I have to say that Xiahou Dun is not very capable, but his loyalty to Cao Cao is really nothing. The governor of Yanzhou will not do anything, and he will return to Qiao County to protect the basics for Cao Cao.

There were so many things he and Guo Jia didn't say too thoroughly, but with Guo Jia's intelligence and talent, it was indeed a bit unoptimistic to guess Cao Cao's current situation.

The Qiao County Military General Group can be said to be the basic market in Cao Cao's basic market, but because there are too many marquises in this basic market, they were discordant in the Emperor's salt and iron franchise this time.

Although it is a distant person, it is still difficult to say such a thing.

Besides, Han Hao, Shi Huan, Xu Chu and others are said to be direct descendants, but in fact, they are not family members. (Xu Chu is a clan thief from Qiao County)

Although Xiahou Dun is an average person with war ability and is almost eight out of ten less capable of governing government affairs, there is one thing that no one can compare to, that is popularity.

Xiahou Dun is loyal and good at being a human being. Cao Cao's Qiao County military general group is actually gathered around him. If someone asks him to do things, Xiahou Dun will definitely not refuse what he can do. Every time Xiahou Dun gets rewards, he will all be distributed to his brothers in Qiao County. Therefore, although he is very powerful, Xiahou Dun is the poorest among all the ministers of the dynasty.

The Cao family and the Xiahou family are named two families, and everyone knows that Xiahou Dun and Cao Cao are friends. If Cao Cao has a sip of dry food, they will never give Xiahou Dun the porridge. Naturally, everyone is willing to follow Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Dun becomes the substantive leader of the Qiao County Party under Cao Cao's command.

This is also the main reason why Xiahou Dun never won a war and was promoted. Sometimes, people who are good at being a human crawl faster than those who are good at doing things. This principle has been the same in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

He is a marquis. After retirement, he can devote himself to the salt and iron conference like Xun Yu. With his prestige in Qiao County, he can indeed help Cao Cao do a lot of things, and at least unite the villagers and elders of Qiao County.

It's quite sad to say that Cao Cao may never have thought that one day even the elders of Qiao County would need to spend time together to go on a blind date.

This also shows that although Cao Cao is now so glorious, he has established the Duke of Wei and gathered famous scholars from all over the world, and even Guan Ning has taken them away, those are all the icing on the cake, and his foundation is obviously not stable.

Therefore, this crisis, which was really difficult for Guo Jia, was solved in a seemingly perfect way under Xiahou Dun's self-sacrifice.

If you use Xiahou Dun and Guo Jia, the transaction will be worth the minimum value or not. Perhaps only the parties involved will know in their hearts.

Of course, there are side effects.

For example, as a well-known person in later generations, Wei Yan, who was brave but also had the ability to be obvious to all, died so frustrated and cowardly.

Yang Biao hated Xiahou Dun to death.

Of course, the grudge between Yang Biao and Cao Cao is not that bad. When Cao Cao ordered Yang Biao to be arrested and punished, the two of them had long been enemies. Yang Biao rarely missed the opportunity to cause trouble for Cao Cao on weekdays.

However, before Wei Yan died, Yang Biao had clearly given Wei Yan to Liu Bei. Liu Bei was also very happy to say that he would try to plead for Wei Yan, but Wei Yan was still killed by Xiahou Dun, which was a slap in the face.

You should know that in this time and space, there can be said that there is no personal grudge between Liu Bei and Cao Cao. When he was in Xiaopei, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun to rescue Liu Bei, although... the rescue failed.

As a result, Xiahou Dun killed someone if he said he was killed. He slapped him in the face, but he completely made a grudge with Liu Bei.

Seeing this, Fazheng, who was also a disciple of the Fa-rage family, saw that Guo Jia had escaped the dilemma so easily, took the initiative to find Liu Bei and gave Liu Bei an idea. With one sentence, he missed Liu Bei.

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A few days later, Liu Xie smiled satisfied with the design of the new palace in his hand.

This new palace is really good.

In the Nangong, the size of the Shangshu Deck has been expanded by more than ten times. Each Shangshu has a small palace with a single-family house for office work. Each Shangshu has more than 20 Langguan officials, and each Langguan has a small official, and the most can be matched with more than a hundred people.

In addition to the Shangshu Deck, they also left a large area to build a garden, plant trees, and then plant flowers and plants, and even divert water to the city and lake. They were very careful to create a beautiful scenery, making it a pleasure for adults to work here. The entire building complex was almost more than 30,000 square meters according to the usable area. As a single yamen, it was already extremely huge.

However, the cost of the Shangshu Desk is nothing compared to the Wanmin Hall.

The so-called Wanmin Hall is used to hold salt and iron meetings, tax conferences, and various meetings. Liu Xie has now created various meetings, all of which are conferences. According to his requirements, this Wanmin Hall must accommodate more than 5,000 people and hold meetings at the same time, but it is not crowded. There are also memorials, triumphals, festivals and various large-scale events, and state banquets must be held here.

Therefore, the place must be large, the frame must be high, the steps must be long, and the look must be solemn. He even provided design sketches to the craftsmen in the appearance of the Great Hall of Later generations.

However, if you want to build such a tall and magnificent building well, although the technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not impossible, it would be very troublesome. Manpower and material resources would cost astronomical figures, and it would definitely be built for a long time. So after thinking about it, Liu Xie simply gave priority to the construction of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Beigong. The first project of the Royal Academy of Sciences was to study cement.

This Royal Academy of Sciences is naturally the largest part in the Beigong Palace.

Scientific research is always a giant beast of gold swallowing. Liu Xie was not a little expert in invention in his previous life. Even if he was a science and engineering dog, it was definitely not an easy task to invent and create. He also spent a lot of money and had slow returns.

For example, Liu Xie found that it was not easy to create cement that could be mass-produced in ancient times. Even if it was invented, his Academy of Sciences would not monopolize the production of cement, but instead handed over the production task to Shangshutai.

He can't charge patent fees, after all, is he the emperor? He charges patent fees, which is a big difference from raising taxes for no reason.

So if this thing is invented and sold, it will be sold for some money at most. It is one-time. He can't care that the Shangshutai needs too much. Isn't this a pure loss-making deal?

Moreover, as far as Liu Xie knows, all feudal monarchs in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, oppose scientific inventions. There are too many such stories, including Japan, Germany, and China. For example, a certain craftsman invented an invention that could greatly improve work efficiency, and dedicated it to the emperor.

Some emperors would happily reward the craftsmen with some money after seeing it, and then solemnly warned him: This broken thing is not allowed to be rebuilt in the future.

Some emperors would simply cut off the craftsman's head.

The invention that transcends the times is the destruction of the order of the old era, and science is the most powerful weapon to overthrow the feudal dynasty.

In this way, on the one hand, he spent money on inventions and creations in Beigong, and on the other hand, he profoundly transformed the society and threw away the roots of this feudal dynasty, killing two birds with one stone. Isn’t this perfect?

Therefore, the structure of the Beigong is not only because Liu Xie left him about twenty small palaces to support his wife, but also as his study, but other places are not living areas.

For example, when I came in from Zhuque Gate, the Zhongshu Desk was actually the Zhongshu Desk. The Zhongshu Desk used all the eunuchs, and the scale of the construction was not smaller than that of the Shangshu Desk. It was planned to throw more than a thousand eunuchs into it, and the messy things such as rice, flour, grain, and oil in the palace were thrown to the Zhongshu Desk, and I was determined to use Xun Yue as the eunuch chief supervisor.

Of course, Liu Xie's eunuchs adopted a voluntary castration model, and Zhongshutai was still a little far from the living area of ​​Beigong. Liu Xie did hate eunuchs as the ministers thought.

There were only a few noble people who had skin relatives with him. Although Liu Xie had been corrupt for this period of time, he could not help but correct the Dharma when he saw some beautiful girls. However, afterwards, he also promoted the woman who had sex with him to be a beauty, and had a palace maid who specialized in serving and a small house to live alone. As for Liu Xie himself, who had relationships with him still remembers who had relationships with him, and even had special eunuchs to record his life.

The probability of being green is really not high, and the probability of being Xi as a father is even zero.

In short, there is a high probability that there will be no real eunuch in the Beigong area in Liu Xie. If someone can really make up his mind to give him a knife under the premise of voluntary castration, Liu Xie will definitely not dare to use such a person. It would be better if all the servants in charge of personal service in the living area use palace maids. If a man loses that thing, his strength may not necessarily lead to a strong woman.

In addition, the western part is all used to raise horses. Liu Xie has had enough of the living life of people and animals in Xudu Palace. It feels so bad to live in horse manure every day.

At the northernmost point, there are naturally the guards of the Northern Army. They directly built a large military camp for them. It is not a big problem to raise 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers in scale. Of course, he himself did not have so many Northern Army, which was about 8,000. He directly promoted Guan Yu to Guangluxun and moved his office directly to the Zhongshutai. Zhong Ji was transferred to the Censorate and the Central Chief of the Censorate. He changed from the Nine Ministers to the Three Sessions. It should be considered an promotion?

In the middle is the living area, and the outside of the living area is a large army of textile and embroidery composed of female workers. These female workers are nominally palace maids, but in fact they are ordinary women who are displaced and helpless during the war years, and some are even military prostitutes who are simply rescued from the enemy.

These poor women also formed the barriers between the middle living area and the imperial guards outside and the Zhongshutai, and were nominally under the jurisdiction of the queen. Of course, Cao Xi's ability is indeed limited, but the actual management of Empress Fu is still the one who is still under the jurisdiction of Queen.

On the east side, the largest area and employs more than 5,000 people, is naturally the Royal Academy of Sciences. It gathers all the top craftsmen in the world and recruits children from county schools to learn the "Science and Technology" manual written by Liu Xie himself, and then enters the palace directly after learning.

Looking at the palace design drawing, Liu Xie became more and more satisfied with it the more he looked at it.

That's right... The guards have expanded so much, so the handling of the guards will naturally be put on the agenda. After all, the major reforms of the north and south armies cannot be avoided, but he has not thought too well about some details.

Just as he was thinking, a eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, this... the other side of the Shangshu Deck seems to be fighting. You go and have a look."

"Fight? I feel that the quarrel is not enough, so I changed my hand? What's the reason for this time?"

"It's not just for the sake of Xiahou Dun's slightest incident. Not only did he kill someone himself, but he also recommended Ding Chong as the governor of Yanzhou. This person was chosen to be delivered to the Shangshutai. Isn't Yang Taiwei anxious?"

"Ding Chong..."

Who?

I have never heard of this person in my two lives, and it popped out of a crack in the stone.
Chapter completed!