The sixth year of Jianxing.
February 25, 228 AD.
The small courtyard behind the Chengdu Imperial Palace suddenly had a lot of guards. According to word from inside the courtyard, His Majesty is going to develop a new technology here, and no one can disturb it for a month.
The emperor wants to retreat——
Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Then don't bother Your Majesty," Jiang Wan said with a smile: "Although Your Majesty is young now, he is very smart. The several technologies he has introduced in the past two years are all great wisdom that can change the situation in the world."
"What Jiang Jun said is absolutely true!" Zhang Yi also nodded in agreement: "If His Majesty hadn't improved the rice planting method, the collection of grain and grass would have been very difficult for the Prime Minister's Northern Expedition."
"Yeah!"
"..."
The two current chief officials of the Prime Minister's Office have no doubts about Emperor Liu Chan's retreat to develop new technologies.
Mainly because in the past two years, every time Liu Chan developed a new technology, he would lock himself in the shabby courtyard until he completed the development.
Later, even Prime Minister Zhuge Liang would not disturb Liu Chan's research and development, and over time all the officials of the Han Dynasty became accustomed to it.
Moreover, whether they are joining the army, Jiang Wan, or Zhang Yi, they are already extremely busy.
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang has sent troops to Cao Wei.
Nearly 100,000 troops worked on expeditions, and the daily consumption required for people to eat and feed horses was not small.
And naturally it’s inside the Shu region.
Zhuge Liang is sending troops abroad, and the stability of the internal base camp will be a top priority. As the chief officials left behind in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Jiang Wan, Zhang Yi and others naturally have a particularly heavy burden on their shoulders.
So when word came from the palace that His Majesty would be in seclusion for a month to develop new technology, they were happy and relaxed. They could spend more time stabilizing the interior of Shu and assisting Zhuge Liang.
Just——
What they never expected was that their emperor Liu Chan was not in that dilapidated courtyard at the moment, and he was not in the palace either.
He has not developed any new technology at all.
In fact, as early as dawn today, a convoy of merchants hurriedly left Chengdu.
They were businessmen in the shortbread business in Chengdu, and they transported a batch of shortbread and left Chengdu.
They did not attract the attention of others, and even the city gate guards found nothing unusual.
Because every now and then, they will transport a batch of shortbread cookies to counties near Chengdu, and each time they will be accompanied by a team of guards.
This morning, among the guards, there was one person who was the emperor of the great man - Liu Chan.
At noon.
Liu Chan and others have already passed Guanghan.
Two days later.
In a valley in the northeastern part of Han Dynasty, there is a small village in the valley. Therefore, the place is surrounded by mountains and covered with big trees to block the sun. If you don't search for it, almost no one will know that there is a village here.
Because there is something special about the people who live here.
They did not build houses, nor did they cultivate land nearby to grow crops. Several caves in the valley were their residences.
It's early afternoon.
The valley was densely packed with people, and the small valley was filled to the brim with them.
They are not very old, they are basically around 20 years old, but their faces lack the youthful look they should have, and have a lot more weather and weather.
In the middle of the valley, a temporary high platform is more conspicuous. This platform must be six or seven meters high.
Everyone's eyes are fixed on the high platform.
There are five people standing on the stage.
In the middle is a young man in his twenties. He is slightly different from his companions.
First of all, there is no trace of weather or sun exposure on his face. Instead, he looks like a young man from a wealthy family who has never touched the sun.
This person was none other than Liu Chan, the current emperor of the Han Dynasty. He arrived here after three days of hard work.
The four people standing behind him are Yang Tongshan, Lu Peng, Guo Wei, and Zhang Shao.
Liu Chan looked at the dark crowd in the valley, and he was very satisfied. This was a masterpiece that he had carefully planned two years ago.
Three years ago, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang sent troops to Nanzhong. Liu Chan selected 42 soldiers from the Imperial Guard and brought them to Qingcheng Mountain for training.
After several months of training, Liu Chan divided them into two groups. One group consisted of twenty people, and these twenty people were Lu Peng, Guo Wei and the others.
Liu Chan assigned each of these twenty people a task. Within two years, they needed to secretly recruit a thousand people and then find a secret place to train them.
The remaining twenty-two people were divided into two groups, twelve of whom were led by Yang Tongshan. They would sneak into some major cities in central Shu, Cao Wei, and Soochow.
Their mission is very simple, that is to inquire about information from all parties.
There were ten people left, Liu Chan took them back to Chengdu, and then sent them out to monitor the group led by Yang Tongshan, as well as Guo Wei, Lu Peng and others' daily activities.
Because they had been training together for a period of time, when Liu Chan arranged for them to carry out the mission, he once told them that they were not allowed to reveal the mission they were about to perform to anyone.
Among them, if any of the companions who train with them are found to have leaked secrets or colluded with each other, they will be killed immediately.
Of course, if they can perfectly complete the tasks assigned by Liu Chan, Liu Chan will reward them two years later.
Two years have passed.
Liu Chan was very pleased.
Among the forty-two people, only two people disclosed to each other the mission arranged by Liu Chan. However, they were discovered by Yang Tongshan and others, and then they were secretly executed according to Liu Chan's order.
The news of the two people's execution was quickly received by others, and they realized that their daily behavior was monitored by Emperor Liu Chan, so no one dared to leak the secret again or collude with each other.
Among the twenty people who were ordered to secretly recruit soldiers, except for one who was executed for colluding with the news, eight of the remaining nineteen people completed the task in full, and each of them recruited a team of one thousand people.
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For the remaining eleven people, they recruited less than a thousand people. The most they recruited were only 800 people, and the least they only recruited more than 400 people.
According to the final statistics, they recruited a total of 15,384 people.
A year ago, they went to the mountains around Shu for secret training. The training instructors were naturally the nineteen soldiers trained by Liu Chan.
Zhang Shao secretly sent people to bring them their usual food and drink expenses.
Although Liu Chan has never seen them train, Yang Tongshan and the others are always paying attention to them. They miss nothing about their daily training content and training quality. Every other month, they will summarize it and send it back to Chengdu for Liu Chan's review.
At this time, Liu Chan was quite satisfied when he saw the more than 10,000 soldiers they had trained.
At least they look like they have been trained day after day, with dark skin and strong bodies.
When he first arrived today, Liu Chan randomly inspected a few soldiers and asked them to demonstrate their usual training content.
Several soldiers performed well, basically meeting Liu Chan's expectations.
Their daily training items are basically the ones Liu Chan trained in Qingcheng Mountain, including obstacle crossing, weight-bearing climbing, shooting, and firearms skills.
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This chapter has been completed!