Qilin looked at Lu Bu suspiciously and asked, "My lord, are you still dizzy?"

Lu Bu stretched out his tongue and said, "A little, a little!"

Qilin nodded hesitantly and said, "Do you remember who I am?"

Lu Bu rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers, as if he was very distressed. After a moment, the light bulb above his head lit up: "You are Pixiu!"

Qilin roared in his heart: I asked you to pretend! Let you pretend again!

Qilin said seriously: "It's nothing, um... I'll think of something else. Have you forgotten all other people and things? Just remember who I am?"

Lu Bu said matter-of-factly: "Hmm."

The small blackboard and other torture instruments hadn't arrived yet. Qilin rolled up his sleeves and said with satisfaction: "Very good."

So the war was over, and he was waiting to take a vacation for the New Year. With plenty of time, Qilin was ready to start thinking of ways to punish him.

"Military advisor!" Ma Chao's voice.

Ma Chao stood in the courtyard, with the soldiers brought by Wu Wei behind him. There were several large boxes piled at his feet. He smiled and said: "Come."

Qilin said: "Just call me Xiaohei. Are you moving?"

After not seeing each other for several days, I took a closer look at Ma Chao and saw that he had put on a pure white silk military uniform with a three-winged sky snake embroidered on his robe. He really looked like a member of a noble family.

Ma Chao was sunny and enthusiastic. He bowed to open the box and said with a smile: "Then you will call me Meng Qi from now on. I packed up Wuwei's belongings a few days ago and moved to Longxi to join Fengxian."

Qilin smiled and said: "That's very welcome."

He noticed the luminous pearl hanging on Ma Chao's waist and was very happy. Ma Chao's joining meant Wuwei's complete surrender. From then on, as long as Ma Chao stayed in Lu Bu's camp for one day, Lu Bu would legitimately possess all the taxes of Yin Wuwei.

It is a place with sufficient food and grass backup.

Jin Ma Chao has an extraordinary reputation. Qilin never pays attention to clothes. Compared with him, he looks like a country bumpkin. He smiled quickly and said: "No need, you can keep it."

Ma Chao said: "I also brought a lot of silk fabrics. I will make some sets of clothes for you. Don't be too ungrateful. I gave them to Gao Shun, Brother Wenyuan and Mr. Gongtai. These are for you."

Ma Chao was so kind, but Qilin couldn't refuse, so he had to accept them all.

It is late winter, and all those who mine, plant trees, fish, and rob are back. The whole city of Longxi has strengthened its defenses in preparation for the New Year.

The generals handed over the tasks at hand, but Jia Xu only focused on his own duties and did not come to report after the completion. This made Chen Gong and Qilin miserable. They ran around without touching their feet every day to take care of the city's economy and construction.

"You study at home." Qilin said, "No running around or drinking. When you have time, sort out the things Meng Qi sent. I'll go out and help you make money."

Qilin gave the order, and Lu Bu could only reply: "Oh."

When Qilin went out, Lu Bu called someone, opened the box and looked at it. He didn't like anything, so he threw it into the warehouse and ignored it. He was distracted by the book.

Chen Gonglai walked around and met Lu Bu's eyes.

Lu Bu asked in shock: "Who is coming?"

Chen Gong looked at Lu Bu for a moment and said, "It's best if I don't know him. I'm looking for a military advisor, not you."

When Chen Gong saw that Qilin was not there, he turned around and left. Lu Bu said, "Wait a minute! Why are you looking for the military advisor?!"

Chen Gong waved his hand impatiently: "You don't understand, where did Qilin go?"

Lu Bu roared and threw the book down: "What don't you understand! I am the lord! I remembered! You are Chen Gongtai! How presumptuous!"

Chen Gong and Lu Bu looked at each other speechlessly.

Chen Gong: "Okay, okay, you understand! Please take a look at it in person, my lord!"

"We currently have four mines, and the iron ore transported back to the city totals 300,000 kilograms." Chen Gong placed the notebook in front of Lu Bu's desk and explained in detail.

Lu Bu said seriously: "What is iron ore? Forget it, leave it alone, well, what's next? Send them to the iron mill?"

Chen Gong: "Didn't you forget? How did you know there was an iron workshop?"

Lu Bu: "I... just say it casually! You tell me what you said, and I will remember it later."

Chen Gongdao: "It has been sent to the iron workshop to be smelted into iron and then into steel. The consumables are estimated here. You can see that the rest will be used to supply the whole city's domestic iron."

Lu Bu: "Oh, what do you want the military advisor to do today?"

Chen Gongdao: "What you need to do is: first select an ironworks, take ore samples to test, and get the amount of carbon consumed per kilogram of ore. Then based on this amount, calculate how many kilograms of carbon each ironwork needs to supply, and then send soldiers They transport. How much each team transports, and how much it transports back and forth, must be accurate to the kilogram. Where to dispatch, no manpower is wasted. When dispatching, look for Gaoshun and Zhang Liao military camps. The Gansu and Ning naval forces do not care about construction, so there is no need to look for him."

"There is also a list of fine iron distribution for the four districts in the city drawn up by the military advisor. Today we need to discuss the iron quota with the resident chief and the army general, and sign it. We will pick it up within twenty days."

"Please, my lord, please first calculate how many kilograms of iron each piece weighs. The locations of the iron workshops in the city are scattered. In order to reduce the loss of manpower, we have to dial the iron nearby. We also need to get the new weapon patterns and make a copy accordingly."

"So after the trial smelting, there are a total of four things to do: send someone to deliver charcoal, calculate the amount of iron, keep the iron for steelmaking - you decide how many kilograms are left, and make a few new weapons to try out, called 'hexagonal steel edges' ', it's a kind of arrow, the pattern should be in the military advisor's room, you can go and find it yourself."

"Gongtai's arithmetic is not perfect, and it is necessary to use the methods of 'decline points', 'uniform loss' and 'surplus and deficiency' in arithmetic in the Nine Chapters..."

Lu Bu opened his mouth slightly, with a blank look on his face, as if he was listening to a book from heaven.

"...It will take a full half day; the military advisor can do all the mental calculations and paper calculations in just one hour, so now we have to look for him."

Lu Bu was dumbfounded.

Chen Gong snickered.

Lu Bu: "Can't you find an accountant in the army?"

Chen Gongdao: "Master, I am the accountant."

Lu Bu: "Then...where are your accountants, Pianjun? Distribute them, let people calculate them interactively, and then send them up for summary..."

Chen Gong put away the book and said seriously: "Lord! This is a secret and must not be leaked! Are you planning to spread it to the entire army? Do you plan to expose your own strength and iron reserves?"

Lu Bu responded blankly.

Chen Gong couldn't laugh or cry and said: "It's better to find a military advisor."

Lu Bu: "Wait! Let me try, try! Where is the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic? Find it. I remember I grabbed a copy in Shouchun last time. I will look through it and you can explain it to me."

Now it was Chen Gong's turn to be dumbfounded. He didn't even learn arithmetic, and he had to teach a fool.

Lu Bu spread out the rare book from the previous dynasty and pondered over a pile of forms and calculations. Chen Gong frowned and stepped forward to touch Lu Bu's forehead.

Lu Bu: "I don't have a fever! Forget it, get out of here."

If Chen Gong was granted amnesty, he could run faster than a rabbit.

Lu Bu's mind was about to explode. He was making calculations with two counters. His head was full of gold stars. He didn't even have the idea of ​​what to do first and what to do next. After thinking about it again and again, he went out to the iron workshop and then to the military camp.

It took me half a day to go back and forth between the two places, and I finally figured out the order of things. This was only the first step.

"One hundred and twenty thousand kilograms of iron, made into iron ingots..." Lu Bu couldn't help but circle around and left the military camp. He was top-heavy and sighed that this was beyond human ability. Then, he suddenly saw a person walking in front of him.

Who is Qilin?

Seeing Qilin and Ma Chao walking side by side, chatting and laughing, Lu Bu's face darkened, he put the book in his arms and followed him.

It is said that half a day ago, Qilin took the list to count people. Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were not in the house. When he went to Gan Ning's house, he was surprised to find that Gan Ning had set up a table in the hall. The male concubine was playing the piano and singing. Zhang Liao, Gao Shun,

The others sat around several tables and drank wine.

As soon as Qilin arrived, the singing and dancing dispersed, and several people hurriedly gave up their seats.

Gan Ning said: "You have nothing to say, come on, let me dance for you."

"Where's your brother, Jump! How long have I been looking for you? They're all hiding here." Qilin said helplessly.

Gao Shun smiled and said: "I can't help you two, so we all gathered together to drink. Where is my lord?"

Qilin said angrily: "If you are studying in the government, don't call him, you drink what you have." After saying that, he sat down and ordered: "Have a cup of tea, interrupt for a while, listen to what I have to say, I will reward you...

…”

When everyone heard that they were rewarded, their eyes glowed golden. Qilin felt funny in his heart. He opened the roster and said:

"The mistress has returned to her parents' home, and the time to visit her relatives is tentatively scheduled for ninety-nine years. So the lord stayed alone in the boudoir. In order to understand the wishes of the grassroots people, he went deep into the army and decided -

Everyone stretched out their ears.

"——Invite a general to go to bed every night, have a heart-to-heart talk, talk about what's on your mind, and mingle with the masses."

The cup was overturned, and the crowd fell into pieces.

Qilin smiled slyly and said: "I rushed to make wooden signs for the generals and hung them in the lord's room. Well...whose sign the lord turns over, someone from the mansion will come to notify him. Remember to wash up well that night and eat less meat.

Yes, don’t drink.”

"Attending...attending to bed?!" Gan Ning was the first to react.

"Hmm -" Qilin nodded solemnly.

Gan Ning subconsciously covered his back and took the lead in protesting: "No way! I never do the following!"

Qilin: "Don't be afraid, make a bunk on the ground and chat with the Lord. Today... let me see, just Brother Gao."

Gao Shun couldn't laugh or cry: "Why bother?"

Qilin smiled hypocritically and said: "If you want to learn the good styles of other lords, the three of you, plus Chen Gong and Jia Xu... forget about Cai Wenji, it's offensive to morals."

"As well as your subordinates, the generals in the tent, the sacrificial wine, and the chief of the central army, all go and prepare, and wait for a frank talk with the lord...! Get to know him well!"

Zhang Liao said: "This is not fair! What about you?"

Qilin smiled evilly, rolled up the name book, and ran away. Everyone started cheering, and just as he ran to the door, he suddenly heard a man's clear voice.
To be continued...