Three Kingdoms: Prosper Han from the beginning of brushing favorability

Chapter 258 Pu Yuan's Trouble

In the next few days, Lao Liu showed Zhang Wen a batch of newly built weapons in Shu County, and he was full of praise after seeing them.

He also proposed that he wanted to see the Red Star Army officers and soldiers with his own eyes, and Liu Chan also satisfied him. He ordered Li Er to lead a "military exercise" for him, which shocked Zhang Wen again.

During his stay in these few days, Zhuge Liang attached great importance to this person, not only caring about the inconvenience of his life in Shu, but also chatting with him.

Zhang Wen was moved by Zhuge Liang's concern and admired his profound knowledge. Before he left, he was about to become Zhuge Liang's fanboy...

"Prince, Zhuge Military Advisor, please go back. Wen will return to Jiangdong and persuade the lord to join forces with Liu to fight against Cao." Zhang Wen cupped his hands and said.

Liu Chan said: "Zhang Yilang take care, the matter of Nanzhong is really a thorn in his throat. If General Sun wants to repair the two families, he must be more sincere."

Zhang Wen was embarrassed for a while, and wanted to say something, but he really had nothing to say.

The red-faced Zhuge Liang interjected at this moment: "Bring the things."

Someone brought several trays, Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Your Majesty thinks that Zhang Yilang's journey is not easy, and he took great pains to repair Sun Liu, so I specially prepared a small gift for you."

Gold cake, agate, rhinoceros horn, ivory...

"Such a generous gift, this..."

Zhuge Liang picked up another glass of wine and handed it over: "Your Majesty bestows you with fine wine, and I ordered Liang to see Yilang off, please!"

Zhang Wen was moved to tears, took the glass and drank it down, bowed and said, "Thank you for your kindness, military advisor."

At this time Zhuge Liang looked around, but frowned: "Where is Qin Jijiu?"

"Well, we haven't arrived yet, maybe something delayed us."

"Go and call him quickly."

"Yes."

Hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Liu Chan suddenly remembered that at the banquet where he met Zhang Wen, he always felt that something was missing.

It was Qin Mi who was missing!

Qin Mi, who was in charge of offering wine, had little contact with Liu Chan before, and his sense of existence was not high.

Liu Chan in his previous life only had an impression of two things he did. The first thing was that Lao Liu insisted on dissuading him before launching the Yiling War, but he was imprisoned by Lao Liu.

This is the second...

After being summoned and urged by Zhuge Liang, Qin Mi arrived belatedly.

Zhang Wen couldn't help being upset, the crown prince, the military adviser and all the officials from Chengdu came to see him off, but this person arrived only after being urged, it was a big show.

He felt unhappy and couldn't help asking: "Military division, who is this?"

Zhuge Liang, the chief director behind the scenes, smiled and said: "Qin Mi, a bachelor from Yizhou."

Zhang Wen squinted at Qin Mi: "Do you want to learn, Jun?"

Qin Mi sneered: "Every boy who is five feet tall in Sichuan learns, how about me?"

Zhang Wen looked Qin Mi up and down, and suddenly asked: "Does the sky have a head?"

"Yes." Qin Mi took it easy.

"Where is it?"

"In the west. "Poetry" says: 'Nai is attached to the west.' From this we can infer that the head is in the west."

Qin Mi quoted scriptures, which not only answered the question, but also implied that the destiny is in the west.

Zhuge Liang shook his fan and nodded with a smile.

Zhang Wen asked again: "Does heaven have ears?"

"The sky is high and the hearing is low. The "Poetry" says: 'The crane crows in Jiugao, and the sound is heard in the sky.' If it has no ears, how can it be heard?"

"Is there enough in the sky?"

Qin Mi smiled and said, almost without thinking, "Yes. "Poetry" says: 'It is difficult to walk in the sky, but the son will not hesitate.' If he has no feet, how can he walk?"

Zhang Wen began to sweat again on his forehead and asked anxiously: "Does God have a surname?"

"Have."

"What's your last name?"

Qin Mi said seriously, "My surname is Liu."

"How do you know it?"

Qin Mi pointed to the sky: "The emperor's surname is Liu, so the surname of Zetian must be Liu!"

"it is good!"

"Qin Jijiu is right!"

The officials from central Shu who came to see him off from the rear were full of praise. Everyone had heard about Cao Pi's attempt to usurp the Han Dynasty. Qin Mi's answer really made people feel refreshed!
Zhang Wen wiped his sweat, but he was unwilling to lose face, and said again: "Is the day born in the east?"

He wanted to bring back some face for his lord, implying that the destiny is in Jiangdong, and his lord is the minister who saves the country.

Qin Mi said calmly: "Although he was born in the east, he died in the west."

No matter how many plots and tricks your protagonist uses, even if he is proud for a while, his fate will eventually return to the west.

"Okay!" There were applause and applause from all around. Zhang Wen sighed, bowed and cupped his hands and said, "Qin Jijiu is eloquent and eloquent, and Wen Gan bows down. Shu has outstanding people and a well-deserved reputation."

Zhuge Liang smiled again at this time: "Zhang Yilang, you don't have to take your parting jokes seriously. It's a long way to go, please take care."

Liu Chan also said at the right time: "If things don't work out, I'll wait for you to remember your sincerity. For General Sun, Zhang Yilang will do his best."

"Yes, Prince, take care, military advisor, take care, Wen is leaving." Zhang Wen bowed respectfully, mounted his horse and left.

Seeing Zhang Wenyuan leave, Liu Chan couldn't help but asked Zhuge Liang: "Uncle Zhuge, I guess Sun Quan might not be willing to listen to this man's words, why bother?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "It won't work this time. Someone in Jiangdong speaks for us. It's not a bad thing after all."

Liu Chan nodded.

Zhuge Liang said sternly: "I know that the king and the crown prince are very angry with Jiang Dong, but Cao's bandits may usurp Han in the near future. If we fight against Jiang Dong again at this time, how many of my son Jing Yi will die on the battlefield in vain? How many people are going to have their families destroyed?"

After finishing speaking, Zhuge Liang bowed and bowed his hands in a salute: "The prince and the king are both lords of benevolence, and I hope that the people will be in mind and the overall situation will be taken into consideration."

Liu Chan hurriedly helped him up and said helplessly: "Uncle Zhuge, why do you do this? How can I be so arrogant as to want to fight on two fronts? I just hope that Sun Quan will learn from his mistakes. If his two conspiracies fail, don't insist on going his own way."

In history, when Sun Quan took Jingzhou, Ji Han's threat to him was greatly reduced. Later, facing the threat of Cao Wei, he reunited with Ji Han, and he did not repeat his rebellion.

But now the situation has changed. Jingzhou is still in my hands, and Sun Quan was shot into a cripple by his side... Liu Chan is really not sure what he will choose.

After bidding farewell to Zhuge Liang and others, Liu Chan, who had just returned, got on his horse and left.

But this time the place I went was not far away, it was Linqiong in the southwest.

The distance between there and Chengdu is only more than a hundred miles. Liu Chan only brought dozens of guards, lightly armed and fast horses, and arrived in one day.

The reason why he rushed to Linqiong was because he checked the regular reports sent by Pu Yuan to Chengdu when he was learning about the progress of various projects in the past two days.

After Pu Yuan returned to his hometown and took office, combined with what he had learned in the north, he improved the techniques of iron smelting and frying steel in the middle of Shu, built furnaces beside the river again, and saved manpower by using water blasting to save manpower, which greatly improved the efficiency of weapon casting. efficiency.

Moreover, after his investigation, it was found that Shujiang Shuanglie was the essence of gold and was very suitable for tempering weapons.

After some improvements and adjustments by Pu Yuan, not only the efficiency of weapon casting has been improved, but the quality has also increased a lot.

After the ordinary weapons were on the track, he began to study the "odd-shaped" weapons that Liu Chan had painted for him.

But recently, he seems to have run into some trouble...

Liu Chan, who had just arrived in Linqiong, was warmly received by local officials, but he had no intention of chatting with them, and went directly to find Pu Yuan, who was still on the front line of making iron and casting soldiers.

Liu Chan was also a little shocked by the scene of iron-making and soldiers-making in Linqiong.

Large furnaces stand on the riverside, each about five feet high. The water rows are connected to the blowing device, and air is continuously blown from both sides of the furnace. The molten iron flows from the furnace into the pool dug next to it. Someone held a special stone stick and kept stirring it.

At this time... there is already a blast furnace?

Liu Chan, who didn't know much about this in his previous life, was surprised to see the furnaces in front of him that were about ten meters high. There were steps beside the furnaces, and raw materials could be walked up and put into the furnaces.

Although these blast furnaces are still far behind the blast furnaces with a height of 60 to [-] meters in later generations, it also shows the wisdom of the ancients.

And the way those people stir the molten iron is probably to stir up steel.

"Prince?" A very strong young man suddenly exclaimed, and then hurried forward to salute: "Pu Yuan sees the prince."

"You don't need to be too polite." Liu Chan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You did a good job. I never thought that the iron smelting here has such a large scale. No wonder the quantity and quality of weapons have been greatly improved recently."

"This is a matter within the scope of my duties, and... the weapon map that the prince handed over to me has not been improved so far. I really owe you the prince's kindness." Pu Yuan said with some shame.

Liu Chan didn't mind this at all. He had given him those maps with the mentality of having a date but not a date. If he couldn't create it, it wouldn't affect the overall situation.

"It can be made..." Pu Yuan signaled his hand to go down and take a long knife, "Please take a look, prince, how about this knife?"

Liu Chan took it and saw that the long-handled and long-bladed sword was clearly an improved version of the horse-cutting sword that he had drawn for him at the beginning - Mo Dao.

The hand was heavy, and the blade gleamed coldly.

He took the first version of Mo Dao and walked to a wooden stake for testing the knife, which was wrapped with several layers of leather.

Liu Chan signaled Pu Yuan to get out of the way, exhaled loudly, and waved his sword...

Click!

A white light flashed, and where the blade passed, not only the layers of leather were broken, but even the wooden stake was split in half by Liu Chan.

Look at the blade still intact.

If you use it by yourself, it seems that it is not difficult to achieve the effect of "destroying people and horses".

"Is this knife very good? What's the problem?" Liu Chan said excitedly, isn't it made?
If we make another batch of these, we can equip them with powerful soldiers such as the Red Star Army and the White Guards...

Before Liu Chan could finish his thoughts, Pu Yuan's bitter voice came: "This sword is made of hundreds of steel to achieve such an effect."

He still didn't realize it for a while, did it happen in the Three Kingdoms period of Baisteel?Isn't that a good thing?Any questions...

But immediately, Liu Chan understood what the problem was.

Hundreds of steelmaking, as the name suggests, is made by repeated heating, folding and forging.

"... How long did it take you to make this knife?"

Pu Yuan said with a bitter face: "It took two months of hard work to complete this knife."

Liu Chan: "..."

(End of this chapter)