Liu Chuang was awakened from his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw that the window was already dark.
He sat up from the couch and looked at the Mian who was wearing clothes with a puzzled look on his face.
"What's wrong with shopping?"
"Little Mushroom just came to report that Guzhu City is in urgent military affairs, so you should hurry to discuss immediately."
Liu Chuang was stunned and stood up from the couch.
Mi Feng picked up his clothes, draped them on him, and whispered: "It sounds like something big happened, otherwise he wouldn't have disturbed him so late.
The wash water is ready, hurry up and take a look.”
Liu Chuang quickly wiped the company, Mi Feng put on his clothes, and hurried out of the bedroom.
When he arrived at the yatang in the front yard, he saw the yatang brightly lit... As soon as Liu Chuang came in, he saw Xue Wen coming forward and kneeling in front of him.
"Uncle, please avenge my father."
"Yuan Dynasty, what's wrong with you? What happened?"
Liu Chuang felt at a loss and reached out to help Xue Wen up, looking at the others in confusion.
Bu Zhi, Lu Dai, and Sima Yi all arrived, and their faces were solemn.
Seeing Liu Chuang's eyes, Chen Gong said: "Uncle, I just got the news that before the hour of Hai, Shijiutuo Dock was attacked by pirates, and Xue Weiwei..."
Liu Chuang furiously called out: "What's wrong with Captain Xue?"
"When Captain Xue resisted the pirates, he was killed by the pirates... When General Wei Yue and Yien arrived at the dock, the dock had been destroyed by the pirates. As many as a hundred people were killed or injured in the craftsmen, and three building ships that were being repaired on the dock were also burned by the pirates."
Liu Chuang took a deep breath and couldn't react for a while.
"Pirates. This is awesome. Where did the pirates come from?"
“It’s not clear yet.”
Liu Chuang's head was buzzing, and it was a mess. The pirates came and Xue Wen was killed... All this came too suddenly, which caught Liu Chuang off guard.
Looking at Xue Wen who was crying, Liu Chuang hugged him, whispered comforting him, and ordered someone to help Xue Wen down to rest first.
Sitting on the couch chair, Liu Chuang still felt dizzy.
The incident happened so suddenly that Liu Chuang was not mentally prepared at all.
Xuezhou, an elder who followed Liu Chuang almost from the beginning.
In terms of courage, he was not as good as Guan Hai and others. In terms of wisdom, he could not be with Huang Shao... Xuezhou, Huang Shao, both literary and military, had been fighting with him since he first followed him, but now he has returned to the Nine Springs. Huang Shao died at the hands of Zang Ba for more than a year; he didn't expect that Xuezhou has left again now. It really made Liu Chuang feel unacceptable. From the beginning, he was optimistic about Liu Chuang. And after Liu Chuang gained his foothold, he was the first pirate leader to come to join. Unexpectedly, he died at the hands of a group of pirates. It was ridiculous.
"Slave!"
"The last one will be there."
Liu Chuang looked up and saw Pei Wei on duty outside the yamen hall, and shouted in a deep voice.
Pei Wei has been separated from Guzhu City since Liu Chuang arrived in western Liaoning. He is different from Changsheng, Zhang Cheng, Zhang Chao and Li Lun. Changsheng and the other four are unwilling to return to the army to serve. Now they are all staying in Huang Pavilion and waiting for Sima Yi to dispatch. Pei Wei returns to Liu Chuang and acts as a guard. Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan go to the front line to participate in the battle, and the guards around Liu Chuang are vacant.
In contrast, Pei Wei is the most loyal.
He was the first old man to accompany Liu Chuang and thirty-six people to enter Xuzhou, so he was naturally trusted by Liu Chuang.
"I've lived in Guzhu City for two years, have you heard of a pirate attack?"
"No!"
Pei Wei's answer was firm.
Guzhu City is a place that is deserted and remote, with a sparse population.
How could a pirate come here to attack?
"Did you hear that there are pirates coming in the western part of Liao?"
Pei Wei thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "I have been in western Liaoning for two years. I have only heard of Wuwan's invasion and the Xianbei attacks, but I have never heard of pirates coming.
However, I have heard that the Gongsun family in Liaodong has close contacts with pirates.
Among them, Changcen thief Fengchi and Zhanchan thief Li Dayin are the most famous. These two are also the two largest pirates in the Liaodong sea. I heard from the second master Mi that Zhanchan thief Li Dayin is a pirate raised by Gongsun family, and Changcen thief Fengchi is also quite related to Gongsun family. But I have never heard of these two pirates who have raided Liaodong, and they are more plundering the coast of Jizhou. After all, Jizhou is rich and has a lot of harvest. The coast of Liaodong is desolate, with no people a hundred miles away, so why are they plundering?"
Chen Gong, Bu Zhi, Sima Yi and the other two had a flash of light in their eyes.
Lu Dai said, "Can it be that he was instructed by Gongsun Du to come and attack?"
Before Liu Chuang could speak, Chen Gong turned the railway firmly: "It's impossible!"
"How can I see it?"
"Is it necessary for Gongsun Du to offend the emperor's uncle at this time?"
When Chen Gong said something, Lu Dai closed his mouth.
Yes, since Liu Chuang came to Liaodong, although he was nominally the prefect of Liaodong, he had never revealed his intention to go to Liaodong. After all, all the refugees under his name lived in western Liaoning, which was Liu Chuang's foundation. Judging from Liu Chuang's actions after he arrived in western Liaoning, many people would think that Liu Chuang wanted to occupy western Liaoning instead of peeping into Liaodong. After all, western Liaoning is sparsely populated and it is not difficult to occupy.
However, Gongsun Du was in Liaodong, but he had a deep foundation.
Liu Chuang ran to fight Gongsun Du with no foundation, but had no chance of winning.
Similarly, in Gongsun Du's opinion, Liu Chuang did not show the intention of being an enemy of him. He came to provoke Liu Chuang, wouldn't he cause trouble?
Everyone knows that if Liu Chuang enters Liaodong, even if he is not Gongsun Du's opponent, he will seriously damage Gongsun Du's vitality.
Gongsun Du is just cruel and unconventional, not without brains.
At this time, he was in need of angering Liu Chuang and became enemies with Liu Chuang...
Liu Chuang closed his eyes and tried hard to calm his emotions.
After listening to the discussions among the crowd, he suddenly opened his eyes, "Zhongda, how do you think this matter should be resolved?"
Sima Yi was in his heart, "From the news from Guzhu City, this pirate is well-trained and has extremely cruel methods. He is definitely not an ordinary person. I have checked what Nu Xin said just now. Although these two pirates often go out, they rarely kill too much. They are more robbing merchant ships on the sea, because merchant ships are hijacked at sea, which is the most difficult to track down...
Judging from the attack on Shijiutuo this time, it does not conform to the habits of Zhanchan Thief and Changcen Thief.
However, when I was checking the past files, I discovered something extremely interesting... Since the end of the second year of Jian'an, a pirate, the Donglai thief, appeared in the Liaodong waters. Their whereabouts were mysterious and difficult to find, and they took ruthless actions, specifically plundering merchant ships.
In the three years of Jian'an alone, the Donglai thieves attacked 17 merchant ships in Qingzhou, and every time they took action, they were extremely cruel and did not leave any survivors.
However, this pirate rarely landed on the shore to siege the villages."
"That's not what the Donglai thief did?"
"On the contrary, I thought this time, it was very likely this Donglai thief."
Liu Chuang tapped the armrest of the couch chair with his fingers and suddenly asked, "What does this Donglai thief have to do with Donglai County?"
"This is not clear. I only talk about the title of 'Donglai', so I don't know if it is related to Donglai."
Liu Chuang's eyes fell on Bu Zhi.
"Zishan, what do you think?"
"Donglai thief, Donglai thief..." Bu Zhi showed a look of confusion and shook his head and said, "I don't have the impression of this pirate in my impression.
Although Donglai County has been attacked by pirates in recent years, it is mainly concentrated in the Dongmu area, and it is not large in scale and the losses are not serious. Later, it was found that those pirates were mostly in contact with the local tyrants of Donglai. The young master ordered the Lao Fu camp to clean up the tyrants of Donglai County and severely attacked the pirates several times, Dongmu became much more calm and had never been attacked or attacked by pirates again."
Bu Zhi said, shaking his head with a bitter smile.
"I really can't remember that there is such a pirate."
Liu Chuang never doubts Bu Zhi's memory.
Since Bu Zhi said he had no impression, he must have really not...
"This pirate is obviously targeting me specifically. This attack on Shijiutuo Dock is also prepared.
The Shijiutuo Dock has just begun to be built, and not many people know about it. Moreover, the outside world does not know the existence of Shijiutuo Dock... How can these pirates find Shijiutuo so accurately, and after launching an attack, burn the dock, and quickly evacuate?
Obviously, this is not an isolated action.
As for the main messenger behind it…”
A stern look suddenly flashed in Liu Chuang's eyes.
There was a silence in the yamen hall. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they were all exposed.
"Zhongda!"
"exist."
Liu Chuang thought about it, looked up at Sima Yi, and said in a deep voice: "It is not difficult to find out the whereabouts of this pirate.
They should be hiding in this sea area. If they are not in the Liaodong waters, they are hiding in the coast of Jizhou... If they are pirates in Jizhou, they will not be able to show their whereabouts. I will leave this matter to you to solve. Be sure to find this pirate as soon as possible and annihilate it.
Xingba Navy is currently difficult to draw out the main force, but I will ask him to do his best to help you.
Well, let Yuanfu obey you for the time being and cooperate with your investigation. I will ask Xingba to draw out five tower ships to cooperate. Once this pirate is found, I will annihilate it on the spot, and there is no need to worry about who is sacred. In short, I want those behind the scenes to know that those who have killed me cannot just be vain. I will use ten times, twenty times, and even more killings to make them feel scared."
"Here!"
Sima Yi stood up and took the order and left.
Liu Chuang looked at Chen Gong again and said, "Public platform, you don't have to worry about this matter. You will go to the Liaodong vassal state early tomorrow morning.
Kong Ming is there, I am really not relieved... After you go there, you don’t have to interfere, just look at his actions and tell me about it."
This is like a military supervisor. Chen Gong knew that Liu Chuang wanted to use the whetstone in Liaodong to sharpen Zhuge Liang.
He hurriedly bowed and took the order and left in a hurry.
Liu Chuang's eyes fell on Bu Zhi and Lu Dai.
After a while, he suddenly said, "Zishan, Duke Ding... I remember that when I went to Qianli, you two were the first to follow me... It is better to take care of me. Captain Xue left, and Gongmei had passed away before. Seeing the robes of the past, I felt really uncomfortable. Now, it is time for us to fight against Liaodong, you should take care of me more, don't worry me."
Bu Zhi and Lu Dai quickly bowed and agreed.
"As soon as the sky was dawn, Wen Xiang General Headquarters stationed in Fei Ru.
Duke Ding went with him and gave me more advice to him... Wen Xiang was capable, but he was still a little reckless. You should remind him more."
Lu Dai quickly agreed, "I will never let down the entrusted son."
"Zishan!"
"Here!"
Liu Chuangqiang laughed, "Now, you are the only one left in Linyu, so you have to worry more.
I have already drawn out all the troops from Linyu, and there will inevitably be empty troops here. You can recruit some soldiers at your discretion, just draw one for fifty, and temporarily serve as patrol soldiers. I will ask Yuan Ji to stay and help you. During this period, be sure to ensure the peace of Linyu City."
"Here."
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When I saw him off, it was already dawn.
Liu Chuang leaned on the couch chair with some fatigue, his thoughts still a little confused.
The death of Xuezhou also caused Liu Chuang to lose a right-hand assistant... Xuezhou's role did not seem to be obvious before. But once he died, he realized that he was indispensable. Nowadays, there are very few technical talents, and they can even be described as shortages.
A strange and lewd trick almost cut off the future and development of technical talents.
Xuezhou is good at building ships. With him, Liu Chuang doesn't have to worry about this issue.
But now that Xuezhou is dead, Liu Chuang has to consider who should replace Xuezhou... But Liu Chuang is indeed not sure about this candidate.
In his memory, there were only a few capable craftsmen in the Three Kingdoms.
Liu Ye, who built the Thunderbolt Cart, said this in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there seems to be no relevant records in the official history.
Moreover, Liu Ye is now under Cao Cao's account, how could he come to help Liu Chuang? So this person basically doesn't need to be considered.
In addition to Liu Ye, Pu Yuan, Zheng Hun and others were also circulated in later generations.
But Pu Yuan was good at fighting swords and should be a master of war casting; Zheng Hun... that was even more nonsense. Zheng Hun was the brother of Zheng Tai, a famous scholar in Yuzhou. He himself was also a famous scholar in Yuzhou and enjoyed fame. Is he a talented person or a filial and honest person? Liu Chuang could not remember clearly. But Liu Chuang knew that Zheng Hun was a member of the Zheng clan of Xingyang, and Zheng was one of the seven great masters of the five surnames in the future. He was a genuine old aristocratic clan in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Do you think Zheng Hun is possible to go to be a blacksmith?
Zhuge Liang seemed to be good at strange and lewd tricks and once made wooden ox and horses.
But if you let Zhuge Liang run to build a ship, it would be useless... Huang Chengyan is good at mechanical skills, Zhuge Ling and Huang Yueying are two women, and it is not very suitable.
Shipbuilding is not a trivial matter.
He was related to Liu Chuang's future development... Now the best ship masters are mainly concentrated in the Chaisang and Ba County areas of Yuzhang, and Liu Chuang didn't know how to find them. In addition, the ship masters of Yuzhang and Ba County built more tower ships in rivers. Xuezhou started in Qingzhou and was good at building sea ships... What Liu Chuang needs now is mainly tower ships sailing on the sea, and river tower ships seem to be not suitable for sailing on the sea.
By the way, there is a place that is good at building sea boats.
Jiaozhou!
Liu Chuang suddenly remembered that he had mentioned this when Shi Yi came to visit him.
Could it be that I would like to send someone to Jiaozhou to find talents? If so, this matter doesn’t seem to be too difficult. After all, Liu Chuang and Jiaozhou have a close relationship.
Shi Xie would not refuse Liu Chuang's request, let alone Liu Yong is now in Jiaozhou to help Shi Xie.
The problem is that distant water cannot quench near thirst!
Chapter completed!