The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 284: New Direction
Dong Bai rushed over with his fangs bared, looking around: "Your Majesty, what are you doing? Why did you make Gui Palace like this?"

Gui Palace was an extremely luxurious palace where the concubines lived during the reign of Emperor Wu.

But now Liu Xie had dug up all the holes in the palace, and some of the palaces had been demolished, leaving only some looms and iron furnaces in place...

Ok……

This was not the first palace destroyed by Liu Xie.

Beigong was transformed into a training ground by Liu Xie.

The Jianzhang Palace outside the city of Chang'an has become the examination venue for the imperial examinations.

If Emperor Wu of Han knew that the palaces he had built with great effort were destroyed like this by Liu Xie, he would not know whether to cry or laugh.

"It's such a big place anyway, it would be a waste if we don't use it."

Liu Xie wiped his hands casually from the rag on the ground and said, "What are you doing here all of a sudden?"

"It was Sister Zhaoji, Sister Fushou, and Sister Dong who asked me to come."

Dong Bai sold out the three women without hesitation.

She walked over pinching her nose and kicked Liu Xie: "Your Majesty has been back for so long and you still haven't looked for them. Plus, Your Majesty suddenly found a large group of female relatives to enter the Gui Palace. They all thought Your Majesty was having fun in the Gui Palace!"

?

Women?

Liu Xie had a face full of question marks.

But he soon realized that Dong Bai was talking about the group of weavers.

Don't say...

Jia Xu is a very honest man, and none of the weavers are ugly. Although Liu Xie didn't have any other ideas, it was still pleasing to the eye...

"what!"

Dong Bai clapped his hands, obviously noticing the confusion in Liu Xie's eyes: "Your Majesty, are you really happy?"

"Snapped!"

Liu Xie unceremoniously chopped Dong Bai on the head with his knife, causing Dong Bai to cover his head in fear.

"What? I didn't use any force! Don't pretend!"

"Did you not wash your hands just now?!"

"..."

Liu Xie's eyes drifted into the distance, and he silently changed the subject: "It's not about selecting concubines, it's just that I've been very busy recently. I'll go visit them after I'm done with this period of time."

Dong Bai was obviously not convinced by Liu Xie, and kept looking at Liu Xie with suspicion...

Unable to hold back, Liu Xie gave Dong Bai another stab with his hand.

"This is fertilizer. It can increase the yield of the field."

"I'm trying to raise the temperature of those iron furnaces to smelt more iron."

"As for the weavers... they are all very familiar with the structure of the loom. I am discussing with them whether we can reconstruct it according to the principle to improve efficiency."

Dong Bai was skeptical.

However, seeing how the Gui Palace was destroyed by Liu Xie, it dispelled the suspicion that Liu Xie was having fun in the Gui Palace.

But Dong Bai was still depressed: "Your Majesty, why don't you just ask us to do these things?"

"Sister Zhaoji is well versed in ancient and modern books; Sister Fushou is very good at medicine and has recently been studying the so-called fine poison you mentioned; Sister Dong is also very good at needlework, so why not discuss the spinning machine issue with her?"

……

Liu Xie only reacted at this time.

Dong Bai just talked about Cai Yan, Fu Shou, and Dong Shi, but she didn't talk about herself.

Why are they doubting my "happiness"? I'm afraid they want me to go back and accompany them?
"Not candid at all!"

Liu Xie wanted to chop out with his hand knife again, but Dong Bai moved very flexibly this time and didn't let Liu Xie get close to him at all!
"You're so annoying! Taking a bath is so troublesome!"

"I'll help you wash tonight."

After hearing this, Dong Bai's mouth suddenly grinned, and after a few silly giggles, he took Liu Xie's arm, followed behind Liu Xie, and quietly watched Liu Xie fiddling with the looms and iron furnaces.

At first, Dong Bai was very excited and kept asking Liu Xie and the craftsmen around him questions.

But when Liu Xie was about to explain in detail, Dong Bai fell asleep and looked absent-minded. On the contrary, the craftsmen around him felt like they had found a treasure and hurried to memorize what the emperor said.

"Your Majesty, are you keeping yourself busy on purpose?"

Just as Liu Xie reached out to take a spindle off the loom, Dong Bai behind him suddenly said this.

Liu Xie turned back in surprise: "What are you talking about?"

"My guess."

Dong Bai supported her chin with both hands, sitting on the loom and swinging her legs out of boredom.

"As long as I'm busy, I won't think about my grandfather."

Liu Xie paused.

"It's the same for me. I just need to do something else so I don't have to think about my grandfather."

"But it feels so difficult to learn medicine from Sister Fu Shou, and it feels so boring to do needlework with Sister Dong..."

Liu Xie subconsciously replied: "Then why don't you learn poetry and calligraphy from Master Cai?"

"..."

Soon, Liu Xie realized that he had asked a rather stupid question.

Dong Bai also rolled his eyes and turned his head away.

"I'm usually busy taking care of my uncle... but today Soji said she would take care of him for me. I suddenly have nothing to do, so I thought of my grandfather again."

Liu Xie put the spindle back on the loom and looked at Dong Bai solemnly.

But the frown soon relaxed, and Liu Xie also sat next to Dong Bai: "What did Bai like to do in the past?"

"I don't have any particular favorite things to do, I just like to play..."

"..."

Liu Xie was full of black lines on his head: "Besides playing?"

"Eat." "Besides eating?"

"sleep……"

"..."

Liu Xie took a breath of cold air.

Isn’t this the godly life I’ve always dreamed of?
However, looking at Dong Bai, Liu Xie knew that such days were not necessarily perfect.

……

Dong Bai seemed to remember something again: "I also like to raise children."

"..."

Liu Xie nodded slightly, finally there was a way he could help.

"Walk."

"Where?"

"Give me more children to raise."

?

Any disturbance in the palace would cause discussion outside.

Moreover, after the emperor returned to Chang'an this time, all officials believed that the emperor would definitely make some noise to demonstrate his power.

But the information that the officials found out was that the emperor and the empress had been living in Gui Palace all along, and it seemed that the man was farming and the woman was weaving in the palace?
For a time, the Han court was silent, and no one knew who the emperor was targeting.

When someone asked Jia Xu about this, Jia Xu just responded helplessly: "The emperor doesn't have that many thoughts, he is just busy with the things at hand, you all just need to be at ease."

"If you are really worried, you might as well go and ask the emperor in person."

……

At this moment, Gui Palace is like a huge cocoon. Except for a few people, no one knows what is inside.

Fortunately, the answer to the mystery did not remain hidden for long.

At the grand court meeting in the second year of Jian'an, Liu Xie directly threw several things developed in the Gui Palace to everyone.

"One is the curved plow, which is more convenient than the current plow."

"The second is fertilizer, which contains a lot of ingredients. The detailed formula is recorded in the book."

"The third one is the pedal spinning wheel, which is a new type of spinning machine developed by the palace weavers, Concubine Dong and others in Gui Palace. It can save a lot of manpower."

"The fourth is the Hundred-fold Steelmaking Method. This method of making steel is faster than the pouring steel method."

"The fifth is the stirrup, which helps cavalrymen stay more stable on their horses so they can use bows and crossbows."

……

Liu Xie openly placed the five things in front of his ministers, leaving them stunned.

These things were actually made by the emperor during this period?

Moreover, the emperor actually chose to announce these things on the day of the grand court meeting on the first day of the first lunar month!
What does this mean?

What exactly does the emperor want to do?
Even Yang Xiu, who usually prided himself on being smart, could not figure out the emperor's intention at the moment.

In the Xuanshi Hall, Yang Xiu whispered to Sima Yi: "Zhongda, what does the emperor mean?"

Sima Yi glanced at Yang Xiu and motioned him to look at the book in his hand.

In addition to those physical objects, the emperor also distributed a book to his ministers.

It records in detail the specific structures of the curved plow, foot-operated spinning wheel, etc., and compared with previous abstract drawings, this time a lot of numbers are neatly marked next to the sizes of these objects, forming a standardized drawing.

In addition to standardizing the drawings, this booklet also contains a lot of theoretical content.

Especially the note about fertilizer.

For example, the difference between applying manure and soil fertilizer, and perhaps something that affects crops, all of these things were marked by Liu Xie in this thin booklet.

"Does Dezu understand the emperor's intention?"

"During last year's grand court meeting, the imperial court directly abolished the recommendation system and replaced it with the imperial examination system. They also promulgated the Jian'an Law, which laid the foundation for the country!"

"The emperor issued these this year, obviously to tell all officials to focus on these tools that are closely related to people's livelihood, so as to cherish the people's strength and care about their livelihood."

Yang Xiu nodded, not quite understanding.

But Yang Xiu soon realized a problem -

"The decree issued at last year's grand court meeting is the focus of the imperial examination!"

"Next year's imperial examination won't also test these things issued this year, right?"

Yang Xiu was suddenly shocked.

Fortunately, I got ashore early, so the arithmetic problems I encountered were relatively simple.

If I delay for two years and then encounter the next imperial examination, I will be tested on these things now. Wouldn't I be worried to death?

By then, let alone the top scholar that Yang Xiu had been dreaming of, he might even lose his original third place!

Sima Yi didn't expect Yang Xiu to think of the imperial examination at the first time...

But after thinking about it carefully, Sima Yi found that it was really possible!
The grand court meeting has always been the weather vane of the Han Dynasty court.

Especially since these things were issued by the emperor himself, when the emperor set the questions, he would definitely set them in this direction.

Sima Yi couldn't help but suddenly worry about Zhuge Liang at this moment.

"With such a sudden change, I wonder if you, Kong Ming, can fulfill the emperor's wish and win the top prize in the next imperial examination?"

……

"Ah!"

Far away in Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang, who was being scolded by Sima Yi, suddenly sneezed.

Seeing this, Liu Bei beside him immediately said with concern: "Kong Ming, be careful and don't catch a cold."

"Don't worry, uncle, it's okay."

Zhuge Liang pulled his collar and asked Liu Bei another question:

"My lord, have you decided to use the strategy given by the emperor before he left?"

　My writing about technology is actually quite rough, mainly because everyone is too familiar with these technologies, but they are all essential technologies that cannot be avoided during the Three Kingdoms period. In order not to be too exaggerated, I will not spend tens of thousands of words to write about it. I hope readers will forgive me~~~
　　
　
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