Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

"Sir..." Zhuge Liang knew that Lu Yan valued him, but he never thought that Lu Yan would value him so much, "He even cultivated himself as his successor!" There was an impulse that "a scholar should die for his confidant".

"In terms of talent, you are on par with Sima Zhongda; in terms of running the army and the country, you are better than Zhongda; in terms of planning and employing people, you are slightly inferior to Zhongda."

Lu Yan's words made Zhuge Liang fall into deep thought, and he also realized his own shortcomings.

I only heard Lu Yan continue to say: "I hope you can learn from Sima Zhongda's strengths and make up for your weaknesses, and at the same time try to resolve Sima Yi's ambition and darkness. If the two of you join hands in this world, the Han Dynasty can at least prosper for another hundred years!"

Zhuge Liang felt Lu Yan's high expectations for him, and also felt Lu Yan's trust and great expectations for him.

"The parents who gave birth to me, the one who respects me, sir!"

At this moment, Zhuge Liang's eyes were slightly flushed.

Gan Ning Su Fei, who was standing in the distance, looked at Lu Yan and Zhuge Liang at the bow of the boat from afar.

I don't know what they said, but I saw Zhuge Liang suddenly knelt down and respectfully saluted Lu Yan as a disciple.

The corner of Gan Ning's mouth curled up, and he said with emotion: "It seems that the master has finally chosen an heir... Zhuge Kongming is indeed a rare talent once in a hundred years."

"Sima Zhongda is also a rare talent...Why didn't Lu Hussar choose him as his successor?" Su Fei asked suspiciously.

Gan Ning glanced at Su Fei and said, "It's hard for me to explain to you with your wisdom, you should train your soldiers well."

"Hey! How dare you despise me? Are you begging to be beaten?" Su Fei rolled up his sleeves, and seemed to want to repair Gan Ning, who was swelled to no avail.

Gan Ning glanced at Su Fei disdainfully, and said, "Can you beat me?"

"You can't fight, but I won't be afraid of you if you drink!"

"Come on, fight for three hundred rounds!!"

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After the envoy sent by Ma Teng to the Xuchang court for help set off, Ma Yunlu also disappeared.But the people of the Ma family were not worried about Ma Yunlu's disappearance, because they knew that Ma Yunlu was going to the Central Plains to look for his elder brother Ma Chao.

After Zhang Wei's death, the marriage between the Ma and Zhang families almost fell through, and Ma Yunlu also disappeared, so the two families also tacitly never mentioned this matter again.

Now Zhang Lu's reinforcements are still in Hanyang County, and he only hopes that Ma Teng will not be annexed by Han Sui before the imperial court's reinforcements arrive.After all, if Liangzhou was unified by Han Sui, Zhang Lu might not be able to escape the fate of being eaten by Han Sui in the future.

When Ma Yunlu left, it was Ma Dai who made the preparations and arrangements for her.

Ma Yunlu will enter Sili directly from Hanyang County, and then directly enter the Central Plains from Sili.

Ma Dai knew that the law and order under Cao Cao's rule was very good, and Ma Yunlu's martial arts were not inferior to Ma Dai, so even if she went to the Central Plains alone, Ma Dai didn't worry too much.

After entering Sili, Ma Yunlu was quickly discovered by the militia.After learning about her background, local officials issued her an identity book.

This is the first time Ma Yunlu has seen many new regulations under Cao Cao's rule. While curious, he also feels that there are so many things in this world that he has never seen before.

The horse galloped, and Ma Yunlu drove all the way, and arrived at Luoyang City, which was being rebuilt, in just half a month.

What surprised her the most along the way was that Sili, which was in dire straits and the people were in dire straits, now turned out to be a scene of peace and prosperity.

When she came to Luoyang City, the vast project of rebuilding Luoyang opened Ma Yunlu's eyes even more. The scene of 10,000+ people starting work at the same time deeply shocked her heart.

At first, Ma Yunlu thought that these people were forced laborers recruited by Cao Cao, but she found that although the faces of these people were dirty with sweat and dust, they always had a smile on their faces.

"Why can these people laugh while doing such heavy work?"

Ma Yunlu was a little confused, so he led the horse and walked towards the construction site, wanting to ask.

But when she was trying to get close to the construction site, a soldier who was doing supervision work suddenly stepped forward and stopped her: "Girl, the construction site is heavy, please do not approach."

"..."

Seeing that Ma Yunlu didn't talk to him and didn't leave, the soldier continued, "If you also want to work, you can go and sign up yourself. Walk five hundred steps forward and then turn right. There will be someone there to receive you."

Ma Yunlu was regarded by the soldier as a ranger who "wanted to go in and work, but couldn't bear to ask questions". The soldier had seen many such people.

"?" Ma Yunlu was speechless for a while, and said to himself: "This... I was regarded as a worker? He just said that he would sign up. Aren't these people recruited by force?"

With strong doubts and curiosity, Ma Yunlu led the horse without saying a word, turned and walked towards the direction pointed by the soldiers.

The soldier looked at Ma Yunlu's tall and sexy figure from a distance, and he clicked his tongue twice and said, "The wages paid by the imperial court are so generous, even such a beautiful ranger is willing to put down his figure to work! Tsk tsk... If I hadn't had to be a errand , I want to move bricks..."

Chapter 436 Red Bricks and Cement

After Lu Yan talked with Zhuge Liang, he completely tied Zhuge Liang to his warship.

"As long as Kong Ming can grow up quickly, with his ability, I should be able to retire early, right?"

Lu Yan fantasized about his fairy days after retiring at the age of 40, humming an unknown song, and walked towards his mansion.

Huang Xu, Lu Xun, Chen Dao and others have all entered the Taixue to study.

Guo Yi is also studying hard under Guo Jia's "forced" recently, and plans to be admitted to Taiyuan Academy next year.

The bustling Hussar General's Mansion in the past is missing these most noisy guys, but now it seems a little deserted.

Huang Wudie has also grown up and turned into a slim girl.

I heard that Huang Zhong and his wife wanted to find a good family for Huang Wudie. This made Guo Yi, who had always been secretly in love with Huang Wudie, anxious. hand board.

Although the trivial things in life are trivial and complicated, if you calm down and have more patience to feel and savor them, they will actually have a different taste.

"A wave in a wave...a wave in a wave..."

Lu Yan hummed a little tune and returned to General Hussar's Mansion.

However, before he had time to enter the gate of the mansion, two young men in the clothes of the general supervisor and apprentice came running over in a hurry.

"Lu Hussars! Lu Hussars!"

"Success! We succeeded!"

Lu Yan stopped and turned around to look at the two apprentices, and asked suspiciously, "What succeeded?"

"Red bricks!" replied one of the apprentices.

"And cement!!!" another added.

The two of them were just like the second general Hum Ha, you and I talked endlessly.

It wasn't until smoke came from the throats of the two people that they were talking, that Lu Yan suddenly said: "Oh...I remember it!"

When Lu Yan proposed to build artillery last year, he mentioned red bricks and cement.

At that time, although Lao Geng and Ma Jun asked about the production method and approximate raw materials in detail, Lu Yanji was not very clear, and what he said was vague, and only talked about the approximate process and raw materials.

Lu Yan only remembers that the raw materials needed for cement are lime powder, clay and slag, and then these things are then calcined and mixed with water to form cement. This is also the easiest way to make cement.

With the current equipment and technology, only the most primitive cement can be produced, at most comparable to Roman cement.If you want to achieve the quality and strength of cement in later generations, it is simply a dream.But for this era, even the strength of Roman cement is completely sufficient.

Hearing that the red brick and cement have been successfully developed, Lu Yan was in a daze for a while. After all, with the appearance of cement and red brick, the future construction may undergo earth-shaking changes.

At this moment, Lu Yan felt that the soul of his infrastructure madman had awakened!

After being dazed and excited, Lu Yan quickly came back to his senses, and he said to one of the apprentices: "You, go to the shipyard as quickly as possible to find Zhuge Liang, and ask him to go to the prison as soon as possible. !"

The apprentice straightened his back, imitating the military sergeant and gave a nondescript military salute, saying: "The villain takes orders!"

"Da da da!"

As the first apprentice ran away, Lu Yan said to the other apprentice: "Go to the county guard's mansion and inform the prefect Liu, and ask him to go and serve as the prisoner immediately!"

"The villain has orders!" The apprentice also gave a similar military salute, then turned around and ran towards the sheriff's mansion.

Lu Yan asked the servants in the mansion to bring the white dragon horse, and rushed to the general as the prisoner as fast as possible.

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After leaving the city, Lu Yan galloped on his horse.

Soon, he came to the Jiangzuo prison... town that expanded again?

When they came to the intersection of the town, Geng Liang and the others had been waiting for a long time.

"I've seen Lu Hussars!" Geng Liang led several officials who would be in charge of prisons, and saluted Lu Yan from a distance.

Lu Yan jumped off his horse, handed the reins to the little official who came up to meet him, and shouted: "Old Geng!"

Geng Liang's body became more and more fat. Lu Yan looked at his appearance and couldn't help but said: "You should eat less meat on weekdays. If you keep getting so fat, all kinds of diseases will come to your door."

Geng Liang smiled and said in a nonchalant tone: "We grew up hungry, and at that time we couldn't eat meat once a year... Now I occasionally dream about the hard life in the early years.

I am not afraid of being sick, but I am afraid that one day the good days will suddenly disappear.

So this meat, can't stop! "

The corner of Lu Yan's mouth twitched, and he didn't bother to persuade him anymore.

"Take me to see the red bricks and cement. If it is really what I want, all craftsmen, handymen and officials involved in the development will be given three months' salary bonus!"

"Wow!!!"

"Woo! Got rich!!"

"Thank you Lu Hussar!"

Several officials around Geng Liang jumped and laughed in ecstasy.It seems that these people are all officials involved in the development of cement red bricks.

Geng Liang's face was serious, and he scolded: "How can you be so presumptuous in front of Lu Hussar!"

After being reprimanded by Geng Liang, these officials immediately calmed down obediently, but the eyebrows and eyes they threw at each other still showed the unconcealable joy in their hearts.

Under the leadership of Geng Liang, Lu Yan came to the northwest position of the prison center.

This used to be the place where iron smelting and forging agricultural tools and armor were made. Since the iron smelting and forging departments were separated, it was temporarily used as a research and development site for cement and red bricks.

Along the way, after Geng Liang's introduction, Lu Yan had a general understanding of the development of red bricks and cement.

Compared with cement, red bricks were quickly refined by craftsmen.

After all, red bricks, or fire bricks, only need to use clay to make adobes, and then use coal cakes and bricks to enter the kiln for firing. The process is roughly the same as firing blue bricks.

"When the red bricks were just successfully fired, after testing by the craftsmen, it was found that the red bricks were actually slightly inferior to the green bricks in terms of firmness and durability."

"However, the firing process, consumption, cost, etc. of red bricks are much lower than those of green bricks.

In general comparison, red bricks with simpler production and higher output can be applied in more places and in a wider range in the future. "

Geng Liang told Lu Yan the conclusions drawn by his craftsmen one by one.

Lu Yan nodded while listening: "Although the quality of red bricks is not as good as that of blue bricks, if it is combined with cement, it will be perfect."

Hearing the cement, Geng Liang couldn't help exclaiming: "The cement is really a magical thing. I'm afraid only a banished... genius like you can think of it!"

Lu Yan ignored Geng Liang's flattery, but said, "Take me to see the cement first."

Geng Liang wiped the sweat from his face, and replied, "Here."

Chapter 437 Hard, harder!

When Lu Yan and Geng Liang were going to the place where the cement was fired, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei finally rushed to Jiang Zuo's prison.

The two met by chance in the residential area, and this moment seemed to be a reincarnation in the world.

Zhuge Liang was humble and polite, bowed his hands to Liu Bei and said, "Military Sima Zhuge Kongming, I have met Mr. Liu Fu!"

Liu Bei looked at the elegant and gentle Zhuge Liang, feeling like meeting an old friend in a trance.

He took two steps forward, helped Zhuge Liang up, and said, "Kong Ming is so polite."

Zhuge Liang looked into Liu Bei's clear eyes, felt the elegant and earnest temperament of an elder in Liu Bei, and felt inexplicably more at ease in his heart.

He asked Liu Bei: "May I ask Mr. Liu Fu, are you here at the summon of Mr.?"

Liu Bei nodded, took Zhuge Liang's hand and said, "I guess you were called urgently by Mr. Let's not waste time, talk while walking."

"Please..."

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The general will be the supervisor and the cement production workshop.

Lu Yan, Geng Liang and others stood in the distance watching the process of the craftsmen burning the cement.

I saw a craftsman covered in tendon, pushing and pulling the bellows hard.The strong wind blew from the bellows towards the kiln, and the flames in the kiln suddenly ran around, and the temperature skyrocketed again.

The craftsman who directed the work judged that the temperature of the furnace was about the same, so he gave orders: "Start burning cement!"

After a series of processes are completed, the cement powder is finally formed.

Lu Yan stepped forward, not thinking the cement powder was dirty, and reached out to grab a handful, feeling a little excited in his heart.