"In the fourth year of Taixing, in the spring, Sikong gave him armor. When he was about to get the bright light, he gave him two gifts, and everyone looked happy."
The spring is bright and it’s an early morning again.
However, it is customary to take it out for His Majesty to cut it off in the main hall of the court. That is a big deal. After all, the emperor Liu Xie is still the master of the world!
It's just that at the moment, it's all trivial matters, so there's no need to bother the emperor...
So the early morning morning session ended quickly.
Cao Hong smiled and sat on the horse, nodding to the other court officials who were giving way, while moving forward slowly. The bright light armor on his body shone brightly in the sun.
Mingguang armor requires polishing each piece of armor to look like a mirror. The bronze mirror technology in the Han Dynasty has been very perfect, so it is not that difficult to polish the armor pieces to be as bright as a mirror.
It's just that Mingguang armor like this usually shows off force and has many ceremonial utensils. If you really want to go to the battlefield, it is rare to actually wear such armor. After all, the target is too obvious...
In the era of cold weapons, armor was almost the second life of a soldier. Therefore, in order to boost morale, show his own strength and show that he was capable of providing excellent equipment, Cao Cao also invested a lot in the development of ordnance, and this time
The armors awarded to many generals in the fourth year of Taixing are proof of this.
Every armor scale on Cao Hong's body is as bright as a mirror. When he wears it and walks around, he looks like, well, Elvis Presley in the 1960s and 1970s. His body is also very shining. With his huge body and the shining scales, not to mention
How eye-catching.
Cao Hong was responsible for presiding over the research and development of the armor. With such achievements, he was naturally in the limelight. Even when he met some colleagues in the army on the road, they all expressed their admiration to Cao Hong and expressed their gratitude for being able to obtain such armor...
If it were before, Young Master Cao Hong would have stopped and listened to these people's compliments. Although he knew they were flattering, the flattering photos would make Cao Hong feel better, right?
But when he heard these words again today, Cao Hong smiled reluctantly, and then he didn't have much intention to listen. He interrupted after a few words, and then left and returned home.
Cao Hong was smiling, but when he entered his mansion and got off his horse, his face darkened. He pondered for a long time, and then he didn't ask the guards to help him take off his armor. He just moved a horse and sat in front of the hall, and then said, "The manager of the Chuangongfang
Come beforehand…』
Cao Hong's hands were trembling slightly, because what he held in his palm was a piece of armor that Xun Yu quietly thrust into him.
Xun Yu rarely took the initiative to talk to Cao Hong, but today he found Cao Hong for some reason. After talking about Cao Hong's exquisite armor, Xun Yu showed some intriguing expressions. When the two were about to separate,
A piece of armor like this was stuffed into Cao Hong's sleeve.
Cao Hong knew something was wrong, so he took advantage of the cover and quickly checked it. He suddenly felt that the world was turned upside down. If his mental quality hadn't been good, he might not have been able to survive the Great Court Meeting!
The piece of armor in his hand seemed to be still cold, maintaining the same temperature as when he had just taken it into his hand. It was as cold as bone, making Cao Hong feel chilled all over.
This piece of armor didn't weigh much, and seemed light in his hand. However, Cao Hong didn't dare to put this piece of armor on the scale, because once it was put on the scale, it might weigh more than a thousand catties...
"Report!" The soldiers who went to report to the steward of the workshop came back soon, "Report to the general, the steward of the workshop left the city yesterday and has not returned yet!"
"What?!" Cao Hongteng suddenly stood up, causing his original mazha to fall aside with a click, "Where did you go? Why did you leave the city?"
Sure enough, there is a problem!
"It is said that he took his family out of the city for an outing..." the soldiers reported.
"Outing!" The flesh on Cao Hong's face was pulsing. He was silent for a while, waved his hand, and let the soldiers go down first.
Cao Hong stood in front of the hall, like a tiger in estrus with no target to vent to, his beard stubbed out, circling anxiously, and his whole body exuding an aura that would bring bad luck to anyone who encountered him.
After a while, Cao Hong stopped and said, "Call Fu'er to come!"
Cao Fu arrived soon and greeted him with a greeting, "I've met Father... Father, this is..." Cao Fu saw that Cao Hong had not removed his armor when he returned home. His heart skipped a beat and he guessed that something must have happened.
.
Cao Hong waved to Cao Fu and said: "Fu'er, come forward..." Then he explained this to Cao Fu's ear, "But do you understand?"
Although Cao Fu was not very clear about the ins and outs, looking at his father's face, he knew that this matter was not trivial, so he nodded in agreement, then said hello, left the house with more than 20 Cao guards, and went straight to the outside of the city.
go.
Cao Hong watched Cao Fu leave, then lifted the overturned horse up again, sat down, closed his eyes, and waited quietly, like a statue.
A sudden gust of wind blew the flagpole in Cao Hong's front yard, pulling the flag straight. Suddenly, the rope tied to one side of the flag suddenly broke, and the flag hit the flagpole with a snap and fell crookedly!
Cao Hong suddenly opened his eyes.
This is a warning!
Perhaps, it is also a sign before the next wave of storms hits!
Suddenly there was the sound of some soldiers in the front yard, and a Cao family guard trotted in with sweat on his face, and prostrated himself in front of Cao Hong, "General Qi, we found it! The young master asked, should you bring it back...or...
...』
Cao Hong stood up, but after sitting for a long time, his lower limbs were inevitably sore and numb. He swayed for a while before he regained his balance and said, "Here comes someone! Prepare your horse!"
……(〃′ Pan`)q……
"General Cao...is out of the city..."
A minor official reported to Xun Yu in a low voice.
Xun Yu nodded slightly and motioned for the clerk to step back.
Man Chong glanced sideways, but seeing that Xun Yu didn't express anything, he lowered his head and pretended that he had heard nothing and seen nothing.
Cao Hong is in the limelight today, but many people are waiting for him...
In fact, the research and development of armor was not that complicated at first, but because of some people and some things, it became complicated.
Because of different standpoints, the direction of looking at things is different.
It's just like piracy. In the era when Nanshan was engaged in Antarctica, it couldn't be called piracy, it was called "localization". But now whoever dares to "localize" Nanshan, no matter if he is the old godfather or the old godfather, will be detained and frozen first.
Get up and talk!
Is it necessary to imitate the hussars' armor? Yes. From Cao's point of view, is it correct? It is correct. But what about Fei Qian's point of view? I can't help but mutter about this despicable and shameless thing.
Embryo, you stole the method of tea eggs before, and now you want to steal the technology of armor?
So, if you pirate something from other countries, that’s called skill, but if you pirate something from your own country, that’s scum.
Pirating the hussars' armor, in Xun Yu's opinion, should be a good thing, but if even piracy has to be fake...
That may not be a gratifying and exciting thing.
What Xun Yu gave Cao Hong was a piece of armor, and on that piece of armor there was the logo of the Hussars General Fei Qian's workshop. In other words, it was Cao Hong who claimed to have succeeded in imitating the Hussars armor and developed and produced various products.
The idea of creating high-end armor is actually just purchasing a batch of armor from the Hussars General Workshop, then removing the marks and logos on the armor, and then claiming that it was developed by myself...
Time is tight, tasks are heavy, and mistakes are made while busy. Occasionally, some nails are not polished clean, which is natural.
Xun Yu looked at the text and commented slowly, as if nothing could affect him.
Man Chong was on the side, almost performing the same action.
In the chancery, there are only the slight sounds of writing slips and wooden tablets colliding, or the scraping of paper sleeves, and occasionally some whispered words, but overall it is very quiet, completely different from the noisy military lieutenant school...
……(╯-_-)╯~╩╩……
Cao Hong went up and kicked the workshop steward who was bundled into a ball, knocking him over.
"You bastard! You actually deceived someone!"
The workshop steward was trembling, his face was bruised and bleeding from hitting the ground, "General...little, little, I don't know...general..."
"Are you still pretending to be stupid?! Look what this is!"
Cao Hong let go of his hand, and a shiny piece of armor stained with Cao Hong's sweat fell in front of the workshop manager. Then it bounced on the ground and was quickly covered with dust. Even so, on top of the armor piece, he could still
I can clearly see there are some special signs...
The workshop manager shivered and then collapsed.
"Don't tell me the truth!" Cao Hong asked in a low voice, "What on earth is going on with this armor!"
Seeing that the matter was exposed, the workshop manager also told him that he used the hussar general's armor to pass it off as his own imitation armor, how he bought it, how he polished the armor, etc.
After hearing this, Cao Hong couldn't help but swayed, and then stood firm. In fact, in Cao Hong's heart, there was still this last bit of hope, just like he was holding the armor tightly and not letting go, hoping that this was just a misunderstanding.
I hope the manager of the workshop can really research the armor...
But reality is reality after all, and it defeated Cao Hong's hopes.
"How brave!" Cao Fu, who was standing aside, finally understood what was going on. He couldn't help but get angry. He went up and kicked the manager of the workshop.
"Fu'er... let him go..." Cao Hong calmed down his emotions and said in a deep voice.
"Father!" Cao Fu carried the workshop steward who had been beaten to a bloody head and looked like a pig's head.
"I asked you to let him go!" Cao Hong repeated, his voice low.
"Hmph!" Cao Fu threw the workshop manager back to the ground, raising a ring of dust.
Cao Hong stepped forward and squatted in front of the workshop steward, "Say, why did you do this? Was there someone who instigated it?"
"You're smiling... you're not smiling..." Two of the workshop steward's teeth were knocked out, and his mouth was full of blood. He said eloquently, "Home is a better place..."
Amidst the chaos, the workshop manager, who looked like a pig head, was crying. In fact, this is indeed the case. In fact, the imitation is almost the same, but there is no special steel to support the structure, but this is not a very big problem.
, either to bear the original weight first, or to see if we can find some alternative methods.
Perhaps, after some time, the manager of the workshop really found alternative materials and methods, and the imitation was successful.
However, Cao Hong wanted to be fast and good, and he had to produce a product at the beginning of the fourth year of Taixing...
The manager of the workshop was chattering and talking in the wind, feeling somewhat aggrieved.
"I'm asking you...why did you do this? Was there someone who ordered you to do this?" Cao Hong rolled his eyelids and stared at the workshop manager expressionlessly.
"Ah...ah?" The workshop steward rolled his eyes twice.
"Why did you do this? Did someone instigate it?" Cao Hong asked in a low voice again.
The manager of the workshop shivered, "His! Hiss, there's something cold..."
Cao Hong nodded slightly, "So, who ordered it?"
"Ah? He Leng... He Leng..." The workshop manager looked at Cao Hong longingly.
"You don't know who he is?" Cao Hong asked, "Then he comes to your house with his face covered? Then he threatens the lives of your family members..."
The workshop manager nodded repeatedly, his nose, tears and sweat and blood trembling on his face: "Hiss! If you ask for hiss, I will support you..."
Cao Hong nodded, "Very good, very good. You finally told the truth... Since you told the truth, I won't offend your family..."
The manager of the workshop struggled and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he said nothing and collapsed on the ground.
Cao Hong stood up and walked out.
Cao Fu signaled to the guards around him, and then followed Cao Hong.
"Father..." Cao Fu hesitated, "Are you looking for "that person" now?"
Cao Hong shook his head and said, "No, this fault is mine...I will explain everything to the lord...but..." As he said that, Cao Hong looked back, then turned to Cao Fu and said, "
What do you think about this?"
"The child thinks that it must be caused by the corruption and incompetence of the workshop manager..." Cao Fu replied, "The blame must be on him, so how can it concern his father?"
Cao Hong chuckled, "You... think about it again..."
After taking another two steps, Cao Hong looked at Cao Fu's somewhat confused look and said, "If it's just one or two things, no one may know what this damn guy did, but there are so many, up and down, who have handled them."
I wonder why no one said anything? Huh?』
"Think about it, maybe this person can deceive others inside the workshop, but what about outside the workshop?" Cao Hong continued, "Did the manager of the workshop personally go to the hussars' place to purchase these armors? How about transporting them along the way?"
You know, these things are not small items... Could it be that everyone was blinded along the way?"
Cao Fu's eyes widened.
"Think about it again, since it takes more than three or two days to polish the armor plate, why did no one report the strange behavior in the workshop during such a period of time? Since the armor plate can be leaked, it means that someone must be involved.
His hands and feet..." Cao Hong sneered and said, "Hehe, hehe... If this matter is inappropriate, report it to someone as early as possible, as this person said, what's the harm in spending some time with the craftsmen in the workshop? At most, that's it.
It’s just to investigate this person, and he’s just being scolded by some lords! What can outsiders gain?! At this time, the armors are all scattered outside, and even some remedies cannot be done. Only when you know this! Don’t you feel this?
Is this weird...』
Cao Fu was stunned for a moment, and then said after a while: "Could it be...could it be...Xun Lingjun..."
Cao Hong shook his head and said: "That's not necessarily true...perhaps, he was also kept in the dark...we only found out recently..."
"Ah?" Cao Fu didn't understand.
Cao Hong frowned a little, but facing his son, he felt that he still needed to make it clearer: "First, Xun Lingjun did this, what's the benefit? Second, if it was really what he did, how could it be so shallow? Third, it was Xun Lingjun who did this."
Well, with Xun Lingjun's ability, he can only stay still. If he moves and gets up, I'm afraid... Haha, the government and the public are already noisy at this time, and no one knows about it! How can you and I easily hunt down this person?
Can you live in it?"
"It should be noted that Xun Lingjun is Xun Lingjun, and the Xun family is the Xun family..." Cao Hong said in a deep voice, "My lord, in order to prepare military supplies, ordered the levy of grain and grass from the two states of Hebei and Henan... Here, there are not only the Xun family, but also the various ethnic groups in Yingchuan.
Ah...it just so happens...Hehe, hehe, I heard that in Jizhou, the Qinghe County Magistrate, hehe..."
"Understood? This time... what these guys are staring at is not actually armor... or rather, not entirely armor..." Cao Hong looked at Cao Fu and continued, "I told you to stop talking to those people who talk about it every day."
You still don’t want to hear about beautiful guys coming and going... Let me ask you, if your father is like what your so-called friends want, and regards money as a fool, and ignores money matters, then... who
To take care of it? Hmm?』
Cao Fu was stunned and looked at his father.
Cao Hong also looked at Cao Fu calmly.
Cao Hong was greedy for money and even showed it very obviously, but many people did not notice that when Cao Cao really needed money, Cao Hong was very willing to pay for it.
"The hussar general is strong and has the advantage of his armor, but all his craftsmen have failed?" Cao Hong patted Cao Fu on the shoulder and said, "If this matter is publicized, these craftsmen will obey the law... Lord
If we need soldiers and armor again, who should we look for? If one day, the Cao family's money and food are controlled by others, and the craftsmen's workshops also need to depend on others. Haha, who do you think the Cao family's children are spilling blood on the battlefield for?
Who gets the big profit?!』
When Cao Hong said the last sentence, his eyebrows stood up.
"Father..." Cao Fu looked at Cao Hong and lowered his head guiltily. He had muttered before that because of Cao Hong's greed for money, he was sometimes ridiculed by the second generation of the Xiahou family of the Cao family, so he
Sometimes I resent Cao Hong and feel that if Cao Hong was not greedy for money and didn't care about those things, naturally there would be no such ridicule...
"Let's go! Take this person with you and go back home first!" Cao Hong got on his horse and looked forward, "I'm afraid this matter has just begun..."
