My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 166 Embroidery Department

"Why don't you just sleep with the Queen Mother? Can't you enjoy it?"

"Everyone is staring at me and doing something. Grand Master Dong fell asleep at that time without saying anything. Why didn't you ask him?"

"No...I feel like Queen Feng is a little too carried away!"

Su Chen muttered to himself all the way, and Dian Wei, who was following behind, finally had some expression on his face that had not changed for thousands of years, "My lord, at least you are better than King Wei back then. You know where it is safe... and... Know how to introspect..."

"Don't let Mr. Cao hear this."

Su Chen came back to his senses and replied with a smile. When he came to the atrium, Pei Min hugged the ancient sword with both hands and sat on the guardrail under the eaves. When he saw Su Chen coming over, he put his feet down, stood up straight and held the sword in his hands to salute.

"Where's Brother Taibai?"

"I don't know where I went to drink wine." Pei Min said with a smile, then stepped forward and pushed open the door opposite, "Only two red-haired barbarians came to see the king."

As he spoke, he followed Su Chen and Dian Wei into the house. This room was different from the front yard for receiving guests. There were not so many rules here.

As soon as he entered, several masters of the embroidery department were spread around with knives. In front of a wooden couch, two red-haired barbarians knelt down with their hands on the ground. One was tall and fat, not tall, with messy red hair and a big face. Beard, and the other one is actually a woman, also has red hair, but it is a little neater, with two big braids, rough and dark skin, wide hips, broad shoulders, and a slim waist.

Hearing the footsteps, the two of them raised their faces slightly, and Pei Min scolded: "Lower your head!"

The two of them suddenly became excited and quickly buried their faces.

"Can you speak Yanguo dialect?"

Su Chen walked around the two people on the ground, walked to the wooden couch and sat down. He reached out and took the tea handed by an expert from the embroidery department, took a sip and spit out the tea leaves.

"I know a little bit now. I've learned a lot in the past month and a half, otherwise I would be too stupid and there would be no value in staying." Pei Min was from the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty and hated the barbarians.

There was no politeness in his tone.

Su Chen looked at the two barbarians, a man and a woman, hooked his fingers and raised his face: "Let me take a look."

He had lived in the Yan Kingdom for ten years, and he had only heard that there were islands in the East China Sea, and there were monkey-like dwarves who were similar to those Japanese people back then, but nothing else.

I am still very interested in this group of red-haired barbarians who broke into Feiyun Port, especially the navigation charts found on them.

While thinking about it, the two red-haired barbarians seemed to finally understand the meaning of Su Chen's words and slowly raised their faces.

The woman had dark blue eyes, dots of freckles on her cheeks, and her features were angular and unique to Western women. She looked at Su Chen and blinked, "I... we... came from..."

She raised her hand to point in a direction, but a master from the Embroidery Department on the side hit her on the back of her hand with a sword scabbard.

Pei Min said lightly: "This group of barbarians hid their strength at first, but later they had a conflict and exposed it. The martial arts of these two people are not weak. They are similar to the sixth and seventh grade Jianghu people here. If they are put into the army, they can reach the top level." The level of a battalion captain.”

"That's still not enough!" Su Chen raised his hand and waved, and then the master of the embroidery department put away his sword and retreated.Then, he motioned for the woman to continue.

The red-haired woman pursed her lips and looked timidly at the guards around her. When she saw the man sitting slightly raising his chin, gesturing for her to speak, she dared to speak again.

"Come from...far away...stormed...lost...sun...coast...cold...here..."

The stammering Yan Guo dialect is like countless fragments gradually forming a clear context.

It probably means that they came from far away from the west. They encountered a storm and lost their way, so they could only drift along the coastline. They passed through a cold area along the way, and finally saw the merchant ships sailing out of Feiyun Port of Yan State. They sailed along The trajectory found Feiyungang.

"pirate?"

Su Chen tried his best to ask them in simple words. The two people there were obviously stunned for a moment and shook their heads quickly.

"Where did the gold items come from?" Su Chen couldn't help but laugh when he saw them denying it. There were so many gold items in the cabin, how could it be possible to do business, and robbery was also business.

He held a gold cup in his hand and played with it. The expressions of the two men obviously changed. The man nodded to Su Chen and shook his head: "Pirate, not willingly."

"Do you have any accomplices?"

"There is... a boat..." the woman also spoke. Her Yan language was slightly more fluent than the man's. "They forced us to come over and explore the way..."

Su Chen narrowed his eyes and called Wu Zixun, "Go and ask Mr. Zhuge if there are any rumors about robbers at sea in the official documents from Feiyun Port."

"Yes!" Wu Zixun pouted at the two barbarians on the ground as he left.

"Arrange for this group of people to go to the post house, but they are not allowed to leave the building."

Su Chen gave an order, took the gold cup, played with it and left here, walked out of a concave shape along the long eaves, came to the study on the other side and opened the door.The desk is piled with official documents that Zhuge Liang cannot make his own decisions. Of course, this is just for some leisure time.

"Mr. Wolong, you really don't want to do anything more now."

Looking at sixty or seventy official documents, Su Chen smiled and sat behind the desk, picked them up and looked through them one by one, while Dian Wei stood guard outside.

The room fell silent except for the sound of paper being caressed.

After processing more than ten sheets, I actually saw the page Zhuge Liang stuck in the middle. It was a drawing of the structure of a crossbow. Looking at the drawings of the separated parts, I knew it was the famous Zhuge Liannu.

"nice one!"

This thing cannot form an army alone. It can be used to diversify soldiers' weapons, which will greatly improve combat. It can also be assigned to light cavalry... crossbow cavalry?
Although the range may not be as good as that of a cavalry bow, the advantage lies in its ability to fire continuously, which greatly improves its ability to harass and suppress military formations.

"This must be handed over to the Foundry Department in Yanjing as soon as possible."

At the moment, Zhuge Liang's repeated crossbows were delivered to the outside. In fact, what Su Chen was doing during this period was to improve the armor, and try to replace the armor of the main soldiers and horses with armors from the Tang Dynasty, such as Mingguang, Shanwen, etc., which were better than those of the Han Dynasty. Chao's armor is naturally much stronger.

In terms of weapons, Mo Dao is also trying to build them.

The siege and field equipment were gradually dismantled and modified according to the suggestions of Pei Min and An Lushan who had left to the south.

Such as the nest car that scouts the city wall, the riprap car that can throw three hundred kilograms of boulders, the wooden curtain that prevents arrows, which greatly reduces the pressure on the step shield, and even the ladder has become foldable, with a chassis underneath. Four wooden wheels are installed, similar to a reduced siege tower, making it easy to disassemble and carry.

As for why it wasn't the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was because they didn't have any generals in this area.

Su Chen looked down and saw that most of them were in the people's livelihood category. The land was fertile, but there were few grain varieties. He had tried to recruit talented people to improve grain varieties before, but there had been no news yet.

"I can't rush this..."

He read and reviewed it, then called the clerks waiting outside and asked them to take it back for final inspection before sending it to various yamen.

After half an hour of doing this, Su Chen took a sip of tea, looked at the open study door, and frowned slightly.

Wu Zixun has been gone for so long, why hasn't he come back yet?

Just as he thought about the other party, Wu Zixun ran back in a hurry and held his hands outside the study: "Your Majesty, I asked Mr. Zhuge. He had not received any news about the pirates. I was worried and went to the Yanjing Order again." Mr. Cai does have an official letter from Feiyungang."

As he spoke, he took the official letter out of his arms and put it on the table, and then took another one.

"By the way, I happened to meet the post house on the way and Kuai Ma came to my house, so I brought him over with me. It was sent from Ding'an City."

Su Chen was opening the official letter and took a look at it. When he heard the word 'Ding'an', he put the official letter down first, took the letter over and unfolded it, and glanced at the content above.

His brows furrowed, and then his face darkened.

Guo Jia was injured... and fled back to Zhangzhou. He is currently returning to Ding'an City. He also sent the letter, while Su Ting was captured. The attackers were a group of people from the Wei Kingdom.

However, Guo Jia pointed out in the letter that the Wei court should be behind the other party.

Since Fenzhou was invaded by the Wei army, Guo Jia sent himself a letter stating that half of the tax revenue from Ding'an and Gulang counties and eight counties would be sent to Wei for endless grain collection.

This is a strategy that gets the best of both worlds.

Unexpectedly, in just two short months, the other party had already reacted, but it seemed that he didn't want Su Chen to know that it was Wei Guochatang who did it, and used the rivers and lakes to secretly attack.

By taking Su Ting away, is this a warning to yourself?

"Call Pei Min and Li Bai!"

Su Chen sat back on the chair and threw the letter on the table. Not long after, Pei Min led a few people here first. He stepped into the study and held his sword in his hand.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"The Embroidery Department has been established for more than a month. It's time to see the results. The Sword Master and Sword Immortal should also draw their swords and give the Embroidery Department a name. It just so happens that I have something for you here."

Su Chen gave him the letter, "Immediately go south to Zhangzhou, cross the Hun River as quickly as possible to the territory of Wei to find out, and if Su Ting is still alive, rescue him."

He slapped his palms on the desk, and his gentle voice finally turned ferocious: "Gu will also put pressure on Wei!"

(End of this chapter)