The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

After some consideration, Liu Zheng decided to use movable type printing.

It is to first order craftsmen to carve out some commonly used fonts, and then use the Yangwen reverse font model that made the individual characters first, and then select the individual characters according to the manuscript, arrange them in the character plate, ink and print them, and then remove the characters after printing. , to be used again in the next typesetting.

This will greatly facilitate the possibility of Liu Zheng wanting to print books.

At the end of November 189, Liu Zheng had everything needed for paper and printing ready, and he was waiting for Liu Zheng to print the Art of War of Sun Tzu that he wanted to print.

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After everything was ready, Liu Zheng asked his craftsmen to try printing. In just two days, a book of Sun Tzu's Art of War printed on paper was placed in front of Liu Zheng.

According to Liu Zheng's current technology, hundreds of copies can be printed a day.

When Liu Zheng came to Gu Yong's room with these usable books, Gu Yong was still sorting out his slips. Those bamboo slips were bulky and bulky, so Gu Yong needed to sort them out from time to time.

Liu Zheng came in and immediately said to Gu Yong.

"Yuan Tan, I finally got the books I've been tinkering with these days, look."

Liu Zheng directly threw out Sun Tzu's Art of War in his hand and put it on Gu Yong's table.

This book was thrown away so casually by Liu Zheng, which made Gu Yong nervous, and immediately picked it up carefully on the table.

"My lord, be careful, this is something that needs to be handled with care, it is precious."

Gu Yong picked up the book on the table, and then carefully flipped through it.

"Sun Tzu said: Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of life and death, must be observed."

Gu Yong flipped through the Art of War by Sun Tzu, and started talking about it.

Liu Zheng saw that Gu Yong was so careful, he looked like a scholar, so he didn't ask directly, but waited for Gu Yong to browse through it, and then said to Gu Yong.

"Yuan Tan, how about this book?"

"Wonderful, my lord, these paper books are much better than the bamboo briefs in our hands. They are not only light, but also easy to carry. They are also more convenient for students to teach, but it is not easy to make such books. "

Gu Yong has also seen paper. After all, paper has been around for hundreds of years, but the paper at that time was made by Cai Lun. These papers are not particularly suitable for writing. Few people make those papers into books. .

After all, relatively speaking, compared with bamboo slips, bamboo slips last longer.

"It is also easy to make. It is much simpler than making bamboo slips. It takes many days to make one bamboo slip, but hundreds of copies can be made in one day. In less than half a month, students from the main school and the branch school can be handed over. This book, and even the extra copy can be sent to the generals in the military camps everywhere, so that they can look it up when they are free. Learn the new by reviewing the past!"

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he took Gu Yong to visit the production process of the book.

First, he introduced the paper production process to Gu Yong, and gave Gu Yong a few words about how he would modify the paper, and then introduced the printing technique to Gu Yong.

With printing technology, Liu Zheng was able to make copies of exactly the same books.

Gu Yong, who had already been amazed by Liu Zheng's ability to make paper, was stunned when he heard the printing technique again.

At first, he was worried that books made of paper would be inconvenient to preserve, but now that he saw printing, he knew that he was thinking too much.

With this printing technology, they can print a large amount at any time, which is a technology that will subvert the world.

At least if everyone has books to read, the wisdom of the people will be opened, the rich and powerful clans will not be able to control this knowledge, and scholars from poor families can become masters. This is completely consistent with Liu Zheng's idea of ​​the imperial examination.

As long as Liu Zheng prints out different books and sells them in Liu Zheng's various places, some young people who buy books will always have enough understanding of the things in the books, so that they can stand out and become masters.

"My lord, this is a divine skill, a divine skill. With this printing technique, it will change the teaching style of our military academy, and even affect the entire Han Dynasty."

"Yuan Tan, this technology cannot be made public for the time being, so after reading these, you can know it in your heart, but don't spread it everywhere. We need technology to promote education and improve the capabilities of our soldiers and people."

Gu Yong naturally understood what Liu Zheng meant, and after agreeing to it, he began to sort out these newly created books, and then began to distribute them according to the personnel.

On Liu Zheng's side, after handing over papermaking and printing to Gu Yong's management, he temporarily left the military school.

After staying here for several months, I finally got what I wanted.

He returned to his home in Wu County in early December.

When he returned to Wu County, Liu Zheng had a lot to deal with.

In the past few months, many things have been backlogged here, and they did not come to report to Liu Zheng. Now that Liu Zheng is back, Yuan Zhou, Xu You and others have come to report to Liu Zheng.

The first is the plague a few months ago. Because of Zhang Zhongjing's full treatment, the plague has been cured.

The plague in Liu Zheng's various places was completely completed two months ago.

However, the plague of other princes is not so easy.

Although Liu Bei's subordinates had Liu Zheng's people to help, but because the plague spread too badly, there were a lot of medicines needed. Although Liu Zheng had distributed part of the medicines to Liu Bei, they still couldn't meet Liu Bei's needs.

As the demand on Liu Bei's side increases, the more money that needs to be paid to Liu Zheng. Fortunately, Liu Bei is also busy with the medicinal materials needed for the medicine, helping Liu Zheng to prepare a lot of medicinal materials, and let Liu Zheng configure them. After giving a large amount of medicine for a few months, it finally helped Liu Bei's men to control the plague.

Similarly, because the plague here in Liu Bei was cured, the princes in other places gradually sent people to find Liu Zheng, hoping that Liu Zheng could help treat the people under him.

Regarding this, Liu Zheng has already explained it long ago, and he will not refuse anyone who comes. Also according to Liu Bei's request, he not only needs to ask for medicinal materials from them, but also needs them to exchange money when giving them medicine. If you take money, you can exchange it for food.

Some people had a lot of food, so they directly agreed to exchange the food for medicine. Some people didn't have enough food, such as Yuan Shao, he could only use money.

But earlier, these princes who exchanged food for medicine hadn't noticed anything wrong, but now in December, they realized something was wrong.

Because at the beginning of spring, the spring plowing work under some princes was not completed properly, and as a result, there was not much food during the autumn harvest. At the beginning, they did not realize this problem. Now, when winter came, the people under the ground had no food, and they realized it. the seriousness of the matter.

At this time, suffering from lack of food, he came to Liu Zheng for food again.

Of course, Liu Zheng had expected this a long time ago. After all, Liu Zheng had already started arbitrarily letting his own people cultivate and store grain at the same time a few months ago.

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On the one hand, Liu Zheng stabilized the price of grain under his command, and on the other hand, he wanted to transport grain to other princes who were suffering from famines. Of course, he also used his own name.

Liu Zheng just wanted to use these things to further enhance Liu Zheng's reputation, so that the people under other princes would not feel hatred for Liu Zheng, and even wantonly recruited all the people from other states and counties into his own. The scholar's impression of Liu Zheng has also been greatly improved.

Of course, all that Liu Zheng did was mainly carried out in Xuzhou and Qingzhou. After all, these two places were newly conquered by him, and his rule was not perfect enough, so he needed a wave of buying people's hearts.

Such kindness is enough to make Liu Zheng's reputation reach its peak in these places, the people are grateful, and the officials are loyal.

But when Liu Zheng was doing disaster relief, bad news came from the south.

In mid-December, Linyi County rushed to send information.

It is said that a month ago, a large number of unidentified troops appeared in the south of Linyi County. These people are soldiers, advancing from the south to the north, and will soon hit Linyi County.

When these troops first appeared, naturally they did not attract much attention. Sun Jian, who was guarding the frontier, had always been very concerned about the unknown troops around Linyi County, so he noticed these troops when they first appeared, but these people seemed to be rushing. Coming from Linyi County, he launched an attack on Linyi County without staying in the frontier for too long.

Fortunately, Linyi County was guarded by Sun Jian during this period, and he also recruited an elite force. Although the number was not large, only more than [-], with these forces, it was possible to temporarily fight these sudden appearances.

However, due to the large number of soldiers and horses that appeared, the preliminary investigation found that they were as large as [-]. Sun Jian could not defeat these soldiers and horses on the frontal battlefield with only more than [-] troops, so he could only rely on the cities of Linyi County to defend the city.

However, as Sun Jian became weaker, the number of these unknown men and horses continued to increase. Sun Jian, who had always been prudent, could only send his men and horses to ask the governor of Jiaozhou for help.

And Xu Huang, who was the governor of Jiaozhou, was no longer in Jiaozhou at this time, but went to Jingzhou to fight against the soldiers and horses of the imperial court.Therefore, the news could only be passed to Liu Zheng of Wu County through the fleet.

Although the news from Linyi County was incomplete, Liu Zheng who received the news knew at a glance that it was probably the remnants of the Linyi Kingdom who continued to make trouble in Linyi County.

Three years ago, after Liu Zheng defeated the remnants of Lin Yiguo, Lin Yiguo was often in a state of riots, and some remnants came out to make troubles from time to time.

This is also a normal phenomenon, but after Liu Zheng sent Sun Jian to suppress these riots, the state of Linyi County improved a lot.

It's just that he didn't expect that the remnants of Linyi County have not given up and are still doing things now.

When the news was passed to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng knew that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared in Linyi County. Although Sun Jian led some soldiers and horses to resist, the enemy has tens of thousands of troops. It is no problem to defend Linyi County with Sun Jian's ability. , but if you want to completely defeat it, I'm afraid it won't be that easy.

Originally, Liu Zheng didn't want to pay attention to this kind of thing, so he just sent a group of soldiers and horses there, but recently, he and the court's troops stopped fighting because the two sides would not fight in a short time due to the plague.

So Liu Zheng has a lot of time to deal with these alien races.

So after thinking about it for a while, Liu Zheng decided to lead Zhou Cang's troops south to support Sun Jian to completely solve the problem in the south at this time.

After receiving Sun Jian's request for help, Liu Zheng immediately started to act. On the one hand, he sent an order to Zhou Cang, ordering him to lead an army of [-] troops to the south to support him. Take a boat from Wujun to the south, and use the fastest speed to reach Linyi County to support Sun Jian.

Of course, Liu Zheng also asked Jiaozhou to send 5 soldiers each to form an army of [-]. Together with Zhou Cang's soldiers, a total of [-] people, went south from Jiaozhou to support Sun Jian.

This time Liu Zheng wanted to completely eliminate those hidden dangers in Lin Yiguo at once.

Half a month later, Liu Zheng took a boat and quickly approached Linyi County. At the same time, he came to the city where Sun Jian was located. In the past half month, the situation in Linyi County has undergone great changes.

The [-] army of Linyi Kingdom's remnant party has already defeated half of Linyi County. Because Sun Jian's men were too small, after a battle with the Linyi Kingdom's remnant party at the border, he did not get any advantage, so he directly retreated and waited. The reinforcements from Liu Zheng's side came over.

Now that Liu Zheng is here, when Liu Zheng saw Sun Jian, he immediately asked Sun Jian how the situation in Linyi County was.

"Wentai, what's the situation in Linyi County now? Why can the remnants of Linyi Kingdom organize an army of [-]? Something's wrong. If they had [-] troops, they wouldn't have been wiped out by my troops in the first place."

Liu Zheng was already thinking about this problem when he was on the road. It stands to reason that Lin Yiguo's remnant party is at most a few thousand people, and it is impossible to organize an army of [-].

If there were so many troops, Lin Yiguo would not have been wiped out by Liu Zheng.During this period of time, Sun Jian also sent people to inquire about the news, so he also knew something about these enemies. When Liu Zheng asked at this time, he also knew how to answer.

"My lord, these people are not exactly the remnants of Lin Yiguo."

"Oh? Who is that?"

"My spies found out that these people are from a big kingdom further south, which seems to be called Funan Kingdom."

"Funan Kingdom?"

After Liu Zheng heard Sun Jian's words, he frowned.

He seemed to have heard of this place. There were merchant ships going south to do business before, and it seemed that he had been to this place, but Liu Zheng didn't take it seriously. In this era, except for the Han Dynasty, the whole of Asia, although there are some small country, but nothing to worry about.

What Liu Zheng didn't expect was that he didn't seek trouble with these people, but instead, they took the initiative to trouble him.

In history, the Kingdom of Funan also contacted the Han Dynasty, but at that time, it was the Kingdom of Wu, who also sent people to the Kingdom of Funan to pay a return visit, but the two sides did not engage in war.

But it is different now, history has changed, with the appearance of Liu Zheng, Jiaozhou was unified long ago, and Lin Yiguo was driven away, the situation in Southeast Asia may change.

Liu Zheng didn't think about it, since the other party came to him, then Liu Zheng might as well subdue these small border countries in one fell swoop.

Chapter 642 Negotiation

"What kind of small country dares to be an enemy of our Kingdom of Heaven, brother Wentai, it's time to show the might of our Kingdom of Heaven, destroy them, and then raise troops to attack the so-called Funan Kingdom and take the territory of the Kingdom of Funan Become Funan County."

After Liu Zheng learned about these contents, he didn't have the slightest fear of this so-called Funan Kingdom. Although this Funan Kingdom may be a large country in Southeast Asia, in terms of the whole of Asia, the Han Dynasty is the real kingdom of heaven.

All countries should be dominated by the heavenly kingdom.

Even if not, Liu Zheng wants to turn them into vassal states, and Liu Zheng's idea is not to turn them into vassal states, because the vassal states may become independent at any time. Liu Zheng's idea is to directly make these small countries submit and become A county of Cheng Dahan.

For Liu Zheng, these things were not so urgent.He even wants to conquer the whole Han world again, and think about these small border countries after unification.

But what I didn't expect was that these small border countries would come to make trouble at this time.This forced Liu Zheng to reconsider these matters.

Now that he and the Han court are on a temporary truce, and there are no other wars around, he can also free up his hands and clean up these small border countries first, anyway.Cleaning up these small border countries can also bring some resource support to Liu Zheng, whether it is military strength or food and other resources, it can expand Liu Zheng's influence.

After Sun Jian understood what Liu Zheng meant, he nodded and didn't say much. Anyway, he also didn't have the slightest affection for these alien races.

Especially after guarding Linyi County for so many years, he was very angry with these alien races in Linyi County. Now that the remnants of Linyi County have made a comeback, he also wants to defeat these remnants in one fell swoop, once and for all.

"My lord, these Funan enemy troops are now distributed around Linyi County. There are a total of 5 people led by a man named General Fan Man. If our army wants to defeat him, we must defeat this General Fan Man."

"General Fan Man, if I remember correctly, the prince who escaped from the remnants of Lin Yiguo was also named Fan, and it seems to be Fan Yi. Maybe there is some relationship between them?"

Liu Zheng didn't think that these people from Funan Kingdom had anything to do with the remnants of the Linyi Kingdom, but after hearing that the general's surname was Fan, he thought of it. When he wiped out Linyi Kingdom, the king of the country was also named Fan, and the escaped prince might be He just fled to Funan Kingdom, got on the line with the people of Funan Kingdom, and wanted to use the people of Funan Kingdom to restore the country for himself.

After all, when Liu Zheng occupied Linyi County, he did not find much money in the palace of Linyi County, and a large amount of treasures accumulated by Linyi Kingdom were swept away by the prince.With some remnants of the party and money, he could easily persuade the people of Funan to restore the country for him.

"I didn't bring many soldiers and horses here, so don't act rashly for the time being, first send people to the other party's camp to negotiate and investigate the news. After half a month, Zhou Cang will lead an army of [-] in Jiaozhou to go south. It’s time to fight to the death with these people and completely defeat them.”

After Liu Zheng learned something about the situation, he comforted Sun Jian for the time being.

Liu Zheng wanted to send someone to negotiate with the Funan army, but this time he came here without bringing his advisors with him.

Therefore, the people sent to negotiate had to be sent by Sun Jian.

Fortunately, when Sun Jian was guarding Linyi County, he also recruited many talents here.Just send someone with some culture.It is also enough to act as an envoy to negotiate.

However, Liu Zheng didn't intend to just negotiate casually like this, but turned to glance at Zhou Yu and Sun Ce who were behind him.

The two of them have been by Liu Zheng's side for a while now, and basically rarely go directly to the battlefield to fight the enemy. This time, facing these people from Funan Kingdom, Liu Zheng intends to let them start to experience these things.

For this negotiation, Liu Zheng intends to order them to be assistants, and to follow the envoys sent by Sun Jian to meet the army of Funan Kingdom and see what these people of Funan Kingdom want to do.

The envoy Sun Jian sent to negotiate was Pan Shuai, whose name was Zi Cong. He was an original county magistrate of Linyi County. He was considered a literati who was more loyal to the Han Dynasty. Because of his meritorious service in governing the region, Sun Jian dispatched him to the county. in town.

Most of Sun Jian's subordinates are military generals, such as Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang and others. There are few literati, so literati like Pan Shuai seem to pay more attention to them.

After receiving Liu Zheng's order, Pan Shuai did not refuse. He accepted Liu Zheng's order ecstatically, and then led the two young generals Zhou Yu and Sun Ce to the army of Funan Kingdom.

Xianglin County.

Part of this place has been occupied by the army of Funan Kingdom. Although the city is still under Sun Jian's control, there are still no people outside the city, and it is all the army of Funan Kingdom.