Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 637: Tomb Raider Era
Seven days later, the Yuanshi warship, which had completed a dredging operation, turned around at the mouth of the Weishui River and went upstream.

Black Bear didn't know how to calculate the speed of "knots", but he knew that the upstream speed of Yuanshi should be 20 kilometers per hour.

The reference for speed measurement is the shogunate messengers. Their speed on horseback chasing the Yuanshi is a good reference.

This time, we returned upstream with more food in the cabin in order to measure the full-load performance.

Black Bear stood on the command tower. Ever since he started ice skating, he began to like wearing glasses.

When I was skating, I wore half-covered brown crystal lenses, but now I wear sunglasses with stronger light-blocking properties.

His eyesight is so strong that he can passively accept and observe a lot of information at a glance. But after wearing sunglasses, he will be less disturbed by visual information.

In order to suppress the burden brought by extraordinary vision and hearing information, one must use white magic to strengthen the body.

But now he wants to maintain normal fertility, so he can only passively suppress the efficiency of collecting this information.

On the south bank of the Weishui River, Lou Gui, who responded to the call, stopped his carriage, stood on the shaft, holding the carriage with one hand and covering his brow with the other, looking at the Yuanshi battleship slowly going upstream.

Even though it was the first time he saw it, he knew what this battleship meant to the Southeastern Pseudo-Dynasty.

Without sails, it can travel at such a speed against the current. If the Jingzhou navy really waits until they build new steam warships and install sails on them, and sail downstream, what will the Southeastern Court use to stop them?
He also knew why the shogunate recruited him this time. Xu You's recommendation was one thing, but the key thing was that the scale of his tea garden had reached a critical point.

If you want to seek better development, you must join the shogunate, establish merits, and obtain official titles.

Only those with high enough official rank could increase the scale of the tea garden.

Otherwise, you will be hard to escape reckoning in the future.

In the restaurant on the first floor of the Original battleship, Zhuge Liang and Jia Kui played chess.

As Zhuge Liang ranked first among the counties in the imperial examination, he should have been able to enter the shogunate and serve as the head of various departments.

However, Zhuge Jin was still the Secretary-General of the Secretariat. After consultation between the Chief Secretary of the Shogunate Yi Ji, Liu Wang of Nanyang in the Western Cao, Jia Kui of Hedong in the Eastern Cao and the Secretary-General Henei Yang Jun, Zhuge Liang was transferred to be the Magistrate of Chencang, with an official rank of Qianshi.

The shogunate was planning to overhaul the Chencang Road at any time. Once completed, the Chencang Road would play a key role in connecting Longshang and Hanzhong.

Previously, due to the flooding of the Wei River, the main transportation route between Guanzhong and Longshang was Jieting, and the people had to go north around Longshan.

The Wei River has been flooding for so many years, and the terrain on both sides of the river has changed a lot. After preparations, it will be possible for a large army to pass through.

Zhuge Liang had two tasks during his term of office. One was to survey the terrain, plan the route, and calculate the amount of work; the other was to restore the function of Chencang and build a legion-level arsenal, mansions, and empty strongholds here.

When the West mobilizes troops in the future, Chencang will be the gathering point for the army marching westward.

The assembly point for troops in the south was Lantian, and in the east it was Shan County.

The north is divided into six military nodes: Hexi, Beidi, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong and Xuanda.

In the command tower, Black Bear finished processing the official documents and handed them to Wei Kang to copy and file.

He would not leave the command tower easily. The space on the battleship was so small that if he moved around casually, he would feel annoyed by the various complicated etiquette and greetings.

Instead of that, it would be better to stay on the tower and watch the scenery on both sides of the river, or study the deciphered dragon bone inscriptions, or read the Book of the Later Han compiled by Wang Can.

This year, Cao Cao and Yuan Shang lived in peace, and there was no shadow of war in the two states of Yan and Yu.

Many scholars from the two states requested to enter the country to participate in the deciphering of the dragon bone inscriptions... Almost at the same time, organized excavations of the tombs of princes and kings from the Pre-Qin and Han dynasties were carried out.

This is different from Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao who dug tombs and stole gold. These people were purely for the purpose of obtaining the precious royal books from the pre-Qin and Han dynasties.

A speculation has emerged among scholars that ancient history has not been interrupted.

The scholars who came after the nobles of the pre-Qin dynasty, because they had inherited academic knowledge, played with the classics and fooled the ordinary descendants of the literati; these ordinary scholars in turn fooled the common people.

Is there a possibility that after Emperor Gaozu established the country, the imperial and royal families had another set of classics inherited from the princes of the pre-Qin period?

Not only the scholars in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, but also in Jizhou and Qingxuzhou started to rob tombs, specifically digging up the tombs of kings in various places.

The people of Guandong have experienced the crazy tomb-robbing craze of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, so they naturally have more flexible moral concepts now.

Rather than letting ancient treasures rot in the soil, it is better to dig them out, copy them and pass them down so that they can be passed down.

Some people who had already succeeded ran to Guanzhong as if they were offering their treasures.

Even in the Heluo region under Xiahou Dun's rule, the defenders dug up the tombs of successive Zhou kings and the tombs of Han and Zheng.

It's just that the imperial tomb is so huge that it's inconvenient for these people to dig.

The accidental start of the era of large-scale grave digging made Black Bear somewhat helpless, but it also opened up the minds of scholars further, which was always a good thing.

At dusk, the Yuanshi battleship docked at Chang'an Wharf.

Many people disembarked to eat, and the garrison at the dock also transported the prepared food to the ship. Black Bear then walked down the command tower and came to the restaurant on the first floor.

This is not only a restaurant, but also a kitchen.

A group of officials also boarded the ship and brought with them a pile of official documents that needed to be processed.

While waiting for the meal, Black Bear flipped through the documents in the shogunate, turned around and asked Yang Jun who was waiting for the meal: "Ji Cai, how is the preparation of the Tongguan Pavilion going?"

"Everything has been prepared. The shogunate office and the Cao can move in and govern at any time."

"That's good."

Hei Xiong closed the official documents of the Chief Secretary Yi Ji. When he moved to Lantian the year before last, he discovered that the shogunate officials could not stay in one place for a long time. These guys had to move around, change places frequently, and work in a relatively closed environment so that they could maintain high concentration and efficiency.

I went to the Wangchuan River Valley in Lantian in the winter of the year before last, went to the Chencang Shipyard last year, and this year I planned to go to Fenglingdu in Tongguan.

There were already camps and fortresses where Gan Ning stationed his troops here. They could be used after some cleaning and repair.

When you are free from work, you can see the Skeleton's Nest while standing on the roof of the fortress to enjoy the breeze and sun, which is very helpful in improving your work enthusiasm.

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Only by migrating and relocating every year can we suppress some bad habits.

This kind of short-distance "expedition" is more like a shogunate organization.

Ganquan is too small. Although the influx of unauthorized personnel is prohibited, the phenomenon of connections between various low-level personnel has already appeared.

Therefore, this time not only the shogunate institutions moved to Tongguan, but Saigo and Togo were also within the migration range.

After sending Zhuge Liang to Chencang and testing the comprehensive performance of Yuanshi, Black Bear will start the second dredging work.

Then he took the women from Dongxiang and Xixiang on a boat, went up the Yellow River, sailed into the Fen River, and settled them on both sides of the lower reaches of the Fen River.

Flocks of geese also migrated into the Fenshui River Basin, allowing them to have a great time.

What he wanted more was to relive the feeling of that year, to take Zhen Mi up the Fen River, to see the battlefield where the Huns were defeated, and to pay tribute to the heroic spirits.

Strictly speaking, the battle that laid the foundation for Guanzhong was the defeat of the main force of the Huns.

This battle deterred both internal and external forces, and the huge amount of spoils stabilized the situation. The rescued people were his true loyalists, second only to the Tiger Fang Army's Yuan Cong.

The accompanying ministers all stayed on the boat for dinner, while people like Zhuge Liang who were just hitting the boat could only go to the pavilions and inns at the pier to eat and rest.

Huang Yueying was a feudal lord, so an independent courtyard was arranged for the couple.

Under the light of the fish oil lamp, after the meal, Huang Yueying sorted out various information for Zhuge Liang, all of which she had collected during this period.

Zhuge Liang will board a ship to Chencang early tomorrow morning, and she can only return to her school.

But Chencang is not far from Chang'an, and he can always squeeze out some time every month to go to Chencang to see Zhuge Liang.

As they were about to part, they felt that time was running out.

However, Huang Yueying noticed that Zhuge Liang was worried. She asked in a low voice while lying on the bed, "My husband seems to be restless recently. Is there something wrong with Mr. Cui?"

"Not Cui Gong."

Zhuge Liang whispered, "When the false prince passed through Pingyang, he met me. I was hiding in the countryside to inspect farm work, but this man stayed. General Wei Wenchang, who was guarding this man, sent someone to intercede for me, and I was able to meet the false prince."

Huang Yueying was frightened and unconsciously grabbed Zhuge Liang's arm: "What did he say?"

"We are just discussing academic matters. I have my subordinates by my side, so I am not afraid of Xu You's interrogation."

Zhuge Liang said in a low voice: "The prince of the false dynasty died of illness in Dai, but his entourage of civil and military officials was abducted by Wei Wenchang and taken to Liaodong. One of them was the eldest son of Gu Yong and the grandson of Lu Kang, the governor of Lujiang. When he was abducted, he asked me for help."

Huang Yueying thought calmly, recalled briefly, and said, "Who did he entrust it to?"

"Chen Zhong and Chen Xiaoxian, the magistrate of Guangning, are the sons of Chen Jifang and the younger brother of Chen Qun."

Zhuge Liang did not say anything more about Chen Zhong, but just sighed: "According to what Gu's son said, Gu and Lu are willing to comply with the Grand Marshal's request. I don't know whether what he said is true or not, and this matter is beyond my authority, so it is really inconvenient to report it to the shogunate."

"Many of my brother's friends have old ties to Jiangdong. When you are free to see my sister-in-law, you can tell my brother about this and ask him to investigate. If there are any clues, please lend a hand and protect this Gu family son."

Huang Yueying frowned as she listened to Zhuge Liang's whispered instructions. Her intuition told her that there was a big problem with her eldest son, Gu Yong.

But this kind of thing was not something that Zhuge Liang, a county magistrate, should report, nor was it something she could interfere with.

Only Zhuge Jin, who was working at the secretary desk, could intervene in a reasonable manner.

(End of this chapter)