Three Kingdoms Eschatology

"You..." Liu Xie's face turned livid from Fazheng's denial, but he was choked and speechless.

Liu Xie clapped his hands again, and the eunuch brought a plate with a three-foot arrow on it.

Pointing at the big arrow, Liu Xie continued to question: "Such heavy arrows can only be used by the longbowmen of your country of Liang. In the whole world, only your country of Liang has longbowmen! How can you argue about this? "

Fazheng, who was still lying down, raised his head, glanced at the big arrow on the plate, shook his head and said, "Although this is a big arrow, it is not the arrow issued by the archers of Army Commander Liang."

Immediately afterwards, Fazheng asked back: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, how many such arrows were found at the scene? The longbowman unit is indeed unique to our country of Liang, but the world is so big that people who can use longbows will definitely not Only Liang Jun's longbowmen. It's not unusual for one or two of the water bandits and river robbers to know how to use a longbow."

With a "snap", Liu Xie threw the big arrow heavily on the plate, got up and walked towards the outer hall.Fazheng was left kneeling there alone.

In fact, even if Liang Guo admits it, Liu Xie can't do anything to Feng Yu.He originally planned to reprimand Feng Yu for this matter, and then issued an imperial edict to demote Feng Yu to Liang Guogong.This has no actual loss to Feng Yu, but it can increase the prestige of the Han court, alert other princes, and win Liu Bei one step closer.

In the outer hall, Zhu Jun, Yang Biao, and Huang Fusong were waiting there.Seeing Liu Xie's livid face, they hurriedly asked the emperor about the outcome of the matter in unison.

"Don't mention it! Liang Guo's Fazheng just blindly denies it and refuses to admit it. I plan to behead this person for the crime of deceiving the emperor first, and then issue an imperial edict to question Feng Yu." Liu Xie said fiercely, his eyes full of tears. Killing intent.

The three of them were all shocked when they heard this.Quickly persuaded the hot-headed emperor.

Yang Biao first said: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!"

"I am the Son of Heaven! What's wrong?"

Zhu Jun immediately replied: "In this way, our Han family is in danger! The military strength of the Liang State cannot be underestimated. Moreover, it only took one day for the soldiers and horses from Zhuyang, the important town of the Liang State, to reach Wancheng. withstand?"

Liu Xie frowned and said: "I issued an edict to order the soldiers of the world's princes to come to serve the king, just like exterminating the Yuan thief back then."

Huangfu Song frowned and shook his head: "The Son of Heaven can issue an edict to gather the power of all the princes in the world to attack Liang Guo. But even if everything goes well, what happens after Liang Guo is defeated? After Liang Guo is defeated, Wei Guo will no longer be able to match The power of Liang Guo was destroyed at that time, but I am afraid that I, a 400-year-old man, will not be able to protect myself!"

Liu Xie finally calmed down a bit after a few words, and shouted: "Then what should I do?"

Yang Biao bowed and said: "Your Majesty, we have endured for the past ten years. Can't we bear it for a few more years? We still need time to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity of changes in the world. As long as we wait patiently, we will always It can rejuvenate the Han Dynasty."

Chapter 290 Kong Ming Debriefing

When the time came, Fazheng was still kneeling on the floor of Qinzheng Hall.Just when he was anxious, a eunuch from Huangmen walked up and said: "The emperor has gone back to the palace to rest, you can go."

"Then when will the Holy Majesty summon someone?"

Huangmen smiled and said, "You didn't understand me. I said you can go. You can leave Wandu and return to Liang. The emperor will not call you again."

Only then did Fazheng heave a sigh of relief, he got up from the floor with a sore back, and staggered towards the outside of the palace with his numb legs.

More than ten days later, Fazheng returned to Yibin and told Feng Yu the truth about his experience in Wandu.

Fazheng and Feng Yu were not the only ones present.There were more than a dozen high-ranking officials and ministers of the Liang Kingdom in the hall, including Zhuge Liang, the governor of Myanmar, who also took the opportunity of returning to Yibin to report on their duties to attend the meeting.

Feng Yu closed his eyes and meditated, playing with and flipping a Roman gold coin in his hand.After Fazheng finished speaking, Zhang Song first said: "Obviously, the emperor and the imperial court no longer trust our Liang country, and there is a suspicion of deliberately suppressing it."

Xun You, Prime Minister of the Left State, then said: "For more than a year, the elites of our Liang army have shown their prowess in the process of fighting abroad. Secondly, our Liang State has opened thousands of miles, and the border has been pushed to the shore of the West, and we will sit on the world The benefits of commerce. In the long run, the strength of the Liang State will surpass that of the Wei State. These are probably the reasons why the imperial court and the Han Dynasty are afraid."

Feng Yu stopped flipping the gold coins, and said to the crowd: "No, Gu thinks it's because the emperor has a desire to change after taking office, and he entrusted his hope to his uncle, who can't beat him. It's a pity that the emperor entrusted Inhuman, Liu Bei will definitely disappoint him and even regret it."

When everyone was comprehending the deep meaning of his words, Feng Yu continued: "However, unless someone loses his head, the world structure is basically stable. We should hurry up and tap the potential of Western trade routes. Although the population of Liang is small, But as long as we have money and business routes, we will have endless resources. As long as we have enough strength, we will not be afraid of how the situation will change."

When Feng Yu said this, he turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang, and said with a smile: "Kong Ming, I haven't had time to read the report you submitted to Gu yesterday. You are here to give Gu, and give you a general introduction to Myanmar." The current situation."

Zhuge Liang was about to get up to go out, but was stopped by Feng Yu: "Kong Ming doesn't need to stand up to speak, let's talk at the table." Feng Yu thought that Zhuge Liang's words must be spoken for a long time, so he was simply allowed to sit on the table tell.

"Thank you, my lord." After Zhuge Liang thanked him, he recounted the situation in Manzhou.

In the past six months, the water and dry roads along the Dulong River route from Shawady Port to Yongchang have been more perfect and smooth.Because of the prosperity of trade routes, some mainland immigrants flooded into Myanmar for long-term residence.Dozens of Liang army strongholds along the Dulong River have developed into small-scale towns.In addition to reclamation around the strongholds, these immigrants' main source of income is to provide various services such as transportation, hotels, and meals for vendors along the way.

In the depths of the dense forest far from the Dulong River waterway, there are also a large number of stronghold camps of various ethnic groups of the Nanman, most of which are distributed along the tributaries of the Dulong River, which is convenient for water transportation.

These camps are not divided according to tribes, but are divided according to the military status of the previous Menghuo Legion.There may be Pu people, Wuman people, Yue people, Ailaoyi people, and Han people in a certain camp stronghold at the same time.There are even Choro people.They were all incorporated into the household registration by Zhuge Liang and Qi Min, and they were managed in a unified manner.

Some camps even left some Zhuluo women.When these women were captured by Liang Jun, they were all slaves or widows. If Liang Jun sent them back to Zhuluo by boat, they would inevitably be trafficked as slaves.Zhuge Liang simply assigned them to these immigrants as wives.This was also Feng Yu's idea.

Today, Sawady Port and Mande City are two large cities full of merchants and densely populated.The difference is that merchants of various faces can be seen everywhere in the former, while most of the latter can be seen are native Han merchants from the mainland.Only a small number of foreigners can apply for a customs certificate and enter Mande City and even further away Buwei, Yibin and other places.

Although Sawady Port is a free port, Liang Guo's government does not charge profits and taxes.But Mander City collects tariffs, so in fact, those foreign merchants still pay taxes in disguise, but the tariffs are not included in the price of the goods.

In addition to the huge profits of government-run firms brought by trade routes, as well as the tax revenue from Mande City, as well as the lumber mills in the middle reaches of the Dulong River, the gemstone mines provided Liang Guo with a wealth of money like a cash cow.

After Zhuge Liang had roughly finished speaking, Feng Yu asked, "How is the security situation in Myanmar?"

"My lord, there are almost no bandits on the main road along the Dulong River. There is nothing wrong with the sea route from Sawady to Ceylon Island..."

When Zhuge Liang said this, Feng Yu suddenly coughed twice.Zhuge Liang woke up immediately.He originally wanted to say that with the support of Mo'an from the Zhuluo Third Fleet, the safety of the sea route would be safe.

But the matter of Liang Guo secretly using means to control Mo An is a top-secret secret.In the entire Liang Kingdom, including Feng Yu and Zhuge Liang, less than 20 people knew about it.Although all the people in the hall are the leading figures of Liang Guo, there are still attendants and others.It's really not the right occasion to disclose this matter.

Zhuge Liang immediately stopped talking, and changed his words: "The sea route from Sawady Port to Ceylon Island is also very stable. Now King Zhuluo seems to be busy quelling internal troubles and rebellions and foreign troubles in the direction of Guishuang. He has no time to settle old scores with us, so he didn't come to look for them. What trouble. It's just..."

When Feng Yu and everyone in the hall heard the word "just", they knew that Zhuge Liang was about to say something, and they all pricked up their ears.

"It's just in the Nujiang River Basin, and we haven't developed it yet. There are only a dozen or so key positions in the middle reaches and the estuary where it flows into the West Ocean. There are military camps stationed in the middle reaches. In the middle reaches, our military camps are often attacked by aliens. .While the casualties in each attack were minimal, the attacks were overwhelming and disturbing."

Feng Yu frowned and said, "What is Huawaishengfan? Are they Meng people? I remember that those small tribes of Meng people lived along the waterways of Dulong River and Nu River. When Zhu Luo invaded, they were wiped out in sevens and eighties , the people of the tribe were basically enslaved by the Zhuluo people. After being rescued by our army, they have no reason or ability to do so."

Zhuge Liang replied: "Your Majesty, they are not Meng people. They are a kind of people who are less than four feet tall, with dark skin, curly hair, flat nose and thick lips. They are as agile as monkeys in the jungle and come and go freely. ..."

After hearing Zhuge Liang's words, the people in the hall couldn't help but burst into laughter, and said, "Commander Zhuge, according to what you said, this creature is probably not a human, but some kind of ape, right? It was misunderstood by soldiers from Maine, and it was regarded as a creature." It's over."

Some people also laughed, until they saw that Feng Yu was still solemn, scanning the hall with stern eyes, and then they all stopped smiling.

Chapter 291 The Pygmies

Zhuge Liang ignored the teasing of Liao Hua and others, and continued: "These dwarfs are good at using a blowpipe to blow and shoot poisonous needles to hurt the enemy. May I ask General Liao, is there any ape who can make blowpipes and poisonous needles? Of course our giant ape Soldiers also have the ability to use weapons and follow orders to fight. But they don't know how to make other weapons except simple stone tools."

Liao Hua opened his mouth wide again, smiled awkwardly, and said, "Brother Kong Ming, I was just joking. You are really in a hurry with me. Then our family will apologize to you here." After Liao Hua finished speaking, he stood up He saluted Zhuge carelessly, and his behavior amused the people present a lot.

Xun You stroked his beard and said thoughtfully: "When my uncle was serving as the palace guard in Luoyang, he once saw a slave from a very distant foreign country. He was also swarthy, with a wide nose and thick lips, named Kunlun They are slaves. It’s just that they are not only four feet tall as Commander Zhuge said. They may be dwarfs among Kunlun slaves.”

Few people in the Han Dynasty had seen black people, and the idea of ​​Kunlun slaves was not widely spread until the Tang Dynasty several hundred years later.But Feng Yu, who has been a man for two lifetimes, is very clear about this.He said to everyone disapprovingly:

"These little black men were neither ape-men nor dwarves. They were Pygmies, who had lived in the jungle for generations. There were a few of them among the Chola captives at that time.

Don't worry about Kong Ming, Gu will organize a special team to deal with them.But instead of exterminating them, they want to capture them alive. These little black men are of great use to the enemy. "

Everyone was stunned by this and couldn't figure it out.What is the use of this "little man" who is less than four feet tall?

Liao Hua, who likes to joke, grinned again: "Why do you call him a rice-carrying person? If you are less than four feet tall, you can carry a bucket of rice. You should be called a rice-carrying person." He didn't lower his head until Feng Yu glared at him. No more joking.

In Feng Yu's original world, there are two kinds of short black people, one is distributed on the east coast of Africa, known as the Negriro, and the other is distributed in Southeast Asia, known as the Negrito.Although the two are similar in appearance, body shape and similar names, they are collectively called Pygmies, but the two are actually not genetically related.

After talking about this, Feng Yu asked Zhuge Liang again: "Then in Myanmar, does Kong Ming have anything to worry about?"

Zhuge Liang raised his eyebrows and said: "I really dare not lie to the king. What I am most worried about in Myanmar is malaria. Although there is a method of preventing malaria taught by the king in Myanmar, it is impossible for people to pay attention to it all the time in their daily activities. If you relax for a while, you may be infected with malaria if you are bitten by mosquitoes and leeches, drink unboiled water, or even soak your wounds in water. Therefore, whether military, civilian or businessmen, they are often trapped by miasma...no, malaria."

Feng Yu nodded and thought to himself: "Although I have insight into the nature of miasma, I have taught Liang Min the method of preventing malaria. But it is only prevention, and it is still not enough without cure. We still need cinchona saplings."

Thinking of cinchona trees, Feng Yu thought of ships—rigged galleons capable of oceangoing.So he asked Zhuge Liang, "Kong Ming, how are the three-masted ocean-going sailing ships in the Tenglong City shipyard, and how is the progress of the ocean-going sailor training?"

Zhuge Liang immediately replied: "Your Majesty, four ocean-going sailing ships have been built in the Tenglong City shipyard, and three more will be launched next month. Two hundred ocean-going sailors are currently undergoing training."

"Very good, when they finish training, they will retrieve the seedlings of several plants in the distant land. The medicine extracted from these plants can effectively treat malaria. In addition, there is another extremely important strategic material that is also obtained from a plant .”

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The middle reaches of the Nujiang River run through a boundless valley and dense forest.There is a small stockade on the river bank.Although the stockade is small, it is in stark contrast to the vast jungle.The buildings in the village are made of bamboo and stone, which are in order.

In a small open space in the center, there are still weapon racks, and there is a wooden platform in front of it, just like a military camp.Obviously, this stockade is a military stockade.

The soldiers in the village, except for a very few generals, came here voluntarily, and most of them were assigned by felons.Soldiers are allowed to bring their families, and the government will assign a wife if there is no family, and the woman who is not too much is likely to be a Zhuluo woman.

At this time, there was no one on the school grounds.The reclamation soldiers in the village, except for five or six soldiers guarding the watchtower, the rest went to the farmland around the village to do farm work.

Team leader Tang Hu was also shirtless, chopping firewood with a hatchet in front of his house.Beside him was a pile of wormwood to repel mosquitoes.This kind of wormwood is burned from time to time in every household.The smell of burning wormwood lingers throughout the village.

Originally, chopping firewood was the work of his mother-in-law, and he should also do farm work now, but it was not long after his mother-in-law gave birth.

Tang Hu came here voluntarily.Although the army village is a military unit, there is a team of soldiers stationed there, but the team rate is not the highest position in the village.

The highest-ranking village guard died of malaria a few days ago.Zhaizi is waiting for a new Zhaishou to take office.

A baby's cry came from the room, and the sweaty Tang Hu smiled knowingly. It was his son's voice.Holding a kitchen knife, he picked up a clay pot filled with cold boiled water, and poured it gurglingly.

The moment he raised his neck, he saw the body of the soldier on the watchtower tilted and fell down.Then, the native dogs in the village began to bark.He cried out in his heart: "No, it's the 'monkey man' who came!" The clay pot in his hand fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.

"The enemy! The monkey man is coming! The enemy! Brothers, you guys!" Tang Hu opened his throat and shouted hoarsely, hoping that his companions who were farming outside the village could also hear it.

The 'monkey man' he was talking about was a Pegmie. Because he didn't know the exact clan name of the other party, and saw that the other party was short and nimble like a monkey in the jungle, he called him a 'monkey man'.

Tang Hu, who was shouting, saw a short, dark-skinned Pegmie appearing in the village.The wall of the village was two battles high, and the trees around the wall had been cut down. He didn't know how the 'monkey man' managed to climb over the wall.

Tang Hu didn't have time to think about it, and ran towards the opponent with the hatchet.The other party stuffed something like a bamboo tube into his mouth, puffed up his cheeks, and blew violently with his mouth.

Tang Hu suddenly felt a tingling pain in his body, and then the tingling area became numb, and this numbness spread to his whole body.He was dizzy for a while, his eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground.

When Tang Hu woke up again in a daze, he found several soldiers under his command were surrounding him.His wife was also crying on the side, and when Tang Hu woke up, she burst into tears.

Tang Hu hurriedly asked the subordinates around him what happened after he fell into a coma.The Pegmies wounded all the soldiers with blowpipes and poisonous needles as they did in their daily raids, and then looted everything in the village that was useful to them and could be moved.This time, they also stole Tang Hu's son.

Chapter 292 The General Who Leads Hundreds of People

When Tang Hu heard that his son had been snatched away by the "monkey man", he jumped up from the bamboo bed.He yelled emotionally: "Quick, quickly gather the brothers, and go with me to destroy these gangsters and rescue my son."

The one-year-old soldier next to him frowned slightly, pressed Tang Hu's shoulder and said: "Boss, calm down. We have nowhere to chase now. Those monkey people disappeared into the forest and disappeared." .Now there are more than a dozen brothers searching around to see if they are lucky enough to come across any clues.”

Tang Hu was dizzy for a while, and sat back on the edge of the bed, patted his thigh and muttered: "No, I have to find my baby as soon as possible, otherwise I will be cooked and eaten by these raw food."

When his mother-in-law heard this, she cried even more sadly.The subordinates quickly comforted: "Boss, don't think too much. Those dwarves can't eat people. We haven't found out that they have eaten people. Besides, they robbed us a lot of food this time. Even... it won't be so fast."

When the atmosphere in the room was sad, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old soldier hurried in and shouted, "Above, there are people coming from above."

"The new guard must be here? It's really not the right time to come. Hurry up and invite him in!" It was the old soldier who spoke.

Then he said to Tang Hu: "Boss, see if you can go to pick up the new village guard now. If not, brother, I will go to meet him for you. I think he will understand you after he knows about it."

Tang Hu replied weakly: "No, I'd better go in person. If the child is lost, life will be over, right?"

Before Tang Hu and his party reached the gate of the village, they saw a large group of soldiers coming in surrounded by one person.Not to mention the leader, but the soldiers who followed him, one could tell at a glance that they were not ordinary brigades.

Tang Hu knew in his heart that the person coming could not be the new village guard.He quickly greeted him with cupped fists, and said, "I don't know what to call your Excellency? What business do you have in Bizhai?"

The leader was looking around, and said casually: "We are directly sent by the Governor's Mansion of Manzhou to clear up the troops of the bandits in Nujiang. When we come to your place today, we will stay in this village for a while. .” When he was speaking, the soldiers beside him had already handed over the official documents to Tang Hu.

Tang Hu shook the official document and looked at it, his expression changed immediately, and he clasped his fists again and said: "So it's General Liao, sorry for the late pick-up. The younger one is the team leader in this village, his surname is Tang Minghu."

He turned around, and said to his left and right: "Go, make room for General Liao's troops."

When Zhuge Liang returned to Sawady, Feng Yu had asked Liao Hua to organize an elite scouting force.Including Liao Hua himself, there are 120 people in total.

These people were all elites, including some with special skills. They carried all kinds of strange equipment from the Liang Kingdom, and traveled down the Nu River on six Viking warships.In the name of the troops directly under the Governor's Mansion of Maine State, they cleared and rounded up the Pegmies along the Nu River.

The reason why Liao Hua was used was because Feng Yu didn't need any superb martial arts and peerless strategies to consider this matter.It only needs a person who is proficient in wilderness survival and familiar with various methods of green forests and rivers and lakes to lead the army.

After much deliberation, Liao Hua was the most suitable.After all, Liao Hua was born as a Yellow Turban Bandit, and he was a bandit before becoming a Yellow Turban Bandit.

In addition, Liao Hua was one of the oldest heroes in Liang Guo, so it would be unreasonable not to give him a promotion in the future.He didn't have much credit for giving him a promotion.If he is allowed to take this opportunity to make contributions, it will just solve this problem.

Tang Hu welcomed Liao Hua into the house, and his subordinates had already served Liao Hua a tea soup made from local plants.Although the inferior tea soup had a strange taste, Liao Hua, who was extremely thirsty, didn't pay attention to it, so he drank it with a gurgling gulp.

Tang Hu had something on his mind, so he didn't open his mouth to speak, and sat aside with his head sullen.Liao Hua looked at it in his heart, and heard a woman crying from behind the house, put down his tea bowl and asked, "Old Tang, is there something wrong in your village?"

Liao Hua's official position is three ranks higher than Tang Hu's, and he is a well-known veteran of Liang Guo.Tang Hu was flattered to see Liao Hua talking to him like this.He hurriedly got up from the side seat, bowed and said: "To tell you the truth, our village was just looted by the monkey people. Even my...my newborn baby was taken away by them!"

Liao Hua straightened his back and said with a very learned attitude: "That's not a monkey man! That's a Pegmie. Well, you more than 100 strong and strong men, can't you even protect a group of thin monkeys?"

Tang Hu showed a complicated expression on his face, and responded: "The general doesn't know, these monkeys... Although the Pegmies are thin and have crude weapons, they are elusive and good at walking through the forest to hide. We are impossible to guard against. Tried ambushes, tried to track them down to their lair. But it didn't work."

Liao Hua chuckled and said, "I was sent by the king this time to deal with these Pegmies. I don't believe that they can go to heaven and earth. Tell me the details of these creatures one by one. Listen, don't miss any details. I guarantee that I will find your child for you."

After hearing this, Tang Hu was overjoyed and said: "If the general really visits the children for our family, there is no way to repay such a great kindness..." Then, he told Liao Hua all the details of the Pegmies he knew.

Finally, Liao Hua carefully inspected the poisonous needle that injured Tang Hu. The poison on this poisonous needle was not an anesthetic, but poison enough to kill small prey.

It's just that the resistance of the adult human body is much stronger than that of small animals.So it only caused Tang Hu to be temporarily unconscious.This shows that the Pygmies are not soft-hearted people.

Liao Hua murmured in his heart: "According to what Tang Hu said, setting up traps and traps is difficult for these Pegmies to fall for. If they follow them in the dense forest, they can't keep up, and instead lead to the disappearance of their own personnel. What should I do..."

Liao Hua stayed in the village for several days.There is a big banquet every day.It is not difficult for the elite soldiers he brought to hunt some prey in the forest.The six Viking ships also carried more than a dozen jars of fine wine.

Every noon or evening, the aroma of barbecue and wine mixed with seasoning can float beyond Baizhan.

At noon that day, the reclamation soldiers were still farming outside.The hundred or ten elite scouts didn't know what was going on, so they left by boat.The women in the village carried their children on their backs and brought meals to deliver lunch to the men who were busy with farm work.

Among the men in the village, apart from the three guards, only Liao Hua was left. Tang Hu also had two of Liao Hua's personal soldiers.The four set up a banquet to eat and drink again. Liao Hua drank two glasses of wine and muttered, "There are too few people here, and the drinking is not lively. Let the brothers from the watch tower come and drink together."

After a while, those sentry guards also joined the banquet.