Wei Ba finished inspecting the shipyard, went out, got on the horse, and greeted the attentive Chen. "Fengzong, after this visit, I may not be able to come here for a while, so I will leave it to you here, I hope that the next time I come, I can see the ship launched for sea trial. If you can go to Rinan by sea, I think Xiahou Taishou will be very happy, and those merchants of Wei and Wu will also be very satisfied. When the time comes, the reputation will be opened, and the business will be easier to do. However, you don't have to rush the deadline, you and I are doing practical things, and there are some things that can't be rushed. ”

Chen only nodded again and again: "Don't worry, general, I will be attentive." ”

Wei Ba smiled, arched his hand again, said goodbye to Chen You, and under the escort of the soldiers, lightly urged the war horse and galloped forward. After turning a corner, a carriage stopped on the side of the road, Xiahou Xuan sat on the car, leaning sideways, his eyes were foggy, and he didn't know if he was in a trance, or if he was being a nymphomaniac.

"Taichu, why did you stay in Ninan for so long, and you still have a celebrity style?" Wei Ba grabbed the reins beside the car and quipped.

Xiahou Xuan retracted his mind, looked at Wei Ba with a smile on his face, and snorted: "Chen is just a villain. ”

Wei Ba blinked and added, "It's a useful villain." ”

"A useful villain is also a villain." Xiahou Xuan said angrily.

"Yes, but it's better than a useless gentleman." Wei Ba shook his horsewhip and said with a smile: "Everyone has a heart of profit, and only those who have no worries about food and clothing can be indifferent to fame and fortune." In the beginning, in fact, you can't seem to do it, right? ”

Xiahou Xuan was frustrated and was silent for a long time: "I'm just reminding you." You don't regret it later. ”

"I know your intentions very well, but who in the world is perfect when you use people to use their strengths? I can't wait for one of those perfect people to come along. Wei Ba knocked on the mud with a horsewhip: "Come down, get on the horse, and go to the beach with me, isn't it better than sitting on this car?" By the way, what about introducing you to my friend? ”

Xiahou Xuan slapped his forehead and blamed himself: "Look at me, I forgot about this." He turned to a middle-aged scholar in the other car and said, "Xuan Mao." Come over and meet General Zhennan. ”

The book got out of the car. Taking square steps, he came to Wei Ba, raised his head, and squinted his eyes. looked at Wei Ba: "Why don't you get off the horse?" ”

Wei Ba sat on horseback. Shaking the horsewhip. looked at this scholar with a dusty face but couldn't hide his arrogance, and the corners of his mouth grinned: "It's not that I don't get off the horse, it's that I don't know if you are worth my dismount." ”

Xiahou Xuan took a look. I was suddenly a little anxious. He hurriedly got out of the car, arched his hand to Wei Ba, and made a look: "Ziyu, this is my friend Nanyang Deng Yang Deng Xuanmao, the descendant of Mrs. Deng, I heard that you are recruiting talents, so I took my letter and rushed all the way to Jiaozhou." ”

"It turns out that he is also one of the four congs." Wei Ba still didn't get off the horse, and looked down at Deng Yang condescendingly: "Since you are a celebrity like Taichu, you must have heard of my question, I wonder if Deng Jun can give an answer?" ”

Hearing this, Deng Yang's originally lofty face suddenly became a little embarrassed.

When Wei Ba saw it, he smiled silently, and then asked, "Looking at Deng Jun like this, there will be no answer for a while." Can Deng Jun answer another question for me. ”

Deng Yang coughed and arched his hand: "General, please speak." ”

Wei Ba pointed with a whip: "Can Deng Jun see the ship in the distance?" ”

Deng Yang looked at Wei Ba's horsewhip and nodded: "I can see it." ”

"Can you sail farther to this ship, then?"

Deng Yang nodded again.

"Then please Deng Jun watch, until you see the ship to the port, and then tell you what you saw." Wei Ba arched his hand: "If the answer satisfies me, I will immediately grant a position of Taishou, and ask Deng Jun to give in, okay?" ”

When Deng Yang heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. Xiahou Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief. This question sounds a bit of a stretch, but it's just the appetite of these celebrities who talk about the Tao. Deng Yang has a quick mind and good knowledge, so he must be able to satisfy Wei Ba. If Deng Yang can be too conservative all of a sudden, he, the introducer, will also have face.

Xiahou Xuan glanced at Deng Yang and raised his hand to invite: "Xuan Mao, go to the car and sit and watch." ”

"No, I'll just wait here, and I'll have to get off in a while." Deng Yang waved his sleeves in a dashing manner: "You accompany General Zhennan for a walk, and I will ask you for advice later." ”

"Well, Xuanmao bothered." Xiahou Xuan took a horse from the hands of his guards, stepped on the stirrup and got on the horse, and chased after Wei Ba.

The horse's hooves trampled a bunch of hoof flowers on the beach, and then they were washed away by the sea.

Xiahou Xuan caught up with Wei Ba, pulled the reins lightly, and said with a smile on his face: "Ziyu, you are becoming more and more like a general now, and as soon as you open your mouth, you will be two thousand stone guards." ”

"Of course, to give you face." Wei Ba turned his head and said with a smile: "However, I think he can't do it." ”

"You're not going to have some tricky questions, are you?"

"I've never had a tricky problem." Wei Ba sneered: "It's you celebrities who are only willing to dream, but you are unwilling to do some real learning in a down-to-earth manner. By the way, didn't you say that Zhuge Festival is also coming? Why is Deng Yang alone? ”

"Zhuge went to Guanzhong." Xiahou Xuan said apologetically: "He probably wants to go to Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, after all, he is the same sect, and he is much closer than me." ”

"I'm afraid not necessarily." Wei Ba raised his eyebrows slightly: "Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's younger brother is just an idle job now, and what is the younger brother." ”

"He's going, and I'm going to have to let him go. If Prime Minister Zhuge refuses to use him, wouldn't it be better? ”

Wei Ba smiled and asked about Ninan's political affairs instead. Xiahou Xuan is in Rinan, being too shou is secondary, and the barbarians' little, no matter how stable they are, if they are tightly managed, they are prone to accidents. The most important thing for Xiahou Xuan in Ninan was to open up the rice market. Rinan and Jiuzhen to the west, is the later generations of Thailand, Laos where the weather is hot, three crops a year, is the real land of fish and rice.

However, in the external conditions, most people are lazy by nature, and as long as they have food and clothing, they have no heart to open up wasteland and increase production. Xiahou Xuan's task is to open up this trade route. Stimulate those barbarians to expand reproduction. To expand production, all kinds of advanced agricultural tools and planting jishu were needed, and Xiahou Xuan collected these and exchanged them for rice produced by the barbarians, from which he reaped rich benefits. After last year's war, there was almost no problem of food shortage under Wei Ba's rule, and Xiahou Xuan was meritorious.

Of course, Xiahou Xuan also made a lot of money from it, not to mention anything else, every boatload of grain that Cao Fu transported from Jiaozhou could be exchanged for ten times the profit in Luoyang. This is still offshore sailing. It is inevitable to encounter pirates and water thieves. Because of this. As soon as he heard that Wei Ba wanted to build a sea ship that could sail far away, Xiahou Xuan mainly came from Rinan.

After listening to Xiahou Xuan's work report, Wei Ba smiled and said, "In addition to selling farm tools and the like to those barbarians, have you passed on the saint's classics?" ”

"I made up some simple Mongolian textbooks. Picked some clever barbarian teenagers to study. Xiahou Xuan shrugged his shoulders: "But I'm too busy." There's not much time to explain. So when I came back this time, I also wanted to see if there were any suitable candidates in the school, and I wanted to take a few with me. But. Nishinan is remote, and I'm afraid they don't want to go. ”

"It's okay." Wei Ba muttered: "I'll just make some adjustments in the policy." In the beginning, educating the barbarians was also expanding the territory. If they accept our culture, they may accept our rule, not to mention that at least it is easier for our merchants to do business there, don't you say? In the future, when the conditions are ripe, we will set up a county over there, and there will be less resistance. ”

"Haha, the Central Plains haven't been taken yet, but you are thinking about these wild places first?"

"The Wild Lands?" Wei Ba shook his head: "In less than ten years, the Central Plains will soon be pacified, which can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye." But we have to look further, not just ten years from now, but thirty years from now, fifty years from now, and even a hundred years from now. Once the world is unified, after a hundred years, all kinds of sediments will inevitably be deposited again and become tumors. If we don't prepare in advance, this cycle of rise and fall will inevitably happen again. You have the wisdom to know people, and you also have the eye to learn from the past and the future, how can you go with the flow? ”

Xiahou Xuan didn't answer him, but sighed softly: "Ten years, the national fortune of Great Wei is only ten years?" ”

"I'm afraid that Wei's national fortunes are less than ten years old." Wei Ba smiled: "But don't worry, your Xiahou family's fortune is still long." ”

Xiahou Xuan shook his head lonely and didn't say anything.

At this time, Deng Yang rode over on a horse, and Xiahou Xuan hurriedly cheered up and asked Deng Yang with his eyes first. Deng Yang nodded vigorously, confident.

"Look at it like this, Deng Jun has gained." Wei Ba smiled and arched his hand: "Dare to ask." ”

Deng Yang coughed, and a slightly reserved smile appeared on his face: "General, you just went to Wancheng not long ago, and you must have visited Zhang Pingzi's tomb." ”

Wei Ba was stunned: "Who is Zhang Pingzi, is he very famous?" ”

Deng Yang was stunned for a moment, the smile on his face disappeared, and he became a little uneasy. He looked at Wei Ba and asked hesitantly: "The general doesn't know that Nanyang is too guarded, and Zhang Pingzi is in Western Hubei?" ”

Wei Ba said in surprise: "Should I know him?" It's just a Nanyang Taishou. ”

Deng Yang was very embarrassed, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Xiahou Xuan coughed, interrupting the silence. "Zhang Pingzi is Zhang Heng, he not only did Nanyang Taishou, but also wrote "Erjing Fu", more importantly, he is proficient in astronomical geography and mechanical mathematics, wrote "Lingxian", "Calculation and Recklessness", and also made an armillary sphere, but the most famous is the wind and earth motion instrument......"

"Wait!" Wei Ba suddenly knew who this Zhang Pingzi was. It was the peak in the history of Chinese science, and he knew that he was from the Han Dynasty, but he didn't know that his tomb was on the edge of Wancheng. If he knew, he couldn't have stopped worshipping. In his opinion, Nanyang Taishou is not worth mentioning, but Zhang Heng's achievements in science make people look up to the mountains.

"Are you familiar with Zhang Pingzi's knowledge?"

"General, don't forget, I'm also from Nanyang." Deng Yang was a little confused, he felt that Wei Ba's reaction seemed to be a little too strong, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse. "For the former sages in the township, of course I admire the shadows."

"Then do you know the design of the Wind Ground Motion Instrument?"

Deng Yang was stunned and at a loss...... (To be continued......)

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