you have cleaned up the Tian brothers and Zhang Qian in just a few days after taking office, and repelled the big thief Du Fuwei's large-scale attack. ”

"Not necessarily." Chen Yingliang didn't dare to be as optimistic as the eldest grandson Wuji, and said: "Even if I can quickly suppress the civil rebellion in Qian County and not give them a chance to sit big, what about the surrounding counties?" Once there are thieves in the surrounding counties, won't sooner or later they threaten our counties? When the time comes, the thieves will have no food to eat and run to the county to get food, and we will not be forced to fight? ”

The eldest grandson Wuji nodded again, and then said: "Brother, on this point, the younger brother has a Jianyi, I think you should strengthen the contact with the surrounding counties and counties, tell them, if there is a thief in their territory, you can ask us for help, we will definitely do what we can, try to help them quell the thief rebellion, and we don't want them to repay anything, as long as they help solve the problem of food, grass and military supplies." In this way, we can not only reduce the demand for money and food in the territory of the county, but also take the opportunity to train the new army through actual combat, and also prevent the thieves in the surrounding counties from sitting on the big side. ”

"So much repression?" Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, there will be fires everywhere around us, and our team will fight fires everywhere like Zhang Xutuo's team, and we will be exhausted if we don't fight to death." ”

"The younger brother just said that he would do what he could, but he didn't say that he would definitely respond to his needs." The eldest grandson Wuji smiled treacherously, and then said: "Also, although Zhang Xutuo is tired of running for his life, his team is fighting more and more, and the officials are getting bigger and bigger. ”

pinching the smooth hairless chin and thinking for a moment, he felt that the eldest grandson Wuji's Jian yì still had some truth, and he took the initiative to express his willingness to help his neighbors quell the rebellion, which may increase the trouble and hardship, but he could take the opportunity to train the new army to strengthen the team, prevent the surrounding thieves from sitting on the big side to avoid greater trouble, and at the same time, he could also use the war to support the war and solve some money and food problems, relatively speaking, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages. So after weighing it again, Chen Yingliang nodded and said, "Okay, you use my tone to write a letter to the Taishou of Liangjun, Huaiyang and Ruyin counties about this matter, but we must explain that we sent troops to ask them to provide food, and to solve the problem of the pension of our fallen soldiers, as for Pengcheng County to the east of us, there is no need to write such a letter." ”

"Pengcheng County doesn't have to? Why? "The eldest grandson is unscrupulous.

"Silly boy, Pengcheng Dong Chun is staying, I'm just guarding, he is bigger than me, I don't have to be at his mercy when I get to Pengcheng?" Chen Yingliang scolded with a smile, and said: "Besides, the thieves in Pengcheng are not so easy to settle, in case Du Fuwei flows back to Pengcheng, or Peng Xiaocai, Zhao Pozhen, and other bigger thieves flow into Pengcheng, aren't we looking for a vicious battle to fight ourselves?" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji suddenly realized, slapped a few sycophants and said that Chen Yingliang was far-sighted, and then hurriedly wrote a letter, Chen Yingliang turned his attention to the edict of Emperor Yang of Sui, and sighed in his heart, "Old man, old man, can't you be patient and wait a few more years?" Let the people recuperate for a few years, and also get cotton planting, isn't it easy to take Goguryeo? You must be in a hurry to find death, I really want to protect you. ”

After sighing, Chen Yingliang quietly comforted himself, "But it's okay, history will develop according to the original track, and I will have the opportunity to marry Yu'er." Since Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty must conquer Goguryeo three times as in history, then those cattle people at the end of the Sui Dynasty will definitely jump out one after another, stirring up the world even more and giving me more opportunities. By the way, that person ....... ”

After comforting himself here, Chen Yingliang suddenly remembered an acquaintance, smiled slightly, and said secretly in his heart: "You guy, you shouldn't be able to sit still, right?" Yang Guang insisted on conquering Goguryeo for the third time, such a good opportunity, it depends on whether you can seize it. ”

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"Ahh Ahh ”

It also happened that almost at the same time, in a poor village on the bank of the Caishui River in Huaiyang County, which borders Qian County, in a crooked house, a man in ragged clothes with a black face suddenly sneezed twice, interrupting the collective recitation of books by several schoolchildren in front of him, and one of the primary school children asked with great concern: "Mr. Liu, are you catching a cold?" Would you like us to pluck some reeds and fill your clothes with more? ”

"I'm fine." The black-faced man shook his head and said with a friendly smile: "The weather is gradually getting warmer, there is no need for you to go down to the river to cut reed flowers, and you can endorse well." ”

A few schoolchildren agreed, and then neatly recited the text that the black-faced man had just taught today, while the black-faced man rubbed his nose and walked around to supervise the students' recitation, dutifully supervising the students to finish memorizing the books, and then let them go home from school. Then the black-faced man boiled himself another pot of thin wheat porridge, and then walked out of the dilapidated door that could not block the wind at all, and went for a walk in the same crooked courtyard, enjoying the spring sunset that was about to set.

The sun was very warm, but the black-faced man's heart was very cold, and he looked at the direction of Qianjun in the east, and muttered in his heart, "Little thief, you are proud of the spring breeze, right?" Your life is really good, you were robbed on the canal, Xu Shixian's idiot didn't know about you, so he let you run away, Du Fuwei's 30,000 righteous divisions went west, and there was a rebellion like Miao Haichao under his command, when I knew the news, he had been repelled by you, it would be good if he could hold on a little longer, how good would it be if he could hold on for a few more days? ”

Sighing, a voice suddenly sounded outside the courtyard, and said, "This is it, two strong men, Mr. Liu Zhiyuan and Mr. Liu live here." Then, the voice shouted to the courtyard: "Mr. Liu, there are two strong men looking for you, and they say that they are your acquaintances. ”

The black-faced man did not rush to agree, and was very vigilant to lie on the door first, observing the situation outside the courtyard through the crack in the door, and what made the black-faced man relieved was that there was no brigade of officials or troops outside the courtyard, only an old man in the village led two young men wearing ordinary people's clothes, and when he looked at the two young men carefully, the black-faced man's heart beat faster again, and he quickly opened the courtyard door.

There was no movement before, and then the courtyard door suddenly opened again, and the old man and the two young men outside the door were inevitably startled, and then saw the person who opened the door, the two young men suddenly showed joy, and the black-faced man hurriedly glanced at them and told them to shut their mouths, and then sent the old man who led the way away, and finally carefully observed that no one else was following, so he closed the courtyard door and led the two young men into his room without saying a word.

The two young men were also very cautious, until they confirmed that there was no fourth person after entering the room, and the young man who was younger smiled and said: "Military advisor, let's find it easily, if we didn't happen to meet Fang Xuanzao, I heard that you changed your name to Liu Zhiyuan, and you are a private school here, we really can't find you." ”

"What are you coming to me for?" The black-faced man asked with a wary expression.

"Of course, I'm looking for you to help us avenge our eldest brother and avenge our eldest brother." The younger man replied, and said, "Strategist, don't hide, go out of the mountain, this time our brother will definitely listen to you, and will not be deceived by Li Zixiong like the eldest brother, and will not listen to your golden and jade words, but listen to the rhetoric of the old liar." ”

"Revenge?" The black-faced man smiled and said with a sneer, "Who are you looking for revenge?" Yang Guang? Chen Yingliang? Just rely on you two brothers, how can you report it? ”

"Of course it's not just us." The younger man smiled and said, "Strategist, when I escaped from Cuihan Road with you, you once said that if we still want to make a comeback, we must wait until the tyrant Yang Guang makes another stupid move, or build a large construction project again, or conquer Goguryeo again, forcing the people to have no way out, and we must rise up to rebel, and now, this opportunity has come." ”

"Here's your chance?" The black-faced man shook his whole body and blurted out, "What good things did the tyrant do again?" ”

"Look at this." Another older man, who had never spoken, threw a roll of paper to the black-faced man and said coldly: "We copied it from the gate of Wanqiu, and the tyrant decided to personally conquer Goguryeo for the third time, and he also had to recruit soldiers and horses from all over the country, and the troops would go north in 100 ways. ”

With trembling hands and feet, he opened the scroll of paper, and saw that the content was indeed that Emperor Yang of Sui had decided to personally conquer Goguryeo for the third time, and the black-faced man was immediately overjoyed, and he was so excited that he shed tears, and muttered: "Yang Guang, Yang Guang, you really didn't let me down, not only didn't let me down, but also surprised me, it's only been a few days, it's only been a few days, you can't wait to kill yourself again." ”

"Strategist, don't hesitate, come with us." The older man said in a deep voice: "Before, I was deceived by Li Zixiong's old horseman, I was so disrespectful to you, I didn't listen to your good words, this time I won't, I swear, as long as you go out of the mountain to assist our brothers, I will definitely listen to you for everything!" ”

The black-faced man hesitated, and the younger man said: "Strategist, if you don't want to go with us, it's okay, let's go out and shout, Pushan Gong Li Mi is Liu Zhiyuan, and Liu Zhiyuan is the wanted criminal Li Mi of the imperial court!" ”

"Seventh General, what are you anxious about?" Li Mi smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't agree to you, I was just thinking about how we should get into trouble." ”

"It's so easy!" The two men said together: "After the edict of the tyrant three expeditions to Goguryeo was promulgated, the entire Huaiyang County was a sensation, and there were people everywhere singing the song "Death in the Waves of Liaodong Without Direction", and people everywhere were discussing how to evade military service. We....... ”

"Wrong!" Li Mi hurriedly interrupted and said coldly: "Third General, Seventh General, you are very wrong about this, we can make trouble, but now we must not reveal your true identity to the outside world, and we can't let people know that the Third General is Yang Xuanting, and the Seventh General is Yang Jishan!" ”

"Why?" Yang Jishan asked in surprise.

"Because, next to Huaiyang County is Qian County." Li Mi said slowly: "If Chen Yingliang, that thief, knows that you and I are here to raise troops, he will definitely mobilize the army to suppress it immediately, and he will not give us any chance to sit down!" Therefore, I must still be called Liu Zhiyuan now, and you must also change one name and use other names to start an incident, and wait for our team to grow to a certain level, and then it is not too late to announce your true identity! ”

"Can you use that much trouble?" Yang Xuan roared impatiently: "It's great, let's go farther away and start trouble elsewhere!" When you have accumulated enough strength, you will come back to settle accounts with Chen Xiaothief! ”

"Wrong!" Li Mi shouted loudly, stopped his waist straight, and said coldly: "There are tyrant lackeys who help to abuse the world all over the world, and it is inevitable to deal with tyrant lackeys when they get into trouble there!" Instead of wasting more energy and time, it is better to start an incident in this Huaiyang County! And there is no need to deliberately stay away from Chen Xiaothief, we can directly start an incident near the surrounding areas of Qian County! ”

"Strategist, you're not talking nonsense, are you?" Yang Jishan was taken aback and said, "We are in the vicinity of Qian County, wouldn't it be easy for Chen Yingliang's thief to find out our traces?!" ”

"Seven generals, three generals, remember what I said to you?" Li Mi smiled, and smiled extremely relaxed and confident, and said, "That sentence is, it's dark under the lamp!" ”