Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 258 Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Young (4000)

Speaking of the location of Danyang, the ancient capital of Chu State, Wu Liang is actually more clear than Yu Ji.

Now this place is indeed located in Nanyang County. The exact location should be at the confluence of Danshui and Zheshui. It is very easy to find.

But what Wu Liang was more interested in was the specific location of the Qiumu Cemetery. If there were exact records in the "History of Qi", it would definitely be much easier to find.

Also.

Although Nanyang County is not Boss Cao's territory now, it is still relatively safe.

It was because Yuan Shu originally occupied here, and after being defeated by Boss Cao Yu Kuangting last year, he had already given up Nanyang and fled to Huainan area.

And Liu Biao in the south also took Jingzhou as the boundary, and did not show much interest in Nanyang for the time being.

What is more noteworthy is that Zhang Ji, who Wu Liang specially gave Boss Cao eye drops before, is the uncle of Zhang Xiu who killed Dianwei, Cao Ang, Cao Ti and Jueying in the battle of Wancheng.

But it shouldn't be a big problem.

Zhang Ji is currently stationed in Hongnong County to the north of Nanyang County. His nephew Zhang Xiu took over the army when Zhang Ji went south to fight with Liu Biao in order to plunder food and grass due to internal strife two years later. , will be stationed in Wancheng outside Nanyang County.

So at the current stage, Nanyang County is in a power vacuum period without actual controllers, and it is a good choice for Wu Liang to explore now.

In addition, the word Nanyang is mentioned.

Wu Liang, like most of the later generations, immediately thought of the legendary Zhuge Liang.

According to the records of "Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang should have moved to the Longzhong area of ​​Nanyang County with his uncle Zhuge Xuan.

However, Zhuge Liang was born in 181 A.D., and it is only 194 A.D., even in the ancient times of the Celestial Dynasty, he should be around 14 years old, and he is still a kid.

Moreover, Zhuge Liang was still a very arrogant and rebellious kid at this stage. After reading some books, he compared himself with Guan Zhong and Le Yi all day long. Not very pleasing, most of the surrounding gentry dismissed him.

and so……

Wu Liang really wanted to meet the Zhuge Villager at this brat stage.

It shouldn't be too difficult to find, after all, Zhuge Liang's uncle Zhuge Xuan has not passed away, Zhuge Liang has not started to live in seclusion, and he is still a well-known arrogant boy.

"Mister, do you have any more specific records?"

Wu Liang asked.

"Young master, please take a look."

Yu Ji continued to spread out the roll of bamboo slips, pointing to some words behind and said, "It says that after the descendants of Duke Mu of Qiu moved his mausoleum to Danyang, they specially chose a place with a good geomantic omen to rebuild the ancestral tomb. There are two sand potentials, one of which is "the sharp and beautiful square circle rises in front of the face, and the descendants will look at the waist with jade", which is the formula for choosing the sand in the art of geomancy, and the other sand is "the pen rests on the bow and the mat hat, and the brocade clothes on the phoenix pool Hui', this is the formula for selecting case sand in the art of geomancy."

"Through these two formulas, the appearance of Chaosha and Biansha in the Fengshui treasure land here is already in my heart. Moreover, this Fengshui place is quite unique. As long as I arrive in Nanyang, I will be sure to find the location of the tomb of Duke Mu , even the entrance to the mausoleum is exactly right!"

At this point, Yu Ji's old face showed a very confident look, and he stroked his beard quite proudly.

"good very good!"

Wu Liang immediately showed joy, nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's take a rest for a few more days before heading to Nanyang for a visit. Then I will definitely learn the old man's skills."

"It's nothing more than a trick, hahaha."

Yu Ji smiled like a chopper, with a look of "even if you praise me like this, I won't be very happy" all over his face.

……

Now that it has entered spring, it is an important time for reclamation and sowing.

The farming work in Yongqiu County was carried out in an orderly manner and the efficiency of land reclamation was ensured with the cooperation of the Tuan army and Zhu Lu, together with Thyme's "Tianche" and "Quyuanli".

In addition, the development of Cao's Salt Company is pretty good. Wang Qing has already personally gone to Le'an Country to discuss the source of goods with Wen Renzhao.

These don't require Wu Liang to intervene, and he is naturally happy to be a hands-off shopkeeper.

Anyway, the final result is to be handed over to Boss Cao. He doesn't need to be so concerned at all. All he has to do is wait patiently for the completion of the matter and take the opportunity to achieve his goal...

In the past two days, Wu Liang paid a special visit to Cheng Yu, the current prefect of Chenliu, and learned about Boss Cao's latest actions from Cheng Yu.

According to Cheng Yu, Boss Cao has already begun to gather his troops, and when the weather gets warmer, he plans to send his troops to the east to conquer Guangling County and Xiapi State in the south of Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

Now Guangling County and Xiapi Kingdom have assembled two troops.

One is Tao Qian who was beaten by Boss Cao before;
The other part is from Lu Bu and Zhang Miao who fled here after the failed rebellion.

According to Cheng Yu, the two armies are now united, and while they are ready to resist Boss Cao, they also have great intentions to go north to recapture Xuzhou.

"The envoy is now strong and strong, with sufficient food and grass. How can Tao Qian, Lu Bu, and Zhang Miao and his ilk be able to contend? I think that the envoy will be invincible in this expedition, and there will be no disadvantages!"

In this regard, Wu Liang of course did not express any substantive opinions, but only picked good things to say.

However, he knew in his heart that Boss Cao's battle would not be too smooth, and he might suffer some hardships.

Because he is about to face a lot of enemies, in addition to Tao Qian, Lu Bu, and Zhang Miao's allied forces, he will also be attacked from the north by Tian Kai and Liu Bei who are currently entrenched in Qingzhou.

In history, Liu Bei and Lu Bu fell in love and killed each other for a long time in Xuzhou.

The most important thing is that Liu Bei urgently needs a piece of territory of his own now.

Don't look at Liu Bei who is now entrenched in Qingzhou with Tian Kai, the governor of Qingzhou, and has some starting soldiers in his hands, but he can only be regarded as Tian Kai's subordinate, and has no base of his own at all.

This is the wheel of history, full of inevitability.

In order to have his own territory to survive, he will definitely participate in the battle in Xuzhou, so as to take the opportunity to find a place for himself to live in. This is the choice Liu Bei will inevitably make.

In addition, there is Yuan Shu in the south.

In history, Yuan Shu also participated in the battle of Xuzhou, and defeated Liu Bei to occupy Guangling County.

Boss Cao was even hunted down by Yuan Shu's trilogy when he went out once. Fortunately, a person named "Qin Zhen" pretended to be a substitute and used his life to replace Boss Cao, so Boss Cao was able to survive...

So Wu Liang thought.

Faced with so many enemies coming from different directions, even if Boss Cao already possesses a strategic weapon like "Flying Slave" and Xi Zhicai is there to assist him, he will inevitably lose sight of the other and suffer some hardships.

However, this did not have much impact on Wu Liang.

As long as Boss Cao is not dead and Cao Wei's foundation is not shaken, even if Cao Jun loses a few more battles or suffers some setbacks, his status will not change easily in a short time.

On the contrary, when he is in adversity, Boss Cao will rely more on him.

"This is natural, so you not only have a strong army, strong horses and sufficient food and grass, but also the advantage of Captain Wu's 'flying slave'. You can know the enemy's movements hundreds of miles away in an instant without leaving the account. The triumphant return, of course Captain Wu also contributed a lot."

Cheng Yu also had a smile all over his face, but he didn't forget to flatter Wu Liang, and said with a slightly evasive gaze, "Well... Captain Wu, there is something I still need to explain to you brazenly, I owe you that I haven't got the ten catties of gold yet, can you allow some more time, don't worry, once the gold is collected, I will send it to the mansion immediately."

"Cheng Taishou was joking, am I the kind of person who cares about everything?"

Wu Liang said with puffy eyes.

"Yes...couldn't Captain Wu come here this time to ask for gold?"

Cheng Yu is also a shameless person, since the last time Wu Liang came to visit and saw that everything looked like ten catties of gold, he already had some psychological shadows, so he explained the situation in advance before Wu Liang said it.

"Of course not."

Wu Liang shook his head and said with a smile, "Actually, I came here mainly to ask the prefect Cheng to take care of me. Recently, I am going to lead an army on a long trip, and I don't know when I will be back, so I want to ask the prefect Cheng to take care of my family and my family. The Tuan Army stationed in Yongqiu County."

"It's natural. I will do my best if Captain Wu doesn't say anything."

Cheng Yu patted his chest, but asked curiously, "However, Captain Wu just came back from Le'an Kingdom not long ago? He's going away again so soon, where are he going this time?"

"secret."

Wu Liang smiled mysteriously, and continued, "I have already sent flying slaves to inform the envoy of where this trip is going. Please forgive me for not being able to say more. In addition, my family needs to secretly build a batch of tools recently, so I am here to tell you Cheng Taishou borrowed some blacksmiths and a batch of fine iron for use."

"The Tuan army wants to make tools, so I will fully cooperate. Later, I will send three of the best blacksmiths to bring refined iron to the mansion, and let them be ordered."

Cheng Yu quickly said seriously.

Cheng Yu is one of the few insiders about the value of the Huanren Army to Boss Cao. Not to mention the friendship with Wu Liang, even without him, he would definitely not dare to make things difficult on purpose.

"Then I would like to thank Prefect Cheng."

Wu Liang said with a smile.

With a blacksmith and fine iron, his "Diamond Umbrella" can be put on the agenda.

To say that Thyme is really powerful, after Wu Liang told the little girl the idea of ​​"Vajra Umbrella" and "Flying Tiger Claw", she immediately put it on the agenda.

Just yesterday, she had used wood to make the prototype of the "Vajra Umbrella".

However, due to the limitations of materials and craftsmanship, this prototype has no way to realize all the functions of the "Vajra Umbrella", and can only be regarded as a fancy but unusable model.

But Wu Liang was still very satisfied with this.

He felt that as long as Thyme had hired a skilled blacksmith and had enough refined iron to cooperate with multiple experiments, the girl should not be able to make the "Vajra Umbrella" in a short time.

of course.

This trip to Nanyang definitely won't be able to take it with him, maybe when he comes back, he will be able to see the finished "Vajra Umbrella", that would be great too.

Besides.

Baili Xiang also made new discoveries when he was studying the "Wooden Armor Man".

She actually discovered the composition of "kindness stone" in the five-color powder in the viscera of "Mu Jiaren"!

The so-called "stone of kindness" in the Eastern Han Dynasty is actually the "magnet" of later generations. In this era, people generally believed that "stone is the mother of iron, but there are two kinds of stones: kindness and non-kindness. A kind stone can attract his children. The stones that are not there will not be able to attract." Hence the name "Cishi".

Wu Liang knew the principle of magnets, and later generations have many technologies that use magnetism as power.

Based on the knowledge he knows, Wu Liang naturally has reason to speculate that the power of the "Mujiaren" may be related to these magnets, but at present, it is only a speculation, and everything has yet to be further studied by Thyme.

but.

If these magnet components are really the source of power for the "Mu Jiaren", then the weight of ancient wisdom in Wu Liang's heart will increase by another level.

After all, even in later generations, this kind of technology is not a high-tech that ordinary people can understand and come into contact with, but it was so proficiently and wonderfully used by the ancients 3000 years ago, which is simply unimaginable.

And if Thyme can help him decipher this ancient black technology, it will be a big deal...

……

Fifteen days later.

Under the leadership of Wu Liang, more than [-] officers of the Tuan Army entered Nanyang County via Kunyang.

As usual, Yang Wanli, after listening to Tai Ji's judgment on the terrain features near the Chumu Cemetery, took the lead in leading a small group of soldiers to break away from the team and sneak into the surrounding towns, looking for suspected targets while scouting for news.

On the other hand, Wu Liang and others pretended to be migrating poor families and continued to march, and agreed with Yang Wanli to find the target and meet up in Deng County, southwest of Nanyang County and [-] miles west of Xiangyang City.

Wu Liang chose Deng County as his foothold, so he was very particular about it.

First, it is not far from Danyang, the ancient capital of Chu State, so it is convenient to check the Qiumu Cemetery;

Secondly, this is the place where Zhuge Villager followed his uncle Zhuge Xuan to live in seclusion. If you want to see Zhuge Villager when you were a bear child, you must come to this place.

Besides.

There are still many reclusive celebrities in Xiangyang City, among which the last one is a person who always appears in people's mouths with Zhuge Villager. This person is called Pang Tong.

However, Pang Tong was born in 179 AD, and he was only two years older than Mr. Zhuge.

That is to say, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong are still just children now, and these two guys were late bloomers in history, so they should not have the famous names of "Crouching Dragon" and "Fengchu".

As for Sima Hui once said in the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "Crouching dragons and phoenix chicks, one can make the world safe."

This sentence is obviously fabricated, and there is no similar record in official history.

But this does not prevent Wu Liang from wanting to meet the legendary Wolong and Fengchu in person, even though Wolong and Fengchu have become a popular stalk in the Internet of later generations, and they are still derogatory.

　Thanks to [Da Zhu smiling here] and [Book friend 161216135315783] for their rewards.

　　
　
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