As the saying goes: a traverser who doesn't want to open a golden finger is not a good modern person. So since Shi Xun has worn back to ancient times, of course he has also thought about the addiction of invention and creation, making guns and cannons, but the problem is that he neither studies science nor engineering, and even junior high school chemistry is basically returned to the teacher, and he lacks hands-on ability when he is small, so he really humiliates the traverser.

His only strength is that he has a hobby for literature and history, and has roughly read the history of the development of science and technology in ancient China. To tell the truth, it is nonsense to say that the ancient Chinese did not attach importance to science and technology, and ancient Chinese science has long been at the forefront of the world, and there are many fruitful achievements in technology - or where did the "four great inventions" come from? China's biggest problem is that there is no good scientific and technological inheritance system, coupled with the turmoil of periodic dynastic changes, resulting in the periodic loss of many scientific and technological achievements. For example, the legend says that the Yellow Emperor invented the guide car in the era - although it is only a myth and legend, but after all, it is groundless, not necessarily without a reason - but in the Three Kingdoms era, Ma Jun had to be reinvented, and then after the chaos of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, even Ma Jun's invention was lost again.

Here is a brief explanation, Ma Jun's invention of the guide car, has nothing to do with magnets, in fact, it is a complete set of systems driven by multiple sets of gears, which can make as long as a direction is set, even if you go up the mountain and down the river, turn around, the direction pointed by the villain on the car will not change, and it is better than a compass - of course, bulky is bulky...... More than a little.

This shows that the ancients did not lack wisdom and intelligence, but only lacked a good scientific research environment and correct theoretical guidance. Therefore, Shixun planned to take on this "historical responsibility" and find some civilian science at that time, and he would give him some direction and provide some funds to make guns and cannons by themselves.

Of course, it is impossible to engage in scientific research overnight, and the cost of scientific research is quite amazing, so he has never done any planning before, it is just a fantasy. It wasn't until he settled down in Yanzhou that Cao Cao also provided him with some money and wealth, so he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job. It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and it's hard to catch a smelter, or a two-knife and a coward, and the research and development of gunpowder can't see results. As for wanting to improve paper first and then study printing, he couldn't even find a papermaker, and his vision was cut off from the root.

So in desperation, he had no choice but to look up to the sky and sigh, be fierce, and then step down to help Cao Cao do things - mainly to sort out documents and draft official documents.

Shi Xun had a lot of ancient literary skills in his previous life, and after coming to this era, he studied with Sun Qian and Sun Gongyou for more than three months. In fact, his biggest headache is not how to write beautiful articles and use allusions lively, on the contrary, he often has to check an article repeatedly, for fear of using the wrong words that are too beautiful.

Because many primary school students in later generations knew the idiom of the Tao, they could not be used in this era. For example, if you write "Water Drops and Stones", "Honey Belly Sword", "Comeback", although this year has not been, but readers ponder and ponder, and can basically understand, but if you write "Smell the Chicken and Dance", "Arabian Nights", "Please Enter the Urn", "Xanadu" and the like, what does it mean to know the Tao of the meow? Ordinary words and idioms occasionally bring out a few words and idioms from later generations, and it is easy to be confused and made up when others ask—even if it is pretended to be a dialect—but if it falls on the slip, it will be too troublesome to explain.

But fortunately, although Cao Ying is full of talents, there are not too many literary scholars who have really recruited at this time, and Cao Cao's twenty-five fake assistants have not been gathered, and the few pens he barely brought in are not as good as Xun, so he is relieved to boldly fill the number. The reason is that Cao Cao is neither a native of Yanzhou, nor has he been in charge for a long time, and he has not been officially appointed by the imperial court, so many big families in the state either look at him as not very good, or lack confidence in him, and refuse to let their children come out to apply. These families have mastered a strong number of teachers, as well as a wealth of classics accumulated over generations, and the children of the family may not have the talent to settle the country and secure the country, but it will never be a descendant. Cao Cao could not get the support of these families, so the clerical team was always unable to expand.

For example, Chen Liujun has a side family, the head of the family is Bian Rang Zi Wenli, who once wrote "Zhang Huafu" and is famous all over the world, and the official is too shou in Jiujiang, and most of the children in the family are also refined in literature and art, and they are famous for a while. Cao Cao put an end to the matter of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and immediately sent someone to conquer Bian Rang, but Bian Rang not only refused to go out of the mountain, but also prevented his own children from going out, and even pouted and said to the people sent by Cao Cao: "Eunuch and ugly, can you bend my ambition?!" ”

The so-called "emasculation and ugliness", translated into the vernacular, is "the bastard offspring of the dog eunuch". When these words reached Cao Cao's ears, Cao Cao jumped on the spot, pulled out his sword and hated to rush to the door immediately to cut Bian Rang into a stick. Chen Gong and Xu Yan hurriedly stopped, saying that Bian Rang really shouldn't speak ill of him, but his reputation is too loud, Meng De, don't make a fool, kill him I'm afraid that Yanzhou will be in chaos. Shi Xun happened to follow beside him, and when he saw that Chen Gong gave him a look, he had no choice but to stand up and persuade him, saying: "Bian Wenli's words are fallacious, heroes don't ask about their origins, don't you think Emperor Gaozu was just a small pavilion chief back then?" ”

Chen Gong glared at him: "Hongfu lost his words, how can he compare with Gao Zu?" "Yes Xun said okay, then let's change the two of them to make an analogy: "Xiao Xiangguo is a small official in Pei County, and Fan Wuhou is just a dog slaughter, where is he noble?" ”

Listen to compare yourself to Liu Bang...... Well, compared to Xiao He and Fan Xu, Cao Cao's face is slightly better. Shi Xun continued: "Besides, the lord once killed his uncle with a cane in the past, and he wrote to ask for pardon for the party, you have already drawn a line with the eunuchs." The lotus flower is out of the sludge but not stained, the water is clear and the ripples are not demonic, Bian Wenli pointed to the sludge and scolded the lotus for being dirty, that is his own short-sightedness, why should the lord be as knowledgeable as this kind of person? ”

With a "dang long", Cao Cao threw his sword on the ground, turned around and went to find pen and ink: "Hongfu always has a witty word." "Out of the sludge but not stained, clear ripples but not demons", okay, I'll write it down, one day I have time to lay out a "Lotus Fu" out. ”

Shi Xun wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said in his heart Zhou Dunyi, I'm sorry, the two best sentences in your brother's "Ai Lian Said" will be copyrighted by others from now on.

After staying in the past few months, it was Xun who found that Cao Cao was actually quite easy to get along with, and he was ten thousand times stronger than the leaders he had with in his previous life. The first is not to put on a show, and the second is that it is not good to be polite, plus it is Xun who is kind to the Cao family, and there is also a pro, so Cao Cao is usually quite polite to him, and he has always patiently pointed out the wrong places in the official document but did not punish them. After all, this is Hongsuke's young age, who doesn't make a mistake when he's young?

Of course, if you think that Cao Cao has no temper, it will be too superficial, as a generation of heroes, Cao Cao's mind is by no means simple, and he will never be easily exposed to others. For example, regarding Bian Rang's matter, Cao Cao was temporarily relieved on the surface, but after a long period of patient observation and gossip, Shi Xun knew that he had actually been holding a grudge. Moreover, Cao Cao also specially sent someone to keep an eye on the Bian family, and if he wanted to catch a mistake, he would clean up the bastard who dared to scold himself for being "ugly".

Shi Xun vaguely remembered that in the original history, Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others rebelled against Cao Cao and welcomed Lu Bu, and some people analyzed that it was because Cao Cao killed Bian Rang and made the Yanzhou scholars feel cold. But he thinks that the problem will not be so simple, Bian Rang is famous, just kill him, as long as the crime is true and the evidence is conclusive, then no one can say anything, Yanzhou scholars don't like Cao Cao, that is the original distrust, coupled with the accumulated bad feelings, Bian Rang's death, at most, is just the last straw that crushes the camel. Besides, there are historical records that Bian Rang was killed during the Jian'an period, after the battle between Cao and Lu.

Some people say that Chen Lin clearly wrote in "Yuzhou Wen for Yuan Shao" that Cao Cao was killed by Bian Rang, which led to "Shilin is angry, the people are resentful, one husband fights, and the state is in unison, so he bows to Xu Fang, and the land is taken from Lu Bu......" Chen Lin is a person of the times, and he should not tell lies. This is nonsense, is there less of Chen Lin's lies in this article? This thing has to be mixed with all kinds of sewage and splashed on the target of the crusade, can the text be trusted?

Shi Xun sometimes thinks that in the original history, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong will rebel against Lu Bu in the future, is he giving Cao Cao a wake-up call first? Later, I pondered, firstly, because of the flapping of his little wings, Cao Cao would not go to crusade against Tao Qian, so the future will definitely change, and secondly, Zhang Miao is Cao Cao's iron buddies who can "entrust his wife and children", and Chen Gong is Cao Cao's mastermind, and he said bad things about them without evidence, not only will it not have the desired effect, but it will make Cao Cao suspect that he is slandering, and the gains outweigh the losses. Forget it.

Yes Xun was observing Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was also observing Shi Xun, and the more he observed, the more he felt that this young man really couldn't see through. Cao Cao also mentioned his evaluation of Shixun to Xun Yu and Xiahoudun in private - first of all, this is Hongfu's courage and mouth, which was not said, the real "mouth spitting lotus" (of course, Cao Cao doesn't use this word); Secondly, the poems are also well written, although they are not numerous, but often have surprising punch lines; As for his articles, there is still a lot of room for improvement, although it is mediocre now, but in time, it is not difficult to become a generation of literary heroes. What Cao Cao didn't understand the most was Xun's insight.

Previously, in the Suixiang camp, he was like a river, analyzing the surrounding situation one by one, but later when he was caged under his own hands and asked deeply, he either talked about him left and right, or simply kept silent. For example, where did he know that Yuan Shao was "scheming and indecisive"? He had never seen Yuan Shao before!

So it is very likely that those analyses of the situation were all heard by Xun, and it may even be a summary of the wisdom of the four talented people of Xuzhou Shi, Moose, Cao, and Chen, just through his mouth. Speaking of breaking the big world, he is a young man who has just been weak, he has never been an official before, he has been an official, and his friends are not extensive, can he really look at the heroes of the world as if he was watching the text in the palm of his hand? Is he a genius or a monster?

Xun Yu said to Cao Cao that Xuzhou can have such knowledge, it is estimated that only Chen Deng, maybe half of Cao Hong, as for Xun, it must be because he is the quasi-son-in-law of the Cao family, plus his eloquence is unparalleled, so the four major families chose him to be the envoy, and carefully studied with him in advance how to say it. Of course, it is already great to be able to synthesize your own experience or the wisdom of various families in Xuzhou and express it systematically in your own language, and you can't be too demanding of young people. With time and more experience, maybe Xun will really be able to become the dragon and phoenix among people, and also become a powerful arm of the lord.

Cao Cao nodded again and again, and then daydreamed with his eyes open: "If you can really win Xuzhou without blood, supplemented by Chen Yuanlong, then the world is not enough!" ”