There is this record in the history books of Zhang Fei's wife, Xiahou's family: in the fifth year of Jian'an, Xiahou Ba's younger sister traveled in this county to collect wood, which was obtained by Zhang Fei. Fei knew his good daughter, so he took it as his wife. However, some historical records often come from hearsay, and the language is vague and cannot withstand scrutiny.

Xiahou is the wang family of Peiguo County, Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng is a eunuch, of course, it is impossible to have a son, from Xiahou's family, Cao Cao's father Cao Song, so Cao Cao and Xiahou have a great relationship, Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan have already followed when Cao Cao raised troops to fight against Dong, and can be regarded as a veteran figure under Cao Cao's account, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Cao are brothers-in-law, successively Chen Liutaishou, Yingchuan Taishou, and Captain of the Overseer Army, it is difficult to imagine that a high-powered official and his adopted daughter will do rough work to cut wood outside the city. And what was Zhang Fei Jian'an doing when he was five years old, doing the promising profession of a thief in an ancient city in a remote mountainous area in Runan, robbing a people's girl to be the wife of the village was also in line with his identity at that time, the key is that he can reach out to the outside of Yingchuan or Chang? That's a big question.

The truth of history is often obscured by facts, as Liu Ze witnessed with his own eyes.

"Okay, since it's a misunderstanding, it's okay to make it clear, third brother, you can personally put Miss Xiahou back to the military academy." Liu Ze said.

Zhang Fei was unrelenting, claiming that he had to settle accounts with Pan Feng, but Zhao Yun came forward to persuade him to give up and escort Xiahou Juan back to the military academy.

Zhao Yun said: "The three generals have a deep affection for Miss Xiahou, but they can make a good marriage." ”

Thousands of miles of marriage are tied by a thread, and it seems that no one can really run. Liu Ze bowed slightly. It seems that Zhang Fei is really in love with Xiahou Juan, and such a reckless man can't help it.

The next day, Liu Ze and Zhao Yun rushed to the Prime Minister's Mansion to see Zhao Feng and explained Zhao Yun's marriage to Zhao Feng. Zhao Feng was overjoyed, Zhao Yun's marriage can be regarded as a matter of his heart, not to mention that the bride is actually the wife and sister of Cai Zhonglang's daughter Liu Zhoumu, which makes Zhao Feng even more happy. The matter of giving the dowry to the Cai family was quickly finalized, and as for the wedding date, it naturally had to be discussed with the woman before it could be determined. There is also a candidate for this matchmaker, which is naturally Jian Yong.

Liu Ze rushed back to Cai's mansion and made a clear statement to Cai Yong. Cai Yong just nodded silently. It's kind of agreed. Cai Qin was smiling. Holding Liu Ze and thanking him vigorously.

Zhao Yun's wedding was in full swing, the man was the governor of Xiapi State, and the woman was the wife and sister of Cai Zhonglang's daughter Zhou Mu, this marriage. It has been widely praised in Xiapi City, and everyone knows it.

Liu Ze sent someone to Tancheng to pick up Cai Yan. My sister is going to get married. Naturally, Cai Yan is indispensable.

Hearing Liu Ze talk about Zhang Fei and Xiahou Juan, Cai Yan said: "Since the third uncle and Miss Xiahou have affection, it is better to handle their marriage with Zilong Qin'er." Come to the door with double happiness. ”

When Liu Ze heard this, he clapped his hands and said yes, but he was still a little difficult, Cai Yan smiled and said: "Husband is worried about whether Miss Xiahou agrees, let me come forward for this, after all, we women are still easy to communicate with." ”

In fact, the relationship between Zhang Fei and Xiahou Juan is only a layer of window paper, Zhang Fei needless to say, since Xiahou Juan arrived at the East Point Military Academy, Zhang Fei is hush and warm and diligent, and he goes to the military academy every once in a while, and if he doesn't see Xiahou Juan for a few days, it is like losing his soul, and he is very affectionate.

Zhang Fei's mind Xiahou Juan didn't understand, at the beginning, Xiahou Juan definitely didn't look down on Zhang Fei, he was dark and thick, and his face was full of cheeks and beards were unkempt, but after a long time of contact, Xiahou Juan also slowly understood the other side of Zhang Fei: his heart was as careful as hair, jealousy was like hatred, and he was considerate and caring. In fact, she is away from home alone, and she is very lonely in her heart, because she is the only girl in the military academy, naturally there are no students to live with her, and this loneliness has nowhere to go. Zhang Fei's care and love gave her a lot of warmth, and slowly, she also had a good impression of Zhang Fei and accepted Zhang Fei.

But the girl's family is thin-skinned, so naturally it is impossible to mention this, Zhang Fei is very arrogant, and he doesn't know if he is careless or something else, but he didn't send anyone to propose marriage. The appearance of Cai Yan naturally made the relationship between Zhang Fei and Xiahou Juan enter the stage of substantially talking about marriage.

In the end, the marriage of Zhang Fei and Xiahou Juan was also set on the same day as Zhao Yun and Cai Qin.

The wedding was held in a grand and lively neon enclosure, with a cloud of guests, bustling with people, laughter, and people sending their best wishes to the two couples.

Guan Yu also specially rushed over from Tancheng to attend the wedding, above the banquet, Liu Ze couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, thinking that the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang went out to sleep together and slept together like siblings, and now they have married three wives, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun are also about to say goodbye to Wang Lao Wu's life, but only Guan Yu, the oldest among them, is still alone, Liu Ze is quite unhappy, so he thinks about Zhang Luo for Guan Yu.

In fact, this is not a difficult matter, there are many famous ladies in Xuzhou, with Guan Yu's current status as a captain in Xuzhou, how many people want to tie up and can't find a way, as long as Guan Yu nods, Xuzhou's ladies are not rushing.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, Guan Yu categorically rejected him: "Thank you for the kindness of the eldest brother, it's just that the younger brother has no intention of marrying now, and the eldest brother's kindness is understood by the younger brother." ”

Despite Liu Ze's persuasion, Guan Yu refused to agree, and Liu Ze had no choice but to give up.

After the wedding, Liu Ze did not return to Tancheng immediately, but inspected the expansion project of Xiapicheng. The expansion of Xiapi City has been carried out step by step, and the city walls on all sides have begun to show their scale, Liu Ze knows that the infrastructure project can not be rushed, and it is not allowed to be sloppy, so he ordered the construction personnel to ensure the quality while ensuring the progress, and never allow the appearance of tofu slag projects.

Ma Jun has come to Xiapi, as the director of the construction department, according to Liu Ze's instructions, the best craftsmen in Xuzhou have been concentrated in the construction department, all the craftsmen in Mangdangshan have also mobilized Xiapi, the major workshops of the construction department have been deployed, entered the production stage.

The musket that Ma Jun brought to Liu Ze this time was no longer a sample, a hundred long muskets and fifty short muskets were enough for Liu Ze to equip a unit. Ma Jun's long and short muskets have been repeatedly improved and developed, and they are all equipped with wooden butts, and in terms of appearance alone, they are basically not much different from the rifles and pistols of later generations. After the musket is loaded with gunpowder, it can be filled with a single iron ball or multiple shotguns, which are ignited by a fire rope, and the single iron ball has a long range and great power, while the scatter shot range is close and the casualty range is large.

Although this arquebus has many problems of cumbersome loading gunpowder and cannot be used on rainy days, Liu Ze is still excited, the world's first firearm was born, which is the curtain from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons, today will be an epic day of human civilization, and it will also be a day that will be recorded in history forever. Although the actual combat performance is not too high, Liu Ze still decided to equip this batch of muskets with a guard battalion, called the musket battalion, after all, the musket has a longer range than the bow and arrow, and the power is greater, although there are many defects in use, but through the improvement step by step, the musket will eventually replace the bow and crossbow.

Liu Ze told Ma Jun that he had a larger idea, which was to build artillery with a larger caliber and a longer range than the musket. With the scientific and technological strength of the Han Dynasty, it is simply unattainable to build modern guns, so what Liu Ze wants to build is the red-clothed cannon of the Ming Dynasty.

In the pre-Qin era, the clay fan casting process and the lost wax casting process have been applied to the casting of bronze artifacts on a large scale, and these two processes have been inherited to the Han Dynasty and are already quite mature processes. There is no obstacle in the process of casting cannons with the clay model method, but if you want to make cannons, the process of casting iron in the Han Dynasty is obviously not good, the blacksmith workshop in the Han Dynasty uses charcoal or coal, and the temperature generated can only burn the iron embryo red and cannot melt it, and if you want to melt the pig iron, you must use a more efficient fuel - gold coke. Fortunately, Liu Ze worked as a technician in the coking plant in his previous life, and the process used in the coking plant was the soil coking process that caused great environmental pollution, called the open-box furnace, which was later seized by the Environmental Protection Bureau. What's more, coke is not a modern product, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, someone fired coke, so Liu Ze still has a certain grasp of coking.

As for steelmaking, just use the small blast furnace during the Great Leap Forward in five or eight years, the difficulty of that thing is not high, the technical requirements are not high, although the steel produced can not be compared with the big steel mill, but compared with the iron control period of the Han Dynasty, this is already a big advance. The best steel is naturally alloy steel - manganese steel, silicon steel, tungsten steel, Liu Ze felt that the kitchen knife in his kitchen in his previous life had weapons that could kill the soldiers of the Han Dynasty in seconds. Although the Han Dynasty has 100 steel, but the complexity of its process is destined to its output will not be very high, where the 100 refining products must be famous swords, if you want to produce standard weapons on a large scale, you have to use alloy steel, once the small blast furnace is built, it is not a dream to produce manganese steel tungsten steel swords in large quantities.

The idea is easy, but it is not easy to practice, but fortunately, there is a genius Ma Jun and a large number of famous ironsmiths, Liu Ze provided drawings and process principles, and asked Ma Jun to do it repeatedly, and if they failed, they started all over again. Ma Jun has a tenacity in doing things, he is willing to study, he is willing to use his brains and refuses to admit defeat, and Liu Ze is very relieved to hand over these things to him. All the materials hoarded in Mangdang Mountain, Liu Ze has authorized Ma Jun to use them at will, as long as Ma Jun can make the finished product, Liu Ze will not hesitate to pay as much tuition.

Soil coking and soil steelmaking, which are extremely polluting to the environment, make Liu Ze feel a little guilty, but the people of the Han Dynasty did not have any awareness of environmental protection at all, and no one would interfere no matter how Liu Ze tossed. Civilization always has to pay a price, and environmental governance should be left to future generations. (To be continued......)