Yunda Shaoqing left with Zhu Can, who was naturally rebellious, and Miao Haichao also bid farewell to the Xiapi team he brought, and followed Yunda Shaoqing to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to plead guilty to Emperor Sui Yang face to face. Before leaving, Miao Haichao also thanked Chen Yingliang, because Chen Yingliang had explained the situation to Miao Haichao thoroughly, saying that if Miao Haichao did not go to Luoyang to go through this cutscene, even if Chen Yingliang appointed Miao Haichao, he would not dare to reuse him. He didn't dare to be promoted at will, but if Miao Haichao went through this cutscene in front of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, not only would he be able to clear up his previous charges, but he would also have more chances to rise to the top.
He felt that Chen Yingliang's words were reasonable, and he also understood that Chen Yingliang was really thinking of himself. Of course, Miao Haichao was very grateful to Chen Yingliang. Don't embarrass yourself, and the Xiapi team who surrendered with Miao Haichao agreed with tears, and honestly accepted Chen Yingliang's dismantling and reorganization. Some people with bad intentions want to form their own group within Chen Yingliang's team. The calculation also failed.
After defeating powerful external enemies and solving internal hidden dangers, Chen Yingliang gained another period of peace, freeing up his hands to concentrate on farming and raising soldiers, so as to meet the chaos that has gradually come. And the most important event in internal affairs is the ten-year spring plowing of Daye.
As a general guard who is mainly in charge of the military, Chen Yingliang can of course leave things like spring plowing to the prefect Xu Minlian and Dong You and other county magistrates to worry about it, but in order to buy people's hearts and establish a good image of himself as loving the people like a son, Chen Yingliang still spends time. Put on some effort to put on a show, visit the fields to condolences to the spring plowing people, organize the army to help the widowed old people plow the fields and sow seeds, personally go to the fields to support the shafts and hoes, and at the same time take out a batch of cotton seeds that they have collected to promote the benefits of cotton to the people and encourage them The people tried to plant and set aside special funds for the purchase. There were many kinds of shows, and they deceived many kind-hearted people, making them cry and say, "Our fate is good, and we have met such a good dog as Chen Yingliang. Officer."
The matter of spring plowing only needs to spend a little effort and time to show off. With Xu Minlian, Dong You and others supporting them, and Changsun Wuji helping to take care of it, Chen Yingliang doesn't need to worry too much. Chen Yingliang has to spend both effort and energy on military affairs Now, I have to spend energy training the army, brainwashing the new army, training their organizational discipline, preaching that if you follow yourself, you will be able to drink a lot and eat meat, and in the future you will be promoted and rich. At the same time, you have to comfort Soldiers bought the hearts of the soldiers, dealt with the internal conflicts in the army, and let them cooperate sincerely. Chen Yingliang had to worry about all of this. Fortunately, Chen Yingliang had brought out a horse three treasures before, and the new lackey Kan Leng also paid great attention to army discipline. All of them have helped Chen Yingliang a lot, so that Chen Yingliang can spare some time to solve the major issue of weapon research and development with Yuan Tiangang, the monstrous aide.
In terms of weapon research and development, black powder has been secretly developed a long time ago, and it is produced according to the optimal ratio of 75% saltpeter, 10% sulfur and 15% charcoal, and it is also made into granular gunpowder in one step. Although the output is still small, but Fortunately, Chen Yingliang is not in urgent need, so he can slowly produce more, and use them when necessary in the future. At the same time, Chen Yingliang was very lucky to remember that black gunpowder needs to be sealed and stored, so he chose to use earthen pottery altar oiling paper to seal and store gunpowder, and store it in a dry warehouse. And scrapped.
At the same time, when it was time to start casting gun barrels, Chen Yingliang was extremely surprised to find that iron castings in this era were still using coal or charcoal as fuel. Then Chen Yingliang did not hesitate to organize soldiers to build several local methods. The coking kiln puts coal into the fire to make coke. Although this kind of coking speed is slow, the output is low and the pollution is high, Chen Yingliang didn't think about it so much. After ten days, Chen Yingliang finally got tens of thousands of dollars. When the coke that is barely usable can only melt the pig iron with the coke that produces more heat than coal, the speed is not only faster, but the pig iron is also melted more thoroughly, ensuring the quality of the molten iron.
With qualified molten iron, it is much easier for Chen Yingliang to use modern knowledge to forge steel. With the help of the monstrous Yuan Tiangang, Chen Yingliang, who has not fully returned his chemical knowledge to his high school teacher, quickly reappeared that this era has been lost. In the Western Han Dynasty, when the steel was fried, the molten iron was constantly stirred with tools to accelerate the oxidation of impurities in it, and then the concentrate powder was continuously added to increase the mass fraction of the iron element. Fortunately, Chen Yingliang and Yuan Tiangang did not give up, and tried to reduce and prolong the stirring time. After sacrificing several pots of high-quality molten iron, Chen Yingliang and Yuan Tiangang finally discovered that as long as the flame of molten iron turns pure blue When the time is long, the molten iron will become molten steel, and if the time is longer, the molten steel will become mature iron due to excessive decarburization.
After spending countless money on wrought iron to make wrought iron, Chen Yingliang and Yuan Tiangang immediately tried to use molten steel to forge weapons and guns with the help of a well-trained blacksmith. As a result, Chen Yingliang and Ma Sanbao, What Kan Ling and others were overjoyed was that the Hengdao and Modao casted by this molten steel can become extremely sharp, tough and not easy to break as long as they are slightly polished and quenched. It's far faster than letting a blacksmith hammer and hammer the iron embryo slowly. If there are enough materials, there will be no problem in making 500 high-quality Mo knives within a month.
Then, after toasting with Ma Sanbao, Kan Leng and others, Chen Yingliang shamelessly named this craft as Chen's steel-making method, and ordered the craftsmen to make eight hundred Mo Dao with all their strength. Originally planned to form two regiments, the Modao team was expanded into three regiments. As a result, Chen Yingliang's temporary decision also made the prefect Xu Minlian very heartbroken for a while-because Chen Yingliang only needs one sentence to expand the Modao team, and pay for food. But poor Xu Minlian.
Many troubles were encountered when casting the barrels. Several barrels would explode, and one of Chen Yingliang's soldiers was also injured. Chen Yingliang didn't know that this was because the clay was not completely dried and the water evaporated, causing the barrels to be damaged. The principle of too many air bubbles was at a loss for a while, but fortunately, when the great monster Yuan Tiangang was studying the blasting tube, he accidentally discovered that there were too many air holes in the broken part of the gun wall, and only then did he find out the reason for the failure.
Then, the great evil Yuan Tiangang suggested that the gun should be made of extremely flexible brass directly using the clay model as the core. This finally allowed Chen Yingliang to make dozens of copper barrels that would not explode. The plan of bronze cannons, which prevailed in the nineteenth century, also appeared in Chen Yingliang's plan, but casting bronze cannons was too expensive, and it is estimated that even if Xu Minlian was forced to sell his wife, he would definitely not be able to spend so much money to build a bronze cannon. Chen Yingliang only asked Yuan Tiangang to test cast a bronze cannon as a technical reserve, and at the same time continued to trial-produce iron barrels to explore the technology of making qualified iron pipes.
In the busy schedule, time passed quickly. At the end of February, a shocking news suddenly came to Chen Yingliang—Emperor Sui Yang decided to launch a third campaign to conquer Goguryeo himself. Arrive at Ji County to assemble and wait for orders within a time limit. And the Fubing teams of the five regiments of Qiao County are all on the list for the expedition!
After receiving this news, Chen Yingliang remained silent for half a stick of incense, and his face became extremely gloomy and ugly. Seeing that Chen Yingliang was in a bad mood, the eldest Sun Wuji, who had gradually grown into a qualified staff officer, comforted him: "Brother, don't worry, the emperor just transferred the soldiers from Qiao County. We have caused too much influence. Also, you don't have to worry about the mobilization of the government soldiers and the preparation of money and food. That is the matter of the prefect Xu Minlian and the captain Fang Kuang. If you want, you don't have to intervene in this matter at all. "
"I'm not worried about this. It's Xu Minlian and Fang Kuang's business to recruit government soldiers and provide money and food. I also know that." Chen Yingliang shook his head and said sullenly, "I'm just bored. It's over, our recruit team will soon have to go to the battlefield again."
The eldest grandson Wuji was taken aback, and after a little calculation he understood what Chen Yingliang meant, and asked tentatively, "Brother, are you worried that the emperor's personal conquest will cause another large-scale civil uprising?"
"It is unavoidable." Chen Yingliang sighed, and said: "The first time the emperor personally conquered Goguryeo, the song "Wuxiang Liaodong Wave Death" was born in the world. It hasn't been settled yet, the second time the gang of thieves like Yang Xuangan, Meng Haigong and Liu Yuanjin were drawn out, this time, I really don't know how many big and small thieves will be drawn out again."
Changsun Wuji nodded silently, agreeing with Chen Yingliang's prediction, and then comforted him: "We probably won't in Qiao County, firstly, our Qiao County's money and food situation is relatively good, and secondly, Xu Minlian's administration is still kind, and they didn't force the common people there. One step, the third is that you are good at countering the rebellion. You have dealt with the Tian family brothers and Zhang Qian only a few days after you took office, and repelled the massive attack of the big thief Du Fuwei. People have evil intentions, so I don't expect to dare to rebel and seek death under your nose."
"Not necessarily." Chen Yingliang did not dare to be as optimistic as Changsun Wuji, and said again: "Even if I can quickly suppress the civil uprising in Qiao County and not give them a big chance, what about the surrounding counties? Once there are If the thieves get bigger, won’t they threaten our Qiao County sooner or later? When the thieves have no food to eat and go to Qiao County for food, won’t we be forced to fight?”
Changsun Wuji nodded again, and then said: "Brother, I have a suggestion for this point. I think you should strengthen your liaison with the surrounding counties and counties, and tell them that if there is any thieves in their territory, you can report to them." We ask for help, and we will do what we can to help them quell the rebellion as much as possible, and we don't want them to pay anything back, as long as they help solve the problem of food, grass and military supplies. In this way, we can reduce the money and food in Qiao County It can also take the opportunity to train the new army through actual combat, and it can also avoid the chaos and thieves in the surrounding counties and counties from being overwhelmed."
"Suppressed so much?" Chen Yingliang smiled wryly, and said: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, our surroundings will burst into flames, and our team will fight fires everywhere like Zhang Xutuo's team. We will be exhausted, and we will die if we don't fight."
"Little brother just said that we will do what we can, but he didn't say that we must respond to every request." Changsun Wuji smiled treacherously, and then said: "Also, although Zhang Xutuo is exhausted, his team is fighting more and more. , the officials are getting bigger and bigger, my brother wants to make a big difference, and if he wants to go further, what's the harm in learning from Zhang Xutuo?"
Holding his smooth, hairless chin, he thought for a while, and felt that Changsun Wuji's suggestion was reasonable. He offered to help his neighbors put down the rebellion, which might increase troubles and hardships, but he could take the opportunity to strengthen the new army and prevent the surrounding thieves Sit big to avoid more troubles, and at the same time, you can use war to support war and solve some money and food problems. Relatively speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. So after weighing it over and over again, Chen Yingliang nodded and said, "Well, you use my tone to write letters to the prefects of Liangjun, Huaiyang and Ruyin counties about this matter, but it must be explained that we must send troops. They provide food and solve the problem of pensions for our fallen soldiers, as for Pengcheng County to the east of us, there is no need to write such a letter."
"Pengcheng County doesn't need it? Why?" Changsun Wuji was taken aback.
"Silly boy, Dong Chun in Pengcheng is staying behind, and I'm just guarding through. He's a senior official, so I'll have to listen to him when I get to Pengcheng?" It's not so easy to settle, if Du Fuwei fled back to Pengcheng again, or Peng Xiaocai, Zhao Pozhen and other bigger thieves fled into Pengcheng, wouldn't we find a bad fight by ourselves?"
Changsun Wuji suddenly realized, flattered Chen Yingliang for his foresight, and then hurriedly wrote a letter. Chen Yingliang turned his attention to the imperial edict of Sui Yang, and sighed in his heart, "Old man, old man, Can’t you wait patiently for a few more years? Let the common people recuperate for a few years, and also develop cotton planting, won’t it be easy to take down Goguryeo? You must be in a hurry to find death, I really want to protect you. It’s hard.”
After secretly sighing, Chen Yingliang comforted himself quietly, "But it's okay, history develops according to the original track, so I have the opportunity to marry Yu'er. Since Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty must conquer Goguryeo three times like in history, then those outstanding people at the end of the Sui Dynasty They will definitely jump out one after another, causing more chaos in the world and giving me more opportunities. By the way, that person... "
After consoling himself here, Chen Yingliang suddenly thought of an acquaintance, smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "You guy, you shouldn't be able to sit still, right? Yang Guang insisted on going to Goguryeo for the third time. Such a good opportunity, It depends on whether you can catch it."
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"Ah Choo! Ah Choo!"
Coincidentally, at almost the same time, in Huaiyang County bordering Qiao County, in a poor village by the Caishui River, in a crumbling private house, a ragged black-faced man suddenly sneezed twice. He interrupted the collective reciting of books by several schoolchildren in front of him, and one of the pupils asked with concern: "Mr. Liu, are you catching a cold? Shall we pick some reed flowers and put more in your clothes?" Some reeds?"
"I'm fine." The black-faced man shook his head, and said with a friendly smile, "The weather is getting warmer, there's no need for you to go down to the river to cut reeds, and just recite your books."
Several schoolchildren agreed, and then recited the text that the black-faced man taught today neatly. The black-faced man rubbed his nose, walked around to supervise the students' recitation, dutifully supervised these schoolchildren to finish memorizing the book, and then let them Go home after school. Then the black-faced man boiled a pot of thin barley porridge for himself, and then walked out of the dilapidated door that could not block the wind, and went for a walk in the same rickety courtyard, enjoying the spring sunset that was about to set.
The sun was very warm, but the black-faced man's heart was very cold. He was still looking towards Qiao County in the east, and murmured in his heart, "Little thief, are you enjoying the spring breeze? Your life is really good. You were robbed on the canal. That idiot Xu Shiji didn't know you, so he let you run away. Du Fuwei's 30,000 volunteers marched westward, and there was another rebellion like Miao Haichao under his command. When I got the news, he had already been repulsed by you. If he can persist That's good, if he can hold on for a few more days, how good would it be?"
Sighing, a voice suddenly sounded outside the courtyard, saying: "This is right here, two strong men, Mr. Liu Zhiyuan, Mr. Liu lives here." Then, the voice called to the courtyard again: "Mr. Liu, there are two strong men looking for you, they Said it was your acquaintance."
The black-faced man didn't rush to agree, but was very vigilant and leaned on the door first, and observed the situation outside the courtyard through the crack of the door. As a result, the black-faced man was relieved that there was no official or military brigade outside the courtyard, only an old man from the village led him. When the two young men in ordinary people's clothes took a closer look at the two young men, the black-faced man's heart beat faster, and he hurriedly opened the courtyard door.
There was no movement before, and then the courtyard door suddenly opened again. The old man who led the way outside the door and the two young men were inevitably taken aback. After seeing the person who opened the door clearly, the two young men immediately showed joy. The black-faced man quickly winked at them, telling them to shut up, and then sent the old man who led the way away. Finally, after carefully observing that no one else was following, he closed the courtyard door, and said nothing. A young man led into his room.
The two young men were also very cautious, until after entering the room to confirm that there was no fourth person, the younger young man smiled and said: "Military Master, let us find it easily, if we didn't happen to run into Fang Xuan Zao, I heard that you changed your name to Liu Zhiyuan, and you are here as a private school teacher, but we really can't find you."
"What are you looking for me for?" the black-faced man asked vigilantly.
"Of course I want you to avenge us and our elder brother." The younger man replied, and said: "Military teacher, don't hide, come out of the mountain, this time our brother will definitely listen to you, and won't be like the elder brother." I was deceived by Li Zixiong like that, and instead of listening to your good words, I listened to the sweet words of that old liar."
"Revenge?" The black-faced man smiled, and said with a sneer, "Who are you looking for revenge? Yang Guang? Chen Yingliang? Just rely on you two brothers, how do you get revenge?"
"Of course it's not just the two of us." The younger man smiled and said, "Military Master, when I escaped from Xiaohan Road with you, you once said that if we want to make a comeback, we must wait until the tyrant Yang Guang comes out again." Faint tricks, or building large-scale construction again, or conquering Goguryeo again, forcing the people to have nowhere to go, they must rise up and rebel, now, this opportunity has come.”
"The opportunity has come?" The black-faced man shook his body and blurted out, "What good is the tyrant doing?"
"Look at this." Another older man who never spoke threw a roll of paper to the black-faced man, and said coldly: "We copied it from the Wanqiu city gate. The tyrant decided to conquer Goguryeo for the third time." Now, we have to recruit soldiers from all over the country, and the soldiers will go northward in hundreds of ways."
He opened the roll of paper with trembling hands and feet, and saw that Emperor Sui Yang had decided to personally conquer Goguryeo for the third time. The black-faced man was overjoyed immediately, and was so excited that he shed tears, and murmured: "Yang Guang, Yang Guang, You really didn't let me down, not only didn't you let me down, you also surprised me, it's only been a few days, it's only been a few days, you can't wait to seek your own death again."
"Military teacher, don't hesitate, let's go together." The older man said in a deep voice: "I was deceived by that old man Li Zixiong before, how disrespectful I was to you, and I didn't listen to your golden advice. No more, I swear, as long as you come out to assist our brothers, I will listen to you in everything!"
The black-faced man was a little hesitant, but the younger man said: "Military Master, if you don't want to go with us, you can go out and shout. Pu Shangong Li Mi is Liu Zhiyuan, and Liu Zhiyuan is the most wanted criminal Li Mi!"
"Seventh General, what are you in a hurry for?" Li Mi smiled wryly, and said, "I didn't say no to you, I was just thinking about how we should start a fight."
"It's too easy!" The two men said together: "After the promulgation of the edict of the tyrant's three conquests of Goguryeo, the entire Huaiyang County was a sensation. People everywhere were singing the song "Wuxiang Liaodong Wave Death", and people everywhere were discussing what to do. To evade military service, as long as our brothers and you reveal your true identities, countless people will immediately respond to us! We..."
"Wrong!" Li Mi hurriedly interrupted, and said coldly: "Third General, Seventh General, you are totally wrong on this point, we can make trouble, but now you must not disclose your true identities, and you must not let others know General, you are Yang Xuanting, Seventh General, you are Yang Jishan!"
"Why?" Yang Jishan asked curiously.
"Because, Qiao County is next to Huaiyang County." Li Mi said slowly: "If that little thief Chen Yingliang knew that you and I raised troops here, he would definitely mobilize the army to suppress it immediately, and would not give us any excuses." Great opportunity! Therefore, I must still be called Liu Zhiyuan now, and you must also change your name and use other names to start the incident, and it will not be too late to announce your true identity after our team has grown to a certain level!"
"Does it need to be so troublesome?" Yang Xuan yelled impatiently: "It's great, let's go farther and go to other places to start troubles! When we have accumulated enough strength, we will come back to settle accounts with Chen Xiaozi!"
"Wrong!" Li Mi yelled loudly, stopped his waist straight, and said coldly: "There are tyrants and lackeys all over the world who help the evil and abuse. If you go there, you will inevitably deal with the tyrant's lackeys! Instead of wasting energy and wasting time, it is better Why don't we just start the incident in Huaiyang County! And we don't need to stay away from Little Thief Chen on purpose, we can directly start the incident near Qiao County!"
"Military Master, are you talking nonsense?" Yang Jishan was taken aback, and said, "We started an incident near Qiao County, wouldn't it be easy for the little thief Chen Yingliang to find us?!"
"Seventh General, Third General, do you still remember what I said to you?" Li Mi smiled, with an incomparably relaxed and confident smile, and said, "That sentence is, it's dark under the lights!"