Sun Ce was an ordinary person in his previous life, and the life of a rich man could only be imagined and he had no chance to meet him. In this life, the Sun family had a better social status, and had no worries about food and clothing, but it was not reliable to be extravagant. For him, the show that he was not willing to spend a lot of money but had no money to pay for. He was naturally unhappy when he heard that the Cai family had to use the postal system to transport ingredients from Xiangyang for a banquet, and it was a bit unhappy, and he was even filled with righteous indignation. He felt that there were traitors in the revolutionary team, and it was not enough to calm the public's anger without killing a few.

During the war, the Postal System has a heavy task, how can you do such boring things?

Yuan Heng had a different identity and did not participate in joking. He felt Sun Ce's emotional changes keenly. She walked to Sun Ce and whispered: "I am sloppy, so I'll ask the king to sue him."

Sun Ce curled his lips. The Yuan sister is a smart person and would never make things boring in this situation, but it is inevitable that she would show her presence if she had the opportunity. Take today's incident as an example. He had this idea for a while, but he didn't know how to solve the etiquette for a while. In addition, he was really busy before the New Year and didn't want to cause trouble, so he delayed it. They all knew it. It was not a bad thing to put it forward in time, and it was solved successfully. Even if she had to be beaten, she would not be at this time.

"The queen knows my heart well, and it's just right for you to ask about this."

"Is that the king unhappy because of the Cai family?"

Sun Ce glanced at Yuan Heng in surprise. Is my acting skills so poor?

Yuan Heng knew that he had guessed, pursed his lips and smiled, hugged Sun Ce's arm, and shook it gently. "Everyone has its own good, and you cannot force it. A gentleman's virtue is a villain. As long as they do not do evil and violate the law and discipline, they can only guide rather than forcibly ban it. Besides, if not, the ship would not have tried so quickly."

"Steam?"

Yuan Heng nodded and waved to Huang Yueying. "This professional matter is still something professional. I am stupid and can't explain it clearly." He winked at Huang Yueying while saying that.

Huang Yueying didn't know what was going on, but looking at Sun Ce and Yuan Heng's faces, she understood that it was a big relationship and did not dare to be careless. She asked about the situation. Sun Ce knew that it had nothing to do with the post office and had already subsided, so she asked the Cai family how the ingredients could be transported from Xiangyang within half a month. Huang Yueying suddenly became proud and told the situation.

The key to transporting ingredients from Xiangyang within half a month is the newly built ship. It is recognized that the speed of the wheel hits the water quickly, but it is not yet determined which structure to adopt. Several plans seem to have their own advantages and are incomparable. In desperation, Huang Yueying could only choose the roughest method and choose a few of the most advantageous plans to test the production of several ships, depending on the actual operation.

The trial production of the ship required funds. Huang Yueying found Cai Mao. Cai Mao had a large amount of cargo and was very dependent on the ship. He controlled hundreds of ships of all sizes. He heard that Huang Yueying was going to test the new plan, so he agreed readily and provided twenty small and medium-sized boats for Huang Yueying to modify and test, and he was responsible for all the costs. The requirement was that once the technical plan was selected, he had the priority to purchase or modify it.

After the modification of these twenty boats, they were not as simple as running two laps in Xuanwu Lake, but traveled between Xiangyang and Jianye. Each time ranged from three to five days, one or two months, and thousands of miles back and forth, and all kinds of environments had to go through, testing the reliability of the new plan to the greatest extent. This long-distance and high-intensity trial sail quickly demonstrated its advantages. Some plans looked good, but the actual effect was not ideal. Some plans had advantages when countercurrent, but the advantages were not obvious when facingstream. Some plans were suitable for deep water, while others were suitable for shallow water, which was not the same.

Among them, one of the solutions designed by Qin Luo has good advantages in different environments and is a strong contender for the best solutions. However, other solutions are also excellent. For example, although the solutions designed by Wujun Mu Academy, Gu Xiu, are not effective on a large ship, they are unmatched on a small ship, especially when traveling against the current, it is obvious and is the most suitable for delivering messages. However, four people in a boat took turns to operate, and achieved an average speed of traveling thousands of miles a day and five hundred miles a day against the current. It only takes about six days from Jianye to Xiangyang, which is at least twice as fast as other ships.

There is another advantage of being on the trial sailing of the Cai family private ship: it is confidential. The ships are all Cai family troops, well-equipped, well-trained, and have considerable combat effectiveness. They also know the importance of these new plans. Once they are hijacked, they either win the battle or destroy the organization according to the scheduled plan, and keep the technical secrets as much as possible. So far, the Cai family troops have encountered more than ten detailed works that attempt to inquire about secrets. As a result, not only are the safety of people and ships, but they also provide clues. They cooperate with the local garrison and follow the clues to pull out several enemy hidden strongholds.

When Sun Ce heard that the Cai family provided more than 20 ships for testing at once, he couldn't help but smack his tongue. It seemed that the Cai family was really rich. Twenty ships and people were not a big expense, and it was in such a busy situation during the Spring Festival travel rush. With Cai Mao's stingy virtue of sucking his fingers, it was impossible for him to agree to what affected his business. In other words, these manpower and material resources can be squeezed out.

"The Cai family is so rich?"

"It's not that the Cai family has money, and the powerful Jingxiang has money, otherwise Jingzhou can be so peaceful?" Huang Yueying glanced at Sun Ce and wrinkled his nose. "You don't want to fight Qiu Feng, do you? They are all good people who support you."

Sun Ce grinned. "It's not going to be a fight for Qiufeng, but I want to send someone to check his account and see if he has evaded taxes."

"Then you can check it casually, and you miss one and get ten penalties."

"So confident?"

"That's right, my mother and aunt are watching him, and they don't allow him to do something as shameful as tax evasion. Because of this, he is anxious to change to a new ship. You can run faster and earn more money."

Thinking of Cai Mao being forced by his two sisters and having to hand over a large amount of taxes, Sun Ce couldn't help laughing loudly.

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Guo Jia stood in the prime minister, and leaned against the hot wall, closing his eyes comfortably. Today, everyone had to drink wine, and he was no exception. He was much more than usual, and he was a little overwhelmed.

Yu Fan and Zhang Hong stood not far away, talking in a low voice, as if there was some disagreement. Yu Fan smiled, but Zhang Hong was a little worried. Guo Jia didn't have to listen to what they were talking about. Queen Yuan Heng's actions at the court meeting were not as simple as respecting a woman. It caused a thousand waves, and the response caused was not as simple as a woman appearing in the court. It was enough for Zhang Hong to have a headache for a while.

Guo Jia also had a headache. It is naturally the privilege of the wife to go to the palace. The conflict between wives and concubines is already great. Now that feminist rights are getting stronger, women have more and more opportunities to make a living. Female people have committed themselves to concubines for survival. The people's trend of taking concubines has been greatly affected. Now this trend seems to be blowing to the powerful.

When Guo Jia thought of the two beautiful concubines in the family who had finally obtained Mrs. Zhong's consent to take, he was amused and crying. The king took too fast and could not keep up. Did he forget the saint's teachings, or was he too confident and thought he could always control the situation?

At this time, Guo Yi jogged from a distance. He looked around while walking, for fear that he would have a little breath when he ran to Guo Jia. Guo Jia was speechless. This kid was too weak and he had to think of some solutions.

"What's the matter? How can I be so hustled!" Guo Jia lowered his face, stood up straight, and showed his father's majesty.

"Military Advisory Office... Just received the news, Xi Zhicai... Xi Zhicai..." Guo Yi hesitated and looked at Guo Jia timidly, not daring to continue talking. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he was in the palace again. Will he be beaten if he said these unlucky words?

Guo Jia made a stimulus and suddenly reacted. "Where is the person?"

"Without the palace gate, there is no escort, the man will not let him enter."

Before Guo Yi finished speaking, Guo Jia rushed out and headed straight to the palace gate. A censor who was inspecting discovered it and rushed over immediately, running and shouting. "Please give me a drink to go slowly, please give me a drink to go slowly..."

Guo Jia ignored him at all, ran to the door, pushed open the gatekeeper who was celebrating to the door, and took two steps at a time, and rushed out of the palace gate. The army who was waiting outside the door saw him, quickly came up and handed a copper tube to Guo Jia. Guo Jia opened the copper tube, took out the information inside, and glanced at it. There were only ten words on the information: Xi Zhi died on the morning of the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Guo Jia let out a long sigh, but he was not happy, but he felt deeply sad. He and Xi Zhicai were friends, each serving their own masters and fighting wits and courage. Now that he has won, Xi Zhicai has died. He has lost this friend forever, and it is equivalent to killing him with his own hands.

Even if the information is simple, he can guess how Xi Zhicai died. The strategist had to distinguish the authenticity and judge the truth from the complicated information. This was a very arduous task. Xi Zhicai was in poor health and had been recuperating in Qingcheng Mountain. After such trouble, he died of exhaustion and death. It should have been within his expectations.

But he didn't expect that Xi Zhicai would really die like this. He is less than forty years old this year?

The two censors chased after him, panting and angry. One of them picked up the lacquer plate in his hand and was about to reprimand him according to the rules. Zhang Hong rushed out and waved his hand to repel the censor. The censor was still waiting for argument, but Yu Fan also followed him. When his eyes rolled, he became angry. Seeing this, the censor had to put away the lacquer plate and retreat.

"Fengxiao, what happened?" Zhang Hong looked at Guo Jia sternly.

Guo Jia took a deep breath, then slowly spit it out, turned around and bowed to Zhang Hong. "I am so lucky to have received the teachings from Mr.", and handed the information in his hand to Zhang Hong. Zhang Hong took it, took a look, was stunned for a moment, and looked at Guo Jia again, with complex eyes. He could understand Guo Jia's mood at this moment, and also understood why Guo Jia said this, but he knew more clearly that for Guo Jia and even the entire Ru Ying system, this was just the beginning.
Chapter completed!