Fall in love with the technology tree [Three Kingdoms]

The room was dim, and the opaque windows blocked the late winter sun outside, leaving only the flickering candles to illuminate Ah Sheng's cheeks that were beginning to lose their baby fat.

"That being said, it's probably too late to catch up with the shipbuilding now." She lowered her head slightly, as if there was an unbearable load on her neck.

Kong Mo asked, "Is your lord in a hurry? I've wanted to ask you before, what does your lord want a new sea-going ship for? If it's for the treasures in the south, there's no rush."

Ah Sheng didn't seem to be listening, and continued to follow his own train of thought: "Donglai used to be Jiaodong Kingdom, and the Liu family was the dominant family. After all, they are the clan, so remember to maintain respect, give enough greetings, and complete the land purchase procedures. Then One, the most important thing at the seaside is to beware of tsunami and wind waves, and shelters should be built at high places, and warnings and drills should not be pulled down. If possible, recruit more fishermen who know water, most of us will live on the water in the future.”

"My lord, what do you mean by this? Do you want to live in Donglai for a long time?"

Ah Sheng raised his eyes: "It seems that I didn't say clearly, Mr. Kong will not let me go today."

Kong Mo bowed: "Mo is stupid, please show me clearly, my lord."

"Ugh."

Seeing Ah Sheng sigh, Fang hurriedly stopped him: "If the master is unwilling, there must be a reason for the master."

"It's not a consideration that you can't meet people." A Sheng shook his head, "You can be motivated only when you have a clear goal. It's just that it's a bit long to say."

"Mo is not afraid of long words. Every time I have a discussion with the lord, I feel open-minded. My lord, please."

"The last bumper harvest was already the year before last. Last year, there was a drought, and the yield was reduced by more than [-]%. This winter, not a single snow fell. If this year is also a year of severe drought, the people will have no food left."

Kong Mo's eyes widened: "What does my lord mean?"

"Since I was born, almost half of the years in the Central Plains have been affected by disasters, and there have been continuous famines in a few years of peace. Now that the spring floods are not here, the water level in Yingshui has dropped to the lowest level in history. I am afraid it will be a new round of floods. The catastrophe is coming. On the contrary, the South Island has had a good harvest for six seasons. In addition to self-sufficiency, there is still food. I was afraid of disaster, so I hurriedly sent the children of Qiao County and Luoyang to the south; it was also because I was afraid of famine that I ordered the South Island Open up new fields.

"But whether it's transporting food from the South Island to the Central Plains, or sending disaster victims from the Central Plains to the South Island, we have to rely on large sea-going ships if the volume is large."

Kong Mo was said to be in a hurry: "But we are building a ship now, and it will take a year or two at the earliest to complete it."

"So, I said it was too late. My father was idle a few years ago, and my uncle's health was getting weaker. I dare not act rashly. Now that the catastrophe is approaching, I found out that the transportation capacity is not enough. I really regret it!"

Kong Mo cupped his hands: "There is no need to delay, let's start immediately. Don't worry, my lord. I will build a medium-sized sea-going ship using the flowing water method, which can greatly reduce the construction period. Before the end of this year, I will be able to transport food for the Lord's people." Once Kong Mo became serious, Technically it is very reliable.

Ah Sheng kowtowed to him: "Human life is at stake, safety is paramount. Take care sir."

Kong Mo and Fangshi set out on the road overnight, and even the children who could have been training in Yingchuan for a month only made up ten days of emergency lessons before heading to Qingzhou under the protection of their family members.

Time is running out, and she needs to shift the focus of the Maternity and Infant Hall system from food-deficient Yuzhou and Sili to relatively safe Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Hainan before summer.The masters of the Cao family will not starve to death because of the two-year drought, but it is difficult to say that the number of orphans has exceeded [-].

Didn't she never consider the possibility of rain from the sky, but pinned her hopes on the God of the last years of the dynasty?Forgive her for not daring.

In addition to suppressing the anxiety in his heart, Ah Sheng also had to serve soup and medicine to Cao Bao who was ill.

A wooden food box with red stripes and black bottom, the upper layer is medicinal soup, and the lower layer is fish porridge that is suitable for saltiness and lightness.Ah Sheng personally carried the handle of the food box, and walked to Cao Bao's yard with his fifth aunt, Mrs. Han.It was a spring day, and the maidservants behind them held heavy cloth umbrellas to shade the master's house.

"Ah Sheng has always been frowning lately, but because of Ah Weng's illness?"

"I was thinking, should I go to learn Chinese medicine?" I have been suffering from severe headaches all year round, and they tend to get worse. Last week, I also experienced intermittent blindness.She suspected that Cao Bao had a brain tumor, the tumor oppressed the visual center, but without X-rays and MRI, she couldn't make a diagnosis.

She once asked Cao Bao cryptically if he wanted to try craniotomy.Of course, Cao Bao said that he had lived enough, so let it be, and he didn't want to toss about shocking methods on himself.After all, Cao Bao is not Cao Teng, the trust between each other has not reached that level, and the conditions are poor and the risk is too high, so we can only let it go.

As if wanting to vent something, Ah Sheng secretly dissected two rabbits and a wild deer with his half-sized hands.Her heart is getting harder and harder, and the huge gaps caused by one after another of powerlessness make people numb, and it seems that it is not so difficult to accept Cao Bao's death.

Cao Bao died in February, on the same death date as Cao Teng.But unlike that year's snowstorm, this year's hot summer seems to have arrived earlier.

There are about nine suns in the sky.

According to Cao Bao's last wish, his coffin was sent back to Qiao County and buried next to Cao Teng's tomb.This eunuch who had made no achievements in his life was buried under the soil like this, and the tomb was so simple that it was hardly worthy of his status as a eunuch.

Cao Song can't worry about him, and Cao Cao and Cao Sheng can't keep their filial piety for him.The old man who gave Cao Wei bloodlines was submerged in the long river of history without even leaving a single word in the annals of history.

With the death of Cao Bao, the story of the first generation of the Cao family came to an end. No one can know what kind of poverty and humiliation they experienced when they were young. The third generation of the Cao family was left behind.

"Ah Sheng, I would like to express my condolences. At the age of the eunuch, it is a joy and mourning." Xun You, who was as warm as a little sun, comforted her.

Asheng's legs were hanging on the edge of the bullock cart: "I have always been very sad, but I just remembered some past events...A few years ago, my uncle took me and my brother to travel around Yingchuan, but we had nowhere to study. Finally we arrived in Yingyin, This is the road I walked. At that time, the fields beside the road were lush and green, and even wandering around gave people room to sing to the sky. But now..." The real red land is thousands of miles away.

The starving man, covered in loess, lay on the side of the road.

If you are lucky, you will be in the wilderness, and if you are unlucky, you will be dragged away.In a year of severe drought, everything is lacking, except for dead firewood.

Xun Yu is four years old, a pink and tender doll, curiously lying on the beam to observe the yellow and brown all over the world. "Hey, there are people there." He stretched out his index finger and pointed to the withered grass on the side of the road.Two skinny men in the grass were carrying a woman's body, and ran furtively into the bushes. Startled by Xun Yu's voice, they cast four wolf-like eyes.

Ah Sheng was sure that if it weren't for the Xun family's twenty strong bodyguards beside the ox cart, Xun Yu would have been killed before the dead woman.

Xun Yan hurriedly hugged Xiao Xunyu away from the beam, and covered his eyes with one hand: "Ah Yu, don't look at it, don't look at evil, don't look at evil."

Xun Yu kicked his short legs and struggled, and shouted, "No, no, Ah Sheng is also watching."

Ah Sheng was not in the mood to tease Xun Yu today, but talked to Xun Shuang who was sitting in the center seat of the car: "I thought that if the drought continued this year, there would be a famine, but I didn't expect that last year's big cut in production had already hurt the people's nerves." It’s broken. So many people starved to death in less than April.”

"What do you think, Ah Sheng, about this situation?" Xun Shuang asked.

"A person with mediocre intelligence like me can see the signs of a severe drought in winter, but the relief has not yet arrived. This is the court's dereliction of duty." A Sheng's face was stern, even with a murderous air, "The people support the court. A thousand days, isn’t it just for this moment?”

Xun Yu finally broke free from his elder brother's grasp, and stared at Ah Sheng with dark eyes: "It is said in the book that the common people serve the monarch just like children serve their father. Why does Ah Sheng say that loyalty and filial piety must be conditional? "

"Loyalty and filial piety are of course conditional." Ah Sheng blurted out, "People must survive before they can say loyalty and filial piety. How can dead people say loyalty and filial piety?" She stood up suddenly and pointed in the direction where the two hungry people who stole the corpse just left : "What Ah Yu saw just now, isn't it two dead men carrying a dead man?"

The little friends were all terrified, and they all looked at her dumbfounded.

"Ah Sheng!" Xun Shuang stopped her, "Why do you have to be so extreme?"

Ah Sheng was reprimanded by the teacher, but he didn't answer back, and slowly knelt back to his original place.As she sat down, two lines of tears slid down: "I hate myself for being powerless, and I hate myself for being naive."

"Let's go." Xun Shuang couldn't help but cry with the students, "Isn't it just for food? Originally, the Xun family couldn't tell the difference when the disaster happened in the same village. Our family gave five thousand shi, just as an emergency before the imperial court's relief came. Bar."

Cao Bao died in office, but the new prefect of Yingchuan had not yet arrived, and the Yingchuan people were leaderless under natural disasters.As a last resort, Ah Sheng had to go around with Cao Chi, Cao Yin and others to borrow food from the aristocratic family, and no matter what, he had to hold on until the new prefect took office, otherwise Cao Bao's death would not be peaceful.

The Xun family's willingness to give five thousand stones is definitely generous.After all, the Cao family has no name or division now, so they won't see any benefit from this favor.In addition, the aristocratic family was also affected by the disaster. Although they will not go hungry, the pressure on food storage will definitely increase.Ah Sheng wiped away his tears: "I have borrowed the five thousand stones, and I will repay them twice within ten years."

Xun Shuang waved his hand and ordered the convoy to go back. "Go and do your work. It will be much easier to borrow food from other families if my family sends out the food first."

Ah Sheng was not too polite, got the bamboo sticks from the Xun family's warehouse for approving grain, jumped off the ox cart and left with the Xun family's steward.

Xun Yu looked at Sixth Uncle, then at Cao Sheng who was leaving on horseback, he pouted and said nothing.

"What is Ah Yu thinking?" Xun Yan teased him.

Xiao Douding held his chin: "It will be great when I can be as good as Ah Sheng."

Having your own opinions, shouldering your own responsibilities, and daring to make promises are all like adults.