Chapter 39: Wind and Waves

Zhong Yang watched the master go down the mountain, and the old man was holding a basket of spirit fruits, looking satisfied, and even walked a little briskly.

Regarding the suggestion of the viewer, Zhong Yangming did not refuse.

It's just that the spirit fruit is not a panacea for all diseases, and it can only be said that the effect of conditioning and tonifying the body is better than that of ordinary medicinal materials, and it may not be able to cure the emperor's illness at all.

But no matter what, the father-son relationship in the past ten years is not bad for this spiritual fruit.

After sending off the Guanzhu, Zhong Yangming devoted himself to the transformation of Wu Fort on the top of the mountain.

Liu Mincai slept well in this place with rich aura, and woke up the next day feeling refreshed, as if most of his injuries were healed.

Zhong Yangming was not polite, and directly spread the topographic map in front of Liu Mincai.

"Liu Shilang, this is the design of Wu Bao that I drafted yesterday, can you see how to design and modify it better?"

Liu Shilang took the drawing, and there was a large piece of land around the current hut, but the design looked a little strange.

"Your Highness, isn't this Wu Bao too big?"

Liu Shilang is an expert in this area, and at a glance he knows how much area there is, what kind of Wubao is this, it is clearly a small city.

"Be prepared, it's all a wasteland of mysteries anyway, circle it first, and you will always use it later." Zhong Yangming said.

If you want to enclose the land, you can circle it at one time and fence it directly.

Although there should be no opinion on the Xuanxuan Temple, if it is expanded again and again, it will easily make people feel that Zhong Yangming is insatiable and will swallow the entire Xuanxuan Temple.

So just make the circle big enough at once, and then don't move around casually.

Liu Shilang didn't think so, he just felt that Zhong Yangming had great ambitions.

In such a big city, it's no problem to raise thousands of elite soldiers, isn't this the standard for rebellion, it's very reasonable.

"Okay, then the old minister will be ugly."

Liu Shilang took the charcoal, took a new drawing and began to draw.

Since the terrain had not yet been explored, Liu Shilang simply divided the area and marked some necessary buildings and designs.

But Zhong Yangming's original drawings only had a few large boxes, and under Liu Shilang's pen, a small city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and perfect in all aspects, was drawn by him.

Liu Shilang uses the most simple and easy-to-understand painting methods, but a few strokes can outline a specific image, and the layman can see it clearly.

It's really an expert who knows if there is one as soon as he makes a move, and Zhong Yangming is sure that he has picked up a treasure again.

Liu Shilang pointed to a few areas and said to Zhong Yangming: "Your Highness, the old minister thinks that these places need to be built first. ”

Zhong Yangming took a look, the area where the fertile land was reclaimed, then several defensive points of Wubao, and finally ...... Barracks?

Zhong Yangming said strangely: "What is this barracks for?" ”

"Huh? Don't build barracks? ”

Liu Shilang was stunned, how can you train soldiers without building a barracks, how can you rebel if you don't train soldiers?

But he didn't dare to ask, how could he, who had just come to take refuge, dare to question the Sixth Highness, and hurriedly asked, "Then Your Highness, what do you mean?" ”

"Fertile land reclamation can also be put aside first, we will not be short of food. The walls and watchtowers of the castle could have been built first, so as not to be disturbed by idle people. Barracks are useless or anything, the real key is this. ”

Zhong Yangming pointed his finger on the workshop, then picked up a pen and drew a few lines on it.

"Double the size of the workshop, Liu Shilang, if you have anything to do, just ask, I want to build the best workshop in the world. What waterwheel power, steelmaking blast furnace, etc., you know what is good to use, just draw it, I will find someone to help you do it. ”

Zhong Yangming couldn't wait to build this workshop, this stargazing equipment was indispensable for cultivation, and it needed to be met first.

How dare Liu Mincai say that he is not a half-sentence, thinking that he is just a technician, and he really has no experience in rebellion.

"Your Highness must have his deep meaning in doing this, and I just need to do what I am told."

With this idea, Liu Mincai began to revise the drawings according to Zhong Yangming's requirements.

In the afternoon, Zhong Yangming got a wooden chair that could be carried on his shoulder, and asked Wang Shishi to carry Liu Mincai, who was not good at walking, on his back and began to carry out construction according to the drawings.

When Liu Min saw thick wooden walls growing from the ground, he realized that he had been too conservative before.

Flat ground grows two zhang thick, five zhang high wooden wall, what kind of means is this, if you go to the city wall of the capital down such a hand, what city wall can stop?

"No wonder His Highness doesn't care about military training, this kind of immortal method, what do you want the soldiers to do."

Liu Mincai felt that he had guessed Zhong Yangming's thoughts, Zhong Yangming's means were not afraid of any army at all.

Liu Mincai's heart is even hotter, this kind of means, it is not easy to rebel. Thinking of the scene where the prince was caught and tied to the stake and slowly roasted on the simmer, Liu Mincai was suddenly full of energy.

Liu Mincai checked the surrounding terrain over and over again, adjusting various details over and over again to achieve perfection.

A few days passed, and Wubao had already taken shape.

The tall pure wooden city wall encloses the radius for several miles, and this wall is taller and thicker than the capital, except for a little fear of fire, there is no weakness anymore.

Fire prevention is not easy to deal with for the time being, there is only one waterfall on the mountain as a water source, and the amount of water is too small to divert water as a moat.

The most important workshop has also begun to be built, in which Xuanxuan has put a lot of effort into it, and the various tools that Liu Mincai needs are being replenished little by little.

It's just that the sextant telescope and other things that Zhong Yangming wants basically can't be found in stock, so Liu Min can only polish it little by little, which takes a lot of time.

Zhong Yangming was busy with infrastructure construction and cultivation, and the wind and waves on this side of the capital were almost brewing to the highest peak.

Liu Min only went to the rebellion because the main culprit escaped from prison and was brought to the court for discussion, although the prince was a little embarrassed by the questioning, but the general trend was still on his side.

In the end, the case of Liu Mincai's rebellion was handled as an unsolved case, but the suspect could not be found and the trial could not be held, so he was suspected of rebellion.

The punishment of the nine clans or something will be temporarily stopped, but Liu Mincai is still considered a fugitive, and he is wanted by the world for the sea arrest document, and he will talk about it when he is caught.

After this incident, the prince's prestige was damaged, and another confidant died, so he has kept a low profile in the past few days.

originally thought that the court could be temporarily stable, but it didn't take long for Zhou Miaohua's body to be sent to the capital.

Zhou Wang, the secretary of the military department, passed out on the spot and woke up after a whole day of coma.

The first thing Zhou Wang did when he woke up was to cut off a section of his hair, and then swore to the sky: "My child, my father will avenge you, and he will definitely break the murderer into pieces!" ”

Along with Zhou Miaohua's corpse was a letter from the Lord of Xuanxu Guanguan, which Zhou Wang read with red eyes, and then angrily tore the letter to pieces.

"Old Pitch, when I was a three-year-old?! It was even said that my son fell off a cliff and died?! ”

Zhou Wang immediately ordered someone to prepare a carriage and went straight to the East Palace Prince's Mansion.

Originally, after going to the court, the prince could not meet with the ministers, so as not to be said to be a party for personal gain, Zhou Wang usually relied on letters to communicate with the prince, and it was the first time to directly drive into the palace like this.

The prince didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly welcomed Zhou Wang in.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhou Wang even forgot to salute, grabbed the prince's hand tightly and said, "Your Highness, I want the murderer to pay for my son's life!" ”

It took the prince a lot of time to calm down the father-in-law and ask what happened, and the prince was also furious.

"How dare he kill someone?! How dare he?! ”

Although Zhou Miaohua's provocation of Zhong Yangming was not an order from the crown prince, in his opinion, this kind of thing could not be more natural. At most, it is just to humiliate Zhong Yangming, and the conflict between the two sides must be limited to the scope of no life.

Zhou Miaohua is not a fool and will not cross this line easily.

That's not Zhou Miaohua's problem, but Zhong Yangming's ruthlessness to kill people.

But the question is, how could Xuanxuan help him hide it?

What has happened in the past few days?

The prince patted his chest and promised: "Father-in-law, don't worry, I will never stand idly by and watch the matter of Brother Hua, tomorrow in the court, I will propose to my father to bring this mad villain back for a good interrogation, and I will definitely give you an explanation." ”

"Okay, my son's enmity depends on His Highness. It's just that he is the prince after all, will His Majesty let him pay for my son's life? If Your Majesty doesn't allow it, what will you do, Your Highness? ”

When Zhou Wang said this, he stared at the crown prince, without the slightest humility as a courtier, as if he wanted to force him to make a promise.

The prince was angry, Zhou Wang was too rude this time, but thinking that he had just died of his son and needed his assistance, the prince could only endure it temporarily.

"Father-in-law, rest assured, my father is very old, and it was difficult for the early dynasty, as long as we insist on our own opinions, he can't compete with us. As long as we get that beast back, we want to kill or chop it, it's not up to us. ”