The Three Kingdoms

"it is good!"

Liu Bei nodded to express his approval, took out a token, handed it to Zhang Song, and said: "You can hold the token to patrol the gates, and you can also adjust the guarding forces at each gate appropriately!"

"promise!"

Zhang Song took the token, turned and left.

"Yuan Long, what can Zi Qiao do?"

Liu Bei stared at the back of Zhang Song walking down the city gate.suddenly asked in a low voice.

"His appearance is not good, but his talent is extraordinary, but he can betray Liu Zhang and join the king, and he is not a good person. Either he is ambitious, or he is ruthless. No matter what kind, the king will suppress him. If he uses it well, he will It will be a sharp sword. But if we don’t use it well, we may hurt ourselves!”

Chen Deng put his hands on the armrests of the wheelchair, followed Liu Bei's gaze, and smiled slightly.

During Liu Bei's mutiny, Zhang Song chose to surrender to Liu Bei, which was regarded as a weather vane, allowing Liu Bei to quickly stabilize the government of Shu, so he was highly valued by Liu Bei.

"Yuanlong, do you know how Kong Ming evaluates this person?" Liu Bei asked again.

"The subordinate thought about it, it doesn't seem like a compliment?"

Chen Deng narrowed his eyes and said quietly.

"Kong Ming said that Zhang Ziqiao is a living map of Xi Chuan. No matter what his ability or temperament is, we only have two choices. Either reuse him or kill him directly!"

Liu Bei said every word with murderous awe.

"Live map?" Chen Deng's eyes became serious.

"A person who can draw a detailed topography of Shuchuan by relying on his own memory, he already knows the winding mountain roads of Shuchuan thoroughly!"

Liu Bei's tone was a little low: "If such a person becomes a guide of the Wu army, our Shu army will undoubtedly be defeated!"

The only hope of victory for the Shu army is pinned on the terrain of Xichuan. If there is no terrain of Xichuan, the Shu army will definitely not be able to stop the tigers and wolves of the Wu army.

"Then why did the king keep him?" Chen Deng asked: "I don't think he will be loyal to us to the end. Keeping such a person will be a hidden danger for us. If Sun Wu really takes advantage of him one day, we can That's trouble!"

"It's just a pity!"

Liu Bei smiled and said confidently: "And Guziwen can suppress him, didn't you say that, if used well, he will be an omnipotent sword!"

"I hope he won't become the sword that hurt us!" Chen Deng took a deep breath, calmed down, and said lightly, "Otherwise, I'll break him myself!"

"Yuan Long, in fact, Zi Qiao's words are not unreasonable. You and I have studied Sun Zhongmou deeply, and he really likes to take the edge of the sword. Maybe he really figured out a way to break through the retreat. No defense!"

Liu Bei looked outside the city, thought for a while, and said, "You try to send out as many spies as you can, only to know the details of the Wu army's camp outside the city!"

"Yes!"

Chen Deng was also a little worried and nodded.

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Under Jianjia Pass, on a mountain, the main camp of the Wu army.

Sun Quan faced the resentful eyes of Lv Bu Gaoshun's fierce generals every day, and kept refraining from fighting, waiting for the opportunity. On this day, he finally got Ma Jun, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.

In the big camp, a somewhat unremarkable young man, dressed in brocade robes, walked in, bowed his head and knelt down in front of Sun Quan's figure, and said with a big salute: "The left servant of the Ministry of Industry, Ma Jun, pay your respects to Your Majesty!"

Ma Jun is a Fufeng man. He was good at studying Mohist crafts since he was a child, and he was born as a scholar.Xiaozhi and Fa Xiaozhi, the governor of Wuling County, once studied in the same Confucian house. He was recommended by Fa Xiaozhi and traveled thousands of miles to become an official in Wu.

He is very young.It is only less than 1 now, but now it has been classified as No. [-] under Liu Ye, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry.

Although it is said that the Great Wu Dynasty existed because of Sun Quan, a monarch who was so young that his age could be ignored, the selection of officials by the court also relaxed many boundaries in terms of age.

But Ma Jun has nothing and no one to rely on.Being able to climb to the position of the left servant of the Ministry of Industry before the age of 30, his achievements are truly impressive.

He once transformed today's silk weaving machine, improving the work efficiency by four or five times, and also improved the keel waterwheel, a tool used for agricultural irrigation, which made a great contribution to agricultural irrigation.

He took charge of the river management work in Jiangdong, digging canals, and building dams are all his achievements. He can be regarded as Liu Ye's most powerful arm now.

"Ha ha!"

Sun Quan's eyes lit up, he quickly stood up, and put his hands on him.He smiled and said: "I have been looking forward to the stars and the moon for the past few days, and finally I have you here!"

"Wei Chen is terrified!"

Hearing this, Ma Jun was a little flattered.

"Okay, don't gossip, I want to break the Jianjia pass, but I need the help of your Ministry of Industry!" Sun Quan said very directly: "There are some things that only you can make?"

"Is it a special siege machine?" Ma Jun asked.

"That's it!"

"Does Your Majesty want to use Thunderbolt to open the way?"

Ma Jun suddenly rang the top secret of the Ministry of Industry, and frowned slightly.

Hong Tianlei's manufacturing workshop is super top secret in Dawu, and even among the cabinet ministers, there are only a handful of people who know it, and he is one of the insiders.

"By the way, you are talking about this. It has been so long, has Hong Tianlei finally started?" Sun Quan's eyes moved slightly.

"no!"

Ma Jun shook his head, then he carefully handed over a wooden box in his arms with both hands, and said: "The Shang Shu may have guessed that His Majesty wants to break through the Thunderbolt. So he asked me to bring a sample and tell His Majesty that the Thunderbolt Barely has a certain lethality, but if you want to use it as a breakthrough, there is still insufficient, and the Ministry of Industry is incompetent. It cannot help His Majesty break through!"

"How long will it take to complete the final test?"

Sun Quan opened the wooden box, looked at the black ball, and asked in a low voice.

"Ge Daochang said that it will take at least a year to complete the final test. If you want to mass-produce it, it will take longer. Your Majesty also knows that this thing is very dangerous, and there is no rush!"

Ma Jun said cautiously: "The research on this thing has caused our Ministry of Industry to lose several officers in the experiment. Before the safety can be controlled, it must not be mass-produced. It is a sharp weapon of our Great Wu, and it must not be our weapon. Great Wu's danger!"

"You are right to be cautious!"

Sun Quan nodded, agreed with the Ministry of Industry's approach, and suggested: "But good things have to go through battlefield tests. We can't use them in the Central Plains, but it's not a battlefield without tests. The finished products that we make in the future, we want to be used on the battlefield. Let’s try it out and send it to Guishuang battlefield!”

Now the Guishuang battlefield is also fiercely fought. Zhou Tai independently supports one side of the battlefield, and has been mobilized a lot of troops, which is somewhat difficult.

"promise!"

Ma Jun heard this, his eyes lit up slightly, and he nodded.

"This time I asked you to come, it has nothing to do with Hong Tianlei." Sun Quan talked about the business, he handed the sketches on the desk to Ma Jun, and asked: "Can you make this thing? "

"Your Majesty, what is this?"