Chapter 209 Great Destruction Pill

In Xu Shu's opinion, although Jiangling City is prosperous in commerce, it is more because of its critical location.

From Guan Yu's city-building ideas, it coincides with his previous impression of high walls and deep trenches.

It was just that he did not expect that the current favorable environment and the goods produced in Shuzhong have created a prosperous commerce in Jiangling, which is completely beyond the original expectations of the city builders.

The docks that have been completely overloaded also gave Guan Yu a headache.

But apart from that, Xu Shu can be said to have opened his eyes, and in the end he could only admire the rich people and strong soldiers in Jiangling today.

In addition, there are too many things that he can hardly judge.

For example, the new crossbow cannons and ships being built in Jiangling, such as Mrs. Huang's plan to use round carts to drive iron rivet rings to connect the two cities of Jiangling and Gong'an.

These all made Xu Shu feel that he had opened his eyes.

And then to the more detailed functions of the hydraulic workshop, the improvement of the craftsmanship method, the promotion of people's literacy brought by paper, and the way of engineering and medicine.

These simply made Xu Shu feel overwhelmed.

Therefore, Xu Shu's first reaction was:

Kong Ming has misled me!

If I had known that you had such a great talent, I would have recommended you to the lord earlier.

Let alone three visits to the thatched cottage, I should have gone ten times!

Therefore, Xu Shu regretted it in his heart.

If Kong Ming had been invited earlier, would the situation be completely different now?

Therefore, when following Guan Yu to visit Gong'an County, in addition to being amazed, Xu Shu was more or less absent-minded.

From Xu Shu's face, Guan Yu more or less guessed some of the reasons.

Therefore, Guan Yu finally led Xu Shu to a humble house.

"Yuanzhi, please."

Xu Shu, who had temporarily calmed down, looked left and right.

Jiangling City is now full, and there are even people living in Gong'an and serving in Jiangling.

And near this house... Xu Shu saw many familiar faces.

These are the old soldiers who followed General Yunchang when they first met the lord.

Silent, loyal, and brave to die for Yunchang's personal soldiers!

For a moment, Xu Shu seemed to understand something. He turned his head to look at Yunchang, and saw that the always resolute general had deep eyes, pursed his lips and looked far away, as if he was looking at something far away.

Nodding, Xu Shu stepped in and closed the door.

This house was simple and quiet. There was only a couch, a desk, and a book on the desk.

Xu Shu was a little curious, knelt in front of the desk, and picked up the book.

The book cover was untitled, but after opening the first page, Xu Shu's expression immediately became wonderful.

…

The governance of Chengdu began from here!

Liu Bei stood barefoot on the ridge of the field with high spirits.

In front of him was the endless Chengdu Plain.

The Minjiang River in the west rushed out of the mountains, and after passing the Dujiangyan, it was wantonly on this fertile land.

The land of abundance is well-deserved, and one place is enough to support millions of people in Yizhou!

Kong Ming looked at his master who was laughing for no apparent reason again, and chose to scare him with his hands.

"Master, don't be stunned, I think I saw the daughter of Wu coming."

Liu Bei, who was standing on the ridge of the field, immediately jumped back into the field like a startled rabbit.

He grabbed a handful of seedlings from Adou's backpack without saying anything, and planted them crookedly all the way.

Adou looked very happy, Kong Ming told him today that he had to plant all the seedlings in the backpack before today's homework was over.

Now that his father had shared a large part of the work, Adou was imagining what to do in the afternoon after finishing his homework in the morning?

Should he go to learn how to make grass rings with the sister in the front street? Or go shrimp fishing with the brother in the street?

But the weight in the backpack announced that Adou's fantasy was shattered.

He looked at Kong Ming with a sad face, but Kong Ming was unmoved:

"If you say it's a backpack, it's a backpack."

Ignoring Adou's expression that he was about to cry, Kong Ming focused on the work at hand.

After the first month of the lunar year, the busy farming season begins.

Seedling cultivation and rice transplanting are all the work during this period.

The only thing that suffers is everyone's waist. They bend over and work every day, and feel that they can't stand up straight at night.

At this time, Kong Ming inevitably thought of the future again: the younger generations should have machines that can transplant rice, right?

But I don't know how to operate it. Recently, Kong Ming has been trying to make something that can assist in rice transplanting in his spare time, but he feels that there are too many problems after drawing it.

"Military Advisor Zhuge, is Lord Xuande here?"

A soft voice interrupted Kong Ming's reverie.

Looking back, this is a tall woman, who is extremely beautiful but not weak, with lively eyes. It seems that the husband who died of madness did not make her self-pity.

Kong Ming pursed his lips, and saw from the corner of his eyes that the lord in the distance crouched down and covered himself behind other rice transplanters.

So he could only say: "I don't know."

But it was useless.

Sure enough, Wu's daughter was not discouraged. She took out a small piece of paper from her collar and gently peeled it open to reveal a piece of cane sugar inside.

She bent down and shook the cane sugar in front of Adou's eyes, which made Adou swallow his saliva.

Sugar cane is now sold in the official market of Chengdu, but Liu Bei has extremely strict control over Adou. For example, sugar cane, which is a relatively luxurious item, is given very little.

But this sweet taste always makes Adou unforgettable.

Therefore, when Wu's daughter gently stuffed the cane sugar into Adou's mouth, the ending was already doomed.

Intoxicated by the sweetness, Adou pointed to his father's direction without hesitation.

So Liu Bei stood up from the field with a laugh, holding seedlings in one hand and mud in the other, and greeted Wu's daughter in an awkward manner.

Wu's daughter smiled and turned around with lotus steps, not giving Liu Bei any chance to refuse or escape. She took out a handkerchief to wipe Liu Bei's sweat:

"Mr. Xuande is worthy of being a role model for the people, and he is also a good hand at transplanting rice."

Liu Bei responded in embarrassment and panic.

Adou was not convinced:

"The rice seedlings my father transplanted are ugly, not as straight as mine!"

This, Kong Ming nodded in approval.

"Sir." Adou looked up, puzzled in his eyes:

"Why is my father so afraid of Aunt Wu?"

Kong Ming bent down to transplant rice again, explaining:

"It's not that I'm afraid of people, but that I'm afraid of trouble."

"Why?" Adou asked persistently.

"Because your father just seized thousands of acres of good farmland from the Wu family."

Adou was planting rice while thinking, but he felt something was wrong:

"If so, the Wu family's aunt should hate my father."

Kong Ming smiled and said casually:

"Then you might as well think about it, why doesn't the Wu family's aunt hate your father?"

Adou remained silent, planting rice while thinking hard.

Until the end of the busy farming season in the afternoon, Adou still couldn't figure it out.

Kong Ming knocked on his head and said:

"If you can't figure it out, don't go into it, go play."

Adou cheered and put the matter behind him in an instant.

Looking to the other side, the lord had been pulled away by the Wu family's daughter at some point.

But it should be no problem, after all, the Liaodong Yiqi is still there, and the iron-boned tyrants in Chengdu are gone.

There is a small open space in the west of Chengdu, which is the training ground for this cavalry. Zilong will practice martial arts here every few days.

The people of Chengdu can see it clearly as long as they climb up the city wall.

The common people applauded, and the wealthy families were terrified.

So this year, the people found that the famous families in the past had become unusually easy to talk to.

Although they didn't know the reason, the people simply attributed it to Liu Bei, the only variable.

Lord Xuande is really a good man! These old men who only knew how to have fun in the past have actually learned to be polite and polite with Lord Xuande!

After knocking his head to curb his increasingly distant thoughts, Kong Ming slowly returned to Chengdu.

After returning to the government office to wash his hands and change his clothes, Kong Ming went to the Taoist Mansion. Just as he was about to open the door, he heard a "hissing" sound inside.

So he took a quick step back.

Kong Ming, through the crack in the door, seemed to see a fire rising, and then thick smoke overflowed from the room.

Then several people dressed as Taoists broke the door from the inside, crawled to the yard, and lay down in the yard looking at the sky.

"It didn't explode?" Kong Ming secretly said it was a pity.

Several Taoists glared at him and shouted:

"Military Advisor Zhuge, are you hoping that we will die soon?"

"How could that be?" Kong Ming denied it flatly: "The Taoists have profound cultivation, how can a mere waste pill be dangerous?"

That's right, Kong Ming's description of gunpowder is waste pill.

The Taoists were stuck on the step of "profound cultivation", so they could only snort coldly in the end.

Kong Ming observed carefully: Although the direction of this furnace of waste pill is a little different today, it seems to be useful?

He called the guard and asked him to go out and tell the people that there was a moth in the kitchen of the government office again to avoid panic.

Then he found a clean stone and waited for the smoke to dissipate with the Taoists.

Taking this opportunity, the Taoist complained:

"What is the use of the waste elixir that Zhuge Military Advisor wants to find?"

"We can offer the method of refining elixir and mercury in our view!"

"We also have a yellow silver elixir that can be offered to Lord Xuande to prolong his life!"

Kong Ming was shocked. Breathing techniques are easy to talk about, but let's forget about this elixir.

At the moment, he did not argue with the Taoists. Kong Ming took a leisurely posture:

"Have Taoist priests heard of Master Shixi?"

The Taoists looked at each other and shook their heads.

Kong Ming smiled in his heart. After all, these Taoists were all locals in Yizhou, and the name of Shixi was occasionally recorded in a miscellaneous note he read in Nanyang.

"Shixi flows out from the north of Huangshi Mountain and flows into the sea 110 miles southeast."

"In the past, there was a hermit Hu Chao. Those who sought the Tao followed him, so he was named Shixi."

Hidden Tao! The Taoists quieted down and listened carefully.

Kong Ming continued to say leisurely: "The source of Shixi water is a well. You can know your destiny by looking into the well, so it is called Siming Well."

"Later, one of his disciples got the Tao and crossed the well, but he couldn't look into the well, so he asked for help from Shixi."

"Shixi laughed and told his disciples: The seven evil spirits of Venus will destroy the five ghosts; the killing star will respond to the disaster and kill the demons and monsters."

The Taoists were in an uproar. This, this is undoubtedly the true secret of Taoism!

But what does it mean?

Then Kong Ming continued to tell the story slowly:

"The disciples were also confused and kept asking Shixi, and finally got the answer: If you don't break, you can't stand. If you stand, you must break. Is it sad to break and stand?"

"Then, Shixi went into the room and flew up in broad daylight."

Flying in broad daylight! Several Taoists pondered and thought hard, and finally seemed to understand:

"The military advisor said that if you want to stand, you must break first, so you can also achieve Taoism by wasting the elixir?"

Kong Ming smiled and nodded slowly: This is what you said, it has nothing to do with me.

The Taoists cheered and rushed into the room, they were full of modern power.

We must refine the useless pill that Zhuge Military Advisor mentioned.

No, it should be called the Great Destruction Pill!