In Cao Cao's eyes, he saw a group of once glamorous ministers.

But in Xiahoudun's opinion, they were all a group of thieves who should be killed.

The chat between the two people also fell into a short silence because of Xiahoudun's sentence "the thief who should be killed".

"Brother, did I say the wrong thing again?" It was Xiahoudun who asked first.

Cao Cao shook his head, "No, what you said is right, they are indeed a group of thieves who should be killed." The Han family is dying, each of them has a great responsibility, and the ministers of the imperial court, if it is not for the well-being of the world, they will lose the value of living. ”

Xiahoudun's expression was slightly relieved, and he smiled, "As long as I don't say the wrong thing, what I'm most worried about now is my mouth." ”

"How often do you say the wrong thing?" Cao Cao asked with a smile.

"What kind of person I am, don't you know what kind of person my brother has?" Xiahoudun was a little depressed.

Cao Cao said: "I don't know about you, but in my impression, you don't seem to say the wrong thing often. ”

"I don't know what's going on, anyway, Your Majesty often says that I have two shoulders up, and that thing in my brain is completely ornamental, and he also tells me to read more. But brother, do you see, I look like the kind of person who can read? Xiahoudun muttered.

Cao Cao laughed, "Your Majesty is right to let you read more, you just read, I believe you can read it." As long as people are willing to learn, it will never be too late at any time. ”

"Brother, the thing I wonder the most, I often say the wrong thing, what does it have to do with this head on my neck?" Xiahoudun asked, he was puzzled, and even a little angry.

Cao Cao looked at Xiahoudun for a moment, "You really need to read more." ”

Xiahoudun: ......

"You just said that this is baked by His Majesty's own hands?" Cao Cao asked suddenly.

Xiahoudun was like an iron man, and immediately told Cao Cao the story of the roast sheep very excitedly.

Cao Cao listened to it, and cleaned the sheep's hooves with a serious face, and even the periosteum on the surface of the bones was scraped off by him, "Your Majesty still has such a craft, but this is a small way after all, and it is not beneficial in terms of governing the world." ”

Xiahoudun suddenly clapped his hands excitedly and shouted: "Your Majesty is really a god, he said that brother, you will definitely say so." ”

Cao Cao looked down at the sheep's hooves in his hand and was stunned.

After a long time, he sneered and said, "Your Majesty really said that? ”

"Can I lie to my brother? I remember it really. Xiahoudun patted his chest and said, "Others can say that I Xiahoudun can't speak, but don't think about my bad memory." ”

"Your Majesty...... What else was said? Cao Cao asked with a faint look in his eyes.

"And said......" Xiahoudun, who was still boasting about his excellent memory just now, touched the back of his head, and thought for a while before he said with some excitement, "I remember, Your Majesty has been talking about wanting my brother to train in Henan Yin recently, but it's ......"

Before Xiahoudun finished speaking, he was interrupted by Cao Cao, "Don't say it, I heard about this casually, so you shouldn't have said it." ”

"Why?" Xiahoudun asked suspiciously.

"Because it's time for you to study hard." Cao Cao patted Xiahoudun on the shoulder, got up and walked towards Beiyuan.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty placed 100,000 troops here to conduct a big review, which shows how vast the area of this place is.

The only place that Liu Wei really uses now is Beiyuan, which has been renamed by him.

Xiahoudun kept up with Cao Cao's pace in confusion, "Brother, the old witch of the Queen Mother asked Mrs. Yuan to personally go to the West Garden to teach Your Majesty, did she not follow her kindness?" ”

Cao Cao was slightly surprised, "In this matter, you can be regarded as right." But the title of the Queen Mother should still be respected, and she is also His Majesty's biological mother anyway. ”

"Save it, brother. I'll just say, Zhang Liao still has to bet with me, I see that his two shoulders are also raised. Xiahoudun shook his head, like a victorious general.

Cao Cao just smiled and didn't speak.

Xiahoudun chased after him and asked: "Brother is scheming, he should be able to guess why the Queen Mother did this, right?" ”

Cao Cao's face darkened slightly, "Do you want to praise me, or do you want to scold me?" ”

"Naturally, I'm praising my brother, why should I scold my brother?" Xiahoudun asked rhetorically.

Cao Cao shook his head: ......

Speechless for a moment, Cao Cao still explained to Xiahoudun, "The Queen Mother may have many reasons for doing this, Your Majesty's new emperor ascended the throne, the general and the Taifu recorded Shangshu affairs together, the cardinal of the Imperial Court, and the court's handling of major affairs in the world was almost all from the hands of these two people. ”

"Now the general is happily working as a craftsman here, laying bricks and building walls. Then the most important thing is not too Fu. Maybe the Queen Mother wants to use the power of the Empress Dowager in the court to suppress His Majesty's rights on the grounds of His Majesty's willfulness. ”

"But, when I come, I can't leave. I'll probably be able to get out of the way, which is a good thing. ”

Xiahoudun listened to the mist, "When you come, you can't leave?" ”

Cao Cao sneered, "Taifu Yuan always thought that he was a fox hiding in the shadows, and he only had one hand on the Han family. But as everyone knows, His Majesty is the real tiger wolf, a pretentious fox got into the tiger wolf's lair, do you think he can still leave with all his beards and tails? ”

"Won't the opportunity in the eyes of the Queen Mother become an opportunity for Your Majesty? Hahaha. ”

"It's actually very interesting that a man who has only counted two steps should try to count a man who has already counted a hundred steps."

Xiahoudun was completely confused.

He yawned and waved his hand in a depressed expression, "Forget it, brother, I don't deserve to hear these things!" I think I'd better go to training, and I'm really looking forward to the way this army will be pulled out. Eat well, practice hard, and beat people must be very cruel. ”

Cao Cao: ......

……

There is a bamboo house like a folk house in Beiyuan, also called Bamboo House, which is Liu Bian's current residence.

To the south of the bamboo house is a vast sea of flowers.

Green bamboos and rockeries are lined up among them, and then surrounded by gurgling living water, the sea of flowers is divided into small spaces with unique taste.

Liu Wei, who is keen to do it himself, is making a waterwheel by himself.

He was going to bring the living water over and make a shower device.

"What is Mrs. Yuan going to say to me today?" Liu Wei patiently roasted the bamboo, while asking Yuan Kui.

Yuan Kui has lost a lot of weight recently under Cao Cao's torture, and he looks like a bone frame with thick dark circles.

He bowed his hand and said: "'Zi said: My ambition is in the "Spring and Autumn Period", and the line is in the "Book of Filial Piety". 'The old minister is preaching filial piety for His Majesty today. ”

"I'm not filial, Taifu doesn't need to talk about it." Liu Wei simply refused.

He didn't know what the Book of Filial Piety was about.

But he knew the reason why Empress Dowager He asked Yuan Kui to tell him about filial piety, so there was no need.

"The old minister also thought that His Majesty didn't have to read the "Book of Filial Piety", and the "Daya" cloud: no Erzu, Yu Xiu Jide. His Majesty misses the glory of his ancestors, and diligently cultivates his own virtues, and the old minister thinks it is great filial piety. The minister is preaching the "Book of Filial Piety" for His Majesty, but no one has ever spoken the "Book of Filial Piety" for the Queen Mother. Yuan Kui said.

Liu Wei couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Mrs. Yuan, can I understand that you are slapping my ass?" ”

"The minister is not a eunuch with a servile face, and his words and deeds are out of his heart." Yuan Kui said.

Zhao Ye raised his eyebrows and silently stood behind Yuan Kui's side.

Liu Wei only glanced at it, but did not stop it.

"I have heard that the greatest filial piety of a scholar is his single-mindedness to the king, does the Taifu think that your two sons and nephews are unfilial people?" Liu Wei asked with a smile.

"He is a great unfilial man. It is already a great dishonor for them to abandon their people, not to mention, they have abandoned their own monarch! Yuan Kui sighed.

Looking at the appearance of this old man's true feelings, Liu Wei had to admire the strength of "The Book of Filial Piety".

Sure enough, people who read a lot are powerful, and they can even speak.

"In that case, isn't it very reasonable for me to punish his nine clans?" Liu Wei asked with a smile.

Yuan Kui replied calmly: "Great unfilial piety is the first of the five punishments, and it is reasonable to judge the crime of the nine clans. ”

"Then let Mrs. Lao personally write an essay for me, with the title of "The Book of Filial Piety". Liu Wei said.

"Obey the order!" Yuan Kui said again.

He is like an emotionless teaching machine, except for the slight rise of his eyebrows when he comes to those allusions, the rest of the time, he has a dead face and is completely expressionless.

Yuan Kui asked Xiao Huangmen to send him the four treasures of the study.

But just when he was about to start writing directly, Liu Wei suddenly said: "Don't be in a hurry in advance, Mrs. Yuan still ponders and ponders before writing, I don't ask how gorgeous and beautiful the rhetoric is, the only thing is that the words must be sonorous and powerful." ”

"Yui!" Yuan Kui should have no opinion at all.

"Let's help me dispose of these bamboos first, hollow out the middle, and make the ends like this!" Liu Wei took two samples and pointed them to Yuan Kui.

Yuan Kui, who had always been expressionless, had a rare look of astonishment on his face after hearing the emperor's order.

He probably didn't expect that the emperor would arrange such an errand for him.

He squatted down, carefully examined the two bamboos, and asked, "What is Your Majesty going to do with this object?" ”

"Water pipes." Liu Wei said casually, "The bamboo is connected end to end in such a way, and the middle is sealed with peach glue and hemp rope. ”

It was the most modern way he could think of.

Liu Wei once considered copper pipes, but it was not easy to make a piece of copper into a dense and impermeable pipe.

And that's money!

The cost of his project is not small at all.

"The old minister understands." After Yuan Kui answered, he took off his official uniform and began to make bamboo pipes in a similar way.

This is a very patient old man who is very meticulous in his work.

Except for the beginning, the old man neglected to have the same size at the junction of the two bamboo pipes, resulting in the waste of one bamboo, the rest are quite good, and can even be described as exquisite.

It didn't take long for Yuan Kui to become familiar with all the processes of making water pipes.

After that, the bamboo he screened was even better than Liu Wei's own.