Soochow was destroyed, and Liu Chan made Sun Quan the Marquis of Nanzheng. This was actually a decision Liu Chan had already made after Sun Quan led his troops to surrender.
Although Sun Quan hoped to return to Wu, as a subjugated king, he had no right to choose. Nanzheng is located at the junction of Guanzhong and Shuzhong.
Just——
Liu Chan did not let Sun Quan go and join the feudal clan. After all, he was old. Even if the butterfly effect allowed him to extend his life, as an old man in his seventies, how many more years could he live?
Stay in Chang'an!
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Because Liu Chan did not embarrass Sun Quan, he not only gave him a marquis, but also built him a Nanzheng Marquis Mansion in Chang'an.
So after the news spread, those forces in Soochow that originally wanted to resist quickly surrendered to the nearby Han army.
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and King Qin Liu Tan have not returned to the court with their troops for the time being, but have stayed in Wu to assist officials from various places and ensure a smooth transition to Wu.
At the same time, border defenses will be redeployed, such as along the Yangtze River, and troops will need to be stationed to prevent Cao Wei from taking the opportunity to go south.
The Han-Wu War, which lasted for more than half a year, is officially over.
Soochow was destroyed.
The news soon spread to Luoyang.
October 3, 252 AD.
Luoyang Imperial Palace.
Cao Fang couldn't believe his eyes and ears.
"Sun Quan really surrendered?" Cao Fang asked in surprise.
"Back to Your Majesty!" Zhong Hui, the captain of Sili School, said with certainty: "This matter is absolutely true. According to the news from Chang'an, Liu Chan has made Sun Quan the Marquis of Nanzheng, with a household of ten thousand households, and he has also given gifts to Chang'an.
He built a Nanzheng Marquis Mansion."
Cao Fang nodded slightly when he heard this, then looked at Zhong Hui, sighed, and said: "Zhong Ai Qing, now that Western Shu has destroyed Soochow, our Wei Dynasty is now in a very dangerous situation..." He paused and said,
Then he asked: "My dear, do you have any good advice for me... How should I, the Wei Dynasty, guard against possible crises?"
After regaining control of the government, Cao Fang spent all day forgetting to eat and sleep.
It was not easy to establish the Wei Dynasty. As the emperor of the Wei Dynasty, he naturally did not want to be the next Sun Quan, but now Xi Shu is too powerful.
"Your Majesty!" Zhong Hui immediately cupped his hands and said with a smile on his face: "The secret agent sent to Chang'an by Wei Chen sent back good news yesterday."
Cao Fang was stunned when he heard this and asked: "What good news is it? Please tell me quickly."
"No!" Zhong Hui responded before saying truthfully: "Your Majesty, the reason why the Han army was able to quickly attack Soochow this time was not because of how powerful the Han army was... but..."
"But what?" Cao Fang was a little impatient and wanted to know the answer.
"It's a rocket launcher!" Zhong Hui affirmed: "It's a special long gun fired through a three-bow crossbow. A bamboo tube is placed on the tip of the gun, and the bamboo tube is filled with explosives, iron sheets and other objects."
"???" Cao Fang looked confused when he heard this, and continued to ask: "What is a rocket launcher?"
"What is dynamite?"
These are all novel terms for Cao Fang. They are basically the first time he has heard of them. Zhong Hui seemed to have guessed that the emperor would ask this question, so he bowed slightly to Cao Fang and said: "The key to the rocket launcher"
, lies in this explosive!"
"According to information from secret agents, this thing was developed by Emperor Liu Chan of the Han Dynasty more than ten years ago." Zhong Hui said calmly: "This thing sounds mysterious, but it is actually very simple. I, the Great Wei Dynasty, have more raw materials."
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"Are you serious?" Cao Fang looked a little excited.
Although he didn't know what rocket launchers and explosives were, news from Soochow kept coming back to Luoyang these days. The Han army used a strange weapon that made a violent explosion.
But it didn’t say that the demise of Soochow was due to this weapon.
But today, he knew.
It turns out that it was all caused by explosives.
"Explosives!" Zhong Hui said: "According to the information obtained by the spies, this substance is made of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal."
As soon as Zhong Hui said these words, Cao Fang was stunned for a moment.
Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal are not rare materials. As Zhong Hui said, the Wei Dynasty had these things, and there were a lot of them.
For example, saltpeter is available in the mountainous areas near Luoyang. A kind of artificial ice appeared in the summer of Guanzhong more than ten years ago. I heard that it was made of saltpeter. Later, the Wei Dynasty court spent a lot of money to sell it from a certain county in Guanzhong to make ice.
From then on, every summer, the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Wei Dynasty could enjoy the rare coldness.
Place various common drinks on cold ice cubes, and after a few hours, you can have a cold drink.
The refining of saltpeter is now abundant in the Wei Dynasty.
I just didn’t know that this stuff turned out to be one of the ingredients of explosives.
The second is sulfur, which is even more unusual. You can buy it in drug stores on the street. As for the last material, it can be found everywhere.
Charcoal, what’s so strange about it?
Every household has this stuff.
"Quickly send Ma Jun to the palace to see me!" Cao Fang didn't even wait for Zhong Hui to finish speaking, and then called the chamberlain to summon Ma Jun, the master craftsman.
Ma Jun, at this time, the official worshiped the craftsman of the Wei Dynasty as a great craftsman.
After the Wei army obtained the three-bow bed crossbow, he modified and copied it. Although it was not as powerful as the Han army's multi-shot crossbow, even with a single shot, the range of the Wei army's bed crossbow was equivalent to that of the Han army's multi-shot crossbow.
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Now that Zhong Hui inquired about the preparation method of the Han army's explosives, the first thing Cao Fang thought of was Ma Jun, who was already over fifty years old.
Half an hour later.
Ma Jun hurriedly came to the imperial study room.
"Weak minister Ma Jun, pay homage to His Majesty!"
"Ai Qing, please get up quickly!" Cao Fang said, pretending to be confused and asked: "Ai Qing, have you ever heard of dynamite?"
"Explosives?" Ma Jun shook his head when he heard this: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I am a humble minister and I have never heard of this thing!"
"Hahaha!" Cao Fang laughed loudly when he heard this. Ma Jun didn't know. This is not surprising. After all, the Emperor of Western Shu, Liu Chan, often made some weird things, so Ma Jun couldn't be allowed to know everything.
"I'll give Aiqing a recipe, please try it!" Cao Fang then told Ma Jun all the saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal and other things Zhong Hui mentioned.
"Now the Han army has powerful rocket launchers..." Cao Fang paused and sighed: "The Han army was able to attack Soochow this time because it relied on this weapon to win. Aiqing is the master craftsman of our great Wei Dynasty.
Craftsman, I hope Aiqing can also make the rocket launcher of our great Wei Dynasty."
"Wei Chen accepts the order!" Ma Jun gave a big salute to Cao Fang.
This was the first time he heard about rocket launchers and explosives, but he had heard of a new type of weapon used by the Han army in the Han-Wu war.
I just don’t know what it is.
It turns out that this thing is called a rocket launcher, and it is made of explosives.
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Two months later.
In a house in the east of Luoyang City, a loud noise suddenly sounded.
Bang——
This sound resounded throughout the sky of Luoyang, and even the Luoyang Palace several miles away could hear it. It was this loud sound that caused the entire residents of Luoyang City to panic.
Why?
A few months ago, during the war between Han and Wu, there were various discussions.
I heard that the Han army used a new type of weapon.
The weapon will make a violent explosion.
"What happened?"
"Did the Han army come?"
After the loud noise, residents on the streets of Luoyang started talking in various ways. Many people speculated whether the Han army had come to Luoyang.
After all, only the Han army possesses such explosive weapons.
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This chapter has been completed!