Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

"drink!"

"prick!"

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In the big camp outside Wancheng.

Gao Lan walked among the ranks, directing the daily drills of the soldiers.

There are 3 defenders in Wancheng, of which 2 are their original elite veterans; the other 1 are recruits recruited from Nanyang County. The formation looks good, but they have no real experience in fighting.

Gao Lan is now training these 2 recruits, and the other [-], led by Li Tong and Zhang Xi, are always on guard against possible sneak attacks from Xinye, Jingzhou.

Originally, when Cao Cao sent troops to Youzhou, Jia Xu thought that Liu Biao and Sun Quan were going to take the opportunity to attack Nanyang and Runan.

For this reason, Jia Xu also ordered Zhang He and Li Tong to keep the outside loose and the inside tight, and they were on guard for several months.

It's a pity that Liu Biao is only a master of success after all. Apart from capturing hundreds of spies from Jingzhou, Jia Xu, Zhang He and others have not even seen a hair of Jingzhou soldiers... This makes Zhang He, Gao Lan, Li Tong and others, Sorry for a long time.

Sitting in Wancheng County Governor's Mansion, Jia Xu quietly browsed the copybook on the table.

"Alas... the old days are still comfortable... When you make plans, you have aspirations, and Gongda takes the lead, and you have Wenruo, Zhongde, who manage the local area..." Jia Xu closed the copybook in his hand, rubbed it, and felt a little sour. Eyes, said with emotion: "Old arms and legs, why do you have to suffer these crimes?"

Standing up, Jia Xu went outside the hall, and while admiring the faint sunset in the distance, she muttered to herself:

"This Liu Biao is too cowardly...can't you sneak attack Nanyang or Runan County a little bit? Stand still... Most of the old man's arrangements are in vain, waste, waste!"

Chapter 398 The Romance Between Men and Women

In the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao returned to Yecheng from Xuchang in February.

This time, not only Cao Cao returned to Yecheng,

He even took several of his adult sons: Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, and Cao Zhi, and they all followed him back to Yecheng.

Soon after, the Cao family will officially move their family to Yecheng, and his sons will need to adapt to the place where they will live in advance.

Cao Cao is already forty-seven this year, and the perennial battles and irregular work and rest still make him gray at the temples; coupled with his iconic beard, Cao Cao looks more beautiful than he actually is. Older.

Cao Cao's official position is unsealable, but Cao Cao doesn't care about these now.

After returning to Yecheng, Cao Cao made people start to follow the various etiquette manuals for sealing the son.He is now the number one vassal in the world, and the Cao family has naturally risen and become a formidable wealthy family.

Now almost all the government and power of the entire Han court are in Cao Cao's hands. Cao Cao is naturally cautious about him and his successors.

Fortunately, Cao Ang has always been a very good successor.Not only is he outstanding in everything from literary to martial arts, he is also quite heroic in character, bold and careful, and good at taking care of others.

What's even more rare is that Cao Ang does not have Cao Cao's suspicious and fickle shortcomings, or these shortcomings were quietly worn away by Lu Yan, Xun Yu and other people who taught him... In short, everything about Cao Ang seems to be weakening and An improved version of Lao Cao.

It does not have the distinctive characteristics of Lao Cao, but it does not have the more obvious and fatal shortcomings of Cao Cao.

As the saying goes, how much water a barrel can hold does not depend on the longest piece of wood, but on the shortest piece of wood.If Cao Ang has no obvious shortcomings, his future achievements may not be able to surpass Cao Cao.

The preparations for the son canonization ceremony are very cumbersome, and it cannot be done in a few days.

But these are Lao Cao's family affairs, and Lu Yan doesn't want to take care of them, and he can't take care of them.

General Hussar's Mansion, in the study.

At this time, Lu Yan was thinking about whether he should start building a navy.

If Cao Jun goes south, the first thing he will face will undoubtedly be the problem of big rivers.

There are 20 sailors in Jingzhou. If they are in the Yangtze River, they will be Cao Jun, a group of landlubbers who can only ride horses, and it is difficult to fly even with wings.

Moreover, if Liu Biao is not dead, it is impossible for Jingzhou to surrender.

Lu Yan remembered that Liu Biao died in 208, which is the 13th year of Jian'an... Now it's only [-] years since Jian'an. If you want to wait until Liu Biao dies by himself, it will be a long time to wait.

Not to mention that Lu Yan was unwilling to wait for six or seven years, Cao Cao, including most of Cao Cao's subordinates, could not agree to wait for such a long time.

You must know that Cao Cao is now ruling a vibrant scene. In less than two years, he can even pull up an army of one million and prepare a very sufficient amount of food and grass.

It is impossible to wait, but if you are impatient, you may not be able to eat hot tofu.

The rivers and rivers in the south are crisscrossed, and the fighting methods are quite different from those in the north.If you don't do your homework and go in hastily, it is very likely that there will be another defeat like Chibi in history!

As for the candidate for the commander of the navy, there is no doubt that Gan Ning is none other than Gan Ning.It's just that the head of the navy is there, but there is a huge gap in the manpower of the navy.

For the past two days, Lu Yan has been writing and drawing in the study.

Earlier, he had obtained two drawings about the hull structure: one was a very ordinary fishing boat, and the other was a very classic three-masted warship.

Don't think that there were no sailing ships in the Han Dynasty, or that sailing ships only appeared in the Jin Dynasty...

In the book "Shiming" written by Liu Xi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is recorded: "Raising the curtain with the wind is called a sail, which makes the boat flutter."This has shown that sails are the usual propulsion tools on board.Moreover, this book also records the rudder, a tool that is closely related to sails and controls the course.

The three-masted battleship, also known as the "sail battleship", is the maritime overlord in the age of sail and the pinnacle of warships after the era of great navigation.Its hull is also basically built of wood, but some will be wrapped with copper below the waterline.

The main source of power for a three-masted warship is the sail. When there is no wind, the lower deck can also be driven by manpower; when there is wind, the sail is pulled up, and by adjusting the angle, it can use the wind from all directions to break through the waves.

However, the weapons of warships in the sixteenth century were basically artillery. The three-masted warship on this blueprint is obviously the structure of a warship of that period... But the problem is that there is no shadow of artillery now.

If it is improved, it is not impossible to fight only with bows and arrows, but how can a man's romance be lost at will?

"Fire the cannon and blast his mother!"

"Cannons and giant ships! This old man must get you out!"

Lu Yan's hair was disheveled, and there was an ink stain at the corner of his mouth, as if he had suffered a stroke, he frantically scribbled something on a clean and white piece of paper.

Under such circumstances, generally no one would dare to disturb Lu Yan.Even Guo Jia would only cautiously walk around Lu Yan's study at such a time.

In the study room that had been silent for several days, a sudden burst of noise erupted.

"Hahaha!"

"Wow~hahaha!"

"The old man is finally done! It's done!"

There was a burst of arrogant laughter in the study, and then seeing Lu Yan holding more than half a sheet of blueprints, he ran out in a hurry.

Although the structure of the cannon is not complicated, it is really not an easy task to draw a more accurate structural diagram and explain the principle.

In the mansion, Lu Lingqi, who finally came back, heard Lu Yan's big laugh, and suddenly smiled wryly: "I don't know what new things my husband has tinkered with..."

Zhao Xue is already a person waiting to be married, and in two months, that is, in April, Gan Ning will hold a wedding with her, and the media is getting married.

Recently, Lu Lingqi, Zhou Yan and the others were all busy preparing for Zhao Xue's wedding, that is to say, they were free today, so the three of them returned to the Hussar General's Mansion to take a rest.

The two of them naturally dare not comment on Lu Yan...

Zhou Yan first glanced at Zhao Xue enviously, then looked at Lu Lingqi, and said, "Sister Xue is about to have a husband with a bright future; let alone Sister Lingqi, she is the envy of all women in the world... .Sigh, I don’t know what kind of man I will marry in the future..."

For Zhao Yun, it's not that Zhou Yan has never dreamed of it.But Zhao Yun is too dazzling, the longer and more contact with her, the less hope in her heart.

"Don't worry, you are Zilong's junior sister, and you will never be worse in the future." Lu Lingqi patted Zhou Yan's shoulder and comforted her.

It's just that Zhao Xue looked at Zhou Yan's eyes, but with a hint of playfulness, "When will I go to the elder brother to find out what's going on?"

Zhao Xue's sudden words stunned both Lu Lingqi and Zhou Yan.

After a while, Zhou Yan finally came to his senses, and his face turned red immediately, like a hot iron, "You...what are you talking about?"

Even if Lu Lingqi didn't know how to understand, she still reacted at this time. She stared at Zhou Yan's dodging eyes and said, "No way! You can do it with such a familiar person?!"

"Ah! I'm going to die! Don't talk about it!" The three of them made a fuss as they talked.

Laughter turned into laughter, after the three of them had joked, Lu Lingqi's face turned serious, and said: "General Zhao is a rare good man in the world, if you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

The embarrassment and smile on Zhou Yan's face also gradually disappeared, but she didn't answer Lu Lingqi's words directly, but just gave a soft "hmm".

Chapter 399 The power to promote the progress of the times

Speaking of voyages in Chinese history, there were times when the world was brilliant...especially during the Ming Dynasty, when Zheng He even reached Africa at the furthest point.

It's just such a pity, because of the ruler's closed-door policy, navigation gradually declined, and even in the Qing Dynasty, the ability to sail in the ocean was completely lost.

In fact, no one has ever seen Zheng He's treasure ship. Although there are many studies and imitations of Zheng He's treasure ship in modern times, the specific shape, structure and scale of Zheng He's treasure ship have always been controversial.

There is even a saying that Zheng He’s Treasure Ship is the general name of Zheng He’s voyages to the West. Zheng He’s fleet is composed of a variety of ships of different types, sizes and purposes. .

Regardless of whether the Zheng He treasure ship really existed, Lu Yan could not imitate it... Even if the system gave the blueprint, it would take countless time and manpower to make it out.

But now the blueprint of this kind of three-masted sea-going ship is right in front of us. With a little modification, combined with the shipbuilding level and technology of this era, it should not be a problem to launch into the water.

With this more flexible warship, Cao Jun's water warfare tactics will be more abundant.If you can defeat Liu Biao first, and then go down the Yangtze River, you will have a huge advantage in dealing with Jiangdong!

Just having a boat may not be enough in Lu Yan's opinion.

In this era of water warfare, the main mode is to connect two ships and board the ship.Farther away, it is assisted by long-range attacks such as bows and arrows and stone throwing.

In addition, the hard side of the large ship will directly hit the opponent, but this method of killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred is rarely used.

If the mobility is enough, the combat power will naturally have to keep up.Today's trebuchets are actually pretty good, but bows and arrows are indeed a lot worse.

But isn't the trebuchet itself just excessive?Since you want to play, then play a big one!

Lu Yan rode a white dragon horse, wearing only the simplest clothes, and hurried to the general prison.

Many craftsmen who will be prisons also brought their families here.

Thanks to the fact that it can retain its own sales department and channels, Jiang Zuojian can now be regarded as the wealthiest group in all departments of the Han Dynasty.

The salaries and rewards of the craftsmen do not even need to be paid by the court, and the supervisor can satisfy all the officials and craftsmen by himself.

Moreover, there will be subsidies, incentives and so on every now and then. I don't know how many literati and ordinary people have died of envy.

When the craftsman's family came, they needed a house; when there were crowds, they naturally needed a living...so the wealthy Jiang Zuojian simply built a circle of houses around the original workshop for the craftsman's family to live in.

Slowly, the residential area became wider and wider, nearly doubling the overall area of ​​the prison.

Seen from a distance, it looks like a bustling town.

At the outskirts of Jiangzuo Prison, there are still garrison soldiers responsible for the most basic security and protection measures.

Someone saw Lu Yan's arrival from a distance, so when Lu Yan passed through the outer residential area and came to the core workshop of the town, Geng Liang and Ma Jun had already been waiting for a long time.

Geng Liang's official rank is not high, but it makes countless people jealous, after all, he has really grasped huge benefits.

But he was an old man who followed Lu Yan from the beginning, and no one dared to attack Geng Liang or Ma Jun at this time.

Geng Liang has been with Lu Yan for more than ten years, and he knows that every time Lu Yan comes in a hurry, it means that he has a new idea or something new to come out!

"Lu Huqi, long time no see!" Geng Liang has become too rich now, and it seems difficult to even bow to salute.

"Show... See... Lu Pu... Hus... Qi!" Ma Jun's stuttering problem is still not healed, but he is a technical geek, and his stuttering does not affect his performance.

Lu Yan raised the blueprint in Yang's hand, and said bluntly: "Get me the best carpenters and blacksmiths in the workshop! Also, call the veterans in gunpowder!"

When Geng Liang and Ma Jun saw the situation, they immediately knew that there must be something extraordinary in the blueprint!

Not to mention Ma Jun who has been pursuing new technologies, even Geng Liang, who has been at ease for a long time, couldn't help feeling a little excited in his heart!

"Lu Hussar, follow me to rest first, and I will immediately call all the best craftsmen to see you!"

After Geng Liang said something, he immediately disappeared from Lu Yan's sight at a speed that didn't fit his figure at all.

......

An hour later.

Beside a table, a group of blacksmiths were racking their brains around a half-sheet of blueprints placed on the table, arguing fiercely about something.

At the other table, a larger group of craftsmen surrounded the complete blueprints on the table, looking at each other in silence.

Half of the blueprint was naturally made by Lu Yan, which is the classic long-barreled, spindle-shaped front-loading cannon used for battleships.This kind of cannon was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty and was quickly imitated. Later, all cannons of similar design were collectively called Hongyi Cannon, also known as Hongyi Cannon.

The structure of the cannon in red looks relatively simple, but there are still many details in it. The point of contention among the group of blacksmiths lies in these details.

But the three-masted battleship with complete blueprints had too many things and lacked craftsmen with actual shipbuilding experience, so no one dared to express their opinions.

Lu Yan walked to the table of the three-masted battleship, and after understanding the actual situation, he knew that the three-masted battleship was not in a hurry.

So, he said to Geng Liang: "Old Geng, you are now preparing to recruit craftsmen with experience in shipbuilding."

Geng Liang responded, "Here!"

Lu Yan thought for a while, and added: "Be careful not to be too obvious when recruiting. You should know why I built the ship, right?"

Geng Liang nodded and said softly: "This subordinate understands!"

"Very good!" Lu Yan walked from the three-masted battleship table to the artillery table with his hands behind his back, and said, "Although the ship is not in a hurry, the artillery should not be a problem with our current level of ironmaking and forging." Bar?"