Zhou Lang Zhou Lang

Send Li Mu back to the army, and together with Tai Shici and Gao Shun withdraw from Huaiyin to the south, Zhou Yu is going to make another trip to Shouchun.However, just after leaving the barracks, he heard the sound of horseshoes behind him, and it was Li Mu who came after him.

Zhou Yu raised his eyebrows lightly, signaling the soldiers to rest on the spot in front, then turned his horse's head and went up to meet him.

"Is there anyone in your navy who can go to sea?" Knowing that he was in a hurry to march, Li Mu reined in his horse and went straight to the point, "I want to leave a team to sail eastward from Xuzhou and station on the nearest island , the number of people does not need to be large, but they must be proficient in water combat and have a strong physique..."

"Would you have no worries about your family, and have the ambition to make military exploits?" As soon as Li Mu opened his mouth, Zhou Yu guessed what she wanted to do, and immediately continued.

Xuzhou faces the sea in the east, and there are islands overseas. Among them is the small country of Sanhan, which is adjacent to the four counties of Liaodong.

These things are not only clear to Zhou Yu, but Tai Shici, who was born in Donglai, Qingzhou, knows even more.Donglai is close to the sea, and there are still old people talking about the bustling scene of the tribute boats back then.

But now, the world is in chaos, disputes are everywhere, and the Han Emperor loses his power. Naturally, no one thinks about these vassal states, and no one pursues that these tributes were all swallowed up by Gongsun Du who occupied Liaodong.

Of course, Li Mu wasn't thinking about these tributes. To be honest, she never thought about tributes at all. She just habitually left everything behind.

People in this era are proud of being in the Central Plains in their bones. When it comes to going to sea, the first reaction is an uncivilized barbarian country, a barbaric place that cannot be visited or reached.Coupled with the incomplete shipbuilding technology, land and water warfare, no one has ever thought that there will be a sea battle.Even the large Sanhan ships used to send tribute were only built to be huge, with reinforced bottoms to withstand wind and waves. They were used to transport tribute, and it was not easy for two or three of the ten ships to arrive smoothly, let alone challenge them.

Li Mu just wanted to take advantage of the inertial thinking in this era that relying on the sea is a natural danger, and quietly planted a nail on the bank of Xuzhou without anyone noticing.And even if it is not needed in the end, she plans to build a commercial port at the mouth of the river in Wu County after she returns to Jiangdong, and when the time comes, merchant ships will come in and out, and then they will be brought back.

Sailing in the sea is extremely risky, and I don't know how long it will take for this ambush to be activated. Therefore, as Zhou Yu said, if it is not for a person who has no worries at home and is determined to get ahead, a determined person is really not up to the job.

When Li Mu mentioned this, Zhou Yu thought about it and felt that it was indeed feasible.It's just that although the navy and warship he is commanding now is much more elite than Cao Cao Yuan Shao and other troops who have been fighting in the north all year round, the draft of boats on rivers is shallower after all, and the wind and waves are not comparable to those on the sea. It's better to think carefully.

Alternatively, you can discuss it with Gan Ning.Since he is known as the Jinfan thief, he doesn't know if this Jinfan can also fly to the sea.

Zhou Yu was thinking for himself when Li Mu finished his business, nodded to him, patted the side of the horse's neck, and was about to turn around and go back.

Zhou Yu frowned: "You came here in a hurry, just for this?"

The tall and straight man on the horseback had gentle eyes, but also extremely focused, and a little bit of anticipation in his gentle smile.

Li Mu turned his head, pursed his lips, and stretched out his hand to hang his hair that was blown by the wind all the way behind his ear: "Cao Cao is cunning, it's hard to say whether the covenant he made can be counted, we still have to take precautions...be careful .”

"Here." Hearing what she said seriously, Zhou Yu suppressed a smile and bowed to her, solemnly as if he was taking orders from the army.

Li Mu squeezed the rein and glared at him: "Speak well!"

Zhou Yu finally laughed out loud: "The detailed birthday report I gave you before was written in my own handwriting, with every word in my heart. When I send the military report again, I don't need to bring Taigong Liutao, I can understand it."

What Li Mu came up with is to use the Taigong Liutao cipher to express one scroll, one horizontal, one character and one vertical. In case the messenger soldier is attacked on the way and the military report falls into the hands of others, perhaps a wise person can still see it. Clue.Instead, using Zhou Yu's handwriting as a comparison, it is impossible for anyone other than the two of them to understand the contents of the "military newspaper".

Li Mu couldn’t help but find it funny that she accidentally opened the chapter of military codes in this era. However, thinking about her decision to move the camp to the north this time in a hurry, and there was no time to discuss it with Zhou Yu, she couldn’t help but lament the communication efficiency of this era. It's too low.

Now, after the business was finished and some gossip was said, Li Mu pulled the reins, but in the end he rode his horse back to the camp without saying a word about Qingzhi Sword.

When the five thousand soldiers and horses retreated back to Guangling in a mighty way, and then crossed the river to return to Wujun, the sun was burning above their heads, and it was midsummer.

Under the scorching sun, Li Mu wore bunts and a bamboo hat on his head, but his eyes were still blinded by the sunlight leaking from the bamboo strips, and his face was scalded.

On the way back to the city from Guangling, she replaced the rounded Arabic numerals with the horizontal and vertical arrangement of counting chips, and then concealed the default value of the acceleration of gravity, but kept the operator, and wrote down the horizontal throwing movement of the feather arrow after it left the string. The algorithm, together with a small jar of distilled spirits, was regarded as a reply letter and gift, and sent to Huang Yueying together.

The calculation of the range is considered a military secret, but Li Mu knows it very well.The farther the shooting range, the greater the string tension required, and the higher the requirements for the crossbow body to withstand.That day she shot a range of [-] paces. Even though the city defense crossbow was strong and heavy, it could only withstand one arrow before it fell apart. Even if Huang Yueying could build a larger crossbow, the arrows used would have to be Even longer.Not to mention the issue of weight, just the resistance encountered when passing through the air, and the balance of the long arrow when flying, if there is no technological means of later generations, how easy is it to control these?

What's more, with an arrow of [-] steps, its deterrent power is more than its actual lethality. It can shoot the Chinese army tent four hundred steps away, but it can't shoot the soldiers in the army.In the final analysis, it is a bluffing technology.

Not long after Li Mu returned to Wu County, the soldier sent to deliver the letter brought back the yellow silk cloud pattern kit.Only this time, Huang Yueying didn't draw a bow and crossbow box, only a letter, saying that Pang Degong's son, Pang Lin, had a brother. He heard that she could shoot an arrow four hundred steps, and pointed at Jingzhou with a trebuchet. , I want to come to Wu Jun to pay a visit, if she agrees, then I will introduce her.

However, the last sentence is that her family wants to marry the Pang family of Jingzhou.

Li Mu read the letter over and over several times. Huang Yueying's letters were always straight and easy to understand, with clear expressions, plus the delicate and elegant writing, which was very pleasing to the eye.

The last sentence is inconsistent, and even people like Li Mu who don't understand literature can see the abruptness. Looking at the previous article, it is talking about Pang Lin's brother, but he doesn't mention his name, and he just makes a completely irrelevant Pang Lin. Lin clicked out.

Li Mu vaguely guessed that this Pang Lin was probably the candidate for the Pang family to marry the Huang family.But Huang Yueying is the wife of Zhuge Liang. Li Mu made a calculation. In the years when wars were everywhere and heroes were born, there were Cao Cao and Yuan Shao who could stamp out earthquakes by stomping their feet, and Liu Biao who could sit like a sea god needle with one ass. Although the butterfly's wings can flap twice, it is far from powerful enough to change the overall situation of the world—at least not yet.The marriage between the Huang family and Langya Zhuge is far away in Jingzhou, so naturally it will not be affected by her.

Just as she was thinking about how to reply to Huang Yueying's letter to reassure her, she saw Zhang Zhao, who was over half a century old, walking towards her in a hurry.

The corners of a long robe were rolled up and tucked into his waist, his eyebrows, eyes and hair were full of sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water, but the excited expression on his face was like that of a young man in his twenties.

If Sun Shao could see that Zhang Zibu, who was always rigorous and constrained, as calm as walking without shaking his sleeves and robes, could show such an expression, he would be surprised from ear to ear.

"Mr. Quan's method of drying salt is indeed feasible!" Zhang Zhaoxing went to Li Mu and saluted her deeply, obviously emotionally excited, "To fetch water from the sea and dry it in the sun, the manpower needed is less than [-]% to boil sea salt, and the income is [-]% ...the income has already increased by [-]%!"

This is the experimental salt field that Li Mu and Zhou Yu mentioned before, with half the manpower and twice the salt production.

Not far away, the bookish Gu Yong didn't wear a hat, and imitated the appearance of the salt people around him, rolled up his sleeves high and tied them between his elbows, his exposed skin was flushed red with the sun, but still Step by step, he followed the salt people and looked down.

To boil sea salt, as the name suggests, you must first pour sea water into a large tank, and then set up firewood to boil it.This method not only consumes countless manpower and material resources, but also needs to chop firewood for salary, and has to keep watch over the fire day and night. Moreover, due to the high temperature and hot steam released during cooking, it can only be done in cold winter, otherwise the body will be strong. The man couldn't resist it either.

Therefore, table salt in this era was a luxury that only noble families could afford.

As for the method of drying salt proposed by Li Mu, in fact, she only walked through a few famous salt fields when traveling in her previous life, and took a quick look at them.In the final analysis, it was the term "salt tax and salt introduction" that has been popular in Jiangnan for hundreds of years that left a deep impression on her.Even if you haven't eaten pork, you've heard pig humming.As for the specific operation, speaking of it, it was the idea of ​​those salt people who were dragged by her to experiment under the sun over and over again.

If it weren't for the wisdom of these working people who are working on the front line, Li Mu would be just talking on paper, a half-hearted one.It is precisely because of these repeated experiments that the final output of this batch of salt has been affected to a certain extent.Otherwise, compared with the endless scorching sun in summer, the fire made by adding firewood manually will not be only [-]% less productive.

Of course, Zhang Zhao is also aware of this level, which is why he is so excited.

How many more things can be done with the saved manpower and material resources!